Getting to know the Norwegian organisations
Stakerauo
Hey, readers!
Long time no see, aye!
First off, I would like to explain that the purpose of this article is to inform and educate the Norwegians, and any foreign spectators, about the in-game organisations which are located in our country. By organisations I mean parties and millitary units, and take note that this article is only relevant at the time it's written. The content will be written with a neutral stance to everything, but with a few touches of personal thoughts as there is close to nothing official in any of our parties. Adding that this article might also critique the lack of possibility for parties to be relevant.
The Parties:
The parties in Norway are to this date the six parties of Teknokratene(TeK), Free Liberty, The Party(TP), Norwegian Communist Leauge(NCL), Bondepartiet(BoP) and United Party of Norway(UPN). Altough this is a moderate amount of parties, it might be a bit too much for a country where the parties don't really hold any power.
Image: My attempt to locate the parties on a scale.
Teknokratene:
Teknokratene is one of the oldest parties in eNorwegian history, and is also one of the largest ones. Its members have typically voted for social-liberal, and therefor I would classify it as a socialliberal party, and probably most alike Arbeiderpartiet and Venstre in real life Norway
Free Liberty:
Free Liberty, previously known as NyeNorge and before that; Anti-Espionage Electoral Alliance and Norwegian Nationalist Party. It has gone through many phases, and it does not resemble any of the parties is sprung out from at any more. Free Liberty is essentially a populist party, which is clear to me looking at the former party president´s desicions as he is the without a doubt the most important figure in that scene. Its main goal has over the time been to reduce taxes on Norwegian citizens and to try close off the market from foreign traders using high import taxes to protect the Norwegian trade, sometimes stretching beyond the limits of what the economy can handle. Free Liberty has rarely decided on things different than what the Norwegian Fremskrittspartiet would've, and sometimes they even seem to immitate them instead of taking what might at the time be a better solution. Therefor I would say that they're simmilar to Fremskrittspartiet.
The Party:
The Party flurrished at the time when party politics was, through a desperate ressuraction attempt, starting to become relevant again. The Party never really did anything except for recruiting new members, though it seemed to like colaborating with the people in Nye Norge. Over its time, the party members never really had any extreme meanings, and was moderatly supportive of liberalism. I would like to consider this party simmilar to the Norwegian Senterpartiet.
Norwegian Communist Leauge:
A communist party with very little influence of the Norwegian politics. Except for being a victim to PTO-attacks, from there the amount of members, it has mostly been quite. However, it´s founder, Kristoph Woldskji, has stated that he is a communist/pro-communism, and has during his participasion in parliment, voted for communist-like results. I will therefor compare this party with the Norwegian Norges Kommunist Parti or Rødt.
Bondepartiet:
Bondepartiet is, like The Party, not really a big deal. They've been around for as long as TP and has also been mostly supporting other parties. Their votes have usualy gone to liberalising the market, but they have at several times given away donations of food, making it hard to place them on the right side, as they claim to be. In the end I came to the conclusion that the donations have usualy been in colaboration with millitary units, and would therefor be focused on sparing the individuals economy in times of war. I think I would consider these guys to be socialliberals, but more on the right-wing side than The Party. In real life I would find this party to be alike Kristlig Folkeparti, Venstre or even Senterpartiet.
United Party of Norway:
This party is not really a political party as much as its an attempt to seize the power in our country. They don't have any agenda they're planning to uphold, and the will not be a good addition to the Norwegian economy nor activity. Either way, I tried to place them on the board using their introduction article. In real life I would compare this party with Nasjonal Samling, for those of you who know about Norwegian coup d'états. *wink*
The Millitary Units:
The Norwegian miilitary units, are unlike the parties a lively part of the Norwegian society. These are the different ones:
Det Norske Forsvaret:
DNF is the main millitary unit in eNorway. It is owned and funded by the state, and has elections on the commander titles regularly. This worked well for quite some time, until the owner of the units factories quit and both the special task force and the task force for newbies was closed down. Although it doesn't provide any weapons anymore, it is definetly the best place to come in touch with other Norwegian and our politicans due to its size and diversity. It usualy fight for a better state, and by that I mean it fights for what can assure our independence and diplomatic relations. This is the MU I'm a member of, and it is the one I personally recommend.
The Rape Potatoes:
A privatised MU dedicated to our former king and president, Cristopher Moe, and his great men; The Rape Potatoes. Altough, Cristopher is no longer around, the MU continues to breathe. They've usually got a weapon supply system, and tend to fight for whomever they want, without hurting the Norwegian state and stability.
Liberty of Loki:
This party is affiliated with the political party, Free Liberty, and does not follow orders from the state. Unlike the other MUs, its priorotising might not be the best, but they provide the freedom for people to fight where the majority wants to fight.
Vikings:
A Greek millitary unit. It's most likely only located in Norway to try and leech off Norwegian members in an attempt to feel vikingy. If not, their existance is a mystery.
Red Army North:
I know little about this MU, except that they like fighting for the Nordic countries. However, if there are no orders in Ásgárd, their priorotising will most likely go to other countries. They might be interested in communism and/or communism role play, judging by their name.
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Comments
Nice work. I guess i should write more to show my appreciation for your splendid piece of art(icle). So i did.
Hard to position ingame parties in a RL-system, but nice try🙂
Snill! 🙂
Uh, when did DNF get privatised ?
Some time ago. We voted over it in the congress. It might not have been privatised the same way as you'd imagine in real life, but we seperated it from the state as a private organisation and gave them permission to apply for subsides if needed. The idea was that the members would maintain the unit alone. I might have a bad memory, but if it wasn't DNF it was FSK and HV, which is basicly the whole MU anyway.
Not exactly the same, DNF is completely in tha hands of the "state". Here's the thread you're talking about : http://forum.erepublik.no/viewtopic.php?t=3679
And, I cant even find the thread where we were supposed to vote for it, did it ever happen ? 😛
Ah, I see! I asked in that thread if it meant that it would be privatised and that for people to correct me if I was wrong. Since no one corrected me I just assumed it mean liberalisation. I'll correct the article!
xD
It is a bit difficult to map real-life parties to ingame parties. E.g. very few people actually are working class in the game, although there are lots of poor people who cannot even afford their daily bread and weapons. Also basically anyone who buys gold or has played 3+ years pretty much automatically becomes right-wing, "rich" and capitalistic. You could think left-wing (or communist) stands for people who take care of the poor and right-wing would aim to make the rich even richer. Is that the case with your party positioning? Also does libertarian mean more democratic than authoritarian ("elite") political power? Are you saying the parties that are more towards authoritarian are aiming to have a small selected team to run the country?
Just curious! Great article! 🙂
Oh, that's a lot of questions to answer in one comment, hehe. Well, first of all I thought the y-axis would be personal and political freedom, so yeah, I guess libertarian means more democratic than authoritarian. Also, that would kind of point towards the authoritarians wanting, not nessercerily small teams, but selected ones to run the country. And yeah, since there's no welfare program or proper taxation system in eRepublik, the left wingers will be people who take care of their fellow citizens. But then, again, just like in real life it's possible to become a grand capitalist if you just invest and play properly, so I don't think the chart is that way off from eRep. 🙂
"A communist party with very little influence of the Norwegian politics."
;_; Stakerauo we've been growing the fastest and have had some of the most active members in the country as of late ;_;
Oh, you migth be right, but party politics seem to be more dead than ever before and NCL hasn't made any stance as a party, and neither as a communist organisation, which brings me to why I really wanted to write this article. I kind of want want my readers to start thinking, and maybe realize what might be the reason to why party politics are dead. My thoughts are that we're too different from a real life Norwegian democracy where the parties have coaliations and vote for their party´s majority rather than their own personal meanings. Of corse, that will slow our processes down in many ways, but I think it will make the game a lot more fun as it brings a whole new module in to the game, the politics module. And in hasty votes we could always have a individual voting scheme.
But to answer your question more properly, I haven't really cought up with NCL as I've been busy with real things the past months, although they haven't really made a stance as a communist party as far as I can see.
The problem with NCL, as of any other party in eNorway, is the number of 2-clickers among party members (absolute majority).
You can't make a "party policy" or even define a "party program" without members engaging in the process. I would say we need at least 5-6 members in each party that do more then 2 clicks and you will see completely different political activities in our country.
I believe every newcomer and Q1-2 factory owners should be seen at as working class and the capitalist class just include people with Q6-7 factories. All citizens between these 2 groups is the middle class of eNorway. This way, the working class is still the biggest part of our eSociety.
Comparing to the reality, I would suggest this scheme:
NCL : NKP
TK : Høyre (arbeiderpartiet er ikke annet en "Høyre light")
TP : Venstre
Free Liberty : FrP
Bondepartiet : Senterpartiet
United Party of Norway : RV (maoister)
As a new party leader of NCL, there might be some change to that.
Comrades! Let's unite! For the people!
First step: http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-ncl-towards-stronger-nation-2331030/1/20
This is some REALLY good shit !
it was not an easy article to write. Each party has a different vision of his party, but it gives me an idea for the MinSol, so thank you.
Of course each party has their own visions, but it's another thing what they actually do, hehe. But you're right, it was a brain ache to construct this article, and I'm still kind of uncertain about the content as the parties don't really enforce or have an agenda. Oh, and I'm glad to hear that I could aid you in your work, mate 😃
¡Good job!
Bring Binary Party back! 😃
Good article.
FYI. Free Liberty are not supporters of high Import Tax.
You were a couple of weeks ago, and as far back as I can remember, so I dont think he were wrong writing that 😛
Not after we became Free Liberty, and that's some time back now.
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Well you -did- say that we could balance a low work tax with a higher import tax a couple of days ago. Not higher than today but still.
Higher then the wanted work tax, yes, but lower then today. 😉
NCL has been the most active party in Norway for the last 2-3 months, with regular propaganda articles (xD), a lot of them thanks to comrade Lutz, who's a little too busy now in RL. And some great party initiatives coming from the honorary Chairman comrade babk. We are also trying to get some Comintern projects going on. However, any non-military module in this game is pretty much dead (Plato-o-o-o-o!!!) and all party interests require a lot of dedication and sincere interest in role-play from the members, and not the least - it's very time consuming.
Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that changes to the political module are not coming any time soon, as the game has devolved even further down the "Fight" button-mashing path.
V.
I can't believe The Rape Potatoes still exist, that's just funny.
¡All hail Christopher Moe, our eternal king!