MOOre of the Same

Day 2,174, 16:59 • Published in Canada Canada • by Wes Lewis

Why should we say no to "MOOre of the Same"

More of the same, this is what Rylde has promised the people of eCanada once elected to office as President of Canada. I think he officially calls it his "Smooth transition from Addy's government to his" but in all actuality he means to say, he will copy just about all policies Addy has implemented and keep the status quo. The only actual difference being the fact that he will "airstrike a nation within the NAP agreement with Spain" these are his own words, not mine. We can discuss this a bit later in the article but first, what would more of the same mean?


This month has been entertaining to some degree, nothing comparable to the DMV/Acacia soap opera but that is life. Even so, the entertainment we have had is not because of anything the government has done, if anybody is responsible we should give these high marks to DMV3 or Manhattan for making things more interesting. Aside from a couple articles from Addy letting us know for the thousandth time he is our Daddy we have had almost no advances in eCanadian society. Instead we have issued self-damaging embargoes, played Admin with political parties, and pretended taxes will create a booming eCanadian society.

It is my opinion that Addy has gave almost no effort to engage the people and keep things interesting instead sticking to closed door executive decisions his "calculations" predict will be more successful. While anyone that has been around will tell you that is just his style of leadership, he prefers to tell people what is good for them, instead of asking some people feel this is beneficial. Being CP, especially in a small nation like Canada is almost impossible to come out of with a "successful term" signs will show Addy barely attempted to give effort. I may be alone in this train of thought simply because the man on the top, Addy strategically maintains his popularity, always has by his "projects" afterwards.


Addy always was the pretty cheerleader everybody worshiped when we was in high school

So why eCanada would we accept more of the same as a successful slogan to mount your campaign on? This isn't Venezuela and Addy isn't Hugo Chavez. That said, lets look at the biggest proponents of the term in a bit more simplistic details.

1) The idea of an eCanadian "tax haven".

People have been arguing that we can develop a tax haven that will balloon our population and strengthen our military might by simply changing taxes around. While a good concept it is simply a fallacious argument that this is possible, this is apparent by the continued decline in our population since Addy reformed the tax code. I ask everyone to take time to comprehend this concept a bit better to understand how far fetched this booming scenario is here in Canada.

First we must appreciate the fact it nobody has successfully done this before, regardless what Congress argues nobody cares about the difference between 1-5% tax rates paid on a 20 CC wage not even the employee. Then you have business owners which the tax doesn't effect anyways because due to harsh market conditions have other tactics like hoarding stock for price inflation, zombie workers at low wages, etc. to generate their profits. So no eCanada I hate to tell you, but unless DMV3 is allowed to create his "MU Welfare state" we won't be seeing this achieved.

2) Our well planned 10 MPPs.

This one explains itself, will we are lucky to afford 10 MPPs, I personally believe people take the wrong look at invasion threats and requiring this many MPPs to "protect" us and "assist" our alliance. Also we must consider eCanada spent 8 months wiped (thanks to Rylde's last administration to some degree) so people understandably don't want it to happen again, this I understand. But in reality it just a temporary hold of our regions by somebody else we don't actually have long-term repercussions except to our pride.

Even so, people need to consider the fact we are not a very attractive target for invasions to begin with, and our borders are all already occupied. So, except to appease their own populations for war, there really is no reason to fight against us over anybody else. Point of all this is, we are overly cautious about being wiped again when we are already using an agreement with Spain to prevent this from occurring again, not ten MPPs. Lastly the argument that they keep battles rolling for us is invalid, because if you've logged in lately you'll notice Indonesia has been the only battles available and sometimes none at all.

3) Rylde and his airstrike

Everybody loves a good war that is the truest statement you can say about the game of eRepublik. But airstrikes are a whole different category of warfare and unless planned very carefully can be disastrous in terms of expenses and time spent. Contrary to this truth, Rylde gives you the impression that it is very easily achievable to airstrike somebody and enslave their territories, when in reality it is very difficult even for larger nations at times.

The terms of an Airstrike are simple you build up enough energy and CC you can launch ONE battle not effected by borders anywhere in the world. However, if you fail to win that battle or even if you win the battle and lose the territory shortly after, you have just wasted all those resources. Which currently Canada requires 116,667 CC and 7,883,500 units of energy or a massive bill of at the very least 2,000 gold! Seems like a lot to gamble on a pointless conflict that Rylde wants to start for his own entertainment and reputation.

If you'd like Canada I'll burn your money for you, don't need Rylde to handle that


In closing, Rylde and Addy have been around the block probably even in the top 1% of oldest citizens alive. They know how to make things sound to get the reaction they want out of people, but in reality it is all hot air. I'll leave you with one statement, I strongly believe DMV3 and Oinyo will give you better terms and positive changes then Rylddy and their status quo.

With love,