What an MPP Stack Looks Like

Day 1,775, 15:09 • Published in Canada Canada • by Jacobi

For most of Canada’s existence the anatomy of its MPP stack has been predominantly determined by the dynamics of its alliance relationships rather than the primal necessities of what’s required to remain on the map and be effective in wars. Even when alliance costs were measured in terms of gold instead of currency the allies that Canada MPP’d were most often the allies that either required MPPs due to war or threat of war or the old standbys in Atlantis, EDEN, and then Terra. The concept of figuring in the financial cost of MPPs hasn’t been seriously dealt with in at least 2 years and the idea that our alliance wouldn’t give us a readymade list of MPPs is completely foreign.

And yet here we are confronting both at the same time.

So let us consider what an MPP stack of 20-25 MPPs looks like in an ideal worl😛

1. It should provide for at least one battle around the clock for Canadians to fight in, with a preferable choice for MU leaders to stagger their orders in relation to their activity times. These battles should ideally be relevant to Canadian interests but practically speaking any battle is better than having our citizens waste their time and money to travel to America to fight instead. This is a minimum requirement of a functioning independent country and an inability to do so shows serious flaws with the country’s government and foreign policy.


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2. The stack should include as many of the top 10 countries in Erepublik as would be internally consistent. This is critically important for providing citizen battles (as these are the country’s most likely to be in continual war) and for Canadian defensive and offensive wars (as these are the country’s most likely to lend such efforts success). Currently, Canada has two of the Top 10 (4 would be the maximum internally consistent).



3. Congress should only approve MPPs that are consistent with other MPPs. It will be my recommendation for the CPF and every other Party leader to use http://egov4you.info/countries/overview to determine whether or not to vote for an MPP proposed by another CP or by an inactive Canadian CP and to whip their party’s Congressmen accordingly.


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4. Canada should only consider new opportunities if those new opportunities will significantly help Canada in a Canadian war or if they will provide Canada with immediate battles and goodwill. Again, any new opportunity should be consistent with already signed MPPs.

I do believe that Canada, considering its size relative to other nations, should see independence of the alliance system as not a viable option because of how poorly Foreign Affairs has been conducted under successive Coalition governments.

Our future, in my opinion, best resides in EDEN.


As it was, so shall it be?

Until that time, we must be smart and judicious with our limited resources. Planning our MPP stack using guidelines and procedures that make sense within our context as a minor nation with significant enemy neighbors and no major alliance resources, is a top priority for the next administration.
An administration that considering the track record of the alternative, ought to be CPF.