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TL😉R ALERT: This article is about the aftermath of recent Congressional elections in New Zealand, the realities of having two communities competing for power, the need for reconciliation, and what it means to be a citizen in this country.


New arrivals need to get used to the fact that we have a mascot.

The mantra we all chanted when it was announced that New Zealand was coming into the game was… say it with me…

WE ARE ALL KIWIS NOW!

From the moment the admins announced it, from the time the first potential citizens trickled onto the Rizon server on IRC to see if there was already a channel for the new community, from the instant the Forum was created, that was what we were all preaching, that, regardless of where we came from, no matter what country we previously called home, no matter if we leaned toward EDEN or Phoenix, we were going to set all that crap aside for the sake of creating a new nation, a noble nation, with a community that didn’t want to repeat the mistakes from the past, didn’t want to create a country just to give its sovereignty away to the superalliances, but do make something unique and decent. That’s a lot to live up to, especially in an e-world polarized by superalliance hubris and the strong constantly attacking the small, the established taking advantage of the new, and the shameless belittling the meek, but those five words became the standard. It ought to be our national motto, tacked onto the wing of every kiwi avatar. It is not a statement of blind patriotism or submission to the powers that be, but a belief that, no matter what mistakes we make, no matter how we may disagree, so long as we believe we’re all in this together, so long as we’re willing to stick it our and keep the communication alive and worthwhile, there’s nothing we can’t overcome.

That motto will be etched into our DNA. It is as important to us as a people as are the words that define the real-life United States, We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. Nay, we are better than that, for as there are African-Americans, Italian-Americans, Japanese Americans, Hispanic Americans, and a whole litany of hyphenated Americans in the real world, there are no hyphenated eNew Zealanders. There is no such thing as an eAmerican-eNew Zealander, even trying to think the word is sort of ridiculous.

Equally, there’s no such thing as an eSerbian-eNewZealander.

Say it with me… WE ARE ALL KIWIS NOW!


I like the kiwi with the afro.

There are no EDEN kiwis, and there are no Phoenix kiwis. I can’t make that point clear enough. I’ve talked to several people who came here in the last few days in offering their vote to candidates that would defeat the “EDEN PTO” of New Zealand. Whoever told them that line, that they were going out to save New Zealand from the vile clutches of the Australian-American dominated New Zealand, were saying whatever they had to in order to con them into coming here. Had they gone to the Forum, something everyone is welcome to visit (http://www.erep.co.nz/), they would have seen a community priding itself on inclusion, with a provisional government with ministers hailing from around the world, from both Phoenix and EDEN nations. How can you explain me, the former president of South Korea who pushed the button for MPP’s with Russia, being the Deputy Minister of Immigration, working under Carr De Vaux, the former president of Malaysia who had his hands full with Indonesian mischief, if this community were an American-dominated society, a country dominated by any alliance at all?

Every poll at the forum proved our desire for active neutrality, signing MPP’s in our own fashion, taking part in battles at our own leisure, and working solely in our own national interests. We weren’t about to give our sovereignty away to some superalliance when we just got it.

The invitation has always been out there, but here it is again. If you’re interested in building a great and prosperous New Zealand that acts in its own interests first and foremost, please come to our Forum (http://www.erep.co.nz/) or IRC channels (Server: Rizon, #enz & #enewzealand).

The invitation is for everyone, including those formerly from Serbia.

You can’t have it both ways, folks. You can’t chant the mantra (say it with me…) and talk about national unity, then turn around and call a large portion of citizens thieves and not allowed to participate. You can’t talk about coming to a country to save it from superalliance bulljive, but not engage the community you claim you came to save. You can’t talk about what the other side does and call it sinister when you do the exact same freaking thing.

The Serbian faction needs to decide what their intentions are. I can tell you for a fact, the Free New Zealand Party (now known as the New New Zealand Party) is deflating, with a third of its members leaving the party, many to return to Serbian-occupied territories. Hence, I can’t blame anyone if they believe any talk about building this country from Serbian mouths is false. Avatars with Serbian military insignia aren’t the most obvious sign of New Zealander patriotism.

The point is, if you came here in the last few days, you are now stuck with New Zealand citizenship, and you need to decide what you’re going to do with it. You could stick it out here, go underground, and try another PTO down the line, I’ve seen the “slow PTO” in effect before. Polish PTO factions did the same thing last autumn in Peru and held the country as a “protectorate of Poland” for months. You could leave the country with the rest of your buddies and try to take over another country, odds are it will be Portugal and Russia with open citizenship, I’m sure the argument to save those countries from EDEN influence will hold up much better than it did here. You could try to create a counterculture in New Zealand and segregate yourselves from the mainstream, becoming a disenchanted and disenfranchised minority that grows more and more bitter and hence more and more mouthy about how evil our government is, when in reality, it will probably be no better or no worse than any other in the world.

Or, you can work with us to build this country into something we all can take pride in, and add your knowledge and experience to the national pool. Just as the rest of us have dropped the insignia from other countries and taken up new colors and the Southern Cross, I’d love to see the newcomers rid themselves of their old avatars, their old loyalties, their old biases, and put on a new suit of armor.

The choice is yours. In this country, say it with me, WE ARE ALL KIWIS NOW!


We are all kiwis, but some are fruitier than others. Right, Bass Junkie?

And for those who were here when we started, who quibbled at the Forum, who were proudly here the very first day, who chanted our motto with pride bloating their hearts, you can’t just say the words. It’s going to take work on all our parts to integrate those who came here in the last week. I’m not telling you to forget the PTO attempt or to start trusting those who came here under false pretenses. I am asking you, however, to say those five words in your head, and to realize those words now apply to a lot of people with Eastern European names. By all means, don’t kiss their asses. Hold them accountable. But let them hold you accountable as well. Talk to them like neighbors if you can’t embrace them like brothers. Everybody has skeletons in their closets, but if we’re going to grow together, fight together, fail together, but ultimately succeed together,

The leaders of the provisional government have been talking with the leaders of the Serbian faction, and this is a good thing. Coexistence, however, can’t be a top-down proposition. We can only become one community when everyone, from presidents to newbies, is willing to talk like rational and genuine people. We can only become one nation when we stop judging a man by the way he spells his name and start judging him by the fruit of his actions. There will be wars, there will be other PTO attempts, there will be adversities in our future, and we will fold under their onslaught if we can’t find a way to set our differences aside. Truly, if the concern for all is a decent and prosperous country, then we’re all on the same page, regardless of our prior nationality.

If someone were to give me the link to a pro-Serbian forum, I’d love to see it and feel invited to come.

We all have something to think about. Those of the original community need to decide if our motto, say it with me, WE ARE ALL KIWIS NOW, was just something nice to say at the time to give lip service to the nobility of patriotism, or if it means something deeper, something to appreciate, something to defend, something to make come true. Those who came through the Serbian faction need to decide if they want to stick it out here and make this their home, and if that’s the case, they need to take up the same motto, those five golden words, and discard their former bigotries, their failed plans, and their false preconceptions. Only when we all do our little part in this can the motto mean anything higher than a trite bumper-sticker slogan. Reconciliation is a two-way street.

One more time, and say it like you mean it…

WE ARE ALL KIWIS NOW!!!