[MoC] Introducing the Ministry of Community
Rory Winterbourne II
Introduction
Hi I’m Vincent the goat and I’m the Minister of Community this term. I see this role more along the lines of bridging the gap between the government, congress and the public. To accomplish this I’ll be published congress news and logs, interviewing government members and party leaders. Hope you find it mildly interesting and if you have any ideas on how it can be improved upon, or would like to help out, let me know.
Congress Round up
Here follows, as transparently as possible, the inner workings of congress. Key discussion points and votes are included with links to screenshots of the entire message should you want to read them.
Week 1
Key events
- Current CP Slua had just gone inactive and after the failed impeachment of last month was successfully impeached by Rusty D on the second try. Passed 23-6.
- Rusty’s article explaining his reasoning here
Full discussion here
Week 2
Key events
- doncroata becomes uncontested CP and forms government
vCP: aimeisan
MoD The Dark Goat & T0413
MOFA: Cat Sith
MoF/vMoF: mark00st, Releasethe Krakken & doncroata
MoC: Vincent Van Goat
Completed Proposal - doncroata
Irish Army / Air Project / Budgets / Coordination
I believe that general opinion about IA isn't same for everyone and it's hard to find a common language about it. Some people see it as a national MU, others don't. What we really need is people fighting in the same battles at the same time. I can't express how important our coordinated strikes was. We'd send a clear message to our allies that we're there for them.
For a country that doesn't have the ability to contribute in ground or join battles directly - this has been something we were doing for our allies to make ourselves useful in the alliance.
I've been discussing about the ideas with my Cabinet and we've concluded that Irish Army should be changed, adapted to the current situation and used in the best possible way that will suit the country's agenda.
In the same time we're funding IA with 200k budget, Air Project with 400k which takes about 100% of our monthly incomes. The idea was to merge those two projects into the one, while not excluding anyone because that was the idea of Air Project. How to reach that?
1. We'd like to change the name of the Irish Army. Proposed name was Irish Air Corps, by the RL Irish Airforce ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Air_Corps )
Hopefully it would mark the new beginning of the MU and attract more people in there. My MoD T0413 will take the Commandership of the MU again.
IAC would be open to every Irish citizen, same as the Air Project was. However, people will still be able to take part in Air actions by the MU without being members.
2. Any Irish citizen, MU member or not would be able to participate in strikes organized by IAC. That way we'd continue the Air Project inclusiveness and get all the Irish citizens fight at the same time. Strikes would be the main rewarding target, which means strike participation would be our main expense too.
3. In order to encourage our citizens to join the MU itself, MU members would get a bit more, not too much, just enough to 'send a message' about what's the national MU. Difference would be much less than the current (400k air, 200k IA). For example, MU members would get 6cc per kill during strikes, while non-MU members would get 5cc per kill during strikes.
4. We'd have one budget ran by Rusty (current Air Project supplier) and MoDs (T0413 & The Dark Goat) and it would be 600k (combined two current budgets). Budget would be mainly used to fund the strike participation, while Rusty would continue to fund all those who are part of IAC Project (ex-Air, new-IAC).
What's the point?
Uniting two budgets, no more wasting or stocking money, open and transparent budgets, new beginning for everyone.
United efforts by all the Irish citizens and encouragement of the national MU being very inclusive towards everyone.
This would also promote ourselves as Air country, we'd post articles about it, we'd report regularly about what's going on..
We'd send a clear message to our allies and highlight things we're good at.
Voting Results
1. Do you agree with the proposed changes in the MU's name from IA to Irish Air Corps
YES = 8
NO = 8
Abstain = 1
Result is NO
2. Do you agree with the proposed national budget changes (200+400k to be redirected into 600k for the new project)
YES = 14
NO = 2
Result is YES by 12 votes.
3. Do you agree with the general changes as represented above (except the name which is a separate vote):
YES = 14
NO = 2
Result is YES by 12 votes.
Full discussion here and here
Current discussion is on training wars and concessions which will be covered in the next article.
Caption Competition
Funniest caption gets 10k cc prize and printed in the next edition.
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Comments
"Hand over the tea and no one gets hurt."
Nice article! 🙂
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We didnt have this kind of articles for too long!
Votado!
Also, how am I only seeing this now?!
http://prntscr.com/p3ta8j
The reason we didn't is because you guys banned releasing any info from Congress and banned people who did... but I guess one rule for you and your teams/ supporters and another rules for the rest
Any congress discussion that could give out anything valuable will be censored in MoC articles.
I reserve the right to release any information I want now as what is sauce for the goose (goat) is sauce for the gander... you don't get the right to deem what is sensitive or not
Its p much known whats sensitive and whats not.
Don't worry, while what I deem what is sensitive may be different to what you deem so, we can both follow our respective judgment on this and release what we each feel is not sensitive. It will work so well 😃
If you really wanna go there...
Maybe the title of this newspaper is prophetic. Anyway if this all goes wrong I will admit I'll be having a little Schadenfreude moment about it 😛
YOU ATE THE ISLE OF MAN?!?!?!
Also DQ me Im american XD
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Awesome job! I appreciate news like this.
“Oi, potato-head!”
Told our TW partners that they should probably close our TWs as we don't have farmers and I wouldn't be starting the battles.
They said that they should wipe us, I told them to do as they pleased as I want being CP anymore. I never instructed them to wipe us.
I hadn't been active all month and many were aware of this. I was in the USA for 2 weeks during my term and had no laptop access. I asked for myself to be impeached as this was in Irelands own interests.
https://www.erepublik.com/en/main/law/Ireland/223127
Yes it was bad on me to walk out before the end of my term but I did not ask for us to be wiped. I asked for my impeachment but congress chose to keep me. Many of which are people who continued to bash my inactivity.....
Go figure.
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Caption : "Inside his hat is Northern Ireland ?!" xD
Very informative article,well sone!
-explain your smolness
-am potat
As a former Minister of Community I am glad to see an article from the Office.
Contests, contests, contests, the people like contests.
I would also like to see the return of the Irish Community Awards.
If you need any help feel free to ask. I may not get back to you immediately as I am just lurking nowadays but I will help how I can.
Sounds like a good idea, can you link me some of the old awards so I can see what it was all about?
I will see what I can find.
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/community-awards-winners-2157841/1/20
If you just look back at my newspaper you will see some contests I ran. For the vast majority you would have to look at the Ministry newspaper.
Thanks
*Caption*
" I say old chap, you put shoe polish on my telescope again didn't you?"
Who won the caption contest? Mine sucked but I wanna know 😛
Next article out tonight or tomorrow for the big reveal 🙂