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[center][font=new times roman][color=#367524][size=175]Ninth Edition PIG In The UDS[/size][/color]
[size=125]Promoting Influence Growth[/size][/font][/center]
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[size=120][color=deeppink][font=new times roman]Meet our program mascot [b]Hamlet[/b]![/font][/color][/size][/box][/floatright]

[font=new times roman][size=120][color=#367524][b]What is this?[/b][/color][/size]
[size=110]PIG in the UDS is a Delegate-run program to Promote Influence Growth in the Union of Democratic States. It is intended to encourage endorsement of the region's World Assembly Delegate [nation]Dome Artan[/nation].[/size][/font]

[font=new times roman][size=120][color=#367524][b]Ok but why am I mentioned in this dispatch?[/b][/color][/size]
[size=110]If you've been mentioned in [b]Hamlet's No Bacon List[/b] found at the bottom of this dispatch it is because you have successfully joined the [url=https://www.nationstates.net/page=un]World Assembly[/url] (good job there!) but have yet to endorse the region's Delegate.[/size][/font]

[font=new times roman][size=120][color=#367524][b]What does influence have to do with endorsing the Delegate?[/b][/color][/size]
[size=110]The most direct relationship comes when voting on World Assembly resolutions. WA members of course have one vote, each region's Delegate however has a block vote worth all of their endorsements plus one. Each endorsement the Delegate gets is another vote for the region and therefore for you. The larger our Delegate vote block the more influence the UDS has in World Assembly affairs.[/size][/font]

[font=new times roman][size=120][color=#367524][b]Most importantly, what's in it for you?[/b][/color][/size]
[size=110]Our very loveable mascot Hamlet will be delivering special [url=https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1394710][b]Endobacon[/b][/url] to those intelligent nations that endorse Delegate Dome Artan. This specialty bacon is widely regarded as the finest around and no [strike]cute[/strike] pigs like Hamlet were harmed in its making.[/size][/font]

[font=new times roman][size=110]Additionally you can count on the Delegate endorsing you in return if they have not yet done so.[/size][/font]

[font=new times roman][size=120][color=#367524][b]I've endorsed the Delegate, what else can I do?[/b][/color][/size]
[size=110]Endorsing the Delegate may be the main way of Promoting Influence Growth dealt with here but it is certainly not the only way. You can also help increase the region's total influence, which is the stat that determines Regional Power. Currently the Union has Very High Regional Power (you can find this on the region's homepage below the [url=https://www.nationstates.net/region=the_union_of_democratic_states]World Factbook Entry[/url]) and every endorsement helps us climb higher.[/size][/font]

[font=new times roman][size=110]To help the region in this regard simply endorse everyone in the region. Endorsements increase a nation's influence growth and the combined total influence of all region residents is the Union's influence. Endorsing everyone should also increase your personal influence as we encourage all WA members to trade endorsements.[/size][/font]

[font=new times roman][size=110]If you need somewhere to start your mass endorsing check out the [url=https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1387749]WA Members List[/url] which includes all the region's WA members. Alternatively send [nation]Dome Artan[/nation] a telegram asking for a list of your unendorsed nations.[/size][/font]

[font=new times roman][size=120][color=#367524][b]Wait I don't know how to endorse![/b][/color][/size]
[size=110]To endorse a nation the only requirements are being in the WA and the same region. If that is true then navigate to their nation homepage and scroll to the bottom. There will be a button to [u]Endorse[/u], click it and you've endorsed them.[/size][/font]

[font=new times roman][size=120][color=#367524][b]Do your part in the region and endorse away! Or at least do it to keep Hamlet as smiley as they are![/b][/color][/size][/font]

[spoiler=[font=new times roman][b]Hamlet's No Bacon List[/font][/b]]
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