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Polar svalbard

That feeling when applying for an internship and they're like, three professional references. Bro I don't even know if I have three unprofessional references.

Domanania, Miklania, Dormill and Stiura, Athara magarat, and 2 othersNhoor, and Veltora

Thuzbekistan

Polar svalbard wrote:That feeling when applying for an internship and they're like, three professional references. Bro I don't even know if I have three unprofessional references.

Professors would be considered such. Old jobs as well.

The Unified Electorates of Ainslie

Polar svalbard wrote:

> Wants to apply for a position to gain industry experience
> needs industry contacts that come from experience

Domanania, Miklania, Dormill and Stiura, Belle ilse en terre, and 2 othersNegarakita, and Veltora



The Dominion of Nhoor

Union of kalmar republics wrote:Random question

In your irl nation what is your equivalent to states or Provences?

I'm originallly from the Netherlands, which has twelve provinces that are divided in municipalities. There are regular elections for the parliaments of the provinces ('Provincial Estates') and the members of these parliaments elect the members of the First Chamber of Parliament (Senate) shortly after they take office. (The Second Chamber of Parliament (House of Representatives) is elected directly by the people)

Currently I'm living in Luxembourg (the Grand Duchy, not the Belgian province mentioned by Meylandt below :) ), which despite its small size is subdivided in twelve cantons, which are divided in municipalities. There used to be another level between the national level and the cantons in the form of three districts, which were however abolished in 2015 (their borders are however still shown on Google Maps). The districts and cantons were/are mainly geographical divisions and didn't/don't have governmental structures. There are elections for the (unicameral) national parliament, but these make use of four electoral districts (yet another subdivision) which each represent a certain amount of seats in parliament.

Athara magarat, Belle ilse en terre, and Michigonia

Meylandt

Union of kalmar republics wrote:Random question

In your irl nation what is your equivalent to states or Provences?

In Belgium, under the federal level we have regions (gewesten in Dutch, don't know their name in French) communities (gemeenschappen) and provinces (provincies).

The regions are Flanders, Wallonia and the Capital Region of Brussels (which is clearly a really catchy name). Those are defined by the province borders, Flanders containing West- and East-Flanders, Antwerp, Limburg and Felmish Brabant, while Wallonia has Hainaut, Ličge, Namur, Luxembourg and Walloon Brabant. Brussels is it's own thing, although entirely contained withing Flemish Brabant.

Communities are language based. There is a Flemish, French and German speaking community.

The federal level isn't really superior to the regions or communities. They are equal and all responsible for their own thing, which creates a clusterfrick of six governments (Flemish region and community are the same).

Athara magarat and Nhoor



The Unified Electorates of Ainslie

Quick promo for a dispatch that could potentially spark collaboration:

Ideas I've got

by Polar svalbard

Bout time to create a new family tree

Spit ball some new companies

Things gotta do.
Continue writing Arildrion Industries dispatch
Rework PSSA factbook

Time to create second wave language

Maybe work with Enchanta in helping both sides of her civil war which will allow for reasons why the war is as big as it is, and maybe have journalists uncover that resulting in a large scandal for PS.

Make a PMC company, could have some contracts in Enchanta

Gotta work on that mythology

Could do a small Raedlon football cup in order to show some solidarity



Storyline for Wake Sud.

Goals?
- Make Wake Sud more well known
- Communist ideals more prevalent
- Economic interest from other parts of the region

Things to do
- Could start an election cycle
- Go before League and ask for support
- Try and find allies in Raedlon for it
- New resources discovered?

Keep talking about the protests in Wake Atolla, and maybe have more in North Wake and around Polar Svalbard

Talk about how possible troll accounts are inflaming tensions in the Wake Isles.
Talk about how Thuzbek documentary misconstrues Svalbardian history.
Talk about how SMI-3 has linked massive amounts of troll accounts to Thuzbekistan.

Drone shot down

Read dispatch

(#1 is similar to my Mussen Tech, Muse, Lucas Mussen situation, Polar. However, the idea I had for all this lacks nuance which I'm sure you could bring in the context of your clandestine business world)

Domanania, Dormill and Stiura, and Athara magarat

The Federated States of Domanania

I found a website dedicated to starwars RP with an in depth system of creating tech/ships/characters/factions ect. and it's intimidating to get into, but like the perfect drug for me. For similar reasons why im in love with NS (but in comparison NS is easy mode)

Athara magarat

Ainslie wrote:Quick promo for a dispatch that could potentially spark collaboration:

Ideas I've got

by Polar svalbard

Bout time to create a new family tree

Spit ball some new companies

Things gotta do.
Continue writing Arildrion Industries dispatch
Rework PSSA factbook

Time to create second wave language

Maybe work with Enchanta in helping both sides of her civil war which will allow for reasons why the war is as big as it is, and maybe have journalists uncover that resulting in a large scandal for PS.

Make a PMC company, could have some contracts in Enchanta

Gotta work on that mythology

Could do a small Raedlon football cup in order to show some solidarity



Storyline for Wake Sud.

Goals?
- Make Wake Sud more well known
- Communist ideals more prevalent
- Economic interest from other parts of the region

Things to do
- Could start an election cycle
- Go before League and ask for support
- Try and find allies in Raedlon for it
- New resources discovered?

Keep talking about the protests in Wake Atolla, and maybe have more in North Wake and around Polar Svalbard

Talk about how possible troll accounts are inflaming tensions in the Wake Isles.
Talk about how Thuzbek documentary misconstrues Svalbardian history.
Talk about how SMI-3 has linked massive amounts of troll accounts to Thuzbekistan.

Drone shot down

Read dispatch

(#1 is similar to my Mussen Tech, Muse, Lucas Mussen situation, Polar. However, the idea I had for all this lacks nuance which I'm sure you could bring in the context of your clandestine business world)

As always, I am still looking for big internationals who wish to have Magarati companies as their subsidiaries and smaller businesses who could become subsidiaries of bigger Magarati companies.

nation=athara_magarat/detail=factbook/id=1024955



The Utopian Kingdom of the Union of Roendavar

Union of kalmar republics wrote:Random question

In your irl nation what is your equivalent to states or Provences?

This seems like an interesting question.

I live in the Philippines. We currently have 81 provinces, turning 83 in 2020 (I know it's a lot). Each province is ruled by a governor. The provinces are grouped into 17 regions, 14 of them are assigned a number based on their geographic location starting from the North to the South. The other 3 are the CAR (Cordillera Administrative Region), NCR (National Capital Region), and the BARMM (Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao). The NCR is composed of 16 cities, who act independently, and 1 municipality. The regions don't have power. They serve more of a demographic purpose rather than a political entity.

Provinces are divided into cities and municipalities. Their differences are more on an economic level. Cities are either richer, seat of the local government, or proclaimed a city through a law. Our current number for cities is at 145, while we have 1,489 municipalities. We have 3 types of cities, HUC (Highly Urbanized Cities), ICC (Independent Component Cities), and CC (Component Cities). HUCs and ICCs function independently. They are excluded from voting in the province they are located on. There are exceptions to these but this would be very long.

Each municipality and city are subdivided into barangays. The Philippines has a total of 42,029 barangays, each governed by a barangay captain. Barangays have executive, legislative, and judicial powers. They are a result of Philippine history, where before the Spanish arrived, groups of people, mainly families. were classified into a barangay. These barangays eventually evolved into barrios when the Spanish came and reverted back to barangays when we got our independence.

(Opinions below. Disregard if you only want facts.)
If you're asking, why are there so many political divisions in the Philippines? Wouldn't it be confusing? Well, let's start with the pros. Local leaders can serve their constituents more effectively as they live in the same area, each division is ruled by the same culture and people which minimizes unrest (locally speaking), and they can tailor laws and ordinances to their specific needs. The cons, corruption runs rampant, political families control much of local politics with an iron fist, and the bureaucracy is astronomical. It's a failing system, but one that's still sticking around.

Athara magarat, Dragao do mar, Samudera, Union of kalmar republics, and 1 otherNhoor

Tracera

Roendavar wrote:This seems like an interesting question.

I live in the Philippines. We currently have 81 provinces, turning 83 in 2020 (I know it's a lot). Each province is ruled by a governor. The provinces are grouped into 17 regions, 14 of them are assigned a number based on their geographic location starting from the North to the South. The other 3 are the CAR (Cordillera Administrative Region), NCR (National Capital Region), and the BARMM (Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao). The NCR is composed of 16 cities, who act independently, and 1 municipality. The regions don't have power. They serve more of a demographic purpose rather than a political entity.

Provinces are divided into cities and municipalities. Their differences are more on an economic level. Cities are either richer, seat of the local government, or proclaimed a city through a law. Our current number for cities is at 145, while we have 1,489 municipalities. We have 3 types of cities, HUC (Highly Urbanized Cities), ICC (Independent Component Cities), and CC (Component Cities). HUCs and ICCs function independently. They are excluded from voting in the province they are located on. There are exceptions to these but this would be very long.

Each municipality and city are subdivided into barangays. The Philippines has a total of 42,029 barangays, each governed by a barangay captain. Barangays have executive, legislative, and judicial powers. They are a result of Philippine history, where before the Spanish arrived, groups of people, mainly families. were classified into a barangay. These barangays eventually evolved into barrios when the Spanish came and reverted back to barangays when we got our independence.

(Opinions below. Disregard if you only want facts.)
If you're asking, why are there so many political divisions in the Philippines? Wouldn't it be confusing? Well, let's start with the pros. Local leaders can serve their constituents more effectively as they live in the same area, each division is ruled by the same culture and people which minimizes unrest (locally speaking), and they can tailor laws and ordinances to their specific needs. The cons, corruption runs rampant, political families control much of local politics with an iron fist, and the bureaucracy is astronomical. It's a failing system, but one that's still sticking around.

I spent 5 minutes reading this only because my friend if Filipino and was hoping to impress him but this melted a hole through my brain. I blame the Americans.

The United Republics of Dormill and Stiura

Tracera wrote:I spent 5 minutes reading this only because my friend if Filipino and was hoping to impress him but this melted a hole through my brain. I blame the Americans.

Given the way the US organizes its territories and the States organize their subdivisions, I can safely assume that bureaucratic nightmare is a wholly Filipino creation.

Now imagine stacking a federal system on top of it, as the new constitution proposes.

Roendavar and Tracera



Tracera

Who thinks the integration of European nation states should happen? Should they lose national sovereignty and create a European Army or not? (Countries that are members of the European Union and excluding the United Kingdom)

The Dominion of Nhoor

Tracera wrote:Who thinks the integration of European nation states should happen? Should they lose national sovereignty and create a European Army or not? (Countries that are members of the European Union and excluding the United Kingdom)

There are many ways integration can happen. Personally I don't think a US model will be the final result. It would help already if the member states' governments wouldn't work against the EU and blame it for everything that goes wrong whereas what goes wrong is often (indirectly) the member states' fault.

A combined European army could be practical, but I'd say within NATO, not as a replacement of NATO.

Belle ilse en terre

The Hegemony of Wellsia

Nhoor wrote:There are many ways integration can happen. Personally I don't think a US model will be the final result. It would help already if the member states' governments wouldn't work against the EU and blame it for everything that goes wrong whereas what goes wrong is often (indirectly) the member states' fault.

A combined European army could be practical, but I'd say within NATO, not as a replacement of NATO.

What language do you use, which country’s weapons and arms manufacturers get the contracts, who’sorganization gets used. Which generals and officers have to undergo retraining to fit new tactics. Who’s existing military equipment gets sold off. Creating one army out of a dozen, with at four countries being self equipping, without angering anybody, impossible.

Belle ilse en terre, Thuzbekistan, Almorea, and Nezaeva

Post self-deleted by Veltora.

The Nation of Eurania

Roendavar wrote:-snip-

Well done, Kuya Roe.

As a balikbayan - no, an Amerikano, I've lost almost everything connected with my parents' culture and homeland.

Athara magarat, Keomora, and Roendavar

The Federation of Balnik

Countries need to split apart, not join together. Smh.

The Dominion of Nhoor

Wellsia wrote:What language do you use, which country’s weapons and arms manufacturers get the contracts, who’sorganization gets used. Which generals and officers have to undergo retraining to fit new tactics. Who’s existing military equipment gets sold off. Creating one army out of a dozen, with at four countries being self equipping, without angering anybody, impossible.

Well, we are not Wonder Woman, so deciding all this will take time and effort (as everything involving the EU, but it is a unique project so we have to invent wheels all the time). The language may be English as that is the one understood by most EU citizens but for the rest things may be compromised or newly invented (where I somehow expect the most resistance from the French). But you never know how a cow may catch a hare!

The Blue Islands of Corindia

Got an interview w spaceX, would definitely rather do that than operate nuclear reactors for the navy in a moored sub (no offense sailors) so fingers crossed

Miklania, Dormill and Stiura, Athara magarat, Belle ilse en terre, and 3 othersSamudera, Thuzbekistan, and Almorea

The United Republics of Dormill and Stiura

Corindia wrote:Got an interview w spaceX, would definitely rather do that than operate nuclear reactors for the navy in a moored sub (no offense sailors) so fingers crossed

I wouldn’t know anybody who would take a job with the Navy over SpaceX.

Balnik, Corindia, and Almorea

The Most Catholic Diarchy of Miklania

Dormill and Stiura wrote:I wouldn’t know anybody who would take a job with the Navy over SpaceX.

*raises hand*

Belle ilse en terre

The Nation of Eurania

Corindia wrote:Got an interview w spaceX, would definitely rather do that than operate nuclear reactors for the navy in a moored sub (no offense sailors) so fingers crossed

That's pretty cool, Elon Musk used to do the interviews himself until recently

The Federation of Balnik

Man everything is so boring. This leg is seriously bumming me out. All I did today is sit on my porch and snipe grouse with a rifle.

Nights edge

Those pasta boxes that are all like "8 servings" inside of whatever have clearly not met me before

I may not be a spatially significant individual but I can put away pasta like nobody's business

Thuzbekistan

Balnik wrote:Man everything is so boring. This leg is seriously bumming me out. All I did today is sit on my porch and snipe grouse with a rifle.

That just reminds me of that arse from fox and the hound that shot at the fox and his pants fell down

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