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The Republic of Repreteop | 7 years later. "Hello, why are you at my door?" "I love you Repreteop, please stay with me forever." *Slams door* "Oops, wrong guy, the guys name was..." Melicorium and Unojo | |
The Sanduaguo Stan of Purple Hyacinth | I'm excited to vote for you W&S!!! While I see that you've already applied to be a legislator, the next step is the join the ministries. People won't vote for you unless you've contributed to the region already. You can apply to the ministries here, although you do need to be on Discord in order to participate: https://tspforums.xyz/thread-9048.html I saw your later post saying that you're running for MoFA. Well, MoFA doesn't deal with recruitment/retention, so this plan will have to wait. Either that or you are planning to puppetflood, which would be illegal: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=260044#016 Unfortunately, you were accepted after the election began, so you can't vote. I'm not sure who would vote for a MoFA campaign that centers around increasing hostilities with an ally. Lucky for you, at least you have a justification with the recent quorum raid spat :P Roavin only plans to serve for one term, so you might be in luck :P Witchcraft and Sorcery, Auphelia, Volaworand, Melicorium, and 2 othersMoaning Lisa, and Taigama | |
The Republic of Repreteop | Twas the future, maybe someday I can be a Delegate. | |
The Monarchical Republic of Andinla | gm guys (well, gm from where im at) Melicorium, King Canute, Shrekisgodland, and Vp alben barkley | |
Shrekisgodland | goodmorning to you too hope your country is doing well Melicorium, Andinla, and King Canute | |
The stickmin empire | ||
Rabbitz | I would say you were reading between the lines, but I only wrote one per post in my responses to you. Melicorium and Unojo | |
The Floofy Foxes of The Solar System Scope | Life sure does make someone busy? ...Mars? Is that you? You have quite a distinct... aura about you. Can't miss it. Oh no! *is foxnapped* Si-topia, Melicorium, Moaning Lisa, Unojo, and 1 otherAndroid t-84xycb | |
The Republic of Repreteop | quiet? | |
Auphelia | Contributing to the region? Hm. That sounds like communist talk to me, young lady. I haven't done a single thing for this region and you don't see me losing many elections. Auphelia for MoFA: Kill Our Enemies, Subsume Our Allies TSP is for TSPers. We have no use for foreign barbarians. They are uncultured, uncivilised, and undeserving of our presence. Inherently inferior in every way, they only make us worse by association. Those slovenly, slobbering hordes, their filthy, grubby claws reaching out, grasping after our shining glory. If you examine the planes of their skulls, you will clearly see an unseemly divot in the portion associated most closely with honesty and virtue whilst possessing those most odious ridges where murderous rage and idiocy can most assuredly be detected. No, no, the only solution is to cut off all connection to these inferior regions, these disgusting nations. Only those of us with fine breeding and the refined sensibilities of a TSPer may remain. Close the embassies, for there is no saving those already lost to the seething masses of meritless waste. And deportations! Send those who stink of foreign birth out from our region at once. They seek to poison the pristine purity of our crystal waters with the pollution of their impure blood. Drystar, Volaworand, Melicorium, Purple Hyacinth, and 3 othersKing Canute, Moaning Lisa, and Ovindien | |
Melicorium | Good afternoon! King Canute, Moaning Lisa, and Vp alben barkley | |
The Republic of Repreteop | ||
The Happppy songs of Witchcraft and Sorcery | <33333 Auphelia, Melicorium, and Purple Hyacinth | |
Shrekisgodland | ||
Melicorium | I don't know whether this is nice or not. Abarri, Tameside, and Vp alben barkley | |
The Congruent Repertoire of Unojo | ||
Shrekisgodland | ||
The Dominion of Drystar | You do realize you’d have to visit the discord and forums for that job, right? Auphelia, Volaworand, Concrete Slab, Melicorium, and 2 othersPurple Hyacinth, and Moaning Lisa | |
The Holy Ecclesiarch of Saint Cinder | I thought Brother Chisel told you about our surprise statue we currently building. The surprise is how many years we took off your image! Though I'm afraid it's quite heavy to move. You can really admire the time and effort it too- Oh that wasn't suppose to fall off. Well we can always call it a vast artistic improvement. Anyways, let's say this should fix your ego. I will have you know twittiling my thumbs and playing Tic Tac Toe Two happens to be a national past time. But if you are looking for guidance I highly suggest you change from Amerion to Beepee and Amerion. Like a dancing quartet of honking geese they elegantly go together. Time to Tic Tac Toe Two!. . Guides . Welcome to the South Pacific! HOLD IT! This dispatch is really long. What’s the TL;DR, please? Well, the game pretty much plays itself, but if you’re looking to get involved in the region beyond the basics, then there are a variety of things you can do:
You may also find this Glossary of Common Abbreviations and Terms useful. And here's a guide to getting involved in Politics in the South Pacific. Okay, I want more detail, but start with the basics, please! So, you’ve just started playing NationStates and you’ve been randomly assigned to the South Pacific region. What now? There’s already a great FAQ on the site that’s worth reading, but I’ll do my best to give you a basic run through here as well. Firstly, you will want to get to know your nation and get a feel for how you can mould it to your will. This is done by answering issues, which pop up every six hours or so. [Pro-tip - you can change the frequency that you receive issues in your settings] Each issue has a number of possible decisions to choose from. These will usually cover a range of positions on the political spectrum, but they will also tend to be rather extreme - that’s part of the fun! When you’ve chosen which decision you want to take, you’ll get a screen showing you its effect on your nation, as your stats go up or down in various ways, as well as a humorous tagline which will usually make it sound like you made a bad decision (don’t worry, it’s just being funny). Answering issues is the only way you can directly change your nation’s stats (except population, which just increases steadily over time as a measure of how long you’ve been playing - population milestones will unlock some new customisation features for your nation, like naming your capital city), and it is, basically the whole of the base game. Anything else NationStates has to offer is kinda added-on. Indeed, the only other part of the game that connects directly to your nation is the World Assembly. It’s kinda like NationStates’ version of the UN, and if you join it you can vote on resolutions created by other nations, the outcome of which will affect your nation’s stats. You can only have one WA nation. Don’t try and have more than one - it’s a serious offence! There’s more to being in the WA, but that’s the only part of it that affects your nation’s general stats and is, therefore, part of the basics of the game. We’ll look at the other features of being in the WA later. Okay, so you said I’d been assigned to a region. What is a region anyway and can I change which region I’m in? Well, regions in NationStates are communities which your nation can be part of. Each nation can only belong to one region at a time, but you are free to move your nation as much as you like, or you can create multiple nations to experience several regions at once. The South Pacific is a Game-Created Region (GCR), meaning that it was not founded by an individual player and, as one of the five Pacifics, it serves the purpose of being a ‘feeder’ region, meaning it is where new nations are randomly assigned once they are created, because everybody has to start somewhere. As such, there are a lot of nations in the South Pacific at any one time and nations come and go quite quickly, but this also means that the region is very diverse and inclusive and this is reflected in the aims of the regional government. Wait, what? The region has a government? Yes, but there’s more to tell you about regions first! Okay… You can find other regions by searching for them on ‘The World’ page and you can change your nation’s region by visiting the World Factbook Entry (WFE - here’s the South Pacific’s) of another region and then scrolling until you see a button labeled ‘Move [nation name] to [region name]’. Click it and you’re off! Right. Are you going to tell me about the regional government, now? Is that, like, a roleplaying thing? Yes, okay. Firstly, the regional government of the South Pacific (known as the Coalition of the South Pacific) is not a roleplaying government, at least, not exactly. It is made up of individuals within the South Pacific who have been elected to office by others in the South Pacific and, once in office, they have real power over the community and what happens there. In that sense, at least, this is not roleplaying. They are not ‘in character’. It is, however, a kind of gameplay, as it allows people to ‘play’ at politics and enjoy another aspect of being part of this community. So, how does it work? Well, regional governments sprang up not long after the game was first created back in 2003. They grew up out of the delegate system, which is where nations which are members of the WA can endorse each other and the nation with the most endorsements in the region becomes the regional WA delegate, with increased voting power in the WA itself. That automatically creates a kind of democracy and, since the regional WA delegate has certain powers (like banning nations and editing the WFE), it became a desirable position and one that people wanted to make sure was used wisely. The limitations of what is possible on regional message boards made regions begin to form the structures of government on off-site forums and, over time and through the work and effort of many ‘generations’ of players, those structures have evolved into fully-functioning governments. The Coalition of the South Pacific (found on these forums) is one of the oldest democracies in the game. It has a charter from which all our laws are derived, an Assembly which serves as the legislature of the coalition, creating and voting on laws and presided over by the Chair; a Cabinet consisting of a Prime Minister and the Ministers, respectively, of Regional Affairs, Foreign Affairs and Military Affairs, who serve as our executive; and a local government on the game website consisting of the Delegate and three Local Council members. All of these positions are elected at regular intervals, allowing players frequent opportunity to run for them. That sounds interesting. How do I get involved? The best thing to do is to join the forums here and register as a legislator, which will allow you to vote on laws. Then you should probably lurk a little while and look through old threads to see what people actually do in government and how it affects the community. I’d also recommend joining our Discord chat server. It’s great fun and a lot happens on there which is relevant to the forum-based government. Indeed, in many ways, it’s more active than the forums, with the latter serving as the place to store and action all our laws, debates and votes. What else is there to do? There is roleplaying on both the TSP forum and the NationStates forum. Most regions have their own journalism reporting on regional events and are keen to have new writers get involved. Our journalism is run by the Ministry of Regional Affairs, who also organise festivals and events and write guides like this to help welcome new players. You can join us on our Discord server There is military gameplay, which takes the form of using WA membership and delegate endorsement to ‘raid’ regions, taking over their in-game power-structure to make changes or just say that you’ve done it. Other’s ‘defend’ regions from attacks by raiders who seek to damage a region’s membership or culture. There are also independents, who raid or defend just for fun and don’t seek to cause any damage. (the South Pacific has it’s own independent army - the South Pacific Special Forces, which you can join here, or on their Discord server. There are even special GCRs called Warzones designed just for this purpose. And of course there’s the usual banter and word games, karaoke competitions, inter-regional festivals - all sorts of things really. There’s always something going on in NationStates! But don’t be overwhelmed. Take your time, get involved in whatever you feel like whenever you feel like it and don’t stress. Above all, have fun and play nicely with other players! Concrete Slab, Proctethia, and Melicorium | |
Auphelia | Yes, my dear pirate. It is part of the riotous hilarity. Ha. Ha ha. Ha. Drystar, Volaworand, Rabbitz, Concrete Slab, and 5 othersMelicorium, Purple Hyacinth, Moaning Lisa, Sland bla, and Cenethinc | |
Melicorium | I'm doing good too, thanks! ^_^ Volaworand and Vp alben barkley | |
Magna bulgaria | ||
The Dominion of Drystar | Live action Punch and Judy show? Auphelia, Volaworand, Melicorium, Moaning Lisa, and 1 otherUnojo | |
Natavia | Hi Melicorium and Unojo | |
Magna bulgaria | Hi! Melicorium, Unojo, and Natavia |