[TH]o The ultimate enemy test
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by Thingol
Much has been said recently about the PTO attempt that has been undertaken by a big number of new citizens, mainly from Serbia. Some call these people enemies, and others say, that they have the same right to rule New Zealand as the people who built it up in the first month. I want to investigate this subject further.
Of course ethics are subjective. I have to refer to my own feeling of right and wrong. My picture of the average eRepublik player is that he wants to build up and not to destroy. He wants to build up his skills and experience, maybe his own business and wealth, and maybe a political career. Maybe he even wants to have a nice war from time to time and conquer regions of other countries - but I dare to say that at a 50% chance of losing his own assets, the average player would not attack. This is why I named my party the Peace 'n' Prosperity Party. Another point is that the average player is quite honest and hates to be cheated. Now I call those people enemies who violate these principles and make New Zealand a worse place to live for the described average citizen.
A. During the congress elections
Generally, parties are fighting each other at elections. This is democracy. I my opinion all parties should respect forum democracy, too, and nominate the candidates according to the primary elections - but as we do not have a constitution in place that would officially install forum democracy as a part of New Zealand's framework, I cannot demand that everybody must submit to this. I can only hope that we will soon have such a constitution.
So far, no enemies detected. However, I noticed two unfair actions by the party which is today named New New Zealan😛
1. The party was temporarily renamed to N. Z. U. P. which was a clear attempt to trick voters of The New Zealand Union Party.
2. The party received votes from multis that were later removed by the admins.
This is not how honest people want to play the game. I am giving two enemy points to New New Zealand for these actions.
B. After the congress elections
Are there enemies in our congress?
We don't know it yet. There are mainly people from two groups in our congress: people who won the primary elections and members of the party which is today named New New Zealand. This alone does not constitute enemies (see above). We will see from the future actions who is acting in New Zealand's best interest and who is not. In between, you can make a little enemy test I prepared for you:
1. Are you willing to preserve New Zealand's integrity and help it keep its regions?
2. Are you willing to help New Zealand grow, both in population and in economy?
3. Are you willing to set taxes and other parameters in a way that supports competitive companies and rewards diligent workers?
4. Are you willing to use New Zealand's national funds and tax income only for New Zealand's benefit?
5. Are you willing to accept a constitution, providing an additional democracy framework besides the weak eRepublik game mechanisms?
6. Are you willing to grant citizenship only to these people who have the same intentions?
How many enemy points have you got? 😉
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vote. can they pledge allegiance to eNew Zealand and forget about their ex-Life politics??
well said THingol. Some has already started giving out citizenship passes without discussion...obviously to bring in more supporters...
are we going to keep pretending that everything is rosy?
You forgot to mention the phony orders using our graphics and format to steal votes. Just sayin 😉
First of all, they had to rename their party because every single news article was saying they were out to PTO us, and that we should look for the name and not vote for them. They changed their name to avoid being ignored by voters. It's a tactic that probably worked, and more power to them if they fooled a few people. Politics is never a clean business, after all.
Secondly, representatives from the party, especially the leader, don't know where the multi votes came from. They were never told to utilize multis, and I don't think they'd need to use them since they had so many people voting for them in the first place.
They did what they needed to to win, and I honestly don't think they used multis.
1. Survival as a nation would probably trump territorial integrity.
If Poland, Spain, America and Croatia decided it wanted to cross eNZ to attack Australia then a stubborn refusal to yield any regions would be insane! Much better to allow access across one of the lesser regions and keep (at a minimum) Auckland and its [High] grain.
3. Depends on your definition?
Some advocate the American model, others low tax and then you have those who figure on state control, communes and the like.
5. Constituitions are for RPers and there is no 'besides' the eRep mechanisms as ultimatly it's the game we're playing and eRep mechs and laws come before everything.
4. Depends on who makes those definitions
2 & 6. Depends on who makes the laws regarding immigration and who is effectivly running every other sector of eNZ.
The ultimate enemy test would be answering no to;
"Can we talk?"
Good stuff Thingol.
@Alfa: I've talked with most if not all of my enemies. A lot of them are actually p cool. That doesn't mean they're not my enemies though.
"2. The party received votes from multis that were later removed by the admins."
I was on our channel when alert was issued that multies (low level players) are voting our candidates. We roughly knew what our number of voters would be so this raised eyebrows.
Now if that's not dirty I don't know what is.
I have some ideas who could be behind it but will not speak of it. (not that I care about FP) Certain players portrayed Serbian candidates as evil doers so this came as no surprise, so we reported these actions to admin.
Tnx for your's multies votes.