The Aurora President Candidate Is...
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by Flitwick
Hi everyone,
Aurora has today decided that we will run our own candidate in the upcoming Presidential election.
21 days ago, our current President was elected. Shortly after the victory President W3st3rb3rg announced in an article, that he was very happy with being elected and that it was now time to get to work.
W3st3rb3rg has not been seen in the public since. Not as a President anyway.
Aurora cannot accept having a Government and President that is virtually invisible. It is true, that most Government work goes on in the closed offices, but why should that mean, that we will not hear or see anything from what is going on after that? It is not fair. It is time to change this and get a President and a Government, that is not only very active, but also shows the results to the public.
Aurora has therefore today decided to run me, Flitwick, as a candidate for the next President of eSweden.
I am honored to have been chosen, but I will not lie to you, I do think, that it was a wise choice. I am a hardworking man, that sets up goals and does what it takes to reach those goals.
Who is Flitwick?
I am 30 years of age. I have been working for the past 5 years in the hotel business, until I quit my job in February to make a fresh start. What does that mean? It means, that from September I will be a student again.
I am from Denmark, I understand Danish (that is a given), Swedish, Norwegian, German and English.
I do not know how to properly write in Swedish, which means I will hire someone to translate my articles into Swedish, when needed.
In my online gaming life, I come from Travian, a game which I have spent many years in, always in leadership positions, when it comes to alliances. I am a very strict leader. I demand the best from my staff. I demand activity, results and that orders are followed.
In my many years in Travian I have learned all parts of online strategy gaming. I know when to be tough and when to be endearing, when it comes to talking with other leaders. I know how to organize an attack to perfection and I know when it is time to stand down. I know how to lead.
So, what will I be using my skills for?
I will put together a team that will be hard working, getting results and showing the results.
Communication is a vital part of a Government. Communication from the Government is vital for the congress. How is the congress ever going to get anything done, if they have no idea what is going on?
Today no information is released. That has to change.
Everyone has the rights to know how much money eSweden earns a day and everyone has the rights to know how that money is spent.
What does this mean, really?
That basically means, that all departments will be active. Any minister will be required to make reports on what he/she has been doing. If it is a ministry that handles money, then the ministry will make sure to keep track on all income and expenses. Once a week, the Minister of Finance will have to release a fiscal report. This report will show how much the income has been and how much the expenses are.
The Minister of Defense will each week release a battle statistics report. How much influence have our army done and how much have we paid our soldiers.
The Minister of Education will once a week release a report telling about what is going on in that department.
And the President will at least once a week give a full report about the state of the union.
But someone is missing in all this. What about the Minister of Foreign Affairs?
The MoFA will be on a tough job. He will not only have to be up to speed on every country in the world we interact with, he will also be given a key job for my first term.
Conquering Norway.
For far too long, Norway has been under a PTO-like administration. Players from different parts of the world have seen Norway as an easy target and have taken over. At the moment ABC countries are controlling Norway, but I will work on changing this.
It is time for Norway to be united with Denmark and Sweden. Therefore my MoFA will be given the key objective to negotiate with the ABC countries, the release of Norwegian soil. And when this happens, Norway will be conquered by force, by us.
Renaming the Union
I have never been a fan of the name Homonavia and I know that a lot of players feel the same. It is time to change the name. But into what? That is up to the public.
A Union Treaty
It is time to set up up some ground rules. Pho3nix suggested some time ago, that a committee should be established. A committee with the purpose of forming a union treaty. This idea I will follow up on.
I will therefore not go into what I think should be in a treaty, as I do not wish to interfere with the committee's work.
Fair TSM Salary
Today the formula for payment to soldiers is based on influence and influence only. This means, that the old player will at any time be paid more than a younger player, only because he/she is older. That is not fair.
At least four months ago the former President Valnad admitted, that the current formula was not the best and still nothing has changed since. It is time to reward activity and dedication. Which means, if I am to be elected, the TSM payment system will be changed to something a lot more fair to everyone.
Who will be ministers?
That is yet to be decided.
I will have talks with the people I would like to see as ministers and in Government in general.
One thing is certain though. Being a part of my Government Team means activity, dedication and a will to do changes.
A lot of changes will be done. The whole way of thinking is being changed. Transparency is the key word in all departments. And transparency is a lot of work. But it is work that has to be done.
Whether we will see a Government of old well-known people, totally fresh people or something in-between is yet to be known. It simply depends on what the ones have to offer.
In the past it has very much been a tradition, that a party is to get a minister for giving support to the candidate. I am not into blackmail. I would love any party's support for me as President, but if the party does not have an active and good candidate for a minister post, then that party will not get a minister. The past where it is, what can the President Candidate offer the party is over. Now it is, what can the party offer the President candidate. And that is how it should be like. We all want the best for our union. And none of us wants to see ministers and other Government workers that do absolutely nothing, but is just in it for the title. We all want an active Government that is dedicated to make this a better eSweden and a better union.
I will during the time up to the election release more articles. In one of these articles I will release my proposed Government.
Thank you for reading and I hope to gain your support as the coming President.
It is time for changes.
Vote Flitwick.
Best Regards,
Flitwick
President Candidate for Aurora
Aurora has today decided that we will run our own candidate in the upcoming Presidential election.
21 days ago, our current President was elected. Shortly after the victory President W3st3rb3rg announced in an article, that he was very happy with being elected and that it was now time to get to work.
W3st3rb3rg has not been seen in the public since. Not as a President anyway.
Aurora cannot accept having a Government and President that is virtually invisible. It is true, that most Government work goes on in the closed offices, but why should that mean, that we will not hear or see anything from what is going on after that? It is not fair. It is time to change this and get a President and a Government, that is not only very active, but also shows the results to the public.
Aurora has therefore today decided to run me, Flitwick, as a candidate for the next President of eSweden.
I am honored to have been chosen, but I will not lie to you, I do think, that it was a wise choice. I am a hardworking man, that sets up goals and does what it takes to reach those goals.
Who is Flitwick?
I am 30 years of age. I have been working for the past 5 years in the hotel business, until I quit my job in February to make a fresh start. What does that mean? It means, that from September I will be a student again.
I am from Denmark, I understand Danish (that is a given), Swedish, Norwegian, German and English.
I do not know how to properly write in Swedish, which means I will hire someone to translate my articles into Swedish, when needed.
In my online gaming life, I come from Travian, a game which I have spent many years in, always in leadership positions, when it comes to alliances. I am a very strict leader. I demand the best from my staff. I demand activity, results and that orders are followed.
In my many years in Travian I have learned all parts of online strategy gaming. I know when to be tough and when to be endearing, when it comes to talking with other leaders. I know how to organize an attack to perfection and I know when it is time to stand down. I know how to lead.
So, what will I be using my skills for?
I will put together a team that will be hard working, getting results and showing the results.
Communication is a vital part of a Government. Communication from the Government is vital for the congress. How is the congress ever going to get anything done, if they have no idea what is going on?
Today no information is released. That has to change.
Everyone has the rights to know how much money eSweden earns a day and everyone has the rights to know how that money is spent.
What does this mean, really?
That basically means, that all departments will be active. Any minister will be required to make reports on what he/she has been doing. If it is a ministry that handles money, then the ministry will make sure to keep track on all income and expenses. Once a week, the Minister of Finance will have to release a fiscal report. This report will show how much the income has been and how much the expenses are.
The Minister of Defense will each week release a battle statistics report. How much influence have our army done and how much have we paid our soldiers.
The Minister of Education will once a week release a report telling about what is going on in that department.
And the President will at least once a week give a full report about the state of the union.
But someone is missing in all this. What about the Minister of Foreign Affairs?
The MoFA will be on a tough job. He will not only have to be up to speed on every country in the world we interact with, he will also be given a key job for my first term.
Conquering Norway.
For far too long, Norway has been under a PTO-like administration. Players from different parts of the world have seen Norway as an easy target and have taken over. At the moment ABC countries are controlling Norway, but I will work on changing this.
It is time for Norway to be united with Denmark and Sweden. Therefore my MoFA will be given the key objective to negotiate with the ABC countries, the release of Norwegian soil. And when this happens, Norway will be conquered by force, by us.
Renaming the Union
I have never been a fan of the name Homonavia and I know that a lot of players feel the same. It is time to change the name. But into what? That is up to the public.
A Union Treaty
It is time to set up up some ground rules. Pho3nix suggested some time ago, that a committee should be established. A committee with the purpose of forming a union treaty. This idea I will follow up on.
I will therefore not go into what I think should be in a treaty, as I do not wish to interfere with the committee's work.
Fair TSM Salary
Today the formula for payment to soldiers is based on influence and influence only. This means, that the old player will at any time be paid more than a younger player, only because he/she is older. That is not fair.
At least four months ago the former President Valnad admitted, that the current formula was not the best and still nothing has changed since. It is time to reward activity and dedication. Which means, if I am to be elected, the TSM payment system will be changed to something a lot more fair to everyone.
Who will be ministers?
That is yet to be decided.
I will have talks with the people I would like to see as ministers and in Government in general.
One thing is certain though. Being a part of my Government Team means activity, dedication and a will to do changes.
A lot of changes will be done. The whole way of thinking is being changed. Transparency is the key word in all departments. And transparency is a lot of work. But it is work that has to be done.
Whether we will see a Government of old well-known people, totally fresh people or something in-between is yet to be known. It simply depends on what the ones have to offer.
In the past it has very much been a tradition, that a party is to get a minister for giving support to the candidate. I am not into blackmail. I would love any party's support for me as President, but if the party does not have an active and good candidate for a minister post, then that party will not get a minister. The past where it is, what can the President Candidate offer the party is over. Now it is, what can the party offer the President candidate. And that is how it should be like. We all want the best for our union. And none of us wants to see ministers and other Government workers that do absolutely nothing, but is just in it for the title. We all want an active Government that is dedicated to make this a better eSweden and a better union.
I will during the time up to the election release more articles. In one of these articles I will release my proposed Government.
Thank you for reading and I hope to gain your support as the coming President.
It is time for changes.
Vote Flitwick.
Best Regards,
Flitwick
President Candidate for Aurora
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Good luck, I wish you all the best.
But how will you fulfill all these promises?
Looks really great Flitwick. Sounds great with the weekly update so every person in the union, high as low, have insight on what is going on in the government... It will also be a big improvement if every department have to make a budget over income and expenses so there is a overview over the country fortune.
Beyond that it looks exciting with reforms in the union and the payment in TSM.
@Dante N
With a lot of hard work from dedicated staff.
Flitwick\o/
You have my vote. Hope you'll make all these things come true, seems like a really hard job. ; )
It will be a hard job, but everyone that has ever worked with me knows, that I am a very hard worker.
I will need a dedicated and hard working team to help with it all coming through of course. No one can change a country alone.
Why do you dislike the name "Homonavia"?
If the Norwegian people wants it then a union with them sounds like a good idea.
How are you going to talk to ABC about them letting go of Norways regions, I mean, they have a few nice bonuses from those regions and I don't see any reason for them to let go of them just since we are asking.
And I also think that a union treaty is idiotic, we should build this union on friendship and trust, not on rules. And also, what says that people has to follow it, you cannot punish people for not doing it...
I can't say why I don't like it, I just don't.
And I have never liked it. The name feels wrong in my ears and eyes.
I see and I respect your opinion. How do you plan to change the name? I mean, will people be fined if they write "Homonavia"?
How to strike a deal with ABC?
Sit down, talk with them, get a mutual respect for one another.
How it is to be done specifically is yet to be seen. It all depends on how the talks progress.
How a treaty is formed is up to the committee. Whether it will be rules, guidelines or just a statement on how the union is to be, that is up to this committee. But there will never be anything idiotic with having a treaty bond between two countries.
@Volcker
It will be an official change of name. If people keep using Homonavia, then they are most welcome to do so.
Lonestar > They don't get any bonuses since they don't have a trade route (feel free to check lithuania's economy page - no bonuses.
Lithuania have no reason whatsoever to hold on to Norway.
Volcker > I don't think we can prevent people from calling the union homonavia, but let's be honest, most people just call it sweden anyway, and if the official name is changed to - say - "UCS, United Countries of Scandinavia" or whatever, then I think eventually people will start using it. When we present the name Homonavia out in the world people think it's a joke atm. Every other country in the eWorld refer to us as Sweden. So either we just take that name or we build up a strong new identity - Could be in combination with the annexing of Norway.
- Another thing is I think most countries would probably support us in a move to unite scandinavia rather than have Lithuania occupy half of Norway... but that is just a feeling and may be completely wrong.
Yoshi Midori, Lithuania lost two RWs in Russia and therefor have no route to Norway right now (that will prolly change tho) since they have three regions in Norway and two of them will give them a production boost, it's cattle and oil. So tbh, Lithuania have some great reasons to hold on to their regions in Norway.
And Flitwick, it's cute to hear what you think about that but I am sorry to break your illusions, it's not possible to do that just by talking. And I would also like to point out that we have had like 2 or 3 discussions and votes in our Riksdag about a possible treaty or a grundlag as we call it in Sweden (it would be the same thing as what your proposing) and all these times, it has been voted down with a very big majority. People tend to hate having rules and other stuff that are restricting their gameplay, if we are going to have a good union it should be build on good relations and friendship, and not rules that has to be followed.
Sorry I was wrong, they are doing something about it right now, in any moment they will attack Russia to get these borders back, they have Russia as NE, vote can be found here:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/Lithuania/law/79224
Anyway, looking forward to seeing if I (with my guess that Lithuania wants some regions in Norway) or if Yoshi is right think that they don't want to have anything to do with Norway❤
I see!
Anyway, I'm glad to see that you Danes are willing to work hard for this union, it indicates that you feel at home here despite the fact that we still refer to it as Sweden and the despicable actions from some of my fellow Swedes.
We definitely feel at home and have for quite some time.
I know it's only temporary they don't hold it, but on the other hand it has been rather insecure for them for a while. They now have three regions to conquer, and who's to say they won't lose them again as soon as they conquer the last one? If Russia could RW 3 regions from them in 48 hours I don't see why they shouldn't be able to do so again.
wow this is amazing when i first read this article i thought about joining aurora as i have always want to make sweden the master of all that is scandinavia but when i read lonestar comment he convins me to not join aurora
The name of the union should be: The Union.
Well ofc they can but they spent a big amount of gold on these RWs and had EDEN and Terra helping them while ONE won on like ~5 other fronts. And ONE has the upper hand when it's comes to MPP battles so I guess that LT will have their regions back in a few days. Also, this is the same thing that happened for Sweden in Germany, we lost SHH and we took it back, then we lost SA and then we took it back. These things happened when you are fighting in more important battles than you have on your own backyard.
Flitwick could make a workhorse look lazy!
As I tried to explain before you just stopped responding on IRC hen yes I was wrong, my memory fooled me, and I thought I had seen the Norwegian regions being un-connected for a longer period of time, but obviously I must have been mistaken. I admitted it on IRC right away but you just went on with verbal abuse ignoring what I said.
I will also gladly admit - as you know - that I am NOT in the MoFA and thus am not in the loop on all your secret discussions. Sorry for not being inside your head knowing all you know when I until yesterday was just an average citizen.
Seriously though Lonestar - What made you so pissed off? You used to be pretty cool and relaxed.
Even if i dont share your politics views do i have big respect for you and think you would be (for being a liberal at least) good president.Good luck in the election.
You have my vote Flitwick, hope you win.
Good luck Flitwick, long and informative article, very nice.
Full support!
You got my support 🙂
Have my support