Willania Imperium

Hmm...   I am not the best one to ask about this. TAO is the expert. It was TAO's puppet, Mr. Stick, who enlightened the NSverse about the evil Marsupials and roo-fur madness. I am uncertain if it began in TWP. But it was TWP that evangelized it and even used it's military in battles against marsupial scum. We even had a delegate (BBD) succumb to roo-fur oil and eucalyptus addiction and had to be removed from office after a month. 
TWP is firmly anti-marsupial. 

I do know Roma. I met him a long time ago when he began his serial region creating. I was fishing for talent.  He had lots of it, but no interest in follow through. His inability to trust anyone would undo him every time. He left a mark on the game, in spite of himself. *looks at Kawaii*
This makes me happy. 

*bottom lip quivers*  
I just had this suit dry cleaned. I don't want to get newbie blood all over it!  *bursts into tears*

One does not smack the hand of the Great Darkesia! All chocolate belongs to Dark!

*Smacks your hand away from my pocket full of black goodness*

To the great nations of TWP, and the rest of us too;
Hello again!  I have been around, as you may know.  But I have decided that TWP is in need of some Chocolate and I wish to begin stirring up trouble contributing to the region once again.
Ask me anything.  I'll try to answer.  Of course, I may not answer in the manner you like, but I will answer.  Besides, this seems easier than writing a long post in the reminiscing thread that Eli started. 

Greetings, West Pacific!
I would like to introduce myself as Vamperiall. I like pasta and tacos and playing NationStates. My old nation was inactive and boring, so I decided to join you guys! You like raiding, I like raiding, as I was once a junior Black Hawk myself. West Pacific seems like fun, and your site is awesome.

Better late than never!  Your presence on the rmb and the forum is most welcome and I hope your stay in the region will be a long and prosperous one 

I’m Russellandd and I am a nation made of a bunch of fictional states* that banded together as one. Inspired by America but its beginning involved factions fighting each other called the Parties War and is in a jungle plus forests. Now recovering from the war. I’m kinda new around TWP and NS 
*these states don’t exist in NS. Just developing a lore around myself.
 

Tesouro does not exist in the member database
The Rainlands has been removed from the Hall of Nations.
Saint Brandmair was banned for COPS treaty violations 
Slikk did not have a Citizenship mask
Wolnos has been removed from the Hall of Nations
Petrikov has been removed from the Hall of Nations
Trust has been removed from the Hall of Nations (no pun intended)
Nyelant has been removed from the Hall of Nations

So I was randomly talking to old NSers from ... I've know for like 14 years now. Decided to see how my favourite region was going! It has been years since I've been around, but hey hey!

Greetings!  Nice to have you here!  Make yourself at home and if you have any questions ask @Kawaii!

Apologies for the delay; but here's Furni with TEP's news!
 

The East Pacific News Service
March 31st, 2018

A Message From the Minister
By Pendragonania

Heya folks it has been an awful long time since I had one of these issues made up and published. For that I am sorry, however in the last three months since our new years edition a lot of exciting stuff has happened here in TEP. Below we will break it down in step by step but a quick summary for you all here; Yuno's been reelected as the delegate, Respublika Bielarus stepped down from Provost and in his place now stands Asendavia, we have two new Vizers in the form of Drachen and Cain, TEP had a region wide April Fools prank in the form of the SC resolution to liberate a 'coup' within TEP (which by the way was a prank, we hope some of you at least had fun).

Now for the fun stuff going on inside the News Service. We've dropped the idea of a radio being made for now, we don't believe that it is going to be practical to have such a thing at this stage. We're recruiting more people and standardising our application into the Executive Staff application made by our darling Queen Yuno. We're trying to push activity and having people join us to allow us to do more regular updates, which is great for everyone. We understand not everyone has the time to check the various discords and the RMB every day, so a lot can be missed so we hope in the future we can do weekly updates for those who miss a lot.

Delegate Elections
By Pendragonania

In these most recent elections the following individuals were nominated; 


Out of these candidates the following made it to the ballot; Queen Yuno, Pax, Trukya, Marilyn Manson and Emperor Green II. Voting lasted four days for the first round however in an overwhelming shock victory one round was all it took for Yuno to take victory. Yuno won with an majority of 86.7% of the votes cast. Although with such an awesome delegate we kind of saw it coming.

Here is what Yuno had to say about her reelection;
Hai! You know it feels weird being here again to say something to you all as delegate, its been a fun six months so far and here's to more fun times to go! It honestly feels amazing that so many of you out there support me and what I am doing as Delegate and the only thing I can think to say here besides thank you, is I hope this next term brings so many more happy memories and an ever expanding Executive Staff team!

Farewell to Respublika Bielarus
By Pendragonania

Originally having joined the Magisterium in August of 2016, and then again in November 2016, Respublika quickly gained the respect of the people within the Magisterium. This was noted by many voters during his November Re Admission vote. Finally in January of 2017 Republika was elected as the Provost. And through sheer dedication we honestly believe he managed to expand the Magisterium from only a few members, to well over 20 which it currently stands at today. An honestly impressive task. Unfortunately a year after he was elected Respublika decided it was time to hand in the towel, shortly after being reelected in the January elections, he stepped down in February. In his time he made many friends in the Magisterium and was dedicated to the role he had, but like all great things they have to end at some point. 

We hope to see him return some day, however the Magisterium has been put into capable hands in the form of Asendavia;

Updates from the Roleplay team
By Furnifold

Stuff from the Roleplay team

Hey! The Roleplay Moderation would like to recognise the following great contributions to TEP Evolved (off site forum) roleplay:
Best Roleplayer goes to Neueburg
Best Roleplay goes to Decimation Book I: the Sanguine Horde (one player RP by Masuicca) and In the Wrong Hands (one player RP by The Three States of Fortuna)
Best News Broadcast goes to Fernsehfunk der VRN by Neueburg
Best Character goes to Queen Lilith by Queen Yuno

We would like to welcome Neueburg and Luthoayae to the roleplay community. 

If you want to join T.E.P. roleplay follow this easy steps: 
Apply for citizenship (http://forum.theeastpacific.com/topic/7015830/)
Apply for a place on the map (http://forum.theeastpacific.com/topic/5231687/23/)
Join our chat group on Discord (https://discord.gg/55RkAKJ)

For any further information read these resources:
Intro to TEP Evolved Roleplay https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=918273
Roleplay Guidelines (http://forum.theeastpacific.com/topic/986286/)
Cartographer's Guide to Map Claims and Rules (http://forum.theeastpacific.com/topic/7011090/)

Please contact the following players for assistance: Free Syllvin, Fortuna, Emberwood Coast, Hobbes and Furnifold.

We hope to hear from you!
The Roleplay Team

Induction of Cain as a vizer
By Pendragonania

Recently the Magisterium voted to add Cain to the team of vizers. Cain has a nation called Aeneas Prime and has been involved in the Executive Staff team for a long time now. The funny thing was he was who got me involved in the ES when I returned to TEP after 4 years so it feels great to be able to induct him into the hall of trusted members. Here is what he had to said,
 
NationStates has been a passion of mine going on 15 years. During that time I have been involved in a myriad of regions and organizations covering almost every aspect of the game proper. When I have been actively playing, my primary concern has been focusing on the people that drive everything forward. My fellow NSers. Thus, when I am a member of government, regional leadership, or that of being apart of a group of community leaders like I believe many have categorized me in with regards to The East Pacific, I use all that I know and have learned in-game to help as well as protect my community. I see it as a responsibility of those whom have the know how and capability to act to ensure that it is, and to the letter. Being nominated by Delegate Yuno came honestly as a surprise, but not in the way that most would expect. Time has honestly flew right past me. Sure, we have had battles in The East Pacific and have ran into some rocky patches during her first term in office, but I believe that we all signed up for this. Our only goal - my only goal, continues to be to ensure that TEP is able to achieve its full potential and that those within our region feel that they are apart of an intricate apparatus where they can directly affect change and have their voice heard respectively. To this end, I am both honored and humbled by the region that I have chosen to call home. I am glad that I decided to come back to the game in Fall of last year despite significant RL events that were then on-going consuming much of my time and energy. I hope that I can continue to honor the values and virtues that our community represents well into the future. 

Thank you. I love you all

Aeneas Prime AKA Cain

Induction of Drachen as a vizer
By Pendragonania

So far this year we have seen two new vizers be appointed to the region. Like Cain, Drachen, serves in various ministries within the region. She also manages most of the discord servers within TEP, no small task to do each day. Like with Cain I wont comment much here, but here is what she has to say;

My becoming Vizier was certainly something I would have never anticipated, even in the recent months. I cannot say how grateful I am to the Loligarch for believing in me so much to have not only afforded me all these other roles within the executive but also nominated me for one the region's most important positions. It truly feels as if I have joined some exclusive club of protectors whose membership will be recorded and remembered years down the road. It's nothing less of an honor. 

While it doesn't seem like I'll ever get to exercise my power as Vizier, which is fine by me because that would mean the region is facing a rouge delegate, I respect the position and the duty I have been given, Should the unfortunate moment ever come where TEP is threatened at the highest level, I will be there.

April Fools in TEP
By Pendragonania

So its hard to not speak about the elephant in the room, the coup d'etat. So what actually was it? The whole thing started when the SC published a liberate East Pacific resolution. So in the spirit of fun Queen Yuno took it upon herself to have some fun with the idea. Being good sports to make it more believable the RO was 'purged'. Which included at first the removal of Todd McCloud, Bachtendekuppen, and Aelitia Astor. Then in a way to try make it more realistic, I played the part of someone who was going to clamp down on it all and portrayed as a traitor and left the RO. Todd was restored afterwards as a show of loyalty for exposing myself. The Concordat was removed and replaced with the ELO (Eastern Loligarch Order). A few days went on it was becoming clear that it was getting out of hand. Insults were being thrown around on the RMB and the region started haemorrhaging endorsements and memberstates. This is when we decided to cut it short and highlight the fact it was merely a joke. The original idea was to reveal it on April Fools.

I'd like to take this time to officially apologise on behalf of the entire cabinet of ministers to all those negatively effected by this. We are back to a friendly democratic nation and we hope that if people who see this left the region, we are happy to have you back. We miss you <3

I'm so excited to see Dilber back in TWP!  Quite a bit of my evil past can be attributed to his tutelage.
All done. 

Happy Birthday, Sands!
You have brought a lot of entertainment to NS.

Fixed.

Dec 3 2002 I had just got to work, same office I'm in now just three different owners since then. Browsing National Review, Jonah Goldberg's column said check out nationstates.net, I'm still here.
That morning as I was getting out of the car, Eli's Coming; Three Dog Night version was playing, so I'm humming Eli's Coming.
My first nation was born that day, Eli was and is a libertarian leaning plain spoken type...
I had to have been born in the Pacific, since it was the only GCR at the time, I think this actually pre-dated the Rejected Realms *scratches head*
 
Soon I went to the Capitalist Alliance, founded by New Caithness who is still around today as El-Cid, and started building alliances between my nation and others in that UCR. I ran for Delegate, in game only, and got elected. Not too long after this I woke up in some other region, I don't believe there were founders yet, and discovered to my chagrin/pleasure that I'd been ejected from the Capitalist Alliance by some sordid scoundrels going by the name of the Atlantic Alliance. <insert boos and hisses here> It seems that they had discovered they could take over regions with a bit of organization and a bull rush to the endorsement button of their favorite take over figurehead. It was a result that had never crossed my mind.
I did a bit of looking around and found out that there were some in the Meritocracy that would help us recover our region. Some treaty organization that Free4All was in, so we in the CA joined it. This eventually resulted in us overtaking the AA's figurehead (or they got bored and went elsewhere) and in Eli becoming interested in the Meritocracy. https://www.nationstates.net/page=news/2003/12/12/index.html.
 
 
 
 
*I'll add to this later this will become a very postzilla type deal before long*
 
 
 
 

This player's most recent attempt at gaining access to our forum has been met with another ban.
I repeat: 
I find it disturbing that it has been so long and he still has time to harass us.

Unfortunately, it means little in NS terms. Max has repeatedly noted that offsite forums are not recognized by the game. Thus offsite forum dustruction is our own responsibility to address.

Forum destroyers have no place in TWP. And those who shelter known forum destroyers will find no diplomatic game with us.

It's illegal to destroy intellectual property.

In keeping with both the COPS Treaty and Administrative policy, account 94 Block has been banned as a known forum destroyer.
Attempts to violate this ban may result in the filing of charges to the full extent of the law. (That's RL law, in case it's not clear enough.)

I'm going to vent.
 
It's stupid to think that banning AR 15s could have prevented the recent school shooting.
It's stupid to not ban AR 15s, no one can make a coherent argument for a private citizen to own one. But remember it's just symbolism, there are 300,000,000 guns in the USA.
It's ridiculous that the FBI didn't do something about the shooter.
I bet they get 10k of those warnings a month, humans-mistakes are pretty common.
I've never owned a gun legally myself, 35 years ago I illegally owned an Uzi machine pistol with a fully automatic trigger mechanism. I lived in Illinois at the time so they were illegal there. I traded it for a 10 speed bicycle, once I sawed a limb off a sapling with a magazine I couldn't figure out why I'd want to do that again.
Very little if any property crime in my area, everyone owns a gun (except me). You walk in someone's back yard without a compelling reason you're putting your personal safety at risk. More likely from their dog, I doubt Mr and Mrs Average could hit a Suburban with their Glock 17 from further than 10-15 feet. Ricochets on the other hand could be a problem. There is a reason the AT+T guy and the Charter guy where those neon vests and it isn't traffic. It's to make sure Mr/Mrs Suburbia don't light them up.
Cnn is a fucking joke, so is Fox. Chris Cuomo should be flayed, while tied to Shawn Hannity, being flayed at the same time.
Not really but surely neither one is as stupid as the characters they portray on their nightly BS, if they are God help us all.
It's too bad that outright lies and propaganda is peddled as news, Reality TV for ratings rather than facts is all it is.
 
more later, time to go pay for this mess...
 
 
 

Sorry I'm just getting back to this. 
Westie, reading through your post was emotional and I wasn't able to properly respond. I'm still not but thank you for sharing.
Eli, Cormac, and Dark...thank you. I wasn't able to write about my dad they way I wanted until the end of the year. I wrote about my mother too. 
http://donroach.org/blog/2017/12/31/so-long-2017/
 
So far, in 2018 I've been making choices to "live" and it's been really good.