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  1. Welcome! That is an .. interesting combination you have going there. But the state imagery and propaganda posters could be absolutely glorious, I imagine. Feel free to further make yourself at home here by looking into citizenship. Also if you are further interested in the WA we have a subforum here for all upcoming proposals and you can always contact me with any questions in that regard. I am the current resident WA clerk. Have a nice day!
  2. OK, some quick remarks from me. If necessary I might go into more details later. First of all: I am pretty impressed by this. This is way above what many new nations like to directly submit to the WA. You seem to have done your research regarding format and general style. It is absoluteley a good thing that you turned to the RMB first and then followed the directions here. The WA and the official forum can be a rough environment and a bit discouraging at first. Please keep in mind that everything in the WA takes time and patience. Lots of it. It is not easy to successfully get a resolution passed. Many proposals fail to make it, however well-written they are. Now for my blunt opinion: I am not sure if this will be met with much approval. You encountered one direction of disapproval on the RMB. Nations that insist on their citizens directly paying for universities will just raise tuition fees and be done with it. On the other hand I'd question if this is an internationally relevant problem that can be addressed best with this proposal. The problem only applies to certain specific types of universities. Why should every student have to own a copy of every book even though they won't need it anymore after a semester? University libraries exist (and completely cover the database aspect), as do second hand books. The predatory practice of some professors, to mandate the use of their book and make miniscule, yearly changes to it in order to force students to always buy the newest edition and make the old ones worthless, should not be supported. This proposal would actually subsidize this practice. On this basis I would oppose this proposal. I hope this was not too discouraging. This is just a single opinion. However this draft proceeds, this is a promising start for you.
  3. Was inactive for some time a while ago, came back very shortly before the last election cycle. Didn't take part in the election even though I still had citizen masking to not break any rules. Now my masking seems to be updated and applications are open, so here we go again. Nothing has changed from last time, TWP is still my home: Nation in The West Pacific: Arotania World Assembly (WA) Nation: Arotania Please list any other names or aliases you use in NationStates: none Please list regions or organizations with which you are currently affiliated as a resident, citizen, or member: none other than TWP Please list regions or organizations with which you have in the past been affiliated as a resident, citizen, or member: none I can remember (only played before for about 2 months back in 2006) Would you like to join (check all that you wish to join)... [ ] The West Pacific Armed Forces [ ] Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Corp [ ] The West Pacifican Newspaper Staff [ ] Ministry of Recruitment and Citizenry Staff [ ] Ministry of Internal Affairs Staff Please swear the following oath of citizenship: I, Arotania, swear that I have, to the best of my knowledge, been completely truthful in applying for citizenship in The West Pacific and that I have no other NationStates identity that has not been made known in this application. I swear my allegiance to The West Pacific and its citizens, and I swear not to engage in hostilities against The West Pacific or to violate The Manners of Governance, the constitution of The West Pacific, or any laws made pursuant to that constitution.
  4. Without a doubt the most abhorrent and condemn-worthy behavior displayed by this personified public menace! As far as I understand it (from my admittedly very limited point of view), Yuno is taking a pause from raiding at the moment. Do you want to submit this if/when Yuno continues raiding actively? Or could this be redrafted a bit along the lines of 'Yuno may look like taking a pause, but surely they are carrying out nefarious plans in the background and will emerge an even greater raider and threat to the security of us all! Be warned, it's a trap!!' Overall very nicely written. I like the lighthearted tone.
  5. Two things come to my mind: How are the members of this program distributed regarding timezones? TWP and I imagine Nationstates itself (and funnily enough the posters in this thread) has quite a large portion of players coming from the US. Still the rest of the world is not completely negligible in numbers. I personally see this in the morning hours here in Europe, when America is sleeping and BBD does most of the moderation work on the RMB (at least that is my impression). So including one or two members from outside the mainland US timezones might be a good idea. Second thing is a language question: How often do we have new players that are not native English speakers and could be helped to a certain degree by someone who speaks their native language to understand some of the minutae of the game? If this basically doesn't occur at all - one fewer thing to worry about. If it does - refer them to regions dedicated to their language or perhaps keep an internal list of people who speak certain languages and would be willing to assist in understanding? Really no idea how much this is an issue at all.
  6. Hello and welcome aboard! You can find the Hall of Nations in this subboard: http://www.westpacific.org/forums/index.php?/forum/79-hall-of-nations/ There you'll also find all necessary information on joining and current proceedings.
  7. Nation in The West Pacific: Arotania World Assembly (WA) Nation: Arotania Please list any other names or aliases you use in NationStates: none Please list regions or organizations with which you are currently affiliated as a resident, citizen, or member: none other than TWP Please list regions or organizations with which you have in the past been affiliated as a resident, citizen, or member: none I can remember (only played before for about 2 months back in 2006) Would you like to join (check all that you wish to join)... [ ] The West Pacific Armed Forces [ ] Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Corp [ ] The West Pacifican Newspaper Staff [ ] Ministry of Recruitment and Citizenry Staff [ ] Ministry of Internal Affairs Staff Please swear the following oath of citizenship: I, Arotania, swear that I have, to the best of my knowledge, been completely truthful in applying for citizenship in The West Pacific and that I have no other NationStates identity that has not been made known in this application. I swear my allegiance to The West Pacific and its citizens, and I swear not to engage in hostilities against The West Pacific or to violate The Manners of Governance, the constitution of The West Pacific, or any laws made pursuant to that constitution.
  8. Hello everyone! With the whole government thingamajinga going on, I finally decided to join the forum. Normally I just lurk on the RMB and "grace" it with posts of music close to my heart on Fridays. So I am looking forward to some fun and interesting citizen activities. Small personal info: I can write "äöüß" with single strokes on my keyboard. Warm greetings from central Europe!
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