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    On 10/13/2019 at 6:08 PM, Giovanniland said:

    NationStates Nation Name: Giovanniland

    Discord username: None (I read the requirements and it isn't one of them, correct me if I'm wrong)

    Your local timezone: GMT-3

    Regions You Have Active Nations In: The West Pacific

    Any Diplomatic Experience: Not in NS, but I've been diplomat in other games

    It is a requirement these days, I’m afraid. 

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    On 9/28/2019 at 7:47 PM, Varanius said:

    NationStates Nation Name: Varanius

     

    Discord User Name: Majgecko#1280 

     

    Your Local Timezone: Western United States

     

    Regions You Have Active Nations In:  The West Pacific, Xedas

     

    Any Diplomatic Experience: I have a younger sibling, that should be enough to qualify anyone(really though no).

     

     

    Accepted! I will begin your discord orientation shortly. 

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    On 9/13/2019 at 7:13 AM, Sensorland said:

    NationStates Nation Name: Sensorland

    Discord User Name: Johnny Turnpike#2597; in the regional Discord as Sensorland

    Your Local Timezone: Presently, GMT

    Regions You Have Active Nations In: Currently just TWP

    Any Diplomatic Experience: Not in NS

    Accepted! 

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    14 hours ago, GustavovWhately said:

    NationStates Nation Name:  The Federal Republic of Tannhauser Gate

    Discord User Name: Whately#2638

    Your Local Timezone: GMT -3

    Regions You Have Active Nations In:  only TWP

    Any Diplomatic Experience: not in NS

    Accepted. Discord and forum masking will be applied as soon as we can get to it. :) 

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    5 hours ago, Allen said:

    NationStates Nation Name: The Kingdom of Ciffeer

    Discord User Name: Al

    Your Local Timezone: Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−04:00)

    Regions You Have Active Nations In: The West Pacific

    Any Diplomatic Experience: I did serve as a foreign service member in one of my previous regions. 

    Accepted! Discord masking pending. 

    New Theme Chatter

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    11 minutes ago, Big Bad Badger said:

    Honestly this entire process has left a really bad taste in my mouth for the way our region is governed. Perhaps it is time to discuss a second forum government to give the residents a voice. As WW has pointed out, it has happened in the past.

    So when the delegate doesn’t govern the way you want, you just decide to change the government? I can’t believe a simple theme change is enough for a forum admin to threaten to create a new forum government. 

    New Theme Chatter

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    1 hour ago, Westwind said:

    My third impression:  These theme proposals don't speak to me. There's nothing wrong with them. But I don't want to live in a Russia or China themed region, I want to live in The West Pacific which has nothing to do with those.

    It won’t be such an intense theme change as to change our culture or how we operate to match that of the country we’re themed after. I understand your point though. Halo specifically chose these theme options because they have coastlines along the western Pacific Ocean, however, so they do have a tangential connection. 

    1 hour ago, Westwind said:

    A pirate theme works.....it's not nationality/location specific. An imperial theme works....if it's not RL nation based...

    TWP should be TWP themed.

    TWPAF will be keeping its pirate theme, it’s always been relatively independent when it comes to theming/stylization as long as I’ve been around. TWP proper, however, is neither pirate-themed nor Tahiti-themed like badger suggested. It is, like most of the feeders, theme-less with a general feel of a theme or culture that evolved over time. Which is something we took note of. Does TWP *need* a theme like UCRs or Sinkers? No, it doesn’t. And this theme change is disimilar to those for some very important reasons. Primarily, UCRs and Sinkers base their entire region and culture off of their themes. We do not. We are taking TWP’s existing culture and adding to it with the theme (which is almost entirely cosmetic aside from the Hall of Peers addition) that the delegate and region have agreed upon. 

     

    1 hour ago, Westwind said:

    My fourth impression:  None of my prior impressions matter.

    Doesn't the government represent all those gameside nations too? 

    I refuse to sign an oath to prove I'm active in a region. So my opinion has no weight.

    Your impressions absolutely matter, Westwind, as do those of the nations gameside. However, I can think of no more secure way to vote for a theme than on the forums. I disapprove of sacrificing that security by holding a gameside poll, where the options are either WA nations (TWPAF and non-WA citizens can’t vote), “natives” (totally arbitrary residency requirement IIRC), or everyone (meaning that any other region could very well spam our poll and pick our theme for us). I do however, think it would be pertinent to advertise the theme change to the region so that they are at least aware that a theme change vote is occurring. As far as your comment about an oath, I don’t really know what to do about that. The existence of a citizenship oath isn’t up to me, nor do I think it’s particularly binding or restrictive. 

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    1 minute ago, Darkesia said:

    That said.  Can we get an option for an in-game theme that doesn't involve memorizing new titles, please?  Can the Delegate and Ministers still have titles that clearly state what they do?  the one thing that really irks me about the themed regions is the crazy titles everyone has.  I need a glossary to figure out who has what job in Osiris for example.  

     

    Aside from the Hall of Peers, I think most of the titles will be pretty straightforward. I’m sure we could work around anything overly obscure gameside at least, though. 

    New Theme Chatter

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    The guardianship and cabinet have considered the pros and cons of a theme change at every step of the way. We knew that some people would be iffy about stepping away from "traditional" TWP. We want you to know that what you came to and stayed in TWP for, whether it's relaxation, a career, or just a place to enjoy some snark, a theme change won't affect your ability to do that. I personally love all the proposed themes and I can't wait to see how the Hall votes. As far as changing the flag, one of the few instructions Halo explicitly gave us was to make the flag still reflective of TWP's current flag design, either through the color scheme or the sunburst. The flag will always feel like TWP regardless. The reason we settled on the Hall was covered by Halo, but I'd also like to bring up that having the entire region vote on a theme doesn't make all that much sense when most of the nations that would be voting are only gameside, which is 1/3rd of the areas the theme would actually affect (the other two being discord and forum obviously). I understand the traditionalist stance, of course, but sometimes it's okay to step away from tradition, and take a leap in the hope that the region will be better for it. I am very confident that this theme change will do nothing except provide another fun aspect to TWP and make the region a better place for a variety of player personalities to be in. 

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    On 6/10/2018 at 3:39 PM, CSC said:

    NationStates Nation Name: Commonwealth of Serbia-Croatia

    Discord User Name: Muy Fuerto

    Your Local Timezone: EDT(East Coast USA)

    Regions You Have Active Nations In: No nations active, many in exile and waiting to be resurrected. 

    Any Diplomatic Experience: Member of the NWA and Dawn Foreign Affairs Office.

    Welcome to the Corps! I’ll mask you on Discord, and find you an assignment as soon as I am able. 

    The Union of Democratic States

    in Inactive Embassies

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    23 hours ago, Relfa said:

    Hey everyone,

    Before anything, I want to apologize for our inactivity in our embassy in the last months. The region passed through a political crisis, but we are fully recovered now. We will publish bimonthly updates on what is happening in our region. We hope that our relations be better than it was the last time.

    Thank you for you attention!

    Relfa, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Union of Democratic States.

     

    Thanks! Look forward to seeing you around more, Relfa. :) 

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