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I've been tied up with the forum upgrade in Equilism.....and telling Winnie my horror stories from that experience. Yup, bad time of year for it.

Personally, I don't think we need these formal structures. All it's done in the time I've been here is cause frustration, inactive officials, and foreigners deriding us for being “authoritarian”. Not to mention the Unibotian speculation. (We're hardly authoritarian, we just have a dysfunctional democratic system) We should focus on what we're good at, which is providing an interesting community for visitors and new residents. How to improve the region (IMO): Dissolve the on-site government. Yeah, yeah, just hold your thoughts while I finish mine. We can dissolve the government without having to go Pacifican on the region. All we really have been expecting out of our leadership lately is border control. What the game provides is more than enough to take care of our needs. Beyond that, we don't need anything formal. So an unnecessarily complex bureaucracy that requires more people than we have to offer is a waste of time just to please other regions who do that kind of stuff. When it comes to activity outside of government, we should encourage people to make little groups, almost like clubs, where they can create content and share it with the rest of the region. I know that there are people in the region that like Polandball, Hetalia, image editing, etc, and they could be doing all that, adding to the regional culture. Right now they're just on the RMB. Not that there's anything wrong with having fun on the RMB; it's quite fun and a place for the region to bond...but there's all that potential there not being used. For example, I have this Teikei thing where me and a few of the other teenage West Pacificans are part of this EU-like group. We roleplay and give each other ideas to contribute to our factbooks. On top of that we also use our region as a safe place to store puppets and a place to go when one of their nations doesn't have any region to go to. Also, during the zombie apocalypse, we worked together as a team to cure ourselves of zombies, and then several other TWP nations as well. There could be groups that discuss political ideologies, RP groups, story writers, conlangers, poets, and people that are into WorldVision contests, to name a few. Wouldn't it be nice to see someone representing TWP in interregional events? We don't need to awkwardly and forcefully try to stimulate activity with government officials. If TNP is known for its democracy, TEP its RP, and OBI for its beer-guzzling mercenaries, then why can't we play on our strengths and make a name for ourselves using culture? Sure, militaries can fight wars and conquer, but their influence only goes so far as those they rule. A region that uses soft power has a much broader reach, and generates goodwill towards itself. So, do you think I'm on to something, or that I'm deluded?