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    Hall of Nations Application

    in Citizenship

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    I, Podium, 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, or any laws made pursuant to it.

    The Mapplication™ Thread - Join the world of Esferos!

    in Atlas of the Occident - Map & Factbooks

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    Nation Name: Podium

    Discord #: Ground Beef#8065

    A few sentences about your nation:
    The Federative Republics of Podium is an alpine nation founded upon universal liberty and individual discretion, having violently broken off in 1923 from the tyrannical kingdom of Livedab after nearly 150 years of subjugation (which happened to collapse completely shortly after the rest of its overseas colonies followed suit). An attempt at securing economic stability with the use of a machine-learning algorithm in the year 2009 by an optimistic set of young politicians unfortunately led to the near-immediate switch to a command-based economy, with all but a few of the total population approving of the change; currently, a crack-team of computer scientists is very close to figuring out how to keep the algorithm's computational strength while switching back to a market-based, free-enterprise system. Industries centre around hyper-efficient agriculture, advancement of technology, and firepower of all shapes and sizes.

    Map claim (just wanted a tiny bit to even off my northwestern border):

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    First Congress of the WAU and Presidential Elections (IC, Map only)

    in Archive Esferos

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    Having watched Dr. Kemp's speech with intrigue, Andrew Hudson, Head Director of the Specialised Poduminian Agency for the Majority of Space, would confer with his own team (mostly comprised of the different Heads of Departments) before standing up and walking to the stage once Dr. Kemp had seated herself once more.

    "Friends, West Pacificans, and astronomers alike, lend me your ears. I am Dr. Hudson, Head Director of SPAMS. Let me just say, the sheer technological potential gathered in this very castle here today is a testament to what we, more or less by ourselves, have been able to achieve in the murky waters of space-travel, and that is why I will be announcing my candidacy for the Western Astronomical Union, in the hopes that when working together, with both my skills and everyone else's, we can do something bigger than ever envisioned before." He would pause to pop what would appear to be a small, colourless orb into his mouth and swallow it in one gulp before continuing. "As Head Director of SPAMS, it is both my privilege and my duty to commandeer the various arms of the Agency in order to lead it to peak efficiency; at last count, with the recent founding of the Department of Unorthodox Travel, I have to direct and assist over 29 different people and their different Departments, all with different capabilities and aspirations, so that SPAMS can work as effectively as possible. While not easy at first, having had to take over the role of someone who had been around since the Agency's very founding around 6 years ago, I soon found myself at ease, able to effectively manage the then-21 different Departments in conjunction with one another with no thought to spare."

    "Being able to manage a large variety of different goals and opinions while still maintaining operational efficiency is a value I hold very dearly as Head Director, and a value I believe will serve the WAU well in the years to come if I am elected President of the Union. Like Dr. Kemp before me mentioned, SPAMS has always been intrigued by the possibility of a collaborative research station, which is why, just two years ago from today, we drew up speculative plans for a Western Orbital Research Station Effort, or WORSE for short. Of course, such plans would have to be modified to consider the full cooperation of all agencies operating within the WAU, but with all the people I see gathered here in front of me, I hardly see how that will be an issue. Additionally, SPAMS has considered several other projects now possible with the help of the WAU, such as the SHILL, or Superpowered Hull Inter-Lunar Launcher, a project which would see both the settlement of the Moon and the construction of a trebuchet-like launcher designed to make a future journey to Mars faster and safer than current alternatives. Or the COSTLY, the Chasmic Outer Space Telescope for Looking Yonder that would seek to peer deeper into the distant cosmos than ever attempted before, searching for the hallmarks of the beginning of life we all know the result of on our little blue-and-green dot."

    "In conclusion, I believe with all of the ideas and capabilities of everyone in this room, regardless of who we end up electing, we are only destined to do greater things than what our predecessors could only have dreamed of. Thank you for your time." 

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