Darkesia

Welcome to TWP!  *offers chocolate biscuits*
 
Is it difficult for a raccoon to balance on the back of a llama?

Welcome to TWP!  *offers chocolate biscuits*
 
Is it difficult for a raccoon to balance on the back of a llama?

Hello there!
Well, this is the nation of Jyzeria!
This is actually a late introduction, as I've been playing NationStates since July 2014. Jyzeria was founded, of course, in The Best Pacific. During those early days, I was thinking of moving to another region, but I didn't know where. I decided to stay in TWP for a while until Jyzeria ceased to exist.
When I restored Jyzeria in 2015, I moved to a smaller region which suits the state of my nation at that point in time (mostly authoritarian dictatorship), only to find out that it was a raider region, and they didn't even care about the newcomers in their region. So I moved again to a much smaller, peaceful region. But the region was so quiet that I got bored of playing NS and Jyzeria ceased to exist, again.
Then of course, after restoring Jyzeria again, I moved to TWP. Because I like it there. And the fact that TWP researches cure during Z-Day is a plus for me, as I want my nation to have 100% survival rate every Z-Day, if possible. And I think it is possible because I've already had 100% survival rate five years in a row, though Jyzeria was in that raider region on Z-Day 5 (click here to read my Z-Day factbook).
Anyway, I think that's a bit long for an introduction. My nation ceased to exist many times already, but every time I restore it, I keep coming back to TWP. Maybe because I'm just lazy to move to another region and be familiar with everyone and everything, or maybe I just really like it in TWP. Probably the latter.
I don't know how many times Jyzeria will cease to exist again in the future. But what I'm sure of is that I will keep coming back to TWP. I actually want to join TWPAF, because I want to experience R/D. I just need to know when I am available and then I will submit my application. I'm also thinking about joining something that involves writing, because as you can see, I love to write. But maybe not now because I don't want to commit to something which I might not be able to do. We'll see.
So I guess that's it. That's my late but long introduction.
 
Some Trivia
I currently have 15 puppets. The "Two Nations Above You - Which One Has The Better Flag?" in Forum 7 was my idea. I started it.  
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=jyzeria

Done!

Zevsterland is added.  I was unable to find a member named Monza Isles or The Monza Isles.  I will check again at work tomorrow.  My laptop died and I could just be overlooking him on my phone.  
 
Edit:  Found him under that other name.  Both are now registered as members of the Hall of Nations.

Oh yeah!  That should be a thing.  I blame my lapse on the zombies and Elton.
Done.

Thanks for everything, Neenee!  And welcome to the hot seat, Halo!

Thanks for everything, Neenee!  And welcome to the hot seat, Halo!

Greetings to my fellow TWP citizens, our allies and friends and the regions and nations of NS.
    I am honored that Neenee has chosen me to succeed her as Delegate of TWP. She, Badger and Davelands have been my mentors and best friends ever since I joined. I have always had their support and am grateful for their promise of continued support in my new role. While I am excited for this opportunity to lead my native region, I am also humbled by the thought of trying to build upon the accomplishments of the legendary Delegates that have preceded me. If Neenee hadn’t been couped by rl, her tenure in TWP would have been magnificent.
    While not completely without experience, I know that I am an infant compared to many of my peers here. The Holy Principality of Saint Mark was “born” in TWP a mere two and a half years ago. TWP has been my primary region, my home, ever since. During this time, I have represented TWP as an ambassador to several of our allies and was the principle author of The Etiquette of The Hall of Nations while I served as the first Speaker of The Hall. I was Minister of Foreign Affairs and am currently a Guardian and Minister for Recruiting and Citizenship.
   Maybe because of my early focus as an ambassador, I have been a bit of a cosmopolitan. Even though this may have competed with my TWP duties at times (sorry Badger ), it allowed me to make many friends throughout NS. I serve or have served as a Priest of Osiris, an Arbiter of TEP, Pyo Sage of Karma, a regional officer of The Sasquatch Republic and Archbishop of Albion.
    TWP is a friendly, active, snarky GCR that believes in the supremacy of the Delegate and awards merit. Neenee is our glittery goddess, all of our chocolate belongs to Dark and a pirate shanty stirs our blood. I have always found TWP to be a good fit for me. I consider myself friendly and imaginative … my snark could use work.
    NS is a game and games are meant to be entertainment. It is most important then that TWP be fun! I pledge to do my best to always make it so. I also pledge to do my best to make TWP a safe place to play. There are many minors among us and it is our responsibility to protect them. Even adults, though, deserve to be treated with respect. Bullying and intolerance will never be acceptable in TWP. Toxicity is why I rarely hang out in GP (although I guess I’ll be around a lot more now … maybe I can help set a gentler tone? ). I see no point in digging up old grudges or launching the same old personal attacks. I will always try to conduct myself with civility and kindness, and will expect the same behavior from the people of TWP. Finally, it is my opinion that, as a feeder, TWP should strive to educate the new players about the world they have entered. To that end, I will also try to improve the educational opportunities in our region.
  I have a lot of ideas that will help us achieve these goals, but TWP isn’t just the Delegate.  A very strong central government, be it an absolute delegacy or an oligarchy, can lead to stagnation. That is why it is crucial to award innovation and hard work. The region will flourish only if it enjoys the creativity, support and efforts of its residents. TWP has terrific people. I am honored to have been chosen to serve as its Delegate and look forward to working with my fellow citizens to realize our region’s full potential.
    Long Live Neenee! Long Live The West Pacific!   

First post on this forum that isn’t an application for something. Anyways, I’m Ryuu. I run the nation of Vollakia. I’m currently part of TWPAF and am a resident of TWP. My goals in life are to not have goals in life. Anyways, hello everyone!
 
 
Darkesia, before you ask, I do have chocolate to spare from nearly burning down my nation making chocolate cupakes.

I'm guessing that Altino's Military masking is a holdover from when she was running TWPAF. I would assume that there is no need to keep it any more given that she is the Pharaoh of Osiris.

Done.
Altino was already masked as a Citizen (secondary) and Military (primary.)  
If that needs adjusting, please let me know how you would like it to be done.
Welcome to TWP citizenship!  
 

Enjoy the break!  We all need them occasionally.  Good luck in RL and may your time away heal any wounds created by the pervasive anger sometimes found in the game.  I hope you return after a healthy rest.  

Hey you guys! Sending some love out today! <3 I was talking to someone earlier today about a silly tag that we did with TWPAF back when Kawaii was Commander and I was just a First Commander in revenge on The Bee Movie! It brought back a lot of fun memories in TWP, so I wanted to share some of my favorite TWP times with you guys.  
 
The Spanish Inquisition - I've been on a ton of raids during my time on NS, but the most fun that I ever had with one was when Khanter helped us plan a big raid on Spanish-speaking regions. Like, ALL of the Spanish-speaking regions! We had just kicked off our pirate theme, so we needed to do something big and fun to really cement that direction, and between my Pirate Code, Ban's excellent Graphics, and Khanter's excitement to help with that raid, this put us in the perfect position to really sell it! I spent days hyping everyone up about a secret raid that we'd have coming up and screaming "¡SOMOS PIRATAS!" to anyone who would listen, Khanter made us a WFE all in Spanish for the raid, and Bran made us this cool image as a teaser: 

It ended up being a ton of fun and the beginning to my favorite military theme on NS! 
 
Punday Monday! - Listen, you guys, I am not in favor of puns, I'm honestly not, but thanks to Badger and Roavin have had to take on the title of Ocassional Punstress. Badger used to poke at me EVERY MONDAY to get my pun on with everyone on the RMB, and EVERY MONDAY I would grumble at him for it. But secretly, I gathered puns throughout the week and was always excited to post them and make all my friends groan! I don't think I ever ended up getting most likes for the best pun, but I'm pretty sure I came fairly close. 
 
Badgerbot - Idk how many of you know this, but when I first met Badger, I legitimately thought that he was a really, really well programmed chatbot. Something about his avatar, I don't know, seemed very botish to me! When I finally figured out that he was an actual person, I was really embarrassed, but had to tell him about it, and for the long day time after that I called him Badgerbot when I saw him! Eventually he created an actual BadgerBot to rule over TWP's Discord server and I was tickled pink! Now we have BadgerBot2.0 and it continues to be a weird, inside joke legacy that always makes me smile! 
 
Glitter Apprenticeship - Before I got really involved in TWPAF, I got really involved in TWP in the form of RMB shenanigans. This is where I met some of the old greats in TWP and learned to respect them! I was a wee noob, but I got friendly with BBD, YY, Medio, and a lot of the other Guardians at the time while I was there. I'm still upset that Medio didn't get unlocked until after I was done with TWPAF! I always wanted to raid with him. :c But my crowing achievement was one day convincing NeeNee to let me be her Glitter Apprentice. I spent like a week after that glittering everyone on the RMB and learning her ways. It was a great time.  
 
Bugging Forum Mods - I'm sorry to finally be admitting this, but I got... really into recruitment when I was running TWPAF and almost my entire motivation behind big numbers (besides pilers) was making tons and tons of posts in the mask request thread for the forum mods to have to do. :3 I just liked peeping in every day like "FIVE MORE MASKS FOR YOU, THANK YOU GUYS!" It was my own private little game. But every time I see someone join TWPAF now I get a little shot of glee that the mods will have to mask someone. xD Sorry. <3
 
Anyway, just sending out some love from me and Osiris! Hope everyone is doing well! What about you guys, do you have any really special memories with TWP that make you happy? What do y'all have going on! 

Grey is not currently a member of TWPAF.

Done.  Welcome new Citizens! 

I went through the entire Hall of Nations list and culled non-members.  Sent out reminders to others to post in the forum.

I have an TWP conundrum.  
I am not sure that the requirement to have people post at least once per month is an effective thing for the Hall of Nations.  But we have a beautiful forum and need more activity here.  What can we do to increase activity here?

Look Mom         I'm         a         Table!  

Bumping this because a little grave digging buried it and I think we were having a great discussion here before the interruption.

Bumping this because a little grave digging buried it and I think we were having a great discussion here before the interruption.

Hail!

You will do very well here.

54 minutes ago: The Next Nazi Germany was ejected and banned from The West Pacific by The Holy Principality of Saint Mark. 55 minutes ago: Union memetica was ejected and banned from The West Pacific by The Holy Principality of Saint Mark. 7 hours ago: ASDASDSADSADSAPCLKKMPNFAD was ejected and banned from The West Pacific by Mediobogdum. 1 day 7 hours ago: Marxist Furries was ejected and banned from The West Pacific by Davelands. 2 days ago: Skedong was ejected and banned from The West Pacific by Mediobogdum. 2 days 6 hours ago: Qpqpqpqpqpqlqpqpqp was ejected and banned from The West Pacific by Mediobogdum. 2 days 19 hours ago: Afddd was ejected and banned from The West Pacific by Mediobogdum. 2 days 19 hours ago: Dfgdfgdfc was ejected and banned from The West Pacific by Mediobogdum. 3 days ago: Maniggers was ejected and banned from The West Pacific by Mediobogdum. 4 days ago: Nazi Yulin Empire was ejected and banned from The West Pacific by Neenee. 4 days ago: F You You Get No Nation was ejected and banned from The West Pacific by Neenee. 6 days ago: DJ Lil Tay was ejected and banned from The West Pacific by Davelands. 6 days ago: Meme-astan was ejected and banned from The West Pacific by The Holy Principality of Saint Mark. 6 days ago: Ballistikov was ejected and banned from The West Pacific by Overthinkers. This is the complete banjection list from the past week. All were banned for name/data infractions as you can easily see. I think that we have done a really good job in stopping the reflexive banjections for minor RMB infractions that was prevalent when I joined. In fact, I was almost banjected after a couple of months on the RMB because someone felt that I was speaking out of turn.
You are right in that the general attitude to noobs asking the basic questions is usually "Here, read it". To be honest, it is easier than saying two paragraphs of boilerplate 5 times a day. But I recognize that some people don't want to read so I made a smaller version of the RMB Rules and added it to the WFE. It should be easier to look at and read. https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1084143