[Campaign] Delechama-chama!

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What happened to us?

The East Pacific is the land of second chances, the supporter of underdogs, and the proving ground of tomorrow’s greats.

In today’s TEP, we need leaders that are willing to accept blame and criticism, and transform negative energy into results - even if out of spite.

We need to continue to oppose sanctions that dictate who we can and can’t associate with and seek the death of community on NationStates before it will tolerate the continued company of sanctioned players.

We need to strictly evaluate what it means to be “a Friend of the East”, where TEP is more than “a Tool that is East”, and where they demand we change our very identity to bring back old “friendships”.

And we need to remember that what brought us here was a friendly community of comedians and a land of opportunity. How many of us were drawn here by Libertanny’s charisma as an ambassador? How many of us joined realizing our elections and high offices are open to all interested to apply and thrive in? How many of you are now named as great of heroes as the Delegates of the last two decades, realizing that TEP too realizes the contributions of both the old and the new?

I’m Ill’haress Aurora Yukihime of Albrook, the former Delechama of The East Pacific. And this is my contiuing vision to let the light shine on the East.

Head of Government

To my “land of opportunity” point, while I lament it will be harder to earn placement on the top of the region page for all to see (I did vote in Zukchiva’s survey that being the WAD was part of the reason why I ran in my first term), our land of opportunity continues to offer this honor to our greatest homeland protectors in the Praesidium.

As for myself as the chief executive (not proper noun), I will:

  • Seek out and continue the wisdom of the experienced. Just because I’m the boss now does not mean the tried and true methods that guided our region for so many years need to be discarded.

  • Be highly responsive to feedback and suggestions. I own the decisions of my Executive. You can blame me. You can call out my stupidity. You can say you can do something better than I or my ministers can. And you can have ideas you really want to see. And I will do my best to resolve all of these.

  • Adapt to a dynamic region The needs and feelings of our region change, and that’s ok. It is my responsibility to accept change and adapt the Executive to our needs. We are not robots or Sims with easy criteria to satisfy, and especially in our passionate culture it’s very real to expect to need to adapt structures, policies, and decisions to our changing needs.

As the head, I am not Superman. I’m a 9-5-working, hobby-having, gamer, with a life. I cannot run this government alone. I need a cabinet. And here are my champions:

Advisors

My future Cabinet Advisors,

I need your wisdom. There are so many things I don’t know.

I am not an RP player.

I was not you in your career in TEP.

I probably didn’t feel everything you felt.

And I am not Superman.

I need at least someone from each subcommunity and branch of government to help me.

We have new leaders we need to grow together.

Are you in?

Clerical Agency

My future Minister of the Clerical Agency,

I want you to continue your mission to keep the details of TEP’s infrastructure up to date.

My authorities and manpower are available to you. Please, ask me anytime for guidance and help.

Are you in?

Culture Ministry

My future Minister of Culture, I want you to assemble a highly available team of fun people.

We and our allies love The Hunger Games, and in my power they will continue on schedule as long as folks remain interested. We will work together to continue them.

We need to always be seeking creativity. Let us work together showcase the work of our Residents in contests over regional decorations and exhibitions of our creative works.

We need activity. You may, and I desire periodically to the best of your team’s availability, organize and lead events featuring free and low-cost multiplayer games or activities. You may invite any in or Friends of the East. You do not need my permission, but please be respectful of other regional events.

You have my full support and arsenal of authorities at your side.

Are you in?

Eastern Pacific Sovereign Army

My future Admiral, I want you to continue to grow our highly available army.

I am no soldier. I have been WA-locked for nearly my entire NS career as Delegate of the Alstroemerian Commonwealths or as your former Delegate. I have never jumped, and I have never occupied.

You hold a unique and valuable skillset. I trust you to continue to share it to spread TEP’s virtue of democracy in our unalignment as we coordinate ourselves and with our military allies.

Please advise me on your observations and on my decisions that may affect you.

Are you in?

Foreign Affairs Ministry

My future Minister of Foreign Affairs,

I want you to realize that almost everyone that holds this position declares this very candidacy, and very often becomes our chief executive.

Together we will address the region’s hardest PR disasters.

Together we will stand up for TEP in a metagame that, at times, wants us and our close friends conquered.

We will show our mercy and empathy with true friends. Still, be prepared to be betrayed. We must always keep them close…

But do not succumb to sanctioning our closest friends in seeking utility and redemption from bullies.

We will make hard choices. It will happen at 3am. Someone or something will piss us off.

I want us to assemble a team of everyone willing to deal with this pressure to continue to make The East’s principles known to NationStates.

You all always have mine and each other’s ears.

Are you in?

News Ministry

My future Editor-in-Chief,

I know how it feels. Everyone has big ideas of what to write, but take their time or won’t deliver. So we write it ourselves and burn out, or surrender to delay or skip the edition.

I’ve done the late-night crunch to assemble the edition on the deadline.

You have my entire support as chief executive, as a key contact for what we’re up to and what management your ministry needs to continue to be effective.

News can be multimedia. I am open to your team’s ideas on what more we can do.

Are you in?

RMB Council

TEP’s RMB Council, to whom I entrust your historic community’s sovereignty,

I am a stranger to most of you. I admit, I am rarely outside of Discord when it comes to NationStates. While I pledge my presence in checking regional correspondence and being present on the RMB during my hopeful term, I have never been a candidate for - as the Magisterium proposes - “RMB Status”.

Can you please advise me? I may want to make decisions that harm you, and I know you have lost trust in our past and present governments and administrators over these decisions.

Will you please trust me?

Recruitment Ministry

My future Ministry of Recruitment, I want to somehow create an extroverted engine of enablers with you.

NationStates has changed. By virtue of being named “The East Pacific”, 20% of this game’s new nations were completely free to us. Now we’re only gifted 10%. But the rules have changed - we can now recruit from other regions. And I want us to continue operating our current infrastructure to do this.

We have another problem to solve though. We need to share how much fun we have up here with others. I want us:

  • To monitor and reply to everything we send out, and answer both what we’re doing and how they can join us

  • To welcome new joiners, as noted by our platform automation, and begin a conversation about what they want to achieve in our land of opportunity.

  • To try your best; you won’t be perfect. Historically this office is headed by an introvert, composed of introverts, and know talking to internet strangers is scary. But do this for me - let’s consistently achieve what’s easy with the above. What we don’t have to extrovertedly discover ourselves. What can be simply checked off a list. I assure you it will be the best we’ve accomplished in a long time.

I will ask my Executive cabinet, advisors, and staff to help us, but I understand this is a demanding job that only the passionate can thrive in. At least, you have their ear if you need them.

Are you in?

University of The East Pacific

Sammy, to whom I entrust your great scholarly body’s sovereignty,

I trust you and will do my best to promote your opportunities in all I do, ensure you have a place in regional events, and are listened to.

Will you please trust me?

World Assembly Affairs Ministry

Cretox,

I am sorry to depart as your Deputy if I win this election. I may continue my periodic duties, however.

I look forward to your recently posted objectives and will do my best to help achieve them, including whatever I am presently promising to achieve myself.

Will you please trust me?

Principles of the Delechama

To all popular questions,

  • N-Day: Anime Nations Against Liberals (ANAL) awaits our confirmation to continue, or our decision to withdraw. They are our friends and at least deserve to know what we’re thinking. If we wish to propose to change their theme, let’s talk to them. If we want to make our own faction or join another, let’s ask them if they’ll continue to support us wherever we go. Many in our region are regular players and commanders. Publicly, we’re impending withdrawing from them. Let’s tell them what we’re thinking before they decide for us, especially if we have anything to say to or about High Commander Altys.

  • Modern Gameplay Compact Sanctions: I will always oppose these as I value our social sovereignty and the health of NationStates the game above social and political exclusion to achieve any goal.

  • Toxicity: I am not blameless. Let me be my own worst opponent in this election - I feel personal responsibility for contributing to Libertanny leaving our region behind without looking back, and I have engaged in personal and infuriating politics in this region. Let us work together to eliminate our bad behavior together. Let us once again love one another. Let us, before being opinionated obstacles to our objectives, be friends to one another before all else. Literally punch me in the face if I contribute to the toxicity again, even if I don’t win this election.

In conclusion,

  • Ask and I will try my best, or at least give you an honest refusal and reason why

  • We are the land of opportunity

  • I need you. I’m just an old armchair feeling the nerve to declare my candidacy again.

  • I will listen. We all have our convictions, but we must agree to what is best for the region at large in what we do.

Let the light continue to shine from the East,
Ill’haress Aurora Yukihime of Albrook, former Delechama of The East Pacific October 2021 - July 2022

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Awesome calls to action! Before I ask the candidates some generic questions, I have a specific one based on the conversation currently happening in the Discord elections channel. TEP FA has been broadly realigning over the last few months. We’ve ended relations with historical partners including repealing the NPO treaty and closing our TBH embassy, and moved closer to the Independent sphere, most notably TWP. Do you intend to continue along this path? If so, how aggressively compared to last term?

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Thanks for the support man :heart:

I am personally a contrarian and a hardliner. I do not always feel empathy for our oldest relationship because I was never there while that relationship was active. A lot of my history with these regions is generalized dismissal and cliquey superiority.

This is why I do not want to make these my decisions alone.

FA has always been a conversation here. Everyone who wishes to guide our FA direction offers their wisdom, opinions, experiences, reasons, excuses, rumors, grievances, and just shares what we know with each other. If you are active and know something about other regions or believe in strong TEP regionalism, I want to hear you!

We need to hear you. Because a lot of us, myself most of all, could choose incorrectly alone. I want to always choose my friends. But TEP is not me. It’s us. We should choose who we think our friends are.

And that’s a conversation that needs more voices, and a variety of personalities and backgrounds for when we need the right councilor or ambassador for the job to make that happen.

Through the years that’s why we always sent certain friends of our friends to those regions on ambassadorial or FA-IC assignments, and those who wish to integrate into their communities and truly represent TEP’s interest to them. We don’t send raiders to sanctioned regions - that’s just insulting. Nobody always wants to talk to me, and that’s ok - that’s what FA-IC is for.

I do not oppose continued growth with TWP, et al., as long as we never are told to compromise on our principles and convictions in order to do so.

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I wish to inform you about daily offline Q&A. Before headed to bed tonight, I addressed the following:

  • On MGC: It is the forsaken region’s FA Minister’s folly to pursue restoring relations wholesale based solely on bonds from a political lifetime ago alone. I cannot promise to continue to restore these relations above my promise to protect our unalignment and sovereignty. But I will not let my personal convictions halt our continuing efforts here. When it comes to sanctions, complicity is guilty.
  • On promoting sanctioned events: I agree with Delegate Dremaur’s current solution of letting OOC Admin announce and promote events that TEP OOC supports but cannot IC agree with. I will not make this decision without consulting FA.
  • On MoFA structure: My Cabinet is not where the FA experts live, and it will not be a FA channel. FA-IC is the open-radio situation room for sensitive topics; the decisions will happen here. FA Lower Council is a proving ground for folks interested in talking FA and for non-sensitive topics, general intel, and coordinating ambassadors. I have not decided the Lower Council’s structure yet.
  • On FA disclosure: I will be transparent on FA decisions with non-FA bodies. I am required to follow the law to inform the Magisterium about any treaty changes. As said, my FA approach is an open-radio, non-formal, constant discussion, and I will exercise my freedom to shape FA as I see fit to support these aims.
  • On DMs and GCs: These are distracting executive principals from their non-included team back in the main server channel. Stick to those channels unless we’re contacting foreigners. If you want new people to get involved in our government, we need these to be active.