[Embassy] 10000 Islands

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10000 Islands Monthly Emissary Update

Date: July, 2014
Population: 982
Delegate Endorsements: 305
Forum: 10000islands.proboards.com

The following is the Emissary Report for June, 2014.

Regional Events:

The 10000 Islands best flag competition, run by Anime Daisuki, has finished. This competition saw members of the 10000 Islands vote for their favourite flag through a preliminary and final round. The results had Ananke and Boltor tying for third place, Thesan in second place and the winner was Ardreas! Congratulations to our winners and thank you to everyone who organised and participated in the competition. Link:http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/27846/flag-best-contest-2014-results

The 10000 Islands recieved a visit from our allies in Texas. The visit saw a lot of chat on the Regional Message Board, as well as The Taco Island Texan Beach Party Extravaganza on the forum. The beach party saw some drinking, some eating, some drinking, an Ugliest Pet Show, some more drinking, a bit more eating and ended with everyone wearing sombreros. Thanks for visiting Texas! Link:http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/27925/island-texan-beach-party-extravaganza

Political Events:

Aersoldorf has stood down from his position as Minister of Immigration and has been replaced by Cerb. We are all greatful for Aerso’s work as Minister, and welcome Cerb back to the Council of Nine. Link:http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/27911/new-minister-immgration-named

The current Council of Nine (the government of 10000 Islands) is composed by:

Grub (Founder)
Malecia (Minister of Labor)
Randomain (Minister of Education)
Cerb (Minister of Immigration)
Benevolent Thomas (WA Delegate)
Paffnia (Senator, New Republica South)
Witchcraft and Sorcery (Senator, Himes West)
Ardreas (Senator, Lyonesse East)
Ater Nox (Senator, Blue Canaria North)

TITO News

TITO Executive Oficer Malecia was awarded the Bronze Star for his outstanding service to TITO. Congratulations Mal!

TITO Day was held on the 23rd of June.

The Command of TITO stands as such:

Grub (Founder/Commander-in-Chief)
Improving Wordiness (Field Commander)
Ater Nox (Tactical Officer)
Controlitia (Tactical Officer)
Malecia (Executive Officer)

TITO deployments for June included Schakastan, New Empire of Gallifrey, East Pacific, Cascadia. Pirates, Bucketheadland, Christmas and Austria.

Also in June, TITO XO Malecia was awarded the Bronze Star by TITO Field Commander Improving Wordines. the citation read:

'We stand here before the Statue of Jesioneka to award Malecia for outstanding service.
As you all are aware Melecia is our TITO Executive Officer and keeps things running smoothly in the background. In spite of personal hardships Mal has been a continual source of support and been dedicated to the rarely thanked task of keeping our record / battle jackets and TITO roster updated.
Performing a repetitive task from day to day when things are going well can be challenging. Performing those same tasks even when things are not going well is outstanding.

I hereby Award Malecia The Bronze Star’

Around the Islands

The Featured Nation Program was revived in early June, and over the month Voltzenkrad and The Changeling Horde were both featured. If you would like to know a little more about these interesting nations, have a look at the links. Link:http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/27810/featured-nation-voltzenkrad Link:http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/27869/featured-nation-changeling-horde

Werewolves 36:‘Vault 48’, hosted by Shizensky, came to a conclusion with a victory for the communist wolves. Congratulations! Red Croatia has started sign ups for the next game, which will see the villagers face off against a group of cartoon Femme Fatales. Barry has already prepared himself for an evil role, showing us some disturbingly attractive pictures of him in a red dress.

The Resistance 9 was won by the resistance again. Spies Aersoldorf and Ater Nox were no match for the brave Resistance members Pengu, Randomain and Witchcraft and Sorcery. Or maybe that’s just what they want you to think, you never can tell in this game…

The Candy Lane ran two games of Two Rooms, One Boom over the month. This game is run by PM so there isn’t much to see, but it seems to have been well recieved by its players. The blue team won the first game, and the red team won the second.

Ater Nox opened sign ups for a new game in Taco Island. Everyone is John will see Taco Islanders take turns as being voices in a man named John’s head. It will be interesting to see how this turns out.

In the lottery, Barry, Witchcraft & Sorcery, Random and Aersoldorf were all lucky enough to win some tacos again. The jackpot which has now risen to 203,360 taco. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/27100/xki-lottery-back?page=8

The position of Mayor of Shelter’s Taco Island has been filled. Congratulations to our new mayor Aersoldorf! The new mayor got right to work, unveiling his new mansion payed for with his hard earned tacos. And by hard earned tacos, I mean taxes and bribes. Link:http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/27857/new-mayor-taco-island-announced

The Mad Islander has gotten off to a strong start, with over a dozen articles posted. Link:http://10000islands.proboards.com/board/76/mad-islander

The Candy Land has been awarded the Fleeb Award, for his efforts in helping the XKI Universtiy. Congratulations TCL! Link:http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/27916/candy-awarded-fleeb-university-award

Written by Ater Nox, edited by Benevolent Thomas

Thanks for the update.


10000 Islands Monthly Emissary Update

Date: October, 2014
Population: 1040
Delegate Endorsements: 313
Forum: 10000islands.proboards.com

The following is the Emissary Report for September, 2014.

Regional Events:

The House Cup and Shield Recruiting Competition was successfuly run over the month. The House of Wordy won the House Cup, the House of Ater Nox won the House Shield and the House of Aersoldorf won the House Scepter. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28513/fourth-house-shield-september-2014

Sign ups for the Cross-Regional Islanders Beach Championship have opened. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28721/islanders-beach-championship-sign-ups

The Poet Laureate contest has opened. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28733/poet-laureate

Political Events:

Ater Nox and Isles of Nixon both ran unopposed in the Senate Elections. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28571/who-senator-blue-canaria-north Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28570/who-senator-new-republica-south

The current Council of Nine (the government of 10000 Islands) is composed by:

Grub (Founder)
Markanite (WA Delegate)
Randomain (Minister of Education)
Cerb (Minister of Immigration)
Malecia (Minister of Labor)
Ater Nox (Senior Senator, Blue Canaria North)
Barry (Senator, Himes West)
The Candy Lane (Senator, Lyonesse East)
Isles of Nixon (Senator, New Republica South)

Forum levels have been upgraded to display users levels with text as well as the previous image. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28615/forum-level-upgrade

Indorphinea provided an entry to the FRAVision competition on behalf of the 10000 Islands. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28626/fravision

Forum users can now display the year they joined NS on their profile. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28546/profile-upgrade-nationstates-join-year

Forum users can add piano songs to their posts thanks to a new plugin. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28645/piano-post-composer

The images showing whether there are new posts in a board have been updated. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28697/new-forum-upgrade-post-icons

Forum users can again mark PMs as urgent. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28698/new-forum-upgrade-urgent-pms

A new Casino board has been opened on the forum, being overseen by the Senator for Himes West, Barry. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/board/7/xki-casino

Ayunli has been named the next Regional Reserve Chairman. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28600/ayunli-named-head-regional-reserve

Coryo has been named Deputy Senator and will be running the Featured Nation Program. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28651/senator-deputy-job-opening

There is now a record of all the countries that forum visitors come from at the bottom of the forum. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28718/new-upgrade-flag-counter

Forum users can now add a Tournament Bracket to their posts. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28714/new-upgrade-tournamnet-bracket-option

Paffnia has started a thread for requests for threads to be edited, moved, locked or stickied. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28601/threads-edited-moved-locked-stickied

Various jobs around the 10000 Islands will now be payed positions. Payments are automatically paid to the new 10000 Islands Bank. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28667/10000-islanders-islands-bank-opens

Grub has put the call out for new forum plug in ideas, with a possible 100,000 Taco prize. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28703/new-ideas-contest-taco-bonus

The Imperial Republica has been named a Featured Nation. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28668/featured-nation-imperial-republica

Indorphinea has been named a Featured Nation. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28565/featured-nation-indorphinea

Randomain has updated the 10000 Islands Map. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/15289/map-10000-islands?page=2

The Lottery has continued to pay out some smaller prizes, but the jackpot is now up to 300,000 tacos. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/27100/xki-lottery?page=17&scrollTo=1103696

TITO News

The Command of TITO stands as such:

Grub (Founder/Commander-in-Chief)
Improving Wordiness (Field Commander)
Ater Nox (Tactical Officer)
Controlitia (Tactical Officer)
Malecia (Executive Officer)

Member of TITO travelled to Texas to celebrate NewTexas’s 10th year anniversary as delegate. Congratulations on the achievement Big Tex!

TITO Knight Smugglers & Merc’s Statue was unveiled. Congratulations Smugglers & Merc!

Around the Islands

Werewolves 38, hosted by Pengu, came to a conclusion with a victory for the villagers. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28321/werewolf-taco-islands-got-talent

The Resistance 11, hosted by Ater Nox, was won by the resistance. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28410/resistance-11

A new German Conversation thread has opened in the XKI University. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28677/german-conversation

Sign ups for the XKI Grand Prix have opened. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28678/xkigp-circuit-submissions

Louisistan has started a guessing game about himself in the Casino. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28690/truth-louisistan

Louisistan has started a German Basketball betting thread in the Casino. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28710/beko-basketball-bundesliga-german-bets

Written by Ater Nox, edited by Markanite

Thanks for the update!


10000 Islands Monthly Emissary Update

Date: November, 2014
Population: 1009
Delegate Endorsements: 313
Forum: 10000islands.proboards.com

The following is the Emissary Report for October, 2014.

Forum Design Competition

By ruling of the Council of Nine, the 10000 Islands is looking for designers to design a new look for our ProBoards forum! This competition is open to members of all regions, and the creator of the chosen design will win 250,000 tacos. Any other selected designs will win 50,000. For more details, view the link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28838/flag-new-forum-design-competition

Political Events:

The current Council of Nine (the government of 10000 Islands) is composed by:

Grub (Founder)
Markanite (WA Delegate)
Randomain (Minister of Education)
Cerb (Minister of Immigration)
Malecia (Minister of Labor)
Ater Nox (Senior Senator, Blue Canaria North)
Barry (Senator, Himes West)
The Candy Lane (Senator, Lyonesse East)
Isles of Nixon (Senator, New Republica South)

The Zombie event returned to NationStates for Halloween. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28852/zombie-apocalypse-coordination-hq

The was also a forum zombie invasion, with the zombies successful fought off. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28892/zombies-101-forum-side-game

Due to difficulties with the shop plugin, all Immigration shares must be sold back to the shop before they are removed. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28867/removing-imm-shares-shop-read

An Urthquake hit the lower right area of the map, causing Seaweed and Pearl farms to lose tacos. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28886/massive-earthquake-causes-extreme-devastation

Aersoldorf won the Poet Laureate Competition, and was official Commended by the Council of Nine. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28875/poet-aersoldorf-commended-commissioned-games

Ananke and Wordy were both awarded their own days in recognition of the steadfast commitment and the staunch loyalty of two of 10000 Islands’ and TITO’s most honorable members, and also recognizing the commendations bestowed on each of them by NationStates. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28806/flag-ananke-wordy-day

Louisistan was selected as a featured nation. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28766/featured-nation-confederacy-louisistan

The Jensmonian Empire was selected as a featured nation. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28854/featured-nation-jensmonian-empire

There is now a link to a HUD on the forum, where users can easily view various information Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28905/flag-new-forum-upgrade-hud

A new forum update allows for users to collapse categories on the forum’s homepage. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28877/flag-forum-upgrade-collapsible-categories

The Candy Lane has been named the new Register General. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28839/candy-lane-named-registrar-general

The forum has an updated calendar, featuring upcoming events in the 10000 Islands. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28807/flag-forum-upgrade-improved-calendar

Users can now add their own personal smilies to their account, and use them in any posts they make. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28769/new-forum-upgrade-personal-smilies

The Casino has multiple events to bet on, such as the 40th Werewolf game, the XKI Grand Prix, German Basketball, American Baseball and Swedish Hockey. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/board/7/xki-casino

The XKI Lottery Jackpot is now up to 325,000 tacos. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/27100/xki-lottery-flag?page=19

TITO News

The Command of TITO stands as such:

Grub (Founder/Commander-in-Chief)
Improving Wordiness (Field Commander)
Ater Nox (Tactical Officer)
Controlitia (Tactical Officer)
Elite (Tactical Officer)
Malecia (Executive Officer)

TITO welcomed a new Tacitical Officer to the command team. Congratulations Elite on your promotion!

All current TITO member were awarded the Steadfast Badge for recognition of their Loyalty, Honesty, Friendship and Steadfast Commitment.

TITO Members returned to the Empire of Power to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of TITO’s historic victory. All TITO members who attended received the 10th Anniversary EoP medal.

Around the Islands

The XKI Soccer League, the first league run by the XKI Sports League, began. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28831/flag-xki-soccer-league

USSR / Hahiha announced the First Annual Short Story Writing Contest, to be held over the course of November. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28879/first-annual-short-wiriting-contest

The Islander’s Beach Championship Sign Ups saw many of the 10000 Islands nations submit their athletes for this inter-regional event. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28721/islanders-beach-championship-sign-ups

The 39th Werewolves game hosted by Byzesion was won by the villagers. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28631/ww39-rick-mortys-full-title?page=15

Duckyian Empire will be hosting the 40th Werewolves game, and sign ups are now open. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28894/ww-40-sign-ups

The 12th Resistance game, hosted by The Changeling Horde, is still under way. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28621/resistance-12?page=1

The Ten Thousand Islands Grand Prix is currently under way. 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28678/xkigp-rosters-filled

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USSR / Hahiha announced the First Annual Short Story Writing Contest, to be held over the course of November. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28879/first-annual-short-wiriting-contest

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^ This looks amazing. I love reading original short stories.

Thanks for the update! :slight_smile:

Thanks for the update.


10000 Islands Monthly Emissary Update

Date: December, 2014
Population: 1030
Delegate Endorsements: 305
Forum: 10000islands.proboards.com

The following is the Emissary Report for November, 2014.

Forum Design Competition

By ruling of the Council of Nine, the 10000 Islands is looking for designers to design a new look for our ProBoards forum! This competition is open to members of all regions, and the creator of the chosen design will win 250,000 tacos. Any other selected designs will win 50,000. For more details, view the link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28838/flag-new-forum-design-competition

Political Events:

The current Council of Nine (the government of 10000 Islands) is composed by:

Grub (Founder)
Markanite (WA Delegate)
Randomain (Minister of Education)
Cerb (Minister of Immigration)
Malecia (Minister of Labor)
Ater Nox (Senior Senator, Blue Canaria North)
Barry (Senator, Himes West)
The Candy Lane (Senator, Lyonesse East)
Isles of Nixon (Senator, New Republica South)

Elections were held for the seats of Himes West and Lyonnesse East. Barry was re-elected to the seat of Himes West with 26 out of 37 votes, and The Candy Lane was re-elected for the seat of Lyonnesse East receiving 28 out of 36 votes. Congratulations to the two of you. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28965/who-senator-lyonesse-east-11 http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28966/who-senator-himes-west-11

The 10000 was host to the Islander’s Beach Championship, which was the latest of the Cross Regional Games. The Championship saw athletes from 9 regions compete in 8 events. The region Spiritus was awarded The Beachcomber’s Trophy and The Candy Lane from the 10000 Islands and Tierra de Madre from the Renegade Islands Alliance were both awarded The Islander’s Cup. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/board/164/islanders-beach-championship

Grub has provided some more forum updates, including a coloured message in profiles to show when people are online and some changes to the alternative forum skins. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28935/3-small-changes

The United Tributational Territories was selected as the Featured Nation. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28995/featured-nation-united-tributational-territories

The soil found in the Islands surrounding the Anime Daisuki Sea was found to have miraculous built-in fertilizer properties boosting income from Taco Farms for nations in that area of the map.

Grub is giving out free tacos. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29027/free-tacos

TITO News

The Command of TITO stands as such:

Grub (Founder/Commander-in-Chief)
Improving Wordiness (Field Commander)
Ater Nox (Tactical Officer)
Controlitia (Tactical Officer)
Elite (Tactical Officer)
Malecia (Executive Officer)

Escanaba was awarded his 250th Battlestar. Congratulations!

The TITO Knight Mentoring program has been started to help new TITO member learn the ropes.

Around the Islands

The XKI Soccer League, the first league run by the XKI Sports League, is continuing. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28831/flag-xki-soccer-league

Paffnia has re-started the Taco Island Charities business. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29010/taco-island-charities-back

The 12th Resistance game was won by the spies Aersoldorf and Ater Nox. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28621/resistance-12

The 13th Resistance game has started, hosted by Aersoldorf. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29015/resistance-13

The 40th game of Werewolves has begun, being hosted by Duckyian Empire. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28958/ww-40-mask-anubis

The XKI Grand Prix was won by TAS Asamania’s team. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28678/xkigp-rosters-filled?page=4&scrollTo=1123956

The Taco Island Charities Nation Creation Contest opened for signups. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29023/tic-presents-nation-creation-contest

The First Annual Short Story Writing Contest has been extended until the 10th of December. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28879/first-annual-short-writing-contest

Thanks for the update.


10000 Islands Monthly Emissary Update

Date: January, 2015
Population: 952
Delegate Endorsements: 316
Forum: 10000islands.proboards.com

The following is the Emissary Report for December 2014.

Forum Design Competition

By ruling of the Council of Nine, the 10000 Islands is looking for designers to design a new look for our ProBoards forum! This competition is open to members of all regions, and the creator of the chosen design will win 250,000 tacos. Any other selected designs will win 50,000. For more details, view the link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28838/flag-new-forum-design-competition

Political Events:

The current Council of Nine (the government of 10000 Islands) is composed by:

Grub (Founder)
Markanite (WA Delegate)
Randomain (Minister of Education)
Cerb (Minister of Immigration)
Malecia (Minister of Labor)
Ater Nox (Senior Senator, Blue Canaria North)
Barry (Senator, Himes West)
The Candy Lane (Senator, Lyonesse East)
Isles of Nixon (Senator, New Republica South)

The 10000 Islands recruiting tool has been upgraded thanks to Cerb. The Accelerator 2.0 was officially launched in December. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29092/flag-accelerator-2-officially-launched

To celebrate Ananke & Wordy Days the XKI Casino held a dice game. The winners were Klopstock, Paffnia, Shy Guy, Louisistan, Ater Nox, The Candy Lane, Grub, Aersoldorf, and Woonsocket. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29062/ananke-wordy-days-dice-contest

Taco Island Charities hosted a Nation Creation Contest. Witchcraft and Sorcery came first, with Duckyian Empire in second, and Thanya in third-place. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29023/tic-presents-nation-creation-contest

A new plugin for the forum to have large quotes of text partially hidden until opened has been added. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29135/new-fading-quotes

The live drawing plugin has been fixed. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29124/live-drawing-back

A new forum plugin to make it easier to change between themes has been added and can be accessed in the bottom right corner of the screen. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29044/flag-upgrade-easy-theme-changer

Witchcraft and Sorcery was named as the new Foreign Affairs Secretary. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29034/witchcraft-sorcery-foreign-affairs-secretary

IMM shares have been restarted with RRC Ayunli running store. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29045/announcement-re-launch-imm-stock

The old share market plugin has been removed due to a glitch. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29097/stock-market-closed

A slight mishap dropped a bunch of tacos out of Santa’s sleigh and onto some lucky nations. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29125/sleigh-mishap

The House Rosters have been audited by Senator The Candy Lane and his deputy Louisistan. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29085/completed-audit-house-rosters

Nominations for the third Paffnia Prize have opened. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29160/third-annual-paffnia-prize-nominations

TITO News

The Command of TITO stands as such:

Grub (Founder/Commander-in-Chief)
Improving Wordiness (Field Commander)
Ater Nox (Tactical Officer)
Controlitia (Tactical Officer)
Elite (Tactical Officer)
Malecia (Executive Officer)

Tanzoria and Ayunli have both been knighted after reaching 50 battle stars. Congratulations to both of them.

Around the Islands

Werewolves 40 was won by the village. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28958/ww-40-mask-anubis?page=16

The Roleplaying section of the forum has a new map. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29112/official-rp-world-map

Sign ups for the second XKI Grand Prix opened. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29083/xkigp2-entries-open

Thanks for the update :slight_smile:


10000 Islands Monthly Emissary Update

Date: February, 2015
Population: 952
Delegate Endorsements: 316
Forum: 10000islands.proboards.com

The following is the Emissary Report for February, 2015.

Forum Design Competition

By ruling of the Council of Nine, the 10000 Islands is looking for designers to design a new look for our ProBoards forum! This competition is open to members of all regions, and the creator of the chosen design will win 250,000 tacos. Any other selected designs will win 50,000. For more details, view the link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/28838/flag-new-forum-design-competition

Political Events:

The current Council of Nine (the government of 10000 Islands) is composed by:

Grub (Founder)
Markanite (WA Delegate)
Randomain (Minister of Education)
The Candy Lane (Minister of Immigration)
Paffnia (Minister of Labor)
Barry (Senior Senator; Senator, Himes West)
Louisistan (Senator, Lyonesse East)
Lower Columbia (Senator, New Republica South)
Malecia (Blue Canaria North)

The 10000 Islands recruiting tool has been upgraded thanks to Cerb. The Accelerator 2.0 was officially launched in December. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29092/flag-accelerator-2-officially-launched

January was a very busy month in 10000 Islands Politics. Elections were held for the Senate Seats for New Republica South and Blue Canaria North. Former BCN Senator Malecia stepped down from his post as Minister of Labor to run for the Senate Seat he had held prior to his ministry appointment. Mal won with 24 of 41 votes.
Lower Columbia, in his first run for the Senate, was successful with his run for the NRS Seat and took 29 of 39 votes.

Long time Council Member Cerberion stepped down from his ministry seat. With Mal leaving the ministry for the Senate and Cerb stepping down, Paffnia was appointed as Minister of Labor and The Candy Lane was named Minster of Immigration.

The Council thanks Cerberion for his years of service and devotion and dedication to the Co9.

Other political happenings:

  • Louisistan was named to fill the Lyonesse East Seat until the next election
  • USSR/ Hahiha was named as the new Deputy Minister of Immigration
  • Flemingisa and The Jensmonian Empire were hired as Recruitment Officers.

Lower Columbia was chosen Rookie of the Quarter, in recognition of an exceptional new nation who joined the forum during October to December of 2014. http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29392/rookie-quarter-15-lower-columbi

LC was also the first recipient of a new Taco Island Charities program, Rookie of the Quarter Prize. http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29393/tic-presents-rookie-quarter-prizes

Diplomatic relations were established with Australia

The Third Annual Paffnia Prize, which is voted to the nation that comes up with the best new idea, was awarded to Grub for having added numerous technical forum improvements ranging from adding forum dice to profile drop-down boxes and user-tagging buttons. Grub’s award came by a single vote over Cerb’s work on the Accelerator 2.0 recruiting program and was voted tops among 39 outstanding nominees. http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29310/third-annual-paffnia-prize-winner

The fifth House Cup and Shield recruiting contest was again dominated by the House of Wordy which won the Cup, Shield, and through the individual efforts of Escanaba, and the Sceptre. http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29175/house-cup-shield-january-2015

TITO News

The Command of TITO stands as such:

Grub (Founder/Commander-in-Chief)
Improving Wordiness (Field Commander)
Ater Nox (Tactical Officer)
Louisistan (Tactical Officer)
Elite (Tactical Officer)
Woonsocket (Tactical Officer TITO EF)
Malecia (Executive Officer)

13 Court Guard Squads has reached the 50 Battle Star milestone and thus the right to claim the title of TITO Knight.

Woonsocket was named TO in charge of the TITO Expeditionary Force (EF). Louisistan was named as a Tactical Officer Trainee who will eventually be in charge of the minor update. Control has stepped away from TITO command but will remain active as a Knight of TITO. Thanks Control for your hard work as a TO!

Around the Islands

Ater Nox is hosting the 41st edition of Werewolves. http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29312/ww41-pawhuggers

I forgot to post last month’s, that one’s above. Here’s this month’s update


10000 Islands Monthly Emissary Update
Date: February, 2015
Population: 10000 Islands is home to 1,142 Souls
Delegate Endorsements: 316
Forum: 10000islands.proboards.com

The following is the Emissary Report for February, 2015.

Forum Design Competition

The search for a new Forum design is coming to an end!
The Council of Nine has selected two finalists! These are:

Midnight at Sea by Ater Nox
Nuevo Tropico by The Candy Lane
Voting will be begin on 3/10 and will last one week. The themes are currently being tried out on our forum, for more information please see this link:

Political Events:

The current Council of Nine (the government of 10000 Islands) is composed of:

Grub (Founder)
Markanite (WA Delegate)
Randomain (Minister of Education)
The Candy Lane (Minister of Immigration)
Paffnia (Minister of Labor)
Barry (Senior Senator, Himes West)
Malecia (Senator, BCN)
Louisistan (Senator, Lyonesse East)
Lower Coluimbia (Senator, New Republica South)

The 10000 Islands recruiting tool has been upgraded thanks to Cerb. The Accelerator 2.0 was officially launched in December. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29092/flag-accelerator-2-officially-launched

A Viking Funeral was held in remembrance of Improving Wordiness. Wordy was a long time Field Commander (over 5 years) and led TITO with unmatched motivation and success. The Co9 and all of TITO wish Wordy the very best in the future.

MinnaCaroline also left the Islands. Minna was a leader of The Islands Party and served in TITO EF. Best of luck to Minna.

Jensmonia was named as Deputy Senator for Blue Canaria North and will thus be in charge of the Featured Nation Program.

Diplomatic relations were established with Middle Earth. Link: NationStates | Middle Earth

A new forum plugin to make it easier to change between themes has been added and can be accessed in the bottom right corner of the screen. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29044/flag-upgrade-easy-theme-changer

Witchcraft and Sorcery was named as the new Foreign Affairs Secretary. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29034/witchcraft-sorcery-foreign-affairs-secretary

IMM shares have been restarted with RRC Ayunli running store. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29045/announcement-re-launch-imm-stock

The old share market plugin has been removed due to a glitch. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29097/stock-market-closed

Cazalius Lodra has been name RRC Deputy. Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29651/new-rr-deputy?page=1&scrollTo=1171594

The Nations of 10000 Islands visited Canada, where we were welcomed with open arms. Viva 10000 Islands, Viva Canada! Link: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29395/10000-islands-visit-canada

Klopstock has won the Poet Laureate contest, congratulations Klopstock! http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29550/poet-laureate-winner-klopstock

10000 Islands celebrated Delegate’s Day: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29510/happy-delegates-day

TITO News

The Command of TITO stands as such:

Grub (Founder/Commander-in-Chief)
Ater Nox (Tactical Officer)
Elite (Tactical Officer)
Louisistan (Tactical Officer)
Klopstock (Tactical Officer)
Woonsocket (Tactical Officer EF)
Malecia (Executive Officer)

13 Court Guard Squads has been Knighted.
Escanaba has been decorated with the Soldier Medal, for his dedication to TITO.

Around the Islands

Betting galore has occurred in the XKI Casino: http://10000islands.proboards.com/board/7/xki-casino

10000 Islands saw its first War of the Houses, this amazing and engaging event saw Houses fight it out to be win: http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29457/war-houses-colour

The Roleplaying section of the forum has a new map. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29112/official-rp-world-map

Sign ups for the second XKI Grand Prix opened. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29083/xkigp2-entries-open


10000 Islands Monthly Emissary Update
Date: April, 2015
Population: 10000 Islands is home to 1,580 Nations
Delegate Endorsements: 309
Forum: 10000islands.proboards.com

The following is the Emissary Report for April, 2015.

Political Events:

The current Council of Nine (the government of 10000 Islands) is composed of:

Grub (Founder)
Aersoldorf (WA Delegate)
Randomain (Minister of Education)
The Candy Lane (Minister of Immigration)
Paffnia (Minister of Labor)
Barry (Senior Senator, Himes West)
Malecia (Senator, BCN)
The Jensmonian Empire (Temporary Senator, BCN)
Louisistan (Senator, Lyonesse East)
Lower Columbia (Senator, New Republica South)

Elections were held for delegate, Senator of Lyonesse East, and Senator for Himes West. Aersoldorf was elected delegate, while Louisistan and Barry retained their positions as senators for Lyonesse East and Himes West respectively. Links: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29691/who-delegate-3-15, 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29693/who-senator-lyonesse-east-15, and 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29692/who-senator-himes-west-15

Ater Nox’s “Midnight at Sea” was voted in to be the new default forum theme. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29695/which-theme-use-forum-15

The Jensmonian Empire was picked to be the new Rookie of the Quarter, while Cazalius Lodra received an honorable mention. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29857/rookie-quarter-15-jensmonian-empire

Following a leave of absence from the Senator of BCN, Malecia, Deputy Senator The Jensmonian Empire is filling in for the duration. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29842/jensmonian-empire-named-replacement-senator

Diplomatic relations were established with The Coalition of Democratic Nations. Link: www.nationstates.net/region=the_coalition_of_democratic_nations

TITO News

The Command of TITO stands as such:

Grub (Founder/Commander-in-Chief)
Elite (Tactical Officer)
Klopstock (Tactical Officer)
Louisistan (Tactical Officer)
Woonsocket (Tactical Officer EF)
Malecia (Executive Officer)
Markanite (Temporary Executive Officer)

Barry and NeoYundar have been Knighted.
Escanaba has been decorated with the Soldier Medal, for his dedication to TITO.

Ater Nox has stepped down from the position of Tactical Officer. We thank him for his service to TITO. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29729/ater-nox-steps

Markanite was appointed Temporary Executive Officer during the leave of absence of Malecia. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29796/markanite-named-temporary-xo

Around the Islands

The Republic of Gyllia was selected to be the Featured Nation. Congratulations Gyllia. Links: www.nationstates.net/nation=gyllia and www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=379603

Louisistan opened sign-ups for the 3rd Prolific Posting (Spamming) Contest among the Houses of XKI. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29799/prolific-posting-return-spam-signups

The Candy Lane announced sign-ups for a tag-team recruitment tournament, “Tag Team Battles”. Link: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/29815/tag-team-battles.

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Education

I accidentally posted the wrong one, please ignore the above one.


10000 Islands Monthly Emissary Update
Date: January 2016
Population: 1,876
Delegate Endorsements: 631
Forum: http://10000islands.proboards.com

This is the Emissary Report for January 2016:

Politics

  • Grub: Founder and Chief Executive
  • Paffnia: Delegate
  • The Candy Lane: Minister of Immigration
  • Markanite: Minister of Education
  • Cerb: Minister of Labor
  • Jintopia: Senior Senator for Lyonnesse East
  • Witchcraft and Sorcery: Senator for Himes West
  • Control: Senator for Blue Canaria North
  • Dominion of Compassion: Senator for New Republica South

Politics News

  • Lower Columbia and USSR/Hahiha declined to run for reelection. Thank you for your service as Senators!

  • Control (37 votes) ran unopposed for the office of Blue Canaria North and won 37-1. (http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/31662/who-senator-blue-canaria-north)

  • Dominion of Compassion (26 votes) and Flemingisa (11 votes) ran for office of New Republica South. Dominion of Compassion won with a 15 vote lead. (http://10000islands.proboards.com/thread/30870/who-senator-himes-west-15)

  • With the election of Senators Dominion of Compassion and Control, the Mayor Shelter Political Party had a majority of five votes on the Council of Nine for roughly 20 hours until Randomain stepped down as Minister of Education. Thank you for your service!

  • NS229-1, “Homesteading,” passed 9 for and 0 against. Helps new nations participate in the economy as soon as they join, instead of waiting for stocks to mature.

  • NS230-1, “Mandatory Delegate Voting Rules,” failed 1 for and 8 against. Would have formalized the forum poll to decide Delegate WA votes.

  • A priest went into a Taco Island barbershop, got his hair cut and asked how much he owed. “No charge, Father,” the barber said. “I consider it a service to the Lord.” when the barber arrived at his shop the next morning, he found a dozen small prayer booklets on the stoop along with a thank you note from the priest. A few days later a police officer came in. “How much do I owe you?” the cop asked after his haircut. “No charge, officer,” the barber answered. “I consider it a service to my community.” The next morning the barber found a dozen doughnuts on the stoop along with a thank you note from the police officer. A few days after that, a Senator walked in for a haircut. “How much do I owe you?” he asked afterward. “No charge,” the barber replied. “I consider it a service to my region.” The next morning when he arrived at the shop, the barber found a dozen Senators waiting on the stoop. *

Military

  • Grub: Founder and Commander-in-Chief
  • Klopstock: Field Commander
  • Elite: Tactical Officer
  • Hame: Tactical Officer
  • Woonsocket: Tactical Officer EF
  • Barry: Executive Officer
  • Louisistan: Executive Officer

TITO News

  • 13 Court Gaurd Squads stepped down from being an Executive Officer. Thanks for your service, 13CGS!

  • Barry was appointed as a new Executive Officer.

  • Barry earned his 100th Battle Star and was named TITO Knight Commander.

  • Klopstock reached 20 invasions spotted and received the Second New Boniventure Eagle Award. Control and 13 Court Gaurd Squads earned their 100th Battle Star and were named TITO Knight Commanders.

  • Kanaia earned his 200th Battle Star and was named TITO Knight Master Commander.

  • A number of TITO members received medals during TITO Medal Day 2015. Escanaba earned a well-deserved Meritorious Service Medal for exemplary conduct and leadership as a member of TITO. Elite, Klopstock, Louisistan, Dominion of Compassion, and Lower Columbia received the Quick Reaction Force pin for consistently attending updates. All current TITO members were awarded the TITO Steadfast Badge for displaying TITO’s core qualities of Loyalty, Honesty, Friendship and Steadfast Commitment.

  • The sergeant-major growled at the young soldier, “I didn’t see you at camouflage training this morning.” “Thank you very much, sir.” *

Immigration

Population Rank: 11th
Total Telegrams Sent: 12687
Total Points: 31642
Total Recruited Nations: 404
Average Success Rate: 3.71%


Education

University Classes Offered

  • Conversational German
    (1 course offered)
  • A linguistics professor said, “A double negative forms a positive.
    In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative.”
    A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah, right.” *

Around the Islands

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10000 Islands Monthly Emissary Update
Date: February 2016
Population: 1,730
Delegate Endorsements: 618
Forum: http://10000islands.proboards.com

This is the Emissary Report for February 2016:

Politics

  • Grub: Founder and Chief Executive
  • Paffnia: Delegate
  • The Candy Lane: Minister of Immigration
  • Markanite: Minister of Education
  • Cerberion: Minister of Labor
  • Jintopia: Senior Senator for Lyonnesse East
  • Witchcraft and Sorcery: Senator for Himes West
  • Controlitia: Senator for Blue Canaria North
  • Dominion of Compassion: Senator for New Republica South

Politics News

  • Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the Mayoral Mansion. One is from Controlitia, another is from Markanite, and the third is from Barrarabia. All three go with a Taco Island official to examine the fence. The Controlitian contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil. “Well,” he says, “I figure the job will run about $900. $400 for materials, $400 for my crew, and $100 profit for me.” The Markanite contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, “I can do this job for $700. $300 for materials, $300 for my crew, and $100 profit for me.” The Barrarabian contractor doesn’t measure or figure, but leans over to the official and whispers, “$2,700.” The official, incredulous, says, “You didn’t even measure like the other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?” The Barrarabian contractor whispers back, “$1000 for me, $1000 for you, and we hire the guy from Markanite to fix the fence.” *

Military

  • Grub: Founder and Commander-in-Chief
  • Klopstock: Field Commander
  • Elite: Tactical Officer
  • Kanta Hame: Tactical Officer
  • Controlitia: Tactical Officer
  • Witchcraft and Sorcery: Tactical Officer
  • Woonsocket: Tactical Officer EF
  • Barrarabia: Executive Officer
  • Louisistan: Executive Officer

TITO News

  • Controlitia and Witchcraft and Sorcery were appointed as new Tactical Officers.

  • Lower Columbia earned his 50th Battle Star (and then some) and was Knighted.

  • Kanta Hame earned his 100th Battle Star and was named TITO Knight Commander.

  • Kanaia earned his 200th Battle Star and was named TITO Knight Master Commander.

  • Our squad leader was yelling at a soldier when he abruptly stopped and said, “I’m done yelling at you. It doesn’t work.” He stormed off and returned carrying a small potted tree. “You will carry this tree with you wherever you go. If anyone asks you why you’re carrying this tree, you will say, ‘It’s to replace the oxygen I stole from everyone else.’” *

Immigration

Population Rank: 10th
Total Telegrams Sent: 15237
Total Points: 37994
Total Recruited Nations: 502
Average Success Rate: 2.33%


Education

University Classes Offered

  • Conversational German
    (1 course offered)
  • Pupil: “I don’t think I deserved zero on this test!”
    Teacher: “I agree, but that’s the lowest mark I could give you!” *

Around the Islands

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10000 Islands Monthly Emissary Update
Date: March 2016
Population: 1,645
Delegate Endorsements: 572
Forum: http://10000islands.proboards.com

This is the Emissary Report for March 2016:

Politics

  • Grub: Founder and Chief Executive
  • Paffnia: Delegate
    – Louisistan: Delegate-Elect
  • The Candy Lane: Minister of Immigration
  • Markanite: Minister of Education
  • Cerberion: Minister of Labor
  • Controlitia: Senior Senator for Blue Canaria North
  • Dominion of Compassion: Senator for New Republica South
  • Barrarabia: Senator for Himes West
  • Ardreas: Senior Senator for Lyonnesse East

Politics News

  • Q: What’s the difference between a magician and a politician?
    A: The magician returns your watch at the end of the performance. *

Military

  • Grub: Founder and Commander-in-Chief
  • Klopstock: Field Commander
  • Kanta Hame: Tactical Officer
  • Controlitia: Tactical Officer
  • Witchcraft and Sorcery: Tactical Officer
  • Woonsocket: Tactical Officer EF
  • Barrarabia: Executive Officer

TITO News

  • Louisistan retired as Executive Officer to run for the delegacy.

  • Magthere earned his 250th Battle Star and was named TITO Knight Marshall Commander.

  • Escanaba earned his 350th Battle Star and was named TITO Knight Armada Commander.

  • Grub earned his 650th Battle Star and was named Grand Knight Fleet Commander.

  • A Sergeant was addressing a squad of 25 and said: “I have a nice easy job for the laziest man here. Put up your hand if you are the laziest.” 24 men raised their hands, and the sergeant asked the other man “why didn’t you raise your hand?” The man replied: “Too much trouble raising the hand, Sarge.” *

Education

University Classes Offered

  • Conversational German
    (1 course offered)
  • Just before the final exam in my college finance class, a less-than-stellar student approached me.
    “Can you tell me what grade I would need to get on the exam to pass the course?” he asked.
    I gave him the bad news: “The exam is worth 100 points. You would need 113 points to earn a D.”
    “OK,” he said. “And how many points would I need to get a C?” *

Around the Islands

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