Hello everyone! Many of you may know me as I’m Dead, or many may not know me at all. I have not been very active in the TEP-sphere for a long while. During this time I learned a lot about myself and I think I’m ready to give this another shot. A little background on me: I was the Minister of Culture for 4-5 terms, and currently am a moderator, a magister, and an Urth cartographer. I’ve run for delegate two to three times before, but I never felt like I was ready to take on a role of this caliber, I finally feel as if I am prepared for this position. Let me give you all a little rundown of what I intend to do.
Cabinet/Executive
Before I get started with specifics, I would like to talk about all of the cabinet members who have overseen Merlo throughout his terms. I respect everyone there and feel as if they have all done a great job, but I do feel as if it’s time for some new talent as well. This came as a little bit of a predicament to me, as I did not want to harm the people who are currently a part of Merlo’s cabinet, nor did I want to ruin the chances of people who want to become a part of my cabinet.
Eventually, I came up with a fix for the problem I had here. My fix is that I will allow all of the current cabinet members to choose if they would like to run again for the position, and if they do, I will have them tell me why they believe they should stay in the cabinet for another term. If someone does not want to do this, then I will put the role up for any citizen who would like to run for the role.
For this election of sorts, I will have a list of questions given to everyone who wants to run for a position. Then, I will have them private message me their answers to these questions. I would also question these people further if I believe that I need more information on them or what they would like to do while in the cabinet. After the running period is over, I will look over all of the applications and deem who I seem fit for the role.
Before I wrap up this section I would like to discuss one specific cabinet role that I will not follow this procedure on:
Vice-Delegate
For the vice delegate role, I would like to choose a fresh face, but I will still allow the previous vice-delegate to run for the position if they would like. This application process will run similarly to the last, but I will only open up the role to people who have experience in leadership and management in TEP. I would also go more in-depth with my questions to make sure that whoever runs is well-equipped for this position. Similarly to the other cabinet roles, once the application time is over, I will look over all of the applications I have been given, and choose the person I deem the best choice.
These elections will not last for long, as I would like to get my term started as soon as possible. I will most likely only accept applications for a few days before further questioning and review. Once that is finished, I can start my delegation.
Culture
I would like to discuss Culture quite a bit here, as I do feel as if it’s been very quiet as of late, the only exception being the Hunger Games events and regional polls. Culture needs to get a rough push in the right direction. I’m not going to try and take over Culture or anything of that sort, I would just like to be able to help them out before they can get on their feet and walk on their own.
I plan on doing this by encouraging Culture to do a lot more events. Right now we are only doing events every few weeks to a month, I would like to up that to more than one event per week. Many events can take place that will not get old from week to week, such as movie nights, gaming nights, and just general chatting. I will leave it up to the discretion of the Minister for what events they do, but I would like to institute a quota.
This quota would be around one event a week, just so I can make sure that everything is working okay, and I’m not spreading them thin. If this does not work I can change it to one event every two weeks. I will make sure that the quota that I institute is something that the Ministry can handle, I will not try to push unrealistic expectations on them. I hope that this technique can make it so we have more events more often, as they help to raise community involvement and are a fun time for everyone!
Recruitment
Right now, I do not believe that recruitment is working at full capacity, especially when it comes to executive recruitment. And now I know how it feels to try and recruit new people to the executive, as I had to do it for Culture. Even though it is a hard endeavor, I would like to get as many people into the executive as we can, because right now I believe we are understaffed, and to run at full capacity we need a bigger force.
The first executive branch we need to recruit for is recruitment itself. Without enough recruitment personnel, we will not be able to send out enough recruitment telegrams. After this, the Ministry can focus on whatever they deem fit, but I will always be there to help out if it is needed, especially in the early stages before we get more recruits.
Endorsement Affairs
I honestly do not believe that we should have a separate Ministry just for endorsements and WA recruitment. I believe that we can just have a sub-section of Recruitment that’s dedicated to what the Endorsement Affairs Ministry covers right now. I do still plan to have a leader of this sub-section, but their direct boss would be the Minister of Recruitment.
News
I cannot deny this, our news service has been doing such amazing work. They have always done great work, but I believe what they have been doing recently has been spectacular. I don’t believe that much if anything, needs to be done to change what the News Ministry is doing and how they are doing it. Great job everyone!
World Affairs
I believe that our current WA Commissioner has been doing a great job at keeping everyone in the know about what is going on in the WA. I also believe that the way we are doing votes right now is pretty good, I do not think that there is much that we need to change. One thing that we could do better is pay more attention to how we have a WA chat and that they should get the role if they want to be able to help decide the vote. I also believe that we should promote more discussions within the threads for each proposal.
Foreign Affairs
The time where I stepped back from the executive, there was one thing on my mind, “Where are all the inter-regional events?”. Back when I was a fresh nation in TEP, my favorite thing was always the inter-regional events. Even as a Culture Minister, I loved to help plan, run, and participate in these events. It now saddens me to see that there are just not as many as there used to be.
Because of this, I would like the Foreign Affairs Ministry to start working with the Culture Ministry and begin inviting our closest friends and allies to participate in more events. I believe that these types of events help us branch out to different regions and get across that we’re all just looking to have a fun time. It could also potentially help us gain good relations with nations we may not be on the good side.
Other than this, I do not know much about what is happening in the Foreign Affairs Ministry, I can’t even seem to find anything about it in the main Discord server. This is an issue for me, but can also be an issue for new people who want to learn about the Ministry. Alongside this, I believe that in conjunction with the News Ministry, the Foreign Affairs Ministry should put out more articles and dispatches about what is currently happening with TEP’s current affairs. These should also be widely broadcast on the website and the Discord servers. I, and probably many others would like to learn about foreign affairs, and this could give people good backing to learn about this Ministry.
And I know, I do not know a lot about what the Ministry has been up to, which is why I will require all the help I can need from the Foreign Affairs Minister. I am not afraid to ask for help, as I am not perfect, and no one is, we are all human. So, because of this, I will be getting all the help I can from the FA Minister and other members of the Cabinet.
UTEP
It’s been quite sad to see UTEP falling towards the wayside in the eyes of the TEP people. I would like to help revitalize UTEP and get more articles and papers published. UTEP is such a unique organization within TEP, and I want to keep it around for future TEPers to see. I will work closely with the UTEP Chancellor to help them with whatever they need to make sure that UTEP thrives again, the way it should be. I would also love to participate in UTEP writings and discussions, it’s such an amazing thing that we have going for us.
EPSA
Again, I was only a part of EPSA for a short while and have not been involved in it much really recently either, so because of that I do not know much about how it works and everything surrounding it right now.
Because of this, as I said for Foreign Affairs, I will be getting all the help I need from my cabinet members who are involved in EPSA and the Admiral of the EPSA. Once I learn all I need to about EPSA, I will be able to do what I think would be the best option.
Conclusion
Before I finish off, I would like to say one thing. I do not reject feedback of any kind nor do I reject any criticism. I welcome all feedback and criticism with open arms. If you do not like what I am doing, tell me, and I will do whatever I can to fix it. My DMs are always open and will always be open during my delegation.
I know you all will pick the correct choice for delegate, and even if you do not choose me, I will respect your decision no matter what. Thank you all for reading this here today, and I hope you will consider me as your vote.
Thank you,
Dead