Hello everyone, the current Delegate, Dead, here, and I am running for re-election! Many of you probably know who I am by now, but if you do not I will explain myself a little bit. I have been in TEP for about 5 years now, joining in 2020 during the Drewvasion of NationStates. After I joined, I left for a year, before returning and joining Urth. Around this same time I became the Minister of Culture for about 5 terms I believe? During this time I helped to revitalize the Culture Ministry. After this, I focused on Urth for two years or so, and then eventually came back to the government and ran for Delegate, and now Iâm here. Now onto my campaign itself.
Achievements
First I will go over my achievements over this last term as TEPâs Delegate.
- I nominated 3 viziers and 2 arbiters who were voted into the role.
- Along with the Praesidium, Magisterium, and moderation teams, I helped to maintain regional security.
Cabinet
First I will discuss broadly about my cabinet. I intend to keep most of my ministers the same, although I do tend to open up applications for some cabinet positions (Endorsement Affairs, Culture, Recruitment, Foreign Affairs, Outreach, and News). The positions I listed here may be subject to change as I go through my campaign. I will most likely use the same format as I did last time for my applications, but I broadcast it more widely to try and get more engagement from the RMB Cafe and Urth Discord Servers.
After the application period, me and my Vice Delegate will get together to choose who gets the roles. I will do this so that I am not biased in my decisions and I have another voice of reason in who gets the position.
I will also take this opportunity to applaud all of my ministers for their service during this term as Delegate. They all did an amazing job. As for the people who left before the term was over, I understand why you left. You all did an amazing job during your time in office. I wish all of you luck in your future endeavors.
Vice Delegate
I plan on keeping the Vice Delegate position if I am reelected. I believe that they are a good voice of reason and help distribute some of the workload that comes with the Delegacy. Although I will be more willing to offload work onto them, during this last term I gave my Vice Delegate no work to do while they were in office. I will most likely split the workload half and half to make things fair, with the Delegate handling the most important positions while the Vice Delegate would handle more of the regional affairs/less important stuff. I donât want this to just be a decorative position, I would like this to have some work for it.
As last time, I will not put this position up for election because I would rather have the choice of who I get as my Vice Delegate.
Culture
For Culture, I would like to see more events. This last term there was an uptick in events taking place through the ministry, but I believe that we can do more. I understand that intraregional festivals may be on the decline, but I would like to have more festivals. They were always my favorite part of being Minister of Culture and I want the citizens of TEP to once again be able to experience these events. These events helped me network with people from other regions and have a good time without worrying about politics or anything like that. I will of course keep up the Hunger Games as that is a very fun event that we do every month, although I would want to host a Hunger Games event at least once (Altys please)
I will be opening applications for this cabinet position because although Serge was elected to it, he was not able to keep up with it. I wish him the best, but we do need someone in charge of Culture.
Recruitment
Recruitment has been doing a wonderful job this term. I have attached an image of the statistics from Recruitment for the last term. I do believe that we could do some work to recruit more people for the regional Discord server and the Executive, but there is not much you can do when you are already recruiting so many people. I would like to also recruit more people from the RMB Cafe and Urth servers, as it seems like they are not as involved in the government, but more on that later.
I will be opening applications for this ministry, but Jo will still be highly considered for the position.
Endorsement Affairs
I believe that Endorsement Affairs needs a boost of activity. There has not been much from the ministry for a while now, no fault on Ambisâ part, he has been very busy. However, I believe that this will not be as useful if I am reelected, but it would still be a useful tool to have around for any future endeavors. I did not merge this ministry with another because I believed that Ambis was competent enough to not need help with this, but I am reconsidering and may merge it with Recruitment.
I will be opening applications for this ministry. Although I love Ambis, his activity has been lacking, which I do not blame on him.
News
News has had quite an eventful term, with Rosa departing as the minister and Aivintis taking up the post. Aivintis has done quite a good job with the ministry, and I would like to applaud his work. He does everything just right, he constantly reminds people of articles and makes lists of everything that needs to be done (which Rosa did before him). He also takes the time to bring Valsora and Urth-related visuals into EPNS to further promote them. There is not much that I want to change about this ministry, though I would like a few more articles relating to Valsora and Urth.
I am still debating whether I should open applications for this position or not, Aivintis is doing great, but he already has a lot on his plate. Right now I will say that I do plan on opening applications for this ministry, but this may change in the future.
World Assembly Affairs
Similar to News, World Assembly Affairs has done a great job over the last term. Aurora has done great keeping up with all of the proposals and making sure that all of them go to vote so that the people of TEP may choose what I vote for. I do not have any suggestions on what to change for this, although I may help to set up the NS account to telegram people about the World Assembly votes like we used to do. This will only be put into place if Aurora has enough time, I would not want to overwork her.
I am not opening applications for this position because Aurora has done a great job and continues to do so.
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs has done a great job in this past term. They have remained pretty independent in their decisions, with me okaying or denying the final verdicts. This is because when I became the Delegate I was not too familiar with NS Foreign Affairs. If I get reelected I plan to be more invested and help decisions be made in Foreign Affairs. They will remain a little independent, but I would like to be more involved in this next term.
At this point, I am planning on opening applications for this ministry, but I will still be strongly considering Altys for this position as they are well-versed in the ministry and all of TEPâs foreign affairs.
Outreach
Outreach is a new ministry that I founded this term. They have not done anything yet, but I would like to get it up and working this next term. I do not blame Romanoddle or Myehn for the lack of activity in this ministry, because I understand how busy they have been. I would like to bring more attention to this ministry. Their main job will be to reach out to the RMB, RMB Cafe, and Urth to attempt to get more involvement from these parts of the TEP sphere.
I will be opening applications for this, I will still be considering Myehn for this position as they have not had a chance to prove themselves and I would like to see the work that they can do.
UTEP
UTEP has once again done a great job. They constantly push out new articles that are well-written and are a delight to read. I will not be changing anything about this ministry, they work well independently and produce amazing articles.
I will not be opening applications for this position, as Aivintis has been doing a great job and it is not important to replace him.
EPSA
EPSA has gone through plenty of leadership changes throughout this past term. However, I believe that with the current leadership, EPSA has a real chance at being revived and they have been doing plenty of operations already. I applaud all of the current leadership for working strongly together to make sure this organization runs smoothly.
I do not plan on opening applications for this organization as I would like to give the current administration more time and may open applications sometime during my term.
Valsora and Urth
Now I would like to talk about the TEP RPs. Valsora and Urth have been widely independent of the main TEP government for a while now. I would like to offer the servers to be more integrated with the main server so that we may recruit people and bring more attention to these RPs. I would also like to put more of the work from these RPs into the dispatches that we send out. Urth at least has experienced a lull and I would like to bring some quality RPers to the server. With Valsora I would also like to do the same, though it will be easier as they use the RMB.
Conclusion
I would like to thank all of you for reading through this campaign and taking the time to comment and ask me questions (if you did of course). I know whoever you pick to be the next Delegate, you will choose the correct option. I believe in TEP to always make the right decision.
Lots of Love,
American-Cascadia âIâm Deadâ
The East Pacific Delegate