This January election cycle, we witnessed historic and never-before-seen voter participation as four people won their respective elections. Lord Ravenclaw, Gladio, Mall, and Falapatorius declared their candidacies for Delegate; Bootsie, Siwale, and McMasterdonia declared their candidacies for Vice Delegate; Darcania and Clean Land declared their candidacies for Speaker; and HuAt and Goyanes declared their candidacies for Attorney General.
The Race for the Delegacy
Lord Ravenclaw’s campaign arrived under the ‘Still Soaring’ slogan, and campaigned on his prior record of service in the North Pacific and other regions to deliver on a comprehensive platform which emphasised a strong World Assembly performance, a strong diplomatic presence, a robust and flexible North Pacific Army alongside a vibrant internal culture and roleplay world.
Gladio’s campaign reverted to a more simple, but bold slogan, with ‘Progress and Results’. He campaigned on his strong record of service as a long-serving Minister of Defence, his impressive history of more than 200 NPA missions, his work as a contributing author to The Northern Lights, to the Diplomatic Corps, and his significant contribution to recruitment and retention efforts through his participation in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Mall, a perennial candidate for the Delegacy formulated his campaign around six core promises. These included boosting his influence with the support of major raider organisations, using legal methods to reduce the endo counts of other TNP nations, appointing former TNP rogue Delegate JAL as Minister of Defence, purging the region of dissidents, and finally that should it be apparent that he would lose the Delegacy, he would eject himself and a collection of WA nations to conquer the Fratt infested hellhole’.
Falapatorius campaigned on his more than four years of citizenship in the North Pacific, his service in the Attorney General’s office and his military experience with various external organisations. He expressed a hesitance to make any major changes and his unwillingness to overthrow the legitimate government.
Gladio won the election for Delegate with 58 votes (56.86%) to Lord Ravenclaw’s 40 votes, (39.22), Mall’s 4 votes (3.92%), and 5 abstentions.
The Race for the Vice Delegacy
One interesting thing about the Vice Delegate election was that every candidate had already served in the position at least once before. McMasterdonia was the first of the group to serve as Vice Delegate, Bootsie was the second, and Siwale was the last.
McMasterdonia’s campaign focused on his prior service and contributions to the community as Delegate, Vice Delegate, Security Councillor, and in various Cabinet roles including as Minister of Culture during Pallaith’s second term. He expressed his goals if elected Vice Delegate, the first being to expand and improve upon the efforts of the TNP for #1 endorsement competition, expanding SC engagement with the RMB through in-game activities, including SC hosted theme weeks, games and activities.
Siwale, campaigned on a highly successful term for the Security Council and for himself as the Vice Delegate. His goals included growing the high level of activity within the Security Council and the endorsement count of all WA nations, the prompt processing of citizenship applications, the pragmatic disclosure of SC discussions, and pursuing necessary legal reform as appropriate.
Bootsie campaigned on his belief in the importance of the security of the North Pacific, and his involvement in the Security Council in eliminating all threats to The North Pacific. He campaigned on his prior service to the region in various roles, and that his commitment and activity level would ensure that security checks were performed promptly, and that endorsement counts would improve across the region.
Siwale won the election for Vice Delegate with 49 votes (50.52%) to McMasterdonia’s 41 votes (42.27%), Bootsie’s 7 votes (7.22%), and 10 abstentions.
The Race for Speaker
Darcania presented his platform in splendid fashion, tracing his goals and aims through creative and beautifully crafted haiku verses. He outlined his plans to develop: a chrome extension to make Admin and Speaker checks more efficient and accurate; a cog for the Discord bot to allow members to claim nations and be automatically masked; a counting sheet for the citizens registry; and a small utility script in the Citizens registry to generate an admin request based on the sheet to move and delete rows automatically.
Clean Land, the other candidate in this race did not post a campaign and voted for Darcania in the election.
Darcania won the election for Speaker with 98 votes (98%) to Clean Land’s 2 votes (2%), and 7 abstentions.
The Race for Attorney General
Goyanes, the incumbent Attorney General campaigned on his prior service and goals to work on the ongoing R4Rs before the Court, on making TNP Law more understandable and accessible to the community, maintaining a quick and effective response to legal complaints, and continuing to provide excellent legal advice to members of the Government.
HuAt campaigned based on his prior experience in the Court as Assistant Attorney General under PaulWallLibertarian42, and his role as lead investigator in Falapatorius v. Flemingovia. HuAt promised to be fair and impartial in all legal decisions and to focus on the facts of all cases and complaints an investigation and trial ensues.
Goyannes won the election for Attorney General with 80 votes (95.24%), to HuAt’s 4 votes (4.76%), and 23 abstentions.
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Hello everyone! I’m Deropia, your newly appointed Minister of World Assembly Affairs. Here you’ll find details of everything that has happened in the World Assembly and the Ministry in the past month. I’d like to take a moment now to congratulate Kranostav on being reappointed, and Veniyerris on being appointed Deputy Ministers.
Do you want to have a greater impact on the outcome of votes in the World Assembly? If you do, that’s great because you can! In The North Pacific our Delegate casts their vote in the World Assembly based on the results of a poll we hold on our regional forum! All you need is to have your WA nation in The North Pacific and have an account on the forum, that’s it!
Would you like to help others decide how to vote on World Assembly resolutions? Then the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs wants you! The Ministry of World Assembly Affairs releases a voting recommendation for every proposal that reaches the voting floor and distributes it to every WA nation in The North Pacific. By joining the Executive Staff you can help us write our recommendations and make your opinion known to more than 1,500 nations!
I look forward to serving you all in the coming months.
Anyways, without further ado here’s what we voted on, how we voted and what the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommended
General Assembly
Improving the world, one resolution at a time.
Security Council
Spreading interregional peace and goodwill, via force if necessary.
Over the past two months, we have seen plenty of proposals, but many are still in discussion:
Passed[ol]
[li]The first to pass in December (11.12.17) was a motion to Plembobria to the Security Council motioned by McMasterdonia and seconded by other received 41 ayes, 3 nays, and 6 abstentions;
[li]Palliaith appointed Crushing Our Enemies, SillyString, Darcania , Eluvatar, Siwale, Syrixia, and Scorch as Election Commissioners in accordance with the Election Reform Bill. The vote being motioned by Mallorea and Rivaand seconded by Drasnia. All were confirmed on the 19th of December;
[li]Siwale’s Security Council Suspensions Amendment bill also passed on the 11th of January, with 42 ayes, 1 nay, and 6 abstentions.[/li][/ol]In discussion from previous months[ol]
[li]Reforming the Penal Code, proposed by Eluvatar, which entered a discussion on the 10th of September 2017;
[li]The Ombudsman Bill, proposed by Sergio86, which entered a discussion on the 5th of October 2017;
[li]Closing Legal Loopholes Properly Amendment proposed by Sill Dorsett on the 24th of December[/li][/ol]Failed[ol]
[li]In December (28.12.17) the Regional Assembly failed to pass the Closing Legal Loopholes Amendment with 0 ayes, 18 nays and 7 abstentions[/li][/ol]On hold[ol]
[li]Due to multiple request for reviews on a now outdated proposal of a Motion to Declare an Emergency Situation the counting of the bill will not happen till all request for reviews are completed.[/li][/ol][hr]
This month, the RMB RP Reel would like to take a special look at the TNP Winter Olympics, created and hosted by resident TNP RMB RPer, Toshavo; more commonly known as Global Socialist Republic (GSR). GSR used to run one of the biggest alliances within the Strangereal community. But due to real life concerns, in addition to in-character politics, had to step down, and ultimately disband the alliance. Now, he’s just another neutral country on the map, attempting to do something potentially monumental…
The 2018 North Pacific Winter Olympics is a major sporting event for all nations in the North Pacific to come together and rejoice in sports. It was an idea that Toshavo had for a long time; he thought it would be fun to do it out of character and include not just nations of the TNP RMB but nations of the entire region. Thus, he purposely planned and organized the games in the same time frame when the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics would begin.
The entire premise of the games was for nations of TNP to send their best athletes to compete in an international tournament. He envisioned it as a peaceful way to bring Strangereal together versus creating a world-spanning conflict. As of Jan. 21st, there are 28 nations competing in the Olympics. Participants include those of whom are RMB regulars, TNP government officials, and even nations from foreign regions.
This year, the Olympics will feature all of the real winter Olympic sports. From skiing to snowboarding, nations will compete in 15 sporting events, over a span of two weeks.
Toshavo’s own nation will be the stage of the Olympics. From the Opening to the Closing Ceremonies, from the snow-covered mountains to the city, the capital city of Toshavo, Franshov will host the games.
The Opening Ceremony will be held on Feb. 9th. And the Closing Ceremony will be held on Feb. 25th. We hope to have 35 nations (or more) competing. An ambitious goal was to have this become one of the biggest sporting events in TNP’s history.
Ministerial Rodent Noises
The New Year saw several records and changes for TNP and the North Pacific Army (NPA). Perhaps the greatest achievement of the NPA in the last term was the detagging of over 200 regions, a record for the NPA in a single term. During this final push into the new year, Captain Zazumo was also able to achieve his 100 mission completion ribbon. Following these accomplishments, Gladio, the six-term Minister of Defence won the election to become Delegate of the North Pacific.
Captain Malphe, a long time member of the NPA and avid rodent was chosen for the honour of succeeding Gladio as Minister of Defence. Malphe accepted this enormous responsibility and assumed the duties of the Minister of Defence and General of the North Pacific Army. General Malphe is a veteran of over 50 campaigns, stretching from the raid upon The Holy Historian Confederation to the most recent defence of the region of Christmas. The opening address of the New Minister of Defense is available here.
The first major mission for the NPA of the new year is the Defense of The North Pacific while in a state of Delegacy transition. During this time the NPA is recalled to TNP in order to add endorsements to the delegate elect.
In order to keep their skills sharp the NPA has taken part in detagging operations during the transition with the permission of the new delegate. As a capstone for the month, the NPA conducted a tag-raid of Warzone Australia. A summary of NPA operations for the month of January and the soldiers involved is available below:
DateUpdateTypeRegion(s)Participating Soldiers20/01/2018MajorDetagBuckeye Boyzzz
The Protectorate and The Starry SkiesQuietdad
BMWSurfer
BluieGamer
Zazumo20/01/2018MinorDetagThe New World of Name
left 4 dead 3
IDIOTS
New Pakistani Empire
team mediocrity
The CeruleoAguarian Commonwealth
Unitys AllianceMalphe
Lozinak
Zazumo
21/01/2018MinorRaidWarzone Africa
Malphe
Lozinak
Zazumo
Quietdad
Lotion
BluieGamer
Scottie
30/01/2018MajorDetagVenetian Trade Routes
Alliance of Northern Somewhere
International Roleplay Region
Club of Philledelphia Eagles
Gentibus Unitatis
Kiklandia
Nationstates Sesquipedalian Countries
Alliance of Nuclear Police States
Nationstates Vexillogical Society
Final Fantasy
Troperia
Batasun Union
Union of Autistic States
War Filled Islands
The Isles of El Nar
The Lumpy Sith Lords
Melivorica
DemocratiumLozinak
QuietDad
Darcania
Zazumo
Bluiegamer
BMWSurfer
Deropia
Hardonius
New Atos
Thank you to all members of the North Pacific Army involved in the above operations. Hail The North Pacific! Hail the NPA!
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The Northern Lights:Beauty in Truth
With Contributions From McMasterdonia, Darcania, Sundred, Gladio II, Malphe, and Siwale.
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