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#roavin4del
Fellow South Pacificans,
Hi! It's your local friendly longest-serving former Prime Minister, military guru, and a bunch of other things running for Delegate! I won’t shower you too much with fluff and grandeur, because I have some exciting ideas to bring to the table, so let’s dive right into it:
Introduced by Delegate Kringalia several years ago, this consisted of a weekly retheming of the region for a day to make it look like a fake coup. It’s great fun, and I have some nice ideas for themes. Full Disclosure, they might not always be Tuesdays if RL interferes, but once a week for sure!
The first day of NationStates is, unfortunately, always a bit overwhelming, particularly with the brutal flood of recruitment telegrams and whatnot. I have a tool that can give me a list of nations in the South Pacific that have logged in on their second day in the game. Reaching out to those that survived the initial onslaught to get involved in whatever facet of the community that fits them best is a great way to boost involvement and activity across the board.
Our long-standing tradition has been that, with the exception of foreign policy relevant Security Council resolutions that the Cabinet cares about, the Delegate votes with the region in the World Assembly. I don’t want to change that much, but I do want to talk to all of you about what’s going on in the World Assembly, ideally on our Regional Message Board but possibly also on the forum and on Discord. I want to have a dialogue with all of you about the resolution and then casting my vote based on that dialogue.
There have been discussions on and off for years about some sort of regional awards system, usually based on legislation, but the bully pulpit of the Delegate (particularly given the Delegate’s ceremonial role as head of state in our region) is the perfect place to get that started. I want to get together an odd-numbered group of people from various facets of our region to find viable and deserving individuals to get some recognition for their hard work in service of the South Pacific.
Our RMB has gotten so much better recently (thanks, in part, to the efforts by my esteemed opponent Aumeltopia), but there are still things we can improve even further. A new nation’s first contact with the community is usually the regional message board, and NationStates (with its various emergent styles of play) is a tough game to get into initially, so it’s important to have that place available. New nations should not feel like they are intruding, or being ignored, or drowned out, when they ask new questions on our RMB. At the same time, we do have a distinct RMB culture that we don’t want to kick to the side either. It’s a delicate balancing act, and I argue that my experience as admin and moderator in multiple regions (and also beyond the confines of NationStates) means I will be able to effectively coordinate with the Local Council to improve our RMB even further.
"But Roavin, isn’t that what a couper would say?"
The Delegate holds the key to the region, and I think it’s fair to say I’ve proven my undying dedication to the Coalition and its values. Besides, I’ve had SPIT IRL (picture proof can be found on Discord, pinned in #lampshade-bar), and I’ve posted videos of me playing a guitar while wearing a lampshade. How South Pacifican is that?!
The Delegate holds the key to the region, and I think it’s fair to say I’ve proven my undying dedication to the Coalition and its values. Besides, I’ve had SPIT IRL (picture proof can be found on Discord, pinned in #lampshade-bar), and I’ve posted videos of me playing a guitar while wearing a lampshade. How South Pacifican is that?!
Even though I had been using my World Assembly membership for military purposes for most of the past three years, I know how to swap endorsements well — just today, I was ranked #1 on TSP’s “Number of Nations Endorsing” census, and a few days ago I won the “Most endorse buttons clicked” award in SWAN Award Volume #11. That’s important to keep and increase our power in World Assembly affairs and to keep the region more secure against foreign subversives trying to overthrow us.
That was quite a bit, but I could drone on about all of these topics for hours. I’ll leave it at these summaries, and am anxiously awaiting all of your questions. I’m always reachable through telegram, RMB mention, Discord (Roavin#5410), forum message (
https://tspforums.xyz/user-635.html), etc.
Oh, and the boring part. Here's a brief summary of my tenure in TSP and my conflict of interest disclosure, so if that bores you, just skip it entirely.
I’m TSP’s longest serving prime minister at 4 terms, have also served 2 terms as Minister of Military Affairs, one (ill-fated) term as Minister of Regional Affairs, a term as Chair of Assembly, have served as interim Legislator Committee member several times, am now an off-site administrator and senior moderator, and have been involved in debate or drafting of a very significant portion of our laws at this point. Furthermore, particularly in the past two years, I’ve also been ostensibly the one worrying and looking after our security the most of all of us bar members of the CRS, and I’m a frequent contributor of the Security Council chamber of the World Assembly, and have authored and passed a Security Council resolution. I’m also an administrator on the NationStates Gameplay Discord server.
On conflicts of interest: My main region is the South Pacific, and that won’t change. I am also a citizen in Lazarus and don’t intend to enter its political government. Furthermore, I serve as Chief Justice in Mariner Trench, the companion region to the MT Army. For both, I see the potential for conflicts as extremely low and I’d sooner just resign from either of those than have an actual conflict at any point.
With love,
-- Roavin
