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WA SC liberation guide

The Security Council (SC) serves three functions, it has the power to commend or condemn a particular nation or region, and also has the power to liberate a region. A liberation is different in the SC than the definition you may have heard, a SC liberation prevents anyone placing a password on a region. The primary benefit of this is that it does not allow raiders to completely shut down a region once they have taken control of it. Before you get involved in the WA (and, consequently, the SC), I recommend that you check the SC rules, which can be found here: viewtopic.php?f=24&t=79106

This guide will focus mainly on liberations, how to write them, and the effects associated with them.

Writing a liberation

Writing a liberation, getting it through the forums, getting it to vote, and then getting it passed, is a long and labour consuming process. Be prepared for harsh criticism in the forums, accusations that you are a raider puppet, and raider puppets submitting a “selfie” liberation without passing it through the forums, meaning yours is null and void.

Make sure your liberation contains a relevant argument as to why a particular region should be liberated, “It was raided” is not enough. Native support always helps. Start every section of if with a word like “shocked” or “dismayed”, it is a SC tradition and also adds emphasis to the sentence.

One of the most important but most often overlooked features is the operating clause. The operating clause is the clause that liberates it. It usually comes in the form of “Hereby liberates REGION”. Without the operating clause, the resolution doesn’t do anything. You can think of the operating clause as the line that carries out the action, and the rest of the resolution justifying the actions of the operating clause.

The argument must be valid, and address the problem that it is supposed to solve. Address the raiders intent in the region, the damage that they could and may cause to it, and the state of the natives in the region.

The forum stage is an important one, however, it gives an opportunity for a raider puppet to write their own “selfie” one. You will get a lot of critique about the legitimacy of the resolution, and proposed changes. You should seriously consider implementing proposed changes, especially when they are proposed by senior nations, who regularly contribute to the WA, and have vast amounts of experience. Even if the nation proposing the change is a raider, you should still consider it, as many raiders are concerned with the wellbeing of the region after they have raided it. To get your proposal into the forums, go onto the SC forum, click new topic, then, in the bar at the top, put [DRAFT] Liberate REGION. In the actual bit where you will put your text, put your proposal in a BBCode box (put

[box] then put your proposal here, and close it with [/box]
), add any more comments you want, like “Any critique would be welcome”, or something like that, and post it.

Once you your proposal has been in the forums for a long enough time, and you have made any wanted changes, you can submit your proposal. Please remember, that to submit your proposal, you must have at least two endorsements from nations of the region that you are in. Go to the SC page, scroll to the bottom, and click “Submit a proposal”. Fill out all the appropriate fields on that page, and click “submit this proposal”, and then you’re onto the next stage.

Getting your proposal to vote

This is one of the hardest, and a very controversial stage. To get your proposal to vote, your proposal has to be approved by 6% of WA delegates, which, at the time of writing, means it will need 99 approvals (this will inevitably change, so you should always check). This stage is very tough to pass, as the most effective way of getting enough delegates to approve it is to campaign with stamps, and stamps cost money. This is seen by many as putting nations that cannot get stamps at a disadvantage, which is what makes it controversial. If you have stamps, the most effective thing to do is to send a telegram to each of the WA delegates, if you don’t, there is not very much that you can do at this stage.

Once your proposal is at vote

If your proposal goes to vote, then you have, just by getting it to vote, achieved a great deal. You may consider investing more stamps in campaigning, but this is not as vital as it was in the previous stage. There may be discussion about your proposal in the forums, but, aside from campaigning, there is not much else you can do at this stage. Your proposal cannot be edited once it is at vote. Remember that delegate votes have a huge effect on the outcome of the vote, and the first day is often extremely important. A delegate’s vote is not just worth one, it is worth the amount of endorsements they have along with their vote. This means that the delegates of the big regions, including the feeder regions, other non-player created regions, big raider regions, and other regions with large amounts of nations residing in them, have a huge say in whether it passes or not. If your proposal passes, congratulations, the delegate of the region can no longer place a password on that region, and you can move on to the next stage of freeing it.

A SC liberation often has a huge moral blow on the raiders as well, which is another bonus. Once you have freed the region from raiders, you may want to consider repealing the liberation, so that the natives can place a password on it if they so desire.

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