Embassy - Liberty Alliance

[Flowering Staplers]

Afternoon Liberty Alliance,

Our region is cracking: we have positions unfilled in the Executive Council, low forum activity and the ministries with massive gaps which could easily be filled.

The post of Foreign Affairs Minister is so very rewarding, even more so if we had the ambassadors to fill the embassies, however we have 4 ambassadors and I’m taking the 6 other regions, that are available. It is not right that we should have one member looking after 8 regions, we should have an even spread of ambassadors, who each take one, or two, regions. Our Foreign Affairs Ministry used to pride itself in its personnal approach to foreign affairs, now as we hit a period where members only post in The Bar, or the games we need those members to think if they can add some more into Liberty Alliance.

Recruitment has obviously been put on hold recently and I think that we need to see, once recruitment is back on the go, members signing up and just sending a few telegrams a week, that’s all it takes.

Our Defence forces are appalling. This is not an attack on Dartheon, far from it in fact. We have an active Defence Minister, and our new general, Nurm, is active too. But if your actually part of the defence force, you need to take part in missions, if your not then you need to seriously consider it. Having a WA nation in Liberty Alliance ensures our security at home but it can also help our allies, and the FRA.

Nurm can not single-handedly run the Internal Affairs Ministry. We need members to offer their services, even if it’s just to do the lottery once a week (which Nurm won the huge jackpot), or to help Zgraja (who is currently fairly inactive due to RL circumstances) do the paper. It has become apparent that my team are once again losing in the LARSC championship, and our Immigration Minister is doing very well.

There are so many ways that you can contribute to your region, I know that many of you have ‘puppet nations’ in other regions but you need to think that if you want the forum and the wonderful community we have here to survive then you might have to split your time differently.

Finally I apologise for our recent lack of output of our Foreign Affairs Ministry, we are currently attempting to sort out a few glitches.

If you have any question then you can always PM me, or send me a telegram!

Thank you

Flowering Staplers
Prime Minister

[Flowering Staplers]

Hello,

Liberty Alliance has now refounded! *cue party poppers etc.*

This now means that you can now move back to your home, Liberty Alliance, and join the party on the RMB. At the moment we are announcing what place we have moved back in. I hold 2nd place. Fin just about beat me!

This now means that all recruiters can now (officially) begin recruiting. Including the Executive Council *looks sternly at EC members*.

A huge thank you to Finavarra, who without him, I might have had to be founder D:

Party time I think, and so we are inviting all of our allies to the HUGE Liberty Alliance refounding party It’s between the 23rd and 30th December, to celebrate new beginnings and our new found safety, mainly on the RMB, but you can join the forum’s fun too.

Flowering Staplers
Prime Minister of (the beautiful) Liberty Alliance

[Ananke II]

(belated) Congrats on the refounding. Great work by you all. Refounding is definitely a big undertaking, so I'm glad you guys succeeded.

[Flowering Staplers]

Hello!

It seems like long time no speak in our embassies, otherwise I kindly comment and spam where I can I’ve just given a very general update this time, due to the new Foreign Affairs Minister still settling in. I’m sure that more regular updates will be coming soon.


Elections[/b][/size]

It has been election time in Liberty Alliance, and I have graciously stepped down from being Prime Minister. There were many seats with multiple members hoping to have a certain position. This post just gives some information about our new cabinet and quick word from the founder and the new Prime Minister.

The election results are:

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL:

Prime Minister: Viento Bonita
President: Flowering Staplers
Attorney-General: Fahadia
Defence & Intelligence Minister: Dartheon
Internal Affairs Minister: Dwergland
Immigration Minister: Nurm
Foreign Affairs Minister: Vilkatlakas
Treasurer: Kravka

NON EXECUTIVE COUNCIL:[/u]

Dean of the University: Viento Bonita
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly: Vacant

A real mix of old and new members this time round and this can only be a good thing.

Viento Bonita, Prime Minister, had a few words to say:

We, the new Liberty Alliance Team, want to thank our allies for your support and ensure you that we're back at 100% and looking foward to work with you all again.
Personally, I like this team. I know our opinions are very different but yet we'll solve them as we've done many times.
I'm glad to see the Liberty Alliance "regulars" (almost everyone), some ex-members of the Federal Alliance of Nations (a region that last year merged with the LA, Dwergland and myself) and a new LA member (Kravka).
We're very excited about this new beginning, but more about the tomorrow, about what is yet to come.

I'll be brief so I can go back to work now. See you around!
Yours,
The Holy Republic of Viento Bonita, Prime Minister of the Liberty Alliance

With Finavarra, the founder, adding:

This new government carries a large weight on its shoulders. Every member has a responsibility to grow and develop our region. There have been many times when the region has needed a strong government for leadership and dedication, this is indeed one of those times. I have seen many of these governments come and go, I have seen them all leave their mark on the region. I am certain this government and all its members will leave a new and positive mark on our region. Congratulations to all those elected.

Finavarra
Founder of Liberty Alliance

Hopefully the new cabinet shall be successful, and we shall see Liberty Alliance grow.

We had a very fast change over of delegates (about a day) which has meant that some of the work that a delegate can do has been put into place.[/size]


Other News

Our Role-Play section of the forum has really exploded with activity over the past few weeks with our current favourite being a race to the moon, due to the original landing being a “fake”. It includes many characters from our previous “Regional Crisis” RP and will hopefully be just as successful.

The Bar was taken over by a large number of LA members dressed up for the “Tarts and Vicars” party, with Shelter From The Storm (10000 Islands) helping to set up activities to anyone passing through the Bar. Recently we have had a sculpture made of Nurm, and an attempt at one of myself.

The constitution is being updated, and we may possibly have a tennis tournament later in the year, details to follow soon. On top of this the new Dean is making big changes to the university, which have been needed for quite some time.

Hope you enjoyed the update!

Flowering Staplers
President of Liberty Alliance




P.S Thank you Ananke, I have only just seen this.

[Flowering Staplers]

This is a notice to tell you that you should be getting a new ambassador soon, as I am retiring from nationstates for the foreseeable future. I have had an awesome time, but A levels are more important, I need to get into university.

Thank you for allowing me to spam in your forum and just making me smile. You are an awesome region and I hope that Liberty Alliance has long and prosperous ties with you. I have been honoured to have been an ambassador and I hope to see you soon.

Flowering Staplers.

[Ananke II]

Aww, we'll miss you, FS. Good luck with the A levels though.

[Flowering Staplers]

Thank you

[Flowering Staplers]

Liberty Alliance's Foreign Update.

Hello,

It's been a long time since Liberty Alliance gave anything out to our embassies, so before they gather dust we'd best make use of them.

Returning Members

In the past few weeks we have had various members return to our region. Balthamos (our previous founder) has returned with no word on his intentions, but we were pleased to see him return. Lincoln Road as well as Sanzar, both very important members within Liberty Alliance's history and we are pleased to see them return. Finally, Finavarra and Flowering Staplers are both back from leave for exams.

Elections

With the recent slump in activity we have, more recently, been focusing on filling our Executive Council. With 5 out of the 8 seats currently vacant, there is lots of choice for members. Nominations and voting is currently occurring in the post of: Foreign Affairs Minister, Immigration Minister and Speaker, with the posts of President and Treasurer remaining vacant.

Recruitment

Recruitment has been slow due to our slump in activity; however since Finavarra's return he has sent telegrams to about 200 nations whilst recruiting several new members. The remainder of the recruiters have yet to get to work however with his impending victory as Immigration Minister activity should increase.

Other News

Suggestions have been made for the return of the Lottery; however we really need a treasurer to ensure that people have an income in order to play.
Since our last update we have said goodbye to Nurm, who was a wonderful and active member (and an awesome recruiter) and she is very much missed.

Finally I would like to say thank you to Fin-Fin for giving me information for this update and to the members of Liberty Alliance for making the news possible.

Thank you for reading.

Flowering Staplers
Acting WA-delegate & Ambassador.

[Guy]

Great seeing you around again, FS

[Flowering Staplers]

It's great to be able to be around

[Flowering Staplers]

Liberty Alliance Foreign Affairs Update[/u][/size]

Current Cabinet
Prime Minister: Viento Bonita
President & WA Delegate: Flowering Staplers (Acting)
Attorney-General: Vacant
Defence & Intelligence Minister: Dartheon
Internal Affairs Minister: Vacant
Immigration Minister: Finavarra
Foreign Affairs Minister: Flowering Staplers
Treasurer: Vacant


Did you just say FRA?[/u]

Yes, actually, I believe I did. Recently Liberty Alliance has been working their way through the process of deciding whether to join the FRA. We used to be part of the organisation however, due to lack of interest, we decided that we could not go on. It has been a lively debate, and one with many questions involved. Hopefully this debate will have left the people of Liberty Alliance feeling more informed about the FRA and the important part it plays in nationstates whatever our decision.


In Other News...[/u]

Fin-Fin and FS visited Caprecia and brought back some birthday cake before it was destroyed by the hungry Caprecians for their 3rd Birthday Celebrations! FS had much fun in the party as there were few women (and, so, less competition) and got to see the variety of ways that the Caprecians use to "charm" a woman.
The residents of Liberty Alliance have been exchanging some jokes, as part of the regional question. A wide range of jokes have been exchanged, and the conclusion is that we have some awesome jokes
The LADI has received many new members recently and so it is hoped that we shall be back up and running soon!

On a final, and slightly sad note...

The Death of an icon.[/u]
By Finavarra

Finnish Pride

Well it is always terrible to see these things happen! But it is a fact of life. Time moves on and so do people. All we are left with is their memory.
Such is the case of our former leader Finnish Pride (FP). Although he has not been involved in Liberty Alliance for a very long time now and indeed many members may not even remember him there was still a sense of sadness when his nation ceased to exist a number of days ago.

Of course FP's legacy still remains in Liberty Alliance even if his nation does not. The work he did as Prime Minister, President and countless other positions throughout his time in Liberty Alliance still benefits the region to this day. I think it as Prime Minister that FP did the greatest work.

Under FP many members were brought into Liberty Alliance life such as Finavarra, Sanzar and other notable members. Under FP the population of the region expanded greatly and the benefits could be seen in a very active region.

FP also held the position of President some time ago. In a rather famous event he bet Finavarra from re-election to the position by one vote, winning 14 to 13.

FP will of course be remembered for the Finnish Pride Doctrine which defined the status of the Liberty Alliance Military. It embraced the idea of neutrality however encouraged defender leanings. The Finnish Pride Doctrine is still applied today however one has to wonder is the CTE of Finnish Pride a significant symbol which captures the fact that Liberty Alliance has become very much less neutral than it once was.

In September 2009 FP was selected to join the Liberty Alliance Hall of Fame. One of only two members. This truly captures his importance and significance in Liberty Alliance History.

Finavarra had this to say at when FP was inducted into the Hall of Fame

I personally remember him as a person who would not only offer his opinion, but listen and welcome to yours. I was lucky enough to have developed a great bond with Finnish Pride and I have been part of Governments both where I served under him as Prime Minister, or vice versa. In both cases he always valued new ideas and always tried to create a sense of equality between all members.

I think I will always remember him as a Knight of Equality. He is certainly worthy to be a member of The Hall of Fame.



Written by Flowering Staplers (FS) and Finavarra (Fin-Fin).

[Flowering Staplers]

You are hearby invited to The Finavarran Tea Party, to be held from the 26th to the 29th August 2010 on the Liberty Alliance Forum (libertyalliance.clicdev.com).

If you have not registered on the forum before could you do so before the 26th, we validate people by hand and so it would be much easier if people registered early. It's going to be a complete surprise to Finavarra who is coming, he is leaving Nationstates actually forever and ever. He's handing his nation over to me and deleting everything on the internet - so you can't even facebook him! He said he might keep his email though...

Anyway it would be lovely if as many people as possible could come

Flowering Staplers
WA-delegate and Foreign Affairs Minister of Liberty Alliance.

[Flowering Staplers]

Liberty Alliance’s November Update.[/u][/b][/color]
Written by Flowering Staplers.


Election Time![/u]

The majority of elections were completed by the 5th October. The government at that point was:

Executive Council Positions:
Prime Minster: Flowering Staplers
(Acting)President & WA-delegate: Nurm
Attorney General: Vacant
Defence & Intelligence Minister: Dartheon
Internal Affairs Minister: Viento Bonita
Immigration Minister: Nurm
Foreign Affairs Minister: Ashes and Wine
Treasurer: Vacant

Non-Executive Council Positions:
Dean of the University: Flowering Staplers
Speaker: Zavina

However, more recently, a Vote of No Confidence has been called in the new Foreign Affairs Minster due to the lack of an update and irregular activity. The new council is excited to raise the population forum participation, and would like to thank everyone who has shown support during our summer inactivity.

Immigration.

The new minister has spent her time re-enforcing the compulsory recruitment message of 90 telegrams per month for every member of the Executive Council. We made a net gain of 5 nations in October. This brought our nation count up to 35, by the end of November we hope to be at 40 nations. Nurm won The Recruiter of the Month Award and gloating rights for this month.

Internal Affairs.

A new role-play has been created to keep the people of Liberty Alliance occupied, as well as renewed interest in The Bar (if you have the chance, go visit. It’s in the ‘Tumble Down’ section of the forum). Our RMB has also been a hive of activity with conversations turning to the Queen, ice-cream and languages. The debate section has seen activity, mainly because Flowering Staplers and Shelter from the Storm love the Queen, with some interesting debates. Forum activity is definitely on the rise and hopefully we will soon be on the mend towards a greater level of activity.

Foreign Affairs.

Flowering Staplers plans to go on a mystery tour of some of the regions we have embassies with as well as our allies, so look out for her! The department has seen little activity within the last month and hopefully this shall pick up.

Defence & Intelligence.

The department has been busily recruiting new members as well as aiding the changeover of the WA delegate. This has been a key step meaning that Flowering Staplers has a free WA nation. Hopefully we shall soon be participating in missions again!

In other news…

Finally... A word from the Prime Minister.
I’m so excited about the new cabinet that I am heading. I feel so positive about this term. Our updates will be more frequent from now on and that we are going to be as good as we can be, it’s just baby steps at the moment. I would like to say thank you to everyone who has supported Liberty Alliance so far and I hope that we can work with lots of regions and organisations again. With a safe founder we have so much freedom and I am so proud to be that founder. If you have any ways in which our foreign updates can be improved or if you just want to have a chat or you have any questions just PM myself or telegram me (yes, my nation name is Flowering Staplers). I will be going on my mystery tour within the next few days, I’ll bring cake!

Thank you

Flowering Staplers
Prime Minister and Founder of Liberty Alliance.

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[Flowering Staplers]

Hi,

I've been thinking about writing this for quite sometime, well only this morning but for those who know me it's quite sometime. It's about Liberty Alliance, myself and perhaps you will feature in it too.

This morning I decided to look in the New Nations topic and found all the topics of the people who have wondered into our region. From those who just wondered in and decided we were just too odd for them to those who stuck around and made their mark. I'm thinking of Balthamos, Hallsta, Finavarra, Finnish Pride, AncientDragonWarriors, Sanzar, Quantumsoft, Presbyterian States, Shadowbat... The list could go on. Of course more recently we wouldn't still be here if it wasn't for Nurm and Viento Bonita my stars of Liberty Alliance (*sniff* love you guys). Anyway, I was having a little nosey around feeling all nostalgic (Look at Numero Captain's intro thread, those who knew Shadowbat will understand) and wondering how to turn our inactivity around.

But then I remembered why we come to Liberty Alliance, well why I come to Liberty Alliance. I come to Liberty Alliance because my life is so busy and it's just nice to come to a forum where we post every few days and our RMB is more active than our forum. I appreciate that many people would say "Your region is dying" but that is not how I see it at all. I see it as a group of people who have super busy RLs: screenwriter, trainee nurse, someone who has discovered that all teachers who said that uni was easier than A levels are horrible liars... That I have maybe once a week contact from TBM, I (try) to go to the Texas weekly chat, I have free reign to spam in all the forums that I am an ambassador in and I've met some amazing people.

I guess that what I am trying to say is that we're really quiet and we do not really do foreign updates at the moment because all we want to do is decide if pirates or ninjas are better (pirates FTW!), talk about how rubbishly fast the Christmas holidays went or answer a set of questions telling everyone a little more about yourself.

In terms of government activity, we're working on how we can change the constitution to alter the positions within our government. This would mean combining the positions of Foreign Affairs and Immigration, combining President and Prime Minister and combining Treasurer and Internal Affairs. This would reduce the number of positions due to our smaller population.


Much love, Flowering Staplers x
[with the editing of Dartheon, Zgraja & Nurmie]

[Flowering Staplers]

Liberty Alliance's Foreign Update - April[/COLOR][/B][/U]

LANIP - A new chapter for Liberty Alliance?[/SIZE]
Flowering Staplers[/u]

With Liberty Alliance's recent surge in activity comes the birth of a new political party with big ideas of reform. Mr Political Party himself, Fahadia, explains why it is that Liberty Alliance needs political parties, talks about boiled eggs and of course Liberty Alliance.

You have always been keen to set up political parties, what do you feel that they give to the community?
Political parties are ways to organize groups of people with similar political beliefs and ensure that these beliefs are represented well in the government. Without any shame, I would say that political parties are the best way to secure wins for elections, mainly because of party loyalty. Political parties are also areas that are much more fit for intense political debate, and act almost as think tanks...this kind of discussion can occur outside of political parties of course, but just the atmosphere of a political party seems to provoke this kind of talk.

What is your favourite animal?
Lion

What is the main aim of LANIP?
I refuse to go into specifics, but the LANIP is more than just a political party. The LANIP is radical by status quo LA standards, and is basically a revolutionary movement. I can guarantee that you will see some very new ideas being proposed by us in the near future.

When will your manifesto be released?
Our manifesto will probably be released some time during the end of the week, but right now we are really trying to focus more on getting things done to prepare for re-elections that we hope will occur in the near future.

What are your future plans within Liberty Alliance?
We are currently looking to pass a bill decreasing executive council size, and we feel that re-elections are the only fair way to adjust to the new system. We are also extremely confident that our bill decreasing EC size will be passed, because I have heard that we have tremendous support for at least the idea of EC size reduction outside the LANIP. This is not meant to leave any ideological footprint of the LANIP on the LA; we will do that later on. Right now I see that our main plans are to make somewhat radical change not only to our system, but our region's mentality. We have been drowning in inactivity solely because of things like static foreign policy, huge EC size, and the extreme lack of active LA members in general. We will be looking to fix that, and you will see our solutions after our manifesto is published.

Would you rather have nose hair down to your chin that you couldn't cut or a boiled egg instead of your right eye?
Boiled egg because i could just take it out and get a fake eye...how do you come up with this question lol?

Where do you see Liberty Alliance in 6 months?
I see massive, radical change to the Liberty Alliance in six months. The LA will be active, united, and growing...we will be in a Golden Age. The Liberty Alliance will be extremely active in the outside world, and inside our borders we will see many new faces (or avatars) taking part in the consistent political debates and discussions going on. I also hope to see more political parties; elections would be a hell of a lot more fun if that happened.

Thank you Fahadia, still keeping his cards close to his chest.

For those interested re-relections are to be held at the beginning of April!

Cartoons[/SIZE]



“A little taste of Viento & Bonita”
Viento Bonita

Greetings dear nations around one and only The World! Welcome to the first taste of me by me, VB of Liberty Alliance.

In the ups and downs of a región whose members are from so many different places around the globe - with some on vacations, some on exams, some waiting for spring, some waiting for fall and some waiting for your love – we still managed to have a bizzarre time this 2011.

Among the notable events of the less political sector of LA’s spectrum, we have…

- a debate entitled “Wedding”: which you can also call “Hey, British, who the f**c cares about the royal family anymore?”. Everyone, except our Prime Minister Flowering Staplers who brought the tourism factor to the debate, stood for the idea that the British Royal Family is useless. A humble writer ask for the destruction of the monarchy… or declaring Paul McCartney King. As “The Family” doesn’t take part on the goverment, it would be just like an account upgrade for Macca’s MBE.

- the very controversial “should prostitution be legal?”: where the half of kinda divided Proletarian Workers (a.k.a. Pee Wee) and a pretty sure of everything Viento Bonita (a.k.a. that scrotum that keeps everything together) stood against the rest of the región – and the other half of Pee Wee. Even where there was a quite solid argument (which included health plans, retirement funds, etc.) the morals seemed to drive the public opinión. Notably, Fahadia made a quite a argument against the issue and Flowering Staplers shutted my mouth by answering to the title question with a simple “no”. I didn’t have a counter argument for no at the time. Well, actually I did, but it was a quite impolite thing to say to a respectable girl.

- the banana challenge: consisting on trying to figure out what “the banana” represents in the song “Ritual de la banana” by “Los Pericos” (song of 1991, easily found on youtube), I offered two wishes as a prize. Our President Zgraja gave the right answer and won. His first wish was to be on the comic strip “Liberty Alliance’s True Stories”, to which I made a special “one and a half” special issue where he appears meditating about his second wish. His actual second wish was to bring back - now CTE – nation Finavarra, but – of course – there are three things I cannot do as a Genie: bring back from the dead, make people fall in love with you, grant you more wishes. So he still got one wish left.

Here’s the outcome of Zgraja’s wish:


And President Zgraja reacted exactly like this:

Holy crap you got my hair perfect! how did you know I have green hair? lol!

So, this is all for this Update, hope you had a laugh in times like this where the end of world is coming to a quite impolite end. Good night, see you next time hopefully. Or maybe not.

Liberty Alliance on Viento Bonita:

I've never had nasty thoughts about your sig... Dirty thoughts about you on the other hand

I guess what I would tell you is that prostitution simply corrupts society.

Dang I knew you were gonna throw that at me lol

One Love,
Internal Affairs Minister Viento Bonita

Coming Soon, To A Liberty Alliance Near You, A New Regional Map!
Flowering Staplers

After much discussion and thought over the state of the regional map and the lack of cartographer we have a new regional map! Of course we are going to be keeping hold of the old map (mainly so that if Fin-Fin returns he cannot complain about his lack of land! ). The new map is not quite ready for the public (Yes, FS is getting round to organising the new header...) but hopefully our new (and slightly greener) map will be viewable for everyone soon!


Thank you for reading!
Love Liberty Alliance. x

[Markanite]

Awesome update!

The cartoons are great!

[Flowering Staplers]

Thank youuu

[Flowering Staplers]

Liberty Alliance May Foreign Update[/u][/size][/color]

The Cabinet:[/u]

Prime Minister:[/b] Fahadia
Defence and Intelligence Minister: Zgraja
Internal Affairs Minister: Viento Bonita
Immigration and Foreign Affairs Minister: Spirit and Moose

Election Time![/b][/u]

Liberty Alliance held elections for the positions of Prime Minister, Internal Affairs Minister, Defense & Intelligence Minister, and Foreign Affairs & Immigration Minister. (For those who don't remember/didn't read last update we changed the amount of positions within the government to reflect the amount of people who are active within the region and term lengths)

The race for Prime Minister was between Fahadia (LANIP) and no candidate. Fahadia is an old member and has lots of experience both within Liberty Alliance and across the Nationstate world. Fahadia won six votes to none. No Candidate denied to comment about the loss.

For the position of Internal Affairs Minister, Viento Bonita won five votes to none against no other candidate. Viento Bonita is the (probably self named) "King" of Internal Affairs and is excited about winning yet another election.

For Defence and Intelligence Minister, Zgraja (LANIP) won by six votes against no candidate. Zgraja is experienced within the role and is already making changes within the ministry.

For the race for Foreign Affairs and Immigration Minister, Spirit and Mosse (LANIP) beat Flowering Staplers five votes to two. The relative newbie to the region beat the much mroe experienced member. As a gesture of goodwill FS has offered to help where ever it is needed to help S&M settle in.

Next elections will begin mid-June.

LANIP News[/b][/u]

In our last update we gave an exclusive interview with Fahadia about the Liberty Alliance National Party (LANIP). Their voice within Liberty Alliance is becoming louder with the recent elections. The party now holds three quarters of the available seats within government. They are ambitious claiming:

The LANIP goals are to expand the regions sphere of influence and make the region much more powerful in the NationStates World.

A New Role With A New Member
Flowering Staplers

Spirit & Moose is a fairly new member with big ambition. Within a few weeks he has emerged from the unknown (not actual unknown... that I know of anyway ) and is currently a member of LANIP (Liberty Alliance Independance Party) and our current Immigration & Foreign Affairs Minister. We stole some time out of his busy scedule to ask him a few questions...

1. What's it like being in the position of Immigration and Foreign Affairs Minister?
Its great! I'm at the center of most of our region's issues and my job is to get more active people to our great region and make ourselves more powerful.

2. Where do you see yourself and Liberty Alliance in six months time?
I see my self as still an active nation in LA and i hope to have a postion in the government and an offical or advsior.

3. If you could be any member of Liberty Alliance for the day, who would you be and why?
I would be Fahadia because he's the PM.

4. What do you want to achieve whilst you are in office?
I want to be able to expand the diplomatic influence of our region and recruit more active players to the region.

5. Would you rather never eat properly again and have to be fed with a tube into your stomach or loose your sense of smell?
Never eat properly because I need to eat less and I love the smells of the world and i would die if i couldnt experience them anymore.

Well I think that we have stolen your time for long enough now... and your security guards scare me so, I'll just be leaving now! *runs away*

The Foreign Affairs Reform Act[/b][/u]

Finally, we have been debating over the Foreign Affairs Reform Act. If this act was passed then Liberty Alliance would have made a definate alteration to her military stance. The opposition to the bill say that this will break treaties we have with other regions, such as Texas, while supporters say we simply believe that the transition into an imperialistic region is more important for the LA than keeping the said treaties.

The act is still being discussed on The Floor.

Comics![/u][/size]
Viento Bonita


Until next month!

Love, Liberty Alliance x

[Markanite]

Great update, I like the comic!

Looking forwad to seeing the results of the Foreign Affairs Reform act!

[Flowering Staplers]

Thank you (:

[Markanite]

No problem

[Flowering Staplers]

Liberty Alliance Foreign Update![/b][/u]


Prime Minister: Zgraja
Foreign Affairs and Immigration Minister: Flowering Staplers
Defence and Intelligence Minister: Fahadia
Internal Affairs Minister: Viento Bonita[/color]


Elections![/color]
The recent election results are shown above. The event was small and the turnout was better than expected. However the summer slowdown has meant that work within the government has been slow and many targets have yet to be reached.


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And finally a word from your ambassador...


I am leaving my ambassador duties in September. I'm retiring from Nationstates for at least 4 months. I've had a really awesome opportunity come up in RL that I do not want NS to distract me from. I'm going to Canada for a study abroad placement. I'm super excited, seeing as I leave super soon! So, thank you for being so lovely and funny and possibly see you in 4 months time (:


That's all for this time!


Love,


Liberty Alliance, x

[Markanite]

Congratulations on being able to go to Canada to study, sounds like an amazing oppurtunity, I hope you have a great time and thank you very much for all you've done as ambassador! See you when you return

[Flowering Staplers]

Liberty Alliance Update

It's been an... inactive... time in LA recently. I have to say the common feature has been RL and it's tendancy to distract us from the game! We all seem to be in similar places in our lives where our educational life needs some TLC.

None the less we have had a flurry of activity over the past week or so with three active members leaving the region to form their own! This stems from several failed attempts for an act to change the military stance of Liberty Alliance as well as their disappointment in our activity levels. We wish Zgraja, Dartheon and Fahadia all the best on their new adventure - but don't be strangers!

Onto more positive news...

We have a new forum! It's green and sparkly and currently has no embassies in it If you would like your region to be featured come and register here:
w11.zetaboards.com/Liberty_Alliance/index/
Apply for ambassador masking and then once you are masked you can get your new embassy! If you don't want an embassy for inactivity or other reasons then just let us know!

With our sparkly new forum comes a need for a new/improved constitution, so we're currently setting up for our constituional convention!

I think that's everything for now!
I hope that everything has been going well and we will be in contact soon!

Staplers x

[Flowering Staplers]

Liberty Alliance's Update!
Forum: w11.zetaboards.com/Liberty_Alliance/index/
Regional Population: 20(ish)
Delegate: Nurmiland

The Forum!
Liberty Alliance's spamming levels make me proud. Considering most of the forum members are checking into the retirement home of NS we have almost 500 forum posts, of which over 60% are in the games section. Remember if you need to re-sign up for an embassy could you do that asap! The forum is beautifully green thanks to Angelina!
It's not just the forum that has seen activity, the RMB has been buzzing with visits from The Black Market, Viento Bonita (who is hopefully here to stay! We have missed him!) and our old founder Balthamos! We love getting regional visitors so if you're ever in the area come and visit!

The Constitution!
Hmmm... we've been spamming so much this hasn't really had that much attention (might also be because Flowering Staplers see the word constitution and run a mile in the opposite direction...). Anyway, hopefully it will have at least some progress over the next few weeks.

The Pudding!
We have decided on our regional pudding! By demand on the RMB Chocolate has been made the favourite. We presume this means that we can eat as much chocolate cake, ice cream and pastries as we like... Om nom nom nom.

And Finally...!
Comics are back! This time a general LA one by my resident computer artist Viento Bonita:


Until next time!

Liberty Alliance x

[Flowering Staplers]

Liberty Alliance Foreign Update - August 2012

Delegate: Lauralestria
Regional Population: 37
Regional Power: Moderate
Prime Minister: To Be Elected
Immigration Minister: To Be Elected
Foreign Affairs Minister: To Be Elected
Defence Minister: To Be Elected
Internal Affairs Minister: To Be Elected
Attorney General: To Be Elected

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Constitution Ratified!
Recently, Liberty Alliance adopted a brand new constitution by a unanimous 4-0 vote. The new constitution abolishes the previous position of president, establishing the position of Prime Minister of both the head of government and state. We have also made several smaller changes, such as renaming the Liberty Alliance Defence Force (LADF) to the Liberty Alliance Regional Militia (LARM), the duties of which will remain identical, remaining a neutral force which will defend our region and assist our allies. The executive council system was retained, though the position of Intelligence Minister was abolished.[/b]

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Liberty Alliance has recently elected a new delegate. Originally, the delegate election looked to be a two person race between Angelina and Lauralestria. Angelina later withdrew from the election, leaving Lauralestria as the sole candidate. In the election itself, Lauralestria won unopposed with 100% of the vote.[/b]

Population Surge!
Liberty Alliance has recently experienced a surge in the regional population, in addition to a jump in forum activity. Liberty Alliance's population has jumped from just 19 nations before the recruitment drive begun, to 37 nations, a increase of nearly 100%! Liberty Alliance is reviving, we hope to continue to grow, and strengthen our position within the NS world.

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[Flowering Staplers]

Any questions send a telegram to Flowering Staplers (:

Sadly I cannot be around on the 22nd due to RL committments and so we are holding our birthday celebrations early. It would be lovely to see people and we *might* be taking a warzone... but it depends on numbers (:

[Falconias]

February 21st, 2013
Population: 23
Pokedex: 239

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Hello boys, girls, sports fans and jihadists, this is a really LAME update, brought to you by the Liberty Alliance Media Enterprise!

In today's update: Not much


Message from the Founder

I've heard that if you get all the little things right then the big things come together and leave a lasting impression.

Liberty Alliance's reforms are currently making tiny steps to making the region a better place and to put us back on the NS map (even if it is for our adorable emoticons!). We may have lost our way recently, but we're still the loveable region we always have been and I am proud to be the Founder.

While some have questioned my choice of reforms leader (even calling me crazy...) I have every faith in Falconias' abilities and look forward to Liberty Alliance's next chapter!

-Flowering Staplers

Falconias causes Massive Population Flux in NationStates

Now former Liberty Alliance citizens departing on a train for Europeia

The balance of power was shifted mightily over the past week, as thousands of people suddenly fled Liberty Alliance for other regions, especially Europeia, a little-known region in the far corner of NationStates. The mass emigration has left Liberty Alliance with just shy of two dozen nations, a meager nickel compared to the record 9,482 it held just a week prior.

Early reports indicate the departures are due largely in part to the presence of "Falconias," the scientific term for "Region-Eating Disease." It is a highly painful disease that consumes regions from the inside, leaving them without much in the ways of integrity, constitutions, or in many cases, even spam. There is no known cure.

"I had to go through this bullsh*t once before," said one resident, who wished to remain anonymous. "It was horrible. Back in the day, there used to be this placed called the Founderless Regions Alliance. I think I contracted Falconias from some fellow named HEM. I could feel it biting in my legs at first, but scratching it only made it worse. Over the next few days, it made its way up to my

Edited to satisfy legal complaint filed by a "Mr. HEM".

I should have just told him no means no."

Europeia wasn't the only region to benefit from the bizarre outbreak in Liberty Alliance, however. 3,168 Islands grew closer to its goal of 10,000 by assimilating several hundred nations from Liberty Alliance. Unfortunately, it only gained one island as the nations came as a continent, bringing the total number of islands to 3,169.

A former President of Europeia had this to say: "I don't know what people are talking about. Falconias isn't that bad, you just have to get used to it, it can be kind of fun when you infect other people with it. It's probably the best thing to ever happen to NationStates, actually." He even suggested a cure for the disease: "If you really can't stand it, try applying a thick layer of Rub-Onder-35, That is sure to cure yourself of me, erm I mean, Falconias, within minutes."

It has yet to be seen whether the thousands of former residents intend to come back to the region at some point.


Founder of Liberty Alliance Arrested for Multiple Alcohol-Related Offences

Luna having a momentary lapse in judgement

Flowering Staplers, commonly known as "Luna", was arrested last night for public indecency, urinating in public, vandalism, indecent exposure, sexual harassment, driving under the influence, impersonating a police officer, false practice of medicine, and illegal whaling.

Details as to how these crimes were carried out were not made immediately clear; however in the early hours on Thursday, most of the charges were dropped due to a lack of evidence.

One charge was held back however - Luna will be appearing in court next Monday on a charge of whaling. She has been granted a $100,000 and her homemade lasagna bail.

"I dnt rly reme ameber much," she might or might not have said. "I like sas sawwwwww this dolphin...... and I dint like mr cage so I was like FREE WILLY! and I unno *hiccup* I ended up in here."

IRC logs were not made immediately available to public viewing, and she has declined sober comment. Try again on the weekend after some more "fermented grape juice."


BREAKING! Founderless Regions Alliance agrees to become a member of Liberty Alliance

Administrator Jamie (left) shaking hands with FRA Chancellor Bobby-Jo Sheepdog (right)

In an unusual development, the Founderless Regions Alliance has followed through on their agreement to join Liberty Alliance, despite the recent outbreak of Falconias.

"Dog gone varmints errywhere," said the Chancellor. "Git 'r' done. F*****g shoot em raiders."

It would appear that the Chancellor believes the FRA's military may benefit from the extensive training offered in Liberty Alliance.


FRA Rangers Update Crew, pictured Saturday February 16th in a promotional photo

"F*****g missed im ag'n," said the Chancellor, while firing off rounds at passing Black Riders. "Taggin' all my god-damn sh*t. Better bring in the big guns. Tired o' this crap, they're scarin' off the f*****g ducks. We need some raider-shootin' trainin."

The FRA membership in LA takes effect immediately, and the Rangers are expected to complete their raider-shootin' training by the end of Easter, when there are no turkeys left.

Fictional Stuff
Liberty Alliance is prepared to pass, unanimously, their second constitution in as many years, after the involvement of Falconias to try and stabilize the region. The constitution features a few uncommon laws that are set to make politics in Liberty Alliance unique:

• Legislature size is proportionate to the size of the region at the time of election
  
• Only 3 elected Executive positions; Prime Minister, and two Deputies (External and Internal)
  
• Prime Minister has a 6-month term for a more engaging election period
  
• No organized judiciary branch - Liberty Alliance will have one constitutional rule: don't be an ass, and you won't get banned.
  

Elections will be held in March and we are in need of experienced legislators to guide the new Legislative Assembly through the first few months of creating a minimal amount of regulations to keep Liberty Alliance sane and active.

One of the highlights of the region is the direct government involvement in World Assembly affairs. While many regions tend to put WA and roleplay politics as second-tier, they will be the focus of the Legislative Assembly. The LA will meet and discuss several times a week issues before the World Assembly, and be exactly what a region was designed to be a decade ago - a fun, intelligent group of people to role-play real world issues as it affects their nations.

This has been... a LAME update!

[Eist]

Uuummm... Interesting Thanks for the update; it will be interesting to see how Liberty Alliance has developed by the next one!