Post by Tomtalia on Jan 2, 2011 2:40:54 GMT -5
Our region's government restarted two months ago, this is a summary of everything that has happened since.
The Founder returns and restarts
By the time Topid, Founder of TUS, returned to NS, the region had lost most of it's nations, dropping back down to forty nations. Topid resumed recruiting and built the region up again. He also issued the founder document wherein he promised to allow the founder nation to CTE and leave whomever assumes the delegacy in charge.
With that out of the way, Topid immediately announced his candidacy for delegate of the region, as did Oliarkanta, Anti, Zanannia, and Cbarr. At the end of the campaigning and the start of the election, the candidates had been narrowed down to Anti, Oliarkanta, and Topid. By the halfway mark of the election, the vote tally had Oli ahead, with both Anti and Topid trailing by one vote. Topid withdrew and voted for Anti, as did all of Topid's voters, and Anti won the election.
Anti created the National Assembly (NA) to be the legislative branch of the region. It consists of every nation in the region minus the Delegate and Vice Delegate, and presents laws to the delegate which he can approve or strike down. The NA elected a President to preside over the body, Zanannia defeated Killing is my business (KIMB) in this election. In the first term, the body presented the delegate with bills (all of which were approved) to do the following: set down specific election procedure, set delegate term limits, and defined citizenship.
Cabinet Appointments:
Vice-Delegate (VD): Right Wing Politics
Secretary of the Interior (SoI): Topid
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SoFA): RWA
The Second Term
Anti decided to run for a second term. Oliarkanta announced his intention to run against Anti, but withdrew before voting began so that Anti ran unopposed.
Anti's second term began with his submission of an amendment to the constitution giving power to the NA to override a delegate veto. This means Anti has given some of the power granted to him by the Founder Declaration to the NA. If a conflict comes up between an executive order (law by delegate) and a NA Law (law passed by the NA) the Vice-Delegate shall issue a ruling on which law shall be effective. The VD is also going to be elected next term, not appointed.
The Cabinet Positions remained the same, except Zanannia was appointed Vice-Delegate while Right Wing Politics ran unopposed for President of the NA. When RWA resigned, Topid was moved from Secretary of the Interior to Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Oliarkanta was appointed to fill the SoI position. Now the region is turning its focus on the possibility of joining the Founderless Regions Alliance.
The region's Chatbox met an end after a joke that started in the chatbox by members changing their names to impersonate other people and make funny statements escalated outside of the chatbox and ended with the delegate jokingly editing signatures of two forum members. This lead to the (above mentioned) resignation of RWA and a motion to remove the delegate by RWA in the National Assembly.
Non-Governmental
Our region is nothing if not chatty. The Regional Message board was covered with a debate on religion recently. After a while, complaints arose that the debate was old, so the subject was changed. The ensuing debate about the role of government lasted even longer. And on the forum, funny youtube videos have been a hit thread since the region's founding.
Other "hot topics" in the spam zone forum threads were a thread on Music, a thread on WWII, A thread Anti started for signature/avatar help that ended in a Sarah Palin debate, Topid's thread regarding the existence of the Paranormal.
The Real-World Politics discussion zone had "hot topics" on the book Atlas Shrugged. A debate on the role of the state in Education (following the British student protests), a thread on Wikileaks, and a final thread on JS Mill.
Forum Link: theunitedstates.30.forumer.com
The Founder returns and restarts
By the time Topid, Founder of TUS, returned to NS, the region had lost most of it's nations, dropping back down to forty nations. Topid resumed recruiting and built the region up again. He also issued the founder document wherein he promised to allow the founder nation to CTE and leave whomever assumes the delegacy in charge.
With that out of the way, Topid immediately announced his candidacy for delegate of the region, as did Oliarkanta, Anti, Zanannia, and Cbarr. At the end of the campaigning and the start of the election, the candidates had been narrowed down to Anti, Oliarkanta, and Topid. By the halfway mark of the election, the vote tally had Oli ahead, with both Anti and Topid trailing by one vote. Topid withdrew and voted for Anti, as did all of Topid's voters, and Anti won the election.
Anti created the National Assembly (NA) to be the legislative branch of the region. It consists of every nation in the region minus the Delegate and Vice Delegate, and presents laws to the delegate which he can approve or strike down. The NA elected a President to preside over the body, Zanannia defeated Killing is my business (KIMB) in this election. In the first term, the body presented the delegate with bills (all of which were approved) to do the following: set down specific election procedure, set delegate term limits, and defined citizenship.
Cabinet Appointments:
Vice-Delegate (VD): Right Wing Politics
Secretary of the Interior (SoI): Topid
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SoFA): RWA
The Second Term
Anti decided to run for a second term. Oliarkanta announced his intention to run against Anti, but withdrew before voting began so that Anti ran unopposed.
Anti's second term began with his submission of an amendment to the constitution giving power to the NA to override a delegate veto. This means Anti has given some of the power granted to him by the Founder Declaration to the NA. If a conflict comes up between an executive order (law by delegate) and a NA Law (law passed by the NA) the Vice-Delegate shall issue a ruling on which law shall be effective. The VD is also going to be elected next term, not appointed.
The Cabinet Positions remained the same, except Zanannia was appointed Vice-Delegate while Right Wing Politics ran unopposed for President of the NA. When RWA resigned, Topid was moved from Secretary of the Interior to Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Oliarkanta was appointed to fill the SoI position. Now the region is turning its focus on the possibility of joining the Founderless Regions Alliance.
The region's Chatbox met an end after a joke that started in the chatbox by members changing their names to impersonate other people and make funny statements escalated outside of the chatbox and ended with the delegate jokingly editing signatures of two forum members. This lead to the (above mentioned) resignation of RWA and a motion to remove the delegate by RWA in the National Assembly.
Non-Governmental
Our region is nothing if not chatty. The Regional Message board was covered with a debate on religion recently. After a while, complaints arose that the debate was old, so the subject was changed. The ensuing debate about the role of government lasted even longer. And on the forum, funny youtube videos have been a hit thread since the region's founding.
Other "hot topics" in the spam zone forum threads were a thread on Music, a thread on WWII, A thread Anti started for signature/avatar help that ended in a Sarah Palin debate, Topid's thread regarding the existence of the Paranormal.
The Real-World Politics discussion zone had "hot topics" on the book Atlas Shrugged. A debate on the role of the state in Education (following the British student protests), a thread on Wikileaks, and a final thread on JS Mill.
Forum Link: theunitedstates.30.forumer.com