June 2016 update

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June 2016 update
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kerguelen	Jun 13 2016, 01:32 AM Post #1
Posts: 4 Group: Members Member #300 Joined: Apr 8, 2016	RENEGADE ISLANDS ALLIANCE Regional Population: 464 Delegate: [nation]Timothia[/nation] 51 Security Officer: [nation]red dusk ii[/nation] Secretary of State: [nation]The Kerguelen Archipelago[/nation] Secretary of the Interior: [nation]Kaayibi[/nation] Operation: Reboot is in full swing! 2015 was a bit of a slow year, and the beginning of 2016 seemed like it would be more of the same. The opposite has proven to be true. We've completed (another) Constitution, elected a new Delegate (spoiler: it's me), we've organized a whole new Grand Council, we've reestablished recruitment, we've started chatting on Discord, we've revamped the RIASF, and most importantly, our community has thrived as we find a new balance between newly-recruited friends and old faces. Oh yeah, and we also more than quadrupled our population en route to our highest population ever. That exciting news and more are going to be covered in our first update since the reboot! Well, I've been known for my long winded paragraphs of information, but this time I'm not going to write you a novella. I've already written seven dispatches concerning the reboot (not-so-creatively named the "Timothian Dispatches") which I certainly invite you to read. In essence, they rally our region around the idea of keeping who we were as we strive to become something more than we've ever been. I definitely encourage you to read them if you are interested in how the region has changed so completely and quickly. I consider them the blueprint of our success so far. You'll find them all here. I won't make you wait any longer, go ahead and keep reading through this update to see what all has changed around the RIA. First, we'll get an update from Red Dusk on the state of the RIASF. Next, we'll hear about the developments of the region from Kaayibi and the Kerg. Finally, you'll get a link to a couple of really cool websites, just for fun. Thank you for your time, and best of luck! [nation]Timothia[/nation] Delegate of the [region]Renegade Islands Alliance[/region] PS - Shout out to the members of the Council of February who were in "The Room Where It Happens." New Security Officer The Renegade Islands Alliance Special Forces has a new face. Red Dusk has been appointed the Security Officer of Renegade Islands Alliance and will serve as the Fleet Admiral of the Special Forces. Ranking member of the February Council, Timothia, approached the recently named "Best New Defender" with the offer. After taking some time to consider, Red Dusk accepted and the pair presented their pitch to the Chief Executive who also serves as the Commander In Chief of the RIASF. The Chief Executive wasted no time in naming Red Dusk as the region's new Security Officer. Red Dusk joins an exclusive and storied list of defenders who have served in this position. The position last belonged to Benevolent Thomas who was recently named "Best Defender of 2015". Before that, Tangaroan Islands had the privilege to serve as Security Officer. Affectionately called "Tanga", Tangaroan Islands is regularly regarded to be one of the best defenders to emerge over the past few years and was one of the last officers to be trained by Shizensky. Prior to Tanga's promotion, the office was held by one of the founding members of the RIA, Domino Domination. Also known as the Principality of Ad Infinitum, Domino was one of the greatest and most consistent defenders in NationStates history. While it is great to have a fresh and ambitious new face to lead the Special Forces, we must acknowledge that Red Dusk cannot do this alone. That is why this update calls all able bodied Renegades who wish to stand up to the bullies of Nation States to enlist in the Renegade Islands Alliance Special Forces. Together we can beat back the invader tide of misery and oppression. Let's jump back in time a couple months. The Renegade Islands Alliance went through a tough time, and had a Great Depression of sorts in relation to activity. Many active nations had left or CTE’d, and we were hemorrhaging our regional population. Even the roleplay that used to flood the RMB had died down. The Government had succumbed to the lack of activity and collapsed, leaving nothing to manage the interior. With the Council of February, this all changed. Come March, the region looked pretty different. The RIA was finally coming out of it's slump. The government had been restructured, a new delegate had been recently elected, and two new secretaries had been appointed for internal and external affairs. Around that time, the discussion had come up again about recruiting. It was decided that the Secretary of State would head both foreign affairs and the immigration department. With the help of previous recruiters and a few stamp donors, a brand new recruitment campaign was created. After a few tries and fine tunings of the telegram, a good one was finally found and has been sent tens of thousands of times. With that came incredible milestones in the RIA. The original goal of a regional population of 353 nations was met 10 days before the target date. Three days after the target date, that goal was beaten by 100! Since the start of the campaign, the population has jumped from 114 to 460 in just 50 days. This is over 100 more than the goal. This is over quadruple the starting population. This is a mere 40 nations away from gargantuan. It’s more than we ever expected, but we’re not stopping there. We’ll continue to grow upwards and onwards without stopping for a long, long time. With the Secretary of State hard at work with recruiting three projects came to the forefront of the Department of the Interior: (1) a new welcome telegram, (2) reinstating the mentoring system, and (3) creating a regional map. Within a week, the welcome telegram had been drafted, published, and then drafted and published again at least five times. With that done, the attention shifted to getting the new recruits integrated by setting up a mentoring system. The Government called upon the most active and involved members of the region who were not government officials to become mentors or otherwise help with assigned tasks. They accepted and before long there were five acting mentors in the Renegade Islands Alliance. A little less than eight weeks after the Council of February the three priorities of the Interior were finished with the regional map being published. The Department of the Interior now includes the RIA Institute of Cartography, which is hard at work creating one of the nicest regional maps on NationStates. Several other projects are on the table, and the region looks forward to seeing how the two Departments can continue to boost the activity and size of the region. Net change in population: +350 New forum members: +87 New embassies: [region]International Northwestern Union[/region], [region]Nasicournia[/region], [region]Free Coalition of Governments[/region] The Government was reinstated with a new Constitution, and Timothia became delegate of the region. A Secretary of the Interior was swiftly appointed with the responsibility of all things interior, but with a focus of boosting involvement and activity. LINK
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