Whatermelons for PM

[whatermelons]

  Hey, Lazarus! I’m Whatermelons. I’ll start with a short introduction: I’ve been playing NationStates for just over 4 years, I’ve served as Lazarus’ Regional Guard Director, theUnited Regions Alliance’s Vice President, Mariner Trench’s Prime Minister and other roles. In addition, I’ve authored a couple of WA resolutions. However, today I’ve decided to formally launch my campaign for Regional Director of Lazarus.

   I’ll be frank: Lazarus has not been at its best lately. The region has been stagnating for a while with a lot of inactivity. For example, our PR Director’s main nation ceased to exist for over a month. Citizenship activities have been sitting without a response in the applications subforum for weeks on end. I don’t have to explain why this level of inactivity is bad for the region as a whole. I will however not blame our current and previous governments, and instead commend them for their efforts in holding the line despite being burnt out and weary.

   Without further ado, here are my intended goals to achieve during my term:

 Shareholdership

   Currently, we have a department for accepting shareholders. Even with such a simple job, it has failed miserably at it. I will immediately close down this department and form an expanded department titled ‘Department of Recruitment’. This will deal with mass recruitment for shareholdership and various departments through telegrams or the RMB, and integrating new people into the region, in addition to the duties of accepting and rejecting shareholdership.

 Foreign Affairs

   To start, I would like to disclose that one of the first things I will do as Managing Director would be to call for an end to the war with the NPO. We are fighting a pointless war against a region that attacked us eons ago, who now have a new, less warmongering administration, especially when allies such as Osiris have already called for an armistice. Whether we open our arms and embrace new citizens from the NPO or have a cold war for a while will be up to the shareholders.

     Next, I would like to forge treaties with several regions, namely The Rejected Realms and The East Pacific. I find that having treaties with these regions, as well as any others we may see fit, will be very beneficial to ensuring a sustained PR presence and interregional activity. I will work with the PR Director on the finer details of these treaties.

   Lastly, ambassadors. Like for every department, we will need to have a massive recruitment drive for new ambassadors. Currently, we only have 5 ambassadors representing our region internationally, and two regions don’t have ambassadors posted to them, including The North Pacific whom we have a treaty with and that is unacceptable. I will also have the Internal Management work with PR to create foreign updates which will be disseminated in regions. Which brings me on to my next point...

 Internal Management

   New Rogernomics had great plans for the Internal Management under the Temmi administration, which included regular gazette publications and more sustained RP activity. Therefore, I hope he will return to the position of Director of Internal Management, or if he does not wish to have the position I hope (and I am sure) he will share his plans with the next Director.

 The Guard

   The Guard is tricky. It is hard to get out of first gear when we have many restrictions on what we can and cannot do. Therefore, I will not promise a lot of activity. Rather, jo and I will recruit new members and develop training guides, as well as do some organisational restructuring, so we can have a good foundation for the future.

 Long Term Goals

   If my first term is a success, it will hopefully pave the way for future expansions and plans, such as:

 A World Assembly department, if there is enough interest.

 Organising regional festivals or contests.

 Participation and maybe even organisation of interregional festivals and contests.

 ‘War Games’ with our military and others.

 Thank you for reading and hope you consider voting for me in the next election!

[Wymondham]

Writing treaties is easy. Making relationships less so. What will you do to ensure that our relationships with regions like TRR and TEP are more than simply the words in a treaty?

[whatermelons]

I'll encourage people in Lazarus to go to places like their RMBs or Discord servers to chat and have fun. We can also participate in whatever festival/events they may host so we can have stronger relationships

[Wymondham]

To negotiate an armistice with the NPO - you would need to have some form of diplomatic relations with them - however Article I, Section 3 of the APC treaty says as follows

(3) The signatories will not maintain diplomatic, military, or cultural relations of any kind with the Pacific while it is governed by the New Pacific Order or any successor regime sanctioned by the New Pacific Order.

Therefore, if Lazarus votes to end the war, will you repeal the APC treaty?

[whatermelons]

If that’s the only way, I suppose so

[McChimp]

Currently, we have a department for accepting shareholders. Even with such a simple job, it has failed miserably at it. I will immediately close down this department

This may not be legal. That particular office is, if memory serves, mandated by law.

I would like to forge treaties with several regions, namely The Rejected Realms and The East Pacific. I find that having treaties with these regions, as well as any others we may see fit, will be very beneficial to ensuring a sustained PR presence and interregional activity. I will work with the PR Director on the finer details of these treaties.

Our allies in The West Pacific and Osiris have fallen out with The East Pacific, who recently let AMOM back into their good graces. AMOM disguised himself within Osiris and nearly managed to coup the region. I think it would be unwise to sign a treaty with them at the expense of two others.

[whatermelons]

Currently, we have a department for accepting shareholders. Even with such a simple job, it has failed miserably at it. I will immediately close down this department

This may not be legal. That particular office is, if memory serves, mandated by law.

I would like to forge treaties with several regions, namely The Rejected Realms and The East Pacific. I find that having treaties with these regions, as well as any others we may see fit, will be very beneficial to ensuring a sustained PR presence and interregional activity. I will work with the PR Director on the finer details of these treaties.

Our allies in The West Pacific and Osiris have fallen out with The East Pacific, who recently let AMOM back into their good graces. AMOM disguised himself within Osiris and nearly managed to coup the region. I think it would be unwise to sign a treaty with them at the expense of two others.

For the first point, laws can be amended since we have a regional assembly, which is what I'll do.

Secondly, I won't just go off and sign a treaty. It'll need to be discussed heavily with the citizens, and if Osiris and TWP decide to weigh in with their concerns, we can take that into consideration.

[New Rogernomics]

Currently, we have a department for accepting shareholders. Even with such a simple job, it has failed miserably at it. I will immediately close down this department

This may not be legal. That particular office is, if memory serves, mandated by law.

I would like to forge treaties with several regions, namely The Rejected Realms and The East Pacific. I find that having treaties with these regions, as well as any others we may see fit, will be very beneficial to ensuring a sustained PR presence and interregional activity. I will work with the PR Director on the finer details of these treaties.

Our allies in The West Pacific and Osiris have fallen out with The East Pacific, who recently let AMOM back into their good graces. AMOM disguised himself within Osiris and nearly managed to coup the region. I think it would be unwise to sign a treaty with them at the expense of two others.

Technically it can be merged into another department or onto another Minister, and it would be possible to amend the law to allow for that.

When I wrote it, I was sort of thinking that it was possible hypothetically to allow for the responsibility to be put on a existing Minister. 

So it would be possible for example to create a new ministry, and add that responsibility onto whoever runs that department, in theory.

Whether this is a good idea or not though is up to the Assembly.