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Weekly Updates; I hope.
Topic Started: Jan 21 2005, 09:38 AM (4,173 Views)
ReEqualized Communists

Equilism Weekly Update
January 9, 2006
President - Moo-cows with guns
Prime Minister/ UN Delegate – Tse Moana
Population: 184 Nations
http://www.equilism.org/forum/index.php?act=idx

Note: Due to end of the semester finals and then the holidays, this update covers the past 4 weeks. Weekly updates will resume next week.

Prime Minister Grothistan retired from NS due to RL concerns, mainly the increased time he is having to devote to school now that he is in college. He has contributed to Equilism greatly and his humor, intelligence and debating skills will be missed. Yarrrrrrr Matey!

By the Equilism Constitution, Vice President Tse Moana is now the new Prime Minister.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chaucerin was appointed and confirmed as the new Vice President. His only duty as Vice President is to step into office if either Executive resigns or is otherwise unable to complete his/her term.

Senator Koona has stepped down from all government positions so he can pursue other interests; he has applied for citizenship in The Pacific.

The Equilism News Agency has published its sixth issue. It can be read here: http://www.equilism.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=3066

The new Mentor Program is being implemented by Speaker of the Senate Equalist Communist, and so far has been successfully used on two new members.

The Second Nation Creation Contest is underway! Nations from all regions are encouraged to participate!
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1. The competition shall take place in Equilism Playground. The founder and judge of the competition is E-Games Judge.

2. No UN nations allowed.

3. The competition shall take place between newly created puppets. The earliest date for creation is January 7th.

4. All participants must have in their puppet's motto the name of their main nation, for judging purposes.

5. The last nation in the daily UN ranking shall be ejected everyday, until only one nation is left thus becoming the winner. (except the UN ranking of the biggest population, where nobody will be ejected)

6. There shall be a period of 3 days of issue answering as a warm up for the game. (for diversity's sake).

Tse points will be awarded, but the exact number will be based on how many are participating. Should the winner not be from Equilism, he or she will receive some other nifty prize.

Please TG the nation Astarial




The E-Army has been rockin' and rollin' all over NS: Musicologia, Costa Rica, Vatican, Seattle, People of RCCC, CnC Universe, Mexico, Zion Mountians x 2, Valhalla, 1 George Bush Too Many, Futurama, Kentucky x 2, Argentina, Zamboni, Yatta, and Anarchism x 2.

Debates have resumed their usual activity and interest, with discussions on GOP in Crisis, Pat Robertson remarks on Ariel Sharon, Right v. Left, The Death Penalty, College Football and Intelligent Design leading the pack. Check them out here:
http://www.equilism.org/forum/index.php?showforum=22

Medya: Artefacts of Power, Adventure 1 has finally gotten underway and they are 10 days out on the quest, You can see how the party is faring at:
http://www.equilism.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=2786

Fantasy Football finished with a surprising finish. It just goes to show that if you predict you will be in the cellar you just might win! Final standings are:
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1. Chaucerin Visigoths
2. Bismarcia Mariners
3. Neocons
4. Nooterland Nasties
5. Zorns Raiders
6. MillitarismZepplins
7. Koona Salamanders
8. Vasilicorp MBucks
9. Moo-Cows Grazers
10. Penngroovians
11. Bomboodas Terrorists
12. Grothistan Gunners
13. The Tigerrianists
14. Zapvilla Rebels

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ReEqualized Communists

Equilism Weekly Update
January 22, 2006
President - Chaucerin
Prime Minister - Tse Moana
Population - 170

Note: This covers the last two weeks.

Our President Moo-cows with Guns has resigned his position as President due to real-life concerns. Moo has always been a great contributor to the region and his place in our leadership will not be easily filled.

Following the guidelines of the Constitution, Foreign Affairs Minister and Vice President Chaucerin has taken over the position of President. Chaucerin has served two previous terms as President.

Westwind, a long time veteran of the region has been nominated and unanimously elected to the position of Vice President.

Chaucerin taking up the President position left Equalist Communist the former deputy minister of the Foreign Affairs as the minister.

The Equilism Council has put out a statement concerning the coup in TWP. It should have already been posted in embassies and if not please contact you ambassador to have them post it.

The E-Army is still rocking and rolling all over NS: The Public Revolution,Balkans, Antartic, 000, Central Asia, Seattle, Gondor, and Audioscrobbler

Our Medya characters have finally entered combat and are carpeting the floor of the inn with the bodies of their fallen foes.

Debates on the other hand have picked up again with active debates over: Cleaning up Iraq, Intelligent Design, Canada's government, South America, The Death Penalty, Gun Control, whether Bin Laden is alive or dead, the Portuguese Presidential elections, and The Welfare State. We also have our Debate reports being written again by Farmerlaborers, you can find that here!

Westwind, our forum guru has found yet another mod for our members and visitors to enjoy, a casino, details on it are being discussed right now but it's sure to be as much fun as our arcade has been.

The Nation Creation Competition 2 has proceeded with the following members being booted out of the region: Mental Folk, Simooooo, Limitless, Valiturus, Riemstagrad 3, Defaultia, New Cimmeria,the Philosophes, Desertland, Archoz and Tycholand. Please do come back for the next competition.
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And now for a special announcement from our military.

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Posted Image EQUILISM MILITARY SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

The Equilism Council, Military Ministry and E-Army are delighted to announce that our troops recently participated in the E-Army's 250th mission!

The Equilism Army has a proud history dating back almost as far as the founding of the region. Our Military Ministry began keeping records in February 2004. The first official E-Army mission was on Feb. 5, 2004 in Eastern Aldershot, followed by missions in United States and Middle Earth (regions that two years later remain hotly contested.)

Since then, our troops have been rocking and rolling all over NationStates, defending and liberating regions from invasion and overthrow. The 250th mission took place on Jan. 26, 2006 with the successful defence of Southeast Asia.

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The E-Army remains one of NationStates' most efficient and dedicated fighting forces. Congratulations to our soldiers, officers and veterans!

For more on the E-Army, please contact Commander Nooterland or Military Minister Bismarcia.

Jan. 28, 2006
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They just keep bouncing :)
congratulations on your success:)
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Thanks...and now I've got a double report for you.

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Equilism Weekly Update
January 29, 2006
President - Chaucerin
Prime Minister - Tse Moana
Population - 161

Note: This report is finally true to the name of weekly.

The newest rage in Equilism is Cybernations, many of our members have found it to be an exciting and more evolved version of NS, Max Barry better watch out because it looks like he has competition. You can find CN here.

Also, we have the NS Link List now, made by our very own PM Tse Moana and our foreign relation from Nederland Tycholand. This shows how big NS really is, it's still a work in progress but the progress that's been made is amazing. Good job Tse and Tycho, and here's a linkie.

In RP news, it seems that a massive bar fight has left eight dead and two seriously injured. More info on what our Medya characters are doing is here.

Canada, O Canada, why would we invade thee? In our debates, Canadian invasion seems to be the top topic. We also have crabby old hippies, the GOP, and welfare on our minds. A C+ is what all this debating got us, that and a very nice report. You can read that here.

And just like Santa, the E-Army's been rocking and rolling all over NS again stopping in some regions to hand out justice to invaders: 42 Hitch Hikers Guide, Audioscrobbler, Seattle, 1st of May Revolutionary Front, Southeast Asia and Socialism. We've also recieved a gift from the liberation fairy who gave us our 250th defense at Southeast Asia.

Equilism Reloaded is turning out to be a big hit with a lot of our members taking the time to try to improve Equilism for the current NS.


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A week and a half ago, Equilism issued a statement condemning Eli’s usurpation of power in the West Pacific and urged the regime to restore democracy and the rule of law to TWP.

We also singled out foreign participation in the matter, citing the fact that both Moldavi and Unistrut were promptly handed Ministries in Eli’s government. Eleven days later, the situation has not improved.

Moreover, it has become increasingly clear that foreign regions are manipulating events in the West Pacific. Two regions, The Pacific and the Meritocracy, must be singled out and held accountable for their continued support of Eli and their machinations in the region.

Numerous senior officials from both groups have flooded the new and illegitimate government, and one must frankly observe that Eli’s government is, for all intents and purposes, devoid of native support. The few natives who originally backed the Triumvirate have now switched sides, and when one observes the list of government officials, one might as well be reading a roll call of The Pacific or Meritocratic Senate. The Meritocracy now hosts the “Official” TWP forums, and members of these regions have unabashedly sent UN support to bolster Eli’s delegacy.

Equilism cannot stand idly by while The Pacific and the Meritocracy destroy the West Pacific. We hereby censure the ambassadors from these two regions on our forums, and we again urge Eli to stand down and return The West Pacific to constitutional, native rule.
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Equilism Weekly Update
February 05, 2006
President - Chaucerin
Prime Minister - Tse Moana
Population - 151

I'm very happy to announce that one of the veterans of Equilism has returned to us after a lengthy respite from the game. Join me in welcoming back Sub-Actuality.

While our Medya friends have taken on a statue state once again our E-Bar is running at capacity once again with the discovery of a swimming pool which turned out to be a giant Klingon pet tank.

How insulted would you be if the prophet of your god was publicly ridiculed in the papers? Hard question? Hardly, our debaters are as always the first on the scene to argue incessently about it. There's also more about Canadian takeover and Osama bin Laden being alive. There's also an interesting debate over President Bush's State of the Union address. As usual Farmerlaborers has his weekly report on our debating performance here.

There was also a small debate among our council as to who our new associate judge would be, we found that there were many who would fit the position perfectly before Tse Moana announced that Bismarcia was to be our new judge.

Our President Chaucerin has decided to try his hand at reversing the decline in Equilism's population by asking the region as a whole to take back up recruiting.

The E-Army has continued to rock and roll all over NS under the leadership of Commander Moo; if you looked hard enough you could have seen him bravely trotting into battle in: Southeast Asia once again, Kendaria, Seattle and Maine.

In other E-Army news, the new shinies have been awarded to our hardhitting military men and women.

We've also had the pleasure of adding Farmerlaborers to our force as our newest E-Army worm. :)


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Equilism Weekly Update
February 13, 2006
President - Chaucerin
Prime Minister - Tse Moana
Population - 157

There's finally an update in the Nation Creation Competition, since there's only a week left of the competition, it's easier to show who's still in rather than who's not, this is current at the writing of this update:
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Gasponia - Is it in yet Zorny poo
Koona - Winged Beast
Moo-Cows with Guns - Moo-Cows Rebels
Nightfox - Nation Game Puppet
Nucleo - Cataclysmic Gas
Talkos - Nomikos
The Great Irwin Rommel - Agnotic Insomniacs


In Debate action, we've found out how nicely Joe Republican leads his life thanks to the hated liberals, then there's drama over the Danish cartoons of Mohammed, debates over the American elections, and continued controversy over Bush's State of the Union. For more complete cover of Equilism's debating habits they're here.
The quote of the week is included:
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
"I disagree, liberals are evil bastards who have done nothing good for our country. This piece is an utter lie. There, I posted for you Neo, I didn't miss anything did I?"
-Equalist Communist satirically commenting in "Joe Republican"


Thanks to the renwed recruiting efforts of our region our numbers have stayed relatively stable for the week which is a good thing.

The E-Army has continued its rocking and rolling all over NS, Linux, Airstrip One, and Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz have recieved visits from our gun carrying fairies of justice.
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They just keep bouncing :)
good luck with the recruitment drive :)
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ReEqualized Communists

Thanks West, it's turning out pretty good.

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Equilism Weekly Update
February 19, 2006
President - Chaucerin
Prime Minister - Tse Moana
Population - 160

And the nation creation competition has a winner at long last. Drum roll please...I guess we can't afford one....anyway the winner is Moo, one of Equilism's finest stock. And the people who've run these competitions swear that they haven't rigged the results even though this is the second time an Equilismer has won the competition which was on it's second run this time.

In bathroom stall news Garifulla has returned to the E-Bar to get drunk and be a punching bag once more. The deadly joys of addictive Equilism beer. Also, Moo nearly had bar taken from him by angry patrons when they weren't recieving their drinks in a timely fasion, unruly drunk mobs are always the most reasonable though so now Moo has his bar back and the drunks have their drinks.

In more personal Equilism news, Garifulla is also celebrating his 27th birthday, it's a good time to remember the whole beating for a year tradition. And the members of Equilism have found out what gruesome truly is thanks to Nooterland who is selling his avatar to anyone rich enough to buy it, if you see the Ron Jeremy/Anastasio Somoza García mutation you can thank ellezelles, Moo, and EC who have paid for these services.

Cheney shot a man, what will the SNL view on it be? The world may never know...they did the Olympics instead. And why did Chauce give the US it's President? It was being too serious. These topics and more in our debates, you can also view the ODB report of the action though it's incredibly unbiased for who's doing it. That's here.
But if you can't see that here's a quote from there that should entertain:
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
"Because I am deeply and profoundly evil. That and yer Prezdint talks funny...giggle..."
-Chaucerin fessing up to rigging the 2000 elections in "A Day in the Life of Joe Republican"


The Equilism Museum is back on track thanks to the efforts of our Interior Minister, her deputy, and a reportedly lazy Admin who can't read the Minister's mind. And an archive of old Equilism news has been put together by Westwind, all of it older than the person writing this.

Equilism Elections are starting today, no one really knows who will run and who won't so the anticipation is intense as to who will run our region for the next 12 weeks.

Those gun carrying fairies of justice are at it again, they've rocked and rolled their way into Titan AE twice, Poland and Democratic Communist States. All have been hard fought battles.
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They just keep bouncing :)
thanks for the very newsie report :)
I'm still waiting for some new arcade games though :P
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ReEqualized Communists

You're welcome and we're waiting for them too.

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Equilism Weekly Update
February 28, 2006
President - Chaucerin
Prime Minister - Tse Moana
Population - 164

Elections have come to a close at last leaving an exhausted Tse Moana as the victor in the PM race after having tied with Equalist Communist at the end of the election. Special arrangements were made just to break this unprecedented event, no one in Equilism has ever tied before, how odd! Also Chaucerin has managed to out prank Astarial and her haikus to win the Presidential election. Therefore....there has been no change in the Administration in that regard so the region doesn't have to remember all over again who to call what, pretty nice for those of us who have bad memories.

Next, the President and Prime Minister have the picky task of picking the pickiest people to be ministers in the changing Equilism government.

Dragon attacks, oh my my my what big flames you have my dear. There has been an unprovoked attack upon a recent arrival to Equilism, Tycholand, by one of our returning members, Garifulla. There promises to be mass destruction in this flaming RP.

Who should really elect the President of the United States, the people or a handful or representatives? That's one piece of debatable controversy going around Equilism right now. And just like the protests resulting from the Mohammed Cartoons spark flames so does the subject in Equilism continue to spark some more friendly banter than you'd find on the front lines. And long after it occurred the State of the Union is still in discussion by our men and women who really do enjoy things like that a tad too much. There would be the usual quote and link to the ODB report however the writer is taking the week off from it due to lack of inspiration.

Who will post next, possible the biggest waste of space in all of Equilism has finally reached 200 pages. Tycholand has also taken the intiative to help lighten the pockets of Equilism's billionaires by setting up a lottery destined to take as much money as does the real lottery.

Chaucerin is having a baby, we'll contact the press about this scientifically inpossible event as soon as it happens. In the mean time though it's been found to be the perfect way to take equiliants from the "hard working" people of Equilism. Zapvilla also has the chance to go to law school, no one's sure if they should congratulate or console him.

As always under the leadership of his Bovineness the E-Army have been dropping down all over Equilism to fight for the ideals of freedom, you've seen their presence in Adult Swim, The Egyptians-twice , Gondor, and they're currently duking it out with invaders in Anime.
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They just keep bouncing :)
Thanks for the report :)
When is the baby due ?
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ReEqualized Communists

It's been born now, I think a couple weeks ago.

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Equilism Weekly Update
April 02, 2006
President: Chaucerin
Prime Minister: Tse Moana
Population: 192

General Government
In a week-long vote, Equilism has abolished the Senate and replaced it with a General Assembly with 86.36% of the voters in favour (19 for, 3 against). The General Assembly is open to all UN nations residing in Equilism for two weeks or longer and was one of the ideas thought up during Equilism Reloaded. Population of the EGA is happening right now with a thread having been opened for people to apply.

In the recent ADN Elections, Equilism voted for SWATH as Deputy Director and approved Majesto as Council President. The vote to determine the regions opinion on the cabinet selections at ADN has just begun. So far, with four people having cast their vote, it's ayes all around.

In the Justice department, Neo-Conservatism, who replaced Chaucerin as Chief Justice temporarily, has been approved as permanent replacement. To permanently fill the Associate Justice's seat Neo leaves behind, Moo-Cows with Guns has been asked and accepted. His confirmation vote has now started.

UN Resolutions
Repeal "Scientific Freedom" is currently up for a vote with 1 out of 1 in favour.
As for previous resolutions;
The Right to Form Unions: 4-3 in favour
UN Demining Survey: 8-2 in favour
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act: 9-1 in favour
Maritime Safety Standards Act: 6-0 in favour

Interior & Immigration
Immigration is on a definite roll with Equilism having 192 nations now, a high point we haven't been on in quite a while. We have new addition Tycholand and Interior Minister FarmerLaborers to thank for that as well as other recruiters Kertbeny, Tse Moana and Nooterland.

The introduction forum has been restructured to give new arrivals a better idea of what Equilism has to offer.

Foreign
The Foreign Minister has completed the ambassador audit. Only one ambassador did not sign in and lost his post. Some other ambassadorial positions have also changed hands.

Still going on is the regional audit to determine if there are embassies that can be closed.

Military
The Military has also conducted an audit to confirm soldier activity. Speaking of soldiers, two have graduated training and joined the Army while another one is currently being trained.

Recent Army activity has been in Middle Earth, Aequitas and US of A. Rejected Realms support continues in between missions.

Bar & Games
Languages spoken by our members have been the centre of activity recently. The high school juniors in the region, of which we have several, have been talking about the search for a college.
The NationDates april fool's joke went by without much mentioning but we've caught on to the re-occurence of the "0 of 0" error fast.

Caption Contest #19 finally finished leaving Ellezelles the winner. He has posted Contest #20 which has already gathered some really good captions.

Role Play
Garifulla has continued to harass Tycholand with dragons while "the last one wins" has resurfaced.

Debates
The debate section is in heavy demand these days with Guantanamo Bay, USA Immigration Policy, the Welfare State, "My Generation" and what makes people tick popular.

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Humph. Hard to argue with a man (Chauce, ed) who can quote Clint Eastwood and mean it.

Chaucerin
 
While I am very, very old (but not old like Westwind)...

Chauerin
 
Chainik Hocker
 
Touche, sir. Point well made.
Agreeing with me is just going to make matters worse...

Astarial
 
Oh my god the pink the pink!! :blink:

Neo-Conservatism
 
Also met Togo West, Secretary of the Army under Clinton--a really nice guy and a Democrat. Who would have known? :wink3:
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They just keep bouncing :)
Good to see all is alive and well in Equilism :)
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Good to see all is alive and well in Equilism :)
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Equilism would like to get back to more regular contact with Australia, and I've been tapped as the ambassador from the region. Sorry that this first update is such a brief one, but we've once again been beset with technical problems.

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Equilism Update
June 26, 2006
President: Neo-Conservatism
Prime Minister: FarmerLaborers
Population: 236
Regional Influence: Very High
Forum Link: http://www.equilism.org/forum
Equilism Wiki: http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Category:Equilism

FORUM DISASTER

The hackers just won't quit.
Having suffered a minor attack on the forum on Monday, June 19th, the Equilism forums were hit hard two days later, with a SQL injection attack that scripted a insert of files on our server, and inserted code into our database that crippled the region for a week.

Invision initially claimed that the problem must be due to our having left some remanent of the old forum software behind, leaving a vulnerability to our site.  However, two days later, Invision released a patch for this newly discovered exploit, that makes use of BBcode to gain access and carry out a SQL injection.

Unfortunately, due to file corruption and additional data/code errors, we were forced to flashback in time and restore the forum to it's condition from May 24th.  Citizens throughout the region are dazed and confused, wondering whether or not to turn back their calandars.

General Government

In an odd twist following the announcement of President Neo-Conservatism's absence this week, Prime Minster FarmerLaborers (in a backroom, temporary forum deal) announced Equilism's "undying devotion to the the region formerly known as the PRP, presently the NPO.  An alliance will be crafted and agreed to by the two bodies of nations, and upon the signing of said document, the nation of Astarial will present to the People's Commonwealth of FarmerLaborers seven large pizzas and ten bags of delicious cookies, not to have cooled below regulation temperature. Said items must also be delivered by seventeen beautiful maidens. "

No response has been heard from the NPO on the announcement.

Bar & Games
Some claim that the collapse of forum communications throughout Equilism was due to the final match of the Equilism World Cup.  The start of celebrations for the victory of Adventing Chors were strangely timed to the sudden 'blackout'.

While on the temporary forum, citizens felt that it was important to go on with our daily lives.  'Who Will Post Next?' never ends, even during the blackout.  And there was plenty of beer to go around, another 1000 bottles were found on the walls of the temporary forum.

Sorry this update has been a brief one, but we were rather occupied with......well.....um......what do you do in a blackout ?
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