[NSG Senate] The Senate Yellow Pages

[DrWinner]

ah, I misunderstood sorry, the son is the Senator.

Ok, so an idea, the son is a native malay/chinese/vietnamese etc Elizian.

His parents died when he was young, and he was adopted by the lady from the US who happens to be a business woman, and now he's come back with his rich mommy to do politicking.

That... actually helps explain the differences in ideologies between the two. Perfect. Thank you.

[Lykens]

ah, I misunderstood sorry, the son is the Senator.

Ok, so an idea, the son is a native malay/chinese/vietnamese etc Elizian.

His parents died when he was young, and he was adopted by the lady from the US who happens to be a business woman, and now he's come back with his rich mommy to do politicking.

That... actually helps explain the differences in ideologies between the two. Perfect. Thank you.

You're welcome.

Also his ideology seems to fit with the LDP, maybe you can consider joining that party.

[Coconut Isle]

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[Beta Test]

Faisal Sharif - Independent
Account Name: Beta Test
Occupation: Senator and journalist
Party Position(s):

None

Positions in Government:

None

Constituency: Bal Timor South
Political Ideology: Populism, nationalism, anti-corruption

Family:
Background: Faisal Sharif was born on the 8th of August 1959 in Ketang, the son of a Singaporean-born father and a local woman. He was raised in a lower income home and from a young age showed early promise as a footballer. He played professionally for 13 years from 1977 both in Elizia and in countries such as Thailand, Turkey and Germany, making him the first Elizian to ever play in Europe. Sharif's success at both a club level and for the Elizia national team made him something of a hero to many Elizians.

Retiring from injury Sharif turned first to sports journalism, writing for some of Elizia's largest publications. This slowly evolved to political and investigative journalism and in 1998 he launched Sharif AM, which boosted by his profile became of Elizia's most highly syndicated radio programs. His controversial and outlandish comments on politics and other matters earned him the ire of the ENC government, who in 2001 shut down his broadcasts and briefly threw him into prison. Upon his release however, Sharif quickly returned to his radio show, knowing that his status as a national hero would prevent the government from harming him too much. However the threat of continued harassment by the government caused him to enter self-imposed exile in Singapore in 2002, where he launched Sharif Tonight, a show which involved him commenting on the issues of the day as well as undertaking bizarre investigative journalism.

Sharif reestablished his base of activities in Elizia after returning in 2015. Upon the death of Labour legislator Ching-chong chak, Sharif decided to run for the Senate as an independent on a populist, anti-corruption platform, whereupon he was duly elected.
Faith: Sunni Islam

Likes: Football, tea, civil rights, investigative journalism, populism
Dislikes: Tyranny, political corruption

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[Costa Fierro]

Christopher (Chris) William Ching - Liberal Democrats

Account Name: Costa Motherfucking Fiero
Occupation: Senator/Professional masseuse

Party Position(s):

Gopher and chai maker

Positions in Government:
Constituency: SOMETHING CHINGLY
Political Ideology: Radical centrism, ordoliberalism

Family: Jessica Ching (nee Teo, m. 1998), Joseph (son, b. 2003)
Background: Chris Ching was born on December 16, 1976 in Singapore. His father was an Elizian-Chinese member of the Barisan Elizia, which was banned in 1971 and had fled to Singapore to escape persecution as well as charges of sodomy for accidentally sticking it in the "wrong hole" during the conception of his first child. His mother was a Singaporean Eurasian of Chinese-European descent, although it was also alleged that she was sleeping with an Australian soldier at the time of his conception. Chris' father was a lawyer and political activist and his mother was a schoolteacher.

Chris spent the first two decades of his life in Singapore, going to school and university in Singapore and qualifying as a criminal lawyer. He also served his mandatory National Service between 1994-1996. At the end of his National Service, Ching moved to Elizia to work as a criminal lawyer, settling in the capital. During this time, he met his wife, Jessica, who was a Chinese-American serving as an aid worker for Doctors without Borders. They married in 1998. Between 2011 and 2016, Ching was employed by the United Nations to investigate accusations of crimes against humanity perpetrated by the ENC.
Faith: Agnostic, nominal Roman Catholic

Likes: Candle lit dinners, long walks on the beach, the Doobie Brothers
Dislikes: Sand, seashells, Southeast Asian cuisine, vulcanology, scorpions inside the bedroom

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[Tectonix]

Alexander J. Maxwell - Social Liberal Party

Account Name: The Social Paradise of Tectonix
Occupation: Senator

Political Ideology: Libertarian Social Democrat (Democratic Socialism with Libertarian-like Civil Rights)

Family: Wife: Maria B. Maxwell. Children: Jorge Maxwell, Isabella Maxwell

Background: Senator Alexander J. Maxwell was raised by a politically-neutral family, allowing him to grow up in an environment of constant exterior influences. This allowed him to generate a mind of his own when he was just 13, and began volunteering for political candidates the same year.

After graduating with a doctorate in biochemical engineering from Elizania Institute of Science, he would later become exceedingly popular by developing a vaccine that cured several strains of HIV, herpes and mononucleosis, which granted him the opportunity to seek political office. He became a member of his city council and was re-elected twice, before he was elected mayor of the city. Now, Alexander Maxwell has been elected Senator to the Elizian Senate, with the Social Liberal Party as his affiliation.

Faith: Atheist

Likes: Long walks on the beach, being in the lab, skydiving, being with his family, caring for his patients.
Dislikes: Having to do math without a calculator, hardline conservatives, political campaigning.


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[Lykens]

I know you're new, so there is obviously a lot of leniency here.

However, Elizia is a nation that is 98.2 percent non white, mostly Malaysian, Chinese, Vietnamese, or aboriginal.

Being that we are a southeastern Asian nation that is a 49 percent plurality sunni Muslim, we're pretty conservative. That doesn't mean your senator can't be an atheist, he'd just have to be pretty quiet about it.

So ye. Thank you for understanding.

[Tectonix]

1. I'm not white. The picture's lighting just makes it look like that. (Hispanic would be the correct terminology)
2. The atheism would only kick in whenever science is brought up, maybe even abortion. I would definitely not evangelize it to anyone or anything.

[Lykens]

I see, however again that doesn't really make too much sense as to how a Hispanic man would find himself in a Southeastern Asian nation and represent a constituency that is probably completely Asian, .

And touching back on the extremely conservative thing, the only thing that'll happen with abortion is probably a ban, the science thing you might have more luck with.

[Tectonix]

Meh, I could write a whole backstory on that-(it would be a really funny story, now that I think about it )

Hmm...if abortion is banned, then I'll stick with the science. I've already proposed a stem cell bill to test the waters -- see how it goes. Thanks for the feedback, btw.

[Argentarino]

Adiputri bin Sayang - Social Liberal Party

Account Name: Argentarino
Occupation: Member of Parliament, Elizian Army Captain (Ret.)

Party Position(s):

Parliamentary Leader

Positions in Government:

Shadow Secretary of Foreign Affairs

Constituency:Sungai Sampit South
Political Ideology: Social Liberalism
Family: Wife - Azura, age 32
Background: Adiputri bin Sayang (age 34, born on August 15th, 1982) was born in Sungai Sampit in a military family. His father had been a Lieutenant in the Elizian Army, and he was expected to follow in his father's footsteps. He was in military school for most of his young life, eventually entering the military academy when he was 18 years old. While he took the courses necessary for beginning his career as an officer within the Army, he had a passion for learning about foreign nations. He pursued studies regarding International Relations within the Academy, and then, finally, he graduated in 2004. By 2013, he worked his way up the officer corps to the rank of Captain, and through his father's connections, he had been able to remain stationed in Sungai Sampit. However, like most young people at this time, he had begun to lose faith in the regime, despite his privileged background. In 2012, his father died of cancer, and in hindsight, Adjputri was probably glad that his father was not around when the Revolution broke out.

When the grip of the regime was finally tested in 2013, Adjputri and his company (one many stationed around the city at that time) were handed down orders from on high: shoot down the protesters and assist with the arrest of traitors. For Adjputri, this he could not stand. When he asked his immediate superior, a Lieutenant, to reconsider the order "for the good of the nation," he was threatened with imprisonment for treason if he did not comply with the orders from command. So, on one fateful day, Adjputri and his company were ordered to confront a group of rioters in downtown Sungai Sampit. Upon their arrival, Adjputri was shocked to see peaceful protesters, chanting anti-government slogans...but no rioters. When he asked for clarification, again, the order came: shoot to kill. With this, Captain Adjputri broke and ordered his soldiers to stand down. Not only that, but he approached the protesters, and offered his services to protect them. What Adjputri didn't know at the time was that that action would spark a number of defections within the area that would give the soon-to-be organized rebellion a small boost within Western Elizia. By the end of the revolution and the signing of the peace accords, Adjputri had become something like a local celebrity, but he did not use it to run for office or accrue political influence. He retired from the Armed Forces and settled down with his wife, Azura, who ran a single shop in Sungai Sampit's southern quarter. However, with his newfound idleness, Adjputri had accrued a desire for liberal politics. He, like many young Elizians, had experienced that taste of Western liberalism under the United Nations mission, and he wanted that to return to Elizia. When the SLP was founded, he dedicated his time to shoring up the party within Sungai Sampit South, and lending his "local hero" bona fides to the SLP beyond Sungai Sampit, which led to him going up the local party lists as a potential candidate.

With the resignation of Sayid Kasturi (who had previously run as a Labour candidate), Sungai Sampit South had been free game for most of the left-leaning parties. However, in the end, despite the hardships that the SLP had gone through in regards to the Kasturi Situation, Adjputri bin Sayang was elected with 48% of the vote. Because of his military record and his knowledge of foreign relations, as well as his standing within the Party, he inherited Sayid Kasturi's positions in the Shadow Cabinet and the Social Liberal Party. After the resignation of Tijah bin Dian from the SLP Parliamentary Leadership position, Adiputri bin Sayang entered his name as a candidate for the Leadership role at the last second. Surprisingly, he won the party election and is now the face of the Social Liberals, as well as one of the faces of the Liberal Coalition.

Faith: Sunni Muslim, not a strict adherent

Likes: Civil rights, Western democratic ideals, feminism
Dislikes: Extremism, the ENC, authoritarianism, blind populism

Any Questions from the Public to be answered?

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[The Miaphysite Church of Coptic Archism]

Suria bin Suuha - (37) - Elizian National Congress

Account Name: The Miaphysite Church of Coptic Archism
Occupation: Senator

Party Position(s):

Party Leader

Positions in Government:

N/A

Constituency: Perairan Putih
Political Ideology: Centrist economics, socially conservative, patriotism

Family: Married to Nasreen binti Desa (34), one son, Nilam bin Suria (8)
Background: Born to an ENC Party-Member father in Kentang, Suria has always lived a politicized life. He went to a private school and excelled in some of his studies, falling behind somewhat in sciences and physical subjects. After secondary school Suria joined the ENC as a party member, following in his father's footsteps, and began tertiary studies in Kentang. Suria graduated with a degree in law, and his father's small amount of influence got Suria into the ENC's political machine. Suria proved to be a talented public speaker, although not abnormally so.

A mix of Suria's talents, his degree, his father's position and his ethnicity led to Suria raising his own position to a public face for the ENC, representing the party in speaking to the nation on several important occasions. In the last election before the civil war, Suria was elected into the previous Elizian legislature. Near the end of the civil war, when the conclusion was clear, Suria resigned his position, but did not renounce his party membership. After the civil war, Suria was one of many party members investigated for any potential war crime involvement but was found to have had nothing to do with the occurrences of the war.

Suria took a break from politics after this, however seeing the current state of Elizian politics he decided to run in a bi-election for the impoverished, mostly Malay district of Perairan Putih in the FCD, on the ticket of a reformed ENC. He soundly won the election.
Faith: Self-identified Sunni Muslim, not particularly religious

Likes: Elizia, Tradition, Prosperity
Dislikes: Globalism, Weakness, Minorities

Any Questions from the Public to be answered?

• None so far, but open to them! -

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[Takhshiyt]

Raju Sandeep - Liberal Democrats

Account Name: Takhshiyt
Occupation: Senator of the Elizian Parliament; formerly a lawyer

Constituency:Nanjiang Central District
Political Ideology:Libertarianism with hints of nationalism

Family: none
Background: Raju Sandeep is a native of Nanjiang. His family immigrated from India to Elizia after ww2. Sandeep took up his fathers lawyer business at the age of 24. The economic and social hardships, along with his families personal belief in working for money, formed the political beliefs of Sandeep.
Faith: Sunni Muslim
Likes: Reading books, fishing, numbers, chess
Dislikes: Opera, dogs, welfare

Any Questions from the Public to be answered?

• What is your position on marriage?
  
  "My personal position is that marriage is between a man and a woman, and Allah willing, all will believe so. Policy wise, I would like to see the government not endorse any form of marriage, instead offering a legal "Joint Union" that could be used for anyone, be it family members that share property to married couples. I believe defining marriage should be left up to faith organizations, not the government."
  
  What is your position on business, specifically international ones?
  
  "My position is that of balance. While I definitely do support trade between nations, and the freedom of entry from markets and exit from markets, I do think we should employ our own citizens first. Development within Elizia is my top priority, and that includes giving Elizian's their chance at making a future for themselves. That being said, I do think we should allow foreign businesses to do business here, as I think they will provide capital that our nation needs to rebuild. I am opposed to any international agreement, economic or otherwise, that restricts the ability of our citizenry to have, what is the saying, first dibs on jobs and business opportunities within Elizia."

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[DrWinner]

Raju Sandeep - Liberal Democrats

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Account Name: Takhshiyt
Occupation: Senator of the Elizian Parliament; formerly a lawyer

Constituency:Nanjiang Central District
Political Ideology:Libertarianism with hints of nationalism

Family: none
Background: Raju Sandeep is a native of Nanjiang. His family immigrated from India to Elizia after ww2. Sandeep took up his fathers lawyer business at the age of 24. The economic and social hardships, along with his families personal belief in working for money, formed the political beliefs of Sandeep.
Faith: Sunni Muslim
Likes: Reading books, fishing, numbers, chess
Dislikes: Opera, dogs, welfare

Any Questions from the Public to be answered?

• What is your position on marriage?My personal position is that marriage is between a man and a woman, and Allah willing, all will believe so. Policy wise, I would like to see the government not endorse any form of marriage, instead offering a legal "Joint Union" that could be used for anyone, be it family members that share property to married couples. I believe defining marriage should be left up to faith organizations, not the government.

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Mark Markson very much approves of this man, and wishes to ask the following question.

What is your position on business, specifically international ones?

[Arachaea]

Trần Thị Mai Thu - Elizian Communist Party

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Account Name: Arachaea
Occupation: Senator

Party Position(s):

None

Constituency: Nila and Kuala
Political Ideology: Eco-socialism, anti-capitalism, trade unionism

Family: Jiang Song (partner)
Background: Thu Tran was born in the town of Nila, Elizia on 1st April 1976 to Vietnamese parents who had moved to Elizia to escape the communist government. She grew up in the town, developing an interest in politics, but feeling alienated by the ENC and it's authoritarian stances, instead reading about Western nations where the government protected it's citizens, and Scandinavia where the governments gave free healthcare, education and welfare to it's citizens, and wanted to make Elizia like that. She supported the revolution, but did not take part in it, and when the first democratic elections were held, she ran for the created constituency of Nila and Kuala, and gained 49.3% first-preference votes. She decided to join the Social Liberal Party after a while of sitting as an independent, thinking that being in a party would give her more influence. She often refers to herself by an anglicised version of her Vietnamese name, Thu Tran. After an internal power struggle and a perceived shift to the right in the SLP, she split off to create the centre-left green Alternative, but eventually she started drifting left from a social-liberal perspective to an anti-capitalist perspective, and decided to merge with the Communists after the death of her fellow Alternative MP.
Faith: Agnosticism

Likes: Multiculturalism, socialism, civil rights, environmentalism.
Dislikes: Nationalism, capitalism, authoritarianism, climate change denial.

Any Questions from the Public to be answered?

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[Takhshiyt]

Raju Sandeep - Liberal Democrats

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Account Name: Takhshiyt
Occupation: Senator of the Elizian Parliament; formerly a lawyer

Constituency:Nanjiang Central District
Political Ideology:Libertarianism with hints of nationalism

Family: none
Background: Raju Sandeep is a native of Nanjiang. His family immigrated from India to Elizia after ww2. Sandeep took up his fathers lawyer business at the age of 24. The economic and social hardships, along with his families personal belief in working for money, formed the political beliefs of Sandeep.
Faith: Sunni Muslim
Likes: Reading books, fishing, numbers, chess
Dislikes: Opera, dogs, welfare

Any Questions from the Public to be answered?

• What is your position on marriage?My personal position is that marriage is between a man and a woman, and Allah willing, all will believe so. Policy wise, I would like to see the government not endorse any form of marriage, instead offering a legal "Joint Union" that could be used for anyone, be it family members that share property to married couples. I believe defining marriage should be left up to faith organizations, not the government.

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Mark Markson very much approves of this man, and wishes to ask the following question.

What is your position on business, specifically international ones?

"My position is that of balance. While I definitely do support trade between nations, and the freedom of entry from markets and exit from markets, I do think we should employ our own citizens first. Development within Elizia is my top priority, and that includes giving Elizian's their chance at making a future for themselves. That being said, I do think we should allow foreign businesses to do business here, as I think they will provide capital that our nation needs to rebuild. I am opposed to any international agreement, economic or otherwise, that restricts the ability of our citizenry to have, what is the saying, first dibs on jobs and business opportunities within Elizia."

[Bojikami]

Shi An Ning - Elizian Communist Party

Account Name: Bojikami
Occupation: Senator

Party Position(s):

Member

Positions in Government:

Senator

Constituency: N/A
Political Ideology: Marxism-Leninism-Maoism

Family: None, he is currently single.
Background: An was born in Elizia in the winter of 1981 to Chinese parents who moved to Elizia, feeling disgruntled with the current political situation. He grew up in a small, rural village raised by his parents, both of whom were former Red Guards and participated in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China. His parent's history and his own families ties to the Chinese Communist Party heavily influenced his politics, with him studying Marxism and Maoism at the age of 16. He and his friends fought alongside the revolutionaries whom toppled the former authoritarian regime, and returned home a local hero. Later, he would run in the first elections, winning his local constituency with 60.3% of the vote. He currently is affiliated with the Elizian Communist Party, which he feels most closely follows his views.
Faith: Atheist

Likes: Peoples' Republic of China prior to Deng Xiaoping (He views modern China as a bastardisation of Mao's revolution), Communism, Socialism, Maoism, Dogs, Environmentalism, Soviet Union
Dislikes: Nationalism, Capitalism, Modern PRC, Religious Zealotry, Globalisation, Weakness, Trotskyites

Any Questions from the Public to be answered?
Open for Questions

• What is your understanding of economics? - "I am a firm supporter of centrally planned economics in so that we reduce or even eliminate the waste created by speculatory market economics and better focus our resources on improving our industrial capacity as well as decreasing unemployment."

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[FreYhill]

EliziaBet - Company

Account Name: Freyhill
Objective: Sporting & Political Betting
Political Affiliations: N/A

Location: Elizia Wide - HQ @ Kentang
Size:500+
Typical Uniform/Attire: Office & Casual Wear
Background: Established in 2016, EliziaBet is Elizia's so-called "Prime Betting Enterprise", with the Kentang Based Enterprise dealing with Sporting & Political Betting. Furthermore, Political Betting tends to be more common than Sporting Betting - with more markets available due to a rather volatile political battleground of the Federal Elizian Government.
Supports: Betting, Politics, Horses
Does not Support: Betting Regulation

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[World Anarchic Union]

Rahmat Ishida - Elizian Communist Party

Account Name: World Anarchic Union
Occupation: Senator, Former Guerilla Fighter

Party Position(s): General Secretary
Positions in Government: N/A
Constituency: N/A
Political Ideology: Communism, Marxism-Leninism(-Maoism)

Family: Nadira and Nadya- Daughters
Background: Rahmat Ishida was born to a Japanese father and an Elizian mother in 1960, their youngest child. He had three brothers and two sisters and grew up in mild poverty but being cared for by his family. He had to start working since a young teenager to support his family. Both his father, his older brothers and sisters and his mother were socialists, opposed to the regime of the ENC. At the age of 14, he became a communist as well, following his family's footsteps. When he was 15, the regime commissioned vigilante mobs and paramilitaries to attack and massacre many socialists, among them his parents, brothers and sisters. He managed to escape to the mountains and from there met up with fellow communists who had managed to escape the persecution. They set up bases in largely rural areas and villages. By his 18th birthday, he was already leading a harsh life and was a guerilla fighter.

Rahmat, or "The Japanese", as he was called by fellow comrades, even though he was born in Elizia and considered himself Elizian, was a staunch enemy of the regime of the ENC. He was an outlaw for decades, hiding among fellow socialists and allies. After so many years he became disillusioned with the revolution, seeing as the people hadn't risen up yet, but that ended with the Orchid Revolution. He still did some bombings in towns, though, and occasionally attacked some soldiers near the rural bases of the communists.

He had a romantic relationship with a fellow guerilla fighter, Nurul Tanadi , since 1982 and with her had two daughters, who they named Nadira and Nadya. Nurul died fighting some of the regime's paramilitary thugs, in 1999, when Nadya was only three years old. Rahmat never maintained another romantic relationship. His daughters were taught by communist and socialist teachers in the mountains and villages and moved to the capital, illegally, a few years before the regime's end.

After over 4 decades of living in exile and being an outlaw, the Orchid Revolution happened and the ENC were deposed. He came out of exile and gave up his weapons, at the age of 58, after the legalization of the Communist Party and the certain fall of the ENC regime. He joined the ECP again, after many years of hiding and being an outlaw because of his beliefs, and rejoined Elizia as a citizen, with his two daughters, now both adults. He is still committed to the cause of communism and revolution and hates the ENC and its offshoots with a passion. He is more open to other interpretations of communism after many years as an outlaw, as often came into contact with communists of other ideologies but remains a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist.
Faith: Atheism

Likes: Communism, Revolution, Progress, Proletariat and Peasantry, Dictatorship of the Proletariat, Revolutionary Democracy
Dislikes: Imperialism, Capitalism, Sexism, Oppression, Bourgeoise, ENC

Any Questions from the Public to be answered?

• What is your understanding of economics?
  
  "I didn't go to an university and haven't studied among great scholars and professors but I understand of misery and poverty, of the oppression of the poor by the rich and the exploitation of the workers by the elite. I had been working hard since I was a young boy because my family didn't have enough to live by. I understand that we have to change this hellish situation. That's why I have fought all my life and why I will continue to fight.
  I may not have had a higher education but I don't need one to realize of the problems of the current system and why we must abolish it and replace it, with a more inclusive and equal one, through the people's will. Although I wish I could change that."

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[DrWinner]

A open question for each member of the Communist Party to answer, from Mark Markson:

"What is your understanding of economics?"

[Arachaea]

A open question for each member of the Communist Party to answer, from Mark Markson:

"What is your understanding of economics?"

Thu Trân: "I refuse to answer questions from people that oppose their worker's political freedoms and civil rights."

[World Anarchic Union]

A open question for each member of the Communist Party to answer, from Mark Markson:

"What is your understanding of economics?"

"I didn't go to an university and haven't studied among great scholars and professors but I understand of misery and poverty, of the oppression of the poor by the rich and the exploitation of the workers by the elite. I had been working hard since I was a young boy because my family didn't have enough to live by. I understand that we have to change this hellish situation. That's why I have fought all my life and why I will continue to fight.
I may not have had a higher education but I don't need one to realize of the problems of the current system and why we must abolish it and replace it, with a more inclusive and equal one, through the people's will. Although I wish I could change that."

[Eredion]

Luen Veas - Elizian Communist Party

Account Name: Eredion
Occupation: Senator

Party Position(s):

Politburo member / Member

Positions in Government:

N/A

Constituency:N/A
Political Ideology: Maoism

Family: married with one daughter
Background: Born in 1985 in Elizia a 3rd generation Chinese migrant he grew up in the capital city of Elizia, he lived a normal life with influences from the Chinese mainland when visiting his grandparents. To get enough money to study, he worked on the farms of the countryside sharing hard work, blod and sweat with other workers. He then eventually picked up on communism in his student group while studying business administration, however when the revolution broke out, he sat still, he did not want to risk the lifes of his child and wife in case the revolution failed. Everytime he heard the news about a revolutionary victory he boiled with happiness and could not wait until total victory was achieved. The day, the tyrannical government was ousted from power, he decided to join politics. Now he wants to give with his party the country a mark, a mark of progress and order.
Faith: Atheism

Likes: Order, central government, dictatorship of the proletariat, People´s Republic of China, Three Represents, balanced relations with all the world´s countries (even in it´s current form)
Dislikes: far-right, nationalism, stagnation

Any Questions from the Public to be answered?

• What is your understanding of economics? I have studied business administration in university, but only have limited knowledge of general economics.

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[The New World Oceania]

Elizian Communist Party - Political Party

Official Thread: viewtopic.php?f=25&t=389443

Objective: We stand for the liberation of all oppressed peoples: proletarians, people of color, women, queer people, neurodivergent and disabled people. We will always work to combat all forms of exploitation perpetuated by the ruling class. Fight back!
Political Affiliations:

Party organizations coming soon.

Location: Nanjiang, Jinyu, Elizia
Size: 9 Senators; approximately 1.9 million Elizians
Typical Uniform/Attire: ECP T-shirts available in the online gift shop
Background: The Elizian Communist Party was influenced by the rise of the Chinese Communist Party, and while communists across Elizia called for an end to British rule for years, it was officially founded in 1957, two days after Elizia's independence from Britain. The Communists led the charge for Elizian independence from Malaysia, and after Elizia seceded in 1964 they looked to become a major player in Elizian politics. The hope was short-lived, as the fascist Elizian National Congress persecuted and massacred communists across the country for 45 years. During this time the Party supported guerilla efforts against the ENC, playing a major role in the post-Orchid Revolution rural insurgencies. The Party celebrated the fall of the ENC in 2015, but after decades of persecution had no central structure and was unable to participate in the a Constitutional Convention. The Party finally reorganized together after the Provisional Government, and has quickly become a force to be reckoned with in Elizian politics.
Supports: Communism, socialism, marginalized people, workers, women, Chinese people, revolution
Does not Support: Privatization, fascism, racism, sexism, classism

Any Questions from the Public to be answered?

• Questions will be answered reasonably promptly -

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[Greater Istanistan]

Bao Trinh Thanh - Communist Party of Elizia

Account Name:Greater Istanistan
Occupation: Senator

Party Position(s):

Politburo Member, Public Relations Secretary

Positions in Government:

Senator

Constituency: Kentang Bay North
Political Ideology: Eurocommunism, Asian regionalism

Family: Thue Thanh (daughter, adopted), two aged parents, and a pack of worthless cousins
Background: At first glance, Senator Bao Trinh Thanh cuts a sharp contrast with his fellow party members. Unlike most of them, Senator Thanh was not born a member of an impoverished caste, but rather is the scion of a traditional Vietnamese merchant clan with a rich history stretching back hundreds of years. His family name has been associated with mercantile cunning and sharp dealings in trade since the first arrival of the British East India Company, when his illustrious predecessors saw the arrival of foreigners as a chance to get filthy rich. This wealth persisted through generations, with ugly rumors of war profiteering and sales to the Japanese clouding the family name in the 1940s. These allegations, along with his uncle's unfortunate decision to blow most of the Thanh fortune on drugs, fast boats, and risky investments in conflict-wracked Southeast Asia, crippled the family name. The Elizian National Congress' discriminatory policies and massive debt did the rest.

The young Senator Thanh was born during this period, when the entire family was spectacularly blowing up in a flurry of corruption allegations, lurid tabloid headlines, money-grubbing relatives, and public shame. His father was, as the youngest of the family patriarch's nine siblings, out of the line of succession for the money and served as an accountant with the family firm. As the business collapsed, he quietly moved secured what funds he could in entirely legal ways and stayed out of trouble. He met his future wife and Bao's mother at a ludicrously decadent family gathering in the late 1960s. A hard-bitten and tough lawyer who fought hard to rise to the top of a male-dominated sector of the economy, she was serving the Thanhs as one of the defence attorneys in a particularly nasty lawsuit surrounding charges that ultra-rightist generals in South Vietnam were helping the uncle cover his massive debts in exchange for smuggling arms to their paramilitary death squads. The allegations were all too true, but Bao's mother was able to politicize the prosecutor's overly racial tone and get a settlement.

The two of them married as much out of mutual convenience - both of them were stuck with the Thanhs at this point and needed a way out - as love, but nevertheless were a relatively happy couple. There was enough money left to, in the late 1970s, send the young Bao to the University of Tokyo to study medicine in hopes of, in the words of his mother, "getting an actual job". Bao, who up until then had lived a rather sheltered life so as to deliberately disassociate himself from his notoriously wastrel cousins still making headlines for spectacularly foolish public stunts and new levels of grotesque and flamboyant indebtedness, was plunged into a whole new world. He came out a middling doctor, but - to the chagrin of his parents - an unusually gifted Communist orator, having been converted by members of the Communist Party of Japan's student wing. He inherited from this party a strong sense of parliamentarianism and democracy, a tendency towards pragmatism, and an unyielding belief in the need for political justice. He swiftly became an entirely different sort of disappointment to his parents than they feared he might have been.

While remaining straight-laced to a fault, abstaining from alcohol, and scoffing at the potential his family name offered him, Bao became a firebrand political activist. He agitated against the government, used his medical practice to fund trips abroad to Cuba, China, Vietnam, and Russia to look at different Communist and post-Communist states and avoid the secret police, and stubbornly refused to make the poor pay for treatment. As a result of this, he never made much of himself in terms of personal wealth. However, he was certainly enriched by it. Unfortunately, the constant litany of trips abroad, arrests, meetings with fellow activists, and feverish days in the clinic meant that Bao simply never got around to marriage. If asked about it, he simply mentioned that it had never crossed his mind when he had more important affairs to worry about. He was also involved in the publication of "Spark", a small leftist newspaper named in homage of Lenin's publication by the same name. Every edition was prefaced with the aged dictum that "if you can't explain it, you don't understand it". This philosophy guided "Spark", which was aimed at making Communist politics and social progressivism relevant to ordinary working and unemployed people.

As the crackdown worsened and life became impossible for Bao, he quietly packed up his aged parents and relocated to Vietnam in 1995. There, he continued his medical practice and kept in touch with exiles but mostly gave up on politics. After all, fulminating at the homeland from abroad was hardly going to do much good. Instead, he threw himself fully into his medical practice, travelled within Vietnam to see its famous natural sights, and - to give him something to do with his spare time - adopted a daughter. Senator Thanh describes these years as "peaceful - somewhat dull, but fulfilling nonetheless" and appears to have genuinely enjoyed himself. The moment the Orchid Revolution began, however, he entrusted his parents to some Vietnamese friends, packed his adoptive daughter off to his alma mater for a degree in economics with some of the world's most convenient timing, and contacted his estranged relatives to have him smuggled back into the country. Once in Elizia again, Bao Thanh threw himself fully into politics again, networking with old buddies from the Communist movement and serving as an illegal street doctor for injured protestors. This, more than anything else, made his reputation. Although Bao never took up arms or fought the regime violently, his entirely political and totally pragmatist work in the streets made his name for him. As he ran most of his illegal clinics from squads in the gritty dockyards to the north of Kentang, when the regime finally came down and elections were held Bao defeated several respectable candidates to take the seat for the Communists. In a bizarre twist of fate, Bao Thanh has actually made something of himself.

Faith: Shows up at Buddhist events on occasion, but overall isn't particularly hung up over it

Likes: Smooth jazz, George Orwell, cheeseburgers, Salvador Allende, tabloid newspapers, cats, and the proletariat
Dislikes: Reactionists, chocolate, pretentious phrasing, too much theory

Any Questions from the Public to be answered?

ASK ME MORE - Sen. Thanh

• What is your Understanding of Economics? Maybe people shouldn't starve. But on a serious note, I look at some people who feel like they understand economics because they've read Capital and the Conquest of Bread. OK, you understand leftist theory on economics, but do you understand economics? And then I see these foreign CEOs who come to our country thinking that we're all poor and indebted, so maybe they can get away with exploiting us more because Elizians are completely incapable of thinking rationally about how they're doing. Excuse me, you don't understand economics half so well as you think you do if you believe you can get away with this! My understanding of economics is this: Elizia is better with development, infrastructure, and growth. This is true. At this point, we must work with international capital if we want to develop Elizia without firing up the back-yard furnaces and tossing the silverware in so we can match America in five years. This is also true. But unlike many of the so-called people with common sense, I also understand that development and progress does not look like mass exploitation and factories with built-in suicide nets. This is what the foreigners have come to expect when they visit Southeast Asia. I understand economics well enough to know that we need a strong government plan and a good basis of economic democracy if we're going to develop. I also know that cooperatives are scientifically proven to be more efficient, stable, durable, and fulfilling for workers than standard capitalist businesses. So, Mr. CEO. How well do you understand economics?
  
• How do you feel about the standing motion to topple the Coalition Government?
  
  Communists often forget that they do not serve an abstraction of the people, but rather actual working Elizians and marginalized communities. While we do not support a reformist government in principle, in practice the choice is between a somewhat unpalatable coalition and a pack of neoliberals. I fully appreciate the need to keep the current government accountable, especially given its worrying inclusion of crypto-fascist elements and its propensity towards putting armed forces under political command. However, I cannot in good conscience say that the opposition is any more palatable to me right now. In my view, the Communists should stand as an independent third faction. Right now, we hold the balance of power in the Senate, and by maintaining democratic centralism and working out a deal with the side of our choice, we can get something resembling a genuinely progressive agenda hammered out. Muttering about bourgeois parties and the revolutionary maximum isn't going to help the oppressed. Neither is giving up a chance to do some good because we like bringing governments down. If we're going to do something, we have to do it right.
  
• What is your position on China? The Chinese are fairly clearly not interested in promoting progressive causes worldwide. From their abandonment of the Naxalites in India to their active courting of right-wing governments worldwide, their priorities are clearly not leftist advancement. Furthermore, China's aggressively nationalist bent puts them directly into conflict with Elizian basic interests. After all, the majority of our country and all of our best fishing grounds exist within the eight-dash line, and taking a pro-Chinese line would put us on an even keel with the other anti-American Communist nation in Greater East Asia - that being, of course, North Korea. As our comrades in Vietnam and Laos go to show, there is great potential for involvement in ASEAN and economic prosperity while maintaining a socialist economic line and a Communist government. The opposition in Myannmar, as an explicitly socialist party with American support, provides another useful example of how the left and the Americans can co-exist if there is mutual strategic interest. We cannot build full anti-revisionist Marxism in Elizia at present, as decades of misrule have delayed our development. However, the Chinese would simply see us as another regional satrapy to be exploited. If we work with other regional governments and build up regional partnerships, I believe that our Communist Party could, by taking power in a free and democratic manner, be accepted by the regional community and plot our own path forwards free from Chinese dominance.

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