[PASSED] Commend Europeia

[Kylia Quilor]

I don't see anything on our forums that suggest that Europeia has.

[Sanctaria]

Uni is wrong about Euro being the current registrar for COPS.

-someone from Euro

[Unibot III]

Uni is wrong about Euro being the current registrar for COPS.

-someone from Euro

*thumbs up*

There we go.

[Consular]

I'm not entirely sure COPS actually has a formal up to date registry.

Perhaps Uni was thinking of the recruitment standards accord?

[Unibot III]

Perhaps Uni was thinking of the recruitment standards accord?

I know Euro is the registrar for that but, I thought I remembered someone making an announcement about four years ago but nevermind, I'm wrong.

[Kylia Quilor]

Perhaps Uni was thinking of the recruitment standards accord?

I know Euro is the registrar for that but, I thought I remembered someone making an announcement about four years ago but nevermind, I'm wrong.

I think we tried to work with you closely about Cops II and then it all kind of collapsed.

[Unibot III]

I know Euro is the registrar for that but, I thought I remembered someone making an announcement about four years ago but nevermind, I'm wrong.

I think we tried to work with you closely about Cops II and then it all kind of collapsed.

Euro's players were heavily involved with a COPS II convention at the first NS World Fair. It was my idea to try to draft a new COPS at the Fair, but beyond that, they weren't working with me directly. There was some good ideas thrown around, but it just didn't get off the ground. I remember a lot of debates about how to enforce COPS, who needed to find a forum destroyer guilty for COPS to be invoked, and whether a sentence for a forum destroyer ought to be indefinite with chance for 'parole.' This led to into a hyper-unproductive debate about the creation of an international court.

(I remain convinced an international court could be a very important institution in NS Gameplay but I'll admit, I'm among a small minority...)

[Kylia Quilor]

I think we tried to work with you closely about Cops II and then it all kind of collapsed.

Euro's players were heavily involved with a COPS II convention at the first NS World Fair. It was my idea to try to draft a new COPS at the Fair, but beyond that, they weren't working with me directly. There was some good ideas thrown around, but it just didn't get off the ground. I remember a lot of debates about how to enforce COPS, who needed to find a forum destroyer guilty for COPS to be invoked, and whether a sentence for a forum destroyer ought to be indefinite with chance for 'parole.' This led to into a hyper-unproductive debate about the creation of an international court.

(I remain convinced an international court could be a very important institution in NS Gameplay but I'll admit, I'm among a small minority...)

It could be important. It would also be a political football that people would obey about as much as the real International Court - that is, when it suits them.

[Marilyn Manson Freaks]

This is very well written! Good job, Souls~!

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

Had a rough week, got very sick, survived just in time for a test...

tl;dr, apologies for this sitting here for a bit, should have edits soon, maybe this weekend.

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

Commend Europeia

Category: Commendation | Target: Europeia | Proposed By: Ever-Wandering Souls

The Security Council,

Applauding Europeia's role at the forefront of the Independent ideology, which has significantly included hosting the Independent Convention as well as codifying the principles and values of Independentism in a landmark interregional document known as The Independent Manifesto;

Recognizing the region's history of military leadership, notably via several Status of Forces Agreements wherein Europeia assisted allies including The United Kingdom, Merridel, and The Communist Bloc with the development of their own armies;

Specifically Recognizing Europeia's commitment to anti-fascist military efforts, particularly the forceful presence of the Europeian Republican Navy on numerous operations in regions such as Nazi Europe, Greater German Reich, and Anne Frank, as well Europeia's creation of the Coalition Against the Ideology of Nazism, uniting regions across the world in the combat of fascism both politically and militarily;

Applauding the region for its impressive efforts to recruit nations to become a part of its territory, often using state-of-the-art technology that Europeia has developed, tested, and shared with other regions;

Complementing Europeia's the exemplary participation in recruitment efforts from many individual nations in the region, whose efforts are largely responsible for the region perennially being among the largest regions for over a decade, as well as the region's formal recognition of such;

(Author note: Europeia has developed several recruitment tools used by many large regions, and is particularly notable for it's huge manual recruitment program - their Hall of Recruiters alone recognizes over 600,000 cumulative manual telegrams sent)

Noting that Europeia further hosted the UCR-UCR Conference, which notably produced the Arnhelm Declaration of Recruitment Standards, a widely-followed standard for behavior in regional recruitment activities;

Admiring Europeia's extraordinary executive, legislative and judicial systems, in which more than 90 nations often participate, and which have produced a long history of democracy, a large body of legislation, and many a fair trial;

(Author note - cited number comes from common level of election participation)

Further Admiring that Europeia has striven to share their expertise in these areas with other regions, notably having assisted The Allied Republic with development of a regional legal system, in addition to supported Balder through the development of their entire regional government;

Impressed by Europeia's record of profound cultural presence, including:

• Hosting the "Women in NS Symposium" to recognize female world leaders
• Organizing a celebration of culture among many regions known as the "Winter Ball"
• Maintaining a vibrant regionally and privately owned media
• [Protecting the right of the fourth estate to be critical of the region
• Supporting a world-renowned audio broadcasting organization
• Assisting other regions with the development of their own fourth estate with accords such as the Brittannian Kingdom Media Agreement

Acknowledging that Europeia has long been a leader in the World Assembly, consistently supporting the creation of World Assembly legislation regionally with an extensive World Assembly Drafting Headquarters, in addition to supporting legislation inter-regionally as a prominent member of the World Assembly Legislative League;

Praising Europeia's extensive efforts to collect, preserve, and catalog often irreplaceable regional and world history in one of the largest libraries in the world;

(author note - http://s6.zetaboards.com/Europeia/forum/60043/ Other large libraries have included those managed by the UDL and GB&I, with the latter eventually becoming incorporated into Euro's)

Believing in conclusion that Europeia both excels internally and strives to assist others at excelling in in an astounding number of aspects, that the region has set many a global standard, and that the region overall serves both as an exemplary role model for regions around the world and as a force for positive change throughout it;

Hereby Commends Europeia.

Draft 2 is up. Cleaned up a bit, reworded some things, trimmed I think to under the character limit, and reduced "including" useage.

...and also killed typos, hopefully.

[Unibot III]

There's def some typos there. Bear with me, sorry...

which has significantly included hosting the Independent Convention

'Significantly included' just seems like awkward phrasing. I know what you're trying to say but I'm not sure it's the best use of the word. I dunno, it's just there is something grammatically wrong with "which has significantly included" that sticks out to me. Unrelated: perhaps the word, "pioneering" or "pioneer" might be helpful in this clause.

I'm not sure even I'm sold on this rewording, but it's an attempt to reword it for you...

Applauding Europeia's significant role at the forefront of the Independent ideology via the Independent Convention, which it hosted, and the Independent Manifesto, a landmark interregional document, which codified the principles and values of Independentism;

as well Europeia's

As well as.

Complementing Europeia's the exemplary participation

Scratch the 'the.'

Noting that Europeia further hosted

I think, Further Noting here works better than further hosted. I know you're going for variety in preamblatory statements but it's just an awkward phrasing for the clause.

a widely-followed standard for behavior in regional recruitment activities

This seems like a convoluted way of saying a code. A "widely recognized code for regional recruitment activities."

The Allied Republic with development of a regional legal system,

With the development.

in addition to supported

In addition to supporting.

through the development of their entire regional government

There's something weird/awkward about the phrasing. The "their" and "entire" especially. Perhaps "throughout the development of its/their regional government in its entirety." ??

[Protecting the right of the fourth estate

There's an erroneous bracket there. I also would suggest semi-colons or commas for punctuation in the lists.

extensive World Assembly Drafting Headquarters

Extensive is an odd choice of word. Thorough, perhaps?

as a prominent member of the World Assembly Legislative League;

How many members of WALL are there? If it's just three regions, don't say prominent - you're just giving fodder for bottom-feeders to try to repeal the resolution with.

(author note - http://s6.zetaboards.com/Europeia/forum/60043/ Other large libraries have included those managed by the UDL and GB&I, with the latter eventually becoming incorporated into Euro's)

I'm assuming this note is for the forum copy not the official copy. URL addresses aren't legal, as per a dusty old secretariat ruling.

excelling in in

No double "in."

[Cormactopia Prime]

I agree with Unibot's proofreading suggestions, but aside from that, this is a strong proposal. Good job Souls!

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

I agree with Unibot's proofreading suggestions, but aside from that, this is a strong proposal. Good job Souls!

Thanks, made most of them, plus a few others, and trimmed a bit to aim for being under the char count. May have to trim a wee bit more come submission time. Will likely submit later this week, no further edits pending.

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

Draft 3.

Commend Europeia

Category: Commendation | Target: Europeia | Proposed By: Ever-Wandering Souls

The Security Council,

Applauding Europeia's role at the forefront of the Independent ideology, notably including both being host to the pioneering Independent Convention and codifying the principles and values of Independentism in a landmark interregional document known as The Independent Manifesto;

Recognizing the region's history of military leadership, notably via several Status of Forces Agreements wherein Europeia assisted allies including The United Kingdom, Merridel, and The Communist Bloc with the development of their own armies;

Specifically Recognizing Europeia's commitment to anti-fascist military efforts, particularly the forceful presence of the Europeian Republican Navy on numerous operations in regions such as Nazi Europe, Greater German Reich, and Anne Frank, as well as Europeia's creation of the Coalition Against the Ideology of Nazism, uniting regions across the world in the combat of fascism both politically and militarily;

Applauding the region for its impressive efforts to recruit nations to become a part of its territory, often using state-of-the-art technology that Europeia has developed, tested, and shared with other regions;

Complementing Europeia's exemplary participation in recruitment efforts from many individual nations in the region, whose efforts are largely responsible for the region perennially being among the largest regions for over a decade, as well as the region's formal recognition of such;

(Author note: Europeia has developed several recruitment tools used by many large regions, and is particularly notable for it's huge manual recruitment program - their Hall of Recruiters alone recognizes over 600,000 cumulative manual telegrams sent)

Noting that Europeia was host to the UCR-UCR Conference, which produced a widely-recognized standard for behavior in regional recruitment activities known as the Arnhelm Declaration of Recruitment Standards;

Admiring Europeia's extraordinary executive, legislative and judicial systems, in which more than 90 nations often participate, and which have produced a long history of democracy, a large body of legislation, and many a fair trial;

(Author note - cited number comes from common level of election participation)

Further Admiring that Europeia has striven to share their expertise in these areas with other regions, notably having assisted The Allied Republic with the development of a regional legal system, in addition to supporting Balder through the development of its entire regional government;

Impressed by Europeia's record of profound cultural presence, including:

• Hosting the "Women in NS Symposium" to recognize female world leaders,
• Organizing a celebration of culture among many regions known as the "Winter Ball,"
• Maintaining a vibrant regionally and privately owned media,
• Protecting the right of the fourth estate to be critical of the region,
• Supporting a world-renowned audio broadcasting organization, and
• Assisting other regions with the development of their own fourth estate with accords such as the Brittannian Kingdom Media Agreement;

Acknowledging that Europeia has long been a leader in the World Assembly, consistently supporting the creation of World Assembly legislation regionally in its World Assembly Drafting Headquarters, in addition to supporting legislation inter-regionally as a member of the World Assembly Legislative League;

Praising Europeia's extensive efforts to collect, preserve, and catalog often irreplaceable regional and world history in one of the largest libraries in the world;

(author note - http://s6.zetaboards.com/Europeia/forum/60043/ Other large libraries have included those managed by the UDL and GB&I, with the latter eventually becoming incorporated into Euro's)

Believing that Europeia both excels internally and strives to assist others at excelling in an astounding number of aspects, that the region has set many a global standard, and that the region overall serves both as an exemplary role model for regions around the world and as a force for positive change throughout it;

Hereby Commends Europeia.

[Consular]

Can I just say the red text you use is very meh to read on dark theme

[Mousebumples]

Can I just say the red text you use is very meh to read on dark theme

General color comment: Might I recommend Dodger Blue? I've been told that reads well on both standard and dark themes.

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

Can I just say the red text you use is very meh to read on dark theme

General color comment: Might I recommend Dodger Blue? I've been told that reads well on both standard and dark themes.

I use dark and I can read it alright >.>

I’ll go a shade lighter.

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

Made a minor edit to the final bullet points for accuracy. Trimmed in several places, notably the last clause, to meet the char limit for submission. This proposal is now submitted.

Commend Europeia

Category: Commendation | Target: Europeia | Proposed By: Ever-Wandering Souls

The Security Council,

Lauding Europeia's role at the forefront of the Independent ideology, notably including both being host to the pioneering Independent Convention and codifying the principles and values of Independentism in a landmark interregional document known as The Independent Manifesto;

Recognizing the region's history of military leadership, particularly via several Status of Forces Agreements wherein Europeia assisted allies including The United Kingdom, Merridel, and The Communist Bloc with the development of their own armies;

Specifically Recognizing Europeia's commitment to anti-fascist military efforts, particularly the forceful presence of the Europeian Republican Navy on numerous operations in regions such as Nazi Europe, Greater German Reich, and Anne Frank, as well as Europeia's creation of the Coalition Against the Ideology of Nazism to unite regions across the world in the combat of fascism;

Applauding the region for its impressive efforts to recruit nations to become a part of its territory, often using state-of-the-art technology that Europeia has developed, tested, and shared with other regions;

Complementing the exemplary levels of participation in recruitment efforts from many individual nations in the region, whose efforts are largely responsible for the region perennially being among the largest regions for over a decade, as well as the Europeia's formal recognition of such;

Noting that Europeia was host to the UCR-UCR Conference, which produced a widely-recognized standard for regional recruitment activities known as the Arnhelm Declaration of Recruitment Standards;

Admiring Europeia's extraordinary executive, legislative and judicial systems, in which more than 90 nations often participate, and which have produced a long history of democracy, a large body of legislation, and many a fair trial;

Further Admiring that Europeia has striven to share its expertise in these areas with other regions, notably having assisted The Allied Republic with the development of a regional legal system, in addition to supporting Balder through the development of its entire regional government;

Impressed by Europeia's record of profound cultural presence, including:

• Hosting the "Women in NS Symposium" to recognize female world leaders,
• Organizing a celebration of culture among many regions, known as the "Winter Ball,"
• Maintaining a vibrant regionally and privately owned media,
• Protecting the right of the fourth estate to be critical of the region,
• Supporting a world-renowned audio broadcasting organization, and
• Assisting other regions with the development of their own fourth estate with accords such as its Media Development and Distribution Agreement with The Britannian Kingdom;

Acknowledging that Europeia has long been a leader in the World Assembly, consistently supporting the creation of World Assembly legislation both intra-regionally in its World Assembly Drafting Headquarters and inter-regionally as a member of the World Assembly Legislative League;

Praising Europeia's extensive efforts to collect, preserve, and catalog often irreplaceable regional and world history in one of the largest libraries in the world;

Believing that Europeia overall serves both as an exemplary role model for the world and as a force for positive change throughout it;

Hereby Commends Europeia.

[States of Glory]

I assume that this has been campaigned for?

[Fauxia]

Well, good luck on this Souls, and I don’t care enough to not wish you good luck, except that I hope this doesn’t pass.

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

I assume that this has been campaigned for?

I’ll likely draft a telegram tonight.

[Solorni]

I better be DMed personally Souls!

[Aexnidaral]

I better be DMed personally Souls!

Yeah! Also include some flowers and chocolates for me, Souls.

[Unibot III]

Aye, well done on the drafting. Good luck on the campaigning.