NationStates

The Security Council,

Recognising the selflessness of Roavin as a resolute protector and public servant to regions across the NationStates community,

Celebrating Roavin’s contributions to the just and noble cause of defending through their service as First Warden of the defender region The Order of the Grey Wardens, where over the course of a year they:

1. Tripled membership of the Wardens, ensuring more regions were able to be protected,
2. Led the creation of the Guardian program, empowering less active defending nations to contribute to operations through focusing on detag and piling, providing a basis for future success,
3. Created an advanced registry of nations in regions which could be mobilized in the event a defence was required,

Applauding Roavin’s work as a mentor for well known and respected defenders including the current WA Secretary-General and commended nation Kuriko, as well as Nakari, Merlin, Aumeltopia, Phoenix, Omega, and Pyrohy,

Astounded by Roavin’s sheer determination to protect innocent regions with Roavin completing well over 1600 defenses and liberations, most notably:

1. Leading a liberating force of 49 nations against an occupation of Japan in 2017,
2. Liberating the Philippines just in time to save Christmas,
3. Besting an updater raiding force of 25 nations to help defend Portugal,

Acknowledging Roavin’s strategic, technologic and coding abilities, which have enabled thousands of defensive victories in raided regions, including but not limited to:

1. Developing a technique that allows greater accuracy whilst defending regions, in spite of usual limitations such as size or proximity to large regions that would otherwise make some regions hard to defend,
2. Establishing strategies to ensure that the endorsements of a large liberating force are placed in an accurate and timely manner,
3. Training organisations with the attrition run technique to dislodge raiders with large influence levels,
4. The creation of the “Hunter Prime Operations Technology” in 2016; increasing organisation and operational security for defender communication channels,

Impressed by Roavin’s significant contributions to The South Pacific (TSP) over several years in a variety of areas which have contributed to providing stability and making TSP more secure; including:

1. Serving as the Prime Minister of the region for five terms, where they emphasized forum discussions for Cabinet over instant communication media improving record keeping and quality of discussion, introduced initiatives aimed at increasing transparency and addressed communication issues between the Ministry of Regional Affairs and the Assembly,
2. Serving as interim Minister of Foreign Affairs for TSP during an attempted coup of The East Pacific, coordinating TSP’s response which included mobilizing TSP’s military and their citizens’ militia as well as disseminating progress updates to TSP citizens,
3. Authoring “Commend Tsunamy”, a successful Security Council Resolution that recognised a nation for their contributions to the stability of TSP,
4. Notably involved in improvements to TSP’s legislation through collaboration in creating premises, writing legislation, or lobbying for the passage of legislation such as:
   
   
   1. Comprehensive judicial reform to simplify the judicial system, eliminate loopholes, and transform the court into a non-adversarial system,
   2. Rewriting the transparency laws to ensure it applies to the Court as well as the Executive, requiring thorough documentation, and permitting auditing,
   3. Empowering the Council of Regional Security to utilize border control,
   4. Creating the Legislator Committee that streamlined the bureaucratic system in which new representatives are acclimated to the legislature.

Noting that the Curious Observations made by Roavin on the state of Lazarus in July 2017 were right, and that they exposed corruption and subterfuge within the region,

Extolling the dedicated service of Roavin in the noble struggle to prevent the advance of the Nazi/Fascist menace, as evidenced by them:

1. Uniting multiple major regions with varying ideologies to fight Nazis/Fascists through founding the organization Ruining Nazi Sandcastles,
2. Supporting liberating the regions The Red States and The Empire of Lights from Nazi/Fascist control through serving as a border control officer and planning the operations,
3. Providing logistics support in the The Union Of The Fascist Nations operation, a region just short of 700 Fascist nations at its peak,
4. Co-ordinating, planning, strategising the raids against Nazi Imperialist Japan and Elite Region Of Global Command, securing the demise of these hateful regions,

Believing Roavin’s contributions have made an immense positive impact on the international community, hereby,

Commends Roavin.

Co-authored by Praeceps

The Security Council,

Recognising the selflessness of Roavin as a resolute protector and public servant to regions across the NationStates community,

Celebrating Roavin’s contributions to the just and noble cause of defending through their service as First Warden of the defender region The Order of the Grey Wardens, where over the course of a year they:

1. Tripled membership of the Wardens, ensuring more regions were able to be protected,
2. Led the creation of the Guardian program, empowering less active defending nations to contribute to operations through focusing on detag and piling, providing a basis for future success,
3. Created an advanced registry of nations in regions which could be mobilized in the event a defence was required,

Applauding Roavin’s work as a mentor for well known and respected defenders including the current WA Secretary-General and commended nation Kuriko, as well as Nakari, Merlin, Aumeltopia, Phoenix, Omega, and Pyrohy,

Astounded by Roavin’s sheer determination to protect innocent regions with Roavin completing well over 1600 defenses and liberations, most notably:

1. Leading a liberating force of 49 nations against an occupation of Japan in 2017,
2. Liberating the Philippines just in time to save the Christmas holidays,
3. Besting an active raiding force of 25 nations to help defend Portugal,

Acknowledging Roavin’s strategic and technological abilities, which have enabled thousands of defensive victories in raided regions, including but not limited to:

1. Developing a technique, in 2017, that allowed greater accuracy whilst defending regions, in spite of usual limitations such as size or proximity to large regions that would otherwise make some regions hard to defend,
2. Establishing strategies to ensure that the endorsements of a large liberating force are placed in an accurate and timely manner,
3. Training organisations with the attrition run technique to dislodge raiders with large influence levels,
4. The creation of the “Hunter Prime Operations Technology” in 2016; increasing organisation and operational security for defender communication channels,

Impressed by Roavin’s significant contributions to The South Pacific (TSP) over several years in a variety of areas which have contributed to providing stability and making TSP more secure; including:

1. Serving as the Prime Minister of the region for five terms, where they emphasized forum discussions for Cabinet over instant communication media improving record keeping and quality of discussion, introduced initiatives aimed at increasing transparency and addressed communication issues between the Ministry of Regional Affairs and the Assembly,
2. Serving as interim Minister of Foreign Affairs for TSP during an attempted coup of The East Pacific, coordinating TSP’s response which included mobilizing TSP’s military and their citizens’ militia as well as disseminating progress updates to TSP citizens,
3. Authoring “Commend Tsunamy”, a successful Security Council Resolution that recognised a nation for their contributions to the stability of TSP,
4. Notably involved in improvements to TSP’s legislation through collaboration in creating premises, writing legislation, or lobbying for the passage of legislation such as:
   
   
   1. Comprehensive judicial reform to simplify the judicial system, eliminate loopholes, and transform the court into a non-adversarial system,
   2. Rewriting the transparency laws to ensure it applies to the Court as well as the Executive, requiring thorough documentation, and permitting auditing,
   3. Empowering the Council of Regional Security to utilize border control,
   4. Creating the Legislator Committee that streamlined the bureaucratic system in which new representatives are acclimated to the legislature.

Noting that the Curious Observations made by Roavin on the state of Lazarus in July 2017 were right, and that they exposed corruption and subterfuge within the region,

Extolling the dedicated service of Roavin in the noble struggle to prevent the advance of the Nazi/Fascist menace, as evidenced by them:

1. Uniting multiple major regions with varying ideologies to fight Nazis/Fascists through founding the organization Ruining Nazi Sandcastles,
2. Supporting liberating the regions The Red States and The Empire of Lights from Nazi/Fascist control through serving as a border control officer and planning the operations,
3. Providing logistics support in the Union Of The Fascist Nations operation, a region just short of 700 Fascist nations at its peak,
4. Co-ordinating, planning, strategising the raids against Nazi Imperialist Japan and Elite Region Of Global Command, securing the demise of these hateful regions,

Believing Roavin’s contributions have made an immense positive impact on the international community, hereby,

Commends Roavin.

Co-authored by Praeceps

Benevolent Thomas wrote:The Worst Invasion/Operation Award
Welcome to the other side of the Opportation of the Year Coin! Nominees for this award are the most memorable defending operations of the year for all of the wrong reasons. This could be due to defender incompetence or invader excellence. Japan’s nomination is the direct result of mismanagement on the defender side. South Pacific’s nomination is due Invader excellence in the face of carelessness on the defender side. We’ll hear about how defenders initially reacted to the failed liberation attempts of South Pacific later, but they were able to turn things around and had begun to mount a real, competent resistance when the occupying forces of South Pacific concluded their mission and withdrew. It is due to the combination of defender mistakes and invader competency that the Liberation of South Pacific receives the Worst Invasion/Operation Award.
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Meltdown of the Year
I’m at a bit of a loss as to how to describe this award. I guess I’d say it’s a snapshot of a less-than graceful moment in the past year that we all recognize as one that could have been handled better. This year’s meltdown is a good one; one I’d imagine being used as an argument for keeping the award around in the future. It was born out of the loose lips of defenders and the cunning of invaders. The reaction to the events that unfolded in South Pacific are what cement its legacy. The shock of defeat at the hands of a new strategy originally cooked up by its would-be victims led to a notorious overreaction by defenders who were then mocked by the community at large and even site staff. The implications of these events have yet to be fully fleshed out and could shape the direction of Gameplay over the next year. The Failed Liberation of South Pacific and Liberations are now literally impossible easily walked away with the win.