[PASSED] Commend Ambrella

[Luna Amore]

This is a Commendation for Sopo, one of the most long-standing and successful members of Europeia and a multiple-term President! Co-authored with some pretty awesome people which I am sure you all are familiar with. I, on the other hand, am a first-time SC author and this is exciting! Any feedback would be appreciated.

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Commend Ambrella

Commendation | Nominee: Ambrella

The Security Council,

Recognizing Ambrella as a nation vital to the development of Europeia after moving there from Caprecia more than a decade ago, as a long-standing head of government, a renowned journalist, a cultural organizer, and a successful legislator;

Thoroughly impressed that Ambrella served as head of government an impressive cumulative total of 437 days, and in the cabinet a total of 806 days, all the while maintaining their reputation as an amusing, out-of-the-box, and sometimes quirky nation;

Having noticed the deep imprints Ambrella has made to Europeia during their service by:

• innovatively restructuring the Foreign Affairs ministry to streamline tasks and delegate duties among trusted players by introducing deputy ministers - a position that has existed ever since;
  
• reviving the inactive region and spearheading its war against the corrosive ideology of Francoism during their presidency in 2018, culminating in the ideology being abandoned by The Pacific; and
  
• guiding the region through the much-discussed and vitally necessary reunification of the Europeian executive (which was previously headed by two joint leaders) as President in 2020;

Appreciating Ambrella’s cultural prowess, as exemplified by their orchestration of Europeia’s eighth-anniversary celebration to boost regional morale and the interregional cultural festival EurOlympics 2020 to celebrate the executive re-merge, alongside their co-hosting of the successful Festival of Friendship to unify the North Pacific, the East Pacific, and the West Pacific in the face of the 2018-19 war against the Pacific;

Lauding Ambrella’s consummate work in benefit of Europeia's written and audio journalism, which was cited as commendable by SC#234 "Commend Europeia", exemplified by:

• The creation of Europeia’s Ministry of Media (now Ministry of Communications), which has grown to become a core facet of Europeian culture and has released hundreds of articles covering the most relevant Europeian and global happenings;
  
• The hosting of the popular radio show “Power Players Draft”, where a panel predicts which Europeians will be the most influential in the next few months; and
  
• The development of the Ministry of Radio through innovation - Ambrella started the tradition of informing listeners about future radio shows on a centralised forum and pioneered hosting shows through a video live streaming service;
  
• Mentoring of future Radio leaders like Poulton-with-Fearnhead;

Noting that Ambrella’s media success extends to private media, as Ambrella has:

• Served as the head of four private newspapers (the Europeian Regional News, The Europeian Leader-Ledger, NewView News Network, and The North Poll), in which they single-handedly wrote more than 50 articles ranging from satire to polling to op-eds and thereby diversified Europeia's media;
  
• Served as assistant editor of Europeia’s oldest private newspaper (the Europeian News Network [ENN]), where they authored and edited sharp and witty political articles - the ENN was named Private Media of the Year 3 years in a row;
  
• Founded the Organisation of Independent Media, which produces regular reviews of private media articles and hosts an annual “Europeian of the Year” award;

Intrigued by the Europeian political analysis provided through Ambrellan journalism, including multi-angle analyses of elections, resignations, and foreign happenings, and surveys on government approval, which have kept the citizens of Europeia engaged and informed;

Confident in Ambrella’s legislative capabilities, as the nation has contributed integral legislative changes to Europeia, including granting the government necessary powers for regional emergencies, defining punishments for various crimes, and modernising language in laws to make it gender-neutral;

Taking into consideration Ambrella’s notable contributions to the region of Caprecia, where Ambrella:

• authored Caprecia's Constitution, which ensured proper functioning of the region; and
  
• was elected Prime Minister in August 2008, served a total of three consecutive terms in that position, and led Caprecia into its golden age, when it was recognised as a region with incredibly rich lore, culture, and an abundance of written media;

Viewing Ambrella as one of the key leaders of Europeia and other regions over many years, a unique and competent developer of NationStates media, and a nation worth closely emulating;

Hereby commends Ambrella.

Co-authored by Maowi and Honeydewistania.(just writing this down so that I know who to include when submitting)

The Security Council,
Recognising Ambrella as a shining example of a nation that uses its substantial influence for the common good,
Acknowledging that Ambrella has been a strong and constant presence in Europeia since 2010, acting as a vital force behind its development and growth over the years,
Astonished by the sheer amount of contributions that Ambrella’s irreplaceable leader Sopo and its other citizens have made to this region, sometimes in tumultuous and turbulent times, including:

• serving as Head of Government for an impressive total of 437 days, during which they:
  
  • enlivened regional discourse by creating the Ministry of Media, which is now known as the Ministry of Communications and grew to be a core part of Europeian government and culture, regularly producing quality content and distributing it throughout the world;
  • orchestrated Europeia’s 8th anniversary celebration in a week’s time, showcasing their ability to host a successful festival under pressure;
  • stepped up to serve as president of Europeia in September 2018, revitalising the region during a period of inactivity with their decisive leadership, and as part of the Anti-Pacific Coalition spearheaded the war against the ideology of Francoism, which was ultimately beaten back largely thanks to the prowess of Ambrellan diplomatic corps;
  • co-hosted a Festival of Friendship with The North Pacific, The East Pacific, and The West Pacific in December 2018, which provided a much-needed beacon of hope during the war;
  • helped the region to transition back to a unified executive system by sustainably managing personnel to avoid burnout, and hosted an interregional cultural festival, EurOlympics 2020;
• serving in multiple roles in the Cabinet for a total of 806 days, during which they achieved many feats, especially in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Radio, including:
  
  • as Minister of Foreign Affairs implementing the deputy program that streamlined processes in the ministry by delineating duties to trusted people and was utilised until recently;
  • solidifying the Weekend Games program as Minister of Culture by creating an overall leaderboard and rewarding people for each game they won, with the program being intermittently active until present day;
  • fostering activity in the Ministry of Radio through constant innovation and hands-on work, hosting shows, as well as mentoring future radio leaders, including future minister Poulton-with-Fearnhead;
• being an ever-present contributor to the Europeian media scene, where Ambrellan journalists wrote countless articles explaining political trends in Europeia and helped increase the quality of private media by serving as the head of three different newspapers and assistant editor for Europeia's oldest private newspaper, which culminated in the founding of the Organisation of Independent Media in 2014;
• hosting or co-hosting countless highly acclaimed radio shows, including, most notably, the “Sopo Showpo”, where discussion of current events is accompanied by top-tier entertainment, and the “Power Players Draft”, where the most prominent Europeians are discussed;
• serving in the Europeian Senate for many terms, where Ambrellan legislators worked tirelessly on drafting and amending Europeian legislation, for example, legislation granting the government necessary powers for regional emergencies, defining punishments for various crimes, and modernising language in laws to make it gender-neutral;

Lauding Ambrellan representatives for having been active citizens and members of government of multiple other regions, especially Caprecia, which has since fallen victim to time, where the state of Semisopochnoi and its citizens made an essential impact on the region by:

• authoring its Constitution, which ensured proper functioning of the region;
• serving as Minister of Internal Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister, before being elected Prime Minister in August 2008, serving a total of three consecutive terms in that position and overseeing the golden age of Caprecia;
• preventing a total collapse of the region during his tenure as Prime Minister by handling a major government crisis involving the region's founder nation by saving it from oblivion;

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Bemused at Ambrellan out-of-the-box and sometimes odd foreign affairs policy, which gave us the world’s “premier nonsense region” of Bloopsjooj, an anarchy where elections are organised as a weekly survival contest, not to mention reviews of Europeian memes live on air, and even a list of the 8 best nations in Europeia according to Sopo;
Believing that Ambrella is worthy of official recognition by the Security Council,
Hereby Commends Ambrella.
Co-authored by Maowi and Honeydewistania.

[Lenlyvit]

There's no spaces between your clauses. Also, your list code seems to be broken in one place?

[Flanderlion]

I don't think they're commendable, especially as it feels like a Europeian is commending another Europeian for Europeian stuff. Give him another ovation instead.

[Bhang Bhang Duc]

While on first read this appears to be a well written draft I also get the impression that there is a lot of filler and fluff in there.

At the moment I’m nowhere near convinced that the nominee is deserving of a Commendation.

[Mancheseva City]

Thanks to Bormiar, this draft has been reworked significantly and is now, I believe, is of better quality and highlights Sopo's personality better and also hopefully has less fluff

[Tinhampton]

I take it Borm decided to steal your list tags on the way out too

Co-hosting the successful Festival of Friendship between the North Pacific, the East Pacific, and the West Pacific in December 2018, which helped unify the regions in the face of the 2018 war,,

There was a war in 2018? (also: a superfluous comma)

[Mancheseva City]

I have fixed the formatting

[Tinhampton]

Further to my other point, your draft now refers to "the 2018-19 war." Sorry for banging on about war so much, but was this the war against the New Pacific Order and what does the FoF have to do with the NPO?

[Mancheseva City]

Indeed, the clause refers to the NPO war, I included 2019 to make it clear.

While the festival indeed has nothing to do with the war, it just made sense to tie it in since it happened during it. Obviously at the time nobody declared it a beacon of hope, but organising the festival in such trying and stressful NS-wise times seems indeed notable to me

[Lenlyvit]

I see an R2(b) violation in one of your last clauses.

[Outer Sparta]

I see an R2(b) violation in one of your last clauses.

You mean this one?

unique and competent developer of NationStates media,

If it's referring to the site, it's definitely a violation. If it refers to the region itself, then it's not.

[Lenlyvit]

I see an R2(b) violation in one of your last clauses.

You mean this one?

unique and competent developer of NationStates media,

If it's referring to the site, it's definitely a violation. If it refers to the region itself, then it's not.

Not that one.

[Outer Sparta]

You mean this one?

unique and competent developer of NationStates media,

If it's referring to the site, it's definitely a violation. If it refers to the region itself, then it's not.

Not that one.

Which real-world reference are you finding?

[Lenlyvit]

Not that one.

Which real-world reference are you finding?

"his tenure"

[Outer Sparta]

Which real-world reference are you finding?

"his tenure"

Noted. It's definitely an easy fix for the author.

[Mancheseva City]

Thanks, fixed!

[Zukchiva]

I think this is a pretty solid resolution... but I'll be nitpicky because i'm procasinating on stuff and need something to dooooo

Having noticed the deep imprints Ambrella has made to Europeia during their service, including by structuring the Foreign Affairs ministry to streamline tasks and delegate duties among trusted players, by reviving the inactive region and spearheading its war against the corrosive ideology of Francoism during its presidency in 2018, and by going through with the much-discussed and vitally necessary reunification of the Europeian executive (which was previously headed by two joint leaders),

Considering you have ~800 characters remaining, you could probably get away with splitting this into two clauses and exploring more specifically two of the three things you mentioned here in those two clauses.

Additionally, the concept of Ambrella's work having impacts in Europeia is pretty implied by the first clause, so this feels a bit superfluous. You don't need to justify in the second clause what most of the resolution is geared towards justifying So characters could be better used exploring the concepts mentioned above seperately.

Noting that Ambrella’s media success extends to private media, as Ambrella has served as the head of four private newspapers (the Europeian Regional News, The Europeian Leader-Ledger, NewView News Network, and The North Poll), as assistant editor of Europeia’s oldest private newspaper (the Europeian News Network), the Europeian News Network, and as the host of the “Sopo Showpo”, a show which discusses current events; they also founded the Organisation of Independent Media in 2014 which produces regular reviews of private media articles and hosts an annual “Europeian of the Year” award,

As I said before I'm just nitpicking, and I get the idea of this clause is to show how extensive the breadth of Ambrella's work has been in this regard, but also it isn't clear to me how well the first four newspapers did- I have no clue if they were flunks or if they had significant work put into them.

Also some edits to keep the style going :Y

Intrigued by the Europeian political analysis provided through Ambrellan journalism, including its analysis of elections, resignations, foreign happenings, and government approval ratings,

Could be a good idea to state if Ambrella's political analysis had any notable impact, or just explaining what the analysis did for the region overall.

Recognizing Ambrella as a nation vital to the development of Europeia over the past decade, as a long-standing head of government, a renowned journalist, a cultural organizer, and a successful legislator,

Viewing Ambrella as one of the key leaders who contributed to the success of Europeia over the last decade and a unique and competent developer of NationStates media, and as a nation worth closely emulating,

Nitpicky as this is just narrative clauses, but given the mention of Caprecia & Bloopsjooj, it may make sense to include the fact that Ambrella also helped develop other regions besides Europeia- even if Europeian work is the main thing here.

[Mancheseva City]

Sorry for the time I'm taking on this, but I've made the edits! I mostly went with what you said, Zuk, hopefully it's become better

This also serves as a bump, of course. And barring any big concerns, I plan to submit this Commendation this year (although one must always be careful with such statements). So if you have any edits or concerns, please state them!

[Giovanniland]

Some feedback!

Recognizing Ambrella as a nation vital to the development of Europeia over the past decade, as a long-standing head of government, a renowned journalist, a cultural organizer, and a successful legislator,

Acknowledging Ambrella as among the most important Europeian leaders, having served as head of government an impressive cumulative total of 437 days, and in the cabinet a total of 806 days. Positions held by Ambrella include the Europeian presidency and the Minister of Radio, Culture, Foreign Affairs, etc;

In my opinion I think those clauses can be simplified into one, especially since the list of positions doesn't do much here as you do explain what they did later. The length of their terms can stay though, it's a good example of loyalty to a region. So I'd rewrite it as something like this:

Recognizing Ambrella as a nation vital to the development of Europeia over the past decade, as a long-standing head of government, a renowned journalist, a cultural organizer, and a successful legislator, having served as head of government an impressive cumulative total of 437 days, and in the cabinet a total of 806 days;

Having noticed the deep imprints Ambrella has made to Europeia during their service, including by:

• innovatively restructuring the Foreign Affairs ministry to streamline tasks and delegate duties among trusted players,
  
• reviving the inactive region and spearheading its war against the corrosive ideology of Francoism during its presidency in 2018, culminating in the ideology being abandoned by The Pacific, and
  
• as President in 2020 going through with the much-discussed and vitally necessary reunification of the Europeian executive (which was previously headed by two joint leaders) - Ambrella's tenure was highly praised, and they were named President of the Year in 2020,

There's a missing list tag at the end of this clause that affects all the text after it. Furthermore, I think the detail of Sopo's tenure being highly praised and named President of the Year doesn't really need to be included, since I generally think that awards should not be included, the actions that earned the nominee the award should. In this case you already talk about the Executive remerge, so the praise/award can simply be cut off without other changes.

Appreciating Ambrella’s cultural prowess, exemplified by:

• Co-hosting the successful Festival of Friendship between the North Pacific, the East Pacific, and the West Pacific in December 2018, which helped unify the regions in the face of the 2018-19 war,
  
• Hosting the interregional cultural festival, EurOlympics 2020, which celebrated and helped solidify the executive remerge,
  
• Orchestrating Europeia’s eighth anniversary celebration to boost regional morale,

Maybe it's just me, but I'm not sure if these items need a list, especially since they seem pretty short, and since you may need some lists in other clauses. I'd suggest something like this:

Appreciating Ambrella’s cultural prowess, exemplified by their orchestration of Europeia’s eighth anniversary celebration to boost regional morale; hosting of the interregional cultural festival EurOlympics 2020, which celebrated and helped solidify the executive remerge; and co-hosting of the successful Festival of Friendship between the North Pacific, the East Pacific, and the West Pacific in December 2018, which helped unify the regions in the face of the 2018-19 war;

About the clauses I do think needs a list, the two media ones do look very wordy in my opinion. Furthermore, the mention of Europeia's commendation in the first one just doesn't seem to fit with the flow of the rest. I mean, it can certainly be mentioned, perhaps in the clause's introduction as a way to support the argument of Sopo's media contributions, before you get to actually listing them.

Taking into consideration Ambrella’s notable contributions to the region of Caprecia, including:

• authoring its Constitution, which ensured proper functioning of the region,
  
• serving as Minister of Internal Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister, before being elected Prime Minister in August 2008, serving a total of three consecutive terms in that position and overseeing the golden age of Caprecia,
  
• preventing a total collapse of the region during their tenure as Prime Minister by saving the region's founder nation from oblivion,

I think this clause has a good start, but isn't quite there yet because I am left wondering about Caprecia's role in the international community at large during its active years, especially given that it's inactive now. You should have some room to explain and give some context so it looks better, for example explaining what they did as Minister of Internal Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister, and Prime Minister, as well as how they led the region to its golden age. The last item also has a confusing wording, did they simply contact the person in charge of the founder nation to log in so it didn't cease to exist? That's not really commendable, unless I'm missing some detail that should likely be explained.

Bemused at Ambrellan out-of-the-box and sometimes odd foreign affairs policy, which once gave us the world’s “premier nonsense region” of Bloopsjooj, an anarchy where elections were organised as a weekly survival contest,

Last but not least, about this clause, in my opinion this is filler so probably a good idea to just remove it. Creating a joke region doesn't seem commendable to me.

[Mancheseva City]

Thanks Gio! I've tackled all your edits but I'm not quite there yet with Caprecia - I have added that it was a roleplay region (without mentioning the word roleplay because I think that's illegal) but haven't added any info about the positions yet.

Also, I'm not letting go of the last clause - I agree that it may be partly filler, but I think a Commendation should show the nominee's personality, and Sopo's definitely isn't just a super serious leader and writer! You should have seen this resolution when it still had a clause about his top 8 in the Europeian Republic Square . Hopefully that isn't a very big issue for you.

Will try to find some more info on Sopo's Caprecian positions later!

[Tinhampton]

Co-authored by Bormiar...

As far as I know, Borm scrambled his password and email a few months ago, after regaining control of it from Holor... his other nation, Twertis, has also vanished into the aether, making him pretty much uncitable as-is (given that you can only credit live nations as co-authors; don't look too closely into Peace and Sustainable Development because I submitted that a week before Morover CTEd )

[Mancheseva City]

Noted, thanks. Will remove Bormiar then. Hopefully Maowi doesn't CTE too... though I'd probably just wait for her to refound then

[Zukchiva]

I've noticed two general things that could be fixed in this draft.

1. Elaboration - there's a lot of areas of this draft wherein you aren't elaborating much on the nominee's actions or the impact of said actions. The elaboration on what they specifically did gives the SC more of an idea on why such a thing is commendable or not. Elaboration on impacts can contextualize a nominee's actions and show why they are important - someone can do a technically commendable thing, but why does it matter?

2. Narration - Your resolution, while full of commendable achievements, doesn't necessarily leave the reader feeling much. This isn't integral to the resolution passing, but adding more feeling into the resolution will make it all the better for honoring your nominee. To do this, I would lean more into the mindset of how you can show the world how amazing Sopo and his accomplishments have been to Europeia, and to will that feeling into your writing. If you let your feelings impact your writing, it'll show (and elaboration helps a lot with narrative). Also use more varied words -> you tend to use "serve" and "important" a lot

ALso this is more of an issue in the second half; the first half you do have some narration and have Sopo's interests showing through

But this is still a pretty well-written draft, so awesome job on that uwu

Anyways, feedback:

Recognizing Ambrella as a nation vital to the development of Europeia over the past decade, as a long-standing head of government, a renowned journalist, a cultural organizer, and a successful legislator, having served as head of government an impressive cumulative total of 437 days, and in the cabinet a total of 806 days;

I understand the point of this is to summarize the resolution, but to me it seems a bit long-winded and doesn't have much narrative power behind it. It depends on your priorities, but I feel you don't need to justify this first mostly fluff clause- the rest of your resolution will do that job.

I'd also suggest somehow opening this a bit more than to Europeia, considering Caprecia has a clause in this resolution. Slide in something that hints at Sopo's work in Caprecia. This way the reader isn't totally surprised by Caprecia's appearance. Or you can generalize the clause to venerate Sopo as an excellent region builder who has contributed to multiple communities (although I'll note that is probably a bit of a common thing to do with region-builder commends, but it's an option).

If you wanna keep this clause as is, I would say remove the last bit going over Ambrella's days of service mainly because it doesn't seem to grammatically flow well with the rest of the clause.

Having noticed the deep imprints Ambrella has made to Europeia during their service, including by:

Works better

innovatively restructuring the Foreign Affairs ministry to streamline tasks and delegate duties among trusted players;

I think it'd be good if you delved a little more into the structure of the MoFA to show its innovation. Also could be worth mentioning if this structure is still used today in the MoFA, or influenced its structure.

as President in 2020 going through with the much-discussed and vitally necessary reunification of the Europeian executive (which was previously headed by two joint leaders);

Should put an -ing verb at the start of this clause to make it flow better.

This clause also raises a couple of questions that need to be answered in the draft. Namely, how exactly did he "go through" with the necessary reunification? Did the President position (as in the version Sopo served in, not pre-reunification) exist while the Executive was split, or was it created as a result of reunification? If it's the latter, then how did Sopo do anything for reunification if the position he held was only made after it?

Appreciating Ambrella’s cultural prowess, exemplified by their orchestration of Europeia’s eighth anniversary celebration to boost regional morale; hosting of the interregional cultural festival EurOlympics 2020, which celebrated and helped solidify the executive remerge; and co-hosting of the successful Festival of Friendship between the North Pacific, the East Pacific, and the West Pacific in December 2018, which helped unify the regions in the face of the 2018-19 war;

Suggested rewording to help it flow better:

Appreciating Ambrella’s cultural prowess, as exemplified by their orchestration of Europeia’s eighth-anniversary celebration to boost regional morale and the interregional cultural festival EurOlympics 2020 to celebrate the executive re-emerge, alongside their co-hosting of the successful Festival of Friendship to unify the North Pacific, the East Pacific, and the West Pacific in the face of the 2018-19 war against the Pacific;

Lauding Ambrella’s consummate work in benefit of NationStates’ media scene, especially Europeia's written and audio journalism, which was cited as commendable by SC#234 "Commend Europeia"; their contributions include:

This is choppy and should be re-worked to flow better. I'm also unsure if "NS's Media scene" should be mentioned as this is mainly focusing on how Sopo's journalistic work developed Europeia, not NS's media scene as a whole.

The creation of Europeia’s Ministry of Media (now Ministry of Communications), which has grown to become a core facet of Europeian culture;

Add comma

Could be good to elaborate on why the Ministry has become a core facet of Europeian culture, i.e. what does it do? Nothing more than a clause or two, but elaboration would make this more meaningful.

The hosting of the popular radio show “Power Players Draft”, featuring discussions from prominent Europeians; and

Add comma

This doesn't explain a lot at all. It just says Sopo holds a radio show that has prominent Europeians on it. OFC that's great, but it needs more. Primarily, what is this show about? What purpose/service does it serve Europeia?

The development of the Ministry of Radio through innovation, hosting of shows, and mentoring of future Radio leaders like Poulton-with-Fearnhead;

This needs elaboration of some sort. Either split it into it's own clause so you can explain all three without making the list look unbalanced, or keep this clause in the list and focus on one aspect. (For example, what were the innovations Sopo brought to the Ministry and how did they change the Ministry for the better?)

Served as the head of four private newspapers (the Europeian Regional News, The Europeian Leader-Ledger, NewView News Network, and The North Poll), which in in which they total produced single-handedly wrote more than 50 articles ranging from satire to polling to op-eds;

Grammatical and stylistic changes

Would also add in a small impact at the end of this. One I thought of was "... and thereby diversified Europeia's media in the process", or something else. I don't think it's necessary to state an impact here (50 articles is really impressive by itself), but it just gives another reason for why this matters beyond being an extremely impressive writing career inonitself.

Served as assistant editor of Europeia’s oldest private newspaper (the Europeian News Network);

You need to elaborate on this. What did they do as assistant director? Did they make any changes that benefitted the newspaper itself or Europeia's media scene in general? Etc.

Founded the Organisation of Independent Mediain 2014, which produces regular reviews of private media articles and hosts an annual “Europeian of the Year” award;

I would remove either the "reviews of private media" or "Europeian Year of the Award" and elaborate on the one you keep. Maybe say smth about how reviewing the private media articles ensures Europeia's quality or media or keeps private newspapers accountable, or for the Awards how it enables recognition for Europeians (or just explain what the Award does, that will state its impact enough).

I'm also curious - given Sopo has done so much for media, has he ever done pioneered something that is a common media practice in Europeia today? If so, could be good to mention somewhere.

Intrigued by the Europeian political analysis provided through Ambrellan journalism, including itsmulti-angle analysisanalyses of elections, resignations, and foreign happenings, and government approval ratings, which has kept the citizens of Europeia engaged and informed;

Some changes

Also, did Sopo analyze government approval ratings or did he run his own surveys and then analyze them? If it's the latter, this should be reworded... because it sounds like he just analyzed already published articles (which is totes fine and mentionable, but is a bit confusing if that isn't your intention).

Confident in Ambrella’s legislative capabilities, as the nation has contributed integralimportant legislative changes to Europeia, including legislation granting the government necessary powers for regional emergencies, legislation defining punishments for various crimes, and amendments modernising language in laws to make itthem gender-neutral;

Some changes to make this sound better.

Taking into consideration Ambrella’s notable contributions to the region of Caprecia, including:
authoring its Constitution, which ensured proper functioning of the region; and

Should re-phrase this to add some narrative oomph to it.

serving as Minister of Internal Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister before being elected Prime Minister in August 2008, serving a total of three consecutive terms in that position, and overseeing the golden age of Caprecia, when it was recognised as a region with incredibly rich lore, culture, and an abundance of written media;

I would say either specify what Sopo dod as MoIA and DPM, or remove those mentions. I would also specify on what Sopo did in its "overseeing" of the golden age, because without elaboration that could mean as much as just giving the occasional opinion and doing not much else (altho I doubt it given everything else being said about Sopo).

Bemused at Ambrellan out-of-the-box and sometimes odd foreign affairs policy, which once gave us the world’s “premier nonsense region” of Bloopsjooj, an anarchy where elections were organised as a weekly survival contest,

While innovative ideas that don't pan out can be commendable (Commend AMerion's mention of Solitary, which lasted for only a month, is a great example), I don't think this is - primarily because it doesn't really show NS any benefit due to its existence, nor did it provide direct help to anyone.

It may be a great thing to show off Sopo's fun-loving personality, but it's still best practice to avoid including non-commendable things when possible.

Viewing Ambrella as one of the key leaders of Europeia and other regions who contributed to the world over more than a decade, a unique and competent developer of NationStates media, and as a nation worth closely emulating,

This needs some editing to flow better, it reads a bit choppy as of right now.

[Queen Yuno]

Oh this guy, lol

Want some old tea?

When cards were created, there was a NS Cards Discord server; it was the main one that everybody went to, including NS mods who were card players and card collectors from every region, later including Sopo's region Europeia.

La Navesse (Vuon) created that server and made me the only admin, and we managed the Cards server together for barely a month.

La Navasse decided to retire from NS, so he passed me ownership of the Cards server, and quit NS for a year straight.

I held the Cards discord server for La Navasse for a YEAR. Then, La Navasse came back from retirement (after 1 year of not playing NS), so I gave him admin back. (Even though La Navasse's. NS reputation was pretty bad, I was A LOYAL friend. Furthermore, I had blind faith that he would appreciate that of me. And I wanted to redeem his bad reputation by letting him be an admin of the cards server that he initially created then passed down to me.) La Navasse and I both run the Cards server together for months, I even recruited for OUR cards server.

Then friggin Sopo from Europeia JOINS the Cards server and begs La Navasse to demote me from the staff team, and make him an admin instead. Sopo fear mongers La Navasse and breaks up our friendship. La Navasse shows me tons of screenshots of Sopo begging to kick me out, ban me, whatever, even though I was the server owner for 1 year and things have been normal the entire time UNTIL SOPO JOINED and started turning La Navasse against me. Even though I had done NOTHING to Sopo, I don't even talk to Sopo, I don't have any history with Sopo, (I only had some drama with his region's founder which is easily resolvable if he reaches out), but Sopo friggin couldn't mind his own business. As a result of Sopo's intervention, despite the fact that it was years after the "scandal" I got in, and things were going fine for years despite the scandal, all of a sudden, I lost a friend.

What happened was: because of Sopo's peer pressure and fear mongering (despite being a stranger to me), La Navasse (my friend at the time) schemes to trick me into giving him ownership of the server back. Even though I basically ran the old cards server for the longest time, so I wanted shared ownership if anything, La Navasse got "scared" of me being server owner because of Sopo's peer pressure.

La Navasse begged me over DMs to give him ownership, I said "No" because I saw screenshots of Sopo begging La Navasse to get rid of me.

But La Navasse exploited our friendship and talked to me for hours telling me that he had good faith.

La Navasse created a discord account and said that we can share ownership on that account. So in good faith, I gave the server to that account.

Then La Navasse logged onto that account and transferred the cards discord server to HIMSELF, LA NAVASSE.

Then he IMMEDIATELY removes my Admin, and PROMOTES SOPO TO ADMIN, then deletes me from his friend list and blocks me! All because of Sopo's intervention.

WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK? YOU TWO ARE JERKS.

I was so mad, I felt betrayed. Sopo how dare you.

Fucking trolled me.

Anyway, good karma for my good deeds happened because Vilitia (or however you spell it) CREATES a new Cards server and linked me it. He also linked it to Frisbee, Luna Amore and some NS mods and admined them.

So guess what I did?

I took that new server's link and poached everybody in Sopo's and La Navasse's Cards server to join the NEW CARDS server. I linked all my friends and EVERYONE that I knew to join the cards server. They all joined the new cards server and this killed the old cards server.

The new cards server is now the mainstream discord cards server. The old one is dead and the server owner La Navasse quit again. Sopo became an admin of a dead server that got replaced.

That is now the mainstream cards server and I am extremely happy about the new Cards server. Sopo didn't get admin in the new Cards server.

So yeah, I'm fine with this. I literally got betrayed though by someone that I went to the bat for. I saw all those screenshots of Sopo fear mongering about me to my own friend, and I gotta say, I am not impressed. SOPO KNEW FULL WELL WHAT HE WAS DOING.

[Apatosaurus]

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The Security Council,

Recognizing Ambrella as a nation vital to the development of Europeia over the past decade, as a long-standing head of government, a renowned journalist, a cultural organizer, and a successful legislator, having served as head of government an impressive cumulative total of 437 days, and in the cabinet a total of 806 days;

Having noticed Noticing the deep imprints Ambrella has made to Europeia during their service, including by:

• innovatively restructuring the Foreign Affairs ministry to streamline tasks and delegate duties among trusted players; How, and if you can find the information, what benefits did this have? I understand if you cannot find the information for this, however.
  
• reviving the inactive region and spearheading its war against the corrosive villainous ideology of Francoism during its presidency in 2018, culminating in the ideology being abandoned by The Pacific; and How was Sopo's role so important here? I wasn't there and I haven't done much research into the details of the APC war, but I don't think Sopo's role in the APC war was that significant (though I might be wrong as to that).
  
• as President in 2020 going through with the much-discussed and vitally necessary reunification of the Europeian executive (which was previously headed by two joint leaders); Seems like just an administrative task "allowing for some legislation to pass". What you'd need is more emphasis on how Sopo's role was significant (for example, in SC#360, I used "during their leadership activity in the Emerald Council grew and many important issues were debated [such as a new constitution and legislative changes building activity]" to deliberately emphasise DYP's role. Use something along the lines of that, or alternatively axe it since at the moment it seems like just an administrative task.

Appreciating Ambrella’s cultural prowess, exemplified by their orchestration of Europeia’s eighth anniversary celebration to boost regional morale; hosting of the interregional cultural festival EurOlympics 2020, which celebrated and helped solidify the executive remerge; and co-hosting of the successful Festival of Friendship between the North Pacific, the East Pacific, and the West Pacific in December 2018, which helped unify the regions in the face of the 2018-19 war; [color=blue]I really like this clause.

Lauding Ambrella’s consummate work in benefit of NationStates’ media scene, especially Europeia's written and audio journalism, which was cited as commendable by SC#234 "Commend Europeia"; their contributions include:

• The creation of Europeia’s Ministry of Media (now Ministry of Communications) which has grown to become a core facet of Europeian culture;
  
• The hosting of the popular radio show “Power Players Draft” featuring discussions from prominent Europeians Like?; and
  
• The development of the Ministry of Radio through innovation, hosting of shows For example?, and mentoring of future Radio leaders like such as Poulton-with-Fearnhead;

Noting that Ambrella’s media success extends to private media, as Ambrella has:

• Served as the head of four private newspapers (the Europeian Regional News, The Europeian Leader-Ledger, NewView News Network, and The North Poll), which in total produced more than 50 articles ranging from satire to polling to op-eds;
  
• Served as assistant editor of Europeia’s oldest private newspaper (the Europeian News Network);
  
• Founded the Organisation of Independent Media in 2014 which produces regular reviews of private media articles and hosts an annual “Europeian of the Year” award;

Intrigued by the Europeian political analysis provided through Ambrellan journalism, including its analysis of elections, resignations, foreign happenings, and government approval ratings, which has kept the citizens of Europeia engaged and informed;

Confident in Ambrella’s legislative capabilities, as the nation has contributed important legislative changes to Europeia, including legislation granting the government necessary powers for regional emergencies, legislation defining punishments for various crimes, and amendments modernising language in laws to make it gender-neutral "Gender-neutral" part is not commendable.;

Taking into consideration Ambrella’s notable contributions to the region of Caprecia Who? I'm not doubting the Commendability of this, but you need more detail on what Caprecia was, because right now it's just a random region I've never heard of., including:

• authoring its Constitution, which ensured proper functioning of the region; and
  
• serving as Minister of Internal Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister before being elected Prime Minister in August 2008, serving a total of three consecutive terms in that position, and overseeing the golden age of Caprecia, when it was recognised as a region with incredibly rich lore, culture, and an abundance of written media;

Bemused at Ambrellan out-of-the-box and sometimes odd foreign affairs policy, which once gave us the world’s “premier nonsense region” of Bloopsjooj, an anarchy where elections were organised as a weekly survival contest, My brain... This is just confusing, sorry.

Viewing Ambrella as one of the key leaders of Europeia and other regions who contributed to the world over more than a decade, a unique and competent developer of NationStates media, and as a nation worth closely emulating,

Hereby commends Ambrella.

Co-authored by Bormiar, Maowi, and Honeydewistania. Bormiar left NS a while ago, also you don't have to include co-authors in resolution text anymore as they now go as a setting when submitting.