The United Defenders League

[Press Secretary]

UNIBOT ANNOUNCES THE START OF ACADEMIC TITLES FOR THE NAIVETRY REFERENCE LIBRARY

Unibot, Chief of the Band and author of various scholarly NS works has announced a new program for The Naivetry Reference Library. The Naivetry Reference Library since its founding on September 19 2012 has expanded over the past few months to encompass a wide range of various scholarly articles and excerpts of important texts and news articles from NationStates.

To encourage the authorship of new, insightful articles and papers, players can now submit essays and other articles to The Naivetry Reference Library through Unibot, which, if approved, would award the author with a ceremonial academic title of Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.). Anyone can contribute.

- Press Secretary

[Klaus Devestatorie]

We can work on defenses, but those should be secondary compared to the missions we had planned in advance.

As they say in Tumblr

XFD 9000% DONE WITH THIS SITE

[Tim-Opolis]

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UNIBOT ANNOUNCES THE START OF ACADEMIC TITLES FOR THE NAIVETRY REFERENCE LIBRARY

Unibot, Chief of the Band and author of various scholarly NS works has announced a new program for The Naivetry Reference Library. The Naivetry Reference Library since its founding on September 19 2012 has expanded over the past few months to encompass a wide range of various scholarly articles and excerpts of important texts and news articles from NationStates.

To encourage the authorship of new, insightful articles and papers, players can now submit essays and other articles to The Naivetry Reference Library through Unibot, which, if approved, would award the author with a ceremonial academic title of Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.). Anyone can contribute.

- Press Secretary

That's awesome!
This could definitely be an awesome way for the Reference Library grow to be even bigger and better than it already is!

[Drop Your Pants]

Approval from Unibot? Don't think we'll be seeing many papers on the scourge of defenders then

[Unibot III]

Approval from Unibot? Don't think we'll be seeing many papers on the scourge of defenders then

There are several papers to that effect already in our Library.

[Drop Your Pants]

Really? Off i go then Sorry for speaking before checking.

[Unibot III]

In News today, Unibot delivered a speech to his band of Merryman entitled "Common Sense Ethics". AS A SIDE-NOTE, MOVIE NIGHT IS OCCURRING TONIGHT AT 7:30 PM EST ON #UDL ESPERNET — MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE ALLOWED.

The movie has yet to be decided, but I'm sure it'll be a lot of fun as usual. We're happy to continue our history of organizational cultural activities.

- Uni

[Communist Quinntopia]

redacted

[Unibot III]

The movie has yet to be decided, but I'm sure it'll be a lot of fun as usual.

See my suggestion on the previous page.

Anyhow, a good couple of updates. Keep 'em coming.

Awesome film, but I'd be worried about the ages of some of our participants at the event.

[Lyanna Stark]

I thought it was 'Hook'?

[Unibot III]

I thought it was 'Hook'?

We're not sure, I think we'll go with Hook.

[Press Secretary]

UDL TO STICK TO DEFENDING, OFFICIALS SAY

09 February 2013

We are UDL, hear us roar!

UDL officials were reportedly in shock after receiving the award for worst invasion. One UDL leader, who wished to remain anonymous, was willing to share his thoughts on the result with us.

“Frankly, it’s tragic for this organization,” he said. “We put a lot of effort in our invasions, and to only be recognized for the worst invasion is a shame. We’re going to have to try a lot harder to beat out the other invader groups”.

Speculation has abounded throughout the NSverse on what the UDL would do to improve their performance at the awards. Thoughts about vote-stuffing, hacking, and getting advice from other invader groups were brought up. We asked the official about that last one.

“Oh, absolutely,” he told us. “We’re definitely going to be getting help from respected invaders like Bacon Strips, TITO, and Evil Wolf. We’re confident that with their invading expertise, they’ll be able to give us the tools and skills we need to improve our performance, so that we don’t find ourselves embarrassed by this award again.”

On a more serious note, Cromarty (Madjack), Delegate of Osiris was frustrated by the vote. "We're ignoring it as -------- -----iness from the FRA and TITO ----" explained the delegate, before being cut off in the interview and told he couldn't call the FRA or TITO names on the record. "Osiris is grateful for the UDL's, and other parties, assistance, and bears no ill will to any group who were deceived into helping a coup."

The awards weren’t a complete wash for the UDL, however. 10000 Islands won the WASC award for voting for resolutions authored and lobbied by UDL Staff, Sovreignry won the Best Newcomer Award after rising quickly through the ranks and becoming a lieutenant, Eluvatar won the Dipes Award for his extensive list of your personal information, Anarchy, a joint mission between UDL, FRA, and TITO was the winner of the Operation of the Year Award, and UDL won the Meltdown of the Year Award for their complaints after Unibot was banned from the World Assembly... which led to the creation of safe switching... and instant applications... which directly led to the successful liberation of RORMS... which saved the community from being griefed for the second time... awkward.

Anyway, things are looking up for the UDL. Mallorea and Riva is reportedly considering rejoining, telling us that “the ineptitude at invading makes me feel right at home!”

- Staff Reporter, The Sherwood Post

[Fratt Armed Forces]

"Oh, it's only your first Worst Invasion Award! Anybody could do that."

Guess which organisation has the record for that award?

[Mallorea and Riva]

and UDL won the Meltdown of the Year Award for their complaints after Unibot was banned from the World Assembly... which led to the creation of safe switching... and instant applications... which directly led to the successful liberation of RORMS... which saved the community from being griefed for the second time... awkward.

Anyway, things are looking up for the UDL. Mallorea and Riva is reportedly considering rejoining, telling us that “the ineptitude at invading makes me feel right at home!”

Classic UDL, trying to take all the credit for someone else's hard work. That safe switching idea was mine Also the dig here at the end just sucks. Should have directed it at Tim or Mahaj.

[Belschaft]

and UDL won the Meltdown of the Year Award for their complaints after Unibot was banned from the World Assembly... which led to the creation of safe switching... and instant applications... which directly led to the successful liberation of RORMS... which saved the community from being griefed for the second time... awkward.

Anyway, things are looking up for the UDL. Mallorea and Riva is reportedly considering rejoining, telling us that “the ineptitude at invading makes me feel right at home!”

Classic UDL, trying to take all the credit for someone else's hard work. That safe switching idea was mine Also the dig here at the end just sucks. Should have directed it at Tim or Mahaj.

I coined the term, and led the outburst of rage that got it implemented

[Lyanna Stark]

Classic NS--something good comes from the admins and everyone and their mothers takes credit for it.

Funny piece from the Press Secretary there.

[Drop Your Pants]

If UDL didn't want the award they should have voted for someone else then

[Haarg]

*random stumble in*
2 things.
1st, congrats UDL.
2nd, does FRA have a topic like this? If so, link please?

[Wopruthien]

Sent you a link to our embassy Haarg.

A nice humorous spin on events

Glad you took the awards in good spirits. I look forward to your increased participation in the next awards.

Also good to hear Movie Night went down so well. Was tempted to join.

[Jormengand]

My comment about "some gang right here" still stands.

[Unibot III]

My comment about "some gang right here" still stands.

*nods solemnly*

[Unibot III]

A Letter from the Capitalis de Societate of The United Defenders League,

Poor Wednesdays, they always get a bum reputation.

* Bazalonia hugs Solm and Earth
* Bazalonia doesn't stab either
* Solm huggles
<Bazalonia> Today is No stabbing Wednesday
<Solm> @Baz: Good
<Bazalonia> No, it's not good
<ABK> D:
<Bazalonia> It's bad, it's very bad

<Zark> it's lazy Wednesday, I doubt anyone's gonna raid something
<Tim-Opolis> It's lazy "every single f***ing update" these days

As Lieutenant Tim joked, there’s no need to just pick on Wednesday — all around it has been a rather quiet week in NationStates. The United Defenders League has seen some military action however, liberating Rome and Pirates, as well as Allied Military States, Libertarian Socialist Federation, ROBLOX, The Marxist Leninist Region and Free Palestine. A few defences here and there, but the “professional” invader scene has been fairly inactive because most of their resources are being centralized to hold The Middle East while that region is unfortunately on the brink of total destruction. A big shout out goes to British Isles, who has been working patiently with us a lot through the past few weeks, especially to identify invasions being conducted by “unprofessional” invaders (i.e., newbies). I think these quiet periods are some of the most dangerous periods of time for interregional defender organization relations, so we’d like to just put out a general blanket thank you to our fellow defenders for sticking through this stint of inactivity of the field calmly and maturely — it can all go very bad when we get restless and competitive over the share of military operations and activity.

The “Pirates” Liberation was pretty interesting though. We conducted it against The Brotherhood of Malice — while we had several insider puppets to endorse one another inside the region and then topped it off with a team of defenders moving in later in the day. Congratulations to New Andureo who took the delegacy as our “lead”. The military ribbons for Rome and Pirates are depicted below:

Ultimately, we do this for the natives and I think Lieutenant Ravania put it best when he said recently that “NationStates has never been so safe”. Indeed, safe as ever. Job well done, I’d say. Also, just to follow up on last update: we passed on the founder account of Ether to the most senior resident of Ether (Patrol I). Seems that he has restored the region, which is nice to see.

In completely random news, Kyzikos is celebrating its first anniversary. This fine region was founded by former Lieutenant Ballotonia — a product of thousands of regions being made in search of a new flagship for the defender enterprise. Kyzikos is the main headquarters for The United Defenders League… the gem of defenderdom … the… fine, the region whose name nobody (me) can spell without either calling it “Kyz” or,

<Unibot> kykizos
<Unibot> Kzykos
<Uni> Kzykikos
<Uni|Uni> Kykzikos
<Unibot> Kyzioks

Just give —up—, you bloody fool.

<+Hy> its 2am so im far too horny for a children's film

Erm, thanks for that, Judge Advocate Hyanygo. Yes, The United Defenders League did have its usual Movie Night during last week and we happily watched “Hook”. Apparently when you’re older you have a different perspective on parts of “Hook”, so it was a lot of fun. Communist Quinntopia and Pharaoh Mad Jack, also graced us with their presence for Movie Night. In other administrative news, we happily promoted Johz to the position of Lieutenant a week or so ago. Lieutenant Johz has served with us loyally, almost since the beginning — he joined a week after we publically revealed ourselves. Since then, he has often been the Robin to Lieutenant Ravania’s Batman … the dynamic duo of detaggers. This promotion was long overdue and I was happy to see the Lieutenants approve the promotion in an enthusiastic consensus.

Furthermore, we have a new policy, “Regarding the Fight against Hate and Nazism in NationStates”. This policy was approved by our lieutenants; it received a fairly passionate defense as momentum rose in a recent Chiefs of Staff meeting. The basis of the policy is that we will be continuing our old “Nazi Policy” and we are reaffirming our stance against hate, the oppression and discrimination of minorities and social intolerance. However, we have come to believe that the values of Defenderdom stress upon us that the invasion of white supremacist and fascist regions is not behavior becoming of defenders (regardless of whether they do it “off-duty”). First, our oath requests us to be incorruptible in the face of intense adversaries — it’s not much of a standard to be incorruptible if we’re doing the same thing against NAZI EUROPE and The Greater German Reich as they do against others (which we deplore), just on the basis of them being especially offensive. Moreover, our leadership has serious doubts whether armed conflict against Nazis has actually done very much good at all — when you make Nazis, the ultimate villain (really the only consistent villain for many political regions) … you in fact make it “cool” for some players to play the role of “Nazi” in NationStates. We believe that rational and mature dialogue is the best way (although often ineffective) to counter Nazism in NationStates. Just to clarify: The United Defenders League has never sanctioned or organized an invasion against a Nazi region. Our new policy means that our members have an obligation to not participate in these operations altogether.

*takes a deep breath* Okay, enough of that serious bureaucratic stuff. We’re welcoming a lot of great new members to the Greenwood Band this week, including: Common Territories, Matariyya, Birolika, The Holy Therns, Kranstentistan, Kavamkao, Coherent Imbeciles, Promethum and of course, Monico! We’re also happy to welcome Merryman Lowell Leber back to The United Defenders League.

In other news, The Naivetry Reference Library has been expanding — it now has an Index and a new program where if you submit an essay on NationStates to us, we may award you the title of Doctor-of-Letters (D.Litt). Some new entries to The Naivetry Reference Library include a transcript of the Neutral Territory Conference (Jan 2008), a collection of The Meritocracy Times, a couple Meritocratic essays, a Francoist Case Study of The West Pacific Dominion and my new essay, “Paradise Found”. Make sure you go check out that last one, heh. I also adapted some parts of “Paradise Found” to make a recent address to the Greenwood Band called “Common Sense Ethics”. You may also enjoy reading that, it discusses the end of Chief Lieutenant Milograd’s term and the incident that provoked it in The South Pacific

On a final note, congratulations to Lieutenant Sovreignry, who won the Best Newcomer Award at the 2012 Defenders Award, as well as Lieutenant Eluvatar, who won the Dipes Award for the second year in a row. The Sherwood Post has a full (and satirical) article covering the 2012 Defenders Award. Besides that, erm, cue the Moment of Zen?

*BAM!*

<@Johz> Karp, I am going to bed, and there is nothing you can do to stop me.
* +Karp pees on Johz's bed

[Milograd]

How is it that you have trouble spelling "Kyzikos," but you were easily able to spell "TransMcElligot Pool?"

This is a nice update. Congratulations on your recent successes.

You may also enjoy reading that, it discusses the end of Chief Lieutenant Milograd’s term and the incident that provoked it in The South Pacific.

We need to go deeper.

[Cormac Stark]

Furthermore, we have a new policy, “Regarding the Fight against Hate and Nazism in NationStates”. This policy was approved by our lieutenants; it received a fairly passionate defense as momentum rose in a recent Chiefs of Staff meeting. The basis of the policy is that we will be continuing our old “Nazi Policy” and we are reaffirming our stance against hate, the oppression and discrimination of minorities and social intolerance. However, we have come to believe that the values of Defenderdom stress upon us that the invasion of white supremacist and fascist regions is not behavior becoming of defenders (regardless of whether they do it “off-duty”). First, our oath requests us to be incorruptible in the face of intense adversaries — it’s not much of a standard to be incorruptible if we’re doing the same thing against NAZI EUROPE and The Greater German Reich as they do against others (which we deplore), just on the basis of them being especially offensive. Moreover, our leadership has serious doubts whether armed conflict against Nazis has actually done very much good at all — when you make Nazis, the ultimate villain (really the only consistent villain for many political regions) … you in fact make it “cool” for some players to play the role of “Nazi” in NationStates. We believe that rational and mature dialogue is the best way (although often ineffective) to counter Nazism in NationStates. Just to clarify: The United Defenders League has never sanctioned or organized an invasion against a Nazi region. Our new policy means that our members have an obligation to not participate in these operations altogether.

As I said on the UDL forum, it's unfortunate but unsurprising that the UDL is prioritizing its own brand of in-game extremism ahead of combating violent RL extremism. I also find it amusing that part of your argument is that armed conflict can "make it 'cool' for some players to play the role of 'Nazi' in NationStates," but I suspect you won't stop defending regions against Nazi raiders anytime soon. I suppose having defenders swoop in to stop your invasion, or try to liberate after you've invaded, doesn't make it seem cool at all? Then again, that logic could apply to every raid so I can see why you'd want to avoid it.

Ah well. Like I said, I'm not surprised. I give it two or three months, tops, before the UDL is finding some excuse to join the FRA in defending Nazi regions. I have to say though I'm looking forward to this new era of "rational and mature dialogue."

[Daynor]

I give it two or three months, tops, before the UDL is finding some excuse to join the FRA in defending Nazi regions

One can only hope, all this outrage against them has made them some of the most successful trolls this game has ever seen. It is all they ever wanted.