End of an Era
It is the end of an era in Europeia as Mousebumples has resigned as WA Delegate. Mouse has served for well over two years after being electing after Vinage's term. Here is her speech on the matter:
Over the past few weeks, it has grown increasingly clear to me that the time has come for me to resign as WA Delegate of Europeia. There are a number of reasons why I've elected to step down, including real life obligations and the feeling that my insight and experience is neither valued nor desired by the current administration, among other things.
As a result, the Chancellery will be opening standing shortly. After consultation with Supreme Chancellor Lethen, on behalf of the Chancellery, polls will be opening on Monday, November 28th, in accordance with the WA Delegate election protocols laid out in our laws.
Thanks for your support over the past two and a half years. Good luck to whomever will be leading Europeia as WA Delegate moving forward; I'm available to offer advice where I can.
Currently, five people are running to replace her in what is shaping up to be a very exciting election:
Raging Zen Master
Celtian
Trinnien
Jahka
Noah Second Country
Thoughts on Mousebumples; and the History of WA in Europeia
By Rachel Eriksen
When Europeia was formed, it was culturally like the proud monarchical regions from which its most prominent members had come from. These were The Four Realms*; Great Britain and Ireland, The Land of Kings and Emperors, The New Inquisition and Empires of Earth. Many of Europeia's early best and brightest had started or developed in these regions. While Europeia retained many of the good traditions of these regions, it also inherited their faulty ones as well. One of these less desired traditions was the lack of focus on the delegate position and the World Assembly (or United Nations). While these regions all sought to develop governments of the highest standards, the delegacy did not fall into these plans. Thus, Europeia under performed in this category even in basic WA stats like saturation until 2010/2011 despite its large population.
It was during this time that people started to question why Europeia couldn't have a strong WA program, a strong navy and a strong and distinct foreign affairs program and started to try to do something about it. One of the underrated moves of the era, was when Oliver started to explore World Assembly IRC chats and started to bring experts to Europeia. One of these was Mousebumples. While Oliver and later Abbey had mixed success in the position of Delegate compared to their ambitions, they helped pave the way for future delegates. It was the election of a relative newcomer, Vinage of whom there were very little expectations that changed everything.
Like Peter the Great, Vinage sought greater counsel than ever before in transforming our World Assembly scene. He especially got help from the people Oliver had brought to Europeia, especially Mousebumples and the region would flourish in the World Assembly. Rather than lag behind in our basic WA stats, our WA stopped underperfoming the rest of the regions success. For the first time, Europeia was even writing and creating World Assembly laws in large part because of Mousebumples guidance. It could be argued that without Mousebumples, our World Assembly program would never have gotten off the ground.
This success continued with the election of Mousebumples and saw Europeia extend its success through our ties to other regions. In Balder, people who had learned and were inspired by Vinage and Mousebumples like myself became delegates. Europeia's success climaxed with the W.A.L.L. treaty, the brain child of then TNP delegate R3n which sought greater co-operation on WA affairs between Europeia, The North Pacific, Balder and the IDU. The WA program of Europeia had not only achieved domestic success, but it had also helped Europeia to really build meaningful relationships with the Game Created Regions. WALL built upon the interpersonal success and shared visions of these regions.
Personally, I can say that I really only became a delegate because of what Europeia underneath Vinage and Mousebumples has done. For the longest time, I never felt I was good enough to be a delegate of a region. I too, had come from The Four Realms (Empires of Earth) and always felt like such an outsider to World Assembly programs. But in Europeia from Vinage and Mouse I learned how to be a delegate. For that, I am eternally grateful. Thank you.
Europeia itself should be extremely proud of the advances we have made and the tradition we have built. We have gone from not even thinking about the WA to looking at outsiders for help to being the region people look at for help in the WA. Mousebumples has done so much to build our program up from the ground. It is now time for Europeia to continue that tradition and use our incredible potential and seemingly inexhaustible resources based upon our tirelessly talented members to take the next step forward for our World Assembly program.
*The Four Realms are the four regions which signed the Congress of Sovereigns treaty. The King of Empires of Earth: Most Great Britannia wanted the treaty to be called "The Realms Four" but TNI, LKE and GB&I did not really like this. The compromise was that the treaty would be called the Congress of Sovereigns but that it would comprise of The Four Realms. Myself, who started in The Four Realms has used the term as a point of pride to the annoyance of R3n and others who prefer to call the regions the Congress of Sovereigns. Although given that I am the one of the few who consistently makes reference to this group and that there was a new Congress of Sovereigns, I'd like to think that MGB and EoE has won this debate. So here's to the Four Realms!