Good morning,
I often keep to myself and rarely do I comment on the forums, including NationStates Gameplay. As you may have recently saw, a member of the Confederation of Corrupt Dictators proposed condemning the Civil Defence Siren. I rarely know what the Confederation of Corrupt Dictators is, other than the fact that they roleplay as totalitarians and that its founder, Jocospor, overspends on World Assembly campaigns. I am not a member of the World Assembly, so I didn't vote, and regardless I would've abstained. However, that's beside the point. The fact that Redlandia is still in the Civil Defence Siren suggests that most people view Redlandia as a region that supports fascism, which is not true. Now I understand that the Civil Defence Siren may be an in-character (or roleplaying) tool to combat in-character fascism, but every region on the list, it seems, shares real-life fascist views. Hence it's difficult to determine whether or not we're being generalized for our real-world political views or in-character views; it's very confusing.
As a leftist who resides in Redlandia, when we were in Northern Redlands, all of us assumed that the political views of embassy regions didn't reflect the political views in real life. That suddenly changed after our older region was raided by Antifa. A few weeks after the downfall of Northern Redlands, The Reddington States and Ulrech discovered that such embassy regions, according to their experience off-site, legitimately held fascist views in real life. It prompted a few members, like Novum Vallis, to call for an end in interregional raiding against Antifa. During that same period, after fascists came into our region to commit election fraud, Novum Vallis proposed we should close down embassies with fascist regions. The majority of Redlandians voted to close down embassies with fascists, resulting in anger in the far-right NS community. Redlandia was called a "safe space" and/or a "puppet of Antifa". Vippertooth came into the region to congratulate us but many didn't appreciate that he invaded Northern Redlands to begin with, so a key member (Fereria), who like many others approved the vote to close down fascist embassies, banjected him. The founder privately told me that banjecting him was wrong, but reversing the ban would upset a lot of members. So the banjection remained.
Reddington and Ulrech started to revamp the entire region. Reddington wrote multiple designed dispatches for the region, establishing the region's etiquette and features, while Ulrech overhauled our entire Discord server, which started off shoddy. The election also caused some people to leave, but those people were either extremely right-wing or cancerous to the RMB experience. We felt like that Redlandia was heading towards the right direction.
Since we closed embassies with fascists, we gained a number of left-wingers entering the region. One of those new left-wing users, New Camelot of Avalonia campaigned for a spot in the administration and earned it in a fair, democratic election. Redlandia would have its first truly balanced government where its members have a variety of political views ranging from left to right (but neither communist nor fascist). This was completely unprecendented in regional history as Redlandia, a mostly right-leaning region, was experiencing left-wing influence. We did what the CCD failed to do and that was close embassies with fascists, increase leftist influence in our government, and encourage the condemnation of real-life fascism.
Redlandia is perhaps the most left it's ever been, although I'm not saying it's a leftist region now. But if we've done all of the aforementioned, if members of our administration recently participated in a raid of Farkasfalka, and if we're actively criticizing fascism and Holocaust denial on our own RMB, then why are we still in CDS's list with a myriad of regions that have criticized our region including the founder and the commandant themselves? Why is it that when our members go into off-site platforms for different regions, they are removed from those platforms for being "fascist"? It happened to Charleotopia once, it happened to Ulrech once, and it happened to Reddington twice. Members of our region are being persecuted in other regions because of their affiliation with Redlandia and it's quite disgusting. What this is doing is creating tensions within Redlandia. Most of us want to make it clear that our region is against fascism, and yet a few members don't want that because the NSGP wouldn't accept them anyways. A former member who Ulrech banjected suggested that Redlandia's government should be working with fascists to resist Antifa. A fascist from The Iron Confederacy suggested that Redlandia should become fascist again. A region literally titled The Reich thought that Redlandia was a "bastion of fascism and Nazism" because the CDS said so.
I want my peers at Redlandia to join any region without being labeled a "fascist". I want this "Redlandia is fascist" nonsense to end, now. I want people to actually communicate with us about our views rather than get their heresy from a member of Antifa. Nobody in Redlandia wants to be associated with digustingly racist and bigoted Nazis and fascists.
