For obvious reasons, recusing myself from approval on this one.
BASIC INFORMATION
This is a request for: [X] Territorial expansion | [ ] Population expansion | [ ] GDP expansion | [ ] Nuclear weapons
Describe the requested increase in detail: As before, this isn't even really a request for "territorial expansion" so much as it is requesting that Lecia be moved from one place to another in order to have neighbors, now that Sjal has suddenly flaked and Strasskak has died of inactivity.
New map claim (image URL, skip if N/A): here
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
Why is this stat increase necessary? This stat increase is beneficial because currently Lecia has no neighbors, again, and it can do more RPing and worldbuilding if it actually has nearby nations that it can interact with.
What impact will this increase have on your IC nation's strength? Namor will likely provide Lecia with things it currently doesn't have and couldn't have gotten from Evroseia or Strasskak (due to their hostility towards Lecia), and give the government support that it certainly didn't have before, but Lecia's still only a nation of five million with little in the way of resources.
How will this stat increase contribute to your roleplaying and worldbuilding? It means that I'll actually have neighbors to roleplay and worldbuild with again. Per Ainin's suggestion on the Discord, I've PMed Namor and we've already begun discussing the possibility of Namorese involvement in some recent conflicts in Lecia.
CRITICAL DISCUSSION
List at least two other ways that the desired IC benefit can be achieved: The two other alternatives would be to move Lecia closer to its Monic neighbors (which would give it people to interact with, if in a hostile fashion; but this would exacerbate the "Lecia is so far away from West Borea" thing), or to move it into West Borea near Katranjiev or Luziyca (but this might force Lecia to change its climactic and resource makeup, and it's well known that I'm fond of Lecia's desert climate because it makes it unique, and helps prevent it just becoming another generic slavland). I'd still maintain that this is the best location, however, because 1) it lessens Lecia's distance from West Borea while still allowing it to have the "exodus narrative" I've built for Lecia's early history and religion, 2) it gives Lecia a neighbor to interact with 3) that might be willing to support Lecia with resources Lecia lacks, and 4) it allows Lecia to keep its unique climate.
Critically discuss how will this stat increase may affect other nations or regional geopolitics: Lecia is small enough that it probably not have too much of an effect, but it will nevertheless give Namor another nearby ally to interact with
How have you contributed towards furthering the roleplaying and worldbuilding community of the region during your presence so far? I'll begin by just copy-pasting the thing I posted the last time Lecia had to move in order to actually have neighbors:
It's well-known that I am (at present) the only individual to have four different nations in this region, and admittedly I've been far from perfect in keeping all four of them alive. Nevertheless, though, I think I've been more active with four nations than some others have been with only one. Aucuria recently finished hosting the Esquarian Summit, which was successful both from an IC perspective (in that it came to an agreement) and from an OoC perspective (in that we actually managed to complete an RP). I've worked to integrate Aucuria's status as an early liberal democracy into regional canon, which has resulted in it inspiring everything from Namorese cultists to Tuthinan rebel leaders. Aucuria is also an active member of the EC. I've engaged in significant worldbuilding with regards to Senria and its neighbors; the Senrian-Xiaodongese War article on iiWiki is the seventh-longest page there, and Senria is heavily involved in the plans that Xiao has drafted for the future of East Borea through 2020. Siphria's conflict with the UNIR has been a part- if a small one- of the transformation of Nautasia from one of Esquarium's least active continents to perhaps its most active continent, and Ankoren and I have plans for continuing work in that area into the future. On top of that, I've done quite a bit of worldbuilding with Siphria, primarily with its antiquity.
Lecia, admittedly, is the least active of my four alts, but this is in part because the depopulation of Conitia has left it without anyone to really worldbuild or roleplay with. It's my hope that moving Lecia to Borea will enable it to be as active as Aucuria, Senria, and Siphria.
I will also add, however, that I've been working a lot recently on Lecia. I've been drastically expanding its iiWiki, fleshing out its history and culture, and working on bringing it into the regional canon again. Between the Internationale going inactive and Lecia's neighbors vanishing, that's been extremely difficult- every time I made progress, it seemed to vanish into thin air- but I've pressed on regardless and I'd like to continue working on and expanding Lecia- hopefully getting it as involved and integrated in the region as it was during the days of Michillies and Odissia. It is my hope that moving Lecia near to active, long-standing pillars of the region like Namor and Luziyca will lessen the chance of built canon being scrapped by retcons or CTEs, and that I'll once again be able to deeply integrate Lecia into the canon of the region.
I acknowledge that any acceptance is conditional on the increase having productive roleplaying utility to the region as a whole, and that it may be rescinded at any time if it becomes derelict or conducive towards powergaming.