International Freedom Coalition (SignUp2/OOC)

[The High Lords]

I've just slashed my population down to 130 some million... I think.

And no, this was not a result of a genocide. I just OOCly did it XD

[Valaran]

The best trick I found (learnt from Yohannes) is to use a flexible population system, depending on who you are RPing with.

In my factbook.

My military is small, so it can afford to remain roughly the same at any of the levels, but it seemed the easiest way to resolve this problem.

[New Chilokver]

The best trick I found (learnt from Yohannes) is to use a flexible population system, depending on who you are RPing with.

In my factbook.

My military is small, so it can afford to remain roughly the same at any of the levels, but it seemed the easiest way to resolve this problem.

I don't think it's the population that matters, but rather the size of the military. So long as there is a set agreement on how many personnel can be sent, population does not matter.

[Valaran]

The best trick I found (learnt from Yohannes) is to use a flexible population system, depending on who you are RPing with.

In my factbook.

My military is small, so it can afford to remain roughly the same at any of the levels, but it seemed the easiest way to resolve this problem.

I don't think it's the population that matters, but rather the size of the military. So long as there is a set agreement on how many personnel can be sent, population does not matter.

Population matters economically as well. Some nations may have the same living standards, but if one has another 500 million people, its armed forces will normally reflect the extra wealth.

My military was designed to fit all levels of my population size anyway

[Patrick OConner]

i finshes the aplication and would like to know if i am in or not

[The High Lords]

I RP with 400 million as my population......17 million is easily supported if the army is also helping with producing supplies......But usually my military is spread out in several wars,so,if you invaded,I have about 2 million defending my nation.....

Seems a bit excessive... But that would depend on your nation's statistics and history.

[Bratislav]

STRAW POLL RESULTS SO FAR

POLL: viewtopic.php?p=22391910#p22391910

YES - 3
NO - 5

THE POLL STILL REMAINS OPEN.

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A few clarifying questions:
1) Your nation is MT, correct?
2) If your nation is a Parliamentary Democracy, why is the Head of Government also the Head of State?
3) You say: " I have no idea at this point because I've neglected all of my military alliance positions for a long time." How can we know if you won't neglect the IFC as well?

1. Yes
2. To be honest, I only researched into Westminster style parliaments such as the one in Australia and Canada where the Queen is the de jure head of state. I did not know that the Prime Minister is not simultaneously the head of state and government
3. Nah. I'll try to keep up with everything this time around.

2. Yeah in a Parliamentary System head of government and head of state are almost always different. But anyways, everything looks in order, welcome to the Alliance.

[Great Britain and Belgium]

Basics:

Formal Nation Name: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Belgium
Capital city: London
Head of State: Queen Elizabeth II
Head of Government: Charles Michel, Prime Minister
Form of Government: Federal Monarchy
Economic System: Capitalist
Military Size (Active Personnel): 157,450 Army, 44,900 Air Force, 38,124 Navy
Nuclear Arsenal (if any): 200 Trident Nuclear Weapons
What other military alliances are you a part of: No Military Alliances
Language: English, Gaelic, Dutch.
Demonym: Britgian
Very Brief History of your nation:

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Belgium was founded on 25th July 1945 in the aftermath of the Second World War. The Belgian government wanted to create a new power in Europe but one that would promote peace and be peaceful. After being turned down by France they turned to the United Kingdom. After several weeks of talks after May 8th 1945 it was announced that Belgium, United Kingdom and Ireland would form a new nation to ensure stability in Europe.
Throughout the Cold War the nation came very close to war with the Soviet Union. The closest was in 1983 when Able Arch '83, a NATO exercise, alerted forces of an incoming Soviet missile. The computer was having a glitch, thankfully NATO officials in London decided that it was a false alarm despite millions of people in Europe being rushed to shelters.
Into a new millennium and the nation entered a new golden age. In 2005 the nation celebrated the Queen's Golden Jubilee, the economy was thriving and the nation was at it's best since the '50s. As prosperity continues to this day so does the good livelihood of the people. Despite new culture and technology taking over much of the nation we still remember our old culture and every year we come together to celebrate in pomp and pageantry the Queen's official birthday, a celebration over 300 years old.

Does your nation have...
Freedom of speech: YES
Freedom of conscience: YES
Freedom of assembly: YES
Freedom of religion: YES
Freedom of movement: YES
The right to a fair trial: YES
Universal adult suffrage: YES. Only those registered to vote may do so.
Racial discrimination: It is not a major problem.
Religious discrimination: No
Gender discrimination: No
LGBT discrimination: The odd slur is still heard however it has disappeared in the last 10 years in most parts of the nation.
Laws to prevent racial/religious/gender/LGBT discrimination: Yes. The Equality Act 2010.

Slavery: Abolished during the time of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The Slave Trade Act 1807.
Is your Government by the people (exercised either directly or through elected representatives)? Yes. The government is elected every 5 years. The monarch is hereditary.
How do you describe the political atmosphere of your state? (Far-Left/Left/Center-Left/Center/Center-Right/Right/Far-Right): A Center-Right party is currently in power.

Name of Military: The Britgian Armed Forces
Branches of Military:
Unified Army
United Royal Air Force
Royal Navy

Does your nation have an IIwiki page as of yet? No
RP example: Being a relatively new nation all I have as of yet is my national broadcaster. viewtopic.php?f=23&t=317582
Reason for Joining the IFC: I wish to create a stronger bond between nations and to protect the nation against aggressors and to promote freedom.

Name of Ambassador to the IFC Council: Sir Mark Lyall Grant
Do you hereby agree to abide by the terms and conditions set forth by the IFC's Charter? Yes
**IFCAPP**

[Equusia]

I myself find it rather impractical to cater alternatively to the wishes of the large nations and the realistic nations. It is very annoying to have to switch your nation's size between RPs and rather inconsistent. Hence I tend to try (for internal consistency) to bridge the gap between them by trying to go for not-entirely-unreasonable but not-entirely-reasonable populations on the order of a billion; a policy which is generally that of my region, Hemithea.

I wonder what IFC nations make of this policy?

I RP with a population of 119 million. I don't care about the population of other nations, I care about their military size. Anything over 2 million active personnel is excessive.

I agree, I have a population of 120 million, but only 78,000 active soldiers.

[Yohannes]

I'm not bagging on those who prefer to have a large population, I'm just saying. When you have a population of 42 million like me, and you enter RPs in International Incidents you end up going against said nations and then the problem becomes clear. A high level of realism and NS' level of realism do not go together well, and I'm not the only one who has complained about this before.

I do not hate people who go RPing the way as described here, but at the same time I wish there were more humble sized nations to play around with, so that my nation doesn't have the equivocal military and economic power of Bhutan and every event wouldn't be so massive.

Yeah, I know how you feel bro don't worry. I have experimented with a couple of small alt nations and yeah.. not really the ideal situation

A high level of realism and NS' level of realism can go well, and I have seen it going well in the past. want to see this one example?

[New Carloso]

How is everyone this fine riddly diddling morning/evening and/or night.

[Valaran]

How is everyone this fine riddly diddling morning/evening and/or night.

Meh.... or not that great. But that's mainly because I'm a lazy self-pitying anti-social douche today (ie, its my fault).

How about you?

[New Carloso]

How is everyone this fine riddly diddling morning/evening and/or night.

Meh.... or not that great. But that's mainly because I'm a lazy self-pitying anti-social douche today (ie, its my fault).

How about you?

quite good actually

so... do you plan to rejoin the International Fuel Corporation soon or...

[Zunkwentania]

Meh.... or not that great. But that's mainly because I'm a lazy self-pitying anti-social douche today (ie, its my fault).

How about you?

quite good actually

so... do you plan to rejoin the International Fuel Corporation soon or...

I'll sell you discounted biodiesel!

[Valaran]

Meh.... or not that great. But that's mainly because I'm a lazy self-pitying anti-social douche today (ie, its my fault).

How about you?

quite good actually

so... do you plan to rejoin the International Fuel Corporation soon or...

good to hear

You know what, screw it, I'll flit back for now (as long as that's the new name).

[New Carloso]

quite good actually

so... do you plan to rejoin the International Fuel Corporation soon or...

good to hear

You know what, screw it, I'll flit back for now (as long as that's the new name).

fab levels rising

[Zunkwentania]

quite good actually

so... do you plan to rejoin the International Fuel Corporation soon or...

good to hear

You know what, screw it, I'll flit back for now (as long as that's the new name).

Done.

[Valaran]

Some things have changed, and not for the better (my nation has become more flawed since I left - it grew used to not having to obey any laws but its own)

Basics:
Formal Nation Name: The Valaran Empire (Centralum & Magna)
Capital city: Astaria
Head of State: Emperor Edric Skaran III
Head of Government: Prime Minister James Alstan
Form of Government: Parliamentary Democracy
Economic System: Mixed economy
Military Size (Active Personnel): 500,000 (roughly, I can pull up exact figures if needed)
Nuclear Arsenal (if any): 220 (planned increase to 2000 has continually been shelved)
What other military alliances are you a part of: ICON, UTC, FSA, (observer of many more)
Language: English (with Varanski and Skraek as regional languages)
Demonym: Valaran
Very Brief History of your nation: An exiled royal branch from Viridsolum, who becmae pirates conquered the powerful city-state of Astaria, and began a series of expansions during the Medieval period and beyond. (it was also under control of Denmark and subsequently England at various points if using the RL earth as well)

Centuries later, the now Imperial nation expanded to a colonial Empire. During this time, it had an increasingly liberal bent and gradually introduced democracy. The Empire reached its height in the 1890s, but then stagnated until the 1920s, relying on the balance of power to keep the disparate colonies together.

After a resurgence in the 1920s, a sudden economic collapse in 1931 lead to the gradual break up of the Empire in all but name, and the Valaran nation became increasingly isolationist.

A liberal resurgence took place in the late 1990s, though lapsed once again until 2008, where the financial collapse brought James Alstan to power. He ended the isolationism and the Empire has revived considerably. The rest is history.

Does your nation have...
Freedom of speech Technically no, but speech laws are so tolerant and unenforced de facto it does.
Freedom of conscience Y
Freedom of assembly Y
Freedom of religion Y
Freedom of movement Y
The right to a fair trial Y
Universal adult suffrage Y
Racial discrimination N
Religious discrimination N
Gender discrimination Unfortunately yes, but not intentionally (its an ingrained problem in some areas, despite efforts to eradicate it)
LGBT discrimination N
Laws to prevent racial/religious/gender/LGBT discrimination Y
Slavery Not officially, but the odd pocket may remain.
Is your Government by the people (exercised either directly or through elected representatives)? Yes, on the whole.
How do you describe the political atmosphere of your state? (Far-Left/Left/Center-Left/Center/Center-Right/Right/Far-Right): Centrism with a liberal & center-left leanings in the governing parties. (other major parties have classically liberal, socialist & libertarian leanings)

Name of Military: Valaran Royal Forces (VRF)
Branches of Military: Infantry, Naval, Aerial, Cyber, special forces, nuclear, diplomatic branch, royal guard.

Does your nation have an IIwiki page as of yet? No
RP example: One recently started.
Reason for Joining the IFC: To support our allies and help the organisation as best we can.

Name of Ambassador to the IFC Council: Alex Helghan
Do you hereby agree to abide by the terms and conditions set forth by the IFC's Charter? Yes

**IFCAPP**

[Roski]

The best trick I found (learnt from Yohannes) is to use a flexible population system, depending on who you are RPing with.

In my factbook.

My military is small, so it can afford to remain roughly the same at any of the levels, but it seemed the easiest way to resolve this problem.

I have a two population system, one involving regional conflicts, the other involving non-regional conflicts.
Regional Only Conflicts recieve the entire NS Population, with .4% of the population in the Military. (Which comes in around 8 million, with another .6% as non-combat personnel)

II and other RPs now recieve the 958,000,000 Population, with 1.58 Million Active, and 3 Million reserve. (Although, I've technically got nearly 4,000,000 deployed, but I also use a multiverse theory)

[Furry Alairia and Algeria]

The best trick I found (learnt from Yohannes) is to use a flexible population system, depending on who you are RPing with.

In my factbook.

My military is small, so it can afford to remain roughly the same at any of the levels, but it seemed the easiest way to resolve this problem.

I have a two population system, one involving regional conflicts, the other involving non-regional conflicts.
Regional Only Conflicts recieve the entire NS Population, with .4% of the population in the Military. (Which comes in around 8 million, with another .6% as non-combat personnel)

II and other RPs now recieve the 958,000,000 Population, with 1.58 Million Active, and 3 Million reserve. (Although, I've technically got nearly 4,000,000 deployed, but I also use a multiverse theory)

What would leave your vehicle(Including anything that isn't soldiers, and no, robots are a no no) count at?
Just a general question.

[Valaran]

I have a two population system, one involving regional conflicts, the other involving non-regional conflicts.
Regional Only Conflicts recieve the entire NS Population, with .4% of the population in the Military. (Which comes in around 8 million, with another .6% as non-combat personnel)

II and other RPs now recieve the 958,000,000 Population, with 1.58 Million Active, and 3 Million reserve. (Although, I've technically got nearly 4,000,000 deployed, but I also use a multiverse theory)

Seems reasonable

(not that you need my affirmation)

[Zunkwentania]

Some things have changed, and not for the better (my nation has become more flawed since I left - it grew used to not having to obey any laws but its own)

Basics:
Formal Nation Name: The Valaran Empire (Centralum & Magna)
Capital city: Astaria
Head of State: Emperor Edric Skaran III
Head of Government: Prime Minister James Alstan
Form of Government: Parliamentary Democracy
Economic System: Mixed economy
Military Size (Active Personnel): 500,000 (roughly, I can pull up exact figures if needed)
Nuclear Arsenal (if any): 220 (planned increase to 2000 has continually been shelved)
What other military alliances are you a part of: ICON, UTC, FSA, (observer of many more)
Language: English (with Varanski and Skraek as regional languages)
Demonym: Valaran
Very Brief History of your nation: An exiled royal branch from Viridsolum, who becmae pirates conquered the powerful city-state of Astaria, and began a series of expansions during the Medieval period and beyond. (it was also under control of Denmark and subsequently England at various points if using the RL earth as well)

Centuries later, the now Imperial nation expanded to a colonial Empire. During this time, it had an increasingly liberal bent and gradually introduced democracy. The Empire reached its height in the 1890s, but then stagnated until the 1920s, relying on the balance of power to keep the disparate colonies together.

After a resurgence in the 1920s, a sudden economic collapse in 1931 lead to the gradual break up of the Empire in all but name, and the Valaran nation became increasingly isolationist.

A liberal resurgence took place in the late 1990s, though lapsed once again until 2008, where the financial collapse brought James Alstan to power. He ended the isolationism and the Empire has revived considerably. The rest is history.

Does your nation have...
Freedom of speech Technically no, but speech laws are so tolerant and unenforced de facto it does.
Freedom of conscience Y
Freedom of assembly Y
Freedom of religion Y
Freedom of movement Y
The right to a fair trial Y
Universal adult suffrage Y
Racial discrimination N
Religious discrimination N
Gender discrimination Unfortunately yes, but not intentionally (its an ingrained problem in some areas, despite efforts to eradicate it)
LGBT discrimination N
Laws to prevent racial/religious/gender/LGBT discrimination Y
Slavery Not officially, but the odd pocket may remain.
Is your Government by the people (exercised either directly or through elected representatives)? Yes, on the whole.
How do you describe the political atmosphere of your state? (Far-Left/Left/Center-Left/Center/Center-Right/Right/Far-Right): Centrism with a liberal & center-left leanings in the governing parties. (other major parties have classically liberal, socialist & libertarian leanings)

Name of Military: Valaran Royal Forces (VRF)
Branches of Military: Infantry, Naval, Aerial, Cyber, special forces, nuclear, diplomatic branch, royal guard.

Does your nation have an IIwiki page as of yet? No
RP example: One recently started.
Reason for Joining the IFC: To support our allies and help the organisation as best we can.

Name of Ambassador to the IFC Council: Alex Helghan
Do you hereby agree to abide by the terms and conditions set forth by the IFC's Charter? Yes

**IFCAPP**

Our plan worked!

[Roski]

I have a two population system, one involving regional conflicts, the other involving non-regional conflicts.
Regional Only Conflicts recieve the entire NS Population, with .4% of the population in the Military. (Which comes in around 8 million, with another .6% as non-combat personnel)

II and other RPs now recieve the 958,000,000 Population, with 1.58 Million Active, and 3 Million reserve. (Although, I've technically got nearly 4,000,000 deployed, but I also use a multiverse theory)

What would leave your vehicle(Including anything that isn't soldiers, and no, robots are a no no) count at?
Just a general question.

Vehical counts vary drastically based on who I am fighting in an RP.

[Valaran]

Our plan worked!

I'm not quite sure why you want me back.... but *sighs* here I am.

[Furry Alairia and Algeria]

What would leave your vehicle(Including anything that isn't soldiers, and no, robots are a no no) count at?
Just a general question.

Vehical counts vary drastically based on who I am fighting in an RP.

A bit unrealistic, though I see so.

Our plan worked!

I'm not quite sure why you want me back.... but *sighs* here I am.

Because of your fab.
I can't say that with a happy face anymore.