OFFICIAL BID FOR 81ST WORLDVISION SONG CONTEST Amuaplye.
Whenever you hear about Amuaplye, it means that something has gone horribly wrong there, it seems. Another bombing, another assassination attempt, another scandal. Constant violence and political backstabbing. Government incompetence. A tired and weary Prime Minister trying to reassure the masses as the country goes through yet another crisis.
Well, it's been a year since all of those incidents happened, and it's time to change our image. We know that we might be fighting a losing battle, especially with much bigger nations having already bid for the contest, but we are confident that we might at least put our names in the books. We are not discouraged by these bigger nations.
With a new decade, comes a new change of pace. Perhaps a smaller nation can have a turn at bidding this time?
Your CityBrisbane is the 3rd largest city in Amuaplye, home to 2 and a half million people, though its metropolitan area is home to nearly 4 million. The main part of Brisbane is in a peninsula near the Brisbane River, about 9 miles away from the mouth of said river. The city lies in a densely-populated floodplain.
Brisbane is the oldest city in Amuaplye, having been first an Aboriginal settlement. It is named after the nearby Brisbane River, which is named after Thomas Brisbane, the Governor-General of New South Wales back when the city was first inhabited by British prisoners.
The Moreton Bay prison settlement was founded in 1824 in nearby Radcliffe, 17 miles away, but was abandoned and the prisoners relocated to North Quay the following year, and was open to settlers in 1842. Brisbane was named the capital city of Queensland when it was declared independent from New South Wales in 1859. It also played a key role in the Second World War, being the South Pacific headquarters of the US Army at the time, run by Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
Brisbane is also an extremely diverse city, with 1/3 of the population being immigrants, and is known for its distinct style of architecture. It is also served by an expansive rail, bus, and ferry network, along with the 3rd biggest airport in Amuaplye, and several seaports.
Brisbane is also an extremely popular tourist destination, home to a large amount of historic and cultural sites, and several popular surf beaches.
Your ArenaThe Brisbane Entertainment Centre is a large indoor arena in the suburb of Boondall. It has a vast array of seating plans, varying from performance to performance, but its maximum capacity is 13,500 people. It is home to not only 1 arena, but multiple, with one large arena, a sports complex, and several smaller rooms for stuff like wedding receptions and business meetings.
The arena was built in 1986 for the Brisbane Bullets basketball team up until 1997, and for the Queensland Firebirds from 2015 to 2019. It has also been used for skating events, plays, musicals, and concerts.
The concert area will be a large raised square, with a large array of pyrotechnics, water jets, laser lights (pictured below), rising platforms in the center of the stage, and a large LED screen that can be programmed to display video and audio. An entire orchestra, the Brisbane National Orchestra will be provided if needed, with the orchestra pit in front of the stage. There will also be speakers placed all around the arena, making sure that everybody in the arena can hear the concert.
Your HostsFrankie Bradley is a politician, actor, athlete, and activist. His claim to fame was his gold medal in cross-country skiing in an international sports contest, which brought him fame, but also led to him suffering severe leg injuries in 2018 that hindered his ability to compete. As a result, he became an activist and founded the charity Peace, dedicated to stopping conflicts worldwide, its executives going all across the world to mediate disputes between anyone, from landowners to governments.
This caught the eye of Nathan Bishop, the head of the Amuaplye Investigative Force, who was pursuing a run for the ACP leadership election. He was promised a major government role if he won, due to his contributions to international disputes. The election was cancelled due to a major crisis, but when Bishop became Prime Minister in 2019, Bradley was named the Deputy Prime Minister. While he lost the title when Bishop lost re-election later that year, he is still a major social force, having left politics.
Now, the actor part. While he has left politics and hasn't competed in nearly a year, he has carved his niche in acting. He is well known for his roles in The World Stage series of movies, playing former Prime Minister Andrew Stelton in It Roars, Then Stops (2020), and will play him as Prime Minister in the 3rd film in the series, We Are Under Attack, in 2021.
Angela Payton is an Amuaplyean singer and songwriter. Her career began in 2019, when she released her 1st album, Ерок (Love), which tells several stories from several perspectives about love. Half of the album is in English, and the other half is in Amuaplyean. The album went under the radar mostly, although the title track, Ерок, did hit #45 on the Amuaplyean charts.
This was, until another one of her songs, Forgive Me, was used not only in a viral marketing campaign for the jewelry company JewelDazzle, but in the film Robert's Request, a rom-com about a man named Robert trying to reconnect with his ex-girlfriend, Julie in late 2019. As a result, the song shot up the charts, going from not even charting when it was released, to #1 in January of 2020, and was Amuaplye's entrant to the 79th WorldVision Song Contest, placing 14th.
Your Graphics(If I win, please TG me here or DM me on Discord for what you want on your postcard, and my apologies for the 1st one saying 82, I was expecting the next one to be in April, not this one)