Purpose
1. The primary purpose of this thread is to reintroduce my nation. It is not to announce any new changes. There are none. However, as there have been many changes in the past, I figured people could use an introduction to my nation as it now is.
2. To establish contact with people who I have not interacted with for some time or have not interacted with before.
Ways to Get Involved
Please post here first.
1. International events. In a few posts, I will begin dealing with nominally sovereign former Confederal Members. These are tiny territories, the largest have populations of four million or less, and they are still more or less dependent. However, nominal sovereignty makes it technically an area of international rather than domestic policy. I will also be working on foreign policy proper.
2. Make contact. You are free to interject a diplomatic first contact into the thread although you should let me know here or by TG first. A thread dedicated to the day-to-day governance of my country is the perfect place to play out the sort of establishment of relations which is normally limited to filling out a form in an embassy thread.
3. Tourists. You can play tourists traveling in my country.
4. Journalists. You can play journalists covering the events of the thread.
5. Trafficking. The fight against trafficking is potentially part of the thread and if you are a slaver state willing to violate the sovereignty of others or if your nation has a criminal element which does so, you might want to play the villain of the piece. Talk to me here or by TG first to avoid godmodding.
6. If you see another way to get involved that doesn't involve any godmods or wanking, feel free. It's relatively open.
Ground Rules
1. This is open to all tech and all types of sapient creatures. However, I will not acknowledge any use of special powers, psionics, magic, future-tech or whatever to control the minds of any of my people or subjugate them militarily. Fractal reality just makes any attempt to do so fail. Friendlies are also unable to upgrade or assist my technology. I mean to stay more or less modern tech.
2. No IC trolls. IC trolls are that category of nations which make glib or incessant genocide or slavery posts primarily for shock value, to insult others, to get attention, or for any other silly reason. I have seen scores of these over the last five years. I started on NS at a time when elf genocides were a daily occurrence from week old nations wanting to get ortilleried by Menelmacar. Menelmacar eventually adopted a policy of ignoring that non-sense and I am persuaded by that logic. I don't want to hear arguments about how it's not really trolling, the mods said it was okay, or whatever. If it's okay under the site rules, go make a thread. I don't want it in mine. This rule has nothing to do with the substance of your nation. I have roleplayed slavery and genocide myself, including a few posts dark enough to bother some other players. I won't be a hypocrite and nations which roleplay it in a challenging, engaging way which is not OOC dismissive of the victims' suffering are welcome. After all, great roleplayers like Amazonian Beasts, Iesus Christi, and Shattered Atlantis, all of whom I would be honored to have in my RP, play that sort of thing. Scandinvans, New Nicksyllvania, and others also do a decent job. Sorry to go on like this but I want this exclusion narrow. I don't want to scare off good roleplayers along with the bad.
3. No military attacks in this thread. If events in this thread lead to hostilities, I will be happy to make another, provided rules 1 and 2 are not being ignored.
4. Please post all questions and criticisms in this thread instead of telegramming. That way I don't have to answer similar TGs from a lot of people. If you can't think of reasons to get involved, I am happy to help. Except as otherwise noted, I want to be inclusive.
