Government Style Support Systems

[Rancilia]

I was wondering if anyone would want to start a bureau for each system of government. I mean that fo the democrats, they support the democratic bureau, and the communists support the communist bureau( Not as in reference to the Cold War, but there can be as many different bureaus as there are systems of government). So, if you like the idea please comment, and if it's popular, I'll try and pass it as a proposal.

[Grays Harbor]

I was wondering if anyone would want to start a bureau for each system of government. I mean that fo the democrats, they support the democratic bureau, and the communists support the communist bureau( Not as in reference to the Cold War, but there can be as many different bureaus as there are systems of government). So, if you like the idea please comment, and if it's popular, I'll try and pass it as a proposal.

Umm.... We were always under the impression that it was one function of the WA to bring disparate political and economic systems in the various nations together, not seperate them into individual groupings.

[Rancilia]

Well, what I meant was that since there's nations of the same government type in each region, maybe all of the democrats, for example, would want to express their ideas to the "independent" nations, who choose not to be either, or maybe a group of imperialitsic nations would ban together to show their ideas. What I'm saying is that there would be like a federation for each government type. A few examples would be The Democratic Federation, The Communist Federation, The Theocratic Federation, so on and so forth. It would just be the people speaking for what they believe in.

[Mad Sheep Railgun]

How exactly would you have the World Assembly implement this idea? And to what purpose? Couldn't like-minded nations already do this without World Assembly involvement?

[Flibbleites]

How exactly would you have the World Assembly implement this idea? And to what purpose? Couldn't like-minded nations already do this without World Assembly involvement?

Considering how many groups we had back in the UN days (NSO, the Int-Fed group, DEFCON, FAIRTRADE, etc.) I'd say you've hit the nail on the head.

[Grays Harbor]

Mandated Alliances. One more reason We would be very much against this idea. Just because my nation is a Monarchy, it does not automatically follow that we would care to be associated with each and every other Monarchy out there.

[Enn]

Um. I very strongly doubt there are many other Triumvirates out there. And the Triumvirate of Enn is (currently, although likely to change as a result of an upcoming referendum) composed of one autocrat, one indirectly elected member of the People's Assembly, and one judge. Where the hell would we fit?

~ Stephanie Fulton, of Enn

[Gobbannium]

Quite. As a monarchic democracy, we would feel somewhat uncomfortable lumped in with the more common style of monarchy, and very unhappy indeed to be associated with purer democracies.

[Rancilia]

What I meant was that you don't have to join the federation your government style falls into. If you believe that your not a pure democrat ( As one said), then you don't have to be part of that federation. secondly, the federations wouldn't choose how their nations involved would be run. it would just oversee the ideas of the different nations in each federation that would help improve their societies.

[Grays Harbor]

Then this would only create multiple layers of new bureaucracy. hoo-rah.

If nations want to join together in alliances, conclaves, coven, whatever.... let them, thats their right.

THE WA DOES NOT NEED TO MANDATE IT

[Rancilia]

Actually, I believe that if the WA does not mandate it it is therefore not an official practice in NationStates, so maybe if they want to create an alliance, conclave, federation or anything, I believe that it has to be a passed resolution by the WA.

[Rancilia]

How exactly would you have the World Assembly implement this idea? And to what purpose? Couldn't like-minded nations already do this without World Assembly involvement?

If nations wanted to start a federation, then they'd try and get a proposal passed to start the federation, then the nations would elect leaders, and discuss different ideas within the federation and try to spread their style of government to the "newcomers" in NationStates.

[Bears Armed]

How exactly would you have the World Assembly implement this idea? And to what purpose? Couldn't like-minded nations already do this without World Assembly involvement?

If nations wanted to start a federation, then they'd try and get a proposal passed to start the federation, then the nations would elect leaders, and discuss different ideas within the federation and try to spread their style of government to the "newcomers" in NationStates.

OOC: That would be 'illegal', because all WA resolutions have to affect (at least potentially) ALL of the member nations rather than (for example) those that have some specific form of government.

[Rancilia]

Well, in that sense your correct. But, the resolution I'm talking about is when world assembly nations meet each other in the forums and decide to either let the federation be created or not.

[Gobbannium]

Actually, I believe that if the WA does not mandate it it is therefore not an official practice in NationStates, so maybe if they want to create an alliance, conclave, federation or anything, I believe that it has to be a passed resolution by the WA.

You believe incorrectly. If the WA does not mandate it, it is not an official WA practice. That does not make it any less real, nor do the sorts of alliance you seem to be advocating have a great deal of relevance to the functioning of the WA.

[Enn]

Actually, I believe that if the WA does not mandate it it is therefore not an official practice in NationStates, so maybe if they want to create an alliance, conclave, federation or anything, I believe that it has to be a passed resolution by the WA.

Absolutely not true. Enn has been a member of the National Sovereignty Organisation, the Green Think Tank and the ill-fated Pretenama Panel. It's also a member of the United Nations Old Guard, and (at the regional level) is the current delegate of the International Democratic Union, which I suppose you could call an alliance of democracies.

Of these, only the Pretenama Panel had anything explicitly to do with (then) NSUN resolutions, the EON Convention and Humanitarian Intervention. The others were/are all groupings of (to a degree) like-minded people/nations pushing for particular ideas.

Claiming that alliances need to be done through the WA would get you laughed out of II, as well.

[Grays Harbor]

Well, in that sense your correct. But, the resolution I'm talking about is when world assembly nations meet each other in the forums and decide to either let the federation be created or not.

Then why in the name of all the saints and little fishes do you believe the WA is needed to mandate federations between nations when this is something that is already going on on a voluntary basis? This is nothing more than a proposal for the sake of submitting a proposal.

[Hirota]

How exactly would you have the World Assembly implement this idea? And to what purpose? Couldn't like-minded nations already do this without World Assembly involvement?

If nations wanted to start a federation, then they'd try and get a proposal passed to start the federation, then the nations would elect leaders, and discuss different ideas within the federation and try to spread their style of government to the "newcomers" in NationStates.

If you are looking at making "federations" part of the game, this is illegal as game mechanics.

If you want to encourage the spread of federations as off-site groups, there is no need to legislate on this as plenty exist already.

[Moubarakistan]

it is really nice to seek for a certain unification between countries having same government types but I don;t think it is wise to create bureaus because your government type change after answering a certain number of issues so REGIONS are more than enough

[Rancilia]

Yes, but you can keep the type of government you have if you keep making the right decisions.

[Grays Harbor]

Yes, but you can keep the type of government you have if you keep making the right decisions.

Brikkel looked up from his novel, "Which has little or no bearing on the current debate. Mandating 'federations' is a bad idea, one whicch really needs to be locked away and forgotten. Soon."

[Ilharessa]

Yes, but you can keep the type of government you have if you keep making the right decisions.

Brikkel looked up from his novel, "Which has little or no bearing on the current debate. Mandating 'federations' is a bad idea, one whicch really needs to be locked away and forgotten. Soon."

"I do not know that is such a good idea," Velnayanis said. "Given what you oldtimers say, it seems every bad idea that you lock away and forget about ends up escaping to haunt you at some future date. Perhaps, instead, we could lock the bad idea away in a cage and put it on display? We could start a bad ideas zoo and charge people admission to see it. Plus, if they're locked in cages, they certainly are not out and about terrorising ambassadors."

[A mean old man]

As has already been stated, this idea is already catered to by the countless player-made organizations in NationStates.

EDIT: In fact, I think your idea of existing but not obligational-alliance-to-any-particular in-game alliances to join based on political (or social as well, in this case) beliefs is already taken care of by the existence of regions.

[Grays Harbor]

As has already been stated, this idea is already catered to by the countless player-made organizations in NationStates.

EDIT: In fact, I think your idea of existing but not obligational-alliance-to-any-particular in-game alliances to join based on political (or social as well, in this case) beliefs is already taken care of by the existence of regions.

OOC - Not always true. My own region, for example, has a long history of having a very diverse population and fair well every type of government known. We do not require that only one philosophy be followed, and we have all managed to get along nicely for 7 years now.