Corporate Alliance

[Blackhelm Confederacy]

Years ago, Griffincrest Oil Incorporated underwent a series of conflicts which it attempted defend its territories from foreign incursion, and was decisivly defeated in an area known as the Four Corners by a group of nations forming the GASN. In response to this, the Corporation set out to make an alliance of nations with a more Corporate tint, for those with a business style outlook on the world.

The Corporate Alliance (CA) is an alliance meant to restore balance to the world order. Currently, as with all times in the world, a group of large nations seek to dominate the world and tell other, weaker nations that the way they are doing things is wrong, and threaten invasion unless their ways are changed. The CA intends to change this, by providing another option for nations that want to join an alliance. If your nation has been constricted by any of these "world police", or if you want the protection of a major alliance, than the CA is the place for you.

CA Charter

The CA was created by the Griffencrest Corporation as an alliance to counter the scheming of the nations who have taken it upon themselves to be "World Police".

1st Chapter:

1) All members must render assistance to any member that has been attacked or invaded by a nation not in the CA.
2) All members must be required to assist other members in any offensive that they require help.
3) Every single member must be prepared to commit forces around the world to counter the enemies of the Alliance wherever they are found.
4) Any two members may not declare war on each other, if this happens it will result in temporary expulsion from the CA, until the conflict is resolved.
5) Must be willing to use chemical and biological weaponry. Nuclear weapons will only be used when necessary.

2nd Chapter:

1) All members shall open trade with all other members, free of tariffs.
2) Members are expected to respect the laws other members have regarding trade.
3) A humanitarian organization is to be set up, with contributions from all members. This will be used to aid not just CA members, but nations around the world in their darkest moments.

Requirements for Membership:

A. The willingness to send forces around the globe to fight wherever the Alliance sees fit
B. A military force large and powerful enough to fight in large-scale wars.

Security Council

The Security Council will be voted on every month, and will decide whether or not to directly assault enemy assests and things like that.

Closing Statement:

The CA has been made as a balance against those that threaten the free world, so that the rights of nations outside the so called NS upper class shall be upheld.

Sincerely
Claudius Griffincrest, CEO, Griffincrest Oil Inc.

Members

The Griffincrest Corporation - The Blackhelm Confederacy
The Empire of Ralkovia
The Republic of Fictions
The Emorden-Geist Weapons Manufacturing Corporation - The Grand World Order
The Sacrosanct Un-Holy Sultanate of Deserted Territories
The Islamic Empire of Maldorians
The Holy Kingdom of Sanctus-Terra
The Capital City-State of Spartan Philidelphia
The Confederacy of Gordonisia
The Corporate Republic of Amn'Voss
The Protected Dicatorship of Anghele
The Democratic Republic of Comorostan
The Bloody Land of Fighter4u
The Confederacy of L3 Communications
The Rogue Nation of Artiell
The Augmark Technology Corporation , Augmark
The Democratic Republic of Sorgan
The Federation of Brewdomia
The Neucom Corporation, Neo-Erusea
The Ceilteach Impireacht of Drexel Hillsville
The Kingdom of Ascelonia
The Corporate Republic of Toopoxia

Observer States
The Republic of Turkish Federation

Forum:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Corporate_Alliance/index/

[Blackhelm Confederacy]

The Alliance sall also maintain a list of nations whose involvement in an RP will be ignored, for a variety of reasons. Prior to acceptance onto the ignore list, nations must submit their proposal, which will then be transferred to the Security Council for approval.

Ignored NS'ers

Serbian Soviet Union - Refusal to accept a legitimate invasion

[Serbian_Soviet_Union]

The Alliance sall also maintain a list of nations whose involvement in an RP will be ignored, for a variety of reasons. Prior to acceptance onto the ignore list, nations must submit their proposal, which will then be transferred to the Security Council for approval.

Ignored NS'ers

Serbian Soviet Union - Refusal to accept a legitimate invasion

OOC: Based on the reason for selling cheap oil. Not a legitimate reason and do not wish to be invade by a nation that does not know how to compete in the international market and compete against other businesses and corporations. I also gotta hand it to you for planning and attempting an invasion on the member states of this alliance. This alliance is filled up with propaganda and to gather as many nation's as puppet states to only defend the interests of the Griffincrest Oil and to force member states to allow Blackhelm Confederacy troops to be stationed at all times and to force member states to give up all of it's oil reserve to the Griffincrest Corporation leaving the member states with ZERO profits. If a member state of CA started to sell oil, the member state would be forced to give up all of it's oil reserve to Griffincrest with free of charge or face invasion. Which was the case with FSSU therefore it's best defense was to ignore an invasion and withdraw from the alliance permanently.

[Spartan Philidelphia]

The Alliance sall also maintain a list of nations whose involvement in an RP will be ignored, for a variety of reasons. Prior to acceptance onto the ignore list, nations must submit their proposal, which will then be transferred to the Security Council for approval.

Ignored NS'ers

Serbian Soviet Union - Refusal to accept a legitimate invasion

OOC: Based on the reason for selling cheap oil. Not a legitimate reason and do not wish to be invade by a nation that does not know how to compete in the international market and compete against other businesses and corporations.

OOC: Its actually quite a legitimate reason. You see, sometimes nations invade other nations for resources such as oil. This is what Blackhelm is doing here.

[Blackhelm Confederacy]

Thank you SP

[Ralkovia]

With the recent reopening of the CA, Ralkovia wishs to make its interest in joining known. As you know we have supported Griffincrest and meet all requirements. We are willing to do whatever it takes to be victorious and are willing to use are troops and are weapons to ensure that the CA will win over its enemies.

[Fictions]

(OOC: I hate asking to join posts so it is crap)

To the Corporate Alliance
The republic of Fictions (with a special Request from Sekh Kaari Industries) would like to join the Corporate Alliance.

[The Grand World Order]

The Emorden-Geist Weapons Manufacturing Corporation wishes to join the Corporate Alliance. As "world policemen" continue to spawn like frogs, the foreign (and, in some cases, domestic) interests of the Corporation are compromised by petty morality and the like.

[Blackhelm Confederacy]

The Griffincrest Corporation welcomes its three newest members, and wishes to wholehhearted thank them for joining us. If there is anything the Corporation can do to help you in any way, never hesotate to ask.

[Ralkovia]

(Replace the ocean with an alcoholic beverage and we'll be set for life GC....jk. Perhaps maldorian and desert will join?)

[Blackhelm Confederacy]

(Replace the ocean with an alcoholic beverage and we'll be set for life GC....jk. Perhaps maldorian and desert will join?)

I believe so

[Leistung]

To: [Open]
From: Office of the Chancellor
Subj: Corporate Alliance re-founded

I personally could not help but laugh after reading the pamphlet my office has been sent regarding Corporate Alliance membership. Replace "group of large nations" with Griffincrest, and "their ways are changed" with "they give us oil", and you essentially have the Corporate Alliance's premier member in a nutshell. The hypocrisy in this alliance being formed to aid smaller nations in defense against larger ones is truly mind-boggling.

Furthermore, it is the opinion of my office and of the people of Leistung that this alliance, considering its rules, serves as nothing more than a shield on which to place innocent nations lured with ideas of "banding together against the world police," and to use that shield to protect Griffincrest interests when they ultimately attack a nation more powerful than they are. It is fitting, then, that there are no stopgaps in place to ensure that offensive action benefits smaller nations whatsoever, or to ensure that said actions do not merely represent Griffincrest plus allies raping another nation.

In conclusion, to put this bluntly, it is the opinion of the Federal Republic of Leistung that the Corporate Alliance is not an alliance meant to defend the freedoms of its member-states, but rather to use those members to defend the founder from attack -- an attack which will, mark my words, eventually come to pass.

Sincerely,

Hans Ziegler
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Leistung

[Serbian_Soviet_Union]

To: [Open]
From: Office of the Chancellor
Subj: Corporate Alliance re-founded

I personally could not help but laugh after reading the pamphlet my office has been sent regarding Corporate Alliance membership. Replace "group of large nations" with Griffincrest, and "their ways are changed" with "they give us oil", and you essentially have the Corporate Alliance's premier member in a nutshell. The hypocrisy in this alliance being formed to aid smaller nations in defense against larger ones is truly mind-boggling.

Furthermore, it is the opinion of my office and of the people of Leistung that this alliance, considering its rules, serves as nothing more than a shield on which to place innocent nations lured with ideas of "banding together against the world police," and to use that shield to protect Griffincrest interests when they ultimately attack a nation more powerful than they are. It is fitting, then, that there are no stopgaps in place to ensure that offensive action benefits smaller nations whatsoever, or to ensure that said actions do not merely represent Griffincrest plus allies raping another nation.

In conclusion, to put this bluntly, it is the opinion of the Federal Republic of Leistung that the Corporate Alliance is not an alliance meant to defend the freedoms of its member-states, but rather to use those members to defend the founder from attack -- an attack which will, mark my words, eventually come to pass.

Sincerely,

Hans Ziegler
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Leistung

OOC: The Federation of the Serbian Soviet Union was a member and having been a member and for not falling to the demands of Griffincrist to raise the oil prices and to give up my resources, i as a member was threatened an invasion and having an attempted invasion occure in my nation, therefore the only logical solution was to withdraw from this so called alliance and also to ignore an invasion. This alliance attacks it's own member states when they do not suit Griffincrist's interests.

[Blackhelm Confederacy]

OOC: That is entirely false, and is slanderous. You were a CA member in name only, and were actively campaigning against me while still touting that you were in the CA, as if that was some kind of shield. The CA is an alliance of action, something which you never lived up to. There was not one instance of you belonging to the CA other than when threatened by me, and for all intents you were not a member of the alliance. Now will you please stop following me from thread to thread in a pathetic attempt to discredit me, because to tell the truth, you are a pussy.

[Serbian_Soviet_Union]

OOC: That is entirely false, and is slanderous. You were a CA member in name only, and were actively campaigning against me while still touting that you were in the CA, as if that was some kind of shield. The CA is an alliance of action, something which you never lived up to. There was not one instance of you belonging to the CA other than when threatened by me, and for all intents you were not a member of the alliance. Now will you please stop following me from thread to thread in a pathetic attempt to discredit me, because to tell the truth, you are a pussy.

Your alliance has been inactive for quite sometime now, even more then a year or two, there were no activities happening on the off-site forum, you took in so many member states that you even lost count on and did not know who your member states were and you happily accepted me into CA and yet you didn't have a clue that i was a member while attempting an invasion of my nation for selling cheap oil.

[Blackhelm Confederacy]

OOC: Inactive for a year? Not a chance. You are ignored for a reason, pussy.

[Serbian_Soviet_Union]

OOC: Inactive for a year? Not a chance. You are ignored for a reason, pussy.

OOC: You are the only person that seems to be having issues with nation's selling cheap oil. Apart nobody has any problems with that apart from yourself. You have been made a fool in your own thread and had been given answers and all your claims have been proven wrong. The only pussy cat here is yourself, too scared to declare war and invade the members of the Coalition Oil so you find smaller nation's to bully instead and steal their natural resources and oil after invading smaller nations. Why don't you pick on nation's that are the same size as your nation or bigger?

[Leistung]

OOC: Um, sorry that my IC comment inflamed so many tensions...

[Blackhelm Confederacy]

OOC: Inactive for a year? Not a chance. You are ignored for a reason, pussy.

OOC: You are the only person that seems to be having issues with nation's selling cheap oil. Apart nobody has any problems with that apart from yourself. You have been made a fool in your own thread and had been given answers and all your claims have been proven wrong.

OOC: To start, you post here again and I'm going to the mods, because you are just being ridiculous now, and second, the thread in question was merely an inquiry, one which you failed and are still failing to answer. I don't see how I was made a fool of. Feel free to TG me if you want to continue this conversation, coward.

[Serbian_Soviet_Union]

OOC: Inactive for a year? Not a chance. You are ignored for a reason, pussy.

OOC: You are the only person that seems to be having issues with nation's selling cheap oil. Apart nobody has any problems with that apart from yourself. You have been made a fool in your own thread and had been given answers and all your claims have been proven wrong.

OOC: To start, you post here again and I'm going to the mods, because you are just being ridiculous now, and second, the thread in question was merely an inquiry, one which you failed and are still failing to answer. I don't see how I was made a fool of. Feel free to TG me if you want to continue this conversation, coward.

OOC: Seeing as this is your thread, i shall not post in this thread anymore. I appologise for any OOC cluttering.

[Deserted Territories]

OOC: Glad to see the CA is still as lively as ever.




The Sacrosanct Un-Holy Sultanate of Deserted Territories wishes to join the ranks of the newest Corporate Alliance and reaffirm the bonds that have held it and its brother-nations together these past many years.

[Blackhelm Confederacy]

Yay! DT! of course your in!

[Valipac]

(OOC: I hate asking to join posts so it is crap)

To the Corporate Alliance
The republic of Fictions (with a special Request from Sekh Kaari Industries) would like to join the Corporate Alliance.

[OOC: You realize that your companies will be removed from Coalition Oil as a result, right?]

Official Statement of the Commonwealth of Valipac


Libertas inaestimabilis res est

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It is laughable that so many nations find it in their best interest to join a Corporate Alliance. The alliance is no more than organization the Griffencrest Corporation uses as a pawn to achieve their goals. The preamble to the charter states that "The Corporate Alliance (CA) is an alliance meant to restore balance to the world order." What world order is this? Obviously, the founding corporation means that they wish to return to the time and place when Griffencrest run amok, unhindered by foreign powers. How does it feel to know that you are no more than a pawn on your kings playing board?

Many will claim they are joining because they want the "protection of a major alliance." I ask you this, what is safer, being a neutral nation, independent of alliances, or being a member of an alliance that is near-universally disliked and is often the center of war on this earth? Many times has the Corporate Alliance gone to war, and many times these wars have also resulted in the desecration of her own members. The Griffencrest Corporation has hardly proven infallible - note their short lived battle against Rosdivan, where the commander of the Griffencrest fleet was forced to beg for mercy. Alternatively, look to the Griffencrest-Allanea war, where Griffencrest lost all of it's territories in Arterus, and was forced to reorganize with significant restrictions on what it could and could not do, restrictions it is breaking now. If you are looking for security, you have come to the wrong place. It's only a matter of time before a true world power comes knocking, and the Corporate Alliance is back down on its knees again.

The clause of the charter that says "All members shall open trade with all other members, free of tariffs," is quite unworkable, if this truly is a "Corporate" Alliance. If the joining entities truly are corporations, then they should have no control over their government's tariffs. The final point of the second charter is the most laughable, however. "A humanitarian organization is to be set up, with contributions from all members. This will be used to aid not just CA members, but nations around the world in their darkest moments." Does this include those tiny nations ravaged by the Griffencrest Corporation, who have all of their natural resources seized, and all of their worldly possessions sold to maintain a fighting force better suited to a nation, as opposed to a company? Does this include the people who are at the utmost in their sorrows as they mourn the death of a father, son, or brother, who was defending his nation from attack from the vile members of this organization? No, it does not. As such, and as long as the raids on small defenseless nations continue, the Griffencrest Corporation and her cronies in the Corporate Alliance will never be seen as more than an object of contempt in the world's eye.

Sincerely,

Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
The Commonwealth of Valipac

[Deserted Territories]

OOC: I'm glad we're still hated IC, but is anyone else picking up on a little OOC hostility manifesting?

[Shazbotdom]

OOC:
GC
Just a note to you. There are some nice options for formatting text. I'm sure you could make the charter look real nice with some indenting using the Blocktext, insert images in and around the text using the Float and Image tags and other such things.

I personally havn't toyed around with it too much but I bet you could make it look real nice.