NS Parliament Iteration 2 [OOC | Open]

[NS Parliament Administrators]

Welcome (back) to the NS Parliament RP!

What is this?
This is a character-driven RP in which we roleplay as politicians in a fictional nation. This RP, now the NS Parliament, has origins in the former NSG Senate. We have two simple starting guidelines:

1. We are located in the Southeast Asian island nation of Banduria. We are a republic with a parliamentary system.. The nation has a large Chinese population, with a mixed Dutch-Chinese minority and several other minority groups. The details of Banduria as a nation are listed in this Google doc, and I encourage you to read it over to get a good picture on what kind of nation we're roleplaying in.

The rest is up to the players! In this RP, we will legislate and politick, ally and backstab, and so much more! It is your choice what your character will be. Prominent and outspoken? Shady and quiet? Progressive? Conservative? Fascist? Communist? Centrist? Government? Opposition? Crossbencher? Journalist? Activist? The list goes on!

As soon as you submit you application, unless rejected, you become a Member of the (imaginary) Parliament of Banduria. You can then feel free to begin participating in the RP. You can do things like drafting a bill, voting on bills, and joining or creating a political party.

Where does it all go on?


Our official Discord server can be found here.

Our official forum (where certain RP threads will be found) is found here.

Threads

OOC Thread (YOU ARE HERE)

For general OOC discussion regarding the RP. OOC.

Chamber

For debates, votes on bills, and amendments. Strictly IC

Life Outside

For all other roleplay. From walks in the park, to restaurant bombings. Strictly IC.

Character database (offsite)

For posting details on your character, your organisation, your town/region, or your pet goat. Mostly IC.

Party threads (offsite)

For communicating with your party, recruiting new party members, and telling the world what your party stands for. Mostly IC.

Speaker's office (bill repository) (offsite)

For posting bills. IC.

Who's in charge?
Our administrators run the RP and their decisions are final.

Admins: Van Hool Islands, United Provinces of Atlantica, Crylante, Zurkerx, Martune

We don't have strict rules, other than that godmodding is prohibited and our admins are fully in charge.
In the case of rule violations or unacceptable conduct, the offender will be warned. After two admin warnings within a month, disciplinary actions may escalate to a suspension or eventually a ban.

Parties

Communist Party (CP)

Party Name: Communist Party
Ideology Summary: Communism, Marxism-Leninism
Party Leader(s): Qiao Zexian
Party Abbreviation ("DP" for Democratic Party): CP
Party Colors: Maroon
Party Members:

1. Qiao Zexian (United Provinces of Atlantica)

Democratic Party (DP)

[box]Party Name: Democratic Party
Ideology Summary: Civic Nationalism, Third Way, Social Liberalism, Social Democracy, E-Governance, Green Politics
Party Leader(s): Yang Kang
Party Abbreviation ("DP" for Democratic Party): DP
Party Colors: Pink
Party Members:

1. Yang Kang (Sao Nova Europa, leader)
2. Huang Yuxin (Publectia)

Nationale Vrijheidspartij (NVP)

Party Name: National Freedom Party (Nationale Vrijheidspartij)
Ideology Summary: Dutch autonomism, conservatism, nationalism
Party Leader(s): Jan van der Stel (Vedastia)
Party Abbreviation ("DP" for Democratic Party): NVP
Party Colors: Orange
Party Members:

• Jan van der Stel (Vedastia, leader)
• Jakob Rutgers Maurits van der Hegel (Sarderia)

Reform Party (RP)

Party Name: Reform Party
Ideology Summary: Georgism, land reform, anti-pillarisation
Party Leader(s): Willem van Aldenkamp
Party Abbreviation ("DP" for Democratic Party): RP
Party Colors: Green
Party Members: 1. Willem van Aldenkamp (Crylante)
2. You

Revolutionary People's Party (RPP)

Party Name: Revolutionary People's Party
Ideology Summary: Xi Jinping Thought, Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, Maoism (current)
Marxism-Leninism (former)
Party Leader(s): Lao-Tzu Lu
Party Abbreviation ("DP" for Democratic Party): RPP
Party Colors: Red and Yellow
Party Members: Lao-Tzu Lu (Puertollano)

Socialist Party (SP)

Party Name: Socialist Party
Ideology Summary: Democratic socialism, social centrism
Party Leader(s): Zhang Xiaoqing
Party Abbreviation ("DP" for Democratic Party): SP
Party Colors: Red
Party Members:

1. Zhang Xiaoqing (Merni, leader)
2. Julius B. Zhao (The Baton Rouge Free State)
3. Kuang Jun (Jovuistan)
4. Martin van der Linden (Kowani)

Tamil People's Party

Party Name: Tamiḻ Makkaḷ Kaṭci / தமிழ் மக்கள் கட்சி / Tamil People's Party
Ideology Summary: Tamil rights, social conservatism, economic centrist/neoliberalism, representation of Hindu interests
Party Leader(s): Kathiravan Ramasubramanian (K.R.)
Party Abbreviation ("DP" for Democratic Party): TMK
Party Colors: Burgundy
Party Members:

1. K. Ramasubramanian (Ikania, leader)
2. Lakshman Rajagopalam (The Hindustani State)

National Banduri Front (NBF)

Party Name: National Banduri Front
Ideology Summary: Chinese and Buddhist nationalism, right-wing nationalism, social conservatism, culturist
Party Leader(s): Peng Rong
Party Abbreviation ("DP" for Democratic Party): NBF
Party Colors: Dark Blue and Black
Party Members: Peng Rong

Unity and Consolidation Party (UCP)

Party Name: Unity and Consolidation Party
Ideology Summary: pan-nationalist, liberal-conservative, catch-all party
Party Leader(s): Joseph Yu (interim leader)
Party Abbreviation ("DP" for Democratic Party): UCP
Party Colors: Blue and white
Party Members:

1. Joseph Yu (Inhorto, leader)
2. Susilo Raja Tirta Sri (Agarntop)
3. Floortje Cheung (Van Hool Islands)
4. Rutger de Vries-Lau (Nova Anglicana)

How do I get started?
Fill out this application to join and create a character (Assume all applications are accepted unless stated otherwise):

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Fill out this application to create a party (Party leaders are strongly encouraged to create a party dispatch to display a party logo, platform, and/or constitution):

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[Inhorto]

Great to see this up!

It may be cool if we were able to incorporate both the NS forums and some other offsite venue to make this work. So for instance we could have an OOC/IC thread on NS with a bill repository or twitter feed elsewhere. I don’t know if that’s too confusing for people to follow, though. I just think that, if we’re going for all offsite some day, we should at least start off half on NS so that we build up a reliable following.

[Aureumterra]

Interested in how this iteration turns out

[NS Parliament Administrators]

Great to see this up!

It may be cool if we were able to incorporate both the NS forums and some other offsite venue to make this work. So for instance we could have an OOC/IC thread on NS with a bill repository or twitter feed elsewhere. I don’t know if that’s too confusing for people to follow, though. I just think that, if we’re going for all offsite some day, we should at least start off half on NS so that we build up a reliable following.

That is something that I was thinking about, especially if NS admins have a problem with it being completely offsite. If that did happen, likely the only two threads on the forums would be the Chamber and our OOC thread, as those are the main two threads. Everything else would be offsite.

We've also got our forum set up although not much is going on yet;
https://nsparliament.boards.net/

And here's the link to our only current proposal, Banduria;
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kel ... yPpxg/edit

Most discussion around the RP happens in our Discord, and I encourage anyone who hasn't already joined to join.

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

I will only be rejoining if we actually have to campaign, rather than effectively stacking our parliament with meat.

Similar to say, Land of the Free, we'll have actual NPC-driven elections for seats, rather than people just taking a new seat.

I want actual political campaigning, where you have to work for NPC votes, rather than just inviting as many friends as possible to win a majority.

[Aureumterra]

Great to see this up!

It may be cool if we were able to incorporate both the NS forums and some other offsite venue to make this work. So for instance we could have an OOC/IC thread on NS with a bill repository or twitter feed elsewhere. I don’t know if that’s too confusing for people to follow, though. I just think that, if we’re going for all offsite some day, we should at least start off half on NS so that we build up a reliable following.

That is something that I was thinking about, especially if NS admins have a problem with it being completely offsite. If that did happen, likely the only two threads on the forums would be the Chamber and our OOC thread, as those are the main two threads. Everything else would be offsite.

We've also got our forum set up although not much is going on yet;
https://nsparliament.boards.net/

And here's the link to our only current proposal, Banduria;
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kel ... yPpxg/edit

Most discussion around the RP happens in our Discord, and I encourage anyone who hasn't already joined to join.

As a suggestion, why not just have an OOC, IC, and Chamber instead of so many different threads? You can probably merge every thread other than chamber into one IC thread

[Agarntrop]

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[NS Parliament Administrators]

That is something that I was thinking about, especially if NS admins have a problem with it being completely offsite. If that did happen, likely the only two threads on the forums would be the Chamber and our OOC thread, as those are the main two threads. Everything else would be offsite.

We've also got our forum set up although not much is going on yet;
https://nsparliament.boards.net/

And here's the link to our only current proposal, Banduria;
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kel ... yPpxg/edit

Most discussion around the RP happens in our Discord, and I encourage anyone who hasn't already joined to join.

As a suggestion, why not just have an OOC, IC, and Chamber instead of so many different threads? You can probably merge every thread other than chamber into one IC thread

In my opinion, the character database is essential to this RP. The bill repository is less essential but if we can keep it I want to keep it.

The other issue is with stuff like Twitter. It's a useful feature, but having it in the IC thread does cause people to get annoyed by the spam. Having no limit on the threads we can create will mean stuff like Twitter could be separated into a separate "Social Media" thread.

I will only be rejoining if we actually have to campaign, rather than effectively stacking our parliament with meat.

Similar to say, Land of the Free, we'll have actual NPC-driven elections for seats, rather than people just taking a new seat.

I want actual political campaigning, where you have to work for NPC votes, rather than just inviting as many friends as possible to win a majority.

Elections will be discussed, but as it stands anyone who joins and wants a seat in Parliament will get a seat in Parliament. That's how it works in this RP, and I don't want to change that. We may introduce an NPC element and stuff like campaigns to influence it, but I also want to make this more about character driven RP over numbers and campaigning. If you want campaigning and fully simmed elections to be the focus, there are plenty of Reddit sims that do just that. This sim is supposed to be different and I'm not going to change one of the main things that draws me to this sim.

Going back to the subject of the forum, another option that's been brought up is to just use Discord and have less important and "spammy" threads like the Database and Repository be channels on the Discord server. This would also mean that Discord would probably be made mandatory or at the least extremely recommended for the roleplay, which some people might not like. I'm interested in hearing your thoughts.

[Agarntrop]

As a suggestion, why not just have an OOC, IC, and Chamber instead of so many different threads? You can probably merge every thread other than chamber into one IC thread

In my opinion, the character database is essential to this RP. The bill repository is less essential but if we can keep it I want to keep it.

The other issue is with stuff like Twitter. It's a useful feature, but having it in the IC thread does cause people to get annoyed by the spam. Having no limit on the threads we can create will mean stuff like Twitter could be separated into a separate "Social Media" thread.

I will only be rejoining if we actually have to campaign, rather than effectively stacking our parliament with meat.

Similar to say, Land of the Free, we'll have actual NPC-driven elections for seats, rather than people just taking a new seat.

I want actual political campaigning, where you have to work for NPC votes, rather than just inviting as many friends as possible to win a majority.

Elections will be discussed, but as it stands anyone who joins and wants a seat in Parliament will get a seat in Parliament. That's how it works in this RP, and I don't want to change that. We may introduce an NPC element and stuff like campaigns to influence it, but I also want to make this more about character driven RP over numbers and campaigning. If you want campaigning and fully simmed elections to be the focus, there are plenty of Reddit sims that do just that. This sim is supposed to be different and I'm not going to change one of the main things that draws me to this sim.

Going back to the subject of the forum, another option that's been brought up is to just use Discord and have less important and "spammy" threads like the Database and Repository be channels on the Discord server. This would also mean that Discord would probably be made mandatory or at the least extremely recommended for the roleplay, which some people might not like. I'm interested in hearing your thoughts.

I mean, we have enough people on the discord to start this RP asap if we wanted to.

[NS Parliament Administrators]

We've got a poll going for what proposal should be adopted for our nation on the forums.

https://nsparliament.boards.net/thread/ ... ration-nsp

The options are Banduria, a former Dutch colony in southeast Asia;
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kel ... sp=sharing

And Tahahnrin, a republic in eastern Europe;
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11AU ... sp=sharing

If you're interested in the future of this RP, please create a forum account and vote on the proposals.

[Vedastia]

With a vote of 7-2, Banduria has won the poll and will be the new scenario.

[NS Parliament Administrators]

With us making a decision on what iteration to use, we're now opening signups for players to join and create characters. Please fill this out and we'll likely soon be starting the RP and posting the threads if enough people sign up.

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[b]Party (choose from existing parties or create one with the party application): [/b][/box]

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[Vedastia]

Nation Name: Vedastia
History of Warnings, Bans, etc: One warning for flaming forever ago.
Character Name (Optional, Add Full Profile In Database): Jan van der Stel
Party (choose from existing parties or create one with the party application): NVP

Party Name: National Freedom Party (Nationale Vrijheidspartij)
Ideology Summary: Dutch autonomism, conservatism, nationalism
Party Leader(s): Jan van der Stel (Vedastia)
Party Abbreviation ("DP" for Democratic Party): NVP
Party Colors: Orange
Party Members:

• Jan van der Stel (Vedastia, leader)
• Jakob van der Hegel (Sarderia)
• Albert van der Weegh (The Liberated Territories)
• Willem van dem Hooitken (Mersdon)

[Agarntrop]

Nation Name: Agarntrop
History of Warnings, Bans, etc: Got a 3-day ban for trolling munk like a few months ago? Northing since then.
Character Name (Optional, Add Full Profile In Database): Susilo Raja Tirta Sri
Party (choose from existing parties or create one with the party application): UCP

[Van Hool Islands]

Nation Name: Van Hool Islands
History of Warnings, Bans, etc: None
Character Name (Optional, Add Full Profile In Database): Floortje Cheung
Party (choose from existing parties or create one with the party application): UCP

[Inhorto]

Nation Name: Inhorto
History of Warnings, Bans, etc: none
Character Name (Optional, Add Full Profile In Database): Joseph Yu
Party (choose from existing parties or create one with the party application): Unity and Consolidation Party

Party Name: Unity and Consolidation Party
Ideology Summary: pan-nationalist, liberal-conservative, catch-all party
Party Leader(s): Joseph Yu (interim leader)
Party Abbreviation ("DP" for Democratic Party): UCP
Party Colors: Blue and white
Party Members:

1. Joseph Yu
2. Susilo Raja Tirta Sri
3. Floortje Cheung
4. Rutger de Vries-Lau

[Merni]

Nation Name: Merni
History of Warnings, Bans, etc: None
Character Name (Optional, Add Full Profile In Database): Zhang Xiaoqing
Party (choose from existing parties or create one with the party application): Socialist Party

[Crylante]

Nation Name: Crylante
History of Warnings, Bans, etc: None
Character Name (Optional, Add Full Profile In Database): Willem van Aldenkamp
Party (choose from existing parties or create one with the party application): Reform Party

Party Name: Reform Party
Ideology Summary: Georgism, land reform, anti-pillarisation
Party Leader(s): Willem van Aldenkamp
Party Abbreviation ("DP" for Democratic Party): RP
Party Colors: Green
Party Members: 1. Crylante
2. You

[NS Parliament Administrators]

Our two main IC threads have been created! Life Outside and the Chamber. Let's hope this gets properly started now.

viewtopic.php?f=31&t=483870
viewtopic.php?f=31&t=483871

[Ikania]

Nation Name: Ikania
History of Warnings, Bans, etc: Ah, you know who I am. I've filled out this damn form five times. Clean record for seven years and counting.
Character Name (Optional, Add Full Profile In Database): Kathiravan Ramasubramanian
Party (choose from existing parties or create one with the party application): Tamiḻ Makkaḷ Kaṭci (Tamil People's Party)

Party Name: Tamiḻ Makkaḷ Kaṭci / தமிழ் மக்கள் கட்சி / Tamil People's Party
Ideology Summary: Tamil rights, social conservatism, economic centrist/neoliberalism, representation of Hindu interests
Party Leader(s): Kathiravan Ramasubramanian (K.R.)
Party Abbreviation ("DP" for Democratic Party): TMK
Party Colors: Burgundy
Party Members: 1. K. Ramasubramanian

[Merni]

Party Name: Socialist Party
Ideology Summary: Democratic socialism, social centrism
Party Leader(s): Zhang Xiaoqing
Party Abbreviation ("DP" for Democratic Party): SP
Party Colors: Red
Party Members:

1. Zhang Xiaoqing
2. Julius B. Zhao
3. Kuang Jun
4. Martin van der Linden

[Puertollano]

Looking forward to re-joining maybe

[Puertollano]

Nation Name: Puertollano
History of Warnings, Bans, etc: None
Character Name (Optional, Add Full Profile In Database): Lao-Tzu Lu
Party (choose from existing parties or create one with the party application): Revolutionary People's Party

Party Name: Revolutionary People's Party
Ideology Summary: Xi Jinping Thought, Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, Maoism (current)
Marxism-Leninism (former)
Party Leader(s): Lao-Tzu Lu
Party Abbreviation ("DP" for Democratic Party): RPP
Party Colors: Red and Yellow
Party Members: Lao-Tzu Lu

[Agarntrop]

Looking forward to re-joining maybe

Hello from the other side

[The Baton Rouge Free State]

Nation Name: The Baton Rouge Free State
History of Warnings, Bans, etc: None
Character Name (Optional, Add Full Profile In Database): Julius B. (Bao) Zhao
Party (choose from existing parties or create one with the party application): Socialist Party