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A commendation is a formal piece of World Assembly legislation that once passed, displays a shiny badge on nations (players) and regions who the World Assembly recognizes as having made outstanding contributions. Historically, the focus of the commendations have always been on either gameplayers (people who play the game) or roleplayers (participate on these forums as nations).. but there has been a great hesitancy to focus a commendation on a nominee who is neither a gameplayer or a roleplayer, but a generalite. However, with some clever wording, the Cat-Tribe's contributions to NSG can easily be nominated in a commendation as the contributions of a nation who is centric to numerous international debates. A commendation must be legal under the various rules of the Security Council [1][1½]. Essentially the rules are there to make sure that (1) all communities (roleplay and non-roleplay) can participate in the debate for the commendation, (2) the cornerstone of the game, "nation-simulation" is respected. I believe it is a testament to the Cat-Tribe, to challenge a negative social norm in the Security Council, whilst also honoring the egalitarian intentions behind the Security Council's laws.
The Mission?
Essentially, I, Unibot of the World Assembly Security Council, want to commend the Cat-Tribe, native of ye old NSG plains, for his civil decorum, informed and constructive debate and perhaps his work on a WA resolution that you may or may not have know he passed, only to end the abortion debate in the World Assembly[2]. It's a part of a challenge I have with a good friend, and a personal campaign of mine to get the Security Council to represent more than just your average gameplayer or roleplayer. Rhodmhire was actually the likely and popular candidate a few months ago for a commendation [3], but in retrospect, a candidate like the Cat-Tribe makes more sense because decorum is something that certainly an international body like the World Assembly can appreciate.
So this project is certainly about much more than just getting your red-text lovin' lawyer some recognition, but also about opening the doors up in the Security Council to recognizing the contributions of generalities. Perhaps in the future, it will become the norm for the Security Council to recognize civil and well-articulated generalities who contribute quite a bit of wisdom and information in their posts, but until some milestones are made, any commendation thread for a generalite will be more about NS General's recognition by the other sectors of the game than the actual nominee. This is the unfortunate truth, and I wish I could commend the Cat-Tribe as a generalite under different circumstances, where the focus would entirely be on just the Cat-Tribe as a nominee and not an entire community's social recognition. Nevertheless, the ball must begin to roll somewhere and I think there is no one more fitting to begin it with than Cat-Tribe. I have asked him for his permission to endeavor to get him a commendation -- he, classy as ever, accepted with honor.
So What Can I Do?
Feeling a little confused about why I am telling you all this? Well, essentially I would like NSGers to use this thread as a crowdsourcing thread for the formation of the resolution. I'm going to be actually composing and writing the resolution -- because it would be extremely cheesy of me to have you do all the work. But it seemed only appropraite to "ask what NSG thinks?" in regards to the Cat-Tribe getting a commendation. Perhaps, you just want to endorse this project, that's fine, any showing of approval for Cat-Tribe will only help to strength our project. Maybe you have posts/threads that exemplifies the Cat-Tribe's civility and decorum? Or maybe you just want to debate the actual merits of opening Security Council to the NS General (and vice versa)? In Short: This thread is for NS General's response and philosophical position in regards to said commendation, and any further help that NSG wishes to provide me in (1) writing this commendation (2) realizing the dream of a NSG commendation (player testimonies may be used in the resolution, and certainly will be noted in the WA debate thread).
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