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by The Ancient Nordic Lands of Alvalero. . 720 reads.

Mandatory Fun

Fear not the tin foil hat, it's the tanks, soldiers and planes you need to fear! mwuhahahahahaha!

The last few days have been testing times. Insults have flown and peoples patience have been tested. This summer, in terms of government activity, is the worst in the last 3 years. Summer 2012 has been the slowest during the course of our history and yet a small active government was still maintained. If someone wishes to hold a position of importance or power they must be held accountable if they fail to do what is expected of them.
We must now move forward and take steps to ensure that we can safeguard ourselves against an inactive and unaccountable government without resorting to rash decisions. We have fought hard to keep Balder a stable region and to see it wrecked by trivial matters is something I want to avoid. I have high hopes for the coming term and hope that most if not all goals will be met within the next three months.

Security - NES
Thanks to the introduction of the Royal Council we have been able to have trusted members of Balder to be able to gather that little bit of extra influence over the rest of our WA residents in support of our elected monarch and crown prince so that it will be harder for an invasion force to gain influence over the people. Citizenship apps will of course be checked for multi-ing and proxies.

Integration - mcmasterdonia
This has been somewhat of a weak spot for us lately. Citizenship apps have either taken ages to process or have been missed completely. There will be a list of citizens kept for convenience to ensure inactive ones are removed with new successful applicants being added. I also hope to have a guide book created very soon so that new citizens have an idea of what Balder is about and its history. I also hope to make much better use of the proposed civil service of last term to get new folks and those who seek it valuable experience at running a region.

Foreign Affairs - Alexander von Frostmark
The first thing done will of course be an update to send out to our embassies. I also plan to bring our embassies up to date, first notifying inactive ones then closing them if they dont resolve that and ensuring that all out active ones have a dedicated ambassador if not already done. I would also like to review and update our current treaties if needed.
As for expanding our diplomatic base I believe creating an NS forum thread for Balder to post our updates on and release any official news. This will hopefully attract potential diplomatic requests which we can then review in house. In terms of seeking out relations through manual means we will see how the NS thread fairs before doing this.

Military
Unfortunately our viking blood hasn't been allowed the freedom to pillage from the lesser regions on a regular basis due to our lack of Delegate endorsements. This is the most challenging thing to improve but if we get to the end of this term and we are in a position for regular winter pillaging I will consider it a success. Again I also wish to maintain a regularly reviewed and update list of personnel.

Culture - Bran Triune
We dont fair too bad in this regard. Rach is making fine use of the in game poll feature which has brought the RMB to life over the last 48 hours. The Nation of Balder is taking shape, although I have dropped the ball on keeping that updated regularly. I hope that the new bumper format will give people more variety in the issues they vote on rather than see an issue topic they have no interest in and not bother with it and also hope it can peak peoples interest. I hope to get the map of Balder up and running shortly and hope to finally have an RP in Balder which will see itself continue for a couple of weeks at least instead of dying off after initial interest.
As our 3rd birthday will be taking place during this term I will be hoping to have the festivities planned and ready ahead of time. I also hope to have the current era of our history complete by the end of the week.

Media - TBA
I feel that media can be combined with certain other ministries as a support. I also hope that we can have a bit of fun with this ministry by releasing comical news stories every so often. As it is called Media I also want to give power to this ministry over approving/rejecting and monitoring the newspapers on display here.

Riskdag
We've seen that there were things overlooked in regards to our laws. My plan is to help the next speaker review the law book and organise the current laws into one handy thread. We also need to review the current Riskdag members list as it seems we have a bit of dead weight on it.

I may have missed some points but this should be a good start. Media is the only ministry I don't have anyone appointed to. Recent events have left me in this position but I have contacted someone to help solve this problem. If I am unable to find someone to fill this position then I will merge it with another ministry. If you are interested please PM me.

I hope that these plans can fill the people of Balder with confidence that we can grow and become a stronger region in the near future. And dont forget, FUN IS MANDATORY!
Fram Balder!

~ Zander Cerebella

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