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A List of History 2.0
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| The Fanciful Tales of "The Voice of Reason" |
Arch-Administrator | Since Jan 31, 2019 |
Councillor of Culture | Since Oct 19 2020 |
Envoy to 10000 Islands | Since Jan 21 2021 |
Ops Councillor | May 02 2020 to |
WA Delegate | Jan 31 2019 to |
Envoy to the NWI | Oct 02 2019 to |
The first flag of Refugia, used in 2019
The second Refugia flag, used in 2020. Originally meant to be green. Yellow bars added in October of that year.
The components of the flag were selected for aesthetic reasons, emotionally devastating vexillologists over-interested in window drapery.
Welcome to The Admin Tower, the centre of regional government in Refugia, and directory to all of its associated offices, archives, and research material.
Refugia is a left-leaning, largely eco-socialist, region focused on environmental issues and community building and which features a disproportionate LGBT population. The region aims to provide a safe and happy place for our residents and member states where they can feel free to discuss any interest they have, on or off of NationStates, in a stress-free environment. Refugia has a small but efficient government with a democratically elected council, operating with relative independence over their domains. The regional law is made up of members' contributions, and voted on directly by all member states in the region at the time.
The region has been through such adventures as to have survived Z-Day twice in a row without a single casualty, and similarly contributed to the protection of Ba Sing Se by flawlessly defending that faction from all radiation damage during N-Day. Refugia has been the source of a number of World Assembly resolutions and boasts one of the highest average deck values. All of which can be attributed to the awesome people that live here.
Refugia's government is composed of five different Regional Councillors, as defined by law in the Refugia Revised Statutes. Each councillor is elected directly by member states in four month terms, and subject to recall votes by the same. Each Councillor is, further, limited to be re-elected but once in a row. For every position, a Councillor is largely at liberty to decide the fate and direction of their office and how it wishes to conduct its business, unless specific power checks have been imposed on their functions by law. Certain substantial decisions about the regional direction require votes that original from Council members. All Councillors have equal political weight in these matters.
Presently, the Regional Council is composed of the following members:
The Arch-Administrator, which is defined as Refuge Isle, the region's founder. Although there is no head of government, due to the council structure, the Arch-Administrator is often a figurehead for the region as head of state. The Arch-Admin's responsibilities are primarily to appoint and dismiss other fairly elected councillors into their offices, as well as maintaining regional records and historical notes.
The Councillor of Foreign Affairs, presently held by Sylh Alanor. The Foreign Affairs Councillor maintains relationships with Refugia's allies and is responsible for managing the diplomatic corps of the region, providing lines of communication and timely updates, as well as managing it's necessary staff. The Councillor provides regional advice for the opening and closure of embassies, which are carried out by regional referenda.
The Councillor of Culture, presently filled by Refuge Isle in an acting capacity. The Councillor is responsible for hosting regional events that develop regional engagement and cultural identity. By law, the Councillor must develop regular and updated Eco-Reports for the region, that describe Refugia's environmental goals and how members can help reach them.
The Operations Councillor, presently held by Chacapoya. Operations requires a general knowledge of the world of NationStates, as its role is to be on the look out for threats to the region from outside and from within. When global events spiral all of known creation into turmoil, it is the Councillor of Operations that will determine the region's plan of action to deal with it.
The Councillor of the Interior, presently held by Melenavenia. The Councillor is tasked with facilitating engagement, providing regional broadcasts, running polls and overseeing a survivable discussion environment over the RMB.
The Councillor of World Assembly Affairs, presently held by Junitaki-cho. World Assembly Affairs is responsible for facilitating discussions on World Assembly resolutions-at-vote, developing dispatches with Information For Voters (IFV) on current resolutions at vote, and providing regional recommendations for votes to the World Assembly Delegate.
All of Refugia's regional law is currently contained within the Refugia Revised Statutes. Any legal member state is entitled to draft a proposal to amend the law, and all proposals are passed by a simple majority of member states within the region. In this regard, Refugia is one of the few regions of the world that practices a direct democracy style, instead of passing the right to legislate through a more exclusive body. The statutes were originally the charter which founded the region and previously called the Regional Organisation and Integration, which organised Refugi Member States to form a government from a previously disassociated collective.
There have, at this time, been approximately ten revisions to the Statutes, carried out by four different authors. There remains an entire world's worth of legislation has still to be created. All past referendums to modify the law are recorded for reference purposes here and may also be found in the Z-Archives.
The Regional Map is available visually, in living colour, ever since the transition from cryptic telegram signals.
On September 24, 2019, the first announcement for Refugia’s regional map was posted via dispatch. Two months later, on November 25th, the official map dispatch was released, and the map has been enshrined in that glorious location ever since. It is open to feature all legal member states, and the application process consists mainly of gathering information on the “whats” and “wheres” of each nation on the map.
Refugia is an archipelago of islands of varying sizes located on the divide between the Hipster Sea and the Sea of Art in the North Connection Ocean. What stood in the place of Refugia before its creation is unknown. All that can be gathered are the edges of ancient secrets and dark arts that permeate the ocean floor. What they seem to imply has long been lost to the fog of history. Most nations within Refugia use conventional means of transportation to travel between their spaces, but to connect to the outside world, we use specially-constructed Travel Runes. These runes represent the target region and allow us to transport ourselves to them via portal.
How Does is a series of dispatches and Wiki.CalRef articles provided by the community of Refugia. This program aims to provide helpful tutorials about all things NationStates through our membership's collective experience and know-how. Anyone is welcome to use this repository of knowledge, and we hope it serves to allow the reader to accomplish any of their goals. Should any dispatch here go missing, a backup will be available through the link in the far right side of the navigation bar, which will redirect you to to our off-site wiki. If you are coming here from the wiki and notice that this article is out of date with the wiki's version, please contact the author of the dispatch in question, the Arch-Administrator, or the Councillor of Culture.
If you're interested in contributing to any article, including this one, consider becoming a writer by registering on 
Wiki.CalRef. Once you have made an account, contact Refuge Isle to get approved - we live in dark days of ad bots!
Click the link on the left to see what tutorial pages exist right now.
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with navigation to all other government areas.
As Arch-Admin:
• Launched How Does a series of tutorial dispatches for how to do NS things.
• Established the Refugia Master Dispatch (left), to function as a navigational hub to Refugia's government pages.
• Wrote Dot, Refugia's multi-purpose Discord chatbot.
• Established Vote.CalRef as Refugia's off-site voting solution.
• Delivered 125,000 recruitment telegrams.
• Ran Refugia's response to Z-Day 2019, curing the region in five hours.
• Created the regional flags (right).
• Wrote the original Refugia Revised Statutes.
• Created and administer Refugia's Discord Server as the community's realtime chat solution.
• Administer The Refuge Wiki as the community's long-term storage and colab solution.
• Administer CalRef as the community forum solution with regular development and updates.
• Founded Refugia Jan 31 2019
As Delegate:
• Reigned for one year. and voted on 79 Resolutions - 47 For, 32 Against.
• Wrote GAR#473 Responsible Land Management as a replacement to the repeal of Preventing Desertification
As Ops Councillor:
• Ran Refugia's response to N-Day 2020, became The Wall of Ba Sing Se, protecting that faction from all radiation damage, through the use of 638 puppets, and receiving the Key to the City from Osiris.
As Culture Councillor:
• Created Refugia's first WA Development Program
• Created Refugia's first Green Week ecological improvement festival with accompanying eco-report.
• Organised Refugia's Winter Flag Competition.
As a Refugi:
• Wrote Issue#1420, 
Trading Climate Sours
• Wrote SC#326, Condemn Ever-Wandering Souls
• Wrote GAR#505, Repeal: “Wartime Journalism Protection Act”
• Wrote SR#1, A Clarification of Duties
• Wrote SR#9, Excessive Waiting Time Reform
• Wrote SR#10, Legal Structure Reform
• Wrote How Does Challenges
• Designed every Refugia travel rune.
• Designed the invite splash for the NS Leaders server.
• Co-broke the cards economy with Pergamon printing, reaching 8th highest deck value
• Completed the largest S2 Ultra-Rare collection, largest ever collection at the time
• Created the largest S1 Ultra-Rare collection
• Invented mass-copy bank transferring
• Was delegate of the Refugia forerunner region Exile in 2013 as Refugian empire
Security Council: Repeal "Commend Wintony" |
In the Security Council, Makdon contends that SC#249, “Commend Wintony”, does not meet the high standards we set for nations who are nominated to receive this honour. The Ministry of World Assembly Affairs is inclined to agree.
While it is permissible for a nation to be commended for outstanding work in a single region, this is not what occurs in the target resolution, and its supporting arguments are unconvincing. In the first half of the commendation, the author functionally writes a shadow-condemnation of Illuminati which has nothing to do with Wintony. The second half exclusively regards Wintony’s work in a single position in Illuminati, followed by a conflict which initiated the region’s decline. Therefore, for better or for worse, the strongest argument in favour of Wintony’s commendation is that the nation directly or indirectly disassociated that region from cohesion.
With Illuminati now destroyed and nothing of lasting positive note of Wintony’s able to be observed, the Ministry agrees with the arguments presented in this commendation’s repeal, and recommends a vote in favour.
Ministry Recommendation: For (8-0-0) .Add your voice to the conversation by joining the Ministry today! | Repeal "Commend Wintony" A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation. The Security Council, Recognizing that the accomplishments of Wintony mentioned in SC#249 Commend Wintony, specifically to the region of Illuminati, may well have been respectable and demanding endeavors, Understanding, however, that these contributions ultimately do not merit commendation for the following reasons:
Asserting that when observing these facts, it becomes clear Wintony is not deserving of commendation, Hereby repeals SC#249 Commend Wintony. |
| The Dazzling Swordplay Deputy of "The gods draw strength from silence" |
Deputy WAA Minister | Since Aug 30 2020 |
EPSA | Jun 16 2020 to |
Magisterium (46th - 47th) | Sep 26 2020 to |
Diplomat | Jul 14 2020 to |
As Deputy WAA Minister:
• Helped hold discussions on every WA proposal and grow the ministry from six to fourteen members.
• Maintained this chonker of a record book.
• Delivered 75 opinion votes and shadow-wrote 10 IFVs
• Developed The East Pacific's IFV Template (top right)
• Awarded Silver Order of Merit for WAA work.
As EPSA:
• Awarded the Golden Military Award for developing EPSA's comprehensive triggering guide.
• Something like 32 hits, 25 points, and 2 occupations and 2 liberations and some greater number of liberation attempts.
As a Citizen:
• Cast 17 votes as Magister.
• Served four months as TEP's diplomat to Caer Sidi, and one month to Europeia.
• Created event award ribbons for the SFE liberation, N-Day 2020, and Z-Day 2020 in MoVE's Design Team.
• Donated some 300 epic cards to the TEP government for WA development purposes.
The Black Hawks (retired) . |
| The War Room Wisdom of "Who I am is not good enough." |
Private First Class: | Apr 06 2020 | |
Corporal: | Apr 25 2020 | |
Sergeant: | Jul 04 2020 | |
Retired: | Nov 16 2020 | |
Presented for exemplary strategic
leadership on a grand scale.
Awarded for co-organising
Operation: Let The Cards Fall
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