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Bigtopia for Prime Minister | October 2020
Introduction
I'm running for Prime Minister!
Like, hopefully, all of you, I love this region. We've had occasional crises, but we always make it through better for it. The good times are always much longer than the bad. The community - politics aside - has always been supportive and fun. There will always be grudges and social conflict in a community with so many involved people, but we will also always work through them.
I've worked to resolve conflict within the region and worked past many, many misunderstandings, crises, and tense situations in my capacity as Foreign Affairs Minister under Rayekka and Korsinia.
I'm running for Prime Minister because I want to grow our community, better our government, and to see our region's Foreign Affairs grow to new heights.
To do all of this and more, I've got a plan
The Four Month Deal
Essentially, there would be a focus for every month of the administration - the message that we want to put out to the region. During each month, we would establish certain goals with each ministry relevant to the month's focus and I would personally spend extra time with the staff to ensure that the plans get off of the ground.
The focus of this month would be recruitment and culture. We would set a goal for nation size and do our darndest to meet that goal by the end of the month. It would also be up to the Home Affairs Minister, but it could easily include sending out requests and instructions for donating stamps, promoting manual recruitment, and holding a recruitment challenge for prizes.
The other side of growing the community is culture, which could include daily RMB/discord posts to jumpstart discussion, game nights, bopping sessions, and hopefully even movie nights! Additionally, we would be sure that we have polls up on the WFE.
In this month, our focus would be on the Foreign Affairs Ministry and celebrating our friends.
This month would include
- Planning for and holding Late Nite Festival II. The event, open to all, included many of our embassy regions and was a huge success. This would be held at the end of the month as the culmination of the month's focus.
- A special push by the Foreign Affairs Ministry to further relations with consulates and embassies and establish embassies and consulates.
- We would strive to have a minor event with an embassy/consulate region every week of the month (besides LNF)
This month's primary focus would be on the Education Ministry. We would work to complete more factbooks, including the writing of Thaecia's history, and hold an event or two in the month where old and experienced members of the region would answer questions about all things Thaecia - memes, old members, history, etc.
I plan on creating an initiative to help educate the region on environmental impact - a dispatch sent out with resources for self-education on the environment, an idea . Additionally, this month would have a focus on kindness. It's extremely important to stay positive throughout the ongoing pandemic, especially with the onset of winter, and this month could include ideas for helping to make someone's day be better, reaching out to the region to ensure that residents get the love and support that they need.
This might seem like a wacky pair, but it wouldn't be fair not to give the Justice Ministry a part of any focus! During this month we would encourage thaecians to take the bar test, to run for the legislature, and to get to know our laws and constitution. On the creative side of things, the Culture Ministry would organize a short story, poetry, and art competition that would span most of the month. Additionally, I plan on creating a thaecian book club in a separate server. We would choose books to read and meet to discuss them at the end of each month. If possible, however, the book club would be organized before the final month of the term. Additionally, we would promote discussion about music, art, and writing. Additionally, we would hold a mock trial!
Experience:
I've served:
Four months as Deputy Culture Minister under Titanne (September 2019 - January 2020)
Three months as Senate Chairman (November 2019 - January 2020)
Nine months as Foreign Affairs Minister under both Rayekka and Korsinia (January 2020 - present)
Over these last nine months, the FAM accomplished a lot of great things, and since the creation of that dispatch, we have formed an informal pact with our closest allies called The Consortium, co-hosted the Paradoxical '2.0 event with The East Pacific, hosted our own Late Nite Festival, signed a treaty with The East Pacific, began relations with Europeia, and only this last week the Senate ratified the Declaration of Arnhelm, which officially ends Thaecia's WA Recruitment program (While it had already been ended within Korsinia's administration, there was no guarantee that future governments would do the same) and sets the stage for our foreign policy to grow even further - which I plan to do if elected!
Having worked a lot with culture, legislating, and Foreign Affairs, I have the experience you need for the office of Prime Minister.
Final words
You might notice that I did not include the specific policies I want in each ministry as has been the case for Prime Ministerial campaigns over the past nearly two years. This is because I believe that each ministry is currently in a good place, and other than cutting back on the sheer size of some ministries little change is required. Additionally, I feel as if it is clear by now what Prime Ministers look for in a ministry - just check out any old PM campaign dispatch - and I believe that my four month deal as outlined above gives the detail on each ministry that is necessary to understand what my kind of administration I hope to bring to the table.
Policy-wise, unless it is an extremely vital issue, I do not plan on exercising the veto power. I am skeptical of the idea of building a regional military - that was a popular idea this time last year and it went nowhere. For other policy, while it's a little outdated, the LPT party manifesto should give you a good idea of my views.
Feel free to DM or TG me with any and all questions!
