The Accords are signed during a time when the relationship between The League and the Free Nations Region is at its peak due to the Free Nations Defense Association and the League's Defense Force working together on 3 Military Operations in the past month alone. LDF and FNDA jointly participated in the record-breaking Liberation of Trovons, Liberation of Warzone Europe, the Raid and Eventual Refoundation of Army of Freedom. Both Regions are also members of the Partnership for Sovereignty.

The Accords were drafted by a joint committee consisting of representatives from both regions led by Consul Quebecshire and President Sparsdan. Director of Foreign Affairs Spode Humbled Minions and The League's Diplomat to FNR Amaan Land represented The League while the Free Nations Region was represented by Minister of Foreign Affairs Quiameth, FNR's Diplomat to the League Doctors Orvos, Presidential Advisors Castenor and South Asians. The Accords unanimously passed in the Council of the League and the Citizens' Assembly of the Free Nations Region.

The Accords were named Franconia-Chiremba based on Franconia- A City of Quebecshire in the The League's RP and Chiremba- The Capital City of Doctors Orvos in FNR's RP. The Name represents the active Roleplay Communities both the regions have.

In this edition we will interview our first Chief Justice and the Chief Architect of our first Constitution, Somyrion. Somyrion has also made significant contributions in other regions including Lazarus, the South Pacific, Forest and the Union of Democratic States. They have also been recently commended by the Security Council through a resolution authored by Hulldom.
Here's our interview with Somyrion:-

Apatosaurus: How does it feel to be commended?

Somyrion: There’s not really much feeling to “being commended”. I’m of course honored by and grateful for Hulldom/Boston Castle’s efforts. A commendation by itself doesn’t affect much, though — it’s satisfying to know that the things you’ve worked on in the past are recognized, but it’s also a reminder of the things you still want to do.

Apatosaurus: How did you join Nationstates?

Somyrion: I joined in March 2016. I had been doing a bit of worldbuilding-type stuff as a kid, and I think I searched “create a country” on Google, which led me to NS. I was pretty quiet for a few months, only answering issues, but eventually started interacting with others when my region, Forest, ran a flag design contest that I wanted to participate in. That was the first time I interacted with anyone online, I think. So I’ve definitely been raised by NS!

Apatosaurus: Who were your mentors during your time here in Nationstates?

Somyrion: I think the one person who’s definitely been a mentor to me is Roavin. He jumped into my first struggling attempt at a defender organization, Solidarity, taught me how the defender world worked, and guided my sometimes immature decision-making with a more reasoned hand. Later, I learned a lot about (and about how little I could manage) NS diplomacy when I worked with him in countering the Lazarus coup. In TSP, his legislative methods and way of engaging have always been an inspiration to me.
Part of what I like about NS, though, is that so many of the people you learn from are not necessarily mentors, but just friends or colleagues on one project or another. I think I’ve learned most here from collaborating on projects — graphics and journalism with Llo in NST, themes and laws with Amerion in Lazarus and TSP, RL cultures and non-Western perspectives with Arumdaum from Tiandi. (And that’s just a very small set of examples.)

Apatosaurus: What's the biggest lesson that you learnt while playing Nationstates?

Somyrion: There are lots of things I’ve taken from NS — how to form an argument, what it means to make promises and have to live up to them, how to decide what to care about and what not to, how to make requests and support friends. For someone who has a lot of their life behind them already, those kind of things may seem obvious and doing them on NS may seem to be just an application of skills they already have. But as someone who grew up on NS, I really believe that my in-game responsibilities were what allowed me to learn those important life lessons in the first place, and I’m thankful for that.
But if I had one lesson I’ve learned from NS that I think I’d want other people to keep in mind, it’d be: whenever you can, float up into metaphorical orbit above the game and take a look at things from above. Step back and think about the dynamics of the situation you’re in, as if you’re an anthropologist or a historian. NS has taught me that instead of getting caught up in this or that petty dispute, I should think about what the fundamental misalignment is, and what perspectives are at play. This game’s communities are special because they incorporate members from practically everywhere with vastly different ages, traditions, and knowledge. It’s an amazing environment, and one that I think needs to be treasured.

Apatosaurus: Tell us about your experiences in the Free Nations Region.

Somyrion: Unfortunately my memory isn’t too great, so I may not be able to reconstruct a clear history of my time in the FNR. I don’t even quite remember why I joined, though broadly speaking it was because FNR — at that time a pretty new region — and its close associate the UDS were heavily involved with Solidarity. I helped out with several defender alliances that FNR started. Eventually, I somehow became a Justice in FNR, and tried pretty unsuccessfully to rein in what I saw as the ridiculous instability of the region at the time, where Crystalsummer would basically write new sets of laws or make other well-intentioned but unpredictable decisions every few weeks. There were lots of great people I met at the time, but also lots of people who caused massive headaches. Eventually I think I quit the region pretty suddenly after some kind of argument in which I gave up on the whole thing as hopeless. So really I was in and then out pretty quickly, and didn’t have such a great opinion of the region for a while. I was glad to see things seem to turn out for the better in the past few years, with FNR becoming stable and sizable. It’s good to see that your predictions are wrong sometimes. I’m always surprised that people in FNR seem to know who I am, at least by name — I didn’t think my contributions were ever relatively meaningful or likely to last long.

This wasn’t the first time a new continent got added, during New Year 2021 Talvenne, the northernmost continent, also got added as a special surprise
But Fernost was the first time that the map size itself was expanded to make space for a new continent. The new continent will give new players more blank space to make their claims in the map.

Let's take a look at all the 10 Continents of the Diyar, The RP World of FNR.

Garalie Major Garalie Minor, the old continent

While Garalie Major and Garalie Minor are technically two different continents it’s difficulty to talk about them as 2 different cultural and geopolitical places as they are closely interconnected and were considered 1 single continent until it was decided to be divided into 2 for geographical reasons, the Garalie’s culturally are generally European with a bit of Middle Eastern plus a Thailandian nation (ChaiyaRach), the main cultural sub-divisions of the Garalie’s are Sokratic-Latin (Hellenic/Greek and Latin/Roman inspired nations, Sokrat being the RP name for Greeks) comprising Orvos, Thespasia, Valid, Eluthania, Sokrat (the microstate), Parthanum, Efkades, Mercuriuss, and partially Minoriya and Dongerland, Verdeu and Dongerland, The Celtic cultural group, comprising Northern Celtic Regions, Southern Celtic Regions, Verdeu and Brittany (part of both Orvos and Northern Celtic Regions), and Germanic-Nordic, comprising Germany and Frisemark, talking about the cultural aspect of Garalie also extends over the actual geographical boundaries of the Garalie’s, extending into most of North-west Storveld and even part of Delaia where the culturally-Garalien nation Thespasia has the great majority of it’s territories in, where Dongerland eastern third of its mainland is in and where Makria, a Orvosian oversea territory bordering Thespasia, is in, as such the cultural area of Garalie extends over the entire Bizinki Sea, the two Garalie’s, north-west Storveld and a bit of Central Delaia

Geopolitically the Garalie’s comprise a large share of the most powerful, oldest, former colonizers and worldwide influential nations on the Diyar (the RP world), with Orvos being one of the two Superpowers of the RP world, Valid, Dongerland, Thespasia and Eluthania worldwide major powers, Northern Celtic Regions, Verdeu and Minoriya being respectively powerful medium powers and the other Superpower, The Russian Empire, having a small oversea territory in Garalie, there exist a Garalie’s continent-wide defensive and economical alliance called “The Sovereign Garaveld Realm” (which despite the name implying it to be both a Garalien and Storvedian alliance at the moment it is actually comprised by nations who all have territory on Garalie) that comprise most of Garalie (Orvos, Northern Celtic Regions, Eluthania, Thespasia, Dongerland, Minoriya, Verdeu, Chaiyarach an the Sokrat Microstate), which include some of the most of the powerful nations on the continent, making it probably the most powerful formal alliance both on the Garalie’s and Diyar as whole, others alliances and organizations in Garalie are the Chiremba League, the Organization of Free Nations and The Garalien Seas Trade Organization, various Garalien nations, namely Orvos, Northern Celtic Regions, Eluthania, Dongerland, Thespasia, also posses oversea territories around the whole Diyar, Garalie has always been one of the most geopolitically active continents.

Stats of Garalie Major

3,230,65 billion people (rough estimation)
133 trillion GDP (rough estimation)
Land Area:22,122,667 km²

Stats of Garalie Minor

687,8 million people (rough estimation)
38,2 trillion GDP (rough estimation)
Land Area:11,373,243 km²

Culturally most Storveldian nations are very different from one-another. There isn’t much cultural cohesion on this continent except for North-West Storveld, which culturally is just a extension of the Garalien cultural zone, Storveld used to be the by far biggest continent before the introduction of Fernost, being larger than Dunia and Andere combined, geopolitically there isn’t that much either, with Thespasia in the north–west and Kiamai in the south-west being major powers but the others nations on Storveld aren’t particularly powerful. In recent times, a separatist movement in Aflela is being allegedly supported by Orvos and in Hakha a civil war just ended.

Stats of Storveld

5,284,93 Billion people (rough estimation)
195,7 trillion (rough estimation)
Land Area:65,424,261 km²

If we go by RL definitions it wouldn’t be really a continent, it is actually a large collection of islands north of Storveld, east of Garalie, west of Fernost and south of Talvenne, more like a Oceania, there isn’t cultural cohesion here either, the biggest power on Delaia is Europan Union but limited by the fact that it is between Russia, a superpower, and the major powers of Garalie.

1,1468 billion people (rough estimation)
58,9 Trillion GDP (rough estimation)
18,381,419 km² of land area

Vetem for most of the RP was the most inactive continent, for many months it was joked that nothing ever happens there, recently Vetem has become a continent victim of a modern day soft-colonization in which Quiameth sold most of it’s port cities to various foreign powers from others far away continents, there are 9 “Oversea territories” on the continent, making it perhaps the RP Continent most colonized by others continents, the most active nations native to the continent, Philmuza and Quiameth, are respectively culturally Filipino and native Hawaiian, making at least most of the continent culturally pacific in relation to RL, the most powerful nation on Vetem is Philmuza by far, containing 45% of the entire land area of Vetem and over half of the GDP of the continent and almost half of its population

632 million people (rough estimation)
25,5 trillion GDP (rough estimation)
13,226,472 km² of land area

Andere has been a continent dominated by communism, in fact almost all the communist nations in the RP are on Andere, with 5 big communist nations on Andere and another large nation also aligned with them, these communist nations until recently where united under a communist interregional organization/alliance named the ULSR but recently there have been a split between the two dominant members of the alliance, Stalenkaya and Hyechon. Stalenkaya recently merged into the Russian Empire which led to Hyechon abandoning the ULSR and the others member states distancing themselves from it, basically making the ULSR a dead organization,

1,698 billion people (rough estimation)
66,3 trillion GDP (rough estimation)
25,443,348 km² land area

Once a continent full of instability and rogue totalitarian regimes, the most infamous being Exsorcial, a genocidal extremely totalitarian regime which ended up nuking themselves into oblivion, but it has become rather more stable relatively recently, there isn’t much cultural cohesion on this continent either.

5,404 billion (rough estimation)
70,05 trillion (rough estimation)
35,342,818 km² of land area

The southernmost continent, basically our Antarctica, since the very start of the RP various nations have laid claim to lands on the continent (the very first being Orvos) and two meetings about Befasia claims in Besigheid, Orvos happened.

Well, not much can be said about the continent itself as it spans the Russian Empire, it is the smallest and northernmost continent and in the past the continent was plagued by the conflict between Russia and Lunnia (now western Russia) before the Russian Empire annexed Lunnia and reunified the continent.

Population:595,507,222
GDP:42 or 43 trillion
8,757,623 km² land area

Fernost, The New Continent

350 million people (rough estimation)
19,070 trillion GDP (rough estimation)
81,944,170 km² land area

FNDA Personnels Involved:

Special Agent South Asians
Special Agent Apatosaurus
Cadet New Braveland
Cadet Stalengrave
Task Force Officer Burgertopian Empire
Task Force Agent Tigerania

Allied Forces Involved:

Anti Fairy Pact
00000 A World Power
10000 Islands
The Region that has no Big Banks
Chaylia
The East Pacific
European Union
The Free Nations Region
Japan
The League
Palatine
The Rejected Realms
Sonindia
The South Pacific
Thaecia
The Union of Democratic States
Valhalla
Warzone Sandbox
Mercenaries

Region Liberated: 1

region=the_new_order_last_days_of_europe

Wymondham

Aynia Moreaux

Dakota Vytherov

Evil Mother

Phoenix Coalition

Witchcraft and Sorcery

Regions who are involved in this Fundraiser will be organising various game nights, movie nights, music nights and streams in support of this Fundraiser. The Free Nations Region is holding a music night on 22nd December in 4 PM EST. You can find more information about this event by clicking here.

Here's the link to donate to the Charity Fundraiser:-
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/nsccf2021

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