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The Vice Delegate's Weekly Update, 2023-01-16


The Vice Delegate's Weekly Update



January 16, 2023
Vice Delegate's Report


Hey folks,

Welcome to the newest season of the Vice Delegate's Reports, and I'm your new host, Gorundu. To start off with, let's take a look at the state of the transition and it's looking...pretty good! Hulldom has assumed the in-game position in just three days, which was mostly done through selective endorsement withdrawals from previous Delegate Pallaith as our declining WA numbers right now mean that it's the only effective way. However, we're still in the "danger zone", so to speak, with Pallaith only 10 endorsements behind. We will need to build a gap between the Delegate and the Security Councillors to avoid any accidental Delegacy takeovers, so for those reading this who had unendorsed Pallaith during the transition, I ask you to please refrain from re-endorsing him until we let you know that it's okay to do.

As for myself, things have gotten off to a good start, with my nation now in the top 20 in endorsements. Of course, there's still a long way to go with a few hundred endorsements between myself and the No. 2 spot, and the last hundred will be the toughest part. Yesterday, I sent out a personally written telegram to all WA nations not endorsing me, and it saw some good returns, so another one will probably be sent in a few days.

To cap off the section on the transition, if you are reading this and for some reason haven't endorsed Hulldom or me yet, please do it now. Or...uh...I'll be mad at you.



Although the transition has been the main agenda over this first half-week of my term, there are still a few other things worth taking note of.

Endorsements

Other than what I have already noted in the transition section, you might notice a few other things in the table above. Firstly, we have lost a lot of Keepers of the North, and that's of course because I have yet to be endorsed by a lot of nations. This number should recover as the transition goes on. Meanwhile, drops in endorsements across the board in the Security Council are largely down to the drop in WA nations - 72 is quite the drop in a week. This larger than usual decrease in nations is happening across the entire game right now, and appears to be down to something with the Christmas server shutdown and the CTE timer being temporarily increased to 35 days then gradually decreased back towards 28 days.

Declassification

Turns out my predecessor had left me a gift in the archives in the form of 5 redacted but yet to be released War Room threads. I have released them now, and you can find them in the usual archive as the top 5 threads there. My efforts for now will be focused on re-releasing the threads that had been removed from the redacted archives for review after the new FOIA law was passed last year, as it has been quite some time that they were out of public view. Discord declassification will follow.

Other Security Council matters

As you may have seen, Hulldom has applied to join the Security Council, and the application has been presented internally for discussion.

Next week

As I get settled into this new office I should be able to find time to work on the initiatives discussed in my election platform and discuss them with the Security Council. Hopefully you'll see some positive updates on those fronts in next week's report.

Conclusion

I want to end my first report by thanking two very important groups of people who have been instrumental to my first few days in office. Firstly, thank you to everyone who has already endorsed my nation for your help in speeding up this transition. And secondly, thank you to the Security Council for getting me up to speed with everything to do with the Vice Delegate and Security Council, for their very helpful advice, and for...uh...spotting some of my mistakes ?

And...that's the end! See you next week!

Gratefully yours,

~~Gorundu

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