Democratic Socialist Assembly

Best Members of Congress, as my campaign to become your next Minister of Domestic Affairs has been given a lot of positive feedback I felt that it was time to explain in more detail how I will achieve the ideas in my platform, the things on here will be my first priorities and all of these shall be represented in my first big announcement as Minister of Domestic Affairs should you elect me.

- My first step as MoDA will be appointing Xingal and Student Loan Debt as cabinet aides to the ministry, in this capacity I would like them to tell me what they have been doing and have achieved in the Ministry in the past terms. That way we will have a concrete look at the state of the MoDA and can achieve the potential of the Ministry by looking at how we can build of of what has already been established. I will also trust them to advice me when running the ministry and look forward to coöperating with them in this.

- Together with appointing Xingal and Student as my cabinet aides, I will also immediately create all the google forms and forum sub-boards and threads I have promised to make, being the Feedback Sub-board with separate threads being "General Feedback", "Polls" and "Projects and Contests". I shall also create the Respective google forms for those.

- Create the "Music" and "Literature" subboards alongside the "Design Studios" subboard on the forum, and having all of these have the threads "Tools and Tips", "Discussion" and "Member Creations", though i would be happy to hear from anyone if they would know other names for these threads, there will be separate threads for each separate project and contest as is being done now. Upon doing this I will be looking for anyone who would like to help the ministry in finding the appropriate information and references for the "Tools and Tips" threads, this will increase participation on the creative side of the DSA as that way every forum member may easily learn to do things like creating countryballs amongst other things.

- Start the application process for a new Director of Immigration who will have this be one of their priorities in the DSA, immigration will be given it’s own sub-board on our forum.

If you are reading this now you probably are either currently in the WA or are considering joining it. I, Pine Peaks, was formerly a WA nation, so I know a lot about being in the WA, so let's start with your activities in the WA.

Legislations

As a member of the WA, you will have the ability to do TWO things related to legislations, voting and making proposals.

Voting-
Almost all the time there is a proposal, either in the World Assembly or Security Council (or both,) in which you can vote for both. The World Assembly is just massive role play aimed to replicate a certain real-world organisation. This is where people vote on passing international laws (of which, nothing really happens.) The Security Council is where people vote on affecting fellow regions by either giving them a condemnation (gives the region or nation a condemned badge for doing something wrong,) commendation (gives the region or nation a badge showing that they have contributed to the bettering of NationStates,) and liberation (frees a region from raiders by opening the password.)
Condemnations are ineffective as all the regions or nations being condemned are content with earning these badges. Liberations are effective only as actually liberating regions, but they can also be used for a sign of humiliation for regions (but none of these get passed any more as people are tired of them.) Commendations are the only ones that actually work most of the time.

Proposals-
Anyone with at least two endorsements can submit proposals, but only specific people can succeed. In order have your proposal go to vote, you need to have the approval of 5% of all the WA Delegates on NationStates. To have WA Delegates notice your proposal, you need stamps. You need to pay for stamps, but using them will make sure that WA Delegates notice your proposal. If you don't use stamps there is next to no chance you will have any success of putting a proposal to the voting of the WA unless you're extremely lucky. This causes the WA to be a pay-to-win part of the game.

NOTE: The Security Council takes their rules EXTREMELY seriously, and any slight slip-up will cause them to deem your proposal illegal.

Endorsements

Providing that you are in the same region, you can endorse anyone you want to endorse. This can be for literally any reason you wish. The more endorsements you have, the more influence you will gain. This is very good for admins as influence allows you to do many actions.

Conclusion

All in all, the World Assembly and a fair bit of the Security Council is a rather useless system corrupted by a pay-to-win system involving stamps and how many of the resolutions on regions are effectively useless. Unless this game makes major changes, this will continue and lead to this game declining in enjoyment. The World Assembly is genuinely a good idea, but the way people handle it is ruining its quality.