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Regional Power: Extremely High
The Leftist Assembly contains 758 nations, the 46th most in the world.
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The Most Conservative in The Leftist Assembly
Citizens in nations ranked highly tend to have greater restrictions placed on what they may do in their personal lives, whether via community values or government-imposed law.
As a region, The Leftist Assembly is ranked 21,712th in the world for Most Conservative.
 | Nation | WA Category | Motto | |
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| 1. |  The Oppressed Peoples of Radio Free TLA | Iron Fist Consumerists | “Completely funded by TLA citizens...no really” | |
| 2. |  The Dictatorship of Kava Gunk Rad | Corporate Police State | “The eu is based” | |
| 3. |  The Dictatorship of New Cappadocia | Psychotic Dictatorship | “Striving for safety and well-being” | |
| 4. |  The Community of QazMLP | Psychotic Dictatorship | “Strength Through Freedom” | |
| 5. |  The Republic of Killerklowns | Psychotic Dictatorship | “Flaeza Kluup, HooHa Ploob” | |
| 6. |  The People's Republic of The Collectivist Institution of Labour | Psychotic Dictatorship | “Let us produce and supply the machinery in need!” | |
| 7. |  The People's Republic of Taintanuimland | Psychotic Dictatorship | “Who kill the barba?” | |
| 8. |  The Incorporated States of Aciremah | Psychotic Dictatorship | “In the Vanguard We Trust” | |
| 9. | The People's Republic of Proletown | Psychotic Dictatorship | “We Will Endure” | |
| 10. |  The Socialist Republic of Spaghetria | Psychotic Dictatorship | “To socialism, His Noodly Appendage leads us.” |
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Regional Poll • Supreme Court Confirmation Vote: Sers Alty
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- : The Kingdom of Jiveton arrived from The Frontier Sea.
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The United Socialist States of Name Goes Here arrived from Lazarus.
- : The United States of Sajura arrived from The Creeds.
- : Transgenistan ceased to exist.
- : Catzomicz ceased to exist.
- : Plantelephants ceased to exist.
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The Democratic States of Flubble Schlubble arrived from The Pacific.
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The Theocracy of Resile arrived from The West Pacific.
- : The Oceanic Communes of New Samon created a new regional poll: "Supreme Court Confirmation Vote: Sers Alty".
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That is…the wrong seal!
In all seriousness, thank you for the praise, I really enjoy serving this region as best I can.
And speaking of shoutouts, I do just want to highlight 
Sers Alty’s work on the wiki. While I struggle to even open it, Sers has now created a page for not only every Cabinet, not only every General Assembly, not only every Supreme Court, but also already about half of elections! Sers deserves all the love here, guys.
Hi TLA, just letting you know about the recent Forest happenings. Oisonic’s December transparency report can be found:
Forest Transparency Report - December 1st -> December 31st
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All Quiet as Forest gets a well deserved break from embassy polls!
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December 14th - Mount Seymour announces the Tenth Edition of the Photo Contest!
December 25th - Interviews In The Trees! Featuring Garbelia
December 28th - Forest and The Region That Has No Big Banks host the Big Quiz of 2024 Event!
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December 24th - Forest bans individuals responsible for supporting the doxxing of another player on NationStates
- RMB Announcement
- Osionic
Forest Warden
Forest Photo Contest 2024
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Category: Trees
🥇 | 1st Place, | Victoriaans Nederlands | Window to Fuji | https://i.imgur.com/m6Ue7PA.jpg |
🥈 | 2nd Place, | Mount Seymour | Burnt-out giant sequoia, Sequoia National Park, California, USA | https://i.imgur.com/RsJC7lE.jpeg and Mount Seymour | Pinnacles National Park, California, USA | https://i.imgur.com/hwyDSJA.jpeg |
🥉 | 3rd Place, | Kawastyselir | https://i.imgur.com/bdcPDmA.jpeg |
🏅 | Honorable Mention, | Melenavenia | At Great Smoky Mountains NP looking through the trees down at a river on the Tennessee side | https://i.imgur.com/FHdnclz.jpeg |
Category: Horizon
🥇 | 1st Place, | Alpine Republics | https://i.imgur.com/bdI9g7Th.jpeg |
🥈 | 2nd Place, | Alpine Republics | https://i.imgur.com/DpgfdXuh.jpeg and Yahlia | 11 May 2024: Aurora Australis over Wai-Iti, Tasman, New Zealand | https://i.imgur.com/HMLgq8Z.jpeg |
🥉 | 3rd Place, | Kawastyselir | https://i.postimg.cc/BbxGMn66/tetons.jpg and Mount Seymour | Sunset from Killington Peak, Vermont, USA | https://i.imgur.com/zrO7N3G.jpeg and Mount Seymour | Sunset at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, Moss Beach, California, USA | https://i.imgur.com/oa0FJnh.jpeg |
🏅 | Honorable Mention, | The Realizer | Beautiful Sunset in the south of spain with Gibraltar and the Atlas mountains of Morocco visible on the horizon | https://i.imgur.com/VkL3cXC.jpeg |
Category: Rock
🥇 | 1st Place, | Yahlia | 14 April 2024: The Old Man of Storr, the Isle of Skye, Scotland, the United Kingdom | https://i.imgur.com/jwfVVIi.jpeg |
🥈 | 2nd Place, | Mount Seymour | Pinnacles National Park, California, USA | https://i.imgur.com/2FBNMNk.jpeg |
🥉 | 3rd Place, | Mount Seymour | Shark Fin Cove, California, USA | https://i.imgur.com/VcWale8.jpeg |
🏅 | Honorable Mention, | Yahlia | 7 April 2024: Blarney Castle, Cork, the Republic of Ireland | https://i.imgur.com/5pnrMf6.jpeg |
Category: Animals
🥇 | 1st Place, | Mount Seymour | Five birds on five posts, Elkhorn Slough, California, USA | https://i.imgur.com/J4x74bk.jpeg |
🥈 | 2nd Place, | Melenavenia | A frog (I don't know the species) in a tank at Ecomuseum Zoo in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec | https://i.imgur.com/MUuZku5.jpeg |
🥉 | 3rd Place, | Alpine Republics | https://i.imgur.com/ZCLRJJGh.jpeg and Yahlia | 29 March 2024: Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England, the United Kingdom | https://i.imgur.com/Nc0lSYF.jpeg |
🏅 | Honorable Mention, | Kawastyselir | https://i.postimg.cc/yNJtL8pH/chipmunk.jpg and Melenavenia | A gray wolf comes over a hill at Ecomuseum Zoo in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec | https://i.imgur.com/CqtMHD7.jpeg |
You may view the full results 
here.
Roless
Victoriaans Nederlands/Valentine Z
Adkissa (Blue Ridge)
Uan aa Boa
Kawastyselir
Vile Island (Refugia)
Jutsa
Ostrovskiy (The Union of Democratic States)
Pheonixknight (The Region That Has No Big Banks)
Greater Morvonia
Yahlia (Europe)
Melenavenia (Refugia)
Kannap
Alpine Republics
Pantumaca (Refugia)
The Evergreen Dreamscapes (Refugia)
Lumiose
The Realizer
Gloucester City (The Leftist Assembly)
Vashovia (Refugia)
LontraNutria
Garbelia
Iereia
Mania Sims (Wintreath)
Northern Malav
Mount Seymour
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Only one submission will be taken per player.
You may not vote for your own submission.
You may not vote for the same submission in both the Semi-Finals and Finale.
For an entry to be valid, it must include your Nation Name, an Artist/Music Group, and a Song. The song can be real.
To prevent repeats, songs will be added to a dispatch of taken music as submissions are put in. First come, first served!
Submissions must be telegrammed to RidgeVision or submitted through the designated Google Form to be counted as valid.
Breaking any rule will result in disqualification.
Voting System: Position will be determined through ranked-choice voting, of which you will be given the choice to rank a song on a 1-10 scale. You will be provided a clip of the song to make your judgement.
Ballots will be submitted through the designated Google Form.
It's suggested that you choose a song from a lesser-known artist, or make up your own song and provide a sample. RidgeVision seeks to expand musical range and literacy, so it's better to step away from mainstream tracks.
While you are only required to vote on 10 submissions in the semi-finals, it's suggested that you vote on all for more fluent results.
Your Participating Nation's Name.
Your Music Submission.
Your Artist/Music Group.
- Nation Name: RidgeVision
Song: Nyan Cat!
Artist(s): Nyan Cat
Link to song:
https://youtu.be/2yJgwwDcgV8?si=Jrzq4zrFEgtWSC3f
Forest Interviews in the Trees!
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People of NationStates, I hereby present to you the full, unedited, transcript of my interview in the trees with Jutsa... Over the course of recording, I lost of all my dwindling sanity - you have been warned...
Enjoy!
(dash before indicates myself, no dash = Jutsa)
18.17
- You good to start soon Jutsa?
Literally just opened discord 😂
whenever you are :^)
- Right ho...
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- Hello Jutsa! How are you?
Thank you so much for agreeing to join us today!
Hi Realize; I'm good :3 A pleasure to get the chance to do an interview with you \:)
Hope you're also doing well ^^ Excited to see what questions you've cooked up for me 😛
You still there Realize? 🫠 I didn't _already_ scare you away did I >.>
- Oops, sorry got playing the saxophone and forgot 😬
You're going to have a lot of that with me taking a hot 15-30 minutes to answer each question 🤪
(actually debating getting a concertina for black friday but we'll see. plus I already have like ten instruments I don't use smh)
- Well, let's start (as always) nice and simple... Tell us a bit about yourself?
Auguhgh... where do I begin 🫠
This may take me a hot minute lol.
- No worries, just give me something to go on 🙃
18.47
Soooo... _outside_ of NationStates, I've got a bit of history. Worked as a cashier for 20 months, a year of which was during covid - that was hell. Used to volunteer at an animal shelter during that time (when they actually allowed people in to volunteer) - loved spending time with the cats there. (I myself have 4 now, had 11 once upon a time.) Currently studying for public administration, although my ever-omnipresent looming lethargy has been set in overdrive the past year so 🫠
I enjoy making music - really, have completely different songs that come to me in mind vs. in dreams vs. what actually pops out the other end most of the time. Love experimenting with xenharmonics and non-standard tunings - i.e. playing with notes between notes. (Just as well I don't play an instrument despite having a dozen-odd.) I also _love_ conlanging (obsessively so...) and have been praised for cursedness. (As a participant in the 3rd Annual Cursed Conlang Circus, I appreciate that lol.) Also genuinely adore worldbuilding; I'm not great at jotting down all my thoughts, but I've got tons of aliens, robots, cartoons and worlds floating around up there. Recently _started_ getting that stuff written down for a future-tech RP that a Forestian's hosting actually. (Got a couple others that I should also attend to, but... satirical interdimensional robotic aliens that never get along beckons me when I have the energy.)
Also love puzzles. I make a ton for an incredibly niche (but still great) custom-level community for an old 2000s puzzle game series called Wonderland (specifically return to wonderland and wonderland adventures). Still upload solutions on my main channel, but like everything that's slowed down a bit. Also crafted variant sudokus (thanks Cracking the Cryptic) back when they started out - still love them, just can't find the time/energy it seems. 🫠
Me generally (on and off NS) I am politically a registerred independent (left-leaning environmentalist libertarian cynical of big business/government if you will) and overall a disorganized absent-minded slothy bogglemind who loves nature (even bees despite extremely painful insectophobia) and cats (who are admittedly environmentally kind of awful but who can't love them 🤪)
On NationStates I have quite a bit of history. I first discovered it in like... mercy, end of 2015 was already been 9 years ago 😭 So yeah I didn't know about it, despite futile attempts at not looking too hard, when a friend (from the niche puzzle game community) was working on a discord bot (when they first came out) and added a feature to display nationstates nations and general information. And I thought "Wait what is this" because I'd been playing on a warzone factions minecraft server since I was 12 and _loved_ politicking and managing bombastic 9-yos and 21-yos alike (whether I was good at it was another matter entirely, neverthemind!) and thought why didn't you tell me about this sooner
So I started out. Definitely was not a great start lol. (Though maybe less awful than a few modern powerhouse players. ;p) But I virtually _always_ loved Forest (its map, environmental theme, seeming maturity) - if anything was just too scared to leave my region (for which 6-odd players took me in after I RP'd with alt accounts in II - don't ask) for one that felt so up-scale. (Probably a good thing too.) I finally did like... idk how long ago it was \uses RMB forum-view search feature SIX FREAKING YEARS AGO WHAT anyway yeah, didn't get super involved until I finally ran as a joke candidate for the second time (and finally got selected as cartographer, the position of my dreams, the month prior) and accidentally found myself the only running opposition to the whole private government discord accord. So that was fun 🫠
Not done yet just running into a discord character limit in a hot minute lol. Could go on about Forest history and my own, but I suppose I should also list off three other bits of my history before Forest (and I'll try not to waffle as much as I generally tend to)
19.01
- Jutsa...
You do realise this is just the first question...
You've answered my next ten already 🤣
But do go on...
Oh 🫠 awesome...
I've
predicted your entire interview 😂
- Ignore the NS stuff, we'll come back to that later 🙃
OK 😂 there's a lot LOL
- I usually start irl and flow onto NS since most people know about you on NS but not much on irl
Save your next essay and you can copy it in in a bit 🤣
done and done LOL
Ah yeah that makes sense 🫠
did you uh, have any followup questions regarding irl? ;P
- Haven't even started reading yet... I've played all my grade 8 pieces already and you're still not done
Oh gosh you're going to have a lot to get through
lemme know when you're done 😛
- I'm gonna have dinner, be back in about 30mins... we might end up having to continue this over a couple of days (it's already 7 here 🤣)
Aye, sounds good :3
I could keep rambling about my time _on_ NS while you eat if you want... xD
Who knows! I might even be finished in half an hour 🤪
- I think we'll smash the record for longest interview 😄 (oh how naive of me looking back)
Go ahead and ramble then...
Aye 😂 will keep rambling then.
If I could put my energy into anything other than reminiscing about the old days extremely few individuals would ever care about, personal analysis/opinion on a very specific situation or statistic that extremely few individuals would ever care about, or springing to live weird innovations for very niche and impractical things that extremely few individuals would ever care about (puzzles, worldbuild, music experimentation, issue writing, etc. - literally what I do for fun), I'd be an unstoppable force of nature. Unfortunately those things require significantly less effort from me (though significantly more time than perceived) and everything else (aside from consuming food) is often a frankly exhausting battle ;p (frankly much of the time even that is tiresome at best but I digress)
^ and yes it took me 5 minutes just to write my segue
19.21
So to go on with my time before Forest, one is my time as an issues writer. I still dabble in it once in a blue moon (when the itch strikes with a force I wish I could tap into for literally anything else), but my hay day was before joining Forest actually - and in fact, Forest being home to so many issues authors and editors at the time (the "forest cabal" if you will) was probably the final thing that convinced me to finally join Forest lol. I've thus far written 30 issues (29 if you count my two coauthorships as halves, which I do), although I've written maybe 250-odd drafts total. Needless to say, having a 12% success rate is not exactly great - quantity over quality approach if you will 🫠 But that's what happens when you write for fun and experimentation and don't have the greatest of grasps on what conceptually would make for a great issue topic (despite my list of over 100 issue ideas [some maybe good, some probably bad, some likely already covered without me realizing] currently rotting in a factbook.) Needless to say I would probably _not_ make a good editor 😂
Sadly, could never get into WA writing. (Goes to show perhaps my initial life ambitions were a bit dubious and idealistic at best ;p) Fortunately both in-character and out-of-character I'm not thrilled about the whole institution. I do still - quite - enjoy getting extremely huffy and puffy about certain resolutions (mainly the GA, though certain SC declarations and repeals I've also taken qualms in), and my urge to experiment and innovate in the weirdest and most impractical of ways possible has of course lead to me crafting some truly bizarre proposals (my personal favorite being "Declaration in Regard to Hippopotami" which failed queue twice, although my unicode chart depicting an N-Day top-10 leaderboard that dies upon submission comes a close second), so every once in a blue moon I rear my ugly head. Still have yet to actually pass anything though and I don't think I ever well either lol.
19.30
Speaking of the SC, the second thing of note is my commendation, for which Candensia (an issues editor at the time) had written up for me, which I greatly appreciated. Happened not long after I joined Forest, and I actually moved back to the Mesan Union specifically to get commended there lol. The commendation is very nice, although I certainly don't feel like I deserve it 🫠 It includes my issue authoring, as well as (as much as the SC could ICly relay it) my time after Drasnia and before Valentine Z [who's still doing it omg] upkeeping the master Issues thread. I greatly enjoyed doing it, but I was very glad to relinquish it to Val since I just couldn't stick to updating it like I used to. Although I still on occasion update my lists of Nations/Tribes and Religions/Cults. I'd definitely thought about doing others (recurring characters, companies, authors/editors based on issues written/edited, etc.) but fortunately others have done a superior job of doing those. Not sure how many are _still_ kept up to date, but I'm thrilled they're at least partly done 🫠 (Might have to consider taking a look to see if there're any needing a new upkeeper...)
Uh. Right. But I digress. (often)
The other things on that commendation were much smaller "achievements", if you will. For instance, my contributions to NSIndex. I did spend about a month porting old UN and WA resolutions over there, but after burning through a hundred-or-so easy ones, it got a lot more tedious - and at the same time I realized "wait this is kinda useless", cause it's already listed on-forum (and later IA created a whole repository to boot). Issues were kind-of in the same ballpark, between the issues list and, at the time, Sacara's issue finder (and now Trotterdam's issue results and policy trackers). I do still feel bad leaving Minoa after becoming basically the only remaining moderator, but I just couldn't do it anymore. (and this was while working too, I believe, so it was just too much for me.) Very sad to see the site down now. Hope it comes back, but I also understand if it's just too much work to try to keep up. Hope Minoa's at least doing well.
The other frankly small thing on my commendation was my time in The East Pacific and cofounding the University of TEP was... kind of an accident xD I got invited to UTEP's original discord when it was starting out, cause I wanted to help out new aspiring issues authors. It sort-of died out, but when Yuno was elected head of TEP at the time, she noticed I was the only person who posted anything there in months and I wound up being put in charge of a project to renew it. Wasn't a great start (became exclusively a TEP forum thing), but it later found its footing back on discord. I really had very little to do with it though, aside from being a spark of inspiration to revive it, as well as pushing for it to be more than just a regional thing.
Ngl not sure where it stands now, but I actually am still technically a TEP citizen with government roles lol.
19.36
- You're... You're still going...
YES I'M STILL GOING I'M 2/3 DONE DON'T JUDGE ME
- I'll be back...
19.44
and speaking of other regions... FINALLY coming round to my _third_ thing, which was actually a thing I was not commended for, and certainly couldn't be commended for 🤪 Which would be honestly the thing I probably spent the most amount of genuine effort in - The Ragerian Imperium.
So for those who don't know, I used to be a raider 🫠 I was actually interested in becoming a defender, asked Unibot if I could pick up an old issue of his (which was frankly trash sorry Uni, and also totally unrelated but important to the story), negotiated that I could if I helped in a liberation (which I wanted to anyway), told GI about it, and then got abducted by Frenchy into Hydra to try out "regional management" (which later happened, but it was legit just raiding at first), for which something messy happened (big surprise, should've been a red flag) and TRI split off. It was not a particularly stable region... monarch kinda banned several (frankly quite liked) individuals from the new region, and the entire time there it seemed folks would bicker and get into controversy. Which was good fun, don't get me wrong.
We pretty much wholly did tag raiding. We were classified as "imperialist"... lol. Anyway they also did a few large-scale operations with The Black Hawks which I personally didn't approve of, but they happened :p Our region really did a lot given its size and barely-one-year existence. (Even got declared persona non grata in TSP lol.) Jake the Snake (my immediate higher-up) and I were basically the ones keeping the region alive through recruitments (they did stamps, I did manual). Had to stop doing stuff for a few months while I adjusted to my new cashier worklife, came back and they weren't even running API or sending manual. I did 1K in a day to prove to them they could do 10 in a week ;p
Alas, it finally imploded when it was revealed Jake the Snake was Moneyness, raider public enemy #1 for spoiling every operation on Christmas eve or something lol. Good fun...
Small conselation, I suppose, that Aav (one of the only legislatures there) later became a site technical moderator (though it says game administrator on the nation they use if I'm remembering which one it is correctly ;p)
If ever you want me to go into actual detail on any stories in TRI I gladly will lol, was a lot of good fun and drama.
(yes this was just the overview, also I'm finally done sputtering)
Now if you want me to talk about my time _in_ Forest... 🫠
let me know and I'll keep typing 😂 otherwise I'll make some 3PM brunch myself 🤪
19.51
- Finally finished reading...
Well... where to go? 🤣
I'm now freestyling this 🙃
sorry if I broke your format a little 🫠
give me an inch I'll take a mile or something
- I think I'll probably end up breaking up your essay(s) by coming up with questions when editing (yeah, gave up on that hehe...)
sounds good 😂
- So then you can write to your heart's content...
🫠 oh no
- How about you go on about Forest... Likes, dislikes, past happenings, future hopes, etc. 🙃
giving me _way_ too much wiggle room lol but can do
- I've given up trying to contain you Jutsa 🤣
20.05
So, after joining Forest, I was frankly somewhat shy. I didn't really do political discourse often so despite my interest in it I felt least qualified to talk about it ;p But the political satirist in me came out so I figured I'd run as a joke candidate - twice actually. Fortunately my first run (the only time we nearly had too many candidates to fit on a poll) didn't put me in too bad a light 🤪 cause my love for the map and inquiring about maybe helping with it finally translated at the end of Chan Island's term when Terrabod reached out to me. (Apparently they had tried sooner but apparently their telegram got blocked or something, woops) I learned inkscape. just for that. I frankly quite enjoyed it and now I use inkscape for most of my abhorrent and atrocious flags and conlangs 🫠
I ended up winning my second attempt as a joke candidate... granted, once I realized the nature of the fallout of the private government discord (which, I admit I frankly felt a little bashful that I was allowed in there as a complete rando lol) I opted to run on absolute transparency. I admit... I may have leaned a bit too far in that direction. The Cypher Nine and Einswenn had made some frankly decent statements that I probably could have taken into consideration, but at the time the pendulum had shifted toward extreme transparency, direct democracy, and perhaps borderline tribunalism. Didn't help I didn't exactly know what I was doing until the end I realized nothing would get done if I waited two months for input on a 1-line addition to the constitution...
Alas, my FK terms were a bit doomed lol. We'd had a huge flurry of activity right up until Christmas, after which I already had a gut feeling basically noone would return (even I needed a month off lol), and sure enough I was kind of right lol. Covid restrictions were ending and people could get back to their lives. Unfortunately meant I was basically without a cabinet - was my own cartographer half my tenure.
- Buy discord nitro at this point 🤣
20.18
On top of that many cabinet members either had sudden IRL changes, were already too busy, or just had burnout. (Which, reminds me, I forgot to mention I was very briefly appointed a newspaper editor for Kingdom of Great Britain - that was a horrible decision on everyone's part, I digress.) And honestly at that point I figured Forest probably wanted things to be a little more stable and quiet. Frankly after that, Garbelia (who won against me, thank goodness - my irl situation was frankly a lot too, even if the elections always boosted my stamina ;p) had a tough term with reality and the whole Nikland situation and other resignations. Uan aa Boa had a much-needed peaceful term after transitioning us to a stronghold, and Einswenn's term sadly couldn't be realized for similar reasons - they had really cute plans to make Forest cozy and expand upon lore and whatnot, but unfortunately RPs always sort-of fizzled in Forest (though Middle Barael made a frankly impressive headway in that regard during Chan's and mine own terms).
Then Zerphen came around and everything exploded xD I got appointed MoFA, and you yourself Minister of Culture (best. one. ever.), and the rest would be history in several years but I probably shouldn't ramble on too much more about that unless you ask me 😂
I don't think Forest will always have this level of activity - it ebbs and flows like the wind in the trees, if you will. I know many Forestians straight-up despise FA votes taking away from our Forest crafts and our IRL political discussions - I don't blame them lol. (I straight-up renamed a couple of discord channels to include nature-based alliteration after some of the qualms from the overabundance of requests we had come in during Zerphen's term.) But I do hope more folks will come by and
augh gonna have to wrap this essay up soon because I think I've burnt through almost all of my fuel. Still gotta touch on personal involvement in certain things and potential ideas for the future 🫠
- You can ramble on about Zerph's term if you want - Who am I to stop you 🤣
I mean, I won't complain if you keep complimenting me 🙃
20.30
So, things I'd done in Forest, aside from spending hours writing and post-op editing posts roughly the length of this interview, mainly were very tiny constitutional amendments, complaining about the state of the constitution (primarily article 6 - I have a few plans to change it with a pair of scissors be glad I dont' take a sledgehammer to it), and processing incoming FA requests (including two treaties, one from Ridgefield and one from The Region That Has No Big Banks - actually did a brief interview with someone from there about our relationship [well, waht there is of one - had to specify that anything we do there is strictly individuals having fun and nothing really official beyond the treaty]).
I also made a few dispatches. Got my little statistical maps - my favorites being the WA political cube and the stats Garbelia maintains - as well as the elections list, interrim officers list, and the new list of embassies / ambassadors. Because I'm also a list-making nut if you couldn't tell already 🫠
Plans for the future? Originally hoped to make a new master dispatch actually, but I'm thrilled someone else did that lol. Otherwise have some plans for some small constitutional amendments, and also prooobably a list of amendments. Unfortunately I'm not great at formatting or graphic design (if you couldn't tell from my flags) so 😂 if anyone else wants to take the reigns on any of those go ahead 🫠
OK done typing about myself (except I did forget: end of my second term, Mount Seymour actually appointed me a discord admin and forum moderator, which I immensely appreciate - honestly even if they're not listed as an RO or even in government, aren't around super often, and don't do much on-site, they're frankly still imo a very important member of Forest working in the back of things - a bit like Ruinenlust actually 😋). NOW onto Zerph's term and consequently flattering you.
20.44
So yeah Zerphen being elected was not wholly unexpected. Though I'm not eligible to vote (since I don't have a Forest account in the World Assembly lol), I kinda rooted for Garbelia ever since they first ran against me (including during 🤪) But Zerphen was probably the one time I'd have chosen otherwise lol, and I think Garb even said something along the lines of her being a great pick.
There certainly were a few things that not every Forestian liked about her term. She was a bit more cosmopolitan in nature (something I actually kinda liked), y'know, dabbled a touch closer to other regions' and military gameplay, all that. But outside of maybe Augustin Alliance (for which a lot of Forestian cabinet members did quite like), all of our incoming FA requests were kind of... random lol.
I may blame myself partly for it: a bit like how when Prusmia got a touch more involved with TNP, and the consequential RMB invasion that followed, I suspect my reviving the GP forum embassy thread (and perhaps spending more personal time in TRTHNBB) may've inadvertantly attracted a few more regions. But it was also a bit of a coincidence I feel; frontiers were just starting to become a year old and more established, other regions like Valyria were just kicking off. (Was a bit surprised to see that one pass actually, and they ballooned around the time something crazy.) And then of course there was the whole Alcris accord which I was a very distant party to lol. Suffice to say, the extreme influx of embassy requests, treaty proposals, and also the whole Alcris and Astoria situations were all... a lot lol.
Astoria was particularly controversial, since they _just_ raided Europe, and Zerphen had approved of vastly unpopular poll on whether to have "diplomatic relations" with them - something I'm still not... _fully_ sure why was controversial, given the advice I've prior and since heard has always been "people from any region [except fascists] can interact here or elsewhere as they please". But just as well - they ceased operations not too long afterward (and while it's not really my place, I do suspect the timing was more than _purely_ coincidence ;p)
Alcris was just an acid trip to an alien world, easiest closure of Forest's existence.
(Incidentally I do hope to at least discuss embassies opening with New West Conifer)
NOW we move onto the part where I shower you in flowers and chocolates.
21.00
So for all of the FA stuff (a lot of it somewhat controversial, although obviously not all of it without merit cause otherwise we wouldn't have passed the 2/3 majority to approve of five embassies and two treaties this year), there also was an abundance of activity within the region. Like. An unprecedented amount.
We have you to thank for that 😂
I actually argue it worked best hand-in-hand to have an increase in both Foreign Affairs and Internal Affairs. It meant not only that we had more people spreading the word of our events, and consequently more individuals joining from elsewhere. It also meant that we had more invitations from other regions! Well - ok Mostly TRTHNBB frankly, but you know very well about Blue Ridge and Ridgefield hoping to do events with us. But my point is that having more events shared with others, I believe, is somewhat reinforcing in a sort-of positive feedback loop.
Granted, a lot of that wouldn't have happened without you 😆 You did a magnificent job with your Summer Symphany, Trivia and poetry competition. I especially loved your scavenger hunt - was devious and incredibly beautiful, and I'd love to see another one some time >:3
But at the risk of making you blush so hard your face swallows itself and forms a rift in the multiverse, I do believe credit is due elsewhere too. Roless had invited us to a TLA RP, I believe Einswenn us to Eurovision and a flag-making competition. That fellow from Portugal had a lovely football tournament, as did Bilsa (Vynus). I was thrilled they could both make their plans work out, and my having to take a month break off of NS at an inopportune time didn't ruin that 🫠 (the slothage really got to me early this year :p)
Overall there just were a ton of great events from folks all-around. I do think most of them probably could have happened anyway - especially with you pumping the gas - but I do suspect some increased involvement with our existing had a part to play 😋
And I think that even includes the bankless forest chess arena honestly - not entirely sure it'd have happened if folks didn't get more involved with TRTHNBB, after invitations, after our involvement with JEFF during N-Day thanks to Faralried. It (along with my increasing itch to do more things on NS and your insane event planning) honestly was probably the start of a lot of Forestians' increased involvement for TRTHNBB and our embassies in general. (And plus I was just thrilled I didn't have to technically be a commander for an event I absolutely dreaded anymore.)
Events aren't the end-all-be-all; for sure, I appreciate the sentiment many Forestians have that they'd like things to remain smaller, cozier, and more focused on our old traditions of talking about the world and keeping our independent and non-spammy culture. (And, absolutely, I wouldn't wish for that to ever change.) But I do think that the ability to have both is mostly a good thing, and I do think that increasing the quality of our overall interactions with many individuals from other regions without burdening everyone in the RMB with an unwanted request is overall a good thing for everyone 😋 (keeping in mind, I will still continue to burden the RMB with unwanted requests because I'm still hopelessly afraid to make decisions for myself without everyone's consent 🫠)
Anyway uh. I think that... might be everything I was going to rattle off with that question. uh. did you have any more on anything specifically or did I give you enough work to do as-is 🤣
21.08
I can drool over historical statistical trends like longest serving cabinet member or most elections a candidate ran in any time if you want
21.58
- you can talk for as long as you want Jutsa...🤣 I'll just read things once your done and dread the editing process that follows... very much appreciate the flattery 🙃
JUTSA, WE'RE MOVING ONTO POLITICS
AMERICA, BRITAIN, EVERYWHERE ELSE... THE COMOROS ELECTIONS ELECTIONS EVEN!
MY BRAIN HAS GONE, WHY AM I USING caps 🤣 (you can tell I lost my sanity here)
🫠
we did it reddit...
I finally broke him
- not yet... my discord display is broken though
I'm going to eat and watch something with my brother but...
omg
LOL
22.12
- i'm permanently stuck on 500% zoom on pc (I would insert a picture of this but the file size is quite large somehow, it was painful... I'll post it on the Forest discord if you really want to check it out)
Do let me know if you have any more questions lol I genuinely would be fine rambling on about a more specific topic of interest to you :3
- thoughts on American and British elections and their future consequences? Maybe an expansion on your studying in public administration? I'm gonna drop off but I'll read your 10,000 word essay in the morning
sounds good 😂
no actually I have no thoughts whatsoever 🫠
I mean. I think we might be doomed but I always think that.
- expand Jutsa
I think I tapped all my thoughts on that one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
22.17
- well this has gone well 🤣 you have about 9 hours to think of something, don't worry 🙃
Yeah... I never heard anything after that, hehe... I hope you enjoyed reading the interview and perhaps you have some sort of insight as to the pain that was for me (read some of the other interviews so you can see how things are meant to go) combined with the ridiculous display I was stuck on...
Have a great day... : )
⚖️Supreme Court Opinion⚖️
Chief Justice Podria posed the question to the Court on the matter of a Supreme Court Justice potentially seeking election to a foreign governmental office.
It is in the unanimous opinion of the Court (with Chief Justice Podria recusing herself) that taking the reading of Section V Subsection 7 of the Constitution "A Justice shall be prohibited from holding any other government portfolio during their tenure" with regards to both the spirit and the letter of the law, prohibits any justice from holding a position which may give rise to conflicts of interest. This includes foreign offices which may impact the Justice's ability to make unbiased rulings regarding foreign affairs.
However, the Court strongly recommends legislation be drafted to either specify this fact, or to regulate the positions a Justice may hold while in office.
Unity in Diversity!
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Podria
Chief Justice
In light of the Supreme Court ruling (which I support and agree wholeheartedly with), I will immediately be standing down as Standing Justice of the Supreme Court, thus creating a vacancy in the Court as well as the vacancy of the position of Chief Justice. I do this not out of disinterest in The Leftist Assembly nor out of dislike of the office of Standing Justice, but out of interest in the wider interregional left and seeing the need for my attention elsewhere amongst our wider community on NationStates. Thank you all for your confidence in having me as Justice, and I hope to return to the post someday. I will, of course, be remaining active in the region as Co-Founder and the wider NS left.
Unity in Diversity!
🏅Inaugural Recipients of Orders and Hero of The Leftist Assembly🏅
After much much deliberation, we the Founders, as the grantors of these awards in the region, have unanimously awarded the following awards to the following people for their service and dedication to our Assembly:
For excellent service in the executive branch of The Leftist Assembly
For excellent service in the judicial branch of The Leftist Assembly
Castra Colonia (aka Morvan)
For excellent service in the legislative branch of The Leftist Assembly
For excellent service to the culture of The Leftist Assembly
Furthermore, the Founders have unanimously decided to propose the following people for the highest awards of the region, the Order of Cedoria and Hero of The Leftist Assembly. Conferral of these awards requires confirmation by a referendum with 2/3s majority:
For overall excellence in service to The Leftist Assembly
Atealia
Atealia is being nominated for the Order of Cedoria for his part in the founding of The Leftist Assembly, not just as a region, but as a government and a community. Atealia was amongst the original founders, being integral in the talks between The Communist Region and the Democratic Socialist Union in unifying into The Leftist Assembly. He also served as the first Secretary of the region and oversaw the turbulent first years with the founding of the region and it establishing its place within the interregional left, the emergency government that was the 2nd General Assembly and the aftermath of the Losinia Crisis, and the development of The Leftist Assembly into a region that is recognisable today. Atealia is a founder of this region in all senses of the word, and without his service, dedication, and passion for our region, it would not be what it is today.
Cedoria
(see Hero of The Leftist Assembly reasoning)
Kavagrad
Kavagrad is being nominated for the Order of Cedoria for his long-standing and, indeed, ongoing service to not just The Leftist Assembly, but the whole of the interregional left. Kavagrad is amongst the most prolific government members of our region, if not the one with the most service ever. He was and remains the founder with the second longest service record at a staggering 4 years (and change), he is tied for most terms as Secretary with Llorens at 4 terms with his first in 2018 and his most recent in 2022, he's served in most every executive position and himself created the Ministry of Community Affairs as we know it today, he was part of the first members of the legislature which at that poing were known as Senators in the General Assembly and has the longest service record in the legislature, and he's also served in the Supreme Court. But more than his startling amount of dedication to our government, he's also been instrumental to the development of our community, serving as Head Admin since the Great Departure of 2021 and overseeing the largely successful rebound from that blow to the community that not even Llorens could handle. He's continued this service as Head Admin to this day and has continued to foster a lively and inclusive community that has become a home for many an Assemblian. Kavagrad is today's most dedicated and passionate Assemblian and the Order of Cedoria is an absolutely fitting recognition.Nottinhaps
Nottinhaps is being nominated for the Order of Cedoria for the truly mind-boggling amount of thankless behind-the-scenes work they did. Nott was a cornerstone of this community for the 6 years they were a part of it and is most notable for their work as Minister of Information and for our Discord server. Nott was the first Minister of Information for this region and was integral in the establishment of essentially all of the duties of the MoI; Culture Competitions, census, electoral citizenship, etc. and made the Ministry of Information the vital part of government that it is today. Nott is also the creator of Unity Machine, our plucky Discord bot that is one of just a few NationStates Discord bots that still works to this day and can do the many functions it is capable of - Nott selflessly maintained the code and server that this bot ran on until their retirement in 2021. Nott was also a reliable and active prime minister in a period of massive growth and change in TLA, a prolific legislator including some seriously major legislation packages over their 2 years in the General Assembly, and an amazing moderator and member of this community who is still dearly missed by those who remember their presence.The final horseman
The Final Horseman is being nominated for the Order of Cedoria for their service to The Leftist Assembly and the interregional left before and after its founding. The Final Horseman is a major figure in the founding of The Leftist Assembly, being around for the splitting off of the Democratic Socialist Union from The Communist Region and was the imetus for DSU and TCR reuniting into The Leftist Assembly. He went on to serve The Leftist Assembly with the utmost loyalty and diligance, with two terms as Secretary, many terms in the General Assembly and Supreme Court, and notably serving nearly 18 months (over 12 of which were consecutive) as Minister of Recruitment and establishing the Ministry as it is today. TFH also served as Founder later in his career and was a major part of The Leftist Assembly's integration into the interregional left and our involvement with regions across NationStates. The Final Horseman was a major figure in The Leftist Assembly from before its founding to long after when he retired in 2022.
For outstanding service to The Leftist Assembly, fundamentally transformative to its existence
- Cedoria
Cedoria is being nominated as Hero of The Leftist Assembly because of how truly durable their service was to our region as well as the Democratic Socialist Union before it. The Democratic Socialist Union split off from The Communist Region when Atealia was banjected from the region as a political dissident, it became a prominent leftist region under the leadership of Cedoria and Atealia over its 2 years of existance before it and The Communist Region merged to become The Leftist Assembly. Cedoria was integral in the founding and infancy of The Leftist Assembly, serving as one of the original four founders and in the 1st General Assembly. They then went on to serve in 5 consecutive General Assemblies, including in 3rd and 4th as Secretary (before the legislature and executive branches were separated). In these first 5 General Assemblies, Cedoria was a part of the formation of the region's first government, the restructuring of the region following the failure of the June 2016 general election, and the formalisation of electoral and legislative processes.
Cedoria returned as a Justice in the 7th Supreme Court and then as Senator and then Secretary again in the 8th and 9th General Assemblies respectively. Following their third term as Secretary, Cedoria took on a role in the background as mentor and "Regional Does-It-All" in addition to their continuing diligent service as Co-Founder. They served as Supreme Court Justice in the 15th-17th Supreme Courts and then in various executive roles including as Vice Secretary in the 2nd Greylyn Cabinet in 2021. They resigned from his last position, Co-Founder, in 2022 but continues to maintain their nation in The Leftist Assembly to this day. The length and variety of their service is truly awe-inspiring and the likely several thousands of hours they put into our region made it what it is today. They are the pinacle of dedication to the values and mission of our region and are deserving of recognition and gratitude of the highest order. Llorens
Llorens is being nominated as Hero of The Leftist Assembly not just for the longevity of his service, but also for the great rippling effect he had within and beyond The Leftist Assembly. Llorens began his service as Chief Justice during the 3rd General Assembly and then Prime Minister in the 4th General Assembly. During just the 3rd, 4th, and 5th General Assemblies, Llorens authored 11 bills that were passed into law; bills that enshrined things like the prohibition of discrimination, the introduction of a formal legislative process, provisions for the filling of vacated positions in the General Assembly (at a time when members of the General Assembly also served as Ministers), establishment of trial law and the right to fair court trial, and a complete rewriting of the Constitution to make it more clear and easy to follow. Llorens was elected as Secretary in the 6th and 7th General Assemblies where he continued to shape the region in restructuring Ministries, organising the First Culture Competitions, hosting the first regional census, and the support of The Social Liberal Union's first attempt at ascent to membership in NSLeft. He continued his consistent and devoted service as legislator with few breaks until December 2019 when he was elected for his third term as Secretary. During this term, Llorens oversaw the implementation of the Revolutionary Support Exchange (RoSE) program that continues as a successful endotarting program to this day. He was re-elected for a fourth term during which the removal of the Democratic Socialist Assembly from the NSLeft and the start of the subsequent breakdown in TLA-DSA relations, and also continued his legislation writing and innovative leadership of the cabinet.
After his fourth term as Secretary, Llorens officially retired but continued to serve as Co-Founder and Head Admin of the regional Discord server (which he is also credited with founding) as well as Chief Executive Officer of NationStates Today, one of the sites' most successful news sites. He resigned as Head Admin and Co-Founder in 2021, ending his nearly unbroken streak of service to the region after 5 years, shortly thereafter ceasing to exist and leaving the Discord server in June 2022. He still maintains the record for most terms as Secretary and his impacts on the Code of Laws, governing principals, and culture of the region are still felt today. Llorens' service to the region is incomparable to any other nation in terms of variety and represents the success of the region that Llorens' co-nominee for Hero of The Leftist Assembly Cedoria wished to see when they founded it. Llorens is deserving of much more than an award from the region but due to his association with NSLeft failed to be Commended by the World Assembly in 2022. The Leftist Assembly is eternally grateful and awe-struck by Llorens' service to the region, and must never forget how much he did for us.
These are the only awards that the Founders are going to award by fiat, recognising Assemblians who have buy and large left this region but still have knock-on ripple effects on us to this day. In future, the Founders will only be giving Orders based on nominations from you, the Assemblians after reviewing it internally and with other people. We hope to see many more Orders and even a few Heroes of The Leftist Assembly given out in the coming years, there are certainly folks who deserve it and many more who will give their time, blood, sweat, and tears to our dear Assembly.
Thank you to everyone who has given to our region and made this community what it is today. Even if you haven't gotten an Order or award at all, even if it's just been saying hi on the RMB or Discord, you have woven yourself into the fabric of this region and added to this great region and each Assemblian you stand beside.
We defer to the Ministers of Community Affairs and Comria (in his capacity as manager of the 
TLA Award Office) in how to handle the conformation for the recipients of the Order of Cedoria and Hero of The Leftist Assembly.
Unity in Diversity!
I was making a joke too xd, compañerx
Nominate Ghillemear for the Order of Mediocrity
Supreme Court Appointment
As a result of Podria's resignation from the Supreme Court, I will hereby be nominating Sers Alty to serve as her replacement.
While you might recognize Sers as a younger face in Assemblian politics, my decision to choose her was an easy one. She has already shown immense care and dedication to our region, somebody I have seen weigh in with qualities deserving of a place in the Supreme Court. While there are assuredly many candidates with more than enough qualifications, I can think of no better appointment than a newer face that'll deliver a newer perspective.
According to the Vacant Position Act, a confidence vote will be held through a two-day poll open to World Assembly members. All dual citizens and military voting citizens will be able to vote on the Regional Message Board.
I highly encourage you to support the appointment of Sers Alty to the Supreme Court. They more than definitely have the necessary skills to deserve a place.
In Solidarity,
Secretary New Samon
Okay, seems like I have some commentary to do:
For clarification, does this then also include the "government portfolios" of (Backup) Founder and Ambassador? This is a rather important thing to be clear on as the law can't really make it much clearer.
Sad to see you go, sad to see government branch #2 go down in a month, but we'll get through that.
Yayyyyyy! Well deserved, all of you. Itty bitty thing in that I am not at all responsible for the Awards anymore, as it was silently passed on entirely to the MoCAs, but still, yay! We'll get on the confirmations for the O.o. Ced and Hero of TLA soon as a Cabinet, though.
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