The Western IslesBoard

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Dormant RPs: The Nisri-Esterazian Crisis (OOC, IC), Terror Over Gael (OOC, IC), Encroachment (OOC), Gael Four Commission (IC), The Western Isles Popular Culture (IC), Special Sessions - TWICRC (IC), Coalition of Six (IC, OOC), The Citizen’s Republic of Illa (IC, OOC), A Nation Divided (IC, OOC), Athara Magarat and Vancouvia (IC, OOC) and Khas-Kirati Conquests (IC, OOC), A Gaze to the Future[(OOC, IC), Battle of Thar City (OOC).

Dead RPs: Ioodiisitie Anti-Authoritarian Summit (IC), Meeting at the Eye on the Globe (IC), Aeternus Climate Summit (Summary, IC)Jerigan Constitutional Crisis (OOC, IC), In The Dark (OOC), Wellsian Royal Wedding (OOC), ACESTI (OOC), Troubled Waters (OOC), (IC), MSDL Meetings Thread (IC), Serendipity (IC), Road of Sorrows (OOC), The Batrieng Affair (OOC), Western Isles Democratic Alliance (IC, A Raelosi Meeting (IC), Dance of Sovereigns (OOC, IC), TWI Ice Hockey Elite League (OOC), MSTO OOC (OOC), Real Housewives of Gael (OOC), History of Mokov (IC), Nightmare Over Mokov (IC, OOC), Panphobia (OOC), The Fall (OOC, IC), The Magarati Succession Crisis (OOC, IC[/td][/tr]), Shining of The Moon (OOC, IC), Open Minds (OOC, IC), ACESTI (IC, OOC), Cooperative Union (IC, OOC), CU Court of Justice (CUCJ) (IC, Rabbithole (IC, OOC), The Threat (IC, OOC), Back In Lam (IC), The Occupation of Arvan (IC, OOC), The San Javier Conflict (IC, OOC), Prospero (IC, OOC), The Castle Murder (IC, OOC), The PGIA Hostage Situation (IC, OOC), Transhuman Empire (IC, OOC, The Wellspring Event (IC, OOC), Missing Flight Summit (IC, OOC), JEF (OOC), Trigel Civil War (OOC), Senterum - A Life in Myanglung (IC, OOC), March Mania (OOC), Extreme Brawler's Showdown (EBS) (OOC), Coalition of the Free Nations (IC) and RTEA (OOC).

Southern Sea Treaty Organisation (SSTO) (Active) - Dispatch

• Core Concerns: Defence cooperation, economic cooperation, free trade, free navigation, subregional stability.

• Members: Mairland, Verska, -Platina.
  

Organisation for Isles Nuclear Regulation and Organisation (INRO) (Active) - Dispatch

• Core Concerns: Regulation, conflict de-escalation, safety and security, energy generation.

• Members: Solaryia, Aeteros, Arvento, Balnik, Costavozka, Dormill and Stiura, Great Altera, Keomora, Kravato, Nhoor, Remodio, San Jimenez, Solaryia.
  

Southern Sea Alliance (SSA) (Active) - Dispatch

• Core Concerns: Diplomacy, economic integration and cultural exchange.

• Members: Uprea, Aeteros
  

The Association of Eternan States (TAES) (Active) - Dispatch

• Core Concerns: Economic integration, policy harmonisation, disaster relief, energy policy discussion

• Members: San Jimenez, Renet, Townside.
  

Catholic Conference of Isles Bishops (CCIB) (Active) - Dispatch

• Core Concerns: Evangelism, policy advice and advocacy & theological discussion

• Members: San Jimenez, Solaryia, Townside.
  

Eastern Tripartite (Active) - Dispatch

• Core Concerns: Diplomatic and military integration, ideological discussion

• Members: Lesva, Balnik
  

Gael Four Agreement (G4) (Active) - Dispatch

• Core Concerns: Mutual assistance, policy convergence, crisis management

• Members: Ainslie,Dormill and Stiura, Biaten, Roendavar, San Jimenez, Great Altera, Thromsa, Warfburg.
  

Organisation for Regional Cooperation in Argus (ORCA) (Active) - Dispatch, OOC Thread

• Core Concerns: Mutual assistance, policy convergence, crisis management

• Members: The Tsunterlands, Keverai, The United Partitions, Wellsia, Martenyika, Baumes, Vacrus, Costavozka, Kravato, (Observers: Nhoor, Uprea)
  

Western Isles Trade Organisation (WITO) (Active) - Dispatch

• Core Concerns: International regulation, economic and technical cooperation, trade promotion

• Members: Dormill and Stiura, Ainslie, Great Altera, Baumes, Belantica, Costavozka, Dormill and Stiura, Havalland, Keverai, Najimam, Nhoor, Reann, The United Partitions, Townside, Wellsia
  

Eterna-Argean Friendship Accords (Active) - Dispatch

• Core Concerns: Mutual assistance, subregional infrastructure maintenance, humanitarian aid

• Members: Vancouvia, Ainslie, Balnik, Renet
  

The Western Isles Climate Response Council (Active) - Dispatch, Treaty

• Core Concerns: Renewable energies, economic restructuring, climate justice, governmental accountability

• Members: Ainslie, Dormill and Stiura, Solaryia, Nhoor, Thromsa, Roendavar, The United Partitions, Uprea, Townside, Costavozka, Great Altera, Aeteros.
  

Western Isles Democratic Alliance (Active) - Dispatch

• Core Concerns: Economic, social and political collaboration; mutual defence

• Members: Ioudaia, Martenyika, Domanania
  

Raedlon Organization of States (ROS) (Active) - Dispatch

• Core Concerns: Economic and political integration

• Members: Solaryia, Nhoor, Belantica
  

Greater Raedlon

• Domanania, Ioudaia, Nhoor, Solaryia, Esterazdravo, Belantica, Kaskalma, Skilles, Takiv, North Oscotia, Verdelin
  

Central & South Mesder

• Kravato, Saint Ardor del Alba, Havalland, Jamgen, Amestrris
  

Eterna-Argean

• Vancouvia, Townside, Najimam, Wangano, Renet, Tricklandia, Keomora
  

North & Central Argus

• San Montagna, The United Partitions, Costavozka, Baumes, The Tsunterlands
  

South Argus

• Wellsia, Martenyika, Vacrus
  

Gael

• Ainslie, Balnik, Dormill and Stiura, Lesva, Warfburg, Great Altera, Biaten, Thromsa, Reann, Roendavar, Yektov, Oflia
  

Southern Sea

• Verska, Mairland, Rezreks, Eldorun, -Platina, Razzgriz

The Western Isles is very roughly 7000 miles long and 4000 miles wide (10 km by 10 km per pixel). We exist in a northern hemisphere, with the nations at the north typically experiencing colder climates and the nations at the south typically experiencing equatorial climates. If it helps, you can picture our map as being the area between Japan, the western American coast, the Aleutian islands, and Hawaii, although we do not actually exist in that realm. Nations are given free reign to decide their inner geography, so long as it does not bend too deep into unrealistic territory. Similarly, nations may decide their own resources or lack thereof, so long as it is kept reasonable and realistic. We are modern time, specifically current time, meaning that the real-life calendar day is the same as our role-play day.

The central island is named Argus; the large island to the northeast of Argus is called Gael. The island to the west of Argus is called Raedlon.

In order to apply to get responsibility to out of character manage a bold territory not listed below, you should create a factbook and then post a link to it in this thread and talk about your intentions for the territory. If approved, you may then be considered as overseeing the territory.

Which ones exist, and what are they like?

• Iersheno (Dispatch) | IC Disputed | OOC Managed by Kravato
  

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  • Qualities: Militarised | Disputed | Tourist Mecca

  • Backstory: An area first settled by Vacrusians, it has become a contested territory both politically and ethnically. Conflict is a well established part of its history, though only recently a longstanding peace has been broken by increased hostility by both Vacrus and Kravato. Placed on an important trade route and strategically important location on the western side of South Argus, the island is a flashpoint that is only just starting to awaken yet again.

  • Ideal for: Conflict RP, Diplomatic RP

  • Important links: In The News

• Romancia (Read Dispatch) | IC governed by independent government | OOC Managed by Baumes
  

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  • Disputed | War-torn | Militarised

  • Backstory: Since their arrival to Baumes, the Romancians have constantly been bullied and harassed by the Baumish. Eventually, they founded the Kingdom of Romancia, but it won't be long until they were colonized by the Doraltics, and later the Baumish. But they've had enough. And after a long and bloody civil war, Romancia has finally succeeded in independence. Now war-torn and destroyed, Romancia must now rebuild itself and forge a new future.

  • Ideal for: Conflict RP, Diplomatic RP, Cultural RP

  • Important links: Baumish-Romancian Conflict OOC, In The News

• Charbagnia (Read Dispatch) | IC Governed by an independent democratic government | OOC Managed by Dormill and Stiura
  

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  • Qualities: Tax Haven | Tourist Mecca | Diplomatically Isolated | Multiethnic

  • Backstory: Caught between the imperial ambitions of nations both foreign and native to the Western Isles, Charbagnia is in some ways a multiethnic paradise and a tribute to tolerance and equality. However, decades of political mismanagement and international strife has constantly reopened the wounds of ethnic and sectarian conflict, preventing Charbagnia from fully healing and becoming a beacon for liberty and human rights in the Southern Sea. Now faced with a growing threat of terrorism armed with the weapons of a very recent war, a powder keg has been set under the Charbagnian nation, and it is up to the nations of the Southern Sea and beyond to band together and relieve the pressure, or else condemn them all to a new age of strife and death.

  • Ideal for: Political/Intrigue RP, Cultural RP, and News interactions

  • Important links: None applicable.

• Faronna Islands (Dispatch not available) | IC occupied territory of Balnik | OOC Managed by Balnik
  

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  • Qualities: Remote | Developing | Fascist | Sparsely inhabited

  • Backstory: The Faronna Islands were two Islands that were shared between Balnik and Roendavar under the 1983 Faronna Islands agreement that set the islands to be used as a nature reserve. The treaty expired and was not renewed. In 2019 surveys reported that the islands had an abundance of fossil fuels and was rich in resources. In 2020, faced with an imminent energy crisis, Balnik annexed the islands and began exploiting the islands and its resources

  • Ideal for: Diplomatic RP

  • Important links: ICJ Determination, In The News

• Keverai (Read Dispatch) | IC Governed by an independent democratic government | OOC Managed by Ainslie
  

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  • Qualities: Unequal | Unsettled | Capitalised Paradise | Crime Den

  • Backstory: Ever since its colonisation, Keverai has been an outward looking place - seeking to absorb the prosperity and the vibrancy that comes with a multicultural experience. This has exposed it to external problems such as war, social and income inequality, and large organised crime operations within the nation. Many of these conditions were made possible through the deregulation of the economy and the flow through effects it would have. Keverai’s first truly democratic government has had a lacklustre response to these which have very much fallen short of expectations. Now, the nation is completely exposed to the risk of disaster or further instability exacerbating the existing inequality and unrest.

  • Ideal for: Economic, Cultural and Diplomatic roleplays

  • Important links: Collaboration Thread, In The News, Recent History, Foreign Influences.

• Norregan (Read Dispatch) | IC Governed by an independent democratic government | OOC Managed by Roendavar
  

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  • Qualities: Isolationist | Absolutist | Traditionalist | Conservative

  • Backstory: The Norregan people came to the Wake Islands and settled around the Stakerenea Islands as early as 1000 BCE. There have been several theories of how they got there, the most plausible one being that the Norregan people are a sea-faring people from Argus. The Norregan eventually settled into small tribal communities, relying on fishing for much of their food. Around the 1600s, trade finally came to the islands from nearby Raedlon. As the world descended into wars for control, the people of Norregan began to become wary of their survival, especially as they saw the Sud and Atolla fall to foreign influence. In 1729, a tribal chieftain known as Ilinakara’Toatou Falakira, also known to the Norregan people as the Uniter (Karana), united the Stakerenea Islands, through the Gray War. The Ilinakara family would soon rule Norregan from then on as absolute monarchs, pursuing a traditional and isolationist policy and remaining guarded against the outside world. However, after the storm of 2021 that left the Wake Islands devastated, current Queen Ilinakara'Falini Okilanoa, has decided to loosen the nation's economic policies and has allowed increased foreign investment, albeit, under her severe absolute watch.

  • Ideal for: Economic, Cultural, and Diplomatic Roleplays and News interactions

  • Important links: The Rains RP, In The News

• Sud (Read Dispatch) | IC Governed by an independent democratic government | OOC Managed by Solaryia
  

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  • Qualities: Backwater | Developing | Enterprising | Unequal

  • Backstory: A confident democracy with a charismatic but politically-minded leader, Sud has long considered itself as the success story of the three Wake Island chains. Whilst it suffered to an extent from a stormfront which battered Atolla and Norregan, the disaster exposed the existing inequalities in Sudite society. Sud is the most open of the three nations, relying on international backing to maintain its confidence as an important middlepower within the Raedlon subregion. However, the reality for the Sudites is that the social issues which haunt them remain very prevalent and the same politcking that occurs in Norregan and Atolla is just as rife here.

  • Ideal for: Political/Intrigue RP, Economic RP and News interactions

  • Important links: The Rains RP, In The News

• Atolla (Read Dispatch) | IC Governed by an independent democratic government | OOC Managed by Alteran Republics
  

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  • Qualities: Liberal Conservative | Meritocratic | Democratic | Fledgling Capitalist | Altera Dependent

  • Backstory: Since first being 'discovered' by the fledgling Alteran Republics in the 1460's, the island nation would soon become a keystone in the formation of the Alteran Commonwealth several centuries later. Battered by regular storms and harsh weather, the island inhabitants of Atolla grew to become a hardy and resilient people. Combined with imported traits and a thirst for mercantilism, the Atollan people would become an island of shopkeepers, establishing strong trade links with its neighbours in Raedlon. For whatever reason, whether thanks to subtle social or economic changes, Atolla never truly blossomed as an island nation and would remain strongly dependent on its Alteran colonial masters. However, thanks to continued investment and a brief flirt with independence; Atolla formally gained independence in 2016 after a slim referendum victory. Despite this, the nation stands at a crossroads - do they use their new independence to cut off colonial ties and seek their own glory - or acknowledge their allies and seek the safety and comfort of a like-minded friend?

  • Ideal for: Economic, Cultural and Diplomatic roleplays

  • Important links: The Rains RP, In The News

• Sunset Isle (Read Dispatch) | IC by uncontacted, hostile tribes | OOC Managed by Martenyika
  

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  • Qualities: Wild | Tribal | Biodiverse | Resource-rich

  • Backstory: Originally a disputed territory, the Sunset Isle never attracted much attention due to its apparent lack of relevant natural resources and to the extreme hostility of its native tribe, the Akari. The situation quickly changed when a team of illegal researchers discovered massive deposits of highly valuable resources on the island in 2021. This led to a military standout between Laeden and Martenyika that nearly evolved into a full scale armed conflict. Thankfully, both nations agreed to discuss the matter in an arbitration court, who ruled that the Akari and their traditional island should be respected and that foreigners should not approach or land there under any circumstance.

  • Important links: The Red Sunset Crisis RP, Red Oak Court RP, In The News

• Sawneeak Atoll (Read Dispatch) | IC disputed | OOC Managed by Najimam
  

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  • Qualities: Archipelago | Contested | Tranquil

  • Backstory: Ever since the late 14th century, the archipelago has been the site of several territorial claims and disputed. Initially a territory of the Kingdom of Tesselia in Ainslie, it was later sold to Uprea and over time, became colonised be several other states which often come and go. Today, Sawneeak Atoll is still largely disputed and borders are often still unofficial. However, it is clear that the area will continue to grow and the future of the archipelago is in the hands of the ruling governments.

  • Important links: In The News