News Flashes!!! All news, all the time.

[Khablan]

Election Time:

Delegate nominations are now under way.  If you haven't registered to vote, be sure to do so now!

Citizens only need to register once, and for all future elections, they still remain registered.  Senators are automatically registered to vote.  Make your voice heard!

In the Senate:

Collatica has joined the Senate!

[Khablan]

In the Senate:

Towlie has joined the Senate!

Internal Procedures has been streamlined and cleaned up a bit.  Procedures for legislation, procedures for election of delegate and speaker, and Senate scrunity have been reworded and clarified.

[Khem]

RP NEWS:
Neil has started rebooting his nation after getting tired of playing as a corupt nation.

[Prydania]

₮10 BILL RELEASED

[Prydania]

₮25 BILL RELEASED

[Prydania]

NEW PARTY ON THE SCENE!
There's a new political party on the Scene in Taijitu, the Conservative Party!
The CPT steers clear of the far right religious groups who have hijacked the label "Conservative."
Rather the CPT has a classical conservative, almost libertarian-like, approach.
If you think you might be interested, you can join the party here:
http://forum.taijitu.org/the-zocalo/conservative-party-of-taijitu-a-place-for-taijitu's-tories/msg93727/#new

[Khablan]

Election News:

Delegate nominations are now closed and campaigning has begun!  Be sure to watch those threads!  All citizens are welcome to ask questions of the candidates.  We have quite a selection this time around, including some who are running on multiple tickets.

List of candidates and their running mates:
Pragmia with Korinn
Libertarian Monarchy of Myroria with Inglo-Scotia
Korinn with The G Rebellion
St Oz with Pragmia
Solnath with Of Crazed
Of the US with Of Crazed

The following were nominated but declined:
Flemingovia
Allama

Supreme Court

The trial for Taijitu vs. Govindia is under way.  Pragmia and Of the US are serving as Govindia's defense lawyers, and PoD Gunner represents Taijitu.  Khablan has been confirmed as a Justice of the Supreme Court, but will not be participating in this trial - an odd number of Justices is required to rule on court cases, and the trial began before the new Justice was confirmed anyway.

In the Senate:

We have a new Senator - Akka Wakka!  Pink waffles have been added to the Senate menu. 

[Khablan]

Delegate Takeover in The North Pacific!

Roughly fifteen hours ago, The Grand Imperial Mattyness of Emperor Matthuis overthrew Great Bights Mum as delegate of TNP.  Suspicion immediately arose over whether outside help was obtained in order to achieve this goal.  Matthuis denies that any outside help was enlisted for the Revolution.

[Tacolicious]

So are we calling him the rightful delegate or is it a 'regime' then?

[Durnia]

All this fuss over little, old Matty.

So are we calling him the rightful delegate or is it a 'regime' then?

There is no "rightful" Delegate in NationStates, only the one currently in power.

Edit: Apologies if I shouldn't have posted in this thread.

[Prydania]

₮50 BILL RELEASED
Despite some within the region calling the current Tai Identity Program useless, the show must go on....

[Prydania]

₮100 BILL RELEASED, TAI IDENTITY PROGRAM COMPLETE

[Khablan]

Halloween!

"Double, double toil and trouble / Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."
— William Shakespeare, Macbeth

It's time to break out the costume avatars, peeps!  Dress up for Halloween with something beastly!  At the end of October, we'll post a contest thread, where everyone can vote for their favorite Halloween avatar!

[Khablan]

TRR Takeover!

In a sudden turnaround yesterday, Emperor Matthuis ejected his endo supporters from TNP and followed them into The Rejected Realms, affecting a takeover of that delegacy!  Read more about it here!

With Matthuis' departure from The North Pacific, Great Bights Mum settled back into her former delegate seat there.

[Khablan]

New in the City

Two new shops in the Bazaar!  Bara's Encryption Service - give Bara one tai and he'll encrypt something for you.  Bara's Gas and Go apparently sells a lot more than just gas!

The Conservative Party already has five members, not quite enough for a child board of their own, but they're still growing.

In the Acropolis, there's a new religious facility, Gods of Geekdom catering to gamers everywhere.

Medeist Academy:  The newest lecture is World of Video Games - everything you ever wanted to know about the history of their development.