A Letter from the Capitalis de Societate of The United Defenders League,Poor Wednesdays, they always get a bum reputation.
* Bazalonia hugs Solm and Earth
* Bazalonia doesn't stab either
* Solm huggles
<Bazalonia> Today is No stabbing Wednesday 
<Solm> @Baz: Good 
<Bazalonia> No, it's not good
<ABK> D:
<Bazalonia> It's bad, it's very bad
<Zark> it's lazy Wednesday, I doubt anyone's gonna raid something
<Tim-Opolis> It's lazy "every single f***ing update" these days 
As Lieutenant Tim joked, there’s no need to just pick on Wednesday — all around it has been a rather quiet week in NationStates. The United Defenders League has seen some military action however, liberating Rome and Pirates, as well as Allied Military States, Libertarian Socialist Federation, ROBLOX, The Marxist Leninist Region and Free Palestine. A few defences here and there, but the “professional” invader scene has been fairly inactive because most of their resources are being centralized to hold The Middle East while that region is unfortunately on the brink of total destruction. A big shout out goes to British Isles, who has been working patiently with us a lot through the past few weeks, especially to identify invasions being conducted by “unprofessional” invaders (i.e., newbies). I think these quiet periods are some of the most dangerous periods of time for interregional defender organization relations, so we’d like to just put out a general blanket thank you to our fellow defenders for sticking through this stint of inactivity of the field calmly and maturely — it can all go very bad when we get restless and competitive over the share of military operations and activity.
The “Pirates” Liberation was pretty interesting though. We conducted it against The Brotherhood of Malice — while we had several insider puppets to endorse one another inside the region and then topped it off with a team of defenders moving in later in the day. Congratulations to New Andureo who took the delegacy as our “lead”. The military ribbons for Rome and Pirates are depicted below:
Ultimately, we do this for the natives and I think Lieutenant Ravania put it best when he said recently that “NationStates has never been so safe”. Indeed, safe as ever. Job well done, I’d say. Also, just to follow up on last update: we passed on the founder account of Ether to the most senior resident of Ether (Patrol I). Seems that he has restored the region, which is nice to see.
In completely random news, Kyzikos is celebrating its first anniversary. This fine region was founded by former Lieutenant Ballotonia — a product of thousands of regions being made in search of a new flagship for the defender enterprise. Kyzikos is the main headquarters for The United Defenders League… the gem of defenderdom … the… fine, the region whose name nobody (me) can spell without either calling it “Kyz” or,
<Unibot> kykizos
<Unibot> Kzykos
<Uni> Kzykikos
<Uni|Uni> Kykzikos
<Unibot> Kyzioks
Just give —up—, you bloody fool.
<+Hy> its 2am so im far too horny for a children's film
Erm, thanks for that, Judge Advocate Hyanygo. Yes, The United Defenders League did have its usual Movie Night during last week and we happily watched “Hook”. Apparently when you’re older you have a different perspective on parts of “Hook”, so it was a lot of fun. Communist Quinntopia and Pharaoh Mad Jack, also graced us with their presence for Movie Night. In other administrative news, we happily promoted Johz to the position of Lieutenant a week or so ago. Lieutenant Johz has served with us loyally, almost since the beginning — he joined a week after we publically revealed ourselves. Since then, he has often been the Robin to Lieutenant Ravania’s Batman … the dynamic duo of detaggers. This promotion was long overdue and I was happy to see the Lieutenants approve the promotion in an enthusiastic consensus.
Furthermore, we have a new policy, “
Regarding the Fight against Hate and Nazism in NationStates”. This policy was approved by our lieutenants; it received a fairly passionate defense as momentum rose in a recent Chiefs of Staff meeting. The basis of the policy is that we will be continuing our old “Nazi Policy” and we are reaffirming our stance against hate, the oppression and discrimination of minorities and social intolerance. However, we have come to believe that the values of Defenderdom stress upon us that the invasion of white supremacist and fascist regions is not behavior becoming of defenders (regardless of whether they do it “off-duty”). First, our oath requests us to be incorruptible in the face of intense adversaries — it’s not much of a standard to be incorruptible if we’re doing the same thing against NAZI EUROPE and The Greater German Reich as they do against others (which we deplore), just on the basis of them being especially offensive. Moreover, our leadership has serious doubts whether armed conflict against Nazis has actually done very much good at all — when you make Nazis, the ultimate villain (really the only consistent villain for many political regions) … you in fact make it “cool” for some players to play the role of “Nazi” in NationStates. We believe that rational and mature dialogue is the best way (although often ineffective) to counter Nazism in NationStates. Just to clarify: The United Defenders League has never sanctioned or organized an invasion against a Nazi region. Our new policy means that our members have an obligation to not participate in these operations altogether.
*takes a deep breath* Okay, enough of that serious bureaucratic stuff. We’re welcoming a lot of great new members to the Greenwood Band this week, including: Common Territories, Matariyya, Birolika, The Holy Therns, Kranstentistan, Kavamkao, Coherent Imbeciles, Promethum and of course, Monico! We’re also happy to welcome Merryman Lowell Leber back to The United Defenders League.
In other news, The Naivetry Reference Library has been expanding — it now has an
Index and a
new program where if you submit an essay on NationStates to us, we may award you the title of Doctor-of-Letters (D.Litt). Some new entries to
The Naivetry Reference Library include a transcript of the Neutral Territory Conference (Jan 2008), a collection of The Meritocracy Times, a couple Meritocratic essays, a Francoist Case Study of The West Pacific Dominion and my new essay, “
Paradise Found”. Make sure you go check out that last one, heh. I also adapted some parts of “Paradise Found” to make a recent address to the Greenwood Band called “
Common Sense Ethics”. You may also enjoy reading that, it discusses the end of Chief Lieutenant Milograd’s term and the incident that provoked it in The South Pacific
On a final note, congratulations to Lieutenant Sovreignry, who won the Best Newcomer Award at the 2012 Defenders Award, as well as Lieutenant Eluvatar, who won the Dipes Award for the second year in a row. The Sherwood Post has a full (and satirical) article covering the 2012 Defenders Award. Besides that, erm, cue the Moment of Zen?
*BAM!* <@Johz> Karp, I am going to bed, and there is nothing you can do to stop me.
* +Karp pees on Johz's bed
