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  1. "For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."-Jonathan Swift Cursed with illegitimate rule, your mandate has fallen. Prepare for the worst to befall you.
  2. I support nonsense, particularly nonsense involving cheesy monsters. Voted 5.
  3. [center][size="6"][font="Book Antiqua"][i][b]Join Techno[/b][/i][/font][/size][/center] [center] [img]http://i842.photobucket.com/albums/zz343/eGavik/tuflagdarker-1.jpg[/img][/center] Hello hello, how are you all? Pleased to meet you all, I am AngolaThree (ingame name Isis IV), Secretary of the Bureau of Voice for the Technocratic Union. We go by TU formally, but our IRC tags and channel is #techno. You can find us at http://union-rising.net/ with our spiffy Bros-made SMF forums that we can barely run because we have no sense of technology. We're getting better though. Our Eight Principles of Union that guide our behavior: [quote]I, as a member of the Technocratic Union, will... 1. Refrain from unprovoked warfare with other nations. 2. Give generously to those nations less fortunate than myself. 3. Conduct myself in the public sphere in good faith and lead by example. 4. Not use nuclear weapons first in a conflict. 5. Treat other alliances as brothers, not foes. 6. Treat my fellow alliance states as co-equal partners in this Union. 7. Defend the honor of this Union from slander and invasion. 8. Never give up, never retreat, or back down from a fair fight.[/quote]
  4. [font="Book Antiqua"][i][center][b]The Call of the Void[/b] Before the grandest idol, the penitent man kneels His hope pouring Libations to oblivion For what sin can iron mask cure? Stoic, it sits unblinking Cycle and cycle The penitent man to dust Another man takes his place Kneeling in grand primordial ritual Stiff and unthinking The penitent men see themselves Idols in idols' reflection[/center][/i][/font] EDIT: May change what I put here, but this is my best work I think.
  5. "Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information." -Edward R. Murrow Good show, CoJ and S.
  6. Good point. Anyone who has any sort of judicial system (formal or informal, i.e a tribunal of ministers versus actual judges), I'd like your input on what those systems were like to construct and work within as well.
  7. In regards to professor approval, yes, he did approve the topic.
  8. I've already had to use usernames for citing IRC logs, which is awkward when they have unusual names like Ayatollah Bromeini. First spam is so two years ago. revisions done, democracy again edited for clarity and referencing data, paragraph added explaining player motivations and demographics (will get more into detail later).
  9. While I respect that Savage, I don't think that holds true. CN isn't that fundamentally complicated. It's a nation simulation game- anyone who's done a simulation (and my professor runs simulations all the time as part of his classes) has an understanding of it- it's just on the Internet, and has some other quibbles. This is about government, CN being secondary. CN is only explained when it must be, otherwise it's about, fundamentally, the decisioninmaking process of individuals in simulations like CN.
  10. The number of case studies probably can be cut- I'm sort of stuck between the page limits here (less than ten, more than five) and wanting to flesh it out into something larger. I agree that GPA is probably superfluous to my main point, so I'll skip over them and mention neutrality elsewhere as a parlay. Arturus, good point. Representative democracy is sort of the current norm, so it's definitely not supported by hard data to say that autocracy is magically better. I don't know what smaller alliances pan out to be- that may be a bit more digging than I want to do for a five to ten page paper with the expectations involved here. Vladimir, you're right, it's not nearly in depth enough, but it is a very rough draft and missing the depth of interviews and other sources. I wanted something out there so people could see my main points and critique them, so I wasn't being disengenous or making factual CN errors (I am far from a CN historian after all).
  11. [quote name='Kalasin' timestamp='1303087432' post='2692142'] I suggest interviewing the ODN. They are one of CN's few democracies, but have appointed ministers unlike us in GATO. I personally think their system is better, heh. (having been in the ODN for over a year before I joined GATO.) MCXA is not a good example of a functioning democracy, or at least it wasn't in my time as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Even today it's not considered a good alliance. I would suggest AngolaThree tracks down the Zhadum logs of 2009, which reveal NPO's inner workings better than anything you'd get from an IO today. Zhadum was an IO who fell out with NPO's leadership and was removed from his IO position, before he left the alliance and provided a wealth of information on NPO's inner workings on a variety of channels in IRC (primarily in #mushroom if memory serves correctly.) [this doesn't put him in a good light, but if I said anything beyond that I wouldn't be being objective. For the record, while I didn't have complete knowledge of what happened between Zha and NPO, I actually believe Zha's account of things and wasn't entirely happy with the way NPO treated him. People think he was a dick but I actually liked Zha D:] [/quote] Good point about MCXA- I just picked them off the top of my head because I was a vet and they seemed familiar. In retrospect that's bad acadaemia to do that, so I'll look for another council-style system. Tracked down the Zhadum logs, remember them from long ago but had recently forgotten. Good stuff! Thanks.
  12. Yeah, I think the next draft will have a split between 1) defining my terms better and 2) getting rid of terms that aren't needed. I wrote this late last night and it was easiest to just write it as clearly as possible to myself, rather than to an audience. I think the second paragraph has a more balanced flavor now- getting a GATO interview will also help even out bias. I'm not trying to be pro-autocrat (though given that hegemons haven't been democratic in a loooong time, it's hard to avoid the view), but I do need an argument of some sort.
  13. [quote name='Delta1212' timestamp='1303075405' post='2692073'] Do you just want feedback on the content or will you accept help with cleaning up some of the writing? Also, just so far in terms of what I've read, I'd challenge the common wisdom that democracies don't work in CN. That's a holdover from the WUT period where the vast majority of democratic alliances legitimately sucked and had little if any organization in comparison to the more autocratic alliances. These days, most successful alliances have some level of organizational bureaucracy regardless of government type, and even the middling alliances are far more effective than even many of the foremost alliances from the period where this idea was birthed. [/quote] Content feedback is mostly appreciated, as it's a rough draft most of the writing hasn't even been looked at seriously and will end up changed. I don't think I hammer the point too heavily. I should probably avoid the blanket statement though. I point out that the oldest alliance, GATO, is very democratic, and that radically democratic alliances like LSF are also fairly successful. But I point out that you need a membership that cares about it- if you just get a bunch of random newbs and say "ok we're a democracy" it's going to suck. EDIT: In the second section I've softened up the terms about democracy, saying that it can very well work, just that it often isn't well thought out.
  14. Alright, a rough first draft is done. Here it is: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R3Ol9nC51hn6yRVwNxdoIsM5YBE0cEJwiVVg1vwDrXw/edit?hl=en The interviews aren't complete yet, so some case studies are only introductions currently. Feel free to tee off on any of my cruddy research and otherwise terrible writing, but don't dump on me because I make your alliance look bad.
  15. First round of interviews are done (with NPO and LSF members), still need GPA, GATO, MCXA, and a Vox alumni. Currently it's about 1,500 words with ten citations, I'm looking to double that.
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