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Good luck UPN o/ and o7 UPN Fenrir of Highwind Former Member of UPN Head of Public Safety & Maintenance of Shinra Electric Power Company (NO! Not the one that we destroyed the first time. This is a new one. We are dedicated to trading tech and merely trade. I will insure that we will not have such a reoccurred of history. We seek trade, not war.)

Of course. Members who are officially friends to the UPN have private rooms... cause we <3 you so much ^^. We want to keep a little more open in our Foreign Policy because many problems are triggered by mistrust. We don't wish to have such misunderstandings. Since friends want to have more of a private domain, we will be happy to oblige if necessary. We will do that as well. People can speak to the UPN Ministers and officials whenever they need to. We are willing to work with anyone and everyone. The Open-Door Policy is merely to try and resolve misunderstandings and suspicion without resorting to more aggressive means and elevating any possible concerns with knowledge. “Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society” - Thomas Paine Sometimes issues require more then one Minister to get involve and it could be over a very complicated matter that may require many days of talking and work to resolve. IRC can be used for some matters but not all since some people have odd schedules to adhere by and maybe unable to meet at certain times. PMs can only be done effectively with one minister making it less then effective with an issue that requires the entire Ministry.

United Purple Nations Announcement: Open-Door Policy “We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.” The old policy of the UPN was to keep the knowledge of who we speak with secret and let everyone guess to what we are doing. However, after much counsel it has been decided amongst the Administration of the UPN to allow for an Open-Door Policy when it comes to our foreign affairs. This means that instead of just seeing your embassy in our Embassy section of the UPN Forums one will be able to see all alliances in their Team Color section. We believe that this policy will assist in making a more efficient and more open policy that will help anyone who is a friend or wanting to become a friend to the United Purple Nations. Alliances who wish to possess a private forum where discussions maybe done on matters that are a little to sensitive or merely just want a place to talk a little less formally, may merely said a message to the Ministry of the UPN and request for that private board. Thank you for reading. -Fenrir of Highwind, Minister of UPN Foreign Affairs

I apologize on behalf of the UPN Foreign Ministry. Unfortunately the Diplomat to the Nemesis Embassy has failed to remain attentive. I shall redirect the Diplomats but as a means to continue our good relations, I shall register and keep with trying to help UPN-Nemesis Relations. -UPN Foreign Affairs Minister, Fenrir

Message From the Government of the United Purple Nations The Elections for the UPN Cabinet is over with the new Cabinet chosen: Founder: Altheus Chancellor: Hansarius Minister of Foreign Affairs: Fenrir Minister of Internal Affairs: Becks For Dinner Minister of Defense: Warlord Nazrag Minister of Finances: Kae Lee Minister of Communications: Tobias Von Ehrenfeld Minister of Recruitment: Juan M May these new Ministers honor the codes they have been elected to protect, protect those who are friend and ally, serve the people and the world toward the goal of peace and prosperity, uphold the duties they have been given, and may choose to do what is right as oppose to what is easy. “A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” Good luck to the new Minister Cabinet of the UPN and the journey of all nations, UPN and Non-UPN alike.

I am a member of an alliance that is affiliated with the NPO. Reading this topic, I personally can't help but think this. Even if the Karma Allied Alliances come together and defeat the NPO, will they not just take over in order to 'direct' the new way of things. With NPO defeated and a mere shell of former role, will anarchy be the way of rule then? Or will members of the Karma alliances come over to keep the power within themselves? I have read many documents of past events, past wars, pass alterations of power. From the time of the Roman Republic to her Empire and absolve, to Chinese history of the three kingdoms, to Japan, the wars of the West and East, as well as power struggles within today's standard... Form all of that, I can say, no. Eventually, with all good intent, Karma will be the forerunner of a new dynasty of leaders who will command over the Cybernations. It happens even today. I can cite Romans, England, China, Japan, Russia, USA... All people will eventually resort back to the rule of a single group or person, despite what is done to go against it. The Romans had a de'facto group before the fall of the Republic known as the Second Triumvirate. They were the true leaders of Rome and the ones who were most recognized. With their rule, Rome was prospering, until one became suspicious of the others. Another became to weak so the other two took over. The two were normally compromised with the third so arguments and aggression mounted until finally one, with the support of the vast majority and the other with law came to blows. The one was defeated leaving only a single man to help guide the way after all had been said and done after a Civil War... But if you become a leader by violent means, by war, your end will be the same unless you can keep people from killing you, because the moment you absolve your power, the remnants of the old, of the ones who disagree, and the ones who want power will destroy you. So, he ruled to keep order and peace... this evolved into an empire, after having fraught to retain a Republic from anarchy. Communism has be used before in the past where a group of people will rise up against those who were rulers. They killed, murdered, destroyed, and burned their own people because of anger and jealousy of what those people had and they had not. When the old order was destroyed, who lead? The people for a time... but even then, some people wanted more, to have something more then their brother. So, they worked hard, became a figure to rally behind. When you have something, you will fight to retain it. If you have a house, you wouldn't want someone to come and take it from you, but you would fight... If you had money, you wouldn't want some one to take it either. IF I had an A in a school class, and I achieved it by working hard, and long with honesty and integrity, I wouldn't want to give half of it to the F student who slept in class, who destroyed equipment and mouthed off to the teacher. Why should I give half my grade to raise his F to a C and lower mine to a C? No, I would fight to retain that power, as would a person who achieved power, or a group of people who had just taken out a former power. They don't want to give that up because if you do, then that would change nothing... So you must take the power equal to that of whom you just defeated in order to change... A paradoxal line of thought, wouldn't you say? In order to protect you from them, I have to become them; In order to become them, I need to act as them. USA 'tried' to be bilateral, to remove those lines that divided Rep from Demo... But that leads to argument and no work can be done. Thus, since one side had more power, then they could just say silence and it would be so. If you have the power to silence someone, then what more do you need? Nothing, whatever said is what ever goes. As long as there is disagreement, a thirst for power, or a 'need' to retain the power for 'protection', these cycles will happen again and again. After oppression/long rule by one group, the other fights back and overthrows it, same will happen because they both think they are doing what is right. Both are blinded by the idea that they need to do this in order to be free... but inevitably they will fall into the same cycle. Cybernations is no different. Wither it be a month or three years, the face remains that eventually some alliance of people will take power in order to retain it... then they will keep it in order to remain protected, then a group of people will call out against it and be fought by those in power, and a new war will begin. True, group-thought will only help aid this, creating divisions of those who think they are right and the other side is wrong. I am not an Imperialist, nor am I some person that is following my Alliance blindly into battle. My wish is to protect my brothers in the UPN, who are involved in the war. We honor our promise to the NPO because otherwise, who are we? Are we to just turn our backs on our friends, whom we enjoyed great peace with and who have helped us? Are we to abandon them at their time of need? They are our friends, and we protect our friends because they had helped us. True, they are militant, imperialist, and have done many thing disagreeable, but so has every alliance, and every nation. Neutrals, peace, war, and aggressors, they have all watched or stand by as some take the easy path. Many would say that Karma will be deference, that it offers a better tomorrow, but I have seen the way Karma fights... Same as the NPO would... Aggressive, same as the NPO... Militant, same as the NPO. Karma offers surrender, but is that not a call for people to submit to the Karma rule? Imperialistic. Worded differently, but the fact is same. If NPO remains, nothing will change. If Karma wins, then a new age will come, but under the command of powerful Karma Alliances... Power will remain powerful, and nothing will change.