Regional Report for September-October

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The Taijitu Regional Report



[url=http://Taijitu Regional Report for end of July-August 2007.
Delegate: Flemingovia
Member Nations: 1,320


Greetings from Taijitu; Nationstates' Greatest Founder Region - Over 1,000 nations.

INTRODUCTION

It's been quite a busy time in our region. Elections for Speaker of the Senate have completed, and we're now in the midst of Delegate election campaigns. Our courtroom is being put to good use, and debates in the Senate have been most energetic. Major overhauls have happened in the Ministry of Community and our IRC channel as well.

UPCOMING DELEGATE ELECTION

It's that time again for Delegate elections in Taijitu! Nominations have closed with a larger number of candidates to choose from than usual. Our current Delegate, Flemingovia, declined his nomination, citing real life obligations that are likely to keep him too busy to give the position the attention that it deserves.

Sovereign Dixie, our former regional Delegate, decided to step down back on September 13th, citing his reason as "for myself and the good of the region". Dixie stated his intentions to leave the political scene and just concentrate on role playing from here on out.

Current candidates for Delegate are:
Pragmia
Libertarian Monarchy of Myroria
Korinn
St Oz
Solnath
Of the US

The Government structure is as follows:
Minister of Internal Affairs - Gnoled Ttam
Deputy - Tacolicious
Minister of External Affairs – Korinn(a)
Deputy - Romanar
Minister of Regional Security - The Crazy Monkeywoman (Amy)
Deputy - none
Minister of Community - Allama & Khablan
Deputy - none
Minister of Defense - Eluvatar
Deputies - Romanar and Of Crazed
Minister of Finance – Inglo-Scotia
Deputy - Myroria
General Advisor to the Executive - The Crazy Monkeywoman(Amy)

LEGISLATIVE BRANCH ACTIVITY

A new Speaker of the Senate was elected on October Congratulations to Gnoled Ttam!

Six Senators have been removed since our last Regional Update, and four Senators added to the roster, bringing the total number of current Senators to 26 members.

New Senators: Akka Wakka, Towlie, Collatica, and Gallipoli-China

Our three major government documents are in the process of being streamlined, clarified, and modernized.

The Code of Laws was also altered to remove the bit that forces the Ministry of Finance into permanent existence. It was considered unnecessary, because all of our other Ministries have existed all along without such legislation. Basically, this simply returns the Ministry's status to that of all other Ministries - existing at the discretion of the current Delegate.

The Constitution was altered to allow any Delegate who is also a Senator to have a vote in Senate proposals. Previously, the Delegate was only allowed to vote if there was a tie. The Delegate's tie-breaker vote was deemed unnecessary, since passage of a proposal requires majority agreement anyway.

Elections for the Speaker of the Senate will now take place every three months, instead of every four, and will occur immediately before the quarterly Delegate elections.

JUDICIARY ACTIVITY

The Supreme Court is finally putting those courtroom benches to use. Currently underway is Taijitu vs. Govindia (also known as Ramaba in The West Pacific), the region's very first case to be brought before the court. Govindia was recently put under forum restriction, and the reason given was that he is believed to be a risk to regional security. Govindia is appealing that decision.

Representing Govindia: Pragmia and Of the US
Representing Taijitu: PoD Gunner

EXECUTIVE BRANCH ACTIVITY

Ministry of Defense:

Taijitu's Army conquered Warzone Africa! It was all part of a training exercise. Of Crazed, our Minister of Defense, apparently felt that too many cookies and too little exercise was making our troops a bit soft around the middle. It's important to keep our troops in shape.

Ministry of Finance:

Minister Inglo-Scotia has been hard at work designing images to represent our regional currency.

Ministry of Community:

We've been doing a major overhaul of the Community Office and Information sections of the forum. All informational threads and articles were moved into the Information section, and the Community Office is now home to all the news from inside and outside of the region. A special News Flashes thread was christened for all the regional newsy tidbits as they happen.

In addition to that, we've added some brand new articles of a helpful and informative nature:
Taijitu FAQ,
NationStates FAQ
Who Runs Taijitu - a list of all the powers that be
IRC for Beginners
Rules of the House for the Taijitu IRC Channel

Plans are currently underway for an inter-regional Chess Tourney. To be announced soon!

AROUND THE CITY

New in the Zocalo:

Allama Fanclub! It's an unofficial organization to celebrate the official hawtness of our beloved Allama, who is putting up with the rabid adoration of the hordes with her usual grace and aplomb. Allama also serves the positions of Senator, co-Minister of Community, Ambassador to Europeia, and is a member of the Hospitaller branch of the Order of Gryphons.

And speaking of the [url=http://forum.taijitu.org/applications-for-new-membership/0/

[/url]Order of Gryphons[/url], the Taijitu chapter now boasts 19 active member-knights.

Political Parties: New on the scene is the Conservative Party, headed by Inglo-Scotia, and so far as a membership of four citizens.

Other political parties include:
The Party, led by Solnath, Allama, and Of Crazed - 13 members
The Taijituan Communist Party, led by Gallipoli China - 8 members
The Progressive Party, led by Pragmia - 9 members

New Shops in the Bazaar:

There's a new game of chance! Fancy trying your luck? Check out Prosperous Pragmia's Preposterously Pleasing Pecuniary Prize Propagator

Orion is selling outdated Warmachines and Mech parts at Mech Outdate Sale in Orion

ROLE PLAY

It took a great effort on the part of our mapmaker, St Oz, but the old map has been thrown out and a completely new one created. On the previous map, many nations had either gone inactive or were no longer interested in participating in RP, and they were hogging too much space that could have been put to better use. With that many, it was decided that it was simpler and more efficient to make a new one from scratch.

Another major change in role playing occured when the moderators decided to take a back seat, adopting the rule that "if you don't like it, ignore it". NS trackers were also dropped from role playing.

OTHER AREAS

IRC:

Due to a rash of bothersome incidents in recent times, new rules and procedures were implemented. The number of channel moderators was greatly reduced as a temporary measure to help eliminate OPs-wars and abusive use of OPs. Plans are already underway to begin giving OPs to more people again, now that the situation has stabilized, but the current rules will remain in effect. See the New Rules of the House for the rules and a list of the current moderator hierarchy.

Forum Slowdowns:

The forum has been very slow to load at times recently, due to a problem on the host's end that is not under our control. Plans have been made for our forum to be moved onto a different server at the same host, which should remedy the sluggishness problems. No word on precisely when this will occur, but we are certainly all looking forward to it!

Nationstates region:Taijitu
Forum: forum.taijitu.org
IRC(Esper.net) #Taijitu

Report written by Khablan

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[Ness Snorlaxia]

Thanks for the update!