Post by Klopstock on Jan 14, 2008 14:07:24 GMT -5
FRA Update
Dated: 12 January 08
Arch Chancellor: Sedge
Forum
Happy New Year to all! Hope you had a good holiday period! Here are the latest goings on in the Founderless Regions Alliance
New FRA Cabinet
Following January’s cabinet elections we now have a new FRA cabinet!
Arch Chancellor: Sedge
Regional Development Minister: Hammer
Regional Recruitment Officer: Hammer
Communications Minister: Numero Capitan
Intelligence Minister: Falconias
Foreign Affairs Minister: Gateborg
Chief of Defence Force: Sir Lans
The elections saw our previous Arch-Chancellor, Northern Chittowa step down and be replaced by Sedge, with none of the other nominees accepting their nominations. No doubt Sedge will hope to straighten things out a bit in the Arch Chancellors office after discovering numerous George Michael records, a collection of lycra outfits and a picture of Elton John in Northern Chittowa’s old chest of drawers, the pink flowery wallpaper is likely to fall victim to Sedge’s initial purges as well. The elections also saw Hammer and Numero Capitan join the cabinet for the first time, with Hammer taking both Regional Development and Regional Recruitment, quite a hefty workload!
The incumbents in Intelligence and Chief of the Defence Forces kept their seats after positive terms and Gateborg returned to the cabinet as Foreign Affairs Minister.
Abstain was unfortunate to lose out on a cabinet position once again.
We are currently having elections for Speaker of the Regional Assembly, but with only Geo, the incumbent, standing he looks sure to keep his position.
FRA welcomes new member regions!
The Founderless Region Alliance is proud to welcome our newest member regions, A New Order and Sapienta after their applications were accepted. We hope they will play a key role in the FRA and contribute to our goals. A New Order has appointed Island Union and CloudEagle as their Regional Representatives and we look forward to a closer relationship with these two regions.
New Applications
There have been several new applications, one from The Military Alliance, requesting membership and development, which should go to a vote soon and another from new region Lipitone who are keen to be involved in the FRA despite only being two days old.
We’ve also had a steady flow of development applications, with A New Order requesting some help and other applications from Outer Heaven, Cransley and The Military Alliance.
Rangers
The FRA Rangers have been kept busy over the Christmas period despite a number of absences and have had a few more Rangers added to their numbers, including Novellus Veii from The YoungWorld as well as Naivetry and Auel Neider as Non-allied Rangers!
2nd Annual Defender Awards
We’re honoured to host the Annual Defender Awards once more and our outgoing Arch-Chancellor is acting as host again. All members of the Nationstates world are welcome to come and take part, invader defender or neutral and we hope it will be as much a success as last year.
The format of the awards will be the same, there will be a nomination period, then a voting period and finally an award ceremony at the very end to round it all off. The number of awards has gone up by one despite there being a few awards taken out and added in and we also have decided to give out awards this year around, so that those who win have something to show their achievement.
The awards are as follows;
The EuroSoviets Award
The Ananke Award
The Anarchotopia Award
The Eagles Disobey Award
The Blackbird Award
The Dipes Award
The Updater of the Year Award
The Operation of the Year
The Newcomer of the Year Award
The Worst Invasion Award
The Best Defender Quote
The Meltdown of the Year Award
Defender of the Year
The Lifetime Achievement Award for Dedication to Defending.
The awards are scheduled to begin on the first week of February, so there is plenty of time to think about who you want to nominate.
If you have any questions feel free to PM Northern Chittowa or indeed check out last years event at: z7.invisionfree.com/FRA/index.php?showforum=74