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Post by Jeremy on Feb 1, 2008 17:16:20 GMT
I put it to the Witan that the reason for our nations lack of activity is caused primarily by the fact that people simply think we're a province of Riponia. While Riponia have undoubtably been good to us over recent months i don't believe we can progress successfully untill we've fully regained our independence.
I therefore propose an immediate Declaration of independence so that we can work on making Nova England great, glorious and free.
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Post by iehova on Feb 1, 2008 18:27:44 GMT
The reason for our nation's lack of activity is that long term citizens have not been around. Before New Britannia's death, almost the entire activity on this forum stemmed in recent months from myself and His Majesty, and yet Nova England has remained consistently active - albeit yes, the last month or so has been slow.
I would take your point about lack of activity stemming from perception of Nova England had this nation moved onto, say, a sub-forum on Riponia's main forums, but this is not the case. Rather, Nova England maintains its own forum and a very large degree of autonomy. It has not lost its unique culture to some process of 'Riponianization'. There is nothing about this place that screams 'province', I mean, come on, it even has its own space programme!
Having dismissed that idea then, we can safely conclude that had Nova England not been a part of Riponia for these past months, the continued absence of yourself and other long-term citizens (Achaviir excluded for obvious reasons) would have meant the death of this nation, or at least a far lower level of activity.
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Post by Jeremy on Feb 1, 2008 19:30:29 GMT
But Nova England is unlikely to ever be able to expand on MCS because it's classed as part of Riponia and you just put in a massive claim! Rumour has it even the land gift will be rejected because of the unbelievable scale of Riponian expansionism. If that isn't us being held back by a lack of independence then what is?
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Post by iehova on Feb 2, 2008 12:41:10 GMT
I refer the honourable members of the Witan to this thread: www.riponia.org/smf/index.php?topic=1753I am, obviously, in talks with the MCS Council over this issue; although I think that if this expansion is rejected it will be more down to the fact that there is a long standing precedent against dead nations (in your own words) giving away land, ie. Sullifree to Babkha.
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Post by Jeremy on Feb 2, 2008 18:31:27 GMT
New Brittania is, however, not dead yet as an interim government is working on tying up loose ends currently.
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Post by iehova on Feb 2, 2008 20:50:27 GMT
That's wonderful, and I don't doubt it, but if the Council has got the wrong idea from "Basically a backstory of the last days of the New Brittanian Empire which, after nearly three years, has died," you can hardly blame it.
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Post by Jeremy on Feb 3, 2008 15:45:00 GMT
Having told 3 different council memebers about it at various times i'm sure they're well aware of the situation
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