Welcome to Europeia!
So what the heck is Europeia anyways? Europeia is a region of NationStates that follows the principles of republicanism, meaning the officials of Europeia are elected by the people, of the people, and usually for the people.
Can I join? Of course. Of course. All you have to do is register an account. Validate said account (it should send an email to the email address you have provided, if it did not pester us about it here). Your account in the beginning will automatically be placed in the non-citizen usergroup. You can change that by applying for citizenship. The application, for security purposes, usually takes a few days to be processed by our forum administrators. But once that is done you can see it all and do it all as a full citizen of Europeia  .
So, I came here representing another region? I do not want to become a citizen. Where should I go? First you have to register an account. Then you have to validate said account (it should send an email to the email address you have provided, if it did not pester us about it here). Your account in the beginning will automatically be placed in the Non-Citizen Usergroup. Then you can apply for diplomatic masking.
What offices are there for people to be elected into? Well, first of all there are three Branches of Government. There is the Executive, the Legislature, and the Judiciary. The Executive is responsible for the day-to-day governance, the Legislative writes and manages the laws of Europeia, and the Judiciary has the Power to review laws to see if they comply with our Constitution as well as hear trials against accused citizens. The Executive is made up of the President, the Vice President and their Cabinet. The President and the Vice President are elected together every 70 days. They then nominate other citizens to fill the Cabinet Posts. Those nominated are then confirmed by the Senate. For more on the Executive click here. The Legislative is made up of the Senate and the Citizens' Assembly. The Senate is made up of a minimum of five citizens who are elected into office every 70 days, exactly 35 after the presidential elections. The Senate writes or repeals laws, confirms Ministers and Judges and can remove any elected official. The Citizens' Assembly writes pre-Legislation, which is then passed on to the Senate for approval. Members of the Assembly are not elected. Instead every citizen is automatically a Member. For more on the Legislature click here. The Judiciary is made up of the High Court, which answers legal questions and hears criminal and civil cases, looking to the laws of the Republic, both statutory and common, to render judgment. It is made up of the Chief Justice and three Associate Justices. The Justices serve for a 120-day term. Instead of being elected, they are nominated by the President and then confirmed by the Senate. For more on the Judiciary click here.
What is there for me to do in Europeia? If the game of high politics is not your cup of tea you can always just hang around doing fun things. Or if you want to put some work in, there is always the Civil Service, the Navy, and the Citizens' Assembly. As citizen, you can join the Civil Service (or CSO). The CSO assigns its Members (called Assistant Ministers or AMs) to the different Ministries to help out the Ministers. As AM you can do many things and garner great accolades. Most of the great politicians of Europeia started in the CSO. Once you become a citizen, you can also sign up to become a Sailor in our Navy, going out on raids, defending Europeia, or helping our allies defend themselves. Or, if reading and creating Law is more your speed, you can always join the Citizens' Assembly. If all of that did not sound like enough fun we have Spam Games, reasoned and less reasoned debate, Newspapers, Roleplays, and so much more.
That answers most of my immediate questions. What if I have any more? You could always check the Newcomer's Handbook to see if the answer to your question is there. It may even be in the FAQ (or Frequently Asked Questions). If neither answer your question, you can ask our admins here.
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Europeia Dispatch Service
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Topic Started: Sep 29 2015, 12:35 AM (376 Views)
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r3naissanc3r
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Sep 29 2015, 12:35 AM
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As you may know, for a while now we have been using the [nation]Europeia Dispatch Office[/nation], created by Calvin, as the main nation for posting all official Europeian dispatches. This includes news snippets, cultural events, recruitment advertisements, game-side handbooks, etc.
Having all of our dispatches posted from a single nation has many advantages. To name a few: 1) it allows for posterity, since we can continue reusing established (meaning well-referenced and upvoted) dispatches for several terms, updating them as necessary; 2) it makes it easier to organize upvoting campaigns; 3) it provides a single point of reference where new members can go and learn a whole lot about Europeia just by browsing the collection of dispatches; 4) it makes everything look more organized and official; 5) it makes it easier to maintain backups of all of our official game-side documents (more about this later in this post); and so on.
The downside of this system is that it is impractical when there are multiple people who need to post dispatches. One way to deal with this is to give the password of Europeia Dispatch Office to every single person who needs to use it. This is very insecure (it's like sharing a founder nation with every member of every successive government), and under certain conditions may result in breaking game rules. An alternative is having everyone send their dispatch drafts to a single person with access to Europeia Dispatch Office, who then posts them in-game. This is what we have been doing so far, by having Calvin post all of our dispatches. This creates a bottleneck, and results in a lot of pressure on one person and large delays in the whole process.
To address these issues, I have created the following page:
http://cerulean.nsr3n.info/europeia_dispatch_service/submit.sh
The page allows submitting a dispatch title, category, and code, to be posted as a dispatch by Europeia Dispatch Office. Users of the page do not have direct access to Europeia Dispatch Office nation - the posting process happens automatically by our offsite server. Additionally, the same page can be used to edit already existing dispatches posted by Europeia Dispatch Office nation, again without directly accessing the nation. Therefore, using the page makes it possible to effectively share Europeia Dispatch Office for dispatch-posting purposes, in a secure and efficient way. You can think of this page as the dispatch-posting equivalent of our mass-telegramming page.
You are strongly encouraged to post official dispatches for your respective regional business using the dispatch page. Ministers can either do that directly themselves, or just get access to the page for their various deputies and CSO members.
To get access to the dispatch page, contact the corresponding minister (usually the Minister of Communications).
Before I close, many thanks to Calvin, first for running the Europeian Dispatch Office on his own all this time, and second for agreeing to share his nation for this page.
There is an additional resource relating to Europeia Dispatch Office, and our official dispatches:
http://cerulean.nsr3n.info/dispatches/europeia_dispatch_office/
In the above link, you can find backups of all dispatches created by Europeia Dispatch Office. Backups are automatically created twice per day.
A couple of possible uses for these backups: 1) tracking how a dispatch has evolved over time; 2) restoring a dispatch after an accident while editing it.
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Writinglegend
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Sep 29 2015, 12:35 AM
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This is fantastic, and a great technological advancement. Thanks r3n!
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Calvin Coolidge
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Sep 29 2015, 02:30 AM
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This is a major step forward for dispatches, and I thank r3n immensely.
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Sep 29 2015, 08:51 PM
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Yay, r3n!
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Mousebumples
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Oct 6 2015, 11:25 PM
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If you give this mouse a cookie, she'll probably ask for some cheese.
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Just wanted to make a quick note that I used this earlier to post up the Zombie-related dispatch, and it worked quite well. Thanks again!
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