Re-Elect Avaerilon!

[Avaerilon]

RE-ELECT AVAERILON!

Hi again, everyone!

As you know, it's that time of the year, again. And I'm looking for you to re-elect me as your delegate.

I'm one of the region's most experienced nations, having held several important posts before, including an unprecedented 5 consecutive term stint as Minister of Domestic Affairs. I've also been involved in writing legislation both on my own and collaboratively with other fine nations in the region, most recently the successful ULDS merger treaty which has seen numerous nations join our region. Perhaps most importantly, I've managed to get a full cabinet in the midst of a pretty bad inactivity situation, which we're now really starting to come out of. You have an active, reliable government, with one of the most active and reliable delegates in the region's proud history. 

But what are my plans for the region now?

• Work with the Minister of Immigration to take-advantage of the full range of features offered by the NS++ extension, which include an automated telegram system. This could reach hundreds of new nations who meet the constitutional criteria, and see our population soar.
• Continue work with Foreign Affairs on restarting the Combined Union Security (CUS) service branch, which improves our region's security by ensuring we have reliable eyes-and-ears around the NS World, and also provides assessments on possible threats.
• Assist in any way I can with Domestic Affairs' attempts to revitalise and reinvigorate role-plays and activities, guaranteeing that there's something for everyone to do at any given time.
• Maintain the excellent and popular Fireside Chats I created to bring the region closer together and give nations a chance to put questions to me in a friendly, informal manner.
• Co-operate and co-ordinate more with our allied regions in setting-up interregional activities and events designed to help us get to know each other better, and also have a lot of fun at the same time.
• Support the Speaker's efforts to properly achieve elements of the forum that require archiving, and secure the release of any appropriate cabinet threads from the Secure Cabinet Archive, giving us a much nicer, cleaner forum, and also improving transparency.
• Ensure we have a duly-appointed Justice, to oversee any required trials as per the constitution, should the need arise, giving nations adequate chances to defend themselves in criminal cases.
• Seek further discussion of WA resolutions and proposals in a public and informal manner, and also encourage more of our own nations to write their own WA proposals, maybe by holding votes on popular topics and then selecting one or two volunteers to write a proposal.
• Retain the current Firm-but-Fair policy on Immigration, ensuring all our nations meet the requirements of our constitution, and those who do not are dealt with fairly.
• Press-ahead with the stipulated requirements as per the UDLS merger treaty, ensuring there is a cultural attache to represent nations form the former-ULDS, and that the merger process is concluded swiftly but smoothly.
• Seek to re-instate the old Welcome Telegram, but work with Domestic Affairs in utilising the automated feature offered by NS++, ensuring all new nations are welcomed and given any helpful information they might need.
• Maintain the current open-door delegacy, with an active delegate always ready to answer questions put to them by the region, and acting in the region's interests at all times.
• Go ahead and craft some more fine maps of the region, such as a scale map, a tectonics map and various other maps, since maps are fabulous and fun. 

Well, I think I've covered everything really pressing! If you have any more questions or queries, please post them below, and I will get back to you as soon as possible  :)

In the meantime, feel free to enjoy this video (or the one below that if you've not got a lot of time), explaining my plans and position, and also being the most complete and fun video for NS I think I've ever done  8-)

[Kingdom of Grolsch]

Question: how does the NS++ automated recruitment telegram feature actually work? While I don't have hours a day available, I might be able to click a button several times a day :)

[Avaerilon]

Essentially, officers are appointed (in this case, the delegate would appoint nations chosen by the Minister of Imm), and they use it to automatically telegram nations according to a certain criteria (e.g. new nations) in certain regions (e.g. feeders). I'm not 100% certain on it, given we've never used it before, but I'm confident it could save time and increase our chances of really increasing our population.