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A Tradedy Resolved
The Tragedy of the Three RegionsWritten & Told By Novgorodian rus
Revised by Sword island
Did you ever hear the Tragedy of the Three Regions? I thought not, its not a story a puppet would tell you. It’s a NationStates legend…
If you don’t mind taking maybe 10 minutes to read and consider these thoughts, I would greatly appreciate it. If not, that’s fine too. I don’t intend to make further comment on this, however if you spot any inaccuracies please do let me know.
This is an opinion piece that I’ve decided to call ‘The Tragedy of the Three Regions’, trying to come from an impartial perspective on recent developments.
The Royal Alliance III was founded by Amantes farchka. It would soon meet an untimely demise, however despite its short life the region boomed. Dua sicilia became prime minister, and performed competently in the role. The World Assembly Delegate position, which had also been Dua’s, soon fell to a nation known as Rorrickstead. Differences on regional policies such as the constitution and World Assembly membership requirements generated disagreement between Rorrickstead, Amantes farchka and Dua Sicilia. Rorrickstead subsequently launched a coup, ejecting Amantes farchka and intending to eject Dua Sicilia.
Dua Sicilia remained loyal to Amantes farchka. Rorrickstead was banned from the region.
The Royal Alliance III continued to operate for a few weeks more, however it was eventually decided that the region did not have a future. After free and frank discussions on the RMB, Dua Sicilia created International Assembly and several nations would subsequently migrate to the IA. Amantes farchka decided part way through this process to start over again entirely by creating Liberty Nations Alliance.
And thus the Tragedy of the First Region was complete. Despite reaching more than 100 nations within one month of being founded, and surviving a coup attempt, TRAIII was killed off by its founder.
This is where things begin to take a turn for the worse.
Despite Dua being a loyal and effective Prime Minister in TRAIII, who had supported Amantes during the coup, he was banned from LNA by Amantes;
"Dua Sicilia has been declared an enemy of the state."
Why? For what reason? It would seem that Amantes was jealous of Dua’s new region, as more nations had at that time migrated from TRAIII to him than to LNA.
That isn’t the only puzzling activity by Amantes at that point in time. When refugees from TRAIII did arrive in LNA, and asked what had been the reason for the last region disappearing almost overnight, they were actively suppressed:
"I'm kinda back, why are we on a new region? And what happened TRA?"
Only 24 hours after banning Dua, the biggest mystery of all took place – Amantes farchka aka Liberty nations alliance founder – was deleted by the NationStates moderators. LNA became founderless, its WA Delegate made automatically executive by the site’s gameplay mechanics. Amantes had not only been founder of LNA, but at the time of their deletion they were also WA Delegate. The position was transferred at the next update to 
France Europe.
France’s account was created AFTER the end of TRAIII and the creation of both LNA & IA. As such, I assume that they have not met Dua, or anyone from either LNA or IA prior to the day they joined LNA. Unless they are a puppet account of somebody from TRAIII, how could they?
Because of this, I wish to now address the Tragedy of the Second and Third Regions – LNA & IA. Your regions are both alive. They have not died like TRAIII, and I hope that they remain so. For that to be the case, however, the full story must be understood.
The feud between your regions was never of your making. It was not France’s fault. It was not Dua’s fault. It was not Sheepiania’s. It wasn’t any nation currently in LNA, or in the IA.
It was, however, the result of the actions made by Amantes. How so?
Remember how France was only created AFTER the death of TRAIII? Well, Amantes never gave any public justification for banning Dua from LNA. It was announced on the LNA RMB, and that was that. The members of LNA, therefore, had no context to the ban – why was Dua banned? On the express order of Amantes, but with no trial, no dialogue, no negotiation – not even an alleged crime. In contrast, Amantes was deleted within 24 hours of that decision by the NS Site Moderators. France suddenly found themselves WA Delegate of a founderless region.
And then, dear readers, the feud between LNA and IA commenced.
"I announce with the greatest honor that I am now your World Assembly Delegate, ending the respectable reign of Amantes farchka. He had a memorable role in our alliance, and my duty now is to be worthy of my predecessor. I solemnly tell you that you can trust me!"
France issued a noble and respectable announcement upon their accession to the WA Delegacy of LNA. There is no cause for alarm, concern or grievance here.
But only two RMB posts later, Dua makes an appearance on the LNA RMB using his puppet ( diplomatic outreach of dua sicilia). Dua says the following:
"Instead of doing what y’all are doing right now, join my active region International Assembly"
"And Amantes Farchka was an incompetent leader, I had done nothi wrong but apparently I am an enemy of the state."
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Dua, who was banned for no reason by Amantes, sent that puppet there for two reasons. Firstly, because LNA was now founderless and beginning to slow in terms of activity only days after being created. As the other successor region to TRAIII, it would make sense for Dua to try and consolidate the refugees from TRAIII under one region that is safe from invasion. Secondly, Dua is trying to explain that he was banned by Amantes for no reason, and that for this reason Amantes should not be given the respectful legacy that France had dedicated in their post taking the Delegacy.
Has Dua done anything wrong here? Yes and no. Dua has not worded these posts in a clear manner, leaving France (who has no context of Dua’s work as Prime Minister in TRAIII, loyalty to Amantes during the coup, or who Dua even is other than that Amantes banned them for some reason) under the assumption that Dua is now in LNA to cause trouble. Can you blame them? They are now delegate of a region with no founder, vulnerable to invasion, have been leader there for only a couple of hours, and have no idea what Dua is talking about.
No, you can’t blame France for that. You can’t also blame Dua for that, as despite him not explaining the situation well enough, he hasn’t done anything wrong. Dua isn’t trying to cause trouble in this exchange.
France’s position is suddenly reinforced when the nation KriegSturm (LNA) says the following:
"Comrades and fellow Nations i ask you. What should we think of a traitor such as this. Who has been OUTCASTED for only what i ccan assume would be a good reason from our noble heads of state, and yet has returned to this region to terrorize and attack our beloved democracy. The thing which we fight raiders and fascists to keep and exercise. Outcasts are outcasted. They have no place here with their PROPOGANDA!"
In this very post, KriegStrum admits to not knowing anything about what Dua has done, is going entirely off of the one post Amantes made when they banned Dua, and – like France – assumes Dua is a traitor and a threat to LNA.
Dua tries to defend himself:
"You've called me a fascist, but I'd like you to know, I was the first prime minister of TRA III, I organized the first election, and I was working on the second elections up until amantes farchka left. They were NEVER democratically elected. And I was never banned, I just dont want to come here on my main. I have not come to terrorize your "democracy" I am simply here to try to get people to join my active region, that has reasonable people, who know what they are talking about. And in not way is this propaganda, Amantes Farchka left TRA III, so I went on to make a stable region, with roleplay, a STABLE, KNOWLEDGEABLE government, a world map, etc. I am horrified that this is what Farchka left behind, he must have been happy to have CTE'ed I would hate to be the one to make this atrocity. And if I am an outcast, please tell me why I was chosen by Amantes Farchka himself to be the co-leader in TRA III? You all dont know what you are doing. A region like this would collapse in less than a span of 2 weeks, and knowing that Augerlund is somewhat knowledgeable in politics, they should understand this as well. But no, instead, I am called a raider, a fascist, an outcast, and even a terrorist, for shame."
However, he has miscalculated. The nations in LNA still have no idea what is going on, but believe him to be a threat because one by one they all talk about their disbelief of his story and start throwing out RP-themed insults (ie traitor, spy, fascist, etc). Dua reciprocates, and the argument is underway.
France, seeing that the entire LNA region distrusts Dua, issues a warning amounting to a request for Dua to leave LNA alone and stop filling the RMB with the discussion, or be ejected.
"As a WA Delegate representing LNA Nations, I warn you: you either stop your ridiculous propaganda, that is not effectife on LNA democracy ; or you get out of this region. I can start the procedures to make you leave if this is what you want. Liberty Nations Alliance will emerge stronger from this confrontation, trust me!"
Remember, Dua is still telling the truth in all of this, but doesn’t stop when asked to do so. He wants to convince them of his innocence. The problem being that they simply don’t care, and just want him to leave. And again, remember – France and LNA are also correct from their own perspective.
Other LNA members continue to express their wish for Dua to drop the issue.
"You are correct. This is a region for Nations to pursue their favored level of activity. There is no infighting or arbitrary maps here.
In respect to all other nations in the region, go back to yours... [censored by Novgorod]
Contrary to other statements by nations here, Mesque does not accuse you of fascism or tyranny, but We denounce your obnoxiousness. You want to attract nations to your region, send them telegrams, not come into Our region and bother the rule of everyone here. We don’t have any diplomatic quarrel with Dua Sicilia, but if you don’t refrain from posting your bullshit in this board, the region will take action. Be assured."
Dua doesn’t stop. He posts the following:
"I’m sorry, I was about to leave, but I couldn’t resist speaking out against this post. What “communists”, which “fascists” have you endured? And what worse could you have possibly endured. Secondly, you tell me that I’m spreading propaganda but the post before the quoted post here is much more like propaganda than anything that I’ve said that you consider to be “propaganda”. And thirdly, after you called me a fascist, a dictator, and a terrorist, and to some extent an anti-democratic scumbag, you feel the need to tell your so called “democratic” region that after your favorite candidate won the PRIMARY, not the election, the PRIMARY, that there shouldn’t be an election. I sincerely hope that you don’t consider yourself as an “avid” speaker, because, most of what you’ve said is F A L S E, you have contradicted yourself from when you said that LNA was Democratic, instead you think that a primary defines the entire election. And using the words “foreign invaders” and “raiders” isn’t fitting simply because I did not come to invade/raid, if I did, I would’ve been trying to take the delegate spot, like how raiding actually is. Like I get you have your opinions and all, and that’s cool. But dear god, learn that some things you just need to stay quiet about, because in a single post I have proved all your points wrong, and I don’t think that anybody can deny that fact. And Augerlund I have taken your advice and remained civil, unlike KriegSturm, who has continued to use such foul language in their “passionate” speeches. I hope you win the election Auger. And I’ll leave you off with this, this goes for you especially KriegSturm don’t use a word, especially if you are going to use it in an argument, if you don’t know what it means, because you are actively living out most of the things that you called me, you said I was a threat to democracy, you are threatening the democratic standards of LNA right now. You called me a fascist? Well you are showing high signs of both authoritarianism and nationalism in your PROUD speeches. That is all for now folks, stay tuned to our brand new show: Debunking the REAL Threats"
And then creates the puppet Debunking the real threats, to continue telling his side of the story on the LNA RMB.
The feud between LNA and IA is now in full swing. It has escalated very quickly, and yet both sides are correct. Both sides are acting in good faith. They just don’t realize that they have been set up to fail because of the actions of LNA’s deleted founder.
Now, the events that need no introduction – the recent IA election.
Puppets were involved. That’s almost certain. The only problem being the impossibility of proving which nation is their master.
Dua suspected LNA. France protested their innocence. Sheepiania pulled ahead in the poll. Tensions get higher, and higher.
Dua ejected nations he believes are puppets. Whether due process was followed is a valid question. How can you prove that they were all puppets? Dua tried, but the members of IA did not appear convinced beyond the potential for doubt. The fact that he was running in the election, and thus had an interest in the poll, did not help appearances. He wanted to win, of course. But there were puppets at play, so taking action was not wrong – the manner in which the action was taken was wrong.
At the same time, France uses the LNA embassy to discuss the events. France still thinks Dua to be a nation that tried to spam their RMB using two puppet nations with some strange story about TRAIII and LNA’s deleted founder – that nobody in LNA believed. So France seems likely to genuinely believe that Dua was power-hungry. And yet, as was proven during the TRAIII coup – Dua has always been loyal, and trying to remove puppet votes wasn’t a bad thing to do.
But now not only is there an electoral crisis, but a foreign relations crisis because LNA’s embassy posting by France is only causing a major argument on the RMB. Dua, sick of LNA by this point, wants to close the embassy and be done with it. France, still having done nothing wrong except for committing the same ‘crime’ Dua committed by filling another region’s RMB with debate and then later arguments, seems to imply that there is no ill will between LNA and IA, and that they should maintain dialogue and diplomacy.
What was the point of this huge wall of text? Why have I typed it all out?
Because I see two regions who have been divided unfairly.
Whose were the puppets in the IA election? France, to try and install a government that would be friendly to LNA, and get revenge against Dua for his ‘spam’ and ‘threats’ against LNA? Dua, in a false-flag? Sheepiania, trying to win? Or a third party entirely – Rorrickstead is still on NS, logging in often, and has a reason to dislike Dua and IA due to the coup being thwarted in TRAIII. Or were they real nations after all?
Simply put, we will never know. As strange as that sounds, it actually doesn’t matter. What matters is that both LNA and IA do not end the same was that TRAIII did.
What do I hope is taken away from this post?
- That the IA establishes a dispute resolution mechanism for future elections, where time is not a pressure and pragmatism is utilized. A system where nations disclose conflicts of interest in decisions related to voting, or ejecting potential puppets, and wherever possible bipartisan agreement is sought.
- That France recognizes that Dua was banned from LNA originally by its founder with no due process, with no justification, with no dialogue, and no discussion.
- That Dua recognizes that France was placed in a lose-lose position, becoming delegate of a founderless region vulnerable to foreign attack with no way of knowing anything about TRAIII or the deleted founder’s wrongful activities, that the LNA nations collectively came to a consensus that Dua’s story was made up because they could only use a single one line RMB post declaring you an enemy of the state as context for what was going on.
- That using puppets and the embassy to argue on the RMB during a time of crisis in another region is not acceptable, and only places major stress on the players involved. Dua made their puppets and tried to explain right after the delegacy of LNA became executive, and for all France knew The Black Hawks were about to try and topple them at the next update. France continued to debate, and then argue, on the IA RMB because from their perspective Dua had done the same thing to them, in spite of several people in IA expressing a wish that they stop.
- That the LNA and IA seek to avoid misunderstandings in the future, by being aware that not everyone knows the full story starting from the first week of TRAIII up to the present.
These are decisions that you need to make for yourselves. But from my neutral perspective, the Tragedy of the Three Regions unfairly divided LNA and the IA, caused great stress for players like France and Dua, and made it very difficult to trust and communicate to the point that insults started being used at the peak of the argument.
I respect both regions. I wish you both the best of luck for the future.
Sorry Dua but this story does not end here. Instead it ends in very much the opposite of how it started, a union of two regions. The Liberty Democratic Alliance reached out to the Union of Normal Nations unexpectedly with ideas of a merger. Those ideas soon crystalized into the asorbtion of the UNN into the LDA, though not without a hiccups and hassles. For now though TRA III is finally reunited
