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The Rouge Christmas State wrote:What is condemning the actions of the LCN honestly going to accomplish? They've caused problems for some time now.
  • They've left PLI (Sure they have that right),

  • They've effectively become a dictatorship under Quebecshire, who has been a part of the government for as long as I can remember.

  • They've elected San carlos islands, a nation who in the past has caused problems here.

  • They're harboring renegade nations from our allies (RCN/FCN). Who very well could've had malicious intent leaving the FCN in the manner they did. (Gagium)

  • Arguably the most important point now is the fact that their founder, delegate, and many others within the region support "Access to Abortion," a resolution that goes against everything RTL stands for.

    If you stand against tyranny, people who have caused harm to our allies, and the support of on-demand abortion, please consider which option you've chosen in the poll. I wish things would improve with the LCN but they certainly haven't yet and probably won't.

    P.S. I tagged the nations so they have a right to defend themselves.

  • 1. PLI was a dead org. It had nothing to do with the politics of it.

    2. Since when is long-serving in an NS government a tyrannical thing to do? And do you even know my role, which, on day to day, is just communicating with department heads and opening votes for the legislature when submitted? I'm literally presiding over this month's nominations/referenda electoral process rn.

    2B. You wanna talk tyranny? Waldy banned, blocked, and suppressed people in the RCN for mentioning their official literally breaking the law, and Discord TOS.

    3. I don't know what to say about SCI, if you don't like him sorry, I guess..?

    4. Tough. Since when is it a problem to "harbour" people who just wanted to leave? Gagium was prett clear about just wanting to be friends but join the LCN. Meanwhile, the RCN welcomed Crimsonfield, who has actually waged war on both the LCN and FCN. Also, an RCN official literally illegally recorded a conversation to get the personal info of players yesterday, but Gagium existing is obviously the real problem.

    5. The region is 62.5% against Access to Abortion. I don't plan to apologize for my opinion, but a majority of my region does not share it, so I obviously take that into account and respect it, as I do the long partnership of these regions.

    6. Bruh. We aren't tyrannical, the RCN is more tyrannical than us in some ways, especially recently. We did not harm your ally (citation?). We as a collective do not support "on-demand abortion" in any way, and it would be foolish to close embassies of four years over one disagreement not even shared by our majority. You and Waldy are conflict of interest voters given your ties.

    EDIT: When I say breaking the law, I don't mean LCN law. I mean Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and California law.

    Quebecshire wrote:1. PLI was a dead org. It had nothing to do with the politics of it.

    2. Since when is long-serving in an NS government a tyrannical thing to do? And do you even know my role, which, on day to day, is just communicating with department heads and opening votes for the legislature when submitted? I'm literally presiding over this month's nominations/referenda electoral process rn.

    2B. You wanna talk tyranny? Waldy banned, blocked, and suppressed people in the RCN for mentioning their official literally breaking the law, and Discord TOS.

    3. I don't know what to say about SCI, if you don't like him sorry, I guess..?

    4. Tough. Since when is it a problem to "harbour" people who just wanted to leave? Gagium was prett clear about just wanting to be friends but join the LCN. Meanwhile, the RCN welcomed Crimsonfield, who has actually waged war on both the LCN and FCN. Also, an RCN official literally illegally recorded a conversation to get the personal info of players yesterday, but Gagium existing is obviously the real problem.

    5. The region is 62.5% against Access to Abortion. I don't plan to apologize for my opinion, but a majority of my region does not share it, so I obviously take that into account and respect it, as I do the long partnership of these regions.

    6. Bruh. We aren't tyrannical, the RCN is more tyrannical than us in some ways, especially recently. We did not harm your ally (citation?). We as a collective do not support "on-demand abortion" in any way, and it would be foolish to close embassies of four years over one disagreement not even shared by our majority. You and Waldy are conflict of interest voters given your ties.

    EDIT: When I say breaking the law, I don't mean LCN law. I mean Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and California law.

    1. -

    2. If you truly are a democratic region, then that's good. As for Waldy I can talk from experience, I know him to be of good discernment.

    3.-

    4. If the RCN actually has Crimsonfield in their community that's atrocious. Crimsonfield as you pointed out broke the law and shouldn't be allowed in any community on NS as far as I'm concerned.

    5. That's great to hear that the LCN is voting this atrocity. You're entitled to your own opinion but that doesn't change the fact your delegate was joking about still.

    6. If we can salvage this longstanding relationship, that would be good.

    I like that you kept it civil. Hopefully our two regions can work through this and I'll try and not be so quick to judge next time.

    Quebecshire wrote:1. PLI was a dead org. It had nothing to do with the politics of it.

    2. Since when is long-serving in an NS government a tyrannical thing to do? And do you even know my role, which, on day to day, is just communicating with department heads and opening votes for the legislature when submitted? I'm literally presiding over this month's nominations/referenda electoral process rn.

    2B. You wanna talk tyranny? Waldy banned, blocked, and suppressed people in the RCN for mentioning their official literally breaking the law, and Discord TOS.

    3. I don't know what to say about SCI, if you don't like him sorry, I guess..?

    4. Tough. Since when is it a problem to "harbour" people who just wanted to leave? Gagium was prett clear about just wanting to be friends but join the LCN. Meanwhile, the RCN welcomed Crimsonfield, who has actually waged war on both the LCN and FCN. Also, an RCN official literally illegally recorded a conversation to get the personal info of players yesterday, but Gagium existing is obviously the real problem.

    5. The region is 62.5% against Access to Abortion. I don't plan to apologize for my opinion, but a majority of my region does not share it, so I obviously take that into account and respect it, as I do the long partnership of these regions.

    6. Bruh. We aren't tyrannical, the RCN is more tyrannical than us in some ways, especially recently. We did not harm your ally (citation?). We as a collective do not support "on-demand abortion" in any way, and it would be foolish to close embassies of four years over one disagreement not even shared by our majority. You and Waldy are conflict of interest voters given your ties.

    EDIT: When I say breaking the law, I don't mean LCN law. I mean Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and California law.

    I just do not understand why you have an embassy with this region and after vote for abortion

    The Rouge Christmas State wrote:1. -

    2. If you truly are a democratic region, then that's good. As for Waldy I can talk from experience, I know him to be of good discernment.

    3.-

    4. If the RCN actually has Crimsonfield in their community that's atrocious. Crimsonfield as you pointed out broke the law and shouldn't be allowed in any community on NS as far as I'm concerned.

    5. That's great to hear that the LCN is voting this atrocity. You're entitled to your own opinion but that doesn't change the fact your delegate was joking about still.

    6. If we can salvage this longstanding relationship, that would be good.

    I like that you kept it civil. Hopefully our two regions can work through this and I'll try and not be so quick to judge next time.

    2. I mean, usually, he is, but on this, he's literally covering up Rhiney's behaviour. Viridus and Fluv have been the more reasonable ones with that.

    4. Yep, some people are also letting Rhiney's behaviour go relatively unpunished.

    5. I'm not gonna punish people over jokes. Jokes are jokes, they poke fun and lighten topics.

    6. This particular issue is just sensationalism blown up, mainly by Slavic Lechia (who banned me off your Discord twice for no reason). UM and mostly everyone else have been completely fine.

    Blueflarst wrote:I just do not understand why you have an embassy with this region and after vote for abortion

    Because my personal opinions do not dictate LCN foreign policy...

    Otherwise... I'd be a dictator?

    Blueflarst and Dragons of Power

    Quebecshire wrote:Because my personal opinions do not dictate LCN foreign policy...

    Otherwise... I'd be a dictator?

    Oh and about your director of foreign affairs I warn you you do not have idea the monster that he is. He was capable of bullying me two months to force me out of the region and when that did not work he brainwashed the senate for exiling me. Beware because if i looked dangerous to you for what i did your director is worse

    "I would have still called his arguments incoherent, considering the man just spammed the RMB with nonsense and, to my knowledge, has never provided a coherent response to any political issue"
    - Ibenta, on Blueflarst

    Blueflarst and Viridus

    La france bonapartiste

    I had no idea there was so much drama on NationStates!

    Can't we just go back to talking about less divisive and noncontroversial topics, like Israeli-Palestinian relations?

    Hello Right to Life, here are your updated stocks. Anyone wishing to join or invest in companies may telegram me or tag me in a message


    CELEBRATING 1000 READS!
    This stock market will be for companies from nations in the Labyrinth’s embassy regions to expand and make more money. Through the stock market, values will determine investments and due to the wide accessibility of this stock market, companies are guaranteed to make at least some sort of profit. The number besides the company is it’s value in the stock market, one point is equal to 1 million Jilars. The money companies earn will not come from the state, instead, they will come from the revenue made from their products, locations, or to put it simply, from the client. The + or - sign besides the companies indicate whether the company’s value has risen or fallen since last week’s report. The number besides the + or - signs indicates by exactly how much it rose or fell.
    In addition, every company on the stock market will get a weekly pay of 100 million Jilars. 85% of the stock market’s profits will go to the companies while 15% will go to PeePeePooPooCaCa. The nation with the largest company in each sector of the market receives a trading card, nations are limited to one card. The card is uncommon if the sector has less than five different nations, rare if it has more than five but less than ten, and epic/legendary if the sector has more than 10 nations.
    Every investment by a nation into a company that doesn’t belong to them will be rewarded with karma points. The nation receives 1k for an investment lower than 500 million dollars, 2k for an investment between 500 million and 999,999,999, and 3k for an investment above 1 billion. Karma points are transferred to stock points and are added onto the nation’s companies’ values.
    Nations can also buy power ups to boost companies’ values. There shall be four original power ups, but more can be added by other nations if Peepeepoopoocaca approves of them. The creator of a new power up can use it for free the first time he or she wants it. Otherwise, all nations wishing to buy a power up should pay its fee using the nation’s companies’ stock points. The nation does not have a bought power up anymore if he or she don’t pay the power up’s renewal fee in time, or Peepeepoopoocaca decides to terminate the nation’s power up privilege. All power ups shall be bought in the shop down below.
    In addition to the karma points system, there will also be another type of external investment. They’re called shares, which essentially means that the company you invest in has to repay you in the form of a dividend. A dividend is calculated using a percentage system, which means that a nation’s share is also it’s dividend. For example, if a nation holds a 20% share of a company, then the company being invested in needs to give the shareholder 20% of weekly profits. So if that company makes 10k points in a week, 2k go to the shareholder. Dividends and shares investments are overall pretty good as they don’t have to be renewed as frequently as karma investments, but they require more negotiation, as the shareholder nation and company representative nation both need to agree on the terms of the investment. The shareholder now possesses a share in said company, and they can sell shares whenever they feel they don’t need said share anymore, for example, when a company’s doing poorly. Shares that are sold on the market are registered as initial public offerings, or IPOs. The number in brackets besides the listed shares down below is the current revenue being made by that company’s share, which is the same as the share price. The whole point of buying and seeking shares is to buy at low prices, and sell at high prices whenever the stockholder honks it’s right.
    There will be banks stationed across PPPPCC and elsewhere that will help to fund and monetarily aid the companies in the stock market. A good way to do this will be through loans, which will be eventually paid back by interest. To buy a loan, first choose a bank in which you will form a partnership with and buy loans from them in the future. This bank is now called your ‘partnership bank’. Now, specify the amount of money that will be required to fund the buyer’s project(s), and then, you’re expected to pay back a certain amount of interest within a certain time span. One credit point is equal to 100 stock points and vice versa. On top of this, companies will be able to deposit any money (aka stock points) they currently posses to the bank, and withdraw it whenever they please. As a side note, you’re allowed to change your partnership bank whenever you want, but you have to make an agreement with both banks.
    This stock market’s plan is to give companies a fair chance and open up in new lands with new markets and new opportunities. This will never be a stock market established due to corporate greed. We shall never deny a guest, even the most ridiculous request.

    For a place to discuss the stock market, ask questions, roleplay scenarios with your companies, and arrange further deals, create an alternate account or submit Embassy requests and join the Inter regional stock market region.


    The San Juarez Stock Exchange in San Juarez, PPPPCC

    TRADING FLOOR:

    TECHNOLOGY

    Megasoft (Plus Nova Imperii) - 227K +21K
    Genesis Space Tech (The Rouge Christmas State) - 85K -18K
    Urukian Computers Co. (Urukian) - 150K +7K
    Movey Tech (Moveyrsearlandez) - 109K -15K
    Roder (Otterse) - 110K -13K
    Mahjanji (Indoinastan) - 177K +3K
    GovernmentAndy Inc. (Isolationstan) - 138K +3K
    Mecham (Isolationstan) - 144K +8K
    The Twitter (Mukh) - 128K +2K
    Tokyo Novum Space Tech (Novos romanos) - 148K +3K

    INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

    Data Corp (The Rouge Christmas State) - 88K -18K
    Regal Infotech (Port ashley) - 71K -18K
    Annoying Discord Bots (Arcane the bot) - 126K +2K
    MegaBit (Edington) - 109K -7K
    Emporious (Novos romanos) - 142K +4K
    Genos-Aelia company (Romaniche) - 188K +30K

    FISHING

    Pristine Urukian Fishing Co. (Urukian) - 76K +13K

    FINANCE

    The Duke National Bank (The Rouge Christmas State) - 52K -18K
    Pankki Aussandri (Aussandries) - 108K +8K
    Sheffield Preudential Bank (Port ashley) - 32K -18K
    Pan-Caribbean Bank (Port ashley) - 26K -18K
    Natona Banca de’Belac (The belacian states) - 114K +13K
    Searland Stock Exchange (Moveyrsearlandez) - 67K -15K
    Zhest Exchequer (Indoinastan) - 126K +3K
    Gazprombank (Primorski Krai) - 103K +5K
    SpanaBank (El Spana) - 150K +8K
    jetBank (The belacian states) - 113K +13K

    ARMS MANUFACTURING

    Xavier Manufacturing (The Rouge Christmas State) - 44K -18K
    Urukian Arms Industry (Urukian) - 103K +7K
    Soria Co. (Sorianora) - 123K +11K
    Aussandries Arms (Aussandries) - 90K +9K
    FN (Belned) - 106K +17K
    RAPNI (Romaniche) - 142K +26K
    Imperial Arms (Puppet scp fuadation) - 88K -15K
    The Rifle From The Red (Commie tebit) - 48K -13K
    German Austrian Arms Manufacturing (The greater german austrian empire) - 105K +5K
    NRAP (Novos romanos) - 109K +8K
    The Golden Weapon (The rome empire) - 97K +2K
    Pewds Arms (Pewds supporter) - 45K -21K
    Vegetarian Light Armaments (Democratic republic of nothingness) - 102K +1K
    Rajputana Rifles (Republic of rajputana) - 106K +2K
    Carthage and Co (Carthaginian civilization) - 94K +2K
    BFP (Belned) - 118K +13K
    تصنيع اذرع الشمس (Urukian) - 130K +13K
    Mosin and Avtomat Armory (Primorski Krai) - 104K +5K
    Guns For Freedom (Legionarya) - 148K +26K
    Tengri Seraphim (Khazar lechia) - 78K -9K

    SPACE

    Stavanger Space Tech (Urukian) - 113K +9K
    Urukian Space Repair Service (Urukian) - 105K +8K
    U2 Space (Phoenix city of fire) - 110K +2K
    Young Industries Civilian Aeronautics Division (Young industries) - 99K +1K
    Tokyo Novum Space Industries (Novos romanos) - 111K +5K

    BEVERAGES

    The Rare Old Mountain Dew (Aussandries) - 60K +9K
    Roma-Soda (Romaniche) - 93K +24K
    Ecchi-Cola (The Strangers Club) - 70K +14K
    Par Biir (The belacian states) - 61K +12K

    PROSTITUTION

    Meninas Capitalistas (Ofiussia) - 28K +3K

    RETAIL

    Roma-Nike (Romaniche) - 178K +26K
    Strange-Mart (The Strangers Club) - 176K +16K
    JP Capitalista (Novos romanos) - 141K +5K

    CHEESE EXPORTS

    Khan’s Milk Farm (Khazar lechia) - 28K -6K
    Romanichean Cheese (Romaniche) - 89K +24K
    Tillamook Cheese (Isolationstan) - 62K +9K
    Transvaal Dairy (Wabobania) - 39K +1K
    Raja Panner Curry (Indoinastan) - 60K +4K
    Puic Cheese (Carthaginian civilization) - 40K +1K
    La Branzika (Legionarya) - 92K +24K

    AGRICULTURE

    Khan’s Personal Fields (Khazar lechia) - 56K +6K
    Faster Growth (Otterse) - 35K -9K
    NR Agriculture (Novos romanos) - 62K +4K
    Sodrugestvo (Primorski Krai) - 63K +7K

    PHARMACEUTICALS

    Sun Pharma (Port ashley) - 13K -18K
    University Medicine (Hopal) - 64K +2K
    G Pharmaceutics SRL (Gavraska) - 66K +9K

    DEFENSE

    Cambium Aerospace and Trucks (Port ashley) - 23K-18K
    Bunker-Apparatus (Koedric) - 79K +10K
    Imperial Armed Defense (Puppet scp fuadation) - 69K -7K
    The Red China Army (Commie tebit) - 33K -12K
    Golden Wall (The rome empire) - 78K +2K
    UAC (Primorski Krai) - 76K +7K

    AUTOMOBILES

    Scandia Automobiles (Port ashley) - 21K -18K
    Satirop (Phoenix city of fire) - 81K +3K
    Cars and Stuff (New cica) - 77K +1K
    Belton Automotive (Isolationstan) - 86K +3K
    Rebirth Motors (Rebirth Island) - 74K +1K
    Henry Ford (Legionarya) - 88K +22K

    BICYCLES

    Belac Bíçiclas (The belacian states) - 82K +9K
    H Bikes (Hopal) - 61K +2K

    NATURAL GAS

    Urukian Natural Gas (Urukian) - 112K +23K

    MINING

    Urukian Minerals Production (Urukian) - 207K +26K
    Novos Romanos Minerals Ltd (Novos romanos) - 182K +4K
    Cratersville Mining Ltd (Isolationstan) - 178K +6K

    TOURISM

    visitBelac (The belacian states) - 130K +13K
    Imagine Indoina (Indoinastan) - 118K +3K
    TravelDumb (Dumb country) - 96K

    GAMBLING

    Ugosalinese Casinos (Ugosal) - 116K +4K
    Cykas ke liye Kazino (Indoinastan) - 118K +3K
    The Rising Sun (The Strangers Club) - 134K +13K

    CLOTHING

    Seter (Moveyrsearlandez) - 76K -8K

    JEWELRY

    Lal Ruby (Indoinastan) - 177K +3K

    TIMBER WOODCHIPPING

    Chipps Chips (Isolationstan) - 95K +9K

    FILM AND BOOK PUBLISHING

    PAWS Trademark Limited (Indoinastan) - 110K +3K

    FILM PUBLISHING

    Viking Studios & Dark House Films (El Spana) - 88K +4K
    Belac Film Company (The belacian states) - 93K +11K

    BASKET WEAVING

    Romanichean Festives Stock (Romaniche) - 76K +16K

    FLEX SEAL FAMILY OF PRODUCTS

    Flex Seal Family of Products (Swiftlandian Peoples Republic) - 206K -3K

    BLACK MARKET

    River Styx (Draconovox) - 148K +23K
    NR Slaves INC (Novos romanos) - 82K +3K

    TV PRODUCTION

    Anime Production Center (Phoenix city of fire) - 78K +4K
    Viva Studios (Latiouthel) 73K +4K

    LUMBER

    The Spaniard Woodstock (El Spana) - 91K +4K

    BARS

    Slagger's (The corporate sectors) - 49K +1K

    EMPLOYMENT

    Workers of the World United (Slavic lechia) - 55K +2K

    BROADCASTING

    GMA Network (Latiouthel) - 68K +4K

    ENERGY

    IEG Company Corp (Latiouthel) - 79K +4K
    Nuclearrr INC (Novos romanos) - 87K +4K

    SOY SAUCE

    Sam’s Sauce (Akumanga) - 43K +6K

    TRADE

    Auchan (Primorski Krai) - 81K +5K
    Amorix International (Ethics committee of the scpf) - 75K +4K

    TEMPLES

    مذابح الشمس (Urukian) - 73K +14K
    श्रेकवादी हिंदू धर्म और संथाल मंदिर of മെമ്മുകളും കമ്യൂണിസവും (Indoinastan) - 68K +3K

    RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

    Mindon Labs (Mindon) - 78K +2K

    FAST F00D

    MC doNAlds (Japanese ronald mc donald) - 69K +4K

    BROADCASTING

    Channel 6 (The belacian states) - 90K +10K

    FOOD

    Food Heaven (The belacian states) - 73K +9K

    RECYCLING

    Humans Recycled Co. (Yes humans are recyclable) - 44K +4K

    MANUFACTURING

    BLC Corporation (Latiouthel) - 83K +5K

    MILITARY WEAPONRY

    The Naliz Corpotarion (The soldrania) - 88K

    VIRGIN GROUP

    Virgin Group (A Memer) - 69K

    DATA:
    THIS WEEK’S LOSSES: $414 Billion
    THIS WEEK’S REVENUE: $759 Billion
    THIS WEEK’S PROFIT: $345 Billion
    TOTAL ALL TIME REVENUE MADE SO FAR: ~$106 Trillion
    NATIONS INVOLVED: 57
    REGIONS INVOLVED: 19

    CURRENT INVESTMENTS:

    Aug 16. Aussandries into Aussandries companies, 1 month

    Aug 22. The Strangers Club 2 billion into The Strange Mart, 1 month

    Aug 25. Urukian 2 billion into Urukian companies +1 billion to Urukian National Gas and Urukian Minerals Co., 1 month

    Aug 25. Draconovox 2 billion into Mecham (Isolationstan), 1 month

    Aug 25. Draconovox 2 billion into Rapni (Romaniche), 1 month

    Aug 25. Draconovox 2 billion into Tillamook Cheese (Isolationstan), 1 month

    Aug 25. Draconovox 2 billion into Romanichean Cheese (Romaniche), 1 month

    Aug 25. Draconovox 2 billion into Spanabank (El Spana), 1 month

    Aug 26. The belacian states into The belacian states companies, 1 month

    Aug 26. Legionarya 10 million into Legionarya companies, 1 month

    Aug 26. Hopal 3 billion into University Medicine, 1 month

    Aug 26. Gavraska 35K into Pristine Urukian Fishing Co., 1 month

    Aug 26. Gavraska 1 billion into Gavraska companies, 1 month

    Aug 29. The Strangers Club 500 million into MegaSoft (Plus Nova Imperii), 1 month

    Aug 29. The Strangers Club 500 million into Anime Production Center (Phoenix city of fire), 1 month

    Aug 29. Koedric into BFP (Belned), 1 month

    Aug 29. Akumanga 500 million into Sam’s Sauce, 1 month

    Aug 29. Urukian 1 billion into تصنيع اذرع الشمس, 1 month

    Aug 29. The belacian states 500 million into Chipps Chips (Isolationstan), 1 month

    Aug 30. Gavraska 500 million into Khan’s Personal Fields (Khazar lechia), 1 month

    Aug 30. Gavraska 500 million into Golden Wall (The rome empire), 1 month

    Aug 30. Gavraska 200 million into La Branzika (Legionarya), 1 month

    Aug 30. Aussandries 1 billion+ into visitBelac (The belacian states), 1 month

    Sep 7. Legionarya 200 million into Legionarya companies, 1 month

    Sep 7. Romaniche 150 billion into Romaniche companies, 1 week

    Sep 7. Romaniche 50 billion into Emporious (Novos romanos), FN (Belned), BFP (Belned), NRAP (Novos romanos), Guns for Freedom (Legionarya), JP Capitalista (Novos romanos), La Branzinka (Legionarya), 1 week

    Sep 7. Plus Nova Imperii into Plus Nova Imperii companies, 1 week

    Sep 7. Plus Nova Imperii into Sorianora companies, 1 week

    Sep 7. Sorianora into Sorianora companies, 1 week

    Sep 7. Sorianora into Plus Nova Imperii companies, 1 week

    Sep 7. Koedric into Bunker Apparatus (Koedric) and FN (Belned), 1 week

    Sep 7. The Strangers Club 5 billion into The Strangers Club companies, 1 month

    Sep 7. The Strangers Club 2 billion into MegaSoft (Puppet States of Plus Nova Imperii), 1 month

    Sep 7. The Strangers Club 2 billion into Anime Production Center (Phoenix city of fire), 1 month

    IRPSFSM or IRSFADM INVESTMENTS

    Sep 7. The soldrania 100 million into Bitterlich (Sturengartz), 1 month (IRPSFSM Company Investment) - Company Ceased to Exist, Investment Firm Payed Back With the Company’s Remaining Value (4 Billion)

    SHOP:

    Pizza: Increases your companies’ investment deadlines by a month | Cost: 10,000 Stock Points | Renewal Cost: 1,500 Points (Must be paid within a month)

    Totem of Undying: Restores a company below 3,000 points back to the stock market with an initial value of 5,000 points | Cost: 0 Points, Message or Telegram to Peepeepoopoocaca (No renewal required)

    Chaos Emerald: Increases a company’s value by 10% each week | Cost: 25,000 Points | Renewal Cost: 3,000 Points (Must be paid within a week)

    Scooby Snack: Gives you 1,000 free karma points every month | Cost: 5,000 Points | Renewal Cost: 1,000 Points (Must be paid within a month)

    OWNED SHARES:

    Draconovox: 15% Shares in Mecham (22K), Rapni (21K), Tillamook Cheese (9K), Romanichean Cheese (14K), and Spanabank (23K)

    Sorianora: 10% Share in MegaSoft (23K)

    Gavraska: 1% Share in Pristine Fishing Co. (760)

    The Strangers Club: 15% Share in MegaSoft (34K), and Anime Production Center (12K)

    Koedric: 10% Share in BFP (12K)

    Romaniche: 20% Share in BFP (24K), Guns For Freedom (30K), FN (21K), Emporious (28K), NRAP (22K), JP Capitalista (28K), La Brazinka (18K)

    The belacian states: 10% Share in Chipps Chips (10K)

    Gavraska: 10% Share in Khan’s Personal Fields (6K), and Golden Wall (8K)

    Gavraska: 5% Share in La Brazinka (5K)

    Aussandries: 15% Share in visitBelac (20K)

    Indoinastan: 5% Share in U2 Space (6K), Satirop (4K), and Anime Production Center (4K)

    Koedric: 10% Share in FN (11K)

    SHARES ON SALE/IPOs:

    - 10% of jetBank (The belacian states)
    - 15% of Par Biir (The belacian states)
    - 4% of Belac Film Company (The belacian states)
    - 8% of Belac Bíçiclas (The belacian states)

    COMPANIES ON SALE:

    Here’s where companies who’s country owners have ceased to exist go to be hopefully bought by new countries and return to the stock market

    - Bing Software National, Info. Tech Company, Former Owner: Of altonianic islands, Value: 369K

    - Wooloo, Arms Manufacturing Company, Former Owner: Wooloo-land, Value: 7K

    - Ludwig and Beilschmit, Space Company, Former Owner: Gallar, Value: 95K

    - Glorious Potatoes Inc., Agriculture Company, Former Owner: Of altonianic islands Value: 75K

    - Haberlin, Military Aircraft Company, Former Owner: Sturengartz Value: 58K

    - Brausewetter, Natural Gas Company, Former Owner: Sturengartz Value: 40K

    - Sturencabel, Telecommunications Company, Former Owner: Sturengartz Value: 60K

    - The Golden Hour, Gambling Company, Former Owner: Gallar Value: 108K

    - Billy’s Chicken, Poultry Farms Company, Former Owner: Chicknland Value: 60K

    The Duke National Bank (The Rouge Christmas State):

    Loans given out to:
    Money deposited:
    Current credit to loan ratio: 1 credit point for 100 stock points

    Pankki Aussandri (Aussandries):

    Loans given out to:
    Money deposited:
    Current credit to loan ratio: 1 credit point for 100 stock points

    Sheffield Preudential Bank (Port ashley):

    Loans given out to:
    Money deposited:
    Current credit to loan ratio: 1 credit point for 100 stock points

    Pan-Caribbean Bank (Port ashley):

    Loans given out to:
    Money deposited:
    Current credit to loan ratio: 1 credit point for 100 stock points

    Natona Banca de’Belac (The belacian states):

    Loans given out to:
    Money deposited:
    Current credit to loan ratio: 1 credit point for 100 stock points

    Searland Stock Exchange (Moveyrsearlandez):

    Loans given out to:
    Money deposited:
    Current credit to loan ratio: 1 credit point for 100 stock points

    Exchequer (Indoinastan):

    Loans given out to:
    Money deposited:
    Current credit to loan ratio: 1 credit point for 100 stock points

    Gazprombank (Primorski Krai):

    Loans given out to:
    Money deposited:
    Current credit to loan ratio: 1 credit point for 100 stock points

    SpanaBank (El Spana):

    Loans given out to:
    Money deposited:
    Current credit to loan ratio: 1 credit point for 100 stock points

    jetBank (The belacian states):

    Loans given out to:
    Money deposited:
    Current credit to loan ratio: 1 credit point for 100 stock points

    COMPANY AWARDS
    COMPANY OF THE WEEK: Genos-Aelia company (Romaniche) - 158K
    MOST VALUABLE COMPANY: Bing Software National (Of altonianic islands) - 362K

    FORMER COMPANIES:
    All of these companies are now currently in the Inter Regional Primary Stock and Financial Support Market (IRPSFSM)

    - Gòngchǎn Baskets (Commie tebit)
    - LS’s Bigmouth (CALLMEDADDYSTRATTON)


    COUNTRY PROFILES:

    Plus Nova Imperii: Karma Multipliter: 0 Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    The Rouge Christmas State: Karma Multipliter: 0 Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
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    Romaniche: Karma Multipliter: 15K Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    Callmedaddystratton: Karma Multipliter: 0 Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    Aussandries: Karma Multipliter: 3K Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    The belacian states: Karma Multipliter: 1K Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
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    Belned: Karma Multipliter: 0 Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
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    Legionarya: Karma Multipliter: 9K Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
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    Phoenix city of fire: Karma Multipliter: 0 Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    Young industries: Karma Multipliter: 0 Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    The Strangers Club: Karma Multipliter: 8K Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    Ofiussia: Karma Multipliter: 0 Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    Wabobania: Karma Multipliter: 0 Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    Koedric: Karma Multipliter: 1K Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    New cica: Karma Multipliter: 0 Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    Rebirth Island: Karma Multipliter: 0 Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    Ugosal: Karma Multipliter: 0 Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    El Spana: Karma Multipliter: 0 Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    Swiftlandian Peoples Republic: Karma Multipliter: 0 Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    Draconovox: Karma Multipliter: 15K Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    The corporate sectors: Karma Multipliter: 0 Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    Slavic lechia: Karma Multipliter: 0 Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
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    Mindon: Karma Multipliter: 0 Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    Japanese ronald mc donald: Karma Multipliter: 0 Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    Hopal: Karma Multiplier: 0 Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    Gavraska: Karma Multiplier: 6K Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    Yes humans are recyclable: Karma Multiplier: 0 Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    Ethics committee of the scpf: Karma Multiplier: 0 Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    The soldrania: Karma Multiplier: 1K Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
    Dumb country: Karma Multiplier: 0 Points, Power Ups: 0, Partnership Bank: None
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    ”why are u gae”

    Read dispatch

    Spode Humbled Minions wrote:"I would have still called his arguments incoherent, considering the man just spammed the RMB with nonsense and, to my knowledge, has never provided a coherent response to any political issue"
    - Ibenta, on Blueflarst

    When i provide solutions they only see the spam of the other week

    As you know, the Citizens' Assembly is a new organ of the regional government. Because it doesn't have a speaker yet, Imperii Ecclesia took initiative and opened a vote on the bill, recently passed by the Senate, concerning the number of senators (three), election of senators (cumulative voting), and election of the speaker (plurality voting). When you have time, please vote on that bill here:

    https://nsrighttolife.proboards.com/thread/155/assembly-ratification-legislative-elections-act

    At present, the regional constitution permits the Assembly only an up-or-down vote on a bill that the Senate has passed. It further sets a minimum "voting period of at least three days." There is no constitutional maximum, so I'll leave the vote open until Wednesday -- when nominations open for the July regional election.

    It will be the task of the Assembly's first speaker, in consultation and with the assent of citizens, to develop rules and procedures for the Assembly -- debate periods, voting periods, removal procedures, and the like.

    --

    Later today or tonight, I'll catch up on message board posts, starting here. Even when I don't log in, I still check the message board from my phone, so I'm aware of the WA and RCN situations, which are bad and unfortunate.

    Mfw the only two people who want to break the embassy are

    1. The guy who banned me from the Discord twice for no reason against UM's orders

    2. The guy with a major conflict of interest who is currently up for banning and blocking people to cover for the literal TOS and lawbreaking of his regional official

    American antartica

    I officially have changed my vote to condemning the joke but not breaking the embassy as of right now because I believe it has more to do with the complex regional politics which I do not wish to ever be a part of and know too little about to make a wise decision on.

    However I do know what my beliefs on jokes are. I do believe jokes can be a good thing and sometimes even boost the morale of those going through dark times, however I draw the line at making light of other's suffering. I believe today's culture to be too used to doing that. If you can say anything under a joke, where does it end? I also believe that there are jokes that are made too soon. A joke about the Titanic 100 years later can be good, granted it the joke isn't essentially, "Hundreds of people died," "That's so funny lol!" that's sick and immoral and makes light of people's suffering no matter how long after the fact. People dying isn't funny. But if I made a joke about the Titanic a day after the fact and people are, as expected, still mourning, even if the joke is something like, "That iceberg was a Titanic problem for that ship, eh?" most people are going to think that's very rude and not funny. In other words if your joke is saying people are dying/died that is immoral. That is all I will say about that. I haven't heard the joke that members of LCN have made however I don't fancy the idea of laughing at a joke that is described as making light of abortion, an act which is literally murder.

    I say that if we are concerned with the well being of society and humanity, which I hope everyone here is, we should make a great effort to make sure that we care for the well being of families which includes the well being of parents and children as seen in the definition of a family. The family is the pillar of society. If the family is under attack, everything is under attack.

    Lagrodia

    Phydios wrote:I'm not getting into the Israel debate, except to say that the idea of Israel as "a huge ghetto" is grossly inaccurate. MAD applies for Israel as much as for anyone, and God will not let His chosen people vanish from the earth. They've been oppressed, scattered, and even threatened with extinction many times throughout history- yet look at them now. God still isn't going to give up on them.

    Well, it’s a good thing nobody here said that.

    Also - it’s not like all Jews live in Israel. In fact, less than half do.

    La france bonapartiste wrote:I had no idea there was so much drama on NationStates!

    Can't we just go back to talking about less divisive and noncontroversial topics, like Israeli-Palestinian relations?

    Lol, good one.

    Horatius Cocles, Phydios, and American antartica

    American antartica

    It would seem that another ally has been raided...

    While I don't normally like psychologists, I thought both of these articles made valid observations and would be of some interest:

    1) "Why Conservatives and Liberals Are Not Experiencing the Same Pandemic": https://heterodoxacademy.org/social-science-liberals-conservatives-covid-19/

    2) "Our Big Fight Over Nothing: The Political Spectrum Does Not Exist": https://heterodoxacademy.org/social-science-political-spectrum/

    Lagrodia

    La france bonapartiste

    I know candidate announcements aren't for another few days, but is anyone thinking of running for Senate or Speaker?

    Also, do we do roleplay here? Now that I'm on the map, I'm interested in global conquest persuasive diplomacy.

    American antartica wrote:I officially have changed my vote to condemning the joke but not breaking the embassy as of right now because I believe it has more to do with the complex regional politics which I do not wish to ever be a part of and know too little about to make a wise decision on.

    However I do know what my beliefs on jokes are. I do believe jokes can be a good thing and sometimes even boost the morale of those going through dark times, however I draw the line at making light of other's suffering. I believe today's culture to be too used to doing that. If you can say anything under a joke, where does it end? I also believe that there are jokes that are made too soon. A joke about the Titanic 100 years later can be good, granted it the joke isn't essentially, "Hundreds of people died," "That's so funny lol!" that's sick and immoral and makes light of people's suffering no matter how long after the fact. People dying isn't funny. But if I made a joke about the Titanic a day after the fact and people are, as expected, still mourning, even if the joke is something like, "That iceberg was a Titanic problem for that ship, eh?" most people are going to think that's very rude and not funny. In other words if your joke is saying people are dying/died that is immoral. That is all I will say about that. I haven't heard the joke that members of LCN have made however I don't fancy the idea of laughing at a joke that is described as making light of abortion, an act which is literally murder.

    I say that if we are concerned with the well being of society and humanity, which I hope everyone here is, we should make a great effort to make sure that we care for the well being of families which includes the well being of parents and children as seen in the definition of a family. The family is the pillar of society. If the family is under attack, everything is under attack.

    Re: this, I'd broadly agree with Steve Allen who said "Tragedy plus time plus the will to be amused equals comedy."

    The thing about abortion is that it is -- for the largest part -- an ongoing tragedy. If it was something that occurred 500 years ago but doesn't any more, then it'd probably be okay to joke about. We can make jokes about the Spanish Inquisition (vide Monty Python) because it was so long ago.

    Having said that, I also wouldn't say that any topic is off-limits to humour, especially good satirical humour. I say this, of course, from a position of being a major contributor to a satirical webgame that you're all currently playing. We've got issues about honour killing, human trafficking, rape and -- yes, as we're discussing -- about abortion. These issues cover serious ongoing topics, but equally they don't shy away from delivering jokes either. I think sometimes its not so much a question of verboten topics, but rather about good taste and sensitivity to all points of view.

    As an example, Issue 1319 was written by an editor that is largely in favour of abortion, and edited by one that is largely against abortion, though both of us are moderate in our stances in that we believe in some exceptions to our positions. That's an issue about abortions, and discusses a very serious issue -- what if aborting a foetus (that has low chance of life) is the best way to increase maternal chances of survival? And yet it's not an issue that avoids jokes altogether. There's a Minister of Problematic Trolleys as one speaker. Other speakers are mildly hypocritical -- one pro-life speaker has eight children that he never sees, for example. However we stop short of making light of dead babies (as many jokes in the world do, and I could tell you a few as exempla, but you wouldn't appreciate me doing so) because that's poor taste and an insensitive approach to the ongoing tragedy of human foetal deaths.

    To swing this back to topic, I think however that while it's allowable for folk to make jokes, and allowable for people to have a pro-choice stance, it's also entirely sound for a region that is explicitly about Right to Life to cut off links with a region that is explicitly against that stance.

    My main nation's region, Forest, wouldn't think twice about cutting off links with a region that has explicitly anti-environmental views. We respect the rights of other folk to adopt the Trump style environment-denier stance, we just don't want to be associated with them. On the other hand, while most Forest folk (like most people in the world in general) lean towards pro-choice rather than pro-life, that stance is not an issue when it comes to embassies, because the region's raison d'etre is environmentalism, not pro-choice.

    It just makes no sense for this region to act differently when it comes to explicitly anti-life views. If a few people there are pro-choice, that's a matter for persuasion and discussion. But when a region formally takes that stance, its time to cut off ties.

    Culture of Life, Horatius Cocles, Phydios, The Rouge Christmas State, and 3 othersNew waldensia, American antartica, and Lagrodia

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53385021

    Poland's Duda narrowly beats Trzaskowski in presidential vote

    The National Electoral Commission said Mr Duda had won 51.2% of the votes.

    It is Poland's slimmest presidential election victory since the end of communism in 1989.

    One of the major issues of the election was the future of the country's strained relations with the European Union.

    Mr Duda is a social conservative allied with the government led by the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, while Mr Trzaskowski is the socially liberal mayor of Warsaw.

    Fantastic news.

    Under ledzia

    The Catholic State of Eire wrote:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53385021

    Poland's Duda narrowly beats Trzaskowski in presidential vote

    The National Electoral Commission said Mr Duda had won 51.2% of the votes.

    It is Poland's slimmest presidential election victory since the end of communism in 1989.

    One of the major issues of the election was the future of the country's strained relations with the European Union.

    Mr Duda is a social conservative allied with the government led by the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, while Mr Trzaskowski is the socially liberal mayor of Warsaw.

    Fantastic news.

    I do not agree... PiS is way too submissive towards the US and they sell national firms and property to companies from other countries...

    Poland getting allied and being submissive to them seems like a curse of our nation since our initial parting. Be it USSR or USA, or even UK. A big country that doesn't care much for the good of our country that is only "collecting allies" in case or for a bigger threat. European Union is not the best, considering it is mostly of german and french influence, but the alliance with the eastern european countries would be better for Poland than US or EU would be.

    Since PiS rules in Poland all prices went larger and many state "funds" were raised, which many times are way bigger than the taxes that were supposed to be lowered, but were in truth only switched from one place to another, or even made bigger in some places. VAT did get lower in many cases, but that was not lowering the tax, but rather changing the way it is collected and its basis.

    La france bonapartiste wrote:I know candidate announcements aren't for another few days, but is anyone thinking of running for Senate or Speaker?

    Also, do we do roleplay here? Now that I'm on the map, I'm interested in global conquest persuasive diplomacy.

    I have officially opened another region for roleplay as we were not allowed to roleplay in this region, at least for now, as my stance on roleplay is completely different than the rest of the government at the moment.

    La france bonapartiste

    Under ledzia wrote:I have officially opened another region for roleplay as we were not allowed to roleplay in this region, at least for now, as my stance on roleplay is completely different than the rest of the government at the moment.

    Oh, that's too bad. Is anyone from here active?

    Under ledzia wrote:I do not agree... PiS is way too submissive towards the US and they sell national firms and property to companies from other countries...

    Well I could argue that Civic Platform is too submissive to the E.U. and they are positioning themselves as being the 'party of Europe' in Poland, no doubt they will argue for even more integration with the rest of Europe, wanting to tie the economy more and more with the single market, resulting in German-Franco monopolies. Not to mention more interference from the European troika, the European Parliament, the European Commission and European Court.

    Under ledzia wrote:Poland getting allied and being submissive to them seems like a curse of our nation since our initial parting. Be it USSR or USA, or even UK. A big country that doesn't care much for the good of our country that is only "collecting allies" in case or for a bigger threat. European Union is not the best, considering it is mostly of german and french influence, but the alliance with the eastern european countries would be better for Poland than US or EU would be.

    Poland's relationship with the U.S. is perhaps the best one given its surrounding political geography. The U.S. is powerful enough to ensure that countries such as Russia will not be too quick to apply pressure to the country, whilst it is far away enough to not politically dominate the country's political-economic structure, unlike the E.U.. In terms of other Eastern European countries I highly doubt Viktor Orbán of Hungary would be open to a party like Civic Platform and vice versa.

    Under ledzia wrote:Since PiS rules in Poland all prices went larger and many state "funds" were raised, which many times are way bigger than the taxes that were supposed to be lowered, but were in truth only switched from one place to another, or even made bigger in some places. VAT did get lower in many cases, but that was not lowering the tax, but rather changing the way it is collected and its basis.

    Whatever the PiS's failings in their economic policies may be it sure is a lot more better than neo-liberalism and if Civic Platform's former leaders are anything to go by, Donald Tusk for example, Poland would be better off with PiS in the long run.

    I'd also say that my main reason for liking Duda is because of his strong stances on issues like support for family, the public role of the Church, opposing LGBT ideology from creeping into Poland from the West and his stance on not allowing the E.U. to interfere with issues of national sovereignty. The PiS being economically on the left is also an attraction too.

    Quebecshire wrote:

    2B. You wanna talk tyranny? Waldy banned, blocked, and suppressed people in the RCN for mentioning their official literally breaking the law, and Discord TOS.

    I banned someone? That's news to me, because you literally made that up. Try again...

    Quebecshire wrote:2. The guy with a major conflict of interest who is currently up for banning and blocking people to cover for the literal TOS and lawbreaking of his regional official

    I have not brought the RCN/LCN issues into why I, as a RTL citizen and former government member (via New sequoyah) advocate for the suspension of embassies with the LCN.

    New waldensia wrote:I banned someone? That's news to me, because you literally made that up. Try again...I have not brought the RCN/LCN issues into why I, as a RTL citizen and former government member (via New sequoyah) advocate for the suspension of embassies with the LCN.

    Bro don’t act like it’s a huge gotcha moment when I said banned but you just kicked and suppressed everyone who brought it up

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