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Warmest fraternal greetings comrades.

I'm not one for the auld grey guy in the sky myself, but I recognise that much of the international proletariat celebrates this particular festival and I wish them best wishes.

Celle franca, Taliand, Dekks, Venovica, and 3 othersEzechard, Greater cebu, and Veyoris

Merry Christmas Everyone

Celle franca, Taliand, Veyoris, and Free Van Chet

ROLE-PLAY POST

Dear citizens of the DSA,

my name is Dia Psuke and since 1997 I am the president of the football team of my hometown: Fofokoy. Alla Fofokoy is the fourth most awarded team in the history of the Talamian Alfa League and one of the most famous in the whole country.

I am pleased to inform you that with the following factbook, TSS (Talamia Sports' Summaka) has decided to start an in-depth program on all the teams that make up the 2020-21 season of the highest Talamian football championship.

I take this opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, despite the bad news coming to us from the western front of our nation.

Now and forever, #EsmènSörslúth.

Alla Fofokoy

Full name

Alla Fofokoy
Eranos Laktis

Nickname

The Archers

Colours

Red and black

Founded

1917

Founder

Belos Oisto

Ground

Toxeutà

Capacity

60,000

Manager

Ensem Eio

Captain

Eletheu Atele

League

Alfa League

Alla Fofokoy Eranos Laktis, commonly referred to as Alla Fofokoy or simply Fofokoy, is a Talamian professional football club based in Fofokoy, Mentrenalio, founded in 1917. The team compete in the Alfa League, the top tier of Talamian football. Domestically, the club won 12 league titles, making it the fourth most successful in the Alfa League's history.

Their homeground since their foundation has been the Toxeutà stadium. The club has been nicknamed "The Archers" since its inception in 1917, as the founder himself, Belos Oisto, was a professional hunter. Oisto was also a woodcutter. For this reason, the team jerseys have always been red and black checkered, just like the typical uniforms of Fofokoy's lumberjacks.


History

Alla Fofokoy was founded in 1917 by Belos Oisto, hunter and woodcutter originally from Fofokoy, Mentrenalio.

Oisto, like many others in his field, emigrated at a young age, moving to Geitorisma, in the Pento region. At the time, Fofokoy's loggers were the most requested on the market, which found its main center in the region of the great Talamian forests. Oisto was very fond of his city and, setting aside a fair sum from his years in Geitorisma, he returned to Fofokoy. Passionate about football since childhood, after having played in the lower category teams of the capital of Pento, he decided to invest his money in founding a new football club. The city enthusiastically welcomed the birth of its first football representative and the mayor immediately handed over the keys of the city arena to Oisto, to have the home games played at what was then known as the "Politikammos Arena". The team started with the regional minor leagues.

The players were initially woodcutters friends of Oisto and he himself, for the first year, played for the team, before suffering a serious injury to his right fibula. As the passion for football grew throughout Talamia and Clinepelas United dominated the Alfa League, Alla Fofokoy amassed excellent results. To complete the climb to the top flight, the red and black club needed just ten years to live. Alla Fofokoy's debut in the Alfa League took place in the 1927-1928 season, after finishing second in the Beta League the previous year. With surprising results, in the first season in the top flight, the team was saved, ending the season in mid-table.

The following year marked a turning point in the club's history. With a large financial investment, the Purphero family bought the team, whose maintenance costs in the Alfa League had become too excessive for Oisto alone. Alla Fofokoy began aiming for the summit for the first time. A formidable transfer campaign allowed the team to position first fourth, then third and finally to win the first Scudetto in the 1930-1931 season, leaving FK Katacra behind and definitively interrupting the period of domination of Clinepalas United. The following decade was dominated by the Archers: three wins and three second places, before Talamian football surrendered first to the strength of Fortis Epops and then to the economic crisis.

Between 1944 and 1957, the team experienced a period of stagnation in the upper parts of the Alfa League standings, but never managed to replicate the successes of previous years. In the spring of 1957, founder Belos Oisto suddenly died of cardiac arrest. That year the team was in the relegation zone and wasn't collecting good results. The bad news, however, lifted the hearts of the players and, in a landscape that was increasingly neglecting football, Alla Fofokoy's was a real exception. The city and the fans flocked en masse into the stadiums, following the Archers everywhere, who with the thrust of their audience overturned the rankings, collecting a miraculous second place at the end of the season. The feat was repeated three years later, before the Alfa League finally stopped due to lack of money.

When Talamian football broke up, Alla Fofokoy was among the strongest and richest teams. For this it was not difficult to dominate the Mentrenalio Championship, the regional tournament which, together with the other six, replaced the Alfa League. Over the next five seasons, Alla Fofokoy took three wins, a second place and a third place. The 1965 victory allowed the team to qualify for the next, first edition of the newly formed Alfa League, in which the seven winners of the previous year's regional tournaments took part. With that success, Fofokoy excluded for the first time in history the city of Clinepalas from the top flight, and with it the teams SF Lampride and Ptoco, which had always taken part in the Alfa League since 1895.


Ensem Eio in the 1976-77 season

When the Alfa League was brought back to life, Alla Fofokoy immediately established itself as the strongest team, winning the new debut season and the next, in 1966 and 1967. The Purphero family had invested heavily in the youth sector in previous years. of the club and the city became a veritable hotbed of talent. Among all stood Ensem Eio, a very young eighteen who had made his debut in the first team in 1964, at the age of sixteen. The attacking midfielder became an idol and contributed to the creation of the new collective imagination of the football player. Man-symbol of the team, he soon became its captain and driver, playing his entire career with the Archers. Eio became the absolute record holder of Alla Fofokoy, captain of the national team and is still the footballer with the most goals scored in the Alfa League (212). For the next fifteen years, Ensem Eio led his team to win the title once again (1979-1980) and laid the foundation for the great successes of the next decade. Eio retired from professional football in 1981. On that occasion, the club decided to withdraw the number 48 shirt, his year of birth.

In the 1980s, the team witnessed its second change of ownership. The Purphero family, who for two generations had led the club to win six league titles and become one of the strongest teams in the entire nation, decided to sell the team to Oiktirmon Kampe, owner of the most important pharmaceutical company in Fofokoy, KampeOra. Reaping the good fruits and making them mature properly, Kampe entrusted the team bench to his icon, Ensem Eio, who at 34 became the youngest coach in the Alfa League. The determination and passion, together with the enthusiastic cheer that was reinvigorated by the choice of the new president, led Alla Fofokoy to be part of the so-called "Big Four". Along with Fortis Epops, Clinepalas United and FK Katacra, Fofokoy's team split the top four positions for the next ten years, winning the league three times and finishing second on two occasions.

The following decade did not confer the excellent results. Due to a dispute with the management, Ensem Eio left the bench in 1990, after having awarded the team his ninth championship. In 1992, Kampe himself decided to sell the company again but without finding a buyer. In order not to make the team fail and to preserve its good name and sporting history, the municipality bought it. Reduced funds and mismanagement led Alla Fofokoy to relegate for the first time since 1927 to the Beta League and to remain there for three years, between 1995 and 1998. The city found a buyer only in 1997: Dia Psuke, current president of the club . Psuke brought Ensem Eio back to the bench in 2000 and Alla Fofokoy in the top flight, starting a new round of victories. In the first twenty years of 2000, the Archers have won the Alfa League three times, collecting a second place as well. Eio has managed to evolve his idea of ​​football, basing his strategy completely on defense and giving life to the fearsome "FAS", the three-way defensive line starring Eletheu Atele (current team captain), Timo Fulatto and Yante Skatezzo. Alla Fofokoy is currently the fourth most winning club in Alfa League history, behind Fortis Epops, Clinepalas United and Ptoco.



2019-20 and 2020-21 home kit

Colours and badge

Red and black are the colours which have represented the club throughout its entire history. They were chosen by the founder, Belos Oisto. The city of Fofokoy is famous for its loggers, many of whom move to the nearby Pento region, where they find work in the large forests. Oisto was one of the most famous woodcutters born in Fofokoy and, returning to his hometown after setting aside a small fortune, he decided to found a representative football team of his city. In honor of his craft, he decided that his team would have wore the same colors and patterns as the shirts worn by Fofokoy's loggers.

Thus were born the uniforms and the crest, red and black checkered with dull green details - to remember the nearby region of Pento, where Oisto lived for all his youth.

The away kit has always been completely green, with red and black details, therefore in inverted colors compared to the first. Over the years, the color of shorts and socks has always changed but they have been black for two decades now.



A panoramic view over the Toxeutà stadium in 2020

Stadium

Since their foundation, back in 1917, Alla Fofokoy always played their matches in the Toxeutà arena. It was built in 1882 and for the first forty years of its life it served as a civic arena for the city of Fofokoy. Its name was Politikammos Arena. Inside it hosted athletics, rugby and numerous other sports competitions, among which archery stood out. The Archery World Cup took place there every two years.

When the football team was founded in 1917, the mayor of Fofokoy immediately proposed Politikammos as the home stadium for the newly born club. Oisto accepted the proposal and since that day, Alla Fofokoy have never moved home. The name of Politikammos changed into Toxeutà when Oisto died, in 1957. The stadium was named after Oisto's nickname.

The structure was completely renovated in 2013, together with the surrounding area, following the reconstruction campaign of the Fofokoy area which had become more problematic. On 1 August 2013, a banner reading #FofokoyUinaToxeutà (Fofokoy for Toxeutà) was hoisted at the gates and the next day fans watched their team's first match in the new stadium. Alla Fofokoy won 2-0 against Ptoco.


Players

No.

Pos.

Nation

Player

Date of birth

Value

1

GK

Talamia

Nefele Legdido

07/10/1993

₢5.700.000

2

DF

Talamia

Terpsi Kalon-Brion

06/12/1996

₢4.000.000

3

DF

Talamia

Lepto Kakdeinai

26/06/1998

₢1.900.000

5

DF

Talamia

Yante Skatezzo

26/06/1994

₢10.000.000

6

DF

Talamia

Akontio Barys

08/05/2000

₢2.800.000

7

FW

Talamia

Ptirn Lagios

23/05/1996

₢12.000.000

8

MF

Talamia

Ianouarios Gale

09/01/1988

₢3.500.000

9

FW

Talamia

Krusous Oklosgonos

03/10/1991

₢9.000.000

10

MF

Talamia

Oiktirmon Akte

18/08/1993

₢8.000.000

11

FW

Talamia

Malasafes Arcosarisa

05/07/1992

₢4.750.000

12

DF

Talamia

Aneer Logariasmoi

02/03/1994

₢1.000.000

13

DF

Talamia

Timo Fulatto

19/03/1989

₢12.500.000

15

MF

Talamia

Proistamai Agamoira

22/08/1989

₢900.000

17

MF

Talamia

Onoma Akra

18/01/1995

₢2.200.000

18

DF

Talamia

Eletheu Atele

08/05/1985

₢7.500.000

20

MF

Talamia

Kauarotes Tharakis

01/04/1996

₢5.000.000

21

MF

Talamia

Lignus Mpala

30/01/1986

₢850.000

22

MF

Talamia

Thraskema Apopatos

22/04/2002

₢7.000.000

26

DF

Talamia

Alex Romechora

12/05/1995

₢4.100.000

32

GK

Talamia

Kristos Ekete

08/07/1987

₢300.000

61

MF

Mon silanies

Max Phelps

28/05/1998

₢7.250.000

66

DF

Talamia

Alexaneer Pleurabraku

24/04/1986

₢850.000

64

FW

Talamia

Arees Ropalov

31/10/1994

₢3.000.000

77

FW

Talamia

Ughiain Leon

10/06/1999

₢3.200.000

99

GK

Talamia

Polemiste Ntomenika

25/02/1999

₢6.000.000


Club honours

Alfa League

  • Champions: 1930-31, 1932-33, 1935-36, 1966, 1967, 1979-80, 1983-84, 1988-89, 1989-90, 2005-06, 2008-09, 2019-20

  • Runners-up: 1931-32, 1933-34, 1934-35, 1944-45, 1952, 1957, 1960, 1981-82, 1985-86, 1993-94, 2001-02, 2015-16

Krater Talamia

  • Champions:

  • Runners-up:

Mentrenalio Championship

  • Champions: 1961, 1964, 1965

  • Runners-up: 1963

Talamia Kraterolo

  • Champions:

  • Runners-up:

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Veyoris, Absovenia, and Xashkewenik

Indeed brave of you to assume I use the gregorian calendar

The Absovenia Calendar is different from you average calendar. in your usual calendar, it's 12 Months, 365 Days, 4 Seasons, et cetera. In the Absovenian Calander there are 6 Months, 28 days in a month, 168 days in a year. Instead of being based off the Earth orbiting the Sun, it's about the Moon orbiting the Earth. 3 Absovenian years, the make room for an extra day called Jaex Koeck to make up for the .3 percent of time left out on the end of the Absovenian year.
Read factbook

Nominations for Councilor of Domestic Affairs, Secretary General, and High Judge have been opened up in the DSA Forum. Check your telegram from me for further details or feel free to send me a telegram.

Role-Players

The Ministry of RP has discussed Jeb!ism, aka the DSA RP version of Catholicism. With abbeys and cathedrals being a confirmed thing to exist in our world, we thought it would make sense to continue the line of thinking and talking about the Jeb!ist version of the Vatican.

The Problematican is the chief church of the worldwide Jeb!ist Church. The Problematican will be located somewhere. As to where? That's for the RP community to decide. The Problematican will be a new NPC, small like Vatican City as it only serves to hold the Church. Where do you all feel it should go. We decided it is best not to have it in the DSA Capital because we shouldn't just put everything in there. Plus, it being its own thing makes it more official.

So, where should we put this new NPC?

Student Loan Debt wrote:Role-Players

The Ministry of RP has discussed Jeb!ism, aka the DSA RP version of Catholicism. With abbeys and cathedrals being a confirmed thing to exist in our world, we thought it would make sense to continue the line of thinking and talking about the Jeb!ist version of the Vatican.

The Problematican is the chief church of the worldwide Jeb!ist Church. The Problematican will be located somewhere. As to where? That's for the RP community to decide. The Problematican will be a new NPC, small like Vatican City as it only serves to hold the Church. Where do you all feel it should go. We decided it is best not to have it in the DSA Capital because we shouldn't just put everything in there. Plus, it being its own thing makes it more official.

So, where should we put this new NPC?

In Romaxia near the holiest land Liossalde

Student Loan Debt wrote:Role-Players

The Ministry of RP has discussed Jeb!ism, aka the DSA RP version of Catholicism. With abbeys and cathedrals being a confirmed thing to exist in our world, we thought it would make sense to continue the line of thinking and talking about the Jeb!ist version of the Vatican.

The Problematican is the chief church of the worldwide Jeb!ist Church. The Problematican will be located somewhere. As to where? That's for the RP community to decide. The Problematican will be a new NPC, small like Vatican City as it only serves to hold the Church. Where do you all feel it should go. We decided it is best not to have it in the DSA Capital because we shouldn't just put everything in there. Plus, it being its own thing makes it more official.

So, where should we put this new NPC?

Not in the former territory of Sörslúth, please

Happy new year everyone. Let's hope it will be the year in which things can finally become a bit more normal again.

Terlibe, Celle franca, Basiliania, Student Loan Debt, and 7 othersDekks, Syvis, Araucal, Talamia, Venovica, Absovenia, and Kathina dakani

Member of Congress, you have approximately 31 hours left before the nomination period for Secretary General and Councilor of Domestic Affairs ends.
https://thedsa.proboards.com/thread/692/special-election-nominations

As the sole nominees for each position, La Pays De Soliel will serve as Interim Councilor of Domestic Affairs and Dekks will serve as Interim Secretary General for the remaining time of the 1st Council.
https://thedsa.proboards.com/thread/692/special-election-nominations

Talamia and U ivu

Members of Congress, you have less than 48 hours before Nominations for the General Election of High Judge are over.
https://thedsa.proboards.com/thread/691/10th-high-judge-nominations

Absovenia

Napoli-sicily

Howdy

Absovenia

Napoli-sicily wrote:Howdy

Hello

Forgot to change the flag back

Hey hey, it's your fossilised old ex-SecGen ex-Administrator Emeritus here. Just letting you all know I'll be letting this nation CTE soon as I haven't been using NationStates for a long time. But if anyone ever wants to chat about old DSA stuff, or my pyNSrecruit software, you can reach me on Twitter @RunasSudo

Cheers!

Herrebrugh, Terlibe, Celle franca, Basiliania, and 11 othersAlvero, Taliand, Student Loan Debt, Dekks, An Tir Glas, Talamia, Venovica, United syndicates of sol, Maupedonia, Veyoris, and Kathina dakani

South jarvis wrote:Hey hey, it's your fossilised old ex-SecGen ex-Administrator Emeritus here. Just letting you all know I'll be letting this nation CTE soon as I haven't been using NationStates for a long time. But if anyone ever wants to chat about old DSA stuff, or my pyNSrecruit software, you can reach me on Twitter @RunasSudo

Cheers!

thank you for all you did for the region over the years. You really helped to make the region better

Terlibe, Taliand, Dekks, United syndicates of sol, and 2 othersVeyoris, and Kathina dakani

Role-Players

Once upon a time a player kept a list of languages that could be found in our RP world. Then that player stopped and later CTE'd. I thought it would be good to bring it back. We now have a list in the RP Dispatch. Read it up and contact me if you want to include a language from your nation in there


Minister of Role-Play
Osreton

Department Directors
Director of Cartography: Student Loan Debt
Director of Sports Leagues: Talamia
Director of War & Peace: Sessnia

Council Aide
Veyoris
Kanoshu
Student Loan Debt
LinkAtma Kathina Vela


Introduction

The DSA has an active Role-Play ministry that allows any and all DSA members to participate. Role-Play includes regional maps, sports events, regional government role-play, and much more.

Want some tips on how to get involved in DSA Role-Play? We have a dispatch for ya.

page=dispatch/id=1135954


DSA Base RP Rules
Rules for Roleplay

Disputes

• MoRP and Aides have final say. If you wish to dispute something, do not do it in the midst of the RP. TG’s, Discord or the forum are more appropriate.

Technology

• If you wish to have some more advanced technology in your RP, we have a soft limit (as in "don't go right up to the limit") of allowing tech up to what is predicted to be possible by 2150 A.D. IRL in advancement. It’s enough to allow you to be the sci-fi utopia you want and low enough to prevent stuff like dyson spheres. Most nations are somewhere between modern and near-future (within about 15 years) leveled in technology.
• Due to advancements in RL A.I. and that there are issues of civil rights and citizenship in official NationStates Issues, sapient A.I. citizens are allowed.

Fantasy

• We allow some low fantasy elements in our RP. Keep in mind, however, that this is low fantasy, not high. Don’t get super fantastical. Yeah a little weirdness is fine, but don’t go all fantastical like fireballs, dragons, your crush liking you back, and things you know are generally considered pretty far out there in the realm of fantasy

More Complex RP

• Nations engaging in RP beyond occasional comments should have their basic government details available in a factbook. If it doesn’t, the nation’s rankings will be used as approximate details.

Consent

• Our RP is consent-based. If you're publishing RP of your own nation and characters, this doesn't matter. However, if you're interacting with other nations or characters that you do not control (if another player controls them), then it has to be RP you both agree on. Like if you wanted to do a military invasion of another player's nation, both you and that player have to agree to that RP happening (but your nations don't need to ;) ). This helps reduce stress and tension between players that may not want to have RP forced onto them.



Discord Is Great For Role-Play
If you do not know what Discord is, it is a free voice, video and instant text chat app that can be accessed on your computer or phone. Many nations in the region use Discord to communicate, share articles and memes they like, and sometimes have voice chats. A lot of role-play has also been occurring in our Discord through specific channels designated for role-play and RP events. If you'd like to get in on all of this,LinkClick Here To Join Our Regional Discord



The Delusia Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for major world entities. It's basically our version of wikipedia. You can add in your own information and join it. LinkFill out one of the forms about it here and it'll be added soon enough. Then, you can read all about what there is below

Linkhttps://delusiafactbook.weebly.com/

The DSA has an extensive collection of radio stations, all dedicated to bring music to you.
Here are the officially recognized stations of the DSA.
page=dispatch/id=1314659

The Democratic Socialist Assembly has it's own form of currency: the Labor Credit. 7 different major leftists have been selected to be on our money. It is not required that residents use this currency, but it'd be pretty cool if you did.
5℄: LinkClement Attlee
10℄: Countess Markievicz
20℄: LinkEmma Goldman
50℄: LinkJim Larkin
100℄: LinkJoe Hill
200℄: LinkEugene Debs
500℄: LinkRosa Luxemburg

There are also subdivisions of the Labor Credit into coins: .1, .2, .5, 1 ℄, and 2 ℄.

The PCB also has official credits cards

Here is a Linklink to a Google Drive for high resolution.
Here is a Link link to our Old forums for the official page.

The People's Central Bank

Acting as the Central Bank of the DSA's Labor Credit, the PCB sets the interest rates, conversion rates, and value of the DSA Labor Credit. The PCB is run by the Governor of the People's Central Bank

LinkAll legislation regarding the PCB can be found here


La Sagezza University is an IC university designed by Student Loan Debt for the RP community. Based on an old DSA Forum subfolder, this university can be used by RPers to enhance their Role-Play. Click on the link below to view the La Sagezza University Website

Linkhttps://sites.google.com/site/sagezzauni/

Regional maps

The Democratic Socialist Assembly has an active scene and rich history in map creation and development. Currently, the DSA has over 19 different maps, from political and population maps to climate and time zone maps. For full detail on our maps and the ability to be on our maps, read our Map Dispatch to learn all about it. The Dispatch is where all our maps are stored as well as an archive of all of our past maps going as far back as 2011.

page=dispatch/id=1233080



DSA Capital

The DSA Capital is the diplomatic center of the world. Here are some maps of the place

page=dispatch/id=1176969


DSA Football Federation

The DSAFF is an extensive football-based sporting organization. Join others in a global competition on the field in our most active sporting realm of the DSA.

Linkhttps://talamians.wixsite.com/dsaff

For more info, get in contact with Talamia, the Director of Sports Leagues

DSA Olympia Games

The DSA hosted our own form of the Olympic Games on June 21st, first day of (northern) summer, and lasted until June 24th. Many countries won medals, and many countries brought glory and pride to their people. Learn more about it by clicking below.

page=dispatch/id=1030691

We have also hosted Winter Olympia Games

page=dispatch/id=1491660


DSA Ocean Race

Ever heard of the Volvo Ocean Race? They wish they could hold a candle to the DSA Ocean Race. This race happens every year in late spring and is a treacherous race around the world with nothing but a sail boat.

page=dispatch/id=1366695

Here is a link for the 2019 Ocean Race
Linkhttps://thedsa.proboards.com/thread/346/dsa-ocean-race-2019

The current Minister allows for role-playing warfare. However, there are a few rules that this current administration has for war to be official and recognized.

page=dispatch/id=1082272

June is LGBT Pride Month. With that comes this website that celebrates Socavija Pride Events that take place in the cultural center of the DSA Capital!

LinkClick Here For Pride

About every week, the Ministry of Role Play puts out a question to the region's RPers about what their country is like. It can range through a variety of things, like government, customs, sciences, culture, black markets, lots of thing. It's to try and help people better flesh out their RP country and hopefully be fun. This is an archive of all the questions asked so far.

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NS-based Role Play is volatile. People join and leave NS all the time and that extends to regions and their RP. Someone may join the map, be very active in RP, but one day leave, resulting in all their RP basically being nothing now. As such, it can't really be done to make any concrete timeline of DSA RP world history. However, we can think bigger and more loose and so we have Ages: general time periods that saw some sort of pattern.

These Ages are optional to be part of and are vague enough but specific enough to give players a lot of liberty. It can be fun to add on to the lore of these times, so we encourage you to have some RP in these times. Below are the Ages that the community agreed are fun to have. If you have some RP that fits into this period, put it in a dispatch or on the LinkDSA Forums and share it with Student Loan Debt to have it be added to the list. If it's a long multi-player RP too much to copy down, write up a summary if you want.

Age of Conflict
Somewhere between the mid-1800s and early 1900s, wars were fought across the globe. Some were civil, some world-spanning. While specific span differs from scholar to scholar, this period is generally thought to have concluded with the establishment of the DSA Capital to serve as a diplomatic center for all nations

In our RP world of Delusia, players have a lot of choices, including what languages their nation have. Since we are not on Earth, that means that all languages get their own unique names. If you have a language that you want to be officially yours, send Student Loan Debt a telegram and he'll add it to the list.

You can choose a language that already exists on Earth or you can make up one of your own! You don't have to make a whole conlang for a made up one, you can just say it exists and we'll add it. You can claim multiple languages, but I recommend picking less spoken languages if you do that. It'd be unfair if one player controlled English, French, Spanish, Mandarin, and Arabic, you know?

Below is the key as to how to read this

# Language Family Name
Language (IRL Counterpart, If Any) Nations That Primarily Use It

1 Jermanic (Germanic)

  • DSA Basic (English and the Global Lingua Franca) DSA Capital

  • Algkuk (Swedish/Icelandic) Sessnia

2 Loquenic (Latin)

  • Andurean (Spanish) Veyoris

  • Borqian (Italian) Isole del paradiso

3 Ancient Omiloumenic (Hellenic)

4 Xingalese Xingal

5 Debtian

6 Dakani Atma Kathina Vela

7 Joseonic (Koreanic)

8 Jazniksic (Balto-Slavic)

9 Terlibin (Austronesian)

10 Romaxiatic (Afro-Asiatic)

11 Osretonian Osreton

12 Arainean (Aryan)

  • Sokhainean (Middle Persian) Safiloa

13 Tivaruan (Dravidian)

14 Maliantun (Niger–Congo)

  • Bontinan (Zulu) Cenna bontopia

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Taliand, Talamia, United syndicates of sol, and Bhexa

Student Loan Debt wrote:Role-Players

Once upon a time a player kept a list of languages that could be found in our RP world. Then that player stopped and later CTE'd. I thought it would be good to bring it back. We now have a list in the RP Dispatch. Read it up and contact me if you want to include a language from your nation in there


Minister of Role-Play
Osreton

Department Directors
Director of Cartography: Student Loan Debt
Director of Sports Leagues: Talamia
Director of War & Peace: Sessnia

Council Aide
Veyoris
Kanoshu
Student Loan Debt
LinkAtma Kathina Vela


Introduction

The DSA has an active Role-Play ministry that allows any and all DSA members to participate. Role-Play includes regional maps, sports events, regional government role-play, and much more.

Want some tips on how to get involved in DSA Role-Play? We have a dispatch for ya.

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DSA Base RP Rules
Rules for Roleplay

Disputes

• MoRP and Aides have final say. If you wish to dispute something, do not do it in the midst of the RP. TG’s, Discord or the forum are more appropriate.

Technology

• If you wish to have some more advanced technology in your RP, we have a soft limit (as in "don't go right up to the limit") of allowing tech up to what is predicted to be possible by 2150 A.D. IRL in advancement. It’s enough to allow you to be the sci-fi utopia you want and low enough to prevent stuff like dyson spheres. Most nations are somewhere between modern and near-future (within about 15 years) leveled in technology.
• Due to advancements in RL A.I. and that there are issues of civil rights and citizenship in official NationStates Issues, sapient A.I. citizens are allowed.

Fantasy

• We allow some low fantasy elements in our RP. Keep in mind, however, that this is low fantasy, not high. Don’t get super fantastical. Yeah a little weirdness is fine, but don’t go all fantastical like fireballs, dragons, your crush liking you back, and things you know are generally considered pretty far out there in the realm of fantasy

More Complex RP

• Nations engaging in RP beyond occasional comments should have their basic government details available in a factbook. If it doesn’t, the nation’s rankings will be used as approximate details.

Consent

• Our RP is consent-based. If you're publishing RP of your own nation and characters, this doesn't matter. However, if you're interacting with other nations or characters that you do not control (if another player controls them), then it has to be RP you both agree on. Like if you wanted to do a military invasion of another player's nation, both you and that player have to agree to that RP happening (but your nations don't need to ;) ). This helps reduce stress and tension between players that may not want to have RP forced onto them.



Discord Is Great For Role-Play
If you do not know what Discord is, it is a free voice, video and instant text chat app that can be accessed on your computer or phone. Many nations in the region use Discord to communicate, share articles and memes they like, and sometimes have voice chats. A lot of role-play has also been occurring in our Discord through specific channels designated for role-play and RP events. If you'd like to get in on all of this,LinkClick Here To Join Our Regional Discord



The Delusia Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for major world entities. It's basically our version of wikipedia. You can add in your own information and join it. LinkFill out one of the forms about it here and it'll be added soon enough. Then, you can read all about what there is below

Linkhttps://delusiafactbook.weebly.com/

The DSA has an extensive collection of radio stations, all dedicated to bring music to you.
Here are the officially recognized stations of the DSA.
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The Democratic Socialist Assembly has it's own form of currency: the Labor Credit. 7 different major leftists have been selected to be on our money. It is not required that residents use this currency, but it'd be pretty cool if you did.
5℄: LinkClement Attlee
10℄: Countess Markievicz
20℄: LinkEmma Goldman
50℄: LinkJim Larkin
100℄: LinkJoe Hill
200℄: LinkEugene Debs
500℄: LinkRosa Luxemburg

There are also subdivisions of the Labor Credit into coins: .1, .2, .5, 1 ℄, and 2 ℄.

The PCB also has official credits cards

Here is a Linklink to a Google Drive for high resolution.
Here is a Link link to our Old forums for the official page.

The People's Central Bank

Acting as the Central Bank of the DSA's Labor Credit, the PCB sets the interest rates, conversion rates, and value of the DSA Labor Credit. The PCB is run by the Governor of the People's Central Bank

LinkAll legislation regarding the PCB can be found here


La Sagezza University is an IC university designed by Student Loan Debt for the RP community. Based on an old DSA Forum subfolder, this university can be used by RPers to enhance their Role-Play. Click on the link below to view the La Sagezza University Website

Linkhttps://sites.google.com/site/sagezzauni/

Regional maps

The Democratic Socialist Assembly has an active scene and rich history in map creation and development. Currently, the DSA has over 19 different maps, from political and population maps to climate and time zone maps. For full detail on our maps and the ability to be on our maps, read our Map Dispatch to learn all about it. The Dispatch is where all our maps are stored as well as an archive of all of our past maps going as far back as 2011.

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DSA Capital

The DSA Capital is the diplomatic center of the world. Here are some maps of the place

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DSA Football Federation

The DSAFF is an extensive football-based sporting organization. Join others in a global competition on the field in our most active sporting realm of the DSA.

Linkhttps://talamians.wixsite.com/dsaff

For more info, get in contact with Talamia, the Director of Sports Leagues

DSA Olympia Games

The DSA hosted our own form of the Olympic Games on June 21st, first day of (northern) summer, and lasted until June 24th. Many countries won medals, and many countries brought glory and pride to their people. Learn more about it by clicking below.

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We have also hosted Winter Olympia Games

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DSA Ocean Race

Ever heard of the Volvo Ocean Race? They wish they could hold a candle to the DSA Ocean Race. This race happens every year in late spring and is a treacherous race around the world with nothing but a sail boat.

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Here is a link for the 2019 Ocean Race
Linkhttps://thedsa.proboards.com/thread/346/dsa-ocean-race-2019

The current Minister allows for role-playing warfare. However, there are a few rules that this current administration has for war to be official and recognized.

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June is LGBT Pride Month. With that comes this website that celebrates Socavija Pride Events that take place in the cultural center of the DSA Capital!

LinkClick Here For Pride

About every week, the Ministry of Role Play puts out a question to the region's RPers about what their country is like. It can range through a variety of things, like government, customs, sciences, culture, black markets, lots of thing. It's to try and help people better flesh out their RP country and hopefully be fun. This is an archive of all the questions asked so far.

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NS-based Role Play is volatile. People join and leave NS all the time and that extends to regions and their RP. Someone may join the map, be very active in RP, but one day leave, resulting in all their RP basically being nothing now. As such, it can't really be done to make any concrete timeline of DSA RP world history. However, we can think bigger and more loose and so we have Ages: general time periods that saw some sort of pattern.

These Ages are optional to be part of and are vague enough but specific enough to give players a lot of liberty. It can be fun to add on to the lore of these times, so we encourage you to have some RP in these times. Below are the Ages that the community agreed are fun to have. If you have some RP that fits into this period, put it in a dispatch or on the LinkDSA Forums and share it with Student Loan Debt to have it be added to the list. If it's a long multi-player RP too much to copy down, write up a summary if you want.

Age of Conflict
Somewhere between the mid-1800s and early 1900s, wars were fought across the globe. Some were civil, some world-spanning. While specific span differs from scholar to scholar, this period is generally thought to have concluded with the establishment of the DSA Capital to serve as a diplomatic center for all nations

In our RP world of Delusia, players have a lot of choices, including what languages their nation have. Since we are not on Earth, that means that all languages get their own unique names. If you have a language that you want to be officially yours, send Student Loan Debt a telegram and he'll add it to the list.

You can choose a language that already exists on Earth or you can make up one of your own! You don't have to make a whole conlang for a made up one, you can just say it exists and we'll add it. You can claim multiple languages, but I recommend picking less spoken languages if you do that. It'd be unfair if one player controlled English, French, Spanish, Mandarin, and Arabic, you know?

Below is the key as to how to read this

# Language Family Name
Language (IRL Counterpart, If Any) Nations That Primarily Use It

1 Jermanic (Germanic)

  • DSA Basic (English and the Global Lingua Franca) DSA Capital

  • Algkuk (Swedish/Icelandic) Sessnia

2 Loquenic (Latin)

  • Andurean (Spanish) Veyoris

  • Borqian (Italian) Isole del paradiso

3 Ancient Omiloumenic (Hellenic)

4 Xingalese Xingal

5 Debtian

6 Dakani Atma Kathina Vela

7 Joseonic (Koreanic)

8 Jazniksic (Balto-Slavic)

9 Terlibin (Austronesian)

10 Romaxiatic (Afro-Asiatic)

11 Osretonian Osreton

12 Arainean (Aryan)

  • Sokhainean (Middle Persian) Safiloa

13 Tivaruan (Dravidian)

14 Maliantun (Niger–Congo)

  • Bontinan (Zulu) Cenna bontopia

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ROLE-PLAY POST

It's Sunday and you know what that means!

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, here is Auxe Aggelia, accompanied as always by Gian Gianvilipendio, to tell you about the Alfa League matches that took place this matchday.

The television program is suddenly interrupted.

2020/11/10
Barute Domonodo (acclaimed Talamian war reporter) is sent by the editorial staff of Pro Diorux News on the front between Talamia and the fascist state of Sörslúth.
Sörslúth's totalitarianism prevents any news from reaching and crossing the border. Numerous voices from Ereterma, the Talamian city closest to the border, tell of a possible organized riot by the few survivors of the Dùth and Chasach ethnic groups.
The Aírleth lineage has now reached its fourth generation and King Kwonchobh Aírleth reigns undisturbed, after his ancestor A'Chiad Aírleth took power in 1877 by military action.

Two months later, Barute is ready to tell what happened in Sörslúth, in a weekly report that you can follow exclusively here, on Pro Diorux News.

Find more news about Sörslúth's history following this link:

Deachdaire Poblachd de
Sörslúth

Ubi Pax et Decor, ibi Lætitia

Population

134 million (estimated)

Capital

Eigobair

Official language

Cànan

Religion

Kreideamh

Demonym

Sörslàidir

Government

Fascist one-party
totalitarian dictatorship

President

Kwonchobh Aírleth

Foundation

29 October 1877

Currency

Ergead (Є)

Time zone

UTC

Calling code

+393

Internet TLD

.sor

Sörslúth - officially Deachdaire Poblachd de Sörslúth (Basic: Totalitarian Republic of Sörslúth) - is a fascist one-party totalitarian dictatorship, located on the east of the Romaxia continent, in the south-west of the Democratic Socialist Assembly, and bordered by Talamia to the west. According to article 1 of the constitution, Sörslúth is an "independent socialist State".

Until 1877, the state was known as Asghaid and was a federal republic governed according to democratic principles by elected presidents. On 29 October 1877, taking advantage of the population's discontent over a severe economic crisis, General A'Chiad Aírleth took power with a coup d'etat. Since then, the Aírleth dynasty has reigned supreme over the nation, reaching its fourth generation today.

Located on the edge of the Ghasi desert, its capital is Eigobair. The official language is Cànan, a modern constructed language, theorized towards the end of the nineteenth century by the then official government linguist Dùnadh Beul. In some remote parts of the state, some ancient linguistic stock spoken by indigenous peoples still resists today. The unofficial spoken dialects are Dùth and Chasach. The national animal is the Bonelli's Eagle (Aquila Fasciata), symbol of absolute power.


Etymology

Reconstructing the etymology of the word "Sörslúth" is very simple. When in 1877 General Aírleth took power, he surrounded himself with the most cultured men of the time, in order to exploit them for propaganda purposes. The linguist Beul was commissioned to create a new language for the newly born state. Beul was very loyal to the General, having previously been his companion in the army, and completed the job within a month. On 1st December 1877 the "Cànan Foclair" (Cànan Dictionary) was published and distributed to every family in the nation. On the first page of the book - which is still used today as a grammar text in primary schools - stood the description of the word Sörslúth, the very first constructed by Beule and the new name of the country. In Basic, Sörslúth literally means "freed from the past" (Fìor-Ghaidian's words "Seaar": "free" + "Lùth": "past").

In order not to create too great difficulties in the population, the new language found its roots in an ancient Asghaidian dialect, then spoken by General Aírleth and considered by him as the purest strain of the fragmented languages of the nation: Fìor-Ghaidian. At the time Asghaid had nine different dialects in its territory, all united by the common stock of the ancient dead language Gunsgriobt. After the publication of the new dictionary, it was difficult to make the new language take root. In the cities, many people rebelled and were consequently killed, while in rural areas it was necessary to fight illiteracy first. Aírleth decided to oppose by force. Following the great genocide of 1880, five of the nine ancient dialects disappeared. The nomadic peoples Dùth and Chasach managed to escape the massacre, thanks to their desert survival techniques and theri languages are still today alive, even if not officially recognized by the government.

The standard way to refer to a citizen of Sörslúth is "Sörslàidir".


History

Antiquity
According to the "Leabhar-Làimhe ùr ’Fhalbh" (New Handbook of the Past), Sörslúth's history begins in the year 1877. There is no trace of Asghaid or of what came before in the book. Fortunately, thanks to the emigrants to the Talamian land of the 1930s, we have received some ancient Asghaidian history books.

Asghaid was legendarily founded by a woman named Todhar, queen of the waters, who, fertilized by a squirrel, generated all the Asghaidian soil giving birth to it. The effort was so great that Todhar died, leaving the squirrel Feòlag to have to put order in the mess left by the birth. Feòlag divided the earth into nine parts, the waters into nine parts, the sky into nine parts and the men into nine tribes. He managed to reign benignly on the new country for nine hundred ninety-nine years, before he died. At his death, the waters shook and dried up: Todhar and Feòlag could finally be reunited after life. The drying up of the waters gave birth to the Ghasi desert.


Ancient ruins of an inhabited center
of the Gainmheach tribe in the Ghasi desert.

The following nine tribes corresponded to the nine populations which then founded the nine states of which the Asghadian Republic was formed:
  • Biadh

  • Chasach

  • Dùth

  • Fìor-Ghaid

  • Gainmheach

  • Kraobh

  • Speur

  • Thramh

  • Uisge

Each tribe had its own peculiar form of government, each with its small differences. However, they were all united by developing around a family unit and by having a female head, called "Taighiadas", and an under-ruling man, called "Fo-Chumhachd".

For centuries, the nine tribes lived in harmony and ignorance, before they could politically establish themselves. The desert populations were nomadic and lived moving. Some managed to settle and gave rise to several inhabited centers. These, however, were not connected to each other, due to the adverse climatic conditions and ended up being soon abandoned again in favor of nomadism. On the contrary, the populations that lived along the Abhainn River managed to settle. It was the Kraobh tribe who founded the city of Bhaile-Mòr (today known as Eigobair), along the banks of the river, in the year 333. With the passage of time, more and more cities began to be born and the division between nomadic and sedentary populations was increasingly clear.


The first Asghaidian flag.

Modernity
With the passage of time, more and more cities began to be born and the division between nomadic and sedentary populations was increasingly clear.
however, coexistence was peaceful. The nomads, in the hottest periods, reached the cities for refreshment and were well received. It was in this period, around the year 600, that Asghaid first came to know trade. From the desert, goods arrived that the cities no longer knew and that they had never seen before. In the great "Wargaidh", similar to today's markets, objects of all kinds were traded and money had to be set up. The oldest coin ever found on Sörslúth's soil dates back to the year 654.

With the birth of commerce, Sorsluth began to identify politically. Son of peace between nine different peoples, the state immediately defined itself as a federal democracy. In the year 814, the nine Taighiadas of the time met to officially decree the birth of the nine confederate states of Asghaid. The most desert area was distributed equally to the nomadic populations while the sedentary populations already had boundaries based on cultural differences. Bhaile-Mòr, the oldest city, was chosen as the administrative and political capital. A first constitution was born and judicial power was instituted. The heads of government were the same nine Taighiadas, who together with their Fo-Chumhachds formed the Supreme Council. For more than a thousand years democracy and peace resisted.


A'Chiad Aírleth, painted in 1879.

Sörslúth and the Aírleth family
At the gates of the twentieth century, a serious economic crisis shocked Asghaid. The country's main export was - and still is - based on the carpet trade. The strongest desert storm in the country's history killed more than two million specimens of Caoraich, the typical desert sheep of the area. As a result, the wool industry stopped. Meanwhile, the young A'Chiad Aírleth was appointed general within the army of the state of Fìor-Ghaid. The boy, at the time thirty-six, managed to ingratiate himself with his comrades and march against the central government. On 29 October 1877, with the raid on the Lùchairt Mheadhan palace, Aírleth killed the nine Taighiadas and conquered power.

With the country's strongest army behind, keeping control of a country in economic crisis and always oriented towards peace was very easy. Aírleth surrounded himself with faithful soldiers and men of culture, to totally distort the image of the nation. Drawing on the culture of his ethnicity, he created a new language, a new flag, rewrote history books and renamed the capital to Eigobair. His government was oriented towards racial hatred, exterminating the tribes that rejected the new ideology and trying to preserve only their own as unique and purer. On December 1st 1877 the state was officially renamed Sörslúth. Aírleth also founded a new religion, of which he appointed himself as both the head and the god, naming it Kreideamh.

In 1880, a small group of Thramh ethnic rebels organized themselves to rise up against centralized power and restore democracy. As soon as the plan was known, the repression was severe. Airleth's army killed all the insurgents and mass extermination was planned, to impose the Fìor-Ghaid as the only ethnic group. Millions of people died. Even today we do not know the exact estimate. In the 1930s, some of the survivors emigrated to Talamia, bringing their history to light. In response, Talamia gave the opening of its borders, inviting every persecuted politician to find refuge in its territory.

The Aírleth family continued to maintain power and place men of arms in command of the nation. A'Chiad was succeeded by Dàrna, who reigned from 1911 to 1948, followed by Rithist, from 1948 to 1999. Today the head of government is Kwonchobh, who represents the fourth generation of the family.


Geography

Sörslúth is located in the Democratic Socialist Assembly, occupying a small part of continental territory in the Romaxia continent, bordering with Talamia to the west. The Ghasi desert occupies most of the territory. The climate is dry and arid and in summer it reaches very high temperatures. Going towards the border with Talamia, the desert begins to be called Iseremia, resulting in the homonymous region of the neighboring state. The only river that flows within it is the Abhainn. Along its banks stands Eigobair, the oldest city and the capital of the country.

Regional administrations now stand on the ruins of the ancient nine tribes. Power, however, is so strongly centralized that this administrative division is hardly taken into account.


Demography

Sörslúth has an estimated population of 134 million inhabitants, even if the strict controls do not allow us to have certain information about it. The most populous city is the capital Eigobair.

It is in no way possible for a foreign citizen to obtain citizenship. To be a citizen of Sörslúth you must have been born on its soil and be the son of citizens of Sörslúth. This is to prevent breed contamination. Of the nine indigenous ethnic groups, only three persist today: the main (91% of the population) is Fìor-Ghaid, followed by Dùth (5%) and Chasach (4%), not officially recognized.

Sörslúth's official religion is Kreideamh, whose head and God coincides with the head of state.

Largest Cities

Rank

City

Metro area population

Region

1

Eigobair

7,132,541

Fìor-Ghaid

2

Faisisteachd

2,850,300

Gainmheach

3

Nàsachd

2,371,609

Biadh

4

Àrd-Chumhachd

1,881,000

Uisge

5

Ionad

1,245,702

Thramh


Government

Sörslúth, according to its constitution, is an "independent socialist state". However, we can more correctly say that it is a one-party Fascist totalitarian dictatorship. No elections are held and power is passed down from the Aírleth family of male firstborn to male firstborn. There is no Parliament and both legal and executive power are in the hands of Kwonchobh Aírleth.

The only treaty entered into with a foreign nation is that of 1914 with Talamia by the then head of the state Dàrna Aírleth. The borders between the two nations are theoretically open but on the Sörslúth side there is a very strict customs. Anyone who wishes to move elsewhere cannot leave the country and anyone who wants to enter is subject to strict controls.



A Caoraich specimen grazing
in the Ghasi desert.

Economy

Sörslúth has one of the most closed and centralized economies in DSA. The economy is mainly based on the export of carpets and therefore on the Caoraich wool trade. Most of the funds are allocated to the army, considered one of the strongest in the world.

The disparity between rich and poor is enormous. Only those around the head of state can live in a good condition. 95% of the population is considered poor.


Culture

With the taking of power by the Aírleth family, the ancient culture of Asghaid was practically canceled. Today there is no trace of the traditions of the nine ancient tribes. Furthermore, state funding to the world of theaters, cinemas and literature is low. Culture is mostly used as a propaganda method to keep the head of state in power.

The only sport actually followed by the inhabitants of Sörslúth is football. The national team was established in 1914 and has more than a hundred years of friendlies played across the DSA. Its strongest rivalry is against Talamia. Throughout history, the two teams have met twenty-one times, with eight wins per side and five draws.

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After a contentious election, Senator Huggleston takes a second shot at President Gabriella Sindevir

After contentious election, Huggleston takes second shot at President Sindevir
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It is nearing two weeks since the general election on 31 December 2020, but the tension has not yet simmered. The Democrats were unsuccessful in their attempts to expand their majority in the Sentinel despite being extremely competitive against (and sometimes outpolling) Republicans in swing districts. The Republicans gained a minor victory in forcing a deadlock among the Governor's Association after Democratic incumbent governors Vladimir Vishilocovic (Southeast Alinn) and Spencer Hahn (Portland) were defeated in their bids for re-election. All of these events have created a tense environment among lawmakers in Alinn City, regardless of President Sindevir's inaugural address in which she called for a "sweeping sense of unity."

Political analysts across the country were surprised by the election outcome. It had been expected that the presidential election would be a nail-biter being that the FPTP electoral system is federally mandated nation- and district-wide. However it was understood that there would be clearer results from the Sentinel and that a clear majority would form (whether it was Democratic or Republican) at the end of the night. This was not the case. In fact, nothing has changed. No incumbent Senator who ran for re-election lost their race. The 11-9 split remains. Being Minority Leader, Senator Huggleston was adamant in her defiance against the majority. Throughout her campaign, she warned the country that "darker days" were in the country's future if conservatives did not "wrangle back control from the Democrats." She promised her supporters that her promise is as good as her voting record, which unsurprisingly has been largely pro-conservative and anti-liberal. It didn't seem apparent to Democrats, however, that she was bold enough to use her force within the Sentinel to send the chamber into sheer chaos. Well, it happened.

The Democrats passed the Electoral Restoration Act last Friday, 09 January, and it was passed by in a "bipartisan" manner. The reason for the quotation marks? Only one Republican voted in support: Senator Ellison Edwards. Edwards was locked in a tight campaign against challenger Danica Dellamano for the entirety of the election, so it would be remiss to think his decision did not consider his re-election as a factor. The act, in the words of Democratic Senator Jennifer Caldwell "restores the voice of the people by updating the legislative components of our government to better reflect the desires and will of the people." With Senator Caldwell being a member of senior Democratic leadership within the Sentinel, it can be said that it was very heavily supported by her caucus.

What exactly did the act do? It annulled the power of the "aristocratic" upper chamber which oversees the operations of the Sentinel (the lower chamber). Throughout history, a nonpartisan commission has appointed and confirmed many influential members of Alinnian society to serve in the Pivantium (Alinnian for "superior"). The members of the Pivantium serve a life term, meaning they are only absolved of their responsibilities by death. This has caused outcry among the general public, calling it a travesty that members of high society are able to block legislation posed to help impoverished Alinnians at their expense. The Democrats picked this up as a campaign platform issue in October and have propelled forward with it since the return of election results. They successfully annulled the power of the upper chamber to the displeasure of Republicans and moderates around the country, with Senator Huggleston stating in a speech on the chamber floor that "the only check and balance to this corrupt and hostile Democratic administration has been eliminated."

Senator Huggleston moved quickly. As soon as members finished voting on the legislation and it passed through the chamber, it was reported that Huggleston "immediately began drafting a resolution prompting a vote of no confidence" on the Sindevir administration. The President "had not yet signed the legislation but she [Huggleston] was drying the ink of her resolution, essentially to overturn the election that she had lost just nine days ago (at that point in time)." When the clock turned 11:30AM on Saturday morning and President Sindevir signed the ERA into law, Senator Huggleston submitted her resolution to Majority Leader Senator Victoria Mwamore to be considered before the floor. Of course, Senator Mwamore objected to hearing a vote on the matter, but Senator Huggleston invoked her emergency minority power given to her by the Alinn City Accord in which the minority leader can force a vote on up to three pieces of legislation or resolutions during one legislative period (six months). It has been rumored that Senator Huggleston did not confer with her caucus prior to submitting her resolution, and that became evidently clear when members of the chamber resounded voted in confidence of Sindevir's government.

Members of the Democratic caucus and three Republicans (Senators Edwards, Marquette, and Rivera) submitted their own resolution, calling for the removal of Senator Huggleston from her minority leader position. The resolution did not call for her removal from office, as Democrats recognized she was within her constitutional authority to call for and force a vote of no confidence, but cited her "deliberate attempt to obstruct a constitutionally and duly elected legislative body and administration" as a "threat to the progress of our nation under the current administration and legislative body." Alongside the three Republican senators, the resolution was signed by Senate Minority Leader Mwamore and Democratic Senators Simon, Catskill, Lamont, Warren, and LeBlanc. It was sent to the Alinnian Supreme Court on 09 January 2021 and Head Supreme Court Justice Barellon Osmatosloey decided on the matter. He issued in favor of Senator Huggleston, holding that "[t]his piece of legislation, what I will call it, has political stench fouler than what the judicial standards [of our nation] can bear." He continued on in stating that she "was also executing her right as a sitting Senator of the Sentinel in proclaiming a vote of no confidence... [a]s rancorous as it may be, she is within her grounds as the Minority Leader of the Alinnian Senate."

Republicans within Senator Huggleston's caucus are deeply divided over this issue, and many have given a nod of approval to giving President Sindevir "greater leeway" during her second term. A bipartisan caucus has constructed a new tax code to be presented to the full chamber this upcoming week and bipartisan advancements are being made in other areas of government, all without Senator Huggleston. This may be the hypothetical "straw that broke the camel's back" for Senator Huggleston. With general elections but only five months away, the concept of her caucus' loyalty to her leadership may be on the ballot. Whether that be the case is sure to be discovered. For right now? We can only look to the future under President Sindevir's administration and a divided Sentinel (in more ways than one).

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