Introduction

The Leftist, Centrist, Right, Unification Alliance, more commonly called the LCRUA, is an alliance of nations and regions. It is classified as a direct democracy. The alliance currently has both member-nations and member-regions. You can find the full list of our members here.

The LCRUA is a trans-regional alliance with the goal to unite NationStates peacefully, share culture, preserve freedom and close the gap that separates the different ideologies trough constructive debate rather than violence. We are open to all political views, as long as members conduct themselves respectfully.

Our region has a substantial background for roleplay, about which you can learn more in the Roleplay section of this page. Everything else noted here are facts about the region itself.

Etymology and Origins

The LCRUA began naturally, rather than through deliberate effort. In early September 2015 Noladea moved to The Communist Bloc. Seeking to establish long lasting relations with many leftist nations, Noladea founded the N.U.A.(Noladea Unification Alliance). With more nations joining the N.U.A., the name was changed to the S.U.A. (Socialist Unification Alliance). When a puppet of Condealism joined the alliance, it was clear that it wasn't entirely socialist any more. Around then, it also developed it's own goals, and Noladea again changed the name of the alliance to better suit it. The final name was "LCRUA", standing for Leftist, Centrist, Right Unification Alliance.

Early propaganda from S.U.A.

History

Introduction

The LCRUA can be traced back to two nations, Linnuis and Noladea. They both have very different backgrounds and cultures, yet fate seems to have brought them together to form the LCRUA.

LCRUA in Crisis
A constitutional crisis in The Communist Bloc led to Noladea's departure for USSD. It was felt that now that Noladea had left the region the alliance would amount to nothing and eventually dissolve. However both Linnuis and Noladea maintained good contact with each other. They discussed founding their own region but neither of them had any experience in building a region. They also felt that they didn't have enough members.

The First Government
After the revolution in TCB, the LCRUA continued to grow. Two notable new members were Krypton Nova and Yymea. Both of these nations sought to unite the LCRUA further. Yymea founded the People's Cup, an association football tournament for all LCRUA members. The first tournament was a great success, and would become a regular event in the following months. Krypton Nova felt that the alliance needed its own forum and so built ithem himself, while Linnuis started forming a government to give the alliance direction. The first Worker's Council was formed, consisting of Linnuis, Noladea, Condealism, Krypton Nova, Yymea and Malutia lusia cialty. Soon after this the first Presidential elections were held. In a shock result, Krypton Nova was elected first president after everyone expected either of the core founders, Linnuis or Noladea, to win.

The Founding
After the first presidential elections the Worker's Council decided that a region would be needed to unite the alliance. Linnuis was tasked with founding the LCRUA's own region. The region soon grew as it got a voice in the WA, it's own map and news agency. However, relations with other leftist regions were mixed at first. The USSD gave their full support to the alliance. The Communist Bloc got quite stressed out about several of their members leaving, but this was soon resolved. The Red Fleet refused to establish embassies with the LCRUA because the alliance was too accepting of capitalists. Regardless of this, the alliance continued to grow.

Flag of the LCRUA

The Second Constitution
In October 2015, Frangleterre was persuaded to join the alliance, on the condition that the government would take a look into the constitution. He was asked before, but had declined the offer due to issues with it. He joined right before the first council elections were held, and participated as a candidate in them. He was elected, and became Councillor for legislation. His first task: making the Second Constitution. Our current Constitution is still primarily based on the second Constitution, even though it has had many amendments, and the alliance was shaped by it.

Newspaper
In November 2015, Noladea, who was then Councillor for Information, thought that it'd be useful to have an interregional newspaper. What began as a few small issues regionally called the "Regional Community News", or RCN for short, grew into large issues, with their own serious, opinionated, roleplay-related or comical articles. It also got it's very own, rather large, poland-ball section, which is very much like the regional culture of the LCRUA. Later on, the issues were also distributed to the regions we had embassies with, which didn't always go well. It has received some major negative criticism a few times, but the majority of reactions were always positive.

New Year: 2015-16
Our alliance had reached over 50 official member-nations, one member-region (United Countries of NationStates), and even more residing nations in the region. On new-year's eve the second Council elections took place, and at the start of the new year, the third Council term started. All was going well with the region, as it continued to thrive, grow and develop.

Councillor for State
On January the 13th, the Council decided that a new Councillor was required to run the region efficiently, as not all fields of authority were covered by the other Councillors, and to fill some other security gaps. This new Councillor was named "Councillor for State", to refer to the fact that the position had relatively miscellaneous but definitely internal duties.

100 Nations
At the start of March, Krypton Nova set up a means of automatic recruitment. This caused a sudden influx of nations, and halfway March, the LCRUA had reached the 100-nations milestone.

Military
Over the course of several months, starting around January, a proper military was build up by Linnuis, and later around March was continued to be developed by Krypton Nova, the former laying the basic structure of ranks and authority out, and the latter implementing military training.

Entente Cordiale
On late March 2016, President Kryptonnova's third and last term came to an end. To succeed this extremely popular first President of the LCRUA, only two Councillors stood candidate: Frangleterre and Linnuis. The first round of the elections was tied. According to the Constitution of the LCRUA, a second round should have been organised. However, due to the waste of time it'd represent for the region's government, and considering the results were extremely likely to be the same, a proposal was written by Krypton Nova that would allow multiple Councillors to become Co-Presidents, side by side. It was voted on by the region during the temporary government of Salomonistic states, who was Councillor of State at that time, and as such temporarily fulfilled the office of President. With the proposal passed, the "Entente Cordiale" started on April 7th, 2016.

Direct Democracy, tribunal and Unity
In an effort to make all Council positions able to overthrow by referenda, Frangleterre wrote a proposal. The proposal was met with much criticism, as it also increased all Council terms from two months to two, meant to cope with the little time the Council had. Some considered the less frequent elections as being less democratic, even though any Councillor, including the President(s), could now be recalled. In May 2016, the legislation was laid out for a tribunal to judge over trials and for a new Councillor: the Councillor for Unity. The judges for the tribunal would only be elected in August 2016, due to the new 3-month rotation of elections, making it useless until then.

FORGE
The efforts of the LCRUA to incorporate more regions, specifically Superiorem Merionem Region and Solid Kingdom, failed. However in early July 2016, things took an unexpected turn. As it happened, SK had asked SMR to join together in an alliance, at the same moment as the LCRUA again asked SMR to join. The Diplomacy Officer of SMR at that time, Demon catz proposed the three regions to join in an alliance instead of accepting either proposal. And so, Demon catz, Krypton Nova and Siburria established the Federation of Organised Regions for Global Enlightenment (FORGE).

Demographics

Members

The members of the LCRUA have widely different views and ideologies.They are open-minded towards nations with other political views and welcome such nations into their alliance.

Click here for the list of all current LCRUA members.

In the diagram below (July 10th, 2016), you can see the popularity of the different political affiliations among the members in our region. This is not necessarily representative for the persons controlling them, and as such not fully representative for determining whether the region leans to the left or the right, but it gives a basic idea of what political affiliation is most popular.

Language

English is the language that is used by most members of the LCRUA. However, most of them speak different languages as well. Example are French, Spanish, Dutch,... ShortLinnuis[/nation] and Koralo even made their own languages! But fear not, to make communication easier, most members use English. To accommodate members who's native language isn't English or who do not master the language entirely, and make life much easier for them, we have "Interpreters" in our region, who can communicate with those members in their native language. Our world factbook entry and recruitment telegram are also translated into different languages for the same reason. You can find who the interpreters for various languages are here.

Government

The LCRUA has a government that is lead by a President and a Council. The president is the head of the region, and is a Councillor by default. Every Councillor can propose and approve legislative proposals. Members can propose legislation as well, though they have to go trough the Council or a referendum to put it up for vote. Every Councillor can be recalled by a referendum, including the President.

The council consists of 5 Councillors and the President. These are the Council positions:

- President: Head of the region.
- Councillor for Culture: This councillor organizes cultural events, keeps an eye on the RP and promotes culture in general.
- Councillor for Defence: This councillor checks for threats to our region within and outside of or regional borders.
- Councillor for Information: This councillor provides the people with information about what happens in the LCRUA.
- Councillor for Diplomacy: This councillor establishes, withdraws and proposes embassies, and keeps an eye on matters in other regions.
- Councillor for Legislation: This councillor makes sure our legislation is kept up to date, and makes sure legislation is followed.

Officially, interpreters and advisors are a part of the government as well, although they don't have any extra say in matters aside from their rights as members of the LCRUA.

You can find our constitution here if you want to know more details about our legislation.

Foreign Relations & Military

Diplomacy is conducted through embassies. If you want to know the regions we currently have embassies with, take a look at our regional page, right underneath our World Factbook Entry. If you want to start diplomatic relations with us, contact our Councillor for Diplomacy.

The LCRUA has a military, informed and trained in Raiding and Defending. It has a solid command structure, based on skill and determination, and not favouring anyone in promotion except based on those two factors. The LCRUA's military will likely be merged with the military of FORGE in the future.

Culture

Our culture involves extensive use of polandballs to express opinions or sketch situations. Including art competitions and use of the interregional roleplay thread. MLC Vodka is the most popular alcoholic drink in Arcadia. We have an inter-regional newspaper called "Regional Community News", which is send to all regions we have embassies with. More about our culture can be found in these factbooks:

- Culture
- Regional Community News

Roleplay

For purposes of RP, the nations of the LCRUA are located on a planet called Arcadia (map) within the Astral System, about which you can find everything here. The Astral System itself lies in a sector in one of the outer spiral arms of the Andromeda Galaxy. Nations on Arcadia are generally Modern Tech, though Post-Modern Tech is also common, and a few Future Tech nations exist. Many nations have a combination of those three.

You can find out more details about our RP here.

Credits:
- Krypton Nova
- LCRUA
-Poulton-with-Fearnhead
- Ponderosa: Factbook based on this Template.
- NSTracker