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~ Official Foreign Affairs Post ~

Hello, everyone! Well, it was an extremely close vote, with the percentage of those in favor fluctuating between wildly surpassing and falling short of the 2/3 majority needed to open embassies. In the final hour, the vote PASSED with the required 2/3 majority. In fact, it was exactly a 2/3 majority, with 12 votes Against and 24 votes For. Could that be a new record for closest embassy vote? I'd have to check.

As such, in accordance with Article 6.3 of our constitution, I have accepted the embassy request from Sol Aeternalis, and we will have mutual regional message board access in 3 days during tomorrow's minor update. I look forward to our relationship going forward! 🤝💚

#BLubBluB

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That's certainly not all from the Foreign Affairs side of things! We actually have a couple of other parties interested in creating embassies with us. We are still managing exactly when we'll bring their embassies to vote, since I really don't want to flood the RMB with an overabundance of government posts, let alone Foreign Affairs FA-specific posts. But, as par our constitution, since we've received formal requests and the criteria have been met, we indeed will be holding a vote for each interested party in due time.

I believe much of this influx has to do with the fact that I've reopened our gameplay forum embassy, to which I've announced (along with my ambassadors on almost every region's RMB and/or discord) The Realizer's weekly trivia as well as the chess tournament Forest is co-hosting with The Region That Has No Big Banks (truth be told NUCL's doing all the work we're just allowed to invite everyone xD). I've also created a "Bulletin Gourd" (I hope the name's not too cheesy) on the front page to allow for quick links to major news while we wait for a proper newspaper to come out - to which I'll also provide links for on the bulletin gourd should we get to that point.

I also remind everyone that if they are interested in creating an embassy elsewhere, OR wish to close an existing embassy with a region, our constitution provides a means for you to call for a creation or closure, at which point we'd wait to see if there were significant interest from the rest of the community, and that all requirements are met, and proceed to work from there. (I kindly ask you not to spam requests for the closure of all embassies / opening embassies everywhere. Not even for my sake, just everyone else's ;P)

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Since I'm trying to get all of the FA things I want to announce done in one post (at least until I make the announcement for the next embassy poll), I would like to announce that the Ambassador program is going rather well!

Unfortunately, I haven't had the time to figure out how exactly I'm going to take over Prusmia's ambassador/embassy policy dispatches (I know, rich given my desperation for a new master dispatch), and thus far all of my official appointments have been penciled onto my unofficial embassies/ambassadors dispatch. I fully intend to make it "official" if everyone is alright with it, as Zerphen has also expressed interest in it, but I need to clarify a few things such as a couple of ambassadors and non-embassorial relationships before I share it around as anything other than a personal project. As such, if she's up for updating the ambassador list, I'd be much obliged, but all is well if she'd rather wait until I have my own dispatches set up - I intend to do this before my next FA post ;P

Our new ambassadors include:
- Texas Jaguarundi (i.e. Yip Man), who will be serving as both ambassador to and from Texas, taking the position once held by Northern wood
- Gelezia, who will also be serving to and from Alcris
- Roless, who will no longer be serving as ambassador to Spiritus and instead as ambassador to The Leftist Assembly
- Furilisca, who in addition to Canada will now be serving as our ambassador to the Democratic Socialist Assembly
- Feline Masters, who will now be serving as ambassador to The Bar on the Corner of Every Region alongside Isbjorn Maerenne Bava Paerani as incoming ambassador
- LontraNutria/Ottterland, who will be serving as ambassador to Europe alongside incoming ambassador Nardin
- Newquay rainforest/Montrandec, who will be our ambassador to The Rejected Realms as well as be looking at several of our other embassies
- and Jutsa (yes, myself xD), who will be serving as temporary fill-in ambassador to every region that doesn't have one (for the time being*) as well as self-appointed (yes xD) ambassador to, in addition to International Democratic Union, the regions of Portugal and Oatland (and considering maybe a few others). These positions, however, are entirely fill-able if anyone else wants these positions; I will gladly hang out with these regions and more on my own ;)

(apologies in advance if I forgot anyone.)

I am still waiting for a response to whether two individuals would like to remain as ambassadors, but everyone else has opted to remain in their position :) One individual I wasn't sure about was Murmuria, who is the current listed ambassador to The Rejected Realms. Given both of them have busy schedules, and how large and casual TRR is, I figured, bah, worst case scenario I've got two ambassadors there and other case scenario I've got one. Honestly as long as someone's available for me to prod ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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FINALLY, on THAT note, I'd like to close by announcing that we do still have ambassador positions available! These positions will have most of the tasks as designated in Prusmia's current ambassador dispatch, but in practice? It's basically just me putting your name on a list. xD Genuinely, you and everyone else may do as you please as an individual wherever, and you certainly may have fun wherever and share news wherever you dang well please.

The only differences are that:
1) I know who to bug if I want to share information or invitations (to which, I will gladly share information myself or just not disseminate at all, depending on the circumstances - I'm flexible to work around with. Not that there will be much happening at all lol) or go to in the event something crazy happens in that region (though, I'd probably reach out to incoming ambassadors as well),
2) My successor will know who to bug for the same things / whatever else they do, if they bother at all,
3) Folks from both our regions have a name to reach out to if they want to ask about something (though lets be real they'll probably tg a RO or ask in the RMB anyway), and
4) you're now my responsibility if you act like a big dumbo.

tl;dr only thing that changes is you get mentioned in a list and become a pain in the neck for me xD

If THAT sounds like something YOU would be interested in, feel free to reach out to me via telegram or through discord! (or post in the RMB if you're feeling daring for some reason lol.) Regions that are available include Libertarian Socialist Confederation, The Union of Democratic States, Wintreath, Conch Kingdom, Spiritus, 10000 Islands, and The South Pacific, Union of Free Nations, Antarctic Oasis, Winterfell, Yggdrasil, Hippy Haven and Eladen, many of which are smaller regions who may not want to be disturbed much anyway lol. You're also welcome to replace me as ambassador to International Democratic Union, Portugal and/or Oatland if you really like those regions :) (I might be looking at a couple others myself but feel free to take them too ;p)

In addition, I'm also willing to take on a "second hands" if anyone feels like being a temporary "lead ambassador" who would essentially just help me post major updates in a bunch of different regions, without necessarily spending much time there. I really don't think this is a necessity, but hey, if you feel like helping me with the workload I put onto myself, you're more than welcome to ;P (It does not come with additional perks aside from getting a special place on a dispatch somewhere and being an even bigger pain in my hair.)

That should be all for now! Will be having more announcements in due time, and like I said I've got another embassy request poll to roll out in a couple days once we get everything squared away, but that's frankly a lot to take in as it is! Look forward to the next one, and uh, let me know if these get on your nerves xD
_{(Also this is not an April Fools joke. Unlike me, who is now running late on things because it took me way longer to hash this post out than it should have... procrastination on everything is a pain in the bum in' it)}