Culture Agenda
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Greetings the South Pacificans!
Flaming and I are happy to announce our culture agenda for the next three months! It will mostly be a continuation of the previous three months of culture led by myself and Tin, with various improvements to make it more enjoyable for all of us.
So, without further ado, let’s dive into the details of what we are actually going to do….
1. The Pollmaster
The position of RMB Mayor, which is an elected position that can be used to make polls for the region, has been receiving quite an amount of criticism. The original goal of the RMB Mayor, as mentioned by The Age of Utopia, former Minister of Culture, is to ‘provide a introductory level position for those looking to participate in TSP, not to provide polls to the region’. To better align with this goal, we are introducing a rework— a name change and the introduction of several new rules.
- From now on, only those who have only served one RMB Mayor / Pollmaster term or have never held an elected or assembly-confirmed office will be eligible to run.
- The Ministers of Culture and the Prime Minister will hold veto power over the candidates.
2. The South Seas Gazette
Restarted in February 2026 after several months of inactivity, The South Seas Gazette is our regional newspaper bringing news, puzzles, resident spotlights and many more to our region. While it has been successful the past three months, it has some issues about not having enough coverage for all the important happenings in the region. To improve, we will find more writers and collaborate with other ministries. We also plan to connect this with our many roleplay communities including Knowhere.
3. Southern Reef Games
The Southern Reef Games was introduced three months ago as a sort of continuation to the Game Nights. The original plan was to provide two game sessions every week, along with ‘special events’ (Kahoot quizzes and card giveaways) once in a while. However, while the first few weeks were properly done, the Southern Reef Games got cancelled several times starting from March, leading to it eventually being paused. This happened due to me being the only person to run the games, leading to them being strongly affected by my personal schedule.
The Games will continue in the next three months, also involving special events around the three regional holidays we will celebrate in the next three months. To prevent the problems it had in the previous term, someone else in the Ministry of Culture will run it when I am unavailable.
4. Regional Contests
For the previous term, contests were held during RMB Mayor terms and then voted on when RMB Mayor candidates were campaigning to use the regional polls effectively. Although the exact culture calendar is yet to be decided on, it will be pretty much the same this term with more contests of various subjects. As done with the culinary contest and haiku contest, the winners of the contests will be awarded high valued trading cards.