Heliseum for Prime Minister
Hello everyone! It is an honor to be considered again for the office of Prime Minister. I look forward to anwering any questions you have. I particularly want to thank @Utopia, @Lucasson, @xshotss and @Hamborn for your nominations!
I apologize for how down to the wire this came. There was a mild family emergency that delayed me on top of a very busy performing weekend. A considerable amount of this was written in the lighting booth of a shadowcast performance of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Expansion and Refinement
I firstly want to direct you to successful my October 2025 Campaign. The broad strokes of my vision for the region stands. It was bright-eyed and hopeful, and what I hope to do in this campaign – and term should you elect me – is to refine that broad vision using the past two terms of experience as PM and in the Cabinet.
To be sure, many things from my original campaign were completed, and many things from it were refined over the last two terms. I am very grateful that @Utopia and I saw eye-to-eye on many programs, and much of the work that started under one administration continued in the next. In particular, from my original campaign, some highlights would include:
- An Ambassador Corps was founded and roles were filled
- The South Seas Gazette was brought back under a government program
- Culture groups for events, the wiki, etc were founded
- The Getting Involved Wizard was overhauled and turned into a starting point for executive work as well
- Executive communication about programs, such as through the culture calendar, was greatly expanded
- Much of the behind-the-scenes SPSF infrastructure was improved
The ship has begun turning. It has taken more time than I wished, but I am prepared to keep on pushing. Let’s get into it.
The Ministry of Culture
If I were to be elected a second time, the culture regime would remain largely the same, with some few alterations. I would intend to retain the RMB Mayor program, as well as the Newspaper, Wiki and Holidays culture groups. The Resident Spotlight group is, in my opinion, better folded into the South Seas Gazette.
I would like to see TSSG expand somewhat in scope, not in frequency but in depth. I applaud the work that @CayonNS and @Tin have done in polishing the visual style, but my push would be for more news coverage, more investigation, more centalized planning and longer issues. I’d like to look for someone to lead the Newspaper specifically, and move towards government-supported but semi-independent leadership there as a way of limiting pro-government bias.
I would also bring back the regular game nights from last time I was in office, and explore another season of the South Pacific Hockey League, pending @ProfessorHenn’s availability to simulate it.
I have noticed internally as well, that a lot of Culture planning happens in DMs between Ministers. Even understanding that it is convenient, I think this practice is bad for exposing newer members to Culture work. My goal would be to move those conversations as much as possible into the DAC to continue cultivating that space as a meaningful part of the government’s operations.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs + OWL
It has become obvious to me that for the Ambassador Corps to reach its full potential, a Deputy MoFA needs to be appointed, and I intend to do so. Their purview would be to administer the corps, conducting regular check-ins with Ambassadors and recieving reports. I would be looking for someone relatively fresh-faced for such a thing.
Otherwise, my FA goals can broadly be categorized as emboldening our voice abroad, stregthening our dignity and standing, and promoting our communitity’s values. We have many treaties that, as they tend to do when getting old, just sit unused and filled with fairly empty promises to collaborate and do events together. I want to bring life to what relationships we can by following up on as much of those ideas as we can.
I also believe that it is time that we make a greater effort to involve ourselves in the World Assembly, especially post-blank slate. We technically have an apparatus for this: The Partnership for Sovereignty, but that organization hasn’t been touched at all in my time in government. My goal would be to revive and reform it with the other members of it that would be interested in such a thing.
The Ministry of Defense
Despite the decline in the activity of raiders, the military has been making steady progress over the past several months. Quietly, in the background, many of the internal systems have been greatly improved. We now have a fairly steady stream of new cadets coming into the SPSF. There isn’t a ton to say – I encourage people to read my original agenda as Minister of Defense – but to highlight a few focuses:
Recruitment has been doing well, but the number staying for longer periods to make it to officer training is incredibly low. I want to work on a more sophisticated training scheduling system to reduce friction and barriers to training sessions. Additionally, an internal focus will be placed on the cultivation of officers, and it would be my goal to end the term with new faces in the Wardroom.
Though I do anticipate that activity will somewhat increase as it usually does in the Summer, we will need to put effort into military games and events to maintain some sort of morale. The Defender Olympics will occur during this term, so we ought to prepare for that, and I would like to return to regular Hell Detag events.
The Ministry of Integration
For a while now, the huge lift for @Trivalve and the Ministry of Integration has been the Getting Involved Wizard. Now that there has been significant progress there, energy can be moved elsewhere, such as the stregthening of a recruitment team.
In general, I understand that my own time of integrating into the community is now many years in the rearview mirror. I plan on looking to newer members of the community for greater perspectives on the process, and how we can make it smoother.
The Legislative Coordinator (working title)
I came into my first term as Prime Minister promising to use the office as a test kitchen for broad executive reform. I always felt this would also be a Legislative process, but never had the time on top of my Cabinet and Admiralty duties to spearhead such conversations myself. In a recent conversation in the Assembly, it was suggested that the executive should take charge of leading some initiatives in the Assembly, as well as promoting broad Assembly activity. I admit that a certain American-ness in me always conceptualized the two branches as fundamentally separate, but I’m willing to explore. It’s a test kitchen, right?
I plan on appointing a Legislative Coordinator (working title), whose job it would be to spearhead certain Assembly initiatives, represent the government in questions alongside myself and promote Assembly participation. I look forward to having conversations with the community about this and what boundaries we would feel comfortable having for such a role.
Conflict of Interest Statement
Within TSP, I am currently Minister of Defense, an Admiral in the SPSF, an FA Advisor, a Legislator and a Citizen. I have previously been Prime Minister (last term), Minister of Military Affairs (2020) and an Ambassador (2020). I am also an Update Commander in Libcord, the multi-regional military coalition that TSP/SPSF is a part of.
I hold no offices or citizenship in any other region, nor have I ever. My nation was founded in TSP and in TSP I have remained. I operate approximately 500 puppets used exclusively for R/D and N-Day, but have never used any of them as an alias. I have never used an alias other than “Heliseum/Heli” to interact with any region in any context.