Utopia for PM once more!

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Hello everyone once again!

This election came much sooner than we would’ve expected at the start of the term, but here we are now in a special election. Once again, as with the last few PM elections, I am running once more. A lot of my campaign is going to be very similar to the campaign you saw back in April, only so much time has passed in the relatively short period since then.

Culture

Ministerial Culture Projects

These projects are ones that I will be having my Culture Ministers (and I in cases) take the head on and direct. I haven’t gone into much detail for the sake of brevity to avoid an excessively long campaign.

  • Pollmaster (Previously RMB Mayor)
  • Poll Event Contests (Previous examples would be the Culinary contest and the Banner contest among others)
  • TSP VC and Game Nights
  • Card Giveaways
  • The Third Fudge Cup of the SPHLw

Culture Group Oriented Projects

These projects are ones I intend to have placed in the hands of the culture groups, with my Culture Ministers and I taking over only where necessary for executive powers or where things need completion. As with the list of projects above, I haven’t gone into details for the sake of brevity.

  • Regional Holiday Celebrations (Coalition Day, Defender Day, and Independence Day are next term)
  • RMB Awards
  • Resident Spotlights
  • The South Seas Gazette

Integration

Wizard Improvements

The Wizard is still far from an ideal state, with quite a number of issues still on the plate with it that I am aiming to get resolved:

  • Incorrect links pointing to the half-updated version of the wizard
  • No standard processing procedure between the different groups that utilize it (the Executive, CitComm, the SPSF)
  • Poor organization and visibility between specific types of applications (No tagging system outside of CitComm, no specific notifications)

Awards Program

The Awards program was started during my PM term, and is a project I’d like to continue driving with force. This has the ability to drive activity in all areas of our government, as anything we cover with it will have that additional motivation to it. This especially can be applied to areas like recruitment where it can drive friendly competition and push the number of sent recruitment TGs up.

Technical Projects

In my last campaign, I mentioned a few projects that we were more restricted in the implementation of due to technical and coding needs for them. Some of the ones I mentioned were a system to automatically ping new nations on the RMB to encourage activity, and a system to support telegram outreach to new nations. A number of these projects are ones that have been brought more to the front with Pronoun currently as Director of Technology, and I would like to seize upon the momentum that has been started to get these projects finished to boost our driving of integration.

Foreign Affairs

Restructuring of the Ambassador Corps

The Ambassador Corps as it stands doesn’t serve as a ladder into FA as well as it could, and it has no structure to allow for shifting Ambassadors when needed. With the current structure we tack on new regions as ambassador applications require, with less room for consideration to where people should actually go than would be ideal. Additionally, there is no structure to shift around ambassadors to allow for elevation through the Corps and FA Ministry. While it is important for Ambassadors to be able to build up relationships in their own regions, we do also need a structure to allow us to reshuffle ambassadors as needed, so we can move active and experienced ambassadors to the regions that need them the most, and to move growing ambassadors to regions that suit their experience level. These kinds of shuffles are necessary for long-term function, but also wouldn’t be so frequent as to undermine the ability of our ambassadors to build relationships with the region they have been assigned to.

GenSec

Come July we will be seeing the implementation of a new General Secretariat for the GA, made up of elected nations who will have increased influence over the GA via voting recommendations. I plan on supporting and ensuring to the best of our power the placement of people who will make voting recommendations most in line with the ideals TSP hold close, especially our allies who are running so as to strengthen ties and boost our collective GA influence together.

Voting Blocks

During my last term, especially with the dissolution of the Partnership for Sovereignty, I worked closely with Welly in discussions and planning surrounding creating other voting blocks better able to advance collective aims in the WA. These are something that I hope to work towards and see the construction of such a treaty. With a stronger SC voting block firm in our goals, if raiders ever decide being dead is boring we’ll have our best foot forward to crush them in the SC even further.

Defense

As Minister of Defense I’ve already taken a jump in action, training multiple SPSF members and already getting Cadets to finish the steps needed to be promoted to Ensign. Additionally I’ve been putting together a number of promotional posters over the past week, drafting them with the other SPSF Officers. You might have a caught a glimpse of one in lampshade-bar recently, but I do have a few more sitting in the SPSF Officer channels ready for use.

My Ministry of Defense will be continuing the activity and projects I have already started on, as well as continuing the projects I set forth in my Minister of Defense agenda that take more time for implementation. You should expect wargames with allies to boost Tsunami Force activity, as well as restructuring of the Tidal Force to better include and mobilize gameside only people when piling is needed.

Conflict of Interest

Citizen and Legislator of TSP
Lieutenant of the SPSF and Junior Command in Libcord
Former Minister of Culture in TSP, Former Minister of Ropeplay in TSP
Former Prime Minister of TSP
Current Minister of Defense
Citizen and Former Delegate of Wintreath
Junior Command of CORAL (N-Day Alliance)

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What sets you apart from everyone else running?

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What are your intentions for your cabinet

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do you have any plans for introducing newcomers to the TSP government system, either to get to know it better or to participate?

i know this is a bit of a niche and purposefully vague question, but i’m asking the two (now three!) candidates i’m debating between voting for to decide. as a semi newcomer, the difference between just chatting on the RMB and getting into other things scares me a lot! the dispatch about how the government worked left out some things and was kind offff…wordy. i think everyone should be able to easily access campaigns and other things, if we want people to stay in the region they should feel like a crucial part of the region if they want to.

(placeholder text because it didn’t let me copypaste a post. lalala)

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Thank you for sharing your campaign—obviously, you held the job less than a month ago and are now vying to return to the role. Reflecting on your past term, what are things you think you did well and how could you have done better?

I appreciate this campaign’s directness—there’s basically no fluff in here, which makes it easier to see your vision and hold you accountable to accomplishing it if elected. I particularly appreciate how you want to tie existing programs (e.g. Awards) to new areas of emphasis (e.g. Recruiting).

That said, your Integration campaign still leans heavily on technical projects. Pronoun’s role as Director of Technology has a lot of potential, however developer time and technical resources are always going to be limited, and this will be an abbreviated term which might further limit the ability to get projects fully delivered. Are there any projects that will rely on “manual” intervention by MoI staff or other TSPers that you are going to move forward related to the integration, knowing that it is possible (if not likely) that technical fixes for all of our problems won’t get done in time.

I value that this campaign provides the most Foreign Affairs insight of any of the campaigns currently. You definitely have the highest FA chops of any candidate in this race. In general, I support your plan for a revitalized SC voting bloc. How will you ensure the PfS 2.0 avoids the pitfalls of PfS 1.0?

Lastly, I wanted to ask about the Ministry of Defense, mostly because if elected you would be the outgoing Minister. Will you opt to appoint a new Minister or will you personally oversee the portfolio?

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Do you have any plans to have a whole of governemt approach to telegram recruitment? Noting that we are a big region with a big population and we only have a few recruiters active.

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Good Phil’s Good Questions | PM Special Elections

I. How do you intend to redefine what the Executive should be doing in Culture beyond events and activities? Do you believe it is integral to Regional Culture to revive NationRP on the RMB? Why or why not?

II. Which of these situations or circumstances (realistic or remote) would lead you to switch around an Ambassador?

  1. When the partner region’s government collapses visibly;
  2. When the partner region does not engage meaningfully with the Ambassador or vice versa;
  3. When the partner region begins to show signs of institutional failures (reduced nation count, endorsements on the Delegate, poor Gameplay presence or apathy towards Foreign Affairs, etc.)
  4. When the Ambassador complains about the region’s general culture or attitudes towards Feeders, especially The South Pacific, as part of a pattern of conduct or behaviour, or ideological stance.
  5. When you don’t like or care for the partner region’s current Head of Government.
  6. When you see someone from that region post annoying messages on TSP’s Regional Message Board.

III. You have said before that the mathematics of Frontierism doesn’t work out long-term. Do you think the main Frontierist regions have been successful in displacing or redefining what role Frontiers have in Gameplay? How do you view increased cooperation between them from a FA perspective?

IV. The South Pacific’s World Assembly participation and relevance has diminished since the rise of voting blocs long before S7 and the end of PfS and other similar multilateral blocs. What is, in your view, TSP’s path forward? How will OWL, under your Premiership, encourage and train new authors for the GA?

That said, all the best for your election!

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I don’t intent to change the current construction of Ministries, I will be maintaining the same cabinet positions. I’ve been rolling the idea of two MoIs around in the back of my head since before the last PM election, but I don’t believe I will appoint a second MoI.

I primarily intend to utilize the Awards System I talked about to drive activity in that area. I am also not opposed to recruiting myself if needed to take lead and drive activity, as someone who has done hours of mindless work for NS many times before.

If I included fluff my campaign would be too long :stuck_out_tongue:

First whatever replacement we see needs to not have any inactive members. If you look at the members of the PfS right before it was dissolved the number of regions who aren’t involved in gameplay anymore is more than one. In the creation of a SC voting block, we’d aim to build it around the membership of prominent defender powers. Additionally, we would need to discuss between all members to reach a consensus of what ideological aims we’re all going to push together to counter raiderdom so we have a defined and unified path to build the treaty around.

I will be appointing a new Minister of Defense. It is too much work for me to want to take on both the duties of PM and the whole Ministry of Defense portfolio.

  1. If a region’s government dissolves, is destroyed, or otherwise very distinctly no longer exists then I would our Ambassador would be rescinded, barring exceptional circumstances.
  2. This could prompt a shuffling of our ambassador to them as part of a more routine shuffle depending on the circumstances. Shuffling in this case would be much much less likely in a region not involved in NSGP, but for close allies and regions we are likely to frequently deal with on the interregional stage it’s certainly something I would consider depending on circumstances.
  3. This would reduce how high I hold a region in priority when assigning Ambassadors, but wouldn’t warrant anything outside a routine shuffle unless it either devolved into point one or we urgently needed to pull ambassadors to fill more important positions in some sort of exceptional case.
  4. It depends on the details. Public complaints about the region that would harm our reputation with them would certainly warrant being immediately shuffled or dismissed from the position depending on severity. Private comments of discontent would depend on the exact nature, but I would likely inquire if the Ambassador would like to change regions and do so in a more routine shuffle.
  5. My personal feelings about a Head of Government on an OOC level would not affect Ambassador appointments.
  6. Random foreign RMBers do not usually represent a government and aren’t particularly relevant.

In my Integration Agenda, aside from the explicitly technical projects, the Awards system and fixed to the Wizard have minimal technical aspects, and the non-technical aspects are not reliant on any technical goals. Awards will be put together manually, and I don’t have any plans for new tools to support creating any specific awards. With the Wizard, the majority of my goals with it are not reliant on a Director of Technology. Joint processing guides on how to handle multiple applications within the same application (and similar things) do not have to do with a Director of Technology at all. I certainly hope to have technical projects completed, but they are not the sole aim of my agenda.

I am the most experienced candidate without any semblance of doubt. Not only am I the most experienced, I hold experience and knowledge in every ministry presented in this election. Experience which allows for much more overarching coordination between my Ministries, as well as allowing my to support my Ministers rather than needing to appoint experienced Ministers to rely upon.

An inexperienced PM will have to rely heavily on their Ministers to cover portfolios they aren’t familiar with. As someone well versed in the major Ministries, I don’t need to rely on my Ministers for support in understanding how certain areas work, and I have the knowledge to cover where they need. I am able to support my Ministers in a way which cannot be done by someone with no experience. If my Ministers need a second set of hands to help complete a project, if they need someone to take over a project, or if they need to briefly step away for a week, I am capable of filling that hole easily and without issue.

My experience also lends itself to better overarching coordination within the executive. Because of my broad knowledge across the executive, I know of what my Ministries need to achieve what they’ve set out to do, the paths they can take to get there, where those paths would benefit from interaction with the other Ministries, and what the other Ministries can do to appropriately support them. An inexperienced PM with less understanding of portfolios is not going to be as able to direct a unified executive agenda.

I'll be answering the other questions tomorrow as I don't have time at the moment to get to all of them.
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Which region or organisation is the toughest one for us to deal with diplomatically!?

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Any answer I give will make relations more difficult with whichever group I name. Even just as a PM candidate my answer here holds notable weight. I cannot give you an answer to this question.

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