Hello TSP
Once more I come to you seeking to be elected Prime Minister.
This past term, there has been a great push to establish and re-establish introductory bodies across all the major ministries. However, many of these sit empty. The Ambassador Corps is made up of the experienced TSPers who were recruited to get it off the ground. The Culture Groups, despite my frequent prodding, have not accomplished anything. The Applications Hub that was set up for people to join these groups, saw applications dry up to basically nothing once the initial surge went away. With the number of people we’re seeing run for Delegate who have no government experience at all, the people who’re looking to participate in our government are there. I want to do more when it comes to getting people involved in our government. The structures are there, the things they can do are there, we just need to renovate and promote the way to join. I plan for integration to be the center of my administration
Integration
Integration is the process of getting new nations, new members, new founds, to engage with our community. Engaging by chatting on our discord, becoming a citizen, participating in our government, even just talking on our RMB. I want people to be able to receive the most out of TSP, and to start that all they need to do is to seek any one of the opportunities we provide. I want to make those opportunities easier to find, easier to join, and easier to begin participating in, especially for new members. Integration is the aspect of governance you all want the government to pay the highest priority to. It is what maintains the community as generations come and go, and as such is the lifeblood of our community. The plans of my integration agenda are as follows:
RMB Messages: I’d like to set up a system where we regularly (every day or so, possibly more frequently) put out a Welcome RMB Message. These messages would ping new nations to get their attention, encourage them to post on the RMB, advertise our forums and discord, and provide opportunities to get involved in government, RP, the SPSF, and the other aspects of our region.
SPROUT: This has fallen far into the back of the closet, and I’d like to bring it back out to the front. This could be a very useful tool for getting people involved. Like the RMB Messages, I’d like to set up a basic system for this to begin functioning. By pushing forward with the executive, it gets the ball rolling, provides a foundation for the Assembly to work from, and information to use to tune how we want to approach new nations.
Advertising Opportunities in Regional TGs: Particularly with Heliseum’s Temporary Applications hub and the new introductory executive bodies, they have fallen into the cracks after their initial debut. There’s also a certain amount of looking that a nation has to do to find our opportunities, while we make it almost as easy as we can, a nation unwilling to explore our region is unlikely to find the things we offer. By advertising our opportunities for engagement in all regional TGs, we can ensure things avoid falling completely to the back, and provide another location for uninvolved nations to find the things they could be doing. This advertising can be as simple as an additional section at the end of announcement TGs, possibly spoilered if space is a concern.
Rewards Program: I’d like to set up some sort of Rewards program to encourage participation in our government and region, both for new nations and old. This rewards program could give anything from titles, to cards, to ribbons, to a cosmetic discord role, to badges, to ranks, to a points system, and could take the form of many more things. These can be given for joining groups, reaching participation benchmarks, successfully holding events, sending certain milestones of recruitment TGs, and so on. These would not only encourage participation from the bottom, but also friendly competition among the top.
Rework the Knowhere WFE: As it stands, the Knowhere WFE is not great. It’s annoying to read rainbow text, that doesn’t do much more than point to the forum RP canons. I’d like to work to overhaul the WFE to provide roleplay resources, more clearly explain what Knowhere is and what it’s for, clear up the common assumption by newer players that you have to move there to post, and encourage as much RP as it can. When I joined TSP, roleplay was the first part of the region that I became engaged in, and I would like to improve access to that for everyone else, especially since Knowhere is the only strictly on-site place to RP within TSP.
Utilize Culture for Integration: Culture events are a common place for new nations to begin participating in our region, and I’d like to seize upon this avenue to get new members participating in our community. When culture events are front, bright, and highly visible, it increases the number of new nations who step out of their corners and begin participating. I want to host cultural events that encourage nations to take the jump between on-site, discord, and the forums, and encourage nations to keep wanting to put their time into our community. I want any nation, regardless of involvement, to be able to point at what events are going on at any time.
Cultural Planning: I will continue the existing Culture Calendar, and more than that I’d like to bring versions of it more immediately to on-site in the form of a dispatch, and see what I can do to have it more directly on the forums and discord. The Culture Calendar, beyond being a planning tool, is useful for those who want to take a look at when things will happen in the future, and who wish to ensure the executive is not falling behind on culture.
In addition to the Culture Calendar, I plan to ensure the next cultural events are visible in the current cultural event’s announcements. Stay tuned messages will help encourage people to stick around for the next event, and the event after that.
One final planning tool I’d like to make use of which I unfortunately haven’t during my MoC term, is discord events. These are an amazing tool for keeping track of future events and allowing interested parties to be reminded of events they want to attend. I’d like to make full use of these as PM, and help keep everyone on top of what to expect.
Prioritize Government Group Activity: Of the introductory government bodies Heliseum has created this past term, few of them have been particularly active. When it comes to the Culture groups I’ve been in charge of as MoC, they haven’t been active despite constant prodding and updates from me. I hope to, across all the groups, push activity as much as I can. My integration agenda centers strongly on getting newer nations involved, and it’s my hope that by getting new nations in there, they can be the first real fuel of these groups. New nations alone however doesn’t do much, I will heavily be relying on my ministers to provide and support activity in these groups, to encourage everyone to contribute their full activity. Activity begets activity, and they need a kickstart to jump them out of the lull they’re in.
Culture
Culture is certainly one of the areas where I have the most experience, and I’m a current and former MoC. Culture was the largest section of my last PM campaign, and I intend to carry the cultural agenda from then and my current MoC term into a term as PM. I intend to keep culture as visible as possible, as is required by the nature of the position. A significant amount of my cultural agenda is what I’ve carried through from my last PM campaign and my current MoC term, and is fairly extensive. The major plans, projects, and principles of my cultural agenda are as follows:
RMB Mayor: Overall I’m decently happy with the RMB Mayor as it gets a good amount of traction. I plan to continue this, with two elections per term. I am likely to change the times on it slightly still, as this term the timing of Poll events didn’t quite work out and the second RMB Mayor election had to be crushed down to a week of elections and a one week term. I also plan on changing it by requiring an election campaign dispatch in addition to a RMB post, to encourage more effort to be put into the position. I enjoy reading campaign dispatches, and I find the simple “I’m running” RMB post to be quite dull when it’s the only thing required to run. Campaign dispatches force candidates into putting more effort into it, while remaining firmly within an acceptable level of effort to be put into an entry-level position. As usual, the RMB Mayor will trade using the polls with other events that require voting, to space them out so it’s not constantly one thing, and to make as much use of this regional tool and resource as possible.
Polls Events: The classic staple of culture, to ignore these would be to go against much cultural tradition. Poll events (events which utilize regional polls for voting), however, are not the centerpiece of culture, just a very common tool. I intend to run a poll event near the middle of my term, between the RMM Mayor elections, although the actual type of contest is still up in the air. It could be anything from a culinary contest, to a flag contest, to a poem contest, to a banner contest (especially considering the recent update regarding regional banners). I have quite a few options squirreled away if I’m bereft of opinions shared, but I hope to see the cultural groups aid in running it.
Game Nights: In my last PM Campaign, I promised both RMB Cards Against NS nights and game nights. These have largely fused into one, with game links being shared to the RMB to encourage participation from there. This fusion was rather organic, and in my opinion positive. I’d like to see these continued, and plan on making them more visible to the RMB, and I plan on setting up another TSP youtube channel to stream games like jackbox, which is one of the biggest hurdles of holding them on the discord and RMB simultaneously.
Regional Holidays: This term we only see one regional Holiday, Max Barry Day, on March 18th. As always, I intend to hold holiday celebrations for all our regional holidays, and this is no time for exceptions. I will be expecting to rely on the Holidays and Events culture group to help reach the level of celebration we’re seeking.
Card Giveaways: Cards are a tool I have used this past term, and a tool I quite enjoy. For the most part, I’ve used my own cards, rather than using TSP’s reserve of cards. I intend to continue using Card Giveaways, and would like to see all of my Ministers to do so as well, especially whoever becomes my Minister of Culture. This term, I have largely used Card Giveaways for Holidays, but I’d like to make more common and generic use of TSP’s cards to encourage culture.
RMB Awards: These are something I quite enjoy doing, and will likely continue doing regardless of the outcome of this election, but I am putting them here nonetheless.
Resident Spotlights: Resident Spotlights have been the one major promise of mine that have unfortunately fallen to the side. This is a combination of me ignoring them to fulfil other cultural events, and an unfortunate lack of activity in the Resident Spotlight culture group. This term I’d ideally like to finally have them started on, and would especially like to get the Resident Spotlight group up and running. I quite enjoy reading these, and aim to finally get them done.
FA
Foreign Affairs has always been my weakest area, since I hold a significant amount of experience in Culture and Defense here in TSP, and have helped out with integration in a number of the regions I’ve been in before and after I made my way here to TSP years ago. FA is certainly a difficult area to gain experience in, but I’m not completely blind to it. FA is a hard area to push definitive, actionable agendas, but the FA agendas I’d like to execute as PM are as such:
Culture Events: When it comes to culture events, there’s been a good bit of interregional participation this term, some through official channels, and some just from our foreign friends joining us. I’d like to strengthen our relationships through these cultural events, and increase the frequency of our cultural involvement with our allies.
Defenderdom: Our Defender Allies are our strongest allies, and regions I deeply value as friends. These are the regions I want to prioritize when it comes to FA. These are the regions I would most like to hold interregional cultural events with the most. Our fellow Defenders are the regions I think are most important to send ambassadors to, and to further strengthen ties with.
International Federalism: The past while we’ve seen the National Sovereigntist movement chisel away at the General Assembly, and grasp it in a stranglehold. From what I’ve seen here, I think a lot of you all aren’t super happy with the current state of things. I want to see TSP take a stronger International Federalist stance. For those unaware, National Sovereignty is an ideology that opposes international law on nations, and stands in opposition to the whole purpose of the General Assembly. International Federalism is the opposite of that, valuing the capability of collective cooperation over individual sovereignty. International Federalism aligns with the purpose of the General Assembly, and something that aligns with the beliefs we hold as a region. As PM I’d like to see TSP take a firm IntFed stance, and work with like-minded regions to help pass constructive and humanitarian legislation in the General Assembly.
Conflict of Interest
- Citizen and Legislator of TSP
- Lieutenant of the SPSF and Junior Command in Libcord
- Former and Current MoC in TSP, Former MoRP in TSP
- Citizen and Former Delegate of Wintreath
- High Command of the Trident Alliance (N-Day faction)
