FRA Updates

[karputsk]

From the Office of the Arch Chancellor

18/11/12

Greetings Nationstates Community.

It has been an exciting time in the Founderless Regions Alliance, with elections, Real-Life (What's that?!), Cabinet meet-ups, defences and Regional Assembly debates.

In the recent FRA elections, Wopruthien once again retained his seat as Arch Chancellor, becoming the joint most elected Arch Chancellor in FRA history, equalling Sedgistan's record of five terms in office. Frattastan of the San Francisco Bay Area and The Rejected Realms once again returned to Chief of Defence, for the Sixth straight term, but faced a tough opponent from Kogvuron also of San Francisco Bay Area and The United Federation, who was duly appointed as Deputy Chief of Defence along with Karputsk.

In the Regional Liaison Officer election, three candidates put their name forward for the position. The Incumbent Likako Nehio of New Sorvun, People United Together of Atrigeas and Karputsk also of New Sorvun. The three candidates fought in a lively and spirited debate, the liveliest election for a number of terms. Despite an extremely strong showing in the debates, with some tipping the man from Atrigeas to cause a shock upset, PUT announced his withdrawal from the elections only hours before polling was due to start. The FRA would like to send our best wishes to People United Together and wish him good luck in his future endeavours. With only two candidates remaining, between two region mates, Karputsk defeated the incumbent Likako Nehio taking 85% of the votes.

The Speaker of the Assembly saw the incumbent Wibblefeet of 00000 A World Power comfortably beat his opponent Abstain/Present with a full 100% vote, a clear vote of confidence in Wibble's outstanding work for the Alliance. The Minister of Intelligence elections saw Scoochi2 of Antarctica return to the shadowy Intelligence halls and he will continue the work of recently retired Guy of The Rejected Realms. Guy will be sorely missed by all who knew him, but has promised to return now and again.


In other news, Nationstates celebrated its 10th Year Anniversary and to celebrate members of the new cabinet, notably Wopruthien, Karputsk and long time member Flowering Staplers, aka Luna Dancing of Liberty Alliance met up for FRA's 2nd real life Cabinet meeting. Frattastan was notable in his absence, claiming he was unable to find the 'Move Frattastan to London' button. Despite this, along with representatives from Global Federation of Nations, Osiris and Hinduism, the FRA was able to discuss a number of points and work on the best way to proceed during this upcoming term. As a result Karputsk has been attending all member regions and will be evaluating and hopefully organising a revamp of our inactive protectorate regions, with a number of candidates which will be helped out in the future.

In military news, the FRA has conducted thirty successful defensive missions against various raider groups as well as a number of liberations. On a more recent update on the 13th November, the FRA along with members of the UDL successfully defended Seven regions against the Black Riders infamous tag raids, only failing to defend one region. It left TBR stunned who quickly retreated from the battlefield with over half an update to go. The FRA continues to win plaudits and is a constant presence on the battlefield, dispelling rumours of our inactivity.

The Regional Assembly has been a hive of debate over the past term, with 2 new admins, the admission of the Liberty Alliance into the region, the downgrading of four regions to Protectorate, a Charter amendment regarding elections, a number of spirited election debates and the FRA Conference which is still open for any new ideas should members/regions feel to add anything as a number of ideas are currently being implemented.

The new Minister of Intelligence has begun a recruitment drive, appointing Wibblefeet as his deputy who will handle the day-to-day running of the intelligence department.

Kogvuron has also been appointed Vice Chancellor, and is tasked with promoting the Founderless Regions Alliance's presence abroad.

Finally in a bizarre twist of events, Unibot III decided to share in the recent success and revival of FRA.... by wearing our flag. Frattastan, after returning from the World Fair, was seen laughing madly prompting Uni to change his flag. Events remain unexplained, but we'd like to thank Unibot for showing his appreciation. Evidence can be found below:

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Thank you for reading.

From the Office of the Arch Chancellor

Wopruthien

[karputsk]

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The 7th Annual Edition of the Defender Awards, the longstanding and much-awaited event that rewards those who have served the defender world and celebrates Gameplayers' successes and failures of the last twelve months is here again!

The Awards are hosted by the Founderless Regions Alliance (FRA) on their forums, located here.

The awards are as follows:

The Defender of the Year Award

The formerly named 'EuroSoviets' award is given to the nation who is viewed by the NS community as the one nation who has helped the defender cause the most in the last year.

The Ananke Award

The Ananke Award is given to those nations who spend their own time looking out for any invasions that are taking place. This normally means staying up till very late and sacrificing their sleep for the greater good.

The Anarchotopia Award

This award is given to the region or organisation which has proved the most successful in preventing invasions.

The Blackbird Award

A special award that is given to the invader group which the NS community considers the best out there due to whatever reason.

The Sir Lans Award

The old 'Updater of the Year Award' is for the person who has been involved in more update missions than any other, and has shown dedication to be there if they are needed.

The Operation of the Year

The mission which stands out from all others from the last year due to the success, the numbers involved or any other reason.

The Best Newcomer(s) Award

Given to the region, nation or organisation which has appeared within the last year, and impressed the defender community the most. This award has two recipients.

The Dipes Award

Given to the nation whom has best served the Intelligence cause.

The Worst Invasion Award

The award given to the operation which was classed as the worst invasion due to defender mistakes, invader cunning or any other reason.

The Worst Invader Group Award

The award given to a group of Invaders for abysmal failure and/or being a large annoyance overall.

The Best Defender Quote

A light hearted award, given to the nation whose quote or motto has been considered strange, funny or different.

The Meltdown of the Year Award

Given to a nation, region or organisation which has self-imploded in spectacular (and often hilarious) style.

The WASC Award

Given to the nation, region or organisation that is viewed to have contributed most to the defender cause through the World Assembly Security Council.

The Lifetime Achievement Award for Dedication to Defending

The award given to the nation who has been a dedicated servant to the defender cause for many years, often sacrificing different luxuries in order to help as much as they can.


All - including invaders and neutrals - are welcome to attend.

[karputsk]

From the Office of the Arch Chancellor

17/01/13

Greetings Friends and Allies.

It has been a long month since our last update and the FRA has been extremely busy in that time. The 7th Annual Defender Awards have begun with nominations pouring in, our Rangers have been active as ever growing in numbers as well as Cabinet Elections.

There is just under a week to go to place a nomination in The 7th Annual Defender Awards. Opening on the 10th January defenders across the Nationstates world flooded in to propose and nominate players, regions and organisations for a plethora of awards. In usual style the awards were not without controversy with FRA and her ally region Mordor nominated for Worst Invasion Award for their attempted defence of Fluffy Bunny Town, while fellow organisation UDL were nominated for their unintentional 'coup on Osiris'. This has led to a number of arguments but has since settled down in usual fashion and good spirits. The FRA is pleased to announce a record number of nominations already with more to come, particularly in the 'Defender Quote of the Year Award' (which surprisingly only has a modest five confirmed nominations). A full list of confirmed nominations can be viewed here:

s7.zetaboards.com/FRA/topic/8772596/1/#new


Our recent Cabinet elections saw for the first time ever in our history all five of our cabinet positions returning the incumbents to office. Wopruthien, narrowly defeating New Sorvun's Likako Nehio for the position of Arch Chancellor. Notably Wopruthien has now broken Sedgistan's record for terms as Arch Chancellor, but has still some way to go before breaking the time in office due to shortening of term times.

Frattastan of The Rejected Realms returned to the position of Frattastan *cough* Chief of Defence, while Scoochi2 of Antarctica remains as Minister of Intelligence, expanding on the work done last term, increasing our agents and renewing links with old sleeper agents. The long term member of 00000 A World Power, Wibblefeet, has been elected Speaker of the Assembly announcing Seneca of Global Right Alliance as his deputy, while Karputsk of New Sorvun begun a second term as Regional Liaison Officer.

His work last term largely involved aiding regions in the Alliance which saw a revival of 0000 A World Power and New Sorvun, while Sovereign Liberties of Global Right Alliance beginning recruiting for the region. The Regional Development Programme put in place by Karputsk is looking to build on this recent success and looking for volunteers.

In recent months there has seen a drastic decrease in regional military. If you your region is interested in setting up a regional defence military and unsure where to start please contact Karputsk, Drop Your Pants or Wopruthien who will offer advice and guidance to build up your regional military.

The Rangers have been busy since the new year taking part in ten successful defences as well as aiding other defenders in attempted liberations of some of the larger raider occupations in Planet X and South Pacific. We will continue to strive and build our military in order to fight these destructive and long term occupations.

The Charter has recently been amended to clarify one of the more confusing sentences in the Charter which gave Vice-Chancellors but not the Arch Chancellor the ability to open embassy's and begin diplomatic relations with non-member regions. It has also clarified the number of Vice-Chancellors the Arch Chancellor can appoint addressing fears from New Sorvun that X amount of Vice-Chancellors could be chosen.

As mentioned the FRA intelligence service has already had a number of successful operations since the new year, and it's a department that is always expanding. Kogvuron of the Libertarians United has begun work of the Deputy Intelligence Minister. If you are interested in offering your services in one of the most successful and longest running departments please contact Scoochi2 or Kogvuron.

Again just to remind everyone that the 7th Annual Defender Awards has just under a week for nominations, with the voting procedure due to be announced shortly.

If your region has any story it would like shared please contact Wopruthien.

From the Office of the Arch Chancellor

Wopruthien

[karputsk]

Now that nominations are closed, the voting stage has begun.

Voting will close on February 7th at midnight GMT, and will be followed by the Awards Ceremony.

There are a number of avenues by which you can vote:

1) Send a Private Message to the 'Ballot Collector' on the FRA forum.

2) Send a Private Message to 'Gruffydd Ap Llywelyn 2' on the regional forums of 10000 Islands, 'Wopruthien' in Texas or the Rejected Realms or 'Wop' in the UDL.

3) Send a Telegram Message to the nation 'Defender Awards 2013'.

www.nationstates.net/nation=defender_awards_2013



In your message please indicate clearly the names of those who you wish to vote for.

Please remember there is one vote for every award - if you vote for more than one person for a specific award, then those votes will be discounted.

You can only vote for those people who are nominated - write-in nominations will not be accepted.

The confirmed nominations list is here.

Please note: Although there are a number avenues by which it is possible to vote only one vote per award per person is permitted. All ballots received via telegram will be vetted to ensure they are not puppet accounts, and any votes from people I suspect have already voted will be discounted.

Happy voting!