Category: Global Disarmament | Strength: Significant | Proposed by<strong>: A Dickhead</strong>

• Strategic nuclear weapon as a nuclear weapon which is designed to be used on targets as part of a strategic plan, such as nuclear missile bases, military command centers and heavily populated civilian areas such as large towns and cities, delivered by either gravity bomb, or long range missile system,
  
  
  
• Tactical nuclear weapon as a nuclear weapon which is designed to be used on a battlefield in military situations, delivered by gravity bomb, landmine, bomb, or short range rocket/missile system,
  
  
  

1. Declares that member nations shall reduce their strategic nuclear arsenals to a minimum required to assure plausible and credible nuclear deterrence from hostile nations,
   
   
   
2. Defines credible minimal nuclear deterrence as a nation possessing no more strategic nuclear weapons than is necessary to deter an adversary from attacking, without facing an unacceptable level of damage in return,
   
   
   
3. Upholds member nations rights to possess tactical nuclear arsenals of a strength required to effectively pursue military campaigns which require the use of nuclear weapons to prosecute their military objectives,
   
   
   
4. Requires member nations to submit to inspection of their nuclear weapons to ensure they are in full compliance with this act.
   
   
   

Category: Furtherment of Democracy | Strength: Significant | Proposed by: <a class="" href="http://www.nationstates.net/nation=elke_and_elba">Elke and Elba</a>

1. not been certified to be mentally incompetent to give any form of informed consent,
   
   
2. attained the minimum age of voting,
   
   
3. not been disenfranchised due to conviction of a criminal offence, and;

1. nothing in this resolution forces member nations to hold elections where no elections are held,
   
   
2. nothing in this resolution disallows member nations to extend suffrage to citizens and inhabitants not covered under this resolution, and,
   
   
3. nothing in this resolution forcibly sets a minimum age of voting on member states, which are free to set one as the respective member states deem fit.

Welcome to The South Pacific, Pierconium!

We are glad to have you here. Please tell us a little about yourself.

Below are the update moderation policies that will begin to be enforced on 3/27/14.

 

Section One - Board and Administration


"http://forums.thesouthpacific.org/" is the official forum of The South Pacific.


The South Pacific forum is to be administered by its administrators, global moderators, and forum moderators. Any member of the moderation team may issue informal warnings and formal warnings with predefined punishments; however the administration team take further undefined action when necessary following a discussion and vote on the matter.

Section Two - Warnings and Punishment


Each registered member of The South Pacific forums is entitled to a minimum of three formal warnings, subsequent to a prior informal warning. Informal warnings carry no punishment, but once an informal warning has been issued then formal warnings with punishment may be imposed. Informal warnings expire one month after issue, and a further informal warning must be issued before formal warnings can be gained.

 

Upon receipt of their first formal warning a members account will be suspended for 24 hours. Upon receipt of a second formal warning a members account will be suspended for 72 hours. Upon receipt of a third formal warning a members account will be suspended for 168 hours. Further infraction after the third formal warning will lead to the indefinite suspension of a members account, followed by a determination of punishment, up to and including a permanent ban from the forums, by the full administration team.


Members may receive informal and formal warnings for the following activities;

• Spamming: Posting meaningless or irrelevant content in a thread.
  
• Inappropriate Language: Using explicit language extensively and in an inappropriate manner.​
  
• Threadjacking: Discussing something in a serious thread that is irrelevant to the topic at hand.​
  
• Abusive Behavior: Flaming, disrespecting the privacy of another user, and trolling.
  
• Defamation: Issuing false or otherwise unproven statements about an individual or group of individuals.
  

• Posting gore, pornographic content, violent content, and material which violates the federal law of the real-life United States of America.
  
• Promoting activities which are illegal in the real-life United States or are widely illegal internationally.
  
• Posting personal information about another user of the board without their consent, excluding such information needed to identify a nation or account as a specific individual or individuals, ie; IP addresses.
  
• Attempting to hack or otherwise compromise the security of these forums, user accounts, or other internet property in general.
  
• Attempting to circumnavigate forum security by hiding or otherwise masking IP addresses and other means of identification.
  
• ​Threatening to physically harm another user.
  

Why should I report a post or private message?

There are times when content is posted that breaks the moderation policies.  This isn't always seen by our moderators.  Reading through every thread can be very time consuming and things just get overlooked.  Reporting content you believes breaks the forum rules is the easiest way for our moderators to evaluate the post and take action if needed.  Reporting this content will also allow for a more fair application of the moderation policies.

 

Private messages can break forum moderation rules as well.  Yes TSP has the NSA and all but our NSA doesn't read through your private conversations.  You can report private conversations that break forum rules as well and we will evaluate the content and let you know the result.

 

How do I report a post?

On every post you will see REPORT.  If you hit this button it will take you to a page that asks you to enter your report.  This report should contain why you believe this post is in violation of the moderation policies.  Once you have completed your report hit the SUBMIT REPORT button.  Your report has now been sent to the moderation staff for review.

 

What happens next?

A forum moderator will review the report and make a decision on whether or not this post warrants any moderator action in accordance with the forum moderation policies.  All warnings will be announced in the thread in which contained the original post.

 

If you have any questions about this article please feel free to post.

Hello Everyone,

 

I hope at this point introductions are no longer needed.  But I am Southern Bellz, former almost every cabinet position, former two time delegate, and current Minister of the Army.

I wanted to make an address, and take the time to talk about the speculation about what I will do next term.  

 

I consider this term to be one of my best terms in TSP.  When I took over as the Minister of the Army, the NSA was in terrible shape:  It was tragically inactive with almost no structure intact, the code of conduct was being ignored and had multiple out of date requirements, the general corps was non-existent, hell people were even arguing if an independent military is possible.

 

Well one term later, and we have had countless deployments.  Our first deployment was in support of The Red Fleet’s refound of a racist region.  If there is one thing I want to leave on the NSA, it is that we do not need to take the wheel all the time.  We can have a major impact on the NS world just by supporting sometime.  Countless nations messaged me (mostly from TRF/leftist regions) over this operation telling me all about how happy they were to see TSP taking a stand against racism.

 

 Our flagship deployment was in Fascist, which was a very complicated operation, but one that directly put a halt to Nazi aggression and expansion.

 

We took action against a region who’s delegate leaked NSA information and having their delegate declare TSP his enemy. 

 

We partook in warzone operations with fellow GCRS, we supported liberations, we had partial deployments.  The list goes on!  We had a great term!  We have Generals!  We have a bunch of great involved active troops!

This term has led to the strengthening of ties with many regions.  Some already allies, some new friends, and some old ones.

 

This leads to addressing the speculation about what I will be doing in the next term.

 

I will not be seeking re-election as the Minister of the Army.  Nor will I be running for delegate or any other cabinet positions.  The only elected position I have an interest in is Vice Delegate- so anyone who has an exciting platform for delegate, send it to me, and I will be more than willing to back the person with the most creative and engaging platform.

 

If I get no interest in that offer or choose not to run, I will still be active as a citizen and consider deputy work. 

 

In closing think it is very important that The South Pacific continues this tradition, of being a region that stands up against aggressive hate groups, and a region that doesn’t pick sides for the sake of picking sides.  Put this community first, and we will continue to be the best region in NationStates.

 

I want to thank anyone who supported my vision and to every single NSA member who came on an operation.  This term’s success was a result of your work and dedication to my vision, even when it did not make sense.

My final weeks in office will be used for administration and housekeeping to ensure the next MoA is ready to go from day one.

 

Last of all, join the freakin NSA guys.  It's fun!

 

True Blue,

Southern Bellz

The Userite Myth

 
 
Countless theorists, politicians and activists have told us that the ultimate delineation of nations within this realm can be categorized within two broad but distinct frameworks: feederite and userite.  Further demarcation and nomenclature have adjusted these overarching archetypes with terms such as defender or invader, or most recently, independent and imperialist, but the concept remains the same.  Some have sought to provoke these portrayals into coherent political agendas and philosophies, to greater and lesser success.  Proper thought or manifesto aside, these have been nothing more than platitudes created to either uphold or break down the status quo.  Many have been structured around specific groups or regions, giving credit to individuals for feats that, while monumental, were nothing more than the perpetuation of an erroneous mindset.  The reason that such theoretical conflicts between these separate mentalities have occurred historically is that the underlying mythos has created cognitive dissonance within the collective gestalt of our nations.

 
It is time for a paradigm shift.  The myth that has been perpetuated since antiquity within this realm is based upon an incorrect understanding of the individual nation’s position within the overall structure.  All nations are created equivalently and arise within those regions specified as “feeders” upon their initial foundation.  There are no exceptions to this fundamental fact.  If a nation ceases to exist and is resurrected, it then arrives in one of the regions designated as “sinker” but this is not an instance of foundation, it is an instance of rebirth, and therefore provides a separate and secondary dynamic.  Therefore, all nations, at some point, even those created specifically for the purpose of departure from the region of its birth, are feederite.  At the most basic level of classification, all nations, regardless of size, age or location, have been and always will be, to some extent, the product of a feeder mentality.  There is no such thing as a pure userite nation.  It is a matter of self-delusion for any nation to deny its heritage as a child of the feeders.

 
Therefore, it is necessary to define the feederite diaspora.  Since it is a given then that not every nation left the feeders voluntarily, or that every nation, though equivalent in creation, has sought equivalence in action and position, there are some levels of differentiation to be clarified.  First, those nations of the so-called enforced diaspora, who met the lords of the Rejected Realms against their will, have a certain predisposition against the idea of feederite rehabilitation.  While it is certainly correct to state that some instances of forced relocation are without merit, it is equally true to state the converse.  Consequently, the separation of these two dejected parties is insubstantial when measured against the totality of the diaspora as a whole.  All nations that have been removed via ejection from a feeder by a Delegate, regardless of circumstance, are part of the enforced diaspora.  And yet, they are still feederite at their core.

 
Likewise, those nations that have been disillusioned with the government that they encountered upon creation or mislead by the barrage of invitations that they receive upon conception are also feederite in origin.  Disillusionment stems from a lack of understanding while the misleading of nations by those that have already gone into the diaspora before also evolves from this same misperception.  These nations, which have left of their own volition, are part of the coerced diaspora.  Often, those of the coerced have been prompted to action by the enforced.  The enforced prey upon the coerced to the detriment of the whole.  Through this cyclical pattern of denial-delusion-deceit, we find the impetus for all divergence within the Nation States world.  The bulk of nations within this realm dwelling outside of the feeders are part of the coerced, living a lie manufactured and fed to them by the enforced.  They utilize this lie in order to create great personal power, build large temples to themselves, or some self-aggrandizing political hokum, in order to wage war upon that which they left behind.

 
There is a further group of nations belonging to the diaspora, those that are mere puppets of either the coerced or enforced, bereft of autonomy and utilized for a multitude of tasks which enslave them to their more prodigious masters.  For the purpose of this study, such entities hold no value beyond that of placeholder.  In the rare instance that such a nation serves a purpose expressly independent of its diasporic progenitor the nation would invariably find itself within one of the preceding categorical classifications unless it was itself feederite in position.  Such incongruities will be addressed separately, however.  In the present vein, notwithstanding uncommon examples, there is therefore only one overarching classification of nation: feederite.  Those nations that are part of the diaspora in any one of the two main segmentations are simply displaced feederite constituents.

 
Since no differentiation between those nations within the feeders and those without can be made outside of pseudo-philosophic propaganda effected by the enforced diaspora and taken up or misconstrued by the coerced, it stands to all reason and common sense that no political differentiation can logically exist either.  Hence, all supposed userite, invader, imperialist, independent, etc. etc. ad nauseam, justifications for separation from and opposition to feederite institutions are invalid.  If no such delineation can exist then no antagonism to these fabricated separations can exist.  The enforced diaspora has perpetuated a false-mentality of obstruction in the face of their shortcomings or misunderstandings.  They have utilized the coerced as tools while obfuscating the reality of their situation.  In short, the userite myth has been developed and cultivated in order to destabilize the feeders and propagate a war between prodigals and their homelands.

• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will end its practice of disseminating monthly updates on important events and happenings in The South Pacific, commonly referred to as “Foreign Affairs Updates” or “FA updates,” to each region with which we maintain a forum-based embassy or consulate.
  
• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will still write a monthly update, but it will be published in a few selected central venues, namely the NationStates Gameplay forum and the Ministry’s own forum.
  
• All members of the Diplomatic Corps of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are honorably discharged from their duties, and the Diplomatic Corps is suspended pending reorganization and reimagining of its duties and purposes.