The Administration of Law and Order has dispatched Inspector General Veruca Sekelsky to the city of Oskioriopoli she will be taking charge of the gun control measures as well as working with Fornoire officials. The city is currently being ran by the two government's appointed officials while elections take place it is perfect timing for the union to tighten it's grip to remove the weapons from dual citizens there. Her main mission will be to remove firearms and other weapons but she has also been chosen to help lead the border control efforts by investigating the reports of faked passports.

The Inspector General's car has pulled in front of the city hall out steps the Inspector general she is curiously short for and officer and busty in figure. She is wearing her uniform a dark navy blue suit gleaming with medals as she steps out hat in hand she walks straight for the doors ignoring the driver.

As she makes her way to door she is greeted by Union State Police officers.

"Lead me towards the meeting room" she commanded

She then made her way to the room where Fornoire officers awaited....

OOC thread for the Antarktikos Conference. For anyone confused, Antarktikos is from a slightly corrupted Greek transliteration of "Antarctic" and is the IC name for the continent.

If you are attending, or intend to sign any resulting treaties please post here. (Posting not required to be in attendance.) Please indicate your attending character with the nation, position, and any other relevant information. This event will ICly take place over days or weeks, so national leaders are not recommended as major characters and are allowed to change in the negotiations of necessary.

The current stage of the negotiations is introductions. Nations may introduce their characters and positions outside the conference before we move inside to begin. As owner of the host nation, Parthenopias is invited to set the stage of the event and explain any questions on accommodations or venue.

Amidst the changing politics and climate of the modern world, the fate of the Antarktikos continent has become a matter of increasing international concern. Nations look to its unclaimed lands with all its resources, scientific potential, and increasingly endangered wildlife.

The nations of Artemia have been invited to the Resharan city of Letopolis to meet and discuss the continent. Observers watch and hope that they may come together in agreement on a landmark treaty that would ensure a lasting peace and stability for the continent.

Key Starting Topics

• Defining the land and marine regions to be affected by the agreement
  
• Status of existing claims to the region and future claiming of the region
  
• Exploitation of natural and resources, including mining, oil and gas, and fishing
  
• Scientific usage of the continent, including the ownership and construction of scientific installations
  
• Legality of military activity, including the stationing of personnel and military testing
  
• Conservation of the Antarktikos wildlife and environment
  

„Let me tell you a story, children, a story so old that they may have been spoken by the gods themselves. We all know that the story of our existence didn’t begin at the beginning of time but still the curiosity remains of what was before everything.

There was ground before there was life. The earth was roaring in senseless anger because of a quarrel long forgotten even by her.

As it roared fire onto everything from the depths of her body it gave birth to the very first Ruler of the Universe, a God. Born from fire, he shared, no, was a reincarnation of her anger smashing the rocks on the ground and the stars in the sky with his bare hands made of fire while screaming and roaring for so long and so loud that it would have ripped apart any man’s throat.

As the earth laid eyes upon this new being, it became clear to her how foolish she was acting and calmed herself before she would do any more harm. When the fires of the earth cooled down and only the rampage of the God of Fire remained, she bundled her might and banished him away into the sky.

There he threw fire into every direction in his need to destroy and quell his never ending anger until everything around him was fire.

This would create the sun.

As this new body of light set its embrace onto our Calm Mother Earth, she saw what she had caused but came to love the warmth it embraced her in though the sun’s light couldn’t touch her everywhere. So she began turning around.

For a long time, lasting to today, she joyfully lets the sun touch her everywhere, like it does us now, giving after a long time life to the earth until finally New Gods came to be.

This story should teach you not to let the anger inside you feed on you to your last dying breath but to calm yourself because even when the feeling of letting go of your emotions may be giving you joy, the consequences always will reach you at some point.

Because the Mighty God in the Sun is still forevermore angered and someday he will find a way back to our home."

Qastari

Prince Yousef, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, was actually now doing a part of his job never done before by the democratic government: handling foreign affairs by visting another country.

At the first moments of the democratic government, foreign affairs was not that much of an issue, due to the internal problems Fornoire faced being far more of a priority. But now, things were calm. The war with Kumari was resolved, rebellions were squashed and under control, and political stability was fine enough for peace to exist. 

So, he had an agenda to fulfill, as the government took more interest in foreign affairs. He would negotiate for a Fornirian embassy to be put in Qastari and viceversa, and he would negotiate visa-free travel between the two countries, as socialists were interested in visiting Qastari, and requests to go to Qastari in general was gradually and unexpectedly on the rise.

He was on a flight. Now, he could see Qastari from the air. His plane landed, and awaited destiny

Hail, Selenids.

With the ascension of myself to the position of Prime Minister of Selene yesterday at the behest of the Emperor, Selene has entered a new phase in its history. This phase, following the details of the plan I hold of Selene, will be seen in future generations of roleplayers as the most fateful time for our region, as that of a difficult and hardy time. Should our community fail to meet good expectations set forth here today, then our region will go through a difficult time indeed, but should we succeed, then Selene will have risen from the ashes to embody a regional phoenix that has surpassed and will continue to surpass our great expectations.

With that in mind, and with the grace and blessing of the Emperor, I am hereby issuing a challenge to all Selenids: If we cannot approach and surpass a level of activity in the month following this address that is acceptable to all members, then the community as a whole has failed, from leadership down to the rank and file members of the region. We cannot allow such a community to continue on in its present form if we do not meet a basic activity requirement of four posts for every nation that currently exists on our regional map.

The purpose for such a requirement is more quantifiable than qualifiable. The success of our region should not be measured in simple post counts, it must be measured in terms of the fulfillment of the reason we log into NationStates and continue to read and post: fun. However, the most glaring barrier to having fun is the lack of posting, and with assistance as needed and a baseline minimum set, the lack of posting may turn around and result in a stronger desire to post as well, which will avalanche into productivity and fun.

I do not believe this is a difficult goal to accomplish in the slightest regard. Our community has some of the most productive minds I’ve ever seen in my time in NationStates, and at a mere four posts a month for every nation with the large array of possibilities for RP? Such a goal should be the average activity for our region at the least, but desperate times call for desperate measures, and the desperate measures I intend to fulfill should we fail are extreme indeed. It is what I have been colloquially referring to as Order 76.

The most important thing to note about this order, however, is that this is not the first choice, but the last. The government does not want to have to enact this, but we shall have to if the community does not answer the collective goal set out in front of it in a manner that we may all be pleased with. With this in mind, the parts of Order 76 are, in brief, as follows: Create a backup of the forum of Selene, the Byzantium Herald, the Bulletins, the World Factbook Entry, and any dispatches created in an official capacity for Selene; Reinstall the forum from scratch, with new themes, a new forum organisation if necessary, new introduction threads as necessary for the official map, the Ekklesia, the canon of our RP, and anything else deemed appropriate; Create a new homepage to serve the needs of both Selenids and foreigners who visit selene.online, by adding or removing pages as needed; Create a new World Factbook Entry to reflect any possible changes in themes and designs as necessary; Recruit in earnest emphasising the need and requirement for activity for new Selenids; and enforce a new activity requirement with the addition of a prize should the region be active enough. In short, it is a Grand Purge, and a fresh start for a region that bills itself as A Fresh Start.

I must re-emphasise that this is the final option for the government, and that we would highly prefer to avoid enacting it if the community will answer the call. It would destroy the work that we have all put into our canon and region, and that is not an option anyone would want to take that feels even the slightest investment. The Emperor and I strongly want this region to succeed in its current form, and we will assist any Selenid that asks for our help so that we may all come together to create a better and more active region.

As Prime Minister of Selene, I hold the Emperor’s blessing to do whatever is necessary to encourage activity, and in the time leading until July 19th when the challenge I have issued earlier expires, I will recommend to the Emperor that any Selenid that reaches and exceeds the four posts required in this month by a factor of two should become a Member of the Order of Selene, and that any Selenid who actively assists others shall become a Baron. We must reward those who go above and beyond in this trying time, and this is but a simple way we may do it.

There has been deliberation over a possible move of the main chat service back to IRC, and I would like to cement that the region is not being forced to move their preferred chat services at all. The server on Discord will not be deleted to force a move, but instead, I will personally use it less to encourage the community to move to IRC. Whatever chat service the region uses, it has not helped with activity a great deal, but by moving back to where we started, with IRC’s possibilities in clients and customisation for each person, and the lack of major software issues that have been experienced with Discord, I hope we may continue to chat quickly and effectively within our community.

To assist the Emperor and I in ensuring a high quality of activity, I am appointing Tek as Deputy Prime Minister and as Roleplay Councillor. Their experience in a wide variety of roleplay will be an asset to our region, and by consulting with them on ways to continue activity and increase the quality of our RPs, they will serve Selene as no other Roleplay Councillor has before.

Selene is meant to be a Fresh Start for all of us. If we can all commit to ensuring that the fresh start we came here for is not a start with our feet in cement and our hands shackled, then we can commit ourselves to making certain that we will never return to the abyss that has plagued our region for the past year.

Long live Selene.
Viva el Movimiento del Sonido Político.

Constantine Lambros
Prime Minister of Selene