Government Overhaul

Greetings Citizens of Narnia,

Our government has just under gone some drastic changes, which I would like to discuss with you now. In the past, we have had a two-tiered council system, with a lower council and a higher council. However, the lower council was not often used, and the higher council did most of the work. Since the higher council only had 3 members in it, 3 people, in essence, were trying to do everything and were overtaxed by it. This in turn made the entire region suffer with inactivity and half-completed plans.

That is all changed now though. The two councils have been combined into one council, which is now called the High Council. The High Council is made up of a variety of appointed positions, as well as, at this time, two elders...who do not have specific tasks, but are on the council due to their status as a respected, long-standing member of the region. Those with appointed positions each have specific tasks to complete each month. At the end of each month, the High Council will come together for summit meeting to discuss both the previous month, as well as the coming month ahead. This will keep us focused, as well as make it easy to create a report to send to our embassies around the world.

To make this system run properly, we needed to make some forum changes in the 'Paravel Council' section. Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs are both still there. Additionally, a forum for the Imperial Army and WA Delegate have been added. The purpose of these 4 sections is for you, the CoN Citizens, to post in them.

In the Internal Affairs, you can get information on how to recruit, post your ideas to enhance our culture or just chat about our region. Future nations will apply for full citizenship there as well. Saxtron will be leading these forums as the Minister of the Interior.

Foreign Affairs might not mean too much to the everyday citizen, but if you would like to see CoN open an embassy with another region, have questions about another region, or have an idea whom we should or should not enter into an alliance with, post there. As the WA Delegate, I will be in charge of these.

The Imperial Army forums in this section are NOT for mission planning or anything secure of the likes. The IA has its own special secure place for that. Instead, these forums are for statements from Cocodian, the Marshall of the List on IA missions after they are completed. Additionally, you may post your ideas for the IA there, ask questions about how it, or NS war in general works, and even apply for IA membership.

The WA Delegate forums are something I am particularly excited about. Once upon a time, CoN was a well known and powerful force in the WA. In the past though, I have failed to even so much as take the time to vote on proposals. For each proposal that goes to vote, I will post a thread with the proposal as well as when voting ends. It is my hopes that we will get some conversation and debate about these proposals. I will take into consideration your concerns as I cast our region's vote, so make sure to voice your opinion.

I have many, many more ideas for our region, including one that would certainly leave our mark in Nationstates history for years to come. We need to get things running smoothly first though before we can take on these larger projects. The High Council is ready to do its part in leading...but we need you, the citizen, to stay active and take advantage of the many opportunities we offer. You must be a member of the forums to take part in this...so if you haven't signed up, go do so now! Once you are there (and validated), read around the different areas and post! If everyone, from you the citizen to me, the Lord Protectorate, does their job...this game will be a lot more fun for all of us.

Are you up for it? Let's here it for Narnia, and for Aslan!!!

~Lord Protectorate Fotar