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UnAPS Recruitment (Powerful Alliance -Small Nations Welcome)

Edolia
17-02-2004, 01:51
United Alliance of Progressive States
UnAPS Recruitment Thread

History of the Alliance
The United Alliance of Progressive States, or UnAPS, can trace its ancestry back to late April of 2003, when it was founded by a coalition of nations under the name of the United Alliance Against Oppression and Tyranny (UAAOT). Due to corruption and no admission standards whatsoever, the alliance quickly dissolved due to internal squabbles –especially those involving a member of this alliance, the Bisons, now known as Dark Terror. Out of the ashes of the UAAOT, rose the United NationStates Anti Oppression and Tyranny Alliance, or UNAOTO (since then, the original UAAOT has returned and still continues its rather corrupt and hypocritical ways). Attempting to avoid the mistakes made by the previous alliance, the UNAOTO severely restricted its membership, requiring lengthy national background investigations before admitting nations and various other forms of bureaucracy. This was one of the failings of that alliance which, because of these measures, never reached more than fifty members. Recently, the most active members of the UNAOTO left the failing, bureaucracy-chocked alliance and formed the UnAPS which is now launching a recruitment drive.

Our Ideals
Article II. Section I of the UnAPS Constitution:
”The UnAPS alliance is an organization of sovereign states. We are brought together in the pursuit of universal human rights and for the promotion of progressive social and/or economic policies. All members are pledged to protect each other in the event of war, so long as the member involved was not identified as the aggressor in the conflict.”

The UnAPS is mostly composed of liberal democracies with a healthy number of progressive, benevolent dictatorships thrown in as well. We are strongly opposed to aggressive and warmongering nations and see alliances built of these nations to be our greatest enemies. We have no official policy regarding socialists or capitalists and our alliance contains both hard-core, liberal Communists and free-market capitalists. However, extreme and oppressive nations on both sides of the economic spectrum are not welcome in the alliance. Though we are lovers of peace, there number many very powerful nations in the alliance who do not hesitate to use force if force is necessary.

Our Stance on Other Alliances
The UnAPS stands firm against corrupt and aggressive alliances and nation-blocs including Arda, GDODAD, the Reich, the NCA and Iron Blood and his cronies. We ally ourselves will all nations willing to promote peace and progressive ideals throughout the world.

Joining the Alliance and Our Rules
The join the alliance, you must have at the least “above average” civil rights. If your political are “some,” or fewer, your civil rights must be at least “good.” Besides this, there are not requirements for joining. Telegram our Knootoss, our Director of Membership.

The UnAPS alliance is comprised of two groups of nations. The first, the Outer Alliance, is made up of all members. The second, the Inner Alliance, is a group of nations who have shown themselves to be trustworthy. They have access to a number of secret forums. All members of the alliance are obligated to defend allies, Inner and Outer Alliance nations both but Outer Alliance nations are not allowed to speak for the Alliance in military situations and cannot misuse the support of the UnAPS to engage in unjust wars.

All nations are expected to follow a basic code of conduct. At least mediocre roleplaying ability is expected and godmodding is a pretty sure way to get kicked out of the alliance. We also expect nations to act relatively civilly to other nations both in and out of the alliance. Imperialistic actions are not tolerated, nor are human rights abuses.

Benefits to Joining the Alliance
Besides the obvious benefits of enjoying a strong group of active nations as allies, there are also a number of other benefits. We have a well-managed forum for nations to discuss matters and organize joint-action. Furthermore, many nations in the alliance including Edolia sell weapons to allies that they refuse to sell to the wider world. Finally, you have the right to join the Haven region, the official region of the UnAPS (although you are in no way obligated).

If you have any questions, you can post them here or telegram me. Please don’t hijack this thread with discussion on the merits of this alliance. This is for recruitment only. If you wish to join the alliance, contact Mintar or Edolia.
Edolia
17-02-2004, 03:24
Le bump.
Edolia
17-02-2004, 04:33
Bump again for luck.
Edolia
17-02-2004, 23:29
Recruit, damn you!
Edolia
18-02-2004, 14:09
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Jeruselem
18-02-2004, 14:30
That's one long BUMP.
Independent Hitmen
18-02-2004, 14:46
check ur tgs Edolia
Edolia
19-02-2004, 00:43
Yo homies, let's join the alliance, yo.
Lunatic Retard Robots
19-02-2004, 01:01
We would like to join this alliance.
Edolia
19-02-2004, 04:37
颠簸

That, by the way, is Chinese for "bump." It is very small and hard to read though so I'll just say that the pronunciation would be "diānbǒ" with the first syllable spoken with a high tone and the second with a low tone.
Edolia
23-02-2004, 03:52
Actually, the above is wrong. I'm not sure what the Chinese for BUMP is.
_Taiwan
23-02-2004, 04:30
OOC: It's 打 (although that means 'hit' , it's close enough)

Edolia, Check TGs.
Agrigento
23-02-2004, 04:46
I was actually very interested in joining this alliance, especially after the expression of its disdain for Dark Terror, but alas I am a member of the NCA...I would however like to wish you luck.
Edolia
23-02-2004, 20:55
OOC: It's 打 (although that means 'hit' , it's close enough)

Edolia, Check TGs.

Yes. I think that "颠簸" is in a weird dialect. Or so suggested my Chinese teacher.

It's 打? Ok. Thanks. I'll remember that.
Edolia
06-03-2004, 17:50
Bump from way back...
Edolia
20-03-2004, 03:45
Bumped again with a different name.. Let's see if this one works a bit better.
20-03-2004, 03:47
The Commonwealth of Erectobia finds this alliance would be more productive for us then other alliances we have applied to, therefor we wish to withdraw those previous applications and submit one to join this alliance.

Signed,
Lance Miller
Supreme Governor of the Commonwealth
Edolia
20-03-2004, 17:59
The Commonwealth of Erectobia finds this alliance would be more productive for us then other alliances we have applied to, therefor we wish to withdraw those previous applications and submit one to join this alliance.

Signed,
Lance Miller
Supreme Governor of the Commonwealth

I'll send this along to our Director of Membership... He'll just do the background check on you... I'll be able to get back to you in a few days.
Edolia
20-03-2004, 22:06
Funny how changing the name of the thread gets a massive surge in membership applications...
Doujin
20-03-2004, 22:18
what was the first name?
Edolia
20-03-2004, 23:10
what was the first name?

I can't remember. I think it was something like "United Alliance of Progressive States (UnAPS) Recruitment."
Allanea
21-03-2004, 01:05
Allanea here.
Knootoss
21-03-2004, 01:24
#tag#
(Director of Membership here)
East Islandia
21-03-2004, 02:01
I would like to apply for membership.
Edolia
21-03-2004, 02:03
I would like to apply for membership.

Cool. Knoot, you wanna take over the thread? That way I don't have to keep telegramming you with new applications? I think that would make a lot more sense.
Doujin
21-03-2004, 02:09
Is there a list of nations in the UnAPS?
Knootoss
21-03-2004, 02:44
Edolia: well, fine in principle. Only I never visit II unless I am pointed there, so I hope you don't mind doing some bumping or whatever now and then: I'll keep an eye out for it when egosearching of course.

East Islandia: request in process.

For Doujin

Nations of the UnAPS (32):
Agrigento
Akiros
Assim
Barentsburg
Brad-dur
Copiosa Scotia
Edolia
Feline
Gerania
Goobergunchia
Hattia
Ilek-Vaad
Iuthia
Jondera
Kelanis
Knootoss
Lietuveska
Milantos
Mintar
New Genoa
Omz222
Pauldustllah
Phyrric
Pilot
Riannen
Scandavian States
Terra Malus
The Diggers
The Island States
Tiburon
Zaxxsland
_Taiwan


EDIT:
I should add that from this group,
Agrigento, Barentsburg, Brad-dur, Lietuveska, Zaxxsland and _Taiwan are only in the "Outer Alliance"
Agrigento
21-03-2004, 02:55
East Islandia is by far my closest Ally, thats why I told him about this. He is a member of NAIA as well. I thoroughly vouch for, and support him.
_Taiwan
21-03-2004, 05:08
We support East Islandia's application for membership.
Omz222
21-03-2004, 05:24
The Omzian Demcoratic Federal Republic representive would like to endorse East Islandia in their application into the UnAPS. Having worked with East Islandia and seen their operations in the past, we are sure that East Islandia will be a good member in the UnAPS, bring more benefits to all of us.
21-03-2004, 16:20
I would like to join except for one thing, Edolia, you do not meet your own criteria, your political freedoms don't measure up to be exact.
Edolia
21-03-2004, 17:00
Thank you, Barentsburg.

Yeah. There are a number of benevolent dictatorships in UnAPS. And I'm very annoyed actually... We were an Iron Fist Socialists with Superb civil rights until for some reason my banning compulsary organ harvesting dropped our civil rights down to Excellent and turned us into a Corrupt Dictatorship... Why does it lower your civil rights to ban people stealing other people's organs?
Neo Earth
21-03-2004, 17:02
OOC: YES! FINALLY, MY ALLIANCE GET'S SOME RECOGNITION! YES!

ummm...sorry about that...I've just been really trying to get the UNOATO to at least mention the UAAOT.

And, how about mentioning me? You don't have to, but I still would like it.


The 2nd UAAOT fell, thanks to the forum we made. It stopped working...




And some clarifications on why the 1st one failed:

The UAAOT was to democratic for it's own good. It would take a week for the alliance to take action on something that only lasted a day.

But, it truly fell apart when Neo Earth went into isolation (got grounded for the whole damn summer). Without the founder and president to watch over them, people like The bisons (now Iron Blood) got into war with fellow members, including Edolia.

Members began to leave becuase they thought it was dead (which it was). For a very brief time, Neo Earth came back, and disbanded the corrupt alliance.

That's when a ex-UAAOT member, Feline, started the UNAOTO, based on the ideals of Neo Earth's UAAOT.

Then Neo Earth came out of it's isolation for a while (went to my grandparents for 2 weeks), and restarted the UAAOT. Alas, after a new president was elected, and Neo Earth resigned (for IC reasons, mainly it restrained my ability to RP as a devout christian nation), the alliance died.


That's about it. So, the UAAOT was founded on rightous princibles, but it took to long for anything to happen, thus making it corrupt.

Personally, I don't think anything about the membership was wrong. While the 1st one did let anyone in, the second one screened it's members.


And, personally, I am totally agianst having requirements on your civil and political rights.
Edolia
21-03-2004, 17:03
You can be against that if you want... You're not going to be a member (actually I think there's an alliance-wide trade embargo on you... not sure).
Neo Earth
21-03-2004, 19:45
OOC: An embargo on me? You know, it owuld be nice for people to Tgram me when this happens.
Edolia
21-03-2004, 19:46
OOC: An embargo on me? You know, it owuld be nice for people to Tgram me when this happens.

Officially I don't think we've put it into place... I can't remember the exact reasons... I'll get back to you on it.
Neo Earth
21-03-2004, 19:49
OOC: The only reason I can think of is becuase I have a MPP with bisons.
Knootoss
21-03-2004, 22:15
((Neo-Earth, you are indeed on the list. Had any random killings, nukings or invasions of smaller nations lately?))

Anyways, uhm,

Progress is being made with the applications. You should hear something soon. :)
Neo Earth
21-03-2004, 22:29
((Well, let's see...My last inquisition ended over 8 weeks ago...The only peopple I ever nuked was the heretic bastards that tried to rebel 6 months ago...The last time anyone thought I nuked someone was when I launched non-nuclear ICBMs at Elvindom, who was invading Aust...

Nope, I've got nothing.

Oh, I know! It's because I have a Mutual Protection Pact with Iron Blood! That's it, I know it!))
Edolia
22-03-2004, 12:22
You're on the list for all the reasons you just mentioned above. We're not going to take you off the list because you're not doing anything bad currently... Those who are on the list are on the list because they are known for doing bad things.
Austar Union
23-03-2004, 11:06
TG'd Edolia
Knootoss
23-03-2004, 19:11
*TGed Austar Union and East Islandia*

*cough* Bureaucracy can work fast. :)
~Knoot the trainee bureaucrat :P
Neo Earth
24-03-2004, 00:05
((I'm on your list for ending a inquisition 8 weeks ago, nuking rebels that used chemical agents agianst my people, launching non-nuclear ICBMs at someone invading my ally while my emperor was in it, and becuase I help protect Iron Blood?

Ok, the last one makes sense, but the rest is BS!))
24-03-2004, 12:47
ok then, I still would like to join.
Knootoss
27-03-2004, 01:04
*fires off a TG to Industrial Provences*
Iuthia
27-03-2004, 01:44
bump
Knootoss
02-04-2004, 19:11
*ponders Iuthia's way of saying BUMP*
New Kingman
06-04-2004, 04:03
We would be glad to join UnAPS.
Doujin
06-04-2004, 04:44
OOC: OMG!!!! Iuthia doesn't have the OOC: special Iuthian font in his bump! The world is ending as we know it.
The Freethinkers
09-04-2004, 21:18
The Freethinkers would like to apply for membership of the UnAPS. We feel this to be a move that can both strengthen our position on the world and reinforce the very good relations we maintain with several states already within the alliance.

Foreign Office of The Freethinkers
Government House
Navarre
The Freethinkers
Juumanistra
09-04-2004, 21:32
Juumanistra would like to apply for membership in this alliance; we've been looking to broaden our relations with the nations of the world, and it would be nice to meet at least a few that share our values.
Credonia
09-04-2004, 21:45
Credonia would like to apply for membership to this alliance..
West Scotland
09-04-2004, 21:50
Small nations welcome I guess was the addenum. I'm afraid I don't qualify...but I am interested nevertheless.
Credonia
10-04-2004, 23:12
BUMP
Falastur
10-04-2004, 23:52
The Government of Falastur has decided it would benefit from joining this Alliance, if they are accepted.....
Knootoss
11-04-2004, 00:16
Credonia and Falastur: you have a TG
Kiyama-Kyoto
11-04-2004, 00:32
Due to lingering effects of the former regime my nation does not qualify. However, we will be wishing you luck in your endeavor.
Falastur
11-04-2004, 00:33
Due to lingering effects of the former regime my nation does not qualify. However, we will be wishing you luck in your endeavor.

So I'm not the only one? 8) Yeah, likewise, good luck in the future guys....