NationStates Jolt Archive


Xenizen General Elections, 2005

Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 01:59
OOC: Inspired by the Sevarin General Elections.

IC:

http://espn.starwave.com/i/magazine/new/ron_burgundy.jpg

"Hello Upper Xen, this is Ron Burgundy. It's that time of year again. Yes, it is time to vote and decide who gets to be the next President of Upper Xen."

"The following candidates are posting their candicacy, it is expected to be a fierce race between rivals Iwata and Lew for the title."

FREEDOM PARTY:

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Candidate: Gordon Lew

Description: Lew has a tough night ahead of him. His feel good pro-business economic policies, plus his support of big-budget welfare programs, crime reduction programs and tax reductions scored points with the unions and businesses, but the fact that most of them lowered enviriomnetal standards and hampered civil liberties made him an enemy in the eyes of leftists and envriomentalists. He also has come under fire for scandals in the CIA and his controversial overtures towards MassPwnage, known to use slave labor. Nonetheless, with 77% Worker Enthusiasm and 94% Consumer Confidence, he and his policies has much in the way of support.

Agenda:

-Maintain Current Level of Defense Spending, as well as Law and Order Spending
-Maintain the Government policy of keeping its funds in the National Bank of Upper Xen.
-Maintain the "3/4ths Policy" (the various Government enterprises, like the National Health Corporation, National Armscorp, and National Bank of Upper Xen are 3/4ths private, the government has the other 25%)
-Maintain Xenizen Troops in Mexico and in Generian, Euroslav, and Hellenic Asia Minor
-Create the Intellegence Oversight Commission to handle the CIA and National Police, and prevent them from abusing their powers
-Keep the existing welfare programs ("welfare to work" vocational training, Social Security pensions, affirmative action for colleges, food stamps, etc) within the government, and maintain their current level of high funding.
-Create an ROTC-style military program for the Middle School and High School Level, and establishing special schools for those gifted
-Redistribute the tax burden so it is more equitable for all Xenizens
-Wishes to keep outsourcing banned, and continue enacting probusiness legislation to protect Xenizen industries and promote development, as well as keep government involvement in the economy limited (Xenizen Gov't mandates safety, min. wage, closed shop, healthcare/dental plans for workers)
-Wishes to keep current liberalized gun laws
-Wishes to keep immigration levels at 120,000 per year
-Wishes to keep the current Peace Protection Laws regulating the National Police (as of now, they can use summary execution versus serial killers, drug dealers, and terrorists, and they have broad powers in other fields)
-Wishes to keep current taxes on Atheists, bans on Mormons and Christian Scientists, and maintain the Interdenominational Conclave (the religious advisory body to the UX Government. They also can issue joint statements and run all seminaries).

New Homeland Party

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Candidate: Yuri Iwata

Description:

A coalition of the traditional leftist faction, the Green Worker's Party, and the Leftist Federalists (the original party of Gordon Lew that was shattered by his policies), they are determined to bring about reform to Upper Xen. They are commanded by 22-year old Yuri Iwata, a comic-book artist turned Socialist agitator. Since its adoption of National Communism, the party is more determined than ever to unseat Gordon Lew, and it draws strength from both sufferign farmers and urban intellectuals, as well as dissdents of all stripes in Wuhan, Manchuria, and in the Kansai region.

Agenda:

-Wants to abolish the National Bank of Upper Xen, replace it with a series of treasuries
-Wishes to increase restrictions on firearms
-Wishes to keep the military and civilian educational system seperate
-Wishes to abolish taxes on athiests and the Interdenominational Conclave
-Wishes to make the National Health Corporation totally government owned
-Wishes to make college free for all
-Wishes to recall troops from Mexico, and Asia Minor
-Wishes to restructure military for a defensive role, and create a rapid reaction force for foreign wars using the Marines and the Air Force
-Wishes to abolish the CIA and National Police, replacing them with new Domestic and Foreign Security Directorates
-Wishes to fight trusts at home and increase government regulation of the economy, as well as nationalize National Armscorp totally
-Wishes to expand the welfare system to subsidize housing and basic resources, as well as provide for everybody
-Wishes to increase civil rights for Xenizens (gay marriage, privacy rights, downloadign music for free, etc.)
-Wishes to enact taxes on corporations and businesses with more than 16 employees and a USD$10,000,000 profti per year
-Wishes to reform Peace Protection Laws to make them more favorable to rights of privacy, and other civil rights
-Wishes to focus on rehabilitaion and prisoners' rights, and abolish the chain gang, as well as punish those criminals accusd of embezzlement and fraud with time in regular prisons
-Wishes to limit use of death penalty and revoke National Police powers of "summary execution"
-Wishes to enact harsher environmental regulations, and punish those companies who violate them with fines and jail time
-Wishes to allow for abolition of the Electoral College, and allow for direct election of the President and members of Congress for a single six-year term.
-Wishes to allow more Immigrants into the country (260,000 opposed to 120,000), and allow a "touch-base" immigration policy (any refugee that sets foot on Xenizen soil is automatically a citizen)

"So...with that, you stay classy, Upper Xen."
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 02:15
"So far, the current results are in, and it seems that the Freedom Party has taken Hong Kong, and the results from Canton Province and Tokyo and Choshu Provinces seem to be favorable to the Freedomers. New Homeland currently seems to be on the verge of taking Yunnan....as well as Satsuma Province and the city of Harbin.....but as for now, the election is till too close to call."
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 02:20
OOC: Any statements of support for either side are welcome.... :)
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 02:31
bump
Risban
06-03-2005, 02:47
Statement from the Risban Empire
The Grand Imperium of Risban puts its full support behind our friend and ally Gordon Lew and wishes him the best of luck in this election.
-Alexander Perkins, Imperial High Minister of Foreign Affairs
-Countess Nora Courtney, Lady Chancellor of the Imperial Parliament
--On Behalf of Emperor R.A. Scorpius
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 02:49
Statement from the Risban Empire
The Grand Imperium of Risban puts its full support behind our friend and ally Gordon Lew and wishes him the best of luck in this election.
-Alexander Perkins, Imperial High Minister of Foreign Affairs
-Countess Nora Courtney, Lady Chancellor of the Imperial Parliament
--On Behalf of Emperor R.A. Scorpius

Thanks man. And the same to you. As for the volcano, my sympathies, some Xenizen Red Cross teams and a Marine Engineering Battalion will be there immediately to help clean stuff up, if they're needed.

Gordon Lew
President
Demopublic of Upper Xen
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 02:53
"Election Update, the numbers are in.....Canton Province, Hong Kong, Choshu, Kaga, and Anhui, plus Shanghai, have turned in victories for the Freedom Party. Yunnan, Satsuma and Harbin are still New Homelanders' areas...."
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 03:08
"New Election update.....Guangxi has voted Freedom Party. That is right, Guangxi Province is now Freedom."
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 03:13
bump
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 03:37
bump
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 03:53
bump again....anybody else interested?
Kyanges
06-03-2005, 03:57
bump again....anybody else interested?

(OOC: I'm interested because I feel the thought of a serious Dom is quite entertaining.)
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 03:59
(OOC: I'm interested because I feel the thought of a serious Dom is quite entertaining.)

OOC: Nice.... :)
Green Sun
06-03-2005, 04:04
They're both Liberal...
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 04:06
They're both Liberal...

OOC: Well, one is more moderate, the other is more, well, radical. At least by Xenizen standards.
Fascist Confederacy
06-03-2005, 04:35
We fully support the New Homeland Party. May the proletariat rise! -- Unnamed Representative Of The Communist Party Of The Armed Union
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 04:40
We fully support the New Homeland Party. May the proletariat rise! -- Unnamed Representative Of The Communist Party Of The Armed Union

Awesome....we thank you for your support.

Yuri Iwata
Director/candidate
New Homeland Party

"Election update......Qinghai, Hunan, the whole of Shikoku Island, and Fujian have turned in votes for the New Homelanders......"
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 04:45
"Election Update.....Osaka has turned in a victory for the Freedom Party....the election is neck and neck now......"
Camel Eaters
06-03-2005, 04:52
"For freedom we must vote in our turn. Our support is behind that of Freedom Party."
Official Standpoint of Camel Eaters as summed up by Kellin Hannon

"Let the workers decide their own fate.......in the wake of a storm that's all we have."
Quoted by Al Boshor the day before he was gunned down by Veritas supporters
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 04:53
"This is Election Update with Ron Burgundy again......I just got word that Kobe County has voted Freedom, and that Manchuria and Wuhan are fast becoming contested areas, being that they, besides Canton, Tokyo, Hokkaido, and Yunnan, are key players in this election."
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 04:55
"For freedom we must vote in our turn. Our support is behind that of Freedom Party."
Official Standpoint of Camel Eaters as summed up by Kellin Hannon

"Let the workers decide their own fate.......in the wake of a storm that's all we have."
Quoted by Al Boshor the day before he was gunned down by Veritas supporters

Thanks, Kellin! You rock! Everybody, vote for my father, Gordon Freeman Lew!

Victoria Lew
First Daughter
Demopublic of Upper Xen
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 05:33
bump for interest
Bolivariana
06-03-2005, 05:50
The Republic of Bolivariana officially supports the Freedom Party as a party that will bring in more Corporativist economics as well as new welfare for the masses. Also, they seem to be a good alternative to the New Homeland Party, which the leader sees as being an outlet for Bolsheviks.
--
Propaganda Ministry of the Republic of Bolivariana
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 18:47
"Election Update....the New Homelanders have a decisive victory in Akita, and Chiba Counties, and the Freedom Party has taken Hakodate and Sapporo proper...."
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 18:54
"Election update...Hawaii has turned in a vote for the Freedom Party."
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 18:56
"Election Update, northern Hokkaido has voted New Homelander....."
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 18:58
"election update....this is getting interesting...the margin has narrowed between the two sides as Heilongjiang votes, as expected, for the New Homeland Party."
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 19:00
"Election update, Inner Mongolia has turned in a vote for Freedom."
The Merchant Guilds
06-03-2005, 19:00
We must support the Freedom Party... despite our reservations, it's far the less evil.

-Random Guilder Bureaucrat on Guilder Newsnight 24
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 19:05
We must support the Freedom Party... despite our reservations, it's far the less evil.

-Random Guilder Bureaucrat on Guilder Newsnight 24

Now, now, we are pro-business. My administration encouraged trade and free enterprise with helpful policies, it is an essential human right and a key to a healthy nation. And, it will continue to do so.

Gordon Lew
Presidential Incumbent Candidate
Freedom Party
Upper Xen
Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 19:07
"Election update...results from Sichuan indicate a win for the New Homeland Party."
Upper Xen
07-03-2005, 02:24
"And today, in a stunning upset, the New Homeland Party has won the elections for President of Upper Xen.......here's what Lew had to say:

Well, it was a good run, I thank the people of Upper Xen for giving me this chance to be president, but obviously, they've spoken. I pray for the nation, and hope that it can do well. I will probably go to my ancestral manse in Canton, and write a book, or maybe become a comic book artist. Anyway, I say to Yuri: Good Luck!"

Iwata, meanwhile, was more positive.

"F**K yeah! The people have spoken, and I will give them what they want! Long live the newly proclaimed Popular Republic Of Upper Xen! Today, we begin true reform!"
Fascist Confederacy
07-03-2005, 02:30
Hello Comrades! Congratulations in your new found Communist ideaology! Welcome to the way of light by brothers! May your nation prosper and strengthen ties between Upper Xen and The Armed Union. Again, congratulations! -- Jong Il-Mau, Oriental Commissar Of The Central Soviet Of The Communist Party Of The Armed Union
Upper Xen
07-03-2005, 02:34
Hello Comrades! Congratulations in your new found Communist ideaology! Welcome to the way of light by brothers! May your nation prosper and strengthen ties between Upper Xen and The Armed Union. Again, congratulations! -- [b]Jong Il-Mau, Eastern Member Of The Central Soviet Of The Communist Party Of The Armed Union[/i]

Thanks, man.......we're gonna rock this world silly! Long live National Communism!

Yuri Iwata
President-Elect
Popular Rep. of Upper Xen

Oh no, you're not. We still have a huge majority in Congress, lady.....we're gonna rock your world.

Sen. Donald Macintyre (F-Tokyo)
Senate Majority Leader
Freedom Party
Pop. Rep. of Upper Xen
Fascist Confederacy
07-03-2005, 02:43
I support Upper Xen's new presidency, and I encourge them to shift their political stance to the total form of Communism, not the racist idealogy between capitalism and Communism known as National Communism. That, would be a truely wonderful day for the human race. -- Nikolai 'Tetra' Ulyavin, People's Commissar Of The Central Soviet Of The Communist Party Of The Armed Union
Ottoman Khaif
07-03-2005, 02:49
Yes the Communism has spead to Upper Xen!

Said some random member of Socialist Progressive Party