NationStates Jolt Archive

Land de Wood News dated 23/06/08 issue 1

Land de Wood open for business

Over the weekend, enterpreneur Andrew Wood, was annouced as the Prime Minister of his own new nation, Land de Wood. Land de Wood is an island out in the Eastern Ocean which up until now has been uninhabitated. But thanks to the tireless work of Andrew Wood and his organisation Wood Limited, the foundations of this new nation has been laid here on this island.

Andrew Wood has moved the headquarters of Wood Limited to this new nation, along with the majority of his workforce along with not only their families but also their extended families. He has signed deals with a number of companies who are setting up operations in this new nation which promises to be company friendly, and actually help businesses.

Andrew Wood promises his new nation will be vastly different from his home nation, which resembles a socialist nation with taxes going through the roof and business regulations strangling small business. However, he recognises the need for government which can help businesses and has set up a single house of parliament with the first elections due in 5 years, giving time for the new nation to sort itself out, voting in these elections will be voluntary.

It has been reported that in these first few days a number of criminals have taken advantage of the new nation, and Andrew Wood has vowed to sort out these crime problems. He has already passed legislation to bring in CCTV and having been horrified at seeing 8 year olds in casinos, has banned gambling for the forseeable future. Andrew Wood is quoted as saying "while we appreciate the enterpreneurship of many a casino, we believe that our young do need protecting from the evil of casinos and certain books." Leading rumours to abound about possible censorship and banning of a recently released high profile book.

The new nation is keen to establish trade agreements with other nearby nations and will be holding a special trade banquet on Friday to give opportunity for other nations to send their representatives to, to discuss these.

Land de Wood news 24/06/08

We report that the recently formed governemnt of Land de Wood is disappointed with the lack of response to its recent invite for trade delegations to come and discuss trade at its forthcoming trade banquet.

However, it notes that there have been technical problems with the international forum and that this may have delayed notification of the trade banquet reaching other nations.

To: Land de Wood
From: Kingdom of Lynion

What sort of trade do you wish to setup?

While the ASoGM cannot attend the trade banquet, feel free to call on us for the possibility of trade negotiations for various technologies.

**To: Kingdom of Lynion
From: Land de Wood

At this early stage we are open to suggestions. Obviously our new nation has various raw materials at its disposal. Being an Island we have plenty of water round about us so have plenty of fish, while we have discovered a fair amount of uranium though we are reluctant to trade it at this stage as we need our own store of this and there are obviously certain security concerns here. We also have some wonderful baskets recently weaved. As a modern nation with a corporate friendly PM we have fairly good modern technology and a good workforce but could do with more infrastructure, we would welcome any who would be able to set up factories or power stations here to make use of our raw materials and would provide substantial government grants for those who wish to do so.

Whilst we wish to be a peaceful nation we recognise we do not always live in peaceful times and also that arms can be a lucrative business opportunity. Therefore we will consider any arms that are available and also anyone who has the knowhow to set up arms factories in our nation we would gladly make government money available to our state defense company that is to be set up.

**To: ASoGM
From: Land de Wood

We are disappointed to learn you won't be able to make our trade banquet, but thank you for your quick response and will take time to view your online storefront in due course before we make any decisions on trade with other nations.