Hello all! A shameless plug for my nation and I will admit I have done this without consulting the other active party (although I did ask them in they minded I just haven't received a reply). I have been playing in Endralon since the 21st of September. It is a quiet little nation on the eastern edge of Artania and hasn't really developed any exciting RP with a low profile involvement in international affairs (other than a few digs at those pasta munching Istalians), so you probably have forgotten it exists in Terra. The country is going through a bit of a legislative lull as during the mid 4120's I gained a majority and was able to push through a whole load of legislation to create the country I wanted. I think the time has come for some new political parties.
BackgroundWe have a small set of
Cultural Protocols, which leaves a lot open to the imagination for parties to interpret however they want to. Endralon is loosely based upon a modern democratic republic version of Austro-Hungary or Yugoslavia, with several central European style ethnicities and representation from Calvinist/Catholic/Lutheran religions. Over the last 30 years I like to think I have pushed Endralon in a similar direction to the real world Hungary or Poland with an authoritarian, socially conservative, religiously minded and economically liberal party dominating elections and legislation.
Current partiesConservative Party - Religious/conservative/laissez faire/small government/environmentally sceptic/isolationist
National Republican Party - Progressive/laissez faire/small government/internationalist
Endralon politically is a bit like Poland over the last few years in that the two largest parties have typically been a hard right socially conservative religiously aligned party and a centre-right party that is more moderate on social and religious issues, broadly shares the same economic policies as the other party and only really differs on internationalism and the environment. The biggest issue we have had over the last 30 years has been constitutional reform. The National Republicans created a constitution that gave additional power to the Head of State (forming governments), however once they'd lost the HoS position to the Conservatives they decided they no longer liked the idea of the HoS being solely responsible for cabinet formations, so various Bills were introduced and finally we got to a position whereby the country was transformed from a Federal Republic to a Republic (big stuff I know) and the size of the legislature was reduced in return for limiting the Presidents political power.
Required PartiesIn terms of what we're missing, the list is long, we're principally lacking statist parties (big government supporting fascist or communist), a standard social democratic or democratic socialist party or an environmentalist movement. Perhaps as a relatively religious country we could do with an anti-clerical movement (either communist, socialist or perhaps liberal).
Good examples of parties we'd like would be, in order of most needed at the top;
Social Democratic/Democratic Socialist - Big government/environmentalist/secularist/progressive
Communist - Far Left - Big government/secularist
Green - Environmentalist
Liberal/Anti-Clerical - Secularist/progressive
Nationalist/Fascist - Far Right - Big government/conservative/isolationist
Final Pleading/GrovellingNow that I have a forum account it is my intent to actively engage in RP and creating newspaper articles etc so the country should become more interesting to a new player. Anyway if anyone wants to join it would be appreciated see you around.