The highlights for the delegates currently in this elimination fight are below.
Pre-Constitutional Era
The Twoslit Experiment (Twoslit): September 28-November 29, 2003 (62 days); January 1-4, 2004 (3 days); January 5-February 16, 2004 (42 days)
The 11th, 14th, 16th, 18th delegate, and founder of the original TNP forum (Old Blue). By the time Twoslit became delegate, TNP had figured out how it handled its delegacy. While there was no formal constitution or elections, those who won the trust of enough nations and managed to secure the delegacy had a lot of freedom to pass it off to the next most-trusted nation, and had a sense of passing that responsibility off to other players before too long, so there was always regular turnover in delegates in TNP since the beginning. Despite the numbers associated with his delegacy, Twoslit was essentially the fourth delegate given how many of the ones in between lasted a scant few days. It was still remarkable that it took until this point for someone to take the step of making the region a forum, and for the community to plant its roots a bit deeper. This was more necessary at the time since the Regional Message Board didn’t preserve its old posts, and after a certain point they would simply fade away. Twoslit took things a step further by also establishing the NPA and committing the region to the ADN, so one could say TNP as we know it started to take its earliest shape during his tenure. He was particularly inspired by the rise of Francos Spain, who had purged The Pacific of its old government and was rapidly changing The Pacific into something very different and terrifying: the New Pacific Order. In response to this incident, the other feeders began seriously looking at establishing constitutions and taking other measures to guard against similar incidents happening to them. Twoslit had the brand new NPA assist the ADN in the efforts to liberate The Pacific from Francos Spain.
For the first few months in 2004, he would trade the delegacy with Wilkshire, but wouldn’t take a prominent role in the region’s history again until the Pixiedance coup, where he would take the extraordinary step of limiting the forum permissions of the government on the forum in response to their rogue actions. While this was acceptable to TNP’s community when they were under Pixiedance’s thumb, this kind of intervention would not be tolerated when the community formally returned to Old Blue. Out of concern for Twoslit’s actions, Flemingovia and others made the push to move to another forum, the one that ended up lasting the longest.
First Constitutional Era
Pixiedance (Cathyy/Ivan Moldavi/Insane Power): October 23, 2004-May 26, 2005 (215 days)
The 3rd and final elected delegate, and first and only rogue delegate of the era. By far the most successful rogue delegacy in TNP’s history, and one that almost broke the back of the resistance in the process. This coup more than any other defined what TNP would be essentially for the rest of its life, and so many decisions and impulses the region has had come back to trying not to let what happened here happen again. Interestingly enough, Pixiedance was originally the puppet Cathyy had used in the Puppetmaster operation that brought an end to the Great Bight coup. And of course, Pixiedance was a regular, elected delegate under the constitution at the time, with every intention of remaining a legitimate delegate. A combination of the players involved and the stress of the times created a bad mix, and the involvement of the NPO’s most successful agent guaranteed this would be a coup that had staying power.
Like her predecessors, Cathyy was concerned with the ADN’s influence over TNP and sought to ensure TNP would not simply be an extension of it. She first requested high level access to ADN discussions, hoping that TNP could be more of a partner than an underling, but naturally the ADN was not inclined to accommodate her request. When she was denied, she sought mediation, only to order TNP’s representative at the ADN, Wilkshire, to withdraw. As a result, half her cabinet resigned in protest, unknowingly making it that much easier for the events that would happen next to happen with little interference. Some time after this she removed TNP from the United Democratic Pacifics (UDP), and this combined with her ADN actions caused her to fall under immense pressure to reverse course or even to resign. It has been said that Cathyy did not handle this pressure well, and that she was incredibly incensed when Free4All returned to TNP to campaign for the delegacy. Given his unmistakable ties to ADN, this was, perhaps rightly, seen as a significant level of interference in TNP affairs, and even an invasion to others. This prompted a counter-campaign from Thel D’Ran. With matters escalating, Cathyy believed that Free4All needed to be ejected, but couldn’t bring herself to do it. As a result, she granted access to Pixiedance to Ivan Moldavi, who happily ejected Free4All and used the account from January 8-10, giving it back to her only for her to hand it back again on January 15, for an indefinite period.
With Pixiedance in his hands, Ivan suspended the constitution in favor of the Codex and the North Pacific Directorate. Seeing what happened, Twoslit reappeared and used his root admin powers to remove the government’s moderation powers on the forum. While it was asserted that this move forced Ivan to create a competing forum for TNP, given that the forum was already under construction a week earlier, many believe Ivan simply wanted to provoke Twoslit to use his root admin powers in this way and give him cause to take such action. After months of batting off Flemingovia’s underground, indoctrinating new players into the Directorate and increasing the use of his forum, and successfully mass ejecting nations on a regular basis, the die-hard TNPers were dropping like flies, exhausted and increasingly hopeless. Ivan made the decision in May to return Pixiedance to Cathyy as he got busier and their domination was seemingly assured. But she then granted access to the account to her boyfriend Insane Power, and Ivan was not fond of Insane Power. Details of their behind-the-scenes struggles and conflicts began to leak out to the public, Ivan all too happy to throw dirt at Insane Power. For some reason Insane Power decided to try establishing another new TNP government, one that that called The North Pacific Government, which had its own forum as well. Insane Power proved unable to handle Pixiedance as well as Ivan had, and the ADN forces involved in the fight began to successfully chip away at his endorsements, bringing it to a third of the pre-war total and causing him to resign UN.
At its height, Pixiedance commanded 750 endorsements, and most new nations knew nothing but Ivan’s new forum. Many old TNPers vanished during this period and never returned. Because of this experience, when TNP finally agreed on a new constitution, they made the head of government the prime minister and made the delegacy purely ceremonial. And learning from Stars of Sky’s successful building of a resistance in another place, Cathyy and Insane Power retreated to their own region to build a resistance to the new TNP government, which they called The Lexicon. They would launch many attacks on TNP from this base of operations, and provide key assistance to future rogue delegates, who were seemingly undeterred from the fact the delegacy was purely ceremonial.
Second Constitutional Era
Former English Colony (Erastide): November 13, 2005-February 23, 2006 (102 days); May 16-August 9, 2006 (85 days); November 10-18, 2012 (8 days); November 23, 2012 (12 hours)
The 2nd and 4th delegate, and the first to be elected a second time under the new constitution. Like the other early delegates, she was not involved in matters of governance, and served alongside the 2nd and 5th prime ministers, Poltsamaa and Hersfold. Poltsamaa’s election was a controversial one, given that one of the candidates, Fulhead Land, was excluded due to being a known crony of Cathyy and Insane Power. The government during this time made an effort to reach out and invite back those displaced by the Pixiedance coup, while looking to make the diplomatic corps more independent so stronger ties to gameplay and other regions could start to take shape again. The NPA was also planned for reorganization with a promotion and rank structure once membership made that feasible. During this time the Comms ministry handled reporting of the government’s tasks and accomplishments. A power struggle and displacement of some players in TWP caused some question as to how TNP would respond to one of the closest regions it had at the time, and the government decided to take no position at all, while it condemned the destruction of The Invaders’ forum by the RLA. Poltsamaa also created a Civil Progressive Party which allowed the return of some disgraced or controversial players, including Lone Wolves United (LWU) members Evil Wolf and Scardino, as Blue Wolf and Fedele respectively.
Initially Erastide was to work with Tresville, who had been elected a second time as prime minister, but due to unforeseen scheduling conflicts in his life, he was forced to resign just days after taking office. As a result, the RA held a confirmation vote for his replacement, which ended up being Hersfold, known for extensive work done to organize the new forum. Hersfold also made a point to have TNP condemn the forum crashing that was prevalent at the time, going so far as to issue persona non-grata (PNG) status to anyone who was responsible for it, if they happened to join TNP. During this period Lexicon went on a concerted spamming spree, posting messages on the forum encouraging people to leave TNP “before it is too late.” It was also during this time that Lexicon became more involved on the world stage, raiding alongside Lone Wolves United, and the NPA would meet them on the battlefield. When an incompetent spy for the NPIA was discovered, The Lexicon decided to declare war on TNP, though TNP did not return the favor. The NPIA’s denial of the spying incident, and the war declaration, galvanized the rank and file of The Lexicon and bolstered their commitment to the trolling and interference they would continue to attempt in the months ahead, including a very forceful endorsement campaign on Erastide, who also had to contend with the newest gameplay mechanic, influence. Fortunately, she was assisted by concerned parties from other regions who made up for the hits in endorsements. Erastide would have stayed on for the transition to her successor, Great Bights Mum, except there was some incident involving Insane Power that prompted her to resign instead, putting the vice delegate Unterwasserseestaat into the seat until Great Bights Mum had all the endorsements needed to proceed.
Erastide would try a comeback much later, facing off against JAL, but would come up short by 3 votes, 9-6, marking the first time a former delegate seeking a return to office would be unsuccessful. She would later go on to serve on the Security Council with intermittent breaks, and become of the forum administrators. She would hold the delegacy two more times during McMasterdonia’s first time in office, when she would serve as interim delegate until McMasterdonia could take the in-game delegacy, and again when McMasterdonia was briefly removed from the delegacy for a single update due to a moderation error.
Blue Wolf II (Evil Wolf): October 19-20, 2010 (1 day); March 23-May 29, 2012 (68 days); March 8-April 7, 2013 (30 days)
The 20th delegate, and two-time interim delegate as the vice delegate. Evil Wolf had just been elected vice delegate when he had to step up and overtake JAL for endorsements during his second coup, which would last a day. Much later he would win his own narrow 9-6 victory over the sitting vice delegate, though for more than half his term the vice delegate he served with, Pasargad, would hold the seat. Such is normally the difficulty with being an active part of the region’s military, however when Evil Wolf came to the delegacy, there was no currently active NPA, something he was keen to remedy. The first big test however came from Flemingovia, who tried to petition the delegate for redress of grievances (as outlined in the constitution) and request that the ongoing JAL trial end with charges dropped. After initially stating he had no authority to do so, Evil Wolf decided to rely on the bill of rights provision and declare the charges dropped, pending Court confirmation such a move was legal. Ultimately charges would be filed again when the Court ruled Evil Wolf’s dropping of charges to be unconstitutional, reviving the trial and prompting Flemingovia to request correspondence records between the speaker Felasia and Grosseschnauzer as a member of the security council. Naturally Grosseschnauzer objected, but Evil Wolf ordered the disclosures. He also agreed to order an official section on the forum for Flemingovianism, but Grosseschnauzer pulled rank as an admin to have that subforum shut down.
Much as he is today, Evil Wolf was willing to test limits and patience by agreeing with alternative viewpoints or taking risks rather than playing it safe. For April Fool’s he flew the flag of The Empire with a mocking TNP Empire theme, and was taken to task for doing so. But he was not joking when he informed the region of Eluvatar and Grosseschnauzer’s endotarting efforts as security council members, alleging they were in danger of breaking the endorsement law by surging to 248 and 240 endorsements, respectively, compared to his 303. He also put out a call to the RA to authorize a request for foreign intervention to increase his endorsement count. This did not sit well with many in the RA, who felt Evil Wolf was seeking to restrict people whose job it was to serve as a possible check on him, especially with the prospect of a recall. Earlier in the month, Grosseschnauzer put forward a motion to recall him as delegate when he had yet to secure the in-game seat and had been absent for most of his term with no appointed officials. He would also be criticized for making his appointments on the region’s IRC, and for not posting an election calendar a month before the next election cycle. And because he provided a pre-announced leave of absence, the vice delegate legally was unable to act as delegate, despite the fact the RA passed legislation that he did not address (legislation, ironically, for an endorsement cap that would be vetoed by his successor 4 months later). And in the midst of the recall, Evil Wolf lost his membership in the RA, which some felt was necessary as part of his role. The recall passed 12-3 with 4 absentions, easily clearly the ⅔ requirement. Evil Wolf challenged the result, arguing that the presence of abstentions needed to be included in the supermajority based on the constitution’s wording, and the Court sided with him, rendering his recall defeated and years of court precedent on abstentions, which had guided the current legal language, overturned. Grosseschnauzer would not be so lucky a second time, and the second recall vote failed 6-12, with no now-illegal abstentions included. As an aside, the RA would later recall the justice who made that ruling that spared Evil Wolf, who was also one of the three to vote against the initial recall. The whole affair caused Limi (formerly known as Limitless Events, and later Abstain) to resign as speaker and citizen.
Much of that term was spent agonizing over revisions to the constitution. The region was fully fed up with the continued feckless direction and the delegates who would slip into inactivity shortly after taking office. At one point Flemingovia suggested moving to an entirely different forum and recalling Evil Wolf as delegate to facilitate a temporary delegate for the duration of the constitutional convention. But instead the RA just debated various constitutional drafts and settled on one they liked the most, a process that would conclude beyond Evil Wolf’s time in office. While the election for his successor was underway, he managed to ban Govindia from the region, which prompted a court review so long that it would not be settled until after Evil Wolf left office, though they would ultimately decide that his ban was improper. Evil Wolf would also enlist volunteers to join his cabinet during the period where he tried to get those done while under fire. He prides himself even today on his work rebuilding the NPA, and the results speak for themselves. With McMasterdonia brought on as Minister of Defense, the military was built up from scratch, training soldiers on both disciplines (raiding and defending) with tutorials, and a lot of effort tracking progress and membership and just having superior branding and optics. This would indeed be the most crucial aspect of his legacy. Evil Wolf would hold the delegacy one more time for a month following McMasterdonia’s sudden resignation, and would seek the delegacy again in the special election that ensued, but he would be defeated in a run-off, becoming the first acting delegate to seek an elected term and lose in the special election.
Jamie Anumia (Chimes/Cove): April 7-September 19, 2013 (165 days)
The 23rd delegate, initially elected to replace McMasterdonia after his sudden resignation halfway through his second term, but would go on to win a full term of their own. The election was somewhat delayed due to Eluvatar’s campaign, which Evil Wolf called into question given he had been termed out for the January term despite having been recalled. Evil Wolf’s interpretation won out and the Court ruled that even a special election after someone else was elected did not stop the term limit from applying. It is unclear if Eluvatar would have won that race, given there were many private ballots which at the time did not need to be disclosed during voting and the voting was restarted, but Jamie emerged as a clear favorite by the end, winning in the subsequent runoff. Much was already in the works at this point, the NPA was strong, FA was solid. One aspect of FA that immediately went sideways however was a proposed treaty known as The Concord Treaty, which would have been a multi-lateral treaty between TSP, TNP, and Osiris, but failed miserably in the RA. At the same time, another multi-lateral agreement, the SovCon Charter, mustered The Pacific, Equilism, Gatesville, and Osiris. And with all of this going on, Jamie had to contend with the coup of TSP, leading to TNP’s involvement in its liberation against the Milograd regime and the PNG status of Milograd, which in turn led to a diplomatic dispute with The Pacific when it appointed Milograd as its diplomat to TNP and TNP rejected him as an ambassador. Related to this, TSP cut off relations with The Pacific. Due to the Ravania leak, an investigation into the UDL also was launched, causing relations between the organization and TNP to become further strained, and of course the trial for that leak occupied much of this period. Milograd’s coup also further complicated these relations, leaving the UDL with no clear leader who could easily communicate with TNP. When it came to the conflicts brewing internationally, Jamie refused to support declaring war on Gatesville following Osiris’s declaration of war after their new delegate Nevadar claimed Osiris as a protectorate of Gatesville. The newly formed SovCon Charter was torn apart as Osiris and Gatesville were in conflict, and then Osiris cut off relations with TWP as well
Internally, Jamie worked on reforming rules on adspam on the RMB and created the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which would handle publications Comms used to manage as well as records of the government’s activity, and would also absorb the duties of the Culture & Entertainment ministry. They took the approach of clearing out McMasterdonia’s previous cabinet and appointing the new ones, with McMasterdonia serving as the new Minister of Foreign Affairs. They also continued the NPA’s involvement in Warhammer 40000 and an effort led by Cormac to have the RA order a pullout there failed. Their re-election was notable as being the one time Present was an option for voting, given one of the candidates was going by the name Abstain. The Court was also quite involved, having to hear a case on Romanoffia’s accidental exclusion from the ballot for Vice Delegate, a mistake for which every election commissioner involved had recalls submitted against them. Following that election, there was a brief dustup as Mall, who had been one of the candidates for delegate, was dismissed as Minister of World Assembly affairs for not performing his job, something he claimed was what the voters had wanted from him and he was just living up to his promises.
The RA was incredibly active during this period, establishing some very key provisions, including conflict of interest rules for the Court, not requiring voting in elections for RA membership, simplifying mandatory ministries to the limited list we have now, establishing the Vice Delegate check, and revising the citizenship oath. One of the most significant things to come out of this period was the treaty with Europeia, following their assistance in TSP and various other matters leading up to that. It was especially significant considering Europeia’s founder had by this point admitted his involvement in both the Emperor Mathhuis and Westwind coups, and that the brief and already forgotten revolutionary government around Shoeless Joe was also masterminded by him. As was common in those days, and as previously mentioned, the RA considered numerous recall efforts, all of which failed, save for one recalling Evil Wolf as attorney general. An effort to remove the WA reporting requirement for RA membership was also passed as elections for the next term were underway, and while Jamie attempted to veto it, the veto was overridden, the first and only time that has happened since the latest version of the constitution was put in place. Jamie would go on to join a very small list of TNP delegates who served as delegate in another GCR, in this case serving as delegate of TRR.
Hulldom: January 14-April 8, 2023 (84 days)
The 44th delegate, infamous for being the first delegate to resign from office in almost 8 years, following an embarrassing instance of being extorted by other regions. Initially Hulldom was considered to be a sign of continuity with the government’s approach to recent events, including a greater emphasis on legislative action which the past two delegates had featured, and with his appointment of a Minister of Legal Affairs that seemed to be the case. But he had his own ideas for how to approach the conflict with the Brotherhood of Malice and the efforts of the Modern Gameplay Compact. Shortly after taking office, he made an agreement with TRR to water down the sanctions and essentially allow them to utilize a loophole to get around the cultural sanctions, reversing TNP’s position in the prior administration that the cultural clause endeavoring to have events was not a mandate to allow sanctioned citizens to attend. He brought on an outsider, the former president of Europeia, Icarus, to be his MoD and revised the NPA doctrine to eliminate the one-org policy that had been a staple for years. And when the legislative projects he had outlined at the outset were completed relatively quickly in the term, with legislation making the admin check advisory, loss of access to NS a regional emergency, and the military law revised to include language about respecting regions and limiting exemption declarations to the delegate, he signaled that he wanted his minister, his predecessor as delegate, to exit his cabinet so as to further separate himself from the policies of the previous 8 months. These new approaches he took would have dire consequences for the region and for his political future.
The Heroes of Valhalla program, spearheaded by Hulldom the previous year, was picking up steam and a fruitful avenue of cooperation with many in the MGC. He granted access and inclusion to TEP, an immediately unpopular move with some in the project, and one that would prove to be almost immediately regrettable when TEP became the first partner region to oppose a HoV developed resolution, and would go on to do so twice during their involvement in it. Hulldom was known for his networking and friends on both sides of the proverbial aisle, and in these contentious times that meant working closely with people from LWU as well as defender regions. A dispute over a particular liberation due to miscommunication with the NPO caused him to deny TNP involvement, and when this was followed by a decision to be involved in writing a condemnation of a LWU raider, defenders became irate. Hulldom attempted to negotiate an abstention, but the representatives from The League, who were in talks to secure a non-aggression pact with TNP, insisted on stronger commitment. This became a concerted effort on the part of all major defender regions, with a clear message that TNP’s lack of support opposing the LWU resolution would lead to their lack of support for TNP’s future commendations. For some reason, Hulldom chose to express this ultimatum to his LWU contacts, and withdraw his original pledged vote and indicate to them he would now have to oppose it. On the heels of this communication, Hulldom sprung the reopening of the embassy with 10000 Islands on the RA, despite XKI having failed to make up for their closure of the original embassy not even two years back. The backlash forced him to undo it and also scupper a potential initial treaty with them. TWP was adamant that Hulldom not give in to the extortion, and along with other concerned TNPers made the case that the numbers favored moving forward as planned. In truth, the defenders were bluffing and could not have sunk those proposals, but Hulldom strongly believed otherwise. LWU leaked the information Hulldom gave them and facing the backlash and embarrassment, and the resignation of his minister of foreign affairs, he resigned the delegacy. The incident would ultimately lead to the dissolution of the treaty with TSP, and further delay possible cooperation with LWU. It also put off pending work on TNP’s bill to respond to frontiers to the next delegate.
Simone Republic: June 17-September 29, 2024 (104 days)
The 47th delegate, and one of the more polarizing ones, though for rather harmless reasons compared to polarizing delegates of the past. Simone Republic was one of the surprisingly few delegates the region had who was primarily known for activity in the World Assembly. Compared to others who were known for their involvement there, he was probably the only delegate known for being a World Assembly author, having been one of the most prolific authors of his day at a particularly low point for participation in the assembly outside of a very small handful of dedicated players. Ultimately this lack of diversity in authorship would prove to be an existential problem for the institution. The other significant innovation he brought to the office was in how he got there. It helped that he had an unpopular opponent, but he exhibited the most comprehensive campaign yet, personally reaching out to every possible voter and asking for their input on his platform. To the more savvy players, he collaborated with them and arranged for them to join his prospective cabinet, winning key votes from big players in the region in the process. Some felt that he had practically bribed them, though no evidence of such ever emerged. He was underestimated until he secured a comfortable win, albeit one that required a second round of voting.
Simone’s approach was not that of a gameplayer, but of someone who had been tangentially attached to gameplay. He expanded the cabinet to probably its greatest size and struggled to get a feel for the demands of a politician. The plan appeared to be a focus on internal and cultural activities, with an aspirational goal to do them daily. He tried to increase Discord activity through polls and the weekly cultural diversions, despite the staff thinning out the whole summer. He single-handedly recorded radio shows in the form of interviews and spent weeks publishing them to the YouTube channel. Despite being mostly a one-man show, he caved into criticism that consolidation of ministries affected output and revived the Ministry of Radio, only for it to be a hollow department with little output and no staff engagement, due to its lack of actual staff. He was particularly proud of the increase in recruitment efforts, as Home Affairs shifted gears to this important task, as well as the slight uptick in WA voters in the region, despite the usual decline in summer. And every proposal that he wrote that passed he credited to TNP.
Much of the expanded cabinet did not amount to much and many of the individuals he recruited, some suspect in order to secure their votes in the prior election, ended up disappointing or leaving. A lot of effort was spent trying to revive the university, even putting the head of it in the cabinet despite its lack of connection to any other ministry, but like the many delegates before him who tried, Simone realized it was a good effort going to waste. Worse was his early response to events concerning the League of Christian Nations, a bigoted region targeted by TCB and initially one that defenders initially tried to liberate before learning more. Simone was initially counseled that no action was necessary and sought to lay groundwork just in case, drafting a liberation and directing the NPA to divert some forces from The Wellspring to the liberation. It was a public humiliation for the region and a subject of intense backlash both at home and abroad. Following this incident, and following a poor reception to his ministers of defense and foreign affairs during awkward and badly managed planning to capture the Confederation of Corrupt Dictators after its founder disappeared, other regions pulled back their communication with and inclusion of TNP in their affairs, preferring to wait for a new administration.
Internally there were some promising signs. The capture of CCD was ultimately successful and good for morale. The group he assigned to look at cards created a new directive and organization which he put into place. The WA ministry eventually shed its awkward start by putting in ministers with some sense of what they were doing, and he established a new form of recognition for players with delegate service medals that are still available for use today. He also returned the WA voting policy back to the delegate’s control rather than the WA ministry’s. Culture was able to host a good collaboration with TNP’s allies to celebrate Pride Month. And after some hiccups with the RA, the RA rules were changed to make it easier for proposals to be withdrawn even mid-vote, cleaner confirmations of election commissioners were made possible through a legal code amendment, and the vice delegate check was further refined.
Chipoli: August 12-27, 2023 (15 days); August 27-September 14, 2023 (18 days); May 25-June 17, 2024 (23 days); January 16-August 10, 2025 (206 days)
The 49th delegate, and the first non-former delegate to defeat an incumbent delegate. For the second time in only four months, a delegate not only resigned, but did so late enough that the acting delegate would need to serve the remainder of the term with no special election. Chipoli brought back almost all of the officers who had resigned from Gorundu’s cabinet, also bringing on Robespierre as an advisor, the first time he had served in any capacity since he left the delegacy almost two years prior, and an immediate controversial choice. Treaties with Carcassonne, the successor region to old ally Taijitu, and The Wellspring were finally formalized and brought to the RA, though they would not be officially cemented until the next elected delegate’s term. A special cultural collaboration was executed to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the alliance with Europeia. But perhaps what he will most be associated with is the fact he was the delegate in-game when TNP was attacked by the Brotherhood of Malice and The Communist Bloc and bumped out of the seat, an event that had not happened since the much earlier, more chaotic times. It was a deliberate and obvious act of aggression, and immediately jumpstarted discussions as to how to respond and whether to go to war, complicated by the fact it happened days before the next delegate election.
While Chipoli would not win the election to a full term as delegate the way Gorundu had, he would return to the vice delegacy the following January, eventually serving simultaneously as the vice delegate and the minister of foreign affairs under Simone. During that period he would hold the in-game delegacy again, until the transition from Kasch to Simone was completed. He would retain his position in FA for Simone’s successor as well, only to find circumstances required his resignation part-way through that term. Despite this setback, like the other times he left the executive, he would return again, challenging Picairn successfully and winning an elected delegate term outright in that January election. The TNP he inherited was the same rough one Picairn struggled with, and initially the best thing he had going for him was that he was turning a bad endorsement situation around with the best numbers that had been seen in almost a year, albeit briefly heading into one of the roughest summers in a long time. Though it was hardly an innovation, it had been years since the cabinet met regularly, something Chipoli managed for the entirety of his first term. TNP’s tech woes continued to be an obstacle, but the painstaking work of updating the resource dispatches and information was one of the few Home Affairs successes during this period, thanks in large part to the singular efforts of Picairn. Culture was a challenge throughout, requiring many successive appointments, while efforts to keep the NPA well-managed continued to run into walls. Cultural initiatives with The Wellspring and Vibonia ran into attendance and interest-related problems.
The term was also rocked by some of the heaviest international events in a while. The initial triumph of adding the Augustin Alliance to the Pax Polaris Occidens was soon forgotten in the wake of The Outback incident, where Lone Wolves United convinced the NPO, the AA, and TNP to join them in an intervention to convince The Outback, but mostly TWP, who were seen as the ones in power there, to replace their delegate Walkabout (Bran) with someone else. This was not taken well and as a result the PPO regions and LWU collectively pulled what meager piler support they had there (TNP had already pulled out and NPO never piled) and left The Outback to figure things out on their own, with LWU cutting their treaty with them. The MGC regions besides TNP and other defenders swiftly moved to fill the void, altering the dynamic between The Outback and their prospective PPO allies, and shifting TWP’s own feelings toward these regions. As they collaborated to strengthen The Outback, they also solidified their bonds with a new organization, the Sovereign Seven, which was the strongest national sovereigntist alliance in the game’s history, and one which began to successfully challenge the old order of the World Assembly and actually achieve its goals. While TNP did not join the alliance, half its WALL allies and all the other MGC allies did, and it found itself somewhat of a supporting partner rather than one of the leaders of these groups.
While Chipoli and TNP knew a mistake had been made and sought to fix it, the others involved did not agree, and made a defiant statement a few months later telling their story. It was a fundamental miscalculation, and broke years-long alliances that no one thought would ever shatter. Chipoli’s government apologized and moved to support The Outback and TWP’s counter statement, and the alliance between TNP and The Outback which was days from being presented to the RA finally made it there and was finalized. This in turn led to an alliance with the other new sinker, The Plains of Perdition, and TWP’s return to the MGC. In the latter days of his government, Chipoli would even advance the first bilateral treaty with TWP since the earliest days of the region’s history. While TNP’s new alliance with the AA remained, the PPO was dissolved as a result of these events. The NPA was able to savor the chance to be part of multiple historic liberations, with the largest coalition of regions in NS history to confront the NPO and LWU, and later TNP’s raider enemies, and the biggest break in the war toward the end of Chipoli’s second term, when The Brotherhood of Malice shut down. Combined with The Communist Bloc’s earlier departure from NS Left and its isolation from any other possible allies while internally it continued to struggle, the future looked quite bright.
That bright future was all external though. Internally, Chipoli’s second term coincided with increasing challenges outside of the game, and prevented him from achieving results in the biggest gambit yet, switching Home Affairs to Integration and doubling down on increasing and maximizing activity from the RMB. The ministry stumbled from the start, one of several personnel problems that prevented effective execution of the plans he had made. The re-election effort had also been rocky and divisive, and many staffers left the region when their preferred candidate, Picairn, was unable to win back the office Chipoli had taken from him in the previous election. Like Gorundu before him, Chipoli would declare an absence to give himself some breathing room, and like Gorundu he would need more time than what the absence allowed. His decision to elevate Halsoni (Ruben), the vice delegate, to his chief of staff would prove to be crucial in keeping activity in the government going smoothly, but would also provide the same bad optics that Gorundu had hoped to avoid when he tried to hold back Chipoli as acting delegate. With higher expectations and signs of improvement thanks to Ruben’s efforts, it was clear that more needed to be done, more than Chipoli could give. Chipoli would eventually succumb to the outside pressures and focus where he needed to focus, and resign the delegacy almost two years to the day that Gorundu did.
