March Update from the PRL

Milograd · Mar 19, 2014

People's Republic of Lazarus Foreign Update
March 2014 Edition (Written by Fantome, Horse, Libetarian Republics, PERGAMON, and Milograd)

"Onward in the Glorious March to Harmony!"

Current Lazarene Government

Chairman: Kazmr (Endorsements: 145)
Vice-Chairman: Funkadelia

Cultural Governor: Bodobol
Diplomacy Governor: Dalimbar
Judicial Governor: Fortress Prussia
Information Governor: New Kervoskia
General of People's Militia: Hobbesistan

People's Congress: Pergamon, Horse, Stujenske, Libetarian Republics, The Grim Reaper, Feux, Llamas

Grand Marshal: Chairman Milograd

War Marshals: Hobbes, Horse, Kogvuron, Campinia, Aperi

Cultural Marshals: Tano, Cameron M. Romefeller

WA Marshal: Bruteland

State Police Chief: Fantome

The End of an Era, The Beginning of a New One: Chairman Milograd Succeeded by Chairman Kazmr

A new portrait is hung in the the Forbidden City. (From left to right: Milograd, Kazmr)

Perhaps the biggest event of the month was the surprise decision by Chairman Milograd to step down from power, thus concluding a 4-month reign as Chairman.

On March 5th, Milograd posted the following announcement in the Forbidden City:

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So, as I'm sure you're all aware, Chairman elections and the delegacy transition are now underway. A few people have asked me why I'm stepping down, and I'm happy to clarify. I'll do it as briefly and succinctly as I did in my first announcement as Chairman, over a hundred and twenty days ago.

I think I've done good work and I'm proud of the work I've done. Under the guidance of Francoism, our community has made historic strides that defied all expectations and we're the most active sinker around right now -- for ten years before, we were known for being a chronically inactive pool. To have made such a turnaround so quickly is an incredible feat. We did that. We should be proud of that.

I'm also proud that we stand up for founderless regions and I'm proud that we do it better than most. And I'm proud of the work that everyone here has done to make it possible -- from people like Kaz, Funk, Pergamon, DYP, Hobbes and Harm, who have been here since the beginning, to people like Horse, Bodo, Ik, Fantome, and Llamas. This community has grown and the credit for that success is due to the people who have put work into making it happen, and that, in essence, is the Party.

With all that work done, I think it's time for me to let someone else try their hand at being delegate. The delegacy -- our delegacy -- isn't suited for the sort of long dynasties that once condemned us to the very inactivity that I've worked to eliminate. We need to be dynamic in our leadership but constant in our success, cause ,and beliefs. It's sort of how like during a baton race the lead will run as far as he can until he is ready to pass the baton to another teammate of his, who can keep their team competitive in the race. This transition is not as much the end of my delegacy as it is the continuation of our race to a better Lazarus.

It's been a please, and honor, and a great opportunity to serve as the Chairman of the PRL. I thank you all for your roles in making this time as much of a success as it has been. I'm looking forward to serving Lazarus in a different capacity once the transition process is completed.

A co-founder of the PRL, Milograd was appointed to serve as Chairman by Harmoneia. During his time as Chairman, the PRL achieved all-time regional records for activity, witnessed much cultural success, such as the revitalization of regional RP and the creation of cult, created an internationally powerful military, the Lazarene Liberation Army, revived the Lazarene Gazette, and fought off several invasion attempts by imperialists. A new bar for the region's potential was set and the status quo of Lazarus being a chronically inactive region was finally proven false. His Chairmanship featured a emphasis on representing the people with the efficiency of a dictatorship, the creation of a strong bureaucracy, and constant pushes to create a thriving regional environment.

But with change must come, well, change. Immediately after announcing his intent to resign, a snap election occurred amongst citizens of the region and Governor Kazmr -- the previous winner of the Vice-Chairman election and an endorsee -- won the delegacy versus Hobbes and Stujenske. He opened with the following statement:

Well, that was certainly fast! But I suppose that's the nature of the PRL.

Two days ago I was happily minding my own business as Information Governor, letting the world know about the great thing we have here. As of tonight, I am both Chairman and WA Delegate of Lazarus, and I know that I have you, my fellow Lazarenes, to thank for that.

The last four months has seen a landmark delegacy for Lazarus, and perhaps for NationStates itself. Harmoneia made the brave step to get this movement started, but it was Milograd who perfected it. Following such a world class performance will take everything I have, and that is exactly what I will give to my new role.

My first order of business is to do a bit of housekeeping for our header up top.

First off, I would like to announce that Tano will be stepping down from his role as Governor of Culture. He is a talented, devoted Lazarene, and though he has had a bit on his plate with other regional commitments. As those are winding down, I am sure that he will be able to contribute greatly to the harmony of the region in the role of Cultural Marshal. He has my full support with his future plans to help our region.

Replacing Tano will be Bodobol, who has done a bang up job in culture lately and is more than deserving of a seat on the State Council.

It seems that the other two appointments I had have already been masked by Milograd, but I'll go ahead and formally announce them. New Kervoskia will serve as as my replacement as Governor of Information. As a longtime NS player and incredibly talented journalist, he is more than qualified for this role.

Milograd will hold the position of Grand Marshal with an advisory, but non voting, role on the State Council as recognition of the perspective he can contribute to Lazarus.

The remaining appointments will remain the same for the time being. I very much look forward to collaborating with my Vice Chairman Fukadelia on a stronger level than has been done in the past. I am also thrilled to have Hobbes as our General, and am very happy with the work he has already done since taking that office.

The first little bit of my reign will likely take a bit of time, what with getting my feet wet in this whole delegate business and some exams in real life, but just ahead I have a tremendous amount of time to devote to our region.

There are several key parts of our region I want to focus on early. First and foremost is building on, and not just continuing, our recent activity. That is undoubtedly the lifeblood of the PRL and it, along with the people who are part of that activity, is what has made this region so great. To help foster this, I intend to get involved personally more than I have in the past in the Cultural district, as well as work with my Governors to find ways to increase activity in their own.

Though it ties in with activity, our military is a priority unto itself. As I said earlier, Hobbes has been doing a great job filling in DYP's huge shoes, and I want to give him whatever support he needs from me, ranging from helping to recruit new soldiers to building new partnerships abroad. I trust that he will be the leader we need to have the leading defender army in NS.

Another thing at the top of my list is working to get more people from within the region itself involved. While there will certainly always be countless nations in a GCR like ours who take no interest in the affairs of the region, there are certainly some individuals who we simply haven't done a good enough job of reaching out to.

Finally, I want to do what I can to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to contribute to our region. I wouldn't be here today if I hadn't taken the chance six months ago to write for the Gazette, and though our region has grown ever larger I want to ensure that everyone will have a place here.

Of course those are not the only things I intend to work on, but I hope that they can provide a kind of core vision for the beginning of my chairmanship. Though we may have detractors, it is my firm belief that we can craft a region so fantastic that their little echo chamber is the only one which hears their misguided criticism. With all of your support, Lazarus will continue to be the best region on this site, and will only get better from there.

Hail Lazarus o/
Hail the People ; my Friends o/

Citizens are enthusiastic about Chairman Kazmr's delegacy and thus far the Chairman has succeeded in filling the big shoes left behind by Milograd. The PRL wishes him the best and asks for the same wishes from the interregional community.

Submarine Exterior Cleaning Squad prepares the LLA's finest submarines.

LLA Leads Major Liberations, Participates in Defenses Throughout Month

There is no slowing down the Lazarene Liberation Army, which is enjoying its fifth month of daily activity,

The LLA lead many defenses and liberations this month, with Communist Beach and Assassins serving as particular highlights. Both missions -- the former being significant because of its socialist community, and the latter being significant because it was lead by the Brotherhood of Malice -- were triggered by Milograd. Both triggers were on the dot and made successful liberations of the two regions possible, and the strong update showing of LLA troops in both cases also helped.

Otherwise, the LLA succeeded in missions in Halo, Western Assembly, Punahou, Christmas, The United Federation of Planets, Kingdom of Britain, United Nations Defense Force, and Coalition of Christian Communities, Mayville, Dragostea Din Tei, TDWU, BlueBerets, Northern P4, and HSA.

Hobbesistan training one of his new troops to cross the rivers of Fishmongolia. Skillful and precise, his technique is as effective as it is magnificent.

DYP Steps Down as General; Hobbes Replaces Him

This month has seen the sad departure of Drop Your Pants (better known as DYP) from the Lazarene Liberation army, from General of the LLA. DYP, serving from the creation of the LLA as general, resigned effectively on March 3rd in the monthly promotions of LLA troopers. Not citing the reasons for his resignation as General, he will be sorely missed. Not exactly known for his time spent on the IRC (heck, we even made a game of seeing how fast he came on and came off

), his experience and skill as a defender will sorely missed at update, when he came

.The search for a new general did not take long, as within a day Hobbes was selected as the new General of the LLA [background=#262626]. [/background]As of now, Hobbes has begun to change the structure of the LLA (super sekret stuff to come), and has begun to lead the LLA at update. Not much is known of Hobbes plan after this, but as the news comes in, we will report it to you, regardless of how much satire we put into it. My congratulations to Hobbes to his appointment, and my thanks to DYP to his service to the LLA. May this open up a new chapter in the LLA, even greater than the last!

Lazarus at the Defender Awards.

LLA Wins Defender Award for Best New Organization, Officers Win Awards

The LLA won the vote for best new defender organization for 2014 by a landslide. It was ... nice.

Officer Horse won the Sir Lans Award, and Campinia won the Dipes Award. Milograd was unofficially awarded the title of "Player Hater of the Year" for his work on the award images.

PRL Holds Cultural Exchange with The North Pacific

After a fair amount of planning by the Cultural Cadre and the Cultural Ministry of TNP, the PRL had the pleasure of kicking off its cultural exchange with TNP throughout the course of two weeks. A tournament was held between TNP and Lazarus to see who could win the most of the event's "trophy events", including spam games and trivia, and the PRL ultimately came out on top. However, the reward -- that is, to decide Kazmr's flag -- was offered to TNP and we are still awaiting their choice on what flag and pretitle he should use. Hopefully it won't be too embarrassing!

Cadre for the Beautification of Society Names the Provinces

The PRL has operated with a provincial system since its inception. The names have always been uninteresting and bland. But no longer!

New names have been proposed for forums throughout the PRL's off-site board, and thus far the following proposals have been considered for provinces or forums:

Spectacor Immigration Island (This existed already.)
Milograd Square (This proposal was approved.)
Hobbes' Hall of Forum Administration (This proposal was approved.)
Lies Incorporated University (It worked too well not to propose.)
Harmoneian Diplomacy Province (This proposal was approved.)
Kazmr Informational Province (This proposal was approved.)
John Ashcroft Land Judicial District (No, not really.)

Why not?

Bruteland Replaces Auralia as GA Marshal

In the aftermath of the attempted Commendation of Auralia, Auralia officially made note to the People's Republic that he will tender his resignation on March 2, 2014. As GA Marshall, he was in charge of the People's Republic influencing the WA's General Assembly proposals and resolutions that were up for vote as well as giving his opinions on how Lazarus should vote on specific resolutions in the General Assembly. He had served since the early days of the People's Republic. He had a great run here as GA Marshall and we wish him best of luck. Codger Bruteland officially replaces Auralia in overseeing GA resolutions and proposals for Lazarus.

Informational Activity in the PRL

The Informational District created distributed the following updates this month:

State Security Force Created

Prior to his abdication, former Chairman Milograd formed the Committee for Public Safety, an advisory council, and the State Security Force. The State Security Force is an independent branch of the Judicial District and deals with the report of rule violations. To do so, there are three kinds of agents.The first kind are RMB Patrol Officers, who control the Regional Message Board and need to report any violations. IRC Officers, the second kind of agents, moderate the IRC Chat of Lazarus. And finally State Security Officers are meant to report any internal threats, such as planned coups. Comrade Leningrad Union, who previously gained experience as soldier of the LLA, has been awarded first Chief of the State Security Force after Milograd expressed confidence in his skills, but Fantome replace him some days later. We are sure the newly formed institution will do its best to help Lazarus and its community prosper.

New Solidarity Policy, New Embassies

Chairman Milograd announced this month that the PRL will permit both socialist and communist regions gain embassies with Lazarus regardless of existing size requirements and/or the existence of forum relations.

The PRL also had the pleasure of opening embassies with 10000 Islands, The Red Fleet, Liberty Riders International, United Communist States, and The Allied Communist Union this month.

Appointments and Elections

Lazarus' government underwent a handful of significant personnel changes this month.

Chairman Milograd steps down, Chairman Kazmr assumes the delegacy.
Governor Kazmr becomes Chairman, New Kervoskia appointed as his successor.
Chairman Milograd is appointed as Grand Marshal of the People's Republic.
Bodobol is appointed Governor of Culture, Tano takes over as Marshal of Culture.
Stujenske is appointed as Vanguard of Regional Security.
Llamas is elected to the People's Congress.
Ikania is promoted to serve as Cultural Marshal.
Auralia resigns as GA Marshal due his choice to leave the game. Bruteland assumes his responsibilities and takes the position of "WA Marshal", which has not been a single job since Hobbes was WA Marshal in the early days of the PRL.
Leningrad Union is appointed as State Police Chief, but is quickly replaced with Fantome.

Thank you for reading our update. The People's Republic of Lazarus wishes you and your region a prosperous March and April!

Gracius Maximus · Mar 19, 2014

Thank you for the update. It looks like Lazarus is developing a very nice community.

March Update from the PRL

Milograd

TNPer

Gracius Maximus

Tyrant (Ret.)