June 23rd, 2015 | Issue #2
Current Regional Population: 434 (+15) | Current Delegate Endorsements: 108 (-8)
Forum Posts: 238,524 (+2,986) | Forum Members: 913 (+17)
Chancellor: Asylum
Founder: Falconias
Secretary of Engagement: approximate psychosis
Secretary of Equinomics: yumyum36
Secretary of Lifestyle: Ceapoyce
Speaker of the Senate: To Be Elected
Guild Senators:
The Aurors Senator | The Equinox Avengers Senator | Supreme Leader| Captian Mordor | RGarrettGamer | Scooby Gang Senator | Suicide Squad Senator
World Assembly Delegate: Asylum
QUICK NEWS:
--Chancellor Asylum raised the guild requirements to have 3 Active Members, putting The Lords Guild & Industrialists on official warning of closure. At the last second, the Industrialist's leader; Supreme Leader returned and approved a pending member saving it from closure. Sadly, the historical Lords Guild was closed.
--Using recently returned Falconias' idea, Chancellor Asylum introduced a Probationary Period for new Guilds. Any guild can be created with just 1 member, and they must have 3 members by the end of a 14 day period. As such 3 new guilds were created. The Aurors, based off the Harry Potter universe. The Equinox Avengers, based off the Marvel characters. And lastly the Suicide Squad, based off the DC Comics characters. Each guild has until June 30th to gain the needed requirement of members.
--Historically speaking Equinox has not been one to Role Play, however under the guidance of Secretary of Lifestyle Ceapoyce, Role Play is slowly becoming a common activity in Equinox. Currently a war wages over an assassination, and a text adventure has kept popular, as well as the month of June's themed role play of Steampunk!
--Contests have been a mainstay as well. A Photo Caption contest was held and the winner received Steam's Weekly Bundle, and a nice chunk of Equins (Equinomics currency), as well as residents could participate in an Emoticontest for new emoticons on the boards!
--The Senate had a bit of activity has The Mafia's appointed Senator, RGarrettGamer lead the charge with 3 separate proposals about Amending the Electoral Guild College periods, to the Impeachment process. Chancellor Asylum also proposed the Arnhlem Treaty for the Senate's consideration. All proposals were met with a general approval of the Senate and were awaiting processing by the Speaker to be voted upon.
--Speaker of the Senate Hospitlar was forced to resign his position, to focus on his Guild of Doom, which brought about an emergency holding of the Guild Electoral College. With the polls opening on June 24th and closing on June 26th the new Speaker will be tasked with calling for votes on 4 different proposals.
--The Admin Team recently re-hauled the forum making it smaller and easier to navigate by eliminating unnecessary sub-forums and re-sizing of the forum banners to a smaller size in hopes of making it easier to find things and more new-member friendly. Also going smaller? The amount of account colors. Account colors are now only subjected to those who join guilds. Up until recently Residents, Admins, Moderators and foreign Ambassadors a special color to make them easier to identify.
--Chancellor Asylum and his cabinet are in the process of making a series of dispatches on NationStates to help educate and get nations more familiar with participating in Equinox. The general hope is that these will be completed by the end of the month.
--The Cabinet recently polled the region asking nations what they are looking for specifically on the Equinox forums, a large chunk of those voters are looking for more Online Gaming, Role Plays, and Activities to do.
--The Mafia recently created raiding military wing, named The Cronies, have been recently seen in founderless regions as Consigliere Talidania (known as Carnation in Equinox) lead them into battle with help from DEN and others.
--The Official Government and Staffing Records are now published, displaying any government or staff member since March of 2015.
The Guilds of Equinox, A Quick Power Ranking & Information:
1. The Mafia, 13 Members, Leader: Asylum/Island Union
2. Guild of Doom, 9 Members, Leader: Hospitlar
3. Industrialists, 3 Members, Leader: Supreme Leader
4. Suicide Squad: 2 Members, Leader: Falconias
5. Scooby Gang: 3 Members, Leader: Wopruthien
6 (TIE). The Equinox Avengers, 1 Member, Leader: Geekyfox
6 (TIE). The Aurors, 1 Member, Leader: Lord Khan