I propose the following bill:
I have done two things. First, I have standardized the word to "NationStates", and not "Nationstates" - as the game is indeed called. Second, as one might have predicted, I have changed the date of Delegates' Day.
The date was chosen basically randomly. It was originally proposed as McMasterdonia Day, and suggested for May 11th, as that was the day McMasterdonia left office. The name was then changed to Delegates' Day in order to honor all our prior delegates, not just one, with the date kept the same. Grosseschnauzer pointed out that we already have 2 holidays in May, with nothing between July and November, and Abacathea agreed that moving it made sense. He picked June, as we had no holidays in June, and kept the date of the 11th as one he was personally partial to.
This has resulted in a bit of a cluster of holidays - May 26th, then June 11th, then July 7th, then July 28th - with nothing before it since January and nothing after until November. It has also likely made it hard to give the holidays their due consideration, as that's a lot of planning and eventing in a short period of time. People get burned out.
September 9th, on the other hand, works on both fronts. It spaces things out more, giving some breathing room between Manumission Day and Democracy Day, and adding something in between Liberation Day and Creation Day. It also is a highly meaningful date: It is the date of the first transfer of power under the first popularly ratified constitution (in 2004). This document was drafted under Magicality, but could not be put into effect as she disappeared and we entered the Great Bight and UPS Rail tyrannies. Thel D'Ran was the delegate under which the constitution actually came into force, and Sydia was the first delegate elected under a constitution of any sort. Prior to that, it was run as a sort of unwritten gentleman's agreement.
I welcome your comments. I don't expect this to be a highly controversial bill, but I suppose you never know...
I have done two things. First, I have standardized the word to "NationStates", and not "Nationstates" - as the game is indeed called. Second, as one might have predicted, I have changed the date of Delegates' Day.
The date was chosen basically randomly. It was originally proposed as McMasterdonia Day, and suggested for May 11th, as that was the day McMasterdonia left office. The name was then changed to Delegates' Day in order to honor all our prior delegates, not just one, with the date kept the same. Grosseschnauzer pointed out that we already have 2 holidays in May, with nothing between July and November, and Abacathea agreed that moving it made sense. He picked June, as we had no holidays in June, and kept the date of the 11th as one he was personally partial to.
This has resulted in a bit of a cluster of holidays - May 26th, then June 11th, then July 7th, then July 28th - with nothing before it since January and nothing after until November. It has also likely made it hard to give the holidays their due consideration, as that's a lot of planning and eventing in a short period of time. People get burned out.
September 9th, on the other hand, works on both fronts. It spaces things out more, giving some breathing room between Manumission Day and Democracy Day, and adding something in between Liberation Day and Creation Day. It also is a highly meaningful date: It is the date of the first transfer of power under the first popularly ratified constitution (in 2004). This document was drafted under Magicality, but could not be put into effect as she disappeared and we entered the Great Bight and UPS Rail tyrannies. Thel D'Ran was the delegate under which the constitution actually came into force, and Sydia was the first delegate elected under a constitution of any sort. Prior to that, it was run as a sort of unwritten gentleman's agreement.
I welcome your comments. I don't expect this to be a highly controversial bill, but I suppose you never know...
