[SC - DEFEATED] Condemn Northern Borland

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Condemn Northern Borland
Category: Condemnation| Target: Northern Borland
Proposed by: Tinhampton | Onsite Topic


THE SECURITY COUNCIL:

RECOGNISING that many national leaders have been successfully manipulated into believing that [nation=Northern Borland] consistently acts in the interests of other nations, having served for many years until July 2017 as the Advocate and Arbiter General of [region=Capitalist Paradise], which entails defending suspects in regional trials and helping resolve internal disputes before they escalate to the court system;

FEARFUL, however, that this community service has only helped Northern Borland hide its true legacy as a nation utterly dominated by its unregulated market, so much so that it has long called itself "A Good Place to Raise Your Business" in its tourism campaigns (advertisement which is hardly proving beneficial for a country now ranked by the World Census as the third-most avoided out of over 255,000 nations);

CONCERNED that, although Northern Borland is facially an economic miracle - boasting of the world's highest average disposable income (and sixth-highest average income before "tax"), most efficient economy, and fourth-highest gross domestic product - many of these gains are pocketed by the highest-earning decile, the 27th-richest upper class of any country, which currently earns fifty-five times as much as the nation's poorest decile;

AWARE that this wealthy fraction have amassed enough Greenbacks to distort World Census rankings on industry, with support from a government that uses its entire budget to subsidise it: the nation currently ranks in the top sixty worldwide for twelve of the sixteen major industries tracked by the Census, resulting in the whole manufacturing sector being the 107th-largest in the world;

HORRIFIED at Northern Borland's refusal to imprison even its most hardened criminals, which - when combined with the fifth-rudest and fifth-most armed populace in the world, a sure sign of unscratchably-itchy trigger fingers - has produced the second-highest death rate, tenth-worst crime rate and 97th-worst youth crime rate of all nations;

DISMAYED that Northern Borlandians spend so much time working (Northern Borland has the multiverse's second-highest employment rate, fuelled by widespread child labour), spending (whether stimulating economic growth via the third-largest retail sector of any country or spunking a presumably tiny fraction of their life savings in the third-biggest gambling market), and eating (not only has hosting the biggest soft-drinks sector and fourth-largest pizza delivery market contributed to over 199 in every 200 citizens being obese - the highest obesity rate anywhere - but Northern Borland has helped countless dingy pizzerias advance similar outcomes around the world through its status as the fourth-largest exporter of cheese) that they inadvertently prop up their President and CEO by simply not caring, thus constituting the fourth most politically-apathetic populace;

OBSERVING that the Northern Borlandian government has proven duplicitous enough to set up three satellite states with largely opposing goals to Northern Borland itself, namely:
  • [nation=East Borland], which not only harbours a larger manufacturing sector than Northern Borland but is also the most avoided, most corrupt, and eighth-most patriotic state, no doubt a result of His Supreme Eminence's desperate attempt to keep his subjects in line by banning everything from immigration and emigration to video games and the practice of religion, closing off access to family planning services, and even condoning slavery;
  • [nation=Deep South Borland], the world's most religious and most primitive country, and supposedly the fourth-most visited nation by tourists - a figure that must be called into doubt in light of its refusal to allow any planes to land on its territory (whether or not carrying any holidaymakers), prohibition of zoos, bar on organised sports, strict nationwide curfew and sponsorship of a religiously-driven human sacrifice program; and
  • [nation=Tzo], a socialist experiment which many observers, the World Census included, believe is an open-minded society (Tzo has the smartest citizens, strongest dedication to equality, finest culture and best-quality food of any nation) supported by a capable government (while the size - and average tax take - of Tzo's government is outdone only by Kindjal, its health service, public transport, schools and benefit system are not similarly competitive) and strong communities (Tzo's citizens are the second-safest, seventh-healthiest, and ninth-most compliant, in part due to their government cracking down on cars, guns, cigarettes and slot machines while completely surrendering fiscal affairs to a robot); and

CONVINCED that those seeking to embrace capitalism ought to steer clear of the Northern Borlandian model, which has brought its citizenry little more than death, boredom, and mass-scale impulse buying:

HEREBY CONDEMNS [nation=Northern Borland].
Note: Only votes from TNP WA nations and NPA personnel will be counted. If you do not meet these requirements, please add (non-WA) or something of that effect to your vote.
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  • Vote Against if you want the Delegate to vote Against the resolution.
  • Vote Abstain if you want the Delegate to abstain from voting on this resolution.
  • Vote Present if you are personally abstaining from this vote.
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IFV

Overview:

This proposal seeks to impose a Condemnation upon the Northern Borland, also known as Tzo, for their statistical exceptionalism in various World Census rankings. Notable examples from the proposal include Northern Borland's economic inequality, which is put in stark contrast with areas of economic performance such as maintaining the highest average disposable income and the most efficient economy, it having the second-highest death rate out of any nation, which the author attributes to its aversion to imprisonment and the accessibility of weaponry to its populace, and the fact that it has the highest obesity rate of any nation, which is attributed to it having the largest soft-drinks sector and the fourth largest pizza delivery market. Furthermore, the proposal accuses Northern Borland of duplicity in setting up three satellite states with differing political and administrative realities from Northern Borland itself. It concludes with a condemnation of the particular laissez-faire capitalism that Northern Borland practices.

Recommendation:

While the statistical achievements and anomalies of Northern Borland and its three satellite states are notable and worthy of recognition, it must be noted that Northern Borland has expressed a strong opposition to being featured as the subject of a Security Council proposal in the past; something that must be taken into consideration by our Ministry. Furthermore, the author's timing in submitting the proposal is questionable, considering that Northern Borland alongside their satellite nations recently ceased to exist. One wonders why such a worthwhile endeavor was not pursued until the very last possible moment. Given these circumstances, we are not comfortable supporting the proposal at this time.

For these reasons, the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommends a vote AGAINST this proposal.

This IFV Recommendation was written in collaboration with our World Assembly Legislative League partners.
 
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I don't like being rushed and held hostage because someone is about to CTE. If people truly felt this ought to have been written, they had plenty of time to do so. That cannot be the reason this is done now.

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Present. As mentioned on NS Forum itself, this seems to condemn someone for overachieving in terms of income. Also, since the nation is not even in WA and CTE'd, what's the point?

(OOC: in other words, playing NS very well - at least in a particular metric anyway)

Having said all that, I assume Northern Borland don't care since they've CTE'd anyway. I am voting Present as I don't think it matters ultimately.
 
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This proposal has achieved the necessary approvals to enter the formal queue. Barring it being withdrawn or marked illegal it will proceed to a vote at the Minor Update on July 29.
 
Correction: they were against the previous effort.
The last time they were nominated for a badge they opposed the effort. We don’t have a current take to consult as they CTEd and didn’t speak to the current effort.
 
The last time they were nominated for a badge they opposed the effort. We don’t have a current take to consult as they CTEd and didn’t speak to the current effort.
Commend Tzo by Eastern New England apparently had the support of the nominee, and Tzo is a puppet of Northern Borland. This was more recent than the comment made for the previous condemnation attempt.
 
Commend Tzo by Eastern New England apparently had the support of the nominee, and Tzo is a puppet of Northern Borland. This was more recent than the comment made for the previous condemnation attempt.
You’re relying on a puppet of the player to indicate they would be okay with this one? I can tell you that my opinion on giving a badge to one of my puppets compared to my main would not be the same. I’m getting the impression that this is a situation where nothing really matters, people are just dead set on doing this regardless of how the recipient actually feels, and are clearly not above tugging on heartstrings to cajole a positive result. The entire thing is feeling very distasteful to me.
 
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The target has CTE’d, therefore this condemnation has no purpose. Furthermore, I cannot solely accept a C/C solely using NS statistics for supporting details, since that weakens such proposal.
 
You’re relying on a puppet of the player to indicate they would be okay with this one? I can tell you that my opinion on giving a badge to one of my puppets compared to my main would not be the same. I’m getting the impression that this is a situation where nothing really matters, people are just dead set on doing this regardless of how the recipient actually feels, and are clearly not above tugging on heartstrings to cajole a positive result. The entire thing is feeling very distasteful to me.

There are aspects of NS that are far more distasteful to me than this, if you ask me.
 
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