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In game dispatch disclaimer about what Corruption Assassins is and isn't - https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=2761764
In short in my day CANN was an "anonymous" investigative "news" source in the satrical-conspiracy theory unsubstantiated op-ed "Alex Jones" style being passed off as credible information. Being critical of the TNP Government and outing "corruption" ...
I've been able to find/screen shot and reupload old articles on the new nations in game dispatches, to establish an historical social commentary time capsule of how the landscape of TNP culture looked in 2014-2015. Also, have crafted it's first new article for the modern era. The IRCabal of 2014-2015, never actually went away just went to modern platforms (discord) and fresh younger faces are just a front for the shadowy old hands that secretly still run the government and control the forums.
The IRCabal of 2014 just moved to Discord in 2026!
I have concluded that the IRCabal did in fact lock me up for roughly twelve years, but fortunately for the region, I have now found the key.
A lot has changed since 2014–2015. The platform habits are different. The tone is different. The separation between governance and roleplay is much sharper than it used to be. Long-form political character posting, satire mixed with procedure, and theatrical constitutionalism no longer land the way they once did. That is simply the reality of 2026.
The older dispatches I am reposting are not an attempt to recreate that era as if nothing changed. They are being preserved as historical social commentary and as a time capsule of a period in TNP culture that was real, influential, and formative for many of us who were there.
New faces have arrived. New habits have taken hold. New platforms now carry much of the conversation. That is normal. But institutional continuity did not disappear just because the style changed. Some of the same long-term hands still keep the machinery running, still maintain the spaces, and still form part of the region’s living memory.
People returning from that earlier era are part of that memory too. We may sound dated. We may write longer than is fashionable. We may carry traces of an older political culture that reads strangely in a newer one. That may mean adapting. It does not mean being written off as though we arrived yesterday with no context.
2014–2015 is part of TNP history. So are the players, habits, conflicts, and institutions that came out of it. A returning player from that period may be a blast from the past, but not a newcomer. There is a difference.
This is not a demand that the region go backward. It is only a reminder that the present did not appear out of nowhere. There are new faces, fresh ideas, and new ways of operating. There are also older reference points still walking around, still observing, and still able to recognize patterns when they reappear in updated form.
Time moves. Cultures shift. Platforms change. But continuity remains. Some old players never really left; they are still involved in keeping the infrastructure running. Others come back after long absences and, almost immediately, announce with a laugh that letting them back in was probably a mistake because now they can go back to doing what they always did: challenging the government, testing the system, and making life harder for the current power structure. New faces may be more visible, but the older habits are still there. Whether people are comfortable acknowledging it or not, some things stay the same.
In short in my day CANN was an "anonymous" investigative "news" source in the satrical-conspiracy theory unsubstantiated op-ed "Alex Jones" style being passed off as credible information. Being critical of the TNP Government and outing "corruption" ...
I've been able to find/screen shot and reupload old articles on the new nations in game dispatches, to establish an historical social commentary time capsule of how the landscape of TNP culture looked in 2014-2015. Also, have crafted it's first new article for the modern era. The IRCabal of 2014-2015, never actually went away just went to modern platforms (discord) and fresh younger faces are just a front for the shadowy old hands that secretly still run the government and control the forums.
The IRCabal of 2014 just moved to Discord in 2026!
I have concluded that the IRCabal did in fact lock me up for roughly twelve years, but fortunately for the region, I have now found the key.
A lot has changed since 2014–2015. The platform habits are different. The tone is different. The separation between governance and roleplay is much sharper than it used to be. Long-form political character posting, satire mixed with procedure, and theatrical constitutionalism no longer land the way they once did. That is simply the reality of 2026.
The older dispatches I am reposting are not an attempt to recreate that era as if nothing changed. They are being preserved as historical social commentary and as a time capsule of a period in TNP culture that was real, influential, and formative for many of us who were there.
New faces have arrived. New habits have taken hold. New platforms now carry much of the conversation. That is normal. But institutional continuity did not disappear just because the style changed. Some of the same long-term hands still keep the machinery running, still maintain the spaces, and still form part of the region’s living memory.
People returning from that earlier era are part of that memory too. We may sound dated. We may write longer than is fashionable. We may carry traces of an older political culture that reads strangely in a newer one. That may mean adapting. It does not mean being written off as though we arrived yesterday with no context.
2014–2015 is part of TNP history. So are the players, habits, conflicts, and institutions that came out of it. A returning player from that period may be a blast from the past, but not a newcomer. There is a difference.
This is not a demand that the region go backward. It is only a reminder that the present did not appear out of nowhere. There are new faces, fresh ideas, and new ways of operating. There are also older reference points still walking around, still observing, and still able to recognize patterns when they reappear in updated form.
Time moves. Cultures shift. Platforms change. But continuity remains. Some old players never really left; they are still involved in keeping the infrastructure running. Others come back after long absences and, almost immediately, announce with a laugh that letting them back in was probably a mistake because now they can go back to doing what they always did: challenging the government, testing the system, and making life harder for the current power structure. New faces may be more visible, but the older habits are still there. Whether people are comfortable acknowledging it or not, some things stay the same.