Although it did turn out less bad than the title suggests.

Yesterday morning, just before I went to school, the phone rang. Few people know our landline number, so this can't be good. And it isn't. My wife was hit by a car on her bicycle to work. Mild concussion, maybe a rib fracture, rest unknown. Flew a few metres. Nothing lasting it seemed, but I went of to work only to ask whether I could be replaced. Cycled to the station via both our mother's work to inform them.

A bit of a shock to see her in hospital, head fairly bruised. But not as bad as you fear on the way there. A broken clavicle, which is an irritating thing but fortunately for her a clean break so not very painfull, and muscles aching all over but nothing else damaged seriously. She was dismissed by the end of the afternoon.

So that's why I haven't been posting much since yesterday and won't be for the next few days. I've made my election statements anyway

Oh, and she's fine now, walking through the house and pretty much functioning as well as possible with being able to use just one arm properly.

I'd like to start RPing again. And one of the ways to do so would be for Geraint to go on some junkets ... I mean vital foreign trips.


Seriously, I was thinking of visiting various nations of the IDU to improve ties, particularly economic and diplomatic.

One of the trips would be to see the out-going delegate. Another set of trips to see either candidate and pose questions.

If you'd be interested let me know here or on NS (by TG for example).

I'd like to also turn these visits into the stuff for news items in our respective newspapers.

I'll join the list of milestone populations now

2 billionth citizen today, and in 18 days, I will have been on NS for a year

Woo yay. :wave: :happygroup: :wave:

Original Proposal: http://www.nationstates.net/51550/page=UN_...lutions/start=7

Category: Repeal
Resolution: #8
Proposed by: Dankism

Description: UN Resolution #8: Citizen Rule Required (Category: The Furtherment of Democracy; Strength: Strong) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: The United Nations,

COMMENDING the democratic intentions of Resolution #8, ?Citizen Rule Required,?

NOTING that not all U.N. nations wish to be democratic,

FURTHER NOTING that Resolution #8, ?Citizen Rule Required,? claims that citizen rule promotes ?international peace,? which is not always true,

UNDERSTANDING that Resolution #8 fails to define which position the declaration for "citizen rule" applies to, making the resolution vague and ineffectual,

CONSIDERING that Resolution #8 does not adequately define ?rouge nations,? nor how citizen rule deters said ?rouge nations,?

ALSO CONSIDERING that Resolution #8 condemns certain governments, such as anarchies and dictatorships,

UPHOLDING that it is outside the mandate of this body to condemn specific political systems,

BELIEVING that member nations should decide on their own form of government at local, regional, and national levels,

REPEALS Resolution #8 ?Citizen Rule Required.?

Co-Authored by: Jey

Of course I have no idea whether you're already celebrating in your time zone or not, but here it's already Friday, so...
:wave: Happy Birthday! :wave:

Have a dancing banana :pisang: !

In a discussion elsewhere in the members only part, the Free Land of the IDU came up. I thought it would be wise to discuss with the region what the FLotIDU should be, in case anyone wants to roleplay with it. From this discussion, a wiki page can be constructed for all to see and edit, but the basics should be discussed here so we can all agree on it. The Free Land was used originally by XG as a puppet founder of the region as you may know, and recently revived, protecting us from invasion.

I'll kick off by stating my view on what the Free Land is. Feel free to view it completely opposite.

The Free Land is rather boring. I see it a bit like the Aussie capital Canberra. Lots of government buildings, lots of empty/green land in between, mainly inhabited by government workers. There's a rather big building which hosts the departments represented on this forum, where the UN delegate and other government officials have their offices. Around it are embassies from all IDU nations. It should also have a university.

There should be all sorts of facilities for international stuff like sports, parties, celebrations.

There isn's much history, except that the founders seperated from The North Pacific after he changes there. It is run by a local democratic government supervised by a group of long-time IDU nations.

That's it. Feel free to say other things, add, change, etc.

I've been pretty preoccupied with "relationship" (or the lack thereof) issues as of late, and I'm about to run to Pennsylvania and followed by a half week long work trip, effectively keeping me off-line til April 28 or 29.

I'm pondering running for Delegacy, because I can. But I want to see whether there's any support. So vote away!

The Interstellar Federation of DataGenesis has reached a new milestone; a population of 4 billion.

The 2 billion of those that work as slaves have been given a day off in celebration!

Could be fun, no? From what I can think of right now, the nations that could be a part of this are Mikitivity, Antrium, Keeslandia, Fonzoland, and myself. Of course, if anyone else imagines a Keeslandic ancestry or colonial history for your nation, then you're more than welcome to join aswell. I'm more or less thinking this would be nice to flesh out our wikis with.
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Proposal of the Principles of a Commonwealth of Keeslandic States

The Commonwealth of Keeslandic States is a voluntary association of independent sovereign states with a shared cultural heritage, each responsible for its own policies, consulting and co-operating in the common interests of their peoples and in the promotion of international understanding and world peace.

Members of the Commonwealth come from territories in the International Democratic Union and elsewhere, who have a cultural connection to the Keeslands. They encompass a rich variety of cultures, traditions and institutions.

We believe that international peace and order are essential to the security and prosperity of mankind; we therefore support the Nation States United Nations

We believe in the liberty of the individual, in equal rights for all citizens regardless of race, colour, creed or political belief, and in their inalienable right to participate by means of free and democratic political processes in framing the society in which they live.

We recognise racial prejudice as a dangerous sickness threatening the healthy development of the human race and racial discrimination as an unmitigated evil of society.

We believe that the wide disparities in wealth now existing between different sections of mankind are too great to be tolerated.

We believe that international co-operation is essential to remove the causes of war, promote tolerance, combat injustice, protect the environment and secure development among the peoples of the world.

In pursuing these principles the members of the Commonwealth believe that they can provide a constructive example of the multi-national approach which is vital to peace and progress in the modern world.

These relationships we intend to foster and extend, for we believe that our multi-national association can expand understanding among our peoples. This Commonwealth is to be a forum for discussion and declarations pertaining to liberty, democracy, the environment and trade within its member states.