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Elections for Folksraad and Adelsraad

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Elections are now being held for Folksraad and Adelsraad. As your ricky kaiser, I will simulate them and the results.

As background, I will use all recent news in Shireroth, local elections, etc, posts, etc., and apply how that might affect the changes from the last elections

But you can give a brief background to local events that might influence the elections. Local news? Local parties? Scandals associated with imperial parties? How has the loyal subjects bill affected media locally? You can be as brief as you wish ("people like Liv more", "more people hate Armin and gays now", "ppl are wondering whether the Steward is keeping the kaiser out of his job"), and as specific as you want "Rich people in Musica want more fire regulation", "poor people in Musica want fewer loyal subjects to take their jobs".

here we go

If there is nothing from you by the end of the month, the ricroll of the dice will decide according to the premises before.
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Do we merely respond for our respective subdivisions, or can we stir up hordes of agitators to bedevil the neighbours? This coincides nicely with the slow burn project in Elwynn. :twisted:

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Of course you can! If what you say goes without opposition from the fiefholder, it will definitely impact the election. If you make it extreme, people are likely to believe that it's fake news though.
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Goldshireans are convinced that the wall is the key to their prosperity as the fearmongering against the Jing never really stopped and it's being sold as the new backbone of the Kingdom. Golden Order will remain quite popular. Also, given that Crowsilver is a few specks on the map now, the independence party's likely quite dead as anyone who wanted to leave can just go into the newly made green and anyone who wants to stay would move to what's left of the county.
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Armin Jamal-Arminzadeh wrote:Of course you can! If what you say goes without opposition from the fiefholder, it will definitely impact the election. If you make it extreme, people are likely to believe that it's fake news though.
With a bit of a word swap out (replacing recwar with election...) this is how I'll propose to treat the campaign, with the Kaiser as "arbitrator". The Kaiser could then treat this as the opportunity to pitch curve balls at the Humanists and Reformists and others to respond to.
(102) The "Credible Press Release System"

Participants then post "press releases" with descriptions of what their troops do in a forum designated for that purpose. Other participants may then react to these actions. One or more arbitrators appointed by the may clarify situations with their own posts.

Participants may treat some or all of the press releases of other participants as not credible, and post their own alternative version of events that they insist is the truth. The arbitrator will also post reports of events in the election that are true. Anyone whose press releases deviates too far from the version of events endorsed by the arbitrator is likely to have their press releases completely ignored by all other participants.

Messages and postings directly from the arbitrator for a particular election should be assumed to be credible and accurate. They may only be superseded by subsequent postings by the same arbitrator or a successor arbitrator, if there is one, or another arbitrator for another sanctioned election. However, an arbitrator may post in-character postings of some fictional character which need not be accurate. Arbitrators should be clear about whether they are posting as an arbitrator or as a fictional character.


(103) The "Propaganda Principle"

In the Credible Press Release System, all of this is easily reconciled by the "Propaganda Principle". Since anything written by an election campaign participant is assumed to be a press release of questionable accuracy, anything that is not credible may be deemed to be mere propaganda with little or no basis in reality. Each participant and even each observer may make their own judgement as to which press releases are credible and accurate and which are not. Each participant issuing a press release may choose to make the report as accurate as possible or may deliberately fill their posts with fictitious propaganda.


(104) The Arbitrator's Role

An arbitrator is required to make decisions in an impartial manner. It is against the rules for an arbitrator to allow personal bias towards or against any participant state to affect his or her decisions on electoral matters.

There can be more than one arbitrator for the same election at the same time. In such a case, the arbitrators should have an order of precedence to indicate which one's decisions take precedence if there is a contradiction. If no other order of precedence is specified, precedence shall be in the order of seniority with the arbitrator appointed first being the one whose authority is greatest. Seniority shall be determined based on when an arbitrator was appointed for the particular election in question. If they were all appointed at once, the one whose name was listed first in the appointment is senior.

It is against the rules for anyone to bribe, coerce or otherwise attempt to exert undue influence on an arbitrator regarding recwar decisions. It is against the rules for an arbitrator to accept any bribe or give in to coercion or undue influence. Arbitrators may penalize those who break this rule. Arbitrators who break this rule may be summarily removed by an officiating body, where one exists, even in the middle of an election.

A participant may send an e-mail or other private message directly to an arbitrator. Not everything needs to be publicly posted.

The arbitrator's primary role is to post information about what reality is in the election. The arbitrator is especially needed to provide definitive information about what happens on the campaign. The arbitrator is also authorized by the charter to determine any other matter which is relevant to the election.

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Oh yes, let's work with that!
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Verionist Union merged with Democratic Alliance of Elwynn
This is something that voters have expected, as the division of the Verionist parties in Shireroth into two parties had always been seen as a bit weird, an anachronism from Elwynn's independence. Voters are therefore happy that this is happening.
+ for Verionist Union. VU up across the Imperial Republic (except Elwynn). Some negativity in Elwynn with the more independence-leaning factions of the DA, so VU up in Elwynn but also down, meaning that in Elwynn, VU support remains stable (compared to DA)
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Golden Order Party and Crowsilver
Up in Crowsilver with an intense form of campaigning.

Reform Society and Crowsilver
Up in Crowsilver to take the previous voters of the Crowsilver Party who stayed in the downsized Crowsilver.

Crowsilver Party
Functioning no more. Cannot organize nor participate in the county.
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Salvik Dorkolluerion (56)
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A veteran of Elwynn's tumultuous politics, Aqa Dorkolluerion, has seemingly recovered the flush of youthful vigour that characterised his tenure as Party Steward during the era of the Vanic Occupation.
  • "This conflict reawakens the senses", he explains before taking another long drag on the smouldering cigarette perched between the index and forefinger of his left hand, "and knowing that we are having to once again resist the collaborators whose cravenness allowed Noah to establish his pornocracy in Elwynn, gives us all an extra sense of purpose these days."


The conflict in question is, of course, the slow burning three-sided civil war in Elwynn between the Humanists of the Southern League, the Ayreonists in Eliria and Iserdia, and the rebellious fanatics of Cimmeria. Led by Liv Dravot-Osman, and Daniyal Kalirion, the son of Isabella Simrani-Kalirion, the Southern League accuses the Elirian regime of Conducator Armin of having usurped the principate, entered into treasonable correspondence with the exiled-Froyalanish clique, and of supporting a judicial campaign against the Imperial Mother and the Ministry of Military Affairs.

We put to Aqa Dorkolluerion that the N&H should probably denounce the Southern League, otherwise people will not be unwilling to vote for a party associated with what some have called treason.
  • "Who says that they are traitors for resisting tyranny and Vanic corruption in Eliria?" answered Salvik coolly.
Undeterred, we persist.
  • "The government which has orders of arrest for [the Imperial Mother] . Surely there can be no question of a major political party even tacitly endorsing a rebellion against the government of one of the largest Imperial States?"
If the Arandur is at all perturbed by this allegation, he takes care not to show it.
  • "The electorate has concerns, the N&H will address those, but it is important to remember that the revolt in Elwynn was triggered by judicial arrogance and the conduct of the liberal dictatorship in Eliria.
We then ask Aqa Dorkolluerion for his opinion on what it would take to end the strife that has paralysed Elwynn's political system and triggered a third Imperial intervention. His answers rattle off in a staccato fashion.
  • "An amnesty for all persons of noble dignity on either side in this strife. The arrest and trial of the Conducator, who is no longer of the service nobility, but rather an untitled commoner. The abdication of the Prince. Fresh congressional and princely elections. A constitutional convention to restore the best aspects of the Coordinated State."
He smiled disarmingly when we suggested that this was a rather ambitious programme.
  • "It suffices for an opening position."
Then, for a moment, the light seemingly faded from his eyes.
  • "I fear that the Conducator will only have a short window of opportunity in which to see sense and come to the negotiating table. If they tarry too long then the Southern League will soon set about breaking the spine of the Ayreonist movement."
With those firm words our interview is at an end. Kindly his associates show us the way to the door and we depart from the plush interior of the Lycurgus Club, into the rain-soaked and windswept avenues of Ardashrshahr on an autumnal afternoon.

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-Clip from Golden Order press conference-
Reporter: "Does the Order support the Southern League in Elwynn?"
Representative: "I think that sort of talk is taking focus away from how the western issue is affecting progress of the wall. Countless Goldshireans are left afraid for their jobs and the Golden Order Party would just like to assure them that our top priority is to make sure we have the fastest and safest supply lines so we can keep on building. Next question please?"
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With the merging of the Goldshirian counties of Elsyran and Suthergold under the rule of Count Hartmut Aldric, the Elsyran Democrats are now competing in Suthergold as well.

To build a new brand for the party and present its new election platform, the Elsyran Democrats have decided to change their name to the Imperial Democratic Party.

The Imperial Democrats will contest elections in the Counties of Elsyran and Suthergold and have earned the support of the Count and received endorsements from many local leaders, such as the Mayor of Goldfield.

The Imperial Democrats will unveil their electoral platform at a campaign launch rally in Syrelwynn.
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  • Deceased: Hartmut Aldric, Steward of the Imperial Republic (1660-1665), Duke of Calezi, President of the Council of Ministers of the Imperial Duchy of Brookshire, First Secretary of the Kehl, &etc.

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Socialist Alliance announced

The Elwynnese Workers' Party (EWP), Socialist Union of Yardistan (SUY), the Mishalanski Party for Democratic Socialism (MPDS), the Amokolian Freedom Front (AFF), the Social Democratic Party of Tellia (SDP), have decided to make an electoral alliance for the 1660 Folksraad and Adelsraad elections, in order to put their differences aside for the betterment of the Shirerithian working classes.

They have decided to not compete against one another, and have divided up the constituencies as follows:

Agnesia: EWP
Alalehzamin: EWP
Araxion: EWP
Automatica: AFF
Cape Farewell: EWP
Cimmeria with Illumination: EWP
Eliria: EWP
Iserdia: EWP
Raikoth: EWP
Utasia: EWP
Vattnaland: AFF

Goldshire:
Wintergleam: EWP

Dominions:
Batavia: MPDS
Jadid Khaz Modan: SUY
Oleslaad: AFF
Mishalan: MPDS
Westpoint: MPDS
Shirekeep: EWP
Mar Sara: SUY

Protectorates:
Tellia: SDP

Malarboria:
Amarr: SDP

Under the name, Socialist Alliance of Shireroth (SAS), they will field candidates in Brookshire, Lywall, Brookshire, Suthergold, Ynnraile, Elsyran, Lunaris, Nackholm, Hawshire-Dura, Zy-Rodun, Crowsilver, and Puritania, on an agreed programme of:

– Community servitude to have a time limit of a ratio 1:1 for imprisonment
– AN end to the selling and buying of community servants and loyal subjects
– End of loyal subjecthood
– Citizenship for denizens
– Nationalization of conglomerates with a licence to perform government authority
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noted!

as is the northen conference jack deals with
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A Statement from the
Chairwoman of the Nationalist & Humanist Party

23.XIII.1660


The Nationalist & Humanist Party, including its regional parties and affiliates, notes with disgust the shameful conduct of the Verionist Union and the Ayreonist Independence Party in joining the sorry spectacle of the Butcheress of Agnesia's "Summit" of separatist forces held in Fieldberg. The mere act of attending lends legitimacy to the crazed Cimmerian war against the rest of Elwynn and the wider Imperial Republic. This treason transcends politics and strikes at the very core of our Imperial Republic.

Whatever may be said for the actions of the Southern League, their war is only against the Armin Clique in Eliria and their dispute is only with the judicial arrogance of the politicised Inquisition in Shirekeep. Their commitment to the unity of Elwynn and the Imperial Republic remains absolutely steadfast.

What a sorry contrast though the AIP offers under the leadership of the disgraced ex-count Arminzadeh - a man of no principle who precipitated this whole crisis through his treasonable correspondence with the Harald Entity in exile that very nearly saw our Kaiser abducted to Uppland and would have brought bloodshed to the lands of our Natopian ally if disaster had not been averted at the last moment. After seizing power from the dilettante prince, Armin and his Eliria Clique have displayed no initiative and instead seem content to hold on to Eliria Castle whilst the North slips into Anarchy. Only the 8th Army at Dragonskeep, loyal to the Army of the Southern League, holds the line against the Icebear fanatics and their motley band of collaborators.

And what a bunch they are. Verion, Lewis, Froughton. Throughout modern history these names have been associated over and over again with crimes against the State of Elwynn and the Imperial Republic. All their plentiful talk of libertarianism is but a mere front for this clique of robber barons who seek to carve away portions of our Benacian homeland for their own criminal enterprises! In each enclave that they would snatch you can be assured that the festering sore of an Iron Company would shortly afterwards emerge, overthrowing the correct social order and instead instituting a rapacious corporatism unbound by obligation or ideology and existing for no higher purpose than the enrichment of those same wretched families.

These then are the types that Horvarth Nozkar is content to break bread with. Can we be in any doubt that he would have taken this extraordinary step had he not the explicit sanction of the so-called Conducator himself to attend?

Citizens and Denizens of Shireroth! The Nationalist & Humanist Party will defend the hard won unity of this Imperial Republic, our common Benacian Homeland that guarantees life and liberty to the deserving, against the traitors, separatists, and corporate leeches who would seek to destroy it for no higher purpose than to sate their own wretched greed.

We will defend the lives and properties of all true-born and loyal sons and daughters of Our Imperial Republic, and inflict merciless retribution upon all who seek to defile it.

Reformists, naive and complacent, may preach to you about fairness and justice, but without order, hierarchy and obedience, there can in truth be none of these things.

The Nationalist and Humanist Party will defend the lawful and regulated institution of marriage against those who would reduce our population into decadence, sterility and decline.

The Nationalist and Humanist Party will increase employment by supporting the expansion of the Goldshire Wall to include Imperial Defensive Works covering Vijyanagara, Musica and the Southern Islands.

The Nationalist and Humanist Party will improve the security of our Imperial Republic by reaffirming our maritime alliance with Natopia and Constancia, by establishing non-aggression pacts with our Benacian neighbours, and by suppressing the upsurge in Laqi brigandage in the Inner Benacian Quarantine Zone.

Jobs for all, security at home, and supremacy abroad. All this we vow to deliver, and more.


- Isabella Simrani-Kalirion
Chairwoman of the Nationalist and Humanist Party
Vicereine of the Imperial Dominion of Jadid Khaz Modan

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entered into my stupid spreadsheet
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(All hail the stupid spreadsheet)


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A message targeted at the electorate in Malarboria and Brookshire, capitalising on recent reports from inner Benacia...

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