Bring Me Up to Speed

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Feh, centrism.

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And by the way, I've heard legends of your past involvement, Colin. I look forward to seeing you here with my own eyes.

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Atlasia went through an activity boom in your absence, but things have receded again to the way they were in 2008. There's only two parties with actual organization; one is the JCP and the other is the Romans. The DA, although it holds the Presidency, is highly disorganized. It reminds me of the NLC. The RPP was a major force in the game for over a year and renamed itself the Progressive Conservative Party and then went supernova and is now the AFL-CIO or something and is a nonfactor. afleitch is President (he beat Bacon King), but the JCP dominates the Senate still, and could probably beat any candidate except afleitch. Three regions have elective legislatures (the Northeast's is ridiculously large). The JCP owns the Pacific, the Romans the Northeast, the DA the Mideast, and the Midwest is the Midwest. Amusingly, the Southeast may be the most interesting region of them all. Anti-regionalism is a dead letter; the forces of chaos have won.

Also, I was banned for five months and now everyone likes me. I was even Governor of the Southeast for a while.

Definitely seems chaotic, though, to be honest, I pretty much knew when I left that the JCP would become the dominant force for a while. Too bad to see centralism has become dead letter. Thanks for the update though.

Out of the people who joined since your departure, pretty much all have declared themselves to be for "regional rights".

Hey! *angryface*

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Definitely seems chaotic, though, to be honest, I pretty much knew when I left that the JCP would become the dominant force for a while. Too bad to see centralism has become dead letter. Thanks for the update though.

Out of the people who joined since your departure, pretty much all have declared themselves to be for "regional rights".

Hey! *angryface*

Well, you were at one point yourself. Remember?

I was young. I've since denounced my old regionalist self.

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We're pretty split on it, I think. The old-JCP win still mostly regionalist, the new-JCP wing more tilted towards centralist sentiments.

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Also looks like the Southeast and Northeast almost started a war against the Pacific about a month ago and regions are using their militias like personal armies. Hell, Atlasia's turned into the US under the Articles of Confederation, I kinda had an inkling that would happen, well either that or the President would get wise to the fact that he basically has unlimited power under the Second Constitution.

Uh, the Northeast never "almost started a war against the Pacific". Where are you getting that information?

Maybe not the Northeast but I did read, from just a quick perusal of the last few months, that the Southeast signed a law stating that they wanted to deport violent criminals to the Pacific, the Pacific closed their borders, militias were called out, the Northeast might have gotten involved, I'm not really sure. If I have the events wrong, please tell me, I'm just trying to get a jist of whats been going on around here.

As someone who managed to call national attention to the issue after days of complacency, I can say the Northeast was a hop, skip, and a jump away from siding with the Southeast. They weren't outright marshaling forces, but they were about to pass what amounted to a economic war with us by banning everything from the Pacific from being sold in the Northeast. It was basically support for the Southeast in their efforts to harm us.

Just an fyi, Colin. The Populares are largely a group of ill-repute, even among non-Populares right wingers. There's a long, long history behind it, but just tread carefully when dealing with them.

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Disclaimer for Colin: Silent spade is a proxy user, last I was informed.

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You're pro-civil war, NCY. I know.