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VICTORY! The phrase could be heard echoing around Oceania. The conflict with the forces of Roasis Inc had concluded. Big Brother had – however – convinced the citizens of Oceania that war had never happened. But we all know the true story. Oceania had fought side by side with The Order during the conflict, each earning the respect of the other. After further discussion both parties were decided to be better united then apart. TL:DR: It is with this information that we announce Oceania is merging into The Order. Until further notice all nations in Oceania and its extensions / offshores are under protection of The Order.

Editor's Note: Our mission to catch up to Kev in total number of merges continues Also I love posting in the middle of the night for most players, makes it that more exciting in the morning

Rip to all the new members who will be condemned to be c11 forever.

Jokes on you, I'm a night owl. 😂

Oceania is a farrrrrrrrr better theme. Star Wars

What's the The Order's theme anyway?

As it is tradition, the Grand Imperial Federation. We just reached top 75 and are climbing higher. If you would like to discuss treaties just message one of the leaders. We counter all raids for ourselves and our allies, so attackers beware. Long Live the Grand Imperial Federation! (obligatory link: https://politicsandwar.com/alliance/id=8649)

Oceania is part of the Order. Oceania has always been part of the Order.

Congrats on promotion Ryks

For a long time we didnt have any DoE. Than yk RIE did it. And now its a trickle down effect. Next micro to post a DoE im nuking

You guys need to cut out all this upper tier consolidation.

Was fun being Oceania gov. Good luck to the bois, have fun and good luck. Love ya'll. We're unmerging. They missed out on this opportunity...

Oceania doesn’t exist. Oceania has never existed. 😪

oh wow, This is unexpected, @TuggerGood luck, I'll have hopes that you'll reform Oceania one day, Missed my old pals

Congratulations on the merger. Good luck y’all!

Congratz and Good Luck.

Yup her kindness and admiration for micros has started a movement. She's a champion of the little people. Micros all around Orbis look to her for love and guidance with the correct assumption that she'll embrace them all regardless of their flaws. I'm so touched.

Our news outlet will be covering events within the Orbis World, we represent an unbiased look into these occurrences. In no way does this reflect/is endorsed by our alliance. We opened this news room out of a love for all things P&W. Our first news article will be an interview with Pope Innocent lll, of the Papal States. He is the leader of a new and upcoming micro, Bombardier. The following is the interview: KingThrokk: 1) What made your alliance decide to make a public DOE at such an early stage? 1b) Did it go how you expected? Pope Innocent lll: 1) I did it to make a point. To show that there’s an alternative to raiding or joining a bigger alliance and becoming a debt slave, that collective action can overcome all. 1b. Yes, I expected the backlash. KingThrokk: 2) As a micro without a protectorate, what are your plans going forward to protect potential members/applicants? Pope Innocent lll: 2) We currently have an MDP with the USSR. KingThrokk: 3) Given that your alliance strictly forbids raiding, how do you plan on growing newer members effectively? Pope Innocent lll: 3) We gain revenue through commerce, infrastructure and command economics. We protect these assets with strong naval power. Having access to the global trade market is key. KingThrokk: 4) In your DOE you mentioned “uniting all micros”, is it your alliances wish to eventually get other micros their sovereignty? Pope Innocent lll: 4) Yes, we seek to give micros an out, so they can break the cycle or raiding, debt and poverty. So that they can become the masters of their own destiny. KingThrokk: 5) Finally, is there anything you wish for the people of Orbis to know about you or your alliance? Pope Innocent lll: 5) Yes, I want them to know that we are a peaceful alliance, we want to grow and bring back the old ways of commerce living in peaceful coexistence with all other alliances and nations. This concludes the interview with Pope Innocent lll of Bombardier, all parties have consented to the interview and its’ public release.

Just because it may not be profitable for you to produce food, does not mean it's not profitable to produce food. Larger nations, especially ones with large amounts of land, gain a large profit from food sales. The general concept is that resource production is good for smaller nations. Mixing in refinement gets better as you get a little bigger and perhaps some projects to aid in refining rates Food is where it's at for large nations.

for a alliance called The Grand Imperial Federation. this DoE isn't that grand

Did @Zei-Sakura Alsainn 's DoE make so many people think "hm, micros can exist with no worry" without realising we're C20-30 range of experienced players with a treaty?

Disband

Good luck, but please try and find some actual experienced people and absorb advice like a sponge. Solo micro alliance days are long gone now.

Blankie Gang Declares its Existence And cordially invites the many people who will downvote or have some sort of problem with this to peruse our brand new complaint department! As you can see, it's nothing but shelves upon shelves of travel brochures and coupons and maps! All of which will be of incredible utility to you, and your upcoming journey to travel the globe, looking high and low, west and east, far and near, in the mountains and the oceans, the skies and the tunnels - for someone, ANYONE, who gives the slightest flying hippo !@#$ about whatever it was you thought you were going to say! Anyway i was supposed to write a fancy charter and crap because anarcho-collectivist structure to contrast arrgh's anarcho-individualism but then work decided "Hey you're being laid off but have a week of full nights now!" so i was too tired to be bothered doing anything. So uh, blah blah direct democracy blah blah fancy government and recall crap blah blah econ/raid mode blah blah blah blah etc etc. "But Sakura this sounds like alot of stuff i, and you at one point would consider really stupid!" Yep. "And also its probably dumb as shit and won't work when written out, probably the dumbest thing i've ever heard!" Dumbest thing you've ever heard? Really? Ain't never heard yaself talk? Granted yourself that courtesy but not the rest of us? Aight we see how it is. We, whole ass world, we see. We get ya. Good to know where we stand. We real glad about it! Real glad! We glad. "Sakura, is this just you attempting to make up for a lack of total substance due to procrastination by having an attitude?" Sure is, thats how few !@#$ i give anymore you see, which is why i decided to make the most random experimental thing ever because i figured, !@#$ it, whats the worst thats gonna happen, it's me, the worst to you people is a thursday evening in my world. Should be a fun ball of fire to die in. Anyway uhhhh whatever here's a treaty thing! Cooler than yours is. You don't have art exchanges, and thats why your treaties are boring and sad. Be jealous. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q2rkFbrQW4ynpTQv9LTC7GdoceK7h57TN7FrrpqRuLo/edit?usp=sharing That's all folks, hey look something RON didn't know about 2 weeks prior! Yeah i know, people can still do that today? Guess so. !@#$ outta my hood now. This DOE signed by: Zei-Sakura Alsainn, BrythonLexi, Solar, Cynder Also Bird says watch Reservoir Dogs.

In places like the war timeline, banking, revenue page, nation stockpile toolbar, trading page, data visualization page, project page cost info, military unit cost/consumption info, city improvements page... the order that each resource appears in is inconsistent. It would be more professional looking and user friendly to just pick one order and stick with it across the whole game. The trading and data visualization page in particular seems really random, but the fact that the resources appear in different order on the war timeline page (loot taken vs resources consumed) should be cleaned up too.

bro what

Says wants to be peaceful. Smack talks all the bigger alliances. I don’t think they really want to be peaceful.

Oceania has never existed. Oceania will always exist.

The sword is the only thing in the flag that looks like it and the name "The Order" but that could be like a MacDondalds Nuggie order or sumthing But tbqh, it looks more like someone loved this car

oops, 155

no need to be toxic. who knows. Good luck, and welcome to orbis GIF!

wrong number jaden

In-game Communication All forms of in-game communication, including but not limited to, messaging, war declaration reasons, alliance announcements, leader, city, or nation names, and nation and alliance descriptions must be appropriate. Vulgar language, mean comments, N azism or N azi related names and titles, Terrorist organizations related names and titles etc. are not allowed and will result in your nation receiving a strike.

Zephyr writing and proofreading a forum response. 2021. Colorized.

"We're a peaceful alliance." Well, Orbis isn't a peaceful place.

Enjoyable war, thanks for the laughs.

You know, i think we should have baseball cards. We have baseball already, why not 😛

Better idea, if your going to have gacha mechanics at least add the waifus to go with them.

its cute that you think you are a whale...

IKR, right? Those purple blankie elitists think they're so great...

Since we need some drama in this thread. Can you expand on what you mean by love, this, luck, and guys.

wraps sakura in blankie

Fun war everyone!

I actually fought against TKR in Knightfall as well. They did a lot of damage given how outnumbered they were and put up a great fight even though they did end up losing. Dogpiles usually don't turn out too well for the side being dogpiled (go figure). Really makes you think how this war ended so quickly and with such little resistance.

We’re going to hollywood The Knights Radiant had just finished its last ride with their old friends The Syndicate, and were on the road, on their way to hollywood - they had always aspired to be actors. In the car with them, was The Order, who honestly didn’t want the hard life of a star in hollywood, but wanted to live in a big city. While on the road, TKR had to stop for gas, and met Black Knights, whom they had known in the past as a mutual friend of The Syndicate. “Where are you headed?” asked TKR. To which BK replied, “I don’t know, where are you going?” “Hollywood!” “Can I come?” And that is how TKR, TO and BK started their journey to hollywood. After a few hours of driving, they decided to go eat dinner. While at dinner, they met a group of Grumpy Old Bastards who were singing a song. TKR wandered over and asked if they thought about going to hollywood. “Well, we haven’t thought about it, but maybe we would like it”. TKR then said, “come with us!” And before long, what started as a nice drive between two friends had become a group. Further down the road, they decided to stay at a hotel, each checking into a separate room. But in the morning, when it was time to get Grumpy out of bed, TKR was stunned to see someone else in bed with them. Guardian, who happened to also be on the way to Hollywood, had enjoyed a nice night of - fun with Grumpy, Grumpy decided to invite them to join the ever growing group on their way to hollywood. Before checking out of the hotel, TKR had some work to do on their computer. That is when their screen started flashing, then turned black with a red figure in the center, under it saying “Error… 404”. TKR had been hacked! They decided they should just take the computer with them to Hollywood and see if someone there could fix it. After leaving the hotel, just down the road, they came across what appeared to be a cult, “oh the things you’ll see on the way to Hollywood” , said Guardian. Grumpy, being the curious type, decided to hop out and talk with the cult. As luck would have it, their name was Children of The Light, and they were on their way to Hollywood as well. While Grumpy was talking with the cult, BK - who had always loved dogs and hated cats - hopped out to look around, and stumbled across a cat. They were about to leave the cat, when they turned around to one of the cult members who said “That’s our pet cat, he has laser eyes, we call him Oblivion ''. By this time, CoTL had agreed to join their group on the way to hollywood. After a couple more hours of driving, they had finally arrived. TL:DR The Knights Radiant, Grumpy Old Bastards, Guardian, Error 404, Children of The Light, The Order, Black Knights, and Oblivion join forces into Hollywood sphere. Oh, and by the way, we declare war on Rose and their affiliates.

Bloody Ayyslamists. Have fun!

It is with great sadness that I have to inform of the most recent death to the Orbis community. About a month or two ago a member of Terminus Est's high gov, Stavros Cassadine, told us that he had been diagnosed with cancer. In addition to this, he was also battling a heart condition. Recently, his condition severely worsened and he had to go through multiple surgeries, all of which had complications. Nonetheless, like the fighter I knew he was, he came through these operations and just before Christmas came off the ventilator. However, while recovering post-op, he caught Covid-19. This unfortunately he did not survive from. He was a fantastic face to have around our discord and was a great friend to myself and others. I know that all those who knew him will agree with me that he will be missed dearly within our community. Rest in peace Stav. https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=214086 (For your information there is a family member on his account which is the reason he may drift in and out of activity)

Thank you, that is a great idea. I will get started working on this.

Most of us are people who are able to see and interact with websites visually. When we look at the Edit Nation page, for example, we are able to see that the form inputs have their respective labels to the left of them, so we are fairly able to see what the purpose of each input is. People using assistive technology like screen readers, however, depend on the labels for form inputs being set programmatically, as without visuals, they aren't able to make that kind of connection themselves. Just today we had a user in the Discord help channel asking for help as he wasn't able to find the Custom Description input as was directed to him by one of the game objectives. There's a fairly low-effort way to improve the accessibility here. The most basic way to do this would be to wrap each input label with the <label> tag, using a for attribute that points to the id attribute of its respective input. For example, using the Nation Title input, we'd use code like this: <label for="nation-title">Nation Title:</label> <input id="nation-title" type="text" name="nattitle" value="Blast!" placeholder="The Kingdom of" style="width:100%;"> Notice how the values for the for and id attributes are identical. That's how the browser is able to report to assistive technology that the label is associated with the input. Now, there's plenty more that can be done to improve accessibility site-wide, but I just wanted to make a post about a quick win that could help users who depend on screen readers to interact with the web. One bonus with this, is that browsers automatically focus the input when the user clicks the label, so everybody wins with this kind of improvement.