Altheus

United Sovereigh Nations ehh? It's likely you don't know the history behind that name. All the best anyway :)

Agree with all of that. Having non-discord members isn't for every alliance.

Politics aside (fat chance), if a group of people are leveraging their access to discord to manipulate people who don't have access to discord, then that deserves to be condemned. Not least because if you take it to its logical conclusion and it's allowed, they'll be pressure on every alliance to manipulate non-discord members harder than their competitors to squeeze out an advantage. Which could get grim really quick. Besides, it's a pretty crappy move. Because being unable to get on discord shouldn't mean that you can't get to enjoy Orbis. It's like voice on high at the start of political simulators intoned "thow are worthless if thowst dost not do discord!" It's nonsense. It'd be better for the community if everyone got the chance to get involved as much as they want to. Non-discord nations can still fight, build their nations, have opinions, trade, roleplay with others and do any number of other things than interest them. For the record the alliance I'm in doesn't accept non-discord members and that wouldn't be my choice, but it's ok as long as they are alliances that do and do so because they want them to take part in their alliance and not to manipulate them.

Best of luck, good to see some none-English language centric alliances again

Charismatic declaration of war. Although forced mergers leaves a sour note

Depends on the vodka but seems legit. If Fear start wading into the war smashed we'll know what happened

That's it Kev. Enjoy some pina colada on the beech whilst the bombs go down. After all, it's only Johnsons and the fighting is miles away

Congrats on 6 years

Seriously Kev, aren't we both a bit old to be puffing out our chests

Interesting thought, especially from someone sat on vacation mode for the next 115 turns. Not a fan of fighting or only when other people do it?

just out of curiosity how much did Fear cost?

Lol. We've always been at peace with FEAR

Congrats. This has been a busy week!

Apologies, I'll bring a nice big bag of roasted insects for our little chirpy lilac lizard to make up for it

Fashionably late UPN recently had it’s 15-birthday party, which makes it as old as iPhones, hashtags and my two daughters. 15 years of wars, words, Barney the dinosaur, Kevin the squid, ribenaberries and a helluva lot of Purple Loving. Hopefully along the way we’ve had enough misdemeanors, crises and maybe even some fluffy, good times to entertain both ourselves, our enemies and frenemies and have contributed to making online text-based political simulators a more interesting and definitely more Purple place. What is Purple? Who knows. A warm, fuzzy feeling inside brought upon by drinking too much wine? A collection of internet warriors with ultra violet tendencies? A family of the weird and bizarre who are Purple, because…Purple? Either way Purple is what Purple does and I’ve dedicated my 15 years of tapping away at online political simulators to try and achieve Apex Purple, whatever that might be. By dedicated I mean taking the credit year after year in which far more talented people than myself have actually run UPN, whilst I’ve sat back and enjoyed varying states of inactivity. At this point, and over three different games, naming every single person who has made UPN what it is would be madness, so thank you to everyone that has and here is a roll of honour to everyone who has officially headlined UPN over the years. Planet Bob: 2007-2010 Altheus (i.e. actually Keyring_Killer, Shade, Hansarius, Magister and others) 2010-2011 Peggy_Sue (the Period of Tumult, bless her wherever she may me) 2011 The 1st Triumvirate: Robster, Kevanovia & Altheus 2011-2013 The 2nd Triumvirate: Robster, Tecumseh & Altheus 2013-2016 Seuwp Lunar Wars: Cora & Altheus Planet Orbis: 2014-2015 Hansarius 2015-2016 Emmad 2016-2017 Pangui 2017-2021 Matt2004 2021-2022 Hansarius 2022 onwards Cora Here’s to fifteen years more at which point we’ll probably all be living in VR Altheus, Founder of the United Purple Nations Also, help yourself to some cake!

Members are FARK, Federation, UPN & USN

Awesome, happy days 💜

Honestly, it's a terrible idea. We've been here before with Cybernations trade circles and all it does in that game is generate a lot of stress for the poor sucker in each alliance that ends up having to organise them. They're just simply not fun and will do nothing other than widen the gap between haves and have nots.

Yep i agree with that. Although a lot of alliances once big enough to be sanctioned in CN have already made an appearance in Orbis at some point. UPN, WTF, Fark, Polaris (NpO), GATO, R&R, Legion and now IRON are all here and ODN, VE, Ragnarok, GPA, GOONS & NPO have in the past. That's also not including any communities which have come across in all but name, of which there have been many

Welcome to Orbis. Glad you finally made it

Because it's interesting

All the best to you Commonwealth in the future, you've got some good people

Things change

The Greater Unitary Republic have been one of UPN's longest standing protectorates and have grown fantastically well over the last few months. Therefore we jointly felt that it was only right that we acknowledge the changing relationship between our two alliances and upgrade our previous protectorate arrangement to the following funky new MDoAP Treaty of Curacao Preamble By signing this document, all the signatory alliances agree to the articles stated below and enter into this agreement with full knowledge of its contents. Article I - Article of Non-Aggression Neither alliance shall engage in hostile actions against the other. Hostile actions are defined as assaults, declarations of war and acts of espionage. Both alliances also agree to not engage in hostile actions against any alliance that either alliance is obliged to defend, unless they are doing so due to a mandatory outside treaty. Article II – Article of Intelligence & Communication Both alliances will share any intelligence that is to the benefit of the other alliances wellbeing. This includes intended new mutual defense treaties with third parties. Article III - Article of Mutual Defense If either signatory is attacked by a foreign party, the other is obligated to immediately offer military and financial assistance. If the attack was the result of the defender having declared war on another alliance, then this article is optional. Article IV – Article of Optional Aggression If either alliance declares war then the other alliance has the option to also declare war on the same target. Article V - Article of Withdrawal Section 1) 120 hours of notice must be given to the other alliance before Article II, II & IV can be dissolved. After this period Article I remains in place for another 30 days. Signatures- The signatures below immediately enter this document as alliance law and materialize the good relations that exist between the alliances that have signed below. Once entered into law, it shall remain there until it is dissolved through the process detailed in Article V. The Greater Unitary Republic President: Pegleg Vice President: Luis I of Brazil Secretary of State: Padisah Abdulhamid Secretary of War: Sir_Kotsos Secretary of the Treasury: Omen Khan Secretary of the Interior: Marcus Liddell Secretary of Trade and Commerce: Generic The United Purple Nations Prime Minister: Hansarius Chief of Staff: Noreen Minister of Internal Affairs: Matt Minister of Foreign Affairs: Cora Minister of Finance: Axley Minister of Defense: Sealteam Minister of Communications: Altheus

New UPN Charter and Government UPN has been through a lot of changes recently, old members coming back, new city & project building programme taking place, new directions and foreign policies, but perhaps the biggest change is little known in that we have recently changed our charter and government structure to place the alliance in the care of a democratically elected Senate, who will serve for 6 month periods and are in charge of appointing a new Prime Minister and Ministers of the alliance (including from their own number) Elections took place between Christmas and New Year and the newly elected 1st Senate of the United Purple Nations Republic is as follows: Matt2004, SirgogobeanS, Sealteam6, Noreen, Hansarius, Cameron Axley & Altheus The Senate then set about immediately appointing the new UPN government for the New Year. As of today it's my pleasure to announce the new UPN government that will be working together to further the alliance, it's allies and protectorates interests. Hansarius: Prime Minister Noreen: Deputy Prime Minister Matt2004: Minister of Internal Affairs CoraMcstrap: Minister of Foreign Affairs Cameron Axley: Minister of Finance Sealteam6: Minister of Defense Altheus: Minister of Communications Jared95: Deputy Minister of Finance CoraMcstrap: Deputy Minister of Defense Sirgogobeans: Deputy Minister of Communications (Entertainment and Gaming) Alliance Elders: Altheus, Hansarius, Matt2004, Jared95 & Malichy Congratulations to all and also a big thank you to Matt for guiding the alliance as Prime Minister for so long. Hansarius was actually our very first Prime Minister from when Politics and War started, so it's back-to-the-future. Upwards and onwards! Ribenaberries forever, Altheus