[[Peace] We Do Not Negotiate With Terrorists]

Lol. We've always been at peace with FEAR

[[MDoAP] Res Publica Accords]

Congrats. This has been a busy week!

[UPN: The Lavender Years [birthday]]

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So many things there were, you forgot the Purple Gecko.

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

[UPN: The Lavender Years [birthday]]

 

 

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!

 

 

[[DoE] The Monsters are back in town]

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Am I reading this right that only UPN and Fark are in this so called bloc?

Members are FARK, Federation, UPN & USN

[UPN announces yet another election result]

Awesome, happy days 💜

[Commodities]

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.

[[DOE] Independent Republic of Orange Nations (IRON)]

On 1/25/2021 at 5:36 AM, Kurdanak said:

Welcome! It would be neat to see IRON (as well as other old CN communities) really get established here and properly adapt to P&W. Great opportunity for a fresh start as well, if needed. I don't know of the events of CN past 2013 in the slightest, but with NPO being non-existent here and any sympathy for them being mercilessly stamped out (and rightfully so), I'm not too concerned about that type of conduct making a resurgence from any cross-over alliances. Best of luck in bringing more players over to the game!

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

[[DOE] Independent Republic of Orange Nations (IRON)]

Welcome to Orbis. Glad you finally made it

[expandable treaty web & adding filters]

Because it's interesting

 

[Don't Look Back In Anger (DoE)]

Ahh, what wondrous tidings it is to find this sweet, sweet oasis in amongst these harsh desert lands!

[Final communication from the Covenant]

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

 

[The Treaty of Curacao UPN-GUR MDoAP [Treaty]]

Things change

[The Treaty of Curacao UPN-GUR MDoAP [Treaty]]

 

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

[Plum News (New UPN Charter and Government)]

 

 

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

[[Treaty] The All Roads Lead to Winterfell Accords]

Ave Legio

Also, good to see classic and well-written treaty texts are back in fashion

 

[A Snake's Tale: Surrender, Booze, and Peace]

Congrats everyone on a hard fought war, it's been fun. Personal admiration goes out to House Stark for some well-timed counter attacks early on it the war

[[DoW] And So We Ride to War...]

Enjoy your war

 

[End of Hostilities between TCW Sphere and Hedge/Swamp]

Thanks for the wars, short-lived but enjoyable

[Terminal Jest grand reveal: The war expands.]

I'm glad that's finally cleared up, it'd been eating into my conscience too long!

[The Legion DoE]

Been a long time since I've seen that name. Ave Legio and Purple Love

[Important ODN Announcement]

God, I love you citrus flavoured guys so much. Enjoy your war!

 

[Something big is happening...]

3 hours ago, Infice said:

They should merge with NPO actually. The NPO-UPN treaty is arguably the turning point which brings UPN to where they are now.

In a land far far away...something...about...karma

[Something big is happening...]

Was warned away from coming back to Orbis because apparently wars were no fun, but I don't know, seem ok to me. Game just needs more of them.

[Shows over. Go home.]

11 hours ago, Sir Scarfalot said:

Whale ? hello there

Whale ? said!