Mr Director

Do you have a military? Yes Does the army have any extensions (air force, coast guard, etc.)? ​​The separate branches of the military are: The Sumatran Army The Sumatran Air Force The Sumatran Navy What does your military do when not at war? Training, regime protection, counter-terrorism, maintaining the security of territorial waters and airspace, some search and rescue or engineering applications. How large is your military? ​ Yuge Can women serve? Yes How old must you be to serve? 18 years old Is there a draft, and how does it work? 3 years mandatory military service, with regular mandatory training exercises afterwards. Applies to all able bodied citizens over 18. Do those who serve receive financial compensation? Yes.

Classified The world was an unstable, dangerous place, a place where one could only survive by seeing anything and everything. With this thought in mind, the Sumatran Air Force would begin to look for ways to establish a space agency, mainly intended for the operation of reconnaissance satellites. Actually creating such an agency, let alone the satellites, would probably take some time, so, the Sumatrans would get to work.

"Greetings native and future subject of Her Majesty, I present to this gift of a smallpox blanket. Bugger off now."

Assuming that this last bit is in reference to the proposal that wars be decided by popular vote... None of this really addresses the fact that such a system would pretty much turn wars into a purely OOC affair. Because, ultimately, what someone posts in a war would become largely irrelevant, all that matters is whether one is well liked enough to get votes. I could go and type up a couple lines saying that I'm invading someone, and pretty much autowin so long as I can get enough folks to back me OOC. At that point, none of the IC politics or actions matter, all that is relevant is whether one is liked OOC.

Harsh. I think I'll take the current system over trying to make this entire rp some kinda popularity contest, be it the community deciding, or the mods. There is no objective way to determine post quality, and I'd rather not have to worry about whether or not my war posts will be appealing to whoever happens to be voting on them.

Uh, no, it just encourages people to vote for their friend. Most popular player wins everything. And that's just silly.

So, basically, you want wars to be some kinda popularity contest, with the community practically voting on which post they like more to see who wins?

Classified Noting that Sumatra was seemingly surrounded by all manner of strange people, the Sumatran government would promptly and secretly restart the failed nuclear, chemical, and bioweapons programs that had been run under the previous Communist administration. Former communist scientists would be rounded up and put back to work for the glory of Sumatra!

Roundabout 25-30 folks, with varying activity.

A letter of thanks would be sent in response. "No." "No."

"You must be thinking of someone else... but, uh, sure, I guess?" - A somewhat puzzled President Soeharto, who, in fact, is not the same person as the former President Suharto who used to rule Indonesia a long long time ago.

​Leader Name: President Muhammed "Whiskeyjack" Soeharto Nation Name: The Republic of Sumatra Sources: Real life Indonesia, I guess? And the Malazan Book of the Fallen.

Yeap, this still exists. Bet ya never saw that coming.

Just sayin', if y'all wanna lift the consent rule for war and let this be a free for all warfest, there should probably be, like, some set of rules for how wars will work and whatnot. At least, I haven't seen such anywhere yet...

Internal The Sumatran Armed Forces Commander Muhammed "Whiskeyjack" Soeharto was having a lovely day. Maimun Palace was in ruins, turned out that coups were bloodier than they looked on TV. But, it had been a necessary affair, as far as he was concerned. For, the filthy communists who had formerly ruled the country had finally been toppled, and their place could now rise a proper government... under the guidance of the military, of course. And so, one report after another filtered in, as the military established its control around the country. It was time, for an announcement. Public "The Democratic People's Republic of Sumatra is no more. The Republic of Sumatra now exists. That is all."