Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on June 12, 2025, 05:09:58 PM

Quote from: King Txec on June 06, 2025, 09:47:57 AMWell we can hardly fault them for assumed names as we all use them also.

With respect your Majesty, no we don't. Most of us (not all) use Talossan-language translations of our real names. Proinsias de Rossa, whose name on his birth certificate was Frank Ross, was *not* using an assumed name.

This is kind of a point of honour for me, as I consider it one of the distinguishing features of Talossa from an RPG.

Yes, that was what I ineloquently was trying to say.

-Txec R

I take my role as chief diplomat seriously and both myself, the Minister and Deputy Minister are involved in the talks with the King of Carcosa and his chief ministers. I am the one who initiated contact. When I acceded I was asked by the Seneschal to embark on a good will tour of other nations and so that is what I've done. Carcosa, however, contacted me first. I reached out, and here we are.

There is nothing secret except that during diplomatic negotiations, not everything is public. Frankly, they had some really zany ideas and some good ones. I think both sides are eager and perhaps I am over-eager here. I would love to see this succeed, but it's not nefarious. No one here really has any experience in diplomacy so I think we are being extra careful not to screw things up.

-Txec R

I don't think it's a secret, I just don't think we've had time to bring it forward yet. They proposed a joint space agency as one idea. Another idea that hasn't been fleshed out was joint athletic competitions. I also proposed that during our next TCAT they could possibly participate.

-Txec R

I've been "unorphaning" pages on the Wiki, but there are a few pages that are in the Law namespace (or should be) and only the Scribe can "unorphan".



-Txec R

After consulting with El Coletx d'Armeux Rexhital, I have posted a new House Law for the House of Nordselva. If you are interested, feel free to view it on the wiki here.

-REH

Given the level of discomfort with this proposed opportunity, I plan on notifying Max that Talossa will politely decline the offer. While I did find this an interesting opportunity and hoped we'd be able to explore it more, I admit to being disappointed at the same time. Talossa, in my opinion, needs non-political and creative things to do if we hope to draw new, active citizens and bring back some of our old friends as well. I'll keep looking out for new ideas and I hope others will as well.

-Txec R

I read (well listened) to the first two books. I enjoyed them but don't really remember why I stopped except my interest probably was grabbed by another book. I do like RC Bray as a narrator also.

-Txec R

That's a good amount of citizens. I've been saying all along there was more than one guy haha.

-Txec R

I find it fascinating you have people living in a real territory. Talossa started in that way also, except we never actually "owned" the land we claimed with the exception of our first King's actual house.

-Txec R

I'm curious why this wasn't an issue during the last census when you were the Seneschal but it seems like an issue now. I'm not casting any aspersions, but it does seem as if you might be looking for an issue when there really isn't much of one. Frankly, if this is really a big deal, we should just remove the religion question entirely if we really are making those of other faiths uncomfortable.

However, any data analyst will tell you that data must be consistent for it to mean anything, so changing the questions between censuses will give wrong conclusions. Of course, did we actually do anything at all with the data from the last census? The only effect I think it had in practice was maintenance of the citizenship rolls.

-Txec R

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on June 09, 2025, 11:31:49 AM

Quote from: King Txec on June 09, 2025, 10:22:33 AM

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on June 08, 2025, 07:48:45 PMOne suggestion: we might want to remove the denominational options for Christianity and Islam.

There are many in the Christian religions who would consider a protestant as NOT a Christian and many who would consider a Catholic as NOT a Christian. I'm unsure if the same thing applies to Suni and Shia in Islam or not. I see no issue with keeping this distinction and I don't think it was an issue during the last census.

-Txec R

As someone who was raised catholic and recalls protestants claiming we were not real christians I am not sure  that this is something we want to accommodate, King. You are probably not intending to suggest that but your example brought forward that immediate experience from my childhood. We should either add distinctions for the other religions (Judaism has reform, orthodox, reconstructionist, conservative, etc.) and (Buddhism has theravada, mahayana, and vajrayana. Or we should remove them for all for the purposes of a non-preferential standard as a global nation.

I have similar experiences so I can empathize. I was simply pointing my understanding of things. If this is simplified or made more complex, I'm sure a consensus can be reached.

-Txec R

Some questions should be mandatory. At the very least, each option might simply include "decline to state".

-Txec R

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on June 08, 2025, 07:48:45 PMOne suggestion: we might want to remove the denominational options for Christianity and Islam.

There are many in the Christian religions who would consider a protestant as NOT a Christian and many who would consider a Catholic as NOT a Christian. I'm unsure if the same thing applies to Suni and Shia in Islam or not. I see no issue with keeping this distinction and I don't think it was an issue during the last census.

-Txec R

Yes.

-Txec R

Questions from MC's regarding the treaty:

• What are some of their interesting ideas for joint projects?  Could they interact with us in some way and tell us about them?
  
  
• They're a small community that lives on their territory -- where is that territory?  How many people?
  
  
• Hastyr Aldebaran is an assumed name (again, taken from the book) and the other name on this treaty has initials.  Their website doesn't say anything about anyone else.  It's almost entirely about their form of government, but who is the "Mandator," who is in their four (!) houses of legislature, who is on their Supreme Court, who is in the "Yellow Reserve," etc?