Quote from: þerxh Sant-Enogat on June 29, 2025, 11:13:44 AMI hope you'd be ok if your arms appear in the non epilepsy-friendly gif I've used

I'd slow it down actually.

Quote from: þerxh Sant-Enogat on June 29, 2025, 12:04:02 PMThe 2025 Euro-Haxh will take place in August!

As much as I wish that I could go there I will be visiting family, we don't really have money to go anywhere else than Poland anyway.

The 2025 Euro-Haxh will take place in August! If you happen to be present near our most beautiful island, contact me for the organisation of this early Talossan history pilgrimage.

Below some images of the 2023 visit:
https://youtu.be/YJ-qWx0zxaM?si=8a8F3j4soytiaqMM

All info on
The Royal Tourist Office of the Island of Cézembre,

Wow very nice!

and today, an invitation to all fans of Heraldry to discover our Royal College of Arms, on X/Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram, Threads, Linkedin, Reddit (r/Heraldry and r/Micronations) and Facebook.
I hope you'd be ok if your arms appear in the non epilepsy-friendly gif I've used

El C'hlub Saxhitourófil should be archived. It has been nearly two years since the last post was made there.

@Sir Lüc , I have some requests about how Wittenberg can be organized to be less intimidating to newcomers.

I'd like to request that the boards for La Società Talossan dal Siensiă-ficziun, del Fantasieu es del Wiski, Fora Talossa, El C'hlub Saxhitourófil, and el Cußeglh del Futbol Talossan be placed as subboards under a "Clubs" board, similar to the current setup for "Political Parties." 

I'd also request an "Archived" board with the two archived boards as subboards under that.

I'd also like to request that the two Ziu boards be put as subboards under "The Lobby."

I'd also like to request the deletion of the Funziun and Forziuns Armeschti boards, with their contents moved to under "The Lobby" as well.

Currently, we have thirty top-level boards.  These changes would reduce that to twenty-two, making things at least slightly more manageable and less intimidating.  Most of these boards are only needed by people with special roles who will go looking for them, and some aren't needed at all.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on June 28, 2025, 08:09:23 PMI just realised that this debate is happening on your Party's forum. Sorry, I didn't realise, I usually wouldn't go into someone's house and tell them they're talking nonsense. I'm going to respond, but feel free to tell me to move it elsewhere if it's not appropriate.

It's okay, since we're already discussing, but I appreciate the thought :)  Typically discussing it elsewhere would be my preference, but also I'm happy to post a clean version of this policy page in the future.  Not a big deal.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on June 28, 2025, 08:09:23 PMBut the central point remains: you know perfectly well, though you are using rhetorical trickery to bury it, that Talossa is getting more than enough citizenship applications. If we acknowledge that Government policy is currently suceeding in this regard, the next question is twofold:

- how to turn applicants into citizens?
- how to attract good quality applicants, who are actually interested in becoming active citizens?

It's clear that you actually understand the real problem, in that you're talking about reaching out to specific communities who might be interested in participating Talossan life. You give the example of heraldry nerds. So you agree that there are a specific *kind* of person we should be looking for. Fine. The Government has its own ideas on that regard. Opening the Landing Pier to broad micronational society is part of that.

The Government's interest in putting an end to spam applications which use ChatGPT essays is entirely of a piece with that. Face facts - no-one, not never who has produced an essay written with ChatGPT or whatever has ever gone on to successfully become a citizen. Not one. Because use of ChatGPT shows that they're not really interested in becoming part of our Talossan community. You really seem to think that we should let all kinds of spam entries through because spammers might decide to become citizens after participating. I disagree.

The central point is that immigration has plunged by almost 50% under this Government.  And while I suppose we might argue about whether policing essays made things worse, it kind of seems besides the point, since we still have the problem!

If a wall in our house is crumbling, then it might not have made any difference when the construction crew hung some shelves on it.  Doesn't make any sense to me to do that, but okay... in the end, does it really matter?  "We probably didn't make it worse" isn't much to brag about, and we still have a crumbling wall!

You're in charge, and you've dropped the ball: immigration levels have plummeted by almost half.

The people of Talossa deserve a government that sets this as a major priority, not one that has to be forced into thinking about the topic.  As I explained initially:  If this was a priority, what would we expect our Government to do?

Draw attention to the problem.  One of the most fundamental parts of leadership is helping to direct attention.  Since this is a serious crisis, and the Government has admitted they are at a loss, they should be shouting to the rooftops for help.  We have many citizens who pay only intermittent attention: perhaps one of them might have an idea.

Try new things.  The Government's signature policy on immigration was to make it harder to immigrate by barring any applicants with an essay of low quality.  This approach has rightfully been abandoned, but what has replaced it?  If we can't just advertise our "pile of garbage," then there must be other ideas.

We should be trying lots of things, since if we try nothing, we're certain to achieve exactly that: nothing.  Maybe we focus on our strengths with heraldry, and appeal to the online heraldic community?  Maybe we incentivize recruiting with awards, and publicize those awards with recorded video speeches?  Maybe we explore reaching out to former Old Growthers to invite them back?  Maybe we offer prizes for Talossan language writing, and then advertise those prizes on conlang forums?

Set goals.  The immigration rate has nearly halved during this Government's time in office.  Faced with that problem, a Government that was serious would set a goal for recovery.  An actual goal would demonstrate accountability.  It's much better than simply accepting decline.

I just realised that this debate is happening on your Party's forum. Sorry, I didn't realise, I usually wouldn't go into someone's house and tell them they're talking nonsense. I'm going to respond, but feel free to tell me to move it elsewhere if it's not appropriate.

But the central point remains: you know perfectly well, though you are using rhetorical trickery to bury it, that Talossa is getting more than enough citizenship applications. If we acknowledge that Government policy is currently suceeding in this regard, the next question is twofold:

- how to turn applicants into citizens?
- how to attract good quality applicants, who are actually interested in becoming active citizens?

It's clear that you actually understand the real problem, in that you're talking about reaching out to specific communities who might be interested in participating Talossan life. You give the example of heraldry nerds. So you agree that there are a specific *kind* of person we should be looking for. Fine. The Government has its own ideas on that regard. Opening the Landing Pier to broad micronational society is part of that.

The Government's interest in putting an end to spam applications which use ChatGPT essays is entirely of a piece with that. Face facts - no-one, not never who has produced an essay written with ChatGPT or whatever has ever gone on to successfully become a citizen. Not one. Because use of ChatGPT shows that they're not really interested in becoming part of our Talossan community. You really seem to think that we should let all kinds of spam entries through because spammers might decide to become citizens after participating. I disagree.

Hi folks,

Information gathering continues for our Mid-Term Review but we have noticed something associated with one of our platform planks in the last election. That being longer Cosa terms. If you are following some of the exchanges between the two largest parties in their groups and recent terpelaziuns then you are aware of early maneuvering for the next election.

In the last election, we proposed extending the Cosa term from 6-8 months to a standard and fixed 10-12 months. Because we continue to believe the election cycle needs to be slowed down. And we need more time for actual governing and less for the constant contentious electioneering. The Government has a somewhat successful record of expanding use of the Civil Service for the purpose of increasing apolitical service opportunities. This will need to be expanded along with the reduction of political ministries.

Longer terms will not lead Talossa's campaign gurus and politicians to starve for want of activity but it might allow those more interested in non-political activities the chance to flourish. And a less frequent cycle of fevered campaigning might make Talossa more attractive at our Immigration offices and at the Landing Pier. Politics is not fun for everyone and we need to acknowledge that by ensuring Talossa has a balanced relationship to it.