President Anglatzarâ
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(last post: March 14, 2008 - 07:21)
Citizen #23:
Ián Anglatzarâ | I will comment upon your six areas of proposals, one by one.
1. Calendar Reform. Talossa does not exist in a vaccuum, but inside the borders of USA. Most of the nation's dealings are with the huge neighbour that surrounds us. Suddenly shifting to a different calendar system than the USA (and the rest of the world) would be hugely impractical. I am dead set against this proposal.
2. Economy and Finances. As this isn't a full-fledged proposal but just a thought, I won't comment on it. Sure, let's look into it.
3. Provincial Assignment Reformation. You write: "The current Provincial Assignments as stated by Title II Section 5 of the Federal Code is very US-centric and I am pretty sure that this is a result from the old, traditional days of the Kingdom of Talossa when a intelligent young man could not see that his micro-nation could truly span the world."
This isn't correct. First, Talossa doesn't span the world, our borders are well-defined. Our nation is in Wisconsin, nowhere else. We do have citizens world-wide, but that's a completely different thing. Second, the provincial assignment scheme has been worked out based on historical trends, to give the provinces a roughly equal amount of citizens. Most of our citizens have been from North America, and most likely it will stay that way. Since Talossa is a North American country, this is no bad thing. Your example would, for instance, doom Maritiimi and Maricopa to having no citizens at all, and swell Florencia to have half of the nation's citizens. I am dead set against this proposal.
4. Standardizing Measurement. Go Metric? Sure, why not. I can't think properly in Imperial anyway. And leading the way for our big neighbour would be a good way.
5. Standardizing Time. You write: "I recommend that we select one time zone as the offical time zone for the (federal) 'Government' of the Republic of Talossa."
Er, we already have one. Talossa does not exist in a vaccuum, but inside the borders of USA. Talossa is a North American country, situated in Wisconsin. We must use the same time zone as Wisconsin. You can't seriously suggest that it should be 6 PM in Talossa while all the Cestours have their lunch breaks? That we should let Noon happen at the break of dawn in Talossa?
6. Talossan Email. I'm all for this one, and it's dead easy to implement. We just need to money to pay the ISP hosting talossa.com.
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