Days Honoring the Siege of Trovons

Process on Prohibiting Hostile Actors from the Republic

• The name of the individual or organization proposed for prohibition.
  
• A compiled justification of the need for prohibition as explained in Section Two, including any relevant available evidence.
  
• The chosen level of prohibition of the two categories established in Section One.
  

An Act to Repeal CRL 1

• That CRL 1 is to be struck as null and void.
  
• That CRL 1 is to be repealed.
  

An Act To Repeal CRL 8

• That CRL #8 is to be struck as null and void.
  
• That CRL #8 is to be repealed.
  

An Act to Revise the World Assembly Delegacy

An Act to Repeal CRL 4 and to Reform The League's Definition of Crimes Against The Republic

• Hereby Repeals Council of The Republic Law 4
  

• Bringing in puppets unauthorized by the Consulate
  
• Unauthorized distribution of classified information
  
• Sedition against The League
  
• Treason Against The League
  
• Bribing of officials 
  
• Obstruction of Justice
  

• Posting screenshots from government channels of whose purpose is to remain secret.
  
• Leaking documents classified by the Republic of The League.
  
• Revealing classified information via digital or physical communication.
  

• Spreading false information (false information defined as false or misleading information that the spreader intends to be taken as true information.) about The League, it’s government, it’s people, it’s actions, or it’s officials.
  
• Leaking classified information with intent to harm The League or it’s people and officials by it’s release.
  
• Active attempts to spread anti-League propaganda intended to damage The League or to encourage residents to engage in seditious activities.
  

• Spreading false information with intent to cause sedition,
  
• Releasing classified information with intent to cause sedition,
  
• Harassing others with intent to cause sedition.
  
• Bribing of League officials or residents to act in opposition to The League.
  

• Leaking classified information to foreign governments, attempting to leak classified information to foreign governments.
  
• Encouraging other residents to commit sedition at the behest of a foreign government.
  
• Vandalism of League documents at the behest of a foreign power.
  
• Spreading of anti-League propaganda at the behest of a foreign power.
  
• Assisting foreign agents engaged in anti-League activities.
  
• Bribing of League officials or residents to act in opposition to the league at the behest of a foreign power.
  

• Actively sabotaging an investigation.
  
• Preventing law enforcement officials from enforcing punishments.
  
• Disrupting court procedures.
  
• Bribing law officials in opposition to justice and rule of law. 
  

I wasn't sure if this was the right place to put this, but given that the sign-ups were posted here, I figured I'd put this here too. 

During the Z-Day event we did fantastic, and if the site mechanics and a few dedicated twerps hadn't gotten in our way we would have done better. However, this thread is not about breaking down the site mechanics or yelling at people about the bad decisions they made during the event (which I say with all fondness, now that the event is over I hold no ill will towards any of you who tried to sabotage us). 

These are my thoughts, as someone who was in the thick of it calling shots, on how we can do better next year... and at the end, potentially a way to make the event more fun for all involved.

1.) Start Planning Sooner And Be More Organized

The Z-Day Task Force Thread was posted on 10/10, and then the Z-day Discussion chat on discord was not opened until 10/26. If planning had commenced earlier we would have had more time to chat and discuss things, and possibly could have predicted, planned for, and gotten out ahead of some of the issues I'll be talking about later in this post. 

The Z-Day planning chat should be opened at least a week before the event next year, or given that we don't know exactly when the event will be, the Z-Day planning chat should open on the 20th. 

In addition to planning happening sooner, there needs to be more organization. It felt like there was nobody in charge of our planning, and I'm not certain that the suggestions and ideas we came up with were ever handed off to the government to be executed (at least the parts of them that needed someone in the government to execute them). To this end, there should be a Zombie Czar (working title, I just like the Z sounds) appointed to lead the planning efforts in advance of the event. It should be this person's job to not just lead and oversee the planning, but to ensure cooperation between the executive government and the planning committee. 

2.) Outreach Needs To Happen, And Happen Early

I know from being in the planning chat that outreach was suggested as early as the 26th, with things like a telegram explaining the event and event related additions to the WFE's of both regions being suggested. Neither of these methods of outreach were used. 

In the lead up to Z-Day 2023 we should update the WFEs of both The League and Concord to reflect regional policy on the event; this should ideally take the form of both a written addition to the WFE saying Research The Cure! Do Not Eliminate! Do Not Embrace! or something along those lines, as well as a dispatch outlining why we've chosen to cure, or even just making it further clear that not following regional policy will have repercussions during the event, up to and including banjecting those who do not follow it (as several people were during the live event). 

Also leading up to the event at least one, but ideally two telegrams will be sent out to both regions. The first should be sent out at least a week before the event informing people of what the event is, and what regional policy is regarding it, and then another telegram should be sent out once we have a concrete time when the event will be taking place, ensuring that people are aware of when it will be, reiterating our regional policy, and also telling people where and to whom they can look to for direction on the day.

3.) One Planning Committee, Two Task Forces

While it makes sense to coordinate planning between the two regions for what Z-day should look like, once we hit the event there needs to be a separation so that people are not confused. During the event as I was issuing targets to be cured, I kept getting messages saying things like "I can't cure them, they're not in my region," as well as people being confused as to whom they could look to for leadership during the event itself. 

I stepped up and took control of the league, but I was never aware of exactly who was running things for Concord at any given time, and at no point, that I could see, were commands for Concord issued on Discord. 

In the lead up, and this is something that perhaps we could have done had there been more time in the planning stage. We need to form two Task Forces, one for The League, and the other for Concord, these task forces both need to have separate discord channels where they can issue orders and answer the questions of people in the various regions. Perhaps the channels for each region could be hidden behind a self assignable role (like the z-day ping role but like z-day concord and z-day the league instead) so that people don't have to try to figure out where they belong once the day comes. 

There should also be a Z-day Leadership role for each region, so that there is no confusion about who is in charge for each region. 

Leadership also needs to be decided upon ahead of time, we need to figure out ahead of the event who is giving orders in each region. 

4.) A Multifaceted Approach to the Solution

There is a lot going on at any given time during Z-day. At times I was watching for people moving into the region so that I could banject them if they caused trouble, I was calling orders on both discord and the RMB, I was assessing what the best target would be, I was curing nations, and I was trying to watch current targets (because there were various times when the RMB target and the Discord target were different) to ensure that nobody was without a target for too long. 

It's a lot for one person to do. 

There were times when people would move into the region and be in the region for long enough to do some real damage because I just missed them coming in, and was focusing on the other tasks. 

Next year, we should have someone, or a small team of people, who are assigned the job of watching for people moving into the regions, identifying threats, and notifying those with the power to remove them. I think there should be a pingable role on discord for people who are assigned the power of removing incoming threats so that their attention is easy to get.

In addition, there needs to be people, other than whomever is giving orders, that understand what our response is and how the event works that can answer the questions of people on both the RMB and on discord. Especially at the start and midpoint of the event it can be slightly overwhelming if you're trying to do everything I listed above as well as answer the question "What option should I choose? Oops I chose killsquads what do I do?" for the 50th time in a 30 minute period. 

Basically the more things we can outsource to various other people, the more people feel like they have a stake in the event, and the quicker responses can be had as needed, the more engaged I feel like our citizens will be in the event itself. 

5.) Dealing with the Dedicated Twerps

 A problem that arose a lot during this event was our own citizens refusing to follow directives and either embracing, or more annoyingly exterminating, the zombies. I was given parameters for who I could and couldn't eject from the region which made dealing with people who are stubborn and steadfast in their refusal to comply with regional policy difficult.

We need to come up with an acceptable way to deal with these people that makes it clear that they can't just sabotage our efforts for the lols.