Hello, my name is Salisford, and I originally joined this community back in 2016, during the time when it was known as LCN. Soon after my arrival, I became involved in regional politics and eventually served on multiple regional cabinets.

In early 2018, I received an invitation to join the National Committee of Reconstruction, which later appointed the first three consuls. After Consul Neo resigned, I was selected, with his endorsement, to succeed him as Consul of the Republic on March 18th, 2018. I served in this capacity until my regrettable departure from LCN in 2019. After a brief hiatus from NS, I was invited back by the regional government in 2020, and I have since resumed my active involvement in regional politics and culture.

I am proud to have witnessed the growth and development of this great community and grateful to have humbly served as both a Consul and citizen for all these years. We have come a long way from being a tiny group of friends and acquaintances to becoming a truly massive community. I would never have dreamed of this community's size back in 2019.

It is an honor to continue serving you, and I look forward to seeing what future developments are in store for this great community.

Thank you.

“I'm Creeperopolis, more commonly referred to as Creeper, and I'm the current Chief Consul of the Republic of The League and Concord. I joined NationStates back in September 2015, first came into contact with the community in February 2019, and finally joined in July 2019.

I was the president of another region from January to April 2019, and that's when I first started my cooperation with the community. After a period of instability in the region, I left my old region in July 2019 and joined the community I'm still a part of today. Three of my peers nominated me to become a Council Delegate in July 2019, and I served on the Council until my assumption to the Consulate in July 2021. As a Council Delegate, I also served at various times as the General of the Armed Forces and as the Director of Foreign Affairs.

Following the retirement of Chief Consul Terranihil, I humbly accepted my selected as Chief Consul of the Republic by then-Consuls Quebecshire and Paleocacher on 26 July 2021. Throughout my time on the Consulate, I've helped in the formation of Concord, continued to maintain and bring life to the regional roleplay, contribute as much as I can to the community's manual recruitment program, and help in the general administration and record keeping of the region's ever growing history.

I've learned a lot about regional governance while on the Council, but even more so as Chief Consul and I continue to learn and expand my knowledge every day. I'm honored to be in the position I am currently in. I look forward to continue my service to the region for as long as I can and hope to leave an impressionable and positive mark on the community through my service.“

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2. The Grey Wardens
   
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4. The Rejected Realms Army
   
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• Karputsk Award
  

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• Meltdown of the Year
  
• The Belgium Award
  
• The Worst Invader Group
  
• The Eluvatar Award
  
• The Blackbird Award
  
• Mentor of the Year
  

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@Paleocacher has officially resigned from his role as Consul of the Republic - use this thread to thank him from his service and celebrate his career in the role!

On May 3, 2022, the Consulate of the time suddenly became one less, in need of a new member. At the time I was Director of Foreign Affairs and what a time it was. We had just transitioned from the LCN to The League a few months earlier, were going through Foreign Affairs and administrative challenges. The job was no small feat, but under Quebecshire's lead I learned the ropes and we steered the region out of one crisis after another.

It has been a profound pleasure to serve as a member of the Consulate of the Republic during our transition and to see the region prosper with the expansion of the LDF into one of the NS world's most active defender militaries, the addition of an entirely new region in Concord, and to be able to welcome and integrate so many fantastic new people to our community.

Recently, I came to the conclusion that I have gone as far as I can in this role. Due to a combination of factors such as personal obligations, a wish for the best possible leadership of the region, and feeling that I can contribute just as much as an Execuive Advisor as I do now as a Consul am handing my seat on the Consulate to someone new. I truly believe this person, who will be announced soon, will be an asset to the region and will do this job to their utmost.

Hello everyone!

@Terry and I spent a little time working on a new plugin, and now we have integrated community awards. To check out the awards supported by our forums, visit this page (which is also on the header's set of links). From here you can see the awards integrated to the forum sorted by category, and click on them to see their recipients (and why those recipients were awarded them).

Right now, the only category is the Orders of the Republic (that seemed like a good starting point), but I'm sure we'll be happy to expand that going forward. All awards will display on the user's profile, I'll use Spode's as an example since he has two. The formatting on the profiles isn't amazing but it works, and we'll see if we can improve it moving forward.

Obviously people who have the awards but don't have forum accounts still have them - in the case of the Orders of the Republic at least, the "master index" so to speak of them remains the dispatch.

Hopefully this feature is well recieved, and naturally feel free to suggest (in this thread) further uses for it.

- The admin team