THE JUNGLE GAZETTE
Your Light in the Jungle - September 15, 170 AD
Great Leader Emerges
The World Trembles
Within the depths of Persian territory, the war raged on. Our troops, being perhaps the most elite, experienced units known in the world marched deep into enemy lands. It was there that one stood up and too command, ensuring a victory for the military, but further, has made himself available to the public. Under his leadership, we will see a great advance in our nation. Many, though, are considering how to best use his services, and in what way will it benefit our great nation. Join in that disussion
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- UnOrthOdOx
Citizens praise turnchat success
(proof I use ANYTHING I find around the forums...)
The past hundred years have perhaps been one of the most successful in the history of Apolytonia. We have dealt the Persians a dramatic blow, defeating a total of twelve thousand of their troops with only two thousand losses to ourselves. Our troops have razed Sidon and added Tyre to our great empire. While fighting, Commander Ramses of the Eighteenth Elite Horse Battalion showed exceptional valor, distinguishing himself as one of the Great Leaders in our Civilization. He is being reassigned to Ubergorsk while our leaders ponder a more appropriate assignment for him. In the field of Foreign Affairs, we managed to secure an exclusive import agreement with Rome for their fine Ivory, while still making a profit by signing agreements regarding our dyes with other Civilizations.
Credit for these amazing events need to be spread throughout multiple people. First, all attendees deserve credit. Thanks to Aro, Rangers, Aggie, Apoc, Sprud, adaMada, adaMada42, MrWIA, MrWheresItAt, and MWIA for coming. (Tragically, MrWIA was forced to eject MrWheresItAt and MWIA forcibly from the chat when they became unruly). Without the contributions of this group, we would have accomplished little. Some of our citizen’s actions also stand about above others in the events of this past century. Credit goes to General Aggie, who has led our troops to victory against hordes of Persian forces. Credit goes to President MrWheresItAt, whose steady hand has guided our nation through these events with such skill that have led some to wonder if he just isn’t lucky. Credit goes to Shiber and E_T, who formulated the two plans that were combined by Acting Foreign Minister adaMada to produce the trading plan that we used so fruitfully. All things considered, this is a fitting tribute to the success of this Administration. May we see many future centuries pass as fruitfully.
-- adaMada --
On the trading block again
Established 'Ivory road' with Rome
Our emmissaries were once again hard at work, going to several of our surrounding nations, and establishing our presence in the way of trade. Ceasar of Rome has accepted a trade of our wonderfull dyes and a few Lytons in exchange for some Ivory. The were impressed with the deal, and it seems that their opinion of us has improved as such. We then traded a few of our horses to Joan for their maps and gold. She remains bitter despite our generousity. Alexander, though was much more open when he recieved our glorious dyes in exchange for his gold and map, and seemed genuinely pleased with the deal. Bismark, on the other hand recieved the same deal but also remains bitter over his embarrasment at our hand. All told, our emmissaries did a fine job proving that warfare is not the only thing that Apolytonia excedes at.
- UnOrthOdOx
Latest statistics out
Approval rating reaches astounding levels!
*Demographic highlights:
-Apolytonia's approval rating has risen to an astounding height never before seen in the world, as people take to the streets in festivities. 82% of the nation now approves of the administration!
-The remainder of Apolytonia's demographics mostly speak of bad news. Leadng this bad news is fall in literacy from 8th place in the world to a pathetic 12th.
-The disease, although still the worst in the world, has fallen 2% to 32%.
-The most alarming trend is the continued drop in average military service to 7 from 9 years. This trend has come to the point that we are now the 15th least mobilized nation in the world.
-The average family size has fallen from 6th in the world to 11th, supporting the beliefs that Apolyton is grossly underpopulated for it's size.
-The one bright spot in the demographics, being cited by the DIA and the Economy Ministry, is the amazing increase in the per capita wages of Apolyton, up to 4 per capita, good for first in the land from 5th last terms!
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Our question to the candidates:
List your top five goals
"Here is my master plan:
1. Stop foreigners from eating our babies
2. Eradicate all foreigners
3. Expand our military, so we can pillage foreign countries
4. Maintain order in our cities at any cost
5. Retaliate by eating thier babies!
Vote Duddha!"
"TOP FIVE (Job-Related Goals for Next Term):
Fully colonize Uber.
Expand culture radius so no AI can settle on Uber
Build New Munich
Build a city for the gap between Timeline and Tassagrad
Colonize the Persian Jungle"
-GhengisFarb
"As Science Minister in the next Apoyltonian Dynasty, my most critical objectives are to:
A. Make the Ministry of Science a part of Apolytonia that inspires debate, and make my decisions a democratic process. I will continue Apoc's Area 25 threads, and continue to poll the people about course we need take.
B. Begin the process of making Apolytonia a Civilized nation, with librarys and scientists bringing our homeland and military to the leading edge.
C. Lobbying for the nessecary influence to make scientific growth a priority, and bring our cities out of the dark ages. We need more than 3 cities with beakers.
D. Continued Analysis of what our scientific objectives will bring us."
-Thud
"My goals were primarily accomplished last term. I wanted to experiment with the idea of regions, and then set into motion if feasible for our people. As the people are voting now on this issue (vote ends tomorrow I think?) and it appears to be passing with much favor, I feel it has succeeded.
My goals this term are to find people who will do lots of roll playing with the regions, and who can also act as deputies in case I am not able to make my commitments in time.
Secondly, and I do not know how to do this or if I even can, is to try to gain more members for our demo game.
Third is to help out the congress in rewriting our COL in any way they may ask of me.
Fourth is helping to make the game move at a regular and steady pace, such as with the format of the orders. MWIA has indicated that this helps significantly. It just takes quite some time to complete on my end (and yours Unorthodox) and still is IMHO more likely to have some things slip through the cracks relative to the previous way I was posting them.
Fifth goal is to have fun in this game. "
-GodKing
"1) See that we make use of this great land that the Banana has provided for us.
2) To make ready use of the natural resources, as the Banana would have us use them.
3) To recommend to my peers in the leadership what I'll need to accomplish this goal
4) To be flexible in appling what resources that the counsel allocates to me to accomplish our ultimate goal.
5) To listen to my fellow man and incorperate their ideas and point of veiws for how best to accomplish our ultimate goal of Upholding the Ideal of the Banana. "
-E_T
"I agree with most of Togas policies, but after persia and america I beleive we should stop warring and concetrate on building our self up and improving and mantaining good relations our neighbors and only fight war if we are pushed into it as in a demand we can't or will not comply with."
-Nimitz
"My goals are (and this kinda carries over from last term):
1.) Clear these damn jungles. We are FINALLY starting to see some difference being made, most notably around Timeline and Gaia, but I'm bringing workers to our core cities. The newly captured Persian workers will help greatly!
2.) Keep our civ connected. I want to make sure I add some more roads, especially to newly captured/settled areas. Granted it will be hard to err.. connect Uber Isle
3.) Uber Isle! Well hopefully soon I can ship off some workers to Uber Isle (perhaps 2?) and we can start working on improving that island as soon as possible. Possibly something I will have to consider in the next few turns.
4.) Irrigation. Now that we've switched governments, irrigation will start becoming an issue. I'll need to coordinate with the City Planner's office to find out where and what they need most. So PW and CP pretty much go hand in hand. Note - As close as they can be, I'm against the proposal to disband the PW that has been brought up a few times in regards to the new constitution. I should write a letter posting my views as they do deal with different aspects of our civilization.
5.) Listen to people's needs. Those who have delt with me know I'm pretty flexible in regards as to what I will do. I definitely want to continue this trend. I'm not someone with an agenda (unlike Banana who seems to want UNIVERSAL DOMINATION). Then again, you really can't have an agenda in PW! But Ghengis Farb did bring up a great point about "ReichBandit," the PW minister of Germany getting some action from Bismarck's mistress. That might have influenced my decision to build a road to Germany *cough*. Okay, so I can be bribed! "
-WhiteBandit
"Top 5 goals for next term.
1.Finish punishing the persians for their heinous betrayal. They started thisa war but we intend to finish it.
2. Finish the Americans off for thinking bad things about us.
3. Create a rapid deployment force(hopefully of knights) to protect our peaceful people.
4. Upgrade spears to pikemen
5. Secure border cities with 2 units each "
-Aggie
"1) Improve upon last term's "Foreign Ministry Office" thread to include more information and better organization.
2) Propose a draft of our new Constitution to the people to review.
3) Keep us out of any new wars.
4) Make contact with new foreign nations.
5) Open new trade routes and aquire new luxuries to trade. "
-Togas
The thumbnails I've been posted aren't legible at all. I'll do some research after my daily work, compressing files and so.
