2nd Annual Defender Awards

We’re honoured to host the Annual Defender Awards once more and our outgoing Arch-Chancellor is acting as host again. All members of the Nationstates world are welcome to come and take part, invader defender or neutral and we hope it will be as much a success as last year.
The format of the awards will be the same, there will be a nomination period, then a voting period and finally an award ceremony at the very end to round it all off. The number of awards has gone up by one despite there being a few awards taken out and added in and we also have decided to give out awards this year around, so that those who win have something to show their achievement.

The awards are as follows:

The EuroSoviets Award
The Ananke Award
The Anarchotopia Award
The Eagles Disobey Award
The Blackbird Award
The Dipes Award
The Updater of the Year Award
The Operation of the Year
The Newcomer of the Year Award
The Worst Invasion Award
The Best Defender Quote
The Meltdown of the Year Award
Defender of the Year
The Lifetime Achievement Award for Dedication to Defending

The awards are scheduled to begin on the first week of February, so there is plenty of time to think about who you want to nominate.
If you have any questions feel free to PM Northern Chittowa or indeed check out last years event at: http://z7.invisionfree.com/FRA/index.php?showforum=74

Elections

Following January’s cabinet elections we now have a new FRA cabinet!

Arch Chancellor: Sedge

Regional Development Minister: Hammer

Regional Recruitment Officer: Hammer

Communications Minister: Numero Capitan

Intelligence Minister: Falconias

Foreign Affairs Minister: Gateborg

Chief of Defence Force: Sir Lans

The elections saw our previous Arch-Chancellor, Northern Chittowa step down and be replaced by Sedge, with none of the other nominees accepting their nominations. No doubt Sedge will hope to straighten things out a bit in the Arch Chancellors office after discovering numerous George Michael records, a collection of lycra outfits and a picture of Elton John in Northern Chittowa’s old chest of drawers, the pink flowery wallpaper is likely to fall victim to Sedge’s initial purges as well. The elections also saw Hammer and Numero Capitan join the cabinet for the first time, with Hammer taking both Regional Development and Regional Recruitment, quite a hefty workload!

The incumbents in Intelligence and Chief of the Defence Forces kept their seats after positive terms and Gateborg returned to the cabinet as Foreign Affairs Minister.Abstain was unfortunate to lose out on a cabinet position once again.We are currently having elections for Speaker of the Regional Assembly, but with only Geo, the incumbent, standing he looks sure to keep his position.

Written by Numero Capitan, originally for the FRA Update, 12 January 08