When I was Minister of Regional Affairs in 2015 we held the Back to the Future Festival, celebrating the date when Doc and Marty visited the future; as part of the celebration we created a time capsule and invited all South Pacificans to send telegrams to it. The time capsule was allowed to cease to exist and was opened 2 years later, when we held the Back to the Back to the Future Festival. Following that second festival, where people were also invited to send telegrams, the capsule was sealed again and remained closed until today, when I revived the nation.

In keeping with this nascent tradition, I invite everyone to send telegrams to Back to the Future Time Capsule. The nation will be allowed to cease to exist in 60 days and will be reopened on 21 October 2022, for the South Pacificans of the future to read the messages that you send today.

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The Electorate of United Federated States of Omega → Back to the Future Time Capsule
2 years 363 days ago

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Hello future TSPers.

My name is Omega and I started the APC and SPN. If I am still here in two years awesome. If not too bad. Right now I am 16 and in band living outside of Autin Texas. I am having the time of my life right now and in two years I hope TSP never forgets the thing that makes us great is our openness and friendliness. I was met with open arms and I hope in two years, TSPers are still welcomed here and encouraged to pursue their passions.

Good luck and I hope there isn't a coup
-Omega 2017

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The Floofy Foxes of The Solar System Scope → Back to the Future Time Capsule
2 years 360 days ago

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27 October 2017 (2017-10-27)

It appears it's that time of year again! Sending stuff to the future. In digital form. It's not as impressive as LAGEOS, and hopefully it will not be as problematic to plan as KEO, but it is a nice thing to do, peek into the past, which is our present, from the future, which is the future's present. Enough confusion!

Here are today's BBC News headlines for reference (I'm lazier than last time):
-Spain PM demands direct rule on Catalonia: Spain's senate is expected to pass the emergency measures, which include sacking the Catalan leader.
-Australia's deputy PM disqualified: Barnaby Joyce and four others were wrongly elected because they held dual citizenship, a court says.
-Files on JFK assassination released: Some 2,800 records on the 1963 assassination are released, but the president withholds some others.
-SA farmers jailed for coffin abuse: Two white farmers are sentenced to more than 10 years each for forcing a black man into a coffin.
-El Capitan speed climbing record smashed: Two Americans set the fastest time for scaling the vertical Yosemite rock formation.
-Sailors rescued after five months adrift: Two US yachtswomen and their dogs are rescued by the US Navy after a trip from Hawaii went wrong.
-France sentences Equatorial Guinea VP
-Indian surgeons separate twins joined at the head
-EU bank to owe UK billions 'for decades'
-Body clock 'affects surgery survival'
-YouTuber apologises for 'manipulating' women
-N Korea to free fishing boat from South
-Clashes mar Macron's French Guiana visit
-Pope's tough question for ISS crew

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Until 2018, these events are likely to happen:
February 9–25 – The 2018 Winter Olympics are scheduled to be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
March – NASA plans to launch the exoplanet-seeking TESS mission.
April 4–15 – The 2018 Commonwealth Games are scheduled to be held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
May 5 – Launch of NASA's InSight is scheduled. InSight will launch to Mars in November and use a drill to conduct geological science.
May 25 – Implementation date of General Data Protection Regulation.
June 14 – July 15 – The 2018 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be held in Russia.
June 24 - Saudi Arabia will allow women to drive.
July 27 – Mars will make its closest approach to Earth since 2003.
October – Unmanned European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft is scheduled to be launched to Mercury.
The U.S. missile defense complex in Poland is expected to be operational.
The second capsule of The Helium Centennial Time Columns Monument is expected to be opened 50 years after the time capsule was locked in 1968.
NASA's Solar Probe Plus is expected to orbit the Sun.
Israel is expected to begin to release classified information held in its state archives from the first two decades of its existence.
JAXA's robotic SELENE-2 lunar mission is expected to be launched in 2018.
Two space tourists are scheduled to fly around the Moon in a Falcon Heavy rocket, marking the first time that humans have ventured beyond low-Earth orbit since 1972.

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If you expected an inspirational or philosophical message, go check my previous submission for 2015 (opened 2017).
But I gotta write something... Um...
There are probably major events not listed here that happen in this time's future (your present), which is caused by the fact that they cannot be foretold. Did Donald Trump declare war on Canada? Russia? China? Himself? Is Catalonia independent? We cannot know before you open this. Remember these events, because the forgotten past is as hard to know as the uncertain future.

Yours sincerely and faithfully,
The Solar System Scope
No longer you friendly neighbourhood Local Councillor
But at least I get to be the Lord of Space and the Protector of the TARDIS Keys
:3

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The Random Pretitle of Kringalia → Back to the Future Time Capsule
2 years 305 days ago

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Greetings South Pacificans!

I tended to use that opening in most of my mass telegrams, back when I was serving as Delegate of the South Pacific. In hindsight, that was a good time, despite all the foreign policy problems we had to handle and even despite the whole crisis with Operation Brave Little Toaster. These problems were stressful and challenging, but I always felt that I could rise to the occasion and help lead the region to safe port. I also felt proud of the people for whom and with whom I was working, knowing that I belong to a special community where friendship and cooperation, those core ideals that defined the Escade Delegacy, were very much alive.

Things changed a lot after I finished my two terms as Delegate. In the following year I served two terms as Minister of Regional Affairs, and had a front row seat to many crises that would test the resilience of our democracy and the strength of our community. We saw a rise in our overall levels of toxicity and paranoia, as the spectre of possible foreign infiltration caused suspicion and discomfort in many of our leaders. Events like the March 2015 Minister of Foreign Affairs Election were testing, and the level of discourse dropped to unfathomable levels, as the various supporters of Sandaoguo and Wolf campaigned aggressively, making the cases and luring in voters for their respective sides.

We prevailed, and even as paranoia and suspicion, discomfort and controversy, continued to affect the community, our region as a whole progressed. By October 2015 I felt that we were in a good place, slowly recovering from the controversies on the concluding year and ready to look forward to a successful new year. I also felt that I was in a position to deliver the kind of change and forward-looking leadership that was needed, so I declared my candidacy for a third term as Delegate of the South Pacific. It was a privilege to run that campaign alongside Farengeto, one of the most capable and dedicated members that the region could have in the present day, as we made our case for a region focused on developing its distinct culture and building on top of all the progress made in recent years. It was not meant to be, unfortunately, and Hileville, whose campaign I felt was lacking in certain key areas, was chosen by the region to serve as our Delegate.

I came back from an extended leave on January 2016 to see a changed region. Many things were similar, but some things were undoubtedly different. IRC had stopped being the regional chat, even if I was not fully aware of that at first. There had been yet another judicial overhaul, and the multi-member judiciary had been replaced with a single Permanent Justice. Regional Affairs was relatively inactive. The Assembly had approved a URL change. I also felt a different environment towards me. Was it colder? Or more aggressive? I suppose it was a mix, but I felt that, while my closer friends treated me normally, there was a general iciness to how I was seen in general, as if I wasn’t as part of the community as I once was.

This turned into a full blown crisis when the Cabinet announced a move to a new forum and began a smear campaign against Glen and me. This was obviously illegal, and I found that incredibly bothersome, but what hurt me the most was the fact that the main figures behind this were people I had, until the very day of the move, considered my friends within the game. I had been very fond of Imkitopia, Scyllaland and SJS Republic, and I was, for lack of a better word, hurt by the way they were talking about me. Just a few days before the forum move I had been talking with them on #LampshadeBar, catching up on recent events, and they had treated me quite normally, yet the illegal forum had been planned for quite a while, as its creation date showed, so it was bothersome to realise that, just as we talked, they were already planning all that would happen in the following weeks.

Glen took this matter to the High Court, and Farengeto ruled that the forum move was indeed illegal. There was a relative sense of finality to this, at least to me, and I was so sure that the region would collectively move back to the legal forum. Some did, and even some in the Cabinet confided me that they expected to face a recall in the Assembly for their actions, but by and large this did not happen, and the illegal forum remained the venue of choice for the region. As the days passed and the ruling was ignored, I began considering my options. I could give up on NationStates and move on with my life. I could also join another region or start my own, make a name for myself elsewhere, just as I had done in the South Pacific. At my most desperate point, I even considered joining the illegal forum under a new name, so I could continue participating in the region without all the baggage and negative treatment.

I was in the middle of those ruminations when I saw the post on the NationStates Forum where the Cabinet announced the dissolution of the Coalition and the formation of the Transitional Government. I was shocked, and I was outraged, but above all I was finally determined. I had resigned myself to the finality of the illegal forum move, but I could not accept a coup. I immediately logged into IRC and began contacting the CSS and other prominent citizens who were loyal to the Coalition. We gathered in #tsptalk and established a classified subforum, in similar fashion to how things had worked during the Milograd Coup. Soon enough, both loyalists and friends from our regional partners were signing up, ready to fight alongside us for the survival of the Coalition.

I will admit, it was kind of exciting. I was helping lead the fight against a coup! Obviously it would have been better if there hadn’t been a coup in the first place, but given that one had taken place, I felt the historic weight of the role I was playing, along with others. I had read, as a newcomer, about the Southern Allied Command, those giants who had bravely led the charge against Milograd, rallying support abroad, setting the strategy at home. Those were the people I had looked up to, thinking that, even despite the awful nature of the Milograd Coup, it must have been sobering to know that they held the future of the Coalition in their hands.

This time we were them, and while it was sobering to realise that the survival of the Coalition depended on how well we rose to the occasion, I did not feel like a giant, bravely leading the charge against the Cabinet. I felt scared and stressed. I knew what needed to be done, and I constantly coordinated with others, but this was not my strength. I had not build a career on fighting coups or sparring in Gameplay. My focus was on setting and implementing cultural policy, and suddenly that felt awfully inadequate to fight a coup. We kept trying, but even despite relative success and support from our allies, I felt like this battle would be one of prolonged attrition, made all the more difficult by the fact that Hileville was not ejecting on a massive scale, and was instead moving forward with his constitutional convention.

I approached him one night, and said that I wished to negotiate a peaceful solution to the controversy. He had couped the region, which to me made him a traitor, but I was hoping to be pragmatic, and come to an agreement that could be beneficial for both. I remembered the advice from one of my university teachers about negotiating by looking at the underlying interest in any given position, and I hoped I could manage that with Hileville. We met through a query and started talking about the region, and what were our true interests in this situation. I told him that I was interested in restoring the rule of law, and made him several generous offers, ranging from a Great Council on the legal forum to a restoration of the Coalition and full immunity for him and the Cabinet. He seemed to agree on that last one, but when I tried to confirm, he backtracked and claimed that he had never, and would never, agree to restore the Coalition.

We eventually settled on a tentative agreement that involved lifting the ban on me, Glen and Farengeto, allowing us to freely participate in the constitutional convention taking place in the illegal forum, along with a vote through regional poll to ratify the dissolution of the Coalition. I promised to present this to the Coalition, tired of an argument that was going in circles, but I was not satisfied with it, and I knew full well that the Coalition would never agree to those terms. I was right, and the proposed settlement was rejected almost instantly. Just then Tsunamy came with good news, saying he had managed to turn Scyllaland, who presented himself in #tsptalk and lifted our bans. By then there were also strong indications that the Special Forces would commit to support the Coalition. In the face of such good news, this proposed settlement seemed less urgent and more easily rejected, which we did.

On the morning of the third day the Cabinet Coup collapsed, as Hileville resigned from all involvement in the region and transferred control of his nation to Belschaft. In turn, Belschaft announced the restoration of the Coalition, and promised to oversee an orderly transition to a lawful successor; that happened to be Tsunamy. We celebrated, reminding me of the parties that we had following the defeat of Milograd, but things were different this time. I received a telegram asking me to be lenient with Imkitopia. This then turned into prolonged debates in the Assembly about the need for reconciliation, which then became specific proposals about pardoning the recently recalled Cabinet. I was strongly against that decision, arguing that a crime as treason as treason required equally serious accountability, but it was to no good, and the main orchestrators of the Cabinet either remained in the region or even retained their positions.

I recount the events of the Cabinet Coup because they were a fundamental moment that explains my role in the region in 2017. Over the months following the Coup, I gradually withdrew from the region, feeling completely out of place in it. People have moved on, welcomed the coupers, treated them like nothing had happened, even elected them back into the Cabinet, and I had trouble coming to terms with the inherent unfairness of that. I still think it was unfair and unfortunate, and rather insulting to the face of people who fought, quite literally, for the survival of the Coalition, particularly given the toxic treatment that many suffered at the hands of individuals like Imkitopia, who not only never apologised for her actions, but actively behaved in a manner unbecoming of the region.

That is not to say my entire existence during 2016 focused on resentment towards those who had couped the region. If I am honest, it started in a horrible manner: with the very first time I lost a loved one, and that hit me pretty hard. Still, there is plenty of good to be said about the year, as it progressed.

Perhaps the highlight is my participation in the 2016 APEC Summit, where I worked as a Liaison Officer for various delegations. As a Liaison Officer, my job was to accompany my assigned delegation, coordinate their agendas and movements with State Security, and overall ensure that everything worked as expected during their stay. I served as liaison for Brunei for three summits during the year, and was then assigned to Vietnam for the Economic Leaders Meeting in November, the summit where all presidents and prime ministers participate. Given that Vietnam was the host for the following year, and its delegation was therefore relatively more important, it could be said that the reassignment was a promotion of sorts.

Aside from the obvious thrill of participating in such an important event, I was fortunate enough to see many world leaders at various times. I clearly remember seeing John Kerry enter the session chamber to meet with his fellow foreign ministers. I also had the opportunity to attend the gala dinner, where I saw several leaders, including Justin Trudeau, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. I obviously made sure to take some photos and film a few records, as were many who approached the main table. Yet the best came on the night of November 20, when I accompanied the President of Vietnam to the airbase from where he would depart. By a strange twist of events, I was unable to go all the way to the runway, and instead had to wait in the lounge, just beside the runway, until the motorcade came back to pick me up. As I was waiting, I took a look at the window, and I was left speechless as I saw Air Force One. I heard that President Obama was due to arrive shortly, and sure enough I saw his motorcade approach. I got some photos of The Beast, and then managed to record Barack Obama as he walked up the stairs, waved and then entered the plane, finishing the final foreign trip of his presidency.

I cannot say that 2017 was as exciting in that regard; I certainly have no met any world leaders this year. Still, some exciting this did happen. I graduated in May, and have been working since February at an audit and consulting firm. My job does not related to my major, which is International Relations, but it is definitely a good opportunity to learn, and I definitely have gained key experienced, which has helped me with the successive projects to which I have been assigned. I have also strengthened friendships and made good changes in my life, which is definitely a good thing.

In terms of my role in the South Pacific, I am quite happy with how things have turned out, all things considered. I am currently serving as Permanent Justice, interpreting the law and presiding over criminal cases. I had privately longed for the office for a while, before I was actually offered the chance to hold it. When Farengeto last served as Justice, I became deeply interested in the workings of the United States Supreme Court, and was utterly fascinated with the notion of interpreting laws and writing opinions that carefully explained how that interpretation came about. I was ecstatic when Roavin offered me the position, and even though I faced scepticism during my confirmation hearing, some warranted and some unwarranted, mainly from Glen, I was ultimately confirmed by the Assembly.

Since being confirmed as Justice, I have handled a variety of cases and, I think, established a particular style for how I handle cases. I tend to ask abundant questions, when interested parties engage in the process, and my rulings tend to be rather long and details about what arguments I considered and how they affected my thought process. In my view, similarly to Chief Justice John Roberts, the main products of a court are its rulings, which means they have to be impeccable and clearly outline how the ruling being issued conforms to the law. I have been having a fantastic time considering cases and writings opinions, and have also been excited at the opportunity to hear a criminal cases, Roavin v. Cormac, which I hope will have concluded by the time this message is opened.

Overall, I can say that 2017 has been a good year; one for growth and learning, but most importantly one of which I have little regrets, and much to celebrate.

What about 2018?

I will refrain from making predictions about the world or my personal life, since those require more careful examination. Instead I will discuss what I think the future holds in store for the South Pacific.

If this is the universe where things turn out the right way, I will have managed to establish the Court as a source of activity. I hope to turn the Law Clerks into a sustainable programme, publish regular issues of the Law Review and have organised the first two editions of the Judicial Olympics. My goal with all this is to foster the generation of legal talent in the region, in terms of both potential legislators and judges, as well as to encourage people to respect the law and uphold the basic tenets of our democracy, no matter how inconvenient they might feel at times, and hold their officials accountable to those principles. In addition, I hope that the Court will not have been overhauled, and instead will have been allowed to develop organically, without any forced interventions that set back all progress that could have been made.

I also hope to have helped organise an unforgettable Coalition Day Festival. I have big ideas for this event, which would mark the fifteenth anniversary of the Coalition, and I think we owe it to the region to make it a day to remember.

Beyond that, I hesitate to make any further predictions. I have no idea who will remain in office, who will be influential, who will form the next generation of leaders, who will be our new allies, or anything else in between. I had a positive outlook for 2016, yet it turned out to be a dreadfull year in terms of my NationStates experience, so I would rather stick with what I already hoped for, and refrain from making any actual predictions about the South Pacific in 2018. It would be better to catch up with the future, and see for ourselves how it turned out.

What I can do is offer some words of advice to the future generations, and to anyone who may call the region their home.

To those who seek to identify the ideal development area for the region, I would point towards Regional Affairs. I know that the military has experienced a boom in recent months, and the South Pacific has become one of the leading defender-leaning regions, but I strongly believe that Regional Affairs is the future of the region, with no detriment to other departments. As I once said, without an active and vibrant community, it will not matter how many regions we defend or liberate, since there will be nobody to care, and nobody to recruit. We have to devote significant resources towards the Ministry of Regional Affairs, so that it will be properly staffed, under a leadership that understands the importance of having bold plans that force us all to work towards success. This should not be taken as a slight at the current leadership, but rather as a caution to future generations about letting their guard down.

This involves relatively simply steps as continuing to push for festivals and other regional events, as well as events with allies, so that we regularly have activities that encourage participation, albeit without saturating members. This also involves more complex steps, namely resuming the regular publication of the Southern Journal and the Treasure Island Report, two news sources that form the backbone of the our regional journalism. An even more daunting, but perhaps more fundamental, task is to maintain constant coordination with other government institutions, so all officials will keep an eye for event opportunities that would encourage greater activity and provide the added benefit of promoting their respective institutions. Planning will be paramount, since nothing will get done if we refuse to think in a large scale. Only by working towards success can we find ways to make the transition from planning to execution.

To those seeking to establish a political party or maintain an existing one, I would suggest forgetting about the idea of forming a political party. If you form a party and hope that it will develop successfully, that might happen, but it is also equally possible that it might collapse. Why? Becaus people tend to like joining parties, even if they might not fully understand the policies they would be supporting or even if they might not be willing to put in the work to make the party succeed. My advice would be to forget the idea of parties altogether, and instead form single-issue associations, where members agree to vote a certain way on only certain issues. I can almost guarantee that certain associations would end up sharing similar memberships. This would be a better way to form a political party, where people come with a clear idea of the platform, the issues they would support and where the members already have a collegial and collaborative relationship in certain issues, without that meaning that they have to agree on all issues. Instead of forming a party and making it work, have the formation of the party be the consolidation of an already existing group.

To those seeking to reform our foreign affairs doctrine, I would suggest a radical thought: forget about treaty allies. Every region does it, signing a comprehensive treaty and proclaiming an alliance, and the South Pacific has been no exception to that. I believe, however, that this model is detrimental to the true foreign policy goals of the region, and that there are better ways of gaining meaningful partners. Instead of investing entire relationships and alliances on a single treaty, I suggest an approach not unlike the one I suggested for political parties. We should stop signing comprehensive treaties, and instead work on issue-specific treaties. At the same time, we should forget about allies and start talking about partners. If there is a region whose strength is its culture, it would make no sense to sign a comprehensive treaty, with military and intelligence provisions, and refer to them as allies, when we have no way of knowing what kind of relationship will develop. Instead, we should form a cultural partnership with them, and focus our efforts on developing that particular issue. Once the relationship develops, we can and should work on additional areas of expansion with that partner.

There are two advantages to this. One is that we let the relationship develop at its own pace, without the pressure of any region failing to be a ‘good ally’, because such a concept would not be used so loosely. Progress with the partnership could be more objectively measured; the relationship could be expanded on a controlled basis, depending on how well the partnership works at any given level. Another is that, since the default state would be that of a partnership, damage control would be significantly easier should one be lost. It would surely be less damaging to lose an issue-specific partnership, as opposed to having a full ally denounce a treaty, as happened with The New Inquisition in 2014 and Europeia in 2017. Only those regions with which we have close and proven comprehensive relationships would ascend to the category of ally, and only as a matter of practice, rather than due to specific ‘treaty of alliance’, therefore reducing the risk of volatility in a relationship.

I will also spare a few lines to caution against constant judicial overhauls. It has become popular to say that the High Court is broken and needs to be reformed, but few can articulate what exactly is broken or how it should be reformed. It should be incumbent on us all to allow the Court to conduct its business without undue interference, trusting that a capable bench will ensure that said business carries on as expected. There will be need for reforms at certain points, but these should be specific in their goal and should avoid an undue breadth of scope. In most cases, it should be the responsibility of the Permanent Justice, as assisted by the Pool of Justices, to enact those administrative changes that might be needed to ensure the normal functioning of the judiciary.

By the same token, I would encourage all to place special importance on the formation of legal talent in the region, based on a healthy respect for our democracy and the role of the rule of law in our regional society. This is an important step if we are to have capable judges and legislators, and more broadly if we are to have an informed and engaged citizenry, able to examine and question their elected officials, and therefore able to preserve, protect and defend the democracy that we have all worked so hard to develop. A cooperative relationship between the Chair of the Assembly, the High Court and the Ministdy of Regional Affairs could be very productive to that effect, and I would encourage all three institutions to work jointly, constantly and diligently towards that goal.

To those who want an outside perspective on the issue of drama and criticism, I would only say that there is a fine line between those, especially considering the fact that we are playing a game, and therefore the point is that we should all be comfortable playing it. Maybe you think that some of the criticism being levied against someone is warranted, and it might well be, but remember that the other person wants to have fun playing this game, and sometimes the ferocity of your criticism gets to them.

People play NationStates for various different reasons, and not everyone thrives in fierce discussions and exchanges of opinion. Some people enjoy that part of the game. Others like to participate in some aspects, but prefer a different level of discourse, and feel uncomfortable when they are forced to participate in dramatic exchanges. You might think that they should toughen up and get with the programme, but the truth is, again, that NationStates is a game, and if you’re making someone uncomfortable, then you might be the problem, and your skin might be a little too thick. If so, just take a deep breath and try to works things out with the other person in a civil manner. If they have to be criticised, continue to do so, but understand that being aggressive with your criticism does not make you better, just as adversity to toxicity does not mean the other person unnecessarily sensitive or thin-skinned. Just drop the toxic rhetoric, and let your facts do the talking. If they are right, they will prevail.

I want to restate the fact that not everything is bleak and depressing in my game experience, following the Cabinet Coup. There has been plenty of that, as I have made abundantly clear in this message and elsewhere, but I would be wrong to ignore all the good that has come from it as well.

All my issues with the regional chat and the coupers forced me to examine the way in which I deal with unwanted change. I never wanted the region to switch chats, and I certainly never wanted to be treated the way I was by people I considered friends, but both happened, and I struggled in major ways to adjust to those situations. I still resent unwanted change, and have no intention of doing on friendly terms with people like Imkitopia, who had displayed on intention of extending me that courtesy, but, at the same time, I’ve made my peace with that, and feel that I can move on from the shock of those changes, adjust to them and behave professionally in the face of the,. Given that life is full of wanted and unwanted changes, I think this was a valuable lesson to learn.

I either forged or strengthened friendships, even if I lost some close ones. I consider Farengeto and ProfessorHenn very close friends within the context of the game, and regardless of what might happen in the year since I write this message, I have valued their friendship in the past 2 years, and their patience with some of my ranting. On a similar note, I have also learned how fleeting political alliances can be, and how the allies of one fight can be the enemies of another. I never expected to side with Belschaft and oppose Glen on certain issues, just as I never expected that Farengeto, who was a supporter of Wolf back in the day, would be one of my closes allies in so many issues of importance. This is also a testament to how much my views may have changed over the years, though I feel perfectly comfortable with where I am right now.

Finally, I think it would be ungrateful on my part, despite any issues in the past, present or future, to dismiss the role of NationStates and the South Pacific over most of my years in university. I wouldn’t go as far as saying that it was been the major influence in that time, since much has happened in my life, most with little relation to this game, but it has undoubtedly been a significant influence, and I have met many people who, despite the distance between us, have taught me a lot. I am now working in consulting, having finished university, and I’m sure some things would be different if I hadn’t learned as much as I have thanks to the people I’ve known, and the lessons I've learned.

It has been a long time since I ran for Minister of Foreign Affairs without even knowing what GCR and UCR meant, and not all has been great, but it has overall been a good experience, and I sincerely hope that, when the time comes to unseal this message, the region will have become a hub of culture, renowned for its friendship and cooperation policies, and that I will be having a great time as a member of this community.

That is my hope.

With regards from the distant past,

Kringalia

P.S. Let’s give some cake and SPIT to Feirmont. Maybe that way he will renounce his Vampire Pancake ways!

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The Empire of Ryccia → Back to the Future Time Capsule
2 years 305 days ago

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So, hello, I guess.

If I'm not here for the time this gets re-opened, I want you all to know that I love TSP. The fond memories and friends I have made here...I shall carry forever.

Anyways, it is a shitty time. I have lost all hope for this fateforsaken island. The economic crisis just gets worse, we have high crime, immorality, and now...Maria...

NOAA said that an even stronger hurricane will come in 5 years. So, if I'm not here to tell the tale and that potential hurricane passes through my island, we are oh so, so fucked. We were before, and you think it couldn't get worse, but hey, life just finds a way to make things even worse.

Hurricane or no hurricane, things will get worse. I am afraid that the island will take decades to recover, or might never will. And I will be part of a lost generation...

No. I won't. I'll move to the States. If I can. If not, then my life will be an eternal misery. What will be the point of living?

Farewell,
Ryccia

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