If we're being honest, TSP has lost the players that kept the region afloat. (And if we're being *really* honest, there wasn't even that much activity in the first place.) Kris has decreased his activity, and regional affairs suffered for it. Foreign affairs hasn't been much of anything since I left, as the diplomatic corps didn't provide any activity (as I had predicted) and we don't have a foe to provide fire for FA. Nobody has stepped up to the plate to fill those shoes.

Europeia is more active than us because they have a purpose. We do not. Our political system is based on consensus, which has forced us to accept the most common denominator as our foundations. In other words, we can't experiment with new radical ideas, because we're forced to garner supermajority support for them beforehand. Nobody wants to change that, either, as evident by the last lackluster Great Council.

Europeia has a navy with a purpose and good leadership. The SPSF has lacked good leadership for years, and has never had a real purpose thanks to the overriding desire of most of us to avoid "ideology" in the military.

Nobody really wants to listen when you tell them it's the very foundation of TSP that's at the root of inactivity problems.