Atlasia has long had a libertarian bent and Cassius naturally struggles with them based on his views.
And yes the Mideast Federalist Party is in a mess and it was one of the things that I was unable to fix before I lost my internet access back in August.
The Federalists are achieving the remarkable spectacle of winning the Presidency in a landslide while losing one of their Senate seats due to sheer ineptitude. If I was a Fed I'd be appalled - apparently not a single soul in the party noticed the (hardly subtle) strategic recruitment campaign windjammer ran in the last couple of weeks. They're literally on course to become a bigger joke than the old PU. It seems apparent that the party's victories of the past months have been more due to Labor's disastrous tenure in power than any kind of Federalist organisation. Even if they end up scraping out a win by one vote here it'll be humiliating.
I noticed it in the few glimpses that I made at the registration board but naturally my limitations made it difficult. Even so, it is not like there would have been anyway to stop it save to have several people cry fowl in public and that usually doesn't work either.
At the end of the day this game is about persistance, and that is why we will never end up like the PU. This party isn't going anywhere except to victory, if not today, then next time.
