Revival Proposal

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How can I be part of this without being an MP? News Paper? Other function? If we're doing some sort of PR I have a great D'Hondt calculater in Excell, I'd be happy to help with that in some way.

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How can I be part of this without being an MP? News Paper? Other function? If we're doing some sort of PR I have a great D'Hondt calculater in Excell, I'd be happy to help with that in some way.

The man behind the man?

You mean Permanent Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office?

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How can I be part of this without being an MP? News Paper? Other function? If we're doing some sort of PR I have a great D'Hondt calculater in Excell, I'd be happy to help with that in some way.

I'd be more than happy to have you assist the royal family and assist me should I be given GM responsibilities.

Hmm if you don't feel like being responsible for generating elections, I could be some sort of Indipendant Administrative Election Agency/Pollster. But I'm willing to assist the Crown and the GM in any way his majesty wishes.  

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Anyone working on Lindsay? If yes I'd be happy to help, if no I'd love to take it on. I have a special love for agricultural regions.

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Started making a map of Lindsay. Hope that's alright.

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What sort of names would you be using?

More English sounding ones, as Lindsay is the region least influenced by Scandinavia. So far I have:

Stagfordshire, New Cumbria, Barleyshire for Counties/Hundreds
Stagford, Slatcliff, Eldon, Ralphsburg for settlements

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Ah very good, thanks Al

Alright, I've made a map of Lindsay with 7 Hundreds besides Lindsay-on-Sea, with one settlement for each. Not sure about all the names yet though. Critisism and suggestions are welcome.


1 Stagfordshire (120 563) - Stagford (41 568)
2 Summerton (102 506) - Aurora (24 340)
3 Barleyshire (89 385) - Rafesbury (33 612)
4 Casterly (52 366) - Eldon (16 202)
5 New Cumberland (50 132) - Not sure, but something with Hill in it (15 607)
6 Not sure (25 214) - Saltcliffe (9 361)
7 Vale of Arn (18 912) - Arnhall (10 512)

Lindsay-on-Sea (141 270)

I'll post the map once I've got all the names on it.

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Dinhill?

That would work.

What do you think of the other names?

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I was thinking it might have been a former Queen, or other noble woman who was important for the area.

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Short introductions to Lindsay's hundreds:

Stagfordshire – (120 563)

Stagfordshire is located around the river Greenstream. The fertile and rich soil around the river is ideal for agriculture and for centuries English settlers have used the area for farming. Next to farming, the military and the military industry is the most important part of the hundred’s economy, and several military bases are located all over the area. Stagfordshire is also famed for its horse breeding, and horse related sports are very popular among the inhabitants, even if polo especially holds a special place in the heart of many of the residents. Fox-hunting is also popular, and the question over its legality is an important political issue. Inheritance- and property-tax are other important issues as Stagfordshire has a lot of grand old houses and estates and family farms. The population is concentrated to the suburbs and exurbs of Lindsay-on-Sea, as well as the area around the Greenstream.

The largest and oldest city is Stagford. Historically it’s been an important military city. The weapon industry is the most prominent one of the city, and the city’s military base employ a lot of people. The city unfortunately was heavily bombed by the Germans during WW2, but most of the city’s old historical buildings have been restored. Stagford is beautifully situated right at the shore of the Greenstream.       
     
Summerton – (102 506)

Summerton is the second most populous hundred in the region, and the fastest growing one. The beaches and coastal areas of Southern Summerton are considered very beautiful, and have proved to be a popular place to go on vacation, and for rich Antillians to buy summer and retirement houses. This has caused the once small coastal towns to grow at a huge speed and caused property taxes to sky-rocketed. Tourism is understandably the main industry. The Northern parts of the hundred are much more rural, and similar to the rest of the region, being dominated by agriculture. Strawberries are the most popular crop, but a lot of the island’s vegetable production comes from here.   
 
Aurora is the largest settlement. The old seaside resort is home of 24 340 people and like most of Southern Summerton it is quickly growing. It was named after Aurora Montgomery-Blackwood, the beloved wife of the city’s founder, Charles Montgomery-Blackwood, the 6th Baron of Lindsay.     
 
Barleyshire – (89 385)

Barleyshire is often called the little brother of Stagfordshire, and the two hundreds share a lot of similarities. Barleyshire is however much more rural than Stagfordshire, and agriculture is an even more dominating part of the economy. The shire also lacks the military history of its neighbor. Outside of its own boarders it’s mostly famous for the roses which are grown in huge numbers, especially the Lindsay Blue Rose.

The city of Rafesbury was once Lindsay’s largest city, and the capital. In the late 18th century however it was overtaken by Lindsay-on-Sea (and then later also by Stagford) something Rafesbury has never been able to accept, and until this day they still have a rivalry with Lindsay-on-Sea. The city is surprisingly industrial for Lindsay and it’s one of the left’s few strong-holds in the entire region. The city centre is dominated by a huge castle which is rumored to be haunted, and many ghost hunters visit yearly.         
 
Casterly – (52 366)

Casterly is located in the Northern part of Lindsay. It has by far the most religious and conservative population of the region, and probably the whole country. It’s a PMP and PNP strong-hold and social-conservative and Christian values are important. The economy is almost entirely based on agriculture, and as in much of the region farm-subsides is an important issue.

The major settlement is Eldon, which is the only place in the hundred where you can find some sort of industry not based on agriculture. According to the latest census it has 16 202 inhabitants.     

New Cumberland – (50 132)

New Cumberland is the hilly and forest covered northern parts of Lindsay. Although farming is an important part of the area, especially the breeding of highland cattle and sheep, the dominant industry has been forestry, and the area export lots of timber the United Kingdom and Southern Europe. The forest industry has made the area more left-wing than the rest of the region, and forest unions were once very strong. Hunting is by far the most popular hobby thanks to the rich wild-life  and gun and environmental issues are very important to the population. 

The largest settlement is Dinhill with 15 607 inhabitants. The city’s church is very old, and is located at the very top of the hill, and the tower can been seen from a very far distance. The main employer in town is a pulp and paper factory, Walton’s Paper INC. But there is also a factory which produces wheels to trains, and a screwdriver factory.         

Wychingshore – (25 214)

Wychingshore differs from most of Lindsay in that the area isn’t very good for farming due to the very salt-rich soil. Historically the main industries of Wychingshore have instead been salt and limestone mining, as well as fishing. The importance of salt and limestone has however decreased greatly in the last hundred years, and few mines still remain open. Instead tourism has become a growing percentage of the hundred’s economy. The area is thought to have some very beautiful nature, and one of the country’s largest national parks can be found in the Northern part of the hundred.

Most of the population lives in small towns along the coastline. The biggest settlement is Saltcliffe, which only has 9361 inhabitants.

Vale of Arn – (18 912)

The Vale of Arn has a bit of a bad reputation. A majority of the hundred’s inhabitants lives in Arnhall, which has little to offer in itself, and is mostly considered a big, boring commuter town to the nearly located Eldon. Arnhall also has the region’s largest unemployment.

Outside of the city, the hundred contains mostly small villages, which has a reputation for being very inbreed, isolated and intolerant.     

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A summury of Lindsay-on-Sea will be next up. I'm thinking sort of a mix between Norfolk, Virginia and Brighton, England.

EDIT: Contructive critisim on my the above post is very welcome, btw.

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Thank you

Yes we have those inbreed areas in Sweden as well. Rural Blekinge, as well as Västerbotten are big time offenders. There's even an villiage in Blekinge not too far from where my grandparents used to live where they have devoloped their own dialect which is completly different from all other accents in Southern Sweden, because as my grandma used to say: "No one ever moves in and no one ever moves out, they stay there and marry their cousins (and screw their sisters) and it has made them all a little bit strange.

I'll post it there right now. 

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I'm sad this didn't live longer than it did. :/

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I am up for a restart.

Same here. 

But I don't really see why this time would be any different. 

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I wasn't around for the previous attempts to start this game up, but it seems like a really novel idea; one which people took care to think out beforehand. If there is enough interest, I'd love to help get this thing running again.

I propose that the next mock Parliament be set in an alternate USA with a Westminister system, if this gets off the ground.

Why, we already have an almost done fictional country for this game?
If we want to play in America 2.0 we have Atlasia.

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If we base this on Australia, does that mean we can change Prime Minister every week.

The thing is, we've tried that many times now. I think giving people a firm starting point and then going from there is better tan trying to create everything from scratch. People can and will and should act independently from exactly how the parties act, but if they want to be themselves they should go to Atlasia. In this concept, the focus should, I believe, be on playing a character in a parliament.

I agree with you that this should be more of a RPG where you play a character, not yourself, but it'd still be more fun (in my mind) with different parties, and if we're going to use real life parties, we should really go for a country with a bit more political diversity, and preferably PR. In that case I think New Zealand would be preferable. 

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So if the ALP is one of the parties, the other should be the Liberal National Party of Australia. (To keep things simple the Coalition should have merged just as in Queensland, creating a single united party.)

Anyone against? 

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Yep sounds good Swedish Cheese; are there any conservatives willing to start up the LNP Caucus then?

I will.

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His write-up for Solomon is impossible though

Do Australian MPs always live in the Division they represent (as in USA) or can they be selected for some completley different place and just get a "home" in that Division (as in the UK) cause if it's the later my character can just represent any rural seat, otherwise I'll just change my bio so that my character moved somewhere in QLD. 

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Left (68)

WA (3)
Brand
Fremantle
Perth

SA (6)
Adelaide
Hindmarsh
Kingston
Makin
Port Adelaide
Wakefield

QLD (
Blair
Capricornia
Griffith
Lilley
Moreton
Oxley
Petrie
Rankin

NSW (23)
Banks
Barton - Tom Henry (ALP)
Blaxland
Charlton
Chifley
Cunningham
Dobell
Eden-Monaro
Fowler
Grayndler - Dave Astuzia (ALP)
Hunter
Kingsford Smith - Kevan Jahanshahi (ALP)
McMahon
Newcastle
Page
Parramatta
Reid
Richmond
Shortland
Sydney
Throsby
Watson - Colin Elliott (ALP)
Werriwa

ACT (2)
Canberra
Fraser - Andrew Lawson (ALP)

VIC (21)
Ballarat
Batman
Bendigo
Bruce
Calwell
Chisholm - Willow Wong-Jones (ALP)
Corio
Gellibrand
Gorton
Holt
Hotham
Isaacs
Jagajaga
LaTrobe
Lalor
Maribyrnong
McEwen
Melbourne
Melbourne Ports
Scullin
Wills

TAS (4)
Braddon
Denison
Franklin
Lyons

NT (1)
Lingiari

Right (68)

WA (11)
Canning
Cowan
Curtin - Martin Oakleigh (LNP)
Durack
Forrest
Moore
O'Connor - Francis Jordan (LNP)
Pearce
Stirling
Swan
Tangney

SA (4)
Barker
Grey
Mayo
Sturt - Donald Richards (LNP)

QLD (20)
Bonner
Bowman - Maxine Bartlett (LNP)
Dawson
Dickson
Fadden
Fairfax
Fisher
Flynn
Forde
Groom
Herbert
Hinkler
Leichhardt
Longman
Maranoa - Roger Erenford (LNP)
McPherson
Moncreiff
Ryan
Wide Bay
Wright

NSW (21)
Bennelong
Berowra
Bradfield
Calare
Cook
Cowper
Farrer
Gilmore - Ian Alexander Harlow (LNP)
Hughes
Hume
Lyne
Macarthur
Mackellar
Mitchell
New England
North Sydney - Edward Lloyd (LNP)
Parkes
Paterson
Riverina
Warringah
Wentworth - Matthew Collins (LNP)

ACT (0)
-

VIC (12)
Casey
Flinders
Gippsland
Goldstein
Higgins
Indi
Kooyong
Mallee
McMillan
Menzies
Murray
Wannon

TAS (0)
-

NT (0)
-

'Swing' (Please don't choose these seats, they'll be assigned to the side that ends up governing. (14)

WA (1)
Hasluck

SA (1)
Boothby

QLD (2)
Brisbane
Kennedy

NSW (4)
Macquarie
Greenway
Lindsay
Robertson

ACT (0)
-

VIC (4)
Aston
Corangamite
Deakin
Dunkley

TAS (1)
Bass

NT (1)
Solomon

Hugh, I tried to be a bit helpful and added characters to the divisions they've claimed for themselves. Claimed divisions are bolded.

Andrew still hasn't specified a seat for Gordon Menzies.

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May I suggest a seperate campaign thread for the election.