SYMistan - The rules of the game

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:51 pm

[QUOTE=blake]You see, its all in the definition of Radical. In my opinion, Stalin was a Stalinist

. He wanted everyone dead that didn't believe the way he did and he was pretty much insane on top of that. He even wanted people dead that did believe the way he did because their was a hint of conspiring against him. It is probably pointless to summarize Marxists and Stalinists when you already know what they are.

I want to be a character that wants to bring about the changes that Marx said would happen on their own, without resorting to killing millions of my own countrymen.

Is that more clear or shall I elaborate more?[/QUOTE]
Sort've like Kerensky, eh

blake · Post by **blake** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:25 pm

Sort of, except personally I would have tried to end the war and just settled, like Lenin.

giles337 · Post by **giles337** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:28 pm

Sort of, except personally I would have tried to end the war and just settled, like Lenin

Sort of, except personally I would have tried to end war and just settled, like Lennon!

As I said, I'm in, How are the groups going to discuss policies etc? Will it all be done in the open?

blake · Post by **blake** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:32 pm

Where is CM? And you are correct, Lennon was against war as well. More politicians should follow the words of Musicians. A world where Kylie Minogue makes all the decisions is a world I want to live in.

giles337 · Post by **giles337** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:42 pm

And you are correct, Lennon was against war as well.

Well duh

Just a play on words

blake · Post by **blake** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:45 pm

Is that what that was? I figured you really thought the John Lennon was the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

giles337 · Post by **giles337** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:59 pm

Well.... that's true too, right?

blake · Post by **blake** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:06 pm

Of course, After Napoleon conquered Alaska and then the Louisiana Purchase was signed which in turn created the United Nations, whose headquarters reside int he great city of Amsterdam, John Lennon led the Bolsheviks in a soccer match against the English Team... Therefore allowing king Solomon to take over Russia in the new british monarchy... I wish CM would get back so we could actually maybe play as opposed to spamming his thread. Uh well.

CM · Post by CM » Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:15 pm

CM is busy in meetings. CM said game starts next monday. CM is waiting till the end of wednesday so that everybody can choose their positions. CM says read his posts more clearly. CM feels spam is good and thus you must spam.

blake · Post by **blake** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:19 pm

In that case, lets all get drunk and dance.

CM · Post by CM » Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:11 pm

Ok the Democracts: The most powerful group in terms of economic power but with no grass roots power are the SYMIAN who have come back to SYMISTAN after the collapse of the Soviet Union. They have money due to living in the west and have come back to form their own party and basically forge the country they want. They have money, power and connections in the west. They are described as puppet leaders by some and heros by others. Some are pandering to more US influence in the area and some wish to follow a EU model.

The second are the political dissidents who were imprisioned during communist rule. These men and women are extremely popular but suffer from alot of liabilities like the lack of money, political training and backing from the west.They want a democractic country and each differs on the form of government.

The third are the former communists and military men who sided with the West in their years of services. These were spys, double agents, informers and the like at the highest level of power and position. This would where i would personally place Vicusn in his very odd desire of a character

The fourth and last group are the youth. Radically democractic with no experience. They want instance change without a look at the consequences. I leave this open for others to look at.

I have editted the power percentages so that it requires 3 political powers to form a government and not just two.

The Dems - 28% power nationally
The Coms - 28% power nationally
The Muslims - 21% power nationally
The crazies - 21% power
Independents - 2% which i control as NPCs.

The way this works you still need 3 parties without or with the independents. The independents will always be in opposition to ensure that 3 parties form the government.

Sytze · Post by **Sytze** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:37 am

I prefer to be either the Democrats or the Terrorists. In the Democratic group, I lean primarily towards the former communists and military men and secondarily towards the political dissidents.
In the Terrorists group I would like to be the Foreigners. Mind, my knowledge on the last group is not very large and I would likely come more to my right in the Democratic group.
All in all, I would be most intrigued to play the former communists and military men, but that is up to you. If that group is already too large, I guess I have to settle for the next best thing.

CM · Post by CM » Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:00 am

I will post the break up of the teams later on tonight.

CM · Post by CM » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:22 pm

The Communists:
1. Fable
2. Aegis
3. Vicsun
4. Dottie
5. Frogus
6. Blake

The Muslim Seperatists:
1. Darth Zenemij

The Terrorists:
1. RandomThug
2. Ik911
3. Giles
4.

The Democrats:
1. Darth Potato
2. Hodge
3. Jopperm2
4. Sytze
5. Fas
6. Yeltsu
7.
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Ok just to note the communists are too strong intellectually and the rest are fine with the exception of the Dems. They need atleast 2 people to be added so i am waiting for others to join.

Where you see numbers is where you should join. I will keep this open till saturday night 7 pm EST (NYC time). Then the teams will be locked as they are. If you wanna play but aren't certain join anyway we are all on learning curve except for Fable here

CM · Post by CM » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:55 pm

I have added some info with regard to the economy and basic info. If you need anymore post it here and i will conjure it up in that other thread.

Yeltsu · Post by **Yeltsu** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:53 pm

This is very tempting indeed, i'd like to be a foreign terrorist. But is it possible to not be an islamic terrorist, but say, a commie? I ask because as many others have stated, I do not know very much about islamic culture (although I would like to learn)

I am going away on easter vacation from saturday to wednesday. so I'll be miles away from a computer then and be quite inaccessible.

jopperm2 · Post by **jopperm2** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 2:31 pm

Perhaps a Fas' Q&A on Islam thread is in order.

I know more about Islam than your average Yank, but that's not nearly enough to form any sort of government that isn't completely tyrranical.

CM · Post by CM » Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:20 am

Jop there is already a thread on it. A qucik search would cover it. I personally don't mind it being really authentic. However most of the stuff on CNN and in the media with the exception of Fox on terrorists is pretty accurate. Their motivatuons, methods etc.

Yeltsu commies are full you can be a democrat.

jopperm2 · Post by **jopperm2** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:51 am

I figured there would be one. I don't have any specific questions right now so I haven't searched yet.

I do have one question on Symistan, where do we fall under Kyoto?

CM · Post by CM » Sat Mar 19, 2005 11:05 am

Kyoto we have nothing as we were not invited nor were we represented.