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ISBN 1 73559 2981

To William Cavendish, who stood up for his own principals even

though he knew he was going to be banned for doing so. This is

a valuable lesson to all, stand up for what you think is

right, not what you are meant to think is right.

Contents

Chapter 1: Joining the UK…

Chapter 2: Getting To Work…

Chapter 3: Let’s Get Physical…

Chapter 4: Controversy…

Chapter 5: The Novelty Expires…

Thank you for buying my book, it seems strange that I am

already writing my first book and have only been back in

NationStates for just over two months. I seem to have

accomplished more in two months than some have in a year. I

hope that you enjoy the book.

George Young

Chapter 1: Joining the UK

Joining a region in NationStates is not always stressful, it

depends which region you join. After returning to the game, I

experienced how easy it could be but I had noticed that the

previous applicants for citizenship experienced the stressful

side of things.

I applied for citizenship in the United Kingdom and answered

the security questions which were basically just questions to

test someone’s mental stability in my opinion. What kind of a

security check is it when you’re asked about the details of

your internet service provider, date of birth and location? I

was assured that there were more advanced security checks and

that I had applied whilst the regional threat level was green,

so I was able to benefit from the “easy” security check. If

that’s the easy one then the hard one must be nigh

impregnable, that’s all I can say.

The people seemed to not mind me and just carried on about

their business, as if I was just another citizen of the

region. In a way I liked this but in another way, I didn’t. I

didn’t like not being welcomed by only a select few, I wanted

to feel welcome throughout the region and this would mean

being welcomed by all of the active citizens who used the

region on a day-to-day basis, the people who I would most

likely be interacting with.

I joined at the end of the Alexander W. G. Stewart premiership

which I’m told was a very good one but what good is it being

told when you can’t actually experience it? He went down as a

null in my books but I suppose this is rather hypocritical of

me, seeing as I value Winston Churchill as a British Prime

Minister – and I didn’t experience him.

I began participating in the Spam Games & Fun section where I

was given an additional boost to my post count, as well as the

posts that I had accumulated from debating the key issues that

we are faced with both within the region and in real life. I

wanted to join regional government but I wasn’t sure when the

right time would be.

After a week, I had got to know the people quite well, the

regular people anyway. By “regular people” I mean the people

that logged in nearly every day and posted a considerable

amount on the forum. I watched as the arguments unfolded and

the true madness of the region was revealed. I was starting to

like it, a lot.

There were the quiet people, the ones who logged on and voted

in elections, sometimes posted in the spam section – for

people who want to increase their post count to look good;

which I often did – and often didn’t show much care for the

region, unless, of course, they had to because of their job.

And that’s what made me annoyed; the “quiet people” were often

the ones occupying these important cabinet roles when I first

joined. I didn’t quite understand it and I suppose it’s part

of the reason why the UK is now currently experiencing a

downfall in activity. I was working in the Foreign Office

under one of the “quiet people” and I can tell you now, it is

[expletive] inconvenient if you’re ever in this position.

Then there are the normal people, these are the people who

participate on the forums often, care about the region and

want to make it succeed. These are the type of people you want

to get involved with when you first join and unfortunately, I

didn’t.

I got involved with the loud people and these are the type of

people you want to stay away from if you know what’s good for

you. The “loud people” are often people who have held many

positions of seniority in the region and have been around for

a long time. They like to assert their authority, which is

sometimes non-existent, and assume that they’re better than

everyone else. They can often start an argument from nothing,

not all regions have an abundance of these people but every

region has one and unfortunately, the United Kingdom has more

than one.

My mentor was, because the Home Office was incapable of

sorting itself out, on an unofficial basis and his name was

Alexander W. G. Stewart, the former everything except royalty

and a few cabinet positions, let’s put it that way. When I say

“on an unofficial basis” I mean that he was acting as my

mentor because the Home Secretary was seemingly incapable of

appointing one officially and what he said wasn’t regulated by

the rules that are applicable to the Mentor Team, he could say

anything and he did.

I remember once when I was nominating a candidate in the

British People’s Union – the party that I was a member of and

was founded by Alexander, it was a centre-right monarchist

party – and that candidate happened to be one who Alexander

didn’t agree with, so what did he do? He told me that the

other candidate would be a much better choice and that I

should change my nomination right away. Being one who stood up

for my principals, I refused. This was the wrong thing to do,

if you wanted to maintain a good reputation.

I noticed his general demeanour change towards me, all because

I had nominated a candidate that went against his ideals. Why

did this candidate go against his ideals? This is a funny

story; he went against his ideals because he had moved out of

the family that he had previously been adopted into by him and

started his own branch of Stewarts – taking with him some

other Stewarts from Alexander’s side.

I didn’t really understand the House of Stewart and still

don’t to this very day although I can sum it up for you in big

bold letters, to be avoided. Why you might ask? I’ll tell you

why, it has had more controversy than Jeremy Clarkson on a bad

day.

One of the region’s most notorious terrorists was adopted into

the House of Stewart and then took revenge against another of

the region’s most notorious terrorists – they weren’t in

partnership then or terrorists come to that – because they had

both previously had disputes before even joining NationStates.

It turns out that John Pressman had invited Walter Mondale to

NationStates but the pair had already had dealings with each

other on multiple other sites such as White House RPG, Habbo

Hotel and many other role playing communities. They didn’t get

on because of their constant personality clashes and this was

reflected by such a very funny incident, Stuart v. Pressman,

or as it would later be, Pressman v. Mondale.

Walter had forged evidence about Pressman but what he had done

was actually very clever and would have worked if he hadn’t

made the careless mistakes that he did. What he did was send

an array of personal messages to himself and acted out a

conversation between himself and John Pressman and edited the

names and times accordingly. He failed, however, to edit all

of the times and so we had one time set that went in this

order, to quote from the actual evidence “8:51, 8:50 and 8:52”

if it hadn’t of been for that and his lack of a report button

on Pressman’s messages then he probably would’ve won the case.

What I don’t understand is why he sought civil and not

criminal charges; he only wanted £1,000 the poor sod. He

could’ve sought criminal charges and potentially achieved a

three month ban imposed on John Pressman out of it but I guess

he was more of a money man himself.

The idea behind it was both very clever and funny but the

initial text and language employed by Mr. Mondale was not,

there were threats of rape, death and a lot of vile insults.

After he was caught out on the lack of a report button,

Mondale dropped his case and John Pressman became the sole

plaintiff through his counter-claim, which eventually won.

Mondale was ordered to pay £4,000 in total, comprised of

£3,500 for material damage (I think that’s an inconvenience to

the plaintiff) and £500 for legal fees. He claimed that he

didn’t have very much money in his bank account and yet,

surprisingly he was able to pay £2,500 up front and the rest

of the money a few hours later.

It turns out that he had actually made multiple accounts and

sent money to himself, accumulating more than £22,000, which I

think he deserved for being able to beat the MI5, whose job it

is to check for this very issue.

The pair separated but less than two weeks after this, they

both spammed the forum with Nazi images and racially abused

several citizens.

Walter revoked his citizenship halfway through the trial,

which meant that he no longer had protection under the

region’s laws and constitution, so basically the Supreme Court

could just walk all over him and rightly so.

John Pressman was sentenced to one year but the root

administrator had expressed his concerns for a permanent ban

to be put in place and this is what is, presumably, going to

happen as I doubt that John Pressman will be welcomed back

into the United Kingdom any time soon.

Chapter 2: Getting To Work

Whenever you get to join a Ministry, either as a Deputy or as

the head of it, you somehow feel privileged and the duty to

serve your region to the best of your ability is never more

relevant.

After pestering the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,

Betty Boothroyd, who happened to be a “quiet citizen” many

times, I was finally announced as the Deputy Secretary of

State for Foreign Affairs but this didn’t come easily.

When I first asked for the job, I was denied on the basis that

the Prime Minister thought I was too new for the job and that

I needed to gain some experience before thinking about

becoming a Deputy Minister. I thought to myself and did in

fact ask many officials this, how on Earth would I be able to

gain experience if no-one was willing to let me? And that’s

the problem these days with NationStates, people aren’t being

allowed to gain experience, this isn’t the case in the whole

of NationStates but in most advanced regions it is.

When I asked for the job a week later, the Foreign Secretary

had said that the Prime Minister had said that it was up to

her on who she appoints as her Deputy and that I was being

considered. There were two candidates, myself and Raymond

Sullivan, who had been a citizen for a few months and had a

basic understanding of how the region worked. I was picked.

I got the personal message on Wednesday saying that I had in

fact been selected to be the new Deputy Secretary and that I

had the Foreign Secretary’s full trust and support. This was

something that I didn’t expect and I was thrilled, I had

achieved the role within a week. I knew that there were high

expectations and curiosity levels around me, even the Deputy

Prime Minister had called me a very diligent worker and had

said that I was one of the only people he had seen taking the

Deputy Minister position so seriously, but that didn’t affect

my performance.

I introduced a new ambassadorial reports system, where I would

interview the ambassadors every month and see which one was

deserving of the “Ambassador of the Month” title. I would

grade them on this interview and their performance throughout

the month, A being the highest and C being the lowest.

When I proposed the first report to the Foreign Secretary, she

disagreed with my nomination for “Ambassador of the Month” and

promotions to First Class Ambassador and the tensions were

never that high before or after this meeting. “I’m not happy

with your choices” she said to me, as I looked on with

optimism, hoping that I would be applauded for my good work

and organisation of the reports. I was in the end rewarded,

after a long heated discussion.

In the end, the Foreign Secretary resigned due to “personal

issues” I think it was and there was a period of three days

where there was no Foreign Secretary and I was left to act.

On Saturday the 6th of October, 2012, I was approached by the

then Prime Minister, Edwin T. B. Stewart, and asked if I

wanted to become the Foreign Secretary until the general

election – there was dissolution of Parliament approved by His

Majesty King George I.

I was thrilled when I had saw this, especially when I had been

denied my request to take over a day before by the Prime

Minister, and I got to work immediately, appointing to the

position of Deputy Michael R. E. Stewart, who had previously

served as the Foreign Secretary and was the incumbent Defence

Secretary.

When I sent a personal message to the Prime Minister a few

days before the general election, inquiring as to whether I

would receive the job in intelligence that I was asked to take

up after foiling the attempt of a known terrorist to re-enter

the region under a false name, I was told that he didn’t think

that I was getting the job but that I may be retaining my

position as the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. I was

pleased.

Chapter 3: Let’s Get Physical

I was beginning to enjoy my tenure as the Secretary of State

for Foreign Affairs, I had already written my first foreign

update and had it sent out. It was a special update regarding

the election, it was to be sent out before the election on

Tuesday the 9th of October, 2012 and it was.

Just before I was asked if I wanted to keep my position as

Foreign Secretary, on Tuesday the 2nd of October, 2012, I had

invited Samuel Watson to join the region. Watson was Pressman;

he had been in contact with me and had told me that he wanted

to re-join the region. I genuinely believed that he wanted a

second chance and told authorities that I had sent him a

recruitment telegram – which I had – and he was accepted. It’s

not my fault that his IP didn’t match up with John Pressman’s.

I was duped into thinking that Samuel Watson wanted a second

chance and this was wrong.

Almost a day after he had joined, Samuel Watson was given the

position of Secretary of State for Culture, a position that is

very important in these current times of activity. He was

charged with creating new initiatives to promote British

culture abroad and increase activity but all he really did was

create one debating competition and another which didn’t

launch because there weren’t any contenders, copy my hangman

game which didn’t work because there was one already in

circulation (mine) and issue two inactivity notices to two

failing role plays, which the previous Culture Minister was

obviously incapable of doing.

The Prime Minister didn’t say why he had appointed him, all he

said was in an announcement that Samuel Watson was to be the

next Culture Minister and that was it, he was the Culture

Minister. This was a terrible error of judgment, how can you

appoint someone completely new to NationStates into your

cabinet? The funny thing is that he was capable of doing his

job but just didn’t do the right things; if he wasn’t capable

that would have been a bad decision on the Prime Minister’s

behalf but he didn’t care because he wasn’t running for a

second term and I think that’s why he did it.

When I was talking to then Prime Ministerial candidate, Edward

Cavendish, I was assured that due to the nature of Mr.

Watson’s inexperience he would be demoted to a Deputy Minister

when (it was when because everyone had confidence in him) he

took office and that I would remain as the Foreign Secretary.

I was glad to remain in my post and told Samuel the news, as I

had been instructed to by Mr. Cavendish. When Samuel responded

with the fact that he’d be gaining experience and I relayed

this on to Mr. Cavendish, he remained in office when he won

the election. I’m not sure if it was down to what I said or

Watson’s ability to get things done (although he didn’t get

many useful things done after his trial week was up and the

general election was won by Cavendish) but if it was down to

what I said, then I regret having said it.

I was expected to write a second Foreign Update detailing the

results of the General Election, which is something that I had

no problem with doing and I think I became the only Foreign

Secretary to have written more than one Foreign Update in a

month.

As time progressed, Watson began to get more and more

comfortable within the region, as I gathered evidence to pin-

point him as Pressman and have him ejected, realising that I

shouldn’t have invited him to the region. I knew that I

couldn’t just say that he was Pressman as it would have been

damaging to my reputation, I wasn’t believed when I was able

to identify him before as I mention somewhere on another page

before this chapter, of course, I hadn’t talked to Pressman

about him re-entering the region when that happened. I was

only able to prove that he was Pressman the first time by

pointing out that his nation “Mailean”’s Factbook had

references to the nation that John Pressman had first applied

for citizenship under “Nodsliw”.

Samuel quite often had regular digs at other people, including

myself and when I retaliated my reputation went down as I

think people didn’t like me being rude to Samuel. I wasn’t

being rude, I was defending myself against his ridiculous

statements and quite frankly, boorish personality.

I was involved in an argument via the personal message system

with Mr. Watson and after I had defended myself once again I

was met with a rather mad reply “Wow, one more insult and I’ll

sue”. That made me think, what type of madness does this

region promote, if someone thinks they can sue you because you

defended yourself?

A few days before this, Mr. Watson had asked me if I thought

that he could sue Alexander W. G. Stewart for telling him to

“bugger off”. After consulting Alexander who had told me to

tell him to sue him because it would be funny, I told Watson

those very words and surprisingly enough, he didn’t.

To summarise, if you want to get your hands on a position in

regional government, even if you’re new, just ask and it might

be your lucky day, it was for Samuel Watson, that’s for sure.

Chapter 4: Controversy

I’m sure that everyone’s caused some controversy in their life

but some have caused more than others.

I think that one of my most controversial acts was my

attempted case against His Majesty’s Treasury, where I was

waiting for over two months for a business to be created,

after it had been accepted.

The whole affair was complete madness and funnily enough, the

Chancellor of the Exchequer who had accepted my request at the

time was Edwin T. B. Stewart who then became the Prime

Minister and was replaced by J.D. Rockefeller, who did nothing

about it and then what a surprise, Edwin T. B. Stewart was

appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer for a second time and

had agreed to create my business, for a second time.

Then I was asked if I really wanted the business, which is

stupid, considering I had asked for it to be created and then

I was told that it would be created when he wasn’t “dead” as

it was 4am. I waited for two days and then sent a personal

message to the Chancellor, after an administration request of

mine was not dealt with after it had been viewed by two

administrators (I would think two, if not I can confirm one)

in the space of an hour. I was told that it was denied due to

the economy, when I had paid the fee and the business was

Wikipedia – a non-profit organisation. That is when I applied

for the equitable remedy.

I sought a Writ of Mandamus to compel the Chancellor of the

Exchequer to create my business and refund my fee of £100 for

the inconvenience that I had suffered.

Apparently the fee is only a levy to HM Treasury and is not

for creating the actual business, so I then asked if I could

sue the Chancellor for administrational negligence and was

told that I couldn’t if I could already seek an equitable

remedy which was apparently ruled out by the fact that my

evidence was not solid enough. If my ability to seek an

equitable remedy is ruled out, then I surely can’t seek an

equitable remedy?

Chapter 5: The Novelty Expires

After revealing my evidence that proved Samuel Watson to be

John Pressman, I seem to have charged myself with treason.

Now I am being tried for treason in the United Kingdom because

I apparently assisted a known terrorist enter the region, even

though the Attorney General admits that I was both naïve and

duped by this.

As a result of the Attorney General’s admission, the

government are only seeking a sentence of a public apology and

three days being masked as a prisoner, where I would

presumably be allowed to view the Supreme Court, have a cell

in the Tower of London and view the laws of the region. As you

can imagine, all very exciting.

Samuel Watson was banned for being John Pressman and they are

now seeking to put an indefinite ban on his account. If he was

able to pass the security checks once then what’s to stop him

from doing it again?

I never knew how stressful a regional trial could be,

especially the amount of abuse you get from the “loud people”,

namely Alexander and George Stewart. I’ve had more reputation

deductions from them than any other citizen – because they’re

the only reputation deductions I’ve had.

When I issued my statement to the court, stating that I agree

with the Attorney General’s recommended sentence of three

days, Alexander W. G. Stewart posted a topic in the Strangers’

Gallery. I don’t know why he didn’t do it before; perhaps he

didn’t read the trial properly. I knew it was only a matter of

time before he or one of the other “loud people” posted it

anyway and when he posted it, the gallery erupted in an

argument.

My Time in the UK: What I Make Of It

George Young

“Joining a region in NationStates is not always stressful, it

depends which region you join. After returning to the game, I

experienced how easy it could be but I had noticed that the

previous applicants for citizenship experienced the stressful

side of things.”

George Young’s journey in the United Kingdom continues as he

details what he makes of his time in the region so far.

In this novel we find out:

How to get a position in regional government, even if

you’re new

What three groups George Young uses to classify the

people of NationStates

How not to win a court case by forging evidence