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Five days ago I took over as Interim SoS with a few simple goals, to make the State Department Active, Generate a Higher Quality of Reports, and execute those who did not comply. Yesterday was the deadline for final reports and today you get to find out which of your fellow Americans are Ambassabro's and which ones are headed for the chopping block.
Report Quality Awards
Every now and then there are reports sent in by ambassadors that are so detailed that they make me feel like I am in fact a part of the community they report on. The State Department likes to reward these individuals, and occasionally publicly, for their excellent service to the United States of America. Concurrent with this reward is a gold prize, and before someone in congress flips a sh*t I'm donating this gold myself, and a little indication in our record books.
Our two award receivers for this month are
American_insurgent , for his report on Brazil, and 
Mercury55 for his report on Canada.
Activity Apples
I can't afford to give out gold for this award, hint hint congress, but some ambassador's go above and beyond the call of duty for their reliability. Ambassador's are required once a week to submit a report on our relations with the country they are assigned to. In the case of this months winner
Sivle not only was he handling two countries at a time, but he was also the first, and occasionally multiple times a week, to submit reports on any change in situation of either of his countries. For his diligence in representing the United States well in Spain and Portugal, despite the current war, we recognize Sivle
Honorable Discharge
Occasionally being an ambassador can be boring, or maybe just overwhelming due to RL, and a person feels they have to resign. Luckily for us there are people who actually bother to tell us when they are leaving, instead of just dropping off on reports. For that we'd like to thank
CmdrGhost and 
comandokiller for telling us, and reminding us when we forget to update our roster, for not leaving us in the dark. Good luck in the rest of your eLife.
Whipping Post
Sometimes we've got special kind of ambassadors, ones that need a good public humiliation but don't deserve to be executed. For that we have the whipping post, a place for me to criticize and embarrass them a little bit with some off handed compliments.
First up we have
Sermokala once an excellent ambassador to Ireland that hasn't sent in a report since May 13th. It's not like hes inactive either, you can usually find him bragging about his league skills in any channel at any time, he's just lazy. He wants excitement, so were gonna give it to him. Welcome to the whipping post Sermok, and enjoy your new additional ambassadorships to whatever country you manage to get yourself assigned to. Also, ammumu sucks.
Next we have whoever that sneaky bastard was that changed the response form to include a section "Rate your latest sexual experience on a scale of 1 to 10". I don't know who it was, but that was sneaky.
The Executioner
Finally we have the main attraction, the executioner. Occasionally we have unreliable or unresponsive ambassadors and normally we fire them in quiet. However I wanted to hand over to the next SoS a good team of solid individuals so I promised a threat of public firing if they didn't respond, and because I can be vengeful if somebody disappoints me. So this month the following individuals have been removed from the State Department:
Csall123
kenyanpunk01
HobbitTon
mfjackal
Graphiicc
ZORRO
Opportunity
With the firing of the inactive players we have several opening in the State Department. Message whoever ends up as SoS at the end of this election and send in an application, we can train damn near anyone and you meet some interesting characters along the way.
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About the game:
USA as a world power? In E-Sim it is possible!
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