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As the Vice President, I feel its important for me to chime in, with regards to the recent ex-Minister of Finance's article. Our President
Neferpitou is a young and ambitious member of our country, who wants to see us do great things. His recent actions, however, also show rash tendencies and some possibly naive views. Like Neferpitou, I initially questioned the wisdom of giving Pillow the status of Vice Minister of Finance. His real life training as an accountant and his lack of any active game account, however, gave me enough pause to see what he did. The first thing he did was to spend many hours auditing our national org. Next he setup a public google doc spreadsheet to keep track of our ledger and set about balancing out our budget and accounts. A good chunk of the first twelve or more hours after the national org was obtained was spent sorting it out. Pillow also made sure everyone in the cabinet had access to that spreadsheet so we could watch over the Ministry's shoulder, and he spent the time to walk me through its setup so I was sure I understood it. Asuka's "disappearance" was a little troubling but he had an active second so I saw no need to fret, and all I had to do was to check the spreadsheet and log into the org to check transactions. Other actions, however, caught my eye.
First we signed an MPP with Sweden, which was rather abrupt I thought so I asked our Minister of Foreign Affairs,
mrmariokartguy about it, only to learn he did not know a thing about it. Our president went about the signing of the mpp without even telling his MoFA. Next our MoFA explored a possible MPP with the Netherlands, which our President shot down without a thought. Ok... this was getting odd. When I asked him why we signed a MPP with Sweden I was given the answer "Why not?" When I asked about the Netherlands I was given something along the lines of "No reason to." Wait... we gain nothing nor loose nothing really by signing an MPP with either so why one over the other?
When I was informed that Asuka and Pillow had been removed from their posts, I thought it was odd but then I was informed
BKthunder had been placed in the job. I literally asked Neferpitou if he was insane. I was told to "Give him a second chance." REALLY?! He had TWO chances as our President and the audits provided some serious questions about BK's actions. "Ok, so its a game, lets chill and move forward," I thought. After all its only a short time before the next Presidential Elections.
Then in IRC our MoFA, in the course of doing his job as our chief diplomat, ended up in discussions with some members of various countries organizing a large scale military action against WTF nations. There was some odd mis-communications in IRC and it seemed like we were being invited into an anti-WTF alliance when we weren't and things were crazy for a bit. Our MoD, MoFA, CP, and myself all ended up in this meeting for a time. We did not participate much, and certainly did not get involved in the attacks. All of this caused Neferpitou to seriously flip out and nearly remove both our MoD and MoFA from office as well. The situation was very chaotic for a while before I managed to sort a few things out, and (I think) calm our President down a bit. In the end I learned that our MoD was flatly against participation in either an alliance or attack and had informed the people present at the meeting of that, prior to my arrival. Our MoFA did NOT try to get any alliances, MPP, or anything out of the countries present but was simply doing his job and remaining in contact with countries outside our own.
After all this had settled a little more I learned a few new troubling things. I won't go into them right here and now but they have given me some serious questions about our current President's plans for Japan's future. It beautifully highlights the fact that our current government needs to improve internal communication. This was just some of the frakked up things that happened today. I am all for exploring friendships with other nations, but at this time, we need to focus on domestic issues. The fact is right now, neither of our "national" military units have functional communes or supply plans, nor the stockpiles of weapons and food required for war. Our domestic economy is just beginning to stabilize and grow and does not need any strain on it. In terms of government we are just beginning to build solid structures and organization. There is, in short, a huge amount of work still to be done, and additional ministries we need/should have. Right now our focus needs to be on building diplomatic bridges and building Japan as a nation into a solid state.
We all want to see Japan become a major name on Primera, but one must crawl, then walk, then run. We cannot just go straight to running, if we try we will have some very predictable and painful results. We need patience, we need to trust one another, and the government needs to communicate among its various branches better. You'll notice that many of the events I outlined above I only discovered far after the fact. That, in and of itself, is a bit troubling imo. The CP and vCP should, more than any, have the best communication and we don't.
TL : DR
Some serious feces is wrong with Japan still. Everyone calm the frak down and work together, and COMMUNICATE ffs.
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