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December 2018 Update
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The Empire of Mare Nostrum

Emperor: Paulus Augustus

Praetorian Prefect: Khosrow

Legatus Prefect: Thomas Insaniac
Legatus: Khosrow
Vicarius: Barzai ux Loddhan

Tribunal Prefect:  Sarah
Tribune of Naturalization: Germanicus
Tribune of Culture: AngryScientist77
Tribune of Communications: Drinarius
People’s Tribune: Cinna

Senatorial Prefect: Rex Ciphra
Delegate: Shapirius

Cultural Endeavours!

Dean Telcontar prepares his lecture notes

Culture took center stage in the Empire during the month of December. In our Theater District, our province based roleplay was launched at the beginning of the month. Soon after Orphans of Rome, a character based roleplay following the struggles and tribulations of poor orphans in Imperial Rome, was also launched. In the Temple District the worship of the Most High Gods, the regional religion of Mare Nostrum, was reinvigorated as more scripture has been revealed. The University has also had a busy month. Crushita Telcontar has been appointed as Dean of the University and the month has seen the introduction of new lectures and continuation of older ones. Crushita himself teaches a course on the History of Islam.

In other parts of the region, the Tribunate of Culture has also launched a Poetry Contest and other regularly scheduled events such as: weekly games, voice-chats, and discussions, continue as planned.

The Census

Proof that I’m surrounded by noobs

Have you ever wondered just who you are playing NationStates with? We sure did and we set out to find out. At the end of November and beginning of December, the government of Mare Nostrum conducted a voluntary census of our regional population. Mainly consisting of simple demographic information such as age or country of residence. The results of the survey revealed a great deal about who we are as a community. While some information was almost a given, such as the majority of our members being male or from America. We also found interesting and unexpected results, which revealed diversity in our community that we were not aware of. Apparently we are incredibly political diverse and ethnically diverse.

Political Shuffling

Fancy stickers make everything better

Not a month goes by in Mare Nostrum without elections occurring. December was no exception. At the start of the month we had our regularly scheduled Senatorial Elections. Ten individuals stood for the Senate, but only seven could be elected per the Imperial Electoral Regulations. The Optimates dominated the election, garnering five seats for their party, the other two seats being split between an Independent and a member of the Populares. With their commanding majority, the Optimates re-elected Rex Ciphra to serve as Senatorial Prefect once more. During the month, our World Assembly Delegate resigned from her position and a snap election had to be held. Two candidates stood and in the end Shapirius was decisively elected. We will end December and begin January with elections for the Tribunal Prefect, where the Optimates will seek to defend their position.

Happenings....

• The Empire celebrated Christmas by having a festival with our friends in Osiris
• We are proud to have been named as Best New Region at the 2018 Gameplay Awards
  
• Praetorian Prefect Khosrow has been inducted into the Order of the Crow, for his service to the region domestically. This is the first award ever given by the Imperial Government.
• The Regional Discord server achieved 19,266 posts in the month of December!

January 2019 Update
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The Empire of Mare Nostrum

Emperor: Rex Ciphra

Praetorian Prefect: Khosrow

Legatus Prefect: Thomas Insaniac
Legatus: Khosrow
Vicarius: Barzai ux Loddhan

Tribunal Prefect: Sarah
Tribune of Naturalization: Bdurham07
Tribune of Culture: AngryScientist77
Tribune of Communications: Drinarius
People’s Tribune: Lord Eros Anphedite

Senatorial Prefect: Lord Eros Anphedite
Delegate: Shapirius

Hail Emperor Ciphra!


The humble crown of our New Emperor

Senatorial Prefect and an original founder of the Empire, Rex Ciphra, has ascended to the highest office in the Empire. On January the 20th, in full attendance by the Triumvirate, the Praetorian Prefect, the Revelators of the Most High, the citizenry of the Empire, and the general public, Rex Ciphra was crowned as Rex Ciphra Pertinax, Augustus of Mare Nostrum. The occasion was marked with speeches from government figures, kind remarks from citizens and diplomatic friends, and with general revelry.

Rex is one of the original founders of Mare Nostrum. In his time here, he has served as Senatorial Prefect, a Revelator of the Most High Gods, and as an active soldier in the Marian Legions, along with immense contributions to our community socially. His ascension to the Imperial Office follows the departure of Paulus Gaius. Rex Ciphra will serve as the third Emperor of Mare Nostrum. His position as Senatorial Prefect is succeeded by Lord Eros Anphedite.

Legatus Developments

Sigil of the First Class Urban Cohort

January was a rather busy month for the Marian Legions. The highlight of the month was our participation in the successful campaign in Politics Amino. In an operation headed by the Osiran Sekhmet Legion, the Marian Legion were a part of the update and occupying force. In recognition of the campaign, the Legion has released the Politics Amino Campaign Ribbon to all troops who participated. January also saw the Marian Legions participate as a piling force in St Abbadon, and in the attempted occupation of Grand Central. During this time period, the Marian Legions also participated in regular tag raiding and training operations.

In other parts of the Legatus, January saw the launch of the Urban Cohort program. The Urban Cohort is a domestic World Assembly Development Initiative seeking to recognize and reward those members of the region who have successfully joined the World Assembly and have endorsed the regional delegate. The Urban Cohort is divided into classes, recognizing those who have just joined the World Assembly and further recognizing those who have endorsed the regional delegate. The program is expected to continue in the following months, in order to continually reward and build the regional World Assembly base.

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• Lord Eros Anphedite has been appointed to serve as People’s Tribune
• The Marian Roleplay Community has seen a particularly active month, especially in the Orphans of Rome RP.
• January elections concluded with the re-election of Sarah as Tribunal Prefect
• The Regional Discord server achieved 21,977 posts in the month of January!

Thanks for the update!

March 2019 Update
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The Empire of Mare Nostrum

Emperor: Rex Ciphra

Praetorian Prefect: Khosrow

Legatus Prefect: Thomas Insaniac
Vicarius: Barzai ux Loddhan

Tribunal Prefect: Sarah Karimi
Tribune of Naturalization: Chelle23
Tribune of Culture: Wymondham
Tribune of Communications: Drinarius
Tribune of Roleplay: AngryScientist77
People’s Tribune: Shapirius

Senatorial Prefect: Drinarius
Delegate: Lucius

Political Planning

The signs on the road to the future are too complex for me

Not a month can go by in the Empire of Mare Nostrum without political intrigue dominating the news scene. The culmination of February saw both Tribunal and Delegate elections. The Tribunal election was a relatively calm affair, where Prefect Sarah ran unopposed and coasted to another term. However, the Delegate election was a fierce competition between three candidates. In the end, Lucius came out on top by a single vote and clinched the position for himself. The in-game transition followed quickly and he was officially delegate of the region within a week. Turning to the Senate, where elections occur at the end of March, another competitive race occurred. While six candidates successfully secured their seats, the last two are currently in a runoff race, both hoping to secure the final seat and to serve in the fifth Imperial Senate of Mare Nostrum.

Election shenanigans were not the only political events to occur in the last two months. At the beginning of March, former Senatorial Prefect Lord Eros Anphedite resigned from his post as Prefect and as a Senator; this forced the Senate into a scramble in order to replace him. Drinarius rose the occasion and served as Senatorial Prefect for the rest of the term and is expected to be reconfirmed as Prefect, while Ham gracefully accepted an appointment to serve the remainder of Anphedite’s term in the Senate. The Tribunal has seen its own fair share of scrambles, as Ham stepped down from the Naturalization Tribunate in early February and had to be quickly replaced, with Chelle23 taking the position. Furthermore, following the departure of Lord Anphedite, Shapirius dutifully rose to serve as the People's Tribune and filled the integral position.  Finally, the ending days of March saw the Tribunate of Culture split; the newly created Tribunate of Role-Play being tasked with the creation and maintenance of forum RPs while the Tribunate of Culture will be more focused on activities, events, and other important regional hallmarks.

Contests in Context

The only award I got

If there’s one thing Marian’s like, it’s contests. Each month the Tribunal Prefecture has sought to hold a contest among the general citizens. In January we held a poetry contest which was won by Germanicus, with a poem lamenting the complexity of life. In February we held an art contest which was won by Khosrow. with a beautiful photographic submission. And in March we held a short story contest where a highly contested victory was clinched by Emperor Rex. His humorous take on the Birth of Christ successfully beat not one, but two contestants by a single vote.

While it may border on Christian heresy, the short story can be read here.

Happenings....

• Following the April 1st update shuffle, the Marian Legions secured a new jump point:  The Alpha Legion
  
• The Marian Legions spent February and March working under the umbrella of ANTIFA with operations in: DankMemes, Alliance of Absolute Monarchs, and The Red States.
  
• The Empire marked six months of existence on February 14th.
• The Regional Discord server achieved a total of 27,198 posts in the months of February and March!

Also in my hunt for a new jump-point. I noticed Wintreath is now the latest updating region.

Wanted to offer you all congratulations for that.

Thanks for the update, and the congratulations! The funny thing is if it weren't for people from outside Wintreath telling us, we may not have ever noticed. Goes to show how far removed we are from R/D these days.

For most of the time that I was a defender, Kyzikos was the latest updating region, and what I gained from my experience there was being able to spell Kyzikos correctly over five years later.

Kyzikos brings back memories. The UDL days for me are long gone, but they were a fairly fun time.

Would be interesting to see Wintreath on the R/D field, using your own region as a jump point.

Feriae Latinae
Please join The Empire of Mare Nostrum in the celebration of Feriae Latinae.

Where: The festival will be held on a Special Discord Server.
When: It will run from April 12th through April 14th.
Who: Anyone, Marian or Foreigner is welcome to attend*.

What
The Feriae Latinae (The Latin Festival in English) is an ancient Roman festival that was traditionally held in April. It was a celebration of the people and unity that created the Rome that we know. In Mare Nostrum it will be no different. Join us this week-end for a series of games, competitions, and festivities.
 
The House System
Participants in the festival will be sorted into houses named after the Roman Gods and Goddesses. Throughout the festival there will be opportunities to win points for your house by participating in competitions and by answering trivia, the winning house will be determined on the last day of the festival.

Planned Activities
We'll have a ton of trivia, games, and a movie night to culminate the event. We'll also periodically hold VCs and other mini-events to keep the Festival lively. This will be a cultural affair and will avoid the trappings of NS politics, so no boring lectures to worry about. We hope to see you there!
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*We reserve the right to remove anyone whose presence would be deemed disruptive.

Thanks for the invite! I may check in if I have a chance, but either way I hope that it's a success.

I hope so too.

June 2019 Update
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The Empire of Mare Nostrum

Emperor: Rex Ciphra

Praetorian Prefect: Khosrow

Legatus Prefect: Paulus Gaius Epistre

Tribunal Prefect: Sarah Karimi
Tribune of Public Affairs: Wymondham
Tribune of Regional Affairs: Lord Eros Anphedite
Tribune of Communications: Saphalus
Tribune of Roleplay: Lucius

Senatorial Prefect: Valtyrius Primus
Delegate: Chelle23

Change in the Management

The face of our old/new management...

A lot has changed in the Empire since the last General Update. Some old people left, some veterans returned, and some even had the opportunity to leave and then come back! The Tribunal Prefecture was not spared from the changes and was reorganized under Drinarius, who became the Tribunal Prefect after defeating Eros in the May elections. As you may have already noticed, the Empire's executive now has two new departments: Regional and Public Affairs. The former deals with maintaining on-site activity, the latter with that which happens off-site.

The government saw an increase in activity near the end of June, most notably Public Affairs started organizing weekly VC with the members of the Discord. Despite that, Drinarius did not stand for re-election, leaving Sarah an open path to victory. She will thus be returning to her old office and to the political life of the Empire as the new Tribunal Prefect. Her extensive platform focused on, among other things, improving the way EMN handles on-site polls, developing the national RP, and reintroducing our monthly regional newspaper, the Vox Imperii.

New Imperial roleplay

Map of our proud Empire! Looks vaguely familiar, but I just can't put a finger on it.

Our Empire has a new RP, authored by Lucius! In the Imperial RP (what else could it be) our citizens get to play as either loyal* regional governors, ruling in the name of the Emperor of Mare Nostrum... or independent chiefs of savage barbarian tribes ruling in their own name. To repeat the comments of our Tribune of RP, one of those options sounds clearly better than the other. Our citizenry has shown excitement in this new RP and a substantial group of players has already formed. It will be the focus of our new government to capitalize on this and keep up the momentum.

*Disclaimer, loyalties vary.

Is it the time for the Sixth Senate already?

Oh goodness, look at the time! Our Senate is that old already.

The June Senate elections provided surprising results - Lord Eros Anphedite, the leader of the Populares party, failed to be re-elected as a Senator. The Populares initially ran on a platform that focused on bringing new legislation to the Senate, most notably their controversial project of the Bill of Rights. Meanwhile, their rivals (Optimates) argued that the Imperial Senate should instead work on fixing any loopholes that may have arisen in the (now quite extensive) legal system. It looks like the Optimates have prevailed in this struggle.

Following the short (but occasionally heated) discussion, Valt was elected Senatorial Prefect for the new (6th) Session of the Imperial Senate. The Senate almost immediately amended its Standing Orders, to establish the upkeep of our library of legislation as the responsibility of the freshly chosen Prefect.

Guess who's back...

Ha, you thought that it was Eminem, but it's actually only EMN!

Thank you for reading EMN's June Update. In case you are wondering, we will be returning to distributing these monthly. It is no secret that the departure of Thomas Insaniac (better known as Salvarity) from the game caused setbacks in the Legatus Prefecture (our foreign affairs department). With those setbacks now resolved, we are determined to produce updates with the earlier high frequency!

We are as committed as ever to deliver quality content for our friends abroad.

Happenings....

• Chelle became the Empire's new World Assembly Delegate, by defeating Lucius in an election.
• Paulus Gaius Epistre was appointed new Legatus Prefect, replacing Lord Eros Anphedite.
• The Empire is getting closer and closer to its one year anniversary!

Invitation|| Major Contests || Minor Contests || Event’s Discord server

The Empire of Mare Nostrum invites you to the Feriae Anniversariae!

On these blessed days, we celebrate the foundation of our region, the friends and allies we made along the way, and we look forward to another amazing year.

Join us for a weekend filled with games, trivia, music, and other surprises!

The event starts at noon eastern time on August 9th. More details will come on the day of the festival, but for now take a look at ONE of our major contests! Our Pokemon Showdown League. But in the meantime, please join our festival's Discord server!

Thanks for the invitation.

With everything going on in Wintreath (preparing for our own festival, ironically), I doubt I will be able to attend, but I hope that a lot of people do and that it's a success!

Official Notice of Consulate Closure

Wintreath announces the severance of relations with The Empire of Mare Nostrum, effective immediately.

The Empire of Mare Nostrum has not communicated with us last August, and upon review it was discovered that the region has formally closed. This closure is simply due to the region's closure. Should the region revive and want to re-establish relations at a later point, we would love to do so. In the meantime, we wish everyone associated with the region the best in the future.

Wintermoot of Wintreath
Monarch of Wintreath