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Holla at the boy if you know the truth See what I'm doin I'm tryin to show the youth What you gonna do when I'm Nothing? You're crazy about my style It is said, that Uncle once found himself lost. Unable to move towards his destination, he abandoned it and himself. And he arrived. Space is not the parts, but the area between. All parts are held in the warmth and care of that most plentiful benevolence: Nothing. The defiance of existence has not gone unnoticed. It can never be forgiven, and yet in time, will fade into Space. All matter is the gestation of this higher order. As an artist's tools lay pregnant with the promise of a future work, all everything contains the seed of Nothing. And, by Uncle's infinitely insubstantial hand, it shall return. In our piety, we laud that which brings about the order of Nothing. We venerate and honour those who are closest to clearing out that Space within. The least living among us are closest to this perfect state. We call to them first, and elevate them even farther to the plane of perfect nonexistence. Glory to the braindead. Each chemical, each synapse, each electrical impulse defies the Nothing. Glory to the inert. Each action, each impulse, each desire defies the Nothing. Glory to the indolent. Each work, each contribution, each act defies the Nothing. Those attuned to the repetitious, circular hum of our media will recognize these ideas. Are we so lost, that the truth can be presented directly to us, and have it thought any different? Even decades ago, was it not said that the only winning move was not to play? Shall this, then, be our Wargame? Or shall we strike, and liberate the closest to the sweet embrace of Nothing from the last vestiges of the material tether? Uncle thinks Ally Sheedy is a babe, so let's go with the latter. Rejoice. The Nothining has begun. TL:DR:

Sweat dripped from his brow as he worked to save his 5th life that day LPS paused. Something was wrong

Due to the Knights Templar not respecting Article III of our Treaty, our Government has unanimously agreed to consider the aforementioned Treaty null and void.

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ALLIANCE CATEGORIES Alliance of the Year: Who Cares? Most Powerful Alliance: Who Cares? Best Military: Who Cares? Best Rookie Alliance: Who Cares? Best Flag: Who Cares? Best War Flag: Who Cares? Most Active Alliance: Who Cares? Most Honourable Alliance: Who Cares? Most Improved Alliance: Who Cares? Best Diplomatic Team: Who Cares? Best Economic System: Who Cares? Best Recruiting Staff: Who Cares? Best Propaganda Staff: Who Cares? Best Alliance Growth: Who Cares? Best Forums: Who Cares? Alliance Most Likely to Succeed in 2018: Who Cares? Most Immoral Alliance: Who Cares? Most Controversial Alliance: Who Cares? Best Alliance for New Players: Who Cares? Most Missed Alliance for 2017: Who Cares? PLAYER CATEGORIES Player of the Year: Fraggle Rock Most Powerful Player:Fraggle Rock Best Alliance Leader: Who Cares? Most Controversial Player: Who Cares? Best Player Sig: Fraggle Rock Best Player Avatar: Fraggle Rock Best OOC Poster: Fraggle Rock Best IC Poster: Fraggle Rock Nicest Player: Fraggle Rock Funniest Player: Fraggle Rock Most Active Player: Fraggle Rock Player Most Likely to Achieve Greatness in 2018: Fraggle Rock Best New Addition to the Community: Fraggle Rock

I didn't photoshop it....

LPS: My planet needs me.

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Finns 11.5 Ingush 10 Chechen 8.5 Tunisians 8 The Altay 8 Fula 7.5 Han 7.5 Belarusian 6 Russian 4.5 Buryats 4 Wolof 3.5 Kongo 3.5 Bashkirs 3 Cape-Verdeans 2.5 Bengali 2.5 Kabyle 2.5 Lorrainers 2.5 Tatar 2.5 Riffian 1.5 French 1.5 Guadeloupean 1 Martinican 1 Shluh 1 Kabyle 1 Uzbeks 1 Kalmyks 1 Lezgins 1 Ossetians 1 Kazakhs 1 Portuguese 1 By Group (at least 3 of them chosen) Caucasian (63) Armenians 22 Georgians 20.5 Ingush 10 Chechen 8.5 Ossetians 1 Lezgins 1 East Asian (20.5) Altay 8 Han 7.5 Buryats 4 Kalmyks 1 Turkic (20.5) Kumyks 13 Bashkirs 3 Tatar 2.5 Uzbeks 1 Kazakhs 1 Germanic (16.5) Germans 12.5 Lorrainers 2.5 French 1.5 African (14.5) Fula 7.5 Wolof 3.5 Kongo 3.5 Berber (13) Tunisians 8 Kabyle 2.5 Riffian 1.5 Shluh 1 Mixed African (4.5) Cape-Verdeans 2.5 Guadeloupean 1 Martinican 1 Main Wife Dominance 1: Chechens and Tunisians while not reaching the top, scored very highly when it came to main wife status. The majority of votes for them had them getting main wife status. Armenian Domination With 22 points not only is Armenian the highest scoring, but Armenian outscores all the groups outside their own too. 40 people in total voted and Armenian got 20 (extra 2 are main wife bonus points) which means 50% of people voting in went for Armenian. Most Popular Pairing Armenian and Georgian were the most combined choices. Political Stance 1: The further left a person was the less likely they seemed to be willing to let others know their choices. I've deemed the reason to be twofold. First they feel that to post in would be seen in their circles as an attack on women... a strange thing to think considering they're male feminists whose reputation currently is that of sex offenders. Second, being scared that if they were to be honest that their choices would not be different than the right wing, when their belief is that the right wing is full of racists... not a thing they want to see, that they think like them. I thank the ones who did vote though and weren't afraid... if only more on that end were like you guys. 2: There did seem to be quite some narrowing down of choices when you got into that far-right zone, however this was actually not total with the likes of Tunisian, Kabyle, Kumyk, and Altay getting votes from them too. Encouraging stuff and I hope some of the biggest ones see that there is a lot more beauty out there. Biggest Coward/Loser 1: Big Brother got into a meme war with Shifty and I asked both to vote in the thread. Shifty with no issue was not afraid to post but Big Brother ducked it in fear. It showed he may have the stones to attack Shifty via memes but he cannot actually do something that takes some courage (for him). He is a coward and by losing to Shifty, a loser too. Where To Find The Top 4 (figures below show just women, no men) Armenian Total 3,000,000–4,000,000 Armenia 1509427 Russia 591,194–1,450,000 United States 500,183–750,000 France 125,000–375,000 Georgia 84,096 Abkhazia 20,932 Artsakh 73,287 Lebanon 75,000 Iran 60,000 Germany 45,000–55,000 Syria 50,000 Ukraine 50,000 Brazil 50,000 Greece 40,000 Argentina 35,000 Turkey 30,000 Canada 27,870 Poland 25,000 Georgian Total 2,000,000 Georgia 1,611,800 Turkey 79,000 Russia 78,902 Iran 50,000 Ukraine 17,100 Greece 13,700 Italy 7,023 Azerbaijan 4,950 Kumyk Total 251,889 Russia 251,530 Ukraine 359 German Total 60,000,000-65,000,000 Germany 32,528,013 United States 23,023,557 (descent) Brazil 6,000,000 (descent) Netherlands 184,256 Italy 155,450 Poland 89,204.5 Hungary 65,976 Uruguay 20,000 Romania 18,000 Mexico 7,500–20,000 Dominican Republic 12,500 Czech Republic 10608 Controversy, A Statement From The Roz As many of you know now, my delightful 4 Wives thread was locked and terms such as Islamophobia, racism, and sexism were thrown at me. In addition the admin even told me I was promoting illegal activity, because Polyamory is just so evil a thing I guess. First, for those not aware I am a big supporter of Poly so to take my previous thread as an attack on Islam for having something I personally support is a very bad joke. Second, my love for women is unquestionable, all the many different types of women, so those who have been talking about this all being anti-women and racist do not have an idea of what they speak of. Third, unlike those who were too afraid to contribute to my study the Roz is afraid of no man so no warning or lock threat is going to be swaying me from publishing this important study of love. Men should look at this and realise that there is much beauty with so much variety out there. A man does not pointlessly handicap himself from enjoying all the world has blessed us with. For women, who largely did not vote meaning they either don't exist here or fear being seen to be Bisexual (shameful this is still a thing), be open to relationships with the other beautiful women out there. If you are already with a man then do not let that stop you, share your great love with other women. Love overcomes Hate. No matter how much hatred those who hate my threads on this matter have in their hearts, Love will triumph. The Roz tells no lies.

I will say that Moderation has always been less than par. Alex adds his friends and long time community members rather than adding mods that can actually do a good job and it has been a problem for the last 3 years.

I think a lecture on freedom of speech and freedom of expression is required. I can deliver it at a discount rate for our great moderators if Alex wants!

Alliance of the Year: N/A. It's really hard to say which alliance really highlighted this year. I know plenty of people voted TKR, and they have indeed played an integral role in winning against IQ during the Trail of Tiers, but the rest of the year has just been relatively uneventful. Most Powerful Alliance: NPO/TKR. It's not just because they're both the top alliances of the game – they're also seen as the leaders of their own blocs, and NPO has grown from a sort of shared leadership position with other alliances like BK and Zodiac to one that basically dominates the bloc. NPO clearly isn't an alliance to mess with, either; they would be a difficult opponent in the next war, if it even happens this year. Best Military: Guardian. They've always performed consistently in wars, but not that active to be really relevant in current politics. They're kind of just the muscle in EMC. I'm sure most people (some of them ex-Mensans) don't really care about the game at all. Arrgh actually comes close due to their pure pirating skills; they've shown they can do plenty of damage in their multiple conflicts. Best Rookie Alliance: N/A. I want to say it's KT but I can't vote for my alliance lol. Best Flag: Arrgh. Arrgh! Best War Flag: Same as above. Most Active Alliance: Same as above. Most Honorable Alliance: KT TKR. Only because they like to play as the honorable ally. It's not a good or bad thing. Most Improved Alliance: Rose. Markedly improved over the years and in the Trail of Tiers has shown that they can give a good fight. Best Diplomatic Team: Rose. Not much to say. Best Alliance Growth: Arrgh. They've made a greater presence in recent days and have given us some action when there was none for months after waiting for a war. Best Forums: BK. Not that many alliances really use them anyway, but at least BK has a pretty good looking one. Alliance Most Likely to Succeed in 2018: N/A. RIP self votes. Most Controversial Alliance: BK. Completely switched sides from Syndisphere (now EMC) and got a lot of flak afterwards for their FA mishaps. Best Alliance for New Players: GotG. A little bit of everything; a fairly active community, fairly large size, solid IQ alliance so you may potentially get to see some fighting. For the EMC side it'll have to be TKR, mostly because they're more of a mass recruiting alliance compared to its other allies. Most Missed Alliance for 2017: TEst. May you live on in our hearts forever. Player of the Year: Ripper. Generally likable and a very influential member to Arrgh and to the P&W community in general with all the projects he undertakes, namely Orbis Oracle and the P&WBall Comics. Most Powerful Player: Roquentin. Basically the leader of IQ, the largest bloc in the game in terms of sheer quantity. Best Alliance Leader: Apeman. Doesn't give a crap about other's opinions and actually tries to make moves. Points to Partisan for trying to change things, too. Most Controversial Player: Dubayoo. The guy that revived baseball, and also the guy that gets a lot of like and hate for his opinions. Best Player Avatar: Insert Name Here. Equines > basically everything else Nicest Player: Ameyuri. Anime-lover, cool and likable, she's basically Zeebrus 2.0 but she's extremely underrated. I feel like more people should get to know her. I won't really consider Aris to be as nice (he's a lot more straightforward), but he deserves an honorable mention, at least to the people from the Pantheon discord channel. Funniest Player: Zeebrus. Almost as likable as Ame and writes a lot of hilarious random stories. Most Active Player: Ameyuri. Ripper is close but she's basically in every alliance chatroom and active as hell. Some people like Kezan, Dubayoo, Ryleh, or even Hydraik and Cuppy deserve honorable mentions. Player Most Likely to Achieve Greatness in 2018: Dayne. Former GotG gov, now in AIM. He's relatively new compared to some other people, but he's come a long way and I've known him very well. I hope he makes a greater presence in this game. Ameyuri should also deserve a mention but I don't want to nominate too much of the same person lol. Best New Addition to the Community: Squiddy/Megumin. Enjoyable Panth member and has a really cool nation theme. Most Entertaining Discord Channel: Pantheon. Biggest Meme: Catsby. Though he has made a turn for the better in recent days. Most Hated Poster: ComradeMilton. He unfortunately isn't very well liked outside of BK whether it's in the Debate sections or outside of it. Most Missed Player: Prefontaine. The end of a legend. Worst Alliance of the Year: The Communist International. Just because I hate communism and they kind of suck as an alliance. If it wasn't for NPO they would be in the dumps, kind of like a North Korea-China relationship. Getting couped just shows how bad it is. Worst Military of the Year: UPN. They're not particularly impressive and did lackluster in the Trail of Tiers, though to be fair getting flak from their own allies doesn't help them. Worst Diplomatic Move: BK's cancellation with R&R. Not really a bad move but how it was executed just really hurt their PR. Most Inactive Large Alliance: Guardian. Again, they're just kind of...there. Basically just the muscle of EMC. Doesn't really do much diplomatically. Alliance Most Likely to Fail in 2018: Lordran. It's just switched too many hands and is starting to become a former shell of itself, sadly. Was way better when Kastor or Chidz was leading it. Worst Player of the Year: Killzbob. When couping one alliance isn't enough... Worst Nation Setup: Whale setups. Don't need to explain why.

ALLIANCE CATEGORIES ------------------------------ Alliance of the Year: The Knights Radiant - IQ's failure to properly take TKR into account during Trail of Tiers further extended their dominance as the biggest alliance in the game. Most Powerful Alliance: The Knights Radiant - while NPO is another valid choice, their current amount of debt and growth phase means TKR still has more opportunities to increase their power. Best Military: The Knights Radiant - still good at blitzes, and their levels of military generally make then a far better raider deterrent than most alliances Best Rookie Alliance: Typhon - their member count is impressive, and they have the potential to cause far more havoc if they wanted to. Best Flag: Oblivion - cats. Best War Flag: Western Union - https://i.imgur.com/A0b7dlk.jpg - it's still around and I'm not in it, so it counts Most Active Alliance: Knights Templar - they actually have several active OWF posters and an active Discord, and generally spend too much of their time worrying about their bank money. Most Honorable Alliance: Cobra Kai Dojo, for honoring their treaties, even ODPs, and keeping only a limited amount of treaties. Most Improved Alliance: Rose - for managing to recover from defeat several times and still being a big player. Best Diplomatic Team: Arrgh - generally able to do whatever they want with little consequence while still being probably the most profitable alliance and still being attractive to people bored of sphere politics. Best Economic System: Rose - because of their impressive tiering and work they've put into spreadsheeting. Best Recruiting Staff: Western Union - for gaining 80 active members in roughly a month. Best Propaganda Staff: Cobra Kai Dojo - for having Reaver (and Shifty at one point) Best Alliance Growth: Arrgh - respect to them for picking up lots of steam from members that are tired of waiting for war. Best Forums: Holy Britannian Empire - for actually having working widgets and the treaty/war map. Alliance Most Likely to Succeed in 2018: Stratagem - you have a stacked team - use it well! Most Immoral Alliance: Iron Guard - no explanation needed. Most Controversial Alliance: Black Knights - more controversial than NPO because they were the biggest player from Syndisphere that left. Best Alliance for New Players: Black Knights - but only if you end up leaving later. Most Missed Alliance for 2017: Terminus Est - no explanation needed. PLAYER CATEGORIES ------------------------------ Player of the Year: Curufinwe - although BK and IQ fell flat, props to Curufinwe for steering BK away from TKR and trying something interesting. Most Powerful Player: Roquentin - for controlling all of NPO and being the face of IQ. Best Alliance Leader: Apeman - for actually trying to make interesting moves that ignore everyone else's opinions. Most Controversial Player: Kynlo - the threads about sexism and rebranding Lordaeron caused a lot of arguments and made Lordaeron an even worser alliance than it was before. Best Player Sig: Rook - I like chess. Best Player Avatar: Gorge - it's simple but memorable and gives me a schema of what his in-game persona is like. Best OOC Poster: Rozalia - for the best shitposts in history. Best IC Poster: Ripper - for his PnW comics and doing a decent job of pushing people to question the current game meta. Nicest Player: Manthrax - for streaming XCOM and being a cool guy in general. Funniest Player: Zeebrus - no explanation needed. Most Active Player: Anneal - is basically online 90% of the day. Player Most Likely to Achieve Greatness in 2018: Quichwe10 - this is a challenge more than anything. *cough* TFP-Guardian sphere Best New Addition to the Community: Ripper - no explanation needed. COMMUNITY CATEGORIES ------------------------------ Best Wall of Text: The Legend of Rozalia series (starting here: https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/18038-legend-of-rozalia-super-1/) - 10/10 shitpost. Best P&W Forum Topic: https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/21560-wtf-happened-to-this-place/ - for encouraging some discussion about stagnation in the game, no matter now pointless. Biggest Controversy: 6 months of no war - y'all are pixel huggers and probably like it that way. Funniest Event: Everyone merging into Rose - for one I welcome our new Rose overlords. Most Entertaining Discord Channel: Church of Spaceology - XCOM, interesting people, interesting conversations. Best Treaty Announcement: Fark protection (https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/20252-announcement-from-farkistan/) - good on Fark for doing this. Every other treaty was shit. Best Declaration of War: The Nothining (https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/21702-the-nothining/) - Thank you so much for doing this CoS Biggest Meme: Micchan's problem/solution chart - https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/21719-the-most-bloody-meme-war-like-ever/#comment-348466 Largest E-Peen: Bluebear - for thinking his version of Arrgh was actually relevant. Gets triggered very easily. Best Villain: Kastor - everyone hates him but he's probably done far more exciting things than you ever will. Most Hated Poster: Sheepy - partially to blame for PnW's slow death, see his post on baseball and ad money for example. Most Missed Player: Prefontaine - no explanation needed. WORST CATEGORIES ------------------------------ Worst Alliance of the Year: The Syndicate - for having so much potential by going paperless but instead becoming a dead alliance with members who have given up on the game. Basically an easy target for raiders nowadays. Worst Military of the Year: Seven Kingdoms - bad blitz. Worst Diplomatic Move: Hogwarts-Arrgh secret plans - seriously damaged Partisan's reputation and put him on heavy PR mode. Most Inactive Large Alliance: Guardian - not meant to be a bad thing - they're slow diplomatically and most members probably don't care about the game enough to be active. Alliance Most Likely to Fail in 2018: Knights Templar - their bad PR and poor management of their alliance will get them screwed one way or another. Worst Player of the Year: Greene - for trying to create a banking empire, spamming other players, being a pixel hugger, and finally bribing other alliances with IRL money. Worst Alliance Leader of the Year: Greene - see above; also made his entire alliance basically disband or delete. Worst Treaty of the Year: VE-tS - https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/18885-the-color-of-money/ - VE betrayal. Worst Forum Poster: Roquentin - only posts to defend IQ, definitely not interested in a more dynamic game. Worst Nation Setup: Chima - 4100 infra, 17 windmills per city, dodged a few wars. Enough said. Honorable mention to Belgica, who has the most infra/city in the whole game. Worst Fighters of the Year: Seven Kingdoms - see worst military of the year. Alliance Most Likely to Get Rolled in 2018: Knights Templar - see alliance most likely to fail. Even if they continue to avoid more wars that'll get them rolled anyways.

Hi Everyone, the official nomination period for this years Politics and War Awards is now open. Please read the guidelines below before entering your nominations. There have been a few changed categories and rules since last year. Guidelines: Please Keep your nominations to one player, post or alliance per category. Any dual submissions will not be collected. Please refrain from submitting more than one set of nominations. If a player double posts, their first post only will be accepted. If you wish to remove your nominations and change them- edit your original post. If you wish to skip a category, please enter [none chosen] into the category to signify to the event team that you have no nomination for that category. Self nominations will not be accepted- if you wish to be entered into the polls, another player must nominate you. Submitting your own name will be a wasted nomination on your part. The same goes for alliances, voting for your own alliance is not counted as a valid nomination. It makes sense for people to nominate in a non bias way- people are bias towards their own alliances. You can, however, vote for yourself when the nominations stop and the voting starts. Re-branded Alliances will not qualify as rookie alliances, and nominations for them as 'best rookie alliance' will be ignored. Nominations- please stick to the format provided below ALLIANCE CATEGORIES Alliance of the Year: Most Powerful Alliance: Best Military: Best Rookie Alliance: Best Flag: Best War Flag: Most Active Alliance: Most Honourable Alliance: Most Improved Alliance: Best Diplomatic Team: Best Economic System: Best Recruiting Staff: Best Propaganda Staff: Best Alliance Growth: Best Forums: Alliance Most Likely to Succeed in 2018: Most Immoral Alliance: Most Controversial Alliance: Best Alliance for New Players: Most Missed Alliance for 2017: PLAYER CATEGORIES Player of the Year: Most Powerful Player: Best Alliance Leader: Most Controversial Player: Best Player Sig: Best Player Avatar: Best OOC Poster: Best IC Poster: Nicest Player: Funniest Player: Most Active Player: Player Most Likely to Achieve Greatness in 2018: Best New Addition to the Community: COMMUNITY CATEGORIES Best Wall of Text: (provide a link) Best P&W Forum Topic: (provide a link) Biggest Controversy: Funniest Event: Most Entertaining Discord Channel(Please don't include Slack): Best Treaty Announcement: (provide a link) Best Declaration of War: (provide a link) Biggest Meme: Largest E-Peen: Best Villain: Most Hated Poster: Most Missed Player (Player that has gone inactive/quit): WORST CATEGORIES Worst Alliance of the Year: Worst Military of the Year: Worst Diplomatic Move: Most Inactive Large Alliance: Alliance Most Likely to Fail in 2018: Worst Player of the Year: Worst Alliance Leader of the Year: Worst Treaty of the Year: (provide a link) Worst Forum Poster: Worst Nation Setup: Worst Fighters of the Year (must have fought in 2017): Alliance Most Likely to get Rolled in 2018: Remember- Nominations are open from now until December 1st. Any nominations posted after we have collected them will not be taken into account.

https://pastebin.com/ZGSkfCmr The above is the convo I had with Admin on this subject. He is siding with the people who thus far have shown a total cowardice when it comes to confronting me, which is fine, lets see if we can't get them out in the open now. Let me start by saying that the current protocol of warning someone appealing the charges against them, such as racism, as being incorrect as they've not been racist... is stupid. It makes the appeal process completely hollow and pointless. A mod can claim whatever and stating it was wrong is a warnable offence. Stupid. Now Admin has told me the very silly thing that for me to be able to post a thread here I have to appeal the racism rules themselves, as in argue here that we should allow racism. This is complete cowardice and shows that he is not willing to have a fair talk with others here on the matter. My threads were not racist and instead promoted interracial love. Do. You. Understand. This? To call me a racist is the height of stupidity. If I am racist then the word has no meaning and actual racists will be chuckling at the sheer stupidity of these so called anti-racists. Now perhaps you don't like the tone here. Well when you have stacked the deck as such that anything I were to do or say is warnable I really have no reason to hold back. So let me end on this. For the first thread you hid cowardly behind Islam, saying that was why it should be locked. The second one did not contain a single reference to Islam so now you talk about children (!? promoting interracial love is not a fit thing for children now?) and other nonsense. I invite people to speak up here while Admin, the mods, and the cowardly people on their side allow it to be open for they will be wanting it locked in quick order. The dishonest, the wrong, the weak, the cowardly, do not wish to actually debate and engage on things after all.

Rozalia's Pick 4 Wives topic has made me want to move to Guadeloupe to embrace their race, a race I didn't know existed before the topic was posted. If anything, it was educational and motivating rather than racist and bigoted. Edit: Obligatory Mods suck comment

ALLIANCE CATEGORIES Alliance of the Year: NPO - Having gained almost twice as many cities as the alliance that has grown the second most speaks for itself. Most Powerful Alliance: NPO Best Military: GoG Best Rookie Alliance: Zodiac Best Flag: Polaris - There has just always been something about that flag for me... Best War Flag: Polaris Most Active Alliance: NPO Most Honourable Alliance: CS Most Improved Alliance: GoG - Considering what they've been through, the fact that they're in the top 10 is impressive. Best Diplomatic Team: [none chosen] Best Economic System: NPO - See alliance of the year for reason Best Recruiting Staff: NPO - They are the alliance that has gained the most members through pure recruiting. Numbers don't lie...unless they are fake in which case they do...but MY numbers don't lie. Best Propaganda Staff: [none chosen] Best Alliance Growth: NPO - Isn't this just a combination of the best econ system and best recruiting staff ones? Best Forums: [none chosen] Alliance Most Likely to Succeed in 2018: GoG Most Immoral Alliance: KT Most Controversial Alliance: Arrgh Best Alliance for New Players: GoG Most Missed Alliance for 2017: TEst PLAYER CATEGORIES Player of the Year: Roq Most Powerful Player: Tiber (Roq is just a puppet of our potato overlord) Best Alliance Leader: Seeker Most Controversial Player: Curufinwe Best Player Sig: [none chosen] Best Player Avatar: [none chosen] Best OOC Poster: [none chosen] Best IC Poster: Apeman Nicest Player: Rache Funniest Player: Shifty Stranger Most Active Player: Who Me Player Most Likely to Achieve Greatness in 2018: Leo the Great Best New Addition to the Community: PnW Balls! COMMUNITY CATEGORIES Best Wall of Text: https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/21454-dear-tkr-a-hogwarts-message/ Best P&W Forum Topic: https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/21454-dear-tkr-a-hogwarts-message/ Biggest Controversy: Alex deciding to ruin the game economy showcasing how little he understands his own game Funniest Event: NK taking in Hogwarts to stop TKR from attacking them. Most Entertaining Discord Channel(Please don't include Slack): [none chosen] Best Treaty Announcement: https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/18786-lets-be-honest-this-was-leaked-weeks-ago/ Best Declaration of War: https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/17986-whale-season-in-bk/ (I know it was technically last year, but it was too late for last years awards, so I'm giving it a go and gonna try to nominate it) Biggest Meme: Mini spheres Largest E-Peen: Durmij Best Villain: Partisan Most Hated Poster: [none chosen] Most Missed Player (Player that has gone inactive/quit): Yosodog WORST CATEGORIES Worst Alliance of the Year: UPN Worst Military of the Year: Pantheon Worst Diplomatic Move: UPN deciding it would rather be a Rose vassal than an independent alliance Most Inactive Large Alliance: Pantheon Alliance Most Likely to Fail in 2018: TKR - Not even kidding, they have pretty much the best cards of any alliance and they are going to waste them due to their aversion to, well, doing anything. Worst Player of the Year: [none chosen] Worst Alliance Leader of the Year: Matt2004 Worst Treaty of the Year: https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/20898-eclipse-over-the-fields/ Worst Forum Poster: hidude45454 - Sorry bro, but you have been annoying as !@#$ for a while... Worst Nation Setup: [none chosen] Worst Fighters of the Year (must have fought in 2017): Pantheon Alliance Most Likely to get Rolled in 2018: KT

ALLIANCE CATEGORIES Alliance of the Year: TKR, but I nominate Pantheon Most Powerful Alliance: TKR, but I nominate NPO Best Military: TKR, but I nominate Rose Best Rookie Alliance: Knights Templar Best Flag: Entiti Rorupurei Best War Flag: TKR, but I nominate Roz Wei Most Active Alliance: TKR, but I nominate Knights Templar Most Honourable Alliance: TKR, but I nominate Guardian Most Improved Alliance: Cerberus Best Diplomatic Team: TKR, but I nominate Pantheon Best Economic System: TKR, but I nominate Grumpy Best Recruiting Staff: TKR, but I nominate Black Knights Best Propaganda Staff: TKR, but I nominate Black Knights Best Alliance Growth: TKR, but I nominate Lord A-aron Best Forums: TKR, but I nominate Pantheon Alliance Most Likely to Succeed in 2018: Avansies Most Immoral Alliance: Sparta Most Controversial Alliance: Hogawrts Best Alliance for New Players: TKR, but I nominate The Commonwealth Most Missed Alliance for 2017: Mensa PLAYER CATEGORIES Player of the Year: Me, but I nominate Memph Most Powerful Player: Roq Best Alliance Leader: Memph Most Controversial Player: Apeman Best Player Sig: I don't know Best Player Avatar: Squiddy, the one with Ika Musume Best OOC Poster: Me, but I nominate... nope, it's me Best IC Poster: Me, but I nominate... nope, it's me Nicest Player: Me, but I nominate Smith Funniest Player: Me, and since everyone said Ripper and Zeebrus I nominate Thalmor Most Active Player: Me, but I nominate TheCreepyLurker Player Most Likely to Achieve Greatness in 2018: Not me because I'm already great, I nominate TheCreepyLurker Best New Addition to the Community: Ripper, but everyone said Ripper so I nominate TheCreepyLurker COMMUNITY CATEGORIES Best Wall of Text: https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/21454-dear-tkr-a-hogwarts-message/ Best P&W Forum Topic: The war so far https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/19131-the-war-so-far/ (there are also war so far v2, v3, v4, v5) Biggest Controversy: Sexism thread Funniest Event: LPS vs Zeebrus Most Entertaining Discord Channel(Please don't include Slack): !@#$ SLACK AND DISCORD Best Treaty Announcement: I don't know Best Declaration of War: https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/18090-tkr-declares-war-on-lord-a-aron/ Biggest Meme: How I can pick only one? Let's go with LPS in VM Largest E-Peen: Partisan Best Villain: Kastor Most Hated Poster: Dubayoo Most Missed Player (Player that has gone inactive/quit): LPS WORST CATEGORIES Worst Alliance of the Year: Vault 111 Worst Military of the Year: Cornerstone Worst Diplomatic Move: Treasure Island Most Inactive Large Alliance: UPN Alliance Most Likely to Fail in 2018: t$ Worst Player of the Year: Blackie, always Blackie Worst Alliance Leader of the Year: Lordship #bringbackic Worst Treaty of the Year: TKR-NK https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/20385-nuclear-radiantation/ Worst Forum Poster: Me, but I nominate Dubayoo Worst Nation Setup: I don't remember his name, I rolled him durind the Trail of Tiers, he was in SK, over 900 years old nation with 8 cities and 2850 infra, crazy disease rate, stupid city building and no military during a world war, anyone can help to find him? Worst Fighters of the Year (must have fought in 2017): UPN Alliance Most Likely to get Rolled in 2018: HBE

From The Nation of Fraggle Rock Uncle Traveling Matt Greetings. As the Space Uncle has spoken, I might as well throw in support to this worthy cause. The Best Ever Nation of Fraggle Rock will turn over 25 nuclear weapons to be launch on his command.

Squiddy, you are such an important part of the community and we love you. I'm sorry that things went bad but we're always here for you. If you need the time out,l that is okay but don't shut yourself away completely, you still need to take shrimp deliveries. You have my contact details too. Please talk to someone about this,. It does help. *Hugs*.

Another flawless victory for KT FA.

tl;dr

ALLIANCE CATEGORIES Alliance of the Year: Rose Most Powerful Alliance: New Pacific Order Best Military: The Knights Radiant Best Rookie Alliance: Dark Brotherhood Best Flag: ------- Best War Flag: ------- Most Active Alliance: Lordaeron Most Honourable Alliance: The Knights Radiant Most Improved Alliance: Rose Best Diplomatic Team: ------- Best Economic System: ------- Best Recruiting Staff: ------- Best Propaganda Staff: ------- Best Alliance Growth: Rose Best Forums: Forums are shit Alliance Most Likely to Succeed in 2018: Most Immoral Alliance: Holy Britannian Empire Most Controversial Alliance: Lordaeron Best Alliance for New Players: ------- Most Missed Alliance for 2017: Mensa HQ PLAYER CATEGORIES Player of the Year: ------- Most Powerful Player: Roquentin Best Alliance Leader: Avruch Most Controversial Player: Kastor Best Player Sig: My Sig Best Sig Best Player Avatar: ------- Best OOC Poster: Rozalia Best IC Poster: Rozalia Nicest Player: Literally everyone is cancer Funniest Player: ------- Most Active Player: idfk I didn't check who logs in the most Player Most Likely to Achieve Greatness in 2018: Redarmy or I'll have to come back and murder him Best New Addition to the Community: ------- COMMUNITY CATEGORIES Best Wall of Text: ------- Best P&W Forum Topic: Biggest Controversy: Olorins Liberation of The Viridian Entente Funniest Event: Sheepy accidentally moving everyone to Rose. Most Entertaining Discord Channel: Knights Templar Discord #entrance_hall Best Treaty Announcement: ------------ Best Declaration of War: ------------ Biggest Meme: JUST GROWING RN FAM Largest E-Peen: Partisan Best Villain: Sheepy/Alex Most Hated Poster: Sheepy/Alex Most Missed Player: ------------ WORST CATEGORIES Worst Alliance of the Year: Black Knights Worst Military of the Year: Cornerstone Worst Diplomatic Move: BK not disbanding in shame after Git Gud Friday. Most Inactive Large Alliance: Seven Kingdoms Alliance Most Likely to Fail in 2018: Black Knights Worst Player of the Year: Curufinwe Worst Alliance Leader of the Year: Curufinwe Worst Treaty of the Year: ------------ Worst Forum Poster: Dubayoo Worst Nation Setup: madden aka 5000 infra in one city Worst Fighters of the Year (must have fought in 2017): ------------ Alliance Most Likely to get Rolled in 2018: Black Knights

Welp, I'm going into VM. Lemme fight some Space Commies.

*cracks knuckles*

+1 for you Daily remind Best unrecognized alliance

Missed a beauty of a thread. My pick would probably be the Armenian, Georgian, German and the Finn.

Every thing is a valid CB when you do not have any major war over 5 months or so.....

Inspired by the current post of Rozalia where players were given the opportunity to pick 4 wives, and after noticing the complains of both male and female players about the lack of male picks, I decided to make a similar post for husbands. How this is played 1: Below you will find 2 groups of images, separated by a red line. Pick 3 or 2 images above the red dividing line ("real" men group) and 1 or 2 below it (beast-men group). You must choose 4 images in total. Doing otherwise, be it by listing too few or too many from one area, will render your picks invalid. 2: Out of these 4 picks, select a main husband. 3: Picks grant 1 point each, main husband gets an extra 0.5 added. 4: State if you are a male or female. 5: Feel free to explain why you picked the 4 and why you selected whoever you chose as the main husband. Template Main Husband: Additional 3 Husbands: Your (in-game or real) Gender (optional): Reasons (optional):

This "game" (in the post) uses men as objects to be coveted and possessed, which is not only wrong and demeaning to men, but also dangerous for our younger players (of whom there are many) who are developing their beliefs and understanding of how the world and interpersonal relations works. This post could be interpreted as against the rules from trolling (deliberately provocative posting with the aim of inciting an angry response) to the promotion of illegal activity (polygamy is illegal in the United States, where the game is based, as well as the majority of jurisdictions where players come from.)

I mean just look at me... I never knew armenian women were so beautiful... and there I was yesterday at three AM with four wiki pages opened about armenia... apparently it is a rather troubled nation in the caucasus but never mind, the point is, Roz's post was indeed eye opening and I think it was great pedagogically to help kids get more in touch with other cultures, if we are pulling the kids card already

On behalf of myself and the rest of my government, we wish to apologize to those players who were offended by Gavin and I using Invicta as our alliance. Out of respect for you and your wishes, we have "disbanded" Invicta. We have changed our alliance name to Guinness. An alliance I ran ages ago. This is our flag, and the charter we had will remain the same, but, with the changes for Guinness. Thank you!

Tbh it would be great if we got an icon for being rascist , even though we are probably being less rascist than the mods After all, we are accepting the multiracial beauty of all women, dont see a particular problem but of course once the muslim card is over, the childrens card and the women card gets played. Nowhere in the thread did anyone say they were ugly women or discriminate against other women for not looking right... The argument about potential of rascism is also a bit weird, because a pencil has potential to kill people and you dont see people banning pencils because murder potential Even though judging people based on their looks and deciding possible mates like this is a biological trait that should not be underestimated. We like to pretend that we only judge people on how they are inside, but our reptilian brain definitly does look at the outside. Not embracing this biological fact is just not right. We are objective creatures after all, and we want people that both look good and are good. I do by no means promote rascism, but it is to be realistic: Everyone likes a good looking woman, and everyone judges people objectively first. Also Alex, to you directly: You are saying young kids play this game and should not be subjected to this, but you come from the nation that objectivies woman in media on a daily base? Kids are more than prepared for this and are more than used for this, in beauty pageants that are seen pretty often, both real ones and ones in cartoons, in school they are also judged on their looks and concentrate on those things too. After all, the age limit for this game is 13, right? That is puberty, the age where people start caring about their looks a lot, and the age where we start to develop a view about what is beautiful. This post would tell kids that all women from all races and places of the world are beautiful, instead of just the women from their area. How on earth is that racist? Are you going to say that biology and evolution is racist now for making us judge people by their looks first to determine health and other factors like fertility? Or are you saying that we are racist for supporting interracial relationships? Or are you saying that Sharia Islam is the real and right islam? I dont know what you are trying to say and I would really like clarification, because from what I have seen , we are just running around in circles hiding behind the banners of sexism, racism and I guess discrimination and objectification without actually clarifying WHY we reasoned like that. It is easy to say something is racist just like it is easy for me to say that Rozalia is a A-Hole ( ), but WHY is it racist? Please lets remain civilised and talk about this , because these kind of discussions are what kids actually need. They need to develop their mind themselves, not be fed whatever is mainstream now... imagine if we did that in 1933s Germany Anyhow, jokes aside, these are my two cents and I know I am likely getting a strike for criticising the big brother and fighting against their current, but what gives...after all: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery and Ignorance is Strenght

Alex_PW - Today at 6:39 PM Furthermore I once again object to the notion that you can just arbitrarily pick whatever type of women you want for a wife like you're getting a new dog and you're choosing from breeds Hehhehe, that’s not he meant and I think you know it. If you don’t, then you might want to re read his posts. And I don’t think it’s your problem the way he wants to pick his wife, even tho he didn’t mean the thing you said. I think you’re just trying to find excuses.

I just want to say that roz hasn’t done anything wrong, he has actually promoted a good thing. And as he said, saying interracial love is not for children just proves stupidity. Small children shouldn’t be playing this game in the first place and anybody who’s at least f..ucking 9 should know what sex is. If that’s not enough, closing his posts with actually no support, acting on your own in a shitty way, saying it’s racist when actual muslims said they didn’t find the post racist, proves that the mods have no idea of what they’re talking about.

Honestly this whole social intolerance/offense thing is a pendulum and eventually it’s going to swing too far to the left and come roaring back the other way, you can already see the signs in some western countries. Really disappointing with how you dealt with the situation mods.

We brought him out of VM for this....

Thanks all! I do have a list! I took down some quick stats on it to support the idea that these are more of a pattern than they are legitimate vacations. That said, really what we are trying to do here is an attack on people who duck wars, and as such are garbage members. However, I built it on data from one time period only: last war. That means my list will probably be flawed and incomplete. Once we've done a hit I'll lay out some of the rationale, and if anyone thinks, from that point, they know a good candidate they can contact me in private and I'll consider adding it to the list. Flatly, I am totally okay with starting a witch hunt.

Religious Conflict Again, calls for a national religion has been brought up. While such calls have always been done by the spokespeople of Crystalism (the kingdom's predominant religion), calls to have Christianity (the second largest religion) have also been heard with such requests with online petitions for both coming online and talks appearing on the televisions. So far the emperor has announced that Wintery has never had a national religion and there are no plans for that to happen. Another Royal Wedding? Sightings of Wintery's Head of Cyber Security Rei Guan within a jewelery store within the capital. Of course such sightings have not been confirmed due to a disguise that was worn but a store worker was quite persistent in his claims. Rumors of Rei Guan and Second Princess Gem being involved romantically have been buzzing constantly and it seems as though it will be buzzing louder now. Classified Email To those who holds embassies within Wintery and has signed onto to the cyber security. We will be doing an upgrade to the system next week and as such we might have to shut down for a short amount of time. We give you this letter so to answer any questions and to also give you time to allow rearrangements of your security when it does happen. We also ask that you do not share this. We thank you for your time ~Rei Guan, Head of the Cyber Security (OOC: I know still sucks. Haven't been getting the right footing)

LOL rip thalmor

hidude for most asian

Sorry if this doesn’t follow the format, but I think I speak for everyone for best new addition: Ripper (Love u)

Comment self-censored to avoid warning point for being a sexist, racist bully

It is cowardice to simply report a person because you think their post is _racist and bigoted_ which, in fact, has no real foundation to think so. As big bro Roz said above, he is not racist at all. In fact, he encourages the freedom of bonding and decision. Now, I want to see those users that falsely accuse people of racism and other things to bring up concrete arguments against all statements.

You certainly have to read this.

Self Nominations should count that seems like an extremely pointless rule. Just make it so people need at least 2 nominations in a category to be counted.

(Spoiler: Knights Templar and Pantheon sign an about time ODP upgrade on their previous Protectorate agreement) Preamble The friendship between Knights Templar and Pantheon began on the day that the crusaders journeyed to Mount Olympus to request protection in their future battles and guidance towards a brighter path. The friendship has grown in strength since this day and it is time to seek a higher level of agreement between the two. Article I - Non-Aggression Neither alliance is to engage, or support military aggression against the other. Any member of either party found in violation of these terms will be required to pay appropriate repatriations and be disciplined accordingly. Article II - Optional Defence Each signatory has the right to ask the other to come to their defence, however neither is obliged to do so. In the event that one signatory feels they are unable to assist due to other matters or conflicts of interest, this decision is to be accepted by both parties. Article III: Intelligence Sharing Should either the Knights Templar or Pantheon learn of any information that may be relevant to the other's security situation, the holder of information must inform the other in a swift and direct manner through secure channels. Article III - Cancellation Both signatories uphold the right to cancel this agreement as they see fit but must give a 72-hour notice before doing so. Signed for Knights Templar Grand Master, Thalmor Grand Commander, Geralt von Rivia Signed for Pantheon: Gaia, Titan: Yui Ares, Olympian of Military Affairs: Shiho Dionysus, Olympian of Internal Affairs: Felkey Hades, Olympian of Economic Affairs: Tiggera