Pope Lexus X: Well my name's Pope Lexus X.. though I'm not the Pope, am no relation to any car dealership nor have there been ten of my predecessors.. actually you never know with that last point..
I've been in NS since november 2002 or 2003, I genuinely can't remember
I founded my first nation then and played about a bit in the North Pacific civil difficulties. I think Nastic was the name of the delegate.. I left, being bored of the game only to return in 2005 to Gatesville, the largest user-created region at the time with over 1000 members. I got heavily involved in its provincial affairs and also in intelligence and eventually became a respected member of the High Council. (GV is and always has been an Oligarchy, so I was pretty honoured by this!). Part of my ascension there was due to my taking sides in a civil war in favour of the founder Gates.
In 2006 I founded my own region, designed on the Ancient Roman themes, called Cingeta (max population was 80 citizens, it was not a success). Not long after a nation came in contact with me who had had bad dealings with Gatesville, HEM. We debated about Gatesville a lot and eventually he joined Cingeta and I joined Europeia.
In Europeia, I became a Senator at first, made a lot of ridiculous legislative suggestions and ended up briefly serving as Culture Minister because I voted for Lethen in the infamous (or so Lethen would like it to be) Presidential election draw in December 2007. I think Danoboy had offered me the Grand Admiralship but Lethen offered me nothing until after I had voted... anywho, I started WinterFest that year, the first Europeian festival of it's kind then I went on hiatus for a while and returned late 2008 to the Senate again. I took up a cause against a crazy Presidential hopeful, Renposa, with the Abstain campaign
Pez took up the Presidency then as the only willing candidate, but he and his Vice President both resigned before the end of term and I, as Senate Speaker at the time, ended up as Acting-President while running a campaign for the Presidency, my first.
Rachel Anumia: Do you think you would have still gotten to that point without that lucky break?
Pope Lexus X: Yes I do, the biggest thing I had going for me was that I stood up to Renposa, without being a Presidential candidate at the time, who was a shoe-in for the Presidency himself but was proven to be kind of...nuts. That act made my election much easier, though NeoHabighorst was a very strong candidate with the backing of the ECP. I also had another trump card I'd hired Europeia's best citizen as my VP; Asianatic. The ECP's power almost spoiled the election, but I could secure most of the independent voters and my own party which was the smaller EUP.
Well I was elected President! My first term wasn't as amazing as one might guess.
I took a lot of work on myself, and had a lot of infighting with my cabinet leading to two resignations and a few reshuffles. The population also dropped from the 200's into the hundreds. Towards the end though I had the population rising and culture really developed; the uni was coming back and WinterFest was even bigger that year.
The second election was again against NeoHabighorst, and I won by a larger share of the vote than I had in the first election which surprised me a lot! The second term had more stability. Population rose dramatically. I worked incredibly hard to recruit with the Interior Minister of the time sending a few thousand TG's a week.
The big controversies of the time, the reveal of Champagne Jam to be Falconias and Lmaoofl to be Karputsk made a massive impact on the region. Many felt betrayed by this and the event would be referred to for the whole of 2009 and most of 2010; it's since dwindled to the back-benches of Euro-history. From the growth and population and activity and how the controversies were dealt with, I was shown to be competent due to the small number of people on the forum in comparison with now, I secured the best ever rating as a President.
My next two terms that summer would be considerably less dramatic; I aimed to continue the heavy involvement I'd done before and we broke new records for recruitment (we reached 700 nations on the day that I resigned). I then returned to the Vice-Presidency during Oliver Grey's term, and upon his resignation was the President again (6 times in total it seems!)
This term was mostly about regaining stability but my lack of RL time meant I could just keep the boat floating and not much more! I think, perhaps, I had set too high standards for myself in Europeia! That is something which does upset me in Europeia. It is fantastic to be a historical great, but it has left a stigma on the Presidency. The terms "high standards" and "golden age" are used far too often
I developed Europeia, but without HEM to advise me, and Aurora to assist me; there would be nothing. I had solid people and a pleasant rhetoric, alongside the right place at the right time principle: That is why I succeeded, but it is not really down to me as an individual. Nowadays people get upset if the President isn't seen daily talking, but I never did that.. I rarely did to tell the truth
These are expectations that have grown out of some legend. The expectations on me when I was President were considerably less. It's funny to see that my biggest difficulty as President was making people talk, nowadays it's getting them to shut up
A nice change perhaps!
I've been in NS since november 2002 or 2003, I genuinely can't remember
I founded my first nation then and played about a bit in the North Pacific civil difficulties. I think Nastic was the name of the delegate.. I left, being bored of the game only to return in 2005 to Gatesville, the largest user-created region at the time with over 1000 members. I got heavily involved in its provincial affairs and also in intelligence and eventually became a respected member of the High Council. (GV is and always has been an Oligarchy, so I was pretty honoured by this!). Part of my ascension there was due to my taking sides in a civil war in favour of the founder Gates.
In 2006 I founded my own region, designed on the Ancient Roman themes, called Cingeta (max population was 80 citizens, it was not a success). Not long after a nation came in contact with me who had had bad dealings with Gatesville, HEM. We debated about Gatesville a lot and eventually he joined Cingeta and I joined Europeia.
In Europeia, I became a Senator at first, made a lot of ridiculous legislative suggestions and ended up briefly serving as Culture Minister because I voted for Lethen in the infamous (or so Lethen would like it to be) Presidential election draw in December 2007. I think Danoboy had offered me the Grand Admiralship but Lethen offered me nothing until after I had voted... anywho, I started WinterFest that year, the first Europeian festival of it's kind then I went on hiatus for a while and returned late 2008 to the Senate again. I took up a cause against a crazy Presidential hopeful, Renposa, with the Abstain campaign
Pez took up the Presidency then as the only willing candidate, but he and his Vice President both resigned before the end of term and I, as Senate Speaker at the time, ended up as Acting-President while running a campaign for the Presidency, my first.
Rachel Anumia: Do you think you would have still gotten to that point without that lucky break?
Pope Lexus X: Yes I do, the biggest thing I had going for me was that I stood up to Renposa, without being a Presidential candidate at the time, who was a shoe-in for the Presidency himself but was proven to be kind of...nuts. That act made my election much easier, though NeoHabighorst was a very strong candidate with the backing of the ECP. I also had another trump card I'd hired Europeia's best citizen as my VP; Asianatic. The ECP's power almost spoiled the election, but I could secure most of the independent voters and my own party which was the smaller EUP.
Well I was elected President! My first term wasn't as amazing as one might guess.
I took a lot of work on myself, and had a lot of infighting with my cabinet leading to two resignations and a few reshuffles. The population also dropped from the 200's into the hundreds. Towards the end though I had the population rising and culture really developed; the uni was coming back and WinterFest was even bigger that year.
The second election was again against NeoHabighorst, and I won by a larger share of the vote than I had in the first election which surprised me a lot! The second term had more stability. Population rose dramatically. I worked incredibly hard to recruit with the Interior Minister of the time sending a few thousand TG's a week.
The big controversies of the time, the reveal of Champagne Jam to be Falconias and Lmaoofl to be Karputsk made a massive impact on the region. Many felt betrayed by this and the event would be referred to for the whole of 2009 and most of 2010; it's since dwindled to the back-benches of Euro-history. From the growth and population and activity and how the controversies were dealt with, I was shown to be competent due to the small number of people on the forum in comparison with now, I secured the best ever rating as a President.
My next two terms that summer would be considerably less dramatic; I aimed to continue the heavy involvement I'd done before and we broke new records for recruitment (we reached 700 nations on the day that I resigned). I then returned to the Vice-Presidency during Oliver Grey's term, and upon his resignation was the President again (6 times in total it seems!)
This term was mostly about regaining stability but my lack of RL time meant I could just keep the boat floating and not much more! I think, perhaps, I had set too high standards for myself in Europeia! That is something which does upset me in Europeia. It is fantastic to be a historical great, but it has left a stigma on the Presidency. The terms "high standards" and "golden age" are used far too often
I developed Europeia, but without HEM to advise me, and Aurora to assist me; there would be nothing. I had solid people and a pleasant rhetoric, alongside the right place at the right time principle: That is why I succeeded, but it is not really down to me as an individual. Nowadays people get upset if the President isn't seen daily talking, but I never did that.. I rarely did to tell the truth
These are expectations that have grown out of some legend. The expectations on me when I was President were considerably less. It's funny to see that my biggest difficulty as President was making people talk, nowadays it's getting them to shut up
A nice change perhaps!
