Executive Midterm Satisfaction Poll April 2025 Written by United Vietussia
Introduction:
"Net Approval" is calculated in this analysis by first subtracting the total number of "Dissatisfied" and "Very Dissatisfied" responses from the total number of "Satisfied" or "Very Satisfied" responses, then dividing the result by the total number of responses minus the number of "Don't Know" responses, and multiplying the result by 100. This method provides the gulf in percentage point proportions between respondents who approve of a given official and those who disapprove, with "Don't Know" responses not affecting results.
Representativeness:
The most recent Presidential election had 57 voters, while last week's General Election had 45 voters. This poll received 16 respondents; the overall responsiveness is difficult to assess, as this number is on the lower end for Presidential elections, but the most recent election indicates a lower number of voters. Accordingly, we estimate this poll to be representative of anywhere between 25-33% of Europeians.
Results:
Overall Executive Satisfaction: +87.6%
GK is genuinely incredible, and the region continues to thrive domestically and in foreign affairs
Satisfaction with the overall Executive remains at a staggeringly high +87.6% net approval. Europeians appear overwhelmingly supportive of President Grea Kriopia's administration, which has in turn led to high marks for the overall Cabinet. While all respondents except for one indicated a level of satisfaction, the majority of this satisfaction is at the "satisfied" rather than the "very satisfied" level, indicating that this support may not be guaranteed come end-of-term.
President Grea Kriopia: +93.8%
Presidents that receive zero push back tend to flag. Hoping this will be an exception -OR- GK plans to step aside for the next polite and meritorious person before that becomes a heightened risk.
the greatest of all time
President Grea Kriopia checks in with the highest net approval rating at 93.8%, with no dissatisfied responses from any respondents. Furthermore, a staggering 62.5% of respondents indicated that they were "very satisfied" with GK's performance, a strong showing should she decide to run for reelection in just a few weeks' time. One respondent did note the tendency of overwhelmingly popular Presidents to "flag", which could provide insight into the basis for potential voter apathy in the upcoming election, particularly if GK runs unopposed again.
Vice President Sincluda: +75%
Ready for a presidential term in their own right, without question.
presidential material
Vice President Sincluda also received high marks from our respondents, clocking in with a net approval at +75%. Two respondents went further and explicitly mentioned that Sincluda was ready to serve as President, an assertion bolstered over 80% of respondents indicating a level of satisfaction with his work. That said, this level of satisfaction is significantly softer than the President's, with a majority of Sincluda's support coming at the "satisfied" rather than the "very satisfied level".
Grand Admiral Kuramia: +62.5%
Not much outside of the holds going on it seems, fair
It's unclear to me what role Kuramia personally plays in the success or failure of naval operations or those who take part in them.
While Grand Admiral Kuramia checks in with one of the lowest net approvals in the Cabinet (along with United Vietussia and Lime), she still maintains an impressive +62.5% net approval. Two respondents left comments expressing a lack of clarity over Kuramia's direct involvement/role with operations, which may explain the slightly lower net approval rating. Even sitll, 75% of respondents indicated a level of satisfaction with Kuramia's work thus far.
Minister of Gameside SkyGreen: +81.3%
Haven't seen enough to judge one way or the other.
I think I did good
Minister of Gameside SkyGreen received one of the highest overall satisfaction ratings, with 87.5% of respondents indicating a level of satisfaction with his work and a +81.3% net approval rating. This level of satisfaction is much softer than his other colleagues, with a majority of respondents (56.3%) indicating support at the "satisfied" level rather than the "very satisfied" level.
Minister of Communications United Vietussia: +62.5%
Not enough content. Not dynamic-enough content. Would like to see more in the way of project and people management from UV. He can create content but when others lead, he seems to be really hands off.
not as active as i had hoped but he gets stuff done
(As author of this article, United Vietussia will not analyze his own poll results.)
Minister of World Assembly Affairs sanjurika: +81.3%
(No comments.)
Minister of World Assembly Affairs sanjurika achieved the rare feat of having no dissatisfied respondents in this poll, with 81.3% of respondents indicating a level of satisfaction with his work so far. Further, the majority of satisfied respondents indicated support at the "very satisfied" level, highlighting significant support for sanjurika's work so far.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Ervald: +75%
Ervald does a great job engaging staff. It is unclear to me what role he plays in affecting or informing Europeia's foreign policy.
Stand out first time MoFA
Ervald stands out with the highest level of "very satisfied" respondents at 75%, a significant endorsement of Ervald's work in Foreign Affairs thus far. While his net approval is not as high as other Cabinet members, this is a staggering number relative to other Ministers. One comment expressed a lack of clarity over Ervald's involvement in affecting Europeian foreign policy, which may have contributed to a slightly lower net approval. In spite of this, such a high level of satisfaction can likely be viewed as indicative of support for both Ervald's work as well as Europeian foreign policy at large.
Minister of Radio Sopo: +93.8%
Not a ton of shows but the content has been quite good.
Reliable as always
Along with President Grea Kriopia, Minister of Radio Sopo also tied for the highest net approval, with 93.8% of respondents approving of his work and no dissatisfied responses. Like many of his colleagues, his level of satisfaction is still somewhat soft, with half of respondents indicating support at the "satisfied" level. Respondent comments praised the reliability and quality of Radio's content, though a desire for increased quantity was also expressed.
Minister of Outreach Malaxa: +68.8%
A recruitment-only ministry doesn't need to be a ministry. If we're not going to take forum integration, let's just allow the VP or Gameside to coordinate the recruiters.
excellent pick for the role, malaxa is dependable and a great worker
Phenomenal work for a new Minister
very strong first minister term
First-term Minister of Outreach Malaxa achieved an impressive +68.8% net approval rating, including a majority of supportive respondents at the "very satisfied" level. Malaxa's work also drew the largest number of comments from our respondents, with several lauding his work so far, particularly as a first-term minister. One respondent took the time to question the purpose of the Ministry of Outreach as a recruiting-only ministry, asking for increased focus on integration or a rellocation of the ministry's responsbilities to either the Vice President or Minister of Gameside. Even still, Malaxa enjoys a significant level of support for his work so far.
Attorney General Comfed: +81.3%
Timely and informative.
After resigning from the Senate to accept the role as Attorney General, Comfed received a significant level of support for his work so far, with 81.3% of respondents indicating satisfaction with his work and no dissatisfied respondents. Furthermore, a majority of respondents indicated support at the "very satisfied" level, a strong showing for the Attorney General and his work so far.
(Former) Minister of Culture Spuzz City (Rai): +56.3%
hope rai is doing well
While Spuzz City (Rai) did not serve for very long as Minister of Culture, her work prior to resignation still received the support of 68.8% of respondents with an overall net approval of +56.3%. Two comments expressed well wishes to Spuzz City following her resignation.
Minister of Culture Lime: +62.5%
(No comments.)
Taking over for Spuzz City (Rai) a few weeks before the midterm mark, Lime received the support of 62.5% of respondents and no dissatisfied responses. A significant chunk of respondents indicated that they were either neutral (25%) or unsure (12.5%) about Lime's performance so far, indicating that further evaluation may be needed of his work given the relatively short timeframe that he has been in the role. As it stands now, Europeians have been willing to give Lime a chance to prove himself in the weeks to come.
Direction of Europeia/Future Ministers
Is Europeia on the Right Track?
Respondents overwhelmingly believe that Europeia is on the right, with 75% of respondents indicating in the affirmative. When the "unsure" option is removed, this number jumps up further to 81.3%. 2 of our respondents initially indicated that they were "unsure" about the direction of the region, with one of each jumping into the "yes" and "no" camps. With such high Executive approval ratings, this is a largely unsurprising result.
Anybody with some -energy-.
amalteia, m88youngling
amalteia (WAA, Comms)Pichvi (WAA, Gameside)
AMALETIA AMALTEIA AMALTEIA AMALTEIA
Four current ministers received the support of a majority of respondents to return for a second term: sanjurika (WA Affairs), Ervald (Foreign Affairs), Sopo (Radio), and Malaxa (Outreach). Comfed (AG) and United Vietussia (Communications) received right at half of the support of respondents. Interestingly, no currently serving minister received an overwhelming amount of support for a potential return, with Ervald leading the way at 68.8%. Explaining the gulf between the high approval ratings and the somewhat lower figures for returning to the role is likely beyond the scope of this analysis, but it may be tied to a desire to see new faces in these roles, with one comment asking for "anybody with some energy".
Amalteia also garnered explicit mention from 3 respondents when asked who they wanted to see serve in the Cabinet that isn't already serving. Pichvi and m88youngling each received one mention as well.
Not to cast aspersions on these numbers because I think GK and team have been doing a good job, but we’ve seen inflated approval numbers for everyone (Senate, Executive ect.) lately and no one really gets bad numbers unless they literally went completely MIA or did something massively egregious.
At the same time my phenomenal approvals translated into a situation where I barely scraped into the Senate…so are people lowkey lying in these polls? We’re seeing approval numbers that 4-5 years ago would suggest utter and complete political dominance only for when actual rubber hits the road for many of those same people to perform in elections like they have 51% approval.
Or I guess we’ve seen lower respondent rates recently too, so is it literally just the Executive filling out this polling? lol
Understandable question as my role is mostly backdoors. So when it comes to the highly urgent events that require an immediate response like the recent statement responding to NPO/AA/LWU or ideas like Frontierfest, my role is smaller in those situations. The President has to sign off the course of action at the end of the day so I let her handle most of those situations. I am more of an executor of the will in those situations, I will correspond and negotiate as necessary knowing the policy preferences of my boss. For example, I helped make sure that the negotiations for our treaty with the Outback was moving quick and smooth. I have also published internal statements on behalf of the administration like here or there.
But in the "smaller" situations? I play a bigger role. For example, one of the president's goals in her platform was to engage with newer UCRs and while she listed some UCRs we could engage with, I gave my advice on which UCRs we should prioritize to know better over the course of this term and she has trusted me on that. I just talked to two smaller UCRs directly recently and we're hoping to have 2 game night-style events with them over the rest of this term. It might bleed into next term a bit if one of them get delayed but they're on the docket. Hope that answer your question.
tl;ldr: I execute the President's vision on urgently important issues/ideas but formulate foreign policy more often in less urgent situations.
Not to cast aspersions on these numbers because I think GK and team have been doing a good job, but we’ve seen inflated approval numbers for everyone (Senate, Executive ect.) lately and no one really gets bad numbers unless they literally went completely MIA or did something massively egregious.
At the same time my phenomenal approvals translated into a situation where I barely scraped into the Senate…so are people lowkey lying in these polls? We’re seeing approval numbers that 4-5 years ago would suggest utter and complete political dominance only for when actual rubber hits the road for many of those same people to perform in elections like they have 51% approval.
Or I guess we’ve seen lower respondent rates recently too, so is it literally just the Executive filling out this polling? lol
I wonder how much of it has to do with the number of respondents and the type of people who tend to reply to polls. This poll apparently had 16 respondents which is uncharacteristically low -- the last 5 polls in the EBC (according to Ctrl+F) have 23, 24, 26, 26, and 22 respondents respectively. This poll had like 1/3 the participation of last week's Senate election, and participation in that wasn't great either, dropping nearly 20% from the last Presidential, and that after getting a second (and maybe a third?) Citizen ping for turnout by Lethen when he felt like not enough people had voted.
I wasn't paying as much attention to this poll, but it felt like it wasn't advertised super heavily -- UV posted it in #executive-updates and in the #grand-hall channel, but I still wouldn't be shocked if most of the respondents were more tuned in than average. I know that during my term we had to advertise a couple of our polls in DMs to get "acceptable" turnout because Vor didn't want to publish a poll with fewer than 20 responses.
A recruitment-only ministry doesn't need to be a ministry. If we're not going to take forum integration, let's just allow the VP or Gameside to coordinate the recruiters.
This is a silly comment. Malaxa has been involved in more than just recruitment, and if you want to know about the part he has played in our tech developments, I suggest you look back at the tech commission's announcements in the last couple of weeks.
It would also be interesting to me whether the events of recent days would have changed the polling at all between the onsite/offsite divide discussions and the FA happenings. Nothing to be done about it, it always seems like the most hype things happen just a bit past the midterm point!
A recruitment-only ministry doesn't need to be a ministry. If we're not going to take forum integration, let's just allow the VP or Gameside to coordinate the recruiters.
This comment confused me because Malaxa has played a direct role in recent ADAPT/Tech projects aur0ra and m0use, designing templates and integration-related materials like the welcome message used for new nations. We've tried to message clearly about that but if it's not coming through then please let me know
At the same time my phenomenal approvals translated into a situation where I barely scraped into the Senate…so are people lowkey lying in these polls? We’re seeing approval numbers that 4-5 years ago would suggest utter and complete political dominance only for when actual rubber hits the road for many of those same people to perform in elections like they have 51% approval.
I think we've (generally) over-corrected from a few years ago when comments were interpreted more harshly than was intended; maybe we're overall too nice because of the more social aspect of the game; and there haven't been any polarizing controversies to push people one way or the other.
I wasn't paying as much attention to this poll, but it felt like it wasn't advertised super heavily -- UV posted it in #executive-updates and in the #grand-hall channel, but I still wouldn't be shocked if most of the respondents were more tuned in than average. I know that during my term we had to advertise a couple of our polls in DMs to get "acceptable" turnout because Vor didn't want to publish a poll with fewer than 20 responses.
I don't take polls as often unless someone reminds me (I don't engage with a lot of threads), but light advertising in two channels (without any pings) won't push many people to take a poll. Not sure how often it was promoted on the forums too. That may be a "pick your poison" kind of thing though - if someone is going to ignore a poll, it's just the choice of which platform to ignore it on
Not to cast aspersions on these numbers because I think GK and team have been doing a good job, but we’ve seen inflated approval numbers for everyone (Senate, Executive ect.) lately and no one really gets bad numbers unless they literally went completely MIA or did something massively egregious.
I agree there is something fundamentally off with these polls. I honestly think for the last few years they've been almost entirely worthless — basically only serving as a canary in the coal mine if someone's political fortunes were about to go south quickly.
That's not to disparage the good people of the EBC or the poll work done itself, I just think we need to ask different questions to get the information we really want. Maybe private media (like, er, me) should try this next term or at the end of the term.
Not to cast aspersions on these numbers because I think GK and team have been doing a good job, but we’ve seen inflated approval numbers for everyone (Senate, Executive ect.) lately and no one really gets bad numbers unless they literally went completely MIA or did something massively egregious.
I agree there is something fundamentally off with these polls. I honestly think for the last few years they've been almost entirely worthless — basically only serving as a canary in the coal mine if someone's political fortunes were about to go south quickly.
That's not to disparage the good people of the EBC or the poll work done itself, I just think we need to ask different questions to get the information we really want. Maybe private media (like, er, me) should try this next term or at the end of the term.
Do we think a different polling format would be helpful or do you think even that would be worthless? For example, how Gem and Sin did that poll where you couldn’t mark “neutral” for folks.
Not to cast aspersions on these numbers because I think GK and team have been doing a good job, but we’ve seen inflated approval numbers for everyone (Senate, Executive ect.) lately and no one really gets bad numbers unless they literally went completely MIA or did something massively egregious.
I agree there is something fundamentally off with these polls. I honestly think for the last few years they've been almost entirely worthless — basically only serving as a canary in the coal mine if someone's political fortunes were about to go south quickly.
That's not to disparage the good people of the EBC or the poll work done itself, I just think we need to ask different questions to get the information we really want. Maybe private media (like, er, me) should try this next term or at the end of the term.
Do we think a different polling format would be helpful or do you think even that would be worthless? For example, how Gem and Sin did that poll where you couldn’t mark “neutral” for folks.
Not to cast aspersions on these numbers because I think GK and team have been doing a good job, but we’ve seen inflated approval numbers for everyone (Senate, Executive ect.) lately and no one really gets bad numbers unless they literally went completely MIA or did something massively egregious.
I agree there is something fundamentally off with these polls. I honestly think for the last few years they've been almost entirely worthless — basically only serving as a canary in the coal mine if someone's political fortunes were about to go south quickly.
That's not to disparage the good people of the EBC or the poll work done itself, I just think we need to ask different questions to get the information we really want. Maybe private media (like, er, me) should try this next term or at the end of the term.
For what it’s worth, I am in agreement that poll numbers seem absurdly high across the board as of late. That’s not to say that any one person hasn’t deserved their poll results, but whether it’s because respondents are being too nice or we simply don’t have as high of expectations as we used to, I’ve been surprised at how high approval has been across the board (both here and in the Senate). I think that effect is only more amplified after returning to the region from a bit of a hiatus, particularly since it wasn’t but a couple of years ago when respondents would make themselves heard if they disapproved of someone’s work.
Maybe we really are all satisfied with everything! But I think there’s something deeper here…
I agree there is something fundamentally off with these polls. I honestly think for the last few years they've been almost entirely worthless — basically only serving as a canary in the coal mine if someone's political fortunes were about to go south quickly.
That's not to disparage the good people of the EBC or the poll work done itself, I just think we need to ask different questions to get the information we really want. Maybe private media (like, er, me) should try this next term or at the end of the term.
Belatedly chiming in, I don't disagree with anything said in this thread. Satisfaction polling does not seem to produce much discourse in the region anymore in its current state, and some change is needed.
That said, last term, we attempted to do satisfaction polling using new polling methods in private media, and it went poorly enough (the results never published) that I had to commit that the EBC would do polling no matter what in my campaign for this term. The EBC is constrained by polling standards, and there's no accountability mechanism for private media projects so all of these things add a layer of complexity when people still demand some polling rather than no polling.
So, if we want to commit to trying out a new format, I would say the EBC would probably still run traditional polling while a private outlet tried out something new or we can agree to set aside polling standards for the sake of experimentation and develop something collaboratively within the EBC.
For what it's worth, the polling standards were introduced in 2021 just as a codification of the way things were typically done. I don't think they should be viewed as a relevant barrier if the Ministry of Communications wants to experiment with something else.
I noticed this earlier and didn't think to comment, but returning to it - I find this comment to be a little bizarre. If the Navy is running well, then as long as essential leadership functions are being fulfilled, who cares what the Grand Admiral's degree of personal involvement is? If the Navy was doing poorly, and the Grand Admiral was seen as not doing enough to turn the ship around, that would be a different story, but that's not (as far as I can tell) actually the case.
More broadly, I would say that running a successful military organization can be a huge burden to place on one person. While we've had some very successful Grand Admirals take on a lot of work themselves to drive the Navy to greater heights, I don't think that is a sustainable expectation to have of every GA.
For what it's worth, the polling standards were introduced in 2021 just as a codification of the way things were typically done. I don't think they should be viewed as a relevant barrier if the Ministry of Communications wants to experiment with something else.
Heavily agree with this. Honestly the polling standards are a pretty good example of the bureaucratisation of the region, in favour of safe boring and non-controversial methods as opposed to allowing for new and potentially controversial ideas to be considered.
Also agree with all the other comments here about polling in general at the moment. Honestly polls are pretty worthless right now, unless someone completely disappears and doesn't do their job you're always going to get a high approval. And even then you'll probably still get mostly approval or neural responses and people saying "they don't want to judge" lol.
