After much behind the scenes discussion, the new government structure for SW City will be going into effect tomorow, 1/1/2010. See the post below for details.
After much behind the scenes discussion, the new government structure for SW City will be going into effect tomorow, 1/1/2010. See the post below for details.
As of 1/1/2010, SW City’s government organization will undergo a complete reform. To summarize, “SW City” will be split into two seperate organizations:
1 – SW City: SW City will be defined as the city proper, and will have its borders significantly modified. The old borders were defined as this, but this area will now be known as the Scarabian Region. SW City’s borders will be all of SW Island, Caturn Island, and the Sybian Islands (Sybit + Seawing + Meta). SW City itself will keep its current government system, meaning it will still have districts and precincts. The main difference is that the districts do not extend beyond the city limits now.
SW City staff include:
Syntax – Mayor
SW Comit – Governor
SW Chris – Governor
Captain MAD Mike – Governor
Espilae – Governor
OniLink – Manager
Ferruccio – Manager
2 – SW City Productions: SW City Productions is a transparent body without any in-world representation. This group is responsible for: development and management of SW City Interactive (SWI), lore, developing and land management of the Scarabian Region (shaping the oceans and some level of ground control to keep expansion plans in tact), running the website, forums, wiki and academy, and binding the neighboring cities for general corporation.
SW City Productions staff include:
SW Comit – Lead Developer
Syntax – Developer
SW Chris – Administration
Espilae – Lead Lore Writer
Hyper Anthony – Writer
AbMo – Writer
Baro – Writer
Captain MAD Mike – Consultant developer
Ferruccio – Dedicated Builder
So what does this mean for areas that were once part of SW City?
SW City is defined as just one of the cities within the Scarabian Region. Other cities within the region are now their own independent town and may have its own rules and staff. Following that, the Scarabian Republic is now known as the Scarabian Confederation, which is a corporate cartel composed of most of the corporations within the region.
The Scarabian Confederation exists as a lore entity and isn’t “staffed” by real life people. According to lore, land ownership within the Scarabian Region belongs mostly to corporations (citing the Corporate Era within the timeline), whom control and manage much of the land in the region, both in and outside of city property. While corporations are based within the cities, most of Alphaworld’s land is anarchic and not owned by any city, so the corporations, whom operate with more freedom and power than city government, manage property not owned by the cities. The cartel was put in place to prevent land disputes between corporations within the region, as well as abiding by other misc rules of business practice to keep things mutual. However, “City A” does not want “City B’s” corporation from taking all the resources outside of city borders, so the cartel insures that all cities would have a fair trade right to resources within the region. The cartel also serves as the first line of defense for cities against any potential threats, as the cartel owns the surrounding land and is responsible for its defense.
The Scarabian Confederation manages the Equal Rights Trade Enactment contract, offered to cities within the region. Members of the contract include:
SW City
Southern Highlands
East Ending
Mondary
Cherry Hills
Greensville
Esperion
Sequini
Port Bueny
Akureyri
Due to political lore-related reasons, the following cities are not involved with the confederation:
Zelena
Zlata Ves
Cyan Depot
Fort Pudd
Zelfoor
Getyolb
The above list of cities, members or not, also serve as an official list of cities that SW City Productions is responsible for overseeing to ensure there is no conflict in lore or conflicts in intended land usage.
In conclusion, the new government structure is essentially how things have been unofficially running for a few years now. There has been a lot of “friction” between new developments and the way the old government system was written (which has consequently had to be semi-ignored in some areas). This reform is basically to put the official, documented system in sync with the way things are already operating.
I’m just going to say that the name “Scarabian Confederation” just doesn’t have the same ring to it as the old name did… I don’t know, it just seems awkward.
Confederation of Scarabia?
Next step for the Confederation shall be world domination! The corporate cartel shall rule each in its own with an iron fist!!1
They don’t need to have the same ring. Scarabian Republic and Scarabian Confederation are two entirely seperate things. One (the republic) was a r/l organization that banded real cities from all over the universe and had minimum appearance in lore; and the other is a lore organization not staffed by anyone and explains the relationship between cities within the local region only, staffed by r/l people or not. Due to established lore on what the organization does, the word ‘republic’ made no sense at all.
I mean that “Scarabian Confederation” doesn’t flow as well. It just, I don’t know, feels… awkward.
Post any suggestions if you have some, as long as the name doesn’t conflict with lore, its consideration isn’t entirely out of the question
Scarabian Confederation seem to be fine to me, as there’s a Swiss Confederation on this planet Earth. :p
I also want to point out that many articles on Swiki still refers to it as Scarabian Republic instead of Scarabian Confederation. Is there a plan to fix this or something?
Yes, the wiki updates are on the to-do list.
HALP!!! I Forgot the swiki password again. ;_;