The Pacific

New Pacific Order
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Founded	September 1, 2003
Empress	Xoriet
Regent	Syberis
Senator of Internal Affairs	Marina, Greyghost, Honourbound
Senator of Military Affairs	Ender
Senator of Diplomatic Affairs	Callisto
Advisor	Lord of Darkness
Advisor	Ivan Moldavi
External Links	Region information Members TP forums TP Discord

The Pacific, commonly referred to as Pacifica by its members, is the first of five Feeder regions created by NationStates administrator [violet] upon the game’s founding in earlier 2003. It serves as a founding ground for newly created nations and has been under the direction of the New Pacific Order (NPO) — and its variations — for over ten years. The current New Pacific Order presents itself as a meritocracy, rewarding loyal and hard-working individuals to serve as its leading officials. Serving as the most senior official, the Emperor exercises total authority over regional affairs and is responsible for maintaining the in-game delegate seat, representing Pacificans in the World Assembly. Directly below the Emperor, a Regent is selected amongst Senate members to serve at the Emperors discretion and represent him or her in their absents. The Senate, ranted below the Emperor and Regent in authority, is composed of individuals that have been promoted personally by the Emperor to serve as advisors and head certain regional affairs. Below the Senate, there are a number of departments, such as the Praetorian Guard, the Pacific News Network (PNN) etc. with their respected community leaders and members that contribute to department causes. All Pacificans, both in-game and forum based, must adhere to the Civil Code, a set of laws that help maintain community standards and security from which the justice department operates. For further information regarding the regional government and Civil Code, please see the Pacifican Articles and Civil Code.

Pacifican History

Table of Delegates

Delegate	Enthronement	Dethronement
[Unknown]	November 2002	March 2003
Template:Nation	March 2003	15 April 2003 (CTE)
Template:Nation	15 April 2003	May 2003
Template:Nation	May 2003	June 2003
Template:Nation	June 2003	30 July 2003
Template:Nation	30 July 2003	August 2003
Template:Nation	August 2003	August 2003
Template:Nation	August 2003	August 2003
Template:Nation	August 2003	28 August 2003
Template:Nation	28 August 2003	September 2003
Template:Nation	September 2003	October 2003
Template:Nation	October 2003	26 October 2003
Template:Nation	26 October 2003	26 October 2003
Template:Nation	26 October 2003	December 2003
Template:Nation	December 2003	24 January 2004
Template:Nation	24 January 2004	10 July 2004
Template:Nation	10 July 2004	August 2004
Template:Nation	August 2004	18 July 2005
Template:Nation	18 July 2005	January 2006
Template:Nation	January 2006	March 2006
Template:Nation	March 2006	June 2006
Template:Nation	June 2006	October 2006
Template:Nation	October 2006	May 2009
Template:Nation	May 2009	10 August 2015
Template:Nation	10 August 2015	5 August 2016
Template:Nation	5 August 2016

Table of Governments

Government	Instatement	Dissolution
the Pacific Region	June 2003	28 August 2003
New Pacific Order	1 September 2003	1 September 2004
People’s Republic of the Pacific	1 September 2004	April 2006
second New Pacific Order	April 2006	August 2006
Francoist Union of Pacific States	September 2006	15 November 2006
Union of Sovereign States of the Pacific	15 November 2006	2008
third New Pacific Order	2008

Early history

In 2002, the Pacific was the only feeder region. It would soon be joined by four others of its kind, each a Pacific. But the Pacific remained The Pacific.

Template:Nation was the earliest known delegate of the Pacific and the first nation to use the Regional Controls to eject another nation from any feeder region. He was succeeded by Template:Nation, whose rule was seen as autocratic but not too intrusive. Later, after the August Revolution, InfernoIce would become a member of the New Pacific Order and a Pacific Senator. Template:Nation followed InfernoIce; little is known about his reign. Many of these early delegates were tiny newly-founded nations: Sudetenland perished with a population only 493 million people, and Olongapo with only 914 million.

Olongapo’s reign was followed by a period when the delegacy repeatedly passed back and forth between Template:Nation and Template:Nation, who were allies at the head of the Pacific and its Pacific Army. Thedoc was the first delegate to create an offsite forum for the region, once located at [1]; the forum, though dead, is still partially viewable at the Internet Archive: [2]. It is from this forum that much of the early history of the Pacific is known. At the time the Pacific was commonly known as the Pacific Region. Modern Pacifican ideology claims that Thedoc was inactive, corrupt, and exploitative of Pacificans, thus setting the foundations for the regional philosophy that would become known as Francoism in memory of Francos Spain's leadership during the August Revolution; this account is not particularly borne out by the written records of the time. The old Pacific community flourished in its new forum, blissfully unaware of the coming storm.

The August Revolution

Several Pacifican accounts, such as Emperor Unlimited's essay Five Days that Shook the World, claim that the old regime was “based on cronyism and subservience to foreign powers” and that “leading officials would pass power around amongst themselves, occasionally throwing up illusions of Pacifican participation, but invariably serving only their own narrow interests and those of their masters.” Emperor Unlimited goes on to state that Thedoc and the individuals within his administration did not even consider themselves Pacificans, but rather “their state apparatus stood as a separate entity to the people — endeavouring always to exist above and out of reach.”

Contrasting accounts of the time, such as Unistrut’s essay The Great Pacifican Lie, claim instead that the native Pacific community was free to speak, act, and trade endorsements as they pleased before the Revolution, with a ​“very open political structure”, and that Thedoc’s overthrow marked the destruction of the native Feederite community and its replacement with a handful of foreign conspirators who had largely had no previous part in the Pacific community at all (most notably Francos Spain himself).

Regardless of the true nature of Thedoc’s regime, it was in this environment that the revolution that created the New Pacific Order was fostered. A nation called Template:Nation, formerly the founder of the regions of Template:Region and Template:Region, came to the Pacific Region only three weeks before the end of August alongside his friend Template:Nation, who had introduced him to the game. On 28 August 2003 at 4 AM, Francos Spain, together with his co-revolutionaries, suddenly seized the delegacy of the Pacific Region and quickly moved to establish his power. He ejected anyone affiliated with the old administration as well as anyone who had a certain number of endorsements, reaching 295 ejections. This raised the ire of the old regime’s Pacific Army and drew the attention of many powers around the NS world, who had previously been focused on the “Great Villain” of the day, the Farker Template:Nation. The Alliance Defence Network (ADN) stirred to life and allied with the Pacific Army. They collected themselves and attempted to create a counter-revolution to spur Thedoc back to power.

On 1 September, 2003 — a few days into the revolution — the New Pacific Order was announced. However, the newly created institution was not classified as a meritocracy but rather an autocratic democracy in the simplest of forms, taking the will and spirit typically associated with democracy and channeling it through an autocratic structure, which allowed for more direct and timely action against those seeking to prevent the continuation of the revolution. Template:Nation reported at the time, “The government appeared to be totalitarian, with its civil code and frequent banishments, but in general, the code was only selectively enforced against dissidents and spies, which appeared frequently in the government.” Meritocracy within the New Pacific Order was born more out of necessity rather than ideals; the Pacific was facing a wave of opposition from outside forces and the need for unmatched leadership and skill become a central part within the revolution in order for it to survive. The meritocracy system allowed for such development.

Aftermath

The New Pacific Order quickly gathered its forces, repelled the Pacific Army and their allies, and began to undertake a conquest of the rest of the Feeder regions. Only Template:Region, ruled by 1 Infinite Loop, was spared their invasion. Loop was spared because he was sympathetic to the Francoist regime, noting, “Have any of the anti Francos crowd ever considered that they are part of the problem? Sure FS is a Dictator, but the constant attacks on him, the constant flames, the constant spam against him. Perhaps, Just Perhaps, he has to be that way in order to protect himself from You People.” Some regions, like Template:Region, initially refused to attack the NPO but joined the fight against it when it began its mass ejections and wars of conquest (Wysteria and its allies went to war on 26 October, an ill-fated attack; see below).

On 7 September 2003, there was a power outage in San Francisco and the NationStates servers crashed, causing Francos Spain to temporarily lose the delegacy. The mods, ruling that this was unfair, reinstated him and ordered the ADN and Pacific Army to leave temporarily or risk deletion. On 26 October, just as a huge attack on the NPO was launched by Wysteria, Template:Region, and Template:Region, there was another system crash, and large numbers of delegates across the world were removed from their positions, including Franco. Template:Nation temporarily took power in the Pacific, but her victory was short-lived. The mods again stepped in to reinstate Franco and ordered his enemies to leave for reasons of fairness. Mod Template:Nation recalls, “Again, Template:Nation ordered the would-be liberators out. This was later overturned by [violet], citing that in this glitch, the endorsements were not lost as they had been in the prior event. Of course, by then it was too late to fix, though Neutered Sputniks resigned a few months after the shitstorm gameplayers kicked up over the event.”

Template:Nation, founder of Wysteria, reported at the time in more detail: “Unfortunately, this liberation effort coincided with a bug that removed many of the Nation States Delegates from their position, before being fixed again on Monday. The System Moderators were faced with a difficult ethical dilemma: to stop a group of Invaders to take advantage of the bug to seize control of a Region or to allow a benign group of Invaders to take advantage of a system error to dethrone a monster. As the Liberators, led by Template:Nation, reached their goal of attaining more endorsements before the coming system update, the Moderators decided in favour of Francos Spain. It was decided that Corinthe should leave and that nobody should be able to steal the Delegateship of a Region, because of a game glitch. Later that night, after momentum had turned to resignation and bitterness amongst the Liberation Camp, Violet overturned the decision of the Moderators, but by then it was too late. Many of those involved had long since turned in for the night and precious little time was left before the system update took effect, for Corinthe or any others to restage the Liberation. Shortly after the System Update did occur, the mass purge of all enemies of Francos Spain took place in the Pacific. All who opposed them or endorsed those who opposed them were summarily ejected and banned. There was a whole lot of bitterness resulting across the Nation States World and many have vowed to renew the struggle to overthrow Francos Spain. Corinthe, regarded as the leader of the Pacific Resistance, has announced that she is through with Nation States, because of the way things went down.”

The war between the NPO and the ADN, PA, ALL, and their allies raged for a year (and nominally for three more). The Pacific formed the Union of Sovereigns Alliance with several other regions to counter the ADN. In May 2004, the East Pacific officially recognized the delegacy of Francos Spain as legitimate, as he surpassed 500 endorsements. Template:Region under Template:Nation repeatedly threatened to depose the NPO and demanded that the Pacific hold elections for a new Pacific delegate on the NationStates forums. In the next month, the Pacific invaded, and the North Pacific fell to the NPO agent Template:Nation. Governance of the North Pacific was short-lived, as it was passed off to Template:Nation’s ALSO regime later that month. On 10 July, Francos Spain himself left the Pacific for the North Pacific to reconquer it in the wake of the fall of Great Bight, who had been ejected from the UN by the mods. Great Bight, however, was restored to the UN before update, and Franco stayed behind in the North Pacific and ceased all activity. One of Free4All’s nations (Template:Nation) took control of the North Pacific and ejected both Great Bight and Francos Spain to Template:Region, where they CTE’d. Template:Nation, Template:Nation, and Template:Nation went to the Rejected Realms to hold a vigil for Franco as he faded. Franco’s old friend Template:Nation CTE’d at almost the same time. Rumors of unclear origin emerged that Franco had committed suicide in real life.

From the PRP to our times

With Franco and Poskrebyshev gone, the delegacy passed to Template:Nation. He developed a doctrine of Francoism for the region, immortalizing the NPO’s founder as an ideological model (Franco himself had never written about Francoism), and shortly after his instatement in August, he proclaimed on 1 September 2004 the foundation of the People's Republic of The Pacific (PRP), replacing the NPO. The Pacific capital, formerly called Capital City, was renamed Francograd. On 28 September, another gamewide glitch deprived Unlimited of 200 endorsements, forcing him to call on external help from the Union of Sovereigns Alliance, SECO, and Red Army to stay delegate. In January of the next year, the North Pacific’s delegate Cathyy of nation Template:Nation was entangled in real-life matters and gave away her nation to Template:Nation (Template:Nation) of the PRP, resulting in a PRP-controlled North Pacific. Much confusion ensued as the nation was passed back and forth between different people, and the PRP itself court-martialed Pierconium for not informing the Pacifican Senate while the ADN attempted to sort everything out. Pierconium’s Senatorial status was revoked as a result. It was also at this time that Unlimited wrote his classic essay Proper Francoist Thought, cementing the central tenets of Francoism.

Template:Nation (Template:Nation) took power as the next delegate in July 2005. By that time, the Pacific had managed to sign a nonaggression pact with the West and South Pacifics, form the Pacific Co-operation Organization with the South and East Pacifics, and sign a mutual-aid treaty with Template:Region and Template:Region. As a joke, Mammothistan applied for the Pacific to join the ADN, precipitating a sometime rift between the Pacific and their former allies the East Pacific and the Template:Region, who wanted nothing to do with their former enemies. Mammothistan also implemented the Government Reform Act of 2005.

In April 2006, the PRP was again replaced by a renewed NPO, with delegacies under Template:Nation and Template:Nation. Under the following delegate, Template:Nation, there was a period of much inactivity as NationStates hemorrhaged nations at an alarming rate and fell into decline. On 16 August 2007, a power struggle erupted between Moo-cows and Pierconium as spillover from a struggle in Cyber Nations, another game in which the NPO had established itself; there, Pierconium was removed from power in a coup after he himself executed a coup against Moo-cows. Pierconium claimed control of the NationStates NPO forums and banned Moo-cows, who started a new forum of his own in response. Senator Template:Nation, among others, lamented the state of the Pacific, noting that the majority of the Pacifican Senate now consisted of the old enemies of the Pacific: members of the ADN/defender circle, including Moo-cows himself, who had once been the ADN’s Secretary of Defence: Template:Quotesmall Darkesia was subsequently removed from the Pacific Senate and expelled from the region.

After this entire struggle ended with Moo-cows retaining control of the delegacy, the Ordo Hereticus was established by the Pacific Senate to weed out puppets and sympathizers of Pierconium and other opponents of the regime and enforce a new “faith of Pacific Orthodoxy”; the old Francoism was replaced by a “new Francoism” with a religious flavour (following a deity called ADMIN) but lacking the political substance of the old. Many of the old Pacificans, such as Template:Nation, Template:Nation, and Template:Nation, called Francoism dead.^(thread) A bright spot appeared in the form of a peace treaty on 4 September with the DSA (formerly the ADN) after four years of strife. The NPO was abolished and replaced with the FUPS, the Francoist Union of Pacific States, which was in turn replaced by the USSP, the Union of Sovereign States of the Pacific. Finally, in 2008, the name of the New Pacific Order was taken up once more and a third NPO was established. On 11 July 2008 the Pacifican Senate was disbanded and all power was instead vested in a triumvirate of Commissars under Moo-cows: Template:Nation, Template:Nation, and Template:Nation. Throughout this period, deadening stagnation set in for years to come. Already by 2007 Moo-cows largely abandoned NationStates in favor of Cyber Nations, and the region decayed without an active delegate.

Since then the situation has improved and activity is back up once more. In 2011, now under delegate Template:Nation, the Pacific negotiated to form a new alliance, the Modern Pacific Alliance (MPA), between all five Pacific regions; this was largely undertaken by one of the Pacific’s more active members, Template:Nation. Franco was briefly resurrected and revisited the Pacific once, on the tenth anniversary of the August Revolution. In that same year, the Pacific regime supported a coup by Template:Nation of the elected South Pacific government, shattering any hopes for the MPA. Two years later, in April of 2015, the Pacific took further actions to orchestrate a coup d’etat by Template:Nation in the feeder region of Template:Region, establishing the New Lazarene Order there. This resulted in the successful passage of a WA Security Council resolution to condemn the Pacific. Rule of the region has since passed back to Template:Nation. On 27th of July, the Pacific's condemnation has been repealed.

After Pierconium resigned on 5th August 2016, Aleisyr became emperor.

Regional forums

• Thedoc’s Government June 2003 — 27 August 2003

• (First) New Pacific Order 1 September 2003 — 31 August 2004

• Pacific News Network August 2004 — September 2004

• People’s Republic of The Pacific 1 September 2004 — 12 April 2006

• Second New Pacific Order 13 April 2006 — 16 August 2007

• The Pacific (post-power struggle temporary forums) August 2007

• FUPS, USSP, and Third New Pacific Order August 2007 — present