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How we refounded - Part 2/3

Finding a volunteer among WA nations

The next step was to find out who was in favour of refounding, among WA nations resident in the region for some time. If there was a general tendency in support, we needed to sort out who could become future founder(s).

We needed a volunteer willing to dedicate the necessary time and effort during the refounding process as delegate, willing to take on responsibility as founder in the long term, and trusted by sufficient nations in the region. Possibly, in case the volunteer became unavailable, we needed backup candidates. Technically, it was advantageous but not vital that the volunteer delegate be a nation with a relatively high influence ranking, so as to be able to eject nations if necessary.
Regional influence rankings:
http://nswiki.net/index.php?title=Regional_Influence

Baden-Wuerttemberg started a round of telegrams among WA nations in the region. (The original telegram was in German.) The contents were:
Hello dear WA members in the region Deutschland,
1. Request to discuss this matter in private via telegrams, not on the RMB. Request to use telegrams to multiple nations for the discussion, like an email mailing list.
2. Refounding as an option that could be attempted, rather than abandoning the region.
3. Technical explanation of refounding: A new region of the same name, with a founder nation, either a new nation or an existing one. The regional message board and regional history disappear. The name Deutschland stays.
4. Possibility of assistance from the defender organisation TITO. They have already assisted various regions with refounding.
5. Refounding carries a considerable risk. There is a risk that somebody might try to grab the region name. We could take this risk, so that we don’t need to be bothered with uninteresting invasions any more. In case the refound doesn’t work out, option of jointly moving to a new region with another name.
6. Questions to WA members
Question 1. Are you in support of refounding the region Deutschland? Yes/No
Question 2. (If you answered ‘Yes’ to question 1.) Would you be a volunteer to carry out the process together with TITO, and take on responsibility as founder of Deutschland in the long term? Yes/No
Question 3. (If you answered ‘No’ to question 2.) Whom do you nominate as delegate for the refounding process and future founder? (Multiple nominations are possible.)

From the replies to this telegram, we sorted out who the volunteer delegate and future founder would be.

Volunteer elected

Once we had sorted out who the volunteer would be, our sitting delegate Typhootania temporarily resigned from the WA to drop the received endorsements, and we elected the volunteer Yermaney with our endorsements. The new delegate of the region Deutschland, Yermaney, corresponded with the TITO field commander Improving wordiness (Wordy) from the region 10000 Islands about technical details.

Founding a temporary region

A temporary region was needed for nations to move to during the refounding process.

Baden-Wuerttemberg, who with the nation Wortschatz had founded Deutsch as a possible backup region, and kept it passworded until it might be needed, shared the regional and founder passwords of Deutsch and Wortschatz with the delegate Yermaney and the TITO field commander Improving Wordiness (Wordy). Sharing the passwords of the temporary region was a necessary precaution, in case the player of Baden-Wuerttemberg might have become unavailable at some point. If the refound of Deutschland had not succeeded, the player of Yermaney would have had the option to keep the founder of Deutsch as a new region for the community.

Roll call vote by telegram

Yermaney sent a telegram to all nations in Deutschland. The recipients had one month time to vote on the proposal to refound the region.

(Translation into English from the German original.)
“Dear nations in the region Deutschland,
As our region has repeatedly had the nuisance of invasions, which we have no interest in, we are considering refounding it. Please reply to this telegram whether you are in favour of refounding, opposed, or abstain. Please note that this is a roll call vote. We will publish the results with the names of the nations.
Please send back one of the three following sentences to me:
- I am in favour of refounding
- I am opposed to refounding
- I abstain.
If we don’t hear from you before [one month after the sending date], we will count your vote as abstaining. Thank you!”

Publication of votes

Yermaney published on the RMB how each nation that responded had voted.

8 had voted in favour of refounding, 0 against, the rest abstained. Yermaney noted that refounding the region was decided.