Antarctic Oasis

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Antarctic Oasis
Forum: Antarctic Oasis
Population: 60 nations
Delegate: Kivistan UN Bordello
Founder: Omigodtheykilledkenny
Info: NSEconomy RC XML

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Antarctic Oasis is a moderately sized region with about 60 nations and a population of about 100 billion. Initially formed from the wreckage of former Valdesian nations, Antarctic Oasis used to be the world's last unspoiled Antarctic wilderness -- that is, until powerful civilizations invaded, building massive ice cities in the desert and mountains and dotting the receding glaciers with thriving seaports. Soon, the shady leaders of the region's rogue nations had an extensive commercial paradise on their hands, relentlessly harvesting the Earth of its gold, uranium and oil reserves, and finding new and terrible ways to abuse the indigenous penguin -- including drafting the more vicious ones into military service and forcing the less useful into lives of servitude as butlers or test subjects in the region's many secret experimental weapons labs.

Antarctic Oasis is strictly a rogue region -- only the scummiest dictatorships, corporate dominions and evil-conservative republics populate this frozen wasteland, where UN membership is neither condoned nor condemned -- and members adhere to a strict "shoot on sight" rule for any UN official spotted inside the region's sovereign borders. Region members cherish their natural isolation from the international community, which allows them to partake in any number of duplicitous deeds away from the watchful eyes of the United Nations or international environmental and human-rights organizations.

Despite its contempt for the United Nations, the region has become known as a leader of UN legislation, its members having sponsored 13 passed UN Resolutions (every single one of them ANOTHER VICTORY FOR GATESVILLE!!), and eight more proposals that failed at vote.

Native sentients

Though mainly known for its fiercely loyal penguin warriors, Antarctic Oasis does boast other interesting sentient wildlife. Medieval Gnomish Warbands, servants to the nation Carson the Muscrat, roam the lands hunting for UN gnomes. The Palentine has inducted dolphins into its navy, mainly for the purposes of detecting underwater mines, but their service as seamen has rendered their mouths the scourge of the southern seas. Parents must shield their children's virgin ears whenever a Palentine Navy Dolphin is near; they talk so filthily, they have been immortalized in a Palentine Board of Tourism slogan: "Come visit The Palentine: Our Dolphins Swear Like Drunken Sailors!"

The region has also been known for housing abominable snowmen, and has been threatened before with bands of mutant polar bears.

History

Main Article: History of Antarctic Oasis

The Federal Republic of Omigodtheykilledkenny founded Antarctic Oasis in May 2005 following a seismic catastrophe in its former Valdesian environs; other Valdesian nations sought refuge in the Antarctic when most of their former neighbors were enveloped in the monumental disaster -- and dozens of nations followed suit.

Antarctic Oasis's early days were marked by Palixia's n00bish attempts to drag the region into a war with some irrelevant communist nitwit, and then to wrest the delegacy away from OMGTKK. When the nation finally left, some decided maybe the region could find better things to do with its time. In December, the infant Allied Antarctic Asskickers (AAA) participated in a brief incursion into The Eternal Kawaii to halt the theocracy's nuclear ambitions. [1] The region on the whole became more actively involved with United Nations affairs, and began attracting major UN powers like Cluichstan and Gruenberg into the fold. In February 2006 the UN ratified the region's first resolution, a repeal of Gay Rights. Twelve other resolutions from Antarctic Oasis nations would eventually pass, with region members sponsoring over a quarter of all passed resolutions between the time that Repeal "Gay Rights" and Repeal "Due Process" were adopted. (See Legislation.)

Several regional powers joined in OMGTKK's invasion of Chechnya in early 2006 [2], and later that year, region members adopted formal treaties for the AOEAA free-trade zone and the AAA. [3] [4] The Regional Security Council and the regional defense HQ both opened for business in September. [5] [6] Also that month, Karmicaria's Queen Adrienne held a competition for suitors from across the region (and Ausserland) seeking her hand -- the result being that the nation's king would be a Kennyite. [7]

Government

The regional government coordinates through an informal group of de-facto regional governors, or charter nations -- who in fact do absolutely nothing to govern the region, as charter nation status is granted more for prestige and bragging rights than anything else. However, several charter members bear other informal duties on top of their charter "obligations": The Palentine, for instance, serves as regional defense secretary and supreme allied commander of the AAA; Cluichstan has also been afforded the title of secretary for foreign affairs.

Other bodies tackle other aspects of regional governance: the Regional Security Council coordinates AAA defense operations, and a (rather pointless) Secretariat was formed in June 2006 to oversee the regional free-trade zone, with several nations having appointed regional trade representatives.

UN Affairs

Despite the region's intrinsic anti-UN nature, a number of its nations remain actively involved in UN affairs, most of them adopting a decidedly sovereigntist policy line. Many among the region's UN contingent are members of the NSO, UNOG and UN DEFCON.

The Antarctic Oasis Department of UN Affairs maintains a record of the voting history of past and present UN Delegates, issues official announcements to the General Assembly about the delegate's vote on important legislation, and coordinates regional efforts to sabotage the UN and bring it down from the inside -- er, "work cooperatively with other regions and nations to formulate more sensible, sovereignty-friendly UN policies." The current secretary of UN Affairs is Lois-Must-Die.

Legislation

Passed Resolutions

The following UN resolutions were drafted and/or submitted by Antarctic Oasis nations:

Failed Proposals

In addition, the following defeated UN proposals were drafted and/or submitted by region members:

UN Delegate

The region does not elect its delegate, nor does it conduct polls to determine how the delegate will vote on UN legislation. Omigodtheykilledkenny, which had been the UN delegate for the Antarctic Oasis since its founding, handed off the delegacy to Palentine UN Office in December 2005. Gruenberg was made delegate in July 2006 following a match between several premier regional partners seeking the position. In December that year, however, Gruenberg resigned from the United Nations, making way for the winner of a trumped-up popularity contest, Kivisto, to assume the delegacy with its UN puppet.

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