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Any hints on how 1 turned into 6, especially as we don't have to run full scale Spanish language studios anymore?

A partial answer would be the old old-budgets-were-one-year-while-new-budgets-are-one-term thing, so it's really 3 turning into 6. Not sure how that happened, though.
 

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A partial answer would be the old old-budgets-were-one-year-while-new-budgets-are-one-term thing, so it's really 3 turning into 6. Not sure how that happened, though.
Thank-you! Erc also confirmed that by a different channel, so the question is now "whether 'general administration' got rolled into 'Broadcast and Electronic Media, Communication' or it is just a budget increase the bureaucrats in that area were just trying to slip through without the politicians noticing?"
Any word from the mods would be appreciated, when you get back from the holiday break.
 

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This may get taken care of automatically if we decide to adopt the Australian criminal code as Voshkod suggested, but what are the anti-money laundering laws in Eutopia. Do cash transactions over a certain threshold, say 10,000 ducats require that the financial institution involved check and record the ID of the party, are there 'know your customer' rules regarding opening of accounts, etc.?

This is relevant for anti-terrorist and anti-crime purposes.
 

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unclebryan said:
Any hints on how 1 turned into 6, especially as we don't have to run full scale Spanish language studios anymore?
As The_Hawk suggested, it's 2 into 6. :) The change was an OOC-adjustment as part of the overhaul for Eutopia 3. In other words, it's probably not very fruitful to compare current budgets with pre-Eutopia 3 budgets (Terms 1 to 8), or to look for continuities or discontinuities with those budgets.
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The cabinet is questioning where the 6 billion ducats in the budget for 'Broadcast and Electronic Media, Communication' goes for. Since it is part of MIDA, I will be researching EU2 to find out, but if you have any background information easily at hand, it would be helpful [...]
I have no detailed breakdown. The 6 billion is for anything to do with regulation, oversight or provision in the specified areas.
unclebryan said:
i.e. is there an equivalent of the BBC, but without TV license revenues?
No.
unclebryan said:
the question is now "whether 'general administration' got rolled into 'Broadcast and Electronic Media, Communication' or it is just a budget increase the bureaucrats in that area were just trying to slip through without the politicians noticing?"
Neither nor. "General administration" is not a MIDA-item, and budget adjustments made during the transition from Eutopia 2 to Eutopia 3 are OOC rather than IC - hence, no sneaky bureaucrats.
 

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unclebryan said:
This may get taken care of automatically if we decide to adopt the Australian criminal code as Voshkod suggested, but what are the anti-money laundering laws in Eutopia?.
*Snip*
The above was originally posted in the content suggestion thread for two reasons. It related to the criminal code content suggestion and I had assumed that the background of the game was not sufficiently developed to have established background details about this area. With the new, more explicit instructions about the difference between helpdesk posts and content suggestion posts, do I have to say in the helpdesk thread (to make sure to indicate that I am not asking for mods to come up with something new on the spot):
Have there already been developed any in-game or mod established anti-money laws in Eutopia, and if so, what are they?
If I get a negative answer, then I could post a content suggestion to supply a reasonable set of pre-existing rules? To which of course the response could be that this is better topic for in game legislation than for a content suggestion. Is this the way the mods want it to work, or am I missing the point (again)?
 

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Since we're on the topic over in Content Review & Voting, a question about Recom:

Since it's a government industry responsible for extracting on the one hand and selling on the other all non-renewable resources Eutopia produces, is it correct to say that the government ultimately has control over these resources and can direct them as it sees fit? For example, if the administration wanted to create a Strategic Petroleum Reserve, could it simply redirect all petroleum production to such a reserve (suffering a reduction in revenue, of course)? In the event of war, could the government simply redirect all petroleum to warfighting, and all coal and iron to steel production?
 

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The_Hawk said:
For example, if the administration wanted to create a Strategic Petroleum Reserve, could it simply redirect all petroleum production to such a reserve (suffering a reduction in revenue, of course)? In the event of war, could the government simply redirect all petroleum to warfighting, and all coal and iron to steel production?
The costs of extraction would continue, but the revenues from selling the product would cease, quickly exhausting the budget for RECOM, so it would seem to take an appropriation to permit either redirection.
 

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The costs of extraction would continue, but the revenues from selling the product would cease, quickly exhausting the budget for RECOM, so it would seem to take an appropriation to permit either redirection.

I grant your first premise, but not your second. The income from Recom is presently tacked at 63 billion, and the expenditures at 9, so unless petroleum and/or iron & coal make up more than 6/7ths of Recom profits the corporation is still at least breaking even (and we know Eutopia has considerable copper and tin concerns at least, so it's highly unlikely that that's the case.)
 

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The_Hawk said:
I grant your first premise, but not your second. The income from Recom is presently tacked at 63 billion, and the expenditures at 9, so unless petroleum and/or iron & coal make up more than 6/7ths of Recom profits the corporation is still at least breaking even (and we know Eutopia has considerable copper and tin concerns at least, so it's highly unlikely that that's the case.)
I suppose it depends on some things that would be better off decided in game, after somebody tries it. Like whether the actually RECOM budget is broken down by product and/or site, so no cross-subsidization was allowed, or whether the redirection could be considered as a 'purchase' by another department, requiring an appropriation.
 

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Like whether the actually RECOM budget is broken down by product and/or site, so no cross-subsidization was allowed, or whether the redirection could be considered as a 'purchase' by another department, requiring an appropriation.

Well, that's the substance of my question -- whether the government has access to the products of Recom (by the corporation acting as a middleman between production and sales), or whether individual mines sell their product directly onto an open market and then remit the profits to the government. I could see either, but I suspect the former based on a number of clues (the fact that the federal government engages in a massive payout every year to subsidize an extremely profitable industry, the fact that the former would be more efficient by allowing Recom to centralize things like transport, etc.)
 

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unclebryan said:
With the new, more explicit instructions about the difference between helpdesk posts and content suggestion posts [...]
I think the instructions were already quite explicit; I simply reiterated them. ;)
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Have there already been developed any in-game or mod established anti-money laws in Eutopia, and if so, what are they?
If I get a negative answer, then I could post a content suggestion to supply a reasonable set of pre-existing rules? To which of course the response could be that this is better topic for in game legislation than for a content suggestion.
No, yes, yes (preferably). But as you note, the issue may be resolved if we end up adopting Australia's criminal code wholesale.
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Since it's a government industry responsible for extracting on the one hand and selling on the other all non-renewable resources Eutopia produces, is it correct to say that the government ultimately has control over these resources and can direct them as it sees fit?
No. Recom is an autonomous state corporation, not a government agency. Parliament could intervene in the usual manner, though (i.e., by legislation).
 

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If I want to send an top-secret authorization of a military excercise in a natural area, should I post it in a private thread (like chief-of-staves) or in a privatized post to a public thread?

If it is top-secret then it needs to be in a private thread. A Private Post in a public thread is risky and hard to enforce and your GM Admin doesn't like them very much. Just put it in the private thread, as it's easier for everyone. :)
 

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Now that the former W.E.T. (Western Eutopia Territory) is a province, shouldn't we drop the 'T.' and refer to it as 'Western Eutopia'?

Alternatively, the residents of that province might want to apply for another name.

I understand that it may be very rainy there, or prohibitionists might not be welcome, so, either way it would still be 'wet', even though it is no longer 'W.E.T.'.
 

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I've been calling it "Western Eutopia" since the provincehood measure went into effect, but I think we've been waiting to hear what the people of the WET wanted to call their homeland and never got an answer. Even heag occasionally refers to the region as WET, so I suppose it's possible to surmise that the people of the WET decided to keep their old name. Some sort of dedication to local history, perhaps?
 

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Maybe, if the mods don't want to intervene, we could run this like the flag selection process, have people submit suggestions and have it be an additional item on the ballot in the Senatorial Elections?
 

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Cecasander said:
If I want to send an top-secret authorization of a military excercise in a natural area, should I post it in a private thread (like chief-of-staves) or in a privatized post to a public thread?
Just to add to heagarty's comments, there are no privatized posts in public threads; all posts in public threads are by definition public.
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Maybe, if the mods don't want to intervene, we could run this like the flag selection process, have people submit suggestions and have it be an additional item on the ballot in the Senatorial Elections?
I like it. :)
 

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Just to add to heagarty's comments, there are no privatized posts in public threads; all posts in public threads are by definition public.

I can see this causing some problems. For example, to use a current case, I as Chief of Staff needed to send a document to the MESA. The document was classified - by definition not public, in my opinion. Since MESA had no private thread, I posted it in her public thread with classification markings. Should I have instead PM'd it to her or started a Private thread?

PM's are almost too private; people can't follow a developing story if parts of it are in PM. I think there is a place for classified documents, or the classic "Levarge looks around the Horse and Trombone carefully to make sure no one can overhear, and then tells Tulp 'tonight we strike!'"
 

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Voshkod said:
I can see this causing some problems. For example, to use a current case, I as Chief of Staff needed to send a document to the MESA. The document was classified - by definition not public, in my opinion. Since MESA had no private thread, I posted it in her public thread with classification markings. Should I have instead PM'd it to her or started a Private thread?

PM's are almost too private; people can't follow a developing story if parts of it are in PM. I think there is a place for classified documents, or the classic "Levarge looks around the Horse and Trombone carefully to make sure no one can overhear, and then tells Tulp 'tonight we strike!'"
How could one think anything was secure at a tree-hugging, act-according-to-your-conscience, Ministry like MESA. (Besides that's Loic's land your going to be shelling and tramping around, and how can you expect "Any damaged trees will be replaced by mature growth post-exercise", bring in and re-plant 50+ foot tall trees? But Pnom de Plume doesn't know anything about that and won't write about it in Scuttlebutt before the fact, unless tipped by another PC.) It would seem safer, and perhaps not too cumbersome to make a post in MESA or send a PM saying a secure communication is required and then post the copy of the secret document in your secure thread.
 
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