MicrasWiki:Nouvelle Alexandrie/Guide to Campaigning
Playing Nouvelle Alexandrie
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| The season game's player guides | |
| Start here | Getting Started in NAX |
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| The Paths | Politics Law (the High Court) Press (Media Outlets) |
| The offices | Deputy Party Leader Government Secretary Premier or Vice-Premier |
| Elections & votes | Campaigning Referenda |
| Playing for | Honors and Awards |
| Rules & community | Rules of the Discord Server Community Administration |
| Reference | Legislative Template Setting of Nouvelle Alexandrie |
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Campaigning is how a player makes their case in public: for a candidate, for a party, or for a side in a referendum. It is the open, noisy half of the season's politics, argued in front of the whole community rather than settled quietly in a chamber. Where a vote decides a question, a campaign is how you move people before the question is decided. Most of it happens in 馃摚銉籧ampaign-trail, the channel built for it, and it is open to every player, not only officeholders.
Where it happens
The home of campaigning is 馃摚銉籧ampaign-trail, where any player can post in their own name or their party's. When a referendum is live, endorsements and statements for a side belong in 馃棾锔忋兓referendum-hall alongside the debate, so the case sits next to the vote it is trying to sway. During an election, the candidates' set-piece moments, the stump speeches and the answers given under fire, run through 馃帣锔忋兓hustings and 馃檵銉籷uestion-time. The campaign trail ties them together, the running diary of who is out there and what they are saying.
The one rule
One courtesy keeps the trail readable: keep a campaign post to a single message. If what you have to say runs longer, a full speech, a detailed platform, a week-long diary, put it on the wiki and post the link with a couple of lines to draw people in. A short, sharp post in the channel with the long version a click away is the format that respects everyone's screen and still lets you write at length.
Ways to campaign
There is no single right way to campaign, but three forms cover most of it.
An endorsement is the shortest. It states where you or your party stand on a live question, for or against, and why, in the terms your own people care about. When a referendum is running this is the workhorse: a clear position, a line or two of reasoning, and a phrase worth repeating.
A speech is the set piece. It opens on the stakes, makes its case across a few beats, and closes on a line people will carry out of the room. A speech can be delivered anywhere, a rally, a town hall, a chamber, and it runs as long as it needs to, which is exactly when the one-message rule sends the full text to the wiki.
A regional roundup is the campaign diary. It follows a candidate through up to five stops in a single Region across a week, each stop a place, a theme, and a moment, with a quote to seal it. It is the form that builds a sense of a campaign actually moving across the map, town by town.
Templates
Copy any of these into 馃摚銉籧ampaign-trail and fill in the brackets.
Endorsement
**[Your name or party] 路 [YES / NO] on [the question]** [One to three lines on why, in terms your people actually care about.] > "[A line worth quoting.]"
Speech
**[Candidate / Party] 路 Campaign Speech** *[Delivered in [City, Region]]* [Open on the stakes, make your case in a few beats, close on a line they will repeat. Keep it to one message; if it runs long, post the full speech on the wiki and link it here with a couple of lines to draw people in.]
Regional roundup
**[Candidate]** 路 *[Campaign name]* [Office sought 路 term] **Stop 1 路 [City, Region]:** [Topic] [A line or two on what happened: who they met, the moment, the reception.] > "[Quote, slogan, or punchline.]" **Stop 2 路 [City, Region]:** [Topic] [...] > "[...]" (up to 5 stops, no more) **Bottom line:** [one sentence to close the week.]
A worked example
A regional roundup filled in with a sample candidate, to show the shape:
**Tom谩s Herrera** 路 *Rebuild Right* Federal Assembly candidate 路 Wechua Nation **Stop 1 路 Cajamarca, Wechua Nation:** the reconstruction Walked the cleared ground where the old quarter stood. The crews are working, but families want the homes back before the showpiece rail line, not after it. Promised to hold the timeline to the letter of the Act. > "We were promised homes in step with the trains. I intend to count the sleepers." **Stop 2 路 the highland villages, Wechua Nation:** the ones off the map Took the long road up to the communities the cameras skipped. The same grief, fewer microphones, and a hearing in the language the chamber rarely bothers to learn. > "Solidarity that stops at the city limits is not solidarity. It is a photograph." **Bottom line:** Two days in the highlands, one promise: the recovery reaches the last house, not just the first headline.
See also
- Elections and referenda in Nouvelle Alexandrie, the national register
