The lastest meeting of the NEA took place on September 12, 2015. Due to possibility of hostile forces appearing at the meeting, the meeting was not held in-game and no guests were allowed to attend.

Recording of the meeting.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4nIP2NNM2mteG4td0kzVGtFb1E/view?pli=1

The meeting started with a rolecall. The following states were in attendance.

• Brimstone - Sethbacon
• Bryn - No one in attendance.
• Fellowship - Romec, BlackXnt, Scramble
• Garundistan - No one in attendance
• Hjaltland - DietCola
• Iria - OfUnknown, Pleya, Ribat, RedDevel, Wolfeyes
• FSR - BolleDeBoll, Sandfalls, John2600, DiamondReaper, Megralew
• Remnant - No one in attendance.
• Rosewall - SoulComplex

Then a vote was taken of the states present at the meeting to choose who the official secretary would be until the end of the next meeting with the candidates up for vote being Sandfalls and Jezza. Brimstone, Fellowship, and Rosewall voted for Sandfalls. Iria and FSR voted for Jezza. So Sandfalls is the official secretary, congratulations!

The next item that was talked about was a proposed constitutional reform. The idea behind the proposal which was brought up by OfUnknown and SoulComplex is that the current constitution has holes to be updated and expanded to reflect the changing demographic within the NEA. OfUnkown said that he was inspired by the U3P's formatting, clarity and formality within their constitution and proposes that starting from scratch with a new document would be better than attempting to amend the current document. One of the main topics of this discussion was the current MDP in the constitution. SoulComplex informed the representatives that he believes that the MDP should either be removed completely from the constitution or that adding new members to the NEA should require an unanimous vote to reflect the fact that under the current document for states to join the NEA they only need a majority. This causes states that may have long term disagreements with new members to then have to defend those states actions in the event that they are attacked even if they do not agree with them. Other ideas that were proposed around this topic was the possibility of the formation of a Security Council that members who with to be a part of and MDP would join. Making the MDP completely voluntary. Another was making a new level of member which would require a unanimous vote to become a part of the NEA and would create a longer process of becoming a full voting member with the possibility that states which are not voted in completely simply becoming non-voting members of the NEA.

Another topic of this discussion was that there should be no simple checklist for states to match up to for them to be able capable of joining the NEA as such a checklist is not capable of showing their possible contributions to the NEA and the idea that size does not equal capability. Current members of the NEA should be completely capable of judging whether a state would be a good addition to the NEA.

In the coming days, there will be posts presented to discuss different thoughts on the constitution and topics going forward such as ideals, membership, and the MDP.

The last main topic was the current invasion of the server. Regular advice was given out such as making sure that towns have an ample snitch network, non-combatants should log out if confronted with by hostiles and that people should drop-chest their valuables. Other than that, Jezza has offered to give any town a stack of snitches if they require them.

Other topics were the creation of an official Slack group. For those of you that do not know what Slack is, it is a discussion platform that we can use to discuss things in private and to communicate outside of game as Slack is available on your computers and cellphones. If you wish to be added to the group, please contact myself or Ofunknown, but be aware that you will need to give an email address to join so if you have a privacy issue then you should create a new email account specifically for this. Romec informed us that Discord will be holding official elections for the leader of their town and to decide how their town will be run going into the future. The city of Eterna was introduced to the NEA. It is a state in the northern part of the quadrant by the Maestar Alliance and Garundistan which is run by Jezza. They currently have a nether factory and are in active development so please make them feel welcome.

The last topic for discussion was asking states that were present about what is currently happening within their towns and what projects they may be up to.

This is pretty much all that was talked about during the meeting. If I missed something please let me know in the comments.