The Sidonian People's Action Party

Seeing as we need a more centralized way to co-ordinate our views as well as plan of actions regarding our nation and city of Sidon, I, Chua Ti Kiat, also known as eccentrus in game, hereby announce the party of The Sidonian People's Action Party. As the name implies, the party highly values the greater participatory actions of the civilized society into the greater economy for the one purpose of prosperity and peace of the city and nation.

The Sidonian People's Action Party is largely based on the real life Singaporean ruling party of People's Action Party, as well as trying to bring the ideals into CivCraft

The Sidonian People's Action Party will strife to keep the economy to always be running by the existence of publicly owned enterprises. In the early game, the publicly owned enterprises will help kickstart the economy, and in the middle and later game, being the buffer between the large private corporations and the small-to-middle players to allow themselves to work as a syndication to the public enterprises to allow them to pool their resources and enjoy the benefits that would otherwise be only possible for the large privately owned corporations.

The Sidonian People's Action Party will also welcome Newfriends into town and will try to keep them and let them grow within a model of economy that will strikes a balance between allowing large corporate structures to live within the state, but also to accommodate the smaller players to survive and thrive within the system.

And as such, the Sidonian People's Action Party is determined to build Sidon as a thriving community where all kind of players can go to and work, as well as to be productive members of the society.

Ideology

• Center-Right: The SPAP recognizes the need for social nets, and the greater need for accomodation of the smaller players, but also recognizes the benefits of a free market economy and would strife to see the best of both sides happening here within Sidon.
• Meritocracy: The SPAP believes that it is capability, not popularity, that should dictate the position of a person, and as such, will strife to promote those capable into higher positions.
• State Capitalism: The SPAP strongly believes in the benefits of having state enterprises playing inside the free economy, not as a director of the economy at large, but rather as a buffer between the boom and bust of the economy at large, as well as a way to generate revenue for the state.
• Newfriendliness: As in real life as in civcraft, a good immigration policy will facilitate growth, and there's reason to believe that newcomers can rise into capacity and prominence and it is best to retain those quality individuals in the best way that we can to benefit from the additional brain power.
• Pacifism: The SPAP doesn't believe in the benefits of either raiding or offensive wars, the SPAP will always put diplomacy first before anything else, and will only declare war in defense of either its self or its associated neighbors. The SPAP will not dirty the Sidonian hands on the matter of those in faraway lands and will not meddle into anyone's sovereignty.

Platforms

And as such to achieve these ideals, the SPAP will propose the existence of a small but efficient bureaucracy to manage these points that will be delivered further in the existence of an actual state and government:

• The affairs of farm and farmstead factories
• The affairs of mines and public factories
• The affairs of newfriend housing and infrastructure
• The affairs of defense and military-industrial complexes
• The affairs of trade and extra-territorial infrastructures
• The affairs of pylon and enchantment factories.

TL;DR

And as such, in conclusion, the SPAP will try to manage the whole state like it will manage a company, with its affairs in hand in order to generate the greatest amount of wealth and prosperity for the actors, the citizens of the state. And the SPAP will strife to achieve this while accommodating competitions within the free market of Sidon, but while also ensuring the participation of everyone and absolutely everyone in Sidon.

Signed,

Chua Ti Kiat eccentrus