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Dispatch → Bulletin → News
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The Socialist Solarpunk Society of Sylh Alanor.
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Refugia Green Week 2024!
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Come one, come all, to Green Week! If you ask us what Refugia cares about as a region, the things that really bind us together, we would say it’s caring about the environment and human rights. This has gotten us labelled as leftist eco-hippies, and on more than one occasion we’ve been called a region of hobbits. Regardless of anything else going on with NationStates, our focus on environmental stewardship is a core driving purpose. The regional environmental stats, based on an average of all nations, started suffering as we grew through late 2019 and 2020, leading to the first Green Week being held in November of 2020.
Now, you might be asking yourself, “What is Green Week?” That’s a fair question, especially if you haven’t been around for very long. To date, Green Week has been a mostly-annual event in which we, as Refugi, agree to answer issues in an attempt to raise our environmental stats. The two major environmental stats on NS are Eco-Friendliness, a measure of how much money your government is spending on environmental measures, and Environmental Beauty, a measure of how lush and beautiful your environment actually is. If everyone in the region raises their environmental stats by 20%, the regional average will also raise by the same amount. This means that we all benefit and things look better on the next Eco-Report!
Historically, Green Week has been held over a 14-day period, giving everyone ample opportunity to get good issues and raise their stats. It’s also focused on Eco-Friendliness, a stat much easier to raise. But this is 2024, and we just built the eighth wonder of the world! We can absolutely step it up and do things that are a little more difficult. So, instead, we’re going to be focusing on Environmental Beauty, and you’re going to have ten days from right now to complete it. That means at the end of the day on May 11, 2024, we’ll be taking a snapshot and ranking everyone’s scores. We’ll measure growth, not raw score, so if you don’t have great stats now, you can still win! The final chart will show percentage and raw growth, highlighting the top 20 for each. Both the raw score and percentage winners will get channels in the Refugia discord server (#general-chat and #ground-floor, respectively) named after them for one month, and be appointed to an "Eco-Friend" Regional Officership for the same amount of time, where they will have the ability to set regional polls.
Right now, the historical data for the site is down, so there’s no cool graph I can put up showing our placement. But thanks to magic, we have raw numbers. According to RRS 14(a), we're aiming to reach an average Environmental Beauty score of 1,300 on or before December 31, 2024. Right now, Refugia has an average Environmental Beauty score of 1,157.25, so we have some distance yet to travel on this front. I'll take another snapshot of the regional average at the end of the event to check on our progress.
Curious about your own starting stat? It’s in the chart below. You can check back at any time throughout the week to see how you’ve done!
