North Heavenly Ballot

Summary: /mep/ and /moon/ have come to the following conclusions.

We support the cooler climate.
We support the island concept using the suggestion of South Heavenly. Which was

Have lore reasons for it, such as Retro's idea.
Have it make sense in a world perspective. While landlock nations can certainly have some random island, I personally think said nations would really need to provide greater explanations because (I am contradicting myself) things need to make sense. It's not impossible. Courland IRL, a tiny baltic nation, owned colonies in the Caribbean for example and the City of Augsburg owned Venezuela at one point (It gets its name from the Klein-Venedig in German, or Little Venice.) What I am basically saying is create a really cool and well thought out reason especially if you are a landlocked nation or nation that doesn't have much of a martime tradition like Dråkenland, which according to our famous Dragoon, has a fleet of a few fishing vessels :)
Wars and peace treaties can change ownership of said islands like happened IRL.
Create OC content for some islands like /mhm/ rep proposed with the Knights of Ailivia.
Remember that this isn't about powergaming, but lore creation. Whether or not the Retro Reich owns an island in the middle of the Kizuna Ocean or Hoshi owns one there too shouldn't be something that should be concerning in any powergaming sense. Powergaming is lame, and if we want wars and relations to be more "open", we need to remove the concept of powergaming from our lexicon and furthermore correct those who actually are powergaming.

I think Meppa is now on break and I am going on break. Squirrelman was supposed to be part of this, but it seems other things prevented that. Overall, I cannot comment on the group system because I think too many external factors are limiting it right now with people taking breaks and losing interest.