While I appreciate your shout out and stance on the matter of 'The Aristocracy of Naseer' and SC funding, your response only makes me question your reasoning behind the funding request even more. To give you the benefit of the doubt and believe that my assessment could be wrong, I dug a little deeper into the Aristocracy to see what I could find out. I'll let others come to their own conclusions as to whether this is a country that should receive SC funding.
@Kljones702 stance is that The Aristocracy of Naseer is a fully respected member of the community. The community outlined is the 'Union of Allied States' federation, which Kljones702 is the chairman of. So already personal bias is being exposed as the aid would not be released to assist a newer player or one recovering from a defensive war as is standard practice, but would be to the benefit of someone who is directly tied to Kljones702 through federation alliance, making his motivation for the resolution biased at the very least. Further, Kljones mentions weapons sales to be not allowed by the federation, but still supporting funding for a nation within his alliance that has a substantial portion of their business infrastructure dedicated to weapons production (as will be outlined in further detail below with my list of facts about the nation). I agree that countries trying to get out of debt and have a positive financial standing is absolutely a good thing that any state should aspire to have. I feel however, that the case that Kljones702 is making for The Aristocracy falls short and exposes a large degree of personal bias in attempting to use the international community to benefit his own federation personally without consideration of the facts.
Kljones702 has made the appeal that the previous post outlining my stance on the aid package was full of misinformation, but the following information is publicly available for any and all leaders on White Giant to verify in why I believe that revisiting a proposed aid package for Naseer should be avoided. Individually these facts may not lead to the idea that the country should be disqualified from aid, but I assure you that with the complete list of FACTS, not opinions, the logical conclusion regarding this country is clear.
Facts uncovered in The Aristocracy of Naseer investigation:
* The Aristocracy of Naseer was founded Oct 4565 (at time of this report, current date is Dec 4823) meaning the country has existed for 258 years on White Giant.
* The Aristocracy of Naseer has engaged in zero wars during its tenure, against other nations or C3s.
* At time of report, The Aristocracy of Naseer had a population of 21,131,980, with a Migration of -21,308.
* At time of report, The Aristocracy of Naseer fielded 57 corporations, of which 50 were dedicated to military production.
* The most recent non-military corporation opened by the Aristocracy of Naseer was Nassau Telephone, opened in November of 4732 (91 years ago). It is of note that 4 non-military corporations are currently in queue for production.
* The Aristocracy of Naseer is in a Common Market that features Kljones702 as a member. Numerous military corporations in The Aristocracy are confirmed to have active contracts for production sales.
* The Welfare index of The Aristocracy of Naseer was a steady ~ 90 without any sign of changing until a sudden spike higher in Dec 4822, around the same time that the initial Resolution was passed by Kljones seeking aid.
* In its long history, the Czar of The Aristocracy of Naseer, orionblack302, has only ever posted on the Simcountry forums twice. Both are within the last 72 hours, and speaking only to support Kjones and bash another player that had an issue with Kjones.
* At the time of this report, The Aristocracy of Naseer possessed 3.63T debt in loans, with 5.38T in army assets and 9.45T in corporation value, with a business index of 53.65 with many corporations critically underutilized.
The following facts could be considered coincidence or they could be considered incrimination against Kljones702 for potential violations, so while I will refrain from passing judgment because coincidences aren't enough to convict someone of wrongdoing, I believe that the coincidences are strong enough to present for other leaders to come to their own conclusions.
* The corporation situation in United Republic of America (Kljones702) is extremely similar to that in The Aristocracy of Naseer. Not in products made, but in overall situations. Both feature a tax/state profit structure of 75%/50%. Both have roughly half of their state corporations operating at 5% production/hiring, with needs of total corporations open far exceeding the capability of their population's available workforce, without any obvious attempts at addressing the situation.
* Further investigation into the WG Free Trade Union common market, which features both Kljones702 and orionblack302, features 5 enterprises that have interesting facts associated with them. Indigo Trading is 39 years old with 41 corporations. Sand Horizons is 31 years old with 21 corporations. SSC Holdings is 281 years old with 74 corporations. Shadow Inc is 324 years old with 73 corporations. Cooperative Bank is 380 years old with 36 corporations. All five enterprises are Game Level 1. All five enterprises have active supply contracts on the common market. None of the five CEOs have ever posted anything on the Simcountry forums. Two of the enterprises, Shadow Inc and SSC Holdings, feature numerous corporations with the title "SSC (product)". These enterprises are registered to difference CEOs.
I have no personal vendetta against Kljones702 or orionblack302, and don't have any vested interest in the outcome of this investigation. I have no history with either player and the only reason I even looked into any of this is because I happened to spot the vote on White Giant and wanted to cast my vote in an informed manner. The most recent message from Kljones prompted the deeper investigation, and I feel it may have gone deeper than he may have hoped for. Again, I don't have enough information to prosecute, but the information provided here should be more than enough to not only reject a future proposal for funding for The Aristocracy of Naseer, but it very well may be enough to open an investigation into United Republic of America and its leader Kljones702.