[quote=@Star Lord]
I am dropping Washington DC and my claims because I am busy at the moment.
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Understood. Unbusy that busy shit.

I should also have news on how busy I will be this coming summer by Monday, but by the time that happens if I get it we'll still have enough time to sort out things I'm needed for in the plot before the RP can be set adrift on autopilot for two months and I can return.

Also before I launch things I want to put this out, I think I said so in the OP and I want to repeat it again in case it got missed: but I am open for suggestions. I know I've recieved comments in private - as in, the as of now private Discord for the RP, it'll be public whenever I feel like it - that there could be some adjustments to the world to make it more dangerous. Namely I got a suggestion from [@Pepperm1nts] that there might be zombies or something somewhere, and while that wasn't part of the scope I had invisioned and at this point in the RP's history, so far out from the inciting event they may not be a factor I might as well open that for public discussion and invite input before I throw together a formal OP for the real RP and maybe ya'll can use it to form some ideas and play with some stuff in the next couple of days or so before I oblige you to crystalize them as your actual group/nation.

Also before we go anywhere I'd especially like input on how people feel electors should be handled in this RP from a sort of mechanical stand point, or whatever. I know lore-wise I wrote that Electors are appointed as electors by the emperor basically because they represent a strong political force in the political makeup of the Empire State or are favorite good ole' boys. But OOC wise how do you guys feel we should go about it? I was going to go about appointing electorship as a first-come, first-serve basis for people signing up within the Empire State which'd effectively bestow upon you a hopefully prestigious within the story. But do we want to also run this by consensus based on whose nations we feel are the best, most interesting, or most dynamic and give that to them as a prize?