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Sol
Flag of Sol
Map of Sol
Formation July 08, 2009
Type Defensive Alliance
Headquarters Singapore City, Singapore
Members 11
Average Strength 4.16 (Alliance Wide)
Sol
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This article is part of the series:
The Sol Alliance


Sol was a global defensive alliance, composed of seven official members. Sol's objective was to integrate the member nations to bring peace and stability and ensure the security of member nations by forging closer relations between the governments and the populations of each member nation.

Sol was patterned after the real life United Nations; it was first based in the Asia-Pacific region, but the inclusion of South Africa into the alliance on 10 September 2009 indicated a willingness to take members from other continents.

It was on November 28, 2009, when the Sol Security Council passed a resolution that declares the alliance a global alliance. Sol was disbanded in mid-2010.

Charter of Sol

For the Sol Charter, see Charter of Sol

The Sol Charter was first drafted in mid-2009, mostly being written by Snayke with help from Akki. After much discussion between member nations of Sol, the final version of the Charter of Sol was completed in August of 2009.

The charter set up provisions for the leadership, security council and members of the alliance.

Members

Formerly, Sol was divided from having Member Nations and Observer Nations. Observer Nations used to be nations who could join discussions with Sol in the Council but doesn't have any rights to vote nor to propose any proposals. But on February 16, 2010, Observer status was abolished under the amendment of the Sol Charter. Observer status was abolished as maintaining Observer permission rights in the forum was difficult, sorting every citizen to its mother nation. However, the Observer status was transferred to a person who has been given a privilege by the Imperator to become an Observer Envoy of a foreign nation in eRepublik.

Member Nations

Australia, China, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, and Singapore were the founding members of the alliance.
South Africa, an observer nation at first, was admitted to the Alliance on the 10th of September, 2009 and left on March 7th 2010. Japan left the alliance on the 15th of October, 2009.

After its decision to break away with the merged country known as Federal Republic of South East Asia, Thailand joined Sol on November 2, 2009.

On January 16, 2010, Pakistan was formally expelled from Sol for its decision to "allow the hostile Phoenix nation of Serbia into the Asian region."[1]

After a unanimous positive vote from the member countries, on January 29, 2010, Israel was admitted to the alliance. Israel was first an observer before joining the alliance. With this expansion of the alliance marks the increasing influence of Sol to neutral and non-aggressive countries in the New World. Sol is looking forward in admitting India and Japan back if these nations decided to join Sol.

Bolivia became the 11th nation to be admitted in Sol, in terms of the History of Sol's total membership counts. Bolivia became a member of Sol on February 8, 2010, being the first member to come from the Americas. Bolivia was first an observer, like the other recent admitted members, before being accepted in the alliance.

South Africa withdrew on March 7, 2010, after troubled with the ideologies of the alliance.

Australia officially withdrew from this alliance after a vote was taken by the Australian senators of the time, on March 22, 2010.

Flag Country Admission Other Affiliation
Flag-Australia.jpg Australia Founding Member ---
Flag-Bolivia.jpg Bolivia February 8, 2010 ---
Flag-China.jpg China Founding Member EDEN
Flag-Israel.jpg Israel January 29, 2010 ONE
Flag-Japan.jpg Japan Founding Member ---
Flag-Malaysia.jpg Malaysia Founding Member ONE
Flag-Pakistan.jpg Pakistan Founding Member ---
Flag-Philippines.jpg Philippines Founding Member ---
Flag-Singapore.jpg Singapore Founding Member ONE
Flag-South Africa.jpg South Africa September 10, 2009 ---
Flag-Thailand.jpg Thailand November 2, 2009 ONE

Observer Nations

These were the nations who were Observers in the Sol Security Council before the said status was abolished on February 16, 2010. Hence, their Observer status effectively ended on the said date.

Flag Country Recognition Other Affiliation
Flag-Argentina.jpg Argentina October 14, 2009 Phoenix
Flag-Canada.jpg Canada August 23, 2009 EDEN-Brolliance
Flag-Colombia.jpg Colombia November 19, 2009 ---
Flag-Hungary.jpg Hungary October 15, 2009 Phoenix
Flag-India.jpg India August 18, 2009 ---
Flag-Japan.jpg Japan October 15, 2009 Brolliance
Flag-Paraguay.jpg Paraguay November 2, 2009 ---
Flag-Portugal.jpg Portugal October 14, 2009 Phoenix
Flag-South Korea.jpg South Korea October 13, 2009 ---
Flag-UK.jpg UK September 15, 2009 Phoenix
Flag-Uruguay.jpg Uruguay October 20, 2009 ---
Flag-USA.jpg USA August 15, 2009 Brolliance
Flag-Venezuela.jpg Venezuela November 2, 2009 ---

Former Member Nations

Flag Country Admission Exit Other Affiliation
Flag-Australia.jpg Australia Founding Member Withdrew on March 22, 2010 Brolliance-EDEN
Flag-Japan.jpg Japan Founding Member Withdrew on October 14, 2009 Brolliance
Flag-Pakistan.jpg Pakistan Founding Member Expelled on January 16, 2010 ---
Flag-South Africa.jpg South Africa Admitted on September 10, 2009 Withdrew on March 7, 2010 ---

Sol Security Council

Every month on the 10th, the Security Council votes on who shall be the Chairman for the next month. The Vice-Chairmanship is an unelected position. It is automatically appointed to the host HQ nation, which rotates monthly alphabetically.

Previously it was the 15th, and both the Chair and Vice-Chair were elected.

Year Month Chairman Country Vice-Chairman Country
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Snayke
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China
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Akki
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Japan
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Snayke
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China
Citizen879241.jpg
Akki
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Japan
2009 September Citizen888371.jpg
Snayke
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China
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Akki
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Japan
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Hekter
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Philippines
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Melchizedek Smith
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Australia
2009 November Citizen879241.jpg
Akki
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Japan
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aliao
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China
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Erius
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Singapore
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Nagyzee
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Malaysia
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Albert Neurath
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Thailand
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Hekter1
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Philippines
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Enoch Root
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South Africa
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kryteshyft
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Singapore
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kryteshyft
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Singapore
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ExoM7
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Malaysia
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nicholas2000
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Malaysia
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Albert Neurath
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Thailand
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nicholas2000
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Malaysia
Citizen1226337.jpg
Albert Neurath
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Thailand
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Jelly9473
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Philippines
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Albert Neurath
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Thailand


Legend:
Period when Snayke and Akki were the acting Chairs of the Council

1. Hekter was later removed from office by a 3-1 vote of the Security Council.

Military

Main article: SolDiers

The Sol Army, called as the SolDiers, was the alliance's defense arm against any aggressive forces that would destroy the member's stability. It was headed by a Sol Commander.

The Sol Commander is appointed for life, and can only be replaced upon his or her resignation, removal for incompetence, or inactivity.

Headquarters

The location of the Sol Headquarters rotates every month alphabetically which had started since October 2009. China was the location of the Headquarters before the implementation of the scheme.

History

Main article: History of Sol

Since independent Asia-Pacific nations are very vulnerable to political take-overs (especially since some of them are quite new), they are experiencing drastic financial crisis with unstable monetary units and wavy local markets, and they really wanted to see a successful key region in the New World, and then came birth of a unified neutrality pact between them. The emergence of Sol gave justice to these nations aspirations, they wanted to free themselves from hostility and oppression from foreign imperialistic nations, and to see an Asia-Pacific region of becoming a key market of the New World.

Relations with other Alliances

Sol takes a neutral position with other alliances, and does not limit its member nations from being involved in other alliances, as long as it does not interfere with the security and stability of the alliance. As a result, some member nations of Sol are also members of other alliances. The alliance in general favors EDEN due to the fact that Phoenix that stills holds many regions that belong to Sol members.

Controversy

Japan

Japan was attacked by the Theocrats in September 2009, in what was known as the Theocratic War.
Lacking the military and voting power to bring about a permanent resolution despite assistance from several Sol and PEACE nations, the Japanese and South Koreans wished to resist the Theocrats long term in the hope of weakening them via diplomatic isolation and then removing them in the future when able.

Japan considered the diplomatic blockade broken when Theocrats were readmitted into the local Sol War Games, giving them the opportunity to more easily level up their voters and soldiers. While the Theocrats had taken part before as Switzerland without any issues, their relocation caused them to no longer be an outside neutral party in Asia. This, along with the common naming of the Southeast Asian War Games as the "Sol War Games" and Sol's Resolution 0001 admitting the Theocrats caused controversy and confusion over who was now responsible for the event.

Japan accused Sol of aiding an aggressor instead of a member nation and of poor communication and timing, while Sol pointed out Japan's own poor communication and the efforts they had put in during the initial invasion. The time allotted for the vote was valid, but not all members had chance to have their say as only 3 out of 9 nations voted to allow the Theocrats into the War Games, with Japan itself being one of the absent nations. Since then the charter has been reformed to account for lower activity rates, and Resolution 0001 is in the process of being revoked.

The Japanese congress voted to leave Sol twice in October 2009 and officially withdrew shortly after, Japan is now an observer nation.

Pakistan

Due to the motion by Pakistan to allow the hostile Phoenix nation Serbia into the Asian region, Sol has formally expelled Pakistan from the Sol Alliance on January 16, 2010. However, Pakistan was never officially part of the alliance and the move was ridiculed by many in Pakistan.

South Africa

On March 7, 2010 South African PTO President RonelI officially announced that the country was no longer a member of the Sol Alliance [2]. The move was met with the controversy surrounding the reasons for Africa's withdrawal. It is as of yet unclear whether it is still a member of Sol.

Internal Splits

As a result of the expulsion of Pakistan, a major internal split happened inside the Sol Alliance. This split, started over a comment about Pakistan by the then-Chairman, boiled over into a nasty dispute over the powers of the Chairmanship between the Chairman, Thailand, Israel, Singapore, and the Philippines. This dispute quickly turned personal due to comments made by one of Singapore's Advisory Representatives about the Chairman, which the Chairman reciprocated. This eventually led to Hekter, at that point a Sol Vizier, calling for an impeachment of the current Chairman. This impeachment motion was defeated, upon which Hekter removed all control of Sol's central treasury from other leaders of Sol, including the Sol Imperator and the Chairman. Hekter was impeached by the Sol Security Council from his role as Vice-Chairman for this action. He did not return the Org for many months.

The Southeast Asian War Games

The Southeast Asian War Games (Also known as the Sol War Games), is a Training War for the camps of Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines. Canada, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, and Australia were dragged into the training war after they have signed an alliance with Malaysia. Later, South Africa, Slovakia, China, and Italy joined the games while Switzerland retreated the games. South Korea dropped out from the games after its union with Japan but later joined in September 2009. Croatia, Hungary, and USA joined in October 2009. Later, in the same month, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland, Romania, Iran, Greece, Colombia, Finland, Ireland, Spain, Uruguay, Austria, Bolivia, Peru, North Korea, Sweden, Japan, and Venezuela joined the Sol War Games. Also within the month of October, Thailand switched its alliance to Malaysia from the Philippines, leaving the latter without any alliances.

It was in August when the training war was then referred to as the Sol War Games, as the training war was widely participated by Sol member and observer countries.

The Southeast Asian War Games was one of the biggest war games ever in the entire history of eRepublik. The war game was participated by countries coming from all the New World continents.

Sol Expansion Map

Sol member countries are colored with dark yellow.

Trivia

  • Did you know that South Africa was the first observer nation that was accepted as a member of the alliance?
  • Did you know that the word Sol means the Sun?
  • Did you know that Japan was the first member of Sol to withdraw from the Alliance?
  • Did you know that Pakistan was the first member of Sol to be expelled from the Alliance?

References and Citation Resources

External links

  1. Sol Forum
  2. IRC Channel of Sol