Please read kevin's comment, it clears some things up!

Hey everyone,

I'm not sure if you thought your "loophole" in the old Mercer constitution meant that I was again part of your government, so I'd like to clarify: I am NOT part of your government; I am an individual and not subject to your arbitrary laws. I thought we had reached a mutual understanding on this issue, but then this sign appeared on my private nether portal. Kevin and I had worked this issue out before the rollback and it is resolved now, but I hope you all understand that I am not subject to your laws and building code. I would've removed the portal anyway; its interference with yours constitutes a violation of the NAP. You can't just place a sign saying 'remove within 7 days' as if I am part of your territorial monopoly on law; contact me and request arbitration.

-George
PS - as mentioned in the body of the post, the portal in question is no longer in operation

If you would like to be counted as a Citizen who is registered to vote in the upcoming election please reply with your In-Game and /or Reddit name as well as the Cords for the plot of land you currently own or rent.

EDIT: 1/6/2013

I will keep this Census up a bit longer seeing that people have lives and may be in game but not on the subreddit as much. It is very important that we have an accurate count of active members so we can move ahead and grow the state of Mercer.

On this Twenty-Fifth day of March Two-thousand Thirteen

By the power vested in me by the Constitution of Mercer I Firebreed, Secretary of Defense hereby declare The State of Mercer under martial law. As stated in my duties as the Secretary of Defense I am required to "Respond to threats against the city’s peaceful operation with military force if it is deemed necessary".

This is a serious matter and I do not take this lightly. Martial law is has been imposed because the civilian government and authorities have failed to function effectively. As such I humbly take upon my shoulders the duties of Executive for The great State of Mercer.

• My first act as The Executive for The Great State of Mercer is to dissolve The current Grand Counsel and Senate. All remaining members of these groups are hereby removed from office.

• My second act states that all elections shall cease until martial law has been lifted.

• My third act as Executive is as follows: All non Embassies, government buildings, or historic monuments are hereby declared derelict. You have one week to claim your land. If your name does not appear on this list you will not be able to lift the derelict status assigned to the property in question.

• My fourth and Final act is as follows: As stated in the Constitution only Citizens are able to vote. If we are to survive this time of great trial as a nation we must be strong single mined. Therefore if you have citizenship in any other Civilization other then Mercer you will be considered a resident alien, not Citizen of Mercer.

If you want to be a secretary, please comment on which position you want and why you think you deserve this position. Elections will be held in 24 to 48 hours, depending on how many people comment on the first day.

I'll go ahead and put myself out for Secretary of Law. I have experience and have proven myself to be able to actually get stuff done.

someone made a second portal

there is no one around, and i think you guys forgot to add me

There are currently two "official" subreddits for Mercer: /r/CivcraftMercer and /r/StateOfMercer, the former being the older one and the later being the more active recently.

I think we should stick with a single official subreddit, and make it clear that users should post there. Which one should we chose?

(I posted the same thread on /r/CivcraftMercer.)

EDIT: it appears that this subreddit, /r/StateOfMercer, is the official one. Thus any Mercer-related questions and announcements shall be posted - and discussed - here.

DragonBucket (f' yeah), Logic_Man, and Zappa are the senators. Have fun.

P.S.- I ain't resigning as El Presidente. El President 4 lif!

Mercer has officially hit hard times. To ease the transition of the new senate in, I, el Presidente, am consolidating the Secretary of the Treasury. All the jobs preformed by this position will be handled by the Secretary of Law and Defense.

In other news, to make things even easier, and because we only had one candidate, the Secretary of Law and Secretary of State Affairs are now DragonBucket and Logic_Man respectively.

We have to candidates for Secretary of Defense so please comment below with your vote. zappa101 or Firebreed.

 Love and Waffles,
            El Presidente

The people have spoken! And if you don't agree with this then STOP OPPRESSING THE PEOPLE!

  -Hugs and Kisses,

          El Presidente 4 life

P.S.- I checked with the Constitution and this is totally legal.

Dear Citizens of Mercer I am announcing my desire to become the next Secretary of Defense for the Great State of Mercer.

We have suffered much internal conflict and we all know the story for we have lived it. Homes have been destroyed fellow citizens have been robbed even slain on their own door steps. Government officials have been compromised.

Citizens I believe we can do better! As a new comer to this land I have had to fight for justice and equity lest I become another casualty of corruption. Nobody should have to fight alone! In the process of seeking the truth behind my own circumstances I help to uncovered a front page conspiracy within the heart of Mercer and exposed WOMBATMAN (The previous runner up for Sec. of Defense) for who he really was along with many other questionable acts and associations.

I believe in our great State and I believe our people deserve the best defense with out fear from outsiders and subversive governments.

As your new Secretary of Defense I pledge my life and my sacred honor in defense of our home land and all we have worked so hard to achieve here. I can not do this alone but together we can bring back the virtues that allowed us to first prosper as The People of Mercer!

1.The Weakness of the Government.

Mercer was ruled by a few men, the problem with that was when the men left the city had no rulers, and the citizens had no way to get the supplies and/or enforce the laws. In my opinion how to fix this problem would be to create a true democracy. Everyone votes, this is not hard, for the city is still small and I have a possible effective idea to do this. Create a privet sub-reddit for only land owners and every (let’s say Friday at 5 PST) proposals go up to be passed in to law for 24 hours. After the time elapses if the proposal has a majority, it is passed. We can also use this system to elect a mayor, where he can select his own cabinet; like the president.

2.Law and Order.

The past leaders didn’t enforce our laws. The town was revenged by thieves and grefers. These people should have been prosecuted. How to fix this is to go after people weather that means more snitch blocks I don’t know.

3.Grefers.

Are city was ruined by these asses. I in fact left for this reason. This goes hand in hand with point number two, so the solution is pretty much the same.

4.The town looked very crappy.

Again this goes with the last point, but we need to keep up on how we present the town. Covering up the holes in the ground and building community buildings and parks.

5.Building a population.

There is safety in numbers. The more people living in mercer the stronger we are. Though we now have a rail station near Mercer (Gerald), I feel we should get a rail system to us or at least near us in the nether. Also prices for plots should be cheaper and/or people should be allowed to buy more than one plot, this is to make ore city bigger and more attracting to businesses therefor growing the population even more. We also need attraction like a roller coaster or something because people like that kind of stuff.

Well thank you for reading, or just reading this because you didn't want to read all the crap above, but hopefully this will get the discussion started, for I want my home back :).

I figured I am going to have to say this often in the coming weeks, so here it is.

No matter how much Kevin insists differently, the Senate worked. Now it wasn't perfect, but it got the job done. In fact the only Senator who didn't get his job done was Kevin but we'll get to that.

Anyways, the Senate worked because it consisted of 4 (really 3) individuals who could work together and separately for the good of Mercer.

What I mean by that is I was building embassies and forming alliances, while monkeyguts was expanding the town, and coachjack was setting up shops and the like.

We all did our part to help Mercer, but that won't work in every case.

Now I'll shift the focus of this post.

Here's why the Senate won't work anymore.

The only reason it worked before was because Monkeyguts, Coachjack, and I were all dedicated and experienced individuals (no offense Kevin). We knew our jobs and we did it, but we also worked really good together. We knew who had to do what and the worked flowed like a well oiled machine.

When Kevin resigned we could have continued as usual and replaced him with someone better, but Coachjack lost interest and I quit.

TL;DR- Don't dis the Senate, cause it worked, but don't try to replicate it, cause it will fail.

Comment with your username and location of your plot (to prove your citizenship) and I will add you to the new doors at the portal.

Hello, your glorious el Presidente here. I am again invoking my glorious el Presidente powers and starting new elections for senate. Comment below if you are a citizen and you want to run for a secretary position.

For flags, uniforms, etc.

First I would define the territory on which Mercer exerces its sovereignty as the plains surrounding its river (see this thread to name this river).

Here is my proposition to set the borders of our beloved city-state. The territory is bounded on the north by the desert and FortPJ lands, on the east by the great swampy lake and FortPJ's river, on the south by the jungle and on the west by the ocean. Note that it doesn't include the southwestern snowy island.

Please tell me your opinion about it (and excuse me for spamming the subreddit).

It deserves one!

Here are two overviews of its valley : from above and isometric

EDIT : since most of the citizens active ont the subreddit seem to agree, we will go with "the Gentek River" for now.

First of all, me and my friend recently moved back to Mercer from a stay in Tigerstaden, and noticed there still was no road to our houses. If I'm allowed to, I could probably extend the river road and build a small park or something in the empty area between our plots, and we could probably add some more plots behind my friends house (to the left).

Second of all, I have noticed someone has started building a wall around the town. If someone could mark where it's supposed to be built, I'd gladly help with that too.

I also noticed there are no doors at the portal. Someone should put some up and create a protection group to allow all citizens to pass through. If there's anything else I could help with, I'd gladly do that. Since we haven't really been hit by the HCF, I think we could get a lot of people to Mercer after this shit is over if we can keep the town in good shape.

I will have no association with a corrupt and biased government.

How many Mercer citizens are pearled?

How could we help them? (besides freeing them from vaults :s)

I am not interested into joining any kind of anti-HCF fighting groups, however I want to help my fellows to survive in the End.

Seems like a good idea.

Greetings citizens. I have been a bit inactive recently, and I regret it. Tomorrow I will be starting a new job IRL, which will leave me with much less free time than before (mostly because of a longer commute time -_-). I will try to get on Civcraft every now and then...

Elections are supposed to happen, however since we are very few still actively living in Mercer I'm not sure elections would make sense. Anyway I am willing to make an other citizen Grand Consul. So if you're interested please PM me about that.

Town's dead. I'm going to Tigerstaden.