Socialist Montroigian Party

The Socialist Montroigian Party, also known as the SMP is one of the leading parties in Montroig.

General Secretary
The General Secretary is responsible for publicly representing the Party (in cases like a Media event or domestic diplomacy with other political parties). They serve indefinitely but may be recalled by anytime through a simple majority vote among all SMP members. Then, there will be a single-transferable vote to decide on the next General Secretary.

Vice General Secretaries
The Vice General Secretaries are appointed by the General Secretary and are authorized to represent the Party publicly. They can be fired at any time by the General Secretary and all their public statements can be retracted or clarified by the General Secretary. There is no limit to the number of Vice General Secretaries that the Party can have at any given time, and they are all instantly recalled during election season, and may be re-appointed infinitely by the new General Secretary.

The General Secretary and their team are also responsible for the moderation of the SMP Discord Server and the administration of the internal bureaucracy.

General Ethos
"The Socialist Montroigan Party is a loose coalition of like-minded individuals that all share a socialistic view of the world and want to empower the people. We believe in the principles Montroig was founded on: democracy and popular rule"

"In general, our goal is to see Montroig prosper. We are willing to compromise with opposing viewpoints as long as we critically deduce that it will lead to prosperity. Pragmatism and rational policies are the way of the future. If we support a dogmatic ideology for its own sake, we will only tear each other apart, and this country will fall into tribalism. The people govern, the people lead, the people are wise. Follow the people"

Economic stance
"We do not dogmatically support either a planned or market economy, though we are generally anti-capitalist. We understand capitalism as a mode of production which inevitably concentrates wealth and power into the hands of fewer and fewer players and seeks to exploit the world’s natural resources and dominate the players’ labor"

"Workers must have as much control as possible over their own labor and what is done with it. As such we oppose government programs that organize workers into drone-like positions, and capitalist enterprises that employ workers as ‘underlings’ that must obey the capitalist or owner"

"We will support efforts of collective bargaining and unions as well as worker co-ops and other worker owned firms"

"We will support collective industries and voluntary organizations that provide products or services without an expectation of profit"

Social stance
"We hold freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom to organize and participate in public demonstrations as well as petition for change as fundamental rights shared by all players. We will vehemently oppose any attempt to undermine these rights"

Military stance
"Montroig is appallingly under defended and too reliant on other nations in terms of its own survival. We must expand our military infrastructure and outfit our staff with high level gear to ensure that this nation can survive for as long as possible off the backs of our own players"

Governmental stance
"The government should remain as democratic as possible so that it does not manifest as an entity alienated from the people it is supposed to represent the will of. There should be no struggle between the people and their state; the state should serve the people. The state should be afraid of its people and not the other way around. We understand the “government” as nothing else but the manifestation of the will of the people. As long as the government remains democratic, we will support economic plans headed by state action"

"If the government should move to an indirect representative democracy, we will push for the right of all citizens to recall public officials, and the banning of lobbying, gerrymandering or other practices that may lead this nation toward an oligarchy. We also maintain that the state should be as transparent as possible"

History
The SMP was founded by veteran Montroig citizen BADEU0 on March 21st. The central headquarters were established in Terroja, the capital of the nation. With the only opposition of the General Welfare Party a two-party system was established.

The first internal party elections lead to qwaser_ being elected Secretary General on April 16th. This influence would later on lead to him being elected Guardian of the Republic of Montroig.

qwaser_ was later reelected on May 24th, with BuckTootha close behind.