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Planet of Cubes is a mass-multiplayer survival game that challenges players to survive in an open world. One of the best features, is that players can team up into clans and do amazing things together. With a team, you can collect more resources, build a country, make amazing projects and travel across the globe. However, today all that is difficult with massive clans competing for power and threatening to destroy other clans unless they are supervised; These kind of people are selfish and refuse to allow anyone to start their own clan. Since August, the number of clans had dramatically dropped. This should not be happening, it is everyone’s right to create their own clan and grow as a nation - massive clans like GHE should be sharing the land with other clan leaders. In the meanwhile, clans are difficult to form without having to deal with conflicts like spies and clan destroyers, but it is not impossible. This is a list of things that a clan leader should refer to while creating his/her clan. It includes information, that helps guide leaders around this harsh system:

Values

• Remain neutral, and do not get involved or engage into wars. You are keeping you and your members safe, by being careful about the consequences of clan wars.

• Make it top priority to focus on the economy of your clan and forming friendly alliances with (neutral) clans. Your people deserve a strong and reliable clan, so they can continue protecting their nation.

• Always remain loyal and compassionate to your clan. It is important that your people feel confident about your decisions and are free to express their patriotism.

• Be smart and make decisions that will only benefit your clan, especially with the competition and kinds of dangers you are facing now.

• Believe in yourself; Don't believe in yourself and nothing will work.

• Never show your weakness to the world and do not friend everyone you meet; there are those that enjoy causing harm.

• Have some responsibility in yourself, and start caring for others as their future leader.

• Always be mindful that other clans will not approve your growth of power; Therefore, make it your effort to be kind and thoughtul to them, and practice your neutrality. 

Reference

• Before creating your clan, you should make future plans and rules for the kind of clan you’re running. You can do a little research on clans and how they fail or succeed. Your clan needs goals, an economy, a constitution, a government, territory, security and a military, and a nice name. And think about why people would join your clan, what it is, and what it stands for.

• Come up with a unique name, a motto, and flag for your clan. It is critical that you avoid cliches and common names, so your clan does not get confused for other clans with the same initials and identity. Don’t make the name lame like “Cube Empire” or “We Do War.”

• You should recruit and look for members, before you build anything or it might all be for nothing. Especially with the spies and identity theft, you want to ensure that your team is trustworthy. You can always trust family and close friends.

• Find a safe location to claim as your territory and build the clan base, village, province, or country (after recruiting). It is highly recommended that you go beyond the 1,000s and far away from other territories. Caution: all massive clans are known to have territory in the North past the 10,000s.

• Do not put your clan base and civilians in jeopardy. If you must have war, then publicly warn the community that your military is at a designated war zone. Unless your clan base is targeted, shelter your people and reinforce the base with traps and military.

• Do not share your coordinates publicly as Pocadmin have warned that it leads to raids. The rules are strict, do not give away the coordinates of the clan base to anyone outside the clan.

• To avoid getting involved in the competition, do not form alliances with massive clans unless you accept the consequences. Do not ally with any clans associated with clan destroyers and spies, like GHE, Dragons (some members), NeoG, TA, Kievan_RUS groups, Life Clan, TDR and The Death Reapers. This also means allying with rebellions and enemies of these clans, including Dark Knights, The Council, The Revolution vs. 12 Tribes (12 clans), Dragons (the leader), Liz and her friends, Blood, YOLO, TDE, RFE, and any clans that are involved.

• For the good of your people, do not recruit members of GHE, NeoG, TA, Kievan_RUS groups, Life Clan, TDR, The Death Reapers, The Dark Knights or any other players known for associating with spies and clan destroyers.

• It is important to keep your clan, tribe, kingdom, or nation happy and tranquil. Without stability, people will stop supporting the foundations of your clan.

• ‘Do not gloat, when your enemies fall; When they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice.’ Listen and you will be rewarded with a good reputation among the community.

• A strong and rich country has a functioning government that protects individual rights and freedom, ensures fairness and social justice, and manages the economy. Therefore, a good government provides general services and focuses on what is best for their citizens. The objective is clear, you want your people to grow as well as your economy.

• If your society plunged into calamity due to the impact of war or depression, it is the government’s responsibility to recover the economy and restore the nation’s pride. The secret to keeping your country from falling apart, is really simple once abbreviated into President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 3 R’s: Relieve - the suffering, Recover - the damage, and Reform - the problem. By launching programs and reforms to prepare for future catastrophes, you are giving your people hope.

• A look at per-capita, incomes, economic growth, and job creation indicates how well a government is working. A rising per-capita demand, low-income, poor growth, and high unemployment means the government needs change. A low to almost no per-capita demand, high-income, rapid growth, and low employment means the government works best.

• Safe Zones are great to claim as territory, if you are concern about public safety. Though, you won't get all the benefits of a country outside a zone such as freedom to build, public storage - and your police will face limitations, allowing unwelcomed guests to harass your members. 

• Hire analysts to write you reports of any kind of facilities including communities, government, economy, and military. Then take action to strengthen any of which that you see needs assistance.

• Make it part of your responsibility to show your people how they should act, by being their role model as well as encouraging other leaders to be exemplary.

• How to Detect Fake Names and Accounts

• Most often, GHE and similar clans will appoint spies into their enemies or to just about any opponent. And these spies (cyber criminals) create numerous accounts and seemingly-identical usernames, in order to undermine the individual. It is a major problem in POC; identity theft is a criminal act that violates a person’s privacy. This is how you determine a suspicious account or player:

• The account profile is blank, private, or missing a photo. It has fake personal info and a ridiculously made-up name, that could be created by another account with a similar name.

• The photo and biography is inappropriate, lame, or something that a person would never put as their personal info.

• The player attempts to steal a nickname, but capitalization, letters, numbers, etc. does not match.

• The player constantly asks you for private information.

• The player remains quiet, or acts unusually strange; rude or fake. Personality does not match the person you know.

• If you know the person is stealing someone’s identity, then take immediate action to confront this suspicious activity. The most responsible thing to do, is to report it to an admin and to reveal this player to clan members.

   

  Economy

• Production, distribution, trade, and consumption of goods and services are an essential part of any government. Supply-in-demand became a foundation ever since the first civilization in ancient times, it would be impossible to not have an economy (just unimaginable; People need food/shelter/etc. to survive). The key difference between each economy is government control, which is necessary if trade and production needs to be regulated. As leader, you must decide what is best; how much government control, if you need currency to control demand, or laws regulating scams and bad production (like someone making your clan live on rotten flesh).

    This is the scale of government control in economics:

   

• Communism - complete control of production, distribution, jobs, and trade. No currency.

• Capitalism - a free-market economy; gov’t does not set or control prices, supply, or demand.

• Laissez-faire Capitalism - completely left alone; small, private businesses can thrive.

Public Goods and Government Services

As a result of a working economy, the government invests their time and funding on economic products like infrastructure, public safety, education, training and military force, and more to develop their country. As long as the economy flourishes, the government will reward its citizens with public goods and government services. These are examples of public goods and services, that clans should work on:

• Design & Construction

• Government Agencies and Elected Officials

• Laws and Regulation

• Public Health and Safety

• Military and Special Forces

• Military Aid/Veterans Honor

• Disasters and Emergencies

• Real Estate and Homes

• Workplace Innovation

• Facilities Management

• Hospital and Health Care

• Detective Agencies (to counter spies)

• Fire Protection Services

• Communications

• Public Education

How to be a Good Citizen/Member

Having a community of good citizens in your society plays a massive role in creating trust, positivity, promote fairness and challenges injustice, and overall improves your clan. It creates values in your community that attracts people and strengthens bonds. If you respect and help out people in the community, then you will get the same treatment. Outside of your country, the world is corrupt and you can barely trust anyone, and that is why you want a good community in your clan. This is how members act like good citizens:

• Volunteer to be active in your community.

• Be honest and trustworthy.

• Follow rules and laws.

• Respect the rights of others.

• Be informed about the world around you.

• Respect the property of others.

• Be compassionate.

• Take responsibility for your actions.

• Be a good neighbor.

• Protect the environment.

Warfare

People go to war for all kinds of reasons, but they can be narrow down into main points: To better their way of life and to protect their way of life (and because some people enjoy causing destruction). Your clan must be able to prepare for war and unfortunately, you all happen to be at a disadvantage in warfare; it’s like fighting in ancient times but with teleportation and safe zones. The only way to win a war is to wait out your opponent, which will take real commitment and months. The best strategy in winning a medieval-style war, is to literally turn your army into infantry, artillery, and siege engines… These are things you should consider, to defend and charge at your adversaries:

• Build fortifications: castles, arrow slits, holes, trenches, thick walls, pillboxes and etc. Come up with your own fortifications.

• Build traps: lava moats, TNT, pitfalls, golems, burning floors, mazes, etc.

• Guerilla-warfare/ambushes

• Deceptions - give your adversary the wrong impression.

• Basic drill - teach your army how to fight after being ambushed.

• Infiltration tactics - use your infantry to bypass enemy-lines and separate armies.

• Choosing the time - decide to whether fight during day or night, it might save your army.

• Indirect warfare - raid bases, steal supplies, blockades, propaganda.

How to Form a Strategic Alliance

Alliances have been a main factor affecting how history occurred; it empowers countries, prevents war, and helps economic growth even today. Not only is it necessary in government, but it is also important in just about any organization in the world. For instance, businesses and companies compromise to create businesses plans that ensure both parties will become successful. However, you do not want to just form alliances with everyone; there are lame clans or destructive clans that can lead to your fate, just by sharing a relationship with them. Therefore, you always want an active alliance that will work with you, but how is it going to work?

• Focus less on defining business plan and more on how you’ll work together. If you want to explain what a business plan is, then show them how they can work with you.

• Do not let your partner discuss how the entire relationship will work, otherwise you likely will not get all that you want. Make sure that you get your benefit, by telling him/her your expectations.

• Create a solid business plan backed up by a detailed contract. You can’t rely on them remembering every little detail, so write it all down and have him/her agree to the terms.

• Respect the differences that your partner has with you, or else it will only fall apart and create conflict. View his/her differences in a positive light, and think about how his/her assets can help both of you.

• Go the extra mile to encourage collaborative behavior from your partner. The biggest problem with alliance teams, is a tendency to assign blame the minute something goes wrong. It’s important to focus on building a strong relationship, so later you can both come to terms and discuss how to overcome a certain obstacle.

Administrative Meetings and Discussions

Meetings are typical and important for any organization, that wants to fulfill their goals while saving time, money, and talent. These are great opportunities for members to exchange ideas, make plans, and discuss objectives. A good meeting makes well-thought out decisions, solves conflicts, and maximizes productivity. However, meetings can become a big waste of time, unless you always know how to leave your members feeling energized and excited. To run one effectively, stick to these points:

• Make the objective(s) clear and straightforward. People will be wondering why they’re there, so have a purpose and bring it up. 

• Think about who you should call to a meeting, because if someone you invited can’t even help, then that person will feel useless. Everyone must be able to talk and share ideas.

• Good reasons for a meeting are things, like seeking input on a particular situation, arriving at an important decision, or to inform about any news that they may not know of.

• Stick to your schedule, once you announced a date and time for your meeting. Then start it in time and end it in time. People appreciate it if you understand that their time is valuable.

• Always follow up on what your members decided, because people need to know what is going to happen after the meeting. Write down the responsibilities given, the tasks made, and any deadlines. Everyone must be on the same page.

Court Systems, Judges, and the Law

To live in a civil society, we must have some rules to follow at the local, state, and most importantly the national level. Laws protect our general safety and ensure our rights as citizens against abuses by other people, by organization, and by Congress (Government) itself; It regulates your food safety, license your doctors to ensure they’re professionally trained, and gives you your human rights. Therefore, you need laws to make your nation safe and have people follow them.

To establish justice and create a more perfect union, the leader would form the judicial branch and select the justices who has the power to secure law and order according to the Constitution. Thus, any violation made by those as well as Congress, to the laws will result in the proper punishment, and this would keep your country under control. The justices will invest their power in a Supreme Court, for Congress, and a system of federal courts, for the common people. If your country has states with their own constitutions, then the justices will appoint State Courts, and they will also appoint multiple courts for specific types of laws, if the judge in a state cannot cover every law.

For your convenience, I will explain how a federal Court and the Supreme Court works. The main difference between each, is that the federal court deals with the common people and their trials on a regular basis, while the Supreme Court actually deals with very special cases that has a tendency to be controversial. The federal court judge will listen to the person or his/her lawyer’s testimony and come up with a verdict (decision) after hearing each person’s defense. The Supreme Court which is more complicated, will listen to the testimony and decide whether the person should be arrested or whether the person’s argument should become a law. In a Supreme Court, the person will need a lawyer - well-known for his intelligence and try to convince the justices. However, if the person received punishment in either courts, then he/she can contact a party that will proceed to appeal his/her case. The party appealing the case will then have to give their argument of why the person should be released.

Law Enforcement, Public Safety, and Mental Health

In a civil society, the rules embedded to maintain fairness and trust are sometimes abused by criminals. These citizens commit crime and put many in danger, for their own selfish gain and corruption. With criminals, society cannot promote a safe and orderly environment. It damages the reputation of one’s nation, creates tension in a community, and degenerates support for the respected foundations. Thus, you must secure your nation and keep the people happy.

This is why many countries in the real-world invented law enforcement and built Police departments, to protect law and order in the most efficient manner. The organization’s established cause is to reduce crime and the fear of crime - as well as improving the perception of safety and the quality of life within a community. Therefore, policing is not only enforcing laws and stopping criminals, but also helping people and volunteering to make a community safe for everyone.

The government also made it their responsibility, to fix the root cause of criminal activity which is usually confronting public safety and treating mental illnesses. The problem causing criminal activity, is undeniably the exposure of evil, violence, and corruption in humanity. It has been a power struggle, to sew the gaps of public safety and ensuring that citizens cannot be encouraged to take illegal actions. As a secondary approach, politics took into consideration the benefits of mental therapy and rehabilitation for those suffering from illed-mindsets. Though, public safety is more important to deal with as the main cause of criminal activity (like terrorism). If you can create a society where people are free from violence, then your country’s value will skyrocket among the community.

This is the role of a law enforcement officer:

• Protecting people and property from dangers and theft.

• Patrolling the areas that they are assigned.

• Respond to people who are calling for help.

• Make arrests and issue citations for those who are violating the law.

• Testify in court cases of the individual he/she is responsible for.

• Volunteer to do community service and encouraging the norms governing society.

The Workforce and Business Leaders

It’s important that the workforce is lead by business leaders, who will continue motivating them to be productive and also striving to make the economy more fair and efficient.

Facility managers have a massive role, in providing a stable source of raw material for industries in the economy. Industry owners depend on them, to continue manufacturing products and delivering to shops, private businesses, and public services. The balance can be disrupted and provoke angry workers, if facilities and their workforce stopped pumping raw material into the economy. Therefore, facility managers need to carefully invest in the ability of their workforce.   

Economic leaders have an important role, in creating a more efficient and secured system through business plans - that in theory, will save money and lower prices effectively. They need to find ways to boost income, while keeping in mind of the nation’s sacred foundations, and it only attracts more people to live in your country. They also need to figure out how to make trading safer and easier, unlike outside where players will steal things and trick others.

With effective business leaders, the workforce will be motivated to reach organizational goals and develop good business ethics.  

Military Training and Discipline

Before the leader or his/her general sends the army away, he/she must make sure that they are prepared for whatever the moment requires. Therefore, training and discipline is an important part of any military unit.

The key difference between bravery and cowardness is self-discipline. Would you as a soldier risk your life, for your own country? If you say yes, then you have the privilege to join the military, and be honored by millions as well as a life’s worth paycheck. Most of your time in the military will be rough and nightmarish, but are you tough enough? In your first days of boot camp, your drill sergeant will be drilling self-discipline into your head. It will become your duty to gain strength, endurance, knowledge, and spirit faster than an average student in class. Before a moment’s notice, you will be sent to war and expected to push enemy lines - never giving an excuse for failure. As long as your country’s flag is still there, you will stay in combat until you have sealed a victory for your nation.

Saving Lives with Doctors/Nurses

You cannot keep watch of how many people will die… Nor how many supplies you will lose from their deaths… So the best way to counter this, is to prevent death by providing hospitals and the right treatment for your fellow citizens. Hospitals and Healthcare are committed to financial stability (economy) through efficient service and competitive pricing (medical bills).

Have you ever ate a Pufferfish and it almost took your life? Or have you ever been splashed during warfare and it costed your life? At that time, you had to depend on yourself to bring the right items and you are dead if you didn’t. With health care at your service, you don’t have to worry about preparing for the worst. Professionally-trained doctors and nurses will provide milk and health potions for your medical needs, at a cost. If you cannot cover your medical bill, then you can discuss a plan to pay it over time.

Military doctors and nurses can provide military medicine and allow your soldiers to continue fighting. They are professionally trained to handle multiple-patients at a time. Therefore, freshly-wounded officers can teleport for aid and return to combat later. As a result, you save your army size, strength, and motivation. Additionally, this means your soldiers can go without carrying potions and milk, knowing that military hospitals provide them.

Recreation for Citizens

It is normal for citizens to get tired of living their routinely, boring life in civilization. Therefore, you must provide access to entertainment in their community. However, having citizens clash or build may wreck havoc inside your country. The recreation you provide should be safe as well as fun enough to be considered their hobby. Here are some suggestions:

• Birthday parties

• Shopping centers

• Theaters and plays (roleplaying that entertains people)

• Monuments and statues

• Art galleries

• Contests

• Parks, schools, comedy improv, restauraunts, and other recreations

• Boxing, fencing, and other sports

Importance of Education

Many educators would agree with South Africa’s former President and political leader, Nelson Mandela, when he quoted, “Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.” If it were to also be applied here, one can only imagine what players would make use of their world. Education can spread new ideas and influences, and provide great leaders with a constructive genius to make society easier and more enjoyable for all.

Leaders should invest in the Department of Education to offer curriculums, that will teach the youth how to be creative and survival, including real-world education. The purpose of this idea, is to transform members of a society into good problem solvers, idea contributors, and professors, to continue making the nation stronger and smarter. Your nation needs good leaders, politicians, managers, commanding executive officers (CEO) and chairmen, and secretaries to continue tracking the economy and guiding the nation throughout generations.

Overall, it will help citizens develop an appreciation for civilization and their government.

Author's note: This concludes my work on explaining the works, in running a successful clan - as well as coexisting with massive clans that already exists. Many ideas that were put together in making this guide were shared from credible sources about business strategies, military and leadership, economy, laws, government and general services, politicians, and education. This is the player's reference in forming his/her own clan. Send feedback if you would like to suggest your ideas. 

                                                                                                  Thank you for reading this guide, 

                                                                                                                                      HeroSonic

                                                          P.S. Message me if you have any questions about leading.