Officers • Border Control • Embassies • Communications
Authority
A Better Name Than That is controlled by a Governor, who has complete authority while resident in the region.
Governor: 
The Police Force of NYPD
Successors:
Frontier
Regions can change Frontier status at any time, but it's a slow process with serious consequences. FAQ: Frontier or not?
Nations with Executive authority can use the button below. It will take 14 days to complete, and can be canceled.
Officers
A Better Name Than That has a Governor, a non-executive unfilled Delegate position, and 9 Officers. (?)
| Executive | Can appoint/dismiss Officers and set their authority. Governors can modify the authority of Delegates, but Delegates cannot modify Governors. If the Governor is absent from the region, the Delegate gains Executive authority automatically ("by circumstance"). |
| World Assembly | Can vote on World Assembly proposals and resolutions. |
| Successor | Can become Governor if the region's current Governor abdicates or ceases to exist. |
| Appearance | Can modify the World Factbook Entry, Flag, and Tags, and pin Dispatches. |
| Border Control | By spending Regional Influence, can eject/ban/unban nations and set/modify/remove the region password. |
| Communications | Can send region-wide telegrams without stamps, compose Welcome telegrams, suppress & unsuppress posts on the Regional Message Board, and control who can recruit for the region. |
| Embassies | Can open/close embassies with other regions and extend embassy posting privileges. |
| Polls | Can create polls. |
| Nation | Office | Appointed | Authority |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Police Force of NYPD | Governor | Executive Appearance Border Control Communications Embassies Polls | |
| Security Officer | by Dogistanville | Appearance Border Control Communications Embassies Polls | |
| WA Delegate | World Assembly | ||
 The United Socialist States of Uniara | Our Most Esteemed Delegate | by NYPD | Appearance Communications Embassies Polls |
| M6 logo | Staff Sergeant | by Dogistanville | Successor Appearance Border Control Communications Embassies Polls |
| 1-900-230-feud 1 | COTW Government in Exile | by Dogistanville | Successor Appearance Border Control Communications Embassies Polls |
| Ceo of racism | Chief Executive Officer | by Dogistanville | Successor Appearance Border Control Communications Embassies Polls |
| Facist sleeper agent | Security Officer | by Dogistanville | Successor Appearance Border Control Communications Embassies Polls |
| His majestys royal guard | Security Officer | by Dogistanville | Successor Appearance Border Control Communications Embassies Polls |
| Ojn | Jafazia Government in Exile | by Dogistanville | Communications |
| The Woofs of Dogistanville | Vice-Delegate | by NYPD | Successor Appearance Border Control Communications Embassies Polls |
Border Control
Nations do not require a password to enter A Better Name Than That.
Nations banned from A Better Name Than That: -Tribute4rt-, AwesomeGirlfriend, For-The-Future-, For The Future, Luz Lane, Rarathensia, Shiori novelia, Too-ManyOptions, WatchingAndDreaming.
Embassies
Regional embassies signal that formal diplomatic relations exist between regions.
| Region | Duration |
|---|---|
| 1. One Collective Brain Cell | |
| 2. The Embassy 3 | |
| 3. Fredonia | |
| 4. Regionless | |
| 5. Mitteleuropa | |
| 6. Guinea Kiribati | |
| 7. Hurricane 12 | |
| 8. Hellhole Reborn | |
| 9. The Embassy 1 | |
| 10. Gypsy Lands | |
| 11. Key Results Union | |
| 12. Townston | |
| 13. The Monarchist Bloc | |
| 14. True Waskaria | |
| 15. Pacific Western Alliance | |
| 16. Seven To Many | |
| 17. Hyperborea | |
| 18. Fifth Wall | |
| 19. Freely Guads | |
| 20. Cha Hetstopia World | |
| 21. Union of Nova Universo | |
| 22. Scandinavia | |
| 23. The Maoist Communist Party | |
| 24. U R N | |
| 25. Eastern Brotherhood | |
| 26. Earth 2A | |
| 27. Ascania | |
| 28. Namekian Fascist Union | |
| 29. Chicken overlords | |
| 30. Big brains | |
| 31. Jewish Autonomous Oblast | |
| 32. The Ondoles Empire | |
| 33. Organization of Islamic Cooperation | |
| 34. Orifnan International | |
| 35. The Union of Nations | |
| 36. Waypoint | |
| 37. The Bongos United |
A Better Name Than That Message Board
Nations in embassy regions are permitted to post on the A Better Name Than That Regional Message Board.
Communications
Welcome Telegram: None.
Recruitment: Recruitment telegrams promoting this region can only be sent by: No-one.