ELFCON 5

Hello, everyone. This is Ashen, just informing you that the nation is currently at ELFCON 5. This means that ELF has little to no effect on the nation at large, and is thus not much of a threat to any bureaucracies. Look on the bright side, at least we don't have a whole lot of work to do.

ELFCON 4 means that we have begun to draw attention and support. Local news is starting to pick up on us and has maybe given us a few reports slipped in at the end of the broadcast, or shoved into some spare space on the newspaper.

ELFCON 3 is when the nation at large starts noticing us. It means that people know we're here and that lines are being drawn between various politicians and organizations. It means that ELF is beginning to become a national issue, and that the battle between ELF and bureacracy is about to begin. At this point, the government may begin making minor reforms.

ELFCON 2 means that ELF is a major national issue, that everyone who follows the news knows about us, and that our ideas for education reform are being seriously considered by the government.

ELFCON 1 is the critical moment. It means that the government has actually begun implementing meaningful reform concerning the education system, has begun testing the ELF system of education in certain school districts. It's the final moment that will decide who wins the war between reform and stagnation.

ELFAGEDDON means we won. It means the ELF education system, or some variant of it which we have agreed is equally desirable, has been implemented throughout the entire nation.

Things are cushy and safe in ELFCON 5, but they're also annoyingly repressive and dystopian. The higher the ELFCON scale gets, the harder life will be for all of us, but if we can achieve ELFAGEDDON, it will be worth it.

-Ashen