PMI

**PMI** (acronym meaning *Potato Media International*) is a Thailand-based multinational media conglomerate primarily known for it's news and current information website. The company was founded on February 24th, 2022 during the start of the Carrot-Potato Conflict between Carrot Empire and Potato Empire. The company's founder and current chairperson is JVTA.

PMI publishes articles regarding current events in the Realmplex server. As well as this, it offers advertisement opportunities to companies and people big and small. However, PMI's validity has been brought into question multiple times due to it's affiliation with the Potato Empire, and it's tendency to write pro-Potato articles from time to time. PMI claims to have a neutral point of view.

PMI is entirely owned by the GSC, a company started by JVTA.

## History

PMI was founded in February of 2022 by JVTA, amidst the beginning of the Carrot-Potato Conflict. PMI was soon approached by TaylorWorld, who pointed out that Thailand had similar plans to start a news service, however this service would be visual. After some discussion, the two projects were merged under the PMI brand.

On August 9th, 2023, PMI quietly launched the PMI Radio brand.

## Operations

PMI is, at it's core, a news and information company tasked with providing news and information about the events on the server to it's readers. Most of PMI's operations take place on it's website, but the company also has an official Discord server, as well as a dedicated channel on the Realmplex Discord server. PMI also plans to create video news broadcasts, under the name **PMI TV**, to publish on their YouTube channel.

PMI, on occasion, publishes opinion articles which highlight the thoughts of it's employees. The company in it's entirety, however, is under a pledge to be unbiased and impartial. PMI does not take requests for articles and writes articles at it's own whim, though they may cover leaked documents. On March 6th, 2023, PMI opened a "latest news" channel on their Discord server, so people could inform PMI of the latest news.

### Locations

The primary headquarters of PMI are located in Thailand, atop Media Hill. The building is the first purpose-built headquarters for the company; previously, PMI had been based out of the top floor of JVTA's house. The primary headquarters houses a studio, storage rooms for documents and other PMI assets, offices for JVTA, and a cafeteria named *Potato Meals Incorporated*, which was named in reference to the company. The building also has a helipad, a rooftop balcony, an underground parking lot, and underground studios for both emergency use and for special broadcasts. Only parts of the building - namely the cafeteria, lobby, parking lot, and helipad - are publicly accessible. JVTA's office is closed to public access while the storage rooms and the underground studio can be entered with authorization from PMI itself.

On April 17th, 2023, PMI's headquarters were closed to public access, for unknown reasons.

PMI is also set to construct bureaus in the Carrot Republic and Jonasland in the near future.

## Competition

For a long time, PMI faced no major competition in it's field. It's closest rival, the Jonasland-based newspaper The Jonasland Tribune, was and still is owned by JVTA as well, and the two companies often found themselves repeating each other. PMI's first taste of competition came with the launch of the Realmplex News Network on April 19th, 2023.

## Controversy

### Accusations of bias

#### Pro-Potato

PMI has, since day one of it's operations, been accused of a pro-Potato bias and being a mouthpiece of the Potato Empire. Many of these claims come from outside the Empire; namely from both Carrot Republic and Femboy Land. There have been many points from which these accusations stem, ranging from the company's name (which contains the word Potato), to the inaccuracies in articles regarding Femboy Land and the Carrot Republic.

With the criticism, on July 2nd, 2022, a petition was created by Pebble to try and get PMI's name changed. Later on in the month, on July 16th, 2022, amidst the request from Femboy Land for Potato Empire to dissolve, SandwichPress suggested the company rebrand to RPMI, or Realmplex Media International.

#### Pro-Carrot

Around the beginning of 2023, claims of a pro-Carrot bias began to rise, amidst PMI covering more news on Carrot than Potato. JVTA blamed this on a lack of happenings on the server.

#### Platform for JVTA's viewpoints

Some have pointed out that PMI, at various points, has been used as a platform for JVTA's viewpoints. This was noticeably, though subtly, prevalent in the days after Chaos Day; having been directly affected, JVTA refused to refer to the prank pulled on them as anything other than a murder.

### Location of headquarters

PMI has been in a constant dispute with Thailand over the location of it's headquarters. The building is sat directly above a major deepslate mine. A beacon, which TAITHELEGEND claims to have existed before PMI's headquarters ever did, exists within the deepslate mine, to make mining faster. PMI has repeatedly covered up this beacon, claiming it "ruined the view of the building" and "created a major hazard for those at the building", the latter being claimed due to the beacon's location around a flight of stairs. No agreement has been made on the beacon, which is currently covered up and turned off.

## See also

**Political entities:** Potato Democrats |  Social Democratic Party

**Locations:**Albert Tower | JVTA's house |  Jonasland | Jonas's Store