The Conference(Open Attn: Lib Gov)

[Korintar]

With the recent events ocurring on the international scene, such as the rise of anarchist Urstania and, of course, the typical threats to such a state by The Grand World Order, as well as the revival of the Korintari Fascist League under Misuan Elvandu Mylxnori on the isle of Ylskri, T'blis Oltavi, along with the rest of the Korintari Directory, decided to hold a conference inviting all anarchist, agorist, democratic, and libertarian socialist nations to discuss how to respond to recent incidents around the world, be it through alliance, military action, trade compacts, embargoes, all options would be on the table.

With the message sent out, the Korintari Directory packed up their bags and took a maglev from Atenou to Korintopoli. They were all nervous, for they had no idea how the conference would pan out and Korintar might be seeing some civil strife in the near future- because not only was the KFL revived, but Freedom Church, a christian anarchist organization within Korintar, has pushed for a referendum concerning whether or not the Korintari government should be abolished and an anarchist society be developed. There were other options on the ballot of course, including keeping the current system, parliamentary demarchy, meritocracy, a communist state, and no confidence. If no confidence was the order of the day then a constitutional assembly of 240 members, chosen by sortition, would be called to discuss constitutional reform, and would have supreme authority vested in it until a new constitution was passed. This could cause problems as massive amounts of power would be held by a small handful of people, some of whom might not be considered capable of wielding it effectively or justly.

[Korintar]

OoC: This is the message that was sent.

IC:
To All Egalitarian Freedom Lovers,
It is well known that there are several nations in this world that oppose "Vita et Libertas et Parilitas." Preeminent of those are Blackhelm Confederacy, Ralkovia, and The Grand World Order. These, as well as other threats, must be dealt with, for they will stop at nothing to destroy our movements. Thus, this conference shall be concerning what must be done to contain this threat, including what methods would be most effective, and to encourage each other in each individual's struggle for liberation and true equality.

[Libertarian Governance]

Tom McWain the Chief of Foreign Affairs for Libertarian Governance arrived at the conference with assistant Susan Antov. Both had vehement believes against collectivist ideologies but had some respect for anyone living in a true stateless society. tom wore jeans and a short sleeved shirt while Susan was her usually fashionable self in an expensive blue skirt and peach blouse.

[Korintar]

T'blis Oltavi approached the delegation from Libertarian Governance saying, "Welcome to Korintopoli, I apologize for the warm weather we're experiencing, but I see you are prepared for the climate. My name is T'blis Oltavi, Director of International Affairs, possibly will soon be ex Director, depending on the results of the referendum *chuckles*. We are currently in transition from the Free Democracy constitution to, hopefully, a reunion with Helini and Via Crucis and the development of anarchism. Our people have a 1500 year history of political freedom and have gradually gained more and more freedom, even though struggle was occasionally necessary. The referendum currently on the ballot will hopefully represent the final step to anarchosyndicalism. The Free Democracy currently operates on the principle of democratic syndicalism, or minarchosyndicalism, if you will."

"I take it you are Tom McWain, then," said T'blis after taking a sip of water, for he was very thirsty because he was not used to 97 degree weather with humidity around 100%.

[Libertarian Governance]

Being from a tropical climate Tom smiled at the reference to hot weather. "Oh, it feels sort of like home. I am Tom McWain Foreign Affairs Chief for my nation and this is the Assistant Chief Susan Anton. It is very good to meet you." Tom steps forward to shake the mans hand followed by Susan.

" Mr Oltavi I am glad to hear you have such a long period of political freedom. Its really astonishing. Our own nation has only been around since 1735. A few hundred years. How does the referendum look?"

[Korintar]

Being from a tropical climate Tom smiled at the reference to hot weather. "Oh, it feels sort of like home. I am Tom McWain Foreign Affairs Chief for my nation and this is the Assistant Chief Susan Anton. It is very good to meet you." Tom steps forward to shake the mans hand followed by Susan.

" Mr Oltavi I am glad to hear you have such a long period of political freedom. Its really astonishing. Our own nation has only been around since 1735. A few hundred years. How does the referendum look?"

"The group that initiated it is a minority group, but they have garnered support from other minority parties plus from one of the majority parties. However the Korintari Fascist League, a domestic terrorist group, has regrouped, and that could cause serious issues, as they could take on our regular forces from their current position and defeat us. Only our space force is equipped to take them on, I am afraid," responded T'blis with a worried look upon his face.

[Libertarian Governance]

" A fascist league well that certainly sounds reprehensible. We do wish you luck on that score. Where are they located, near here?"

[Korintar]

" A fascist league well that certainly sounds reprehensible. We do wish you luck on that score. Where are they located, near here?"

"I sure hope not! We do have plenty of soldiers around here, because the KFL is planning something big. I do know their main base of operations, which is the Isle of Ylskri off the eastern coast. I am the last person any of them would want to encounter, for I would personally put my boot so far up their collective rear end that foot would come out their collective mouth! Ever since that serious beating I took a while back, I have been determined to destroy their organization, and thought I did after Bespin Tubari was executed, but his top two henchmen have escaped from prison and are on their way to Ylskri to meet up with the most horrid family in Korintar- the Mylxnoris, one of which was my predecessor when I was Security Director," answered T'blis kinda frightened, clutching at his sabre. He continued, "the Mylnoris are very dangerous, for they are cunning and violent authoritarians who will stop at nothing to reach their goals. They are well known for their fighting prowess and intellect. If you encounter one of them, run away. As far as Ylskri is concerned, it would not be safe for even your nation's forces because it is impenetrable and is laden with booby traps."

[Libertarian Governance]

"Why don't you just bomb it? Well, like I said we certainly wish you luck. So, let us discuss this Grand World Order and fascist nations. Why do you perceive them to be such a threat? Are they funding this fascist group in your nation?

[Korintar]

"Why don't you just bomb it? Well, like I said we certainly wish you luck. So, let us discuss this Grand World Order and fascist nations. Why do you perceive them to be such a threat? Are they funding this fascist group in your nation?

OoC: I am using base twelve from here on out IC, as that is typical in Korintar (Mach 13, duodecimal= Mach 15, decimal and 1 stado= c 1.89km)

IC: "Well, the Order is the power that would have most to benefit, but I am actually unsure who outside Korintar is behind it," responded T'blis, "natikodi have mentioned that it is well known that both Sabadin Mylxnori and Bespin Tubari had contacts outside of Korintar. Thank God that Tubari's primary contact has collapsed, for they could have proven to be a massive thorn in our side. But there is another reason they are considered a threat, we are a nation that tries to promote democratic and anarchic politics as well as socialist economics, things that these powers oppose. They have intervened in emerging democracies, and we fear that if we do switch to full blown anarchism and firebomb/nuke Ylskri with our space force, that we would be destroyed by the GWO and her allies. Also, the last time that the fascists executed a massive coup and we fought back, the Order launched an invasion force against us. We did not have the naval power quite yet to stare them down, so we were in a precarious position."

Cheri Konstado happened to walk into the conference room when she heard Mr McWain inquire about bombing Ylskri. "I think we could do that, but we will need to use our space force, only they have the planes that can go up to Mach 13 and climb up to heights of 84 st or higher, up to 630 st. I think we need to take action and fast, intelligence reports have stated that the KFL are in the Korintopoli area, but it is hard to determine which building and on which floor. Then we would know where to look."

[Libertarian Governance]

Wow your nation has fallen into such divisiveness. I wish we could assist you. Do you have satellite based kinetic strike weapons? They are good for hitting the kinds of stuff you describe on that Island. As for GWO, I think the best stance is to walk softly and carry a big stick.

[Korintar]

Wow your nation has fallen into such divisiveness. I wish we could assist you. Do you have satellite based kinetic strike weapons? They are good for hitting the kinds of stuff you describe on that Island. As for GWO, I think the best stance is to walk softly and carry a big stick.

"Actually, try something on the order of small orbital military bases, which we have six of. They have kinetic strike weaponry, as well as WMDs of various sort, direct energy weapons, small, high altitude aircraft/spacecraft- basically they are armed to the teeth. I will have to see if Cheri thinks it will work," said T'blis, "do you think it will work?"

"Yes, I'll send an order to release the Tachyon X wing fighters to distract the combatants on Ylskri, just long enough for them to leave their railguns exposed, meanwhile I will give a secondary order to release the kinetic strike rods to destroy the railguns. Next step would be to use the firebombs to take out the underbrush and flush out the KFL forces, while firing the railguns of our warships to dismantle the fortifications. We will probably use full power to make sure those fortifications are demolished, then send in the regular army with the space force's ground troops to engage the enemy. Hopefully that will result in mission accomplished," answered General Konstado.

"As for GWO, would you recommend that we build an anarchist alliance of some sort, as a warning that if they or their allies, or any authoritarian messed with one of us, then they would have to take on all of us," said T'blis Oltavi, now turning back to Tom McWain.

[Libertarian Governance]

"The problem with that, I am afraid, is that while we are Anarchist it is a by-product of our belief in individual human freedom. I really don't see how we would support and defend communism or socialism for very long. You can't be free if someone takes away your right to do as you please with your property. Freedom is just plain opposed to collectivist ideologies." He looks apprehensively at T'blis Oltavi. " I mean we are not so worried about what your people do on their own...but...our troops protecting communism isn't likely to happen? He frowns and then smiles "People would be outraged. Then too we belong to Capitalist International and any assault by GWO and his ilk would be met with serious consequences."

[New Olwe]

(OOC: Mind if I jump in? It says Open, but it looks kind of private... )

IC:

As longtime friends of Korintar and many other freedom-loving nations of the world, New Olwe would like to attend this conference. Our delegation should be arriving shortly, today if magical teleportation is allowed in your country. We represent a couple of liberal-minded alliances as well, and will ask their members if they would like to attend as long as this meets with Korintar's approval.

Jason Frost
Grand Duke of New Olwe

[Libertarian Governance]

ooc: go ahead

[Korintar]

T'blis' transponder started vibrating while he was discussing with Tom McWain. He quickly noticed that it was from the government of New Olwe and he forwarded it to Ervino Thedzari.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
To: Grand Duke Jason Frost of New Olwe
From: Counterterrorism Deputy Director Ervino Thedzari

On behalf of Comrade Oltavi and the Free Democracy, we welcome you to this conference. It shall be held in Korintopoli, on Korintar's southern coast.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
T'blis responded, "I understand and accept that. What has surprised me is the widespread support for Freedom Church's Libertas Populi Dei Referendum, which would effectively make their platform our new constitution. The only people in the political mainstream, in other words, not the KFL, who oppose it are Egalitarian Nationalist hardliners. The Egalitarian Nationalists are closest to traditional, authoritarian communists, so it is obvious why they would oppose it. Some may say that the process is a collapse, but we call it evolution. Mind if I share with you what is in the referendum? It is quite bold in its goals and how they are stated."

[Libertarian Governance]

Not at all it is all very interesting.

[Korintar]

It involves many things. Within five years, if passed, here is what will happen:

-All major, government subsidized, cooperatives will lose their subsidized status

-The Directory will be eliminated, along with a large chunk of the civil service, as will the Senate and People's Court of the Inquisition, but the People's Assembly will be eliminated ten years later.

-Communes will have more autonomy, with the Dominions being regarded as sovereign republics in their own right, along with major ports and the former capital cities and fortresses.

-All state owned industries will, without the civil service, be turned over to the people to determine their fate, most likely those industries will still remain collectivised in some form. Businesses owned by religious institutions... that is a different story.

-The natikodi, which is our space force/intelligence service/special operations force, will be democratized as the rest of the military is.

-All major, formerly state owned, cooperatives shall adopt some form of energy accounting and triple bottom line accounting measures, as deemed appropriate- no penalty for refusing to do so.

-Elimination of the Supreme Economic Council, to be replaced, if deemed necessary, by a policy jury picked to decide the dispute.

-Elimination of currency as we know it.

-Right to seccession and nullification will be fully established.

-Elimination of the War Economic Authority Referendum.


This is at the federal level, at the local level there are a lot of reforms being pushed:

-get rid of provincial governments or at least separate them from communal government.

-deciding whether or not to abolish the associate vs member distinction.

-deciding whether to switch to mutualism or syndicalism or communism.

-sortition vs election for higher level assemblies/councils.

-whether or not to implement higher level assemblies/councils.


Needless to say, Korintar will be a far different place than it is now, and most certainly different from how it was at the start of the Free Democracy seventy years ago, let alone five hundred years ago, when we were a communist dictatorship.

As T'blis was saying this, there was a bright flash of light in the lobby, obviously the New Olwe delegation had arrived.

[Libertarian Governance]

"Well, as a personal observation you sure seem to have a lot of bureaucracy for an anarchist government. I suppose though you need that stuff as a means to control. I don't think our government has anywhere close to so many departments, groups and hard set rules. Ah they do that so well don't they." Speaking of the arrival of the New Owe delegates. "Did you transition from communism freely or was there violence?"

[Korintar]

"Well, as a personal observation you sure seem to have a lot of bureaucracy for an anarchist government. I suppose though you need that stuff as a means to control. I don't think our government has anywhere close to so many departments, groups and hard set rules. Ah they do that so well don't they." Speaking of the arrival of the New Owe delegates. "Did you transition from communism freely or was there violence?"

"When you consider that we are getting rid of the last shreds of statist apparati, which actually amount to a lot in a massive, ancient country such as Korintar, it is not that much really," began T'blis, "Instead of having the Supreme Economic Council serve as the permanent industrial facilitation board for all of Korintar's syndicalist economy, we will be implementing a temporary policy jury to replace it as the SEC, though filled with experts, has grown corrupt. Also it was always confusing as to what relation the communes would have to the Dominions and how Dominions would be represented in the Senate, provinces solved the second problem while creating the first, so we are in the progress of redefining that. The Directory, which is the collective Korintari head of state, has not always been that effective, so we thought that anarchism would be the right direction, so we are taking the final steps. We are reinforcing the Korintari tradition of decentralized power by increasing independence for the local governments, speaking of which, the communal governments actually have a lot of sovereignty, so it is more of a reaffirmation of some of the practices that we have had all along. In terms of groups, we do have a lot, which is obvious in Korintari media- labor news & entertainment, religious news & entertainment, military news & entertainment, political news & entertainment, etc. This also explains the various institutions in local government, which is where the greatest variety lies."

He continued, saying, "Our transition from our old communist government was not bloodless. In our history there is something called the Ecclesiastical Revolution which ousted the authoritarian government from power. As the name indicates, the Church played a major role in that revolution. When it was over, we returned to our old constitution that was in use after the fall of the monarchy for a few centuries. Unfortunately, it did not work as well as we thought it would, so we transferred from a loose collection of city states to constitutional monarchy via unification followed by revolution to republic followed by coup to dictatorship back to republic via revolution to democracy to hopefully to anarchism. Except for the most ancient times several thousand years ago, when we were a vast empire, this is Korintari political history in a nutshell."

[New Olwe]

The Olwean delegation had arrived within earshot just as T'blis started his dissertation on Korintari history. "Fascinating," Grand Duke Jason said. "I was previously unaware of many of the details regarding Korintar's rich history. We only just got here, and this is already an educational experience." He nodded to Tom McWain and Susan Antov. He had spoken to both of them before when New Olwe had diplomatic dealings with Libertarian Governance, and found them to be dignified and respectable people. T'blis he had not had the honor of meeting before, and he introduced himself, his daughter Lily Greenleaf -- one of the longest-serving and most respected diplomats in New Olwe -- and their one-eyed female bodyguard Florica. This was the extent of the delegation... Olweans traveled light.

[Libertarian Governance]

"You know in LG we often complain when some one person Office for this or that is formed as a absolute infringement on individual human liberty." He chuckles " But I guess if people really lived under some other systems, well, it gives you some perspective. Our most recent government office is the office of youth protection. You see our Constitution designates every individual free and entitled to Liberty. We even give the vote to people at the ripe old age of 12 years. But people have a ancient practice of beating on their young. One youngster took his case to court and the High Court affirmed that indeed as free individuals children have a right not to be assaulted. Even by parents. So now there is an enforcement arm making sure children are not assaulted. This has caused some displeasure with some groups but over all people tend to wonder why this wasn't addressed years ago. After all it is spelled out pretty clearly in our constitution."

"Our local governments do have some power towards purely local things but overall we are a national system. We believe that all people should have an equal level of freedom. On top of that all levels of our government are restricted, severely in what they can do. Again if you were to focus on individual human freedom I think that the government naturally shrinks itself. Can we get a formal exchanhge of ambassadors going? We would be very happy to open you an embassy through our Office of Foreign Affairs."

"Hello" he said to the new Olwean delegates.

[Korintar]

"Grand Duke Jason Frost, I presume," began T'blis welcoming the new guests, shaking hands with each of them, "it seems that you find interest in Korintari history." T'blis thought for a moment and said, "y'know what? Why don't we go to the conference room across the hallway? The seats are softer, there are vending machines in case anybody is hungry or thirsty, and it has a better view of Korintopoli, in my opinion. Although I fear that some here might get altitude sickness realizing they are on the 210th (300th decimal) floor of a Korintari skyscraper!"

[Urstania]

Ross Renvelev was a skilled Urstanian pianist and a prominent anarchist that did a lot of work with anarchist groups before the revolution organizing squats's and communal activities and distributed CD's of his music for free as well as playing for the public.
He was born in the city of Tirest and lived thier for all of his life. On the day of the revolution he was scheduled to appear on the Radio to perform live on a piano but anarchists and people stormed the radio and he was caught up in the revolution marching out in the streets himself. with the success of the revolution and Tirest in anarchist hands by the 4th November he went back to the radio station to just freely deciude to play live to the listeners and he was half way through his peice before the reactionaries began areal bombardment of the city which once again did damage to central buildings and cut his piano act short.
He decided he would give it a 3rd attempt when the civil war was over and so when the paramount revolutionaries suggested this prominent anarchist go to Korintar to represent the anarcho-syndicalists in this conference he was happy to accept and see the world......

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Leaving the capital on the 8th he arrived in Korintar for the conference

[Libertarian Governance]

Tom and Susan follow T'blis into the conference room. Susan goes to the window and looks out "Wow what a fabulous view. Come here Tom and look at this view." Tom walks over somewhat hesitantly. "Oh, it is wonderful T'blis. Take a look Grand Duke Frost"