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Welcome, Sunalayans! The Sunalayan international news broadcast centre has opened itself to the world in Dronden, Smoya allowing media and news from across the globe to reported quickly and accurately to all nations of the world! We do not discriminate, regardless of religion, ethnicity, and political ideology all nations may submit their news here to be shared and read amongst Sunalayans. We will be happy to serve you all!

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Smoyan Government Begins to Invent in Military Technology, Say Reports

Dronden -- The government of Smoya has [quote]"began to work on military advancement in space", say Department of Defense Officials.

This has sparked much debate about weapons in space.

"This is outrageous," says Christina Prior, citizen of Dronden. "It is a threat to the peaceful environment of space and our planet. It will hurt our reputation with foreign alien races."

In 2059, the government began to construct a space missile, capable of destroying space aircraft - and possibly weapons on this planet. It was the Anti Matter Missile. It was completed in 2067. However, it has never been used in wartime.

The Smoyan government also has recently finished construction of an anti matter bomb, heating the debate about space weapons. "This will be great," says Secretary of Defense Emilia Clements.

The Department of Defense has claimed that Smoya is working on numerous projects.

~P.O.D. International Broadcasting


It has been reported that The Dictatorship has planned to host a diplomatic meeting in the NCC. Due to this, the NCC's security staff is scheduled to be increased to twenty thousand active personnel with the remaining 1,980,000 troops stationed at Fort Lee staying on standby.

General Rader has planned on expanding peace with the rest of Sunalaya during this event. Though his reasons for the meeting are just, he questions whether the security staff should be furthered to a full half of the available troops stationed at Fort Lee.

In an interview with General Ads, he had this to say concerning the meeting, "so long as we don't get those hippie types. In all, I think it'll go well. With the security measures we should have no problems with foreigners. We plan giving an orientation on the certain 'rules of conduct' that will be in place."

Protests In The Maverica

Today thousands of Mavericans are protesting over the tax on grain. They say that taxing grain and animals is wrong and that they can not make a profit with the grain and animals anymore. The goverment says that without the tax on grain Maverica would need to raise money anouther way.
The protesters say that if no action is taken to abolish the tax they will do it by force.

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Smoya Finds Alien Race, Claims SNSA




Athia Planetary Command -- Reported earlier this morning, Captain John Hope of Audicity I has reported to Athia Planetary Space Command, "We have found life forms, over."

This was reported from Athia Planetary Space Command to the headquarters of the Smoyan National Space Agency (SNSA). Both space command centers are classifying wheather these alien life forms are advanced or simply not as advanced, such as an animal or bacteria.

According to our reports on Athia, there has been obscure lights coming from "Planet G", a planet that scientists have recorded odd images and lights coming from. One week ago John Hope and his crew flew in Wagnes I, there former ship, to Athia, a planet colonized by Smoya. They let it refuel and then took Audicity I, the newest Exploration Space Shuttle in the Smoyan Space Exploration Fleet.

Once they reached Planet G, they reported to Athia Planetary Command that they had found the source of light. The atmosphere is very dense and has lots of radioactivity, they claim.

SEE: Declassified Images from Planet G; Why we aren't the only ones out there

Contact with other "Aliens"
This is not the first time Smoya as a nation has come in contact with an alien race. In 2006 Smoya and the Esham Empire went to war, leading to the collapse of the Esham empire. Later, Smoya encountered the Vaxon Empire about 20 years ago. After starting our space age months ago, Smoya has also met the Republic of Sunset. These new aliens, therefore, are likely to be another advanced species.

We have been allowed to interview Anderson Blake, head of the Smoyan Extra Terrestrial Contact Organization.

[our reporters greeted, then got to business]

SNN: So, Mr. Blake, please tell us the purpose of your organization.

Blake: We made contact with foreign alien races and handle that kind of stuff. We are a government agency.

SNN: Interesting. What did you do when we first came in contact with the Eshams?

Blake: *laugh* Uh, I wasn't there when we did. But, our leader at the time tried to contact them, but they ignored us.

SNN: What about Planet G? What do you think about this?

Blake: I cannot say anything about this.
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Reactions
Due to this being highly classified, there have been minimal reactions. President Garey Carl, however, is said to have gone to Jubil, headquarters of the SNSA, while there have been minimal contact.

William Collins has contributed to this report.

Maverica Prepareing for war!?

Today at Brandy Island citizens whatch several new ships being built and more solders being transported the the island. Maverica used the island as a place to gather up soldiers for invasion of other nation but Maverica is a peace. Some say that Maverica is getting ready for war in another region to fight old enimies of maverica like Mizrad. Others say that it is just a training excersize. The military today did not respond to the public about the increase of troops.

This is MNS news and have a good day.

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Lindenholt supports Maverica

''Today the Lindian minister of defense, Kjell Janissen, said they would support Maverica. And that Lindenholt is interested in a military alliance with the nation.''

New Disease Spreading?



Jamestown -- Or is it just the flu?

The WA health organization has reported a little over 100 people in Jamestown, USJR that have symptoms of an unknown disease. However, many are tying it to the flu. This new disease has been reported in various other nations, such as Vandeux and Arcadonisia, our neighboring nation.

Symptoms include cysts, high fever, and nausea - well, that's what we know far, according to interviews with infected citizens. The USJR is reported to have begun minor research into seeing if this is just the flu.

However, 72 mysterious deaths - mostly in Arcadonisia - have also been tied to this. If they are tied together, then there must be an unknown symptoms, because according to the SECC (Smoyan Epidemic Control Center) none of the reported symptoms are lethal.

The approximate number infected world wide predicted are 1,000. This may be more of the prediction is wrong.

Ethan Moore has contributed to this report.

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Sluggish Economic Growth



Dronden -- After President Carl implanted his "Economic Isolationist" policy, the Smoyan economy has seen "sluggish"growth, as defined by economists.

The Economic Isolationist policy was an economic policy implanted by President Garey Carl to "strengthen the Smoyan economy" and "give workers a meaning to their job". It was also meant to create a stable trade surplus, guaranteeing that there would be more exports than imports. But that doesn't mean that the economy would benefit. The plan included a scale back of international imports and exports. According to statistics, however, the number of exports have shrunken by billions of monops.

President Carl had defined this plan to increase the Smoyan trade surplus by limiting imports and increasing exports. However, it seems as if the exports rely on the imports - after all, if the imports go down, so do the exports. The trade surplus has unexpectedly plunged from about 300 billion to 150 billion. The GDP has only increased by a 0.75%, down from a 1.23%. This, to many, is seen as an advantage for emerging economic nations to gain the level of Smoya.

The Republican Party has expressed an indifference over the issue of their leader's economic plans. "It seemed nice at first," says Republican Senator George Paublo from Kargle. "But, this was a wrong idea. It has only plunged our growth." Others, such as Republican Strategy Leader Rachel Warren, say this is a good idea. "We are all guaranteed a stable growth," she told us. "It will take some time for our economy to convert to this new system. But in the long run it will work out."

However, this had some positive impacts on the economy. With a system where workers must produce more, unemployment has fallen from a 5% to a 2.53%.

In response to this, President Carl's approval ratings have went down, as well as the uncertainty of the future of the Republican Party handling economic growth. His approval ratings have went from a 76% to a 69% in the last few days.

Another Solution?
With a statistically growing dissatisfaction over this policy, parties have opened ways to express their economic values.

Democratic Senator Ricky Haynes has promised "a end to this policy" and "a growth in government support in the economy." Other parties, such as the Labor Party, have released a statement yesterday stating that "The Republican Policy is a failed policy. They have hurt our economy - not to mention our trading partners. With a stronger support for workers worldwide, we can fix our economy."

Ethan Moore has contributed to this report.

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Jamestown Journal

JJ/January 21st/6:43 JST

"Hello! For those who are just tuning in we are talking with the Rebecca III," the anchor man, wearing a suit and tie, turned to the television screen."Hello!" On the screen three men in white uniforms could be seen floating. All of the held USJR flags.
"Greetings John! Nice to see you again," said one of the Cosmonauts "And greeting to the rest of our viewers." One of the other men waved.
"So, how is the view?" asked John, who was making hand gesters.
"One in a million, the blue gem is quite a view" said the man in the middle. "Want to show them?" The rest of the crew nodded and the man then grabbed the camera. He headed towards a window and focused the camera. "There we are! As of now we are just over the channel. Jamestown is just over..." the camera shook as it was handled. Slowly the view came into focus. "Right there."
"That is very awe inspiring. So, what are you guys doing up there anyways?"
"We," said the cosmonaut, "are testing the limits of Human endurance in space. We will orbit the planet for two weeks before re entering. In the meantime, we will be doing research and ah, enjoying the view.
"Well, thank you, that's all that we have today. Tune in next episode for more on the recent "Cold War"

The Bannerless Brothers were believed to only have consisted of 500 or so civilians in Rhodevus. Their numbers have been discovered in part, due to their hostile take over of Saviour Island. Saviour Island is a small landmass owned by Rhodevus, right next to the Imperial City of Rhode. They had successfully taken it over, using a force of 200,000 men, women and children. The island was known for it's iron mines and factories, so the loss of it, can mean billions of Rhodes $ lost from the economy. General Timmel has prepared a force to drive out the Brotherhood, but most are unsure if the brotherhood had once again infiltrated the military, just as they had done during the Kingly wars four years ago.

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Ruffnekian Imperial Navy Announces Fleet Exercises

At 4:15pm local time the Defence Minister Lord Ramsby announced the first of many upcoming fleet exercises, this is to get the 2nd fleet ready for combat roles as the cold war drags on. The main point of his announcement was the deployment of 4 destroyers and 2 battlecruiser to just 36 miles off the Yaramaqui National Sea Border for close quarter maneuvers.

He also issued the following statement
"Any ship found carrying illegal cargo (arms, drugs and military equipment) through Imperial waters will be confiscated even if the ship flys under a foreign flag"

We have no idea what sort of repercussions this could lead but we know that this is due to increased traffic in the area carrying goods that the imperial military deems illegal

Keep an eye on the news people as High Lord Mandrake releases his first press tomorrow about the future security presence on the Yaramaqui-Ruffnekian border.