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by **Radiatia** » Fri Aug 03, 2018 11:07 pm

PRESIDENT DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER
AUTENBERG ANNOUNCES HE WILL NOT SEEK SECOND TERM

August 4th 4064 NC Last updated 17:36 Exegrad Standard Time

XERCONIA, FCT
President Jaagen Autenberg has announced that he will not be seeking a second term, after revealing to the nation that he has been diagnosed with Penile Cancer.

_{President Jaagen Autenberg has been
diagnosed with cancer}

President Autenberg made the shock announcement this morning in a press conference, revealing that he was diagnosed three months ago and had thus far kept it secret from everyone except for his wife Mary and Vice President Steven McCarthy.

While his prognosis is considered positive as the cancer was detected early, the President said that the diagnosis made him realise "I ain't gonna live forever an' I don' wanna spent the rest o' ma life bein' President."

The President has already undergone one surgery and is set to begin radiation treatment.

"It's been a dang honour to serve this here country an' to serve y'all as President. But I promised y'all I would never tell a lie an' I gotta be honest: I ain't got the energy for another four years. If I do, I'll be turning 80 in office an' that's just too old to be President if you ask me."

The shock announcement blows the upcoming Presidential race wide open, meaning this will be the first open election since 4052NC - with Social Democrats set to line up to gain their party's nomination.

When asked who he would endorse to succeed him, Autenberg did not hesitate to endorse his Vice President.

"I'll stand by whoever the Social Democratic Union says should replace me, but I wouldn'ta made Steve mah Vice President if I didn't think he was the best person to take over from me as President." He said.

Vice President McCarthy has confirmed that he will be seeking the Social Democratic nomination.

Meanwhile in the Liberal-Conservative Party the news of Autenberg not seeking re-election could be seen as a major boost as the party tries to overcome the President's massive popularity.

Former Vice President Vladimir Perry said in a slightly controversial statement that he "wishes President Autenberg a fast recovery from his illness, just as Radiatians are wishing for a fast recovery from the economic problems he plagued us with."

Former Foreign Minister Quintin Holzer was more conciliatory saying that "Despite our political differences, we are grateful to Jaagen Autenberg for his service to this country and wish him and his family well in the months ahead."

- RPNN

Really Bill (Afofxie, Mendovium)
3 HOURS AGO
What a shame he wasn't diagnosed with cancer four years ago....
#PERRY4060

102 likes

Stiff (Mount Legend, Chongluntz)
2 HOURS AGO
There goes the greatest President since Traiyan Silviu. Horribly sad, he's the only President I've ever seen who actually gave a crap about ordinary people.

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Canister (Kyunu, Saskenya)
1 HOUR AGO
Hope his dick falls off LOL

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by **The Arthurian Isles** » Sun Aug 05, 2018 10:16 am

Arthurian Firms Seek To Generate New Energy Markets

_{Pictured: Mist covers the Geldungur Strait, where fog-catchers hope to develop their technology}

Companies across Arthuria are hoping to develop high-technology for some of the most under-developed regions of Noctur.
^{13 Wodmanaður, 1108 A.R.| By Trausti Sigurðardotar (tsigur@figaro.org)| 13:27 AIT}

STEINHALD, ARTHURIA — A visit to Vestmanaeyjar will convince most tourists that Arthuria is deeply dedicated to environmental issues. It is, after all, one of the countries most affected by climate change, as the Antarctic ice to its immediate south slowly recedes and its glaciers begin to shrink. But descending past the 'Black City' into Kopmanærhavn airport, one spots swathes of green which extend past the borders of the capital's many parks. On more than half of all roofs in the city residents and local businesses grow a tremendous variety of flora and, in some cases, a few fauna too. Those lucky enough to own north-facing properties (which tend to be a few degrees warmer) can even sustain the sorts of exotic herbs and vegetables more associated with places like Varisea or Nui-ta. It is said that the chefs of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs use their roof garden to source fresh ingredients for visiting dignitaries, including a tropical horseradish which is notoriously picky about its surroundings. The honey served in the café of the Logting (Vestmanaeyjar's cantonal legislature), meanwhile, is produced in hives atop its four storeys. The benefits are more than just culinary, however. Rooftop gardens tend to promote biodiversity and improve air quality in their neighbourhoods. The Logting has accordingly created a fund to help small and medium-sized businesses to establish their own such gardens, and has gained the support of the local Beekeepers Association, which is running free workshops for newcomers to the discipline in order to help them better understand which plants best help bees to produce their honey.

It is an example of the sort of culture which has grown up in Arthuria over the past few centuries, after anxiety initially arose about rapid industrialisation and its ability to sever the Arthurian people from their traditional ties to the land. Now, the country is known worldwide for its approach to environmentalism, one which incorporates individual action (such as the use of roof gardens and widespread recycling), large-scale clean-energy initiatives, and high-tech ways of removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Nor has this approach been confined to the little Antarctic archipelago; politicians, businesspeople and NGOs have consistently attempted to export at least the hardware of clean energy abroad (even if they cannot export the attendant culture alongside it). To an extent, they have been successful, with green energy becoming one of the fastest-growing Arthurian export sectors in the past decade. But they also face problems which prevent the home-grown technology from having a greater impact overseas. Firstly, energy generation is tied more closely with geopolitics than many other industries. Seen as a form of critical infrastructure by many governments, they are loathe to place all of their eggs into one basket. This is exacerbated by Arthuria's policy of permanent armed neutrality, which prevents the fostering of trust between countries that would be possible under a formal strategic alliance. Consequently, foreign governments tend to see Arthurian energy solutions as only a small part of their wider electricity-generation scheme. This is particularly harmful for Arthuria's big tidal energy companies, whose projects are often vast and require decades of assistance, maintenance and personnel training in order to operate effectively. A second problem faced by exporters of Arthurian energy projects is their cost. The cheapest electricity-generation scheme in Arthuria in the last twenty years was a micro-grid for a military base in the far-south of the country; it cost A1.333 billion ($160 million). This particular project did not have to be attached to a national grid either, a necessity for most schemes and a prerequisite which few less-developed countries can afford. Hemmed in by strategic outlooks and weak economies, the order books for Arthurian energy projects have not been as thrilling as was once hoped.

Though these hurdles do not threaten the steadily-growing clean-energy industry, they do hold it back from what many see as its true potential. The question therefore becomes: how do Arthuria's energy firms expand into markets which are shut off by prohibitive costs and political unwillingness? The Grejhavn Energy Company (Grejhavnen Energium Fyrtæk, or GEF), the firm which produces micro-grids for remote Arthurian island communities, thinks it has one solution which addresses both problems simultaneously. It seeks to more closely align its efforts at electrification to broader development goals, rather than viewing them through the prism of environmentalism. Its CEO, Eslur Vikingstað, is a firm believer that electrification will do more than most initiatives to boost development: "studies have shown", she says, "that electricity is what powers economic growth, improves standards of living and assists educational achievement". For her, the biggest problem to attaining this goal is traditional national grids; they work well in populous areas where relatively little infrastructure is required per person served, but are economically unsustainable in many rural parts of Noctur. Even in rich countries, utility providers struggle to make profits from the grid, and in poorer ones it can become excessively expensive and take a great deal of time to extend the relevant infrastructure into isolated areas. Even if universal electrification can be achieved, connections in those poorer countries can often be unreliable, stifling many economic benefits. While other Arthurian companies try to hook green-energy up to extant grids, then, Elsur hopes that GEF can create a whole new market by taking up the vanguard of electrification itself. She claims her firm can do so through mini-grids - a development of their successful micro-grids.

Mini-grids are essentially a bank of batteries charged by arrays of solar panels. They operate independently of national grids and can be installed far more quickly than most governments can currently roll out electrification programmes. Unlike rooftop-mounted solar panels - which are increasingly common - mini-grids provide enough electricity to power machinery, irrigation systems and lighting around the clock, and they can do so reliably. At present, Elsur says that the current model is still too expensive for most isolated communities in Noctur, but this is why she hopes to frame the project within wider developmental goals. GEF is therefore promoting and helping to fund rural education programmes which teach communities about things such as micro-finance (in order to fund installation of mini-grids) and the economic benefits of electrification. If villagers can learn how to make money from electricity, after all, they will be willing to pay for it. A second hurdle is political. Mini-grids have the potential to be seen as a threat by governments whose grip on power is already weak (compared to more developed countries). They can decentralise the provision of electricity and consequently dilute the influence of a central government; on the other hand, the continued expansion of the national grid could make mini-grids redundant after a few decades, leaving companies such as GEF in a position of uncertainty. Elsur believes the solution lies in discussions with governments. Her biggest target market is South Zanzes, which is seeing an influx of Arthurian investment after the Karasian War and thanks to the perceived protection offered by the peacekeeping mission there. She hopes to travel there to speak with the government's energy ministry, urging them to see mini-grids as part of a wider electrification strategy. They can, she argues, eventually be hooked up to the national grid, saving on the cost of infrastructure and allowing that money to be spent on subsidising her company's products for poorer rural communities.

There is proof, too, that GEF's mini-grids can work. The village of Kemijärvi is about as isolated as it is possible to get in Noctur. It is located on the Antarctic continent itself, directly south of Arthuria but not part of its legal territory. It is inhabited by a tribe whose origins are not fully known and who speak a unique first language entirely different to Arthurian. It is home to one of Arthuria's southern research stations, though, and the government consequently feels obliged to invest in the village, with the permission of its local council. Two years ago, when the research station decided to switch to a green-energy system, the villagers of Kemijärvi were also asked if they would like to benefit from electrification. They said yes, and GEF was contracted to provide a mini-grid for the research station and the village itself. It provides upwards of 22.5 kilowatts, lighting homes and powering a crushing-machine used to produce Kemijärvi's only export: seaweed oil. Although the power generated is expensive, it is still cheaper than the kerosene lights and diesel generators previously used both by the villagers and the researchers. The bigger worry relating to cost was initially that the installation of the mini-grid was not justified by the demand for its output amongst villagers. Elsur's vision has always been a step above this outlook, though. She has seen mini-grids not as a way to satisfy existing demand so much as to catalyse development. GEF did not assume that the villagers would automatically start flourishing businesses upon electrification. Instead, they provided advice on how to best use it (the seaweed oil plant is a result of this co-operation, as is a tiny hostel which attracts tourists primarily from Arthuria). Lower unemployment has had numerous effects. The obvious one has been that GDP per person rose by 10.6% on average in the first year of installing the mini-grid, compared to 4.6% in a similarly-sized village near a different research station. But it has also meant that operating costs of the research station have fallen, as they can purchase small amounts of locally-produced food instead of relying purely on supply flights, and have not been inundated with requests for work by unemployed villagers.

The Arthurian government was at one point mulling a plan to extend green energy to its Antarctic bases via costly expansions to the national grid, before shying away from the expense and relying on diesel generators instead. Now, it has prioritised the installation of mini-grids, particularly at stations surrounded by indigenous villages or other settlements. This has been a huge benefit to GEF, says Elsur, as it provides the much-needed certainty and information about licensing, taxes, subsidies and planning which are required before installation. Without such knowledge, the seven years it takes on average to recover the costs of installation can be too risky. It is this example which she will take to South Zanzes and other countries when she tries to convince them to adopt mini-grids as part of their electrification strategy. In Arthuria, a standard licensing system helps GEF gain from economies of scale and reduces bureaucratic overheads, and the knowledge that the national grid will not be extended under the sea to the Antarctic means that they can plan well for the future, as can the government itself.

Mini-grids hold huge potential for the electrification of Noctur, then. But their green credentials are less impressive. Certainly, they are carbon-neutral, but because they are installed in villages like Kemijärvi, which do not produce many emissions anyway, they do not mitigate much environmental damage. For the more radical environmentalist businesspeople who seek to spread their creed and their goods overseas, the issue is not so much about extending electricity grids further afield, but scrubbing the air of harmful greenhouse gases. This was also the conclusion of the Federal Government, who in a recent report stated that such 'negative-emission' schemes would be needed in tandem with greener energy-generation projects in order to keep global temperature rises at a sustainable level for the near-to-mid-term. That report marked one of the first times that the concept of negative-emissions was mentioned by the high level actors in the Nocturian discussion on climate change, not because it was not already known of, but because no-one has previously known how to realistically achieve it. The most obvious method would be to plant trees, which would then convert CO₂ in the atmosphere into wood. To have a meaningful effect on the world's environment, though, would require that an area roughly the size of Crata be forested in addition to current woodland. Other more technical solutions have sometimes been put forward, only to be smacked down as too costly or too fantastical. Three years ago, though, Pietur Jansen of the University of Reykarvik, in Arthuria's southernmost canton of Æsland, provided the first glimpse of a solution to negative-emissions. He convinced the university to build on their campus a plant - three-by-five metres across and three metres deep - which he claimed could extract CO₂ from the air. It did, and continues to do, at a rate of one tonne per day.

The science behind the machine sounds complicated but is in fact incredibly simple (in a technical sense). It draws CO₂ in through large fans, which direct it towards a so-called 'contactor' filled with potassium hydroxide, an alkaline which reacts with the acidic CO₂. The resultant potassium carbonate is then filtered and contacted with calcium hydroxide, forming both potassium hydroxide (which is sent back to the contactor to be re-used in the first step) and pellets of calcium carbonate. The pellets are heated until they produce pure CO₂, which is absorbed by carbon-capture facilities within the plant, and calcium oxide, which is dissolved in water to produce the calcium hydroxide used in the second step of the process. That something so simple could confound scientists and businesspeople for so long (the process was first devised over twenty years ago) is down less to science than economics. Negative-emissions has always been hindered by costly estimates which do not make economic sense. What Pietur has managed to do is make a strong business case for his plant. He borrows processes from other industries (the contactor is taken from cooling towers, the pellet reactor from water-treatment plants, the calciner from metal-ore purification processes and a slaker from pulp mills). This means that a larger version of the plant, which he intends to construct under the auspices of his new company, Blue, can take advantage of existing supply lines. Moreover, the suppliers and independent engineering consultants whom he has hired can accurately cost his model. Their conclusion is that a plant of the size he wishes to build could extract between 100,000 and one million tons of CO₂ from the air per year at a cost of between $92 and $240 per ton. It is still an expensive process, but compared to previous negative-emissions schemes it represents a step change in affordability and is expected to become cheaper in the coming years as the technology develops further.

In the meantime, to help him sell his plants abroad and reduce their overall cost, Pietur plans to use existing technology to turn the extracted CO₂ into fuel, which would technically be a carbon-neutral product (as no net CO₂ emissions would be involved in its production or use). Pietur concedes that, so long as he has to rely on such means to break even, his plants would only technically be classed as zero-emission, rather than negative-emission, facilities. It is a step, though, towards accommodating carbon-friendly technologies to the realities of the current economic climate. Pietur's design would also avoid some of the geopolitical pressures facing other Arthurian energy businesses. Large, developed economies are some of the most desirable markets for green technology, but as stated previously their governments are often loathe to rely on foreign sources for too much of their energy-generation. Negative-emissions plants do not technically form part of the power-generation industry and can therefore be purchased (at easily affordable rates, for such countries) without compromising critical national infrastructure. As an effective means of at least curbing environmental damage, Blue hopes to fill a niche which larger companies cannot enter and in which GEF would not have the desired effect.

Both GEF and Blue have stoked enthusiasm by entrepreneurs for other industries too, outside of energy-generation but still to the benefit of both the natural environment and broad swathes of humanity. Hydropower, long a staple of Arthuria's energy-generation mix and one of the most frequently exported technologies from the Isles, has been seen as a huge boost to electrification and development efforts in many poorer countries, but it comes with effects which can be particularly damaging to rural populations located near such projects. One of the biggest concerns surrounds water-insecurity, already an issue thanks to gradually declining rainfall throughout Noctur. Dams can alter or stem the flow of running water away from lands which rely on it for irrigation and hydration. In some areas, droughts have become increasingly common, herds of cattle have dwindled in number and crop yields have fallen, all for want of adequate water sources. An Arthurian company, Ukko (named after the god of the sky, weather and harvest, as worshipped by the indigenous Antarctic tribes south of the Isles), has been working with domestic hydroelectric companies to ensure that their dams to not cause such damage when they are built in especially dry regions overseas. One of the roles taken up by Ukko is simply advisory - they are consulted by the hydroelectric companies to discuss less intrusive ways of generating power - but another is more innovative, despite having been around for at least fifty years. It involves what looks like a huge net - 60 square metres - stretched between poles on a ridge near the Geldungur Strait, a body of water separating Vestmanaeyjar's home island from Arthuria's largest island of Skyraeyjar. At this point, fog regularly rolls in from the north-west, having formed over the Antarctic Ocean, been blown towards Arthuria by the prevailing winds, and channelled into the Strait by vast mountain ranges. The net captures the water droplets within the fog, which then trickle down a pipe towards a water tank below. The water tank is attached to a pump and a series of pipes which fan out towards nearby farms, filling troughs in their fields around which livestock then gather to drink. One of these nets can harvest 650 litres of water per day.

The fog-catchers, as they are known, are extremely cheap and do not take much to maintain. They do, however, rely on an adequate supply of fog which makes them useful only for certain areas. Only a third of Arthurian hydroelectric projects in the past four decades have been deemed suitable for the nets. The fog-catchers also require decent governance in order to fund their installation and subsequent maintenance; even though they are cheap, previous experience has shown Ukko that without co-operation and buy-in from all nearby communities, their nets will either fall into disrepair or the company will not be paid for their maintenance. It is looking at mimicking GEF's approach, by talking to national and local governments as well as local communities in order to negotiate long-term sustainable projects. But the potential for these fog-catchers is enormous, especially in areas facing a scarcity of water. In one remote coastal village in South Oriens, three 150 square metre nets provide all of the water for irrigating a plantation of olive trees, whose 750 litres of olive oil per year sells for about $14,000 (an impressive sum in those parts). In Arthuria itself, the technique is used by at least one microbrewery to produce artisanal 'fog beer'. If fog-catchers were to be placed at all available points along Arthuria's western shoreline (where most fog hits the country), they could harvest 1400 litres of water per second, enough to supply drinking water for Steinhald, Endarhejm, Geldstrom and Egilstaðir - the four cantons inhabiting that part of the country. Importantly for Ukko, despite the need for subsidies initially, the nets generate a profit for them.

What started out as a drive by Arthurian firms to capture part of the growing green-energy market has turned into a far wider and more holistic approach to development and conservation. It has spawned an entrepreneurial group of businesses which have used a combination of sophisticated technology and innovative business practices to spread further into Noctur than the rigid corporations have so far been able to do. Certainly, those corporations - be they tidal, hydroelectric, nuclear, solar or wind - still claim a majority share of the industry's revenues and orders. But they remain trapped by the boundaries of 'big energy'. New start-ups (as well as fresh ideas from older companies) have broadened the market for Arthuria's green-energy goods, taking it beyond the scope of larger firms. In doing so, they have affirmed that culture which so cherishes the natural environment which we collectively must steward, and yet believes that the best way to serve it is to embrace individual human ingenuity. As they gather steam, perhaps these energy companies can help the power-generation industry grow as fast as it has for another decade.

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by **Radiatia** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 5:06 am

TCHORT PRIMARY:
MCCARTHY AND HOLZER EMERGE VICTORIOUS

August 11th 4064 NC Last updated 23:04 Exegrad Standard Time

KUREI, TCHORT
Vice President Steven McCarthy and Former Foreign Affairs Minister Quintin Holzer have emerged victorious after the first-in-the-nation Tchort Primary.

_{Steven McCarthy and Quintin Holzer have emerged as the two victors of the Tchort Primary}

For the Social Democrats it was clear that the endorsement of President Autenberg carried weight in the small, mostly rural, southwestern state with voters giving Vice President McCarthy a huge early lead, with over 53% of the vote.

Premier Anton Kaspar came second, perhaps due to his roots as a westerner, while Speaker Wesley Yamada placed a disappointing third, representing a body blow for the man who had hoped to "bring the Social Democratic Union back to its roots".

The Liberal-Conservative Party primary was a far more messy affair which saw Former Foreign Minister Quintin Holzer win a knife-edge victory over Former Vice President Vladimir Perry, who won the Tchort Primary back in 4052 and had been hoping to win it again to cement his 'front-runner' status.

The LCP Primary was preceded by a disastrous televised election debate which eventually devolved into a screaming match between Perry and Holzer, with attempts by other candidates to keep order and bring civility to the debate ultimately failing.

"Quintin Holzer has been riding the gravy train all his adult life - he says he understands life in Tchort, but the man has barely left Xerconia for the last 20 years!" Began Premier Perry. "He doesn't have the balls to cut spending. I do."

Holzer later took aim at Perry, noting that "It's very rich of Vice President Perry to talk about the crime rate when he himself axed the police budget in Alayenia by over 40%, leading to the biggest rise in homocides in the state since the fall of communism, AND he opposed the creation of the Federal Police Agency!"

Amentra Premier Rudomir Kuhn tried to steer the debate back to "Our common enemy: Jaagen Autenberg and his socialist clowns" but was drowned out by Perry and Holzer's shouting match.

Following the debate, Perry went on to air a series of television attack ads against Quintin Holzer, while Holzer did the same via the internet - and mocked Perry by saying "He's so out of touch, he thinks people still watch television."

Meanwhile, Former Prime Minister Lena Toriah today lashed out at the media for "Falsely claiming I was running for President - I said it as a joke and you had the audacity to claim it was a real statement!?"

With the Tchort Primary done and dusted, candidates are turning their attention to neighbouring Saku. While in the LCP, all signs suggest Holzer will win his home state, in the SDU it's considered "Now or never" for the Yamada campaign.

Social Democratic Union:

✔ Vice President Steven McCarthy (South Corpshite) 53%
Premier Anton Kaspar (Luntzbusch) - 27%
Speaker Wesley Yamada (Chongluntz) - 12%
Premier Vladimir Angelov (Alayenia) - 8%

Liberal Conservative Party:

✔ Minister Quintin Holzer (Saku) - 41%
Vice President Vladimir Perry (Alayenia) - 40%
Premier Rodomir Kuhn (Amentra) - 16%
Speaker Bysse Goranov (Kerpruss) - 3%

- RPNN

ILOVEVLADIMIR (Erka, Detzertscha)
3 HOURS AGO
THIS IS BS VLADIMIR PERRY SHOULD HAVE WON HOLZER CLEARLY RIGGED IT

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Simple Simon (Kowdungan, Tchort)
2 HOURS AGO
Shame Autenberg ain't running but I guess that Steve guy's the next best thing so I voted for him

99 likes

Rain (Nepschu, Chongluntz)
1 HOUR AGO
LCP are an absolute shitshow. Looks like the SDU will still get the landslide even without President Autenberg!

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by **Radiatia** » Sat Aug 18, 2018 9:26 pm

SAKU PRIMARY:
YAMADA BOUNCES BACK

August 19th 4064 NC Last updated 16:03 Exegrad Standard Time

UERKU, SAKU
Speaker Wesley Yamada is back in the Presidential race, overcoming his humiliating defeat in Tchort to claim victory in the Saku Primary.

_{Wesley Yamada has won the Saku Primary, while Quintin Holzer also easily won his home state}

The results of vote, originally held on Wednesday, were delayed due to an extreme weather event, after much of northern Saku and southwestern Alayenia was subject to a series of deadly tornadoes.

Yamada, who came a humiliating third place in Tchort, was able to edge Vice President Steven McCarthy, thereby reinvigorating his campaign and proving he's still in the race.

Yamada is widely expected to win his home state during the Chongluntz primary later this week.

"I'll try to keep this speech brief as I'm aware that the guy writing the RPNN article which I'll be quoted in has to be somewhere in 20 minutes and is in a rush," He said to supporters. "But if you thought I was throwing in the towel, you better think again! We're going to Chongluntz next week and we're not going to stop until we get all the way to Xerconia!"

The Liberal-Conservative Primary was less dramatic affair, as Quintin Holzer handily won his home, securing his status as the LCP frontrunner.

"I'm honoured that you've chosen me, because you were the people I went into politics to represent!" Said Holzer to his supporters.

The LCP primary saw another dismal showing for former Speaker Bysse Goranov who became the first candidate to announce he is suspending his campaign.

Goranov declined to endorse any of his opponents but said "This is a great political party and I'll back 100% whichever of these great men our party sees fit to nominate for President."

In the SDU race, Premiers Anton Kaspar of Luntzbusch and Vladimir Angelov of Alayenia both refused to comment on whether they'd drop out, following a dismal showing for both in Saku.

Social Democratic Union:

✔ Speaker Wesley Yamada (Chongluntz) - 49%
Vice President Steven McCarthy (South Corpshire) - 47%
Premier Vladimir Angelov (Alayenia) - 3%
Premier Anton Kaspar (Luntzbusch) - 1%

Liberal Conservative Party:

✔ Minister Quintin Holzer (Saku) - 55%
Vice President Vladimir Perry (Alayenia) - 40%
Premier Rodomir Kuhn (Amentra) - 4.5%
Speaker Bysse Goranov (Kerpruss) - 0.5%

- RPNN

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by **Radiatia** » Thu Aug 23, 2018 12:47 am

THE FINAL FOUR:
PRESIDENTIAL RACE NARROWS AS CANDIDATES PREPARE FOR SUPER SATURDAY

August 13rd 4064 NC Last updated 19:14 Exegrad Standard Time

CHON, CHONGLUNTZ
Just four Presidential candidates remain in the race, following a Chongluntz primary victory for the SDU's Wesley Yamada and the LCP's Vladimir Perry.

_{WHO WILL IT BE? One of these four men will be the next President of the Radiatian Federation.}

Wesley Yamada has now edged ahead of Vice President Steven McCarthy as the new Social Democratic frontrunner, after a victory in his home state of Chongluntz - Radiatia's second largest state - saw him claim a large pool of voting delegates.

While McCarthy remains firmly in the race, it was goodbye to Alayenia Premier Vladimir Angelov and Luntzbusch Premier Anton Kaspar who both announced they would be suspending their campaigns, having failed to gain any traction in the campaign.

Premier Angelov gave his endorsement to Speaker of Federal Assembly Wesley Yamada, while - despite expectations to the contrary - Premier Kaspar threw his weight behind the Vice President.

"I'm a pro-business Social Democrat, it's true - but like any good businessman, I'll always support whoever is the best man for the job, and that man is Steven McCarthy." Said Kapar to his supporters.

The Liberal-Conservative race, meanwhile, is now effectively a dead heat between former Foreign Minister Quintin Holzer and former Vice President Vladimir Perry after Perry won the Chongluntz primary and proved decisively that he was still in the race.

"Radiatians are not happy with our nation's slow slide back towards communism, and with all due respect to Minister Holzer, some gravy-eating bureaucrat from Xerconia is not the man to make our country efficient again!" Said Perry to an ecstatic audience in Nepschu this afternoon.

Amentra Premier Rudomir Kuhn suspended his campaign and announced he would be supporting Perry, stating that he felt "Premier Perry understands best the values and aspirations of the LCP, and also of most Radiatians. Xerconia won't know what hit it when he becomes President!"

With both parties races now effectively a two-horse race, candidates are preparing for Super Saturday - the day when 26 states hold their primaries simultaneously, and considered the "make or break" day of the primary campaign trail.

Social Democratic Union:

✔ Speaker Wesley Yamada (Chongluntz) - 51%
Vice President Steven McCarthy (South Corpshire) - 47%
Premier Vladimir Angelov (Alayenia) - 1%
Premier Anton Kaspar (Luntzbusch) - 1%

Liberal Conservative Party:

✔ Vice President Vladimir Perry (Alayenia) - 52%
Minister Quintin Holzer (Saku) - 47%
Premier Rodomir Kuhn (Amentra) - 1%

- RPNN

PERRY4EVA (Exegrad, Alayenia)
2 HOURS AGO
Thank fuck, Vladimir Perry is BACK in the race... had me worried for a second!

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NPC (Midgard, Midgard)
2 HOURS AGO
| PERRY4EVA
| Thank fuck, Vladimir Perry is BACK in the race... had me worried for a second!
Ifkr! That Holzer guy is so... creepy. I bet he found a way to rig the first two primaries.

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Margaret (Point Nej, Chongluntz)
1 HOUR AGO
hello im 83 years old i tried to vote for jaagen autenberg today but couldnt find his name on the ballot how do i vote for him? thanks

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by **Nui-ta** » Fri Aug 24, 2018 9:57 pm

NNN - Nui-tan News Network

DEBATE UPSET: HAJUKUGI STEALS THE SHOW

On Foreign Policy, Neo-Cons Bring A Strong Showing To First Round Of Election Season Debates

Rahku City, Rahku State, 10:38 NST/09:38 NZT
By Jakub Benisar

Neo-Conservative Leader Binyamin Hajukugi has stunned political pundits across Nui-ta with an exceptionally strong debate performance.

When it was announced that Nui-ta would see six parties listed on the national ballot for the upcoming Parliamentary elections this month, no one really knew what to expect. Outside of state politics in Rahku, Binyamin Hajukugi and his party have been relative unknowns until now. While the Neo-Conservative Party did well enough this year to place across all-state ballots, conventional political wisdom until recently said that parties like them were too "niche" to hope for angible gains on election night.

The Neo-Cons political blend of Central Party's ideals tempered with Derch Party enforcement seemed good enough for swing voters, but not satisfactory for pulling more loyal voters from their usual party. Columnist Kalina Zohran even denounced the idea of the Neo-Cons breaking into the national sphere a year ago, stating on NSMCB that "the individual regions of Nui-ta play by their own rules at election time. A party doing well in politically diverse Rahku State won't guarantee that it'll garner as much respect in hard-left states like Ocini, or hard-right states like Sangaur".

Fast-forward to recent memory, and the Neo-Cons have already stunned the nation by garnering enough attention across multiple states to be placed on the national ballot. Some people thought Hajukugi had done the impossible simply by virtue of being a "one-trick pony", and as such, it was commonly thought that the Neo-Cons would not deliver a second time.

Yesterday night's performance at the debates have put that notion to bed. Binyamin Hajukugi outright cemented his place as a leader of a major political party, giving his more seasoned competition a schooling they never thought they'd get. The focus of that particular debate, foreign policy, saw Hajukugi even steal the show from Prime Minister Talia Dehran, giving the current administration a scathing review.

"People say I shouldn't be up here debating with the likes of Talia Dehran, Rasim Kulkanni, or Elena Raashan on something like foreign policy. They say a state-level politician has no conception of the intricacies of world politics. Those same people forget I'm from Rahku, which is one of of the most well-known cities in Noctur. Everyone who travels to Nui-ta passes through Rahku at some point, and it's made me acutely aware of how foreigners see our nation".

"Let's look at our current administrations horrible record with foreign policy. We have never distanced ourselves from our closest allies more than we have under Prime Minister Talia Dehran. Ever since our current administration rose to power, we nearly lost Radiatia and we could almost had a second fiasco with Hadin".

"Before Talia Dehran, no one thought the Nui-Ra alliance was in danger. Under Renton and Medici, the alliance had lost some of its spark, but only under Dehran was there fear that Radiatia might pull away from us altogether. The Dehran administration facilitated the closure of Radiatian bases in this country as a blatant insult to Radiatia, and then Prime Minister Dehran refused to initiate any effort to make peace with a nation we angered! In the end it took the Emperor's judgement to come to an acceptable restoration of co-operation between our two nations".

"And then there was Hadin. We had just gotten out of a war with Hadin, but that war was unilaterally the fault of the late Nico Hass --- Prime Minister Medici was not winning that diplomatic battle and perhaps it's a testament to his handling of the situation that the war happened as late into Nico Hass's time in office as it did. It's also perfectly acceptable to say that given our cultural differences, a close friendship with Hadin is still out of the question. With that having been said, not attempting any sort of "firm-but-fair" diplomacy with Nikastro, who came into power offering us an olive branch, was a missed opportunity".

"Talia Dehran denied our nation this opportunity when she snubbed Hadin at the Æsgard Accords. Her failure to secure a deal set back peace-keeping initiatives between ourselves, Hadin, South Zanzes, and Arthuria which had been planned for months. Furthermore, once again, the Emperor and High-Envoy had to sit down and sort the situation out themselves. Once again, Talia Dehran wrecks our foreign policy and the Emperor has to pick up the pieces".

"The Prime Minister would like to remind me that the Emperor is the nation's chief diplomat. It's true that when there's a diplomatic challenge with our nation that the Emperor is an impartial representative tasked with addressing that problem --- but it should be the duty of chief policy-makers, like the Prime Minister, to create as few challenges as possible in their policies.

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Jakub Benisar is a third-party journalist, and his articles do not reflect the political views of the NNN as a whole.

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by **Radiatia** » Sun Aug 26, 2018 1:39 am

SUPER SATURDAY:

WESLEY YAMADA SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN
LCP RACE TO GO DOWN TO THE WIRE

August 16th 4064 NC Last updated 20:22 Exegrad Standard Time

EXEGRAD, ALAYENIA
Vice President Steven McCarthy is now the presumptive nominee of the Social Democratic Union for President after his main rival, Speaker Wesley Yamada of Chongluntz, announced he would be suspending his campaign.

_{Vice President Steven McCarthy is now the SDU's presumptive nominee, following a series of strong victories on Super Saturday}

While McCarthy has not yet amassed the required number of votes to officially clinch the nomination, Speaker Yamada announced he would be throwing in the towel after a poor showing on Super Saturday, in which McCarthy carried every state taking part in the Super Saturday primary vote, except for Alayenia which was won by Yamada.

"The name of this political party is the Social Democratic Union and that's exactly what we need right now: Unity," He said to his supporters. "We need to show that we are a strong, united, progressive front prepared to govern, a stark contrast from the clown show that our rivals in the LCP have become.

"I pledge my full support and co-operation to Vice President McCarthy and I am confident that he will take into consideration the concerns we raised on the campaign as he prepares to take on the highest office in the land. I urge all Social Democrats to get behind him now."

While McCarthy was largely expected to come first on Super Saturday - due to his high support levels in the northern states, the scale of his victory yesterday was not expected.

Political scientist Dr. Boris Kahler said that while Speaker Yamada was a fine candidate, "Steven McCarthy has something very important that the other Social Democratic candidates don't have: The support of Jaagen Autenberg."

The Liberal-Conservative Primaries, meanwhile, are set to go down to the wire with Former Vice President Vladimir Perry and Former Foreign Affairs Minister Quintin Holzer now in a dead heat, and preparing for the crucial Amentra Primary tomorrow.

"Effectively, it's winner takes all: Whichever wins the Amentra Primary will win the nomination." Said Dr. Kahler. "It would be mathematically impossible to gain the nomination without Amentra now."

And while the focus remains on the primaries, the main election race is slowly coming into view: The Social Democrats have the advantage thanks to a popular incumbent and the bitter LCP primaries putting off potential voters.

According to Boris Kahler, "Whoever wins the LCP race is going to have to work doubly hard to show their party are ready to govern - don't be surprised to see some version of a Perry/Holzer or Holzer/Perry ticket emerging."

- RPNN

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Posts · by **Yohannes** » Sun Aug 26, 2018 4:19 am

World Assembly: The Infrastructure of Nation State Significance’s first five-year plan

Claudia A — Opinion Piece Author: ...... By 2023, we want the heartland to once again be the thriving manufacturing region that it was twenty, or thirty years ago. The community will then be better-equipped to face rising competition from overseas and any unfortunate natural or man-made cyclical events that may come in future.........

Royal Alexandria, 29 August 2018 — The thought of injecting capital towards projects with no immediate gain in sight would make some financial institutions go “No!” — but with its very strong bias towards industrial rather than other uses of savings, the Investment Bank of Yohannes has long believed otherwise.

“With the election of Marion Maréchal-Le Men, and the subsequent backtrack made by Annabelle-Thorndon Stevensonn’s administration as regards the Infrastructure of Nation State Significance (INS) programme, we now have the capital to finance projects right from the beginning”, according to Mr Steffen Sulzberger, Bank of Yohannes Executive Director and Group Chief Risk Officer, “... and now we can confirm that we can’t serve them all.”

Their goal is to “develop infrastructure befitting a twenty-first century nation state”, he explains, with key focus on urban transport, green industry, and affordable housing.

Originally postponed by the Thirty-sixth Christian Democratic Executive Council since 2014, INS now has seventy-four member companies participating in the programme, and has finally become one important player in the continent of Yohannes. Deriving its financial support from such family brands as the Central Provident Fund and EducationPathway, INS is aiming to concentrate on three key areas until 2025 — dubbed by pundits as its “first five-year plan”.

The first key area to be delivered by INS is urban transport. One such recent project, in collaboration with the Bank of Yohannes and due to be completed by 2021, is aiming to improve regional roading in the two Free and Frauenmundigen Cities of Coral and Crescent and the three metropolitan regions of Noble Treno, Royal Alexandria and Greater Halsten. Here, INS is hoping to intensify roading modernisation and chipsealing operations and maximise safety signs and regulations in accordance with World Assembly standards.

“The environmental side of this initiative must also be taken into account,” says Mr Sulzberger, stressing further that participating banks have been complying with Green Star Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Compliance Rating (Block 1-7).

The second key area to be delivered by INS is the integration of environmental best practice standards and “green industry-led” revitalisation in the traditionally heavy industrial regions of the heartland. Ms Elisa Meyer, Noble Treno Councillor for Housing and Revitalisation, says that without modernising certain segments of the industry and the workforce, the net benefit of INS’ first key area would be small.

“By 2023, we want the heartland to once again be the thriving manufacturing region that it was twenty, or thirty years ago. The community will then be better-equipped to face rising competition from overseas and any unfortunate natural or man-made cyclical events that may come in future.”

INS is aiming to inject 1.9 trillion Quertz russling (17 billion NationStates Dollars or Universal Standard Dollars) in this area over the next five years. According to Ms Meyer, “About 10 million people will benefit from this.”

And if roads and industry realignment are important to realising INS’ final goal, only with shifting local and regional focus to renewable energy will their effects be made more far-reaching. The Grand Duchy of Dali, the country with the highest fossil fuel and non-renewable energy production in the continent, is set to receive a boost in wind energy and hydrothermal capabilities.

The Q3 White Paper by Chancellor Annabelle Thorndon-Stevensonn summarised on the proposal by the executive council to finance the improvement of Dali’s infant wind energy and hydrothermal systems — a capital injection worth 1.7 trillion Quertz russling (15.3 billion NSD) that should benefit the country’s 13 million people by 2025. According to the report, the agency will also team up with domestic and international investors to develop two gas turbine-based distributed plants with a combined capacity of 410 megawatts.

And though development towards a sustainable twenty-first century nation state is the primary foci, all such initiatives must only be pursued insofar as they are economically feasible. According to Mr Sulzberger, “At the end of the day, we will be held responsible to our shareholders — we do not want to report financially unsustainable plans.”

Which brings the agency to its third and last key area: affordable housing.

According to The Honourable Abdullahi Lindström MEP IOC, the Chairperson of parliament’s Ethnic Diversity Committee, net migration is set to peak at an annual rate of 740,000 by 2023. “The Christian Democratic Party’s defeat in the January Electoral College presidential election would probably halt this trend, but not by much — at least, not by as much as the GOP had said in January. And in saying that, I am confident that we will win the Parliamentary contest in December, and I know Marion — she will try to placate the more extreme of her voting base by providing token support in the form of rhetoric, but at the end of the day she will moderate her demands to satisfy her traditional, dominant voting base: swing voting college educated women and blue-collar men.”

“The fact of the matter is, we need immigration. Without it, there is no way Marion and the GOP, or us for that matter, can sustain the economic growth we have enjoyed since the turn of the century.”

And whilst urban housing and suburban development will be the two ways of achieving affordable housing, other infrastructure related solutions must also be pursued. “Things such as water and waste systems, underground piping, waste disposal, and other such things that will affect the community. We don’t have unlimited capital — so we must sacrifice some things and redistribute these resources to critical areas which need our immediate attention.”

For now, the Bank of Yohannes itself is concentrating mainly on urban housing and revitalisation projects, aiming to lift the living standard of ratepayers in critical areas such as shifting demographics and neighbourhood gentrification, Mr Sulzberger confirms. “We are currently in the process of delivering 34.5 billion Quertz russling (310 million NSD) in support of the Royal Alexandria Regional Council’s Southern Ward gentrification investments for seventeen inner neighbourhoods in Reichsgau Antswagen. In this we have collaborated well with supportive financial partners both here and abroad.”

And infrastructure growth, moving forward, can only be effective with greater public-citizen sector coordination — even if it means accepting participation by foreign companies. “In an increasingly interconnected international community, we will also need the goodwill of non-Yohannesian capital providers if we are to pull this off.”

Today’s exchange rate: According to the International Securities and Exchange Commission, 1 NationStates Dollar or 1 Universal Standard Dollar (NSD/USD) (World Assembly and International Standard) is enough to buy 111.24 Quertz russling (Yohannesian); that is, a Yohannesian needs to spend at least §111.24 to be able to afford $1 NS.

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Author: Claudia A
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@claudiaa

Claudia A is one of the underpaid interns at The Royal Alexandria Times. She is a Macroeconomics postgraduate student and professional procrastinator in between lectures by day. She has previously attempted green policy analysis and social justice reviews, but was suck at both. These days you can find her in her natural habitat — writing for the Parliamentary Analysis Archive and The Royal Alexandria Times in her leisure time. She can sometimes be found tweeting together with her friends Baxter W, Erica B, Yohannes D & co. at the Maxtopian social networking website NationStates.

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Yohannes First

If the executive council position is that no one owns capital then how come they haven’t prosecuted non-Occidental immigrants for illegally sending money to their home countries? Or from preventing Muslim immigrants from borrowing too much? Are they governing for the people or for foreign interests? It makes no sense. Infrastructure projects should be built with Yohannesian capital. But successive executive councils have been getting chummy chummy with foreign interests (e.g. Allanea, Greater Nifon) and now suddenly they are saying they will put the money back here at home?
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aweebitsick

“Both here and abroad.” An Asian company?

Of course.

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secondamendment

Reading some of the comments here I thought I am back in time in 1925 attending a far-right rally or something. People. We are all the same — the economy benefits us all.

Sometimes I wish TRAT has stronger filters in place because this is just getting ridiculous. How is infrastructure investment related in any way at all with East Asian remittance or Muslim immigration?

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Posts · by **Yohannes** » Sun Aug 26, 2018 9:36 am

World Assembly: 1.25 trillion NSD agreement to be struck with Federal Recon Investment Authority

Claudia A — Opinion Piece Author: ...... Further, as FRIA’s funds are distributed to the Federal Office of Appropriations and Budget for the benefit of the entire Crown Recon region as a whole, I have no doubt in the legitimacy of their capital source.........

Royal Alexandria, 29 August 2018 — The Royal Alexandria Times can report that after a negotiation which lasted for almost a year, the Federal Recon Investment Authority (FRIA) has agreed on a final deal on Friday to acquire a stake of 2.5 trillion non-voting shares in Yohannesische Reichsbank Aktiengesellschaft (English: Bank of Yohannes Joint Stock Company). The agreement will be concluded next month to comply with the negotiated terms and the go-ahead of Economic Palace.

FRIA is the sovereign wealth fund of over twenty nation states in The Crown Federation of Recon. According to its Global Economics and Trade index listed storefront website, its sole shareholder is Empress Joan of The Crown Federation of Recon, although it is managed by a Board of Directors.

Since its founding in August 2017 by Royal Charter, FRIA has been an especially imposing regional investment authority — having an annual budget of over 265 billion NSD and one million direct employees. On the back of a favourable Nation States and International Incidents geopolitical situation, the company has forecast healthy long-term growth, with plans to increase its direct employees further vis-à-vis market share.

Reconian companies affiliated with the FRIA and the Bank of Yohannes have interacted well for much of the contemporary time — Legion Constructions Incorporated was the primary contractor responsible for designing and constructing the Economic Palace Building; the headquarters of the Bank of Yohannes. “As long-standing partners with Yohannes and its associated businesses, we’d like to purchase shares into the Bank of Yohannes.”, says Mr Martin Berkeley, FRIA Vice Chairman.

The Bank of Yohannes’ Director of Foreign Relations Committee, Sir Grant Wellington, confirms this long-standing relationship, saying that “The links — both historical and at present — which our subsidiaries and partner institutions have with affiliated firms of FRIA mean that decision makers at both sides of the negotiating table are made aware of the strategic benefits that can be had from this agreement.”

Under the terms of the deal, the Federal Recon Investment Authority expects to pay a total purchase price of 139 trillion Quertz russling (1.25 trillion NationStates Dollars or Universal Standard Dollars) on a debt-free and retarded cash-free basis over a ten-year period, subject to customary working capital adjustments. The purchase price consists of 116.8 trillion Quertz russling (1.05 trillion NSD) in cash and The Yohannesian Emperor’s Government Notes package worth 93.4 trillion Quertz russling (840 billion NSD) based on a ten-year period maturity.

The cash part of the purchase price will be funded through a combination of extended guarantee and deferred plan with a combination of cash and nation state notes, with 77.9 trillion Quertz russling (700 billion NSD) to be classified as outstanding. A new credit plan to facilitate for the outstanding payment will be drawn in Quertz russling, to be repaid over a ten-year period with a closing annual rate of 5.8 per cent by either the FRIA or Her Majesty’s Bank of Recon.

According to Bank of Yohannes Group Chief Executive, Dame Julianna Stefansson, “As the FRIA is funded by the Federal Office of Appropriations and Budget — a Federal Agency of the Crown Federation of Recon — using revenues from the region, I am confident that this agreement will create opportunities for our affiliated firms and services as regards not just The Recon Empire, but also the institutions of other reputable nation states in The Crown Federation. One example is The Hamilton Holdings Group of Dou Boux, which entrusted a sizeable portion of their assets in our international private banking division.”

“Further, as FRIA’s funds are distributed to the Federal Office of Appropriations and Budget for the benefit of the entire Crown Recon region as a whole, I have no doubt in the legitimacy of their capital source.”

As a regional entity, the Federal Recon Investment Authority invests in various assets and holdings, and returns all dividends to its sole shareholder, the Empress of the Crown Federation of Recon.

Today’s exchange rate: According to the International Securities and Exchange Commission, 1 NationStates Dollar or 1 Universal Standard Dollar (NSD/USD) (World Assembly and International Standard) is enough to buy 111.24 Quertz russling (Yohannesian); that is, a Yohannesian needs to spend at least §111.24 to be able to afford $1 NS.

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Author: Claudia A
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Claudia A is one of the underpaid interns at The Royal Alexandria Times. She is a Macroeconomics postgraduate student and professional procrastinator in between lectures by day. She has previously attempted green policy analysis and social justice reviews, but was suck at both. These days you can find her in her natural habitat — writing for the Parliamentary Analysis Archive and The Royal Alexandria Times in her leisure time. She can sometimes be found tweeting together with her friends Baxter W, Erica B, Yohannes D & co. at the Maxtopian social networking website NationStates.

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Ferdinand Röthke

Let’s recap,

A corrupt, Global Economic and Trade index listed multi-billion dollar foreign company comes along and indicate that they want to take some ownership away from YOHANNESIANS in a YOHANNESIAN owned institution. Here, read their official storefront website: “... is a special division that caters to the investment needs of individuals, corporations, and governments that reside in The Crown Federation of Recon.”

So they are willing to BUY overseas businesses, but they are unwilling to SELL to overseas businesses. They WANT to own other nationalities’ businesses, but they don’t want to have other nationalities owning parts of their businesses. I call UNFAIR on this one. Bet their branches are paying our employees slave wage rates............

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notgoodenough

Typical non-Occidentals.

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JC1982

What made you think they are Asians? You know that’s textbook definition of racism, right?

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ImTooSellOut

A foreign buyer?

No surprises here...

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TheCablePop

Politicians of all stripes need to pressure these scheming bankers to stop bieng sellouts. Our companies belong to our nation state

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Posts · by **Yohannes** » Sun Aug 26, 2018 6:47 pm

World Assembly: IPBY to further position itself along the emerging multipolar geopolitical future

Claudia A — Opinion Piece Author: ...... Our goal is to appreciate the diversity of our clients and see where we can go from there; not enforce our standards on them..........

Royal Alexandria, 30 August 2018 — Yohannesische Bank Privatkunden GmbH (English: International Private Bank of Yohannes Limited Liability Company; IPBY) will increase new member intake by up to one thousand by the second half of 2019 to prepare it for “business growth coming from such activities as our recent banking partnership with Sacrosanct Bank.” IPBY confirmed this would increase the total number of its international employees by about three per cent.

IPBY believed that the best strategy come 2020 is for it to increase presence in client-facing roles and investment focus such as the delegations of everyday investment decisions through investment counselling; expanding underlying security products; releasing brand loyalty initiatives for existing offerings; and through services and assets management.

Mr Gerold Böhnisch, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors at IPBY, told The Royal Alexandria Times that, “After increasing our presence for high net worth and ultra high net worth clients in terms of market size, we can predict that the next five years will present a period of growth higher than even the 2010 period. This will allow us to bring in new talents in crucial markets.”

The majority of new positions will be made available in regions of the international community beyond the Terra Incognita that have only been discovered by the Realm of Yohannes since 2015, which are also the fastest-growing parts of the international community for private banking activities. IPBY said it would invest heavily in the activities of its fellow industry players — the Bank of the Atlantic, and the Sacrosanct Bank itself, to name a few — to promote wealth management amongst like-minded Global Economics and Trade index listed enterprises over the next few years.

“By 2023, we are looking to create seven thousand job positions outside the nineteen countries, four thousand in the continent of Yohannes, and ten thousand second line positions in “hotspot” markets — that is, high-risk but also highly potential and rewarding International Incidents and Nation States diplomacy regions.

In September last year the bank celebrated its non-Occidental-Yohannes Diversity Initiative — an event which created a permanent group of distinguished investment-advisory wealth managers with cultural and family connections to non-Occidental nation states, such as descendants of immigrants or first generation Yohannesians who come from Greater Nifon, Great Feng, Imperial Symphonia, and Nusalia.

The company will repeat that highly successful intercultural diversity event this year, which will see a whole new group of intakes to fill such positions as account management and support, credit advisory, portfolio counselling, relationship management, and wealth restructuring and planning.

Pundits have called the initiative an example of the ways IPBY has increasingly abandoned the nineteen countries to attach itself closer to the fast-growing non-Occidental powerhouses. In its recent investment outlook forum, the bank revealed its intention of injecting up to 1.43 trillion NSD in sector vehicles and International Incidents guarantees across the emerging non-Occidental market over the next five years.

Due in no small part to such agreements as the Greater Nifon and Yohannes Investment and Trade Act 2017, IPBY has enjoyed a reasonably healthy presence in Greater Nifon and other non-aligned markets such as Symphonia. It also made clear its intention of entering traditionally non-aligned Muslim nation states such as Fenilalanin and Khataiy — home to fast-growing population with high birth rates.

According to Mr Böhnisch, this is one of the many reasons that domestic investors have increasingly abandoned the continent of Yohannes to look further abroad. “We have been saying for quite some time now, that, look: capital generation and wealth production in these high-growth regions will see double-digit upticks — and we must be there to capitalise on these opportunities.”

When The Royal Alexandria Times asked Mr Böhnisch to give us an inkling into his plan for the International Private Bank of Yohannes and how it would shape the bank’s private banking and wealth management in the next few years, he answered with an open-minded answer — he believed that premium, tailored banks should position themselves to remain at the cutting edge of not just the high end private banking market but also wealth management in fast-growing non-Occidental and Muslim regions in the years ahead.

Due to the volatilities of such markets as Khataiy, clients in those regions tend to prefer advisory over discretionary products — that is, for a client to have a say over her or his portfolio; the most compelling reason for choosing the advisory style of asset management, especially when dealing with markets located in the more “active” International Incidents zones. “The Mexican Civil War; the Great East Asian K-Pop War; Sierra Oscar Sierra — “High-risk, high reward. You know the drill.”

And this would only become more relevant in the years ahead.

Another one of the bank’s main concerns in recent years has been whether its employees have the ability to adapt to, and deal with, an increasingly multipolar international community — with different dominant cultures and societies forming serious blocs.

“We are always open to trying to communicate with our clients in different ways.”

“We don’t want to tell them that, say, discretionary products are better than advisory asset management if that goes against the way the majority of people are doing things in her or his nation state. Our goal is to appreciate the diversity of our clients and see where we can go from there; not enforce our standards on them.”, said Mr Böhnisch.

“Here at IPBY, whether you are the Government of Khataiy or Sacrosanct Bank, you can be sure that you will experience only the most professional approach to diversifying your portfolios and dealing with your hard-earnt assets.”

Today’s exchange rate: According to the International Securities and Exchange Commission, 1 NationStates Dollar or 1 Universal Standard Dollar (NSD/USD) (World Assembly and International Standard) is enough to buy 111.24 Quertz russling (Yohannesian); that is, a Yohannesian needs to spend at least §111.24 to be able to afford $1 NS.

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Author: Claudia A
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Claudia A is one of the underpaid interns at The Royal Alexandria Times. She is a Macroeconomics postgraduate student and professional procrastinator in between lectures by day. She has previously attempted green policy analysis and social justice reviews, but was suck at both. These days you can find her in her natural habitat — writing for the Parliamentary Analysis Archive and The Royal Alexandria Times in her leisure time. She can sometimes be found tweeting together with her friends Baxter W, Erica B, Yohannes D & co. at the Maxtopian social networking website NationStates.

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LieutenantHindsight

Do you really think “the Muslim world” give a rat’s bum as they ask for more and more handouts both within and without?

Successive executive councils have failed to defend our borders — now they are going to allow the bankers to send our money overseas too?

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notgoodenough

Ffs give it up already. Go back to Southeast Burmecia. This is the 21st century not 19th.

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Say No Bigotry

America calls — they want their Trump voter back!

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Capitan Obvious

And Yohannesians see thier money being invested overseas to build hospitals and schools for some shithole nation states why???

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Elmo Mergenthaler

Someone is getting the greenback from this deal. Who when where? Close this daylight racketeering now incarcerate them

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by **Radiatia** » Mon Aug 27, 2018 1:30 am

"LET THE GAMES BEGIN!"
VLADIMIR PERRY NOW PRESUMPTIVE LIBERAL-CONSERVATIVE PARTY NOMINEE

August 27th 4064 NC Last updated 19:59 Exegrad Standard Time

LATISO, AMENTRA
Vladimir Perry is now the presumptive nominee of the Liberal-Conservative Party after winning the Amentra Primary today and taking with him all of that state's delegates.

_{Vladimir Perry appears before hordes of supporters as he announces he is the presumptive nominee for the LCP}

While his main rival, Quintin Holzer, has vowed to fight on against Perry's "extremist" views, it is now mathematically impossible for Holzer to win the LCP's nomination, with Perry now sporting enough voting delegates to assume he is the nominee.

"Let the games begin!" Said Perry to ecstatic supporters. "The primaries are over - the real battle has begun - it's time to get the socialists out of Xerconia!"

Vladimir Perry, who previously served as Premier of Alayenia and Vice President during the Pavlovic Administration has long been noted for his hardline libertarian views - although his views became slightly more moderate during his tenure as Vice President.

"Radiatia needs to be making the same moves that countries like Aazeronia and Detectatia are making - opening up to globalisation, making their industries more efficient, removing wasteful government subsidies," He said. "Our economy has been almost stagnant for four years, in Aazeronia they're experiencing a boom."

However on the field of foreign policy, Perry is a surprisingly staunch supporter of "Radiatia First", criticising President Autenberg not for the policy but for "abandoning it - he started off well but then Nui-ta stroke his beard or... somewhere else and what does he do? He buys a goddamn island! With our money!"

In many ways, the race is shaping up to be an interesting one, with McCarthy and Perry effectively each other's mirror image: Both are former Vice Presidents from the extreme wings of their respective parties, both claim to have moderated their views but both have been polarising figures in the past.

The race is now on to win at least 230 of Radiatia's 458 electoral votes - and with eight new states in the mix, no one is quite certain how this election will play out!

- RPNN

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Posts · by **Yohannes** » Mon Aug 27, 2018 8:39 pm

World Assembly: Halstenmetall AG announced Supreme Soviet government contract

Claudia A — Opinion Piece Author: ...... We have not anticipated another delivery to the ULSR to come so soon, but they [the Soviet government] have made clear their willingness to acquire the retrofitted A3 in place of the brand new A4 to speed up delivery..........

Royal Alexandria, 30 August 2018 — No one was surprised when Halstenmetall Aktiengesellschaft (English: Halstenmetall Joint Stock Company) announced its plan to double tank production come 2019 — just one part of a trend of continuing investment growth seen in “strictly commercial” arms manufacturing by key players in the Yohannesian defence sector.

And supported by self-sustaining waves of capital injection — the latest of which totalled 2.2 trillion Quertz russling (20 billion NationStates Dollars or Universal Standard Dollars) — from not just domestic but also foreign sources, such as the controversial Emperor of Potthan to name one, that growth has been forecast to stay until 2020 as companies continue to fill late orders since 2015.

The Royal Alexandria Times has learnt today that Wehrmacht (English: Defence Forces of the Realm) armoured vehicle procurement officers have informed parliament’s select committee of its intention to give a three-year fixed price adjusted contract to Halstenmetall AG. The senior press gallery said that it contains new provisions for the upgrades of one hundred and fifty older T2009A3 San Silvacian main battle tanks to make them on par with the latest A4 batch. Their final destination is the Union of Lesser Soviet Republics.

Officials of the VMK International Sales and Export Office in Royal Lindblum announced the extension to the original 356.1 billion Quertz russling (3.2 billion NSD) contract yesterday to Halstenmetall AG’s headquarters in Halsten. “The contract will see the retrofitting of our older T2009A3 tanks to the T2009A4 Modular Armour (AMA) systems for the Supreme Soviet of the Lesser Soviet Union.”, says Mr Erhart Weingart, Senior Adviser to the Board on Vehicle Systems. “We have not anticipated another delivery to the ULSR to be made so soon, but they [the Soviet government] have made clear their willingness to acquire the retrofitted A3 in place of the brand new A4 to speed up delivery.”

The T2009A4 AMA is part of the Wehrmacht’s Armoured Vehicle Upgrade programme. It comprises two variants: the T2009A4 AMA and the not-yet-released T2009A5 TCS (Twenty-first Century Systems). The original terms of the procurement mean that the Lesser Soviet Union will get the A3 tanks with no additional charges; the Supreme Soviet will, however, pay for their weapons and electronics upgrades and maintenance on par with A4 AMA standards to assume full system readiness.

The T2009A4 AMA is equipped with a hit avoidance command and its Questaria-linked fire control analyser to turret armaments, an auxiliary power unit and filter to protect the engine from the environment of the Lesser Soviet Ukrainian plain, and a forward observation and reconnaissance system to allow crew coordination with surrounding infantry.

For passive upgrade, non-metallic ceramics and composites have been incorporated into more efficient lightweight armour. The high hardness, high strength, high rigidity and low density of the ceramic constituents used as well as the weight saving properties and ductility of composite laminated scheme make for an effective armour system.

The T2009A4 AMA also features advanced combat networking and fire control systems which can identify its target from nine kilometres ahead using its infrared thermographic camera. It is armed with a 120/L55 conventional propellant smoothbore gun; also designed by Halstenmetall AG.

Current operators of the T2009A4 AMA include the nineteen countries, Astuana, Bladia, Eaka, and the Union of Lesser Soviet Republics. The tank weighs around sixty tonnes, has a range of about five hundred and thirty kilometres, and can travel at speeds of up to seventy kilometres per hour on road surfaces, though it is not advised to go past speeds over fifty due to elevated risk of injuries and wear of parts.

Halstenmetall AG will work on its three-year price adjusted government contract at its Sjoland Vehicle Systems Facility in the Noble Republic of Treno. The first twenty tanks should roll off the production line by December 2018.

Today’s exchange rate: According to the International Securities and Exchange Commission, 1 NationStates Dollar or 1 Universal Standard Dollar (NSD/USD) (World Assembly and International Standard) is enough to buy 111.31 Quertz russling (Yohannesian); that is, a Yohannesian needs to spend at least §111.31 to be able to afford $1 NS.

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Claudia A is one of the underpaid interns at The Royal Alexandria Times. She is a Macroeconomics postgraduate student and professional procrastinator in between lectures by day. She has previously attempted green policy analysis and social justice reviews, but was suck at both. These days you can find her in her natural habitat — writing for the Parliamentary Analysis Archive and The Royal Alexandria Times in her leisure time. She can sometimes be found tweeting together with her friends Baxter W, Erica B, Yohannes D & co. at the Maxtopian social networking website NationStates.

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GoAheadMakeMyDay

ha....typical to see ...radar..sensors and tanks export being put above schools and hospitals

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Theysaidwhat

Dont you think 3.2 billion NSD is good for small and medium sized suppliers? They will trickle down to Halstenmetall suppliers or would you rather provide the money to build schools and hospy? Money they come from somewhere.

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My2cents

Shame Christian Democratic Party didn’t deal with infrastructue crisis soon enough now look their party trolls denial all round

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Aweebitsick

Another human rights offendernation to be chummy chummy with — “Supreme Soviet of the Lesser Soviet Union”, “Emperor of Potthan”. Might as well put Ralkovia there. What a wee joke!

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Anonymuss

I must be the only one here to see irony of parliament passing Withdrawal from International Incidents and NationStates Neutrality Act in 2016 fast forward 2018 still see “announced Supreme Soviet government contract” heh

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Posts · by **Yohannes** » Tue Aug 28, 2018 7:00 am

World Assembly: When populism helps the environment and the green industrial future

Claudia A — Opinion Piece Author: ...... In other words, Marioncare, ironically only legislated into reality due in no small part to the dangerous forces of populism and their exploitation by our politicians, will hopefully provide a helping hand for those who have been left behind — for them to more easily escape from the suffocating grip of deindustrialisation..........

Royal Alexandria, 31 August 2018 — According to Encyclopaedia Maxtopia, deindustrialisation can be defined as follows — quote, unquote — a process of social and economic change caused by the removal or reduction of industrial capacity or activity in a nation or region, especially heavy industry or manufacturing industry. Expressed in a different way, it is a reality we have faced since the later part of the Economic Miracle period (1946-2016).

When we read official legislative publications in the continent of Yohannes such as the Parliamentary Analysis Archive, we tend to look at figures — economic growth? 0.75 per cent this quarter. Annual net migration rate? 750,000. Whole time equivalent average weekly earnings? 910.07 NationStates Dollars or Universal Standard Dollars.

But more often than not figures and graphs cannot represent unaccounted for intangible costs, nor can they accurately portray the feeling of the electorates. For instance, the November Parliamentary Analysis Archive in 2017 forecast a 4.3 per cent unemployment rate by the end of the next fiscal quarter. It also hinted, here and there, that this was due to not just high net migration level but also deindustrialisation in the continent of Yohannes.

In the following day’s sitting, Chancellor Annabelle Thorndon-Stevensonn took these figures at face value — or rather attempted to do so in a very convincing manner — to fire back during oral questioning time with Members of the Opposing Forces. She had failed to take into account — or perhaps refused to accept — the bigger picture which produced that high unemployment figure in the deep south and heartland countries.

Those political pundits and proponents of a more regulated immigration environment warned Chancellor Thorndon-Stevensonn that voters all over the Kingdom of Burmecia, Grand Duchy of Dali, Noble Republic of Treno, and Merchant Republic of Landburg — that is, the bible belt countries — would punish her for her overreliance on graphs after graphs which displayed only economic and capital growth on paper. And they did just that in January 2018, when they elected GOP’s Marion Maréchal-Le Men as the eighteenth Yohannesian Emperor.

The bipartisan negotiation that followed — the alternative being the veto of every single executive council Bill to come to vote by the newly-elected emperor — resulted in two new nation state wealth funds: the Infrastructure of Nation State Significance Fund, which was mentioned briefly by The Royal Alexandria Times on 29 August, and the more controversial of the two — Industrial Care and Revitalisation Fund, otherwise known for its partisan name, “Marioncare”

Since its shaky start six months ago, Marioncare has grown rapidly to become the seventh largest wealth fund in the nineteen countries — the biggest loser from its astronomical rise being the holder of the first position, the Central Provident Fund, which found itself being stripped off direct executive council contributions until 2025.

What, then, is the purpose of Marioncare?

Declining industries in the continent of Yohannes. According to the GOP official website, the first purpose of Marioncare is to cushion the working people — of not just the bible belt and the heartland countries, but also the “rainbow countries” — from the blows “inflicted” by “heavy old industry” decline, high net migration, and internationalisation, or an increasingly interconnected international community — in essence, to protect the “common working people”— the hard-working line assemblers; the plumbers; the micro and small sized business owners — from rapid internationalisation, and to mitigate the costs of deindustrialisation.

Which brings us to its second purpose; its most challenging task — to help bring about the “green revolution” in the continent of Yohannes.

All Yohannesians aged 30 and over who are made unemployed are eligible to receive Industrial Care and Revitalisation payments with the condition that they are willing to undertake jobs in “Fund Approved” sectors (also referred to by its derogatory names, “Marionpay” and “Marioncare-for-you”, amongst Christian Democratic Party apparatchiks). The Fund also subsidises small and medium sized enterprises that are eligible to apply for supplementary funding — those being involved mainly in the renewable energy and “environmentally sensitive” industries.

Figure 1: Part of the Solar Power Regional Systems (SPRS) complex in Reichsgau Bergen auf Rügen, Kingdom of Alexandria.

The nineteen countries can only afford these through taxes and rates paid by today’s residents. With forecast of increasingly higher decline in the “traditional manufacturing” sector of the economy, the fund will soon reach its “critical point”; that is, where the level of taxpayers and number of eligible enterprises as a proportion of the working age population and nationwide enterprises in comparison to those receiving Marioncare supplement will go below a certain point that must not be crossed if support for those receiving the supplementary funding are to be kept. These inevitable demographic and internationalisation-induced changes mean that our future children and grandchildren will have to face a much higher tax burden for the nation to keep funding this universal “Green industry” initiative.

To help prepare for these supplementary benefits — until a time when the Nineteen Countries has adapted well to the forces of internationalisation, and when the level of its “green industry” economy has overtaken that of its declining “traditional manufacturing” sector decisively — the Worker Protection and Industry Care Act 2018, or the “Marioncare Act”, legislated by statutory obligations as follows: (i) The Industrial Care and Revitalisation Fund (ICRF), a collection of both domestic and foreign sourced capital and assets for the Executive Council Books; and (ii) the Board of Industrial Care and Revitalisation in the Bank of Yohannes (Forest Protector), a nation state body corporate charged with administering ICRF.

Since its creation in February, the executive council and its quangos — which include the Bank of Yohannes and VMK Defence and Steel Works — have contributed 16 trillion Quertz russling (140.7 billion NSD) to the Fund. Contributions are scheduled to continue until the third quarter of 2025, when the Executive Council is looking to increase fundamental executive council borrowing (by gross debt issue) to support underperforming sectors of the economy in a more direct manner. Payment is to commence once again when fundamental executive council debt has fallen below 30 per cent of real GDP after accounting for differential and seasonal adjustments.

At current trend of contributions, the Executive Council is to set to take money from ICRF by the second half of 2035 as it continues to exponentially increase in size (from current forecast) in a fifteen-year period to 2050. By statutory obligations the Executive Council must then resume its contributions and close the coffer of ICRF again until it is forecast to peak in size as a percentage of real GDP after differential and seasonal adjustments by 2060.

Just like the Central Provident Fund, ICRF’s capital is partly invested in growth-oriented and highly diversified portfolio — such as International Incidents guarantees and instruments in emerging “hotspot” regions. As a nation state body corporate, the Forest Protector can spend and invest as they deem necessary. And whilst the Minister of the Treasury and Wealth Fund is given the power to act as “head authority”, the Minister is by precedents dissuaded from influencing the Forest Protector’s operation on the ground. As a nation state body corporate, the Forest Protector must submit operational reports to the Chancellor every year, and must present their audited statements of annual accounts before parliament.

At present, over a third of Marioncare’s capital is invested outside the continent of Yohannes, where most of the growth are. Injecting capital in multiple nation states allow for a much greater diversification level and investment opportunities than would otherwise be available had Marioncare involved itself strictly within the nineteen countries’ borders.

Will Marioncare be making a difference for the “old industry” hard workers of the increasingly rusty bible belt and beyond? Will Marioncare support the increasing focus place towards renewable energy and green growth policies in the continent of Yohannes? And most importantly of all, will it continue to maintain its current forecast growth in, say, 2050, even as withdrawal levels are starting to overtake contributions?

And what about politics? What is the chance that a future, vengeful Christian Democratic Party-led executive council or parliament, free from the restraint placed on them by Marion Maréchal-Le Men as elected emperor and the present GOP, will try to amend, or worse — repeal the “Marioncare Act” altogether?

Only time will tell.

Personally, I believe that the decline of the “old manufacturing” sector is something that we will have to face head on eventually. We cannot run away from internationalisation and the constantly changing international community. The rise of populist rhetoric and themes on all sides of the Yohannesian political spectrum is intertwined with the rising unemployment, despair, and lost hope felt by our hard working people in the bible belt districts and the heartland countries. Marion may be a populist emperor — who likes to flirt occasionally with xenophobia-induced politics and is unwilling to distance herself, sadly, from her more offensive colleagues; Ronald Chump and Nickel Fallage being the two most obvious — but at least she has got one thing right.

She has brought about support — financial and direct; not just rhetorical and indirect — for our green industry and renewable energy future. For every job that the “old, traditional manufacturing sector shed from one part the economy, another one from the “new, green” manufacturing sector will hopefully take its place somewhere.

In other words, Marioncare, ironically only legislated into reality due in no small part to the dangerous forces of populism and their exploitation by our politicians, will hopefully provide a helping hand for those who have been left behind — for them to more easily escape from the suffocating grip of deindustrialisation.

A legacy carried over from late twentieth century — but one need not be kept in the continent of Yohannes for our future children.

Today’s exchange rate: According to the International Securities and Exchange Commission, 1 NationStates Dollar or 1 Universal Standard Dollar (NSD/USD) (World Assembly and International Standard) is enough to buy 111.08 Quertz russling (Yohannesian); that is, a Yohannesian needs to spend at least §111.08 to be able to afford $1 NS.

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Author: Claudia A
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Claudia A is one of the underpaid interns at The Royal Alexandria Times. She is a Macroeconomics postgraduate student and professional procrastinator in between lectures by day. She has previously attempted green policy analysis and social justice reviews, but was suck at both. These days you can find her in her natural habitat — writing for the Parliamentary Analysis Archive and The Royal Alexandria Times in her leisure time. She can sometimes be found tweeting together with her friends Baxter W, Erica B, Yohannes D & co. at the Maxtopian social networking website NationStates.

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Annie17

Tot agree with you 100% @claudiaa. Yohannesians have a long way to go if were to escape the fate of the United States. We should be more like Sweden or Germany not the US or the UK. I was a wee tod Third Industrial Growth period (1933-1945) and have watched Yohannesians go from having less but more charitable now to see Nation State wringers and extreme market advocates. Can we also kick Asians and Muslims too had enough of them opening dairoes and shops speaking God knows what

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Feud For Thought

“kick Asians and Muslims too” Can we not go there?

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IAmAsianAndMuslimDWI

Grannie forgot this is nat news 2018........... 1939 calls

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Aweebitsick

Having 70+ hour week shifts nothing you want. Honestly should be a law if you pass say 70 you get less pay unless your doctors nurses etc. What about kids they need good rolemodel at home and ideally one at home mum or dad looking after them. We need more stable balanced society not pecking order botom of the food chain US style

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by **Radiatia** » Wed Aug 29, 2018 2:35 am

SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION:
STEVEN MCCARTHY FORMALLY NOMINATED

August 29th 4064 NC Last updated 20:37 Exegrad Standard Time

DAS ENGEL, AMENTRA
Vice President Steven McCarthy has officially become the Social Democratic Union's nominee for President, having amassed more than half of the necessary voting delegates at the Social Democratic Convention held in Das Engel.

_{Steven McCarthy formally accepts the Social Democratic Union's nomination for the office of President}

He began his political career as a hard left young Senator from the state of South Corpshire before becoming running mate and Vice President to the unpredictable and yet wildly popular Jaagen Autenberg - now, he is on track to become the first Radiatian President to be born after the collapse of communism.

At age 47, he was born in 4017NC - three years into the administration of Traiyan Silviu and Skortch Takita, in a country struggling to adapt to the introduction of capitalism and democracy.

"I have never lived to see the horrors of communism, it's true," Said McCarthy as he began his nomination speech. "But I have seen horrors in this country, make no mistake.

"I have seen the horror of mothers who can't feed their children because of a government too callous to help her. I have seen the horrors of war veterans living on the streets of Exegrad and Das Engel because the country they swore to fight for was not willing to fight for them.

"And I have seen, in my lifetime, the horror of people starving in the richest country in Noctur - and that's why I got into politics."

One of the loudest cheers of the night - and longest standing ovations - was for the man who motioned for McCarthy to receive the nomination: President Jaagen Autenberg made a brief appearance in which he reiterated that "Steve is the man ter finish what I started an' he's gonna be a dang good President!"

McCarthy responded by referring to the President as "the best political mentor anyone, anywhere could ever have - and the greatest President we've ever had who wasn't a Silviu!"

The message of the convention, and McCarthy's speech was clear and consistent throughout the two days:

"The Autenberg Administration has been the first administration since the fall of communism to seriously address income inequality, to seriously lower the gap between rich and poor and the first to assure that all Radiatians from all backgrounds can enjoy the fruits of this country's success," Said McCarthy. "We cannot throw away what we have gained!"

ELDER STATESMAN CHOSEN AS RUNNING MATE

Probably the biggest surprise of the evening came when Steven McCarthy announced that his running mate would be Former Senate Majority Leader, Foreign Affairs Minister and Ambassador Josko Ivers of New Vashura.

_{Minister Josko Ivers will be McCarthy's running mate}

Ivers, who was the SDU's Vice Presidential nominee in 4052, is considered one of the most respected Elder Statesmen of Radiatian politics and drew a standing ovation when he made his surprise appearance at the convention having recently lost his wife of 30 years.

"I thought I was retired, I've made so many attempts at retirement in my life..." Joked the 68 year old double widow. "But I believe I'm still on this planet to serve this country... so ladies and gentlemen, not for the first time in my life: I accept your nomination to be Vice President of the Radiatian Federation."

Ivers - who was rumoured to have rejected Jaagen Autenberg four years ago - is considered a major coup for the McCarthy campaign, due to his popularity with not only rural and centrist voters but also with the establishment in Xerconia.

"I could struggle to name a more powerful combination than McCarthy and Ivers together," Said political analyst Dr. Boris Kahler. "The Liberal-Conservative Party are going to have a hell of a fight on their hands in this election."

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Was thinking of voting for Perry but not anymore... Ivers is the best Senator we've ever had.

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Wow RPNN, not even trying to hide their left-wing, communist socialist bias any more. Leopards never change their spots.

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Posts · by **Yohannes** » Wed Aug 29, 2018 2:54 am

World Assembly: The registration of HTU Bank begs the question of what happened here back home?

Claudia A — Opinion Piece Author: ...... HTU is not a local bank — they do not have existing links with the rural communities of Tobiasia to be able to sustain non-urban operations there, nor do they have access to many other things that the local financial institutions have enjoyed for decades, some, for centuries..........

Royal Alexandria, 31 August 2018 — The Royal Alexandria Times can report that the Bank of Yohannes, the nineteen countries’ oldest citizen sector lending institution, will open 5,100 new overseas branches which are set to create 85,000 new jobs over the next eight years.

Mr Israel Altmann, Bank of Yohannes Senior Political Risk Analyst, informed parliament’s select committee this morning that the news is part of the bank’s 21.1 trillion Quertz russling (190 billion NationStates Dollars/Universal Standard Dollars) ‘market participation focus’ programme in the major population centres of the Liberal Socialist Republic of Tobiasia Ukraine.

The programme will also include such initiatives as the incremental increase of staff salary to keep up with the Nineteen Countries Consumer Price Index (NCCPI), which is used as an economic indicator to measure inflation by tracking the price of commonly bought or essential goods and services in the continent of Yohannes (e.g. clothing and food).

Mr Altmann said, “We can project that, by 2025, we will have served 5 million customers across Tobiasia’s consumer banking market.” With green light from the Embassy of Tobiasia in the nineteen countries, the operation has been registered and listed on the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Trade’s Company Register as The Heartland and Tobiasia Ukraine Bank (HTU Bank) General Partnership. The bank will provide a range of basic services such as family business lending, mortgages and pension fund. However, the demographic beating heart of its operation in the Liberal Socialist Republic will be the “mum and dad” and the “nan and pop” — retail banking, that is.

Mr Altmann concluded by saying that, “Our central office will be strategically located just three blocks away from the Tobiasian National Reserve and the National Finance Analysts Centre. It reflects our commitment to breaking into the thriving, lucrative market that is the Tobiasian nation state. We understand that we will face strong competitions from Tobiasia’s major players — but we are not one to back down from a challenge!”

Mr Israel Altmann’s enthusiasm stands in direct contrast to the news we hear almost every single day about the state of twenty-first century banking in the nineteen countries; the changing ways that we, as customers, connect personally with those entrusted to look after our money. It is no secret that as automation and technology — the internet, to name just one — increasingly claim our lives and the way we do things, major banks have followed suit and adapt by cutting down on “unnecessary” costs: closing down rural branches, expanding online presence, trimming personalised services, and consequently laying down staff by the thousands — some who have worked for the same bank, in the same branch, their whole entire lives.

There is perhaps truth to the explanation given by most Yohannesian banks — they have been forced to close down yet another small village branch and lay down their local staff because of falling customer visits and retentions, and the internet and mobile banking have made branch banking simply a leftover from the previous century. But their explanation had failed to take into account those vulnerable citizens who for one reason or another could not access the internet reliably. Elderly residents in the rural heartland come to mind, and so do those rural workers who do not have reliable access to the Maxtopian world wide web.

A regional census by Economic and Demographics Statistics Yohannes in January this year found that only 58 per cent of our rural ratepayers in the Noble Republic of Treno took up online banking, whilst only 31 per cent rural ratepayers used mobile banking. Since 2010, 147 bank branches have been closed down in rural Treno — 30 of those belonged to the Bank of Yohannes. 840 employees have lost their jobs from these closures.

Which begs the question: if our banks are reporting green trajectory after another green trajectory on their books outside the continent, why can’t they do the same here without having to resort to closing down branches and cutting down on services for our rural communities?

Figure 1: The Tobiasian hub of public finance, which includes the National Finance Analysts Centre, National Auditors Department, Corporate Courts of Justice, the Tobiasian National Reserve (where the Tobiasian Pound is controlled and regulated, and the state reserves are kept), and the surrounding offices of major companies in the nation.

For his part, soon to be Managing Director of HTU Bank, Mr Nicolas Fröhlich, said that the Bank of Yohannes’ ‘market participation focus’ programmes in nations overseas have long emphasised the importance of urban market participation — that is, the HTU Bank in Tobiasia will not be extending its services beyond the nation’s forty largest districts by population.

“Our operation will mainly be concentrated in the non-peripheral high density regions; the Greater Kiev and Odessa regions, and to a lesser extent Rostov, Sevastopol, Donetsk, and other major local government territories.”, Mr Fröhlich confirmed. In other words, HTU Bank — and presumably the majority of other partners and subsidiary banks of the Bank of Yohannes overseas — have chosen to avoid serving rural and “peripheral” regions.

Mr Tzefanyahu Rosenberg, Bank of Yohannes Group Company Secretary, agrees with the bank’s decision, saying that “HTU is not a local bank — they do not have existing links with the rural communities of Tobiasia to be able to sustain non-urban operations there, nor do they have access to many other things that the local financial institutions have enjoyed for decades, some, for centuries. It is the same here back home too — we rarely see foreign banks, or financial institutions affiliated with foreign banks operating in, say, the deep south and the deepest of the bible belt districts.”

“They are almost always restricting their operations to the metropolitan rainbow districts — the electorates with the highest population density in the nineteen countries.”

The Bank of Yohannes has long stressed its commitment to mitigating the increasing trend of “rural branch closures” in the nineteen countries. “Although we have closed more than 30 branches in rural Treno since 2010, we have to remember that at the same time we have increased the average minimum wage for entry level client-facing and onboarding staff from 24.50 NSD per hour to 29.00 NSD. For instance, a teller would have enjoyed an increase from 19.50 NSD per hour to 23.50 NSD. We have also offered relocation options for some of our branch and customer service staff.”

According to Dame Julianna Stefansson, Bank of Yohannes Group Chief Executive, “We are very excited about contributing to the workforce figures of Tobiasia’s thriving metropolises and expanding into its regional markets. When we establish our presence in a nation, we do so with the entire commitment of our international sisterhood of finance and our integration into the local community.”

Walking through the front door of a recently opened branch in Greater Nifon to meet her in person myself last week, I could not but look at my curious looking greeter: a robot — I am positive it was not someone wearing a robot costume by the way!

That was a show of Greater Nifon’s twenty-first century technological advance incorporated as a localised feature of the bank’s presence in that nation. So Dame Julianna was telling the truth, after all.

“We aim to be the international community’s bank. We do our small part in contributing to the growing economy that is our host nation. We create jobs. We provide capital. We are involved in local events. We create cool, twenty-first century international branches for the surrounding community.”

Fantastic.

Which brings us to the following question: if the Bank of Yohannes can do all the wonderful things Dame Julianna said outside the nineteen countries, why can’t they do the same here back home in our rural communities?

Dame Julianna, I am still waiting for the answer to that question.

Today’s exchange rate: According to the International Securities and Exchange Commission, 1 NationStates Dollar or 1 Universal Standard Dollar (NSD/USD) (World Assembly and International Standard) is enough to buy 111.19 Quertz russling (Yohannesian); that is, a Yohannesian needs to spend at least §111.19 to be able to afford $1 NS.

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Author: Claudia A
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@claudiaa

Claudia A is one of the underpaid interns at The Royal Alexandria Times. She is a Macroeconomics postgraduate student and professional procrastinator in between lectures by day. She has previously attempted green policy analysis and social justice reviews, but was suck at both. These days you can find her in her natural habitat — writing for the Parliamentary Analysis Archive and The Royal Alexandria Times in her leisure time. She can sometimes be found tweeting together with her friends Baxter W, Erica B, Yohannes D & co. at the Maxtopian social networking website NationStates.

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MartinH

Not an economist here, so wont pretend know much. but banks go where customers are. business viability 101. supply and demand. no?

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Capitan Obvious

Christian Democratic Party tool confirmed

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Theysaidwhat

riiight - I mean..so who cares about community right?...Sure no greenback around lets set up shop somewhere else who cares about the elderly and the veterans

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A wee bit late for complaining young lady. Ship sailed with WA federalist killing natsov faction decades back.

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Blimey Weasley

Israel Altmann Nicolas Fröhlich Tzefanyahu Rosenberg how much we paying for these people

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by **Nui-ta** » Wed Aug 29, 2018 11:02 pm

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HA-NAGACHIR CONVICTED

Disgraced Governor Convicted of Nearly All Charges

JOGHBA, NEW ZANZES, 13:05 NST/12:05 NZT

Governor ha-Nagachir covering his face as he is escorted from the courtroom following guilty verdicts on nearly all charges.

Yesterday, Kumal ha-Nagachir, the disgraced governor of the state of New Zanzes, was formally convicted of a broad pattern of corruption, including charges of having stolen over 2 million dollars from the state's coffers over a period of three years. ha-Nagachir, a member of Central Party who some aides say envisioned himself as a future contender for a national office, was found guilty of most of the 15 counts of criminal charges brought against him: 13 charges of embezzlement, bank fraud, misappropriating government funds, and impeding a national investigation.

As the verdicts were read aloud, the characteristically jovial Kumal ha-Nagachir maintained a poker face, only looking down and avoiding the view of the audience. This verdict appears to be the conclusion to ha-Nagachir's political career, which has been on a downward spiral since the charges against him and his indictment were first put together two years ago when national authorities first announced that they had been recording and monitoring financial activity from the gubernatorial office since A.N 137, and believed the fraudulent transactions to stem as far back as A.N 135. Although ha-Nagachir has remained the governor in name only, his deputy has been the de facto head of the state government of New Zanzes since this decline. Now, with a formal guilty verdict in place, sentencing and a formal removal from office will follow. The verdict comes just weeks ahead of Nui-ta's election day, and contenders for ha-Nagachir's seat are already lining up to take over from the disgraced incumbent.

The outcome came as a victory for the state's attorney's office and national intelligence authorities who were closely invested in the outcome of this case. ha-Nagachir's own defense attorney's managed to delay proceedings three times over the two year period over which the trial took place. In the end, the New Zanzes Judiciary ultimately ruled in the prosecution's favor, citing that charges involving "misappropriation of bank funds" were the easiest to resolve due to the extensive collection of evidence that had been seized by the Governor's office.

In a turbulent election season, Central Party representatives in the area are now beginning to sweat bullets about how gubernatorial elections here will fall in the wake of this recent conviction. While most of the political party has switched into "damage control" mode, disavowing ha-Nagachir from their ranks, some of the party's members are claiming a mis-trial, stating that ha-Nagachir's conviction so close to election season could be seen as as libel against the party itself. The chairman for Central Party's offices in New Zanzes, Bahair Jananda, has stuck to the former camp, stating that "the final chapter in this political fiasco could not have come soon enough, and with the proceedings being over and ha-Nagachir removed from the stage, our party can focus on business as usual".

Some of the members of the prosecution were even more damning, with state's attorney Crivan i-Harendo curtly stating during a press-conference following the conviction that "quite frankly, any bad press Central Party gets from this event happening so close to election season, they can blame on their own governor and his defense attorney's for all the delays. Any allegations that the state's attorney's office or the New Zanzes judiciary timed the case in such a way as to interfere with an election when we are politically neutral bodies by law is just ridiculous".

"They [the defense] caused the delays to try and kill the case in its crib. Unfortunately for them, the case went on even with these disturbances. That had nothing to do with anyone on the prosecution, and that is not a good enough reason for the courts to postpone or ignore a criminal case".

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Sandman4156 540 likes 102 dislikes

Who cares about politics at a time like this? ha-Nagachir's finally out of office, and that's going to be a good thing. Now, New Zanzes can climb out of this mess.

HephaziTigersFan 200 likes 351 dislikes

Um, that's cute. New Zanzes is one of Nui-ta's fastest growing states. It's already overtaken a few states for Parliamentary seats. Politics is gonna be a bigger deal here than any of these idiots think.

MagnificentGlass 141 likes 21 dislikes

I watched that press conference on TV when it happened, and I can already tell that Crivan i-Harendo is going to be a cocky little s***. Between a recognizable family name and now the limelight that he's going to get from this case, I can only wonder what was really going on in that man's head.

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by **Radiatia** » Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:15 am

PERRY CHOOSES PEARCE:
"IT'S TWO-NIL ON NOMINATING WOMEN!"

August 30th 4064 NC Last updated 19:25 Exegrad Standard Time

SWERLA, PFANTZ
Radiatia's longest serving female Premier has been chosen as Vladimir Perry's running mate, following his official confirmation at the Liberal-Conservative Party's nominee for President.

_{Long serving Ziigrut Premier Taisiya Pearce will be Vladimir Perry's running mate}

Former Premier of Alayenia and Vice President Vladimir Perry accepted his party's nomination at the Liberal-Conservative National Convention held is the more rural northern city of Swerla, Pfantz following a bitter primary battle with former Foreign Minister Quintin Holzer.

While Holzer did take a large number of delegates, he congratulated "Future President Perry" and urged his party to unite behind him.

The LCP's convention seemed to be one with a lot of mixed messages - the decision to hold it in the small, often ignored city of Swerla, Pfantz was a clear message the the LCP are hell-bent on regaining support from their former heartland in the rural and northern states, yet at the same time the party couldn't seem to come up with a consistent line regarding social or foreign policy.

One theme that was consistent: Autenberg was "bankrupting" Radiatia and the little people were paying for it.

"Do you have any idea how much tax your grandchildren will be paying before the debt we incurred under this administration is paid off?" Said Perry in his boisterous and often humorous nomination speech. "And what's worse is... name me one job, one real, non-bureaucratic job that AutenSurance has created? None! But it's put a lot of private sector insurance people out of jobs!"

The biggest surprise of the night came when Perry announced that Ziigrut Premier Taisiya Pearce would be his running mate - with Pearce having been in charge of the small eastern state for nearly 30 years.

"It's two-nil on women in power!" Said Pearce as she accepted the nomination. "We've had a woman in our ticket for the last four elections, we've had a female Vice President and President and while the SDU talk about women's rights... they're still yet to nominate a single one for even Vice President!"

Pearce is considered a major gain for Perry's campaign. While he has connected well with urban, educated young voters, his radicalism has turned off much of the LCP's base.

Pearce, who hails from the party's conservative wing, makes for a counter-balance while she also has potential to cement some of the centrist, female voters that Angela Pavlovic gained in the last election.

- RPNN

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Posts · by **Yohannes** » Thu Aug 30, 2018 6:11 am

World Assembly: Taking the green fight to the next level — investing in a sustainable future

Claudia A — Opinion Piece Author: ...... And BlackPower’s success has translated well for those invested in the company too — both within and without. The UKK Ministry of Environmental Conservation, the “green” arm of the Kykid8 government, was one of these foreign investors. It invested 19 billion Quertz russling (150 million NSD) into the company in 2013. By the second half of 2019, it is forecast to bring in 122.8 billion Quertz rusling (1.1 billion NSD) for the UKK taxpayers’ books..........

Royal Alexandria, 31 August 2018 — Everyday we see the fragility of the beautiful international community we live in — the flooding of a river in the People’s Democratic Republic of Banananistan; the cries of displaced native birds in New Testlandia; the pains of mother penguins, separated from their children by melting ice: the hundreds of wars, thousands of polluting nation states, and millions of shameless industrialists have harmed the flora and fauna as we know it.

Everyday we see the demonstrations by environmental activists, telling our politicians: “Genug ist genug!” — some taking it too far by advocating for international piracy, militancy, and debauchery “for the green cause.” The mainstream media, in turn, are more than happy to perpetuate this endless cycle of action and reaction that, in the end, results in everyone having lost sight of the main objective.

Is there a more practical way to fight for the green cause; preferably one that does not involve setting ablaze one’s national parliament building, or worse — kidnapping one’s Head of State?

Since its founding in 2008, Landburger-Cleyrälisches Elektrizitätswerk Aktiengesellschaft (English: Landburger-Cleyran Power Plant Joint Stock Company; LCE AG) has stolen the limelight due in no small part to its Bond for the Environment Scheme (BES), which was launched in March this year. Not wanting to let LCE eat the whole cake by itself, since then other players in the Nineteen Countries energy utilities community have followed suit with their own programmes. What started as a small initiative by just one company translated into a nationwide appetite for socially responsible investing and industry-led movement to tackle climate change.

At its core, the BES was set up to provide capital for “environment-friendly” IC (industrial capacity) developments and assets. The scheme is fully subsidised by such executive council initiatives as the Industrial Care and Revitalisation Fund and the Kazansky Allanea Act 2017, allowing it to avoid some of the pitfalls of other use of proceeds schemes. It gives extra assurance for investors from the citizen sector who would otherwise not partake in the scheme.

But what, then, is the purpose of BES?

“One: accountability and commitment — to partake in the struggle to reduce carbon emission in accordance with existing World Assembly standards.”, says Mr Edmund Löffler, LCE Chairman of the Supervisory Board. In his eyes, it translates to adhering to hard, scientifically-proven emission reduction regime.

“Two: capital sourced to further the green cause.”, he added. BES advocates for strategic engagement and the building of deep relationship with LCE’s partners [target companies and stakeholders]. According to the company’s website, these include such things as assets refinance services, green business practice, and water productivity grading. And in this, LCE is not alone — a number of other companies in the continent of Yohannes are adopting similar stands for their own “Bond for the Environment” programmes.

Third, Mr Löffler said that “warm reception by the citizen sector” is another key factor. For interested investors, BES provides an easy access to environment-sensitive products — in fact, since 2013 this fund sector has reported a fairly strong green trajectory, showcasing the growing focus placed on sustainable investment in the nineteen countries.

Which brings us to the fourth and final purpose: enhancing one’s brand. As LCE has found out since it first released BES in March, “When companies introduce twenty-first century initiatives such as environment-friendly [investment] vehicles, we will get good publicity from not just the press, but also members of the public.” Along the way, the company was able to share its history of “ethical” and “responsible” investing; that it has maintained a good reputation since its founding, and of how there are other financial benefits that can be had from investing in an environmentally responsible business — their business, that is.

Figure 1: The Bank of Yohannes is a proud supporter of the Climate Bonds Initiative — an international organisation working solely to mobilise the largest capital market of all, the 100 trillion NSD bond market, for climate change solutions.

Through its Bond for the Environment Scheme, the company has so far raised 299.1 billion Quertz russling (2.68 billion NationStates Dollars or Universal Standard Dollars), along the way giving committed parties a wide selection of World Assembly-compliant ‘environmental’ instruments, which include such things as facilities with clearly defined terms and conditions and unsecured short-term debt instruments. BES has received the accreditation of the Green Star Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Compliance Rating (Block 1-7) since December last year, which means it fully complies with World Assembly Resolution #357 ‘Promotion of Clean Energy.’

Mr Löffler believes that, “It [the accreditation] shows that low-carbon energy is an integral criterion for our assets — in fact, almost three-quarter of our generated electricity is renewable. We take this principle very seriously in the day-to-day management of our nation’s valuable resources.”

Ms Beatrice Eisenberger, LCE Chief Financial Relations and Income Officer, said the company will gradually incorporate all future funding raised into its Bond for the Environment Scheme. “Since March, we have intended for the BES to be incorporated into the Bank of Yohannes’ Industrial Care and Revitalisation Fund — otherwise known by its partisan name, “Marioncare”. The company’s website also states that it has seriously considered incorporating its hydroelectric power stations in Münchenmôtier and Sjoland into the programme since March. “We believe, however, that we should wait for the results of the 2018 Parliamentary Election in December before committing ourselves further to the scheme.”.

As one of Landburg’s family brands, LCE is a member of an advisory electric utilities committee associated with Chambers of Industry and Commerce Yohannes. According to the Chambers’ website, its mission is “Working together to streamline industry standards and create a unitary hydroelectricity framework in the Nineteen Countries.” The committee reports directly to parliament’s Select Committee on Domestic Commerce. As LCE is included, the company can incorporate its second debt issuance, which is set to be released by the second quarter of 2020, into the Bond for the Environment Scheme.

Ms Eisenberger concluded by saying that, “Our scheme attracts a wider range of environmentally sensitive capital providers who agree with our method to realise a low carbon future for the Nineteen Countries. I believe that this is the time for us to take a stand. We are very excited to invite our customers to help us in bringing about this change — it highlights our company’s green sustainability commitment, and I am proud of it.”

As we all should be.

The LCE is fully committed, in its own way, to contribute to the Nineteen Countries’ very gradual transitioning into a low carbon economy. “House by house; town by town”, according to Ms Hannah Griffin of the Environmental Care Forum, a public-private green initiative think tank in the Kingdom of Alexandria. “I believe that there are still many other things out there that we can, and we should, do to champion the good, green cause — especially in executive council-supported energy-intensive industrial capacity and high density public transportation, [where] there the public sector can lead the way to reduce non-renewable energy dependency.”

I like her optimism.

Meanwhile, Bank of Yohannes Chairperson of Group Sustainability Committee, Dame Chloe McLachlan, the person who spearheaded the establishment of LCE’s Bond for the Environment Scheme, said that its successful launch has catapulted other Yohannesian electric utilities companies to create similar offerings. “I have been contacted for quite a wee while now as regards further bond issuance into the Nineteen Countries market... something that, I believe, would not be there had it [the true potential of the BES] not been realised.”

Despite this good news, however, Dame Chloe believes that the Nineteen Countries’ energy community has been slow to adopt, or perhaps tolerate, similarly-themed credit market, especially when compared with the nation’s historical trading partners — such as Imperial Symphonia and Van Luxemburg to name two. She says, “However, I believe that there is still hope, especially when we look at the increasing prominence of better electricity generation efficiency, higher renewable production, and environmental best practice since the turn of the century.”

The tabling and subsequent passing of key environmental resolutions by the World Assembly — such as Resolutions #298 and #357 — have coincided well with the outstanding growth of climate bond issuance by our investors in the continent of Yohannes. Nothing exemplifies this trend better than the following market information: by the third quarter of 2018, climate bond issuance by Nineteen Countries energy utilities companies drew an estimated 2.1 trillion Quertz russling (19 billion NSD/USD), almost double the number from the same period in 2016. According to Mr Martin Neumann, executive council representative to the World Assembly Development Foundation (WADF), Yohannesian climate bond market is forecast to increase by 569.5 trillion Quertz russling (5.1 trillion NSD) come 2030.

Figure 2: In April this year, Royal Alexandria became the first city to fully commit itself to a low-carbon vision. Enshrined by statute was the 50 per cent reduction of carbon emissions goal come 2030, which would be sourced largely from rooftop solar systems and waste.

And Landburger-Cleyran Power Plant has not been the only company to prove that the green revolution need not be about the burning of one’s parliament building or the seizure of one’s oil ship.

The Unitary Republic of Molander’s oldest equity fund by sector has gambled on “astronomical return rates” for a range of renewable energy investments in the continent of Yohannes. Based in the northeastern rainbow country’s capital Fürstenbeck, the investment vehicle Schwarze-Macht Energieversorger Kommanditgesellschaft (English: BlackPower Energy Supplier Limited partnership) believed it has struck the proverbial Ducat when it achieved double gains on a number of assets bought in 2013 — just before the pro-market Thirty-sixth Christian Democratic Executive Council was voted into office to replace the Seventh Social Democratic Executive Council, which was too busy participating in economically harmful International Incidents and geopolitical NationStates competitions with other imperial powers — such as Allanea, Automagfreek and Kylarnatia, to name three in 2012.

According to the Minister of Economy, Industry and Trade, The Honourable Emily Kirchweger (and she was not at all humble when she said this — maybe she was invested in BlackPower? Do tell us Minister Kirchweger! Just kidding), the “successful take off of such nation state funds as the Central Provident Fund in 2014, and the newly-elected executive council’s vision for a clean, green twenty-first century nation state, had allowed BlackPower and other smaller vehicles to ride the wave, so to speak.”

And BlackPower’s success has translated well for those invested in the company too — both within and without. The UKK Ministry of Environmental Conservation, the “green” arm of the Kykid8 government, was one of these foreign investors. It poured 19 billion Quertz russling (150 million NSD) into the company in 2013. By the second half of 2019, its investment is forecast to bring in 122.8 billion Quertz rusling (1.1 billion NSD) for the UKK taxpayers’ books.

According to the UKK Ministry of Environmental Conservation website — quote, unquote — Our nation [Kykid8] values environment above all else. With the majority of our spending going towards our environment, it’s no secret that we are within the top 5 per cent of the entire world with the most gorgeous natural beauty. This won’t just benefit us. Providing funds to allow us to continue our great work of preservation and up-keep will not only boost your public image, but we are even willing to proudly announce you as a partner to one of the greatest Environmental Conservation Acts the world has ever seen.

So yes, there is indeed a more practical way to fight for the green cause — one that does not involve setting ablaze one’s national parliament building.

And here in the nineteen countries we have done just that alright.

P.S. On the growth of sustainable investing by Ms Deborah Winshel, Global Head of Impact Investing at BlackRock: [ https://www.cnbc.com/video/2016/04/22/g ... rofit.html ]

If the Americans can do it, so can we!

Company profile: Landburger-Cleyrälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG is a Yohannesian electric utilities company based in Münchenmôtier — the cultural and political beating heart of the Merchant Republic of Landburg. Invested in the Royal Realm of Cleyra and Landburg itself, the energy company supplies electricity and gas to more than 3 million customers. LCE is the third largest electricity producer in the southeastern bible belt region.

Schwarze-Macht Energieversorger KG is a Yohannesian investment vehicle based in Fürstenbeck — the capital and largest city of the Unitary Republic of Molander. According to its website, the firm participates mostly in the capital and private markets as well as principal activities of the northeastern “rainbow” minor countries. Besides energy, the firm also invests in real estate and the infrastructure — for instance, when it pledged last year to participate in the Infrastructure of Nation State Significance programme of the Thirty-sixth Christian Democratic Executive Council.

Today’s exchange rate: According to the International Securities and Exchange Commission, 1 NationStates Dollar or 1 Universal Standard Dollar (NSD/USD) (World Assembly and International Standard) is enough to buy 111.55 Quertz russling (Yohannesian); that is, a Yohannesian needs to spend at least §111.55 to be able to afford $1 NS.

Published by The Royal Alexandria Times

Author: Claudia A
claudia.a@tratimes.co.yo
@claudiaa

Claudia A is one of the underpaid interns at The Royal Alexandria Times. She is a Macroeconomics postgraduate student and professional procrastinator in between lectures by day. She has previously attempted green policy analysis and social justice reviews, but was suck at both. These days you can find her in her natural habitat — writing for the Parliamentary Analysis Archive and The Royal Alexandria Times in her leisure time. She can sometimes be found tweeting together with her friends Baxter W, Erica B, Yohannes D & co. at the Maxtopian social networking website NationStates.

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Mary123456

IF TRUMPS America can do it so can we!

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Tezza Wintovski

If this executive council continues to kiss the hopelessly optimistic millennials and the greenies and bashing big oil and energy industry which fuel our economy they will eventually drag the rest of the economy down. Socialism never ends well.

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Theysaidwhat

riiiight — this is the Nineteen Countries. Not the United States. Go back to the broken infrastructure land of the Trump

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Bananas n frocks

@as american citizen i am offended by your statement. not all of us love trump and US infrastructure doing just fine. thank you.

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Capitan Obvious

Oh shock.......what no one expected this? Please people. Economics 101

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Theaters all across Nui-ta were packed for the opening night showing of the newest Maloviich film, Cadere Seorsum.

When Hadinian-Detectatian director Petyr Maloviich released his international cut of Volo Enim Esse Passer (Melodian: E Voskara Sar Tatal'zu/English: I Want To Be Your Canary), no one expected a Hadinian film to be such a huge hit internationally. Maloviich's former film shattered several Nui-tan box-office records and even went as far as winning accolades in Radiatia.

Today, Petyr Maloviich is a far more respected name in the cinema industry, and his newest film Cadere Seorsum (Melodian: Mai'nar Dasta/English: I Fall Apart) has smashed opening night records in Nui-ta, putting itself on track to surpass his last film for highest-grossing Karasian film of all time. Reports from cinemas and estimates from ticket sales put the movie at 30 Million Had on opening night, and the film is already being celebrated as a step forward for Maloviich's creative direction --- the is the first film that Maloviich has ever made a film outside of Hadin or the UNCA, meaning that he was not subject to the second-world's strict political censorship requirements.

Maloviich has stuck with the theme of examining stories involving Hadinians in and out of their native country, with this particular story examining two characters of Hadinian origin growing up in Nui-ta amidst a changing global landscape and sharp prejudices. Both characters come from different family situations and cope with their individual situations through various means. A chance encounter leads to their friendship and to both characters strengthening each other against the adversity they face.

"I really wanted to flex my creative muscles now that I had been out in greater Noctur and have seen more of the culture and how different countries influence the immigrants who come into their borders seeking refuge and better lives".

"This was also the first film in which I was able to examine the lives and viewpoints of the descendants of Hadinian ex-pats: in Hadin it is still frowned upon to discuss these ex-pats having better lives outside of Hadin and having fulfilling relationships. When I worked on Volo Esse, I couldn't even have the lead heroine consider a defection with her child for fears of how it would be to portray what was supposed to be a wife and mother as anything other than selfish in considering defection. Here with Cadere, I could examine that theme and so much more".

Warning: The following section of the film contains massive spoilers!

The film opens with a prelude of an unnamed Hadinian woman throwing away a positive pregnancy test, before sneaking unto a cargo ship and leaving Hadin in the aftermath of the Hadinian War, in the disorder following the fall of the provisional democratic government that sat in Hadin for four years before the rise of the Theocracy. After he leaves, another scene shows that she has left a husband and an infant behind.

The main portion of the film cuts forward to years later, in the state of Ocini. The man whose wife left him behind (Hans Camara-Ostev) has since immigrated to Nui-ta and re-settled in the state of Ocini with his now teen-aged son Dietrich (Runni Jakovsen). The family live in a ghetto outside of the state capital of Nepos, with Dietrich's father being forced to work two jobs and not being home often. Dietrich himself is in a rebellious phase, performing poorly in school and spending much of his free-time committing petty acts of vandalism and frequenting clubs with a fake ID. At 16, he drinks frequently and solicits services from prostitutes in exchange for drugs, which Dietrich is shown to be acquire either through theft or with money he acquires from picking pockets.

Eventually, Dietrich is caught and thrown in jail, but his father arrives to bail him out and the two have a serious talk about the unfortunate situation that both of them have been placed in. Dietrich's father shows considerable understanding of Dietrich's behavior, but also begs him not to continue with this behavior and adds that this will be the one and only time that he will rescue Dietrich from this situation. Dietrich appears to listen at first, but eventually falls back into his habits and begins committing theft again. Unfortunately, Dietrich makes the mistake of stealing from a member of the Alinian mafia, who follows Dietrich home as a result. The next evening, three mafiosos break into Dietrich's home to retaliate. While they initially plan to beat Dietrich but otherwise cause no harm, they wind up shooting and killing Dietrich's father when he gets mixed up in the conflict. Since the incident happened in a Hadinian ghetto, Nui-tan authorities do not intervene enough to make any significant advances in the case, and Dietrich is ultimately left alone.

The story then abruptly shifts to a more up-scale part of Nepos, where the life of the second lead character is presented to the audience. Despite having been abandoned at birth in Nepos, an ethnically Hadinian girl by the name of Helga Dustov (Helena Trausmaan) has managed to work her way into a prestigious college program in Nepos. As the only Hadinian student in most of her classes, Helga faces considerable ridicule and isolation. At one point, the bullying becomes so severe that Helga attempts to hang herself in her apartment, but experiences a change of heart at the last moment.

Close to her graduation, Helena receives an invitation to an outing at a local bar. While the party initially seems to go well, Helena is eventually isolated by three other students who lure her into a more secluded part of the club and spike her drink. Before they can do anything to her, a man intervenes, claiming that the commotion they are causing is disrupting his high before eventually chasing them off with a broken beer bottle. The man allows a drunken and confused Helena to sit near him as he gets intoxicated on cocaine, until such time as the effect of the drugs wears off. Several hours later, as the club is finally closing down for the night, Helena finally comes back to her senses and finds her rescuer --- Dietrich --- sick from his drug use. She drags him back to her apartment.

When they arrive, they find that Helga's apartment has been broken into and severely vandalized. Dietrich assists Helga to clean and then collapses on her couch, poking fun at Helga for assuming that calling the police will assist with anything. Having bonded a bit with Helga over the course of these events, Dietrich and Helga spend the evening having a conversation about each other's worldviews before Dietrich leaves for the night. Both find various points of disagreement with each other: Helga thinking that Dietrich has not done anything to work up to being respected, and Dietrich thinking Helga is asking for too much on pushing herself so hard to appease a society that will not accept her on the basis of her ethnicity.

The two maintain some contact but largely return to their own lives, with Helga eventually graduating from college and finding work at a local city-planning. She quickly discovers that she still faces prejudice in this job, perhaps even worse than what she suffered in the college, as none of the other workers want anything to do with her and consider her employment a result of affirmative action, or out of sheer dumb luck. Once again, Helga's depression takes a turn for the worst, but she copes by re-engaging contact with Dietrich and mimic-ing some of his behaviors.

Although Dietrich initially takes well to having a companion, he soon begins to take on a genuine concern for Helga due to her personality change and confronts her. Helga breaks down, feeling that all her work was for nothing and that she and others like herself and Dietrich will never be respected or seen as members of the greater community in Nui-ta, despite their unfortunate situation and her best attempts. As she begins to consider giving up altogether, Dietrich assures her that her presence in his life has impacted him positively, setting a good example for him, and that if she continued her work, one day she could do the same for someone else. Pushed forward by overwhelming emotions, he persuades her to put her skills forward in an attempt to improve the lives of those in the Nepos ghetto.

Helga's later work to improve the buildings in the ghetto and eventually open up a newer school and a city park have a drastic impact on the community, with Dietrich intervening when Helga's attempts to push these plans forward are blocked. Delinquent behavior and petty crime drop, and the Hadinian community in the ghetto begin to show Helga extreme respect. Eventually, even some of her Nui-tan co-workers come to recognize her as an equal member of the community. Furthermore, Helga's actions have given Dietrich enough confidence and faith to enter rehab and turn his own life around, and he eventually settles down in a job as a charity worker.

In the final scene, Helga addresses the greater community about the unity of all members of a society, regardless of origin. To emphasize her point, she has everyone in the audience take a DNA test. Two weeks later, the analyst reporting the results explains that everyone in the town is ultimately related in some way or another, as all human beings come from a common ancestor and ultimately share a bond through some person or another in history. The speech serves to highlight the pointlessness of the prejudices which the town has, by now, mostly renounced.

However, there is one final announcement the analyst makes: that two persons in the audience share a significant amount of DNA and are half-siblings. He calls out the numbers of the two people who are related and ask them to stand and greet each other. Dietrich and Helga are shocked to find that their numbers are the ones called, and the ending scene shows them greeting each other in a new light.

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World Assembly: A tale of two realities — the rainbow future and the bible belt

Claudia A — Opinion Piece Author: ...... The community. Gone. The Christian Democrats; those wanka’ — they tryin’ replace our Yohannesian Model, our social market economy, with imported neoliberal market experiment from English speaking nation states with failed capitalist economies like the US and the UK. Wee bit disappointed..........

Royal Alexandria, 1 September 2018 — The Royal Alexandria Times can report that Yohannesische Reichsbank Aktiengesellschaft (English: Bank of Yohannes Joint Stock Company) has announced the opening of its first fully independent branch in the State of Nusalia. Its operation has been listed on the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Trade’s Company Register as Nusälisches und Yohannesisches Reich Islamische Bankengruppe Offene Handelsgesellschaft (English: Nusalia and Yohannes Islamic Banking Group General Partnership; NIB OHG).

Mr Mahmood Al-Allee, designated NIB Chief Executive Officer, believes that the three-storey branch is the biggest bank centre to have ever been built by a general partner institution of the Bank of Yohannes. “With a total area of 1,480 square metres, it should be bigger than even existing major Bank of Yohannes branches in the continent of Yohannes’ central business districts.”

The company’s website explains the significance behind the newly-built financial centre’s stature — as NIB’s first branch in the State of Nusalia, the Girikulon Central Office will reflect its full commitment to abide by the principles and practices of the Nusalian Shariah banking and finance model. “We have to create a good first impression, I think when we [drew the] plan that was clear.”, says Mr Al-Allee.

In the Nusalian Shariah Law, the debtor is accountable for the payment of debt to their creditor. It is the job of NIB to provide its range of Islam-approved Guarantees for that payment in case the debtor cannot meet their obligations to their lender. According to Dame Chloe McLachlan, Bank of Yohannes Chairwoman of Group Sustainability Committee, “Some of the products and services [we will provide] for our clients in the greater Girikulon region include advance payment notes, performance and bid bonds, and of course, Islamic shipping guarantees — they are the bread and butter of our Shariah finance abroad, and they all comply with existing World Assembly resolutions.” According to the bank’s website, its products act as a form of supplement for creditors; that is, “NIB agrees to guarantee a certain amount [of funds] in case the debtor cannot meet their obligations or has fallen into defaults as regards the original terms of service.”

NIB’s guarantees abide by the Kafala principles of Shariah banking — that is, guardianship of the fund. “We can provide conditional guarantees for our clients in case they fail to pay the agreed financial obligation to their creditor by the specified time limit. Our guarantees also safeguard against them failing to fulfill their jobs as recorded under the trading contract.” In accordance with the Shariah principle, NIB would intervene and satisfy the obligation of its clients to the creditors. “I can assure you that our range of Murabaha, Kafala-Murabaha, and cash-based funding will reflect our position as a responsible Wakil in Nusalia.”

“It is a statement of purpose of our full introduction into the world of Nusalian Islamic finance.”, Dame Chloe concludes.

And here back home, Mufti Abdul Hakeem Al-Shafi in the Royal Alexandria Grand Mosque agrees. According to him, “Shariah banking reflects the accumulation of scholarly knowledge and information of the Islamic community. The rules of Shariah guide us. They put a stop to corruption and inequity in the nature of how we gather and accumulate our worldly possessions for the provision of worldly satisfaction.”

Mufti Al-Shafi continues, “In this the Shariah counsel is absolute — what are our duties to Allah, and how can we carry out these duties?” I must confess that I do not know much about the world of Islam, but I am open-minded to seeing the Bank of Yohannes fully embracing the culture and tradition of the nation it operates in — Islam is a wonderful religion, and multicultural diversity should always be celebrated. In fact, Islam has been the fastest growing religion in the Nineteen Countries since the turn of the century. The rainbow coasts of the Kingdom of Alexandria and the Regency of Lindblum are home to the continent’s fastest growing ethnic and religious minorities.

And I like it — the time has come for us to embrace our rainbow, twenty-first century future.

Figure 1: The Bank of Yohannes has increasingly abandoned the Nineteen Countries to align itself closer to the fast-growing Asian and non-Occidental powerhouses — such as Greater Nifon and Imperial Symphonia to name just two.

But as we move closer to that twenty-first century future, information technology and the internet will increasingly revolutionise the ways many companies connect with their customers — and NIB is also facing the same situation.

To prepare itself to meet the twenty-first century digital revolution provided by the Maxtopian world wide web, NIB has designated Mr Husain El-Nasser as its Head of Digital Information. As emerging Muslim majority nation states such as Khataiy continue to expand, he knows the importance of facilitating first-rate Islamic banking services through the digital world — in fact, he believes that it should be prioritised above almost anything else.

“As a Shariah institution, we are committed to adapt to meet the changing need of our clients — without them we would not exist.” As Head of Digital Information, Mr El-Nasser will personally guide the evolution of NIB’s digital services and administer all new high technology solutions for the company. “I cannot wait to guide NIB as it continues to establish its portfolio and reinforce its presence in Nusalia.” He closed his message by saying that so long as he is in charge, NIB will continue to produce revolutionary Shariah solutions for its clients by keeping up to date with the latest digital marketing trend in Nusalia.

The Royal Alexandria Times has also learnt that under the bank’s 60.8 billion Quertz russling (548 million NationStates Dollars or Universal Standard Dollars) shares offering, every 70 shares held by existing stockholder of the Bank of Yohannes in Nusalia can be exchanged for 11 new NIB shares. The sign up period will extend from 18 February to 10 March, the bank said. The issue price of each exchanged share will stand at 0.60 NSD with an individual nominal worth of 0.28 NSD and a premium of 0.32 NSD. With 920 million shares set to be released, this reflects a 38 per cent discount as recorded by the State of Nusalia’s national stock market on 31 August.

Mr Badruddeen Al-Zakaria, designated NIB Chief Credit Officer, says that “Expanding equity and capital for NIB investors is important. It allows the company to invest in growth strategies that would otherwise not be accessible.” The Bank of Yohannes in the State of Nusalia has long offered international trade finance and structured financing solutions to local businesses. Mr Al-Zakaria believes that the rebranding will allow the bank to provide the highest standards in supporting the State of Nusalia’s trade with companies of the Nineteen Countries.

“As general partner of the Bank of Yohannes, Nusalia and Yohannes Islamic Banking Group is aiming to increase its trade and supply chain for our customers by opening 3,700 new offices over the next eight years. This is our reality — bringing our products and services to the markets of fast-growing Asian and Muslim nations of the future.”

Mr Al-Zakaria’s reality stands in stark contrast to the reality here back home: in 2017 alone, banks across the Nineteen Countries.have closed nearly 1,000 branches — mostly those in rural areas. 5,000 people have lost their jobs, according to a recent data released by Economic and Demographics Statistics Yohannes. Since the turn of the century, the five big banks — the Bank of Yohannes, Commerce Credit Institute Banking Group, Industrybank, Royal Bank of Alexandria, and the Yohannesian Postbank — have closed more than 4,000 branches across the Nineteen Countries. Thousands of rural communities have been left without easy accessibility to financial transaction and banking.

And this problem has not been ignored — since 2010, Economic Palace has pressured the five big banks to accelerate their transfer sales of branches to regional financial institutions to increase market competition. In fact, this was one of the conditions imposed on the Bank of Yohannes for its multi-billion Quertz russling bailout following the Gholgoth Financial Crisis in 2012. For instance, the bank was forced to resuscitate the former Vereinigte Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (English: United Investment Private Corporation; VIE GmbH), which was originally liquidated in 2011, for its old branches in the Kingdom of Burmecia.

As of August, the Bank of Yohannes’ website says that it has 9,300 retail locations and ATM stores across the continent of Yohannes — which means it has closed down around 2,000 branches since the World Assembly Condemnation of Automagfreek and the subsequent Gholgoth Financial Crisis in 2012. For her part, Ms Heidemarie Vogelweide, Chair of the Board of Governors of Economic Palace, criticised the closures, believing that many of them — especially those in the rural communities — were not needed to maintain the state of the bank’s books. According to her, “The Bank of Yohannes is a nation state owned enterprise — Economic Palace will intervene if the alternative is widespread financial inaccessibility and exclusion for our rural communities.”

Figure 2: “They will not replace us!”, they chanted whilst burning the Qur’an and other books published by Muslim authors. In March this year, hundreds of Yohannes First supporters demonstrated in the capital city of the Principality of Ahlgren, Gjordfontein. The night was kick-started after the event that would be known as the “Thomas Beckett Controversy” happened the day before — where the Archbishop of Dali The Most Reverend Tomas Beckett was spat at by a Wahhabi Muslim migrant from Khataiy. The statue of the Thirty-first Chancellor of the Nineteen Countries, The Right Honourable Max von Papen, can be seen in the background — the old Non-Occidental Exclusion Act 1945 was successfully tabled under his First Social Democratic Executive Council, which banned immigration by East Asians and other Asian ethnicities into the continent of Yohannes.

Ms Vogelweide says, “Especially since the 2012 Automagfreek-led Gholgoth Financial Crisis, the Bank of Yohannes and other financial service providers have closed their operations in many low density regions. Whilst I agree that there is truth to the explanation given as regards the rise in popularity of internet banking, I still find the fact that thousands of retail centres have been closed down in vulnerable communities to be... it is unwise and does not help financial inclusivity in these communities.”

The Honourable Ronald Chump, Parliamentary Representative of the New Cleyra Electorate and one of GOP’s nominees for the Office of the Chancellor in the 2018 Parliamentary Election this coming December, has not missed the opportunity to join the action. He said, “People. The fact that big banks close their branches and jobs are lost in the process. They are quite simply unacceptable. Everyday we see more and more immigrants entering our borders. And what do you have from it? People lost their jobs. Our Archbishop was spat at by a Muslim migrant. From Khataiy. You see Ni Hao Ma opening his noodle canteen shops and Yao Ming supermarkets and I frankly think that that is a disgrace. Under my Chancellorship and a GOP executive council led by me, we will have none of these. Under my Chancellorship we will have the best banking infrastructure ever!”

Sad.

However, Mr Oskar Schindler of Reichsgau Bergen auf Rügen seems to agree. “I lost my job at the Bank of Yohannes local branch — was head of security. Eight of us; strong team. Can recount attempted robberies over last thirty years with one hand. Branch manager was great — local lass from same college [high school], mind you. Then one day.”

“Boom.”

“Fifty-six-day notice. Just like that. Been there for over thirty years. Lifetime job right there. Pension fund gone. Community lost — this great elderly couple always come every afternoon of the weekdays for tea. Said hi. Community brunch every Friday; bible donation youth groups every Sunday. Gone.”

“Last time I hear they sold the land to some foreign investors from Greater Nifon and Allanea. Look at it now — empty land.”

“The community. Gone. The Christian Democrats; those wanka’ — they tryin’ replace our Yohannesian Model, our social market economy, with imported neoliberal market experiment from English speaking nation states with failed capitalist economies like the US and the UK. Wee bit disappointed.”

I agree with Mr Schindler; it’s heartbreaking.

“Voted for Marion Maréchal-Le Men for Emperor. Goin’ vote for Ronald Chump for Chancellor this comin’ December. He goin’ make Yohannes Great Again. I’m all for it.”

I hope that Mr Schindler will change his mind come December.

Whilst it is true that Marion and her “Marioncare” faction within GOP’s rank and file like to flirt with xenophobia-induced politics against Asian and Muslim immigrants, their brand of civic nationalism and their political dose of dog-whistling are still bearable enough to stomach — that is, they know when to stop. Ronald Chump, on the other hand, is another whole can of worms: he is a sexist, racist person — an opportunist, destructive politician to the core. I hope that Chancellor Annabelle Thorndon-Stevensonn and the Christian Democratic Party will keep the executive council come December.

Ronald Chump is not my Chancellor.

Company profile: Vereinigte Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft was one of the largest banks in the Kingdom of Burmecia. Throughout much of its history, United Investment provided commercial banking services for mainly industrial uses and rural customers. Regency of Lindblum-based Bank of Yohannes acquired sole ownership of United Investment in 2011, and what was left of United Investment adopted the Bank of Yohannes blue dove as its logo after the Gholgoth Financial Crisis kick-started by the World Assembly condemnation of Automagfreek in 2012.

Nusälisches und Yohannesisches Reich Islamische Bankengruppe Offene Handelsgesellschaft is a Nusalian general partnership entity and is an associated company of the Bank of Yohannes. It has a branch in Royal Alexandria — the capital city of the Kingdom of Alexandria in the continent of Yohannes — and Girikulon, one of the largest cities in the State of Nusalia. The bank specialises in commercial banking and Islamic banking products, and is regulated by the Nusalia’ Islamic monetary authority to ensure it abides by the principles of Nusalian Shariah.

Today’s exchange rate: According to the International Securities and Exchange Commission, 1 NationStates Dollar or 1 Universal Standard Dollar (NSD/USD) (World Assembly and International Standard) is enough to buy 111.04 Quertz russling (Yohannesian); that is, a Yohannesian needs to spend at least §111.04 to be able to afford $1 NS.

Published by The Royal Alexandria Times

Author: Claudia A
claudia.a@tratimes.co.yo
@claudiaa

Claudia A is one of the underpaid interns at The Royal Alexandria Times. She is a Macroeconomics postgraduate student and professional procrastinator in between lectures by day. She has previously attempted green policy analysis and social justice reviews, but was suck at both. These days you can find her in her natural habitat — writing for the Parliamentary Analysis Archive and The Royal Alexandria Times in her leisure time. She can sometimes be found tweeting together with her friends Baxter W, Erica B, Yohannes D & co. at the Maxtopian social networking website NationStates.

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Blimey Weasley

Whenever a Yohannesian bank issues a new mortgage it will produce fictional money out of thin air...but it all happened because of Economic Palace. Gradual neoliberal finance deregulation since 2000 means merchant banks increasingly compete in home mortgage market. Since then their property lending % has gone from barely one-tenth to almost half of their total lending.

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Forgot your tinfoil hat this morning?

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How do you get back into the Gulag?

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whats this economic opinion piece or political ad for annabelle the lesbian chancellor?

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christian democratic party has destroyed this nation selling our assets to foreign investors wages havent increased because of asian and muslim slave wage mass immigration since 2005.

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by **Radiatia** » Sat Sep 01, 2018 9:30 pm

WHAT ARE THE SWING STATES IN THE 4064 ELECTION?

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The battle lines have been drawn in this year's election between Social Democrat Steven McCarthy and Liberal-Conservative Vladimir Perry - however with eight new states in the mix voting for the first time ever, and the unpredictable of the last election still not forgotten, which states will decide who our next Commander-in-Chief is?

_{Current polling for each state in the upcoming Presidential election}

After the shock result of the last election, no one is taking anything for granted this year but if polling data is accurate we do know the election could go either way.

While Steven McCarthy is ahead overall in the polls by raw numbers, this could well be the first election in which a candidate wins the election but loses the popular vote: That's because right now, the northern states are trending blue and it looks like Vladimir Perry might be able to reverse the SDU's gains in the north over the last four years.

Like Autenberg, Perry is a boisterous, unconventional and unpredictable candidate - he thrives on chaos and this election has plenty of it.

Eight states will be voting for President for the first time ever and it's anyone's guess where those votes will wind up - while current polling suggests that Chauch, Navanga and Sliberzoneer are trending to the LCP, and that Norfus and Naras are trending to the SDU, there's absolutely no way we'll know for sure how they'll vote until the day of the election.

While the SDU seems to have a lock on the northwestern 'rust belt', going down into the 'farm belt' as well as the solidly red east coast, the LCP's campaign hinges on them winning back their core northern voters as well as Vladimir Perry's home state of Alayenia and hopefully picking up a few of the new states for extra insurance.

But in the race to 230 electoral votes, it'll be these states that will make or break the result:

ALAYENIA

Electoral votes: 59
Population: 40 million
4060 winner: Angela Pavlovic (LCP)
4056 winner: Gregori Fyoderov (LCP)
4052 winner: Samuel Negasi (SDU)
4048 winner: Kärtsy Nepula (LCP)
4044 winner: Keldon Silviu (SDU)

Alayenia contains nearly a quarter of Radiatia's total population, and its the centre of its financial and media industry so it's a hugely important state at the best of times. In saying that, despite its huge influence it's actually only voted with the winner twice. Currently it is leaning slightly more towards the LCP and there's no doubt that winning his home state is essential to Vladimir Perry's election plans: McCarthy can afford to lose Alayenia, Perry cannot.

MUS

Electoral votes: 16
Population: 7.1 million
4060 winner: Jaagen Autenberg (SDU)
4056 winner: Gregori Fyoderov (LCP)
4052 winner: Gregori Fyoderov (LCP)
4048 winner: Keldon Silviu (SDU)
4044 winner: Gregori Fyoderov (LCP)

The Middle State (so named for its combination of geographic location and its statistical mediocrity) is a state that usually gets ignored... until election year, when its poor denizens are subject to hours of spam phone calls, door-knockers, campaign trips and media speculation.

That's because no one has quite forgotten how Mus was decider of the '48 election, nor its reputation as being a bellwether state in all but one election. Not only that, it's tantalisingly hard to predict - it is one of two states that polls suggest is exactly evenly tied between Perry and McCarthy and the two campaigns will have to work very hard to ensure Mus goes their way.

XEGFAUSE

Electoral votes: 24
Population: 11 million
4060 winner: Jaagen Autenberg (SDU)
4056 winner: Gregori Fyoderov (LCP)
4052 winner: Gregori Fyoderov (LCP)
4048 winner: Keldon Silviu (SDU)
4044 winner: Keldon Silviu (SDU)

Xegfause continues to be Radiatia's only true "bellwether" state - with the winner of the state having always gone on to win the election.

Considered a microcosm of the Radiatian Federation - featuring an urban liberal population in the south, and redneck farmers on the prairies of the north - Xegfause tends to be in tune with national trends politically as a result.

Current polls suggest the state is trending towards McCarthy and the SDU, but the question remains as to whether this will be the election in which Xegfause fails to predict the winner.

DIATARA

Electoral votes: 3
Population: 900,000
4060 winner: Jaagen Autenberg (SDU)
4056 winner: Gregori Fyoderov (LCP)
4052 winner: Gregori Fyoderov (LCP)
4048 winner: Kärtsy Nepula (LCP)
4044 winner: Gregori Fyoderov (LCP)

Diatara probably won't make or break the election, with only 900,000 people and three electoral votes, but it would be a huge symbolic victory if Steven McCarthy succeeds, as polls suggest he might, in retaining Jaagen Autenberg's home state.

While it's unlikely that even Autenberg could retain the whole of the north, turning just one northern state red for two consecutive elections could be a major psychological blow for the LCP - don't expect them to let Diatara go that easily.

NEW VASHURA

Electoral votes: 18
Population: 8.1 million
4060 winner: Jaagen Autenberg (SDU)
4056 winner: Gregori Fyoderov (LCP)
4052 winner: Gregori Fyoderov (LCP)
4048 winner: Kärtsy Nepula (LCP)
4044 winner: Gregori Fyoderov (LCP)

New Vashura is Radiatia's 10th largest state by population, so the fact that it's even considered competitive could be significant this election.

While it will probably go blue as per usual, it's not insignificant that Jaagen Autenberg picked it up last time, nor is it insignificant that Steven McCarthy's running mate served as a Senator for the state and remains highly respected locally.

New Vashura has also seen demographic changes in recent years - it's one of the fastest growing states in the Federation and high levels of immigration, especially in major cities such as Yuesses and Lidah mean that the state might be slowly shaking its image as another extremely conservative "redneck" state.

SOUTH CHIRIDIA

Electoral votes: 16
Population: 8 million

South Chiridia is a new state and it's currently our 11th largest. It's also an absolute enigma, being the other state to be evenly tied between Perry and McCarthy.

It's also a mystery due to the fact it's the only state without a significant historical connection to the rest of Radiatia - while North Chiridia was a state of the RPSU, the south remained independent and it was only by virtue of Chiridia unifying in the post-communist era that South Chiridia was able to apply for statehood.

Keep on eye on them - they may well swing the whole election.

- RPNN

LesirueDog (New Aliyas, Alayenia)
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Considering how much we go on about efficiency in this country, our voting system sure is inefficient. In any other country it's a simple case of who wins the most votes wins the election - here they have this stupid convuluted electoral college which serves no purpose other than to make the election easier to rig.

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NerdAdult89 (Akadia, Jingyurin)
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|LesiureDog
| Considering how much we go on about efficiency in this country, our voting system sure is inefficient. In any other country it's a simple case of who wins the most votes wins the election - here they have this stupid convuluted electoral college which serves no purpose other than to make the election easier to rig.
Actually it's not that different from the rest of the world. For example in Parliamentary systems, the Prime Minister is elected by Parliament, not the people and in most cases Parliament is elected seat by seat - so the popular vote rarely matters there either. And even in proportional representation, there's no guarantee that the resulting coalition will be who the majority support.

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Plapla (Darku, Mus)
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I live in Mus and I'm going to go on holiday to Nui-ta and stay there until the election is over. The robot phone calls and door knockers have already started on me...

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Posts · by **Yohannes** » Tue Sep 04, 2018 1:24 am

World Assembly: Kingdom of Burmecia sees 11 billion NSD investment for infrastructure

Claudia A — Opinion Piece Author: ...... Such as Her Majesty the Queen of Ceyesca Caroline the Second, which has grown her government’s stake in Karori Investment Management Corporation by 5.2 per cent since the third quarter of 2016, and the Government of the Arab State of Khataiy, which has acquired its 2.5 per cent stake..........

Royal Alexandria, 2 September 2018 — The Infrastructure of Nation State Significance Fund announced this morning that it has forwarded a national innovative idea proposal to the Royal Government of Burmecia, making clear its willingness to go ahead with the Gizamaluke-Grotto Central Suburbs Light Rail and Highway Project for commercial investment after the completion of its viability assessment last week.

According to Mr Davin Shimshelewitz, Fund Finance and Risk General Manager, “The Royal Government of Alexandria has accepted the proposal, looking to speed up core infrastructure investment in a number of areas for its five-year plan to 2023. As a long-term partner of the government, we believe that the Gizamaluke-Grotto Central Suburbs Light Rail network is an infrastructure project of sufficient scale and significance — that it will be an attractive prospect for further nation state investment in the kingdom.” For its strategy to 2020, the Fund is planning to explore whether a Nation State Significance Fund can fund and deliver the project on a fully commercial basis with the leverage of a collection of select domestic and foreign investors.

The Royal Alexandria Times can report that Sacrosanct Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sacrosanct Group which is currently responsible for funding the development of multiple infrastructure projects in the continent of Yohannes, has been shortlisted as potential partner. with its 16.3 trillion Quertz russling (153 billion NationStates Dollars or Universal Standard Dollars) net assets in the Nineteen Countries, Sacrosanct Bank has long been one of the Bank of Yohannes’ trusted foreign institutional investors. The bank also has extensive experience in infrastructure development and investment outside the continent.

As Sacrosanct Bank’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Banker, Mr Mark Noble pledged in April this year to help finance the developments of Yohannesian small and medium sized manufacturers for the next fifty years. Another notable foreign investor to the Alexandria-based project is Her Majesty the Queen of Ceyesca Caroline the Second — this information has been confirmed by the Embassy of the Cesque Union of Piedmont, Savoy, and Lombardy this morning. According to the Fund’s website, other potential foreign investors can also be added for its projects in the Kingdom of Burmecia in 2019.

Mr Shimshelewitz says, “The Infrastructure of Nation State Significance Fund has long observed and understood the Royal Government of Alexandria’s requirements to run its multiple-stage procurement system. We look forward to assisting in the quest to modernising the kingdom’s infrastructure and to set up two-way dialogues with relevant Alexandrian local and regional authorities.”

INSF returns (pre-tax post-costs)
as of 28 August 2018 One quarter Two quarters Three quarters Four quarters
Actual returns (%) 5.17 3.18 p.q. 4.06 p.q. 2.55 p.q.
90-day bank bill (%) 0.47 0.65 p.q. 0.63 p.q. 1.05 p.q.
Earnings vis-à-vis 90-day bill 1.39 billion NSD 1.74 billion NSD 2.55 billion NSD 4.24 billion NSD

Figure 1: Infrastructure of Nation State Significance Fund returns for domestic and foreign investors.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the continent, the Fund has lodged an application to His Burmecian Majesty’s Government to go ahead with its investment in Burmecian capital markets, said a government insider who declined to reveal their identity as the negotiation is still confidential. According to them, “It is not certain whether the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Trade has countersigned the request or whether Burmecian national authorities would give it the green light.”

If elected once again into office in December 2018, Chancellor Annabelle Thorndon-Stevensonn has promised to set aside 375.2 trillion Quertz russling (3.4 trillion NSD) of infrastructure investments over the next five years. Currently around 27 per cent of the 8.1 trillion Quertz russling (73 billion NSD) Infrastructure of Nation State Significance Fund is invested in infrastructure of the bible belt countries — it has around 1.2 trillion Quertz russling (11 billion NSD) invested in the Kingdom of Burmecia. “Taking into account the political nature and sensitivity of the procurement system, the Fund will not be giving further information about the project at this time.”

According to the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Trade’s Company Register, the Fund has also bought a stake in Cleyra-based Karori Investment Management Corporation in the second quarter. Its most recent financial disclosure with the World Assembly’s International Securities and Exchange Commission showcased its co-operative deal with the Bank of Yohannes, where the fund acquired 8,500 shares — valued at around 490.3 million Quertz russling (4.4 million NSD) — from the Karori asset manager’s stock.

Figure 2: 90-day bill
Source: 115th Debates.^{[Full resolution]}
And the developments have certainly been well received — letting one of the five big banks invest in the Kingdom of Burmecia would inject capital for other deep-pocketed buyers amidst worrying developments in the bible belt countries’ equity and bond markets: they are under pressure from rising unemployment, continuing divestment in traditional manufacturing, and increasing defaults by “dirty” industrial concerns.

In the Small Business Roundtable meeting last month, Dame Chloe McLachlan, Bank of Yohannes Chairperson of Group Sustainability Committee, said that should the fund be allowed to invest further in Burmecia, she could identify “some promising opportunities” in B class shares — which are shares of Burmecia-based companies only made available for Burmecian residents and Yohannesian investors — and Quertz russling denominated bonds trading outside the continent.

Since the catastrophic World Assembly condemnation of Automagfreek in 2012 and the subsequent acceleration of industrial decline in the Nineteen Countries, domestic shares of the citizen sector in the bible belt countries have attracted foreign investors when compared with other Yohannesian markets. Dame Chloe also informed other members in the roundtable meeting that various Burmecian enterprises still register reasonable green trajectory even as the Burmecian manufacturing industry and its “dirty” economy continue to decline.

“The election of GOP’s Marion Maréchal-Le Men as the eighteenth Yohannesian Emperor in January has seen the Infrastructure of Nation State Significance Fund focusing its investment mainly in the bible belt and heartland countries to tackle this problem.”

“For instance, the fund is switching its focus on tradeable bible belt financial assets as stocks in the Kingdom of Burmecia and Grand Duchy of Dali have registered positive green trajectory in Standard and Rich Chloe Jokes Indices for the first time since 2012.”, Dame Chloe concluded. Since December last year, the heartland countries have gradually increased their attractiveness to investors both within and without — such as Her Majesty the Queen of Ceyesca Caroline the Second, which has grown her government’s stake in Karori Investment Management Corporation by 5.2 per cent since the third quarter of 2016, and the Government of the Arab State of Khataiy, which has acquired its 2.5 per cent stake in return for investment in Khataiyi tourism industry and the agriculture, metallurgy, industrial concerns and shipping.

According to Her Royal Highness Sansa Lovebright, Lord Paramount of the Heartland and Heir Apparent to the Kingdom of Burmecia, “I’ve personally seen it firsthand — since Marion Maréchal-Le Men’s upset victory in January, it seems there have been greater focus placed on our kingdom. This is good for our people. It is a positive change that has unfortunately come from such a heavy electoral defeat [of the Christian Democratic Party] for the Office of the Emperor contest.”

Since its creation in September last year, the Infrastructure of Nation State Significance Fund has beaten the Treasury Bill return by a quarterly average of 1.51 per cent, which equates to an annual sum of around 447.8 billion Quertz russling (4 billion NSD).

Today’s exchange rate: According to the International Securities and Exchange Commission, 1 NationStates Dollar or 1 Universal Standard Dollar (NSD/USD) (World Assembly and International Standard) is enough to buy 111.44 Quertz russling (Yohannesian); that is, a Yohannesian needs to spend at least §111.44 to be able to afford $1 NS.

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Author: Claudia A
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by **Radiatia** » Wed Sep 05, 2018 3:28 am

PERRY GETS THE EDGE ON MCCARTHY AFTER FIERY DEBATE
"YOU'RE BRIBING RADIATIANS WITH THEIR OWN MONEY"

September 5th 4064 NC Last updated 21:14 Exegrad Standard Time

Vladimir Perry was judged the winner of the first Presidential debate, with the two candidates sparring over domestic and economic policy.

Perry's strong performance was a much needed boost for a campaign that seems to be floundering in the polls, after the two sides met in Nepschu ahead of this weekend's election.

While the candidates seemed to be almost in agreement on foreign policy, it was the economy and domestic issues that took centre stage on the night.

"The Tsenyen now is weaker than it has been at any time since before Lena Toriah was in office!" Perry began with his trademark bellow. "This administration, the one my friend from South Corpshire here is a part of, has allowed Radiatia's economic and global status to decline, he has allowed the almighty Tsenyen to depreciate in value!"

McCarthy shot back by stating that he was on the side of exporters "who are suffering as a result of the often overvalued Tsenyen - and if I recall correctly, Premier Perry was a big advocate of privatising the Federal Reserve Banking Corporation and putting monetary policy in the hands of the people he so readily criticises!"

McCarthy then went on to mock his opponent's past statements on monetary policy, asking him if he still supports backing the Tsenyen with gold.

Perry then went on the attack, citing the massive rise in crime nationwide over the last four years as well as the rise in unemployment.

"Who would have thought that adding all these regulations and compliance cost to businesses would lead them not wanting to hire people? Who would have thought that allowing unions to hold this country to ransom again would lead to... this country being held to ransom?"

Perhaps the biggest blow of the night came after Steven McCarthy announced that if elected he would support committing federal funding to the 'ExeRad' high speed railway line between Radii and Exegrad.

"You hear this ladies and gentlement? The Vice President is bribing you all with your own money!" Said Perry, drawing a round of applause from the small studio audience. "Do you know how much you and your children and your grandchildren will be paying in tax for a train that I guarantee won't be used by anyone except tourists and vagrants? We're Radiatians, we don't get sucked into scams like this!"

McCarthy then tried to finish with a point about how he and Autenberg had succeeded in reducing income inequality for the first time in a generation, only to be heckled by Perry who loudly and sarcastically jeered "What progress, comrades! Praise be our benevolent leaders!"

While foreign policy was only briefly touched upon in the night, Vladimir Perry also drew both cheers and jeers for attacking the Vice President on his 'hypocritical' stance towards Hadin.

"Your administration banned Hadinians from so much as visiting Radiatia... yet your running mate married one. What's up with that?" He said. "Or is it one rule for those in the upper echelons and another for the proles? You socialists don't change..."

A poll taken on the night suggested that 54% of Radiatians felt that Vladimir Perry won the debate, while polls show that the debate has slightly boosted Perry's campaign, which continues to lag behind the McCarthy campaign.

Both candidates will hit the swing-states tomorrow, with McCarthy booked at a speaking engagement in Exegrad while Vladimir Perry has a "whistlestop tour of the north" planned.

- RPNN

Looserbird (Exegrad, Alayenia)
3 HOURS AGO
Vladimir Perry is absolutely hilarious and very entertaining but the idea of him in office actually terrifies me. I'll still probably vote for him though.

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Nognig (Valar, Asgard)
2 HOURS AGO
Considering Jaagen Autenberg is the one who's 75 years old and suffering from cancer, McCarthy seemed out of it tonight. Has he gone senile? Was he drunk? Where was he??

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Foloffil (Arcriconia, Xegfause)
1 HOUR AGO
Just goes to show: Steven McCarthy cannot function without his teleprompter.

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