Update VI



The Ainurian International
Released on May 8th, 2013

Ainur's Forum - Ainur on NS


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Current Government

Chancellor of the Senate: Alex Stewart
State Consul: Isidor C. Anumia
Domestic Consul: Apollo Anumia


Chief of Staff: Isidor C. Anumia
State Minister: Seven-Five
State Minister: Charlie Sheen-Mercer
State Minister: Alex Stewart
Domestic Minister: Aerie Rosewater
Domestic Minister: Remsol Greyjoy
Domestic Minister: Styx

The Senate:

Isidor C. Anumia
Ashton Mercer
Apollo Anumia
Alicia DiLaurentis
Acrotis Scott
Alex

Chief Justice: Augustus Anumia

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Election Time in Ainur!
with a side of drama...

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The second elections of the Imperial Republic of Ainur took place. The elections were for the State Consul, the Domestic Consul, and the Senate. Each of these was highly contested and produced record setting activity in the region.

Out of the three elections, the election for the Domestic Consulate was by far the most interesting. The candidates in the race were founder and incumbent State Consul Apollo Anumia, RP veteran Charlie Sheen, idealistic newcomer and Minister of Culture Lady Nyx, and the wise and experienced Felicity. The campaign was hard fought with a very evenly split vote. This is illustrated in that the winner, Apollo Anumia, ultimately received only 36.1% of the total vote. The final tallies had Apollo receiving 13 votes, Lady Nyx with 9, and both Felicity and Charlie Sheen with 7. Ainur is truly blessed to have four such worthwhile candidates for the office, and each of them will undoubtedly become leaders in Ainur.

The Senate election was also very competitive. With six seats open for the Senate, eight citizens ran. The winners of the election were Isidor C. Anumia, Alicia DiLaurentis, Apollo Anumia, Alex Stewart, Ashton Mercer, and New Voltren. At the time, each of these persons was considered highly qualified for the position and Ainur celebrated the installation of the second Ainurian Senate. Following the election, the Senate quickly chose to elect Alexander Stewart as the Chancellor given his long track record of legislative experience.

The election for the State Consul position was much more tame with New Voltren (now known to be Kogvuron) easily winning. Following the scandal surrounding Kogvuron and the other FRA members in Ainur, the Senate quickly removed him from both his Senate seat and his State Consul position. These actions created the necessity of a by-election for citizens to choose who would continue out the terms in the Senate and the State Consulate.

The Senate by-election was contested as four candidates stood for the Senate seat as the region lay in scandal. The four candidates were Christopher Bishop, Acrotis Scott, Remsol Greyjoy, and Cameron M. Richthofen-Saxony. The winner in the end was Acrotis Scott, who edged out both Christoper Bishop and Remsol Greyjoy by one vote, avoiding a runoff election. So, moral of the story is every vote counts!

The State Consul by-election was a face-off between Isidor C. Anumia and Lady Nyx. After a hard fought and well debated campaign Isidor C. Anumia won the election while taking 60% of the vote.


Ainur deals with FRA agents

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Julian Anumia in the foreground, Chief Justice Augustus Anumia in the back

On April 14, 2013 it was discovered that three FRA spies had infiltrated Ainur. The discovery was found by regional security expert, North East Somerset. The three spies have been identified as Falconias, Brian, and Kogvuron.

Upon the discovery, the Imperial Senate swiftly removed Kogvuron and Brian from their office(s), while the third held no positions. Following that, Domestic Consul and Founder, Apollo, quickly started criminal proceedings against all three on the charges of High Treason, Treason and Treasonous Actions, Unlawful Interference with the Armed Forces, and Sabotage.

A few days into the trial, Domestic Consul, Apollo, banned all three members, invoking a clause in the Citizenship Act giving him the power to revoke citizenship when a regional security was threatened. After an outcry by several citizens, Apollo chose to give the three limited access to the forums and allowed all three to remain for the trial.

As the trial got underway each of the defendants acquired legal representation. Lady Nyx agreed to defend the absent Kogruven, Remsol Greyjoy agreed to defend Brian, and Alexander Stewart agreed to defend Falconias. All three defendents pleaded Not Guilty to all charges.

After several days of waiting for the trial to commence, Apollo decided to appoint Julian Anumia as the prosecutor for the case. Anumia accurately and swiftly took the lead and changed the charges for all three defendants:

Kogruven was charged with Attempted Treason, Attempted Treasonous, Espionage, Unlawful Interference with the Armed Forces, Arrogation of Public Office, and Falsification of Electoral Results
Brian was charged with Aiding and abetting Attempted Treason and Attempted Treasonous Espionage, and Falsification of Electoral Results.
Falconias was charged with Aiding and abetting Falsification of Electoral Results.

Finally, after several days of motions, counter-motions and negotiations between all the parties, all three defendants accepted a plea bargain. Each of the defendants have now plead guilty, and the Court has sentenced the defendants. Kogvuron is sentenced to a three month forum and regional ban and a permanent disqualification from voting or holding public office. Brian is sentenced to two month forum and regional ban and a permanent disqualification from voting or holding public office. Falconias is sentenced to a two month forum and regional ban and a six month disqualification from voting or holding public office.

This is the first criminal case in Ainur under our new constitution and legal system, and we are glad for all support given to us by our allies, and we hope to learn from this.

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Ainur Continues its Reforms

As Apollo Anumia took the office of Domestic Consul he quickly instituted a large number of reforms.

First off, Apollo and Chief of Staff Isidor C. Anumia quickly recreated the Civil Service to make it a functioning and integral part of the Ainurian government. Prior to this the Civil Service was poorly organized, and not used greatly. Now, every available position is listed in a database that is easily accessible to citizens and transition from citizen to bureaucrat has never been as smooth.

Also, Apollo has restarted some of the cultural parts of Ainur. Currently our RP section has become alive with several different RPs taking place. This is a credit to both Apollo and the citizens of Ainur for getting involved and restarting the RP.

In addition, the Ainur Herald has been launched to serve as a conduit for news inside and outside Ainur to be reproduced for Ainurian citizens. We hope that this will allow our citizens to keep track of the major events going on in the NS world to date and give them the proper context through which to observe other regions.
Ainur continues to progress in its development, now formalizing many of the pillars of a successful region. We hope that in the future we can continue to grow and develop in order to become one of the premier UCRs of NationStates.

Ainur has always had the activity to attain this status (we have nearly reached 50,000 forum posts overall), but we are now finally development our organizational structure and putting in place a framework which will allow us to grow in a strong and safe way for the months to come.


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Regional "News" Brought to you by The Ainurian Times

President of Europeia offers Apollo Shoulder to Cry On

Following the controversy over alleged spies in Ainur a multitude of regions announced the strengthening of their alliance with Ainur and reached out to show their support. One of those regions being Europeia. The President of Europeia, CSP, was quoted as saying to a grieving Apollo:

"It's times like these that we as allies must stand together and reassure one another."

He paused to tenderly wipe a tear that trickled down his face.

"Ainur is our friend and we as a region will stand with them."

Pausing again he faced Apollo.

"Won't we?"

"Yes," murmured a sniffley Apollo.


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Celebrate Ainuricia!
I invite all our friends to celebrate a new holiday in which we honor the Sun God's attempts to banish three heathens from Ainur! Those being a State Consul, Senator, and one a Minister at their time. We can no longer risk our security being compromised! We must enact this holiday to put discipline into our politicians! No right-minded politician would refuse this lest he fear being accused of treason or espionage! Because those who would not sacrifice themselves to the Great Apollo may not be as dutiful as they say they are!

It's simple. Ainurians find the current State Consul, A Senator, and Minister and tar and feather them.

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The Sun God who doubles as Ainur's founder, Apollo, seems to be pleased with the first annual Ainuricia and....a tad chilly. At least I hope so....


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Seven-Five's words of wisdom:

In reference to the legal duel between Anumia and Falconias.

"Old people dueling is great, by the way. If they use guns, they fall back really far when they shoot them, assuming the gun is big enough. A shotgun or even a .50 cal should do."


Thanks for reading this month's update!

Update written by: Isidor C. Anumia, Seven-Five, Alexander Stewart, and Emyrs Mercer of The Ainurian Times
 
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