Gulliver
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Tonneral Update
Taijitu Foreign Service
Government of Taijitu
Citizen-Delegate: Jutensa
Citizen-Initiator: Gulliver (Gullivania)
Citizen-Diplomats: Of the US, Myroria
Citizen-Sergeant: Funkadelia
Citizen-Liaison: al’Khem
Registered Citizen-Legislators of the Ecclesia: 53
Tonneral Update
Taijitu Foreign Service
Government of Taijitu
Citizen-Delegate: Jutensa
Citizen-Initiator: Gulliver (Gullivania)
Citizen-Diplomats: Of the US, Myroria
Citizen-Sergeant: Funkadelia
Citizen-Liaison: al’Khem
Registered Citizen-Legislators of the Ecclesia: 53
Noble Houses Act passes Ecclesia; encourages egalitarianism
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Citizens with foreign titles of nobility are shocked to hear the news from the Ecclesia.
The Noble Houses Act passed the Ecclesia near-unanimously on 11 Tonneral (March 7 O.S.), forbidding the government of Taijitu from recognizing noble houses or other titles of nobility. The bill, widely supported in the Ecclesia, is seen by many citizens as a continuation and affirmation of the values of Taijitu's Glorious Revolution - egalitarianism and democracy.
Taijitu's Bill of Rights forbids the government from infringing on citizens' personal speech, and therefore the new law does not outlaw the use of titles personally. However, the law does stipulate that the government shall refer to any citizen belonging to a foreign house, or to any citizen with a foreign title of nobility, only as "Citizen [Name]". Likewise, foreign dignitaries in Taijitu will be referred to by the government only by their name, omitting any personal style or title.
Finally, the law encourages, but does not mandate, all residents of Taijitu - citizen or not - to refer to each other in an egalitarian fashion, remembering the values of the Glorious Revolution and the various dictatorships and flawed democracies that ruled the region in the past.
Citizen Cormac wins Citizen-Initiator election, creates legal index
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"It's been two weeks," pleads a Taijituan citizen. "You should really take a break, Citizen Cormac!"
Citizen Cormac, sometimes styled "Cormac Stark", won Taijitu's Citizen-Initiator election on 2 Tonneral, and soon after began a comprehensive reorganization of Ecclesiastical records.
Citizen-Initiator is a uniquely Taijituan institution tasked with approving citizenship requests and acting as a Speaker of sorts for the Ecclesia, Taijitu's directly democratic legislature. Traditionally imbued with no fixed term length, the Citizen-Initiator Act of Umbrose AR 1 (February-March 2015 O.S.) specified a term length of four months and called for an immediate election; the former Citizen-Initiator, Gulliver, lost his reelection bid to Cormac.
Citizen-Initiator Cormac immediately started an overhaul of recordkeeping for the Ecclesia; no small task, considering the complete absence of any real recordkeeping system since the Glorious Revolution. One of Cormac's first actions was to draft a complete legal index, maintained both on Taijitu's forum and regional wiki. This new legal index lists all laws in their entirety, with dates in both the Taijituan Revolutionary Calendar and the Old Calendar.
Also currently at vote is a repeal of the Standing Ordinances of the Ecclesia; an old system derived by Myroria, Taijitu's first Citizen-Initiator, it went mostly without update since the Glorious Revolution and served little purpose, now that the new Index superseded it. Though the vote is still open, it seems likely to pass the Ecclesia.
We pray to Citizen-Augur St. Oz to look for good omens in the birds, and wish Citizen-Initiator Cormac only the best for the rest of his first term.
Citizen-Delegate nominations open
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Stumping begins for the Citizen-Delegate elections of Tonneral, AR 1.
Nominations for the Tonneral Citizen-Delegate elections have opened, and it is shaping up to be a wide field - if anyone accepts their nominations.
Citizen-Delegate Allama, who has served as delegate with her nation Jutensa since the Glorious Revolution in Ventaire (August-September 2014 O.S.), is ineligible to stand for a third consecutive term under the Citizen-Delegate Act, and therefore the delegate seat is wide open for whoever wins the election in eight days. Among those nominated are former Citizen-Initiator Gulliver, Citizens Delfos, Musitant, and Wast, Citizen-Liaison al'Khem, and Citizen-Diplomats Myroria and Of the US. Despite this array of candidates, however, only Citizen-Diplomat Myroria has accepted his nomination so far.
More candidates are sure to declare, though, as nominations have only been open two days and are set to run for eight more. No matter who wins the election, though, the true winners will be the citizens of Taijitu, its institution of democracy, and the cause of the Glorious Revolution.
