Statement on Affairs in Lazarus

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Earlier today, Funkadelia, the current delegate of Lazarus announced an unlawful state of emergency on the region. Soon after, he stripped the sitting Vice Delegate, as well as many members of the Lazarene Security Council, of their regional powers and ordered an un-endorsement campaign against them. Multiple individuals were also ejected for the purposes of wiping their endorsements. Subsequently, Funkadelia stated that only he and government officials Evil Wolf (Killer Kitty) and Scum (Lamb Stone), all members of invader group Lone Wolves United, should be endorsed. Furthermore, twenty citizens of Lazarus were indicted for Treason, High Treason, Fraud, and Conspiracy today, in a court case quickly accepted by Justice Evil Wolf. It is also worth noting that as of today, the off-site forum of Lazarus saw changes that resulted in Funkadelia, Evil Wolf, and Lamb Stone being the only Forum Administrators.

This comes off of a week during which the Funkadelia Administration was being consistently accused of voter importation and harboring an outside agenda in the region. With publicly presented evidence of vote importation, a subsequent smear campaign by invaders and imperialists was deployed to attempt to delegitimize the accusations. However, with every day, more and more raider-aligned individuals applied for citizenship in Lazarus as the pressure mounted. While the argument could be made that these are just people trying to "get involved", their post history clearly evidences that the majority of them have done nothing but vote as a bloc since arriving in the region.

The recent coup has been justified through out-of-context logs taken from a server set up by concerned Lazarene citizens to discuss what they could do about Funkadelia's continued erratic nature and clear lack of ethics. Taking choice segments of this and blowing them up into a huge conspiracy, Funkadelia used that as enough justification to both coup the region, just weeks before delegate elections. Spiritus is confident that should these be released in full-context, it would clearly demonstrate the deception of Funkadelia.

Given this gross violation of the law by Funkadelia, The Westron Realms of Spiritus will be immediately terminating relations with his Lazarus regime and sincerely hope to see the region restored to native hands and lawful rule.

Thank You,



Tim Stark, Steward of Spiritus


The Salaxalans, Regent of Spiritus

Wow. This is serious. Thank you very much for the update The Salaxalans!

Given the people involved it would be newsworthy if they did NOT coup.

Some people simply should not be trusted, full stop.

It's been interesting to watch, but it appears neither side in this are blameless and it's murky to decide who is "less in the wrong".

I do not know who's side to support. On one hand it seems like a coup d'etat of a democratic region into that of a dictatorial regime. On another hand it seems like purging raider sabotage of Lazarus Government echelons . I hope this is resolved Mr Salaxalan. Hope your position as foreign envoy of TNP is safe.

Lord Ravenclaw:

It's been interesting to watch, but it appears neither side in this are blameless and it's murky to decide who is "less in the wrong".

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I put it down to whether I support democratic elections of the delegacy in a GCR. Since that doesn't seem to be the ideological direction Lazarus is going in, I couldn't agree with it, regardless of the circumstances that led to that decision. Some would apply the position that Funkadelia is merely supporting an existing structure against a coup, however that structure is proposed to be removed.

This doesn't mean taking a side for or against the 'coup', merely favoring one form of government over another.

In this case, Lazarus has had democratic elections of the Delegacy, either in form of a challenge to an election basis or yearly basis, for ages. Now that is set to change dramatically to where it is near impossible to remove the monarch. It was proposed recently that a 80% vote be required for removal - only to place the monarch's hand picked regent in charge. The monarch appoints the regent, approves citizenship, and effectively determines who can vote. Realistically the only way to change leadership, is for the regent to betray said monarch or if the monarch voluntarily agrees to step down. Pretty much it affirms the position that the only realistic way for the citizens to elect a new executive in Lazarus is to effectively overthrow the delegate.

That doesn't sound like a very stable or reassuring system, but time will tell of course.