My bad!!!!!!

I cleared your application and activated your account by phone the night I messaged you (didn't have access to computer)... but, then forgot to go back and play catch up to post your thread.

I'll get on that right away.  (I'll need to look into the legalities here to see how creative we can get about your examination dates, but don't worry; if you've met all other criteria you'll likely be granted citizenship (even if it means me asking the court to smack me around over the mistake, we'll get this fixed for you).

Destiny is all

Quote from: Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on June 16, 2020, 06:13:17 PM
There was a special midterm referendum on the monarchy just a few years ago, with 71% of respondents saying they wanted to keep the monarchy and 60% saying they didn't want it to be a figurehead.  I guess this question will be asked over and over in different ways until it produces the answer that is desired.

Almost as if in a democratic society people can change their opinions over time.

Vuode,

As you may know, I am currently serving as your interim Senator, serving the remainder of V's term.  The seat shall be contested in the upcoming general election.

I hereby give notice of my intention to seek to be returned to the Senate as this province's representative and will be standing in the upcoming election for Vuodean seat.

Thanks for this.  I think this is the sort of direction I will try to implement for all provinces.  Whatever the finer details end up being, I think, in general, things will take the form of guidance rather than law and almost certainly will be included in the upcoming new cit pack being released in the next few weeks.

Submitted via the database,

But PER on both.

Quote from: Eiric S. Bornatfiglheu on June 01, 2020, 03:57:30 PM
Or it needn't have a King.  Perhaps an eternal Regent?  Or a Holy Crown?  Or an office like the Sh'botay or Panarch from science fiction?  Talossans are a creative bunch, and those looking for pomp and ceremony could find something far more effective, I'm sure.

Yeah.  Talossa can definitely be whatever Talossa wants to be, but whatever Talossa decides to be I'm sure my Peculiarist friend will agree with me that political clout should not be held by one person holding a lifetime position.

Aye, very clever. 

The curious case of Lichtenstein and its gaslighting Prince Regent notwithstanding, this outdated style of monarchy doesn't jibe well with modern democratic standards.  It just doesn't.

But, yeah, okay.  If the majority of Talossans still want the monarchy to have this veto power and the ability to wade about in the political quagmire then ... well, in your own words:

Quote from: King John on May 31, 2020, 03:28:43 PM
At which point we should simply change the name of the office from "King" to "President", and the name of the country to The Talossan Republic, and have done with it.  I mean, why pretend?

I still feel Talossa is better being a Kingdom, but for the monarchy to survive in the long term it simply must accept and embrace the growing sense of this nation that the monarch should not be messing around in the legislature.  You mention the monarchy of the United Kingdom, which, to me, is the ideal model for what a modern Talossan monarchy needs to look like else risk falling completely.

Enough is enough.

The fact that it's fine for a monarch to voice his opinion on any matter that has been democratically decided upon by his parliament is an affront to what a constitutional parliamentary democratic monarchy is supposed to be.

The fact that it's fine for a monarch to voice his opinion on this particular matter, which has been democratically decided upon by his parliament is an affront to what a constitutional parliamentary democratic monarchy is supposed to be.

The fact that it's fine for a monarch to not only voice his opinion, but that he also has a veto on any matter that has been democratically decided upon by his parliament is an affront to what a constitutional parliamentary democratic monarchy is supposed to be.

Enough is enough.

The time for this nation to decide once and for all if this style of monarchy is still acceptable is fast approaching.

Yeah, the translation is brown nosing, but it is not a racial slur.  Brown nosing = obsequious ass kissing.  As a Scot would put it, "sooking right up the boss's arse".

I'm not 100% sure if he meant to mean the incident was carried out by a "returning citizen" or if he has just clumsily smashed two separate streams of thought together. But, we can let him answer that question.

I'd need to go back and analyse everything that happened and was said way back then to remind myself of it all, but if I was a betting man I would put my money on that incident not having being perpetrated by a returning citizen from the RoT, but was actually carried out by someone who was a Kingdom citizen from before reunision.


Personally, I think the best part of the Senator's speech was the near sycophantic fawning, which is just ever so poetically heartwarming.

Quote from: Luna Astrea on May 19, 2020, 03:27:50 PM
Azul!

My name's Luna Astrea :) .I'm looking forward to learn more and more about this community. As you can see, I'm a new girl here and I'd be honored if someone could explain me something.

I don't mind the subject, I'll read it with pleasure.

Graschcias!

Hi.  Following on from previous posts/messages...

There was a slight issue concerning the use of a nickname with the application.  I have spoken with Cabinet members and what we think would be best is for you to be able to use the nickname as your forum display name as you want, but meanwhile and for the duration of your 15 day immigration period to include your verified identity in your forum signature. After you become a full citizen you can remove that name from the signature.

In the meantime, I suggest that you could look into adopting a Talossan translation for your name(s).  This could be a good solution to your privacy concerns.  If you head over to the Talossan language sub board you can get the ball rolling on that.

Thanks for your patience while I looked into this for you.

Quote from: Dave Jones on May 19, 2020, 05:31:23 PM

Quote from: Miestrâ Schiva, UrN on May 19, 2020, 04:38:14 PM
I approve of this idea in principle. At the moment, no records are kept of any citizens' gender and if they wish to formally announce a different gender identity that's as simple as changing their name.

There are no Talossan laws specifically pertaining to gender that I can see, apart from abortion being framed as a "women's" issue in the Covenants, and the provision that a female monarch is called Queen. I have been opposed to the latter for ages, because Florence Yarney was our monarch as King and there was nothing wrong with that.

So, there is no problem for anyone to change their gender or even to change it to other genders non-binary?

No problem at all.  We don't have gender laws.  The only time we ask about it is during immigration, but as you probably just noticed, the field on that form is a 'write-in' text box where you can put any answer, instead of fixed choices. 

(If any of Talossa's singers and vocalists fancy recording lyrics for this get in touch!)

Had a go at making a new version of the National Anthem.  I can't seem to embed SoundCloud here, so you'll have to use the direct link for it:

https://soundcloud.com/user-220622569/stand-tall-talossans-grischun-arrangement


For the music people:
Arranged using:

Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol A49 (hardware MIDI controller)

Cockos Repear (DAW)

VSTi Soft Synths: NI Analogue Dreams, Xfer Serum, ProjectSAM TFO, Versilian Upright Piano, Sketch Chromatic, Sketch Cello, Sketch Trombone, Sketch Timpani, EW Harp II, Manda PowerDrums and TS-808 (a TR-808 clone).

Other Plugins used: ReaXComp, ReaComp, ReaEQ, ReaVerbate, ReaVerb and BlueARP.