It is with a heavy heart that I state, el Regeu en volt.

-Txec R

I received my new ID card today. Very snazzy and odd to have my name on both sides!

-Txec R

Quote from: xpb on January 21, 2025, 10:55:34 AMI don't want to distract him from studies, but perhaps we could offer Barclamïu virtual resident cestour status or something similar as that might only be defined for the greater Talossan area: https://wiki.talossa.com/Cestour

Another interesting tangent I found which could be a connection for the Kingdom
https://www.sab.ac.lk/mgmt/CESTour/about.php

It's an interesting idea and something that perhaps could be implemented for future citizens to go inactive instead renouncing.

-Txec R

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on January 20, 2025, 08:14:39 PMYes -- you and the PermSec for social media have been doing great work on Reddit!

Not just Reddit, but Facebook as well.

-Txec R

I have to agree. Citizenship should be a priority. I personally have been doing as much social media stuff as I can.

-Txec R

Azul,
 
I was asked (twice actually) on Reddit how el glheþ got its ISO 639 recognition. As I'm not sure of the answer, I figured I'd ask here so I can reply on Reddit.

-Txec R

WHEREAS in his Accession Day Speech, the King created two orders of knight in L'Urderi per la Naziun, and

WHEREAS he was hoping a member of the Ziu would write this bill, and

WHEREAS the King wishes this to advance,

THEREFORE be it resolved by the King and Ziu assembled, that El. Lex 41.1.1 which currently reads

Quote41.1.1. Dynastic Orders
41.1.1.1. The Order for the Nation (L'Urderi per la Naziun): The Order for the Nation is the senior order and is the most commonly awarded. The Crown recognises worthy citizens, offering them admission into the order for long and dedicated service to the nation, or for particular acts of valour in the defence of the realm. The Order of the Nation has one grade, that of Knight or Dame, and are entitled to add the honorific 'UrN' to their name.

be amended to read

Quote41.1.1. Dynastic Orders
41.1.1.1. The Order for the Nation (L'Urderi per la Naziun): The Order for the Nation is the senior order and is the most commonly awarded. The Crown recognises worthy citizens, offering them admission into the order for long and dedicated service to the nation, or for particular acts of valour in the defence of the realm. The Order of the Nation has three grades.

41.1.1.1.1 The senior grade, which entitles the recipient to bear the title Knight or Dame in L'Urderi per la Naziun, shall be that of Knight Grand Cross or Dame Grand Cross. All recipients of this grade shall be entitled to add the honorific of "UrN-GC".

41.1.1.1.2 The junior grade which entitles the recipient to bear the title of Knight or Dame, shall be that of Knight Commander or Dame Commander. All recipients of this grade shall be entitled to add the honorific of "UrN-C." All existing members of L'Urderi per la Naziun that are not currently ranked, shall automatically assume the rank of Knight Commander or Dame Commander, upon passage of this bill.

41.1.1.1.3 The lowest grade, which does not entitle the recipient to bear the title of Knight or Dame, shall be that of Officer of The Order of the Nation. All recipients of this grade shall be entitled to add the honorific of "UrN."

Uréu q'estadra så:
Txec Regeu, King of Talossa

Other thoughts:

- Citizen of the month
- New Citizen recognition in some form
- Maybe easing up on the "apolitical civil service" since some people find service to the country just as fun as doing some politics now and then. (I'm not sure how this would look - just spitballing)
- Monthly contests (again not sure on this)
- Post count ranks. Some forums give interesting ranks or titles for the number of posts in a forum
- Movie night where we all watch the same movie (not really a night as we have different time zones, but you get the idea)
- Book club where we actually read the book together and then discuss it

-Txec R

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on January 16, 2025, 09:42:52 PMA plan is something like "make it known, in a way that preserves the dignity of the prize, that anyone who recruits five new citizens will be granted a knighthood."

I'm not keen on knighthoods being granted in this manner, but I have been considering an idea of further enlarging L'Urderi per la Naziun to include a rank that is below knighthood, in a fashion similar to the British OBE. Granting the rank of "Officer of the Order of the Nation" for recruiting citizens would be a nice way to recognize the efforts of our citizens. We also have the Seneschal's Medals which could be awarded as well.

I'm pondering how I can also make myself more available by doing monthly Google Meets or Zooms where any citizen can just pop in, have a coffee or tea (or other preferred beverage) and chat with the King and anyone else who joins in. We need to change the tone from always being political to finding more ways to have fun and honor citizens who do cool things.

-Txec R

I think a Google form is brilliant in this case. It is easily updated, most people can understand it, and I don't think Google is going anywhere so it's a stable location.

-Txec R

I'll give it some thought. I have some ideas but in the mean time while I formulate a more formal response, I'd like to refer back to my Independence Day Speech.

QuoteTherefore, I am declaring 2025 as L'Anneu D'Comunità, or in English, The Year of Community. Throughout this year, beginning with the newest holiday in our calendar, Flip Molinar Day, I urge each and every one of you to spend as much time as possible seeing, hearing, listening, and communicating with other Talossans.

-Txec R

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on January 16, 2025, 11:30:29 AM

Quote from: King Txec on January 16, 2025, 11:22:55 AMWe often have trouble keeping ministers in place for the length of our current Cosa terms. Making them even longer could prove to be even more difficult. I am not sure we have the personnel to staff ministries for an entire year at a time. I know some will say we will just find someone to finish the term out, etc. I don't see why longer terms are necessary and I'm not sure I support the idea.

-Txec R

Yeah, I've heard this argument before. This is not an argument against longer terms as much as it is a statement on how poorly we've provisioned responsibilities and workload in our ministries. We have too many ministries and need to downsize government and move some things to the Civil Service. When you have people doing two, three, and four simultaneous roles then they are bound to peter out in short time.

Perhaps a revision to the ministries etc. would be a logical first step then.

- Txec R

We often have trouble keeping ministers in place for the length of our current Cosa terms. Making them even longer could prove to be even more difficult. I am not sure we have the personnel to staff ministries for an entire year at a time. I know some will say we will just find someone to finish the term out, etc. I don't see why longer terms are necessary and I'm not sure I support the idea.

-Txec R

This is a four-member commission. It's usually a good idea to make commissions and committees odd numbers so you don't risk ties. Perhaps add in a fifth member, or a chair with tie-breaking abilities.

-Txec R

Thank you Sir Luc and S:reu Tzaracomprada. Another year traveled around the sun.

-Txec R