This is so tense!

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 20, 2026, 08:59:51 AMWhoa there, compadres, I know what I can do and want to do. What I want is more structure.

Right, but we're saying that if you want that, you can just create structure.  Or if you want advice from someone else, you can either ask your supervisor @Françal I. Lux or just open up for public comment.

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 20, 2026, 08:59:51 AMWhat if i wanted to fold the collage of arms and Büreu del Glheþ and Permanent Secretary of Cultural Development. Technically all have education as part of their mandate; some are more utilised than others; if at all, some are more importent then others. All could be construed as under the remit of advancing and preserving knowledge.

No.  Those are separate entities established by statute with their own governing bodies.  Your charge is the Royal Society.

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 20, 2026, 08:59:51 AMShould the libabry of talossa be moved to our remit too?

That's again a question for @Françal I. Lux or possibly me.  I'd want to know what that would mean, why you'd want that, and what you'd do differently or improve.  Right now the Library is a part of the wiki, owned by the Government and administered by a ministry.

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 20, 2026, 08:59:51 AMCould we start self-publishing Talossan works?

Sure!

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 20, 2026, 08:59:51 AMI kinda dont even care what changes are made, I just want a improvement on our current assignment.

That's just it: you don't have an assignment.  You're the boss.  If you want to start publishing stuff or making structure, you can do it.

If that degree of power makes you uncomfortable, that's okay, and you can ask for guidance or public comment.  But the power is yours... you're in charge of the Royal Society.

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 20, 2026, 09:08:31 AMLike, somehow we had a director of athletics at the university in the past, yet even the wiki doesn't mention it (I checked all previous versions), aside from Éovart Grischuns ÁrTal's page.

The wiki only has the information people add to it.  It would certainly be worthwhile to hunt down those details and improve the wiki by adding in the relevant information, and you'd even get to ask for a Day of Observance for such a feat.

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 20, 2026, 09:08:31 AMTheres present for Sports to be folded in too?  At that point, maybe we could be a university again? Techically as you Say, I could do that and may even be my right to do so... the law would have to change to my wims?

No, the law doesn't accommodate your whims.  But not everything needs to be authorized or directed by the law.  Do stuff that's within your demesne as the Royal Society, to "to conduct and promote research and academic study in all areas of human endeavour."

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 20, 2026, 09:54:41 AM

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on July 20, 2026, 07:37:48 AMI don't know why you would need legal advice, but if you did, you'd ask the person whose job it is to give legal advice to government offices: the Avocat-Xheneral (me right now).  If you needed someone appointed to help you specifically, we'd find a deputy and appoint them to the job to do that.

Say, where should the lines be drawn around ethical study? Ai usege in essays ect?

The laws don't have a lot to say around that, except inasmuch as the Covenants might apply.  If you want to establish guidelines for ethical study or the use of AI, then you have a free hand to do so.

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 20, 2026, 09:54:41 AMI would argue/question that this is intended to apply "The government of the Kingdom of Talossa has the duty and responsibility to make public information about and held by the government's cabinet ministries and sub offices within the guidelines set below," which the civil service would possibly find a ajaysecent but not necessarily beholden to such requrst, at least as read in this secton alone. we are not considered sub-offices so much as separate entities with ministerial supervison.

The Royal Civil Service, of which the Royal Society is a part, is not a cabinet ministry or sub-office.  If you want to voluntarily set official policy for the Royal Society saying that they will nonetheless abide by those same rules, that seems fine to me.  Or to set different ones.

I would love to see the Royal Society become active once more, and I will be very happy to help however I can.  I have plenty of suggestions if you're looking for something to do, but I don't want to step on your toes.  You're empowered to create your own vision of the Society.  Make it into what you think it should be.  I'll be happy to help, either in large ways or just by providing legal advice or promotion your work.

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 20, 2026, 04:12:41 AM

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on July 19, 2026, 09:38:35 PM

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 19, 2026, 08:09:10 PMWHEREAS maybe there should be a more formal but public mechanism for civil servant to be able manner akin to a terpz

What kind of help are you looking for?  If you're looking for direction, you can ask your supervising Government official (the Minister of Culture, @Françal I. Lux ).  If you'd like to establish more policies or guidelines, though, I think you should generally just do it.  Or you can do a public consultation if you're just not really sure.

for this particular point about civil service Terps, its more the point that there is few formal mechanisms for the civil service to be interacted with and  to intact with the state, for example we are unable to post in the ziu,  even to relevant changes in policy (SOS withstanding), there exists no mechanism for the civil service to seek a formal legal opinion thought the courts as I recently found out (AG withstanding). Finally There is no form of accountability or even freedom of information requests built in,  less in the way of needing help rather to be `summonedable` as well as to part of public record.

You are the person in charge of the Royal Society, so you're the one who makes changes in policy.  If you want to make a policy requiring that the Royal Society abide by the rules of Lexh.D.7 for public records requests, then you can just do so.

If you're not sure about what you want to do, you can ask your supervisor, the Royal Society itself, or the nation at large.  But fundamentally you make policy for the Royal Society.  As an example: when I was Clerk of Corts, I was annoyed with the way the records were kept.  There was no way to find anything.  So I just announced a new system, set it up, and made it the rule.  I was the person in charge of cort records, and so I had the authority to do that.  You're in charge of the Royal Society, so you have the authority to do stuff, too.

I don't know why you would need legal advice, but if you did, you'd ask the person whose job it is to give legal advice to government offices: the Avocat-Xheneral (me right now).  If you needed someone appointed to help you specifically, we'd find a deputy and appoint them to the job to do that.

Just do the thing you want.  If you're not sure what you want to do, ask for feedback or suggestions.

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 19, 2026, 08:09:10 PMWHEREAS maybe there should be a more formal but public mechanism for civil servant to be able manner akin to a terpz

What kind of help are you looking for?  If you're looking for direction, you can ask your supervising Government official (the Minister of Culture, @Françal I. Lux ).  If you'd like to establish more policies or guidelines, though, I think you should generally just do it.  Or you can do a public consultation if you're just not really sure.

Oh my God! He's OUT?!? Wasn't he like the number two in the race?

Quote from: Tric'hard Lenxheir on July 15, 2026, 05:58:49 PMSo who do I need to talk to and what do I have to do to regain my full citizenship?

Lexh.E.15.1 states, "A Citizen who has voluntarily renounced his citizenship (in any fashion) may go through the normal citizenship procedure to have his citizenship restored."

https://talossa.com/become-a-talossan-citizen/

I think that's pretty much it... just apply again.

I am grateful to the Leader of the Opposition and Green Party leader for his questions, and I look forward to providing more information in the future.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on July 13, 2026, 10:31:33 PM

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on July 13, 2026, 10:28:13 PMNo, I don't have any further details to provide.  It's a formidable task.

Yes, a formidable task one would imagine the Government might have something to report on within the past three months.

If we had already accomplished all of our goals, then it would probably mean we hadn't been ambitious enough.  Hopefully we'll have something to report soon.

Fortunately, we've gotten quite a bit done this term.  I mean, we've revamped the entire immigration system.  It previously had a pretty significant security vulnerability, where anyone with edit access to the website could see the personal info of hundreds of prospective and current citizens.  We eliminated that, while at the same time moving everything to a tracking system that's very easy to understand (just forms and spreadsheets!), easy to maintain, and easy to closely track data.

We've also been promoting things for the first time with videos and a lot of targeted discussions to niche communities, and running an experiment to see if that made a difference.  It does!  And we also have created a public listing of government offices, contact information, and important decisions that is easily-accessible and centralized.  And more!

No, I don't have any further details to provide.  It's a formidable task.

I'll be happy to step in and answer, per the law: We're working on it.

The heat is absurd... I saw a story on it and how everyone is basically swaddling themselves in ice when they're not competing.

Quote from: Tric'hard Lenxheir on July 13, 2026, 08:22:10 AMI sent an application for the landing pier to sort of test the waters and see if I want to return to full citizenship.

I was happy to approve it. I think you bring a lot to the country, and it would be great to have you back. But even if not, it's good to see you again.

Quote from: Ray on July 11, 2026, 04:44:44 PMI really like the layout of the website it reminds me of old windows and stuff it makes me want to explore more the site yknow, sometimes i like just to find sites with this type of layout its kinda nostalgic

Haha!  The design is from a little bit ago, but we do think it's in need of an update.  One more thing on the to-do list, after all.  Do you have any web design experience?

Quote from: þerxh Sant-Enogat on July 11, 2026, 09:14:58 AM

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on July 06, 2026, 07:46:21 PMWhere in Korea will you be going?

Seoul, Busan and Gyeongju, with day trips to DMZ and Suwon. Only a few weeks left to get accustomed to Kimchi!

That's a pretty fun itinerary. You're going to want to make sure that you eat some fresh seafood in Busan. One of my favorite evenings in the country was spent on a date with my wife in a little seaside restaurant with stuff they'd pulled out of the ocean just a few hours before.

Today, I will be playing a game of Twilight Imperium with my friends. It's the first time any of us have played. It's a famously good but also famously long board game. Anyone who's played who might have some tips for me?

Quote from: Danihel Txechescu on July 10, 2026, 06:13:01 PMIn 2030, I would like to give two predictions: One before the start of the World Cup and another as soon as the group phase is wrapped up.

During the first matches, it became clear to me that France was going to be World Champion. I'm with Lüc on this one, except I believe the final game will be France vs Norway.

I also would like to make my predictions after a bunch of the matches have been played. I think I definitely would have done better if I knew how some of them turned out.

Colegas:

We are a few years away from our fiftieth anniversary as a country.  Very few nations of our size make it to such a point, and I think we should try to think ahead and plan something big for that event (26 Dec 2029).

I call for His Majesty to establish a Royal Commission on the subject, intended to span the time up until that point.  I believe His Grace should chair the commission himself, if he is so willing, since it's a perfect role for our term-spanning head of state.  I hope that other party leaders of good character are willing to join or delegate others to the commission.

@King Txec , what do you think?

It was pretty simple. As I recall, the only reason we stopped playing is because my buddy got a Dune board game he really wanted to do.

One thing I really liked about Carcassone was that it felt like you ended up making a work of art with the tiles by the end of the game. Just very nice to look at, in the way that I didn't I feel like Catan was.

We have that board game! We only tried playing it a couple of times, but maybe we should give it another chance.

Any chance I can transfer my success here over to my world cup bracket? Mads Pedersen would maybe make a good football player...

I thank the MZ for the question, and I am happy to answer it. 

Let's first get some useful numbers, if we can.  The MZ is comparing the first six months of this term with nine months from the last.  I am sure that was an accident, so let's get out the information that we need.

The month after the election was January, and it's been six months since then.  We have had nine successful naturalizations, and that was with a pause in our promotional strategy to see if it was working.  During the previous term, the month after the election was April, and six months after that was September.  In this period, the Government in which the MZ served saw a total of three successful naturalizations.

So then, how have we been so successful that we've tripled the immigration rate?

First of all, we've actually implemented almost all of the recommendations of the bipartisan Royal Commission on Immigration.

• The TalossAssistant program has restarted, with six inaugural members who have dedicated themselves to the effort: King Txec, Françal I. Lux, Moinul Moin, Sir Lüc, Barclamïu da Miéletz, and myself.  We have had a lot of great success to start with, but we need to make sure that the efforts continue past immigration to include new citizenship.
• We have restarted the Pretz Pätriotic del Seneschal and made it into a physical award.  It looks like there will be three recipients for the inaugural awarding.  But while this might help spur some similar activity, we haven't seen a lot of fruits yet.
• The New Citizen's Guide has been updated and put onto the website, and then sent to our two newest citizens.  Previously, it was a PDF and not really very much used... we think this new version will be a lot more successful (and a lot easier to improve and update).  This also is recent, though, so it might not be the cause.
• His Majesty has made it clear he'd like to issue Royal Charters to anyone starting a new effort.

But as you can see, it doesn't seem like this explains our success.

Similarly, the threefold improvement is probably not a result of our changes to the immigration system:

• Obviously, it's still a good thing we closed the hole in our security.  We're no longer exposing the personal information of hundreds of people, including every citizen who'd immigrated in recent years, to anyone who gains access to any account with edit rights. 
• And obviously, it's a good thing we're able to look in detail at what's working and what isn't working.  A secure and easily-analyzed database of our immigration data is a very important tool. 

But neither of these things are likely to be very relevant.

No, we think it's most likely down to our promotional efforts.  In January and February, we posted on Reddit in interested communities (just a couple of posts, actually... not a lot!) and we posted a promotional video on social media.  Then we didn't do it for a couple of months.  And now again this past month we resumed.  And during that span when we didn't do any promotion?  Zero new immigrants!

This is great news, since it means we're not entirely trapped by secular forces or luck.  I mean, it's still going to be great if we get lucky... remember when the viral language Tiktok video that happened to get made that spiked a lot of interest last term near the end?  But we don't have to just cross our fingers and hope!  We can do things to make it better and get more interest!

So to answer the MZ, we plan to build on this success.  Frustratingly, I can't make new videos right at the moment, but that should hopefully be remedied.  And we can definitely still promote other ways, which we will do.