What do you call someone who:

- first, bullies someone out of active participation in Talossa;
- and then, runs a political party whose name and branding is a direct parody of that which their bullying victim used to run?

You'd call him a sex pest unanimously condemned by the Ziu.

One of the difference of opinion between me and the Progressive Alliance is that, while we agree that what this character did to @Sir Lüc was beyond the pale, I think exactly the same of what he did to @Munditenens Tresplet and @Bråneu Excelsio, UrN .

Compare and contrast, with emphasis added:

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on August 03, 2026, 11:56:36 AMStatement on 62RZ26 - The Democracy Act and Amendment
In Favor: This bill was crafted together by the Progressive Alliance.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on June 02, 2026Okay, so this is legal text from myself, Miestra, and Mic'haglh.

This is not the first time we have gone through the cycle:

1. Talossan reformists agitate for a reform.
2. Baron Davinescu opposes that reform for a long while.
3. Eventually, Baron Davinescu comes around to supporting the reform.
4. Baron Davinescu takes it upon himself - quite assertively - to write the draft of the reform himself.
5. He then takes credit for the reform.

The Union of Free Reformists is the party of team government and we are also the party of giving credit where it is due.

We, the members of the Union of Free Reformists, the Party of Talossan Democracy, in order to not only safeguard Talossa's fragile democracy, but strengthen it, hereby formally adopt the Democracy Agenda. This package of reforms will bolster the democratic nature of Talossan government, granting actions taken by the state even greater legitimacy. It is intended to show the Talossan people, in plain terms, our intentions in both this Cosă session and in future sessions, particularly those in which they see fit to grant us a Cosă majority.

• Cosă Size: With the passage of 62RZ09, the Democracy Agenda has already succeeded in right-sizing the Cosă to 20 seats. The URL's aim here going forward will be to defend this change, and prevent future Cosă sessions from undoing it.
• Electoral Method Reform: In the interest of lessening the power of party bosses, increasing the power of the voters, and improving the ability to hold individual MCs accountable, the URL supports transition to a form of personalized proportional representation -- any method that combines proportional representation for parties with voter control over which candidates actually receive Cosă seats. We support further debate on the specific method to be adopted.
• Party List Reform #1: The URL supports legislation to prioritize party lists, ensuring that "off-list" candidates can only receive seats if no "on-list" candidates are eligible, in order to improve transparency and allow voters to better judge the intentions of the parties on the ballot.
• Party List Reform #2: The URL supports legislation requiring candidates to confirm with the Chancery their consent to appearing on a party list, in an effort to further lessen the power of party bosses.
• Upper House Reform: Taking into account Talossa's unitary nature and the requirements of responsible government, the URL supports the transition of the Senäts' role to that of a "house of review" in the vein of the British House of Lords, the Canadian Senate, or the Japanese House of Councillors. This reform will retain Senators' ability to critique and improve legislation on behalf of their province's citizens, including a veto on Organic amendments, but will allow the Cosă to insist on its decision on standard legislation if there is sufficient democratic support.
• Public Ballot Reform: The secret ballot is one of the cornerstones of free and fair elections. We support the continued right of Talossans to publicly declare their electoral choices, but believe the polling process on Wittenberg should be reformed so that public ballots are only published after polls close.
• Parliamentary Reform: The URL supports codifying and strengthening the powers of the Tuischac'h and Mençei to allow them to better maintain order and enforce parliamentary procedure within their respective chambers.
• Royal Veto Reform: The URL supports reforming the power of the Crown to veto legislation. This would involve a "suspensory" veto, in which the Crown's veto still serves as an opportunity for the Ziu to reconsider legislation, but can be overriden by a simple majority of both houses. In parallel to this, we support reworking advisory opinions to allow the King to consult with the CpI on a bill's organic Compliance.
• Reform Org.XII.4: This organic provision makes some parts of the OrgLaw almost impossible to amend, anchoring the country in ways that are not justifiable in a democratic nation. The OrgLaw already has a rigorous amendment process for normal amendments; there is no good reason to have such onerous additional requirements.

The Progressive Alliance have named three priorities for government in the 63rd Cosa: embassies; maps; and shifting focus from Wittenberg to Discord (? not sure I've got this right).

I can't personally say any of these grab me and I actually might not support the last one. But they're certainly projects worth exploring.

But, if you like these ideas, don't re-elect the Progs to lead the next government.

As our own Seneschal candidate, @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be , has ably demonstrated, the Progs dropped the ball on at least 70% of their programme in the last Cosa. This is not, I feel, due to any fault in that party - except the fact that Baron Alexandreu Davinescu does most of the work for them, and he has his limits.

Baron Davinescu is a good Talossan, but he is not five good Talossans.

Under a Union of Free Reformists government, Baron Davinescu will be free to pursue passion projects like this - to the extent that they don't contradict the agenda of a Union government. Creating maps and embassies seems to come under the remit of the Directorate of STUFF; if the current incumbent of that office becomes Seneschal, maybe the Baron could take over?

A vote for a Union Government is not only for a Team Government, but a team government which doesn't play partisan games. For a team approach - but also for the Democracy Agenda and for a targeted immigration policy - vote URL.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on July 17, 2026, 09:49:07 AM@Crement Itravilatx has nominated himself as new party leader. With no other nominations before the deadline we have now moved toward a question period from members.

Our sincere commiserations to Talossa's equivalent of Lurleen Wallace.

The decision of a sex pest unanimously condemned by the Ziu, to pretend to quit politics but in fact hide behind his husband as a stalking-horse, might just be cunning enough to fool the low-info voters on which elections sadly hinge.

In the 62nd Cosa, the Union of Free Reformists has made it a practice to ABSTAIN on all "Senses of the Ziu" proposed by sex pest unanimously condemned by the Ziu, B. Tzaracomprada. This is because, while a lot of them express correct or even praiseworthy sentiments, we are not going to give any legitimacy to the political activity of a sex pest unanimously condemned by the Ziu.

We are making an exception for this with 62RZ32. It is literally offensive - the height of chutzpah - for a sex pest unanimously condemned by the Ziu to try to make a feel-good resolution on the very topic of sexual harassment. The sex pest unanimously condemned by the Ziu even names himself in this motion. We can only imagine what the victims of his sex pestery unanimously condemned by the Ziu feel about this.

The Union of Free Reformists Cosă and Senäts delegations will deliver a firm and unanimous CONTRA to this impertinent middle finger to public opinion. This is the kind of behaviour that - should the sex pest unanimously condemned by the Ziu be re-elected - will lead to a swift expulsion by a rightfully-disgusted Cosa supermajority."

A certain political party led by a sex pest unanimously condemned by the Ziu is critical of political opponents for being the parties of "joint statements, boycotts, and charts".

The Union of Free Reformists, admittedly, shares a bit of skepticism as to the political relevance of charts which are based on statistics of equally dubious relevance. The "data-driven approach" of the incumbent Government to immigration has always seemed like "wrong target" to us; we have always seen immigration as a question of quality, and taking a quantitative approach to it seems to be not so much wrong, as irrelevant, and not actually solving anything.

However, we are proud to be the party of joint statements. After a rocky start, our relationship with the Progressive Alliance government has been of "amicable but firm criticism" - and we work together on areas of common interest, eg. calling out sex pests.

And we are equally proud to be the Party of Boycotts. Or to put it another way - the part of "high standards for Talossan political life". The party of "sticking to our guns", in the face of scofflaws and ne'er-do-wells who think that shamelessness is a cheat code. The contemporary United States is what happens when you surrender to the shameless because the boycott is dragging on too long and is getting boring.

If you think that how we treat each other in Talossa matters; if you don't think that Talossa is make-believe or an RPG where our actions aren't real and don't have real consequences; and where you make sure social sanctions for bad behaviour stick, no matter how annoying it becomes; the URL is your party.

WHEREAS the Union of Free Reformists and the Progressive Alliance have worked together closely on sanctions to exclude acknowledged sexual harasser Brenéir Tzaracomprada from Talossan life - until such time as he shows convincing amendment of his ways - including a Sense of the Ziu and two joint statements;

and WHEREAS the first Joint Statement of April 2025 committed the two parties to "pledge non-cooperation with and informal boycotts of serial harassers", whereas the second statement of October 2025 made the weaker commitment to "rule out forming any government which includes, or relies on the support of, the Green Party."

and WHEREAS the current Progressive Alliance-led government has kept the narrower pledge to keep the Green Party out of government, but has on the other hand entirely relaxed the weaker "informal boycott", by accepting Tzaracomprada as an "Information Liaison" with other micronations, and engaged with  Tzaracomprada-led media outlets for joint activity, interviews etc.;

and WHEREAS all this indicates that the Progressive Alliance doesn't really have the heart for the informal boycott any more, or that they doubt its usefulness;

and WHEREAS this makes it likely that the narrower boycott, on government formation, will likely collapse at the next election, especially if the PA has no other coalition partners;

THEREFORE this Convention resolves, and makes it binding on the incoming Comità, that the Union of Free Reformists will continue a complete political and social boycott of Brenéir Tzaracomprada until he shows remorse and convincing amendments to his behaviour. This means:

- no governments including, or relying on the votes of, the Green Party or whatever other political vehicle Tzacomprada picks up.
- a URL government will fully boycott Tzaracomprada. He will not be eligible for any Government-related jobs, including "Information Liaison", and there will be no engagement with his media outlets;

AND THAT we can remain staunch on this as long as he remains staunch on being a vesnéir.

The convention also expresses its regret that the Progressive Alliance have seemingly decided that sexual harassers can get away with it if they just act shameless for long enough; and also expresses its sincere sympathy to Crement Itravilatx for, you know, everything.

Everyone knows that the URL leads a cultural boycott of the sex-pest leader of the Green Party, but the following is a political question which I am quite curious about. So, this is addressed to the Green Party as a whole.

Why are you* voting against 62RZ17, the Party List Priority Act?

* With the honorable exception of cxhn @Crement Itravilatx

I don't really expect a thought out answer; but it's good to get the Green Party on record about their attitude to the Democracy Agenda and representative democracy in general. Especially given the Progressive Alliance's commendable willingness to negotiate.

¡Estimadas es estimats Uniunistaes!

As mandated by Constitution II.E, this Convention is entitled to nominate a candidate for Seneschal in the upcoming elections, who will be placed first on our party list.

It seems that it falls to me to do so; as I did at the inaugural Convention. And reading my speech from that Convention, I'm struck with a feeling of detxa vischtă.

We still have a party run by an unrepentant sexual harasser. I give that leader credit, though, to have figured out a way around being shunned by everyone else in Talossa: procuring the immigration of a new member who is not going to complain about being sexually harassed by their party leader. I wonder if this person is actually aware of their party leader and beloved companion's recent behaviour in Talossa, though.

Happily, the cordon sanitaire is mostly holding; although not entirely. The Foreign Minister seems to see fit to allow sex pests to act as "information liaisons" to other countries. When I questioned the Seneschal about this at the Informal Session, he seemed somewhat less than full-throated in defending this; I wonder whether it was a "solo run" by the Foreign Minister which the Seneschal backed for the sake of Cabinet unity. Nonetheless, this kind of thing will not survive the election of a URL-led government. For us, no sex pests means no sex pests in any role in the gift of the Government; short of sincere repentance.

And we still have a major political party - one now leading the Government! - which dislikes the basic principle of representative democracy. The Seneschal holds firm to his belief that a Cosa vote is a vote for a "brand", a party leader; that the Cosa is simply a mathematical construct demonstrating how popular each brand/leader was on Election Day, that "seats" should be in the free gift of such a leader to hand out post facto.

In contrast, the URL believes that a Cosa election should be just that - an election of members of the Cosa. Voters should be, as far as practicable, choosing their preferred representative or team of representatives. If a party benefits big from getting the approval of less-active voters, but does not have the will or capacity to find people who wish to actively represent voters, that should count as a penalty against such a party. This is our Democracy Agenda. We think Talossa should be a representative democracy (under a constitutional monarchy, if you insist), as that would be understood in any other country. We bluntly think that anyone who disagrees - even using the figleaf of "Talossan peculiarity" - is someone who benefits from a lack of democracy.

To this extent, our victory in pushing through the Pseudo-Real Cosa - and our agreement with the Government to let the Broosking Swing amendment through - is a huge, positive step. If this survives through to the 64th Cosa, then at least there will no longer be a situation where one MC's vote will count more than 20 times than another. Although - if the Seneschal's argument were to prevail - of course a party leader who wins a majority could say "I assign 11 seats to me!", and therefore be the Cosa, in the same way that King Robert I could in the late 80s. So let's not let that happen.

In any case, that brings up the biggest victory for Talossa of this governmental term; the belated conclusion of a "non-aggression pact" between the Government and the URL. This should have happened before the First Clark. The URL were out there offering not only an abstention, but even a YES on the VoC, in return for policy/legislative concessions. The Progressive Alliance were not interested - as the Seneschal-to-be said openly, because they were personally angry at the URL's campaign. I'm not sure why I would have expected any thing else. Part of the PA leader's political approach is to collect a "broad tent", held together less by positive policy planks but by resentment of the outgoing government. The more we critiqued this negative politics, the more resentful they got.

But we saw where this "government by spite" ended up. It ended up with the Government cutting a deal with an absolute monarchist party led by a relatively new citizen - one for whom I have quite a lot of personal affection! - who ended up both politically and personally unreliable. Which led the Government back to us, to make a deal that could have been done better and earlier if we weren't voting out of hurt feelings. The Democracy Agenda is, in part, a hope for a Talossan politics which is based on political principle rather than personal beef. It requires a Cosa consisting of teams of representatives, not by Big Bosses trading "seats" as if they were poker chips.

Nonetheless, I have actually enjoyed relations with the Seneschal over the last month or so. When you take the partisan heat out of the equation, patriotic Talossans of goodwill can come to agreements. And the Seneschal is patriotic, in the sense that KR1 defined: "Talossan patriotism is the determination that Talossa should continue to exist". The URL are, in our own way, also patriots.

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Leaving all that aside, though; the Democracy Agenda/constitutional issue, and recriminations about how PA/URL relations have gone during this Cosa, is all well and good. But it doesn't make an argument for a change of Government.

How, for example, should the URL respond to the Government's recent Immigration statement? The statement makes a lot of assertions about immigration statistics and immigration policy. I confess that my personal attitude to all this is that it's somewhat irrelevant. I'm not a "natalist". I think the raw number of Talossan citizens is of far less interest than the number of active participants in Talossan culture and institutions. Although, to go back to points mentioned above, it shouldn't surprise me that the party leader who's insistent that his party shouldn't have to find active legislators is more interested in raw numbers. ("If you can't quantify it, it doesn't exist" is one of the regular traps of economic theory, parenthetically.)

I mention this as an example, because a lot of people out there don't vote on the constitutional issue, more or less democracy. They don't vote based on personal beef, alhamdulillah. They vote based on perceptions of general "competence" and "activity". This is the role of any party who wants to make a positive case that we should replace the incumbent government.

This is the challenge for the Union of Free Reformists. The argument for the Democracy Agenda is our raziun d'estar. But that won't win us an election. An alternative Seneschal who can promise to administer and to promote an active and healthy Talossa, and to build a team of not only legislators but shadow Ministers to do so, is what is required.

And there is none more qualified to do that in this party than @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be , whom I nominate to be the URL candidate for Seneschal of Talossa at the 63rd Cosa election.

¡Så vivadra Talossa! ¡Så vivadra Talossa democrätic!

¡Estimadas es estimats Uniunistaes!

Under Constitution II.A.1, I rise to nominate as the three members of the Comità to be elected by this Convention, the outgoing Comità: namely, myself, @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be , and @Antaglha Xhenerös Somelieir .

Our Constitution II.A.6 provides that, in addition to the three members elected by this convention at large to our leadership, every provincial caucus with three or more members is also entitled to elect a representative.

Current membership numbers are:

Atatürk: 5 members
Belacosta: 3 members
Cézembre: 2 members
Florencia: 2 members
Fiova: 5 members
Maricopa: 2 members
Maritiimi-Maxhestic: 3 members
Vuode: 4 members.

Therefore, I invite URL members living in Atatürk, Belacosta, Fiova, Maritiimi-Maxhestic and Vuode to consider whether any of them want to represent their province in our Leadership.

The Union of Free Reformists / L'Union dels Reformistaes Livereschti



Who we are: Talossa's leading opposition party, dedicated to "progress, democracy and liberty"; 66 seats in the Cosa, 4 Senators, and some of the most important names in Talossan political and cultural history.

Leadership:
- @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be , Party President
- @Miestră Schivă, Party Secretary

Party Constitution


Party Policy

The leadership, the constitution and the policy can all be changed at our Party Convention, scheduled for the third Clark in every term of the Ziu. Next scheduled for March 2026.

Place of business: apart from this board we have a private Discord forum for members.

How to join: post here! Or contact a member of the Party Leadership

¡Estimat.das Reformistàes Livereschti!

I've been waiting until all hope of "the deal" with the Progressive Alliance broke down before posting this, but these are thoughts I've had since the election, and for that matter, during it. So I'm posting it here in the hope of some good, honest party debate on the subject. (Non-party members are welcome to make good faith contributions.)

Let's deal briefly with Baron Davinescu's assertions. He claims that we lied about them. As far as we see it - and I think the rest of the party leadership backs me up here - they outright lied about us. It started with "Miestra Schiva was going to break the law to exclude unsavory prospective citizens", and transformed into "the URL want the power to throw immigration applications into the trash". I have no way of knowing this, but my hunch is that they were always going to run some kind of immigration-related line, the pre-election boom derailed their preferred option, so it was a small "gear shift".

But is where we made our first mistake. I ignored this line of attack. "AD is having another one of those episodes," I told myself, "where he yells about a complete falsehood loudly enough that he convinces himself". I keep being told that no-one likes bickering between me and AD. I don't like it myself. So I thought I could just avoid the debate, get the bill voted down to prove a point, then start discussions afresh at that point. It didn't work. It just encouraged AD's rhetoric to inflate (to get our attention?) And unfortunately, it worked - especially on citizens who were coming back from inactivity and didn't know what was what. When they did find out what was what, they had already frozen partisan loyalties and didn't want to hear it.

Here intervened one big setback that wasn't our fault - the Chancery's decision to open election mailers way in advance of the election. This allowed Baron Davinescu to directly retail his line to a mass audience. This happened while Mic'haglh, our campaign leader, was on a work trip. I was left in a cleft stick. I could lead a counterassault myself, but I was already facing accusations that Mic'haglh was simply my puppet. I made the choice that this was Mic'haglh's campaign, for better or for worse, so I wouldn't take over. That probably damaged us, but it was also probably the better option in the long term.

But in my opinion, we made a second mistake, equal and opposite to our first. In my opinion, the Prog line that they won because of "URL negativity" has a kernel of truth around a candy-coating of self-regard. For a start, it excludes why the URL decided to go negative (the aforementioned slander). But if you go negative, you have to have a positive flipside. And our campaign messaging lacked that.

And I'm afraid I have to go back further as to why we lacked the positive flipside. That is: we did not have the stomach to defend our record as Government, and explain why we should get a third term.

There is a common factor here since the last time we lost an election to the No Miestras Clique, and that is, that time we were an exhausted Government out of ideas too. To put it bluntly, for most of the term, we had a Cabinet where, at any given moment, only 2 out of 5 Ministers were actually doing anything. Absolutely no shade intended on the other 3, who had all kinds of personal issues and other fish to fry. But nothing was happening.

There is also a debate to be had whether our mailers, when they were positive, were effective. Several times during the campaign I read a URL mailer and I had to admit - if I wasn't a party member, I couldn't see a reason being given why I should vote to re-elect the URL, apart from "the Progs are lying about us". Whether they were or not, that's insufficient.

Ages ago, I told the Free Democrats that you can't win a Talossan election without an executive programme - a list of "stuff that you'll do". I do not think an outsider could deduce one of those from URL mailers. I think this is partly down to the aforementioned political exhaustion, and partly due to inadequate communications.

I think we've come out of this in good standing for the future, though. The FreeDem/PdR merger went off without a hitch. We've built a new collective leadership around this - and the capering about the Progressives building a coalition with an opponent of democracy, then breaking that coalition up within five days, helped us significantly recruit. Being no ifs, no buts, The Party of Talossan Democracy is our new identity, and a good one.

Unfortunately, the next Cosa term is going to be marked by bitterness and mutual recrimination. It is also going to be marked by total deadlock, because, I have to say, look at the Senäts numbers. If the incoming Government do not negotiate with us, no legislation gets passed. And the PA do not want to negotiate with us.

But hey! Didn't I just say above that you can't get away with being negative without a positive, even if the negative is well deserved? The URL's task over the next Cosa term is to build our program. This includes the Democracy Agenda - our program of big constitutional changes. To some degree, the outgoing government was hampered by that. A negative heritage of the old Free Democrats was that we had a "conservative" wing which didn't want real constitutional reforms, but had stuck with the more radical among us in opposition to the Woolley monarchy. And then that raziun d'estar disappeared. So: we're now more free to dream.

But the big lessons to deal with over the next Cosa term, IMHO, are:

• Build better political communications.
• Build an Executive Programme to go with the Democracy Agenda.
• Build a strong Shadow Cabinet as the nucleus of the next Government.

I don't think "thermostatic reaction" (people just getting tired of the Government) will propel us back into power. Especially since the URL is refounding itself as a party of principle, rather than the "No Barons Clique" (I think we're allowed to have one?) It may be that a party of democratic, less-monarchy reforms will always be a minority, like the old ZRT was. But you've got to decide whether you're in this to be popular, to win titles, to have power for its own sake - or whether you have an aim.

The floor is now open for comments.

Ministry of ImmigrationIMMIGRATION APPLICATION

Application received	18 December 2025
Wittenberg account approved	18 December 2025
First Witt Post	---
Eligible for Petition	---
APPLICATION OUTCOME	APPLICATION ONGOING

Official notes:

The Ministry of Immigration, using information provided in the application and after investigating to the best of its ability, is satisfied that this application is Bona Fide.

Applicant Name:
Legal Name: Augustas Jauniškis

Wittenberg account name: @sftmlg

Gender:Male.

Year of Birth: March 2011

Location:Vilnius, Lithuania
Provincial assignment if successful: Cézembre


Who I Am:I am in 8th grade, my interests are:
Computer science, programming, mechanics, vehicles and fishing.

My Special Interests in Talossa:Politics, El glheþ talossan / the Talossan language

Where did you hear about the Kingdom of Talossa?Instagram

Verification and Declaration

Agreed to verification check: YES Link provided:  https://www.sftmlg.eu (my website), https://www.instagram.com/augustas.jau, Display links on public immigration profile: Yes

~~~ The applicant has affirmed/sworn, under penalty of perjury in Talossan law, that the information provided in this citizenship application is accurate and true. ~~~

Ministry of ImmigrationIMMIGRATION APPLICATION

Application received	18 December 2025
Wittenberg account approved	18 December 2025
First Witt Post	---
Eligible for Petition	---
APPLICATION OUTCOME	APPLICATION ONGOING

Official notes:

The Ministry of Immigration, using information provided in the application and after investigating to the best of its ability, is satisfied that this application is Bona Fide.

Applicant Name:
Legal Name: Aditeya Das

Wittenberg account name: @Aditeya

Gender:Male

Year of Birth: 1997

Location: County Cork, Ireland

Provincial assignment if successful: Cézembre

Who I Am:My name is Aditeya and I am currently working as a product specialist in Ireland, with the plan of pursuing entrepreneurship in the near future. I focus on working out, building connections and developing myself in every way that I can. Should you have any questions for me please feel free to contact me on my email or phone number.

My Special Interests in Talossa:Politics, Civil service, Sports

Where did you hear about the Kingdom of Talossa?Through social media, a video talked about it being one of the oldest micronations if that\'s an appropriate word to use

Verification and Declaration

Agreed to verification check: YES Link provided: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aditeya-das-b88692201/ Display links on public immigration profile: Yes

~~~ The applicant has affirmed/sworn, under penalty of perjury in Talossan law, that the information provided in this citizenship application is accurate and true. ~~~

The following text is adapted from a speech I made to the inaugural convention of the URL, on July 30th this year. We are struck by the way that the Progressive Alliance leader, Baron Davinescu, seems to have been personally offended by this text. He cited this analysis as one of 3 points which meant the Progressive Alliance could not work with the URL, alongside one accusation of lying and one of excessive telling-the-truth.

We are struck by the fact that this confirms one of the points of the analysis - that the Progressive Alliance have an "anti-politics", where debate around principle is replaced by "team sports". Where to criticise the principles of your opponent is indistinguishable from a supposed lie or breach of confidence. This attitude, which sees political polemic as indistinguishable from personal beef, does not make political debate purer, but drags everything down into personal beef. And this one reason why Talossans increasingly shy away from politics.

In response to this analysis, the Progressive Alliance cannot seem to form a riposte in kind; only splutter about our personal unpleasantness. Accordingly, this analysis seems to get more accurate as time goes on, so we reproduce an amended version of it here.

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There was a phenomenon in French politics of the 20th century where, since conservative politics had a bad name from years of monarchy and dictatorship, even the Right-wing parties called themselves "left" or "radical" or some such. We seem to have that issue in this country, too. Thus the main conservative party calls itself "Progressive".

During the last Cosa, a certain Cabinet minister was approached with an offer to join the main opposition party.  Hardball politics, but not outside the bounds of acceptable conduct!

But the offer was not made on the basis of political principle. It was not made on an appeal to dissatisfaction with the Government's record or political stance. No, it was made on the basis that... the Progressive Alliance's internal culture was "fun". I believe the actual comparison was made to "how things used to be in the Talossan National Congress". Only without the sex pest.

I realised that previously I referred to this party as "conservative". I did so on the basis that, whatever changes are suggested to Talossan institutions or structure, they're agin' it. But that's not actually the right word. The right word is apolitical.

This party is, as I see it, not a political party in the way the URL is. They are not held together by shared politics, but by friendships, by its internal culture. In a party which is a "social club" writ large, it's not a surprise that the party should have no distinctive politics of its own - or rather, that its politics should "default" to the preferences of whoever its most confident member is.

And an "apolitical party" produces an "apolitical politics" for Talossa. Confused? What I mean is: a politics that essentially holds that Talossa should not have politics. That debate about different visions of Talossa's future, its raison d'être (sorry, raziun d'estar), its institutional nature, is divisive and unseemly - even that it "drives away prospectives" - and that elections should reduce partly to deciding a team of administrators for the next six months, and partly to one of those funny things that Talossans do to be quirky.

I believe a kind of politics which doesn't think that there should really be politics is a danger to our democracy. The leader of this party once wrote a thread discussing court action to declare party lists inorganic. In which he made an effective argument that a party vote should be a vote for a blank cheque for a leader to hand out seats to whoever puts their hand up after the votes are already in. That is an appeal for "fan-club" politics in its purest form.

There still seem some who still seem to believe Talossa was pretty much perfect in 2011, before Reunision fouled everything, up by bringing in a group of Talossans with a different vision for the nation – that is, "real" politics. And may I say, if you wanted evidence of that, it's the discomfort of seeing our King wear the Sash of the Republic. To quote from the classics: the Republicans may have been on the losing side, but history is still out over whether it was the wrong one.

In contrast, the URL defends party lists in our current system as democratic. If the voters are to hold the legislature to account, every ballot should allow voters to know who they're putting in the Cosa (with some margin for flexibility, as in the current 1/3 of the seats).

You don't need to necessarily agree with URL's formal politics – our support for democratic reforms, "min-monarchism" and the rule of law – to appreciate our stance that there should be real politics in Talossa. That a country where politically indistinguishable "clubs" or "teams" compete on the same level as high-school cliques would be boring and annoying.

Ministry of ImmigrationIMMIGRATION APPLICATION

Application received	16 December 2025
Wittenberg account approved	16 December 2025
First Witt Post	---
Eligible for Petition	---
APPLICATION OUTCOME	APPLICATION ONGOING

Official notes:

The Ministry of Immigration, using information provided in the application and after investigating to the best of its ability, is satisfied that this application is Bona Fide.

Applicant Name:
Legal Name: Nercess Kechichian

Wittenberg account name: @Nercess

Gender:Male

Year of Birth: 2006

Location: Lebanon

Provincial assignment if successful: Atatürk

Who I Am:I am a curious and open-minded person who enjoys learning about different cultures, languages, and creative communities. What matters most to me is personal growth, creativity, and being part of meaningful projects, even if they are symbolic or cultural. I am interested in how nations, identities, and traditions are formed and expressed. In my free time, I enjoy exploring history, languages, sports, and online communities that bring people together from different backgrounds. I see Talossa as a unique cultural project and I would be happy to learn, participate, and contribute in a positive way.

My Special Interests in Talossa:Politics, Sports
Other, if any: Thats it

Where did you hear about the Kingdom of Talossa?I Found it by doing a research project

Verification and Declaration

Agreed to verification check: YES Display links on public immigration profile: No

~~~ The applicant has affirmed/sworn, under penalty of perjury in Talossan law, that the information provided in this citizenship application is accurate and true. ~~~

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on December 15, 2025, 04:45:57 PMWe would like to assign twenty seats (20) to Sir Xhorxh Pol Briga, UrN ...

We would like to assign twenty (20) seats to Baroness Cjantscheir ...

And lastly, we would like to assign seven (7) seats to John, Duke of Lupul...

The same political clique, sticking together over almost 2 decades; united by the belief that Talossa is theirs and it is impermissible for others to run it without their consent.

I got it wrong in the old days - I used to think it was loyalty to John as monarch. No, it's loyalty to each other. As we said in 2012:

Compare and contrast:

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on December 12, 2025, 09:29:21 AMThe URL repeatedly and knowingly lied about our flagship Public Process Act,

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu, presumably, in a PA mailer, 20th OctoberWe're only a few days away from the end of the voting for the Clark, and we're very close to the current URL government killing The Public Process Act.  Your Talossan government is trying to keep the power to secretly control who even gets to apply to immigrate!

(emphasis added)

The latter outright lie won a plurality of votes for the PA.  Unfortunately, when we chose not to "hit back", these lies were broadcast to the broad masses by mailer, so that didn't work. Here's another one:

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on December 12, 2025, 09:29:21 AMOne of the URL leaders, our current Seneschal, took a phrase out of context from a private conversation in order to lie about its meaning.  She was messaging with a past ally to scold him for his decision to support the Progressive Alliance, and she demanded that he denounce me publicly.  He said in dismissal of such a demand, "we're trying to win an election here." 

Since people get upset when I quote them, let's quote what I actually said to provoke this response:

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on November 05, 2025, 06:08:46 PMI mean, AD's latest post is just what I mean. He is outright lying about what Mic'haglh has said to him to try to score a political point. And you're going along with it?

In what way is this a "demand to denounce [AD] publicly" as opposed to, say, an objection to someone telling outright lies? It is of course possible that the Baron hasn't actually seen the message, in which case he's not lying, but is instead being lied to. So it appears to be lies all round up in this joint.

Ministry of ImmigrationIMMIGRATION APPLICATION

Application received	10 December 2025
Wittenberg account approved	10 December 2025
First Witt Post	---
Eligible for Petition	---
APPLICATION OUTCOME	APPLICATION TERMINATED

Official notes:

The Ministry of Immigration, using information provided in the application and after investigating to the best of its ability, is satisfied that this application is Bona Fide.

Applicant Name:

Deed Poll Name: Jay Geo Long
Wittenberg account name: @sfadeth

Gender:Male He/Him

Year of Birth: 2009

Location:Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Provincial assignment if successful: Atatürk

Who I Am:Hi I\'m Jay, I like skateboarding, rock music, and I\'m born in Singapore, but live in Saudi Arabia, I used to work as a part time check in agent at my local airport, it led me to see multiple nationalities, which got me into loving to know new nationalities/passports!

My Special Interests in Talossa:Politics, Civil service

Where did you hear about the Kingdom of Talossa?I found out from some videos and a google search, and it all went from there.

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Agreed to verification check: YES Display links on public immigration profile: No

~~~ The applicant has affirmed/sworn, under penalty of perjury in Talossan law, that the information provided in this citizenship application is accurate and true. ~~~

... for the Progressive Alliance to come to their senses;

drop the "coalition" deal which would bring anti-democratic forces into the Government of the country;

and return to negotiating confidence/supply deals with both the URL and the IDT.

This blunder which has crippled the new Seneschalsqåb before it has even started is reversible.

This from my address to the Party Convention some months ago, referring to the Progressive Alliance:

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on July 29, 2025, 05:03:04 PMI realised that previously I referred to this party as "conservative". I did so on the basis that, whatever changes are suggested to Talossan institutions or structure, they're agin' it. But that's not actually the right word. The right word is apolitical.

This party is, as I see it, not a political party in the way our new URL is. They are not held together by shared politics, but by friendships, by its internal culture. In a party which is a "social club" writ large, it's not a surprise that the party should have no distinctive politics of its own - or rather, that its politics should "default" to the preferences of whoever its most confident member is.

And an "apolitical party" produces an "apolitical politics" for Talossa. Confused? What I mean is: a politics that essentially holds that Talossa should not have politics. That debate about different visions of Talossa's future, its raison d'être (sorry, raziun d'estar), its institutional nature, is divisive and unseemly - even that it "drives away prospectives" - and that elections should reduce partly to deciding a team of administrators for the next six months, and partly to one of those funny things that Talossans do to be quirky.

The spectacle of a "progressive" party forming a coalition with an absolute monarchist party has confirmed my analysis above. Smoothing over any possible political differences to build the broadest possible consensus - what I refer to as "anti-politics" - leads to the same place as absolute monarchy, i.e. principled opposition and ideological disagreement are delegitimised.

Number of valid votes = 9
Quota for election = 2.25 votes

First preference vote totals:

@GV 3
@Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC 3
@Garth Spencer 1
@Bråneu Excelsio, UrN 1
@Üc R. Tärfă 1

@GV and @Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC are elected.

Distribution of preferences to follow.

Ministry of ImmigrationIMMIGRATION APPLICATION

Application received	24 November 2025
Wittenberg account approved	24 November 2025
First Witt Post	---
Eligible for Petition	---
APPLICATION OUTCOME	APPLICATION TERMINATED

Official notes:

The Ministry of Immigration, using information provided in the application and after investigating to the best of its ability, is satisfied that this application is Bona Fide.

Applicant Name:
Legal Name: Miguel Ángel García Fernández
or
Wittenberg account name: @Miguel Ángel

Gender:Male

Year of Birth: 1997 (

Location: Granada, Spain
Provincial assignment if successful: Belacosta

Who I Am:Volunteering

My Special Interests in Talossa:Civil service

Where did you hear about the Kingdom of Talossa?Internet

Verification and Declaration

Agreed to verification check: YES Link provided:  No Display links on public immigration profile: Yes

~~~ The applicant has affirmed/sworn, under penalty of perjury in Talossan law, that the information provided in this citizenship application is accurate and true. ~~~

Ministry of ImmigrationIMMIGRATION APPLICATION

Application received	23 November 2025
Wittenberg account approved	24 November 2025
First Witt Post	---
Eligible for Petition	---
APPLICATION OUTCOME	APPLICATION TERMINATED

Official notes:

The Ministry of Immigration, using information provided in the application and after investigating to the best of its ability, is satisfied that this application is Bona Fide.

Applicant Name:
Legal Name: Yakup Özçelik
or
Wittenberg account name: @yakupozcelik39

Gender:Male

Year of Birth: 2010

Location:Türkiye
Provincial assignment if successful: Atatürk

Who I Am:I am studying Informatics in a vocational high school. I know a little Python and C#. We are currently learning Object Oriented Programming at school. When I graduate, I will be a software developer and IT personnel.

My Special Interests in Talossa:Civil service

Where did you hear about the Kingdom of Talossa?I found it while researching various unknown nations. I think Talossa better than my country.

Verification and Declaration

Agreed to verification check: YES Link provided:  https://www.instagram.com/yakupozcelik.39 Display links on public immigration profile: Yes

~~~ The applicant has affirmed/sworn, under penalty of perjury in Talossan law, that the information provided in this citizenship application is accurate and true. ~~~

Ministry of ImmigrationIMMIGRATION APPLICATION

Application received	21 November 2025
Wittenberg account approved	21 November 2025
First Witt Post	---
Eligible for Petition	---
APPLICATION OUTCOME	APPLICATION TERMINATED

Official notes:

The Ministry of Immigration, using information provided in the application and after investigating to the best of its ability, is satisfied that this application is Bona Fide.

Applicant Name:
Legal Name: Yusuf Yağız Yar
or
Wittenberg account name: @YYagiz

Gender:Male

Year of Birth: 2007

Location:Türkiye, İstanbul

Provincial assignment if successful: Atatürk

Who I Am:Hello, my name is Yağız. I am an 18 year old university student. I deal with software in my spare time and I love playing basketball.

My Special Interests in Talossa:Politics, Sports
Other, if any: Your respect for Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of my country, and the value you give him, your name in your country

Where did you hear about the Kingdom of Talossa?İnstagram

Verification and Declaration

Agreed to verification check: YES Link provided:  https://www.instagram.com/28yygz/ Display links on public immigration profile: Yes

~~~ The applicant has affirmed/sworn, under penalty of perjury in Talossan law, that the information provided in this citizenship application is accurate and true. ~~~

Ministry of ImmigrationIMMIGRATION APPLICATION

Application received	20 November 2025
Wittenberg account approved	20 November 2025
First Witt Post	---
Eligible for Petition	---
APPLICATION OUTCOME	APPLICATION TERMINATED

Official notes:

The Ministry of Immigration, using information provided in the application and after investigating to the best of its ability, is satisfied that this application is Bona Fide.

Applicant Name:
Legal Name: Aiden Dean Blankenburg
or
Wittenberg account name: @Justanothertalossan

Gender:Male | He/Him

Year of Birth: September 2011

Location: West Bend, Washington County, WI

Provincial assignment if successful: Atatürk

Who I Am:As of right now, I find myself interested in aviation and motorsport. In the future, I strive to achieve a college degree in some part of the software field.

My Special Interests in Talossa:Politics, El glheþ talossan / the Talossan language, Heraldry

Where did you hear about the Kingdom of Talossa?While researching about Micronations in the United States

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Agreed to verification check: YES

~~~ The applicant has affirmed/sworn, under penalty of perjury in Talossan law, that the information provided in this citizenship application is accurate and true. ~~~

Ministry of ImmigrationIMMIGRATION APPLICATION

Application received	18 November 2025
Wittenberg account approved	18 November 2025
First Witt Post	24 November 2025
Eligible for Petition	9 December 2025
APPLICATION OUTCOME	APPLICATION ONGOING

Official notes:

The Ministry of Immigration, using information provided in the application and after investigating to the best of its ability, is satisfied that this application is Bona Fide.

Applicant Name:
Legal Name: Semih ERGEÇ
or
Wittenberg account name: @semih ergec

Gender:Male

Year of Birth: 1984 (

Location: Bursa, Türkiye
Provincial assignment if successful: Atatürk

Who I Am:I manufacture fish food

My Special Interests in Talossa:Politics, Civil service, El glheþ talossan / the Talossan language

Where did you hear about the Kingdom of Talossa?social media

Verification and Declaration

Agreed to verification check: YES Link provided:  https://www.facebook.com/semihergec Display links on public immigration profile: Yes

~~~ The applicant has affirmed/sworn, under penalty of perjury in Talossan law, that the information provided in this citizenship application is accurate and true. ~~~

Q. What do you call a Talossan politician who makes a habit of telling inflammatory falsehoods about his political opposition; recruits inactive citizens on the basis of those falsehoods; and then when this upsets people, lectures his opponents about "angry fights" and "the politics of hatred"?

A. If there's not a big turnaround in the election, you'll call him Seneschal.

Baron Davinescu keeps doing this because it works politically. If you wrap serious accusations of corruption and criminality in polite language, then you look like the good guy when your opponents get mad (for those who weren't paying attention). Ironic, because he recognizes the routine of victim-blaming ("my behaviour is not the problem, but your reaction is") when the Sex Pest party leader does it.

Anyway, ere are some historical memes of previous elections where Baron Davinescu he did exactly the same thing; found these when looking for something else.