As Amada Merþedes has not been active for around 18 months, is there some other Cézembrean that would like to be moderator for these Cézembre board area?

With respect, Cézembre mourns the passing of Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.

Take a moment today to pause and reflect on the supreme sacrifice and ultimate victory that was in part achieved by the landings in Normandy, just a bit east of our province in the area of Brittany.  Operation Overlord went into action 77 years ago on June 6, 1944.

The summer session of l'Etats will cover 21 June to 21 September.  Legislative activity will begin in RAK discussion with items being brought forth as the opportunities present themselves.

This is the official public polling place for the April/May 2022 election for l'Etats de Cézembre, with notice posted in https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=1199.0 and also sent via email to all citizens.  Those who wish to vote by secret ballot should reference a link that has been sent to them via Electionbuddy.com with their access key and password for the specific vote at https://secure.electionbuddy.com/m/7FgtM3u/1l7lssdlfo/ and if there is any issue in receipt of same to make a declaration here for assistance or send a personal message to Le Sénéchal de Cézembre, @X. Pol Briga who has been re-elected as per A8: The Sénéchal Elections Act of the CÉZEMBREAN ADMINISTRATION GUIDE as being the sole candidate.

The candidates are as follows:
@Txosuè Éiric Rôibeardescù
@X. Pol Briga

Citizens should select one candidate, or abstain. 

The total votes a candidate receives will place them into the allocation system for seats as defined in Article 9 of the CÉZEMBREAN ADMINISTRATION GUIDE (CAG)  There are up to 20 seats assigned in the election, but one person may only hold a maximum of 6 seats.  A candidate must receive at least one vote in order to enter the allocation process.  As per the proclamation of election, referencing various parts of the CAG, since the province is conducting the election, there is not a process for write in nominations, and there are named candidates who represent a party who are allocated seats until such time as they may allocate seats to any other Cézembre they see fit.

There is one Amendment to the CAG on the Ballot:

Sticky Slate Amendment

Whereas

The Cezembre Administration Guide specifies when Cezembre conducts an election, and

Whereas as per Article 14 specifies that the candidates must declare prior to the election their intent to stand, and

Whereas

Thus there are not write-in candidates, and

Whereas

It is desirable to have the option to retain effective legislators, and

Whereas

There can be logistical challenges when Cezembre elections are held by statute no earlier than one week nor no later than two weeks after the general election of the Ziu, and

Whereas

The right for anyone to declare candidacy shall be maintained, and

Whereas

The right for anyone to decline candidacy shall be maintained

BE IT RESOLVED that

All seated l'Etats members shall be placed on the ballot for the next session of l'Etats, unless they specifically request not to be listed along with others who declare their candidacy. Others not already seated in l'Etats may declare their candidacy during the nomination period.

This process only establishes the slate of candidates -- if a candidate does not receive any votes, they would not enter into the apportionment specified in CAG Article 9.

Voters will select YES, NO, or ABSTAIN

Since a budget for this activity has not been established, it shall proceed under the free version of Electionbuddy, which allows for a simple election for up to 20 ballots.  Since there are 19 citizens currently according to talossa.ca, all will receive a secret ballot, however, any may choose to vote in public instead.  There will be no administrative access to the secret ballot until the end of the election period on 14 May and any other person may request access to the balloting system to review the results.

The Cézembre Land Office has published an updated map of homestead claims through 31 March 2022.  New claims may be made to be considered by l'Etats in upcoming sessions.

Click on the map to download a high resolution pdf

The Cézembre election will be conducted in a manner similar to the previous iteration.  Candidates for l'Etats, and Sénéchal may declare their candidacy in this thread.  Up for polling of the populace will also be the (to be finalized) Sticky Slate Amendment discussed at https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=883.0

Polling information to follow.

an attempt at translation - can anyone suggest edits?
Celebratar Péngö Reconeiçal Ziuă
Celebrate Penguin Awareness Day
20 Januar

So as not to conflict with the current or next Cosa session, and to conduct business such as homestead claim confirmations and other items brought forth from the RAK, I hereby call a session of l'Etats de Cézembre for 24-31 January 2022.

X. Pol Briga
le Sénéchal

As might relate to legal discussion in other forums... I suppose I could take a cut at it and let others correct my flawed language skills while I learn - that is if this hadn't been done previously.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the most translated document in the world, according to Guinness World Records. The six page document was produced by the United Nations in 1948, and has been translated into over 500 languages and dialects from around the world, ranging from Abkhaz to Zulu. The document outlined for the first time, the fundamental human rights to be universally protected. The premise is that all people, regardless of their race, religion, country of origin, or any other factor, are entitled to those rights enshrined within the document.

In the first year of the Cézembre Homestead Act, there have been seven citizens who have availed themselves of the opportunity as follows:

Name followed by the English claim and the French claim (which describe the same location)
GV   
https://w3w.co/prevent.ducking.cancels
https://w3w.co/sabotier.croître.proposons

Iason Taiwos   
https://w3w.co/blacksmith.sidewalk.administered   
https://w3w.co/batteur.solfège.squelette

Dr. Txec Róibeard dal Nordselva   
https://w3w.co/education.reposed.prevent   
https://w3w.co/herculéenne.mimétique.beaucoup

Béneditsch Ardpresteir   
https://w3w.co/heartthrob.prepped.unlaced   
https://w3w.co/détachons.voguant.nageons

xpb   
https://w3w.co/chunked.corners.laughed   
https://w3w.co/élogieuse.mâcheur.aqueduc

Antaglha Xhenerös Somelieir   
https://w3w.co/fall.marshmallow.disordered   
https://w3w.co/réaliser.touchant.rivaliser

Ián Tamorán S.H   
https://w3w.co/storage.calculates.irksome   
https://w3w.co/patience.verbaux.éditrice
https://what3words.com/bwytawyr.llosgiad.maere (an additional description in Celtic, and those who desire a homestead are encouraged to describe their location in any language offered in w3w in addition to English and French)

This image of a map also links to a higher resolution PDF


All others interested are encouraged to complete the form for the Cézembre Land Office or to send email with an inquiry to cezembrelandoffice@gmail.com

I have a referral to the wait list for LearnedLeague.com available for anyone who would be interested.

FAQ at https://learnedleague.com/thorsten/freq.php

Next Official Invitations Date:   January 19, 2022
Next Wait List Update:   February 9, 2022

If you clear the wait list then the next 25 day season will start on Feb 14 with lots of mini leagues and specialty quizzes prior to that time (and between seasons)

is there a 56th Cosă -- December Discussion Thread?

Talossan Quiz Olympiad Team

I will be attending the 2nd Quiz Olympiad in Krakow, Poland in November (see quizolympiad.com).  Will there be any other Talossans available?

The idea is to gain public awareness of the Kingdom by issuing various proclamations to be accepted by the International Quizzing Association [IQA] (of which I am a former board member and well connected to those currently serving) as a recognized entity within the National Teams Quiz.  I don't recall that the Kingdom has had a team officially recognized in any international competition - does anyone recall any?

The benefit to the IQA would be to get attention via a special interest news item, something that could get traction on the web in places like fark.com or others that harvest unusual news.  The key would be recognition as a nation - there is always the aspirational competition where people can name teams as they like but that would not be a referencing a squad as the national representative.  It could be pitched as a one-off (or two off, as discussed later on) such that they could implement this one time but withhold such recognition in the future, or carefully vet it.  This might have more traction if there were an odd number of recognized nations present, as they typically will let all the national entities play at least one face to face game after the initial qualifier written quiz.

While there are individual and pairs events, the Nations Teams are squads of up to 4.  Should this idea progress, and there were not enough existing Talossans available, there would need to be sufficient time (likely 3 weeks prior) such that those among the quizzing community that were not already on a national team that in turn were also interested in becoming an active citizen in Talossa would be recruited.  This would not have the purpose of creating additiona "paper" citizens only for the purpose of the competition, but to find those who would truly become participants in the realm.

A backup plan if the Nations path were blocked would be to participate in the Aspirational competition, and to also determine if there were another group of people attending that were affiliated with another micronation or other non-national subdivision.  Then there would be at least one Talossa vs something match after the initial seeding.

Thoughts?  Interest by other Talossans either who are quizzers, or those located in Europe who could attend 45 days from now?

A sweetener - I will be willing to provide the registration (€425.00) for up to 3 other Talossans who would handle their own travel and lodging should some semblance of recogntion of Talossa take place within the event.

XPB

Has the Kingdom ever had ambassadors to various other micronational entities, such as:

http://www.molossia.org/ founded 1977

http://atlantium.org/ founded 1981

https://conchrepublic.com/ founded 1982

https://www.ladonia.org/ founded 1996 (history back to 1980)

etc.

also,

Has anyone attended a previous MicroCon (next scheduled for 2022) https://micronations.wiki/wiki/MicroCon_2022 ?

originally posted in https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=868.0

As related to https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=734.0

RAK - The Lord Warden Shall Post Votes in Public

Be it resolved that when there is Voting and Debate thread for a Clark where a Lord Warden takes part, that person shall post their votes in public in the appropriate thread of discussion within the Senäts

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!
@Ián Tamorán and pending a 2nd representative for 5 FD seats
@Txosuè Éiric Rôibeardescù LCC
@Glüc da Dhi S.H. P

The following legislation is submitted for official discussion and possible amendment through 19 July 2021 after which there will be a voting period beginning 20 July until 11 voted seats are in favor of the measure or a plurality by 3 August.  RAK discussion in draft maybe found at https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=868.0

A14 Adoption of Breton / Brezhoneg as an official language of Cézembre

Cézembre is located in the region of Brittany, near to that peninsula flowing into the Atlantic sea and the English Channel in north west France, and

Whereas
Cézembre has adopted the historic flag of Brittany, and

Whereas
Brittany is the traditional homeland of the Breton people as one of the six Celtic nations, and

Whereas
Breton is also the name of the language of the Breton people, and

Whereas in CAG Article 5.
The sole historic and national language of the entire Talossan people, and therefore of the Cézembrian Province, is the Talossan language (el glhetg Talossan).
The Cézembrian government shall also recognise English and French as useful working second languages, and may adopt tertiary working languages by law.

Be it resolved that
The Cézembrian government shall recognize Breton as a tertiary working language.

Ureu q'estadra sa,

@X. Pol Briga

The latest version, 2021-2 of the Cézembrean Administrative Guide (CAG) has been published. 
Nomenclature has changed to the year followed by the revision number and will be updated at least with every election, major office change, or major piece of legislation, no matter how many may occur within a calendar year.
(The previous document was listed as 55-1 which used the Cosa session and revision number)

CAG 2021-2 can be found at
https://drive.google.com/file/d/114dtHIc6v-U_OztH5PCpTOfT8cLu9czl/view?usp=sharing

and has the updates of legislation approved after the previous revision, including
results of the most recent elections, and

A10 - The It's About Time Act (confirmed by the Crown on 19 January 2021)
and
A13 - An Act to Secure Homesteads on the Isle of Cézembre (confirmed by the Crown on 30 January 2021)

A map of all Homesteads may be found at
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M6mxOy3mNgvUk7OX_BPR4CoBKlsGlHoY/view?usp=sharing

Of note:
Based upon recent executive actions that needed to be undertaken to clarify conflicting elements of the CAG related to elections and their possible conflict with polices as the level of the Talossan Chancery, there will likely need to be revision of various Articles.  Comments and suggestions as well as corrections to this document are encouraged to be placed within this discussion thread.

TO L'ETATS REPRESENTATIVES
@Ián Tamorán as representative of FD - the Free Democrats of Talossa, and pending a 2nd representative as any one member may only hold 6 seats
@Txosuè Éiric Rôibeardescù as representative of LCC - The League of Centre Conservatives
@Glüc da Dhi S.H. as representative of P - the Partisan party
and myself @X. Pol Briga as representative of B - Balançeu / Balance

I propose in the timeframe of the 56th Ziu within l'Etats not to hold specific sessions with multiple agenda items -- as that did not seem to have adequate participation in the previous session. 

Instead, implemented under my administrative authority,  there will be a specific three week timeframe for each proposed piece of legislation.  The RAK remains a place for proposed legislation to collect early feedback and revisions.  An item moved from the RAK https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?board=31.0 to this forum then will have one week for additional discussion and amendment, and then a fortnight following for voting, where members may also make comments along with their vote of per, non, or aus.  There may be multiple legislative items being considered simultaneously - each on their own time track, however, the intent is to simplify to one issue at a time as often as possible.

If a majority of 11 votes in favor are received within that fortnight at any point, the measure is adopted, or in some cases approved for referal to the citizens of Cézembre.  Otherwise, if there are a pluratlity of votes in favor after that fortnight (a total of 3 weeks after proposal) then the measure is adopted, in cases where l'Etats members may be absent and do not provide a proxy in some fashion.  l'Etats members may choose another Cézembre citizen as their proxy as they see fit.  If the person chosen is not a current member of l'Etats, the proxy shall only last for the duration of then current issue and only be applied to that specific issue.

As per Article 9 of the CAG, the seats are apportioned as follows:
Seats Votes
  6       3   Ián Tamorán as representative of FD - the Free Democrats of Talossa
  5       ^   to be assigned
  3       1   Txosuè Éiric Rôibeardescù as representative of LCC
  3       1   X. Pol Briga as representative of B - Balançeu / Balance
  3       1   Glüc da Dhi S.H. as representative of P - the Partisan party

- XPB as le Sénéchal

This is the official public polling place for the election for  l'Etats de Cézembre, with notice posted in https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=905.0 and also sent via email to all citizens.  Those who wish to vote by secret ballot should reference a link that has been sent to them via Electionbuddy.com and if there is any issue in receipt of same to make a declaration here for assistance or send a personal message to Le Sénéchal de Cézembre, @X. Pol Briga who has been re-elected as per A8: The Sénéchal Elections Act of the CÉZEMBREAN ADMINISTRATION GUIDE as being the sole candidate.

The candidates are as follows:
@Txosuè Éiric Rôibeardescù as representative of LCC - The League of Centre Conservatives
@X. Pol Briga as representative of B - Balançeu / Balance
@Ián Tamorán as representative of FD - the Free Democrats of Talossa
@Glüc da Dhi S.H. as representative of P - the Partisan party

Citizens should select one candidate.  The total votes a candidate receives will place them into the allocation system for seats as defined in Article 9 of the CÉZEMBREAN ADMINISTRATION GUIDE (CAG)  There are up to 20 seats assigned in the election, but one person may only hold a maximum of 6 seats.  A candidate must receive at least one vote in order to enter the allocation process.  As per the proclamation of election, referencing various parts of the CAG, since the province is conducting the election, there is not a process for write in nominations, and there are named candidates who represent a party who are allocated seats until such time as they may allocate seats to any other Cézembre they see fit.

Since a budget for this activity has not been established, it shall proceed under the free version of Electionbuddy, which allows for a simple election for up to 20 ballots.  Since there are 21 citizens currently, Le Sénéchal de Cézembre, @X. Pol Briga offers to forego a secret ballot and vote in public (as he has always done).  Other citizens may still choose to vote in public or via secret ballot, and there will be no administrative access to the secret ballot until the end of the election period on 28 June (29 June CZT) and any other person may request access to the balloting system to review the results.