Citizenship Petition for Nicholas Richard Burman

WHEREAS it has been more than a fortnight since Nicholas Richard Burman first posted on Wittenberg and in that time he has demonstrated an active and genuine interest in Talossanity, and

WHEREAS Nicholas Richard Burman desires citizenship in the Kingdom of Talossa and by all indications it appears that he would be a loyal and dedicated citizen and a credit to this nation if he obtains a grant of citizenship, and

WHEREAS I, have communicated via Zoom with Nicholas Richard Burman last Thursday as a private Talossan citizen, so


THEREFORE I, Istefan Éovart Perþonest, petition the Secretary of State to issue a grant of citizenship to Nicholas Richard Burman, as specified by law.

Quote from: Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on October 07, 2020, 07:21:16 PM
No objections being heard, Thursday it is. 8:00 EST.

Having recovered from my cold, I should be awake at the start time this week, and more coherent in my interactions.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on September 26, 2020, 03:28:24 PM
I mean, I'd do it if you really thought it was important, but honestly I've been trying to take AD's advice, i.e. be absent because it'll encourage people to fill the gap. Hasn't worked, lol

That's fine, I was just seeing if being a bit provocative could provoke someone into activity. Looked to be vaguely inside the ambit of "advise, encourage, and warn".

(If I thought the absence of a Capitán an actual crisis, rather than make a public post, I'd have gone directly to you-as-provincial-SoS about it. After all, then the goal would be getting the job filled, not trying to see if talking about "Acting Capitán Donald Trump" woke people up.)

While in general I feel that the best way for me to interact with Fiôvâ's governance is entirely at the request of the elected government, I note that Fiôvâ currently doesn't have one.

So, since I do have the power to appoint an Acting Capitán for the province under Article V of Fiôvâ's constitution, and given the extended vacancy in that office, I'm wondering if I should appoint one.

(Not that I have any candidates in mind. Incidentally, did y'all ever notice you didn't specify that the Capitán had to be either a Fiôvân or a Talossan in your Constitution, and so I could appoint, say, Donald Trump as Acting Capitán? You know, that might actually convince someone to volunteer to be elected Capitán . . .)

Quote from: Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on September 21, 2020, 05:37:15 AM

Quote from: Istefan Perþonest on September 21, 2020, 03:34:31 AM
No, I'm "Toruun". And I'm holding off actually creating my character until I know what the rest of the party is like.

(I figure people with less D&D experience should get their choices, and the guy with thirty years' playing experience and seven paid TTRPG writing credits can slot in a character wherever's appropriate.)

I didn't know that about you!  You can wait to make your character if you want, sure.

Very minor credits, mind.  Contributions to Scarred Lands open calls back for D&D 3rd-era D20 material that got into four books, one Munchkin d20 article for D20 Weekly during the brief period it was a going webzine, two GURPS articles for Pyramid when it was a webzine. All paid at three cents a word; I framed the first check because I thought it was worth more as a wall decoration than the $8.73 I could get at a bank.

Quote from: Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on September 20, 2020, 06:23:16 PM

Quote from: Ian Plätschisch on September 20, 2020, 04:40:30 PM
OK, I have a character made (although I have no idea what equipment to pick). What do I do now?

Are you Toruun?  It still says you haven't finished making your character at all.  Just pick whatever equipment makes the most sense to you as you finish up -- we'll sort you out in the finer details once the broad strokes of what you'd like to play are filled-in.

No, I'm "Toruun". And I'm holding off actually creating my character until I know what the rest of the party is like.

(I figure people with less D&D experience should get their choices, and the guy with thirty years' playing experience and seven paid TTRPG writing credits can slot in a character wherever's appropriate.)

Quote from: Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on September 19, 2020, 11:24:10 AM
It recently came up in the immigration board that there are some folks interested in playing D&D.  I'd be happy to DM a one-shot in 5th edition just to start, using Foundry VTT.  It's okay if you're new, since I have a lot of experience with newbies and 5e is really remarkably easy to play.  Please post here if you'd be interested.  Play hours would be something like 8-11 pm EST on some weeknight or another, depending on scheduling.

Count me in.

Istefan Perþonest, Maestro of Benito.

Quote from: Eiric S. Bornatfiglheu on September 06, 2020, 08:14:48 AM
According to the Benitian constitution, I cannot serve as Maestro and Sebator simultaneously.

Oh, yeah, forgot that, sorry.  I should go read the Constitution again . . .

Hmm.  "The first order of business of each newly assembled Assembly will be to elect a new Maestro from among its members."  That means the Maestro has to be a member of the Assembly.

Well. I'll accept a seat and the Maestroship, if you want to do it that way, Eiric.  Otherwise, we can, er, wait for someone else to volunteer?

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on September 02, 2020, 07:02:15 PM
I can't find any of the 5 people who voted FreeDem in Benito.

3. Three people voted FreeDem in the BLA election. What that got you was five seats.

Quote from: Eiric S. Bornatfiglheu on September 04, 2020, 10:36:39 AM
I assign the 3 NPW seats to Eiric S. Bornatfiglheu.

5. Five seats were awarded to the NPW for the three votes the NPW got in the BLA election.

Anyway.  Invoking the traditional role of the Arvitieir Prima of Benito in just ramming things through in the teeth of inactivity, I'm going to assume the above posts constitute all the NPW and FreeDem seats being appointed to Eiric S. Bornatfiglheu, and that with his 91% majority of all seats and 100% majority of assigned seats, we can assume he's also got another term as Maestro.

In accordance with tradition, if anyone objects, they can yell at me, and I'll consider their objection.

@Miestră Schivă, UrN, @Eiric S. Bornatfiglheu, and @Ian Plätschisch are reminded that we need members of the Benitan Legislative Assembly appointed.

ESB is reminded of this especially, since as both a resident and a party leader he can just appoint himself, rather than trying to find someone willing to take the seats.

The certified election results are:

FREEDEMS   3
NPW   3
LEAGUE OF CENTRE CONSERVATIVES   1
PRESENT   2

Votes for PRESENT, of course, are not used for allocating seats, so seven votes were cast for seats. Since everybody else who cast votes cast them for parties, there are no issues of interpretation. We accordingly can go right ahead and use Hare-Niemeyer as usual:

Party Calculation Seats
Free Democrats                        3/(7/11) = 4 seats, 0.7142857 remainder
New Peculiar Way                      3/(7/11) = 4 seats, 0.7142857 remainder
League of Centre Conservatives 1/(7/11) = 1 seat, 0.5714 remainder

With two seats remaining and a two-way tie for largest remainder, the final distribution is:

Free Democrats, 5 seats
New Peculiar Way, 5 seats
League of Centre Conservatives, 1 seat.

Parties, name your BLAssemblymen.

Another month, another interest rate cut on the national treasury account, from 1.00% to 0.80% APY, effective tomorrow.

Which again looks to be part of an industry-wide decline in rates.

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