Maritiimi-Maxhestic Mençeis are riding, changing sports for better luck!  Off the ice and on the bikes!

Quote from: Sir Lüc on Yesterday at 06:17:25 AMTwo days to the deadline - make sure you get your registration in, and join the TCAT league on Velogames using code 639289433 (https://www.velogames.com/italy/2026/leaguescores.php?league=639289433)

Tagging other frequent former managers: @þerxh Sant-Enogat @Iason Taiwos @Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be and others - would love to see you all join the fun again!

Also @Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP @Baron Alexandreu Davinescu @Iason Taiwos @Audrada Roibeardet

May I ask, is this being emailed to citizens? I remember doing this during my time as Secretary of State, but I don't recall seeing it in my email since that time.

-Txec R

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Royal News

• 2026/XLVI Tafsut Imazighen Honours
  On April 20th, our Good King granted new arms to two new citizens.
  to @Moinul Moin, arms granted are described as "Azure, crossed swords proper beneath an atom Or."
  And to @Tåltind Furxheir, "Azure, a dragon segreant Argent armed and eyed Or, striking with a sword Or on his armoured dextrochere, in base an anvil of the second"
  Admire the Coat of Arms of the new armigers
  
  
• Reunision Day Proclamation 2026
  To celebrate the termination of the National Schism of 2004 which ended with the Reunision of the Republic fourteen years ago, King Txec announced a period of national celebration, lasting from 12:00 am to 12:00 pm on April 20, 2026, Reunision Day.
  Read here
  
  

Government News

• Announcement of a month of recess for April
  In accordance with Org.IV.8 and Lexh.D.2.1.1.2, Our Seneschal declared that the month of April shall be a Month of Recess for the Ziu.
  Read here
  

General News

• Registations Open for TCAT 2026 Leg 1 !
  Sir Lüc has announced the return of TCAT! Welcome to season 5 of the Talossan Cycling Association Tour, starting as usual with the first of three legs playing out in Italy. All Talossans are heartily invited to sign their teams up!
  Register here
  
  
• A coffee hangout like tears in rain
  On Saturday 11 April at 10am TST, his Majesty the King and the elected Seneschal held a Coffee Hangout. As it was not recorded, all this moment is now lost in time, so don't miss it next time if you people want to join the fun.
  Read here
  
  
• March/April 2026 edition of the Abbavilla Digest
  In Independent Media Fora Talossa's third edition of the Abbavilla Digest, host Breneir Tzaracomprada covers the resignation of Talossa's Attorney-General Tric'hard Lenxheir, the announcement of broosking by a PA member, and finally the ruling by the SoS of an unexpected new leader of the opposition.
  Watch the third edition here
  
  
• Tric'hard Lenxheir is the winner of the 4th El Pretz Per Tomas Poetry Contest !
  "I Dream" is a vivid depiction of the fragility of consciousness, where the boundary between dream and waking life dissolves into a sequence of haunting impressions. Despite the author's description of this piece as "jarbled," the Prize Team identifies a thorough and disciplined minimalism, S:reu Lenxheir has managed to craft a rhythm of compression and release, each quatrain unfolding like a flicker of brief, intense, and unresolved thought.
  Read this poem here.
  

Immigration News

During April we received 4 immigration applications (Huseyn and Mehmet from Turkey, Scott from Florida, Rodrigue from Benin), but we did not register any new citizen during this period

Less than 24 hours left to register your team!

Submitting a team is simple and doesnt take much time. It's not required to actually know anything about cycling.

Speaking of real problems, we may have a month with negative immigration on the departures of Tric'hard and Vitxalmour? This is one reason why Greens have highlighted with renewed urgency the need for a TalossAssistant for each new applicant. It has been months since the PA announced the program's restoration and so far only a Green has served as an official TalossAssistant.

Talossa is shrinking and the PA might actually want to treat it like the urgent issue the PA made it out to be in the last election. As the only opposition party currently we plan to continue bringing attention to this matter.

Azul everybody,

As Minister of Culture, I would like to request this prestigious organization's assistance in an important project.

With the assistance of [mention]Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP [/mention],  [mention]Mximo Malt [/mention] would like to undertake the ambitious task of updating and revising the Talossan version of our nation's Organic Law, and, if all goes well, the even more ambitious task of gradually translating our civil code, El Lexhatx, into Talossan.

Due to the scope and nature of this undertaking, I thought it would be more fitting for it to be a collaborative project between the nation's premiere Talossan language experts with the sponsorship and backing of the Ministry of Culture.

Ideally, S:reu Malt would provide his revisions and translations piecemeal while the rest provide feedback and corrections until the work is done.

Quote from: Françal I. Lux on May 05, 2026, 10:59:38 AM

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on May 02, 2026, 07:32:11 PMI personally champion a form of Sequential Proportional Approval Voting as a voting system that is partyless, fair, and easy to explain and implement (feel free to ask me if you want to hear details), but any reform that furthers the principles of transparency and returning power to the people will do. Conversely, any reform idea that seeks to systematically deceive voters and trick them into helping people into power against the popular will is dead on arrival.

I'd like to hear more about this and how we would implement it in Talossa.

The way it works is that voters would be given a ballot with all the candidates on it, and then would be asked to vote for every candidate they approve of. There is no minimal or maximal number of approvals, and no ranking between approved candidates, every approval is worth the same. You can think of it as "building your own party list" if you like.

Ballots would then be counted in rounds, one round for each open seat. In the first round, the candidate with the most total approvals wins. Before every subsequent round, ballots are weighted: ballots who approve of one winner are worth 1/2, those that approve of two winners are worth 1/3, those that approve of three are worth 1/4 etc, and after the weighting is done you count the totals and whoever has the highest total wins that round. Repeat until all seats are filled.

This sort of voting system is proportional thanks to the ballot weighting mechanism, partyless because party affiliation doesnt matter for a candidate's victory, and much easier to implement than STV (speaking from first-hand experience); switching the database over to this kind of voting system would as far as I can tell not be super difficult, and the counting and weighting steps are very easily automatisable.

I also think the explanation is simpler than for STV (especially with regards to like, how to handle fractional overflow or what have you) but I'm biased so I'll let you be the judge of that.

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be on Yesterday at 12:10:23 AMThis is just my two bence, but I would argue that the provincial seats in an MMP setup could satisfy this preference, no? Yes, it does still factor into a partisan distribution of seats, but hear me out:

* Talossa as a country does have a fair amount of its activity revolve around politics, regardless of what one may think of this.
* Quite a few Talossans prefer a political system that actually features, well, politics. Discussion, debate, and organization based on ideological and ethical stances, as opposed to politics-as-a-popularity contest. (Some Talossans, to be fair, clearly do not share this preference.)
* An electoral system that seeks to balance the evaluation of individual candidates and evaluation of ideological groupings would, to my eyes, function as a compromise between these two approaches to Talossan politics.
* If we have an MMP system and the party list seats are also chosen via an open-list system, that would be a massive shift towards an individualized approach to politics, but it doesn't completely abandon modern, ideology-based partisan politics, either.

Just to be clear, I'm not arguing against party politics at all, I'm just not a fan of lists in principle because, in my view, it robs the voters choice. As I stated previously, it forces voters to elect their representatives as a block and prevents them from scrutinizing individual candidates. Let's say I ideologically align with Party A, but there's one or two individuals on their party list I disagree with for whatever reason, why should I be forced to elect them into office? What if I want to split my vote because there's someone in Party B who I actually know will be a good MC despite some political disagreements we might have?

Again, with a 20-seat Cosa, I would argue it's even more important that voters get to scrutinize individual candidates and ascertain whether they'd be good, responsible and serious public servants. Having to rely on a party list prevents that from happening because the party itself can pave over whatever flaws their candidates may have. If someone running for office can't stand on their own two feet and articulate why they should be in the Cosa, or if they lack the commitment or time to truly be present and active enough, I'd argue they have no business running for office.