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Okay, updated to include el Lexh and to specifically state that it doesn't revert old PDs.

Whereas the role of Cunstaval is decades out of date and mostly out of use, and yet there is a place for His Majesty in every province, and

Whereas the provinces are probably best-equipped to decide what the role might be, and

Whereas the limit on cross-provincial power seems unnecessary at this point, since we don't know what provinces will want to be doing,

THEREFORE the fourth section of the ninth article of the Organic Law, which currently reads

Quote1. Every royal power that the King possesses as granted by this Organic Law shall also apply to the provincial governments; with the exception that the provincial royal powers need not include a right of dissolution if provincial elections are held concurrently with Cosâ elections.

2. The King may appoint a Cunstavál (or Constable) for any Province to exercise these powers on his behalf, for a term not exceeding three years. The King may reappoint a Cunstavál. The terms of existing Cunstaváis shall expire no later than three years after the adoption of this amendment.

3. Until such time as the King or Cunstavál proclaims a provincial constitution providing otherwise, the King or Cunstavál shall serve as Military Governor and may exercise all the powers of the provincial government.

4. The King or Cunstavál shall not proclaim any provincial constitution, nor shall any province pass a constitutional amendment, which conflicts with any provision of this Organic Law or with any other national law.

5. The King or Cunstavál shall not proclaim any provincial constitution which has not been approved by a referendum in which at least either a majority of all citizens of the province or a two-thirds majority of votes actually cast is in favor of the constitution.

6. No person shall be at the same time Cunstavál of one province and the leader of the provincial government of another province.

shall be amended to read

Quote1. Every royal power that the King possesses as granted by this Organic Law shall also apply in a commensurate fashion to the provincial governments.

2. The King may appoint a Cunstavál (or Constable) for any Province to exercise these powers on his behalf.  A province may pass laws setting a term of office for its Cunstavál, specifying who is disqualified from the role, and assigning the Cunstavál a role in their government.  Unless otherwise fixed by national or provincial statute, the term of office shall be three years.  No person shall be at the same time Cunstavál of one province and the leader of the provincial government of another province.

Quote from: Mximo Malt on Yesterday at 05:03:44 PMYk I really wish everyone spoke French rather than English as the global lingua franca (and Gaeilge as the main language in Éire)

We should all actually speak Polish as the global lingua franca.

Following up on my last announcement, and now that all the work is complete: I'd like to announce that the new immigration system is live and working smoothly.

For years now, the immigration application has been handled by a custom web form through WordPress.  It required several specific plugins to function, many of which were no longer updated and were not compatible with newer WordPress.  Worse, it seems like it kept records on the plugin that were openly accessible in plaintext to anyone with the rights to edit the national website.

I don't think we ever had a problem because of this, but it wasn't a good situation.  However, it was also really challenging to do anything to improve it.  Any edits or changes were likely to make the whole thing inoperable.  This happened a while ago when the immigration form was entirely broken for months -- it took a lot of fiddling to get it working again.

Anyway, it was apparent that we needed something new.  And a week ago, I got started trying to update the backend of things... and the whole form immediately broke.  And because I was sufficiently annoyed with that, I ended up abandoning it.  Instead, I replaced it entirely.

The new system automatically takes in data and sends it to a secure online spreadsheet, where a script parses it each time and generates the necessary emails.  This information is then pulled to another sheet, where it is stored with fields for notes about the process (eg, which applications were rejected as incomplete with an explanatory email, which applications were complete but missing a Witt account, etc).

The benefits:

• Records will now be much more secure, and we're no longer exposing five years' worth of names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers.
• The website is now fully updated, making it also more secure from security vulnerabilities.
• We're now keeping automated records, making it much easier for Immigration to keep track of all applications.
• Data on failure points will now be easily available.  We'll know exactly where people tend to fail when they drop out of the immigration process.
• No applications will be lost.  Government will be fully accountable.
• It will be much easier for Immigration to post applications, since a lot of the manual labor is now done by a machine.
• Future work will be much easier.

I'm sure there will be bugs to work out, but it's been a few days and I'm fairly confident that everything is working the way it should.  Please contact me if you have any questions or suggestions.  I'm here to serve you.

Okay, I think that the announcement's all set.  I might suggest editing the first post here to include some of the same information?

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on Yesterday at 05:04:55 PM

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on Yesterday at 08:21:17 AMI believe PMQs are usually answered spontaneously, instead of being sent the questions and having the answers prepped in advance.

This is inaccurate. PMQs in my country and I believe in Britain are submitted with a few days notice so that the Government can prepare a proper answer. That said, supplementary questions are extemporary.

I'm happy with whichever.

His Majesty also mentioned you'd like a copy of our speech ahead of time?

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on Yesterday at 05:11:15 PMActually, I believe we have strayed too far from the main topic of this thread, namely the "Sense of the Ziu: Restoration of National Honour". If I can't compel MZs to get back on topic, I would least highly encourage everyone to do so.

Yeah sorry bout that :P

Quote from: Joseph Morris on Yesterday at 12:54:20 AM

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on December 30, 2025, 11:43:44 PMWe need a new history of Talossa. One written without the outrageous political bias of all the previous ones.

Previous ones? Sorry, I'm a relatively new citizen, so I haven't heard about these, but they sure sound interesting

There are two major sources for our early history, both written by King Robert I:

- the 1992 History of the Kingdom of Talossa, which is a very indepth discussion of the Kingdom's first decade or so.
- Ár Päts, a much briefer historical document which was periodically updated until 2008. That said, as Talossan politics became increasingly bitter, King Robert regularly revised it to abuse and smear his political opponents. There is a great example, which I wrote about once, where I compared the same chapter about former Seneschál Tamorán dal Navă before and after he fell out with King Robert.

Actually, I believe we have strayed too far from the main topic of this thread, namely the "Sense of the Ziu: Restoration of National Honour". If I can't compel MZs to get back on topic, I would least highly encourage everyone to do so.