Quote from: xpb on Yesterday at 10:07:19 AMThere may be an opportunity to promote Talossa in association with the 2027 MicroCon which will be hosted by Slowjamastan in the San Diego CA area.  https://us.microcon27.com/

I wish I could attend but...

1. I would need to get a visa
2. Invasive border control
3. the US Dept of Homeland Security might require one to show at least five years of your social media history

However I could maybe attent the EU MicroCon.

Azul,

As of today, December 10, 2025, I have sent in $15 CAN to the Burgermeister for my registration for the Cosa. (Let me know if this doesn't quite cover $10 USD.)

Garth Grath Tharg Rathg

Good to know :D

First order of business would be to elect a Capitán (chair/leader of the Praisidieu)

Azul,

Garth Spencer has e-transferred his registration fee for the Cosa.

If $15 Canadian does not cover the $10 fee, please let me know.

Garth the Anarcho-Surrealist with his face painted green

... and thankfully, there was still time. It took until the IDT leader revealed himself as an admirer of actual antisemitic, misogynist fascist Nick Fuentes.

Three cheers to the Progressive Alliance for understanding their mistake and rectifying it. Rectifying errors is the true test of character. There are degrees of rectification, however. First step: reverse the mistake. Second step: work out why the mistake happened, so it won't happen again.

My analysis is that this mistake follows on from what the URL has identified as the Progressive Alliance's major political weakness - a determination to have a political "tent" so big that absolutely everyone can get inside (as long as they "play nice"). Well, in the last few days, Talossa's big tent has made for quite a circus.

To quote once more from my speech to the founding Convention of the URL, the PA is:

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on July 29, 2025, 05:03:04 PMnot 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...

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.

Until it was almost too late, Cxhn. Maltezos' reactionary politics were seen by the PA leadership as a funny little quirk; a teenager being edgy. Max successfully "hid his power level", as they put it, until he was an actual Cabinet minister-designate. This should cause us all pause. But let's remember how, just a few days ago, PA leaders responded to the URL saying that bringing this guy into the Government was a bad move:

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on December 08, 2025, 05:30:17 AMIt's not a good idea to try to scare people by lying about your political opponents, since it creates a lot of animosity and scares people.  And also we just saw how it doesn't work. 

Quote from: Françal I. Lux on December 08, 2025, 08:24:45 AMThe URL leadership's penchant for personal attacks and hyperbole is the very reason you lost this election, but by all means double down on your vindictive approach.

Ironic, given that the PA's sky-is-falling emails about the Public Process Act are probably what won them the election. Clearly "scare people by lying about your opponents... personal attacks and hyperbole" does work.

But: on the subject of Monarchist Max, the URL called it as we saw it, and we called it right. The PA almost locked themselves into a deal with an actual groyper, in preference to the party which they admit is not far from them politically, but whom they seem to personally resent.

I hope that the lesson the PA will draw from this is: politics matter. Principles matter. Building a governing majority on a political program is preferable to building one based on "whoever comes into the big tent and salutes is one of us".

Once again: three cheers to the Progressive Alliance for understanding their mistake and rectifying it.

The Royal Cat shall be remembered each time a National Biscuit Company product of the same name is consumed.

Quote from: xpb on December 03, 2025, 08:58:14 AMCongratulations Cézembreans!
According to the tally of percentages at
https://database.talossa.com/elections/november-2025-general-elections/results
There was 92.31% participation from Cézembre which was the highest provincial participation rate.

Looking further, I believe that only one citizen of our fair province did not post a vote.  Perhaps we can get to 100% next time!

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on July 15, 2025, 06:22:38 PM

Quote from: Iason Taiwos on July 15, 2025, 06:21:04 PMIf I'm not allowed to post here, not being a member of this committee, then please delete this. (But give me a break. I work in a miserable factory, it was 107 degrees Fahrenheit in there today, my brains are a little fried.)
Talossa is great. I've been a citizen since 2011. Somehow, you all have put up with me even when I've occasionally been a complete jackass. I am pleased to be a part of Talossa, and am proud if I've managed to make any single, meager contribution to it. (yeah, that Cjovani crap.) Talossa has held my interest since 2011. I haven't even held a job at the same place for that long. I've come to believe that this is a community of decent, creative, and genuinely cool people, and I don't think I'd ever renounce my citizenship. The only way I leave Talossa is in a casket.
That being said, the problem is immigration. I've tried to get my own family members to join, without success. The grandkids walk into my house, see my Talossan flag hanging on the wall, and my Guizua prominently displayed, it's just "That's that fake country Poppy is an Admiral in." Efforts to recruit some of the nerds that frequent Vitx's game store have also met with failure.
Then I get online and see shit like Slowjamistan. Maybe that guy has a lot of money. He bought a parcel of land in the desert. You can go there. He has merch you can buy. You can drive to wherever his land is, he has signs up, maybe you can meet him and other Slowjamistanians. Sealand is harder to actually visit, but you shell out some Louis, you can become royalty. Novelty gift, be a Duke or whatever. Get a fancy certificate.
I'm not suggesting Talossa become like that. "Become a Duke in Talossa for $39.95! Get a certificate signed by the King!" But, maybe that kind of marketing may help. People like to get stuff. Citizenship in Talossa may be free, but why can't we charge money for citizenship certificates and ID cards? And flags? The official Talossan website should have a store. Sure, you'll get a bunch of people who join just for the novelty. "I've lived in Milwaukee my whole life and didn't know I was a in an independent nation! I just joined and ordered an ID card!" Out of all the people who do that as a novelty, maybe we'll get some more people who become intrigued by what Talossa is all about, and who will actively take it seriously. If not, we've still managed to get money from them.
As far as I'm concerned, our language is our greatest asset. We should promote the shit out of that. We need more original Talossan language works, or translations, anything. I'm half tempted to try and contact Iusti Canun in prison, who knows? The dude has nothing but spare time, by now he may have translated the entire Lord of the Rings into Talossan.
I'm done now. Work was pretty bad today. I believe I may have heat exhaustion.

These are good ideas!  Thank you.

Long ago I sent a sample of our postage and coin to the Sultan on Slowjamastan.  I recently received back a response with their postage on an envelope along with US postage, and a sample of their currency.  There may be an opportunity to promote Talossa in association with the 2027 MicroCon which will be hosted by Slowjamastan in the San Diego CA area.  https://us.microcon27.com/

Fee payment status, unless some fees were paid privately:

COSA

PROG - paid
URL - paid
Green - not paid - @Breneir Tzaracomprada
IDT - paid
IG/AS - not paid - @Garth Spencer

SENÄTS

Carbonel (FL) - paid
Válcadác'h (FV) - not paid - @GV
Ardpresteir (MA) - not paid - @Béneditsch Ardpresteir
Davinescu (MM) - paid

So sorry for your loss