With the Factbook effort extending through the entirety of the last term it is disappointing to see it is now on hold. It would be of interest to know what caused the hold so as to know whether the hold is indefinite. Perhaps in private?

A national breakfast cereal!? We better get this figured out. We'll need to get nominations and then work with the Chancery to do a special referendum, I think.

Great work!

1. Hiatus of and alternative to draft Foreign Factbook

The initial process envisioned of assigning information liaisons to collect data on other micronational entities is on hiatus due to a variety of internal and external factors, and may resume after the upcoming election.

A proposed interim alternative step will be to add a full page reference to the Kingdom of Talossa to the program for North American Microcon 2027 to be held in San Diego CA USA.  The foreign ministry will solicit designs from citizens for consideration and selection by the King.  An addition to the design will be a link for collection of Factbook information from other entities.

There will be two delegates (the King and another TBD) to that convention August 5-8, 2027.

2. Outreach to the Glorious Revolutionary Microrepublic of Whaaat!?

As a student in the ATLAS program at the University of Colorado, I made the suggestion for a theme for the 2026 Whaaat!? Festival to be the creation of a micronation, which was accepted.

Whaat!? embodies the feeling of simultaneous delight and bewilderment when you have a fresh encounter something wonderfully weird.  The Whaaat!? Lab is a hybrid studio-laboratory dedicated to uncovering and fostering that feeling, specifically through experimental games and playful interactivity. It is located within the ATLAS Institute, at CU Boulder.

I will participate in that class, and leverage the history of the Kingdom of Talossa to inform the other students there about micronational concepts through the lens of our long standing nation.  The Whaaat!? festival has a new theme each year, so this blossoming of a new nation may be brief.  However, among those involved there may be impetus for immigration to our midst. 

The Whaaat!? festival date is 7 November 2026 - among other things we will need to select a national breakfast cereal for inclusion in the Cereal Aptitude Test.   I will attend in my Talossan garb, either as a regular citizen or potentially as a government representative pending the upcoming election results.

GROUP 1
6 - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
4 - The Cure - A Forest
3 - The Police - Message in a Bottle
2 - The Who - Baba O'Riley
1 - Foo Fighters - Everlong


GROUP 2
6 - The Beatles - Taxman
4 - Blur - The Universal
3 - Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
2 - The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
1 - Ludwig von Beethoven - Mondscheinsonate, 3rd movement


GROUP 3
6 - Ásgeir - Nýfallið regn
4 - Desireless - Voyage, Voyage
3 - Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
2 - Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
1 - The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want

Yes, thank you.

Done

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on Yesterday at 06:48:24 PMPlease remove BenArd, and add Moses Henry Emefiele to our list, @Sir Lüc . Thank you!

Added Moses. BenArd is not on your list, I am assuming you mean Mximo?

The Directorate of STUFF is aware of a recent partisan campaign mailer in which the work of the Directorate was improperly credited to the Government as a political accomplishment. As the Directorate is in fact an office of the Royal Civil Service, a branch of the Talossan state independent from the elected Government and strictly apolitical in nature, it would seem critical to protect that independence and impartiality from such an unprecedented breach of convention.

To illustrate the point, the offices of the Royal Civil Service also include the Chancery and the Burgermeister of Inland Revenue, respectively charged with overseeing Talossan elections (among a host of other duties) and safekeeping the national finances. One should be able to easily understand why such offices must be kept separate from politics in order to ensure continued public trust in our national institutions.

In order to defend the Royal Civil Service's mission to keep Talossa's administrative functions running smoothly, regardless of the partisan makeup of the Government of the day, officers of political parties are hereby firmly reminded that it is exceedingly inappropriate to drag the work of the Royal Civil Service into the political arena.

Hi Luc @Sir Lüc

Now that I've submitted my registration for The Independent Progressive (BREN) party would it be possible to get a thread in the parties area similar to what the URL, Greens, and PA have? If it requires me to send in the registration payment as well then I understand and will let you know once that has been submitted. If not, please consider this my official request.

Breneir

Please remove BenArd, and add Moses Henry Emefiele to our list, @Sir Lüc . Thank you!