View from Benacia/Issue 42: Treaty of Shirekeep Ratified

This imported article was originally posted at http://viewfrombenacia.blogspot.com/2004/12/issue-42-treaty-of-shirekeep-ratified.html at 12/14/04.

The final signature was put upon the Treaty of Shirekeep today, hopefully the last step toward the ending of the Cyberian conflict (and our having to report on it).

After the signing, the Cyberian President announced,

"The Cyberian people have had thier differences with Jacobus over the years, some more violently apparent than others but today we put down the past years of history, we put down past feuds, and together we have cemented a final and lasting peace between Jacobus and Cyberia. The Cyberian people thank him and his advisor Tim Dunkin for making the nessacary concessions, and we made a few ourselves to make an arrangement acceptable to both parties.

Today the Cyberian people have come to terms with co habitating the microverse with Jacobus and in exchange he has given up his claims on Cyberian territory or the non existent Cyberian throne. I think these provisions of the treaty will only strengthen future relations. I thank everyone involved, especially Cyberia's very talented and comitted Alan Grieve and Tim Dunkin for negotiating the treaty, I thank the Kaiser for helping facilitate this ceremony and the negotiations, and finally I look forward to this new era of peace."

After President Conway signed the document, bells rang and heralds shouted the news throughout the streets of Shirekeep, and a small celebration was even reported outside the Kaiser's palace, involving five or six drunks trying to estimate how long the treaty would last by setting a copy of it on fire. (Reports that the Duke of Brookshire was one of the drunks have not been substantiated.)

It is not known if the treaty will not be put before the Landsraad, since as absolute monarch the Kaiser certainly had the personal authority to pass the treaty himself by signing it.

Take 2! A revised version of the Protectorate Provision Act placed in the Landsraad on Friday seems to be doing better than it had the first time around, looking set to pass at Y-47 to N-0.

The first version of the Act, like the second, had been authored by the Duke of Brookshire, but was withdrawn so that a phrase could be added to better define the process of a nation withdrawing itself from Protectorate status. All those votes that had been cast as "nay" for the first version seem to have switched to "yea" this time around, although the exact reasons for this are uncertain. Foreign News

-Thoenen Helios, AKA Cyrus Aftab Zad, has made a deal with Ardashir Khan, now Head Cartographer of the MCS, to use the MCS map in a "project" Mr. Helios is working on. Details of the agreement are not known, except that it was issued under the name of "Public Resource Licence OO1". Mr. Helios, who was put on trial for attempting to... start a war, or something, may very well be doing something perfectly innocent... but the micronational world will be keeping its eye on him anyway (what else do we have to do?).

-A new micronation has apparently appeared out of nowhere, in the form of the Republic of San Martin. A bit like a non-Communist Baracao, San Martin is based off the idea of a former Spanish colony, now often heavily split between extreme rightists and leftists. Despite the republic's unexpected appearance, the images associated with it seem to be hosted on the site of the Emperor of Alexandria (formerly Madland), and several Alexandrian citizens seem to be involved. It is unknown if San Martin is a successor state to Alexandria, or simply a related project.

-Another new nation was announced by Peter Hickey. This, the High Captaincy of Rocentia, is apparently a militarist micronation dedicated to recwarring, and providing mercenary troops for other micronations during their recwars. Further details are unavaibale at this time, but the idea seems fairly unique in micronationalism.

-David Redstone, founder of the People's Britannic Federation, has apparently lost what credibility he had left with the micronational community when he flipflopped once more in his place on the political spectrum. Declaring himself a social democrat, and denouncing the Communism that he had briefly embraced, he angered the communist bloc through his denunciation of their ideals, and angered nearly everyone else by attempting to blame a perceived dictatorial style on others in his government.