Karav News

[Siggon Kristov]

The General of Iker Ado, and Count of Beluzia, Kristov I, commissioned a team of volunteer journalists to begin writing for South Beluzia, which branches West from Iker Ado, and may or may not include other counties. Negunia was once the only excluded parish from "South Beluzia" as it is against the federalist culture.

The company was originally called "South Beluzia Journalism Forum" but it was renamed to "Karav News" when merged with smaller independent journalists in other nations. The international association of such journalists report interesting stories to the Secretary of Karav Manor, who orders their publication. Most of the journalists are in the age range of 15-30.

[Siggon Kristov]

The government of Iker Ado, and the greater Kristovakkian Empire, would like to highlight accomplishments of the Karav Dynasty, in celebration of their domination of the Beluzian elections in October 3290, less than 1 year after the house leader's rise to the throne.

The Tackstov Coup
Beluzia transformed from a conservative Republican kleptocracy to a sovereign county of subnational empires. The House of Karav has always dominated Southern Beluzia, branching West from Iker Ado. Count Kristov was the monarch of Beluzia since December 3289. Before him was his close friend, and co-monarch of the dual monarchy of Tackstov, Count Tackoppe Lligro. They together drove the Tory guerrilla forces, led by the corrupt Andrew Stanton, out of power.

The Beluzia Accord
The Beluzia Accord is an optional system, in line with the Rildanor Accord, for regulating the codes of war, particularly internal conflict. Countries, which accept the Beluzia Accord, will have more interesting military setups. Loyalist militants can be deployed by their party at any time, but the nation's neutralist forces serve the civilians and are only deployed overseas under the conditions of the Rildanor Accord. They do not participate in conflicts in their homeland, unless there are civilian casualties.

[Siggon Kristov]

The Count of Beluzia is planning to rename some cities in Beluzia. The hilly terrain of Beluzia's South coast stretches all the way to Iliathar to give the capital city a beautiful mountainous backdrop. The capital was moved from Port Royal (to be renamed Port Bailon) to the mainland, during the Beluzian Liberal Socialist Party's reforms. The new capital is more central, and it is more easily defended. It is not far from the nation's infantry and airbases. The capital city has its own naval base, but the nation's main naval base is in Bailon.

The Sovereign County of Beluzia; Home of the Beluzia Accord

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[Siggon Kristov]

Why Not A Hybrid?

It is the right of the people of Beitenyu to choose their system of governance, but if "the law" protects 1 particular family, it's no longer the citizens' choice, is it?

Beitenyu's best option, as a suggestion from Beluzian politicians, is to adopt Beluzia's electoral system, where the heads of different royal families are candidates for the throne. This is a fair elective monarchy system that reassures the international community that the people are in favour of the throned monarch and his/her royal family.

Right now, the ruling party in Beitenyu is likely trying to install the monarchy before it loses its 2/3 supermajority. When it loses the 2/3 supermajority, there will be no justification for the monarch's power, as it's likely that less than 67% of the legislature will support it, but they can do nothing about it.

Why doesn't the ruling party put the monarch as a candidate, for us to really see the people's choice?
If the monarch's royal family stays in power for over 20 consecutive years, then Beluzia will recognize it as the legitimate sovereign authority of Beitenyu.

[Siggon Kristov]

Beluzia's controversial elective monarchy comes as a surprise to the international community. We must establish Beluzia as a global monarchist state to increase our recognition among the people of the world.

Beluzia will also be a place of refuge for dethroned monarchs, and peace talks between the IML, ATR and other major Republican or Monarchist factions.

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Each royal family, in the world, is therefore given the right to contest the Beluzian throne by delegating members of its royal family to establish a branch of its house in Beluzia. The leader of that house is then eligible for nomination to the County throne.

The candidate with the most votes will be declared "The Count of Beluzia" for a 5 year period. He is responsible for appointing a cabinet if favour is found among the Viscounts.

The throne is a symbol of unity of the 5 parishes. A council of 81 Viscounts, from different parishes, will sit below the throne as the federal legislature.

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In a parish, the house with the most votes will receive its own loyalist soldiers to dispatch at will. When a parish is dominated by a royal house or royal family, the said house or family is allowed to consider the parish borders as a part of overseas territories under their rule, but the parishes are still subject to federal Beluzian law where there is a conflict between Beluzian law and the law of the royal family's homeland. If a royal house or family only possesses royalty in Beluzia, the dominated parishes are considered a subnational entity within Beluzia.

Only a house's dominated parishes may have loyalist soldiers, for only such a parish falls within the border of the house's reign. House loyalist organizations are regulated by the Beluzia Accord.

The nation's federal military is defence-focused, and will not participate unless attacked first. If war is declared on Beluzia, or if there is a perceived threat, the head of state can declare war with the approval of:
- The Prime Minister
- The Minister of Defence
- 3 Counties
- 50% of Viscounts

If there is a coup within the Parliament of Viscounts, a provisional head of state can be declared and given "de facto" recognition, rendering the de jure Count powerless outside of his own parish and loyalist soldiers. A junta will only last until the following elections. If the junta doesn't recognize the results of the elections, the federal military will act against the junta.

[Siggon Kristov]

Count lashes out against major party's proposals.

The Tory Party, closely aligned with the Stanton family, had made 2 proposals which seem to upset the Count.
These are:
- Making Euthanasia Illegal
- Legalizing the Flogging of Children

The House of Karav is proposing a bill to make Euthanasia legal again. The Tory Party made it illegal shortly before the last elections. What was the Count's response to the bill being passed? "To see why Euthanasia should be legal, we should get the members of the Tory Party euthanized. If they don't complain, it should be legalized, but if they do, it should be illegal.
By the way, we should arrest the members of the Tory party who go through the process, seeing as it is currently illegal."

His reponse, to the attempt to legalize corporal punishment, was: "If this bill passes, I will personally send my troops to flog the children of every member of the Tory Party. My soldiers will be sending a clear statement with the intention of teaching a lesson, As teachers, they 'may use corporal punishment at their discretion' as the bill says. The Corporals will ensure the Tories are punished. They want to make that legal, right?"

[Siggon Kristov]

There are rumours that Prime Minister Margaret Brown may boycott the peace conference being held in Port Tackstov.

[Siggon Kristov]

Anti-ATR

Beluzia's new government is anti-ATR.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs is inexperienced, and the Minister of Defence is from a party that had tried to wage war on Gaduridos once. Count Kristov, de Karav. was dethroned.

The Karav family has a strict neutrality policy, which forces the nation to stay away from alignment with either major alliance: the ATR or IML. The new Foreign Minister had a different idea; he wanted to sign a mutual-defence treaty with Luthori, meaning we would be obligated to fight the ATR, therefore compromising our neutrality.

After being bashed about his ratification proposal, he changed his stance and voted "No" on his own bill. What was his next move? He thought he should build a giant conference centre for the entire world so peace can exist between the ATR an IML. It's not like the Karav Family already proposed to build a conference centre, or proposed to host peace talks. Surely, they are not genius enough for that.

The former High Count isn't taking the ATR's side in any way; he is simply avoiding an incidence of compromising the federation's neutrality. His own famed trip to Luthori raised many eyebrows among the ATR. He withdrew Beluzia from the ATR shortly before leaving office. His opposition to the Luthori treaty comes as a surprise to overtalkative political critics.

[Siggon Kristov]

Monarchy restored!

The people have spoken again, but their choice was different, this time.
Count Kristov I, one of the most popular leaders in Beluzia, was elected as the High Count, dethroning radical Mark Patterson, an arrogant leader who didn't trust the experience of the Karav family, or even his own allies.

The Count has proposed a new government structure to the Federal Council of Viscounts. Hopefully, they agree to his suggestions of appointment.

[Siggon Kristov]

East Beluzia?



The former head family of Beluzia, the House of Karav, has dominated the last Beluzian elections, by winning the 3 most populated regions, together totalling 60.7% of the Beluzian population. They won the most votes.
For the 2nd time in Beluzian history, the family, known for its devolutionary policies, has won support from Negunia, a region dominated by unitarists. Iker Ado, Parlos Decina, and Negunia, have been united under the Karav family, and their non-sovereign throne. Beluzian autonomy is an interesting concept.

This union only happened once before, in 3302, when the Adamsons lost popularity and left the political scene.

Count Kristov is very pleased, and still congratulates Nick Williams for taking the throne. The Williams family has held control of Iliathar since 3298, their first election. Iliathar is home of the nation's capital city, Port Tackstov, named in honour of the coup staged by Count Tackoppe of the Lligro family and Count Kristov of the Karav family.

Both families tied for 30 seats in the legislative election, but the Williams family won the throne, which completes the 100 seat council. The Karav family won 16,354,365 votes, and the Williams family came close behind with 16,257,077.

The unpopular Lligro family could not help the Karavs to make it back to the throne; the Stantons and the Williams prevailed instead. The head of the Karav family, Count Kristov, had won the first round with a lead of over 500,000 votes, but in the 2nd round, when it was just the 2 frontrunners, the supporters of the Stanton candidate voted for the Williams family, putting Count Nick in a lead of over 6,000,000 votes.