Cobura

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The Coburan Sun
The Coburan is a centrist and non-partisan daily. It is also Cobura's oldest running newspaper, founded in 2763

Amidst Economic Revolution At Home. Tepio Attends Turek Funeral, Meets Politburo Members
May 21, 4914

SHARBA, IRKAWA

Psote Tepio, the head of the Sovereign Council arrived home last night from Deltaria where he attended the funeral of the General Secretary Simon Turek. On the sidelines of the state funeral, Tepio managed to meet several members of the all-powerful Deltarian Politburo and is believed to have pressed his case for Deltaria to desist supporting rebels in eastern Cobura especially now that a progressive faction of the Coburan National Congress was in charge. Coburans certainly have the most leftwing government in several centuries. It has more than doubled public expenditure, introduced a 95% income tax top rate and nationalised most of the country's largest corporations include the famous all-female agricultural cooperative Ama Koffia

The heads of Cobura's five largest corporations along with several smaller ones have announced in a joint statement that they will challenge the government's decision to nationalise their companies through compulsory purchase of majority stakes. The group's spokesman Menelik Abraha, chairman and CEO of the mining conglomerate Kobra Corp said they were challenging the government's moves on a number of legal grounds including inappropriate administrative action, unfair compensation (none) and constitutional rights to enjoyment of property.

The Sovereign Councillor for Trade and Industry Saif al-Ahmad dismissed the lawsuit as "rich boy tears" and more controversially, "warned" the courts to "uphold the public will or face its fury." The Court of Appeal has accepted the emergency application with a decision expected in the weeks to come.

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The Coburan Sun
The Coburan is a centrist and non-partisan daily. It is also Cobura's oldest running newspaper, founded in 2763

Outraged By Court of Appeal Decision, CNC Youths Occupy Courts And Other Public Buildings
February 2, 4915

SHARBA, IRKAWA Cobura is in what the financial daily the Coin Counter has described as "a revolutionary atmosphere" Thousands of ruling party youth league members the Congress Youth League have occupied several judiciary buildings around the country. The occupation is n response to the Court of Appeal's decision to reverse several nationalisations on procedural ground along with ordering "fair market value" restitution to previous owners. The Ministry of Finance estimates that such a bill could reach 45 billion LOD.

The occupations have been largely peaceful except in the capital Sharba where some of the occupiers were armed and appeared to be taking hold of more than just courthouses. Several occupiers are at present besieging the Reserve Bank and CTV national headquarters. The government has refused to send in security forces to stop what it describes as a "popular and legitimate movement against corporate power. It dismissed reports of various Deltarians who have been spotted organising the movements as " drugged out rightwing paranoid fantasies" This is despite numerous videos of what may suspect to members of Deltarian secret services in all major "occupations". The government also confirmed that it would " not comply with the corporate puppet dictates of the Court of Appeal"

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The Coburan Sun
The Coburan is a centrist and non-partisan daily. It is also Cobura's oldest running newspaper, founded in 2763

Editorial: Nightfall for liberal democracy in the land of the cobras
July 2, 4915

SHARBA, IRKAWA Armed operatives of the Coburan National Congress have continued occupying public buildings throughout the country. They continue to meet little resistance from security forces who are in some disarray. Mj. Gen Zeno Kalvado the head of the Coburan Armed Forces resigned along with several other high ranking military leaders. They were joined by their counterparts in the police and intelligence services. The Sovereign Council denounced the mass resignation as "an attempted corporatist coup" and moved to replace them with politicised officers many of them leaders of the illegal occupations..

The Sovereign Council also passed the Protection of Public Gains Act which the conservative daily the Union Dispatch described as "the death rattle of Coburan liberty and decency. The Act all about aboloshes press freedom, this very publication Is to be closed down within a week. A swathe of new powers to hire and dismiss public servants without merit.

It is now crystal clear that a small ideological minority is snuffing out political pluralism and economic sanity in service of its god Metz. We remind the public that the window of opportunity for stopping this becomes ever smaller. Soon the red shutters will be pulled and a dark age shall descend upon the nation.

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The Workers' Voice
The Coburan is a socialist daily newspaper founded by revolutionary journalists in 4915

Cde. Tepio Proclaims Victory For Revolution
June 7, 4916

"The chains are broken!" A jubilant crowd chanted repeatedly as Sovereign Council leader Psote Tepio proclaimed the victory of socialism in Cobura in Saksoure Public Park in Sharba. Tepio declared the country a People's Democratic Republic following the completion of the occupation of various public buildings and strategic outposts throughout the country. Cde. Tepio has set up a Supreme Revolutionary Council to steer the country through the rest of the revolution.

The old bloodsuckers have begun fleeing the country now that their game is up. The government has refused to let these thieves leave the country with any of their I'll gotten gains beyond the very clothes on their backs. The greatest bloodsucker, the landowner is facing rough justice from long oppressed peasant revolutionaries in the rural areas who have are seizing land and organising socialist communes to run it

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The Outlander Chronicle
The Daily Outlander is a populist conservative tabloid published by Coburan exiles in Beleco, Zardugal

Blood and fire in Coffee Country!
July 7, 4917

The most bloodthirsty of the Deltarian occupying force aka the Supreme Revolutionary Council, Said al-Ahmad has begun a collectivisation campaign in Cobura's famous "coffee country in the northern Domale highlands. Eyewitnesses say that fanatical Revolutionary Councillor has taken a leave of absence to expel landlords in the area backed by a rabble of revolutionary youths. Coffee production, unsurprisingly, has tumbled with outside experts saying that perhaps to just a third of production levels reached in 4912. Reliable sources have shown this paper evidence that as many as 2,000 people have,been killed already with perhaps ten times as many detained for " landlordist oppression".

Some sources report that the socialists are giving youths qat and other illicit drugs to keep them in the violent and illogical state of mind necessary for socialist beliefs,and revolutionary fervour. Another expert says that it is Metzist infiltration of the education system which led to the brainwashing of Coburan children and the tragedy of vandalising socialism.

Commies Ate My Baby
Young Mother Grieves For Her Unfortunate Child

The crimes of the Deltarian owned occupation communist regime never cease to amaze. Mentewab Serdico a young mother from Augusta today told our deputy chief national correspondent a harrowing tale of her encounter with the communists who rampaged in her village close to Augusta. Serdico said her family were accused of landlordist oppression and were detained by several revolutionaries in an old granary. Her beautiful baby Zewditu wouldn't stop crying so a commie seizes her and threw in a cooking pot. Serdico says she passed out but later saw the commies eating what was very much likely her baby's remain. The ugly face of communism continues to reveal itself to Terra.

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The Workers' Voice
The Coburan is a revolutionary socialist daily founded by revolutionary journalists in 4915

Cobura Joins CPIS, Rebels Declare Unilateral Ceasefire While Domale Farmers Celebrate
June 7, 4917

The wisdom of the Supreme Revolutionary Council never ceases to amaze Coburans. Today, Chairman Cde. Psote Tepio announced that the country would join its socialist sisters in the Communist Pact of Independent States (CPIS) This veritable juggernaut will provide ever more protection for the gains we win in the hard fought revolt of the masses.

Good things come in threes. The anarchist rebels in eastern Cobura laid down arms. No doubt socialist full employment left few young people in Dilganato willing to risk their lives against our might Coburan People"'s Militia. The rebels have been invited to join the armed forces - an offer most have accepted.


The third positive was the Ministry of Agriculture reporting that contrary to disinformation, coffee production in the northern Domale highlands had doubled since the revolution. The third positive led to a large and joyous procession of Domale coffee farmers today in the city of Zgmat where they celebrated gains under the socialist commune system.


Domale farmers rejoice at rising prosperity!

Air headed foreign propagandists declared this a "violent protest" mistaking socialist revolutionary energy for outrage. Only a handful of capitalist wreckers were detained by police; the ignorant exile press magicked a number of 800 so-called protestors getting arrested. Long live the People's Democratic Republic of Cobura!!!

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Deltaria to open Naval and Airbase in Cobura

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The Coburan Sun
The Coburan is a centrist and non-partisan daily. It is also Cobura's oldest running newspaper, founded in 2763 published in exile since the communist revolution of 4915

As Regime Is Cushioned By Deltarian Loan, Divisions Appear To Rise
March 21, 4919

BELECO, ZARDUGAL Deltaria"s 5bn LOD lifeline to the Coburan socialist regime has,according to economist Nerfetiti Akoumes. "staved off imminent economic collapse". The last five years have seen some of the most ideological economic reforms, a rare occurrence for a nation long noted for its easygoing pragmatic political bearing. The Ministry of Finance had allocated a quarter of the loan funds to stabilising the agricultural and tourism sectors historically the country's main forex earners. While 80% of the economy is believed to be now state controlled and owner, the Supreme Revolutionary Council is believed to have frozen further nationalisations to give the economy room to adjust.

This decision appears to have divided the SRC with a considerable minority of its 13 members led by the hardliner Councillor for Trade and Industry Saif al-Ahmad opposed to any kind of pragmatism and in favour of full nationalisation and collectivised land communes in the great agrarian heartlands of the south. Party leader and SRC chair Psote Tepio has pushed through the policy as he appears ready to fully appreciate the limits of the planned economic system set up in the recent First Ten Year Plan which called for "breakneck pace industrialisation".

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The Coburan Sun
The Coburan is a centrist and non-partisan daily. It is also Cobura's oldest running newspaper, founded in 2763 published in exile since the communist revolution of 4915

Tepio Finds Intraparty Strength Reduced As Al-Ahmad and Allies Dominate Congress
March 21, 4920

BELECO, ZARDUGAL The regime's leader Psote Tepio has faced his first serious challenges following his failure to impose a key policy at his Coburan Revolutionary Socialist Congress party's extraordinary and prematurely convened Second Congress. Party delegates assembled in Zgmat refused to approve a motion imposing so-called democratic centralism. 334 delegates opposed the measure with only 261 in favour. Many opponents said they believed it would stifle intraparty debate unduly.




Tepio condemned the vote as "sabotaged bu factionalists". His most important rival Saif al-Ahmad the Trade and Industry Councillor opposed the democratic centralism motion while supporting several successful ones such as one which declared the revolution permanent and committed the party to " greater economic democratisation.".

Political watchers view the proceeding as the curtain call for Psote who appears to have lost control of the party he has led in 4913. The party Congress elected a National Executive of 60 members which in turn chose the seven members of the all powerful Standing Committee of the National Exexutive and it is widely believed that a majority on all three party organs belong to al-Ahmad's 'Deep Red' faction of doctrinaire socialists.

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CPIS carrier fleet violates Sekowan airspace, sails past Sekowan national waters