by admtrap » Wed Oct 27, 2010 2:18 am
Anarchy grips Kizenia
SOLGOBAT, TIANIA - Small scale rioting and reports of street gangs seizing and carving up the territory of Kizenia has emerged ever since the government fired virtually all government employees, including police and military personnel following the Anarchist budget's enactment over the Viceroy's veto. In the wake of increasing violence, most of the royal family has fled the nation, except Silvia, the Regina, who insists "if they want this palace, they will have to kill me first."
While some local governments have filled the vacuum created by the national government's all-but-official collapse, many areas are now in a state of anarchy. "I was going to take my kids to school, and no one was there but the children," said Gloria SANTESCU, of Tahtania. "The staff posted a sign that school was closed, and that was it. They didn't even lock the doors."
It is unknown what is to become of the nation's military, which had been built up in the last decade. One rumor is that the entire military arsenal is to be dumped at sea, to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.
However events play out, the smart money is now on the weapons industry. Sales of personal handguns have skyrocketed, with the increasingly obvious absence of law enforcement, and rumors that the prisons have been emptied due to lack of money for guards. Other rumors have the prisoners trapped and starving inside the locked prisons; no government spokespersons means neither rumor can be easily confirmed.
Hikaru Shimatta, a collateral descendant of former Supreme Leader Ai, has been named the heir to the Royal Family in Absentia, and addressed the nation via video, urging calm but expressing regret for the period of insanity that must ensue. "Would that I could restore law and order by simply proclaiming it so," she said. She also said she supports Silvia, and hopes that a small kernel of civilization might survive the coming months.
The smart money, however, is not on that. Even Dorina COSMA, recently elected Viceroy, has not been sighted in weeks, and is rumored to have fled to Trigunia or Sekowo. Prime Minister Ucigaş is effectively the nation's ruler now, although his actual power to impose his authority is limited given that the government employs perhaps a thousand total people, most of whom are lifetime politicians serving in the Parliament.