Imperial East Terra Company brings end to anarchyThe three year reign of anarchy was brought to a joyful end yesterday after the Imperial East Terra Company accepted an invitation by a joint conference of business, security, policing and armed forces leaders to take control of the ailing country. The Company, which has monopolistic trading rights from Gaduridos, is a fully private organisation but who also benefits from state investments from across the world. Chief Factor (Chief Executive) of the IETC, Thomas Barnes, stated that, 'the Company is in Gaduridos to offer her people the opportunity to enjoy freedom, liberty and stability. Our aim is to develop this country into a world-class trading economy and to invest the subsequent benefits into improving the lives of the Gaduridosi people.'
Chief Factor Thomas M Barnes, with native school children on the island of Marligantos (to be renamed Fotheringhay after a previous Governor) The Company has already doubled investment in Education, Healthcare and Infrastructure, cut income tax by over 60%, increased foreign investment into the country and amazingly increased GDP by 5 times the amount before the Company took control from 9 trillion Gad to 47 trillion Gad.
Chief Factor Barnes stated, 'Our Company is young and yet we have achieved so much more than any previous government in Gaduridos. The people here were used, abused and abandoned by their former political masters, now we are here to fight for them and create a country of opportunity and freedom.'
EMPEROR WILLIAM II CORONATION(Lerna, Dynastic Pontesian Empire) Following the death of his Father, Richard I, HRH William II has been coronated in Lerna Cathedral. The ceremony was broadcast throughout the Loyal Kingdom of Gaduridos and Fotheringhay and outside the new buildings of the IETC's Shareholder's Council in the city of Raleigh to over 3,000 people. Chief Factor Thomas Barnes called the day, 'a glorious moment in the combined history of Pontesi and Gaduridos - where we can put the mistakes and misunderstandings of our pasts behind us and look optimistically towards our shared futures.'
Some anti-capitalist and anti-Pontesian disturbances were registered in cities outside of Raleigh.