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House music trio hits the Charts
After the first successes the “Deepwaves” release their first full album: with the first single released from the set they wants express their solidarity to Sakurai Yuni after the alleged racial issues and invited her to be the protagonist of the song’s videoclip

From left to right: Manuel Sironi, Adriano Magliorana and Edoardo Agosta

8 September 5213

They published their first song less than two years ago but they are already at the top of music charts in Istalia: we are talking of the house music trio “Deepwaves”

Manuel Sironi, Edoardo Agosta and Adriano Magliorana met two years ago and since then they have began to release a success after another. Manuel and Edoardo met at the music conservatory of Milona where they graduated in pianoforte and electronic music respectively, starting the former his career as musicist working in studio, the latter becoming a music teacher. Adriano met them after a night in a disco of Padua where he was playing, working as DJ as a second job. Between the trio developed immediatly not only a great artistic harmony but also they developed a deep friendship which has led to the creation of a music project focused on remixing tracks by other artists in a dance form.
Adriano Magliorana then became the “main face” of the group, staging in several festivals and events while both Sironi and Agosta prefer to focus on the work on the background, although by now their appareances all togher are increasingly frequent.

They decided then to move in Kalistan for 6 months to experience the local musical environment before to come back in Istalia where they finally made the current project which they called “Deepwaves”, releasing their first song “Down, down, down” which became a success reaching the second place of Istalian single chart.
Still in 5211 they release the song “I need your love” sang by the Kalistani pop singer Vicky and which was another great success.
In 5212 the trio release “Just a thousand miles” and “Somethin’ better?”, the latter sang by the warm voice of the luthorian singer Carl Trace, two singles that skyrocketed definitively the Deepwaves to the top of the charts and into the Olympus of the electronic music.

This year, the Deepwaves are finally ready to release their first album, “Dream Memories”, from which as first single they published the song “Come fill up my heart”, sang by the Istalian singer “Isa” (aka Isabella Torrema) which is also the first song for which the trio produced a videoclip. The videoclip has been released just two days ago but already collected millions of viewers, also because the videoclip stages as protagonist none other than Sakurai Yuni, girlfriend of the Grand Prince of the Crown, in a very sensual and beautiful role which surely will make the happiness of her fans. The trio wanted specifically Miss Sakurai because, as stated by Adriano Magliorana, they wrote the song, a minimalist yet stellar house banger, thinking to the alleged racial issue by Empress Vanessa which involved Miss Sakurai: the text, in luthorian like all the other works by Deepwaves aimed to an international audience, is actually an hymn with which the “protagonist” assert their right to love and to be loved, demanding to her lover to “fill her heart”, expressing the trio thus their support, like most Istalia, for the relationships between the Prince and the sekowan actress.


Sakurai Yuni in the video from “Come fill up my heart”

The album will offer also an extended mix of the song which without dubt will become in the next month an ever-present track in every disco and nightclub of Istalia and, surely, abroad too.

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Prime Minister Spada: “No more hesitations!”
The AN Government is finally reforming matters untouched for too much time

Prime Minister Ilaria Spada

19 February 5215

ROMULA - We can resume with few words what is doing the second Spada government, quoting directly the Prime Minister: “no more hesitations!”.

Since the landslide victory at the last elections, Ilaria Spada promised that her second government would have intervened in matters untouched for too much time, matters that had became like some dogma for the politics and the society. Encouraged by the large confidence granted by the voters, however, Ilaria Spada and her party showed no more hesitations in reforming such matters.

Among the most awaited reform there is the policy on the child benefits, for decades aimed to all families and which starting from the next year will be granted only to low-income and large families, a reform described as fairer measure by the Minister of Health and Social Services and which was endorsed even by the Communist and Mutualist Parties.

The founding of selected private schools, introduced by the Demohosians governments clearly favouring the Aurorian schools which today can be counted surely among the most prestigious schools of Istalia, will be abolished, considered as an unfair measure the granting of further public funds to such rather rich establishment which foster escessively their pupils to the detriment of the students of public schools. And also this measures was endorsed by most of the parliamentary forces and even by the newly founded feminist party.

Another important reform, which this time will represent a great step for National Alliance itself, will partially exempt private schools from follow the National Curriculum, firmly decided and imposed by the federal government to all schools, a measure introduced by the first Solenghi government at the down of the Third Empire and that surely has contributed enormously to reaffirm the istalian identity and form the new istalians generations since then. To determine this shift from the traditionally position of AN on this topic contributed surely the mounting requests coming mainly by the private higher education establishments, like the Eliasite Apostolic University of Romula, the High School of Economy of Milona or the Free University of Alaria (Caleon), became veritable excellences of higher education, which can count among their alumni a lot of notable people of today Istalia like politicians, businessmen, awarded scientists and accademicians, artists, phylosophers, etc…, although for years they have been more and more criticized due to their increasingly elitist stances.

The measures mentioned until now are reforms adopted with a clearly socially oriented mind, responding to the criticism against the ruling party, by many considered too close to the wealthiest part of Istalia, to the business and to the establishment, and aimed to give responses to the many workers, craftmen and the little entrepreneurs who granted their preferences to National Alliance.
The next one, instead, is a measure closer to the trditional liberal stances of the party and it’s the first of the privatizations and liberalizations that the government is aimed to introduce during this term: the privatization of the internet providers’ market. Ilaria Spada assured that this first measure will be followed by the privatization also of the sector of transport, notably the TOCs, of the postal service, etc…
As stated by the Minister of Trade and Industry the Government assured that these privatizations and liberalizations thorugh the competion will grant benefits for the consumers on the side of the investments in infrastructures and services and on the side of the prices.

Finally, this year the government will ratify a series of treaties linked the international sport organizations (football, rugby and basket), in order to increase the partecipation of Istalia in international events linked to these sports, but Istalia will re-join also the Gene and Seed Vault Project, underlining the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment how the extremily rich and diverse environamental and agricultural patrimony of Istalia have to be protected also because it is crucial for the country’s economic sector of turism and agrifood.

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Oil pipeline to Istalia from Kafuristan nears completion

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It happened: Prince Nicola Alessandro and Sakurai Yuni engaged!
The wedding, however, will not be organized before two years given the very positive moment for the career of the actress

24 November 5215

ROMULA - The announcement that everyone was waiting finally arrived this morning, published on the official website of the Imperial Household: the Grand Prince of the Crown Nicola Alessandro and Miss Sakurai Yuni are officially engaged.

A precise date has not yet been announced however, given that the wedding will only take place in two years. In fact, Miss Sakurai's career is going through a really happy moment, requested for films, TV series, commercials and as a model, and by mutual agreement she and the Prince have decided to wait a little longer, to both devote themselves to their individual commitments. However, rumors report that the Prince imposed himself upon the rest of the family in order not to force Miss Sakurai to leave her career. Although even the last reticence within the Imperial Family regarding the relationship has been overcome, now that marriage is clearly the next step, the Crown expected the girl to devote herself to her duties as Crown Princess leaving her career as an actress and model, in light of the role of the Crown which must logically avoid economic or even ideological involvement with third parties. However, the Prince insisted on preventing this from happening, at least now that Miss Sakurai really seems to be at the zenith of her activity and therefore a compromise has been reached.

However, it does not seem that this has created problems for public opinion which instead has expressed all its delight at the announcement via social media, preparing to wait with trepidation for the long-awaited day and in the meantime enjoing the next works of Miss Sakurai which this year she was awarded in Villaneddìa for best leading actress for her role in the drama film "Le parole non dette" ("The unspoken words") by director Luciano Sella and was the most awaited person at the last Magliano fashion week with numerous stylists fighting eachother to have Miss Sakurai at their defilees. The country now dotes on this Sekowan girl who evidently has not only conquered the heart of the heir to the throne of Istalia.

Furthermore, according to some recent polls, even the Crown seems to have gained in image, increasing its glossy aura even more, with the Crown Prince and his siblings who are now stable presences on the Istalian jet set, never missing an event that is linked to the cinema, entertainment, art, music, etc... and it will certainly not be a surprise if day of the wedding alongside heads of state and crowned heads from all over the world there will be numberous actors, singers and other well-known faces of the jet set.

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Imperial Wedding of Prince Nicola Alessandro and Sakurai Yuni
As expected, in millions flooded Romula for the events which has been another great image success attended by delighted heads of state from all over the world

16 October 5217

ROMULA - After two years of waiting and long preparations the Grand Prince of the Crown Nicola Alessandro and the sekowan actress Sakurai Yuni finally got married.

As the Crown of Istalia has accustomed us by now, it was a sumptuous event organized in great pomp with the Capital festively decorated with Istalian flags and banners of the crown and floral fesons, which saw a grandiose procession parade through its streets made of carriages, mounted riders of the Imperial Guard, platoons and military bands from all branches of the armed forces although dominated by men of the Navy, where the Prince is serving with enthusiasm.

Of the hundreds of thousands of people who flocked to Romula for the event, many had arrived even two days earlier, hoping to grab a front row seat at the best spots in the city. All over Istalia, in the squares and public gardens of the cities megascreens broadcastd the event, transmitted of course also worldwide given the attention for the glamour of the Istalian Crown and also because is one of those few events which the world can see all together some of its leaders as well as a parade of celebrities and the best of the style and fashion.

The procession, starting from Quattroregni Palace, reached the Minor Basilica of All Angels, where the authorities of the Istalian state, heads of state and crowned heads from abroad, friends and relatives of the couple were already present, including a large number of actors, singers and various celebrities from the Istalian and international jet set. The Prince wore his ceremonial uniform of his beloved Navy while the bride wore a white pearl dress designed by Serena Piolo, who embroidered floral motifs inspired by sekowan styles on a long-limbed and selucian cut dress, characterized by a very long veil made of the finest handmade lace of Istalia, held by a tiara of platinum and rubies.

Among the international guests could not miss Emperor David I of Kalistan and his Co-Empress Khaterine, long lasting friends of the family, who travelled in Istalia with their staff to stay a whole week with their friends and Prime Minister Gina Fernandez reiterating the friendly relationship between the two countries, and the Empress Ayako of Sekowo and Prince Consort Tsugunaga, Royals of the country of origin of the bride who were really delighted to attend and give their blessing to the couple (a gesture particularly appreciated by Miss Sakurai's parents who had the opportunity to meet and talk with their "Josei Tennō"); and therefore were present among others the President of Huthori Tom Thomas and consort, King Louis IX of Lourenne and consort, President of Saridan Adem Christiaan van Tassel and consort, King and Kaiser Leopold VIII of Dorvik and consort, Emperor Cassius Calventius I of Selucia and consort, President of Kafuristan Bashir al-Saab and consort, the Triarchs of Kalopia and consorts, President of Dundorf Rudolph Rachenhausen and consort together with the Minister of Foreign Affairs Florian Joachim Kantberg, President of Tukarali Vasco Moniz and consort, the Crown Prince Oskar of Davostan-Kivonia, President of Deltaria Denis Sklenár and consort, all of them warmly welcomed by their hosts Their Most Excellent Imperial Majesties Emperor Alessandro IV and his wife Empress Vanessa.

The wedding banquet held at the Imperial Palace saw Istalian specialties accompanied by some sekowan dishes and for the banquet the bride wore a splendid white dress with gold decorations designed by Narsece's top stylist, Alfio Condotti, inspired by the shapes of traditional sekowan dresses.

A pop concert was offered outside the Palace in the crowded square, culminating in great fireworks displays, but similar events were organized in all the cities of the country. Numerous tourists were seen among the festive Istalians, many from Sekowo, who flock to Istalia as usual, attracted by the glamor and jovial atmosphere that our country can offer on these occasions.

After the celebrations, the newly wed couple flew by helicopter to Neapulia from where, setting sail from the military port, they left for their honeymoon aboard the "Rex", the 70-metre yacht that the Crown Prince recently bought and that he will use certainly quite a lot in the future given his love of the sea and sailing. The yacht will sail for a couple of weeks between the tropical islands and atolls between Saridan and Selucia, then by private jet the couple will fly to Sekowo where they will spend another week before returning to Istalia.

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Government to the center-left: Carolina Dominici is the new Prime Minister
Istalians showed to be attracted by the rebranded hosiandemocrats and their vision for the country


4 February 5218

ROMULA - The leader of the hosiandemocrats Carolina Dominici, whose party run for the last elections under the rebranded name of Hosian Popular Party, has sworn in the hands of the Emperor a few days ago as the new Prime Minister of Istalia, succeeding the outgoing Ilaria Spada, now leading National Alliance, now second party of the nation, at the opposition.

The HPP, which came out first party in last year's elections, has coalesced around itself the Feminist Party, which with a good first result finished fourth behind the Mutualist Party, which despite the good result dissolved following internal disagreements between the various factions, and the Communist Party, the only far-left party still active after the dissolution of Workers' Democracy, again last party and with a clear collapse in consensus behind it.

The Istalians therefore seem to have placed their trust in the substantial agenda with which the rebranded HPP re-presented itself to the voters led by its new Federal Secretary. The party has remained faithful to the cardinal principles of hosian democracy of solidarity and cooperation between the various social categories, but seems to have abandoned the more left-wing positions in the economic field by proposing a more moderate approach, reinforcing the bargaining power of the workers but at the same time seeking cooperation with employers and promoting new policies through tax breaks and incentives, but also guaranteeing a certain entrepreneurial freedom to private individuals, as demonstrated for example by the government law on the reintroduction of state-owned power stations, postal service and TOCs.

About HPP's goals on the field of civil freedoms, unlikely the Prime Minister will be able to gain the support from her allies for her very conservative agenda. The removal of the Aurorian Church from the status of State Religion surelly seems to have divided the country with Ilaria Spada which recently seemed more open to support the Aurorian Church, probably to attract the aurorian electorate.

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Il Gossip Quotidiano
The Prince and Princess of the Crown announce the imminent arrival of a baby
Prince Nicola Alessandro and Princess Yuni have totally won the hearts of the people although it seems that new tensions are emerging between daughter-in-law and mother-in-law


19 December 5219

ROMULA - The web simply went crazy this morning when the fateful announcement appeared on the official website of the Imperial House: "Their Imperial Highnesses the Grand Prince and the Grand Princess of the Crown are pleased to announce The Grand Princess Yuni is expecting their first child", due date: end of May/first half of June.

Given the attention that the media constantly pays to the couple, for several weeks suspicious photos had already begun to circulate in the tabloids regarding Princess Yuni and which had generated quite a few rumors, although until today many were those who, on the other hand, did not think it was probable, in the light of the Princess's commitments between the Court and the modeling and movies' sets, not having at all given up her activity as an actress and model, although strongly restricted by the guidelines imposed by the Imperial House, for the drafting of which, given the novelty of the situation, the administration of the then at the time outgoing Prime Minister Spada had also been involved.

With the arrival of this first child, the now 28-year-old Princess Yuni now seems to be about to have to definitively say goodbye to the scenes and devote herself more and more to the family and to her role as future Empress Consort and mother of a future Emperor or Empress. But not everyone is actually so sure that this will happen: ever since the relationship between Prince Nicola Alessandro and Miss Sakurai has become public, periodically, with each official announcement, at each fundamental step of their story, the public expected the abandonment of the scenes by part of the actress at any moment, but this has never happened until now. Prince Nicola Alessandro, for his part, has always said to be proud of his wife's success and it would not be surprising if he will show to be more than favorable for his wife to continue with her career; decidedly different opinion, however, is that of the Emperor and his wife, supported by the rest of the Imperial Household, and above all the Empress Vanessa would seem the most annoyed, not only for the fact that the Princess is continuing her career, but also for a certain indisposition of the Princess for the Court etiquette, stiffened and made more serious, solemn and pompous under Empress Vanessa with the tacit and and telling the truth pleased consent of her husband.

The public, however, simply adores the young couple, decidedly more glamorous and worldly than the Prince's parents, more down-to-earth but at the same time more sophisticated than the haughty Imperial Couple, who with dignified and solemn composure adhere perfectly to their position and to their duties but certainly seems to be eclipsed by the glittering brightness of the youngest couple and their shining love story.

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Kafuristan-Istalia pipeline completed
The state authorities of both the countries met in Terebbìa to inaugurate the strategic infrastructure

Istalian and Kafuri state authorities opening the pipeline

12 January 5220

TEREBBIA - Under the very hot sun of this summer, at the Terebbìa refining pole the highest state officials of Istalia and Kafuristan jointly attended the inauguration ceremony of the "O’mer Muhafazza-Terebbìa Pipeline" which has been built in a joint venture between the two countries.

Emperor Alessandro IV, Prime Minister Dominici and Minister of Trade and Industry Stefano Lucchini welcomed at Terebbìa airport the kafuri President Bashir al-Saab accompanied by his Minister of Trade and Industry Nessime al-Thani and by the CEOs of the Kafuri National Oil Company and TransOil, and from there they moved until the refining pole along the coast, the arrival point designated by the Romula authorities for the pipeline which, when fully operational, will be able to transport up to 100,000 m3 of crude oil per day to Istalia. The infrastructure will be managed in partnership by a consortium set up ad hoc between the KNOC through its controlled TransOil, which will control the majority of the shares, and a group of istalian companies including Enist, Gasper and a state-owned company created for the occasion, the SOGEIP ("Società di Gestione Infrastrutture Petrolifere", in luthorian "Oil Infrastructure Management Company").

In front of the cameras, the various authorities expressed their satisfaction for the completion of the work which will undoubtedly bring benefits to both nations, but beyond the usual words of circumstance, it seems that sheltered from the gazes of cameras and journalists there was talk of the possibility of negotiating a broader commercial treaty to bring the two nations even closer together and establish ever more friendly and profitable relations.

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LHD "Arturo Gabriele II" launched
The Grand Prince and Princess of the Crown gave their blessing to the new unit of the Imperial Navy


28 January 5220

ALBETA - At the Leonardi Yards of Albeta the Grand Prince and Grand Princess of the Crown Nicola Alessandro and Yuni, a splendid godmother of the launch showing off a nice 5-months pregnant belly, attended with the top echelons of the Navy and of the Defense the lauching ceremony of the new LHD of the Imperial Navy, the "Arturo Gabriele II", named after the well known King of Istalia considered the founder of the first modern Istalian Navy (who reigned between 1855 and 1863), name chosed by the seafaring and naval history-lover Prince Nicola Alessandro himself.

Built following the basic scheme of the LHD "Impero" and "Aquila", the new ship is 248-meters long, it is equiped with the best of the sensor, electronic and defensive/offensive systems. It will be able to carry up to 34 crafts in different configurations (both jet fighters and helicopters), several armoured vehicles and up to 600 soldiers, even MBTs, transportable on the landing crafts stowed in the floodable dock. Like several other units of the Navy, also the "Arturo Gabriele II" has a multipurpose design and actually it can be equiped with a state-of-art field hospital and can be used for several kind of humanitarian missions.

This ship is only the last one of the new units which are already entering service into the Navy expanding its ranks with the new multipurpose frigates and offshore patrol vessels. On board of the new LHD will be deployed the latest developed unmanned systems, with both reconeissance and offensive remotely controlled crafts which, however, will use also advanced AI systems to increase automation and accuracy.

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Mamerte probe lauched to the red planet
Completed this step AISA is ready to focus on the Peregrino probe which launch is expected within four years


2 July 5220

In the large mission control room 3 of the Paolo Tarso Space Center, renovated just three years ago for the launch of the Stationary Solar Observatory, since then orbiting at Lagrange Point 1, all the personnel exploded into euphoric shouts and applause as soon as all the instrumentation confirmed that the "Freccia 2-MPL" rocket has now passed the critical phase of launch and is steadily on the predicted course to leave Earth's orbit for our nearest neighbor: Mamerte, the red planet.

The rocket, from the "Freccia" family of space launchers developed by VerTech, was launched over two thousand kilometers north of the coast of Istalia, from the floating platform "CosmoVer" and on which the main stage of the rocket will return and land on its extendable legs. In the mission control room, a quarter of the personnel present were from VerTech, mainly personnel dedicated to the launch and re-entry of the carrier rocket. VerTech, as many predicted, blew the competition early on in the space programs taken over by AISA and Defense, winning the majority of bids one by one through the revenant and now VerTech-owned company "Siderale".

The Mamerte probe will reach its destination in six months, landing in an area caratherized by a system of chained basins in the northern hemisphere of Mamerte where it will analyze the atmosphere and the soil through a whole series of sensors and a real chemical laboratory on board the probe. A very advanced microscope and spectroscope will also be installed to analyze in detail the soil samples that will be collected. The probe will remain in contact with Terra by continuing to transmit meteorological, seismic, magnetic data, etc... and will certainly transmit splendid photos from the large crater.

The director of AISA Camillo Geminiani, speaking to the press immediately after the launch, took advantage of the occasion to wish good luck to Herakles Anastakos, new General Secretary of the Kalopian party ARIZA, an aerospace engineer who left the AISA after having worked for three years precisely on the Mamerte mission, working into the team dedicated to the stabilization and navigational systems of the spacecraft carrying the probe, which will remain in orbit around Mamerte to assure a constant contact between the probe and the mission control and also to collect images from the surface to compose the most detailed map of Mamerte. Director Geminiani, particularly pleased with the young Kalopian engineer, expressed then his personal wish to be able to cooperate in the future with other Kalopian scientists and engeneers, suggesting that he will certainly work in the future to have scientific cooperation between the two nations proposed at government level.


The Mamerte's mission control room

Now that the Mamerte probe is en route to its final destination, AISA will now be able to devote itself to the third mission of the Cosmo Program, the Peregrino mission, destined to travel to hrough the outer solar system and then leave it definitively, starting a millennial journey through the sidereal space, perhaps directed towards a distant star.
The Peregrino probe will be powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, it will have optical and electromagnetic sensors to photograph and analyze the outer planets of our system and which will also be used as launch pads for the probe which will exploit the effect of the gravitational slingshot to take momentum and speed towards its next stages and then to leave the solar system.