The Republic celebrates 111 years of Prince-PresidentsGrönewald-on-Lindar,
23rd of February, 4643Three weeks ago a ceremonial artillery salute on the Transkregonian heights marked the start of festivities celebrating the coronation of the first Prince-President 111 years ago and the historical processes that led up to it. Although the coronation was then disputed both internationally and locally, it did have the support of majority of the people at the time and the modern prince-presidential regime made a choice from its very inception to unequivocally and vocally recognize the prince-presidential line dating back to that coronation as the only legitimate and lawful governing institution in Lodamun. The interim years spent underground have left their scars in Co-operative Federative Republic, the people of Lodamun and especially the South which has always been the heartland of Lodamese monarchism and in the crowned line itself.
Celebratory group portrait of His Serene Augustness alongside a few of his closest highborn advisors from the reformed Princely Council. Note the very traditional, screamingly Kregonian choice of formal wearIn Southern Lodamun where the Prince-President’s always been popular, the central week of the anniversary was spent in a maelstrom of paganic fertility rituals, solemn ceremonies and drunken revelry, while most of the North remained as cold as ever with liberal-leaning urban newspapers posting articles filled with barely hidden bitter venom, showing that even though media’s officially mostly state-owned, it has still kept its local leanings and grudges. One of the highlights of the festivities is His Serene Augustness the ex-Prince’s very thorough, almost year-long tour of the Transkregonian countryside with a route that snakes from town to town, village to village, farm to farm, covering impressive swaths of difficult-to-pass terrain without the use of the still-banned motor vehicles.
His Serene Augustness the ex-Prince-President on his anniversary trail, visiting the outskirts of Upper-KrakenaviaInternational analysts point out the noteable lack of celebrations 11 years ago during the 100th anniversary of what some disparagingly call the “coup attempt of autumn 4532”, speculating that it might have something to do with the relative youth of the prince-presidential regime and fragility of the political situation at the time. “The recent developments should be most of all worrying to any freedom-minded people of Terra. That
fascist para-monarchical system’s clearly sprouted tough enough roots that it feels safe wave its [CENSORED] around, now. Eliyahu, I [CENSORED] hate how [CENSORED] smug they look on those photos,” commented a leading Seleyan foreign policy expert, “we really should start thinking about invading them. Do you know, have they found any oil there somewhere?” “What are they even celebrating, there? They have only been in power for like 20 years,” added another.
Some local commentators however point out that although the arrival of the Second Co-operative Federative Republic was accompanied by more conservative social rules and reestablishment of, for example, slavery, the political plurality of the nation hasn’t been so screamingly colourful for almost a century and got notoriously limited right before the conservative revolution. „We’ve discovered that if the Lodamese are allowed to take part in a more total democracy, their choices sometimes surprise both foreign and local experts,“ concluded a veteran analyst, „apparently for some there’s still a discussion to be had here if the people should be allowed to make those choices and hold those views or would it be better to take and make others take significant steps back towards a more limited form of democracy.“ His critics, however, have brought up his Southern heritage as a factor totally invalidating his points.