Racist, sexist, ableist Manifesto published,
Lodamun reinforces ableist oppression with private automobile ban
Grönewald-on-Lindar,
13th of May, 4729
Demetrius I, the self-titled (and yet uncrowned) Serene Augustness the Prince-President and far more widely accepted Chief of Cisdraconian Badlands, recently unveiled his latest sinister metapolitical accomplishment – a fully fledged and lenghty ideological vision for a future Lodamun under the name of „The Physical Democracy and Modern Princedom“, promoting a sort-of rule of the athletes that limit the voting rights only those Lodamese men who are able to complete a series of difficult and demanding physical tests. His main argument is that this would, in fact, easily group together and empower the very best of the Lodamese society as those who are intellectually superior are have a far steepet tendency to achieve a higher income and thus theoretically better means and more time to keep themselves in peak physical shape. This would, the argument goes, also lead to the already intelligent but weak to balance themselves out in order to reach the shape to qualify for suffrage, thus widely improving the health of the societal elite. Those already in good shape, however, would be encouraged to push harder in their daily labour to reinforce their means to keep themselves fit.
The considerations relating to the genetically weaker and old people are brushed aside with a suggestion that there is no reason „to support the meek against the virile“. It’s quite clear that in the Lodamese throne pretendent’s mind the positive aspects of giving the naturally gifted the exclusive ability to decide on the nation’s future far outweigh the alternatives as its their offspring that would generally also be of the preferred „electoral stock“. Also noteable is the underlying anti-urban and pro-rural undertone as the author subscribes to the popular belief of rural Lodamese being (if not by birth, then through their purer daily labour) generally stockier and more vigorous. „Interestingly the book mentions women only thrice, passingly and in a totally perfunctory tone,“ observed a pre-eminent literary critic native to Andalay. The Chief of Cisdraconia has previously marked his disdain for the idea of female suffrage (and universal male suffrage, for that matter) on numerous occations and even in a few official public comments.
The book has been widely criticized both nationally and internationally for the obviously illiberal views it espouses but has nevertheless sold surprisingly (since illiteracy is usually considered an honourable trait for most societal castes among the supporters of the former EAPP and Princedom) well, although only domestically and in the least surprising regions of Lodamun.
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In other news, the briefly lifted private automobile ban was reinstated with even harsher measures in January 4729, following what has been described by some as „an absurdly horrific disaster of an experiment“ of brief, two-year long relegalization. In a recent speech the self-titled Serene Augustness Demetrius I glorified the ban as „a uniquely proud Lodamese trait“ that „decidedly shows our people’s natural superior connection with the nature that surrounds us“ and „makes Lodamun physically wider, longer, larger in every possible way from any comparable countrerpart“ as „the lack of revolting motor extends all Lodamese distances“, making Lodamun, in some ways, „the largest nation on Terra“.
This became possible because the decade-long dual rule in the Nation between the Southern Camarilla with ex-Princely forces and Northern Parliamentarians tilted once more in favour of Old Regime as the assorted People's Deputies of the "democratic resistance" gained the upper hand in the Chamber and managed to seize the de jure executive organ of the Nation, supporting the Lodamese Nationalist forces. It is generally not believed to signal the end to the diarchy as the liberal forces remain firmly in control of the coastline and Chief of Cisdraconian Badlands and primary claimant to the Princely throne hasn't made any meaningful steps towards restoring the Princely rule.