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Astana.
Today, after a sudden meeting at the Royal Palace of the Imperial Council, King Friederick Wilhelm, and representatives of the Landsraad and the major parties of the Royal Diet, a Press Conference has been held.
There, the King and the Minister of the Imperial and Royal House, Count Carl Van Houden, left everybody surprised announcing that "this day marks a new beginning for the Liberal Program.".
King Friederick, speaking to the entire country, stated that "an overall constitutional reform is now needed, in order to give to our country once again its glorious past as the motherland of Liberalism."
The reference is to the Liberal Revolution of 1789, which transformed the ancient Kingdom of Tarajan in a liberal monarchy (thanks also to the support given by King Conrad I). The Revolution caused a series of wars in the continent, and the losses suffered by Tarajan ultimately led to a weakening of the liberal regime, which however lasted until the Communist Revolution of 1919.
The consequent restoration of the monarchy in 1944 led also to the establishment of a new, conservative and even reactionary, regime: the actual configuration of Tarajani political system.


This state of affairs lasted until the ascension to power of King Friederick Wilhelm.
The young monarch decided to reverse the situation by introducing a new Liberal Program: the re-introduction of the figure of the Prime Minister (with the title of Minister of the Imperial and Royal House, and connected with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs); the relaxation of the political laws; the introduction of a new, wide series of reforms for the civil laws; even the rebirth of the Empire in a totally-new (more inclusive and culturally-open) fashion.
But the Program had its enemies: the first Prime Minister, Conrad Van Vinkel, cousin of the King and now Grand Duke of Sdudeti-Karabak, was forced to resign after an attempted coup d'etat by then-Chief of Staff Baron Heinrich Van Oeerstadt; and many Houses of the Landsraad were more then skeptics.
The rise to power of the nationalist, Right-winged, Regeneratie Partij (founded by Van Oeerstadt himself) of Carl Van Houden seemed to mark the end of the Program once and for all.


But then, it came the surprise.
Van Houden demonstrated soon to be more than a simple clone of Van Oeerstadt, and he immediately reached a strong understanding with the King. It was the birth of a new Right Wing for New Tarajan: the RP soon conquered the position previously taken by the RCTP, rapidly imposing itself as the true representative of the Right.
And with such new political power in his hands, Van Houden made an unexpected decision, which however reflects well his qualities as statesman loyal to Imperial and Royal House and to the State: to go ahead with the Liberal Program, giving it new life and strength.
The result of such a decision is a new series of laws, which constitute an overall constitutional reform, touching the following issues:
- Reintroduction of the Prefectures (previously established by King Friederick Wilhelm I and suppressed with the Communist Revolution): four of them, with oversee jurisdiction over the single States (the prefects will be appointed by the Government, with the consent of the King);
- New legislative powers to the Royal Diet: it will be fully equated to the Landsraad, which will loose its power to simply overcome it when considered necessary;
- Transformation of the Landsraad in the true federal Chamber of the Kingdom: now, alongside the Lords, every State will be also represented by its own Governor (the head of government), giving to every State two delegates, one of whom now directly elected by the people; in the case of the Royal States, the Royal Governor (still under direct appointment of the King) will be flanked by the Deputy Governor (elected);

This last change, particularly, it has been the most difficult to implement: since its birth, the Landsraad has been the place where the Tarajani high aristocracy protected their own interests.
With the new law, the Major Houses will still keep their powers (although now limited by the renewed powers of the Diet), but now also the Minor Houses will have their direct representation in front of the King (usually, the Governors are taken by members of the local Landsraads).

The new constitutional reform will be presented to the Diet and to the Landsraad, gathered in plenary session, tomorrow morning, in order to receive their official approval (already informally given).
The Liberal Program is now reaching its peak. What needs to be seen, is how far its consequences will go, and, on a political level, what will happen now to the Blue Party, usually the representative of the liberals.
But one thing is clear: Liberalism is now back in its true Motherland.

President Burgsman Reelected

With polls closing with the highest voter turn out in history Liberal Candidate, President Aldric Burgsman was the clear winner. The National Board of Elections reported that 58% of the electorate showed up to vote. With normal percentages being 38%-40%. In recent months many people were certain that the Liberal Party would fail after abolishing the minimum wage, dragging the nation into a World War, and bringing the national government to a halt for nearly 2 months. But it seems as if faith in the Liberal Party is stronger than ever.

Aldric Burgsman finished the election with 98,341,162 votes or 73.72% of the total votes. With Conservative Enda Kenny running behind with the rest of the vote. And in Congress the Liberals managed to get 235/380 seats in the House of Representatives and 59/100 seats in the Senate.

"I thank the Irish People for another term as President. I know times have been tough. Im sorry for that. Economic Growth has slowed, government efficiency has grown to a halt among many other things have happened in our nation in these past few months. This will change this government will be more active in the world. We will once again become influential. God Bless You all."

The Commonwealth of Civitius, one of the oldest in Eurasia, has again been named the 'Most Scenic Commonwealth' in Eurasia an annual poll, continuing its four-year winning streak. Made up of scenic towns and villages, it has its own unique style of building that many Eurasians emulate in their own houses, as well as age-old ruins dating back to the first Eurasian city-state thousands of years ago. Civitius is also home to the largest Arboretum in Eurasia, which has brought many tourists and visitors to the area. The commonwealth, which is less urbanized than the rest of the country, insofar as many still live in small cities or towns. This has led to much of the natural environment remaining intact, with the Ministry of the Environment giving Civitius an environmental rating of A+.


The Prefect of Civitius, Miguel Scipius, has announced that his commonwealth will be enacting policies that will promote the building of Civitian architectural homes and buildings, and will also take steps to preserve some of the ruins that have fallen into disrepair. Further, several towns and buildings have been declared 'Eurasian Heritage Sights', which will allow the Government to preserve them from harm or decay. The budget for Civitius' universities, which are the main source of revenue for the Government, has also been increased, and many young students are taking advantage of what Civitius has to offer. Prefect Scipius said in a press conference "First, I would like to thank the people of Eurasia for choosing our beautiful commonwealth as the most scenic in Eurasia. We are honored to receive this award for the fourth time in a row, and hope to continue to receive it in the future. Second, I am delighted to announce that we will be increasing funding for both our universities and our treasured historical sights, which have sadly fallen into a state of disrepair over the last year. We will work diligently to protect Eurasian history, and we hope that the Civitian people will help us in this endeavor."

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University Games of Antanares

Started in the morning the University Games of Antanares, one of the most important competition in the academic world of Antanares. The Competition see above one thousand students from all the major academies and universities of Antanares compete against each others to demonstrate to be in the best structure of all Antanares. The team, composed from student from the respective university, will "fight" into intellectual challengers, not only relative to the student specializations, but also to the logic and to the ability. Squads from all the main universities will play football and basket during the Games. Not less important, conferences will be held in the Velikogovolka Federal University, that was indicated to receive all the students from all the Federation. Conferences that would be about the main important topics, like the space exploration, the future of the research, the bio-ethic and others.

The Games are an occasion also important to continue to improve the relationship between the different state of the Federation, divided into the past years between different nations, with different cultures and principles. Even though Antanares is united from about two and more hundreds years, civil wars and conflicts devastated the Federation during the past century. Increase the collaborations and the cooperation between the different parts of the nation is, in the mind of all the antanaresian, the best move to avoid another bloody conflict like the Civil War of the '30.

Congress Votes to Leave UPS

In a surprise vote the Irish House of Representatives voted 280-155 to leave the UPS. In a speech by the Majority Leader it was said that "While Ireland is still a progressive state with liberal ideas we wish to remain neutral from most international organizations. We do not want this to affect our relationship with any member state of the UPS as we still see many of the nations as friends. Ireland just weeks to adopt a mainly neutral policy."

The President is expected to sign the bill when he gets back from the UKZ. But the popularity of the UPS has fallen to an all time low of 49% and SECURS has an approval rating of 42% in Ireland so it is obvious the people of Ireland want to maintain a neutral policy.

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Four arrests for corruption

It is a news of the morning the arrest of four people in Velikogovolka for corruption. The four people, according to the Antanaresian Federal Service and to the Federal Police of Velikogovolka, were employed to the Ministry of Internal Affair, in particular in the section dedicated to the fight against the organized crime. The arrests arrive after long investigations that took over two months of works for the men and women of the new-born task force against corruption of the AFS. The new task force, in fact, is born in the last year under proposition of the Council of the Prince and of the left-wing of the Bruma, both preoccupied from the cases of corruptions that have spread in all the country. In particular, the task force directed its efforts against the organization called "The Syndicate".

Syndicate between us?

The recent arrests provoked a reaction from some opposition members and watchdogs: is the Syndicate arrived too high? Four people of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are under arrest and the AFS-FP Task Force is ready to continue with more investigations about the extension of the web of the powerful criminal cartel but the question that everyone has in its head is, how really is big the web of the Syndicate in Antanares? How is possible that four men of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are linked with the criminal cartel and there are more of them in the office of the public government of Antanares? And, if yes, where are they? In what position? According to experts, the most powerful effect that this kind of organisations have is the distrust about the integrity of the federal system. If corrupted are everyone, how the people can trust their government'?
The AFS and the Federal Police are trying to fight the powerful Syndicate with all their means, but the accuses of corruption against agents and operators of both the organizations and against their superiors discredits all the works made since now. Appears an inequality fight, for now, between the police and the Syndicate, a war for now that is all in favor of the second, an organization with ramifications in all the world, in all the main important agencies and in most of the nations. Antanares, according to a member of the AFS, would fight with all its forces against this shadow organization, with all the means possible to eliminate and eradicate the menace.
Whispers from Bruma suggest the possibilities that the Council will try, in the next days, to organize a new task force with men from all the main organizations of the security service of the Federation and with the collaboration of the DRAGONR Command and the SAOIRSE, that appear, for now, far from the hands of the Syndicate.

The Tarajani aeronautic industry is quickly rising to the top, as demonstrated by the new JAS-39 Gripen and the Dassault Rafale-Nariman.
Thanks to new developments in the field, the Shalimar Design Bureau (SDB), decided to completely upgrade and re-design of one of its most impressive products: the SDB-225 Damavand, the longest and heaviest airplane ever built.
Built in 1990, in the wake of the quick growth of the aerospace sector promoted by King Conrad IV, the SDB-225 was designed as a strategic airlift cargo aircraft, to be used mainly for civilian purposes. Only three Damavand were produced at the time.
Now, at Eindhoven (where the HQ of the SDB is located), the old design has been outfitted with the latest technologies available, in collaboration with the other firms of the Eindhoven Space Industries Consortium and, above all, the Amjad-Heemskerk Aeronautics and Defense.
The new Damavand will take the denomination SDB-225II, with two different versions: the first one reserved for civilian purposes (version C), the second one for the military (version M).


A special version (R) will be produced for the RHIELD, which has been a major promoter of the project. This version is specifically designed to transform the Damavand in a flying command center for the organization: equipped with state-of-the-art sensors, flight systems and communication arrays, stealth technologies and advanced defense systems, the R version will give the organization the possibility to quickly react to any threat by deploying special operatives and coordinating them from the aircraft, with a direct connection to the HARDENED satellite system as well. In conjuction with the Submarine Air Carrier Shalimar, the Damavand R will further increase the power projection of RHIELD, and its power to protect the Kingdom and the Empire.
But, more importantly, the Damavand, in all its versions, stands as an unmatched and outstanding mark of the level reached by the Tarajani aerospace industry.

Beginning in a few weeks, construction on the currently uninhabited island of Meriitakin will be declared a new province of Meigmaland known as The Experimental Island (codenamed Project Ukulele). Those living on the island will commit their lives to follow their province's "charter" known as The Three Principles, the entire text of which is-

1. Create a utopian society where people do not work to make a living, but to contribute to society.
   
2. Focus on advancing technology, especially in the ways of renewable energy.
   
3. Become a marvelously designed city.
   

For comparison, most province charters are over ten times longer than this one. Some people are against the government's plan, though. PM Moore is an avid watcher of science-fiction television shows, and some believe that the bill for this island is Moore's dream to bring the science-fiction world into a reality, and it only passed Parliament since there were enough fans of science-fiction to get the bill to pass.

The government is now recruiting for a minimum of 10,000 people to live in this society. Plans for design are already under way. The plan is to surround the perimeter of the island with farms, and the farmers will import the majority of their crops (saving enough for themselves to eat) to the inner city. The citizens of The Experimental Island do not get paid for their work, nor will they need to be, since... money won't exist there. The plan is that the farmers grow whatever food they can, and every week, the citizens will meet with a local farmer to discuss what food they will need for the week. Just beyond the farms, right outside the beaches, scientists will be working at their water desalination plants to provide the water for the city. All vehicles in the Island are self-driving and are either completely electric or hydrogen-powered. The government claims that, if the Island is successful, the mainland and Atenis will slowly incorporate some of the culture there. The Island will live up to its name: they will experiment, and what works will be incorporated.

As of now only 750 people, from farmers to everyday workers, have signed up, but the government is sure they can accomplish their goal. The end goal is to create a green, advanced, utopian, and autonomous state incorporated into Meigmaland. This all sounds somewhat exciting, but expensive, so the government will be taking baby steps so that the taxes of the mainland citizens do not spike, but will gradually increase, and then gradually decrease once the main costs are taken care of.

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Post-modernism in Antanares

"Where are we?" is the new work of one of the most influential philosopher of the School of Velikogovolka, Alexander Brauraine. The work is the last step of the philosopher along a way of writes and declarations about the end of the modern age and the enter, of the entire world, in the post-modern era of the humanity. What is the post-modernity? For most of the philosophers and the sociologists the modern age, the industrial era of the Esamir, started in different kind of moments in different parts of the world, finish here, with the dawn of the industrial age and the rise of the information era, the era of the mass media, the fast connections between the four angles of the Esamir, the age of space exploration and technological advancement.
In the book, Brauraine describe the passage between an industrial world, based on face-to-face relationships, precise social and economical hierarchies and the collectivization of the social life and the enter in a new era, the post-industrial or post-modern world. In the new era the connections between people become computerized, the industrial age ends with the born of a new age of automated industrial complex. The past extra-ordinaries events become the norm in the post-modern world "Years ago, Astana was a distant city. Now, is the neighboring of Velikogovolka. We live in a no-space, with no-time, with no-relationship". For the author of the book, one of the top seller of the months in all the main libraries of the world, the new era is a era of challenges, progresses but also problems.

In the past era the science was considered the motion of the progress and of the future, but in the post-modern world become a sort of new religion, into the hands of an elite capable of miracles. The past social relationship were abandoned in favor of new ways of life, more individuals, more solitary. The network is the new plaza, for Brauraine.
But, if from one side the science and the technology bring the humanity to a new step of the progress, considered into a modern view of the things, from another side the social destruction of relationships and of the collective separated the individuals from each other. The new human that emerge from the ashes of the past, for Brauraine, is a single man that consider himself, or herself, the center of a new sort of social world that find the in the actor the bases of all the construction.

"Where we are, now?" asks the author, more than to the reader, to himself "We can conquer the star, but we will be alone. We can destroy all the disease, to die alone in a bed while our beloved commemorate ourselves on a social network. Are we in the future? And this is the future that we want?". Probably, is one of the most important question that all the book put in all the hundreds of pages. The reflection of Brauraine is more than a philosophical exercise. The problem that the author find in the new age of the humanity is more than a theoretical problem, is a practical one. The world, now, live in a sort of limbo. High skyscrapers draw elegant skyline in all the angles of the world, while advanced planes flight between distant continent and scientists, in ultra-futuristic laboratories prepare the next step of the human evolution with the help of supercomputer. But, for Brauraine and for his colleagues at the School of Velikogovolka, all these actions are accomplished from men and women that are, essentially, alone. The question that Brauraine lay has not an answer, or, almost, the author doesn't have one. "We can't stop the progress", said the philosopher in the book "And for what reason do we must stop it, how someone suggested? The progress is not more like an instrument in the hands of humanity. that must be only capable of use it to play the right symphony. What is this symphony, this is must be the next question".

The post-modernism, the problematic of the excesses of the individualism, the destruction of the past social relationships based on the industrial model and the creation of parallel lines of socialization, like social network, maybe are not a problem of the scholars, philosophers of sociologists that could be. Maybe is not a problem, maybe is it. What, in the conclusion, the author said, is that there is the possibility that the phase that we live is only a sort of transaction between a social world and another, or, probably, the current one is only another system of socialization. If are we launched to enter in another era, with no-name for now, or that we just live in a new era, is not important. Are we really ready for the changes that this will take to all the humanity? Nano-technologies, space exploration, bio-genetic studies open all a series of reflections about the role of the human in the develop of it race that never, in the past, were affronted from the researchers and the thinkers. Encounter a men on a social network and marry him after one months was a case impossible to expect ten years ago. The world change really fast and the humanity could be not be fast like it.
How affront the changes? This is the problematic, the important one. "Where are we is not important. Where are we going, is most important. And how we will arrive, is most important at all"

The Ministry of Education announced a comprehensive new curriculum reform that will be taught in all schools at the beginning of the next school year today, following several reports that the agency had been considering reform for some time. The specifics of the plan have yet to be fully revealed, mainly due to several crucial implementation issues being resolved, but the Ministry released an overview of the plan, which the Eurasian Left has hailed as a promising development from the Fortier Administration, which has been thus far lukewarm on the issue of Eurasian Education. The focus of the reform will be on the Eurasian language. Many analysts have complained that Eurasian High School standards are relatively substandard, with oversight left mainly to the various commonwealths with differing degrees of efficacy. The Ministry's new standards will allow for direct oversight, and a national curriculum that will be taught in all commonwealths regardless of location, as funding that is outside the purview of the commonwealth's budget will be provided by the national government.

Eurasian is a notoriously varied language, with regional accents and dialects causing variation in the way the language is taught. While nothing as extreme as the difference in English dialects, the Government mandated variation is Mainland Eurasia, or what is spoken where the language originated. This variant is used in all publications and radio, television, government broadcasts, and is widely considered to be the 'proper' form of Eurasian speech, although this is not the official case. The new reforms will mandate that, with respect to regional accents, the Mainland vocabulary be taught. Mainland Eurasian makes use of the vosotros form of 2nd person plural pronouns and verbs, and many other dialects do not use that dialect. Thus, the Ministry of Education will enforce that this will be taught to all children entering into the Eurasian Language programs internationally and at younger ages, but regional accents will be left intact to respect cultural differences.

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New rifle for the army

After the reform of the branches of the security agency in Antanares and of the army and the renovations of the vehicles at disposition of ARROW and DRAGON Enforcers in land, air and sea, the Council of the Prince announced in the early morning the renovation of the light weapons at dispositions of the brave soldiers of Antanares. The introduction of mechs in combat operations, the large use of laser in the air and ships combat and their recent introduction in the land/tank battles, with a series of demonstration on the field during the Panem Conflict, the new weapons at disposition of the forces of Antanares would "be the last piece of a complicate puzzle, that represent the efficiency and the strength of Antanares", said a representative of the JMC, that according to the news was involved in the productions of the new line weapons of the infantry. According to the information released, the infantry just disposed of advanced AA and AT equipment for their operations but the rifles were "too less advanced than the rest of the equipment", continue the report of the JMC. "For these reasons we invested in the develop of new weapons that would represent the new doctrine of Antanares: less space, more power, more efficiency, more modernity".

JSR-1240 Black:

JBR-100 Grave:

JLR-300 Rage:

The Eurasian Military has received an upgrade in armaments and vehicles after the recent budget passed by the Senate increased funding drastically. Eurasia, maintaining the largest military in the world, also possesses one of the best equipped in the world, and the new weaponry and new armor introductions are designed to modernize the army. So far, the only area of the military that possesses advanced power armor is the Special Forces, but now the army will be issuing the armor to all soldiers, with the special forces receiving a modified variant for their operations. The weaponry will also be upgraded to be more effective in asymmetrical combat, and the vehicles used by all branches will receive modifications as well.

T-51b Infantry Power Armor:

T-76c Hellfire Special Forces Armor:

It's perfectly in line with the Technological RP Restriction Act, so y'all can calm yourselves.

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Green institution

Following the new rules imposed from the Bruma and the Federal Government, all the local government started to introduce the new rules for the energy saving and the creation of a "green regime". If right now most of the industries used only green energies, diffused on all the territory of Antanares, only recently the Bruma passed new laws that impose on all the local institution to end the work of conversation from the use of fossil combustibles to green energy, like the fusion energy, diffused on all the territory, of the wind energy. Antanares has one of the most large welfare and institution system of the Esamir and one of the largest industrial sector. For these reason the Bruma have place on the head of the list of the goal to achieve in the minor time possible, the extension of the use of green energy on all the main sectors of the life in Antanares.
With the two laws passed four years ago, "Bishop Act" and "Green Act", the civil sector, with private and public funds, converted to the green energy. Actually, the 85% of the energy used in Antanares is produced from renewable sources and the goal of the government is to arrive to the 90% in the next two years and to the 100% in the next four.

One of the most visited country in the world

Advanced, full of night and day life, with vital cities everywhere in the country, safe and progressive. These are, in the last times, the words used to describe Antanares, one of the most vital country of the Esamir. From Velikogovolka to Cape Wolf, the cities of Antanares reached an important goal. Actually Antanares is the second most visited country in the Esamir, an important objective for Antanares. Considering the climate, not one of the best in the world and considering also the pollution that hit the country in the past decades, before the new green investment launched from the actual government, this goal represent how Antanares is capable to sell herself to the world and present the better side to the world, encouraging foreign investment and visits. According to the statistic Velikogovolka and Sessadraina are the two most visited cities of the Federation, with Cape Wolf, Javor and Balcary that follow.

A smart country for smart citizens

Recently the entire bureaucratic sector of Antanares was hit by a series of reform to transform the slow, inefficient past system into a modern, fast, one. After the introduction of the drones in the hospital system, the conversion to green energy, the funds dedicated to eradicate corruption and enlarge the welfare system, the entire machine is become too big and too slow. Recent innovation promoted from the Ministry of Internal Affairs would help the citizens to understand and use in a better way the entire system. With the renovation of all the internet servers of the Federal Government, the system become more accessible for the citizens and easiest to use. The citizens can, from their house, rapidly receive and send information to an office, prepare documents and avoid long queue in the normal office. Operators and clerks in the federal offices can rapidly respond to various requests, at the same time and in the half of time.
All of these were possible thanks to the Smart House Program, launched from the government to improve the efficiency of the system and the quality of life of all the people of Antanares. The smart house are robotic system that help every persons in the everyday problems and situations. A smart house can clear itself, prepare a bath and at the same time prepare the dinner. But, for who prefer a sort of "life-time assistance", the smart house can be only a sort of agent for all the most boring question, like paying the taxes and the bills. A smart-house can adapts the illumination to the hour of the day, prepare a garden for a picnic. Linked with the servers of the government, every time become necessary an intervention, like a simple repair or after an accident, it is possible to intervene in very little time.
Smart-hose easily become smart-city in all the cities of the country. Central ultra-protected systems help the local government to improve the efficiency of the public system, avoiding problem with traffic and pollution, increasing the energy saving. Into a smart city become possible found rapidly where find an hospital, a restaurant or a bar for a fast break, how find a ticket for theater and where is the nearest park. With the project "Smart Cities" the government finds the best way to assure to all the citizens a most safe place where live, but also a place where live good.
Smart-house linked with central server, green economy, fast bureaucracy, all of these transformed Antanares into a smart country, a fast country where the citizens can live their life in the best way possible, helped from a present state in all of its ramifications, safe and green.

The Ministry of Military confirmed today, in a press conference, that OMNI Enforcer has reached the goal to complete the Railgun Upgrade Program (RUP). The program, which is strictly linked to the wider OMNI Reorganization Program, provides for the testing, manufacturing and installation of a wide series of railgun weapons in OMNI military assets.
The first step of the program introduced the railgun as a component of the modernization project for the so-called Space Shield, the combined air-sea-ground satellite-coordinated system which protects the Kingdom and the Empire against any kind of ballistic attack (in this contest, since the main anti-missile asset is provided by laser turrets and missiles, the railguns have the role to immediately strike back against the vehicle/silos which carried out the attack).
There, the new weapons performed excellently-well, thus opening new perspectives for OMNI: at the actual stage of completion (which is to say, at the end of the program), railguns have been mounted on board every vessel of the Tarajani navy; the army has seen its main battle tanks, Reaction and Altay upgraded (the last one, in cooperation with the manufacturer, the Antanaresian-based McBan Military Tech) with light-railgun turrets (specifically designed to be hosted inside a ground vehicle).
Also the RSS Iliad and the RSS Shalimar have seen their main arsenal upgraded with the new technology, making them far more effective in their mission to protect New Tarajan and the whole Empire against any kind of threat.
OMNI has declared itself to be "extremely satisfied by the results scored by the new weapons", created by a specific scientific team, comprised of the most important scientists of the Tarajani and Arveyran universities.
"This is a wonderful demonstration of the progresses of Imperial technology." said one of the scientists, Prof. Albert Van Frey: "The applications of this technology go far beyond the military field: we are working toward finding a way to integrate it with our progresses in space and aerospace technology."
Indeed, the NTIVR (Nieuw Tarajan Instituut voor Vliegtuigontwikkeling en Ruimtevaart), the Tarajani space agency, already stated its interest in continuing the research for possible applications in space-related technologies.
For the moment, one thing is sure: the railgun technologies will greatly improve OMNI's capabilities to protect the Kingdom and the Empire for decades to come.

The Defense Ministry and Misriah Armories held a joint press conference today to announce the latest developments in military weapons technology, which has been researched by the aforementioned organizations for some time now. With the announcement from Euro-Tech about military armor, Misriah has done its part and announced the latest armaments. Euro-Tech and Misriah are the biggest defense contractors in Eurasia and possibly the world, and often cooperate on joint projects. The weaponry, which includes newer weapons systems for individual soldiers and exciting experimental weaponry for the navy and air force, was shown and demonstrated by Misriah, whose new "MA-Series" of assault rifles will be implemented into the Eurasian military.

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Currently, the Eurasian military utilizes the LX-Series of weaponry, which, while effective, has been somewhat lagging behind the rest of the world in adaptability, mainly due to it utilizing the smaller and less available 5.56 mm round instead of the more effective 7.62 mm round. The newest line of weapons will utilize the 7.62, allowing for high adaptability in the field and for simpler manufacturing. Pistol ammunition will be increased to a higher caliber in the 10 mm bullet, which is an increase from the current 9 mm round. The bullets for larger weapons will stay around the same as they are already moved to the next-generation platform, especially since the army has no interest in changing the highly effective .50 caliber round.

MA5D Individual Combat Weapon System:

DMR:

Sniper Rifle System 99-Series 5 Anti-Matériel:

M6H Personal Defense Weapons System:

M45D Tactical Shotgun:

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The Eurasian military uses a variety of explosives and heavy ordinance in offensive actions, and currently the military uses the M3 Rocket Launcher and its variants for grenade systems. These are becoming obsolete, and are now being replaced by a new variant produced by the enigmatic Misriah Armories. Thus, they have announced the development of the new M4 series of rocket launchers and grenades to be used by the military.

M41 Surface-to-Surface Rocket Medium Anti-Vehicle/Assault Weapon:

M9 High-Explosive Dual-Purpose grenade:

The Royal Power Corporation has finally opened the most massive dam and hydroelectric power station in the Union, the Angora Dam, located in the Sultanate of Angora on the Sultan's River, capable of producing a staggering 23,000 mega-watts of electricity through its 35 massive turbines. It was completed after 15 years of construction, despite of delays and opposition from environmental groups and the national Radical Left Party, at the cost of £ 20 billion Prand funded by the government.


Being the host of two of the world's largest dams, Arveyres continues to maintain its position as an energy superpower as it produces and develop massive amount of renewable energy resources, to supply its rising demand for power brought about by its continuous economic growth.

The Social Democracy of New-Zealand, once commonly called an Egalitarian Paradise, is now facing rapidly rising inequality and harsh public backlash as a result of it. Over the last 2 years, the average income of the bottom 10% rose by just 17.3%, barely keeping up with inflation, whilst the top 10% tripled in the same period. 2 years ago, the top 10% eared 2.3 times the bottom 10%, but today the top 10% earn 5.9 times that of the poor. 

Protesters took to the streets this week and have occupied the main streets of many economic hubs, and shutting down the roads leading to Capitol Hill by setting up tents on the streets and refusing to move. All at the same time chanting "People not profit!", the battle cry of a generation. The protesters themselves come from all walks of life, with the CEO of the Chrysler Group himself taking part in the protests. 

Labour Leader, and current Prime Minister, Andre Lytle has taken to the steps in front of Parliament house and addressed the large crowd. He apologized to the public and promised them that change would come swiftly. He was then addressed by one of the Protest Leaders, who informed the Prime Minister that if he did not address the issues at hand and make significant steps to sort out the inequality within the next 6 months, the public would be serving him with a call for a public initiated general election. Considering recent phone polls show that 83% of New-Zealanders are worried about rising inequality and 78% feel the government is not doing right by it's people, this will not be a threat the PM takes lightly. 

The PM has called an emergency cabinet meeting, and he seems sincere in his promise to atone for his governments wrongs. Whether he will be able to meet the 6 month deadline remains in question, but his first port of call should be sweeping tax reforms to replace the current scheme with a far more progressive one, whilst pouring in far more money into public services. While poverty rates remain extremely low, and government assistance is high, allowing even the poorest NZers a relatively high standard of living, the issue now lies with the fact that the equality of our society has been disturbed. 

Should the PM not be able to achieve this deadline, and face a citizens initiated election, the Centre-left Labour Party and their Centrist buddies will almost certainly face a humiliating defeat. The odds would then stand in favor of the (possibly far) left wing Progressive Party and the also left wing Green Party taking coalition governance over the Social Democracy. As of now the government is run by Labour in coalition with the centrist nationalist party NZFirst, but while NZFirst would retain a large share of the vote, their only viable coalition partners are Labour and the struggling centre-left Liberal Party. In both cases, they would be unlikely to gain enough votes to take governance as the public swings further left. The only way for the Labour Party to retain it's governance is if they once again embrace their Socialist Roots and convince the public that the people, not the corporates, are their first priority. 

All in all, NZ is heading into a very turbulent international situation, with the rise of the Terran Federation and the Royalist-Republican divide, whilst itself dealing with a very delicate domestic situation. The strength of the Social Democracy's leadership will almost certainly be tested in the coming months, and the Labour Party must exert their dominance by keeping the public appeased, as any domestic instability will be catastrophic for the nation.

After the inauguration of the gigantic and multi-billion Prand Angora Dam, the Royal Power Corporation has announced the completion of another multi-billion renewable energy project which is the country's first large scale wind farms, the Ravinian Offshore Wind Farm and the Arpan Onshore Wind Farm. The two mega-projects has a combined cost of almost £ 8 billion Prand that is estimated to cut off carbon dioxide emissions by 6 million metric tons or equivalent to more than 600,000 cars removed from the road showcasing Arveyres' prowess as an energy superpower capable of producing energy from its untapped resources.


The Apran Onshore Wind Farm is capable of producing 2000 mega watts while the Ravinian Offshore Wind Farm has an installed capacity of 1000 mega watts where the two power stations are considered the largest in the world of their kinds. On the other hand, the Royal Power Corporation also said that to meet the projected demands of the Kingdom of Paris its neighboring areas, it has earmarked billions of funds to expand the Nastasia Dam, and Cosmina Dam all located at the two largest lakes in the Kingdom of Paris to showcase the nation's capability to produce cleaner renewable energy to set a good example to all the countries of the world where most rely on polluting sources of energy.

The Senate passed the Clean Transportation Act today with votes falling messily along party lines, with the majority Socialist party easily passing it in the face of fractured opposition. The passage would have been secured with the votes of the Socialist Party alone, but the Greens also were in support of the bill, which assured it passed with a super majority. The bill, which totally bans the use of petroleum-fuel based vehicles, has been hailed as a major achievement for the already green Eurasia. The bill, which calls for mandatory reductions in the use of petroleum based fuels over the next ten years, aims to have Eurasia totally petroleum-fuel free in the same amount of time. Cars running on electricity, biofuels, or other renewable and environmentally friendly alternatives are already the norm in Eurasia, and now that has been codified into law.

The progress this will make for the environment cannot be understated. Many scientists, climatologists, and geologists have bemoaned the environmental impact of the newly announced superhighway with New-Zealand, claiming that it will affect the environment negatively over the next few years. "It is a significant problem." said Dr. Augustin Fernandez te Valencia, a leading environmental scientist and professor at the University of Viridis, "While it will certainly increase trade between our two nations, the impact a bridge of that size with that many cars traveling on it is worrisome at best." With this new legislation, the impact from that will be effectively minimized. The Ministry of the Environment released a statement saying "[W]e can expect to see a marked increase in the health of the environment across Eurasia in the next few years with these new restrictions in place. Further, the impact of the new superhighway will be lessened significantly. This is an exciting win for the Eurasian ecosystem."

Questions have been raised though as to what will happen to those who cannot afford to purchase a new, ecologically safe and legally viable vehicle. According to the authors of the bill, Rectores Flavius Agrippa and Ductores Caius Tacite et al., a person who is unable to purchase a vehicle required by the law will need to submit a detailed list of their earnings and NTA (National Taxation Administration), who will then after review to ensure the validity of their claims, will inform the Ministry of Transportation who will then provide them with an affordable payment plan for an ecologically friendly car provided by participating companies.

The Chrysler Group has apparently been instructed by the NZ Government to shape up, and the recent automotive legislation in Eurasia would come as a well needed wake up call to the NZ Automotive Industry. While cars like the special edition "Devil Charger" by Dodge (A Chrysler Group subsidiary) may have a market in NZ, it seems increasingly apparent that the rest of the world doesn't share our nations enthusiasm for big engines, and frankly, we can see why. NZ itself faces an oil crisis, and this is purely a result of our over indulgence and refusal to come to terms with the changing world. The NZ government only mandates the use of Biofuel, and sure that charger up there can run E85 Biofuel. That said, in the international market our industries must realize that the rest of the world want cars with engines that whisper and sip at petrol. Us NZ'ers are unique in our desire for cars that rumble and roar. 

The Chrysler Group has finally been kicked into action by the government, which has injected $700 Million into the company (this probably wont go down too well with the people not profit protesters, which will see this as corporate welfare) for them to put forward to "Green Initiatives". The injection means the company will go ahead with it's currently benched Holden Volt hybrid, starting manufacturing immediately and placing them on the showroom floors just in time for the NZ-Eurasian economic agreements to come into action. When the trade barriers are dropped, Chrysler will be doing their best to pitch their cars to the Eurasian market, one which has been pretty much closed off too all nations. 

On top of the Volt, the Chrysler Group will be fast tracking it's EcoTech engines, planning to incorporate the smaller 4 cylinder engines into the current line ups, along side the existing V8s and V6s.

NEWS FROM ANTANARES

Continue the investments

With the electric problem partially resolved with the fusion power, continue the work of the government to reinforce the infrastructure of Antanares. Like most of the nations of the world, Antanares thanks to the Second Industrial Revolution and to the Third has a large road system around all the nation and railroads that connects most of the cities and the little centers around the country. But with the evolution of the transport system, new necessities born. First of all, the government want to renovate all the remnants parts of the railroads in the Federation to allow the passage of high-speed trails and the MAGLEV. They are actually diffused in all the most important railways but, according to the last report from the Ministry of Internal Affair, Department of Transport, the internal area, especially the mountain and the rural zones, are disconnected from the main railways and from the main cities.
According to a new plan of the Ministry, the intentions of the Federal Government are to improve the capacity of the internal zone to be connected with the rest of the country, but not increasing the transport on the just used roads, yet using new ways and roads that will grant a better life for all the citizens. The new trains, that use of course the electricity to move, will be connected with all the new energetic infrastructures created in the last years to connect the fusion power plant an the rest of the country.

Human Revolution?

According to an internal note of the Aeros Consortium, one of the most important investment group of the Federation but also one of the leader in the bio-technology sector, the company will, in the next AFT that would held in the September of this year, show a sort of new line of products that, according to the note, released from an insider, will "change everything in the world". For now, the Aeros Consortium has not released any comment, considering that the AFT will be in two months. It is strange, considering how big is project, that the Aeros was able to protect the secret and didn't release any indications of its. But, most important is the question: what really are the innovations that the AC will present?