NationStates Jolt Archive

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Elias Rex in campaign gear

They use to call me "Father of the Nation." Now the papers call me "corrupt" and "tyrant." I SHOULD CLOSE THEIR OFFICES AND SEND THEM SIX FEET UNDER, but I am a benevolent ruler, enlightened even. Ha!

So Elias Rex, Lord Protector of Elias Uber Alles, reasoned as he sat in his office talking to himself. Don't worry, he's not crazy, he just does that when ever things start to go bad. How back were they?

How bad!!! The economy is declining because I closed the casinos to please the Church just because the kids were wasting their lunch money in them. I raised tariffs to protect our carmakers, but people won't by the cars because there ARE CRAP.

At that moment, Minister of Defense Brund walks by.

Brund: Sir, I could not help but hear you. Our army is growing toward the size you put forth for it and it will soon have the best equipment we can buy. If rebels dare appear, we can crush them like ants under boot.

Elias Rex: That is not the problem. I want the coutry to prosper, it just appears that I have made the wrong decisions in something. Maybe we should bring back elections.

Brund: What would your brother say?

Elias Rex: He can't much right now since he's on his way to Aust to neogicate my marriage to one of those royal hotties.

Juan Levite sat in his office late that night. The Lord Protector had given him the "exciting" task of rooting out corruption out of the auto industry subsidies system. Looking of the paper, something was clear; the numbers did not add up. The auto companies were getting double the money they were asigned by the government."

"Someone in our government, likely in the Finance Ministry, is helping the Auto companies funnel money into their failing organizations so that their investors don't pull out."

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It was just then that he heard the cocking of a pistol and felt the cold steal against the back of his head.

"Gote Night, Herr Minister, Gote Night"

The pistol fires but the silencer muffles the sound of the bullet as it meets its target. The man in the dark disappears as quickly as he came.

While effusively praising Elias Uber Alles's leadership and bowing repeatedly, a delegation has humbly requested that the government take a more "modernistic" view in the future. They want to see a return to some of the political freedoms of yesteryear.

Hugo Cesare Rex, the High Minister for Finance and another of Elias' younger brothers: What these people fail to realize is that you know what's best for them. The alternative is anarchy! I say stick to your course. And execute these wackos for treason. We need to put all this spending on the police and military to use for once.

Elias Rex: Not against our own people!

Hugo: But they are not our own if they say treason as they just did!

Amanda Rex, Chief of Staff and Elias' half-sister: Well then I must not be one of "our own" either! Perhaps, my most magnanimous Lord Protector, the people could be given some more political freedoms. Is there really such harm in allowing public discussion of ideas? We could even have a real Opposition Party. One that isn't just full of your puppets, I mean.

Elias Rex: Yes, this will be the first step to recovery.

The Hot-headed Hugo storms out of the room bound for just where nobody knows.