NationStates Jolt Archive

<<"We must go much further than a few beggars!" argues the overzealous High Member of the Order of Violet, Freddy O'Bannon. "You must pass a law that everyone’s first born child must be slaughtered, on live TV if possible. Think of the viewing figures!"

This is the position your government is preparing to adopt.>>

Moderate Ba-Halad residents have taken to the streets, temples, and mosques to protest this new law's passage.

The government of Ba-Halad has responded by declaring martial law, and a standoff has begun inside the Capital Mosque, within troops and riot police are not allowed to fire or attack. Forty thousand protestors cover the floor of the mosque, reciting passages and giving speeches calling for a Moderate Party, and actual debate, in the now solely ceremonial House of Lords. Worshippers supportive of the Consul have not been able to attend prayer at the Capital Mosque for three days now, and it is beginning to become a health crisis.

We object to this practice and will be offering material support to the moderates, seeing as Ba-Halad, finally, isn't in a position to nuke us.


Background: Wedged in the Westok Mountain range between Cretal to the north and Ba-Halad to the south, Eddland began its existence as a nation-state after the Mormon Monarchist Militia seized control of the Cretalian Parliament, and executed the President, in a bloody coup. The MMM quickly assembled a secret police, and escape was only in one direction: to the mountains. Five million refugees survived the journey out of an estimated eight million, and established themselves in settlements in valleys, on the mountains themselves, and on the plateaus intermingled, in a geographic oddity. The landscape is barren and inhospitable, yet the Eddlanders have successfully mined gold and iron from the mountains, and have established, in some cases, underground cities lit by electric lights. There are also entire other cities and citadels going up the south faces of the mountains.

As long as the sacrifices are voluntary, we have no objections.

If that is not the case, we must protest strongly...

THE BA-HALAD MINARET

Protests Continue, Mob Takes Control of Supply Depot

AZIZ, Ba-Halad (AGO) - Protests expanded across the nation today, calling for a Parliament with legislative authority, and in the west, an unruly mob attacked and took control of an army supply depot, with heavy casualties. Approximately fifty civilians were killed as they bumrushed the depot.

Consul Kahlil has remained in his private chambers, where he is said to be in meditation on what to do about the crisis plaguing the country since the authorisation of human sacrifice.

Seeing His Support Evaporate, Consul Emerges with Constitution

BA-HALAD, BA-HALAD(AGO) - Consul Kahlil emerged today with a handwritten Constitution by which Ba-Halad may now govern itself, instated himself as the first President of Ba-Halad, to serve a four-year term, and appointed a provisional Parliament. Elections will be held, the first in Ba-Haladian history, in four months.

The provisional Parliament passed its first bill, signed by President Kahlil, today, which calls for health care coverage for less expensive operations and procedures for the poor.