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HIFEX NEWS AGENCY: (SCHULTARIA PRIME, SCHULTARIA PRIME 22:25 SCT)

Available for public distribution to all international news agencies (22:45 SCT)


In joint session less than two hours ago, the National Assembly and Consitiutional Court edited and approved a landmark piece of legislation which has been considered to be a "foregone conclusion" by many major Schultarian policy experts. This item, unanimously passed by the joint Legislative/Judicial session, has been dubbed as the "Pure Sight" Bill by its enthusiastic creators. The bill's message is as powerful as it is simple; for the first time in Schultaria Prime's 115 year history, the National Government and its subsidiaries will no longer document racial statistics in any capacity.

Designed to replace the long standing 100 year old "Equal Eye" laws, this piece of legislation will completely forbid any and all official government racial documentation. The authors of this bill: Chairwoman of the National Assembly Jenna Karlow, Consitiutional Chief Justice Samet Salen, and Central Director Elliot Schultz met in the Central Archives of Schultaria Prime to hold a press conference on this newest piece of legislation.

"Schultaria Prime has always been a landmark nation in the realm of civil rights and we feel that this bill will help to cement the nation's firm commitment to judge humanity as a species entire," Central Director Schultz said following the signing of the bill, "We should not look to the limitations of a person's lineage; instead our nation will focus it's attention on issues more pertinent to social discord in modern society."

When asked about the reasoning behind the bill's creation, an adamant Karlow replied with the following statement:

"Why would the one and three quarter billion people of Schultaria Prime want to pay money so they can be neatly divided into little ethnic groups?

Any issues regarding the repression of race are frivolous and, quite honestly, a waste of time and tax dollars to the Schultarian Public. The government is here to provide a decent standard of living to the entire population along with an environment which promotes a competitive environment in the workplace but with comfortable living standards. If we spend so much as a single merlon trying to divide our nation along these lines then we are spending too much."

-For 115 years, your definitive news source on all things Schultarian: Hifex.

OOC: A BUMP for any potential reactions.

OOC: Sounds good so far.

I have a question myself.

I'm curious how your nation is 115 years old. I'd love to read some history of your nation, like how did it form, most important events, etc. I'm in the process of writing a history for my nation. :)

OOC: There's some cursory history for my nation if you look at the entry for Schultaria Prime in the NS Wiki (Click here for some basic info (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Schultaria_Prime)), but if you want a more complete history beyond the current Schultarian Government that might take a little time.

And, for the rest of the international community, a BUMP for the afternoon.

OOC: BUMP

I would have expected at least one of the more "racially motivated" nations to have responded to this message, but I must either be universally ignored or not important enough to warrant attention. Oh well...

OOC: Looks good, but you should make an exception for medical surveys and such (certain races are more prone to different diseases) where a person's race actually has a discernable impact on the quality of information.

OOC: The Schultarian establishment considers medical afflictions to be a product of overall environment and genetic characteristics which must be treated like any other scientific process. Although there are some inherited maladies (such as sickle cell anemia) which are more predisposed to certain groups of individuals, they'll be spotted through a grindingly thorough battery of tests. Besides, since most (if not all) Schultarians are mixtures of at least two or three significant ethnic backgrounds, the genetic predispositions are slowly being lost in the "wash" of the gene pool.

A BUMP for the very early afternoon.

OOC: This lack of reaction isn't exactly what I expected, but then again it seems that this isn't controversial enough for even the more repressive nations to even bother replying. Oh well, I BUMP this for curiosity's sake.

BUMP: I'm quite surprised that other nations can write a 2 sentence post and receive responses from all over the NS world, and I'm struggling to keep my news reports afloat. Anyone care to enlighten me on why this is the case; I'm quite frustrated by this, and I would love to have some answers so I can make my posts "internationally friendly".