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Pope Peter-Thomas Aquantais (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Ioannes_Paulus_II1978-2005.jpg) The Just stood above Valticor Square where a mass of people gathered for the speech. He was an old man with liver spots on his body and old, worn out, brownish freckles that looked more like tiny liver spots. His skin was pale white, but it was always that way. His white hair was frayed and was matted but was covered by his hat.

He made the sign of the cross, his hands slowly slid into the motion. He opened his mouth but nothing came out. He tried again and then the crowd fell silent.

"People of Valtican City and The Christians of the World. Is, in this, the year of our Lord 2011, I pray to you and absolve you of sin. Sinners and holy ones we are one, under the banner of God, our father. We are all his children despite our race and creed. He shall grant us our way into the sky and heaven and banish those who do not repent to the underworld of Hell and with the sinful Lucifer, blasphemer of Heaven.

God is with us, in our presence behind all of us and he one and only son Jesus Christ who died on the cross for our survival. We pray for truth and prosper and we are ones to be honored much like the God we kneel before. One God is true, one God is all. And that is our God.

Even the warring factions of the world take their time to praise their glory to the one and only true God but those of other faiths do not and are disgusted by our truth. They lie we prosper.

Repent my children under the witness of God and his greatness so that we may live in a better world where the Christian faith is true.

We are Catholics, we are Lutherans, we are Baptists, and we are one under the Lord God's name. We are united and we are free to do gods bidding. To change the world."

The crowd cheered. They screamed and they chanted and not a soul in the crowd had a sign of hatred within them. Pope Aquantais backed off from the podium and did the sign of peace out to the crowd. It only made them happier. He turned around and two of the Papal Guardians (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Garde_noble_Vatican_2.jpg) whom had stood by his side in his speech walked him down the giant staircase.

They came to bottom and two Swiss Guards (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/SwissGuardsatPrefettura.jpg) in a formal attire greeted them.

"Hello your holiness. May God be with you."

They bowed as he walked in between them and as he did the sign of the cross for them. The Pope and the escorts hurried up. They went down the Grand Hall of the Valticor Grand Tower and three more Swiss Guards greeted them. Unlike the others they were armed with M16 assault rifles.

One of the Papal Guardians went up to the Grand Entrance and quickly opened the door for the Pope. With a bow by the Papal Guardian the two Swiss Guards and two Papal Guardians rushed him into the Pope Mobile (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/JPII_29_09_2004_1.JPG) as some fancied. The crowd gathered around the car and Pope Aquantais covered his face.

More Swiss Guard Troops split up the crowd and they were able to transport him to the St. Peter's Tower (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Roma-villa.jpg). Bishop Edward Aliantis meet him at the door steps.

"Come in my brother."

Edward took the Pope's hand and directed him inside into the Pope's Study. The both of them and two other Bishops, Bishop John Evangales and Bishop Paul Raventrues, crowded into the dimly lit room and around a small oak table with paintings and patterns carved into its structure. Two Swiss Guards tried to get in to monitor the situation but were quickly told to leave. They did as they were asked and the four holy men found themselves alone in the room.

Bishop Edward Aliantis was the first to speak.

"That was a beautiful speech my sir."

"Yes, yes it was." butt in Bishop John Evangales.

The pope sighed and drew in a large breath.

"Not by my standards brother. They lost interest in our faith."

"That is untrue, how in the world is this city's population exceeding 5 million then?" erupted Bishop Paul Raventrues.

"Silence your mouth novice before you disrespect the eye of God."

Paul rolled his eyes and knew that the pope couldn't see well enough to see him do so. But Edward did see him do it and ordered him to leave. Paul did so but not too happily. Once the door fell shut they leaned in and Edward began to speak once again.

"What is it that your holiness wishes to learn?"

Pope Aquantais leaned back and moaned a little as he answered.

"What is our charitable rate, how much do we have coming in and how much going out?"

"Hmmm well sir our annual rate as of last year was 3.4 trillion USDs coming into our systems. 1.4 trillion of it went to various projects and charities. The last 2 trillion came into our system and stayed."

"How much to the churches?"

"2 billion."

"To the city?"

"Um, 4 billion.

"And in my pocket?"

"1,994,000,000,000,000 exactly into your wallet and a little portion of it goes to me, John and Paul."

"I wish to take Paul out of it after his blasphemy he showed today."

"Very well sir. Is everything else in order?"

"Quite, yes."

Pope Peter-Thomas Aquantais got up out of his chair and in respect so did the bishops. Edward held the door open for the Pope and Paul held it open for Edward. The St. Peter's Tower was the most private building in the city. It was more of an estate to the Pope and his highest Bishops then anything else. Seven Papal Servants rushed to Pope Aquantais and the two honored bishops. One of the servants had a thick cane, which showed wealth instead of weakness, on a red pillow and offered the cane to the pope.

The pope took the cane off the pillow and replaced it with one Golden Catholic Pound or the GCP for short.

"Good boy." said the pope with a smile and he left the estate and entered the Pope Mobile.

He was driven to the Vatican-Roman Court of the Lord (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Rome_Vatican_Museums.jpg) in Valtican City near the border of its end. He was rushed up a great staircase and came out to be above the rest of the court yard and massed gathering of people.

Cameras were pointed at him and the criminal tied to the post next to him. The Pope held a steel sword with a golden trimmed handle and a ruby at the bottom of the handle.

He lifted the sword then gently placed it on the man's left shoulder than the right.

"In the name of the Lord I grant you immunity from the Vatican-Roman Court of the Lord and the other courts of Valtican City. Welcome to a new world."

He had to do things like that all day long to prepare for Valtican City to be a famous, rich city on world stage. It all lead up to that night.

The event was planned at St. Peter's Basilica and Rome Tower (http://wikitravel.org/upload/en/b/b7/Basilica_Dome.JPG). The Pope was in the center of the dome and speakers and Swiss Guards were in between each arch to make it a grand appearance. The turnout was great and tons of people arrived. The street was almost uncontrollable so thousands of Swiss Guards and Papal Guardians had to be sped over to help. Unlike earlier that morning when the Pope began to speak it was not completely silent. Some people sang others chanted other spoke along with him. He was confused at why they wouldn't be quiet but he started any way.

"May the Lord be with you."

"And also with you!" flew back up to the dome. He was taken aback but he continued.

"This is Valtican City, center of the Christian Religion of the world. No death, no greed, no corruption is found here. Just love and the word of God. Welcome to Valtican City. Welcome to World Scene."

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OOC: Essentially this is my nation coming on world scene.

OOC: I think it's cool to have an NS Vatican City. This is totally going to throw another wrench in the Papal recognition of NS's Catholics.

In fact, I was just about to host a World Catholic Conference in St. Francis Xavier. My Catholic colony.

Ensign Nomi Tzu was unique in the crew of the the 'Empress Midori'. Not in the fact she was young, asian and beautiful but that she was Catholic.

With the vast majority of her crew mates being followers of Shinto or Buddhism, Christians and other faiths made up a very small percentage of the population.

Here she was a normal visitor and carried her World Assembly identification in lieu of her electronic passport and was unarmed. She wore western clothes settling for a sensible white blouse, black ladies jacket and trousers and sensible walking shoes. She had her shoulder bag and had checked into a small hotel earlier on. The desk clerk was slightly surprised when her WA id was checked and he seen she wasn't from Earth.

She was here on shore leave taking in the sights and recording events on a disguised tricorder. A smaller version which looked like a flip up mobile phone in this case.

Entering a church she closed the tricorder over and settled into a rear pew. This was an oasis of calm and finally she was in a nation where she wasn't the minority.

ooc: its not a formal diplomatic mission as such. Its just one crew member taking a short holiday but could well develop into something else.

From The Offices Of His Majesty, King Gires Of Razorl!



Most of My Country are thinking of visiting Valtican City as soon as they can and i myself wish to visit such a religious city. Three Of The Knights of The Order Of Saint Dakota (The Prime Minister Before His Son who we have made a saint in our eyes) Wish to Visit Your City To pay Respects and they wish me to ask you if they could. Good Day to You and God Bless


Signed,
His Majesty, King Gires

OOC: Valtican City does your nation exsist in the current location of the Holy See in Rome? I'm merely curious because my nation Roma V currently controls Rome and I RP them as having friendly to alliance relations with the Holy See which would be your nation now if it has taken the Holy See's position.

OOC: Valtican City does your nation exsist in the current location of the Holy See in Rome? I'm merely curious because my nation Roma V currently controls Rome and I RP them as having friendly to alliance relations with the Holy See which would be your nation now if it has taken the Holy See's position.

I was planning on making a giant OOC thread to set up stuff like that, you know for like a catholic order and whatnot and to find a nation to be much like the real Vatican city so if you have a map and don't mind could my city being in your nation. It is much, much bigger than the real Holy Sea, but it isn't big in comparison to others.

Reports of a yet another papal state claiming to have the one true Pope did reach Crookfur but they were of coruse dismissed as yet another example of papish stupidity.

The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Crookfur did make a breif statement welcoming the new nation to the world and expressing feelings of christian brotherhood, but as with other such messages to theocratic Roman Catholic nations there was little real warmth in the words.

OOC:
Crookfur is about 90-95% Christian with most people being Presbyterians although there are large numbers of people who follow the practices of the Cathars or the early Celtic church, needless to say not many of them have much time or respect for the office of the pope or the traditional roman catholic chruch.

Reports of a yet another papal state claiming to have the one true Pope did reach Crookfur but they were of coruse dismissed as yet another example of papish stupidity.

The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Crookfur did make a breif statement welcoming the new nation to the world and expressing feelings of christian brotherhood, but as with other such messages to theocratic Roman Catholic nations there was little real warmth in the words.

OOC:
Crookfur is about 90-95% Christian with most people being Presbyterians although there are large numbers of people who follow the practices of the Cathars or the early Celtic church, needless to say not many of them have much time or respect for the office of the pope or the traditional roman catholic chruch.

OOC: Great and I should care why? If you don't want to RP it this way fine by me but don't come in giving numbers and crap just to say "I hate your idea, its stoopid"

OOC: A map? Well my nation's Rome is technically the real Rome so I suppose you could use the actual map of the city of Rome. And I don't mind at all if its bigger than the actual Hole See. If it comes to become much larger in the future we could simply say there is a merger of citizenship thus making Valtican City citizens Roman citizens and allowing them to spread out beyond Valtican City borders.

Official Statement from TSRT Government
"The Totalitarian State, while recognising the diplomatic status of the new nation of Valtican City, requires it fill out the requisite tax forms for its religion to be recognised inside the Totalitarian State. These forms can be acquired upon a proper diplomatic request by a corresponding nation but, as the leader of the Valtican City is obviously a religous leader, have been included in a seperate envelope.

Should these forms fail to be filled out, the Roman Catholic Church will be reclassified as a 'Subversive Organisation' with its members who are citizens of the Totalitarian State being subject to the regular punishments and fines of being associated with such an organisation."
End Statement

OOC: Did I say that? Nope I don't think I did. All I did was provide you with OOC information to explain the (admittedly short and vague) in character response.

Personally I find you idea very good and a nice different approach to the whole papal state thing. Of course IC wise Crookfur won't do anything beyodn recongise your existance.

A map? Well my nation's Rome is technically the real Rome so I suppose you could use the actual map of the city of Rome. And I don't mind at all if its bigger than the actual Hole See. If it comes to become much larger in the future we could simply say there is a merger of citizenship thus making Valtican City citizens Roman citizens and allowing them to spread out beyond Valtican City borders.

OOC: Ok great.

OOC2: As for Red Tide2 how much is said tax?

OOC: Did I say that? Nope I don't think I did. All I did was provide you with OOC information to explain the (admittedly short and vague) in character response.

Personally I find you idea very good and a nice different approach to the whole papal state thing. Of course IC wise Crookfur won't do anything beyodn recongise your existance.

OOC: Ah, thank you, I am just a bit annoyed with RL things and seem to be a bit jumpy today.

OOC: 1% of total charity collected in Red Tide(not that that will be very much, given how poor the average citizen is) annual.

Please keep in mind that church attentendence will be low and curches may be raided by the Intelligence Commissariat nearly at random.

While The Ryou Empire didn't have a State Religion, it had many, among them were Christian Sects, namely the Angelicans, Bapists, Roman Catholics, Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East and The new Ryou Catholic Church.

Empress Isabella was of The Assyrian Church, which was lead by Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Kalmori. This Church was peaceful, even though it had a military Arm, The Knights of Saint Basil.

The Roman Catholics in The Islands were split. Some fallowed Pope Peter-Thomas Aquantais while the other Ryou Roman Catholics had made their own Pope, Pope Nicoleis (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Pope0256c.jpg)

The Ryou Catholic Church Split from the main Catholic Church and had their own leader, Papal Superior Theodosius.

So Isabella planned on starting a Meeting of Popes from around The World so they can talk about the needs of their Churches.

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In A Hotel Room, Nikolai Krutev (The President Named Him after Nikolai Fields)
was issued an order by The President Of The United Socialist States Of Razorl to Commence the Operation to cause Panic in The Valtican City. He Pulled Out The Dragunov Sniper Rifle out of The Gym Bag, He couldn't believe he could slip past authorities so easily and thats what this mission was to show the Valtican City that it is prone to terrorist attack and they are not ready. He Reloaded The Rifle and Aimed at The Two Guards Nearby. With two pulls of the trigger, both guards they dead and hundreds of people running in all directions in panic. "That'll Teach Them to Be more Prepared for a Terrorist Attack. He then Pulled The Rifle to His Head and Pulled The Trigger ending his life.

I would like to send some of my Knights to assist you in the security of the Valtican City. We would send you a total of two platoons (40 men each) and their Knights, 25 Rapid Response Force Officers, and 15 Section 3 Investigations Officers, including our Chief Exorcist Samson Lee de Acre.

Nomi had not expected anything like this to happen and found the church she had stopped to pray in suddenly full as people got off the streets.

They were frightened, shocked and still confused about what had happened. All Nomi could do was give as much comfort as she could. She'd call back to her ship later since news was still thin on the ground.

The memorial started that night.

The man was taken from his place of death and he was brought to the Holy Papal Cemetary of Mary (http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c291/dennisstinton/Grand-Seraucourt20British20Cemetery.jpg). Despite the fact he had murderd two Swiss Guards the man was a Christian and a brother of the faith. He was placed in a beautiful oak casket (http://www.abettercasket.com/incEngine/sites/abettercasket/images/10-8-casket-1.jpg) and placed in front of the cemetary. Pope Peter-Thomas Aquantais walked, using his cane (http://www.canesgalore.com/images/DSCN0841.JPG) to keep him up, up to the casket. He found his place behind it, in front of the crowd. His fingers treaded the length of the casket then at the top where the head would be he made the sign of cross and muttered something to himself.

He handed his cane to the nearest Swiss Guard. He took it and placed it on a stand. Pope Aquantais reached out his arms to his sides and Bishops Edward Aliantis and John Evangales came up slowly behind him. Each held the Holy Bible. The Papal Servants in formal uniform behind them had a red drape in their hands. They dressed him in the draps and walked off.

Two more Papal Servants walked up, one had a bowl of Holy Water in their hand and the other had the thing that dripped it. Pope Aquantais, whose arms were still outreached, had the items placed on his hands. He dipped the dripper thing in the water then sprayed it on the casket then on the small, but strong, crowd. Bishop Evangales handed the Pope his bible the solemnly walked away with the Papal Servants in tail.

He flipped to the correct page then held the book in his right hand and lifted up his left making the sign of peace towards the crowd.

"Dear God in Heaven may this man find himself among you and heaven. May he find his way but not that with those of blasphemers of Hell and the Underworld, home to the cruel and hated Lucifer.

You are the true God and he reconized that. But he didn't reconize the sanity of anothers life. He took two others lifes away and then his one. Murder is a Mortal Sin and is punishable by the afterlife in Hell, says the Bible. But there must be exceptions. The Un-Godly courts make exceptions for murder in different trials then why cannot the holiness, love, peace, and forgiveness of your home do the same, O' Lord?

This man, unknown in name and in of race. Nor his thoughts nor his life are known by us of the Holy City of God, Valtican City, but one may not know for the reasons you have it not to be known nor heard of, O' Lord.

This tempted war, hatred, and chaos among the courts of yours and Heaven, O' Lord, but we are not easily tempted by the evil of Lucifer and his forces. We do not let his faith leak upon ours, where we have reign over the true faith.

May you, our Lord God, on this, in the year of our Lord 2011, absolve this man of his sins so that he may find his way into Heaven at the Gates of St. Peter."

He placed the bible upon the casket then he walked off with the Swiss Guards on his sides and Bishop Edward Aliantis behind him.

This sounds like it may be going places and as quite a few people are joining in as you being the Vatican and the Pope, I might as well join in too.

A bit of background 95% of the population is Roman Catholic and the majority are regular church goers. All ruling members of the individual kingdoms and principality's are Catholic and most appoint the most senior church official as their religious adviser. The Emperor is Roman Catholic too but there has been no religious adviser as such on the books to the Emperor for 75 years.

I would be interested in maybe a small RP nothing long in fact it could be done on this thread, really just for you to appoint a new Cardinal of Bloumany, nothing to big i give you a few names various cardinals and arch bishops, with a small bio and you appoint one, really one to be the main Cardinal in Bloumany. Also I wouldn't mind appointing an ambassador to the Vatican City if you decide to open one up. Let me know if you are interested.

This sounds like it may be going places and as quite a few people are joining in as you being the Vatican and the Pope, I might as well join in too.

A bit of background 95% of the population is Roman Catholic and the majority are regular church goers. All ruling members of the individual kingdoms and principality's are Catholic and most appoint the most senior church official as their religious adviser. The Emperor is Roman Catholic too but there has been no religious adviser as such on the books to the Emperor for 75 years.

I would be interested in maybe a small RP nothing long in fact it could be done on this thread, really just for you to appoint a new Cardinal of Bloumany, nothing to big i give you a few names various cardinals and arch bishops, with a small bio and you appoint one, really one to be the main Cardinal in Bloumany. Also I wouldn't mind appointing an ambassador to the Vatican City if you decide to open one up. Let me know if you are interested.

OOC: sign up for the council. that way you can have a say in how the NSCatholic Church is run. It can be found in TLO's sig.

OOC: sign up for the council. that way you can have a say in how the NSCatholic Church is run. It can be found in TLO's sig.

Yeah cheers mate, will do