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Here is the inauguration speech of George Camlan, the new Questillian Prime President.
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My fellow people, you took the right turn in policy. You took the right turn for elegance. You took the wrong turn for conflict or any idiocy. The people that we are, standing right here, right now, are originated from competent leaders, and I can assure you that I am not ending that traditition now.

The states, the commmonwealths, the citys and the towns in poverty can now be assured of electricity, money and homes, most importantly. Our government is now a superpower in economical terms and political terms. We have made efforts to improve the world, most of which have failed under your previous leader, but now it is obvious that now we will be noticed by the older nations and given titles, positions and respect. I will do anything for anyone in this nation and region for a spec of dust or anything even worthless.

We have been unnoticed for quite some time, but I can get us noticed. Period. This nation needs to be proud of each man and child across the globe. These are the sins of presidency: disrespect, conflict and racial discrimination. The men of this country ought to be proud of the nation that they live in.

From now on, I take the oath of office of which I'm about to enter.

I have spoken for Questille.

“My friends, my allies, my brothers and sisters, my countrymen and countrywomen, my comrades in arms and comrades in hope, I stand before you here on these steps today and, with full honesty and bursting pride I can declare that we are free! Free from oppression and fear, free from prejudice and discrimination, free from concentration camps and torture chambers. Now this long and bloody war is over, now the struggle to break the ancient bonds of dictatorship is done, and in the wreckage and remains of the old order we can see our hard-fought victory won!

People have begun to call our leaders heroes, but it is a fool who does that! Nicholas Faust did not win this war; the National Assembly did not start the Revolution. The Republic was founded in the taverns and alleys of this nation long before we took to arms, and it was not me alone who broke through the lines of the King’s last regiment, it was not Faust alone who struck dictatorship with the hammer of truth. It was you. It was us. It was Parilisa. One man is a critic, not a revolution.

Tonight, my friends, the dictators and monarchs of the world shiver with fear. For if it can be done here it can be done in their barren regimes also. If Parilisa can rise up like the tide against her foes then so to may other nations rise up. Now, all people are equal, now the King’s statue has crumbled to dust in the square and now the flag of our former regime is trampled into the dirt where it belongs. For now, now we have done what our forefathers pledged to do. It has started here, but it shall finish not yet for a long time.

It is coming. It is coming; the day of complete freedom is coming. But let us not forget the price at which this freedom comes. Let us not forget that the streets are covered with the blood of our fine youth, let us not forget that in the fields the finest crop of Parilisa has been cut down brutally so that others may live. We shall not forget them.

Our task is daunting, but it shall be done. A new Republic, a new dream, a new order. All people are equal.

It was the dream of Nicholas Faust to stand here and do what I do today, and I do so in his honour. It was his dream to stand and to wish a long life upon our Republic. So let us all say now, my friends, whether rich or poor, black or white, Christian or Pagan, Parilisan or foreign; let us all say-“Long Live the Republic of Parilisa!””

An excerpt from Prime Minister Dwight McArthur's speech after his election, following Prime Minister Xavier McCartney's resignation:

"Ladies And Gentlemen. I stand here before you having been elected and sworn into the office of the Prime Minister by you, the people of our great nation. I was elected by you to serve and represent you, to serve my nation and represent it's interests in this ever-changing world. With Holy God as my witness, I intend to do that. I intend to heal the wounds caused by earlier governments, I intend to sow the seeds of peace with those who would join us in friendship"

"I look out at the people who have come to see this most glorious of days. I see people that inspired Hope in me, as I may have inspired it in them. Hope that we are entering an age of peace, and prosperity with the rest of the world...."