Nadiya

[Svetlana]

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Today were officially launched the first edition of the Terran Olympic, Paralympic, and Youth Winter games. Originally planned for January of this year, it was agreed upon to reschedule the game due to the harsh climate during January that would've put at risk the athletes and staff working during the opening ceremony.

The ceremony started with Canrille-Hutorian artist Leslie Soyer performing the Nadiyan national anthem before being quickly followed by the launch of fireworks along the banks of the Reka Udachi river as the different Olympic delegations were carried down the river on top of boats while proudly carrying their flag. At the same time, the torch carrier entered the perimeters of Zarvospol and began running and parkouring on the roofs of the city to deliver the Olympic flame.

As this was happening, other artists began to perform while the athletic delegations made their way down the river. The most notable of them were the lodamunese artist Mother Puss performing her own interpretation of the Kozaki poem "Festival of the Fools" in front of the building of the Nadiyan General Assembly, and Luthorian artist Elizabeth preforming in front of the Mother Nadiya the protector statue with other notable artists being alongside her.

Furthermore, to emphasize the grandiose aspect of the ceremony, the Nadiyan Confederated Forces launched a coordinated show of missiles crossing the crimson sky and leaving behind them white trails like shooting stars while the newest edition of SCP's fighter jets broke the sound barrier before dropping petals over both the crowd and athletes as they made their way deeper down the river and toward their final destination.

Concerning the torchbearer, he was still performing tricks as he ran down the streets. This was accompanied by 13 artists preforming a theatrical piece representing the pantheon of both the Augustan and Matriarchal Churches of Nadiya on top of the MCN's matriarch and ACN's high priest blessing the crowd as they both stood at the balcony of the Church of the Holy Matrimony showing that interfaith peace can still be achieved during times of tension.

During the final stretch of the ceremony, the torchbearer was accompanied by people holding the flags of every country in Terra alongside the flag of the Terran Olympic Committee and Terran Olympic Team for Refugees and the Displaced before walking up the podium where every member of the presidential council, presidents of Parliament three chambers, and head of the Supreme Cooperative Court, central bank governor Alexandra Bacque, TEF direct Fnack, general secretary of the Nadiyan Red Cross Society, and the representatives of the country's trade unions were waiting for them.

The podium was built in such a way that once the Olympic flame was brought back, it would allign perfectly with the eternal dawning sun that illuminates Nadiya during the spring thanks to the country's position on the artic circle. Then Head of the Presidential Council Kae Yong-Ja declared in a speech, 
"This is the rise of a new dawn over Terra, a dawn basked in warmth, freedom, dignity, and democracy where no one shall feel ashamed of being poor nor be oppressed by the upper stratas of society because they aren't a member of an egomaniac family." He says, "To quote the wise words of our constitution, 'Give me your poor, disabled, hungry, wicked. Give me your widows, your orphans, your broken jaws. Give me your undesirables, your famished, your sick and dying for we shall embrace them under the loving warmth of the eternal. For we will grant them a life of dignity, honor, freedom, and Justice where they will be treated as equals as members of our families, our fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, aunts and uncles as it is our duty as children of this earth to continue the cycle created by our forefathers and propulse it to the stars and beyond. Such is the destiny of Humanity, and such are the principles Nadiya, a nation established by the union of peoples, shall adhere until the last seconds of our existence in this world."

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Written by @NNN