Narikaton and Darnussia

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May 5565

Two Years of Change

President zum Clenonberg talking to jouranlists in Eroncourt

Dual Republican Greetings from Eroncourt

After coordinating with their lourennese counterparts, the presidential chancellery has set the visit in stone. President Vanessa zum Clenonberg flew to Eroncourt on the Dual Republican presidential aircraft Gold-1, upon landing she was greeted by senior diplomatic officials and driven to the Royal Assembly under the protection of an armed convoy. There she met Royal Minister Rosaline Arnault who, after some symbolic gestures and picture-taking, led her through the magnificently decorated halls of the Assembly, they continued their tour with the next stop being the Chancellery Palace where they were joined by High Chancellor Vivaldi-Vandam. The last stop was the splendid Palace of Oisy. After this media spectacle the three secluded themselves in an unknown office to talk about various topics mainly focussing on lourennese know-how on social institutions and potential increased cooperation in humanitarian efforts. 

Domesticly the reception of the visit was largely positive, only hardline conservative forces within the VVP and the TKP were critical of deepened ties to the United Kingdom, most pundits describe the negative statements from the right-wing of the political aisle to be populist rhetorics and fundamental opposition.  Obviously prominent politcians of the right-wing rejected this characterization as “left-wing babbling.”

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Social Welfare works!

Sebastian Soosmann, Portrait at the University

While we’re at left-wing babbling, we can continue toward the developments in social welfare. The wide-ranging introduction of various unemployment benefits and health-care vouchers have hit the nation. Bigger plans for the implementation of public pensions and universal healthcare are still in the planning stage. But what we can already see are the effects of these measures by looking at the socioeconomic changes in the low-class demographics. According to a new metric developed by Sebastian Soosmann, a prominent figure in the economic sciences community and a professor at the University of Schmierölstadt (Kozaria), we can now measure economic inequality in a nation. The so-called “Soosmann-coefficient” offers a comprehensive look into the equality dynamics of a country and its national economy.

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Plantation megaproject

Ministers Stauffer and Vogt have invited us to visit the newly founded city of Nährrode (Kozaria, Darnussia) which is supposed to be the next megaproject of the Dual Republic. The plans for the agricultural-based municipality include mostly social cheap housing for labourers and cheap real-estate for small farmers to start their operations there.  Wide – for now – empty fields greet the eye upon entering the borders of the to-be-built city. To increase the attractiveness of the region, the government seek to introduce tax benefits and other subsidies to those that seek to make their mark here. Nährrode is supposed to be the key to solving the food-price-crisis once and for all, the new mega