Vanuku

[Kubrick]

LOFRKAD, TÁMNR, NRZILYK

The King returns to Wiel

A celebration in a stadium in Wiel marks the first public appearance of the Royal Guard since the Bloodless Revolution.

27 May 5668

With a majority vote the referendum passed, for the last two days citizens of Wrnuke could vote on whether the restored democratic state should once again be the Kingdom of Wrnuke. They did overwhelmingly so, with 64% supporting the restoration of the Banmek-Sntazed line to the throne. The royal family was ousted after an unstable period, the cadet branch of King and Emperor Bunjamín reached record lows after his son Wrntukai II grew increasingly authoritarian and even sanctioned a nuclear strike on Xsampa. After his full abdication Wrntukai lived out his life in a Worldburnerist philosophical monastery and the remaining titles, like Archduke of Banstill, passed back to the main branch of the family. A young scion of that branch was until recently known as Archduke Temrkai, mostly known for being a philanthropist playboy in Narikaton and Darnussia. King Temrkai studied water management and sustainable agriculture and has used his family's wealth to bring his ideas to fruition in poorer nations. The Banmek-Sntazed Foundation, at his bequest, recently did a large project in Kimlien for rice farmers. Outside of his charity however he is known as a man of extravagant parties and as a down to earth and kind person to people that meet him on the streets. He has stated in interviews in the past that actively ruling does not interest him, in contrary to his father who fought his entire life to regain his claim as absolute monarch in Wrnuke.

The young new monarch will be crowned at a later date, for now the nation seems most occupied with preparing for the upcoming elections. Parties are free to register, and several have already done so. The stock market has been reopened after the Worldburnerist ban on stocks, with a caretaker cabinet already implementing measures to end the economic stagnation. The elders of the Banmek-Sntazed family have also invested a large sum of their personal wealth into the government budget. Prince Aldrkai, chairman of the Banmek-Sntazed Foundation, clarified to the press this was a gift to the people and that no loan would be established like the Worldburnerist state had accepted a few years prior. Currently the state is avoiding any extravagant celebrations, though some organisations have set up smaller events. In a sports stadium in Wiel a few hundred people gathered to watch traditional Jelbic sports and a few Royal Guards on horseback. The men, who until recently were part of the Jelbic People's Army, volunteered to wear the uniforms and ride the horses to display the traditional form of Wrnuke's most famous soldiers.

The Grak Sháhazi (Black Lion) is a periodic news magazine that was once founded by leftist Wrnukaék journalists in exile, it attracts mostly centre-left readers with academic backgrounds.