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News May 2022: Mazaloom History Book.
(Year 235, Spring) A new Prime Minister will traditionally get an audience with His Majesty before the new People Chamber opens, but this time the procedure was slightly postponed for last week of Spring. It's a simple meeting, isolated from all he functionality of People Chamber, but needs to take place according to stately protocol.
(Year 235, Spring) For the first time in history, the new WORLD party holds a seat at People Chamber. They control only 1 out of 21 votes, meaning the impact might not be enormous, but it is a start. The party's Leader, Roger Mistfield (70) is a member of Ministry of Culture & Entertainment, but that doesn't seem to stop him from getting involved in all kinds of fields.
(Year 235, Spring) These days all 4 political parties arranges their annual party get togethers. That's where they discuss their future politics, and this year they obviously take a step back evaluating the election results, as well. The election was won by the RIGHT party (9 People Chamber seats). LEFT party also won 9 seats, but RIGHT formed an alliance with MIDDLE party (1 seat) and Church of Similius (1 seat), and by this got 11 seats whic h is enough to win the Prime Minister an the Cabinet.
Anyways, the resilts of any election will impact the many regions, so let's take a look on how this recent election will actually hit residents of Mazaloom!
(Year 235, Spring) One of the new politicians with a seat at People Chamber, is Adriana Hyde (61). She lost the run for Northaven Mayor to Mr Marvin Hyggeloth (LEFT), but was listed 9th by the RIGHT party which meant she could grab the final seat won by RIGHT. That's not bad for someone totally unknown outside their own district!
(Year 235, Spring) Following the Year 235 Election, the new People Chamber was opened and Mazaloom has got a new political elite. This happens only every 5 years, so it's worth some highlight.
(Year 235, Spring) It's become a tradition that our Monarch opens the new People Chamber. The 3 chambers are actually separate institutions, and King Tarriot has no role involving anything but the Royal Chamber, which he leads, but following any 5 years election, he is invited to the Peopåle Chamber opening.
(Year 235, Spring) Our Yellow Pages has been around for years, and with a growing number of companies and organizations, last year this feature was further developed. Each registered company has now got their own page with even more detailed information.
While the upgrade was introduced last year, it is the newly elected Minister of Trades & Taxes, Henrik Kraft, who will stay in charge of the final steps.
(Year 235, Spring) Following Election Day, the RIGHT party managed to form a leading group of 11 seats, meaning Mr. Charloman Dougham (62) is our new Prime Minister. Now he also presented the 5 new Ministers leading each their ministry, as well as the ministries' members.
RIGHT party got 4 minister posts, but because they depended on MIDDLE party, MIDDLE's 1st candidate got one minister post.
As usual, several of the new positions might stir some protests in he future. Mr. Dougham explains:
- We tried to avoid many of the conflicting positions that might cause some questions, but there will always be a couple ministry members that might have suited better elsewhere. This time, at least we avoided siblings in the same ministry, as my sister Charlotta was not getting a seat at all. There is a married couple where both have a seat for the same party (the Peppersones), so we made sure they are in different ministries. In certain situations we also avoided multiple ministry members representing the same region, but with only 8 regions this was hard to go by all over.
The community section's political system overview has now been updated with the Y235 results.
(Year 235, Spring) This election was the closest ever! If you plan to watch the 14 minutes TV-special, please stop reading, because this report will obviously include numerous spoilers.
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| Election TV special was hosted by Paulo Caliente and Cassandra G. Mux-Raisser. |
We technically got TWO winning parties, but thanks to the rule saying the total vote score of a party's new Councilors will decide if needed, we were able to pick a final winner. There have been debates suggesting that the number of won regions would make the final count easier, and this might be implemented for future elections, but for the Year 235 this would not have changed anything as RIGHT won 4 regions and LEFT won 3. The 8th region was won by MIDDLE party.
(Year 235, Spring) Voting is closing and in a few we will get the Year 235 Election results! This time the TV special is hosted by Paulo Caliente and Cassandre (Goth) Mux-Raisser.
This time 4 political parties fought over the 20 seats at People Chamber, making it harder than ever to predict a winner. So, who is our next Prime Minister?
Full TV special is below (14 minutes). Be warned - it's all a bit on the nerdy side...
A detailed blog article will follow shortly, but in order to avoid video spoilers, you'll get a couple days to watch the TV special first.
(Year 235, Spring) It's 1st day of Spring, and this year there is am election. In other words, it's Election Day, and we traveled to Spice Market in San Myshuno to check with people if they had already voted.
The standard questions were:
A. Where do you live?
B. Why are you here?
C. Will you vote?
D. Who will become our next Prime Minister?
(Year 234, Winter) Finally! Year 234 - most likely the longest lasting year ever - now belongs to the past! It means there is a fresh Mazaloom NEWS video up, covering a lot of what took place in Mazaloom kingdom.
This time the video format is slightly adjusted, but Paulo Caliente is still your host. It also gets easier editing the project on a new editor, after taking some time to learn the basic features. This video is the first to be saved in the format that might be the very best option for the Youtube channel.
(Year 234, Winter) This week Evergreen Harbor woke up to a new local scandal, as a central household seems to break up. Yasemin (Pigulock) Tinker (55) and Tina (Chestnut) Tinker (48) has been residing the old Pigulock Manor for decades, and their daughter Olive Tinker has already turned 16.
The couple has been well known for their ECO lifestyle, and especially Tina has fronted all that the modern Evergreen Harbor is known for. On the other side, Yasemin, is the daughter of long gone industry mogul Henry Pigulock. Now she has announced that she wants to bring the old Pigulock Industries, Inc. back to life!
(Year 234, Winter) While Year 234 feels like the longest lasting year ever, Winter will soon be gone and on 1st day of Spring we'll see the five years election for People Chamber, as well as district Mayors and regional Councilors! This election has been long awaited as the routine is slightly adjusted. For the first time four different parties will fight over the Mayor and Councilor positions and 22 seats of the chamber, but how are the parties different? What happens if the monarchy unfriendly party wins? Or if the green environment enthusiasts are to fill the Cabinet? What changes will possibly come our way?
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| RIGHT party sails up as the favorite to win the upcoming election. Here is the core group debating their strategy. Mr Charloman C. Dougham (PM candidate), C ato Wugger (hidden), Henrik Kraft, Lord Bennet Ross, and Emma R. Golden. |
These questions might be even more actual this time, because it feels like everything will be new! This is of course not true. Hood Contacts will no longer be elected, but instead, we'll have the district Mayors as the most local position. People Chamber will have 22 seats instead of 21, and just 1 seat will be reserved Church of Similius, representing our stately religion (used to be 2 seats). None of these are seen as big changes, though.
(Year 234, Winter) This Winter most Mazaloom citizens chose to move their financial deposits and loans from SimNation's stately bank Sim City First Trust Bank, to the new national bank serving our kingdom, Maz Bank. Now the latter reports that the transfer was successful, but that their full financial capacity was taken.
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| Mr Robert Sutton is CEO at Maz Babk, Inc. |
Banks are basically companies running their profittable business, but when they are stately supported and proven to stay for years to come, they might obtain a touch of institution. SCFTB is such an institution for SimNation, founded nearly a century ago. Maz Bank, on the other hand is brand new, although breaking off from SCFTB's branch in Mazaloom. The total amount of Simoleons going through this sysem is surprisingly big numbers!
(Year 234, Winter) Three very small districts from three different nations, have united in a political project called «the Ondarion Experiment». The districts were selected for the project as they are all having a long story line focusing on both leadership and knowledge, but they also happen to be located in a line along equator. Now their head persons will contribute with local information regarding science as well as politics, in order to see how much variation there might be thanks to location and politics. The idea is to learn from each other.
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| In the west we find Dambele (Empire of Snorthia), centered is Bellacorde (Mazaloom kingdom), and in the east is Verdemar (Sea kingdom). |
(Year 234, Winter) Mazaloom kingdom got its own Prime Minister House! It was debated a couple years ago, and now the building is ready, just in time for the upcoming election.
(Year 234, Winter) This Fall People Chamber debated new restrictions to private trusts, initiated by Ministry of Trades & Taxes. Existing trust owners involve the royal House of Luxe-Hamper, as well as quite a few noble Houses. According to the revised restrictions, some of the latter will now lose their right to organize their possessions in a Trust.
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| Minister Fanny Silverbone, Ministry of Trades & Taxes. Here from the LEFT party's office at Council House. |
Most trusts are very old and were originally introduced to serve a heritage mission: It was a logical way to secure that the new Head of House would keep the essential possessions without needing to buy out siblings and other heirs. To many main heirs this could only be done by taking up big loans or splitting up ownership. Trusts were originally invented by the royal House and before Year 50 it was common with the wealthiest Houses of aristocracy. Each trust functions like a small company with a Board of 3 persons, lead by Head of House with a double vote. The two other core members normally represent other family branches in order to protect the values on behalf of future generations.
(Year 234, Winter) As soon as the 4 political parties released their candidates, the predictions started to flood the media and online communities. Mazaloom's election routine, with its later adjustments, makes it possible to see some possible patterns. But can we predict the result? Not at all!
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| Sabrina Grossing has co-hosted several Election TV Specials for Simmerville Studio over the years. |
SabrinaGrossing (84) is better qualified than most predictors. She is now retired, but previously she co-hosted many TV-reports covering our 5 years elections.
(Year 234, Fall) The upcoming election will give us a new Prime Minister, for sure; Mr Wilder is too old for re-election. None of the four candidates were in such a high position previously, and some of you might like a little more information on their campaign and diverse origin. Some come from working class, while others descend from aristocracy - kings, even. Let's have a closer look!
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| Will our next Prime Minister be a Dougham, Jang, Starks or Mistfield? Only one of them can win. |
While most experts would say there are only two true candidates, Mr Charloman C. Dougham (RIGHT party) and Anaya L. Jang (LEFT party), we'll check the background of the top candidate from all four political parties. This will be quite briefly, as anyone desire more can easily learn more by browsing the online residents index.