Lazarus Redux

[Benevolent Thomas]

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Lazarus Redux

Greetings friends, allies and assorted diplomatic partners! Lazarus is back and better than ever! After a lengthy Constitutional Convention, or ConCon as we affectionately called it, Lazarus rises from the ashes anew! With the ratification of Mandate 9, The Republic of Lazarus is born and along with it, MOAR DEMOCRACY! Activity is higher than it's been in a long time and we are fully operational!

The Legislature


Citizens wait in line as they discuss current legislation

Gulliver was elected Speaker of The Legislature and has offered a Deputy Speaker position to Amerion & Cormac. The legislature has been quite busy, discussing everything from endorsees to amending the legislative procedure, to name a couple of the more recent proposals. We look forward to what the legislature will discuss next and hope for much more!

Funkadelia, former Chairman of The PRL, was elected Delegate. He was the favorite going in and we're sure everyone expected him to win. Harmeonia, long time native of Lazarus, was elected Vice-Delegate. Both Funkadelia and Harmeonia thoroughly smashed their opponents in the polls. Congratulations to all three of our elected officials!

Funkadelia appointed his cabinet recently, choosing Kazmr as General of The Army, Benevolent Thomas as Internal Minister and The Church of Satan as External Minister. After being confirmed in the legislature, the new ministers of Lazarus immediately took to performing their duties.

Culture
From the office of The Internal Minister


Funkadelia gets ready for the Summer Festival

Starting June 7th and ending June 14th, Lazarus will be hosting its very own Summer Festival. There will be games, contests, a few radio broadcasts and even a little roleplay! This is the first such event of the new Lazarus, so we're pulling out all the stops with Mafia, Atwar and even Cards Against Humanity! There will also be contests for the best Haiku and Factbook. In addition to roleplay on the Regional Message Board, we will be holding our very own RP Football Tournament ran by Kazmr. Last, but not least. we will be adding things that are uniquely Lazarene such as AMAs featuring players such as Funkadelia and Drop Your Pants (yes, we managed to book him), Free Lazarus Radio broadcasts, and an entirely new event called the GOAT List. Lazarus is kicking off summer with a bang and we hope that you will join us for some good times.

A full schedule of activities can be viewed here.

Foreign Affairs


The Church of Satan greets incoming foreign dignitaries

Setting up an Embassy Index and frantically going through the long list of embassy requests, ambassadors are finally getting out to our friends, allies and assorted diplomatic partners. The citizens are currently discussing a draft of a Non-Aggression Pact with Osiris, restoring relations between the two sinkers as well as a treaty with Taijitu. Tending to our pre-existing treaties, Lazarus & The South Pacific adopted a Memorandum of Understanding, reaffirming the treaty alliance between the two regions due to the recent government change resulting from the Constitutional Convention.

The LLA


LLA troops celebrate their victory in Paradoxia

The LLA, easily the only thing that was kept from the previous government, is also open for business after Kazmr appointed DYP (that's Drop Your Pants to you) and Deadeye Jack as officers of The LLA. Working alongside other defender forces, The LLA helped boot DEN out of the RP region, Paradoxia following a victory in European Continent. All participating troops received a pin commemorating their efforts in Paradoxia and the natives were gracious for the help from defender forces in liberating them from the raider scourge!

Things are looking up for Lazarenes as the region moves towards a bright future!