Update from the Great Synod of the Atteran Nations
Solomonic Imperial News Agency Press Release | Q’attera City, Attera Proper, USE 22 SEP 2008
The issue of the All Atteran Common Market has been the subject of much debate since the opening of this session. Prime Minister Wolfhaven of East Interland brought up a template of how the common market should be implimented across the Atteran Commonwealth. “I feel that the commodoties and resources for the common market should be based on virtual items rather than attempt to bring real world items into our discussion. While I am no fan of the Micras map, I think that they got one thing right with the creation of goods, where services on a national scale could be implimented.”
Prime Minister Von Silitz of Cranda opposed the matter by saying, “This smacks of roleplaying, and the Solomonic Kingdom of Cranda along with other conservative members do not want the commonwealth to even go down that road, as the former Solomonic Empire of Attera and the Federation of Imperial Atteran States undertook with their experiment of joining Micras back in the early 2000’s. What we should do is to create actual services where each micronation can be responsible for and export to the others creating an actual economy. What I propose is that we look into what our citizens are capable of bringing to the table by first creating a list of online “resources” that we all can trade and exploit. Legal services, banking services, investment consultation, online sporting events, event organizing, periodicals, and information gathering, are all “resources” that micronations need to survive in the common era. Each memberstate should encourage their citizens to open businesses in these areas and then all of these businesses could be listed on an “All Atteran Stock Market”. Once the stock market has become a regular fixture and has gained the necessary support and activity, then we can expand further.”
The majority of the members seem to agree with Prime Minister Von Silitz and have enthusiastically started working on a joint measure to bring into effect the necessary provisions to create an All Atteran Stock Market.
On the issue of the Dahlakhian Kingdom of Tulsa’s admission into the Atteran Commonwealth, the measure passed by the slimest of margins signalling that the USE’s dependencies of East Interland, West Interland, the Sa’an Republic are in agreement that Tulsa should be admitted, but did not help the situation by adding further friction with the pretender “Suleiman”. In essance, there were two messages that were sent with this vote, which was that while the USE’s component parts were disunified on whether Tulsa should be admitted but they also showed that the Imperial Government does indeed give great autonomy and no interference in the affairs of the associated memberstates. The consensus with many of the representatives is that while they did not agree with King David’s heavy handed tactics to attempt to force His Majesty, the Emperor’s hand in the matter, that Tulsa should not be left out in the cold. The results of the vote by memberstate and amount of votes in parenthesis reads as follows:
USE- Abstain
Cranda- For (3)
SOCS- Against (2)
Sa’an Rep.- Against (2)
E. Interland- Abstain
W. Interland- For (2)
Da’artamuun- Abstain
Mahnaat- For (1)
Utzen and Lorelei- Against (1)
For- 6 votes
Against- 5 votes
Abstain- 3
Upon the conclusion of the vote, each memberstate was permitted to state their official position on the matter of admission and the joint statement from the USE, East Interland and Da’artamuun clearly expressed tacit support for the Dahlakhian Kingdom of Tulsa’s admission, but could not vote for because of the tactics used in gaining independence. Furthermore, the official line of the USE mentioned that the Dahlakhian Kingdom of Tulsa should not have involved the USE or His Majesty, the Emperor, on the grounds that His Majesty chose to ignore the former Solomonic Empire of Attera, “as it no longer exists despite the claims of a role playing pretender”. Yet, all of the members who voted to abstain stated that there would be “close relations and massive support for future diplomatic, economic and military ventures” that will be initiated in the near future.
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