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Good evenin’ gents (& Keers),

Cheers for the 25 of you who have applied to work with me in government so far, I’ll be leaving the process open for another day before publishing them and my final list. If you wanted to apply for a deputy/apprenticeship instead of a ministry then there’s an option on the form 🙂. Alas financial affairs appeared to be just short of indifference for preference 😛.


Foreign Affairs

As you can see from the above graph there’s been a strong interest in foreign affairs this month, which is just as well considering the amount of fractures we’re beginning to see in the international system. Happily however, I am glad to announce that the North Sea Protection Pact has eventually been passed by parliament and signed by me on Acroc’s behalf so at least we can look forward to increased cooperation and activity with some of our closest neighbours. We can also expect to see joint strikes on #NSPP.strike and easy means of coordinating events and competitions between our respective Home Affairs departments.

Unfortunately however the situation is not so rosy on other fronts as we find our geopolitical bloc further weakened by another withdrawal from Sirius and still no replacement Secretary General. Given that alliance communication seems to have degraded several notches over the years it is imperative that we as a community work on enhancing individual ties with close allies and regional hegemons so that in the event our alliance does dissolve we have a good idea what to do next and have the means to carry it out. We are generally quite lucky in our global position at the moment in terms of our local safety; however it is not unknown for up to quadruple invasions randomly becoming the new immediate focus for the Defence and Foreign Affairs departments 😛.


Financial Affairs

There was a lot of unnecessary upset this month as yet again it seemed like several months of taxpayers money had suddenly become someone’s early retirement fund. What added insult to injury was that it could’ve very easily been avoided by a simple common sense practice of knowing exactly who has access to the orgs with der moneh in it. So you can have that reform for free.

A slightly more difficult task is the forming of/public consultation of a national budget so we a. know what we have and b. know where we’re spending it. Strictly speaking it’s the role of Congress to ultimately decide how governments spend your money; however given their current structural deficit I expect giving them monetary control over the Bank of England would be the economic equivalent of throwing the family silver into the Thames. Therefore my compromise is to have the MoF publish a weekly account of projected costs/current national account and you can simply shout at them there if should you disagree.

Much obliged,


Appleby