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Please bear in mind that this is a super-condensed version of several of the Prime Minister’s announcements.

Government

A couple of days ago, Iain began his administration with a condensed cabinet consolidating five ministries with different departments residing in them. The five ministers and their respective ministries consist of:-

MoHA: Betafoxtrot
MoF: Thatcher
MoW: Master Hofkens
MoFA: Coram_Boy
MoLA: Bowen199

The government has been committed to efficiently carrying out several structural additions to the system of administration, including the addition of several new departments and committees focussed on helping adapt our country into V2. The Prime Minister has personally indicated that he will supervise these ministries and departments to ensure they are properly functioning. This is part of his plans for an inclusive government. The monthly budget shall be drawn up quickly in order to maintain Britain’s place in the world economy. This shall be shortly presented to parliament for a review.

Among the additions to the government include two new departments within the MoHA; which include the reopening of the tech department and the department of design. The department of technology will focus, as the name implies, on issues relating to technological advances the country can benefit from (such as API, Web design and so forth). The department of design will consist of skilled individuals working on various photo-editting software and generally arty stuff to help create various images and banners that can be used by the government.

In the Foreign Affairs Ministry, there are an additional two new departments. These include the department of Alliance Communication; which will be focussed on keeping good relations and communication with allied countries through the use of media and writing articles of support. The government has also introduced a Foreign Languages department, where people who are multilingual can put their skills to good use and translate our messages into the relevant language of the country it’s intended to. This is in recognition of the electoral promise of bringing Britain closer to her allies.



Committees

The ‘Office of the Prime Minister’ has been introduced in order to facilitate the new committees designed to resolve the new issues brought about by V2. Under the direct supervision of the Prime Minister, these committees will take on many duties; such as conducting polls and experiments to help gather information the government can use to help the country settle down into V2. The three committees currently underway are:-

Time Management Committee- Aimed at analysing the wellness and happiness costs of each activity over a potential number of hours, and consolidating the various benefits each tactic brings about. The aim of this committee is to produce helpful information for different types of players on the best available timetable suited to them.

Market Analysis Committee- Aimed at polling business owners, observing the marketplace and so on to work out the layout of our markets. The idea is that we have a decent map of our economy, which parts are in demand and which parts are currently overproducing. This will let us publish advice for business owners, as well as potentially take direct action in the future.

Skills Analysis Committee- Aimed at conducting research into different skill markets in the eUK. With the necessary research, this committee should be able to produce a reliable source of data to help craft our economy with. The Ministry of Work will be the benefactor of this committee’s findings.

The market analysis committee will be led by Gabriel McCook, the Time Management Committee by Asher. The government will also be desperately needing experienced players to man these committees, so please apply if you want to sit on it and have a say.

We did have some positives. 2/3 of our committees (the most important ones) now have a plan for the coming month and work can start as soon as they’re assembled. Anyone who wants to start work and lead the V2 skills analysis committee come find the Prime Minister on IRC.

Finally, the Prime Minister has created a Press Secretary position, led by Sir Humphrey Appleby. This will involve weekly summaries of the Prime Minister’s progress reports in the media. We will be releasing them through the MoHA paper to try and keep everything together. The first task of the Department of Design was to design the press office our nice shiny logo. The Prime Minister will be hopefully releasing his own articles on Mondays, and the “official” summaries of announcements will be out around Thursday/Friday each week. This decision is based on the idea that people come to the forums for information, then stay for community. People get a better and more regular update if they take the time to register on the eUK off-site forums.

The MoLA has formed a V2 readiness committee led by Malta_1990 to analyse current legislature and potential amendments. This isn’t a House of Lords update, however a way of collecting experienced individuals who are interested in legislation and helping facilitate their ideas into parliament.

In addition the MoFA and MoHA have now announced their staff, and are getting going as soon as possible. The government will be making a map of our departments soon, so hopefully everyone can find who they need.



Economy

Raw Material rules have changed, making grain stockpiles worthless. The government had hoped that if the formulas for grain production had changed they would be able to compensate for any shortfall due to global grain stocks worth thousands of gold. But now those stocks are worthless. The government has printed 100,000 currency, and that currency will be released into the market gradually to maintain liquidity without risking too heavy a devaluation.

If you have no job in your preferred skill, then the government suggests you take whatever work you can. If you can’t find something in your skill level, use the library to skill up. If you’re totally bankrupt The Unity Party has agreed to provide food free of charge to citizens. Anyone else who wants to make a similar offer, get in touch with the MoHA and you will be added to the article. The stock should last a little while.

To everyone’s relief, the minimum wage was reduced to £0.10 globally, meaning that businesses could begin the long journey back to security. However, poor formulas mean that private weapons companies and constructions are still largely unprofitable. The cost of producing hospitals is so high that no nation would bother. It’s cheaper to supply soldiers with wellness packs than it is to use a hospital, but long term neither is a viable option. At the minute the cost is so prohibitive that nobody can afford them- the opposite situation to the formulas in V1.



On a positive note, the changes mean that our MoW companies and our army companies can reopen. Army Command is currently organising things for soldiers, so pay attention to your commanders. The President has asked the MoW to take over army raw materials companies, which will be supplying the army. These companies will be manned by Russian civilians. If you want to join the armed forces, you currently have to be IRC active. The first step towards this is joining the forums.

The government has now transferred the five existing RM companies to MoW control, and will be following this up with a study of exactly how many of each company we will need to produce enough materials to supply the army. Once this is understood, the government will potentially open further companies under the direction of the Ministry of Work. These companies will then dump the resources on the UK market slightly above what the going rate is, and the army will buy them and the MoW will use the money now in their companies to supply our other, non-profit MoW companies with wages.

The army command is meeting to decide on their leadership policy. There are several different ideas being tossed around, and with the war module coming back online in just a few days it’s really important we get it sorted quickly. The most likely option consists of a council of senior officers, all with cabinet access, under the direct leadership of the Presidency.

We have seen our currency stabilise at 0.023 (currency side), which is good. There is over twenty thousand currency currently for sale at the price, so hopefully it will remain stable. The President is still discussing with our finance teams whether the markets are stable enough for us to confirm this as the final resting place of GBP in V2, which depends on how much the job sector grows in the next couple of weeks. It seems that the top wages being offered at the minute are still lower than they were in V1, and most wages, even for gurus, are below £2 an hour. Finally the government is now setting taxes on tanks and artillery at the same level as all other industries.

This was a press release consisting of 4 Prime Ministerial announcements since the start of V2. Hopefully further updates shouldn’t be as long!

Sir Humphrey Appleby - Press Secretary,

Iain Keers - Prime Minister.