A change in pace - Documentation and effects after “Liberation Day”

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April to October 1422

A change in pace

Beginning of change

As the masses are shouting, the news are writing and things are doing their things... something is brewing in the government. Something, that should change the history of this country for the seemingly better....atleast for the people that is. For quite a while now, citizens of Fauthur have been getting increasingly more public with their opinion about the government, aswell as enciting what seems to be small scale protests across the whole nation. In a recent turn of events, there have been mass gatherings of around 2 to 3 thousand people in front of the West West Fauthur Halls in the capital city of West Fauthur which demanded a change to policies and overall government. Now, one could say that these protesters can be disregarded and just be thrown into jail or whatever, but not with this particular crowd. In this crowd were important people of media such as but not limited to; Streamers, vloggers, National Prize winners etc. There were also some high ranking government officials such as politicians. So, "removing" this protest wouldve been a huge scandal to the current government, which certainly won't help the situation relax more. This particular protest caught the interest of other government officials and more people and the crowd increased and the pressure was at high. They just were not staisfied with the current government and they were certainly being oppessed for now quite some time in their ordinary everyday lives. The people had enough of these antics and want a total change of government, even if they have to do it forcefully.

 

The Downfall

The Police couldn't keep the protesters in for long as before reinforcements could arrive, the protest evolved into a riot against the government, getting violent. Flares are being thrown, houses in the streets vandalised, shops looted..all in the name to get rid of the current State. Some rioters, as the protestors will be now reffered to, even managed to get past security and get before the doors of the office of Sir Avery Buntknecht, acting leader and "dictator" as the masses were shouting. They were removed quickly from the building.  Seeing as he was being forced to do something and the riot not stopping on its own, Buntknecht ordered the local Militia to step in and end the riot. This was done rather quickly as the rioters were, rightly so, scared of being shot or even killed, although there was still some resistance and even losses for both sides. This action therefore didn't go unnoticed and was used as a caption for further protests and riots across the country. "People Murderer" ,"Psychotic Dictator" the people were calling the Leader now. Even in the following meetings and assemblies in the West West Fauhtur Halls the politicians were increasing their pressure towards Buntknecht. With no other options left, he was forced to "Abdicate" the Leader position temporarily to avert bigger disasters. Buntknecht was promptly replaced with a secret advocate of the movement which was talked about previously and now reform after reform was pushed to relief the citizens and make the country overall less restrictive. The provisional new government also decided to plan out how the new government should be set up and what it shall do and purpose, to satisfy the needs of the population as much as possible.

 

The New Government

While the overall economy was at a severe risk due to these drastic changes, it still hasn't shown any signs of massive recession, although the new government could influence that quite hevaily with every decision they make. Now, for the government. After all these days and even more, the government now has a new government and a new ideology adding to that. Now, there are several political parties ranging from left to center-right, as the new government made any more extreme form of Authoritarianism void and banned it. Those parties, like in any democracy, will have seats in National Congress in the West West Fauthur halls. The populace may give a votes for parties they like every year and the party with the highest amount of votes will be able to elect a head of Government. Then, the head of government must choose 6 elegible candidates, whom may not be previous Head of State actors and at maximum only be 2 people from their own party, for the position of Head of State, which the populace would vote on. After the Head of State is chosen, he will have the power to elect a small cabinet of ministers who will then act as managers for their areas they are minister for. Law changes should only happen if the law in question gets enough support from the crongress to be instituted, changed, or be removed. The head of government holds a vote power that equals 5-10 seats in congress, varying on the size of congress. Citizens may also voice their opinion on certain things in the government and will not be punished for doing so. The Head of State, aswell as the Head of Government can call an emergency vote on ministers if they find that the minister in question is not doing his ir her job correctly. The populace will then be able to vote on replacing the minister or not. Every 2 years, a survey must be held by the government that ensures the population is indeed satisfied with the current government. The government is forced to do something about certain areas of the government, if close to, or over half the voting populace thinks negatively about said area. This may include certain Laws, politicians, ministers, both heads of state and government, aswell as other areas. The government may and shall never elect or support any authoritarianist policies and ideologies.For the current state controlled economy is not in rights with the soon to be constituted new government and policies, the form of the economy of Fauthur must change. For now, this will be a placeholder system awaiting further improvement and changes. The current government therfore instituted a Free Market Economy to act for said purposes.

 

This marks the end for this story as it still is in the progress. This is a significant change in the lives of millions of people, hopefully a good one.

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Following the government change…

 

Par on course - Everyday lives and effects

 

It has now been a long while since the government was basically overthrown by a large angry population. The back then provisional government, which could be described as a mere joke, took on a quite significant stance, changed multiple policies all over, instated new ones and brought democracy back. They weren’t lying about freedom from the oppression of the previous government when they stormed the government seat. The current government has now grown semi-stable but is still majorly overwhelmed with bureaucracy and the effectiveness of handling it can at best be described as lack-luster and only forced to work on. Of course, this covers a major scope such as enforcement of policies, lots of agencies for work, families etc., aswell as taxes and different forms for state issued IDs and much, much more miscellaneous concerns and issues. As already described, there’s a backlog. And it is huge. It is affecting everyday lives to the point of having to wait around 5 weeks for government mail to be delivered, which in many cases is already way too late for the origin problem. This eventually led to a widely frowned upon “pick up policy” which was instated to get the mail to the recipient in time. Very urgent to semi urgent mail now needs to be picked up manually by the addressee at the nearest city hall, financial institution, aswell as several different offices, and in rare cases the post offices itself. With this policy in place, the backlog of bureaucracy has been reduced only by a marginal amount, but the reduction is picking up pace with more government reforms, votes and general stability so forecasts see it only as a matter of time until that issue is resolved. 

 

The next point on the list would be general life, happiness, education, public transport, and health. For one, the government has been changed, that we know for sure. But what benefits or even drawbacks/ disadvantages affect the populace? A major point to address would be the now more liberal way of life. The previous government had enacted policies, such as bans on clothes in schools, very high tax rates, public surveillance and even curfews with armed patrols in some places in Fauthur. These were just a few examples but almost all “non-liberal” policies, as the government describes, are now reversed and to a very major degree non-existent. This has changed many a life for the better and gave a boost to production and overall freedom in the workplace, aswell as private and internet life, resulting in the overall population becoming more happy on average, seeing a whopping 18% increase since the government change. Furthermore, a lot of welfare policies and public services were enacted, as far as the budget allows to not draw even more debt to the economy - which we will come to later. A few examples are state provided healthcare and education, effectively making these sectors public and state funding, leading to an equal, tax free, also majorly cheap and effective treatment, aswell as state covered expenses for elementary and secondary school materials and the testing of introducing electronics, such as TVs and computers into some schools around the capital. This is being called “digitalisation of education” by the government and has received, in contrast to the pick-up policy, huge popularity, especially with the youth. Another aspect would be the started expansion of the rail network. As known from a long ago time until the change, the Fauthurian rail network is majorly outdated, in need of repairs, underfunded and has a plethora of other issues going on. Even though it strained the budget, the government also decided to take over the rail sector into a state-owned status, providing and covering expenses to the national rail company to expand the network, build more train stations and overhaul the overall system, with the goal of firstly, getting it to even work. The out of date rail system has been a major economical issue in Fauthur for generations, cutting off major travel routes internationally, inconveniencing industries and leading to a GDP decrease, in turn increasing car and truck usage, polluting the environment.

With the now ongoing repairs and overhaul of the rail system, upgrading, restoring and building stuff, the country is set for a reintegration of public transport by train and more industry productivity by the end of 1425, if done well. The government is allocating major ressources and incentivised workers for this long term project to speed it up, but still have surveillance over all the safety regulations and faulty systems elimination.

 

Bus Transport in connection to schools has also been slightly expanded overall, with students now getting free bus passes if they reside more than 3 kilometers of flight distance from the school they are attending too, and also establishing extra bus lines just for students. Whereas sadly, the bus ticket prices were raised by 50 Presence Coin (Presence Token form of European cent) which the, government stated, would be a “fair exchange of services”.

 

Current traffic laws and road maintenance was also impacted in the change, with the government changing speed limits, setting up speed traps, overhauled specifically only very bad highway and main city connections, and enacted, with a surprisingly major acceptance, a ban on very low miles per gallon cars, needing every car to be produced by new efficiency standards and wanting to complete transition away from low MPG cars by the end of 1427, prompting many people with low MPG cars to seek alternatives. The government also incentivizes this but a little, making it not really attractive to transition, but many people seeing it as a forced transition of sorts. This was a heavy blow to the already struggling automobile industry in the country, now more heavily reliant on Kalmash car imports and already in connection to expand the contract.

 

Recent changes on the international political stage in contrast to the government change has spiked a change in overall hostility, especially against citizens of Fauthurian nature, aswell as several other non-ethnic Fauthurian groups, prompting a more secluded and pessimistic way of life for Aftokratorian population centers in Fauthur. Whileas in other aspects, the government decided to institute more small-ish national parks, due to the size of the forests still available, protecting more forest and also still untouched natural habitats for flora and fauna to thrive alike. In the industrial and agricultural heartland of Fauthur however, the forestry industry is booming with widespread deforestation with the reason of “expanding the available industrial and agricultural space”, which is seen as an honest, but not condoned reason by locals.

 

In the final aspect before the economy - The government

As mentioned very often above, the government changed and a free democracy, now with a hint of socialism due to state owned industries emerged, facing many problems with just some listed above, but settling ok in their current position with neighboring countries and inside the state of Fauthur.

Of course, it is still in the process of stabilizing even itself, but it already brought great and liberal change to the people of Fauthur who still sigh in relief, that the terror imposed upon them by the previous government for generations on end, finally came to an end. It is hosting it’s own almost full fledged voting and appointing policies, aswell as a public voter integration which requires the government, by law, to hold a public referendum on law changes, law enactments etc., as also done with voting the parliament of course.

Things should get done more slowly now in the face of these regulations, as the emergency power-state of the provisional government came to an end with stability and an actual, internationally recognized state.

 

Fluctuation by the hour - The Fauthurian economy in retrospect to all the changes, regulations and budget cuts, aswell as budget raises in other places

As mentioned before, we will now dive a bit into the economical aspects of the changes, well, rather said a summary of everything.

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Starting off with, surprise, the start, where it began. Immediately after the government change, the new provisional government had implemented a whole change to the economy, impacting multiple industrial sectors and sent prices fluctuating by the hour. The changes were so drastic however, that for a very brief duration of two weeks, the country had such an unstable economy, it had to print money to keep itself afloat. This resulted in a high inflation spike, with prices at it’s peak being 227% more expensive than normal. However, this caused several problems and maybe even a few crashes in some industries, that is was an absolute marvel the economy recovered as fast as it did to stop the inflation. Things seemed to be going to plan, for a short while atleast. The economy, along with it’s markets and industries strangely stabilized themselved in an unstabilized state, making drastic price changes by the hour, aside the recovery and 4 months after. New and more economy changes, some of them may even be last minute, brought the economy back on track either stagnating, or slightly growing in cycles. This was the case until just recently, as the government passed major policies and changes, such as the nationalization of the health and train industries, needing the government to dump extraordinary amounts of funds into these projects and even having to raise bus fare prices and put up a reinforced amount of speed traps, radar traps, and radar controls to gain some income to mitigate the nationalization somewhat. This used up all available funds and put the government in slightly more debt than it already is, leading to a higher interest rate and putting more strain on the economy.

Experts although forecast some stabilization, aswell as a GDP increase and economic production boost in the coming years, implementing itself slowly and will be barely noticeable but if compared to the past.

 

This was a brief summary and reflection of some events going on, with the change of government still pretty much in progress and establishing itself even more, gaining in popularity. The story goes on and we will await the next big update on the matter. Renaming topic to - A change in pace, Documentation and Effects after “Liberation day”, as the people now dub it.