Frenzy Frets for a Fuehrer

Issue 25

In a rather embarrassing and ironic turn of events on November 6, the Chancellor of the Royal Frenzy's three month term ran out. Lord Tom Mills of Punkrock served as chancellor, the only elected position in the imperial government. On November 7, however no one had remembered the Chancellor's term had run out. Feeling embarrassed but also noticing the irony of Natopia's ineptitude at democracy on America's Election Day, Emperor Nathan acted quickly to ensure the government continued to run smoothly. Or at least as smoothly as it can run while in a self-imposed hibernation since September.

The Constitution provides that the Prime Minister serve as chancellor pro tempore in instances where there is no chancellor so Tasneem Chowdhury was required to close all old business of the first chancellor's term pending the results of a new chancellorial election to be concluded on November 14. As of publication, there have been no nominations for the post and the Prime Minister will continue to serve as chancellor pro tem until one is elected.

During Chowdhury's interim term as chancellor pro tem she passed several important and controversial sections of the Royal Code. Several unenforceable and outdated sections of the Royal Code were repealed, and a section was finally added to the Code outlining the official limits to the interaction between the Imperial government and the demesnial government of Lavalon. The "Secret Enemy Conditioning" section was passed as well which allows the government to ingrain hate into an enemy designated by the Emperor, complete with clauses to harbor Orwellian levels of doublethink. And the Frenzy operational procedures were amended again. The Freny now operated under a system of timed democracy, abolishing its unruly quorom system and changing the names of legislators from "Legates" to "Member of the Royal Frenzy" which can be humorously abbreviated to MoRF.