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Kalistani News in Brief: Kalistan Celebrates Valruzian Election Results
Empire joins Bankaut Agreement in Tel Bira; ADMIN breaks in Kaliburg
Kaliburg, Grand Duchy of Ananto
December 1, 5687


ADMIN, the electronic Art Rock band from Kaliburg, plays a show with Her Imperial Majesty in Attendance

Kalistan Celebrates Valruzian Election Results
The Kalistani political establishment was reportedly elated by Valruzian election results where the winning candidate, Urzsula Pawlik eked out a narrow win on the second ballot. Pawlik, an outspoken institutionalist and conservative, came into the elections in a fairly secure second behind the left wing populist candidate Dawid Kala. "Kalistan might have endorsed Tomasz Wilczewski, who was a known quantity in Kalistan given his role as former Ambassador to Kalistan, but Ms. Pawlick seemed to be a far more closely aligned choice for most Kalistanis, and today we have a reason to celebrate her election," said political scientist Professor Gregory Skowronek, of Sulari Duchy University.

According to Skowronek, Kalistan itself did not play any role in the election. "I know there was some talk about possibly setting up a PAC there to funnel donations to candidates, but when it became clear that many Kalistanis who have emigrated to Valruzia were on the left, Kalistani conservatives balked at the potential of using the funds for a candidate most of them did not want." But Kalistanis got their preferred choice without having to spend a single cent. President Elect Pawlik brings a strong desire for institutionalism and stability to the nation, and clearly has expressed interest in working with Kalistan and other Seleyan Nations.

"She ticks a lot of boxes for both the Kalistani Government, and for the Crown," said Skowronek. "We look forward to meeting with her after her inauguration and finding out how we can work together to build a stronger, more stable Seleya together." Anecdotally, the President Elect is reportedly quite popular within Kalistan--About 68% of the population asked said they both knew about the Valruzian Elections and were supportive of Ms. Pawlik's candidacy. "No doubt, she's gained a measure of celebrity in Kalistan, and I think her visit will really do wonders for Kalistani-Valruzian relations."

Empire joins Bankaut Agreement in Tel Bira
Her Imperial Majesty's Finance Minister, Dr. Louisa Argon visited Tel Bira this month to complete the negotiations with Tel Bira over the Bakaut Treaty. The Agreement sets up a fund based in Tel Bira that allows financial institutions to easily tranfer funds between themselves and across the world, without needing to sign a bunch of extra treaties with each nation individually. It reduces transaction costs between nations, and makes transactions smooth and reliable, obliviating the need for markups to cover risk of loss. And Tel Bira takes a fee per transaction for the service.

"Most importantly," said Dr. Argon, "It creates an almost completely independent standard for a single, universally convertible currency, at least among member nations. This currency is the standard medium of exchange from the Bankaut organization and is not tied to the health or well being of any particular national economy.. "As long as you have credits with the institution, your credits are worth just that. the Exchange comes when they tell you a credit is worth this much of your money, but its expressed in the credit itself, meaning this is virtually a universal currency." Dr. Argon said Kalistan would support that because it explicitly undermines schemes to set any particular nation's currency itself as the standard. "We say that with the Canrille Franc. We need to just not do that, because as soon as Canrille got everyone tied into that currency, the thing backing it, the Canrille Empire, collapsed immediately, leading to widespread currency crises. This system does not have a national currency backing it, so, it actually works as a market in the correct way giving a neutral third party medium to transfer funds between financial institutions."

Minister Argon was asked if she saw the Egelian representative who flew to Tel Bira immediately after she did or talked with him while she was in country. "I think Mr. Mondragon was landing as we were taking off," said Minister Argon. "When word got out that we had signed, I want to say that probably put pressure on the nation who is leading the globalist movement to our north to have to come in and sign it too. But no, we did not cross paths."

ADMIN breaks in Kaliburg
The electronic Art Rock band ADMIN has completed a series of very well attended shows in Kaliburg. The concerts were in support of the band's new EP Models on KMI. The band continues the movement to take the airwaves back from RF, while keeping a lot of the synths that made the New Wave of RF popular in the Empire. The band played seven shows at Kalistan's prestigious Zappa Ballroom, and one of the concerts was even attended by Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress in Waiting Carolina-Katherine Michelle Ananto-Connor who got to go back stage and meet the band personally.

"Her Imperial Majesty is tuning into popular music and developing her own tastes," said Imperial Spokeswoman Lady Ursula Gattlin to The Republic. "And in this venue, the Empress in Waiting gets to feel like a typical teenager, going to a show with her school friends, seeing a band she really likes, and then kind of flipping out over them."

Lead singer, primary guitarist and keyboardist Brad Smith, of ADMIN said it was an unexpected treat to meet the Empress. "Well, I'm just a few years older than she is," said Smith who is recently turned 20. "But I think we were both kind of intimidated. She didn't really say a lot, just that she loved the show, and she thanked us for playing and making music. Her friends were a lot more... I guess, enthusiastic. We spent way more time answering their questions and talking to them. But I think me and Mike (Donnelly, percussionist for the band) were kind of like 'you know, should we say something to her?' How do you really talk to someone like that? But that's not to say we were not thrilled that she likes our music. That's such an ego boost really, that the Empress digs our music. That's rad."

You can check out ADMIN's new single the Eponymous "Models" from their EP of the same name out now on KMI records below.

[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9dSYgd5Elk]
ADMIN's "Models" was the centerpiece of their show set in Kaliburg this month