New Englia

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The September 8 elections could rewrite New Englia’s entire constitution. Here’s your guide to the manifestos.
Published 7 August 5720

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New Englia is heading to the polls on 8 September 5720, and the stakes haven't felt this existential in decades. Voters aren't just choosing a government to manage the beleaguered economy and struggling public services; they are essentially being asked to decide what New Englia is. Look across the manifestos of the seven major political forces, and you’ll find a startling consensus: the status quo is fundamentally broken.

Whether it's the crushing cost of living, a fractured education system, the culture wars over LGBT rights, or systemic corruption, almost every party is proposing big, structural changes. To make sense of the noise, we read through all the manifestos so you don't have to. Here is your ultimate guide to where the parties stand on the issues that will define New Englia's future.

The end of laissez-faire and the battle for the economy
The economic debate this cycle is defined by a massive, cross-partisan shift away from hands-off capitalism, though the parties fiercely disagree on what should replace it. For the governing Liberal Party, Prime Minister Owen McDermott is using their manifesto, Continuing the Progress, Committing to the Confederation, to ditch two decades of hesitation. He is pushing a new "dirigiste" industrial and financial policy to decouple the country from the volatile agricultural sector. This includes a notable policy U-turn on massive state-backed investments like the Railway Revitalisation Plan and the modernisation of the Port of Lonmouth to drive growth.

The Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDWP) thinks the Liberals aren't going nearly far enough. In Victory for the Voiceless, Not the Vested, the SDWP is proposing full-blown protectionism and the outright nationalisation of massive swaths of the industrial sector. They also want to scrap the Liberals' Goods and Services Tax 5716 in favour of aggressive, progressive income and capital gains taxes, alongside a renewed injection of cash into a purely public social welfare system. Meanwhile, the centrist People's Democratic Alliance (PDA) is focusing on the household bread-and-butter issues in A Choice for Your Home and Your Nation. To combat a lagging birth rate, they want to introduce "family vouchers," expand tax exemptions for parents, and fund universal childcare to push the birth rate from 1.91 to 2.5 by 5735.

On the ecological left, the Renewal-Greens—running on a joint manifesto titled A Social and Ecological New Englia—are proposing a "universal cash transfer" or negative income tax to wipe out poverty, funded partly by a progressive "ethical capitalist" framework and a strict 60-year phase-out of the Rossfadda oil exports. By contrast, the right-wing Reformist Front (RF) is leaning into a libertarian deregulation strategy paired with a wealth tax, while the Conservative People's Party is standing largely alone in defending the "social market status quo". The far-left Republican Socialists (RSP), however, view all of this as tinkering around the edges of a "semi-feudal and semi-colonial" system, demanding full "national industrialisation" to upend capitalistic adventurism.

The turf war over how New Englia learns
Education has quietly become one of the most contentious battlegrounds of the 5720 cycle. Because the system is highly localised, the debate is largely about who gets to control the classroom. Both the Liberals and the Reformists are strictly supportive of keeping the education system in the hands of the administrative zones, arguing for local autonomy.

However, the CPP wants to rip that autonomy away. Seeking to enforce strict standards, the Conservatives are demanding the implementation of a national curriculum across the Confederacy. The SDWP is also pushing for a structural, nationwide shift, proposing a move away from the traditional Base-10 system (six years of elementary, four years of high school) to a globalised K-12 model aimed at better college and apprenticeship preparation. The PDA, playing to its centrist and traditional base, is advocating for reform while fiercely protecting the independence of charter and grammar schools operated by the Holy Luthori Church.

Then there is the RSP, whose The Pivot towards a Free and Equal Society for All dismisses the current setup entirely. Imbued with Tukarese "National Democracy" theory, the Republican Socialists are demanding a systemic refoundation of the schools into a "nationalist, mass-oriented, scientific, and unified" framework designed to deprogram what they view as colonial mindsets.

Culture wars and the "woke" backlash
The global culture wars have thoroughly breached New Englia's borders, forcing parties to take hardline stances. The Renewal-Greens, led by 60-year-old former SDWP shadow minister Róisín Hough, have planted their flag as the premier socially liberal force. They are unapologetically demanding the legalisation of same-sex marriage, the removal of strict divorce restrictions, and a pivot to a health-based drug policy. Feeling the heat on their progressive flank, the SDWP officially adopted same-sex marriage as a policy plank—a highly controversial and strategic pivot meant to stop bleeding young voters to the Greens.

On the right, the newly rebranded Reformist Front is building its electoral brand almost entirely on cultural grievance. They are campaigning aggressively on anti-LGBT and "anti-woke" talking points. Fascinatingly, the RF is even expanding its reach into the Kilani Free Zone, attempting to reluctantly merge traditional Inglian nationalism with a broader, anti-progressive populist coalition.

Foreign policy and the fate of overseas workers
Where New Englia belongs in the world—and what it does with its diaspora—is a major dividing line. McDermott’s Liberals are looking toward the Imperial Commonwealth, seeking to deepen ties with Luthori and Mordusia to eventually join their economic bloc. They are even renegotiating the Connie Fund exclusively for New Englia and floating railway agreements with North Dovani. The SDWP, conversely, is notably pro-Dovani and wants to explore arrangements within the Dovani Union while keeping Luthori at arm's length.

But the most visceral foreign policy issue is the Overseas New Englian Workers (ONEW) program. The SDWP wants to severely restrict or revoke worker exportation agreements entirely to end labour abuses. The PDA is taking a more structural approach with its "Bring them Home" initiative, pushing to remove tax exemptions on remittances to disincentivise labour export, while amending the constitution to give the central government more power over labour laws to keep workers domestic.

Rewriting the rules: Systemic corruption and the Constitution
Perhaps the most defining feature of the 5720 election is that almost nobody actually likes the Confederate Constitution. Trust in institutions is scraping rock bottom, and the parties are offering wildly different, deeply systemic prescriptions to fix it.

The Liberals want to centralise power, pulling competencies away from the administrative zones back to Bridgemont while implementing a sweeping digitisation agenda to root out systemic graft. The CPP is promising a punitive, hardline "law and order" approach to corruption and political dynasties, hoping to play kingmaker by refusing to form any coalition with the populist RF.

Meanwhile, a fascination with sortition—selecting citizens by lottery, like a jury—has taken hold of the centre and the left. The PDA wants to create a new National Social and Economic Council made up of experts and randomly selected citizens to harmonise policy. The Renewal-Greens want to go substantially further, calling for a citizen-led National Convention to completely scrap the Confederation and turn New Englia into a unitary state.

Finally, the RSP argues that the entire state apparatus is infected by "bureaucrat capitalism." They believe New Englia requires a New Democratic revolution to address the roots of poverty, imperialism, and feudalism. However, their aggressive anti-corruption message is currently being muddled on the ground. If you talk to their blue-collar base, you'll quickly find voters who are profoundly confused by the party elites' bitter, esoteric infighting over Tukarese versus Xsampan versus Nadiyan applications of Metzist-Leonidist thought.

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