Narikaton and Darnussia

[Mbites]

The twenties and first half of the thirties: Sleepy Global Capitalism

December 5736


President Paul Sozialmann during an interview with Hiatus Magazine

After Piet Eimann's continued course of propping up the military industrial complex at the cost of some of the Dual Republic's traditional structures around Red Stad and continued propaganda against left-wing political movements, a more moderate grouping of VVP Senators have split from the party to form the Hosisch Demokratische Union (HDU) which has not boded well for Eimann's VVP in the following elections. After a brief and unstable government coalition between the remaining VVP (its controlling wing sometimes dubbed Matocrats) and the newly established HDU, early elections in the midst of the twenties saw the social-democratic Great Reform Party (GRP) win a plurality in the Senate and the Presidency. The winner of these elections is the now three-term sitting Paul Sozialmann who has used floating majorities in the Senate to push some minor social welfare reforms, expanding coverage for the underdeveloped public health insurance and subsidizing secondary education for children of poor families. He's been dependent on the HDU and the Liberal Republican Party (LRP) to not face impeachment from the right-side of the parliament, according to insiders his comfortable position can be explained by good personal relations with many of the HDU's more "hosian social" minded members. One of those is the HDU's leader Ricarda Schwertbaum, who has been leading the recent left-wing conservative phenomenon since its controversial inception.

Now that Sozialmann's third term (which was already only possible due to legal shenanigans connected to early elections) nears its end in December 5757, many are wondering how the Dual Republic's political landscape will look like one year from now. While the sitting President is not without success the fundamental problems of Narikaton & Darnussia were not adressed mostly due to Sozialmann's missing political capital. The nation is still battling with its military industrial sector which is seeking to overcome the Dual Republics traditional economic pillars such as shipping and the financial markets. According to economists the economy of the Dual Republic is cannibalizing itself mostly due to political maneuvering surrounding MATO and the subsidization of the military industrial complex, in times of few foreign production contracts such as right now, this dependency would be unhealthy for any economy even a strong diverse one like Narikaton and Darnussia's. These developments are flanked by a downturn in global business (aside of Dovani which while active is facing various humanitarian and violent crisis) and the general isolationist attitude of the GRP's President. In any case, neither the GRP nor the VVP have put forth visions or personalities yet, the HDU is currently polling slightly above the two but within the margin of error, many expect the official start of campaigning to shift the balances of power drastically.