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Kalistani News in Brief:  Crown Princess Carolina Ascendant
Gaduri Integration, Kaliburg Metro Begun, Oversees new Tech investment
Kaliburg Free City, Ananto
April 8, 5575


Crown Princess Carolina Ananto-Hulanevek takes a significantly larger workload with gusto

Gaduri Accession to the Anantonese Empire
Crown Princess Carolina, working closely with Her Imperial Majesty Empress Pavlina I Ananto and Dame Jacqueline DuMont, have been overseeing the accession of the Kingdom of Gaduridos into the Anantonese Empire. "The Transition has been smooth," said Dame Jacqueline DuMont, Her Imperial Majesty's Foreign Minister, who has also just returned from her fact finding mission to Rildanor. "However, there have been some incidents of public disorder around the decision by Gaduri Nationalists and socialists who either oppose the monarchy, or support full Gaduri Independence. If matters begin to get serious for Her Imperial Majesty's Government there, Her Imperial Majesty said she might like to go and meet leaders of the protest movements to see if some accommodation could be reached." In addition, Her Highness the Crown Princess has been tasked with authoring a new Treaty for Empire, which formally lays out the relationship between the Crown and the Kingdom of Gaduridos. "Her Highness believes that the Gaduri Government will benefit from a formal outline of rights, freedoms and responsibilities within the Empire," said Dame DuMont. "Her Majesty's Government in Gaduridos will have the opportunity to contribute to the document before it is ratified, to ensure that Gaduri points of view are fairly and fully represented within the Treaty. This treaty will become a basis for additional accession, should the opportunity present itself." Her Highness the Crown Princess will present a draft of the treaty in two months.

In related News, Grand Duke Mark Ananto will lead a team from MoCo, KALNAFERCO, and KMD to Gaduridos to discuss investment in the nation. "We would like to restart our efforts to help Gaduridos build their own auto, steel and electronic industries," said the Grand Duke to reporters yesterday. "It is important that Kalistan provide Gaduridos with whatever they need to continue their efforts to build and modernize their nation: A strong Gaduridos is a Strong Empire." Ananto's comments underscore the idea that Kalistan does not view Gaduridos as a mere colony, but as an equal component of the Empire, and feels that the two formerly independent nations' fortunes are indeed intricately tied. Ananto will bring a guarantee of more than ₭5 Billion in start up funds along with the offers from the Kalistani companies. "This money was originally earmarked for Luthorian Oil shares, but Kalistan is no longer interested in buying into Luthorian Oil, as we determined that it is probably an unsafe investment given Luthori's defiantly nationalistic attitudes and preferences for local firms over foreign investment, and we would much rather invest at home, as any good nationalist would do. As Luthori has taken a nationalist approach, we would expect them to act as any mercantilist nation would, and feel free to expropriate foreign investment as a political tool, so, that money will remain here in the Empire where it can do more actual people more good."

Kaliburg Metro Construction begins
Along with taking more of a role in foreign affairs, Her Highness, the Crown Princess has overseen the ground breaking of the new ₭23 Billion Kaliburg Metro Project. The project, designed by Kundrati engineers, will be constructed jointly by Kundrati and Kalistan, and will provide access to most residents in Kaliburg. "The exciting thing is that there will be a subway stop within a mile of nearly 90% of the residents and businesses in Kaliburg and Port Davon," said Her Highness, the Crown Princess Carolina Ananto-Hulanevek. "We have major stops at the Airport, at Port Davon, at the National Mall, near many schools and universities, and at the Sports Complex in Capitol Hill. This is an exciting infrastructure program, and it will take us many years to complete, but we have been working on it for years already, and we had some practical problems to iron out that the Kundrati Engineers worked out brilliant solutions to." The Metro Project will be divided into two teams, one the overhead team and the other the underground team. As the construction of elevated train tracks throughout the South and East of the City, in mostly residential neighborhoods and light to medium commercial districts will be much quicker, the Overhead team will start work next year. However, the Underground team needs to dig an estimated sixty five miles of tunnels, and in some places, the water table will be an issue, especially around the Port, due to the historical nature of the land, which was primarily reclaimed marshland requiring deep pylon formations, but crews from the NSP are already operating heavy drilling machinery underground in Imperial Hill.

At the ground breaking ceremony, Her Imperial Majesty, Empress Pavlina I Ananto was on hand, but Crown Princess Carolina delivered the invocation: "Today we embark on a great engineering feat the likes of which we have not seen since the construction of the MagLev Line hundreds of years ago. We will bring quicker, cleaner, more efficient public transportation to the residents of Kaliburg Free City, reduce congestion and commute times, and make our neighborhoods more walkable, bike-able and liveable. We thank Kundrati for supplying us technical expertise as we carry this project forward, and can't wait to see the day when we can travel about this city on the most modern Subway System in the world!" The Project is expected to take more than ten years to complete.

KMD works with Crown Princess on new Tech Initiatives
Kalistani MicroDivisions, whos consumer electronics department leads the cellular phone and home computing sectors in Kalistan, while representing a significant market share in the rest of Seleya and Keris, has decided established a software division. "The National Government is offering KMD a sizeable renewable grant from the Ministry of Science to begin developing native software applications that work well with KMD architecture, and will provide Kalistanis alternatives to foreign software operating systems, web browsers, and social media," said Her Highness, Crown Princess Carolina Ananto-Hulanevek. "Foreign software applications are unfortunately proprietary, so it is difficult to dig into them and make them work on Kalistani devices. KMD has thus far either had to alter their own architecture, or run into all sorts of problems and miscommunication between software and hardware. KMD has had to put what they describe as 'translators' into their devices thus far to ensure that bugs, glitches and software crashes are less common, but its not 100%. KMD would not only like to develop native software systems that work well with KMD's architecture, but also make that software available to other nations in the world to adapt and improve themselves."

Her Highness the Crown Princess, noted another upside for KMD. "If KMD develops software for their own hardware and processors, they will be able to improve processing speeds, battery efficiency, and onboard peripherals, which will all integrate seamlessly without needing a translator. Software and hardware development can go hand in hand, and KMD will be able to provide their consumer technology at a lower price point, making their products more competitive, especially in the international market." Release of Kalistani source code internationally, and encouraging other developers to improve it, will also make KMD processors, mobos and peripherals more attractive to international buyers as well." The Crown Princess noted that KMD already has a new operating system in beta testing, and is working on a new browser application that features security and access to the internet.