Istalia

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The new Imperial House of Istalia illuminates the hopes of the country

The Crown is at the forefront of the collective effort of the nation that despite the many difficulties is imbued with optimism for the future

May 5623

ROMULA - Reconstruction is proceeding at a rapid pace, but some objectives are accumulating delays mainly due to the resources that despite the good placement of the war bonds have still been rather limited, especially due to the growing ostracism of some of the world's largest economies and exporters of strategic resources.

Electricity in most regions of the Peninsula is still carefully rationed, unemployment, although rapidly falling, is still a problem in some areas, and especially in the northwest and northeast countless Istalians in all large and small cities are still forced to stand in long lines with their ration cards in hand, while in the Peninsula the shelves of shops and supermarkets still remain half empty.

In the north of the peninsula, moreover, resentment and opposition are growing towards the Majatrani refugees, over 480 thousand men, women and children whose reception camps dot the countryside and the outskirts of the cities, and whose fate is now tied to the international efforts of the government to seek logistical and diplomatic assistance for their repatriation or eventual transfer.

Despite all these difficulties, the government has already assured that it is working hard to address them but, above all, among the Istalian population there is palpable optimism and hope for a prosperous and bright future having now left behind the horrors and difficulties of the war. It is not surprising, therefore, that this year there has already been a boom in births throughout the country, a rate of around 18 births per 1000 inhabitants and it is expected that in the next five years the peak will reach even 25 births per 1000 inhabitants.

The new Imperial House of Istalia also contributes to the recovery in this sense, and not only.
In fact, a few days ago, the announcement by the re-established Household of the Imperial Crown of the new pregnancy of Crown Princess Claudia, therefore expecting her fourth child, arrived.
With the restoration of the Imperial Household, the Imperial House proceeded to re-establish the internal organization of the Family and with a Crown decree, Emperor Matthias outlined only a month ago the official definitive structure of the House and the rules that will regulate its membership and functioning.

The members of the Imperial Family, that is, the immediate family nucleus of the reigning Emperor, who can therefore be entrusted with official duties of the Crown, have the right to an appanage from the state and are at the top of the order of succession, are the following:

- Emperor Mattia I (72)
- Empress Eva (64, née Nagy-Vitiliani from an Endralonian-Istalian family of industrialists)
--- Imperial Gran Prince of the Crown Alessandro (46)
--- Imperial Gran Princess of the Crown Claudia (41, née Corlione-De Crescenti from the once princely House of Corlione, created under the Third Empire)
------ Imperial Gran Prince Tommaso (17)
------ Imperial Gran Prince Nicola (14)
------ Imperial Gran Princess Michela (9)
--- Imperial Gran Prince Paolo (42)
--- Imperial Gran Princess Christelle (40, née Montagnier from a Kanjorian socialite family of entrepreneurs)
------ Imperial Princess Henriette Marie (19)
------ Imperial Princess Sophie (13)
------ Imperial Prince Mattia (11)

All other members of the House of Appiano-Solari, instaed, are members of the Imperial House but, although they remain in the line of succession to the Throne, they do not have institutional roles and duties and do not receive any appanage from the state. They are currently the three younger brothers of the Emperor and their families, namely, Prince Michele and his wife, with two daughters, Princess Jolanda and Princess Elisa and her husband, with two sons and a daughter.

The Crown, as mentioned, is doing its part to alleviate the difficulties that the population is facing, and as happened during the war, this time too the use of the historic GFCAB, the Imperial Family-owned private financial banking and asset management group, has been strategic, having survived like the family the vicissitudes of time thanks to the deep ramifications prudently established in many countries of Terra and which have allowed it to survive even the Endralonese civil war.

Through personal and GFCAB resources, the Imperial Household is making considerable resources available to assist the displaced, still hundreds and hundreds of thousands, and to support the government's efforts to provide them with basic necessities.
The residences made available by the state to the Crown, including several spaces in Quattroregni Palace, are being used to house the displaced, but this has also been the case for many private properties returned to the family after almost two years of research in the country's land registry archives and after rigorous land valuations.

The process of re-privatization of the economy inherited from the Socialist Republic was also partly supported by the GFCAB, which, through an agreement with the state that provided for a series of instruments to protect it, became the leader of a joint venture of other banking and credit institutions for the creation, together with IMERIN, the Imperial Authority for National Reconstruction, of the "Società di Gestione e Liquidazione degli Asset" ("Company for Asset Management and Liquidation"), which will have the onerous task of liquidating and their management of all those economic-industrial assets totally lost by the conflict, taking on the debts contracted by the state industrial apparatus of the RS and by private individuals, essentially other once state-owned banking groups, parastatal institutions and citizens with businesses with fewer than 30 workers, and also the management and liquidation of their movable and immovable assets.

The agreement, signed by Monaldi Government towards the middle of last year, was approved in September by the National Congress, with only the New Party of the Istalian Communists opposing it while the Democratic Hosian Union voted in favor and the Democratic Socialist Party abstained, and was promulgated at the beginning of November, giving back hope above all to the many small entrepreneurs, as mentioned not touched by the reforms of the Socialist Republic and remaining a heritage of the nation that has always been able to boast among the pillars of its economy such a flourishing undergrowth of small and medium-sized businesses, many of which are family-run. Especially in the peninsula, entrepreneurs of small and medium-sized enterprises have been one of the categories most affected by the conflict and occupation, many reduced to penury with the destruction of property and equipements, many others instead forcibly expropriated of their companies, in many cases cannibalized by unscrupulous Pontesian fixers and entrepreneurs in the south, and largely cannibalized or destroyed during the war in the north, the main beneficiaries of such expropriations being the leaders of the Emirate and of the terrorist groups that entered the country with their militiamen.