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Empress Delivers Healthy Baby Girl
Crown Princess is formally named in public ceremony
Eveari, Grand Duchy of Ananto
October 1, 5475


Her Imperial Majesty Nicolette and Prince Consort Victor welcome Princess Nicolette

The future Empress of Ananto and Kalistan has been born in Eveari. The baby, a girl, was healthy and reportedly as happy as a newborn could be, with all the prodding and poking that newborn babies have to go through as they come into the world. Her Imperial Majesty endured the labor process well and the Prince Consort was present for the labor and birth.

Eight days after the birth, the Empress and the Prince Consort brought the baby to the Eveari House in Eveari, and there before invited guests, members of the Government and members of the Eveari Monthly Meeting, announced that the new Heiress' name is to be Nicolette Amy Ananto, Crown Princess of Ananto and Kalistan. In naming the new Nicolette her immediate heir, the Empress ensures that house Ananto will continue for another generation.

Crown watchers were reportedly thrilled for the birth of the new Crown Princess. The national "girl" pool was more than ₭43.2 million and was divided by 51,235 bets. "We knew it would be a girl," said gossip columnist Mia Walters. "I ended up winning about ₭426 from the 'boy' pool There was a strong move of money away from 'girl' in the last week, but the pool at La Moda held strong, and the win was pretty surprising. By the way, besides all that money, we are also very happy for the Empress and the Prince Consort, and we welcome the new Baby to our home."

The Royal Pregnancy was about the most watched event in recent memory. The pregnancy generated 17 major stories in the Kalistani Press, and four news magazine episodes. The Empress maintained her normal public schedule throughout the majority of the pregnancy, but following a premature labor scare 8 months into it, Her Imperial Majesty's personal physicians advised her to go onto bedrest for a month as they paused the labor. The Empress will remain on light duty for about three months as she recovers from the birth, and then will only gradually resume her duties. While on restricted duty, the Empress has authorized Grand Duke Marcus Yasgar, the Grand Duke of Kalistan, to act as her Viceroy. The Grand Duke meets daily with the Empress in the performance of his duties on her behalf.

While the Empress spends time with baby, Grand Duke Yasgar has asked Her Imperial Majesty's Finance Minister to begin convening a conference to begin to discussing a new Terran Monetary Unit. "Her Imperial Majesty would like me to organize it to begin no later than one year from now," said Duke Yasgar. "We have facilities to host a conference like this at Kaliburg Polytechnic, and would welcome any country that would like to discuss setting a new international currency standard. Her Imperial Majesty is clear: She believes that the time is now to adopt a new international currency standard, and feels that the only way all nations in the world can have confidence that it is not being manipulated to serve one or another nation's interests is to set it as a certain rates and then let other currencies float against that standard. This will provide us a more sound basis for evaluating our own currency, as well as a basis to compare currencies with one another. I have asked the Finance Minister to begin drawing up plans for the conference, and we plan to meet Her Majesty's deadline of one year for preparation."

As the Empire celebrates the new Heiress, Kalistan looks forward to the next generation and the next chapter of Kalistan's history.