Kalistani Major History

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Socialists make good on promise
Dual Economy to be Reauthorized, Extremely full agenda looms before Chamber
Kaliburg, Ananto District
December 18, 4406

Dianne Carangus, Socialist Party of Kalistan Speaker and Premier of the Republic made good on her word to introduce a slate of 6 major bills renationalizing significant sectors of the Economy, essentially restoring the Dual Economy to Kalistan.  The Bills, called the National Service Act Reauthorization, Republican Food Bank Reauthorization, KALNAPECO KALNAFERCO, and ODEN Reauthorizations, and the Republican Bank Act, all take aim at restoring Government monopoly to significant sectors of Kalistan's economy.

Combined with the Kalistani Economic Reforms omnibus which is scheduled to pass in March of 4407, this radical alteration of the Kalistani Economy represents one of the greatest shifts in such a short period of time in Kalistan's entire history.  "Kalistan has been adrift for far too long," Carrangus said to a group of reporters following the marathon Bill reading this afternoon.  "These acts have been crucial to Kalistani fortune and stability, and they were simply let go and ignored.  Well, no more."  When asked if such a series of reforms wouldn't produce shocks in Kalistan's economy, Carrangus said,

"Well, I imagine so, at least for a short period of time.  The acts that we are reauthorizing in the next year were developed over centuries, not months, and the economy evolved with them.  Just like they were neglected out of disuse: over a couple centuries.  Reauthorizing them all, renationalizing that which private capitalists have been leeching off of for decades, that will certainly hurt.  But the pain is necessary to restore Kalistan to its proper place in the world, one which doesn't just have to look on as their neighbors run capital ships through our national waters, one which can trade our national products all around the world, one where Kalistan doesn't take a backseat to any other country in the world.  We are back, Kalistan is coming back too, and we would advise those who have been sucking our country dry to take notice.  We are not a non-entity any longer."

Carrangus also intimated that she was well aware of the fact that  neighboring Lourenne has acquired modern naval hardware from Kazulia, and that the sales of this equiptment, which poses a possible threat to Kalistan given the lack of diplomatic relations between the two nations, might have been opposed, had Kalistan possessed a functioning Foreign Ministry at the time. 

"We will be sending a letter of protest to the Government of Lourenne in the near term, over the purchase of these six corvettes that aim to float just off our coasts.  Perhaps Lourenne is interested in sitting down and talking with us, one socialist Government to another, who share many similarities.  But perhaps they mean to become the Guarantor of the Anantanese Ocean, and this is a role which Kalistan has historically reserved for ourselves."  We have no idea.  But we don't want to wake up one day, and find that Lourenne has placed Ananto on the business end of their Corvettes.  So along with these fundamental economic reforms, we will also be looking at military reform.  And budget reform, if necessary...  There is so much to do to get this country running in top form once more..."