From the Head of State
New Year's Day Address
01-01-2021, 00:00.
Citizens, Istkaleners:
We stand at the edge of a new world. For eight months, eight short but terrible months, we were under the yoke of a foreign power, imperialists who sought to choke us of our strength and our wealth. We strove, we struggled, to survive, to remain independent and free; we fought arduously and constantly, never failing, never faltering, so that we and our children could be free.
They have now been ousted, and our Istkalen is now free of its shackles. Our actions, our lives, are now our own again, rather than in the hands, in the control, of a small group of foreign diplomats. It is now, thus, our own choicde how to live them.
The last year has been one of chaos and disorder. It was a disturbed year, a year in which the natural order came crashing down, replaced only with terrible anarchy, with terrible darkness. Before us lays a fork in the road, whether to choose to return to our orderly and civilized ways, or whether to continue as the imperialists want us to be seen, as animalistic barbarians driven only by violence.
Such behavior had a use in the past few months, when we survived only by our own strength, when we could trust no one but ourselves, when we were alone in the world. But free, but liberated, it has become a necessity to take the better path, the path of return to the traditional and correct values of our society. The seven disasters would otherwise befall our nation again, and we would find ourselves under the same terrible, foreign yoke for a second time, but now permanently, with no chance of escape.
There are some who say that in doing so we must return, in a more literal way, to the past and its ways in their totality, but reaction is not return. Reaction is merely another form of barbarism. We have always been, above all, a rational civilization, and merely to blindly scream for a return to the morality of bygone centuries is insanity that is, if anythng, contrary to order and our great national tradition. Those who claim that order necessitates the oppression of some, who claim perhaps even that the two are equal, and who use the past and the past alone as justification; these are foreign agents and puppets who seek the fall of our nation yet again so that it may again be plundered and raped for their enrichment.
Our morality is like the measures, the scales, of the craftsman and the scientist - unfailing, constant, and objective measures of good and evil. It is not random, it is not dragged from the mysterious and nonsensical superstition of the past, as those of others are; it is based, instead, on what can be sensed and what can be measured. Per Liris, the greatest and foremost of our philosophers, the mother of our nation, this is the material prosperity of all society; what produces is good, what does not produce, or what detracts from production, is evil. This principle is absolute; it has served us well through the years, and will indeed continue to serve us well in the many centuries to come. It is flexible, it is modern, it does not oppress. It is a principle which is derived from what is and can be observed, an objective principle; it is not like the delusions of others, which claim that people cannot do this and that, which claim that the impossible can happen if one trusts in some magical figure. For a while we have rejected it, not without reason; but now we return to it, our past and certainly our future.
The correct way forwards is clear. We will construct a new Republic on the foundation of the ideas of our mother Liris, a Republic in which all are equal, but of our own type, an indigenous Republic which holds as its highest principles not the cloudy and abstract notions of those sitting in ivory towers, of the West, but our own of order, harmony, and duty. Everyone, in essence, will have an equal place, but they will have a place nonetheless - and with that place responsibility rather than entitlement.
This year is a rebirth, a renaissance, in which we will start anew, inspired and building upon the past, but ever moving forwards. In Istkalen, we together shall strive to recreate an orderly, modern, and progressive state, to rise from the short oppression of the occupation and the chaos which we in desparation brought upon ourselves into the dawn, into a new and glorious age.
