Shaman Iriko entered the administrative building of Naryan and walked toward the podium filled with microphones. At his side, two sedáa helped the Shaman up the steps.
The Red Dove reporters angled their cameras toward the Shaman, preparing to televise the event to several people around the world and to the few viewers from Kuduk itself.
Once he reached the stand, the Shaman began to speak.
“Dear friends and neighbors from around the world, today I have come to announce Kuduk’s plans for an important modernization process for the Kuduk Isles.
As you might know, Kuduk is a country that has always struggled to keep a balance between its own customs and its advancement. As a nation, our culture and traditions are highly important to us, and for much of the previous century, we’ve felt trapped between our wants and our needs. In the past decade, we have come to the conclusion that in order to better serve our people and grant every citizen a lifestyle of their choosing, Kuduk will need to modernize to some extent. That being said, Kuduk will do everything in its power to keep its cultures alive through the process. Keeping this balance will not be easy, but we are up for the challenge.
We will not delve head-first into the modernization process. Before we do anything, we will do what any self-respecting democratic country would do when dealing with a change as drastic as this: hold a referendum for our people to gauge their position on the subject. If the referendum results show that a majority of tribesmen wish to keep the status quo, then Kuduk will not move forward with its plans. Vice versa, if the tribesmen wish to move forward with the process, Kuduk will begin its preliminary stages of modernization.
Assuming the referendum comes out positive, the very first stages of modernization will oversee the testing of our policies onto a single settlement to see if our political reforms and modernization plans will work. The settlement that has offered to be the testing grounds for our policies is Yinyin, a coastal village in the South of the Yevak Tribe.
If the policies of Yinyin are deemed to be satisfactory, Kuduk will go through a political reform that will allow the country to work better together as a singular unit, and allow us to better listen to the needs of the people more easily. Tribal Councils from each of the 36 tribes will be merged into a large legislature that will oversee the process of creating laws for the entire Tribal Federation. The majority party from this legislature, elected through a national electoral system, will be responsible for choosing a prime minister and forming an administration. The old government of Kuduk, composed of the chiefs and elders from every tribe and myself, will be relegated to handling judicial matters.
So far, these are the only concrete plans Kuduk currently has regarding its modernization process. It would be unwise to make further plans without much needed information regarding the referendum and Yinyin. Only once those are finished will Kuduk continue working on its plans with both its new government and international ones willing to aid.”
(OOC: This is going to be in a similar format to Luna’s Project Star Kindle RP! I’m opening this up for questions, make sure to use a journalist question format!)