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August Update
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Current Corporate Management
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Chief Executive Officer (Delegate): Tubbius
Chief Operating Officer (Vice-Delegate): New Rogernomics
Managing Director (Prime Minister): joWhatup
Current Board of Directors (Cabinet of Lazarus)
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Director of the Guard: [Vacant]
Director of Internal Management: Mzeusia
Director of Public Relations: Ryccia
Director of Shareholdership: McChimp
Current Auditors of Lazarus (Council of Lazarene Security)
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Chairman: New Rogernomics
Auditors: Aflana, McChimp, Leonism, Ryccia and Killer Kitty
Current Speakership
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Speaker: Debussy
Current Human Resource Officers (Court Justices)
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Resignation from the Guard
By Ryccia
After much personal consideration, Whatermelons, also known as Honeydewistania, the now former Director of the Guard, has resigned on July the 23rd, 2020. We thank him for his service to Lazarus.
His resignation can be found here: https://www.nslazarus.com/thread-1573.html
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Lazarene-Caer Sidi RolePlay!
By Ryccia
Lazarus and Caer Sidi have celebrated the joint STARCOM Command RP! Members from both regions on late July enjoyed this space-themed RP, where a limited amount of accepted players roleplayed a crew aboard a space station. The interest in this RP led to the limited amount of spots available to run out a day after the event commenced.
When asked about the details of the event, our Internal Department Director, Mzeusia, stated:
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It was a space RP so we got assigned different characters on a space station, and the gamemaster, the person coming up with the events, came up with [them]
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Writing Contest Winner!
By Ryccia
Lazarus’s Internal Management Department held a writing contest in July, and a winner has been announced. Snoodum was chosen by Director Mzeusia as the victor of this competition.
When asked about the event’s prevailing story, Director Mzeusia stated the following:
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It was a lengthy and well-written piece that I interpreted to be about state surveillance. The story’s dark themed are fast-paced and exciting, and the ending is one of further darkness and despair, portraying the Snoodian state as an uncaring entity whose citizens live in fear and, if they do slip up, are forced into hard labour where they are forgotten about.
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Assembly Activity
By Debussy, Edited by Ryccia
Lately, the Assembly has been slow. In fact, Lazarus has been slow, but there has been an uptick in activity. On August 7th, Killer Kitty, now the subject of a possible second recall from the Council of Lazarene Security because of inactivity, proposed a change to Mandate 12. This proposal, entitled Removal of Restrictions for Judicial Appointments, would have removed the following line from the mandate: Justices may not serve in any other office while serving as Justices. Killer Kitty felt this change was needed because of “the immense difficulty in finding qualified candidates to fill all our three Justice positions.”
After Wymondham’s second, real resignation, Lazarus has had a vacant justice seat since May 2nd, sitting at almost 4 months without a third justice on the bench. Killer Kitty then went inactive before they could motion their proposal to vote, forcing the Speaker to restart the discussion thread to keep things moving, but that did not stop some Lazarenes from loudly voicing their opposition, particularly Demonos, who spearheaded the opposition movement. Demonos was very active in urging Shareholders to vote against the proposal, posting on the RMB and discord several times to notify citizens of the possible change to the Mandate. Demonos felt that “serving in a dual capacity as a Justice and any other appointed or executive position allows for a conflict of interest between the Executive and Judiciary powers of Lazarus,” and had worried that “a precedent would be established to further abolish one-person-one-office policies.”
At the end of the day, Demonos’ position won. The vote, which required a super majority, defined as three-quarters vote by the Mandate, failed 7 to 7 with 5 abstains. The last proposal at vote, Amendments to the Criminal Code Act (July 2020), had 11 Shareholders vote. During the vote on Killer Kitty’s proposal for justice reform, 19 Shareholders voted, a respectable uptick of 8 Shareholders. One thing is clear - the one-person-one-office policy is here to stay.