We inform the Urthvision audience that the TISATEL broadcast will be interrupted for a brief moment to transmit a message from the Royal Palace of Tiziri
MESSAGE FROM HER MAJESTY, GUARDIAN GUARDED BY HER PREDECESSORS YEDDER IX OF THE RIVER SHAMS
Good evening, beloved inhabitants of the River,
I hope that you have enjoyed the Urthvision Songfestival, as We the Diarchs have every time since TISATEL Wed Shams became a participant broadcaster. I send kind regards to our friends from the Tawusian Cape, and the best of lucks to Sahab Diyal Sahbi on the competition. La Canción de la Perra has recently been relevant to the feelings of many of our dear Shamsians, and, since its message is certainly also relevant to the message I bring to your televisions and devices tonight, we have resolved to issue it right after it has been showcased to all of Urth.
This is my first message to the country in a long time: my appearances in the media have been scarce in the latest decade and a half. My co-regent Mutamid Eala Ilhamha has replaced me on many of the tasks I used to be in charge of during the past century, and I thank him for such a strong commitment to the wellbeing of our country. Despite the long years melting my muscles, my commitment has not faded away and it has grown together with His Majesty’s one.
I ascended to the throne a hundred and twenty-nine years ago in two days from now. Our country, and the world itself, were very different back then. The target of my reign has always been “to adapt”, to rule thinking not of power, but of people and contexts, guided by the Legacy I am in charge of guarding and living by. The river Shams and its people have seen a Great War, a humanist menace that died with Estelárez and, unfortunately, returned with Santon, and, even with all these hardships, a growing prosperity by the collective realisation that what comes out of our borders has more good to offer than the dangers it poses. Some decades ago, many of you saw me on your TVs arguing the exact opposite to this, that we Shamsians should keep ourselves alive, because no one else would. I know many of you may blame me, King Mutamid III or Queen Nora for the years of isolation: it was nothing but Tunsé’s twists and turns that demanded it. Ever since, our neighbouring peoples have become friends of ours or even allies and protectors, while the rest of the Urtia has followed behind. What we have learnt during this time is that fighting discrimination with discrimination can make us no different from them: that, as it must be, we need to be guided by Her Legacy, by Queen Impelanta who, realising the harm she had done and caused by murdering and destroying after she had suffered such evils, took shelter in our country, where she learnt from the River and Her people the real meaning of inner and outer peace: that everyone of us must be consistent with what we want our lives and our world to be like, and harm should almost never be an option.
The economical, social and cultural enrichment this common process has brought to Wed Shams has made all of you aware of how the actions of everyone, from myself to the most powerless of individuals, can still affect the course of thousands. Your voices at Tiziri and the different demonstrations all around the country have made it clear that prosperity is not enough if the people do not just benefit from it, but act directly on it and are part of it. The vision for the river Shams King Mutamid and I share has always been that of a place where everyone lives a safe, joyful life, and, as following Her Legacy and loving Tunsé imply. In order that everyone lives such a splendid live, and by listening to your demands of it being so, We the Diarchs, in agreement with the Royal Council, have resolved to, as it has happened in some other places in the world but for the first time in our country, dismiss the entirety of the Royal Council and let the new one be elected by each one of you in fair elections, twenty days from now. The newly elected Royal Council will be invested by Ourselves the Diarchs with the power and obligation to, firstly, write a Constitution in which the defining principles of the country will be outlined; secondly, call a country-wide enquiry on whether We the Diarchs should apply for membership of the Union of Commonwealth Alliances; and thirdly and once this Constitution is in place and has been signed by Us the Diarchs, call once again for elections in the terms the Constitution mandates. We the Diarchs will be subject to this Constitution and the rules derived from it in the ways the newly elected Royal Council pleases.
I do not wish to take more of your screen time. Your will has been heard, and We the Diarchs, as it is our duty, will act consequently. I hope that this announcement has contributed to an already joyful evening, and that the upcoming voting processes keep on bringing prosperity our way.
