A NATION IN CRISIS: RAGAN ELECTED PRESIDENT

McVICKER DEPARTS LIBERTY HOUSE HAILED
AS ONE OF 'TITULIA'S GREATS'

BY Erina Jensen & Bailey Moreville
EDITORIAL PARTNERS

HEADING INTO the warmer months on one side of the world while the other is progressively getting colder, the streets of Titulia were quiet this election.

Shrouded with suspicions of attempted extortion and a disloyal cabinet member defection to their benches, the Linardist Party decided to watch the election calling from the safety of their penthouses on Main Street.

Rum and soup were being handed out in South Titulia while in the North bottled water flooded the side-walk in an attempt to counter the greatest heat wave seen to-date.

Traditionally, election day draws considerable crowds spanning Titulian political parties, businesses and everyday residents to welcome the incoming chief executive.

When the hammer went down on June 25th 2009 - a day to be remembered not for its merits but for its greatest scandals - the outgoing president Dennis McVicker received more cheers than his successor Jason Ragan (Trvthseeker).

A Liberty House transition team member reportedly placed a letter on the president's desk for the incoming leader at Pres. McVicker's request.

The outgoing leader took one final stroll along his favourite part of the house - the north portico - prior to vacating the presidential residence and office for the last time and departing for the inauguration.


In a small, hastily arranged ceremony amidst security concerns - Jason Ragan was sworn-in by Chief Justice Dr. Manhaton as the Sixth President of the Republic of Titulia.

Outgoing President Dennis McVicker looked on and shared handshakes, good-wishes and salutes between himself and his Whig counterpart.

Now- former President McVicker then departed the ceremony to again embark on his citizen's journey prior to receiving his call to service.



In another election first, the British loyalist-left Whig Party snatched it's first time in Liberty House in the midst of an evolving battle to investigate what - if any- crimes were committed by the Linardist Party in the Dealgate scandal.

Sources close to the Whig victor have indicated the new president intends to put executive pressure on the administrator to ban a number of citizens, including TMG Director and Titulia's longest serving citizen T. J. Norton. Succeeding in this bid will permanently remove any potential threat to a future Trvthseeker election.

Mr Norton has openly invited the incoming Whig-led administrator to 'fire when ready'.

"If Ragan wants to fire please do - I've got around 30 active Titulians on the back-burner ready to go with me. A friendly warning to our new grand kitty cat: what do you call a leader without any followers? Just a fellow taking a stroll", Norton grinned comparing the scandal engulfing the Linardist Party and the new Whig-led administration to that of former US President Richard M. Nixon and the Watergate investigation over 40 years ago.

Within the next week, the initial framework and safeguards will be complete on the heralded Nortilus Group project Akarina: The Hidden Republic. Akarina continues the fictional Titulian story where corruption destroys the non-territorial republic and citizens locate a second nation on the sea to call their home.


The full resources of TMG will cover the events that follow in the hours and days to come.