Mercia: First Minister’s Maiden Speech

It is a great honour to be elected today to the Mercian Parliament House, and a greater honour still to serve as First Minister of Mercia, at the helm of an NLP majority. I would like to thank my colleagues in the NLP for a very successful campaign, and congratulate my 10 fellow parliamentarians. My...

Mercia: General Election Results, National Liberals Win Majority

After a long campaign fought for over a month, the May 2015 Mercian General Election finally came to a close at 00:00 British Summer Time (BST), on June 1st 2015. 67% of the electorate (itself comprised of 100% of the population) voted. As the results were counted up, through the rounds of vote runoff in...

Mercia: Mercian Election Surveys Shock Nation

In the wake of the Mercian Leaders' Debate between the Political Party Leaders of the National Liberal Party and the Humanist People's Alliance, two surveys were sent out to the populace of Mercia, asking them their opinions of the two key issues raised in the debate - those being the position of the Mercian Christian...

Mercia: Political Parties formed; Rise of Ideological Extremism?

Following the passing of the 6th December Partisan Democracy Act at the previous Meeting of the Mercian Parliament House, the Nobility of the Kingdoms & Lands Represented in the Council of the Diarchal Crowns of the Disciples has gotten down to the business of organising itself into Political Parties. Of the sixteen Nobles now in Mercia,...

Mercia: Trade Unions and Partisan Democracy Make Homes in Mercia!

When the hastily drawn up 12th October Partisan Democracy Bill was rejected by the Mercian Parliament House on the same day it was penned, it looked as if the political system of the Kingdoms & Lands Represented in the Council of the Diarchal Crowns of the Disciples was to remain dominated by individual interests of...

Mercia: Failed Coup Disrupts Parliament!

The regular procedure of the Mercian Parliament House, halfway through its second Meeting under Marquis Cassidy's second Cabinet, was thrown into jeopardy on the evening of the 9th November, when former Baron of the Rio Cinema, Harland-Hackenschmidt, interrupted the Parliament first with jibes, then with argument, and then with threats to overthrow the Lord Spiritual...

Mercia: Partisan Democracy quashed in Inaugural Parliament Meeting!

On Sunday, 12th October, at 7:36PM GMT, Marquis Cassidy opened up the first Meeting of the Mercian Parliament House of his second term as First Minister. Because of his services to the Kingdoms & Lands Represented in the Council of the Diarchal crowns of the Disciples (Mercia), and the wider Würtige Empire, the Marquis was re-appointed...

Mercia: Mercian Lords Condemn Non-Christian Behaviour in Pavlov!

On the 25th of September 2014, His Royal Highness Deniz Grozny, may the Almighty God bless his reign, signed the Edict of Kolchaksaray, banning atheism or the profession of any religion except Orthodoxy, as practised by the established Pavlovian Orthodox Church, as well as exiling the practicants of sodomy, adultery and heresy from the country....