On the General State of the Public Treasury spa_economic_regeneration_events.1 · dlc016
Emphasizing the underdeveloped state of the … economy, the Minister of the Treasury has sketched out an ambitious reform plan designed to re-establish the country among the world's premier economies.
Economic Report on the General State of the Public Treasury to the Most Illustrious … of … It should come as no surprise to the esteemed gentlemen of …, that the waves of industrial and commercial innovation, which have so transformed our brethren beyond the Pyrenees, have not as yet reached the shores of our own dominions in earnest. It is the opinion of the Hacienda, that in the absence of immediate policies intending to correct this growing imbalance, our country's path will be steered not towards civilization and prosperity, but rather towards barbarism and destitution. The following report will ...
Government Manipulation Revealed spa_economic_regeneration_events.2 · dlc016
Intrepid reporters working for the … … have uncovered our attempts at manipulation and published a scathing report accusing the government of incompetence and deceit.
The coffee tasted better today. It always did when his mood was up. And his mood was up today. Nothing, at least nothing one could put in print, gave the old man greater pleasure than seeing the current government fumble their way from scandal to scandal. "Bloody idiots" he mumbled, sipping his coffee once again.
Ere the Lark Wakes spa_economic_regeneration_events.3 · dlc016
The vast … mining investments have borne fruit, and the country's mine pits are abuzz with activity like never before. A particularly successful company has now approached the government with a proposal to improve the mining infrastructure of one of our principal mining districts.
Two sharp knocks on the door interrupted the miner's breakfast. He had lingered too long and the foreman's boy was making the rounds. That damned lickspittle. Kissing his wife goodbye, he slung his sack across his back and stepped into the chill of the early dawn. A somber procession snaked its way from the company town up to the pithead, silent save for the dull clank of metal on metal. Twelve hours of toil and darkness awaited.
Hacienda Demands Action spa_economic_regeneration_events.4 · dlc016
Referencing the economic reform program proposed some years back, the Minister of the Treasury now demands that we take immediate action to implement it, claiming that … will be relegated to the dustbin of history if the government's inaction persists.
Economic Report on the General State of the Public Treasury to the Most Illustrious … of … It should come as no surprise to the esteemed gentlemen of …, that the waves of industrial and commercial innovation, which have so transformed our brethren beyond the Pyrenees, have not as yet reached the shores of our own dominions in earnest. It is the opinion of the Hacienda, that in the absence of immediate policies intending to correct this growing imbalance, our country's path will be steered not towards civilization and prosperity, but rather towards barbarism and destitution. The following report will ...
Plus Ultra spa_economic_regeneration_events.5 · dlc016
Having successfully carried out the Regeneration reform program, the government is receiving praise even from her most embittered opponents.
With a steady hand, the minister opened the great ledger and glanced once more at the figures within. To what degree they could be trusted he was not entirely certain, but that mattered little beside the public jubilation they were sure to inspire. No, he thought. That reckoning could be left to the children of tomorrow. Today belonged to him.
Degeneration spa_economic_regeneration_events.6 · dlc016
The government's inability to carry through the Regeneration reforms has provoked public outrage. Angry crowds gather outside the Hacienda, while the press proclaims the failure a national disgrace.
How many humiliations must this country bear? Were the events of the last century not enough? The minister drew the curtain aside and peered into the street, where the crowd had raised an effigy in his likeness—a crude figure dangling from a poorly knotted rope. Its face bore a twisted parody of the same mustache that greeted him every morning, bobbing up and down to the rhythm of the crazed lunatics below him. He turned to face his valet. "Send for a coach, please. And send note to my barber that I must see him this afternoon."
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