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Lindström Recovery Protocol

2026-11-11T20:06:00Z

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{{Nouvelle Alexandrie Article}}{{Natopian article}}
{{Infobox treaty
| name = Lindström Recovery Protocol
| image =
| caption =
| type = Non-binding economic framework
| date_signed = 29.XV.{{AN|1759}}
| location = [[Lindström]], [[Natopia]]
| signatories = {{Unbulleted list|[[President of the Government of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Premier]] [[José Manuel Montero]] {{small|(Nouvelle Alexandrie)}}|[[Chancellor of Natopia|Chancellor]] [[Marco Lungo III]] {{small|(Natopia)}}|}}
| parties = {{Unbulleted list|{{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie}}|{{team flag|Natopia}}|}}
| condition = Private implementation subject to existing contracts and approvals; borrowing and regulated measures subject to competent New Alexandrian authorization and review by the incoming government
| purpose = Recovery demand, Alexandrium reserve purchases, financing support, and private investment
| notes = Negotiated through the [[Natopian-Nouvelle Alexandrie Joint Economic Council]]
}}
The '''Lindström Recovery Protocol''' is a non-binding economic framework between [[Natopia]] and [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]], signed at [[Lindström]] on 29.XV.{{AN|1759}} by New Alexandrian Premier [[José Manuel Montero]] and Natopian Chancellor [[Marco Lungo III]]. Negotiated through the [[Natopian-Nouvelle Alexandrie Joint Economic Council]] (NNJEC), it combined Natopian orders, a strategic [[Alexandrium]] purchase, a recovery-bond backstop, and private investment intended to support New Alexandrian output during the first half of {{AN|1760}}. [[Empress Clara]] authorized its Natopian foreign-affairs provisions before signature.<ref name="nbc">"Natopia backs New Alexandrian recovery with orders, Alexandrium purchases, credit and bank capital," ''[[NBC Newsfeed/1759|NBC Newsfeed]]'', 29.XV.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The framework scheduled NAX€320 billion of orders for New Alexandrian goods and services, a 30-tonne Alexandrium purchase at no less than NAX€2,150 a gram, and a NAX€360 billion private-capital program reaching all thirteen [[Administrative divisions of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Regions of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]. Natopia also offered to buy up to NAX€250 billion of New Alexandrian recovery bonds not taken up by private investors. No bond was issued when the Protocol was signed.<ref name="nbc" /> The first recovery bonds, an issue of NAX€250 billion, followed in XIII.{{AN|1760}}; Natopia took NAX€100 billion of it under the backstop.<ref name="bonds" />

== Background ==
The Protocol followed the [[1757 Alexandrium market crash]], when order cancellations by [[Dingo Enterprises]] and [[Neridia Defense Industries]] contributed to the collapse of the mineral's price, and the wider [[Recession of 1757]]. The Month XV economic dashboard in ''[[NBC Newsfeed/1759|NBC Newsfeed]]'' recorded Alexandrium at NAX€1,995.09 a gram and New Alexandrian public debt at 67.4 percent of gross domestic product.<ref group="note">The Statistics Bureau's benchmark review of Month XII, {{AN|1760}} later restated the debt at the close of {{AN|1759}} to NAX€32.50 trillion, 65.9 percent of gross domestic product.</ref> The final NAX€200 billion tranche authorized by the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]] remained unborrowed.<ref name="crash">[[1757 Alexandrium market crash]]; [[Recession of 1757]]; ''[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month XV, 1759)|NBC Newsfeed]]'', Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Alexandrium price and public debt rows), Month XV of {{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The NNJEC had coordinated bilateral crisis response since the [[Recession of 1737]]. Its earlier [[Cárdenas Protocol]], signed by Montero and Lungo in {{AN|1757}}, joined Natopian capital and technology with New Alexandrian semiconductor and advanced-materials programs. The Lindström framework used the same council for a broader recovery package centered on external demand and private capital rather than another New Alexandrian-funded stimulus.<ref name="cardenas">[[Natopian-Nouvelle Alexandrie Joint Economic Council]]; [[Cárdenas Protocol]].</ref>

== Terms ==
Natopian public buyers and participating companies planned to place NAX€320 billion of infrastructure, manufactured-goods, and defense orders from I through VIII.{{AN|1760}}. These purchases represented demand for New Alexandrian output rather than expenditure or borrowing by the New Alexandrian government. Dingo Enterprises and Neridia Defense Industries were among the returning buyers after their canceled orders had contributed to the market break in {{AN|1757}}.<ref name="nbc" />

The strategic-reserve provision called for Natopia to take 30 metric tonnes of refined Alexandrium at a minimum of NAX€2,150 a gram, making the purchase worth at least NAX€64.5 billion. The price matched the reference adopted by the [[Euran Alexandrium Coordination Organization]] under the [[Treaty of Fontainebleau on Alexandrium Coordination]]. The contractual minimum applied only to the Natopian purchase and did not impose a binding floor on other buyers.<ref name="fontainebleau">[[Treaty of Fontainebleau on Alexandrium Coordination]], pricing and purchaser provisions.</ref>

The financing component provided for a recovery-bond backstop of up to NAX€250 billion for bonds that had received New Alexandrian authorization but were not bought by private investors. Proposed terms set a fifteen-year maturity and capped the yield at 0.75 percentage points above equivalent Natopian government debt. The facility stood outside the Recovery Act's Article 16 borrowing program, but any bond issued under it would remain New Alexandrian public debt and require authorization by the Cortes Federales.<ref name="recoveryact">[[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]], Articles 16 and 17.</ref>

Private investment proposals totaled NAX€360 billion over four years, divided among three platforms, with NAX€120 billion in equity and equipment scheduled from I through VIII.{{AN|1760}}. Their proposed allocations covered each of the Federation's thirteen Regions.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Private-capital platforms
! Platform !! Capital !! Regions and activities
|-
| Advanced industry || NAX€135 billion || [[Alduria]], [[Oportia]], the [[Wechua Nation]], [[Boriquén]], and [[New Caputia]]: Alexandrium components, precision manufacturing, industrial automation, navigation electronics, and industrial parks
|-
| Ports, water, and blue economy || NAX€120 billion || [[Santander]], [[Valencia]], the [[Isles of Caputia]], [[New Luthoria]], the [[Islas de la Libertad]], and [[South Lyrica]]: freight terminals, cold storage, desalination, ship repair, island transport, and offshore services
|-
| Finance, digital services, and aerospace || NAX€105 billion || The [[Cárdenas|Federal Capital District]], [[North Lyrica]], and qualifying regional lenders throughout the Federation: a financial, data, and media campus, communications facilities, aerospace training, and supervised bank equity
|}

Sixteen companies, subsidiaries, and bilateral joint ventures were identified for participation in the platforms according to their existing business lines. The participants were [[Alexandrium Nexus Ventures]], Dingo Enterprises, Neridia Defense Industries, [[OAMEX]], [[Precision Defense Machining]], [[Quantum Navigation Systems]], [[Augur Industries Incorporated]], the Natopian subsidiary of the [[Deep Freeze Consortium]], [[East Natopian Shipping Corporation]], [[Transegale Trading Company]], [[Aquarius Desalination Technologies]], the [[Bank of Saint Andre]], [[Ziegeland Media Group]], [[AuroraStream]], the [[NatAlex Launch Alliance]], and [[Dingo Exploration Corporation|DingoX]]. Within [[Banking in Nouvelle Alexandrie|the New Alexandrian banking system]], the framework included a proposed NAX€60 billion Bank of Saint Andre-led window as part of the third platform. It was limited to qualifying regional lenders under [[Federal Bank of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Bank]] supervision. Institutions already in resolution were excluded.<ref name="banks">[[Banking in Nouvelle Alexandrie]]; [[Bank of Saint Andre]]; [[Administrative divisions of Nouvelle Alexandrie]].</ref> The window opened in IX.{{AN|1760}}.<ref name="bankwindow" />

== Legal and transition status ==
The Protocol created a framework rather than an appropriation, public guarantee, concession, or bond issue. Montero remained the lawful Premier after the {{AN|1759}} election, but his government held caretaker status under the [[Government Formation and Coalition Act, 1694]] and faced limits on significant policy and financial commitments. Senior civil servants separated measures that Natopian buyers and private companies could begin under existing authority from measures requiring action by the Cortes, the Federal Bank, or another competent New Alexandrian authority.<ref name="caretaker">[[Government Formation and Coalition Act, 1694]], sections 8 and 10.</ref>

The incoming [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] welcomed the distribution of investment across the Regions but objected that its transition team received the final text only after Natopia had approved it. Treasury nominee [[Tomás Iñiguez]] stated that any New Alexandrian public exposure would be disclosed before authorization. Borrowing, regulated bank subscriptions, permits, and concessions therefore remained subject to review after the transfer of government.<ref name="nbc" />

== Market response ==
The [[Nouvelle Alexandrie Stock Exchange]] Composite rose 2.1 percent after the announcement. Regional-bank shares gained 3.8 percent, manufacturing shares rose 2.9 percent, and Alexandrium increased by 4.7 percent to NAX€2,088.86 a gram. The mineral remained below the Protocol's purchase price. Government bonds strengthened modestly as markets priced the scheduled orders and early private capital separately from the undrawn bond backstop and four-year investment program.<ref name="nbc" />

== Implementation ==
The Federal Accord government of Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] honored the framework on taking office, but reserved decisions on borrowing, bank subscriptions, and regulated approvals to New Alexandrian authorities. In III.{{AN|1760}} it convened the NNJEC plenary in [[Cárdenas]], where Iñiguez, by then [[Department of Treasury (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Treasury Secretary]], made the case that the Natopian orders should leave plant, technology, and skilled work in the Federation after they ended. The Federal Humanists, in opposition, noted that their caretaker government had secured the Lindström commitments and said they would judge the Accord by whether it brought home lasting investment.<ref name="plenary">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE ACCORD PRESSES TO TURN NATOPIA'S RECOVERY ORDERS INTO LASTING NEW ALEXANDRIAN INDUSTRY|"The Accord presses to turn Natopia's recovery orders into lasting New Alexandrian industry"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 14.III.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

=== Orders ===
Neither government had given a figure for the orders placed when the first window entered its final month in VIII.{{AN|1760}}.<ref name="tour">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE KING AND EMPRESS END THEIR NATOPIAN STOPS AT LINDSTRÖM AS GUESTS OF PRINCE NATHAN, HEIR TO NATOPIA|"The King and Empress end their Natopian stops at Lindström as guests of Prince Nathan, heir to Natopia"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 14.VIII.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> The window closed at the end of that month. On 19.IX.{{AN|1760}} the NNJEC ministerial committee, meeting in Lindström, announced a second window of NAX€160 billion, half the size of the first, for infrastructure, manufactured goods, and defense output, running from IX.{{AN|1760}} into early {{AN|1761}}. Iñiguez said the government had asked for a larger share of the new orders to go to companies that manufacture inside the Federation, rather than to Natopian firms with New Alexandrian subsidiaries. The council's communiqué was silent on whether that request was met and gave no breakdown of the orders by sector or Region. The Natopian government described the renewal as an investment in its own supply chains and attributed the smaller size to a smaller emergency.<ref name="orders2">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#NATOPIA OPENS A SECOND ORDERS WINDOW, WORTH NAX€160 BILLION, FOR NEW ALEXANDRIAN GOODS|"Natopia opens a second orders window, worth NAX€160 billion, for New Alexandrian goods"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 19.IX.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

=== Bank window ===
The Federal Bank approved the terms of the NAX€60 billion bank window on 11.IX.{{AN|1760}}, and the Bank of Saint Andre-led consortium opened it to subscriptions of preferred equity in regional lenders that had remained solvent through the downturn but had too little capital to lend. Each applicant was to be examined by the Federal Bank's Division of Regional Financial Institutions, established under the [[Comprehensive Financial Stabilization Act, 1749]], before the consortium could buy its shares. The Treasury disclosed that the window carried no federal guarantee and no budget line, and needed no vote in the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]]. Montero, by then [[Leader of the Opposition of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Leader of the Opposition]], said his caretaker government had negotiated the window and that the Accord was now delivering it.<ref name="bankwindow">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#BANK OF SAINT ANDRE CONSORTIUM OPENS A NAX€60 BILLION WINDOW FOR THE FEDERATION'S REGIONAL LENDERS|"Bank of Saint Andre consortium opens a NAX€60 billion window for the Federation's regional lenders"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 12.IX.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

=== Recovery bonds ===
The [[Supplementary Appropriation Act, 1760]], which raised the federal borrowing limit in IX.{{AN|1760}}, authorized the first issue of recovery bonds as part of borrowing the Treasury already needed to cover lower tax receipts. The Treasury reported on 16.XIII.{{AN|1760}} that private investors had bought NAX€150 billion of the NAX€250 billion issue of fifteen-year bonds, and that Natopia had taken the remaining NAX€100 billion under the backstop. The issue priced inside the yield cap, but its final yield went undisclosed. The rest of the backstop remained available for any further issue the [[Cortes Federales|Cortes]] might authorize. Montero said Natopia's purchase changed who held the debt but not how much of it there was, and made the recovery a little more dependent on decisions taken in Lindström.<ref name="bonds">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#NATOPIA BUYS NAX€100 BILLION OF THE FEDERATION'S FIRST RECOVERY BONDS|"Natopia buys NAX€100 billion of the Federation's first recovery bonds"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 16.XIII.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Natopian-Nouvelle Alexandrie Joint Economic Council]]
* [[Cárdenas Protocol]]
* [[1757 Alexandrium market crash]]
* [[Recession of 1757]]
* [[Treaty of Fontainebleau on Alexandrium Coordination]]
* [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759]]

== References ==
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2026-11-11T20:04:48Z

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[[#ANGLIEN'S_FIRST_COMPETITIVE_ELECTION_SEATS_A_BOERHAAF_GOVERNMENT|(7) Boerhaaf government seated in Anglien]] [[#THE_FEDERAL_ACCORD_TAKES_POWER_AS_THE_KING_OPENS_AN_ENLARGED_14TH_CORTES|(12) Federal Accord takes power; enlarged 14th Cortes opens]] [[#Throne Speech|(12) Speech from the Throne]] [[#THE_FEDERAL_ASSEMBLY_OPENS_THE_CONFIDENCE_DEBATE_THAT_WILL_SEAT_THE_FEDERAL_ACCORD|(13) Confidence debate opens to seat the Accord]] [[#THE_FEDERAL_ACCORD_INHERITS_A_FROZEN_NAX€200_BILLION_AND_THE_BUDGET_FIGHT_TO_RELEASE_IT|(14) Frozen NAX€200 billion and the budget agenda]] [[#THE_ACCORD_WINS_THE_CONFIDENCE_OF_THE_CORTES,_461_TO_293,_AND_GONÇALVES_TAKES_OFFICE|(15) Confidence vote seats the Accord, 461 to 293]] [[#MONTERO'S_ALDURIAN_ALLIES_ARE_SWEPT_AWAY_AND_PITI_GÁNDARA_INHERITS_THE_CROSSBENCH|(16) Aldurian independents swept away; Gándara rises]] [[#MONTERO_LEADS_THE_FEDERAL_HUMANISTS_INTO_OPPOSITION_AFTER_THE_PARTY'S_STEEPEST_DEFEAT_IN_A_GENERATION|(18) Montero leads the Humanists into opposition]] [[#THE_FEDERAL_ACCORD_OPENS_THE_YEAR_WITH_ITS_LEAD_INTACT_AS_THE_COST_OF_LIVING_TOPS_VOTERS'_CONCERNS|(24) IOP/NBC poll: the Accord's lead holds]]
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[[#THE_FEDERAL_ACCORD_AGREES_ITS_OPENING_LEGISLATIVE_PROGRAM_AFTER_WEEKS_OF_COALITION_BARGAINING|(1) Federal Accord agrees its legislative program]] [[#THE_FEDERAL_ACCORD_TAKES_ITS_BILL_PROGRAM_TO_PITI_GÁNDARA_AND_THE_INDEPENDENTS|(1) Federal Accord consults Gándara and the independents]] [[#SANPANTUL_DRAFTS_A_REFERENDUM_TO_PARTITION_ITS_NEW_TERRITORIES_AND_FORM_A_CONFEDERATION|(10) Sanpantul drafts a union referendum]] [[#CONSTANCIAN_GOVERNMENT_WARNS_OF_FOREIGN_ENEMY_INTERFERENCE|(12) Constancia warns of foreign interference]] [[#THE_NATOPIAN_GARRISON_WINDS_DOWN_IN_ANGLIEN_AS_THE_CONCORD_ALLIANCE_CLOSES_ITS_MISSION|(15) Natopian garrison winds down in Anglien]] [[#KHAN_AMIR_ÇAKAR,_FOUNDER_OF_THE_KENDALL_KHANATE,_DIES_AT_93|(19) Khan Amir Çakar dies at 93]] [[#THE_FEDERAL_ACCORD_ADVANCES_ITS_PROGRAM_AS_ITS_BILLS_GO_BEFORE_THE_CORTES|(22) Federal Accord advances its program]] [[#MARIA_GEORGIOU,_ALLEGED_LEADER_OF_THE_FREE_STATE_OF_CONSTANCIA,_HAS_LIVED_IN_NOUVELLE_ALEXANDRIE_SINCE_HER_SISTER'S_ABDUCTION|(24) Georgiou named as the Free State's alleged leader]]
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[[#ROYAL_HOUSEHOLD_CONFIRMS_CROWN_PRINCESS_SAYARI_IS_EXPECTING_TWINS;_THEY_WILL_STAND_THIRD_AND_FOURTH_IN_LINE|(6) Crown Princess Sayari is expecting twins]] [[#THE_LAST_NATOPIAN_TROOPS_LEAVE_JOHANNSESSBUURG_AS_THE_GARRISON_COMPOUND_PASSES_TO_THE_FREE_DUCHY|(11) Last Natopian troops leave Johannsessbuurg]] [[#THE_ACCORD_PRESSES_TO_TURN_NATOPIA'S_RECOVERY_ORDERS_INTO_LASTING_NEW_ALEXANDRIAN_INDUSTRY|(14) Accord convenes the Joint Economic Council]] [[#PHAEDRA_ALMAGRO_ROMANCE|(20) Chicha press links Princess Phaedra and an Almagro heir]]
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[[#THE_ACCORD'S_PRICE_COMMITTEE_FINDS_ESSENTIALS_OUTPACING_THE_HEADLINE_RATE_AS_RELIEF_WAITS_ON_THE_CORTES|(10) NEC's first price-of-essentials reading]] [[#THE_ACCORD'S_FIRST_BUDGET_BECOMES_LAW_AS_THE_CORTES_CLEARS_ITS_APPROPRIATIONS_AND_TAXATION_ACT|(22) The Accord's first budget becomes law]] [[#THE_SECOND_IOP/NBC_POLL_FINDS_THE_ACCORD'S_LEAD_NARROWING_AS_APPROVAL_COOLS|(23) Second IOP/NBC poll: lead narrows]] [[#Nouvelle_Alexandrie_Economic_Dashboard_(Month_IV,_1760)|(24) Q1 economic dashboard]]
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[[#THE_ACCORD'S_HOUSING_REFORM_BECOMES_LAW,_LEADING_WITH_SUPPLY_AND_BINDING_TENANT_PROTECTIONS_TO_NEW_BUILDING|(8) The Accord's housing reform becomes law]] [[#THE_ROYAL_HOUSEHOLD_ANNOUNCES_A_JOINT_GOODWILL_TOUR_OF_TWELVE_CITIES_FOR_THE_KING_AND_EMPRESS|(9) King and Empress to tour twelve cities abroad]] [[#THE_ACCORD'S_COST-OF-LIVING_RELIEF_BECOMES_LAW,_CUTTING_TAX_ON_ESSENTIALS_AND_CREATING_A_CONSUMER_WATCHDOG|(10) The Accord's cost-of-living relief becomes law]] [[#THE_COMING_ROYAL_TWINS_WILL_RESHAPE_THE_NEW_ALEXANDRIAN_LINE_OF_SUCCESSION|(15) The succession line and the coming royal twins]] [[#AERLA_ELECTS_ALEXANDER_KIM_PRESIDENT_AS_THE_DEMOCRATS_HOLD_A_NARROWED_ASSEMBLY|(20) Aerla elects Alexander Kim president]] [[#THE_FEDERAL_BUDGET_AND_COSTING_OFFICE_OPENS_AS_A_NONPARTISAN_REFEREE_FOR_THE_PUBLIC_ACCOUNTS|(24) Federal Budget and Costing Office opens]]
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[[#FOREIGN_ORDERS_AND_NEW_SEAPLANES_POINT_TO_A_GROWING_NEW_ALEXANDRIAN_AVIATION_SECTOR|(11) Aviation sector: foreign orders, new seaplanes]] [[#A_NEW_SLATE_OF_ALEXANDRIAN_AMBASSADORS_PRESENTS_ITS_CREDENTIALS_ABROAD_AS_THE_ACCORD_RESETS_ITS_DIPLOMACY|(13) A new ambassadorial slate presents its credentials]] [[#THE_GOVERNMENT_SETS_THE_CLOCK_ON_ITS_NEW_CONSUMER_WATCHDOG_AND_OPENS_THE_SEARCH_FOR_ITS_HEAD|(18) Consumer Protection Agency: the clock starts]] [[#THE_FEDERAL_NAVY_HOLDS_ITS_FIRST_FLEET_REVIEW_AT_PUNTA_SANTIAGO_AS_THE_KING_TAKES_THE_SALUTE|(24) The Navy's first fleet review at Punta Santiago]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; color:#913A6A; border-bottom:1px solid #EED9E5; margin-bottom:0.3em; padding-bottom:0.15em;">[[#VII (Crescentis)|VII · Crescentis]]</div>
[[#THE_ACCORD_NAMES_SPECIAL_ENVOYS_TO_REASSURE_ITS_RASPUR_PACT_ALLIES|(8) Special envoys sent to reassure Pact allies]] [[#THE_KING_AND_EMPRESS_LEAVE_CÁRDENAS_ON_THE_ROYAL_GOODWILL_TOUR,_BOUND_FIRST_FOR_HUYENKULA|(12) King and Empress depart on the goodwill tour, bound for Huyenkula]] [[#THE_KING_AND_EMPRESS_KEEP_FAITH_AT_HUYENKULA_AS_THE_QUEEN_MOTHER_COMES_HOME_TO_HURMU|(16) The King and Empress keep faith at Huyenkula; the Queen Mother comes home]] [[#THE_KING_AND_EMPRESS_RENEW_THE_FEDERATION'S_FRIENDSHIP_WITH_AERLA_AT_NOURSALA,_RECEIVED_BY_ITS_NEW_PRESIDENT|(18) King and Empress renew the friendship with Aerla at Noursala]] [[#THE_KING_RETURNS_TO_COSSA,_WHERE_VEGNO_JOINED_THE_CONCORD_ALLIANCE_AFTER_HIS_FIRST_STATE_VISIT|(21) King returns to Cossa, where Vegno joined the alliance]] [[#THE_THIRD_IOP/NBC_POLL_FINDS_THE_ACCORD'S_LEAD_WIDENING_TO_SIX_AS_APPROVAL_RISES|(23) Third IOP/NBC poll: lead widens]] [[#EMPRESS_CLARA_IS_RECEIVED_BY_HER_FATHER,_THE_SOVEREIGN_DUKE,_AS_THE_ROYAL_TOUR_REACHES_ANGLIEN|(24) Empress Clara received by her father at Johannsessbuurg]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; color:#913A6A; border-bottom:1px solid #EED9E5; margin-bottom:0.3em; padding-bottom:0.15em;">[[#VIII (Estivis)|VIII · Estivis]]</div>
[[#ANGLIAN_POLICE_ARREST_MAN_OVER_GRENADE_THAT_FAILED_TO_EXPLODE_AT_THE_ROYAL_WREATH-LAYING|(2) Police arrest man over failed grenade at Johannsessbuurg]] [[#EMPRESS_CLARA_WELCOMES_THE_KING_TO_HER_OWN_COUNTRY_AT_TIRLAR|(3) Empress Clara welcomes the King to Tirlar]] [[#THE_BENACIAN_UNION_HOSTS_THE_KING_AND_EMPRESS_FOR_FOUR_DAYS_IN_CHRYSE_AND_GOLDFIELD|(9) The King and Empress spend four days in Chryse and Goldfield]] [[#THE_KING_AND_EMPRESS_VISIT_THEIR_SON-IN-LAW'S_FAMILY_AT_REDQUILL,_WHERE_THE_KING'S_AUNT_RECEIVES_THEM|(11) The King and Empress visit Redquill]] [[#THE_KING_AND_EMPRESS_END_THEIR_NATOPIAN_STOPS_AT_LINDSTRÖM_AS_GUESTS_OF_PRINCE_NATHAN,_HEIR_TO_NATOPIA|(14) The King and Empress end the Natopian stops at Lindström]] [[#THE_KING_DEDICATES_A_STATUE_OF_MANCO_CÁPAC_I_IN_PETROPOLIS,_BESIDE_THE_SHRINE_OF_THE_BASILEUS_WHO_DIED_WITH_HIM|(17) The King dedicates a statue of Manco Cápac I in Petropolis]] [[#ZEED_IS_PROMISED_AN_EQUAL_SHARE_OF_AVEY'S_PORT_REVENUE_AND_₦60_BILLION_FROM_NATOPIA_IN_RUSJAR|(20) Avey's revenue split and a Natopian pledge for Zeed in Rusjar]] [[#EMPRESS_CLARA_HONORS_THE_WEST_CORUMIAN_BATTALION_THAT_FOUGHT_IN_ANGLIEN|(23) Clara honors the West Corumian battalion in Corum Electric City]] [[#Nouvelle_Alexandrie_Economic_Dashboard_(Month_VIII,_1760)|(24) Q2 economic dashboard]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; color:#913A6A; border-bottom:1px solid #EED9E5; margin-bottom:0.3em; padding-bottom:0.15em;">[[#IX (Aureoris)|IX · Aureoris]]</div>
[[#THE_GRAVNOUGHT_ZIMIA_IS_REMEMBERED_AT_SOUTHMAN,_LAST_OF_THE_TWELVE_STOPS_ON_THE_ROYAL_GOODWILL_TOUR|(2) The royal tour ends at Southman]] [[#THE_ROYAL_TOUR'S_PROMISES_HEAD_FOR_THE_CORTES,_AND_THE_PARTIES_SPLIT_OVER_AVEY_AND_THE_GRENADE|(4) The parties weigh the royal tour's promises]] [[#DRIED_PASTA_JOINS_THE_ESSENTIALS_BASKET_AT_HALF_THE_STANDARD_RATE_OF_VALUE_ADDED_TAX|(9) Dried pasta joins the essentials basket]] [[#BANK_OF_SAINT_ANDRE_CONSORTIUM_OPENS_A_NAX€60_BILLION_WINDOW_FOR_THE_FEDERATION'S_REGIONAL_LENDERS|(12) Saint Andre consortium opens a bank window]] [[#NATOPIA_OPENS_A_SECOND_ORDERS_WINDOW,_WORTH_NAX€160_BILLION,_FOR_NEW_ALEXANDRIAN_GOODS|(19) Natopia opens a second orders window]]
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[[#BARILLAS_AND_KERULARIOS_AMONG_THE_LARGEST_DONORS_AS_THE_HUMANISTS_REBUILD_IN_OPPOSITION|(6) Barillas and Kerularios among the Humanists' largest donors]] [[#THE_ACCORD'S_CLEAN_GOVERNMENT_ACT_BECOMES_LAW,_TAKING_THE_AUDITOR_OUT_OF_THE_TREASURY_AND_COMPLETING_ITS_FIVE_OPENING_BILLS|(20) Clean government and aviation Acts become law]] [[#THE_FOURTH_IOP/NBC_POLL_FINDS_THE_ACCORD'S_LEAD_EASING_TO_FIVE_AS_APPROVAL_STAYS_NEAR_PLUS_10|(22) Fourth IOP/NBC poll: lead eases]]
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[[#THE_SPEAKER_NAMES_TAMARA_HUANCA_MORENO_TO_HEAD_THE_CONSUMER_PROTECTION_AGENCY_AFTER_THE_BUDGET_COMMITTEE_BACKS_HER|(15) Speaker names Huanca Moreno to head the consumer watchdog]]
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[[#CROWN_PRINCESS_SAYARI_GIVES_BIRTH_TO_TWINS,_A_SON_AND_A_DAUGHTER|(9) Crown Princess Sayari gives birth to twins]]
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[[#THE_BLIVEN_FUND'S_FIRST_TRANSFER_REACHES_THE_ANGLIAN_TREASURY,_PAID_OUT_BY_A_MINISTER_WHOSE_PARTY_CAMPAIGNED_AGAINST_THE_FUND|(8) Bliven Fund makes its first transfer]] [[#NATOPIA_BUYS_NAX€100_BILLION_OF_THE_FEDERATION'S_FIRST_RECOVERY_BONDS|(16) Natopia buys the first recovery bonds]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; color:#913A6A; border-bottom:1px solid #EED9E5; margin-bottom:0.3em; padding-bottom:0.15em;">[[#XIV (Pluvialis)|XIV · Pluvialis]]</div>
[[#ANGLIAN_PROSECUTORS_CHARGE_WOUTER_DEKKERSZ_WITH_TRYING_TO_KILL_THE_KING_AND_EMPRESS_AT_THE_WREATH-LAYING|(10) Grenade suspect Wouter Dekkersz is charged]]
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Polling  ·  [[#THE_FEDERAL_ACCORD_OPENS_THE_YEAR_WITH_ITS_LEAD_INTACT_AS_THE_COST_OF_LIVING_TOPS_VOTERS'_CONCERNS|(24.I) First poll]]  ·  [[#THE_SECOND_IOP/NBC_POLL_FINDS_THE_ACCORD'S_LEAD_NARROWING_AS_APPROVAL_COOLS|(23.IV) Second poll]]  ·  [[#THE_THIRD_IOP/NBC_POLL_FINDS_THE_ACCORD'S_LEAD_WIDENING_TO_SIX_AS_APPROVAL_RISES|(23.VII) Third poll]]  ·  [[#THE_FOURTH_IOP/NBC_POLL_FINDS_THE_ACCORD'S_LEAD_EASING_TO_FIVE_AS_APPROVAL_STAYS_NEAR_PLUS_10|(22.X) Fourth poll]]
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==I (Novarum)==

===7===
{{Main|Anglien general election, 1759|Klaes Boerhaaf}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Anglien|flag}} ANGLIEN'S FIRST COMPETITIVE ELECTION SEATS A BOERHAAF GOVERNMENT
|image=Anglien flag.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''The flag of the [[Anglien|Free Duchy of Anglien]], whose first competitive election produced a coalition government led by [[Klaes Boerhaaf]].''
|bullet1=te Landbond Took 22 of the Diet's 84 Seats to Lead
|bullet2=Klaes Boerhaaf Is the Free Duchy's First Elected Prime Minister
|bullet3=His Coalition With te Verzetsbond and te Eilanderbond Holds 45 of 84 Seats
|bullet4=Transitional Premier Eduard Vogt Falls to Second and Passes Into Opposition
|bullet5=Turnout Reached 81.8 Percent at the First Competitive Vote
|bullet6=Hendrik Braam Becomes Chancellor of the Free Duchy
|location=[[Johannsessbuurg]], [[Anglien]]
|body=The [[Anglien|Free Duchy of Anglien]] seated its first elected government at the turn of the year, as [[Klaes Boerhaaf]] of ''[[te Landbond]]'' became the first [[Prime Minister of Anglien]] following the duchy's first competitive national election, held on 12.XII.{{AN|1759}}.<ref>[[Anglien general election, 1759]].</ref>

te Landbond, the interior league Boerhaaf leads, won 22 of the 84 seats in the [[Diet of Anglien]] on 32.0 percent of the vote, running in the lagging interior on the charge that the metropolitan establishment had captured the duchy's reconstruction money. It was the largest single bloc, but short of the 43 a majority needs. Boerhaaf formed a government with ''[[te Verzetsbond]]'' and ''[[te Eilanderbond]]'', 45 seats between the three, and [[Hendrik Braam]] of te Verzetsbond became [[Chancellor of Anglien|Chancellor of the Free Duchy]]. The metropolitan tendency of ''[[te Herstelliberalen]]'' under [[Eduard Vogt]], which had led every government of the transition, fell to second on 18 seats and passed into opposition.

The vote, on an 81.8 percent turnout, was the last benchmark of the exit sequence Anglien agreed with the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Concord Alliance]] when it wrote the [[Constitution of Anglien|constitution]] its people ratified by referendum in VII.{{AN|1759}}. It closes a transition that began with the [[Natopian intervention in Anglien|Natopian-led intervention]] that expelled the [[Nü Krantisk Rapskaff]] occupation and installed a caretaker order under Vogt in {{AN|1754}}. With the Diet seated, the [[CATO Commissioner of Peace for Anglien|Commissioner of Peace]] who certified the poll has closed his office, and the drawdown of the Natopian garrison is due to finish within six months of the vote.
|tldr=''The [[Anglien|Free Duchy of Anglien]] seated its first elected government at the turn of the year: [[Klaes Boerhaaf]] of te Landbond became the first [[Prime Minister of Anglien]] after the duchy's first competitive election on 12.XII.{{AN|1759}}, in which his interior league took 22 of the [[Diet of Anglien|Diet]]'s 84 seats and formed a coalition with te Verzetsbond and te Eilanderbond. Transitional Prime Minister [[Eduard Vogt]]'s te Herstelliberalen fell to second and passed into opposition, closing the transition that followed the [[Natopian intervention in Anglien|Natopian-led]] expulsion of the [[Nü Krantisk Rapskaff]] occupation.''
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===12===
{{Main|14th Cortes Federales|Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE FEDERAL ACCORD TAKES POWER AS THE KING OPENS AN ENLARGED 14TH CORTES
|image=Cortes-Federales-Building.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''The Legislative Palace in Cárdenas on the morning of the Opening; 12.I.{{AN|1760}}.''
|bullet1=Ending Two Decades of Humanist Rule, the Accord Takes Power
|bullet2=AJNA, the Civic Governance Alliance and the Consensus Party Hold 448 of 801 Seats
|bullet3=Orocobix Magüana Becomes the First Wakara to Sit in the Speaker's Chair
|bullet4=Magüana Takes the Chair 480 to 321 Over the Humanist Nominee Alexander Melas
|bullet5=From the Throne, Five Priorities and a Nod Toward Constitutional Amendment
|bullet6=Premier-Designate Ferreira Gonçalves Still Faces Three Confidence Tests Ahead
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=King [[Sinchi Roca II]] opened the [[14th Cortes Federales]] on 12.I.{{AN|1760}}, seating the largest Federal Assembly in the Federation's history, and for the first time since {{AN|1739}} the government before him is not led by the [[Federal Humanist Party]].

The [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]], signed by the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] (AJNA), the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]], commands 448 of the chamber's 801 seats. [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], the Alliance leader who sat as Leader of the Opposition at the last opening, takes the government bench as Premier-designate, with [[Elena Svensson]] of the Civic Governance Alliance as presumptive Vice-Premier and [[Tomás Iñiguez]] at the Treasury.

[[File:FourteenthCortesSeatChange1760NBC.png|thumb|left|275px|''Seats won by party, 13th Cortes to 14th. The enlarged Assembly seats 801 deputies, up from 749.'']]
No party won a majority in the autumn's election. The King first invited Premier [[José Manuel Montero]], whose Federal Humanists remain the largest single party on 293 seats, to form a government; when Montero could not assemble a majority, the King commissioned Ferreira Gonçalves as formateur, and the three parties signed the Accord.<ref>The general election result, the failed Montero formation, the commissioning of Ferreira Gonçalves as formateur, and the signing of the Accord were reported in [[NBC Newsfeed/1759]].</ref>

The Assembly's first act was to elect a Speaker. [[Orocobix Magüana]], a [[Wakara People's Party]] deputy for [[Boriquén]] who sits inside the Alliance bloc, defeated the Federal Humanist nominee [[Alexander Melas]] of [[Valencia]] by 480 votes to 321, from 801 valid ballots. Magüana is the first Wakara to hold the [[Speaker of the Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Speaker's chair]], which has existed since {{AN|1693}}; by custom he sets aside his party whip on taking it.

''The opposition will get a fair hearing in this chamber, and so will the government,'' Magüana told the Assembly before taking the chair. ''On the day either one tries to talk over the other, it will find me standing in the way.''

The session opened in the traditional form, with Lord Protector [[Sayri Tʼito Waman]], Baron of Ausangate, bearing the ancient Mace of State down the central aisle in the ceremonial dress of the Apu Kalanayak. In a short address he cautioned the new majority not to mistake the size of its victory for the breadth of its mandate, and reminded the House that citizens expect ''results and not performance.''

His Majesty then delivered the Speech from the Throne, the program of the new Government, setting five priorities: the prosperity of ordinary households, integrity in public life, investment in science and clean energy, the Federation as a union of many peoples, and security abroad. The King said the Government would ask the Cortes to write the union of many peoples ''plainly into the Federation's own foundations,'' constitutional language the Speech did not tie to a bill, though the Accord commits the Government to the long-pending [[Plurinational Federation Constitutional Amendment Act, 1735]]. ''We are not one people who tolerate our differences,'' the King said. ''We are many peoples who have chosen one another.'' The full text appears [[#Throne Speech|below]].

Montero, Premier since {{AN|1749}}, becomes Leader of the Opposition. He had told the King he could not command the chamber and stepped back rather than prolong the process. The Federal Humanists, down seventy-nine seats, lead an opposition that also includes the ten deputies of the new [[Republican Party of Oportia]], led by [[Sofia Laurent]], and roughly fifty independents.

The Opening was a joint sitting of the Federation's constitutional order: the [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]], carried over from the 13th Cortes under Lord Anglés; the nine justices of the [[High Court of Justice of Nouvelle Alexandrie|High Court of Justice]] under Chief Justice Élisée Pierrat; the incoming Council of State; and, in the galleries, the regional governors, among them [[Clementina Duffy Carr]], the first Governor of [[Oportia]] to see her Region seated in a federal Assembly. Empress [[Clara I|Clara]] attended beside the King.

The ceremony does not by itself install the Government. At the Assembly's next sitting the House will debate the Address in Reply and put its confidence in the Government to a vote, proceed to the election of Ferreira Gonçalves as President of the Government, and vote on the Council of State submitted under the Proclamation. The Accord's 448 seats give it the numbers on paper; whether they hold on the floor is the test of the sittings ahead.
|tldr=''The Opening of the 14th Cortes stages the Federal Accord's arrival in government: the first administration since {{AN|1739}} not led by the Federal Humanists, the first Wakara Speaker of the Federal Assembly, and the enlarged 801-seat chamber seating Oportia for the first time. The confidence vote, the election of the Premier, and the approval of the Council of State are still to come.''
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====Throne Speech====
{{Main|14th Cortes Federales|Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves}}
<div style="max-width:820px; margin:0.6em auto 1.2em auto; padding:1.3em 1.9em; text-align:left; border:1px solid #C9A227; border-left:5px solid #913A6A; border-radius:6px; background:linear-gradient(to bottom,#FCF8EE 0%,#ffffff 55%); box-shadow:0 2px 6px rgba(60,50,20,0.12); color:#1a1a1a; font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; line-height:1.55;">{{quote|''Speech from the Throne of Nouvelle Alexandrie'' 
My Lords and Deputies, 
I open this Fourteenth Cortes Federales, the first returned by the peoples of the Federation to an enlarged Assembly, in a spirit that has carried every session before it: with one heart, with one mind. 
The autumn's election returned no party to a majority. The people did not hand the Federation to one party's keeping; they asked its parties to find common ground, and three of them have done so. My Government is drawn from their agreement, and it takes up the charge that a coalition alone can honor: to govern not for one part of the country, but for the whole of it. 
And it asks the Federation to judge it plainly. Not by the warmth of this morning, nor by the promises of this Speech, but by the weight it lifts from the shoulders of the people before its work is done. 
We meet in an age that does not want for difficulty. Prices press upon households that a generation ago knew security. Trust in public institutions, once given freely, is now asked to be earned. Beyond our shores, the map of the world is being contested by force. These pressures do not pause at our borders. They ask of us not fear, but resolve; not division, but a common answer. 
My Government's first care will be the prosperity of ordinary households. It holds that the wealth of a nation is measured not by the fortunes of the few but by the security of the many, and it will act so that a family may afford a home, meet the cost of daily life, and find in honest work a fair reward. Prosperity is not the inheritance of a class. It is the birthright of a people. 
My Government will restore integrity to public life. It holds the conduct of office to be a trust and not an advantage, and it will strengthen the means by which that trust is kept: the independence of those who audit the public purse, the powers of those who guard the conduct of ministers, and the protection of every citizen's freedom to assemble and to be heard without fear of intimidation. The law must bind the powerful before it constrains the weak. 
My Government will invest in the science, the skills, and the clean energy on which the coming age will be built, and it will steward the land, the water, and the air that the Federation holds in trust for those not yet born. We will not spend the inheritance of our grandchildren to buy the comfort of an afternoon. 
My Government holds this Federation to be a union of many peoples, and it will govern in that faith. It will honor the tongues and the traditions of its several nations, from the Wechua highlands to the shores of Boriquén, and it will defend the right of each to govern what is its own. It will ask this Cortes to write that truth plainly into the Federation's own foundations. We are not one people who tolerate our differences. We are many peoples who have chosen one another. 
And My Government will keep the Federation secure and true to its friends. It will defend our sovereignty with firmness and extend our hand in friendship to those who share our values. A nation that keeps faith at home will not want for friends abroad. 
My Lords and Deputies, a government is judged not by the promises of its opening but by the deliverance of its close. My Government asks to be measured by that standard, and it submits its purpose to your judgment and to the judgment of the people you serve. 
For no sovereign and no government accomplishes these things alone. The strength of Nouvelle Alexandrie has always rested where it rests still: in its people, in their labor and their ingenuity, and in their steadfast belief in the promise of this nation. I pray that your counsels may be worthy of them.|Throne Speech, 12.I.{{AN|1760}}|}}</div> 

===13===
{{Main|Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|14th Cortes Federales|Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE FEDERAL ASSEMBLY OPENS THE CONFIDENCE DEBATE THAT WILL SEAT THE FEDERAL ACCORD
|image=CoalitionAgreementSigning1759NAX.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''The leaders of the three Federal Accord parties at the signing of the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|coalition agreement]] in [[Cárdenas]], 23.XIII.{{AN|1759}}. The Assembly took up the Motion of Address the day after the Throne Speech, on 13.I.{{AN|1760}}.''
|bullet1=One Motion of Address Will Elect the Premier, Seat the Council of State, and Carry Confidence
|bullet2=Under Standing Order 8, Three Decisions Fold Into a Single Division
|bullet3=Party Leaders and the Leader of the Opposition Hold the First Day of Debate
|bullet4=With 448 Seats, the Accord Does Not Rely on the Chamber's Fifty Independents
|bullet5=José Manuel Montero Leads the Opposition to a Government His Party Held for Two Decades
|bullet6=No Vote Has Been Taken, With the House Set to Divide on the Address on 15.I
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] opened debate on 13.I.{{AN|1760}}, the day after the [[#Throne Speech|Speech from the Throne]], on the Motion of Address that will decide whether the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] takes office, a single question that elects the Premier, seats his Council of State, and stands as the new government's first vote of confidence.

Under [[Standing Orders of the Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Standing Order 8]], the investiture is taken as a single instrument. The Motion of Address to King [[Sinchi Roca II]], moved by Premier-designate [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], elects him [[President of the Government of Nouvelle Alexandrie|President of the Government]], presents his Council of State for the approval of the House, and returns the thanks of the House for the [[#Throne Speech|Speech from the Throne]]. One division settles all three, and carrying the Address is the question of confidence.<ref>[[Standing Orders of the Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie]], Standing Order 8.</ref> The Council of State he presents is led by [[Elena Svensson]] of the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] as Vice-Premier, with [[Tomás Iñiguez]] at the Treasury. Alongside the departmental secretaries, the government has named two Special Counselors to advise the Council and the Premier, [[Cao Qiang]] and [[Alfonso Rivas]], both [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus]] deputies from [[Alduria]].

Moving the Address, Gonçalves, the Alliance leader who sat as Leader of the Opposition through the last Cortes and, before it, the [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Democratic Socialists']] chief whip and most practiced vote-counter, set his program to the five priorities the King had named from the Throne: the cost of living, integrity in public life, investment in science and clean energy, the Federation as a union of many peoples, and security abroad.<ref>[[#Throne Speech|Speech from the Throne of Nouvelle Alexandrie]], delivered to the [[14th Cortes Federales]] on 12.I.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> The [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Accord]] the three parties signed in the autumn commits them to a shared legislative program, and the Address asks the House to endorse it whole.

The Speaker, [[Orocobix Magüana]], opened the floor with the reminder that the question before the House was the Address in the terms the Premier-designate had moved. Under the Standing Order the first day of debate belongs to the leaders of the parliamentary parties, and in particular to the Leader of the Opposition, [[José Manuel Montero]], whose [[Federal Humanist Party]] led the Federation from {{AN|1739}} until the autumn's election. The floor then opens to all Deputies over the days that follow, and the House is set to divide on the Address in Reply on 15.I.{{AN|1760}}, the vote that will decide whether the Government stands.

On paper the result is not in doubt. The Federal Accord of the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]], the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] holds 448 of the 801 seats, above the 401 a majority needs and clear of the fifty independents who would hold the balance in a closer chamber. The Consensus Party is bound by the coalition agreement to support the government on confidence and supply for the whole term, so the result rests on the Accord itself rather than on the crossbench. Whether the three parties keep their benches together through a single confidence question is what the sitting must show, and what the Government must pass before Gonçalves and his Council of State can take office.

No vote had been taken when debate began. Under the [[Government Formation and Coalition Act, 1694]], [[José Manuel Montero|Montero]] stays on as caretaker Premier, barred from significant policy, until the Address is carried and the King confirms the appointment.
|tldr=''The [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] opened debate on 13.I.{{AN|1760}}, the day after the Throne Speech, on the Motion of Address that will seat the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] government, a single question under Standing Order 8 that elects [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] as President of the Government, presents his Council of State for approval, and stands as the government's confidence vote. The Accord's 448 of 801 seats put the result beyond doubt on paper; the House is set to divide on the Address on 15.I.{{AN|1760}}, with [[José Manuel Montero]] leading the opposition to the government his party held for the last two decades.''
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===14===
{{Main|Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE FEDERAL ACCORD INHERITS A FROZEN NAX€200 BILLION AND THE BUDGET FIGHT TO RELEASE IT
|image=NBC1759EconomyDebtBrake.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''NBC News Data Desk graphic from the close of {{AN|1759}}: unemployment at 8.7 percent, public debt at 67.4 percent of output, and NAX€200 billion of Recovery Act borrowing left undrawn.''
|bullet1=Article 17 Bars Treasury From the Recovery Act's Final NAX€200 Billion Tranche
|bullet2=Public Debt Closed the Year at 67.4 Percent of Output
|bullet3=Budget First: the Appropriations Bill Is the Key That Would Unlock the Borrowing
|bullet4=Housing, Cost-of-Living Relief, Clean Government, and Civil Aviation Fill Out the Program
|bullet5=Tomás Iñiguez Takes the Treasury as the Coalition's Guarantor of the Budget
|bullet6=Joblessness Held at 8.7 Percent, and the Recession Has Not Ended
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The government the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] is forming inherits a decision its predecessor left unmade: NAX€200 billion of borrowing authorized by law but frozen, and a budget it must pass before it can draw a single écu of it.

At the close of {{AN|1759}}, public debt, which had crossed the 65 percent line in the third quarter, reached NAX€33.22 trillion, or 67.4 percent of output, a point higher than in the autumn, and under Article 17 of the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]] that reading barred the Treasury from drawing the final NAX€200 billion tranche of the Act's borrowing line without a resolution of the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes]].<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#UNEMPLOYMENT_HOLDS_AT_8_7_PERCENT_WHILE_DEBT_BRAKE_WITHHOLDS_NAX200_BILLION|"Unemployment holds at 8.7 percent while debt brake withholds NAX€200 billion"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 28.XV.{{AN|1759}}.</ref> The money was authorized but never raised, while the spending already committed stayed in place.

The [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] must settle two things the caretaker government left open: whether to release the frozen borrowing, and which of the recovery law's emergency powers, now lapsed, to renew. Neither is automatic, and both wait on a budget.

The incoming government has set out where it means to begin. Its first legislative program is a set of five bills the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] is to bring before the [[14th Cortes Federales|14th Cortes]] in its opening session, and the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760|General Appropriations and Taxation Act]] leads it.<ref>[[Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], legislative agenda.</ref> The budget is the measure the rest depend on: no appropriation has been in force since the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758]], and it is the vote that would, in the same breath, free the frozen NAX€200 billion. Behind it the program carries the [[National Housing Reform and Expansion Act, 1760|National Housing Reform and Expansion Act]], the housing commitment at the core of the Alliance's [[People's Deal]]; the [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760|Cost of Living Relief Act]], answering the charge the Accord places first; the [[Clean Government and Elections Act, 1760|Clean Government and Elections Act]], the reform the last Cortes beat twice; and the [[Convention on Civil Aviation Accession Act, 1760|Convention on Civil Aviation Accession Act]], joining the Federation to the [[Micras Treaty Organization]]'s civil-aviation convention.

In the [[#Throne Speech|Speech from the Throne]] on 12.I.{{AN|1760}}, Premier-designate [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] had set the cost of living first among five priorities, before integrity in public life, investment in science and clean energy, the Federation as a union of many peoples, and security abroad.<ref>[[#Throne Speech|Speech from the Throne of Nouvelle Alexandrie]], delivered to the [[14th Cortes Federales]] on 12.I.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> The pressure sits in the figures the recovery has not reached: a cost-of-living index of 106.2 and housing affordability that fell again to 98.1, with unemployment holding at 8.7 percent.

The budget that carries those choices falls to [[Tomás Iñiguez]] of the [[Civic Governance Alliance]], whom the coalition names its guarantor of the budget at the Treasury. The [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] is bound by the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|coalition agreement]] to support the government on confidence and supply for the whole term, which gives any budget its numbers on paper; whether the three parties agree on what belongs in it is the harder question.

None of it can move until the government takes office. Gonçalves must first win the confidence of the Assembly, and only a confirmed government can lay a budget before the Cortes. When it does, the frozen NAX€200 billion, and the recovery it was meant to finish, are the first test of whether the Accord can govern as capably as it counts.

''Revision note: The Statistics Bureau's benchmark review of Month XII, {{AN|1760}} restated public debt at the close of {{AN|1759}} to NAX€32.50 trillion, 65.9 percent of output, from the 67.4 percent first reported. This story stands as first published.''
|tldr=''The government the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] is forming inherits NAX€200 billion of Recovery Act borrowing that Article 17 froze once debt crossed 65 percent in the third quarter of {{AN|1759}}. Debt reached 67.4 percent of output by the close of the year, and only a vote of the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes]] can release the money. Its first program is five bills led by the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760|budget]], the measure that would free the borrowing, followed by housing, cost-of-living relief, clean-government, and civil-aviation bills; the budget falls to Treasury guarantor [[Tomás Iñiguez]] once the confidence vote seats the government.''
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===15===
{{Main|14th Cortes Federales|Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE ACCORD WINS THE CONFIDENCE OF THE CORTES, 461 TO 293, AND GONÇALVES TAKES OFFICE
|image=Cortes-Federales-Building.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''The Federal Assembly divided on the Address in Reply on 15.I.{{AN|1760}}, investing the Federal Accord government.''
|bullet1=Confidence Carried 461 to 293, and the Federal Accord Government Is Invested
|bullet2=Thirteen Independents Cross to Back the Address After Ferreira Gonçalves Meets Gándara's Terms
|bullet3=Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves Is Elected President of the Government
|bullet4=Approval of the Council of State That Ferreira Gonçalves Presented Comes in the Same Vote
|bullet5=Montero's Federal Humanists Divide the House and Lose the Confidence Vote
|bullet6=Five Bills, the Budget First, Now Await the New Government
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] gave its confidence to the Government of the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] on 15.I.{{AN|1760}}, agreeing to the Address in Reply by 461 votes to 293 and electing [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] President of the Government.

The Address was put as a single question of confidence under [[Standing Orders of the Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Standing Order 8]]: it returned the thanks of the House for the Speech from the Throne, elected the President of the Government, and approved the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] that Ferreira Gonçalves presented under the [[Proclamation of Punta Santiago|Proclamation]]. On the division, presided over by Speaker [[Orocobix Magüana]] in his first, the 448 deputies of the Accord, drawn from the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]], the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]], were joined by thirteen independents to carry the motion, 461 to 293. The ten deputies of the [[Republican Party of Oportia]] and the remaining thirty-seven independents abstained.

The independents who crossed to the Government followed [[Piti Gándara]], the deputy for [[Alduria]], after Ferreira Gonçalves accepted both of the undertakings she pressed from the floor: that the recovery accounts be laid before the appropriation is moved, and that the frozen tranche of recovery borrowing held back under the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758|debt brake]] be released only by a separate act of the House. Across the seventy-two hours of debate the Government also confirmed that it would not lift the debt brake, that relief on the cost of living and on [[People's Deal|housing]] would come out of the appropriation rather than the frozen tranche, and that [[Convention on Civil Aviation Accession Act, 1760|accession to the Convention on Civil Aviation]] would wait behind the domestic program.

''We are two hundred and ninety-three,'' [[José Manuel Montero]], the [[Leader of the Opposition of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Leader of the Opposition]], told the House. ''We are fewer than we were. We remain the largest single party in this chamber, and we will hold this Government to every word of that Speech.'' The Federal Humanists carried their opposition into the division; the Government's majority held.

With the vote [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] takes office as President of the Government, at the head of the first administration since {{AN|1739}} not led by the Federal Humanists, with [[Elena Svensson]] of the Civic Governance Alliance as Vice-Premier and [[Tomás Iñiguez]] at the Treasury. Montero, Premier through the [[13th Cortes Federales|13th Cortes]] and [[Government Formation and Coalition Act, 1694|caretaker]] since the election, passed fully into opposition.

The Government now turns to its first legislative program, five bills the Council of State is to bring before the Cortes, led by the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760|federal budget]] on which the rest depends, with the [[National Housing Reform and Expansion Act, 1760|housing reform]], [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760|cost-of-living relief]], and [[Clean Government and Elections Act, 1760|clean-government and elections]] bills to follow and the [[Convention on Civil Aviation Accession Act, 1760|civil-aviation accession]] waiting behind them.
|tldr=''The Federal Assembly gave its confidence to the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] government on 15.I.{{AN|1760}}, agreeing to the Address in Reply by 461 votes to 293, with 47 abstentions, and electing [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] President of the Government. The Accord's 448 deputies were joined by thirteen independents; the [[Federal Humanist Party]] divided the House against the motion, and the [[Republican Party of Oportia]] with the remaining independents abstained. The same vote approved the Council of State, and [[José Manuel Montero]] passed fully into opposition.''
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===16===
{{Main|Aldurian Independent Coalition|Piti Gándara}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} MONTERO'S ALDURIAN ALLIES ARE SWEPT AWAY AND PITI GÁNDARA INHERITS THE CROSSBENCH
|image=PitiGandaraCivilLiberties1759NBC.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''Independent Deputy [[Piti Gándara]], who refused the Humanist deal the Aldurian Independent Coalition signed, emerges as Alduria's leading independent.''
|bullet1=Backing the Humanists Costs the Aldurian Independent Coalition Nearly All Its Seats
|bullet2=Coordinator Émile Bouchard Loses His Seat After Five Years Sustaining the Government
|bullet3=Twelve Deputies Who Sustained Montero's Majority Quietly Scatter
|bullet4=Fifty Independents Sit in the New Cortes, but the Accord Needs None of Them
|bullet5=Piti Gándara, Who Refused the Humanist Deal, Is Now Alduria's Leading Independent
|bullet6=She Is Rumored to Be Gathering Like-Minded Independents Into a Loose Caucus
|location=[[Punta Santiago]], ALD
|body=The [[Aldurian Independent Coalition]], the bloc of twelve independents whose votes kept [[José Manuel Montero]]'s government in office for five years, was all but swept away at the autumn's election, and early in {{AN|1760}} it dissolved, leaving the field of Aldurian independents to the crossbencher who had refused to join it, [[Piti Gándara]].

Formed in {{AN|1754}} by twelve of the twenty-five independents [[Alduria]] returned after the collapse of its [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Democratic Socialist]] machine, the Coalition had traded confidence and supply for regional investment under the [[FHP-Independent confidence and supply agreement, 1754]], and tied its fortunes to a [[Federal Humanist Party|Humanist]] government the country then turned out. Its Coordinator, [[Émile Bouchard]], the former mayor of [[Saint-Augustin, Alduria|Saint-Augustin]] who had spoken for the bloc since its founding, lost his seat, and only one or two of its members held theirs. Bouchard had spent the last term pressing whether the recovery reached the inland mine towns around [[Piriya]] or only the coast at [[Punta Santiago]]; the voters of those towns did not return him.

With its numbers gone and its bargain spent, the Coalition wound up its registration as a caucus early in {{AN|1760}}, its survivors folding into the wider independent bench. That bench no longer holds the balance it once did: the [[14th Cortes Federales]] seats fifty independents, but the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]]'s 448 of 801 seats command the chamber without them, and the power that made [[Émile Bouchard|Bouchard]]'s twelve a kingmaking bloc has passed.

The independent who gains by the Coalition's fall is the one who never joined it. [[Piti Gándara]], the fiscal-conservative populist from [[Nueva Sinagoga]] who declined the confidence-and-supply deal in {{AN|1754}}, spent the last term attacking the government from the crossbench. She led the ''"Read the bill"'' campaign against the [[New Alexandrian National Resilience Fund referendum, 1757|National Resilience Fund]] in {{AN|1757}} and pressed her [[Public Order (Paramilitary and Intimidatory Displays) Act, 1759|Public Order bill]] against paramilitary displays, which the Assembly defeated in {{AN|1759}}, before campaigning that autumn alongside the [[Civic Governance Alliance]], now a party of government, on a platform of scrutiny she summed up as ''"Two Ballots. No Blank Checks."'' She returns as the most prominent independent Alduria sends to the Cortes.

''"A coalition is not a conviction,"'' Gándara said of the bloc's end. ''"They rented their votes to a government, and the tenants have been evicted. I kept mine, and I still read the bill."'' Around her, talk has begun of a looser arrangement: several of the Aldurian independents returned in {{AN|1759}} share her preference for scrutiny over allegiance, and she is said to be drawing them toward a personal caucus, not a party, that would speak with one voice on the public accounts. Whether it forms at all, and what it might be called, remains unsettled.
|tldr=''The [[Aldurian Independent Coalition]], the twelve-strong bloc that sustained [[José Manuel Montero]]'s government for five years, was all but wiped out at the {{AN|1759}} election for backing the [[Federal Humanist Party|Humanists]] and quietly dissolved early in {{AN|1760}}, its Coordinator [[Émile Bouchard]] losing his seat. The [[14th Cortes Federales|new Cortes]] seats fifty independents but the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]]'s majority needs none of them, and the crossbencher who refused the Humanist deal, [[Piti Gándara]], who campaigned with the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] on a platform of "no blank checks", emerges as Alduria's leading independent, rumored to be gathering like-minded members into a loose caucus.''
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===18===
{{Main|Federal Humanist Party|New Alexandrian general election, 1759}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} MONTERO LEADS THE FEDERAL HUMANISTS INTO OPPOSITION AFTER THE PARTY'S STEEPEST DEFEAT IN A GENERATION
|image=JoseManuelMontero1744.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''[[José Manuel Montero]], Premier since {{AN|1749}}, now leads the Federal Humanists on the opposition benches of the [[14th Cortes Federales]].''
|bullet1=A Fall From 372 Seats to 293 Marks the Party's Sharpest Decline on Record
|bullet2=José Manuel Montero Becomes Leader of the Opposition After a Decade as Premier
|bullet3=Both Federal Capital District Seats Fall, Among Them the Chief Whip Daniela Ferrer
|bullet4=Carolina Mendez, the Outgoing Speaker, Loses Her Alduria Seat
|bullet5=Sofia Laurent's Ten Oportian Republicans Sit on the Opposition Benches Too
|bullet6=Down but Still the Largest Single Party, the Humanists Weigh Their Next Move
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The [[Federal Humanist Party]] took its place on the opposition benches of the [[14th Cortes Federales]] shorn of seventy-nine seats, its Speaker, and its Chief Whip, in the steepest defeat the party has suffered in a generation, and [[José Manuel Montero]] set about leading in opposition the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Assembly]] his party governed for the last two decades.

The party that had opened every Cortes since {{AN|1739}} returned 293 of the 801 seats, down from 372, and finished 108 short of a majority.<ref>[[New Alexandrian general election, 1759]].</ref> It remains the largest single party in the chamber, but the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] of three parties facing it commands 448, and the arrangement that had sustained [[José Manuel Montero|Montero]] for five years on the votes of Aldurian independents is gone.

The defeat carried away the deputies who had run the party's business. The Humanists lost both seats of the [[Cárdenas|Federal Capital District]], among them the Chief Whip [[Daniela Ferrer]], who had built the confidence-and-supply arrangement that held the last government together, and [[Daniel Valkory, Jr.]], the party's veteran deputy for the capital. In [[Alduria]], the outgoing Speaker [[Carolina Mendez]] lost the seat she had held through the last Cortes.

Montero, Premier since {{AN|1749}} and caretaker since the election, gave way to the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] when the Assembly gave the new Government its confidence on 15.I.{{AN|1760}}, and now leads the opposition in full. He had told King [[Sinchi Roca II]] he could not command the chamber and stepped back rather than prolong the formation.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1759]].</ref>

The benches he leads are not the party's alone. Beside the Humanists' 293 sit the ten deputies of the new [[Republican Party of Oportia]] under [[Sofia Laurent]], returned at [[Oportia]]'s first federal election, and the roughly fifty independents who owe allegiance to neither side. Together against the Accord's 448 they make the opposition, the place the parties now in government held for the last term.

For a party built to govern, the question is what it does when it does not. With its former Speaker and its Chief Whip both gone from the chamber, the Federal Humanists open the Cortes rebuilding from a reduced bench, the largest single party in an Assembly they no longer run.
|tldr=''The [[Federal Humanist Party]] opened the [[14th Cortes Federales]] on the opposition benches, cut from 372 seats to 293 in its steepest defeat in a generation and stripped of both [[Cárdenas|Federal Capital District]] seats, its Chief Whip [[Daniela Ferrer]], and the outgoing Speaker [[Carolina Mendez]], who lost her seat in [[Alduria]]. [[José Manuel Montero]], Premier since {{AN|1749}}, gave way as caretaker Premier when the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] won the Assembly's confidence on 15.I.{{AN|1760}}, and now leads an opposition that also holds [[Sofia Laurent]]'s ten Oportian Republicans and some fifty independents against the coalition's 448 seats.''
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===24===
{{See also|Institute of Public Opinion|New Alexandrian general election, 1759|Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE FEDERAL ACCORD OPENS THE YEAR WITH ITS LEAD INTACT AS THE COST OF LIVING TOPS VOTERS' CONCERNS
|image=NBC1760VoteIntentionPollI28.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''IOP/NBC News vote-intention graphic for the first regular poll of {{AN|1760}}, conducted 21-23.I.''
|bullet1=On a Fresh Ballot the Alliance Leads the Humanists 38 to 32
|bullet2=Half the Country Approves the New Government and a Third Disapproves
|bullet3=Cost of Living Is the First Concern of 41 Percent, Well Ahead of Housing
|bullet4=Piti Gándara Debuts Third Among the Leaders, a Point Above the Premier Himself
|bullet5=Premier Gonçalves Opens Above Water, Montero Underwater in Opposition
|bullet6=Housing, Jobs, and the Public Debt Trail the Cost of Living Among Public Worries
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The first regular [[Institute of Public Opinion|IOP]]/NBC News poll of {{AN|1760}}, conducted 21-23.I, finds the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] opening its term with the lead it won in the autumn intact, and the cost of living the concern voters most want it to answer.<ref name="poll">Institute of Public Opinion for NBC News, first regular poll of {{AN|1760}}, conducted 21-23.I.{{AN|1760}}; margin of error plus or minus 2.2 percent.</ref>

On a fresh ballot the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]] leads the [[Federal Humanist Party]] by 38 percent to 32, its margin over the Humanists widening a point as a sliver of their support drifts to independents. Within the coalition the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] edges up to 14, a point ahead of the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] on 12, while the [[Republican Party of Oportia]] holds at 1 and unaffiliated independents rise to 3.

Asked about the new government, half the country approved of the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] administration and a third disapproved, 50 percent to 34, with the rest holding no view. The reading settles a little from the honeymoon the coalition enjoyed at the turn of the year, when the Institute's first post-election survey put approval at 54 to 33, but it leaves the [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|Gonçalves]] government comfortably in positive ground before it has passed a single law.

The poll's clearest finding is what the country wants that government to do first. Asked to name their leading concern, 41 percent said the cost of living, well ahead of housing on 18, the wider economy and jobs on 15, and the public debt on 12, the last sharpened by the NAX€200 billion of recovery borrowing the debt brake has left frozen. The pattern tracks the numbers behind the recovery: joblessness has held at 8.7 percent, and a cost-of-living index of 106.2 and housing affordability that slipped again to 98.1 have left households feeling little relief.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#UNEMPLOYMENT_HOLDS_AT_8_7_PERCENT_WHILE_DEBT_BRAKE_WITHHOLDS_NAX200_BILLION|"Unemployment holds at 8.7 percent while debt brake withholds NAX€200 billion"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 28.XV.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The leaders divide as the parties do. [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] opens his premiership at a net plus 11, down from the plus 30 he carried as the Accord's candidate, and [[Elena Svensson]] remains the best-liked leader in the Federation at plus 17, while [[José Manuel Montero]], newly in opposition, stands at minus 9, the lowest of the major leaders. The poll's surprise is [[Piti Gándara]], the [[Alduria]]n independent who refused the Humanist deal and now sits at the head of an enlarged crossbench: she debuts at a net plus 13, third among all the leaders tested and a point above the Premier himself, though more than half the country still holds no view of her. Nicolás Arreola, the Institute's director, cautioned that a new government's first poll tends to flatter it, and that a fresh independent's numbers are the softest of all.
|tldr=''The first regular [[Institute of Public Opinion|IOP]]/NBC News poll of {{AN|1760}}, conducted 21-23.I, finds the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] opening its term with its autumn lead intact: the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]] leads the [[Federal Humanist Party]] 38 to 32 on a fresh ballot, and half the country approves the new government to a third who disapprove. The cost of living is the leading concern of 41 percent of voters, ahead of housing and the public debt; [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] opens his premiership on a net positive rating, [[José Manuel Montero]] trails in opposition, and the Aldurian independent [[Piti Gándara]] debuts third among the leaders tested.''
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====IOP/NBC News Public Opinion Polling====
=====National Party Voting Intention=====
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|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''NATIONAL PARTY VOTING INTENTION''' ''If a general election were held today, which party would you support?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 21-23.I.{{AN|1760}}
! Party
! Percentage in Poll
! Change Since Post-Election Poll
|-
| [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] ([[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]])
| 38.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| [[Federal Humanist Party]] ([[FHP]])
| 32.0%
| {{decrease}} −1.0%
|-
| [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] ([[Federal Consensus Party|FCP]])
| 14.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Civic Governance Alliance]] ([[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]])
| 12.0%
| {{decrease}} −1.0%
|-
| Independents & Other Candidates
| 3.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Republican Party of Oportia]] ([[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]])
| 1.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|}

=====Government Approval=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''GOVERNMENT APPROVAL''' ''Do you approve or disapprove of the job the Federal Accord government is doing?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 21-23.I.{{AN|1760}}
! Response
! Percentage
! Change Since Post-Election Poll
|-
| Approve
| 50.0%
| {{decrease}} −4.0%
|-
| Disapprove
| 34.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| No Opinion
| 16.0%
| {{increase}} +3.0%
|-
! Net Approval
! {{increase}} +16.0%
! {{decrease}} −5.0%
|}

=====Most Important Issue=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FACING THE FEDERATION''' ''What is the most important issue facing the Federation today?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 21-23.I.{{AN|1760}}
! Issue
! Percentage
|-
| The cost of living
| 41.0%
|-
| Housing
| 18.0%
|-
| The economy and jobs
| 15.0%
|-
| The public debt
| 12.0%
|-
| Other / No opinion
| 14.0%
|}

=====Confidence in the Government=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''CONFIDENCE IN THE GOVERNMENT''' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 21-23.I.{{AN|1760}}
! Question
! Confident
! Not confident
! Unsure
|-
| Will the government govern effectively? || 52.0% || 37.0% || 11.0%
|-
| Will the coalition last a full term? || 47.0% || 42.0% || 11.0%
|}

=====Party Leader Favorability Ratings=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''PARTY LEADER FAVORABILITY RATINGS''' % of registered voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 21-23.I.{{AN|1760}}
! Leader
! Favorable
! Unfavorable
! No Opinion
! Net Favorability
! Change
|-
| [[Elena Svensson]] ([[CGA]]) Vice-Premier
| 49.0%
| 32.0%
| 19.0%
| {{increase}} +17.0%
| {{decrease}} −17.0%
|-
| [[Yuiza Bohi'o]] ([[Wakara People's Party|WPP]]) Leader
| 39.0%
| 25.0%
| 36.0%
| {{increase}} +14.0%
| {{decrease}} −12.0%
|-
| [[Piti Gándara]] (Independent) Independent Deputy for [[Alduria]]
| 28.0%
| 15.0%
| 57.0%
| {{increase}} +13.0%
| ''New''
|-
| [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] ([[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]]) President of the Government
| 48.0%
| 37.0%
| 15.0%
| {{increase}} +11.0%
| {{decrease}} −19.0%
|-
| [[Francisco Gabaza]] ([[FCP]]) Leader
| 40.0%
| 33.0%
| 27.0%
| {{increase}} +7.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Sofia Laurent]] ([[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]]) Leader
| 18.0%
| 16.0%
| 66.0%
| {{increase}} +2.0%
| {{decrease}} −2.0%
|-
| [[José Manuel Montero]] ([[FHP]]) Leader of the Opposition
| 39.0%
| 48.0%
| 13.0%
| {{decrease}} −9.0%
| {{decrease}} −1.0%
|}

=====Direction of the Federation=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''DIRECTION OF THE FEDERATION''' ''Do you think the Federation is headed in the right direction or the wrong direction?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 21-23.I.{{AN|1760}}
! Response
! Percentage
! Change Since Post-Election Poll
|-
| Right Direction
| 49.0%
| {{decrease}} −2.0%
|-
| Wrong Direction
| 43.0%
| {{increase}} +2.0%
|-
| No Opinion
| 8.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|}

==II (Montaris)==

===1===
{{See also|Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760|Piti Gándara|14th Cortes Federales}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE FEDERAL ACCORD AGREES ITS OPENING LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM AFTER WEEKS OF COALITION BARGAINING
|image=NBC1760CoalitionLegislativeProgram.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] and Vice-Premier [[Elena Svensson]] review the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]]'s opening legislative program.''
|bullet1=Five Bills Make Up the Government's First Package for the Federal Assembly
|bullet2=Cost-of-Living Relief and Housing Reform Lead the Accord's Social Agenda
|bullet3=A Universal Child Wealth Account and a Wealth Tax Go First to Independent Costing
|bullet4=Fiscal Credibility Was the Civic Governance Alliance's Price for Signing
|bullet5=Renewables and Enterprise Carry the Federal Consensus Party's Fingerprints
|bullet6=Montero Calls the Program Spending the Federation Cannot Afford to Keep
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=After weeks of negotiation among its three parties and with the outside interests aligned with each of them, the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] has settled the legislative program it will lay before the [[14th Cortes Federales]], a first package of five bills led by cost-of-living relief, housing reform, and a budget that sends its two most expensive ideas out for independent costing before it commits to either.

The package is the work of a three-party government that must balance three constituencies at once. Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]]'s [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]], which holds the Premiership and most of the economic and social departments, drove the cost-of-living and housing bills. Its partners each set a price. The [[Civic Governance Alliance]], holding the Vice-Premiership and the Treasury, wanted a budget the government could defend in public and pay for in fact; the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]], with the Interior and research portfolios, pressed its priorities on energy and enterprise. Between them the three hold 448 of the 801 seats in the Federal Assembly.

The social half of the package is the plainest. The [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]] raises the family allowance and adds a household establishment grant, and writes in an annual uprating that protects the value of wages, pensions, and benefits against inflation. The [[National Housing Reform and Expansion Act, 1760]] carries the coalition's pledge to make housing more affordable, and the [[Clean Government and Elections Act, 1760]] delivers the integrity and election commitments the parties signed up to in the autumn.

The centerpiece is the budget, and the one that took the most negotiating to settle. The [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]] funds the Federation and folds in the government's structural measures: a single-registration permitting regime for enterprise and a duty to pay small suppliers promptly, a scaling-up of the [[Frontera Program]], and a target of raising renewable energy to sixty percent of national generation, a definition the Consensus Party won that leaves the burning of biomass out of the count. Two of its measures are not legislated outright but referred for costing: a universal child wealth account that would open a locked, progressively endowed account for every newborn, and a tax on the largest fortunes to help pay for it. Both go to the independent Federal Budget and Costing Office, the watchdog the same budget creates to put a public price on every major bill, and neither is to be voted before that Office reports.

That referral was the bridge that let the Civic Governance Alliance sign. The government inherits an economy still working off the [[1757 Alexandrium market crash|Alexandrium crash]] and the recession that followed it, with the last NAX€200 billion of the recovery's borrowing frozen behind the debt brake and a recovery that has reached [[Punta Santiago]] on the coast faster than the mining towns of the interior.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_FEDERAL_ACCORD_INHERITS_A_FROZEN_NAX€200_BILLION_AND_THE_BUDGET_FIGHT_TO_RELEASE_IT|"The Federal Accord inherits a frozen NAX€200 billion and the budget fight to release it"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 14.I.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> ''"We will not ask the country to trust numbers we have not shown it,"'' Vice-Premier [[Elena Svensson]] said of the costing referral. ''"A government that means to be believed on the cost of living begins by being honest about the cost of everything else."''

The program answers the priorities the King set from the Throne at the opening of the session, and the government means to bring it to the Hopper in the weeks ahead, where its majority will meet the enlarged crossbench of the independent [[Piti Gándara]] and an opposition that has already found its line of attack.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#Throne Speech|Speech from the Throne of Nouvelle Alexandrie]], delivered to the [[14th Cortes Federales]] on 12.I.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> [[José Manuel Montero]], the [[Leader of the Opposition of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Leader of the Opposition]], said the package promised more than the Federation could keep. ''"They have written a wish list and called it a program,"'' Montero said. ''"A child's account here, a new tax there, a grant for every household, and not one honest word about where the money is to come from once the emergency borrowing runs out. We will hold them to every figure."''

[[Fred Strong|Federico de Almagro y Strong]], the Vice-President and Secretary of Defense until the Humanists lost office and a figure of the party's [[Humanist Vanguard]], put the opposition's temper more bluntly. ''"Let us not dress it up. We are the Opposition now, so we oppose,"'' Strong said. ''"It is a government motion, and we are against it. Every account they will not show, every sum this recovery cannot pay, every soft promise with no coin behind it, we will make them answer for, on the floor and in the country. The Humanists have never learned to lose quietly, and we do not mean to start now. Viva el humanismo, carajo."''
|tldr=''After weeks of coalition bargaining, the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] has agreed the five-bill program it will put before the [[14th Cortes Federales]]: the [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]] and the [[National Housing Reform and Expansion Act, 1760]] lead a social agenda driven by Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]]'s [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]], the [[Clean Government and Elections Act, 1760]] carries the integrity pledge, and the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]] funds the Federation while referring a universal child wealth account and a tax on the largest fortunes to the independent Federal Budget and Costing Office before either is voted. The [[Civic Governance Alliance]] made a defensible budget its price and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] shaped the energy and enterprise measures. Opposition leader [[José Manuel Montero]] called the program unaffordable.''
|impact_stability={{increase}} +1
|impact_approval={{steady}} 0
|impact_economy={{steady}} 0
|impact_regional={{steady}} 0
|impact_international={{steady}} 0
}}

{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE FEDERAL ACCORD TAKES ITS BILL PROGRAM TO PITI GÁNDARA AND THE INDEPENDENTS
|image=NBC1760GoncalvesGandaraConsultation.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] and independent deputy [[Piti Gándara]] discuss the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]]'s proposed legislative program, 1.II.{{AN|1760}}.''
|bullet1=The Government Heard the Crossbench Before Its First Bills Entered the Federal Chamber as Proposed Legislation
|bullet2=Gándara Brings Her Scrutiny Case Into the New Legislature
|bullet3=Living Costs, Housing, the Budget, and Clean Government Are on the Table
|bullet4=Fifty Independent Deputies Form a Distinct Crossbench in the Enlarged Assembly
|bullet5=Gándara Campaigned on Her "Two Ballots. No Blank Checks." Slogan
|bullet6=Consultation Leaves Gándara Outside Any Confidence-and-Supply Arrangement with the Government
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] took the plans that became its first bills to the independent deputies for crossbench scrutiny, meeting [[Piti Gándara]] and other independents before the program reached the [[14th Cortes Federales]]. The consultation put the new government's opening package across the table from the crossbench without turning it into a coalition partner or a confidence-and-supply arrangement.

The meeting came after the Accord's three parties had agreed their program and formed a government. The [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]], the [[Civic Governance Alliance]], and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] hold 448 of the 801 seats in the enlarged [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]], enough to form a majority. The 50 independent deputies nevertheless remain a distinct parliamentary force, and the government's decision to hear them before presenting its package made scrutiny part of the program's opening politics rather than an afterthought.

Gándara brought her scrutiny case into the conversation. An independent member for [[Alduria]], she held her seat at the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|1759 general election]] after refusing the Aldurian confidence-and-supply arrangement with the former [[Federal Humanist Party]] government. She returned to the 14th Cortes as the most prominent independent Alduria sends, having campaigned alongside the [[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]] on the promise ''"Two Ballots. No Blank Checks."'' Several other Aldurian independents were said to share her preference for scrutiny over allegiance, and she was said to be drawing them toward a loose personal caucus rather than a party; whether it forms remains unsettled.<ref>[[Piti Gándara]].</ref>

The conversation ranged over the commitments the government then put into bill form: relief for the cost of living, more affordable housing, a budget and its fiscal framework, and clean government and elections. The resulting proposed measures were introduced in sequence: the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]] on 2.II.{{AN|1760}}, the [[National Housing Reform and Expansion Act, 1760]] on 5.II, the [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]] on 12.II, and the [[Clean Government and Elections Act, 1760]] on 19.II.<ref>[[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]]; [[National Housing Reform and Expansion Act, 1760]]; [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]]; [[Clean Government and Elections Act, 1760]].</ref> Their status remains proposed; this account covers the consultation and the introductions, not debate or the fate of any bill.

The meeting placed the Accord's program beside Gándara's stated scrutiny of public accounts. The coalition could table its package with its own majority, while her position left the independents free to hear the government, examine its promises, and retain their votes. The consultation did not settle how any independent would vote. It made the crossbench part of the public account of the bills as they entered the Cortes.
|tldr=''Before the Federal Accord introduced its first domestic bills, the government met [[Piti Gándara]] and other independent deputies to discuss the program that became its cost-of-living, housing, budget, and clean-government legislation. The three coalition parties hold 448 of 801 seats, but the 50 independents remain a distinct force in the enlarged Assembly. Gándara, an independent Aldurian deputy who campaigned on "Two Ballots. No Blank Checks.", remained outside the government and any confidence-and-supply arrangement. The bills were introduced from 2 to 19.II.{{AN|1760}} and remain proposed; no debate or outcome is included.''
|impact_stability={{steady}} 0
|impact_approval={{increase}} +1
|impact_economy={{steady}} 0
|impact_regional={{increase}} +1
|impact_international={{steady}} 0
}}

===10===
{{Main|Sanpantul union referendum, 1760}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Sanpantul|flag}} SANPANTUL DRAFTS A REFERENDUM TO PARTITION ITS NEW TERRITORIES AND FORM A CONFEDERATION
|image=Sanpantul flag.svg
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''[[Sanpantul]]'s flag. The state is drafting a referendum on reorganizing its newly acquired territories and forming a confederation.''
|bullet1=Drafters Have Set No Date, and the Referendum Remains a Proposal
|bullet2=It Would Reorganize the Lands Çakaristan Ceded to Sanpantul Last Year
|bullet3=Northern Paryan, Azad Pashana, and Beneluccas Would Become Separate States
|bullet4=South Beneluccas Would Be Granted Its Own Autonomy Within the Union
|bullet5=Every State, Sanpantul Included, Would Reconstitute as the Great Tonugawa
|bullet6=Sanpantul Itself Would Dissolve Into the Confederation the Plan Proposes
|location=[[Sanpantul]]
|body=The [[Sanpantul]] State has begun drafting a referendum that would remake the map of the territories it gained a year ago, and, with them, the shape of the state itself.

The lands in question are the Paryan and Yarumo territories, which [[Çakaristan]] ceded to the Sanpantul State at the close of {{AN|1759}}, extending Sanpantul across a stretch of the archipelago that had been Çakari ground. The cession enlarged the state at a stroke, and the question the referendum now poses is how the enlarged state should be governed.

Under the proposal, still at an early stage, the annexed territories would be divided into [[Northern Paryan]], Azad Pashana, and Beneluccas, with South Beneluccas granted its own autonomy.<ref>[[Sanpantul union referendum, 1760]].</ref> The partitioned territories and the state's existing lands would then be reconstituted together as a loose confederation to be called the Great Tonugawa, a settlement that would fold the Sanpantul State itself into the union it proposes rather than rule the new territories from the old capital.

No date has been set for the vote, and the plan remains a draft. What it sketches is a state choosing, within a year of doubling its reach, to remake itself as a confederation of the parts rather than hold them as conquests, a course whose outcome would redraw the political map of that corner of the archipelago.
|tldr=''The [[Sanpantul]] State is drafting a referendum that would reorganize the Paryan and Yarumo territories [[Çakaristan]] ceded to it at the close of {{AN|1759}}, dividing them into [[Northern Paryan]], Azad Pashana, and Beneluccas, granting South Beneluccas its own autonomy, and reconstituting all the states, the Sanpantul State among them, as a loose confederation called the Great Tonugawa. The proposal remains at an early stage, with no date set for the vote.''
|impact_stability={{steady}} 0
|impact_approval={{steady}} 0
|impact_economy={{steady}} 0
|impact_regional={{increase}} +1
|impact_international={{steady}} 0
}}

===12===
{{Main|State Protection Authority}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Constancia|flag}} CONSTANCIAN GOVERNMENT WARNS OF FOREIGN ENEMY INTERFERENCE
|image=State Protection Authority flag.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''The flag of the Constancian [[State Protection Authority]]''
|bullet1=Constancia's State Protection Authority is the country's intelligence, counterintelligence, and communications security agency
|bullet2=Institutional paranoia has long been treated as an enduring trait of Constancian public life
|bullet3=Foreign interference remains a continuing national-security concern for the Imperial State
|bullet4=[[Daniyal Simranzadeh al-Osman]] has been Director-General of the State Protection Authority since {{AN|1743}}
|bullet5=The SPA has broad state powers second only to the [[Autokrator of Constancia]]
|bullet6=The SPA has surveilled Constancian life since its establishment
|location=[[Petropolis]], [[Imperial State of Constancia]]
|body=The State Protection Authority has once again warned Constancians of the danger of foreign malign influence circulating through agents and fifth columnists. The warning followed a public press conference at which arrested spies were shown to the media, held for intending to circulate lies and libels to destabilize the Constancian people's loyalty to their Basileus; the spies were all foreigners, though a few Constancians have also been taken in for questioning as persons of interest and likely collaborators. ''"We are grateful for the unceasing diligence of our security services and loyal Constancians,"'' the authority said.

The Director-General has advised Constancians to report anything suspicious for investigation immediately, as the [[Free State of Constancia]], [[Azad Eura]] and other insurgent and terrorist movements keep government security forces busy and on guard. ''"A secure Imperial State begins with you,"'' he said.
|tldr=''Constancia's [[State Protection Authority]] has again warned of foreign malign influence, presenting arrested foreign spies at a public press conference and taking a number of Constancians in for questioning as suspected collaborators. Its Director-General, [[Daniyal Simranzadeh al-Osman]], urged citizens to report anything suspicious as the [[Free State of Constancia]], [[Azad Eura]] and other movements keep the security forces on guard.''
|impact_stability={{steady}} 0
|impact_approval={{steady}} 0
|impact_economy={{steady}} 0
|impact_regional={{steady}} 0
|impact_international={{steady}} 0
}}

===15===
{{Main|Concord Alliance Military Assistance Mission to Anglien|Bliven Fund}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Anglien|flag}} THE NATOPIAN GARRISON WINDS DOWN IN ANGLIEN AS THE CONCORD ALLIANCE CLOSES ITS MISSION
|image=NBC1760AnglienGarrisonDrawdown.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''The [[Natopia]]n garrison is drawing down as the [[Concord Alliance Military Assistance Mission to Anglien|Concord Alliance's assistance mission]] in [[Anglien]] comes to an end.''
|bullet1=Six Months From Anglien's First Election, the Drawdown Is Due to End
|bullet2=Concord Forces Began Leaving When the New Constitution Was Certified
|bullet3=Anglien's Commissioner of Peace Has Closed His Office With the Transition
|bullet4=Anglien's New Government Now Holds the Security the Alliance Once Kept
|bullet5=Nouvelle Alexandrie Declined to Subscribe to the Bliven Fund, Capitalized by Natopia and Four Allies
|bullet6=Each Year the Endowment Will Pay the Duchy Four to Five Percent of Its Value
|location=[[Johannsessbuurg]], [[Anglien]]
|body=The withdrawal of the [[Natopia]]n garrison from the [[Anglien|Free Duchy of Anglien]] is running toward its close, the last military strand of the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Concord Alliance]] mission that expelled the [[Nü Krantisk Rapskaff]] occupation and carried the duchy from liberation to self-government.

The [[Concord Alliance Military Assistance Mission to Anglien]] began drawing down when Anglien's [[Constitution of Anglien|constitution]] was certified in VII.{{AN|1759}}, and is due to finish within six months of the [[Anglien general election, 1759|general election]] of 12.XII.{{AN|1759}}.<ref>[[Anglien general election, 1759]].</ref> The mission has wound up its military functions, and the [[CATO Commissioner of Peace for Anglien|Commissioner of Peace]] who certified that election, the alliance's senior civilian officer in the duchy, has closed his office with the end of the transition. The security the alliance held in trust now passes to the institutions it helped stand up: the [[Diet of Anglien|Diet]] elected in the autumn and the [[Klaes Boerhaaf|Boerhaaf]] government it seated.

For [[Natopia]], the drawdown ends the largest and longest of the Concord commitments in Anglien. Natopian forces led the garrison through the occupation's collapse and the years of reconstruction that followed, and the winding-down of the mission marks the point at which the alliance judges the duchy able to keep its own order.

What the alliance leaves behind is meant to be financial rather than military. The reconstruction grants that carried Anglien through the transition are to give way to the [[Bliven Fund|endowment]] the [[Concord Council]] approved on 24.XI.{{AN|1759}}.<ref>[[Bliven Fund]].</ref> The fund will pay the duchy four to five percent of its market value annually, and its first transfer, of 4.25 percent, falls due this year. Five of the seven Concord states subscribed the capital, and Natopia put up the bulk of it. [[Aerla]]'s subscription was confirmed on 20.I.{{AN|1760}}. [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]], one of the two largest donors to the reconstruction, declined to subscribe in II.{{AN|1759}} and offered non-capital support instead.
|tldr=''The [[Natopia]]n garrison in the [[Anglien|Free Duchy of Anglien]] is drawing down toward completion within six months of the 12.XII.{{AN|1759}} election, the last military element of the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Concord Alliance]] mission that expelled the [[Nü Krantisk Rapskaff]] occupation and carried the duchy to self-government. As the [[CATO Commissioner of Peace for Anglien|Commissioner of Peace]] closes his office and the security passes to the new [[Klaes Boerhaaf|Boerhaaf]] government, the alliance's reconstruction grants are to give way to the [[Bliven Fund]] endowment, capitalized by five Concord states led by Natopia; [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] declined to subscribe in II.{{AN|1759}}.''
|impact_stability={{steady}} 0
|impact_approval={{steady}} 0
|impact_economy={{steady}} 0
|impact_regional={{increase}} +1
|impact_international={{increase}} +1
}}

===19===
{{Main|Amir Çakar|Kendall Khanate}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Çakaristan|flag}} KHAN AMIR ÇAKAR, FOUNDER OF THE KENDALL KHANATE, DIES AT 93
|image=AmirCakar2.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''Amir Çakar, Khan of the [[Kendall Khanate]], who died at the Khan Palace in [[Çatalyokuş]] on 19.II.{{AN|1760}}.''
|bullet1=Death Came Peacefully at the Khan Palace in Çatalyokuş at Ninety-Three
|bullet2=He Founded and Ruled the Kendall Khanate for Seven Decades
|bullet3=Known as the Conqueror of Mountaintops, He Rose in the Sylvanian National Awakening
|bullet4=A Naval Salute of Twenty-One Guns Marked the Moment of His Passing
|bullet5=Flags Fly at Half-Mast as the Shahanshah Orders National Mourning
|bullet6=He Left Final Instructions for the Khanate's Succession
|location=[[Çatalyokuş]], [[Kendall Khanate]]
|body=[[Amir Çakar]], the Khan of the [[Kendall Khanate]] who founded the state on [[Kendall|Kendall Isle]] and ruled it for more than seventy years, died on the morning of 19.II.{{AN|1760}} at the Khan Palace in [[Çatalyokuş]]. He was 93.<ref>[[Çakaristan Times, 1760]].</ref>

The Shahanshah ordered national mourning. A naval vessel in the harbor of Çatalyokuş fired a twenty-one-gun salute at the moment of his death, and flags across [[Çakaristan]] were lowered to half-mast. In his last days the Khan gathered the [[House of Çakar]] and, witnesses said, stayed lucid to the end, leaving instructions for the succession to both the throne and the House; no successor had been named.

Known as the "Conqueror of Mountaintops," Çakar was born on 12.III.{{AN|1667}} in Šer-Ku-Riž, the second son of a leader of the [[Hasani War|Hasani]] rebellion against the Kingdom of Krasnocoria. He came to prominence as a diplomat and strategist in the [[Sylvanian National Awakening]] of {{AN|1687}} to {{AN|1689}}, uniting the Crescent Brothers against the failing Krasnocorian kingdom, and was entrusted by the Sultan with the mission to [[Kendall|Kendall Isle]] that became his khanate. He was appointed Khan on 22.XI.{{AN|1689}} and held the title until his death.

Over the decades that followed he turned a frontier outpost into a settled province, integrating the west and south of the island and repopulating its emptied east, and opened the Khanate to refugees during the [[Arboric Civil War]] in neighboring Barikalus while keeping its [[Hasanis|Hasani]] character. At home he built roads, schools, and clinics; the Khan Amir Bridge on National Highway 7 carries his name.
|tldr=''Amir Çakar, the "Conqueror of Mountaintops" who founded the [[Kendall Khanate]] on [[Kendall|Kendall Isle]] and ruled it for more than seventy years, died on 19.II.{{AN|1760}} at the Khan Palace in [[Çatalyokuş]] at the age of 93. The Shahanshah ordered national mourning, a naval vessel fired a twenty-one-gun salute, and flags across [[Çakaristan]] were lowered to half-mast; the Khan left succession instructions to the [[House of Çakar]], which has not yet named his successor.''
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===22===
{{See also|Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Proclamation of Punta Santiago}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE FEDERAL ACCORD ADVANCES ITS PROGRAM AS ITS BILLS GO BEFORE THE CORTES
|image=NBC1760RenewableGridConnections.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''Solar generation and grid infrastructure. The government has directed the [[National Energy Commission (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|National Energy Commission]] to shorten certification and connection queues for renewable projects.''
|bullet1=In Its First Weeks the Government Starts Delivery on the Accord's Promises
|bullet2=Elena Lopez de Gautier Speeds Grid Connections for Renewable Projects
|bullet3=The National Economic Council Will Track the Price of Essentials and Publish the Results
|bullet4=Housing Opens Federal Land and Widens Existing Grants for Affordable Building Ahead of the Bill
|bullet5=The Premier Tightens the Ministerial Code and Opens the Lobbyist Register
|bullet6=José Manuel Montero Says the Government Is Filling the Silence While Its Program Stalls
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=With its five-bill program before the [[14th Cortes Federales]], the government of Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] of the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] has begun governing alongside the Assembly's consideration of its legislative program. Its first weeks have brought a run of departmental orders, policy guidelines, and program launches within existing authority, translating the coalition's promises into administrative action while the program's legislative progress remains outside this snapshot.

The measures use the Executive authorities identified in the [[Proclamation of Punta Santiago]]: the policy guidelines the Premier sets under Article 44, the departmental orders a Secretary may issue within the competence of the department under Article 48, and the resolutions the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] adopts at its weekly meetings. Article 47 leaves the establishment, organization, and competence of departments and agencies to Acts of the Cortes.<ref>[[Proclamation of Punta Santiago]], Arts. 44, 47, and 48.</ref> The bills remain the route for changes that require legislation, while the government can act within existing authority.

[[Elena Lopez de Gautier]], the Secretary of Energy and Environment ([[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]], [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]), has directed the [[National Energy Commission (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|National Energy Commission]] to shorten the certification and grid-connection times that hold up new renewable projects. The order changes no law and sets no new target; it works on the queue of stalled connections while the budget's proposed 60 percent target and clean-energy provisions remain before the Cortes.

The Premier has stood up a standing committee under the [[National Economic Council of Nouvelle Alexandrie|National Economic Council]] to publish a regular reading of the price of essentials and to follow the delivery of the government's economic promises across departments. The committee carries no money of its own and adds nothing to the cash relief the [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]] would pay; its remit is prices, delivery, and public reporting.

At [[Department of Housing and Urban Development (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Housing and Urban Development]], Secretary [[Mayani Guacanagari]] ([[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]], Wakara People's Party) has ordered the department to widen its existing grant programs and to open federal land for affordable building under the authority it already carries, moving on supply alongside the [[National Housing Reform and Expansion Act, 1760|housing reform bill]] in the legislative program.

The Premier has also set a policy guideline, adopted by resolution of the Council, tightening the [[Government Code of Conduct|code of conduct]] that binds ministers and ordering the government's register of lobbyists and consultants published in full. It is work the government can do to itself at once, ahead of the [[Clean Government and Elections Act, 1760|clean-government bill]] that would hold the wider system to the same standard.

[[José Manuel Montero]] ([[Federal Humanist Party|Federal Humanist Party]]), the [[Leader of the Opposition of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Leader of the Opposition]], said the measures did not answer his concern. ''"A directive here, a committee there, a register they were always going to publish,"'' Montero said. ''"This is a government filling the silence while its bills go nowhere, and it will be judged on what passes this chamber, not on what it announces to the newspapers."'' The opening weeks have produced four fronts: energy connections, price monitoring, housing delivery, and clean-government administration, while the program's legislative progress remains outside this snapshot.
|tldr=''With its five-bill program before the [[14th Cortes Federales]], the government of Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] has opened its term by using existing executive authorities. [[Elena Lopez de Gautier]], the Secretary of Energy and Environment, has ordered the [[National Energy Commission (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|National Energy Commission]] to speed renewable grid connections; the Premier has set up a [[National Economic Council of Nouvelle Alexandrie|National Economic Council]] committee to track the price of essentials; the [[Department of Housing and Urban Development (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Housing]] Secretary [[Mayani Guacanagari]] has widened grants and opened federal land for building; and a Council resolution has tightened the ministerial code and opened the lobbyist register. Each addresses a promise also found in the legislative program, whose progress is outside this snapshot. [[José Manuel Montero]] said the government was filling the silence while the program stalled.''
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===24===
{{Main|Free State of Constancia|Maria Georgiou|Viktoria Georgiou}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} {{team flag|Constancia|flag}} MARIA GEORGIOU, ALLEGED LEADER OF THE FREE STATE OF CONSTANCIA, HAS LIVED IN NOUVELLE ALEXANDRIE SINCE HER SISTER'S ABDUCTION
|image=Hotel du Babkha.jpg
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''The [[Hotel du Babkha]] in [[Punta Santiago]]. [[Viktoria Georgiou]] was abducted outside the hotel in {{AN|1688}}; her sister [[Maria Georgiou|Maria]] subsequently sought asylum in the Federation.''
|bullet1=Constancian Intelligence Received Reports Naming Georgiou President Pro Tempore of the Free State in {{AN|1706}}
|bullet2=Her Own Record Calls Her the Alleged Leader; the Movement's Record Says Its Chief Executive Is Unknown
|bullet3=She Sought Asylum in the Federation After Her Sister Viktoria Was Abducted in Punta Santiago
|bullet4=Viktoria's Dental Records Were a Partial Match to a Body Landed at Avey in {{AN|1690}}
|bullet5=Of Four Police Authorities Sent the Pathologists' Reports, Only Constancia Did Not Reply
|bullet6=Aerla Has Listed Both the Free State and Azad Eura as Terrorist Organizations Since {{AN|1753}}
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=Constancia's [[State Protection Authority]] named the [[Free State of Constancia]] on 12.II.{{AN|1760}}, listing it alongside [[Azad Eura]] among the insurgent and terrorist movements that keep the Imperial State's security forces on guard.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#CONSTANCIAN_GOVERNMENT_WARNS_OF_FOREIGN_ENEMY_INTERFERENCE|"Constancian government warns of foreign enemy interference"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 12.II.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> Constancian intelligence attached one name to the leadership of that movement, and it did so in {{AN|1706}}. [[Maria Georgiou]] is ninety-nine years old, and she sought asylum in [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] after her elder sister was taken off a street in [[Punta Santiago]].

Georgiou was born in [[Vey]] on 10.X.{{AN|1660}}, one of three daughters of two electricians contracted to the [[Honourable Company]].<ref>[[Maria Georgiou]].</ref> She was six when the Constancian government evacuated her family in the [[Katabasis of the Loyalists]], ahead of the orbital bombardment that destroyed the city; her parents died on the march. The sisters were reunited outside [[Aqaba]] in {{AN|1667}} through a company agency and given bursaries to the [[Euran University]] the year after. Georgiou read Euran literature and took a post as assistant librarian at the Aqaba Public Library.

She followed her elder sister [[Viktoria Georgiou|Viktoria]], a harpist, to [[Natopia]] in {{AN|1682}} and to Punta Santiago in {{AN|1687}}, where a Constancian exile community had gathered.<ref>[[Viktoria Georgiou]].</ref> Viktoria became an organizer, and grew concerned by the purported influence of a [[State Protection Authority]] cell operating out of the Imperial Constancian Consulate-General in the city. She came to prominence in {{AN|1688}} in the counterprotests over the release of [[Christina Aguilar]], a media figure and a niece of the Autokrator, whom Aldurian police freed after twelve hours once they confirmed she carried a Constancian diplomatic passport. The consulate-general's spokesperson strenuously denied intervening.

On 12.IV.{{AN|1688}}, masked men took Viktoria Georgiou outside the [[Hotel du Babkha]], put her into a minibus, and drove away; advocacy groups filed a missing persons report. Her younger sister applied for asylum in the Federation.

In X.{{AN|1690}}, fifty-six fuel drums declared as chemical waste were landed at [[Avey]], a Zeedic port that has been under New Alexandrian administration since {{AN|1701}}, where dockworkers reported the smell coming off the freight. Each drum held a body. Thirty-two of the dead had been dissected with something approaching surgical precision, and none of the fifty-six had fingers or toes.

Pathologists' reports went on 1.XI.{{AN|1690}} to police authorities in [[Alduria-Wechua]], Constancia, [[Floria]], and [[Natopia]]. Florian investigators returned no match, while the Aldurian ministry found none at the federal level before circulating the file to municipal forces. The Imperial Natopian Constabulary reported that dental records held by a private clinic in [[Lindström]] for Viktoria Georgiou were a partial match to a body catalogued as Subject Seventeen. From Constancia, no reply came.

The case of all fifty-six passed on 19.XI.{{AN|1690}} to a joint commission of officers from Zeed's Second Directorate and the State Protection Authority, which has answered no request for information in the sixty-nine years since. Viktoria Georgiou's death remains uncertified, the litigation still before the courts in Punta Santiago. Her case was publicized in {{AN|1694}} in a dossier of alleged [[Raspur Pact]] atrocities issued by the Azad Eura coalition. [[Aerla]] has listed both that coalition and the Free State itself as foreign terrorist organizations since 12.V.{{AN|1753}}.<ref>[[Aerlan Registry of Terrorist Organizations]].</ref>

Reports reached the State Protection Authority in {{AN|1706}}, during the [[Great Vanic Revolt]] and the Vanic Insurgency, that Maria Georgiou had been elected or designated President Pro Tempore of the Free State on the strength of her sister's martyrdom, and that she had sat in its Assembly of the Nation since {{AN|1685}}. Those reports are the basis on which she is named; her own record calls her the alleged leader, and the movement's record says its chief executive is unknown. Eight years before they reached Petropolis, the Federation had fought beside Constancia in [[Operation Paramount]], the occupation that the Free State's own record says doomed it.

No date of death is entered for Georgiou, whom NBC was unable to reach. The [[Department of State (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of State]] declined to comment on the internal affairs of an allied state, repeating the line it gave in {{AN|1759}}, that the Federation keeps the closest relations with Constancia and full confidence in its institutions.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#CONSTANCIA_PALACE_TENSIONS|"Diplomatic sources say Constancia's palace tensions have resurfaced around the Zeed summit"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 18.III.{{AN|1759}}.</ref> The State Protection Authority did not respond to questions.
|tldr=''Constancian intelligence attached one name to the leadership of the [[Free State of Constancia]] in {{AN|1706}}, and it belongs to a ninety-nine-year-old woman living in the Federation. [[Maria Georgiou]] sought asylum in [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] after her sister [[Viktoria Georgiou|Viktoria]] was abducted in [[Punta Santiago]] in {{AN|1688}}, weeks after the counterprotests that made her prominent; Viktoria's dental records were later a partial match to one of fifty-six bodies landed at [[Avey]], a case that passed to a joint commission including the [[State Protection Authority]] and has gone unanswered for sixty-nine years. Both sides of that naming are hedged in the record: the designation is called alleged, and no chief executive of the movement is known.''
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==III (Ventaris)==

===6===
{{Main|Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Janus of Neridia}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}}{{team flag|Natopia|flag}} ROYAL HOUSEHOLD CONFIRMS CROWN PRINCESS SAYARI IS EXPECTING TWINS; THEY WILL STAND THIRD AND FOURTH IN LINE
|image=1749Sayari-JanusEngagementPhoto.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''[[Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Crown Princess Sayari]] and Prince [[Janus of Neridia|Janus]] in their official engagement photograph, released in {{AN|1749}}; file photo.''
|bullet1=Coordinated Statements at Nine O'Clock in [[Cárdenas]] and [[Lindström]] Confirm the Pregnancy; Birth Anticipated Late in {{AN|1760}}
|bullet2=Prince [[Inti, Duke of Vilcabamba|Inti]] Remains Second in Line to the Throne
|bullet3=Order of Birth Alone Will Decide Which Twin Stands Third in Line
|bullet4=King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] Repeat Their {{AN|1755}} Words, "a Cause for Quiet Joy in Both Our Houses"
|bullet5=Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|Ferreira Gonçalves]] and Leader of the Opposition [[José Manuel Montero|Montero]] Both Offer Congratulations
|bullet6=Federal Assembly Sets Aside Five Minutes for Felicitations Under Speaker Magüana
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=Crown Princess [[Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Sayari]], 38, is expecting twins with her husband Prince [[Janus of Neridia|Janus]], 38, the [[Royal Household of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Royal Household]] and the Imperial Household of [[Natopia]] said in a pair of statements this morning. Birth is anticipated in the closing months of {{AN|1760}}. Both are well, the statements said, and the household has asked for the courtesies it asked for five years ago.

The two texts were issued at nine o'clock, one at the [[Palace of Carranza]] in [[Cárdenas]], the other by the Imperial Household in [[Lindström]]. That pairing is itself a repetition: the households announced the Princess's first pregnancy on the same clock in {{AN|1755}}, and in the same words about privacy.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1755#ROYAL_HOUSEHOLD_CONFIRMS_CROWN_PRINCESS_SAYARI_EXPECTING_FIRST_CHILD;_FIRST_CHILD_OF_AN_HEIR_APPARENT_IN_33_YEARS|"Royal Household confirms Crown Princess Sayari expecting first child"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 26.II.{{AN|1755}}.</ref> What is new is the number.

[[Natopia]] has its own standing in the announcement, and it does not come only through the marriage. The Princess's mother, Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]], has reigned in Natopia since 20.XII.{{AN|1752}}, and the Princess stands second in line to that throne behind her brother [[Nathan, Prince of Lindström|Nathan]], so the twins, when born, enter the Natopian succession as they do the New Alexandrian one. Prince Janus belongs to the [[House of Eadric]] and kept his Natopian citizenship when he naturalized as a New Alexandrian in {{AN|1750}}.

Prince [[Inti, Duke of Vilcabamba|Inti]], born at the Palace of Carranza on 23.XII.{{AN|1755}}, keeps his place as second in line to the throne behind his mother.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1755#CROWN_PRINCESS_SAYARI_GIVES_BIRTH_TO_A_SON;_FIRST_CHILD_OF_AN_HEIR_APPARENT_IN_33_YEARS|"Crown Princess Sayari gives birth to a son"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 23.XII.{{AN|1755}}.</ref> The twins, when born, will follow him at third and fourth. Under the [[Proclamation of Punta Santiago]] and the [[Succession to the Throne Act, 1700]], precedence in the direct line runs by order of birth and takes no account of sex, so which of the two stands third will be decided by the order in which they arrive.

That is the whole of the immediate constitutional business. Both children will be born into the [[House of Inti-Carrillo]] and carry the Inti-Carrillo name, as their brother does; the [[Royal Marriages Act, 1750]] governs the household established around the Princess, and the [[Regency Act, 1750]] would apply only in circumstances the household called remote. One older instrument waits further out. The [[Treaty of Dynastic Separation]] of {{AN|1721}} was made on the King and Empress's marriage, so that no one person could ever hold both crowns. It requires any grandchild of theirs who stands to inherit both thrones to choose one and renounce the other before acceding to either. Nothing is asked of a child until then, and no new legislation is required.

[[María Teresa de Valencia]], Lord Steward of the Royal Household, took questions at the [[Palace of Carranza]] for eleven minutes. She confirmed that the Princess will keep her public engagements through the spring, that she will stop traveling outside the Federation from VIII.{{AN|1760}} on medical advice, and that a twin pregnancy at 38 is followed more closely than a single one. ''"The Princess has been told what any woman in her position would be told, and she has agreed to all of it,"'' de Valencia said. Asked whether the household knew the sex of either child, she said that it did, and that it would not be saying.

The King and the Empress issued a joint statement through the household press office. ''"Five years ago we called this news a cause for quiet joy in both our houses,"'' the statement read. ''"We say it again, and gladly. We ask for our daughter what we asked for then, which is quiet."''

Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] issued the Government's congratulations from [[Government House (building)|Government House]] shortly before eleven. ''"The Government extends its warmest congratulations to the Crown Princess and to Prince Janus, and to both families,"'' he said. Ferreira Gonçalves offered the same courtesy in {{AN|1755}} from a campaign stop, as Leader of the Opposition. [[José Manuel Montero]], who was Premier on the morning of that announcement and is now Leader of the Opposition, answered in four sentences from his party's rooms. ''"I congratulated the Princess once before, from a very different office, and I mean it exactly as much today,"'' Montero said. ''"There is no politics in this."''

Speaker [[Orocobix Magüana]] told the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] from the chair that felicitations would take the first five minutes of business on 7.III.{{AN|1760}}, the arrangement the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes]] made on the {{AN|1755}} announcement. The [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]] made a matching arrangement under Lord Anglés.

Reaction from [[Lindström]] was brief. The Imperial Household acknowledged the announcement and conveyed the Empress's congratulations to her daughter, and said that no Natopian celebrations would be arranged before the birth. The twins will be born into three citizenships, as their brother was: New Alexandrian, Natopian, and, through their mother's membership of the [[Order of the Holy Lakes]], [[Hurmu|Hurmu's]].

Well-wishers were at the gates of the Palace of Carranza by half past nine. The household repeated its standing request that flowers be left at [[Federation Park]] rather than at the gates. The Federal Gazette is expected to carry the formal proclamation in its next issue.
|tldr=''The [[Royal Household of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Royal Household]] and the Imperial Household of [[Natopia]] confirmed on 6.III.{{AN|1760}} that Crown Princess [[Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Sayari]], 38, is expecting twins with Prince [[Janus of Neridia|Janus]] of the [[House of Eadric]]. Birth is anticipated late in {{AN|1760}}. Prince [[Inti, Duke of Vilcabamba|Inti]], born in {{AN|1755}}, remains second in line; the twins will stand third and fourth in the order they are born, since the [[Succession to the Throne Act, 1700]] fixes precedence in the direct line by birth alone. King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] repeated their {{AN|1755}} words, ''"a cause for quiet joy in both our houses."'' Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] and [[José Manuel Montero]], who held each other's offices at that announcement, both sent congratulations. No legislation is required.''
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===11===
{{Main|Treaty of Johannsessbuurg|Concord Alliance Military Assistance Mission to Anglien}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Anglien|flag}}{{team flag|Natopia|flag}} THE LAST NATOPIAN TROOPS LEAVE JOHANNSESSBUURG AS THE GARRISON COMPOUND PASSES TO THE FREE DUCHY
|image=NBC1760AnglienGarrisonDrawdown.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''The Natopian garrison compound in the northwestern quarter of [[Johannsessbuurg]] passed to the [[Anglien|Free Duchy of Anglien]] on 11.III.{{AN|1760}}.''
|bullet1=The Final Contingent Marched Out a Day Before the Treaty's Six-Month Deadline
|bullet2=Defense Minister Marten Dijkstra Received the Keys at the Compound Gate
|bullet3=The Treaty of Johannsessbuurg Ends With the Withdrawal, but Natopia's Recognition of the Duchy Survives It
|bullet4=Okkerse Says Anglien Will Join No Standing Alliance
|bullet5=No Advisory Arrangement Under Article VII Has Been Negotiated
|bullet6=Boerhaaf's Government Has Not Said What It Will Do With the Grounds
|location=[[Johannsessbuurg]], [[Anglien]]
|body=The flag of [[Natopia]] came down over the garrison compound in the northwestern quarter of [[Johannsessbuurg]] shortly after nine on the morning of 11.III.{{AN|1760}}, and the last 140 Natopian soldiers in the [[Anglien|Free Duchy of Anglien]] marched out through its gate an hour later, a day inside the deadline the [[Treaty of Johannsessbuurg]] set for their departure.

The treaty required the garrison, which once numbered up to 1,800, to leave within six months of the duchy's first election under its permanent constitution, held on 12.XII.{{AN|1759}}. With the last contingent gone, the compound's extraterritorial status lapsed and the grounds passed, with their fixed installations, to the Free Duchy. The treaty itself ended with the withdrawal, without further act by either side, as its ninth article provides.<ref name="tj">[[Treaty of Johannsessbuurg]], Articles VI and IX.</ref>

The Minister of Defense, [[Marten Dijkstra]] of te Verzetsbond, received the keys from the garrison's last commander, Brigadier Octave Ferrault, at the gate. The Anglian flag was raised over the compound for the first time since it was built. ''"For more than five years the deterrent at the edge of this city belonged to someone else,"'' Dijkstra said. ''"From today the duchy keeps its own guard, and it keeps it with soldiers it trained."'' The [[Anglian Ducal Guard]], raised from the resistance in {{AN|1754}}, was trained by the Natopian-led [[Concord Alliance Military Assistance Mission to Anglien|Concord Alliance assistance mission]], whose own mandate ended in {{AN|1759}}.<ref>[[Concord Alliance Military Assistance Mission to Anglien]].</ref>

Ferrault said his soldiers were leaving a city the Natopian Expeditionary Force had first entered in the clearing operations of {{AN|1754}}, and that they did not mind being the last of it. ''"Some of the men who march out today came in with the first landings,"'' he said.

The Minister of External Affairs, [[Sanne Okkerse]], said the end of the treaty would not be followed by any new alliance. ''"We accepted a guarantee for a fixed term, and the term is over,"'' she said. ''"Anglien will join no standing alliance. What we keep is the friendship, and the recognition the Empire gave us in the first article of the treaty, which outlives the rest of it."''<ref>[[Treaty of Johannsessbuurg]], Article I.</ref> The [[Constitution of Anglien|constitution]] allows its non-alignment article to be changed only by a two-thirds vote in each chamber and approval at a national referendum.<ref>[[Constitution of Anglien]].</ref> Sovereign Duke [[Edgard III]] had long called the treaty ''"a temporary scaffolding rather than a permanent condition."''<ref name="tj2">[[Treaty of Johannsessbuurg]].</ref>

Article VII of the treaty leaves room for separate advisory, training, or technical arrangements between the two states, provided none revives the Natopian guarantee of the duchy's defense. A residual Natopian advisory presence in the [[Ministry of Defense of Anglien|Ministry of Defense]] was contemplated as an arrangement of that kind, but no terms have been negotiated.<ref name="tj2" /> Okkerse said any such arrangement would come to the [[Diet of Anglien|Diet]] first.

The withdrawal completes the drawdown that began after the constitution was certified in VII.{{AN|1759}}, and ends the last military strand of the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Concord Alliance]] presence that at its height numbered about 8,000.<ref name="tj2" /> Families on the streets around the compound watched the march from their doorsteps. ''"We have had soldiers at the end of the road for five years,"'' said a shopkeeper whose stall faces the gate. ''"Now we will see what they put there instead."'' The government of [[Klaes Boerhaaf]] has not said what it will do with the compound.
|tldr=''The last 140 [[Natopia]]n soldiers left the garrison compound in [[Johannsessbuurg]] on 11.III.{{AN|1760}}, a day inside the six-month deadline the [[Treaty of Johannsessbuurg]] set after the 12.XII.{{AN|1759}} election. The compound passed to the [[Anglien|Free Duchy of Anglien]], and the treaty ended with the withdrawal, leaving only Natopia's recognition of the duchy in force. Defense Minister Marten Dijkstra received the keys; External Affairs Minister [[Sanne Okkerse]] said Anglien will join no standing alliance. No advisory arrangement under the treaty's seventh article has been negotiated, and the government has not said what it will do with the grounds.''
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===14===
{{See also|Natopian-Nouvelle Alexandrie Joint Economic Council|Lindström Recovery Protocol|Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE ACCORD PRESSES TO TURN NATOPIA'S RECOVERY ORDERS INTO LASTING NEW ALEXANDRIAN INDUSTRY
|image=NBC1760IndustrialInvestment.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''Manufacturing work in [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]]. The government wants recovery orders to produce lasting investment in domestic industry, technology, and skilled employment.''
|bullet1=The Government Convenes the Joint Economic Council in Cárdenas
|bullet2=It Wants Natopia's One-Off Recovery Orders Turned Into Lasting Factories and Jobs
|bullet3=Premier Gonçalves Leads for the Federation, With Iñiguez at Treasury and Fitzgerald at State
|bullet4=The Accord Also Moves to Settle the Financing Terms It Reserved on Taking Office
|bullet5=It Is the Government's First Move Abroad, Answering the Throne Speech's Call for Friendship
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The government of Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] has convened the [[Natopian-Nouvelle Alexandrie Joint Economic Council|Natopian and New Alexandrian Joint Economic Council]] in Cárdenas with a pointed task. Where the coalition's transition team had first floated a wider program of two-way trade, the government has recast the plenary around durability, since goods and services already move freely between the two under the [[Raspur Pact]]. Its aim is to turn the [[Lindström Recovery Protocol|Lindström recovery]], under which [[Natopia]] and its partners are buying New Alexandrian output, into lasting investment that builds industry inside the Federation rather than simply filling its order books for a season.

The Lindström Protocol, negotiated through the Joint Economic Council and signed in the caretaker weeks by the outgoing government of [[José Manuel Montero]], points a stream of Natopian and allied money into the Federation: orders for New Alexandrian firms, purchases of New Alexandrian Alexandrium at a protected floor price, private capital for the Regions, and a bond backstop. The Accord honored the framework on taking office, but with reservations, reserving decisions on borrowing, bank subscriptions, and regulated approvals to New Alexandrian authorities.

What the government wants from the plenary is durability. Treasury Secretary [[Tomás Iñiguez]] has cast the task as converting one-off purchases into plant, technology, and skilled work that remain when the orders end, so that the recovery leaves factories and supply chains on New Alexandrian soil rather than a burst of demand that fades. ''"An order book empties; a factory stays,"'' Iñiguez said. ''"We are grateful for the confidence our partners have shown, and we are asking that the recovery leave New Alexandrians building these things themselves, not only selling into a good year."''

The plenary is also where the Accord means to settle the financial terms it kept in its own hands. The reservations it entered on taking office now come due: the Cárdenas meeting is the Accord's chance to fix how the recovery's private capital and bond backstop are drawn down without ceding the levers it kept.

Premier Gonçalves leads for the Federation as the Council's co-chair by office, with Iñiguez and Secretary of State [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]] alongside him. The Joint Economic Council, standing since {{AN|1738}}, holds its plenary in Lindström and Cárdenas by turns and its ministerial committee each quarter; with Lindström having hosted at the close of {{AN|1759}}, the plenary falls this year to Cárdenas.

The move is one the government can make without a bill. The conduct of foreign economic policy rests with the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]], and steering an existing framework is not a statute; any binding treaty that followed would still go to the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] for ratification. The plenary answers the fifth of the priorities the King set out at the opening of the [[14th Cortes Federales]], security and friendship abroad, and lets the Accord show movement on the economy while its domestic bills sit before the chamber. In opposition, the Federal Humanists noted that it was their caretaker government that secured the Lindström commitments, and said they would judge the Accord on whether it came home with lasting investment or only a communiqué.

Whether Natopia will agree to build in the Federation rather than only buy from it is the question the Cárdenas plenary opens rather than answers. The recovery's demand is real; whether it leaves anything standing when the orders end is what the government has sent its Treasury and its diplomats to Cárdenas to settle.
|tldr=''The government of Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] has convened the [[Natopian-Nouvelle Alexandrie Joint Economic Council|Joint Economic Council]] with [[Natopia]] in Cárdenas. With goods already moving freely under the [[Raspur Pact]], the aim is not market access but durability: turning the one-sided [[Lindström Recovery Protocol|Lindström recovery]] of Natopian orders, Alexandrium purchases, and capital into lasting New Alexandrian industry, and settling the borrowing, bank-subscription, and approval terms the Accord reserved on taking office. Treasury Secretary [[Tomás Iñiguez]] framed the goal as factories that stay when the orders end; Premier Gonçalves leads as co-chair with Iñiguez and Secretary of State [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]]. It needs no legislation, though any binding treaty would go to the Federal Assembly; the Federal Humanists, who secured the original commitments, said they would judge the result.''
|impact_stability={{steady}} 0
|impact_approval={{steady}} 0
|impact_economy={{increase}} +1
|impact_regional={{steady}} 0
|impact_international={{increase}} +1
}}

===20===

====THE PRINCESS AND THE PLANTATION DYNASTY: WHO IS COURTING THE KING'S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER?====
{{Chicha Press Article
| title = THE PRINCESS AND THE PLANTATION DYNASTY: WHO IS COURTING THE KING'S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER?
| image = Phaedra1749.png{{!}}thumb{{!}}center
| caption = ''Princess [[Phaedra, Countess of Amantaní|Phaedra, Countess of Amantaní]], in {{AN|1749}}. The Royal Household has made no announcement concerning an engagement.''
| location = {{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} [[Parap]], [[Wechua Nation]]
| date = 20.III.{{AN|1760}}
| lead_paragraph = ''[[Noticias Incógnito]]'' -- ''She is the [[Faith of Inti|Inti]]-blessed baby of the palace, the culinary princess who cooks for her dormmates and files her own field notes from the [[Wechua Nation|highlands]]. He is nineteen years her senior, a silver-templed heir of the [[Almagro family|Almagro]] money whose surname has sat in the front row of [[Federal Humanist Party|Humanist]] power for three generations -- until this year, when it fell out of it. [[Phaedra, Countess of Amantaní|Princess Phaedra]] turned thirty this month. The man the [[Parap]] set keeps seeing at her elbow is pushing fifty. So who, exactly, is [[Felipe-Maximillian de Almagro]]? And what does the House of the [[House of Inti-Carrillo|Sun]] want with the House that just lost everything?''
| body = Let us be clear about what this is and is not. 

This is not an engagement. The [[Royal Household of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Royal Household]] has announced nothing, confirmed nothing, and -- as is its unbroken habit where the youngest princess is concerned -- said nothing at all. What this is, is a season of sightings. A recurring companion at a gallery opening in [[Cárdenas]]. A reserved table for two at a [[Parap]] supper club that does not take reservations for anyone. A tall, well-tailored man of a certain age, walking a half-step behind [[Phaedra, Countess of Amantaní|Princess Phaedra]] out of a lecture hall and declining, with practiced ease, to be photographed. 

''"She has never hidden a friendship in her life, and she is not hiding this one,"'' said one figure in the princess's [[Royal University of Parap|university]] circle, who asked not to be named. ''"What she is not doing is explaining it. There is a difference, and she knows exactly what it is."''

=====The man nobody wrote down=====
Here is the strange part. For a family this powerful, Felipe-Maximillian de Almagro is a ghost. 

His grandfather, [[Felipe de Almagro]], was [[President of the Government of Nouvelle Alexandrie|President of the Government]] and a Hierophant of the [[Humanist Movement]], a boy sold into bondage after the flu who clawed his way to the summit of the Federation. His father, [[Maximillian de Almagro]], was Vice-Premier and Secretary of Defense, then Leader of the Opposition, and sits today as the Federation's ambassador to the [[International Mandate]]. His first cousin is [[Fred Strong|Federico Augusto de Almagro y Strong]] -- ''Fred Strong'' to the wire desks -- who until this year ran the whole [[Department of Defense (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|defense apparatus]] as Vice-President of the Government. 

And Felipe-Maximillian? He held nothing. Ran for nothing. Signed nothing you can find in a gazette. Born in {{AN|1711}} to the [[Beaufort]] branch of the clan, [[Humanist]]-schooled in [[Raspur]] alongside his elder brother Raoul, he grew up to become the one thing an Almagro almost never is: private. A man of the family's counting-houses rather than its committee rooms, of the [[Honourable Company|Company]] ledgers that had carried the Almagro fortune for generations and the [[North Lyrica|North Lyrican]] estates where it is kept, never once of its ballots -- and, when the guns spoke, a quartermaster besides, holding a commission in the [[Federal Commissariat Service]] that fed and supplied the [[Federal Forces of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Forces]] on the strength of the same mercantile instinct. The money, like the blood, is partly [[Constancia|Constancian]] -- the senior Almagros carry a foreign crown's nationality by descent, a detail nobody thought worth a headline until one of them began keeping company with the sovereign's daughter. And where his grandfather led the [[Federal Humanist Party|party]]'s technocrats and his father threw in with its hardliners, Felipe-Maximillian took no side at all. At forty-nine he has no wife, no seat, and -- until a princess started smiling at him across the [[Cárdenas]] party circuit -- no page in anyone's story. 

''"There is always one,"'' a veteran of the party's [[Beaufort]] machine told this paper, dryly. ''"Every great Humanist house keeps a son back from the fire. The one who holds the money while the others hold the offices. Felipe-Maximillian is that son. He is the quietest rich man in the Federation."''

=====Nineteen years, and a throne room between them=====
Do the arithmetic the palace would rather you didn't. 

The princess was born in {{AN|1730}}, the fifth and last child of King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and [[Adelaide of Natopia|Empress Clara]]. Felipe-Maximillian was born in {{AN|1711}}, and was a grown man of nineteen by the time she arrived. The King himself was forty-one the year his youngest daughter was born; the man now seen at her side is forty-nine. 

None of which, her defenders are quick to say, is anyone's business but hers. Princess Phaedra is thirty years old, a published field researcher, the founder of her own [[Wechua Culinary Heritage Foundation|foundation]], and by every account the most independent-minded of the "younger trio" of royals raised at the [[Palace of Chinchero]]. If she has chosen the company of an older, cultured, unhurried man of means, that is a choice a great many women make and few are asked to defend on the front page. 

But she is not a great many women. She is a daughter of the [[House of Inti-Carrillo|House of the Sun]], and the man at her elbow is a son of the [[Almagro family|House of Almagro]], and in this Federation those two names do not simply have dinner.

=====The house that just lost everything=====
Consider the timing, because everyone in [[Cárdenas]] already is. 

Weeks ago the [[Federal Humanist Party]] -- the Almagros' party for three unbroken generations -- suffered the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|steepest defeat in a generation]], driven from a government it had held since {{AN|1739}} and sent to the opposition benches under [[José Manuel Montero]]. The [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] took power. Fred Strong walked out of the defense ministry. For the first time in living memory, no Almagro, and no ally of the Almagros, sits in the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]]. 

And it is ''precisely now'' that a bachelor of the dynasty -- the discreet one, the one with the ledgers and no fingerprints -- turns up on the arm of the sovereign's favorite child. 

''"I make no accusation,"'' said a Humanist strategist who has known the family for thirty years, choosing each word like a man crossing a river on stones. ''"I observe only that a family which has just lost the government has found its way, very suddenly, very quietly, into the drawing rooms of the King. Draw your own map. I have drawn mine."'' 

The romantics tell a softer story: that the two met where the counting-house meets the kitchen -- his commissariat and her beloved [[National Gastronomy Institute of Nouvelle Alexandrie]], for the army marches on its stomach; that Felipe-Maximillian -- heir to an Almagro line of collectors and antiquities patrons -- has been circling the same [[Parap]] galleries and cultural charities the princess loves for years, that the two share a taste for old books, older recipes, and older art, and that the timing is the cruelty of coincidence rather than the cunning of a house. Perhaps. This paper has learned never to bet against love. It has also learned never to bet against an Almagro.

=====What the palace isn't saying=====
We put every question in this article to the [[Royal Household of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Royal Household]]. We received, in reply, the silence that is itself a kind of answer -- the same courteous nothing the palace has offered every time the youngest princess's private life has been raised, and offers still. 

So we are left, as ever, with the sightings. A man declining a camera. A princess declining to explain. Nineteen years, a fallen dynasty, and a throne room's worth of history sitting unspoken between the soup and the second course. 

''Noticias Incógnito'' will be watching. We suspect we will not be watching alone.
}}

==IV (Floraris)==
===10===
{{See also|Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE ACCORD'S PRICE COMMITTEE FINDS ESSENTIALS OUTPACING THE HEADLINE RATE AS RELIEF WAITS ON THE CORTES
|image=NBC1760EssentialsShopping.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''Bread and cooking oil feature in the essentials basket tracked by the [[National Economic Council of Nouvelle Alexandrie|National Economic Council]]'s price committee.''
|bullet1=The National Economic Council Publishes Its First Regular Reading of Essential Prices
|bullet2=Food and Domestic Energy Rose Faster Than the 2.4 Percent Headline Rate
|bullet3=The Recovery in the Aggregate Has Not Yet Reached the Family Shopping Basket, the Committee Finds
|bullet4=Premier Gonçalves Pairs the Price Reading With a Cross-Department Delivery Scorecard
|bullet5=Treasury Secretary Iñiguez Warns a Monitor Is Not Relief
|bullet6=José Manuel Montero Calls It a Number Where the Cortes Needs a Law
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The government of Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] has published the first regular reading of the price of essentials from the committee it stood up under the [[National Economic Council of Nouvelle Alexandrie|National Economic Council]], and its central finding is that the food and household energy New Alexandrians buy every week are still rising faster than the headline rate of inflation. The reading lands while the government's [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]] sits before the [[14th Cortes Federales|Cortes]], and it gives the cost-of-living argument a government number in place of a promise.

The committee tracks an essentials basket, a fixed list of staple foods and domestic energy that is the same range of goods the relief bill would tax at a reduced rate. It read 112.7 against a base of 100 set in {{AN|1757}}, a rise of 4.6 percent over the year, while the general rate of consumer-price inflation the [[Nouvelle Alexandrie Statistics Bureau|Statistics Bureau]] reports held at 2.4 percent. The gap is the committee's point. A family does not buy the average of all prices; it buys bread, cooking oil, electricity, and heating, and those have climbed at nearly twice the headline pace.

The reading came with the committee's first delivery scorecard, which sets the promises in the government's economic program against what has actually been done. It marks three fronts as moving by administrative action: the [[Elena Lopez de Gautier|Energy and Environment]] department's order to speed grid connections for stalled renewable projects, the [[Mayani Guacanagari|Housing]] department's opening of federal land and widened building grants, and the tightened ministerial code and published lobbyist register the Premier set by Council resolution. It marks the measures that would put money in household pockets as pending, because they wait on legislation the Cortes has not yet passed.

By design, the committee carries no money of its own and pays out nothing. Its remit, set when the Premier created it, is prices, delivery, and public reporting, and it adds nothing to the cash relief the [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]] would provide. The Act, still at its first stage in the [[14th Cortes Federales]], would cut the rate of value-added tax on the same basket of essentials, pay an energy rebate through Social Security, and tie pensions and core benefits to the cost of living. None of that takes effect until the bill becomes law.

Treasury Secretary [[Tomás Iñiguez]] presented the reading as the case for the government's bill rather than a substitute for it. ''"Measuring a price does not lower it,"'' Iñiguez said. ''"What this reading does is tell New Alexandrians the truth about their own shopping, and tell the Cortes exactly where the relief has to land. The number is the argument for the law, not a replacement for it."'' He noted that the wider recovery is real, with unemployment down over the year and confidence rising, and said the essentials line was the part of it households had yet to feel.

[[José Manuel Montero]] ([[Federal Humanist Party]]), the [[Leader of the Opposition of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Leader of the Opposition]], said the government had produced a measurement where the chamber needed a statute. ''"They have counted the problem to the decimal point,"'' Montero said. ''"A family cannot eat an index. We were promised relief, and what has arrived is a committee and a chart, while the bill that would actually cut the bills sits waiting. Pass it, or stop announcing the delay."''

The committee sits under the National Economic Council, the forum in which the Premier and the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] weigh economic policy, and it reports under the policy guidelines the Premier sets rather than any new statute.<ref>[[Proclamation of Punta Santiago]], Art. 44.</ref> It is work the government can do within the authority it already holds, and the reading is one the Accord can point to while its domestic bills sit before the chamber. Whether the number becomes relief now rests with the Cortes.
|tldr=''The government of Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] has published the first reading from the price-and-delivery committee it set up under the [[National Economic Council of Nouvelle Alexandrie|National Economic Council]]. Its essentials basket of staple food and domestic energy read 112.7 on a {{AN|1757}} base, up 4.6 percent over the year, against a 2.4 percent headline inflation rate, the committee's evidence that the recovery has not yet reached the family shopping basket. A companion delivery scorecard marks energy, housing, and clean-government measures as moving by administrative action and the cash relief as pending on the [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]], still before the [[14th Cortes Federales|Cortes]]. Treasury Secretary [[Tomás Iñiguez]] called the reading the case for the bill, not a substitute; [[José Manuel Montero]] said the government had produced a number where the Cortes needed a law.''
|impact_stability={{steady}} 0
|impact_approval={{decrease}} -1
|impact_economy={{steady}} 0
|impact_regional={{steady}} 0
|impact_international={{steady}} 0
}}

===22===
{{See also|General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760|14th Cortes Federales|Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE ACCORD'S FIRST BUDGET BECOMES LAW AS THE CORTES CLEARS ITS APPROPRIATIONS AND TAXATION ACT
|image=Tomas-iniguez-cga1756.jpg
|image_size=200px
|image_caption=''Treasury Secretary [[Tomás Iñiguez]], who presented the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]]'s first budget to the Assembly; file photograph.''
|bullet1=The Assembly Carried the Budget by 466 Votes to 297
|bullet2=Every Federal Humanist Deputy Voted Against the Government
|bullet3=Thirteen Independents Led by [[Piti Gándara]] Again Backed the Government
|bullet4=The Chamber of Peers Concurred, and the King Gave Royal Assent
|bullet5=A Fifteen Percent Minimum Rate Now Binds the Largest Companies' Profits
|bullet6=Reduced Value-Added Tax Takes Five Percent Off a Basket of Essential Food and Domestic Energy
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=King [[Sinchi Roca II]] granted Royal Assent on 22.IV.{{AN|1760}} to the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]], the first budget of the [[Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|Government of the Federal Accord]], after the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes]] carried it through both houses.

The [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] gave the bill its third reading on 14.IV.{{AN|1760}} and passed it by 466 votes to 297, with 38 abstentions.<ref name="cortes">[[14th Cortes Federales#Legislation introduced|Legislation introduced in the 14th Cortes Federales]].</ref> The [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]] concurred four days later by 61 to 47, with 10 abstentions, and the King signed the Act into law on 22.IV, to have effect for the whole of {{AN|1760}}.

The three governing parties of the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]], holding 448 of the 801 seats, held together on the division, joined by eighteen independents, thirteen of them the bloc led by [[Piti Gándara]] that again voted with the Government. The whole of the [[Federal Humanist Party]], the largest party in opposition, voted against, casting all 293 of its votes as noes.

The Act carries forward the tax rates in force at the close of {{AN|1759}} and lays no new tax on the [[Administrative divisions of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Regions]]. Within that settlement it strengthens four direct taxes on the largest bases: a minimum effective rate of fifteen percent on the profits of companies with a turnover above NAX€750 million, a higher band on estates and gifts above NAX€10 million, a levy on the liabilities of the largest financial institutions directed to the housing program, and a higher rate of the tax on idle land. Better collection of taxes already owed funds an equivalent cut in the tax on low earners.

In coordination with the government's [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]], still before the Cortes, the budget applies a reduced value-added tax rate of five percent to a basket of essential food and domestic energy, met within the envelope by the strengthened direct taxes.

Treasury Secretary [[Tomás Iñiguez]], who tabled the budget for the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]], presented it as a settlement that shared the common burden by the ability to pay. ''"We have asked the most of those best able to bear it, and used what that raises to take the weight off the household and the low earner,"'' he told the Assembly. ''"This budget funds relief without widening the deficit, and it will stand for the year."''

[[José Manuel Montero]], the [[Leader of the Opposition of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Leader of the Opposition]], said the Government had chosen higher taxes and a larger state over restraint. ''"They have written the largest budget in the Federation's history and called it prudence,"'' he said. ''"We voted against it to the last deputy, and we will hold them to every figure in it."''

With the budget enacted, the housing and cost-of-living bills that make up the rest of the Government's first package remain before the Cortes, their divisions still to come.
|tldr=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] granted Royal Assent on 22.IV.{{AN|1760}} to the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]], the first budget of the [[Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|Government of the Federal Accord]]. The [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] passed it on 14.IV by 466 votes to 297, with the three [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Accord]] parties and thirteen independents led by [[Piti Gándara]] carrying it against the [[Federal Humanist Party]]'s 293 noes; the [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]] concurred 61 to 47. The Act carries forward the {{AN|1759}} rates with no new tax on the Regions, strengthens four direct taxes on the largest bases, funds a cut for low earners, and, with the [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]], sets a reduced five percent value-added tax on essential food and energy. Treasury Secretary [[Tomás Iñiguez]] called it relief funded without widening the deficit; Leader of the Opposition [[José Manuel Montero]] called it the largest budget in the Federation's history.''
|impact_stability={{up}} 1
|impact_approval={{steady}} 0
|impact_economy={{up}} 1
|impact_regional={{steady}} 0
|impact_international={{steady}} 0
}}

===23===
{{See also|Institute of Public Opinion|New Alexandrian general election, 1759|Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE SECOND IOP/NBC POLL FINDS THE ACCORD'S LEAD NARROWING AS APPROVAL COOLS
|image=NBC1760VoteIntentionPollIV28.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''IOP/NBC News vote-intention graphic for the second regular poll of {{AN|1760}}, conducted 20-22.IV.''
|bullet1=The Alliance Leads the Humanists 36 to 32 on a Fresh Ballot, Down From Six Points in I
|bullet2=Government Approval Remains Positive but Its Net Reading Falls to Plus 7
|bullet3=Cost of Living Still Leads the Concerns, but Housing Gains Ground
|bullet4=Piti Gándara Draws Level With Elena Svensson as the Best-Liked Leader
|bullet5=Confidence in the Coalition Slips as Voters Turn Against the Federation's Direction
|bullet6=This IV Reading Is a Snapshot of a Cooling Government, Not a Forecast of Its Fate
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The second regular [[Institute of Public Opinion|IOP]]/NBC News poll of {{AN|1760}}, conducted 20-22.IV, finds the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] still ahead on a fresh ballot but no longer carrying the six-point margin recorded in I. Approval remains above water while confidence in the coalition and the country's sense of direction have weakened.<ref name="pollIV">Institute of Public Opinion for NBC News, second regular poll of {{AN|1760}}, conducted 20-22.IV.{{AN|1760}}; margin of error plus or minus 2.2 percent.</ref>

On a fresh ballot the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]] leads the [[Federal Humanist Party]] 36 percent to 32, narrowing its lead by two points since the first regular poll of the year. The [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] holds at 14 and the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] at 12. Independents and other candidates reach 4 percent, while the [[Republican Party of Oportia]] records 2.

The government's approval reading is still positive, but the cushion is thinner. Forty-seven percent approve of the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] administration and 40 percent disapprove, leaving a net approval of plus 7, down from plus 16 in I. The change is not a collapse in support for the governing parties on the ballot; it is a cooling of the public's judgment on the government now in office.

The cost of living remains the leading concern at 39 percent, down two points from I, while housing rises to 21. The economy and jobs register 17 percent and the public debt 13, with 10 percent naming another issue or offering no opinion. The order is unchanged at the top, but the housing figure closes some of the gap that left the government's first bill package, led by the [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]] and the [[National Housing Reform and Expansion Act, 1760]], facing a single dominant demand.

The confidence measures show why the approval number needs a second reading. Forty-nine percent think the government will govern effectively, against 41 percent who lack confidence, while only 43 percent think the coalition will last a full term and 47 percent disagree. Both measures are weaker than in I, and the second question is now negative.

The leaders' table produces the poll's clearest personal result. [[Elena Svensson]] and independent deputy [[Piti Gándara]] each post net favorability of plus 14, putting Gándara level with the Vice-Premier at the top of the tested field. Gándara's favorable rating rises to 30 percent as her no-opinion share falls to 54, while [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] slips to plus 5 and [[José Manuel Montero]] to minus 13. The numbers measure standing in this poll; they do not determine who will win a future election or how any deputy will vote.

For the first time in the {{AN|1760}} series, more respondents say the Federation is headed in the wrong direction than the right one. The right-direction reading falls to 44 percent and the wrong-direction reading rises to 48, with 8 percent offering no opinion. The IV poll therefore records a country less certain about the government's durability and more doubtful about the path ahead, even as the governing Alliance retains a four-point ballot lead.

The IOP's comparison is a snapshot, not a prediction. Nicolás Arreola, the Institute's director, cautioned that a single quarter's cooling is not a verdict on the government's future, only a reading of the public mood as its program begins. The [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Accord]] has put its first domestic bills into the [[14th Cortes Federales]],<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_FEDERAL_ACCORD_ADVANCES_ITS_PROGRAM_AS_ITS_BILLS_GO_BEFORE_THE_CORTES|"The Federal Accord advances its program as its bills go before the Cortes"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 22.II.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> and the poll records the public mood around that program; it does not settle the debate or the fate of any bill.
|tldr=''The second regular [[Institute of Public Opinion|IOP]]/NBC News poll of {{AN|1760}}, conducted 20-22.IV, finds the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]] still ahead of the [[Federal Humanist Party]] 36 to 32 on a fresh ballot, but with its lead narrowed from six points in I. Government approval remains positive at 47 to 40, a net plus 7 against plus 16 in I; the cost of living remains the top concern while housing rises. [[Piti Gándara]] draws level with [[Elena Svensson]] at net plus 14, confidence in a full coalition term turns negative, and direction of the Federation flips to 44 right against 48 wrong. The reading is a snapshot of a cooling government, not a forecast of an election or a bill's fate.''
|impact_stability={{decrease}} -1
|impact_approval={{decrease}} -1
|impact_economy={{steady}} 0
|impact_regional={{steady}} 0
|impact_international={{steady}} 0
}}

====IOP/NBC News Public Opinion Polling====
=====National Party Voting Intention=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''NATIONAL PARTY VOTING INTENTION''' ''If a general election were held today, which party would you support?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 20-22.IV.{{AN|1760}}
! Party
! Percentage in Poll
! Change Since I.{{AN|1760}}
|-
| [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] ([[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]])
| 36.0%
| {{decrease}} −2.0%
|-
| [[Federal Humanist Party]] ([[FHP]])
| 32.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] ([[Federal Consensus Party|FCP]])
| 14.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| [[Civic Governance Alliance]] ([[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]])
| 12.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| Independents & Other Candidates
| 4.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Republican Party of Oportia]] ([[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]])
| 2.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|}

=====Government Approval=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''GOVERNMENT APPROVAL''' ''Do you approve or disapprove of the job the Federal Accord government is doing?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 20-22.IV.{{AN|1760}}
! Response
! Percentage
! Change Since I.{{AN|1760}}
|-
| Approve
| 47.0%
| {{decrease}} −3.0%
|-
| Disapprove
| 40.0%
| {{increase}} +6.0%
|-
| No Opinion
| 13.0%
| {{decrease}} −3.0%
|-
! Net Approval
! {{increase}} +7.0%
! {{decrease}} −9.0%
|}

=====Most Important Issue=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FACING THE FEDERATION''' ''What is the most important issue facing the Federation today?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 20-22.IV.{{AN|1760}}
! Issue
! Percentage
|-
| The cost of living
| 39.0%
|-
| Housing
| 21.0%
|-
| The economy and jobs
| 17.0%
|-
| The public debt
| 13.0%
|-
| Other / No opinion
| 10.0%
|}

=====Confidence in the Government=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''CONFIDENCE IN THE GOVERNMENT''' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 20-22.IV.{{AN|1760}}
! Question
! Confident
! Not confident
! Unsure
|-
| Will the government govern effectively? || 49.0% || 41.0% || 10.0%
|-
| Will the coalition last a full term? || 43.0% || 47.0% || 10.0%
|}

=====Party Leader Favorability Ratings=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''PARTY LEADER FAVORABILITY RATINGS''' % of registered voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 20-22.IV.{{AN|1760}}
! Leader
! Favorable
! Unfavorable
! No Opinion
! Net Favorability
! Change
|-
| [[Elena Svensson]] ([[CGA]]) Vice-Premier
| 47.0%
| 33.0%
| 20.0%
| {{increase}} +14.0%
| {{decrease}} −3.0%
|-
| [[Yuiza Bohi'o]] ([[Wakara People's Party|WPP]]) Leader
| 38.0%
| 27.0%
| 35.0%
| {{increase}} +11.0%
| {{decrease}} −3.0%
|-
| [[Piti Gándara]] (Independent) Independent Deputy for [[Alduria]]
| 30.0%
| 16.0%
| 54.0%
| {{increase}} +14.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] ([[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]]) President of the Government
| 44.0%
| 39.0%
| 17.0%
| {{increase}} +5.0%
| {{decrease}} −6.0%
|-
| [[Francisco Gabaza]] ([[FCP]]) Leader
| 39.0%
| 35.0%
| 26.0%
| {{increase}} +4.0%
| {{decrease}} −3.0%
|-
| [[Sofia Laurent]] ([[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]]) Leader
| 18.0%
| 18.0%
| 64.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
| {{decrease}} −2.0%
|-
| [[José Manuel Montero]] ([[FHP]]) Leader of the Opposition
| 37.0%
| 50.0%
| 13.0%
| {{decrease}} −13.0%
| {{decrease}} −4.0%
|}

=====Direction of the Federation=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''DIRECTION OF THE FEDERATION''' ''Do you think the Federation is headed in the right direction or the wrong direction?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 20-22.IV.{{AN|1760}}
! Response
! Percentage
! Change Since I.{{AN|1760}}
|-
| Right Direction
| 44.0%
| {{decrease}} −5.0%
|-
| Wrong Direction
| 48.0%
| {{increase}} +5.0%
|-
| No Opinion
| 8.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|}

===24===
==== Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month IV, 1760) ====

''Published by the Nouvelle Alexandrie Statistics Bureau.''

The recovery stalled in the first quarter of {{AN|1760}}, and [[Recession of 1757|the downturn]] reasserted itself from one quarter to the next. Output fell at an annualized 4.4%, against a decline of 1.6% in the previous quarter, while the year-on-year decline narrowed to 1.8% from 2.0%, its third straight improvement. Unemployment rose to 9.0% from 8.7%, and consumer confidence fell 4.2 points to 75.2. Support arrived with the [[Lindström Recovery Protocol]], the framework the caretaker government of [[José Manuel Montero|Montero]] and Natopian Chancellor [[Marco Lungo III]] signed at the close of {{AN|1759}}: Natopian orders for New Alexandrian output began their run across the first half of the year, and a Natopian strategic-reserve purchase of refined [[Alexandrium]], which the protocol sets at no less than NAX€2,150 a gram, added demand that lifted the [[Treaty of Fontainebleau on Alexandrium Coordination|Fontainebleau]] reference price by NAX€95.15 to NAX€2,090.24 a gram, still below the reserve's floor. The framework is external demand and private investment rather than New Alexandrian borrowing. The [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] government of Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], which won the confidence of the [[14th Cortes Federales|14th Cortes]] on 15.I and took office for the balance of the quarter, has honored the protocol. The public accounts kept climbing even as growth faltered. With the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758|Recovery Act]]'s emergency authorities expired at year-end, no further borrowing was drawn under it, but the ordinary deficit carried public debt higher, to 68.5% of output, past the 65% mark of the Act's own debt brake, while the quarterly deficit narrowed to 4.0% of GDP from 4.4%. The NAX€200 billion the brake had held back, and the emergency powers that lapsed with the year, both remained before the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes]], where the new government's budget had since become law on 22.IV and its housing and cost-of-living bills had yet to be decided. Households felt the squeeze in prices: the cost-of-living index rose again to 106.6, though housing affordability improved to 98.5. One caveat applies to the headline output figure: the first quarter runs four months where the fourth quarter of {{AN|1759}} ran three, so quarterly output of NAX€12.46 trillion reads high against the prior quarter chiefly for that reason, and the annualized growth rate is the better guide to the quarter's pace.

===== Headline panel =====

{| class="wikitable"
! Indicator !! Current !! Change !! Note
|-
| Real GDP (quarter) || NAX€12.46 trillion || {{increase}} NAX€3.04 trillion || the quarter's output
|-
| Real GDP (trailing 4Q, annual) || NAX€46.97 trillion || {{decrease}} NAX€227.54 billion || sum of the last four quarters
|-
| Real GDP growth (QoQ, annualized) || -4.4% || || quarter on quarter
|-
| Real GDP growth (YoY) || -1.8% || || year on year
|-
| Nominal GDP (annual) || NAX€49.25 trillion || {{decrease}} NAX€69.69 billion || real times the deflator
|-
| GDP per capita (nominal) || NAX€94,256 || {{decrease}} NAX€415 || the very-rich headline
|-
| Inflation (CPI, YoY) || 1.3% || {{decrease}} 0.1% ||
|-
| Cost-of-Living Index || 106.6 || {{increase}} 0.4 || 100 = {{AN|1757}} base
|-
| Unemployment rate || 9.0% || {{increase}} 0.2% ||
|-
| Budget balance (quarter, % GDP) || -4.0% || {{increase}} 0.4% || deficit if negative
|-
| Public debt (% GDP) || 68.5% || {{increase}} 1.2% || debt/GDP guardrail
|-
| Trade balance (quarter, % GDP) || 3.7% || {{decrease}} 0.3% ||
|-
| Alexandrium price (NAX€/g) || 2,090.24 || {{increase}} 95.15 || volatility driver
|-
| Alexandrium federal revenue (quarter) || NAX€61.27 billion || {{increase}} NAX€2.79 billion || feeds the 12% mandate
|-
| Gini coefficient || 0.380 || {{steady}} || distribution headline
|-
| Urban-rural income gap || 1.80 || {{steady}} || income ratio
|-
| Housing Affordability Index || 98.5 || {{increase}} 0.4 || price/rent vs income
|-
| Consumer Confidence Index || 75.2 || {{decrease}} 4.2 || 100 = neutral
|}



===== Detailed appendix =====

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Macro detail
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Real GDP (quarter) || NAX€12.46 trillion
|-
| Nominal GDP (quarter) || NAX€13.13 trillion
|-
| GDP deflator || 105.4
|-
| Real GDP (trailing 4Q) || NAX€46.97 trillion
|-
| Nominal GDP (trailing 4Q) || NAX€49.25 trillion
|-
| Real growth (QoQ ann.) || -4.4%
|-
| Real growth (YoY) || -1.8%
|-
| Cost-of-Living Index || 106.6
|-
| House Price Index || 98.1
|-
| Housing Affordability Index || 98.5
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Labor
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Population || 522,533,009
|-
| Working-age population || 343,497,795
|-
| Labor force || 215,709,198
|-
| Employed || 196,327,146
|-
| Participation rate || 62.8%
|-
| Unemployment rate || 9.0%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Fiscal and debt
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Revenue (quarter) || NAX€4.96 trillion
|-
| Expenditure (quarter) || NAX€5.24 trillion
|-
| Primary balance (quarter) || NAX€-274.73 billion
|-
| Interest (quarter) || NAX€246.39 billion
|-
| Budget balance (quarter) || NAX€-521.12 billion
|-
| Public debt || NAX€33.74 trillion
|-
| Public debt (% GDP) || 68.5%
|-
| Interest burden (% revenue) || 5.0%
|-
| Reserve fund || NAX€1.78 trillion
|-
| Reserve draw (quarter) || NAX€0.00 billion
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ External
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Exports (quarter) || NAX€3.39 trillion
|-
| Imports (quarter) || NAX€2.91 trillion
|-
| Trade balance (quarter) || NAX€479.73 billion
|-
| Trade balance (% GDP) || 3.7%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Strategic resources (Alexandrium)
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Price (NAX€/g) || 2,090.24
|-
| Gross value (quarter) || NAX€245.08 billion
|-
| Export value (quarter) || NAX€171.56 billion
|-
| Federal revenue (quarter) || NAX€61.27 billion
|-
| Revenue baseline (quarter) || NAX€85.01 billion
|-
| Revenue shortfall (quarter) || NAX€23.74 billion
|-
| UARA volume levy (quarter) || NAX€7.62 billion
|-
| Ad-valorem take (quarter) || NAX€53.65 billion
|-
| Diversification earmark (12%) || NAX€7.35 billion
|-
| Resource-sector share of GDP || 1.9%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Sectoral output (shares sum to 100%)
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Agriculture || 6.0%
|-
| Industry || 30.1%
|-
| Services || 63.9%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Inequality
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Gini coefficient || 0.380
|-
| Urban-rural income gap || 1.80
|}

''Outlook (forecast):'' real GDP growth is projected near 4.6% (annualized) next quarter, with unemployment near 8.8%. These are model projections, superseded by next quarter's actuals.

==V (Sementis)==

===8===
{{See also|National Housing Reform and Expansion Act, 1760|National Homebuilding Drive|Housing Justice Act, 1757|People's Deal}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE ACCORD'S HOUSING REFORM BECOMES LAW, LEADING WITH SUPPLY AND BINDING TENANT PROTECTIONS TO NEW BUILDING
|image=NBC1760HousingConstruction.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''Housing construction in [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]]. The [[National Housing Reform and Expansion Act, 1760|new reform]] places the [[National Homebuilding Drive]] on a standing footing.''
|bullet1=The Assembly Passed the Housing Act 472 to 295
|bullet2=All Three Coalition Parties Backed a Bill Rebuilt to Win Over the Federal Consensus Party
|bullet3=The National Homebuilding Drive Gains a Standing Target of 500,000 New Homes
|bullet4=Two-Fifths of New Building Goes to the Interior and Producing Regions
|bullet5=Rents May Rise No Faster Than Consumer Prices, With Newly Built Homes Exempt for Twenty Years
|bullet6=A First-Time Buyer Credit Returns, Raised to NAX€35,000
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=King [[Sinchi Roca II]] granted Royal Assent on 8.V.{{AN|1760}} to the [[National Housing Reform and Expansion Act, 1760]], the second of the [[Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|Government of the Federal Accord]]'s bills to become law, after the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes]] carried it through both houses.

The [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] gave the bill its third reading on 2.V.{{AN|1760}} and passed it by 472 votes to 295, with 34 abstentions.<ref name="cortes">[[14th Cortes Federales#Legislation introduced|Legislation introduced in the 14th Cortes Federales]].</ref> The [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]] concurred by 58 to 52, with 8 abstentions, and the King signed the Act into law on 8.V.

The Act rebuilds the [[Housing Justice Act, 1757]], a measure [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] and [[Yuiza Bohi'o]] had brought in the [[13th Cortes Federales]] that never became law, for a coalition that now includes the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]], which had withheld its support from the earlier bill over the effect of rent regulation on building. The reply the new Act makes is to lead with supply and to bind each protection for tenants to the building of new homes. It was tabled for the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development [[Mayani Guacanagari]], and co-sponsored by the Treasury and by Research and Development, so that all three governing parties stood behind it. The whole of the [[Federal Humanist Party]] in opposition voted against.

On the side of supply, the Act puts the [[National Homebuilding Drive]] on a standing footing in place of the emergency authority that lapsed at the close of {{AN|1759}}, with a target of not fewer than 500,000 new homes, not less than two-fifths of them built in the interior and the producing Regions whose recovery had lagged the coast, and public, cooperative, and community housing rising toward 50,000 homes a year. It makes permanent the rule that a federal permit neither granted nor refused within sixty days is deemed granted, replaces separate federal approvals with a single concurrent review, provides for a national model building code a Region may adopt and for the type-approval of factory-built designs, and releases surplus federal land for housing against an affordable share.

On the side of protection, a federal standard of affordability and of security of tenure is set, administered by the Regions, under which a tenant may be removed only on stated grounds and a rent may not rise in a year by more than consumer prices and any margin the Secretary sets, with newly built homes exempt from the limit for twenty years so that the standard does not deter building. The Act restores a means-tested credit for first-time buyers, raised to NAX€35,000, gives a sitting tenant the first offer when a landlord sells, and caps the property-backed securities a bank may hold at fifteen percent of its assets, answering the [[PBS banking crisis, 1753-1754|banking crisis of 1753]] and taking up a limit the Federal Consensus Party had first pressed in {{AN|1751}}.

Secretary Guacanagari presented the Act as a reform that builds its way to lower rents rather than legislating them down. ''"We have put a spade in the ground before we put a cap on the rent, and tied the one to the other,"'' she told the Assembly. ''"A protection that is not matched by a home built is a promise the market breaks; this Act matches them market by market."''

[[José Manuel Montero]], the [[Leader of the Opposition of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Leader of the Opposition]], said the rent limits would do the harm the supply measures were meant to prevent. ''"You do not make a home cheaper by making it less worth building,"'' he said. ''"They have dressed rent control in the clothes of a building program, and the building is what will suffer."''

With the housing reform enacted, the [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]], the last of the Government's first package, remains before the Cortes, its division still to come.
|tldr=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] granted Royal Assent on 8.V.{{AN|1760}} to the [[National Housing Reform and Expansion Act, 1760]], the second of the [[Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|Federal Accord]]'s bills to become law. The [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] passed it on 2.V by 472 votes to 295 and the [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]] concurred 58 to 52, against the [[Federal Humanist Party]]'s opposition. Rebuilt from the [[Housing Justice Act, 1757]] to bring the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] aboard, the Act leads with supply: it puts the [[National Homebuilding Drive]] on a standing footing at 500,000 homes with two-fifths in the interior and producing Regions, speeds and cheapens building, and binds each tenant protection to new homes, capping rent rises at consumer prices with new builds exempt for twenty years and restoring a first-time buyer credit of NAX€35,000. Secretary [[Mayani Guacanagari]] called it a reform that builds its way to lower rents; Leader of the Opposition [[José Manuel Montero]] called it rent control dressed as a building program.''
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===9===
{{Main|Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760|Sinchi Roca II|Empress Clara}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}}{{team flag|Natopia|flag}} THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD ANNOUNCES A JOINT GOODWILL TOUR OF TWELVE CITIES FOR THE KING AND EMPRESS
|image=NBC1760RoyalGoodwillTourPortrait.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]], whose joint [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760|goodwill tour of twelve cities]] was announced on 9.V.{{AN|1760}}.''
|bullet1=King Sinchi Roca II and Empress Clara Will Travel Together on a Single Joint Progress Abroad
|bullet2=The Tour Opens and Closes in Cárdenas, Departing in Crescentis (VII)
|bullet3=Twelve Cities Abroad Fill an Itinerary of the Federation's Friends and Partners
|bullet4=Three of the Twelve Stops Fall in Natopia, Where the Empress Herself Reigns
|bullet5=A Project Begun Under Montero's Government and Carried On by the Gonçalves Government
|bullet6=Crown Princess Sayari Remains at Home Through the Progress
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The [[Royal Household of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Royal Household]] announced on 9.V.{{AN|1760}} that King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] will leave [[Cárdenas]] in Crescentis (VII) on a joint goodwill tour, a progress through twelve cities abroad meant to renew the Federation's friendships and partnerships.

The King and the Empress will travel together throughout, departing the [[Palace of Carranza]] on 12.VII.{{AN|1760}} and returning to it at the tour's close. Between the two Cárdenas dates the royal party is to call at [[Huyenkula]] in [[Hurmu]], [[Noursala]] in [[Aerla]], [[Cossa]] in [[Vegno]], [[Johannsessbuurg]] in [[Anglien]], [[Tirlar]] in [[Natopia]], [[Chryse]] in the [[Benacian Union]], Redquill in the Natopian demesne of [[Neridia (demesne)|Neridia]], the Natopian capital of [[Lindström]], [[Petropolis]] in [[Constancia]], [[Rusjar]] in [[Zeed]], [[Corum Electric City|Corum Electric]] in [[Western Corum]], and Southman in [[East Zimia and the Wallis Islands]], before the return leg to the capital.

The tour is to open abroad at [[Huyenkula]], the capital of [[Hurmu]] and seat of the [[Order of the Holy Lakes]], the sovereign order among whose member houses both royal families are counted. Hurmu keeps to a settled neutrality and stands apart from the alliance blocs, and the Household cast the opening call as one of friendship and dynastic courtesy rather than of alliance. The King's mother, Queen Mother [[Abigail Ayreon-Kalirion|Abigail]], herself of the Order, is to join the royal party for that opening leg and return to the Federation from there.

Planning for the progress began in the last year of the government of [[José Manuel Montero]], conceived to knit the Federation's alliances closer and shore up its standing among its friends, and the Government of Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] took it up on coming to office in Novarum (I). Montero, now [[Leader of the Opposition of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Leader of the Opposition]], welcomed the tour his own government had set in motion. ''"This was my Government's undertaking, and I am glad to see it carried through,"'' Montero said. ''"The friendships of the Federation belong to no one party. We wish Their Majesties a safe journey and a warm welcome."''

The progress is a joint one in more than name. Empress Clara, the King's wife, has reigned in [[Natopia]] in her own right since {{AN|1752}}; three of the twelve stops, [[Tirlar]], Redquill in the demesne of [[Neridia (demesne)|Neridia]], and the Imperial capital at [[Lindström]], fall within Natopia itself, and the tour carries her home as often as it carries her abroad. The [[Treaty of Dynastic Separation]] of {{AN|1721}} leaves the marriage that joins the two houses intact in everything but the succession itself, where it keeps the two crowns forever apart, and the Household presented the tour as an expression of the union it protects.

The itinerary threads the Federation's alliance networks, taking in partners from both the [[Raspur Pact]] and the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Concord Alliance]], from [[Aerla]], [[Vegno]] and [[Western Corum]] to [[Natopia]], [[Constancia]] and the [[Benacian Union]], together with the reconstructed [[Anglien|Free Duchy of Anglien]]. Apart from the opening call at Huyenkula, the eleven allied and partner stops take in nearly the whole of the Federation's standing partnerships in a single progress.

Secretary of State [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]], who advised the tour, tied it to the last of the five priorities the King had set from the Throne, the pledge to keep the Federation ''"secure and true to its friends."'' ''"A nation that keeps faith at home does not want for friends abroad,"'' Fitzgerald said, echoing the Speech. ''"The King and the Empress will carry that faith to twelve cities, and renew it with the friends and allies who have kept it with us."''<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#Throne Speech|Speech from the Throne of Nouvelle Alexandrie]], delivered to the [[14th Cortes Federales]] on 12.I.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

Crown Princess [[Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Sayari]], the heir apparent, will remain in the Federation while her parents travel; the Household confirmed in Ventaris (III) that the Princess, who is expecting twins late in the year, will keep to the Federation from Estivis (VIII) on medical advice.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#ROYAL_HOUSEHOLD_CONFIRMS_CROWN_PRINCESS_SAYARI_IS_EXPECTING_TWINS;_THEY_WILL_STAND_THIRD_AND_FOURTH_IN_LINE|"Royal Household confirms Crown Princess Sayari is expecting twins"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 6.III.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> The first leg follows the departure from Cárdenas in Crescentis (VII).
|tldr=''The [[Royal Household of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Royal Household]] announced on 9.V.{{AN|1760}} that King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] will leave [[Cárdenas]] on 12.VII.{{AN|1760}} on a joint goodwill tour of twelve cities abroad, a progress begun under the government of [[José Manuel Montero]] and carried on by the [[Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|Government]] of Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] to strengthen the Federation's ties with its friends and partners. The itinerary runs from [[Huyenkula]] in [[Hurmu]] and [[Noursala]] in [[Aerla]] through [[Cossa]], [[Johannsessbuurg]], [[Tirlar]], [[Chryse]], Redquill, [[Lindström]], [[Petropolis]], [[Rusjar]], [[Corum Electric City|Corum Electric]], and Southman before returning to the capital, taking in the Federation's partners across both the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Concord Alliance]] and the [[Raspur Pact]]; three stops fall in [[Natopia]], where Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] reigns. Crown Princess [[Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Sayari]] remains in the Federation.''
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===10===
{{See also|Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760|Federal Consumer Protection Agency of Nouvelle Alexandrie|People's Deal}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE ACCORD'S COST-OF-LIVING RELIEF BECOMES LAW, CUTTING TAX ON ESSENTIALS AND CREATING A CONSUMER WATCHDOG
|image=NBC1760HouseholdReliefExplainer.png
|image_size=400px
|image_caption=''What the [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]] provides: reduced VAT on essentials, household assistance, inflation protection, and consumer safeguards.''
|bullet1=The Assembly Passed the Relief Bill 475 to 294
|bullet2=It Drew the Widest Independent Support of the Three
|bullet3=The Peers Concurred by Just 56 to 54, the Closest Division of the Package
|bullet4=Value Added Tax on Essential Food and Home Energy Is Halved to Five Percent
|bullet5=Direct Energy Payments and a Revived Family Allowance Now Reach Low and Middle Incomes
|bullet6=A New Consumer Protection Agency Will Police Prices
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=King [[Sinchi Roca II]] granted Royal Assent on 10.V.{{AN|1760}} to the [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]], the last and the most closely fought of the [[Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|Government of the Federal Accord]]'s three economic bills, completing the economic package after the budget and the housing reform.

The [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] gave the bill its third reading on 4.V.{{AN|1760}} and passed it by 475 votes to 294, with 32 abstentions, the widest support from independents of the three bills.<ref name="cortes">[[14th Cortes Federales#Legislation introduced|Legislation introduced in the 14th Cortes Federales]].</ref> The [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]] concurred by 56 to 54, with 8 abstentions, the closest division of the package, and the King signed the Act into law on 10.V.

The Act answers the cost of living on which the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|general election of 1759]] was fought, legislating the relief the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]] had promised in its [[People's Deal]]. It was tabled for the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] by the Secretary of Social Security and National Solidarity [[Ana Yuisa Caguax]], and co-sponsored by the Treasury and by Trade and Industry. Its cost is met from the appropriation of the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]] and not by new borrowing, the undertaking the Government gave on the confidence of the Assembly. All three parties of the Government voted for it, and the whole of the [[Federal Humanist Party]] in opposition voted against.

On the price of essentials, the Act halves the rate of value added tax, to five percent, on a basket of basic food and domestic energy defined and published each year by the Treasury, and requires that prices be shown by the unit and in full, so that a rise cannot be hidden in a smaller package or a fee added after the fact. It makes a direct payment toward the cost of household energy to households of low and middle income, and revives as standing law the family allowance uplift and the household establishment grant that had lapsed with the recovery. It sets a lock that holds the value of pensions and benefits against inflation, as the federal minimum wage was already held.

The Act establishes the [[Federal Consumer Protection Agency of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consumer Protection Agency]], an independent body the [[Department of Trade and Industry (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Trade and Industry]] had named but never been given, to review concentrated markets and recommend the remedies competition requires, to make it simple for a household to change its energy, banking, or communications supplier, and to lower the cost of medicines through reference pricing and common purchase for the public programs.

Secretary Caguax presented the Act as the promise of the election written into law and paid for from within the budget. ''"We told the country we would take the tax off the shopping basket and the bill for the heating, and pay for it out of what we raise, not what we borrow,"'' she told the Assembly. ''"This is that promise kept, and a watchdog to see the saving reaches the shelf."''

[[José Manuel Montero]], the [[Leader of the Opposition of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Leader of the Opposition]], said the relief was a payment the country would meet twice, once in tax and again in a new agency. ''"They cut a tax with one hand and build a bureaucracy with the other,"'' he said. ''"The saving is printed on the label; the cost is buried in the estimates."''

With the relief enacted, the Government's three economic bills are all now law, their cost met, on the Government's account, from within the budget rather than by fresh borrowing.
|tldr=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] granted Royal Assent on 10.V.{{AN|1760}} to the [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]], the last and most closely fought of the [[Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|Federal Accord]]'s three economic bills. The [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] passed it on 4.V by 475 votes to 294, its widest independent support, and the [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]] concurred by just 56 to 54. Answering the cost of living on which the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|1759 election]] was fought and funded from the budget rather than by borrowing, the Act halves value added tax to five percent on essential food and home energy, makes direct energy payments and revives the family allowance and household establishment grant, locks pensions and benefits to inflation, and establishes the [[Federal Consumer Protection Agency of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consumer Protection Agency]]. Secretary [[Ana Yuisa Caguax]] called it the promise of the election kept; Leader of the Opposition [[José Manuel Montero]] called it a cost the country would meet twice.''
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===15===
{{See also|Order of succession of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Succession to the Throne Act, 1700}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE COMING ROYAL TWINS WILL RESHAPE THE NEW ALEXANDRIAN LINE OF SUCCESSION
|image=NBC1760SayariJanusIntiFamily.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''Crown Princess [[Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Sayari]] and Prince [[Janus of Neridia|Janus]] with their four-year-old son, Prince [[Inti, Duke of Vilcabamba|Inti, Duke of Vilcabamba]], in {{AN|1760}}. Their expected twins would follow Inti in the New Alexandrian line of succession.''
|bullet1=Crown Princess Sayari Remains First in Line as Heir Apparent
|bullet2=Her Son Prince Inti Stands Second in the Line
|bullet3=The Twins Will Enter the Line at Third and Fourth Once They Are Born
|bullet4=Order of Birth Alone Decides Which Twin Stands Third, Not Sex
|bullet5=Prince Nathan Stands Fifth Even as He Remains the Designated Heir to Natopia
|bullet6=The Crown Passes to the Monarch's Eldest Child Regardless of Sex
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=Somewhere in the closing months of {{AN|1760}}, two children are expected in [[Cárdenas]] who would take their places, within hours of each other, as the third and fourth people in line to the New Alexandrian throne.

The [[Royal Household of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Royal Household]] confirmed in Ventaris (III) that Crown Princess [[Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Sayari]], the heir apparent, is expecting twins with her husband, Prince [[Janus of Neridia|Janus]].<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#ROYAL_HOUSEHOLD_CONFIRMS_CROWN_PRINCESS_SAYARI_IS_EXPECTING_TWINS;_THEY_WILL_STAND_THIRD_AND_FOURTH_IN_LINE|"Royal Household confirms Crown Princess Sayari is expecting twins"]], ''[[NBC Newsfeed]]'', 6.III.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> Their arrival would be the first change at the top of the line in five years, since the birth of the Princess's own son in {{AN|1755}}.

At the head of the line stands Sayari, the King's eldest child and the woman who is to become the Federation's first queen regnant. Behind her comes her only child so far, Prince [[Inti, Duke of Vilcabamba|Inti]], born in {{AN|1755}}, who is second. The two places behind him are already held open for the twins, because in the New Alexandrian order the heir's own descendants come before the heir's brothers and sisters.

Behind those reserved places sit the King's other children. Prince [[Nathan, Prince of Lindström|Nathan]], his second child, stands fifth, and Princess [[Urpi, Marchioness of Yucay|Urpi]], his third, sixth. None of them loses a claim when the twins are seated, and no act of the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes]] is needed to make the change, for the order follows the law already on the books.

The rule underneath all of it is absolute primogeniture, by which the crown passes to the monarch's eldest child without regard to sex. It is set in the [[Proclamation of Punta Santiago]] and worked out in the [[Succession to the Throne Act, 1700]], whose order of precedence the [[Order of succession of Nouvelle Alexandrie|full line of succession]] carries down through more than forty names.<ref>[[Order of succession of Nouvelle Alexandrie]].</ref> The [[Crown Modernization Act, 1756]] confirmed the sex-neutral rule and struck the last of the old religious bars to the throne. It is why the order in which the twins are born, and not their sex, will settle which of them stands third.

The one real complication sits with Prince Nathan, who is at once fifth in the New Alexandrian line and the designated heir to the throne of [[Natopia]], where the Crown Princess's mother, Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]], reigns in her own right. The [[Treaty of Dynastic Separation]] of {{AN|1721}} keeps the two crowns from ever resting on one head: every child of the house sits in both lines under ordinary law, and only someone who actually stood to inherit both would have to give one up. The choice falls due only on the day it would arise, and not before.

The twins would be born into an unusually wide inheritance. Through their mother they would hold New Alexandrian and Natopian citizenship, and a third standing through the [[Order of the Holy Lakes]], the sovereign order of [[Hurmu]] whose membership the New Alexandrian house holds by descent from the King's mother, Queen Mother [[Abigail Ayreon-Kalirion|Abigail]]. One dignity waits further off still. The imperial title of [[Alexandria|Emperor of the Alexandrians]] descends by its own instrument, the Letters Patent on the Alexandrian Imperial Dignity of {{AN|1758}}, issued the same day as the [[Rothborne Settlement of the Caputian and Hamland Crowns, 1758|Rothborne Settlement]] that settled the titular Caputian and Hamland crowns, but deliberately held apart from it. By the Letters Patent the dignity is set to pass to Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] and, after her, to Sayari; from Sayari it is declared inseparable from the Crown of Nouvelle Alexandrie in perpetuity, borne by its monarchs and passing neither with [[Natopia]] nor with the titular crown of [[Caputia]]. Whoever of the family one day wears the New Alexandrian crown would carry that imperial style with it.

[[María Teresa de Valencia]], the Lord Steward of the Household, said the arrangements had been settled long before there was any announcement to make. ''"The line is not something the family decides; it is something the law records,"'' she said. ''"Our part is only to see that the record is kept correctly, whichever child arrives first."''

The Crown Princess is to keep to the Federation from Estivis (VIII) on medical advice, and the Household has said it will make no further announcement before the birth. Until then the two places near the top of the line wait to be filled, in an order that no one yet knows.
|tldr=''With twins expected to Crown Princess [[Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Sayari]] and Prince [[Janus of Neridia|Janus]] late in {{AN|1760}}, the line of succession to the New Alexandrian throne is set to change at its top for the first time in five years. Sayari remains heir apparent and her son Prince [[Inti, Duke of Vilcabamba|Inti]] second; the two places behind him are held for the twins, who would enter at third and fourth by the order of their birth, with Prince [[Nathan, Prince of Lindström|Nathan]] fifth and Princess [[Urpi, Marchioness of Yucay|Urpi]] sixth. The order follows absolute primogeniture under the [[Proclamation of Punta Santiago]] and the [[Succession to the Throne Act, 1700]] and needs no new legislation. Nathan remains the designated heir to [[Natopia]] under the [[Treaty of Dynastic Separation]], which keeps the two crowns separate.''
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===20===
{{See also|Aerlan general election, 1760|Alexander Kim|President of Aerla}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Aerla|flag}} AERLA ELECTS ALEXANDER KIM PRESIDENT AS THE DEMOCRATS HOLD A NARROWED ASSEMBLY
|image=Aerla1760ElectionResults.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''The presidential vote of 1.V and the new 121-seat Eighth National Assembly. Source: Aerlan National Electoral Commission.''
|bullet1=Alexander Kim of the Aerlan Democratic Party Wins the Presidency With 48 Percent
|bullet2=He Beats Conservative David Neylan by Thirteen Points
|bullet3=The Democrats Keep the Eighth National Assembly but Lose Their Cushion
|bullet4=Kim Succeeds the Term-Limited Thomas Guthrie and Keeps Kessler at Foreign Affairs
|bullet5=His Inaugural Address Puts High-Speed Rail and Universal Transit at the Center
|location=[[Noursala]], Aerla
|body=[[Alexander Kim]] was inaugurated as the fifth President of the Republic of [[Aerla]] on 20.V, opening the Eighth [[National Assembly of Aerla|National Assembly]] weeks after the landlocked Keltian republic, a fellow member of the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization]] and a close New Alexandrian ally, returned his [[Aerlan Democratic Party]] to power for a third straight term.

Kim won the [[Aerlan general election, 1760|presidential vote of 1.V]] with 48.1 percent, or 7,585,293 ballots, against 34.6 percent for the Conservative Bloc's [[David Neylan]], a margin of thirteen points. The Aerlan Labor Party's Isabelle Woulfe took 14.9 percent and the Nazarene Bloc's Franklin Hanneen 2.4 percent. The National Electoral Commission certified the result the next day, and Neylan conceded on 2.V.

The Assembly that convened with Kim tells a narrower story. In a chamber enlarged to 121 seats, the Democrats hold 64, down 6 from the last Assembly, while Neylan's Conservatives climbed 10 to 35 on gains in the Nazarene northeast and the agrarian lands of Transcaledonia. Most of what the Democrats shed went not to the Conservatives but to the new Aerlan Labor Party, which took 9 seats on its first outing; the Hatayyian Democratic Party holds 6, the Ranentsian Independence Party 4, and the Nazarene Bloc, all but collapsed, 3. Kim keeps his majority, but a slim one: at 64 of 121 seats the Democrats sit just above the 61 needed to command the chamber, their comfortable Reformist margin of the past decade much reduced.

The new President is a creature of Aerlan public administration rather than of its party machine. Born in [[Noursala]] to parents of Taesongean descent, Kim trained as an urban planner, served as Mayor of Bergen, and sat in the Assembly for Jacques Parish before announcing his run in {{AN|1757}} to succeed the term-limited [[Thomas Guthrie]]. He campaigned on universal bus and rail fares, bringing the railroads into public ownership, and abolishing conscription. In Aerla the President is both head of state and head of government, elected for five years and limited to two terms; there is no separate premier.

Kim confirmed continuity where it mattered most abroad, keeping [[Lucas Kessler]] as Minister of Foreign Affairs, the post from which Kessler negotiated the [[Noursala Arrangement]] with Nouvelle Alexandrie and steered Aerla into the alliance. The Assembly reconfirmed him 83 to 36, with two abstentions.

In his [[Inaugural Address of Alexander Kim|inaugural address]], delivered before the Assembly, the High Court, and invited guests, Kim set a governing tone drawn less from a program than from the republic's founding. ''"In an era where democratic rights across Micras become evermore scarce with each passing year, I am eternally thankful for Aerla being one of the exceptions,"'' he said. He named public transport as his first domestic priority: ''"High-speed rail has been an item on the legislative agenda for decades. It is time for it to become a top government priority."''

For New Alexandrian readers the result lands close to home. Aerla is a partner in the same alliance, and its capital sits on the itinerary the Royal Household has announced for the King and Empress's goodwill tour. One point of daylight remains: Aerla is a subscriber to Anglien's [[Bliven Fund]], which Kim supports as a contribution to a regional ally and which Nouvelle Alexandrie has declined to join.
|tldr=''[[Alexander Kim]] of the [[Aerlan Democratic Party]] was inaugurated the fifth President of [[Aerla]] on 20.V, opening the Eighth National Assembly. He won the 1.V vote with 48.1 percent to 34.6 for the Conservative [[David Neylan]], a thirteen-point margin, with the Aerlan Labor Party third. In the 121-seat Assembly the Democrats hold 64, down 6, keeping a reduced majority but losing ground mostly to the new Labor party. Kim succeeds the term-limited [[Thomas Guthrie]], kept [[Lucas Kessler]] at Foreign Affairs, and made high-speed rail and universal transit his opening priorities. Aerla is a Concord Alliance partner and a close New Alexandrian ally.''
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===24===
{{See also|Federal Budget and Costing Office|General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760|Federal Debt Review Board}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE FEDERAL BUDGET AND COSTING OFFICE OPENS AS A NONPARTISAN REFEREE FOR THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
|image=NBC1760BudgetAnalysis.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''The [[Federal Budget and Costing Office]] will independently assess government spending and tax measures and publish its findings for the Cortes.''
|bullet1=The Office Is Independent of the Government and Advocates No Position
|bullet2=It Costs the Whole Federal Budget and Reports Its Figures to the Cortes
|bullet3=Ingrid Halvorsen Takes Office as the Inaugural Director
|bullet4=The Speaker Appoints the Director for a Fixed Six-Year Term
|bullet5=It Succeeds and Widens the Federal Budget Office Created in {{AN|1746}}
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The [[Federal Budget and Costing Office]] opened in Cárdenas on 24.V.{{AN|1760}}, the independent office the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760|General Appropriations and Taxation Act]] created to cost the whole of the federal budget and to report to the Cortes, without taking a side, what the government's plans are likely to cost.

[[Ingrid Halvorsen]] took office as the inaugural Director. The Office is to cost every appropriation and tax measure the government brings forward, publish evidence notes on the choices before the Cortes, evaluate whether programs deliver what they were funded to deliver, and design the detail of any tax the Cortes refers to it. By its statute it makes no recommendation and takes no side, costing and evaluating the public finances and leaving the choice of policy to the chambers.

The Office reconstitutes the [[Federal Budget Office of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Budget Office]] the Cortes created in {{AN|1746}} to give the chambers independent costings of the bills before them, widening that remit from the costing of legislation to the costing of the whole budget. Its Director is appointed by the [[Speaker of the Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Speaker of the Federal Assembly]] on the recommendation of the [[Budget and Finances Committee]], for a fixed term of six years, and may be removed only by a two-thirds vote of the Assembly for cause, a tenure meant to hold the office clear of the government of the day. It is the twin of the [[Federal Debt Review Board]], which watches the debt on a separate appointment.

Speaker [[Orocobix Magüana]], who made the appointment, said the Federation had needed such an office for a long time. ''"The chambers vote the money; they have never had a scorekeeper of their own to tell them what it buys,"'' he said. ''"Now they do, and it answers to them, not to the Treasury."''

Director Halvorsen said the Office would guard its distance from the parties. ''"We will give the Cortes the number and the working behind it, and we will give the same number to every side,"'' she said. ''"Our job is the arithmetic, not the argument."'' The Office drew welcome from both the government and the opposition on the day it opened, each side expecting its figures to support that side's reading of the budget.
|tldr=''The [[Federal Budget and Costing Office]] opened in [[Cárdenas]] on 24.V.{{AN|1760}}, the independent scorekeeper the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760|General Appropriations and Taxation Act]] created to cost the whole federal budget and report to the Cortes without taking a side. [[Ingrid Halvorsen]] took office as inaugural Director. The Office costs every appropriation and tax measure, publishes evidence notes, evaluates programs, and by statute recommends nothing. It reconstitutes the [[Federal Budget Office of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Budget Office]] first written in {{AN|1746}}; its Director is appointed by Speaker [[Orocobix Magüana]] on the recommendation of the [[Budget and Finances Committee]] for a fixed six-year term. Halvorsen said its job was "the arithmetic, not the argument."''
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==VI (Marittima)==

===11===
{{See also|Aviation in Nouvelle Alexandrie|Petrel Aeronáutica|Vegno Aeronautica}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}}{{team flag|Vegno|flag}} FOREIGN ORDERS AND NEW SEAPLANES POINT TO A GROWING NEW ALEXANDRIAN AVIATION SECTOR
|image=NBC1760CivilAviationMaintenance.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''Civil-aircraft maintenance. Foreign aircraft orders and a domestically built rescue amphibian feature in the expansion of [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]]'s aviation sector.''
|bullet1=Vegno Aeronautica Wins Its First New Alexandrian Orders, Breaking Javelin Industries' Long Domestic Hold
|bullet2=Trans Micras Airlines Takes the Widebodies; Chaski Air Orders the Narrowbodies
|bullet3=Petrel's Shearwater Amphibian Joins the Federal Coast Guard
|bullet4=Planners Weigh a New Nueva Aurora Airport to Relieve the Crowded Highland Field at Parap
|bullet5=Javelin Says It Welcomes the Competition and Points to Its Own Order Book
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=New Alexandrian civil aviation is expanding on several fronts at once, from the airframers that build its aircraft to the fields they fly from. A foreign manufacturer has won its first orders in the market for the country's larger aircraft, long held by a single domestic builder, a home-grown seaplane builder has put a new rescue aircraft into federal service, and planners are weighing a new airport for the constrained highlands. Together they are the clearest signs in years that the sector is expanding fast.

[[Vegno Aeronautica]], a foreign airframer, has won its first New Alexandrian orders, the first time a manufacturer from abroad has broken the grip that [[Javelin Industries]] has kept on the market for the country's larger aircraft for generations. [[Trans Micras Airlines]], the Cárdenas-based carrier, has ordered widebodies for its longer routes, while the low-cost carrier [[Chaski Air]] has taken narrowbodies for its shorter routes. The orders do not displace Javelin, which still builds the great majority of the country's larger airframes, but they open that market to a second serious supplier for the first time in living memory.

Javelin Industries said it welcomed the competition and pointed to its own order book, which remains the largest in the country. The company has supplied New Alexandrian carriers, the armed forces, and the aviation authority for decades, and its designs still dominate the four principal hubs at [[Cárdenas]], Punta Santiago, [[Parap]], and Lausanne-Carrasquillo.

Away from the mainline fleets, the island Regions, which reach the mainland only by air and sea, and the highland interior are served by a distinct market of small aircraft, and there the news is a home-grown one. [[Petrel Aeronáutica]], the [[New Luthoria|New Luthorian]] builder of seaplanes and short-field aircraft, has delivered a search-and-rescue version of its Shearwater amphibian to the [[Federal Forces of Nouvelle Alexandrie#Coast Guard|Federal Coast Guard]] for the rescue role over the Captive Sea. The firm, held by the Rennick family since it began as a marine works, builds to order for the island and highland carriers, chief among them [[Aerolíneas Isleñas]], the island specialist based at [[Nuevo Corcovado]] that flies the largest fleet of Petrel types in the country.

''"We build for the places the big jets cannot reach, the short water and the short grass,"'' said Elspeth Rennick, the firm's managing director. ''"An amphibian that can put down on open sea to lift a crew off a sinking boat is not a glamorous aircraft, but it is the one the islands need, and it is the one we know how to build."''

The busiest of the mainland fields has become a problem of its own. The highland airport at Parap, among the highest in Micras, is hemmed in by terrain and has little room to grow, and planners are weighing a new field, provisionally named Nueva Aurora, to take the pressure off. The neutral megahub at Lausanne-Carrasquillo, which also houses the Raspur Pact's Assembly, continues to widen its role as the country's gateway for international traffic.

The whole sector answers to the Federal Aviation Agency, the authority that certifies aircraft and carriers and runs the air-traffic and safety services. Which of the country's builders and carriers comes out ahead is a question the year has opened without answering: Javelin still holds the largest order book, Vegno has a foot in the door, and Petrel keeps turning out the small aircraft the islands cannot do without.
|tldr=''New Alexandrian aviation is expanding on several fronts. [[Vegno Aeronautica]] has won its first orders in the country, taking widebodies to [[Trans Micras Airlines]] and narrowbodies to [[Chaski Air]] and breaking [[Javelin Industries]]' long domestic hold; Javelin said it welcomed the competition. [[Petrel Aeronáutica]] has delivered a search-and-rescue Shearwater amphibian to the [[Federal Forces of Nouvelle Alexandrie#Coast Guard|Federal Coast Guard]] for the Captive Sea, and planners are weighing a new Nueva Aurora airport to relieve the crowded highland field at [[Parap]].''
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===13===
{{See also|Diplomatic missions of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Foreign relations of Nouvelle Alexandrie}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} A NEW SLATE OF ALEXANDRIAN AMBASSADORS PRESENTS ITS CREDENTIALS ABROAD AS THE ACCORD RESETS ITS DIPLOMACY
|image=Gabrielle-Fitzgerald-1760.png
|image_size=200px
|image_caption=''Secretary of State [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]], whose department oversees the Federation's newly appointed ambassadors.''
|bullet1=The Government Cleared the Diplomatic List It Inherited and Named Its Own Ambassadors
|bullet2=Every One of the New Envoys Was Appointed in {{AN|1760}}
|bullet3=Envoys Take Up Posts at the Benacian Union, Natopia, Shireroth, and Constancia
|bullet4=Two Ambassadors Are Kept from the Previous Slate
|bullet5=Special Envoys Are Expected to Follow Later in the Year
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=A new slate of Alexandrian ambassadors has presented its credentials at courts across Micras over recent weeks, the [[Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|Government of the Federal Accord]]'s foreign service taking up its posts and giving the government's diplomacy a settled shape after the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|general election of 1759]].

The government cleared the diplomatic list it inherited and named its own ambassadors, all appointed in {{AN|1760}} ([[Diplomatic missions of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]). Among those now in place are [[Sumaq Willka]] at the [[Benacian Union]], [[Charlotte Beaumont]] at [[Natopia]], [[Philippe Lachance]] at [[Shireroth]], [[Mateo Alarcón]] at [[Constancia]], and [[Théo Vidal]] at [[The Hexarchy]], the last carrying a brief weighted toward trade.

Not every post changed hands. The government kept two ambassadors from the previous slate at their courts, [[Beatriz Salazar]] at [[Anglien]], in place since {{AN|1754}}, and [[Aukasisa Pumacaja]] at [[Bassaridia Vaeringheim|Bassaridia]], since {{AN|1758}}, a continuity the Secretary of State said was owed to the standing of the two missions rather than to any change of policy.

The Secretary of State, [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]], said the appointments set the government's priorities abroad. ''"An ambassador is the government's word in another capital,"'' she said. ''"We have sent people who know their brief, to the places where our trade, our security, and our friendships are decided."''

[[Charlotte Beaumont]], presenting her credentials at [[Natopia]], said the oldest of the Federation's partnerships would be her first charge. ''"Nothing we do abroad matters more than what we do with Natopia,"'' she said. The resident missions are expected to be joined later in the year by a separate set of special envoys, carrying briefs that cut across them.
|tldr=''A new slate of Alexandrian ambassadors has presented its credentials at courts across Micras, the [[Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|Government of the Federal Accord]]'s foreign service taking up its posts after the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|1759 election]]. The government cleared the list it inherited and named its own envoys, all appointed in {{AN|1760}}, among them [[Sumaq Willka]] at the [[Benacian Union]], [[Charlotte Beaumont]] at [[Natopia]], [[Philippe Lachance]] at [[Shireroth]], and [[Théo Vidal]] at [[The Hexarchy]]. Two ambassadors were kept from the previous slate, [[Beatriz Salazar]] at [[Anglien]] and [[Aukasisa Pumacaja]] at [[Bassaridia Vaeringheim|Bassaridia]]. Secretary of State [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]] said the government had "sent people who know their brief" to where its interests are decided.''
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===18===
{{See also|Federal Consumer Protection Agency of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760|Department of Trade and Industry (Nouvelle Alexandrie)}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE GOVERNMENT SETS THE CLOCK ON ITS NEW CONSUMER WATCHDOG AND OPENS THE SEARCH FOR ITS HEAD
|image=NBC1760ConsumerPharmacy.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''Medicine pricing is among the responsibilities assigned to the new [[Federal Consumer Protection Agency of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consumer Protection Agency]].''
|bullet1=A New Watchdog, Created by the Relief Act
|bullet2=It Will Police Prices, Ease Supplier Switching, and Cut Medicine Costs
|bullet3=Its Head Is Appointed by the Speaker on the Committee's Recommendation
|bullet4=The Government Says It Will Not Take the Full Year the Act Allows
|bullet5=Montero Attacks the New Agency as an Unneeded Bureaucracy
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The Government began standing up the [[Federal Consumer Protection Agency of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consumer Protection Agency]] on 18.VI.{{AN|1760}}, naming the day the new watchdog created by the [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760|Cost of Living Relief Act]] is to open, and the search for the person who will run it began.

[[File:Federal Consumer Protection Agency logo.png|150px|thumb|left|The logo of the new agency, the [[Federal Consumer Protection Agency of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]; {{AN|1760}}.]]
The Agency is the enforcement half of the relief the Government passed last month. When it opens it is to review concentrated markets and recommend the remedies competition requires, make it simple for a household to change its energy, banking, or communications supplier, and bring down the cost of medicines through reference pricing and common purchase for the public programs. It is an independent statutory body that reports to the Cortes each year rather than to a department, and it works alongside the Antitrust and Market Competitiveness Bureau of the [[Department of Trade and Industry (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Trade and Industry]].

The Act gives the Government up to a year from the Royal Assent of 10.V to bring the Agency into being, and the Government said it would not use the whole of it. Its head is to be appointed by the [[Speaker of the Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Speaker of the Federal Assembly]] on the recommendation of the [[Budget and Finances Committee]], for a fixed term of six years and removable only by a two-thirds vote of the Assembly for cause, the same arm's-length appointment the Cortes wrote for its new [[Federal Budget and Costing Office|budget office]]. The Secretary of Trade and Industry, [[Jacqueline Betancourt]], will lay the Agency's reports before the Cortes.

Secretary Betancourt said the Government wanted the Agency working while the relief was still new. ''"The tax comes off the shopping basket now; the Agency is how we make sure the saving reaches the shelf and stays there,"'' she said. ''"We are not going to leave it a year in a drawer."''

[[José Manuel Montero]], the [[Leader of the Opposition of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Leader of the Opposition]], said the Government was staffing a bureaucracy it had not shown the country it needed. ''"They have found the money for the offices before they have found a single price the market would not have settled on its own,"'' he said. The [[Federal Humanist Party]] voted against the relief and its agency when the bill passed.
|tldr=''The Government began standing up the [[Federal Consumer Protection Agency of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consumer Protection Agency]] on 18.VI.{{AN|1760}}, fixing the day the watchdog created by the [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760|Cost of Living Relief Act]] is to open and opening the search for its head. When it opens the Agency is to police concentrated markets, make it simple to switch energy, banking, and communications suppliers, and cut medicine costs through reference pricing. An independent body reporting to the Cortes, its head is appointed by the [[Speaker of the Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Speaker]] on the [[Budget and Finances Committee]]'s recommendation for a six-year term, the same appointment as the new budget office. Secretary of Trade and Industry [[Jacqueline Betancourt]] said the Government would not "leave it a year in a drawer"; Leader of the Opposition [[José Manuel Montero]] called it a bureaucracy the country had not been shown it needed.''
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===24===
{{See also|Federal Forces of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Navy of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Punta Santiago}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE FEDERAL NAVY HOLDS ITS FIRST FLEET REVIEW AT PUNTA SANTIAGO AS THE KING TAKES THE SALUTE
|image=Susa-classCarrierPontecorvoFirmNAX.jpg
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''A Susa-class aircraft carrier of the [[Federal Navy of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Navy]]. The first Federal Fleet Review was held off [[Punta Santiago]] on 24.VI.{{AN|1760}}.''
|bullet1=The Review Is the First of Its Kind and Is Meant to Become a Tradition
|bullet2=King Sinchi Roca II Reviews the Fleet as Commander-in-Chief
|bullet3=The Susa-Class Carrier HMS Imperio del Sol Leads the Line at the Euran Fleet's Home Port
|bullet4=New Unmanned Vessels and a Consolidated Fleet Go on Show
|bullet5=Defense Secretary Escalante Says the Fleet Is Built Around a Clear Idea
|location=[[Punta Santiago]], Alduria
|body=The [[Federal Navy of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Navy]] held the first Federal Fleet Review off [[Punta Santiago]] on 24.VI.{{AN|1760}}, with King [[Sinchi Roca II]] reviewing the fleet as Commander-in-Chief, an occasion the [[Federal Forces of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Forces]] intend to keep as a standing tradition.

The Navy's flagship, the Susa-class carrier [[HMS Imperio del Sol]], led the line at the home of the Navy's Euran Fleet, and the cadets of the [[Royal Naval Academy of Punta Santiago]] paraded ashore. Six of the Navy's nuclear-powered [[Susa-class aircraft carrier|Susa-class]] ships are now in service, and the light carrier [[HMS Proclamacion]], in service since {{AN|1712}}, sailed in the line as well. The review put the Navy's new unmanned surface and undersea vessels on public view, and the doctrine of [[Distributed Sea Denial]] the Federation has built around them, in which cheap networked craft are meant both to contest a sea and to screen the fleet's own carriers and surface groups.

The vessels are part of [[Force 1760]], the defense modernization program that has governed the [[Federal Forces of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Forces]] since fiscal year {{AN|1756}}, authorized by the [[National Defense Authorization Act, 1755]]. Succeeding the [[Force 1752 initiative]], the buildup that had enlarged the force, the program has held defense spending steady at about two percent of the Federation's output and set out to consolidate and sustain what the buildup delivered rather than to expand it further. The Secretary of Defense, [[Rafael Escalante y Durán]], said the review showed the idea the program had been built on. ''"We did not set out to build a bigger fleet; we set out to make the fleet we have count,"'' he said. ''"Our carriers now sail behind a screen of unmanned craft an adversary cannot count, and cannot afford to hunt down one by one."''

The King, reviewing the line from the deck of the [[HMS Imperio del Sol|Imperio del Sol]], said the Federation owed its peace to the fleet that kept its coasts. ''"The sea has always been our first frontier and our first defense,"'' he said. Officers said the review would be held again, the first entry in a tradition the Navy has not kept before.

The review drew naval attachés from friendly states and a crowd along the Punta Santiago waterfront.
|tldr=''The [[Federal Navy of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Navy]] held the first Federal Fleet Review off [[Punta Santiago]] on 24.VI.{{AN|1760}}, with King [[Sinchi Roca II]] reviewing the fleet as Commander-in-Chief, an occasion the [[Federal Forces of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Forces]] mean to keep as a tradition. The flagship, the Susa-class carrier [[HMS Imperio del Sol]], led the line at the home of the Euran Fleet and the [[Royal Naval Academy of Punta Santiago]]. The review put the [[Force 1760]] modernization program and the Navy's new unmanned vessels on public view, with their doctrine of Distributed Sea Denial. Secretary of Defense [[Rafael Escalante y Durán]] said the Federation had set out not to build a bigger fleet but to make the one it has count.''
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==VII (Crescentis)==

===8===
{{See also|Raspur Pact|Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Proclamation of Punta Santiago}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE ACCORD NAMES SPECIAL ENVOYS TO REASSURE ITS RASPUR PACT ALLIES
|image=SANE Flag.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''The flag of the [[Raspur Pact]]. The government appointed three special envoys on 8.VII.{{AN|1760}} to reaffirm the Federation’s commitments to its allies.''
|bullet1=The Council of State Appoints the Envoys Under Its Standing Power, Without a Bill Before the Cortes
|bullet2=Three Special Envoys Will Steady the Federation's Standing Across the Raspur Pact
|bullet3=One Will Press the Pact's Stalled Institutional Revival at the Assembly in Lausanne
|bullet4=Another Is Named Envoy to the Community of Goldfield, the Pact's Inner Economic Union
|bullet5=Secretary of State Gabrielle Fitzgerald Instructs a Slate Her Own Wing Did Not Design
|bullet6=The Coalition's Left Says Its Promised War-Powers Oversight Again Went Unwritten
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The Federal Accord government named three Special Diplomatic Envoys on 8.VII.{{AN|1760}} to reassure Nouvelle Alexandrie's [[Raspur Pact]] allies that the Federation's commitments to the alliance stand. The slate leans toward continuity, and its emphasis sits closer to the Council of State's Pact-supporting wing than to its skeptics.

The [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] appoints Special Diplomatic Envoys to international organizations, the [[Raspur Pact]] among them, and the three names fill and extend that standing roster.<ref>[[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie]], Special envoys and counselors.</ref> No bill went before the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes]]; the power is the Council's own, exercised at its weekly meetings.

The most prominent of the three posts, Special Envoy for Raspur Pact Affairs, went to General (retired) Aurelio Sandoval, a former officer of the [[Grand Army of the Federation]] who sat on the Pact's Joint Military Council before it fell dormant. His charge is the revival of the alliance's lapsed institutions, work now centered on the Raspur Pact Parliamentary Assembly seated at [[Lausanne]]. Ambassador Inés Rocafuerte, a career diplomat, takes up a second post as envoy to the [[Community of Goldfield]], the economic union of Raspur Pact states, Nouvelle Alexandrie among them, that binds its members' currencies and finances more closely than the alliance at large. The third, Special Envoy for the Peacebuilding Fund, went to Ambassador Beatriz Solano and covers the Federation's contribution to the fund, the largest of any Pact member.

The roster's stress on reassurance tracks the position long held by Defense Secretary [[Rafael Escalante y Durán]], a retired general identified with keeping the Federation's obligations to its allies, more than the diplomacy-first line associated with Secretary of State [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]]. As a deputy Fitzgerald wrote the [[Federal Military Deployment and Oversight Act, 1730]] and moved three times to redirect spending away from the [[Force 1752 initiative]]; Escalante commanded New Alexandrian forces on the Allied Mission and has resisted calls from the left for neutrality or withdrawal. The two hold State and Defense in the same Cabinet, and the coalition has not settled the argument between them.<ref>[[Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], foreign policy.</ref>

The envoys are instructed through Fitzgerald's department. ''"They go to keep the Federation's word to its partners,"'' she said. ''"What that word commits us to, and for how long, remains for the Cortes to weigh."''

The appointments arrived without the stronger legislative oversight of war powers that the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]]'s left had pressed during the coalition talks and that never entered the Federal Accord agreement. Deputies on the government's own left noted that the condition had again gone unwritten.

[[José Manuel Montero]], the Leader of the Opposition, dismissed the slate. ''"You do not need three new envoys to tell our allies that we remain their allies,"'' said Montero, of the [[Federal Humanist Party]]. ''"This is a government announcing letters while its bills sit in committee."''

The envoys carry no new treaty power; any binding agreement they helped reach would still go to the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] for ratification. Their appointment comes four days before King Sinchi Roca II and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] leave [[Cárdenas]] on a goodwill tour of allied and partner capitals.
|tldr=''The Federal Accord government named three Special Diplomatic Envoys on 8.VII.{{AN|1760}} to reassure Nouvelle Alexandrie's [[Raspur Pact]] allies of the Federation's commitments, an appointment the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] makes under its standing power, without a bill. The continuity-minded roster, closer to Defense Secretary [[Rafael Escalante y Durán]]'s position than to the diplomacy-first line of Secretary of State [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]], covers the Pact's institutional revival, the [[Community of Goldfield]], and the Peacebuilding Fund. The coalition's left noted that its promised legislative oversight of war powers again went unwritten, and Opposition Leader [[José Manuel Montero]] called the slate announcement politics.''
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===12===
{{Main|Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760|Sinchi Roca II|Empress Clara}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}}{{team flag|Natopia|flag}}{{team flag|Order of the Holy Lakes|flag}} THE KING AND EMPRESS LEAVE CÁRDENAS ON THE ROYAL GOODWILL TOUR, BOUND FIRST FOR HUYENKULA
|image=NBC1760RoyalDeparture.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] depart the [[Palace of Carranza]] on 12.VII.{{AN|1760}} for their twelve-city goodwill tour, beginning in [[Huyenkula]].''
|bullet1=The Royal Party Departs the Palace of Carranza on the Morning of 12.VII
|bullet2=The First Call Abroad Is at Huyenkula, the Seat of the Order of the Holy Lakes
|bullet3=Queen Mother Abigail Travels With the King and Empress for the Opening Leg
|bullet4=Condor One Carries the Party; the Federal Guards Service Has the Escort
|bullet5=Twelve Cities Lie Ahead Before the Return to Cárdenas
|bullet6=Crown Princess Sayari Sees Her Parents Off and Remains in the Federation
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] left [[Cárdenas]] on the morning of 12.VII.{{AN|1760}}, departing the [[Palace of Carranza]] at the head of the joint goodwill tour that the [[Royal Household of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Royal Household]] had announced in Sementis (V).<ref name="announcement">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_ROYAL_HOUSEHOLD_ANNOUNCES_A_JOINT_GOODWILL_TOUR_OF_TWELVE_CITIES_FOR_THE_KING_AND_EMPRESS|"The Royal Household announces a joint goodwill tour of twelve cities for the King and Empress"]], ''[[NBC Newsfeed]]'', 9.V.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

A small crowd gathered at the palace gates for the send-off, and Crown Princess [[Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Sayari]], the heir apparent, saw her parents away before the party boarded. The King and the Empress travel together throughout the tour; their first call abroad is at [[Huyenkula]], the capital of [[Hurmu]] and the seat of the [[Order of the Holy Lakes]], the sovereign order among whose member houses both royal families are counted. From there the itinerary runs on through eleven further cities before the return to the capital.

The King's mother, Queen Mother [[Abigail Ayreon-Kalirion|Abigail]], departed with the party for the opening leg. A member of the Order in her own right, whose late mother had served as its Chancellor, the Queen Mother is to travel only as far as Huyenkula before returning to the Federation while the King and Empress continue.

The royal party flies aboard [[Condor One]], with the escort found by the [[Federal Forces of Nouvelle Alexandrie#Federal Guards Service|Federal Guards Service]]. The Royal Household has described the progress as a renewal of the Federation's friendships rather than the opening of any new commitment, and no treaty or accession is to be signed on the journey.

Crown Princess Sayari, who is expecting twins later in the year, remains in the Federation for the whole of the tour; the Household confirmed in Ventaris (III) that the Princess would keep to the Federation from Estivis (VIII) on medical advice.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#ROYAL_HOUSEHOLD_CONFIRMS_CROWN_PRINCESS_SAYARI_IS_EXPECTING_TWINS;_THEY_WILL_STAND_THIRD_AND_FOURTH_IN_LINE|"Royal Household confirms Crown Princess Sayari is expecting twins"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 6.III.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> Secretary of State [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]], who advised the tour, saw the party off at the palace. ''"Their Majesties carry the goodwill of the whole Federation with them,"'' she said. ''"They go to keep faith with friends who have kept it with us, and they will be very welcome wherever they call."''
|tldr=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] left the [[Palace of Carranza]] in [[Cárdenas]] on 12.VII.{{AN|1760}} at the head of the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]], the joint progress announced in Sementis (V). Their first call abroad is at [[Huyenkula]] in [[Hurmu]], the seat of the [[Order of the Holy Lakes]]; the King's mother, Queen Mother [[Abigail Ayreon-Kalirion|Abigail]], travels with them for that opening leg before returning home. The party flies aboard [[Condor One]] under a [[Federal Forces of Nouvelle Alexandrie#Federal Guards Service|Federal Guards Service]] escort, with eleven further cities to follow before the return to Cárdenas. Crown Princess [[Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Sayari]] saw her parents off and remains in the Federation.''
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===16===
{{Main|Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760|Sinchi Roca II|Empress Clara}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}}{{team flag|Natopia|flag}}{{team flag|Order of the Holy Lakes|flag}} THE KING AND EMPRESS KEEP FAITH AT HUYENKULA AS THE QUEEN MOTHER COMES HOME TO HURMU
|image=NBC1760HuyenkulaArrival.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]], Queen Mother [[Abigail Ayreon-Kalirion|Abigail]], and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] arrive in [[Huyenkula]] on 13.VII.{{AN|1760}} for the opening leg of the royal goodwill tour.''
|bullet1=A Homecoming for the Queen Mother, Received by Her Nephew Prince Utas at Huyenkula
|bullet2=The Order of the Holy Lakes Receives Both Royal Houses at the Palace of the Elenaran
|bullet3=At the Micras Treaty Organization the King Signals New Alexandrian Intent to Pursue the Convention of Huyenkula
|bullet4=Chancellor Avon-El Myksos Hosts the State Banquet as Bishop Villarreal Argento Leads a Service
|bullet5=Abigail and Princess Mariette Keep a Private Vigil at the Graves at Kaupang
|bullet6=A Visit of Faith and Kinship, Not of Alliance
|location=[[Huyenkula]], [[Hurmu]]
|body=King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] spent four days at [[Huyenkula]], the capital of [[Hurmu]] and the seat of the [[Order of the Holy Lakes]], on the opening leg of the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]]. For the King's mother, Queen Mother [[Abigail Ayreon-Kalirion|Abigail]], the call was also a homecoming.<ref name="announcement">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_ROYAL_HOUSEHOLD_ANNOUNCES_A_JOINT_GOODWILL_TOUR_OF_TWELVE_CITIES_FOR_THE_KING_AND_EMPRESS|"The Royal Household announces a joint goodwill tour of twelve cities for the King and Empress"]], ''[[NBC Newsfeed]]'', 9.V.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

Hurmu holds to a settled neutrality and belongs to no alliance bloc, and the Royal Household cast the visit as one of faith and kinship rather than a matter of alliance. Both the New Alexandrian and the Natopian royal houses are counted among the member houses of the Order of the Holy Lakes, whose seat at Huyenkula gave the leg its character. The New Alexandrian house holds its place in the Order by descent from the Queen Mother herself, so that her homecoming stood at the heart of the visit.

The royal party was received on 13.VII by [[Utas Enrique Naian|Prince Utas]], First Secretary of State of Hurmu and the King's first cousin, and lodged at the [[Palace of the Elenaran]]. The Queen Mother was reunited there with Prince Utas's mother, Princess [[Mariette of San Martín|Mariette]], her sister-in-law, who has long made her home in Hurmu to be near her son. Both Ladies of the Holy Lakes and both long widowed, the two women were bound alike to the late Prince [[David Ayreon-Kalirion|David]], the one his sister and the other his wife, and kept close company throughout the visit.

Over the days that followed, the Order of the Holy Lakes received the King and Empress at the Palace of the Elenaran, and Bishop [[Andres Villarreal Argento]] of the [[Alexandrian Nazarene Church of Hurmu]] led a service for the royal party. [[Marcus Avon-El Myksos]], who as [[Chancellor of the Order of the Holy Lakes|Chancellor]] is the Order's highest officer, gave a banquet in their honor.

At the headquarters of the [[Micras Treaty Organization]] at Huyenkula, the party was received at luncheon by Secretary-General [[Túpac Mendoza]], a New Alexandrian who had introduced the [[Convention of Huyenkula]] to the organization's General Assembly in {{AN|1755}}, and by Deputy Secretary-General [[Aabraham Jahanbani]], also from Hurmu. It was to that convention, the humanitarian instrument on the conduct of war drafted in the city and held in joint depositary by the Organization and the Order, that the King turned. Nouvelle Alexandrie has never acceded to it. The King said the Federation meant to change that. ''"The ideals set down in this city are already our own, and it is time we put our name to them,"'' he said. ''"I have asked my government to bring our accession forward."'' Were the Federation to accede, it would become the convention's first state party. Secretary of State [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]], who advised the tour, is to carry the matter to the Cortes on the party's return.

When the King and Empress flew on toward [[Noursala]] in [[Aerla]], the Queen Mother did not travel with them. She and Princess Mariette went instead to [[Kaupang]], in Hurmu's lake country, where Prince David had died in {{AN|1721}} and lies buried in the [[Chapel of the Ancient Lakes]]; his mother, [[Li Naomiai]], a former Chancellor of the Order, was laid in the same grave the year after. For the Queen Mother the grave holds her brother and her mother; for Princess Mariette, her husband and his mother. The two widows kept a private hour there before the Queen Mother returned to the Federation.

The Royal Household described the leg as it had described the tour, a renewal of old friendships and no new commitment save the one the King had named at the Convention's own house. From Huyenkula the King and Empress travel on to the partners of the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Concord Alliance]] and the [[Raspur Pact]] before the return to [[Cárdenas]].
|tldr=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] opened the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]] with four days at [[Huyenkula]], the seat of the [[Order of the Holy Lakes]], where both royal houses are member houses and where the King's mother, Queen Mother [[Abigail Ayreon-Kalirion|Abigail]], came home to [[Hurmu]]. Received by her nephew Prince [[Utas Enrique Naian|Utas]] and reunited with her sister-in-law Princess [[Mariette of San Martín|Mariette]], the Queen Mother stood at the heart of a leg of faith and family. At the [[Micras Treaty Organization]] the King said the Federation would seek to accede to the [[Convention of Huyenkula]], which it has never signed, and asked his government to bring the matter forward. After the King and Empress flew on to [[Aerla]], Abigail and Mariette kept a private vigil at the [[Chapel of the Ancient Lakes]] in [[Kaupang]], at the graves of Prince [[David Ayreon-Kalirion|David]] and [[Li Naomiai]].''
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===18===
{{Main|Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760|Sinchi Roca II|Empress Clara}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}}{{team flag|Natopia|flag}}{{team flag|Aerla|flag}} THE KING AND EMPRESS RENEW THE FEDERATION'S FRIENDSHIP WITH AERLA AT NOURSALA, RECEIVED BY ITS NEW PRESIDENT
|image=NBC1760NoursalaReception.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''President [[Alexander Kim]] receives King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] in [[Noursala]] on 18.VII.{{AN|1760}}, the second stop of their goodwill tour.''
|bullet1=President [[Alexander Kim]] Receives the King and Empress at [[Noursala]], Weeks Into His Term
|bullet2=The Second Call of the Tour Is Its First to a Partner of the Concord Alliance
|bullet3=[[Aerla]] Joined the Alliance in {{AN|1752}}; the Federation Is Its Founding Member and Largest Economy
|bullet4=The Federation's Sealift Once Carried the Aerlan-Glaceian Famine Mission to the Field
|bullet5=A Communion of Churches, Not Crowns, Binds the Countries
|bullet6=Noursala Also Names the Arrangement Under Which the Exiled [[Martina Vásquez]] Is Held There
|location=[[Noursala]], [[Aerla]]
|body=King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] arrived at [[Noursala]], the capital of [[Aerla]], on 18.VII.{{AN|1760}}, two days after leaving [[Huyenkula]], on the second call of the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]] and its first to a partner of the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Concord Alliance]]. President [[Alexander Kim]], only weeks into his own term, received the royal party in his native city.<ref name="announcement">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_ROYAL_HOUSEHOLD_ANNOUNCES_A_JOINT_GOODWILL_TOUR_OF_TWELVE_CITIES_FOR_THE_KING_AND_EMPRESS|"The Royal Household announces a joint goodwill tour of twelve cities for the King and Empress"]], ''[[NBC Newsfeed]]'', 9.V.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

[[Aerla]], located in northern Keltia, came late to the Federation's alliances: it acceded to the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Concord Alliance]] in {{AN|1752}} as the sixth member, while the Federation has been a founding member since {{AN|1734}} and remains the largest economy.<ref name="cato">[[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization]].</ref> The Royal Household cast the call as a renewal of that friendship rather than the making of a new one, the theme it had set for the whole tour, "Faith Kept, Friends Renewed."

When famine threatened the distant Grand Duchy of [[Lac Glacei]], Aerla raised an expeditionary relief force, and the Federation's sealift carried it across the ocean to reach the country. That effort, the [[Aerlan-Glaceian Famine Prevention Mission]], ran from {{AN|1753}} until it closed at the start of this year.<ref>[[Aerlan-Glaceian Famine Prevention Mission]].</ref> At Noursala the alliance keeps its newest and smallest coordination office, opened the year Aerla joined and now home to a forward post of [[Keltia Command (CATO)|Keltia Command]], the Federation-led command for the region.<ref>[[CATO National Coordination Offices]], NCO-Noursala.</ref>

The visit came two months after Aerla renewed its own government. President Kim, the fifth to hold the office, was elected on 1.V.{{AN|1760}} and took office on 20.V, succeeding Thomas Guthrie, whom a two-term limit had barred from standing again.<ref name="kim">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#AERLA_ELECTS_ALEXANDER_KIM_PRESIDENT_AS_THE_DEMOCRATS_HOLD_A_NARROWED_ASSEMBLY|"Aerla elects Alexander Kim president as the Democrats hold a narrowed Assembly"]], ''[[NBC Newsfeed]]'', 20.V.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> The tour had been planned under one Aerlan president and carried out under his successor, a point the Royal Household was content to make: the friendships of the Federation, it has held throughout, belong to states and not to the governments of a season.

About two-thirds of Aerlans belong to the [[Aerlan Nazarene Church]], a ''sui iuris'' church of some thirteen million faithful, led by the Patriarch of Mount Kane and in full communion with the [[Holy See of St. Natsanet]] of the [[Autocephalous Nazarene Church of Alexandria]], one of the Federation's principal churches.<ref>[[Aerlan Nazarene Church]].</ref> Senior clergy attended the state reception for the royal party. Neither sovereign belongs to that church: the King holds the Intian faith of his house and the Empress the [[Bovinism|Bovic faith]] of Natopia. The communion between the two churches binds the two countries, if not their crowns.

The two states' first treaty, the [[Treaty between Aerla and Nouvelle Alexandrie|Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation]] of {{AN|1722}}, long known by the city's name, granted mutual missions, rights of overflight, and visa-free travel; it carries no provision of trade, and none has been added since. The King had seen Noursala before, on the {{AN|1752}} state visit that brought Aerla into the alliance and took in the [[University of Noursala]].<ref>[[1752 CATO state visit to Aerla]].</ref> One courtesy from that visit is still outstanding: he had invited Aerla's president to make a reciprocal visit to the Federation, and no date for it has ever been set.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1752#AERLA_JOINS_CONCORD_ALLIANCE_AS_SIXTH_MEMBER_FOLLOWING_STATE_VISIT|"Aerla joins the Concord Alliance as its sixth member following a state visit"]], ''[[NBC Newsfeed]]'', 13.VII.{{AN|1752}}.</ref>

The city lends its name to a harder matter as well. Under the [[Noursala Arrangement]] of {{AN|1751}}, [[Martina Vásquez]], a former New Alexandrian legislator caught up in the [[Pact of Shadows scandal]], lives an indefinite house-arrest exile in the city. Aerla declined to extradite her, and the Federation dropped its extradition request in return for her cooperation with the inquiry.<ref>[[Noursala Arrangement]].</ref> Nouvelle Alexandrie pays a standing sum, now NAX€4.1 million a year, toward the arrangement, which was negotiated for Aerla by [[Lucas Kessler]], still President Kim's foreign minister.<ref name="kim" /> The government made no public mention of it during the visit; the two states have long kept it apart from the business of the alliance.

One difference is more openly held. Aerla subscribes to the [[Bliven Fund]], the endowment for the reconstruction of [[Anglien]] that the Federation declined to join in {{AN|1759}} and that makes its first transfer this year.<ref>[[Bliven Fund]].</ref> It sat beside the friendship the visit renewed rather than unsettling it. ''"Aerla came into our alliance as a friend, and a friend is what the Federation means to stay,"'' the King said at Noursala. ''"We have kept faith with one another before now, and we will keep it again."'' From Noursala the King and Empress fly on to [[Cossa]], in [[Vegno]], the next of the alliance's partners on the route.
|tldr=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] called at [[Noursala]], the capital of [[Aerla]], on 18.VII.{{AN|1760}}, the second stop of the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]] and its first to a partner of the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Concord Alliance]]. President Alexander Kim, elected weeks earlier in succession to the term-limited Thomas Guthrie, received the royal party in his native city. The Royal Household framed the call as a renewal of a young but active friendship, recalling the [[Aerlan-Glaceian Famine Prevention Mission]] the Federation's sealift had carried and the communion between Aerla's Nazarene church and one of the Federation's own, and held to its word that no new treaty would be signed. Noursala also lends its name to the {{AN|1751}} [[Noursala Arrangement]], under which the exiled New Alexandrian legislator [[Martina Vásquez]] is held under house arrest in the city at a standing New Alexandrian cost, a matter the two states keep apart from the alliance, and the allies differ over the [[Bliven Fund]] for [[Anglien]], which Aerla subscribes to and the Federation declined. From Noursala the tour flies on to [[Cossa]] in [[Vegno]].''
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|impact_economy={{steady}} 0
|impact_regional={{increase}} +1
|impact_international={{increase}} +1
}}

===21===
{{Main|Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760|Sinchi Roca II|Empress Clara}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}}{{team flag|Natopia|flag}}{{team flag|Vegno|flag}} THE KING RETURNS TO COSSA, WHERE VEGNO JOINED THE CONCORD ALLIANCE AFTER HIS FIRST STATE VISIT
|image=Palazzo Dilemma.jpeg
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''The [[Dilemma Palace]] in [[Cossa]], where President [[Antonio Visciglia]] received the King and Empress during their return visit to [[Vegno]].''
|bullet1=Twenty-Two Years After His First State Visit, the King Comes Back to Cossa
|bullet2=Vegno Became the Concord Alliance's First New Member in {{AN|1738}}, Following That State Visit
|bullet3=Today a Vegnese Leads the Concord Alliance as Its Secretary-General, Silvio Gianni Linard
|bullet4=President Antonio Visciglia Receives the King and Empress at the Dilemma Palace, Where Vegno Once Signed Its Accession
|bullet5=Empress Clara, Who Came in {{AN|1738}} as Queen Adelaide, Returns Now as a Reigning Sovereign
|bullet6=The First Friendship the Alliance Made Beyond Its Founders
|location=[[Cossa]], [[Vegno]]
|body=King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] arrived at [[Cossa]], the capital of the Republic of [[Vegno]], on 21.VII, crossing the Strait of Pearls from [[Aerla]] on the third leg of the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]]. They were received by President [[Antonio Visciglia]]. For the King the call was a return: his first state visit to the republic, more than twenty years past, had seen Vegno accede to the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Concord Alliance]].<ref name="announcement">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_ROYAL_HOUSEHOLD_ANNOUNCES_A_JOINT_GOODWILL_TOUR_OF_TWELVE_CITIES_FOR_THE_KING_AND_EMPRESS|"The Royal Household announces a joint goodwill tour of twelve cities for the King and Empress"]], ''[[NBC Newsfeed]]'', 9.V.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

In {{AN|1738}}, early in his reign, the King made one of his earliest state visits to Cossa, traveling with his wife, then Queen Adelaide. On its second day, in the Grand State Room of the [[Dilemma Palace]], Vegno signed its accession to the Concord Alliance, the first state to join the pact after its founders.<ref name="statevisit">[[State visit of King Sinchi Roca II to Vegno]].</ref> The alliance had been founded seven years earlier by [[Natopia]], [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]], and [[Oportia]], and Vegno's admission was its first expansion. Empress Clara, who was at the King's side in {{AN|1738}} as his consort, returns now as a sovereign who reigns in [[Natopia]] in her own right.

Since then, the first friend has become a central one. A Vegnese, [[Silvio Gianni Linard]], holds the alliance's Secretary-Generalship, and Cossa is home both to a Concord Alliance coordination office and to the alliance's [[Apollonia Command]]. The Federation holds the Deputy Secretary-Generalship in [[Jacqueline d'Alessio y Venegas]]. The two countries are partners twice over, in the Concord Alliance and in the wider [[Raspur Pact]] to which it belongs. The tie reaches into commerce as well: earlier this year the Vegnese airframer [[Vegno Aeronautica]] won its first New Alexandrian orders, widebodies for [[Trans Micras Airlines]] and narrowbodies for [[Chaski Air]], the first time a foreign builder had opened the market for the Federation's larger aircraft, long held by [[Javelin Industries]] alone.<ref name="aviation">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#FOREIGN_ORDERS_AND_NEW_SEAPLANES_POINT_TO_A_GROWING_NEW_ALEXANDRIAN_AVIATION_SECTOR|"Foreign orders and new seaplanes point to a growing New Alexandrian aviation sector"]], ''[[NBC Newsfeed]]'', 11.VI.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

The Dilemma Palace, the seat of the Vegnese presidency, gave the setting; its Grand State Room had witnessed the accession two decades before. The state reception itself, in the manner of the tour's other stops, was a matter for the host government, and the ministers of the [[Government of Vegno]] attended alongside President Visciglia.

The {{AN|1738}} visit had left more than a signature. Alongside the accession, the Federation and Vegno concluded three bilateral agreements: the [[Cultural Heritage Protection and Exchange Agreement]], the [[Green Technology Development Accord]], and the [[Digital Innovation Partnership]], the last of them founding a joint research center in Cossa that still stands. The Royal Household pointed to those undertakings as the substance of a friendship it had come to renew rather than to enlarge.

As at Huyenkula and Noursala, the Royal Household described the Vegno call as a renewal of an old friendship and not the making of a new commitment, and no treaty was signed at Cossa. ''"When I first came to this city, the alliance was three names on a page,"'' the King said. ''"I have come back to see how far those three names have carried."'' Secretary of State [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]], who advised the tour, remained in [[Cárdenas]]. From Cossa the King and Empress fly on to [[Johannsessbuurg]] in [[Anglien|the Free Duchy of Anglien]].
|tldr=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] called at [[Cossa]], the capital of [[Vegno]], on the third leg of the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]], received by President [[Antonio Visciglia]]. For the King it was a return to the city where, more than twenty years before, his first state visit had seen Vegno accede to the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Concord Alliance]], the pact's first expansion beyond its founders. Vegno is today a central member of the alliance and holds its Secretary-Generalship in [[Silvio Gianni Linard]]. Empress Clara, who had traveled to Cossa in {{AN|1738}} as Queen Adelaide, returned as a reigning sovereign. The Royal Household cast the visit, as it had the earlier stops, as a renewal of an old friendship rather than a new commitment, and no treaty was signed.''
|impact_stability={{steady}} 0
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|impact_economy={{steady}} 0
|impact_regional={{increase}} +1
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}}

===23===
{{See also|Institute of Public Opinion|New Alexandrian general election, 1759|Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE THIRD IOP/NBC POLL FINDS THE ACCORD'S LEAD WIDENING TO SIX AS APPROVAL RISES
|image=NBC1760VoteIntentionPollVII23.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''IOP/NBC News vote-intention graphic for the third regular poll of {{AN|1760}}, conducted 19-21.VII.''
|bullet1=The Alliance Leads the Humanists 37 to 31, Up From Four Points in IV
|bullet2=Government Approval Rises to a Net Plus 11, Up Four Points From IV
|bullet3=Cost of Living Still Leads the Concerns While Housing Eases Slightly
|bullet4=Elena Svensson Moves Back Ahead as the Best-Liked Leader
|bullet5=Voters Are Now Evenly Split on the Federation's Direction After Tilting Negative in IV
|bullet6=This VII Reading Is a Snapshot, Not a Forecast of the Government's Fate
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The third regular [[Institute of Public Opinion|IOP]]/NBC News poll of {{AN|1760}}, conducted 19-21.VII, finds the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] widening its ballot lead. Net approval is up four points on IV, and voters are now divided 46 to 46 on the Federation's direction.<ref name="pollVII">Institute of Public Opinion for NBC News, third regular poll of {{AN|1760}}, conducted 19-21.VII.{{AN|1760}}; margin of error plus or minus 2.2 percent.</ref>

On a fresh ballot the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]] leads the [[Federal Humanist Party]] 37 percent to 31, widening its margin to six points from four in IV. The [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] holds at 14 and the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] at 12. Independents and other candidates stay at 4 percent, and the [[Republican Party of Oportia]] at 2.

Forty-nine percent approve of the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] administration and 38 percent disapprove, a net approval of plus 11, up from plus 7 in IV and still short of the plus 16 recorded in I. The change is in the public's judgment of the government in office; the party vote shifts by a single point.

The cost of living remains the leading concern at 37 percent, down two points from IV, while housing eases to 20 from 21. The economy and jobs register 18 percent and the public debt 14, with 11 percent naming another issue or offering no opinion. Since the IV poll, the Government's [[National Housing Reform and Expansion Act, 1760]]<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_ACCORD'S_HOUSING_REFORM_BECOMES_LAW,_LEADING_WITH_SUPPLY_AND_BINDING_TENANT_PROTECTIONS_TO_NEW_BUILDING|"The Accord's housing reform becomes law, leading with supply and binding tenant protections to new building"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 8.V.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> and [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]]<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_ACCORD'S_COST-OF-LIVING_RELIEF_BECOMES_LAW,_CUTTING_TAX_ON_ESSENTIALS_AND_CREATING_A_CONSUMER_WATCHDOG|"The Accord's cost-of-living relief becomes law, cutting tax on essentials and creating a consumer watchdog"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 10.V.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> have become law, completing the package that began with the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]].<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_ACCORD'S_FIRST_BUDGET_BECOMES_LAW_AS_THE_CORTES_CLEARS_ITS_APPROPRIATIONS_AND_TAXATION_ACT|"The Accord's first budget becomes law as the Cortes clears its Appropriations and Taxation Act"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 22.IV.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> The poll asks what worries voters, and the cost of living still comes first.

The confidence measures also improve. Fifty-one percent think the government will govern effectively, against 39 percent who lack confidence. Voters are now at 45 to 45 on whether the coalition will last a full term, after a negative 43 to 47 reading in IV.

[[Elena Svensson]] leads the tested field at net favorability of plus 16, ahead of independent deputy [[Piti Gándara]], whose net favorability is unchanged at plus 14. [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] rises four points to plus 9, and [[José Manuel Montero]] slips to minus 15. The numbers measure standing in this poll; they do not determine who will win a future election or how any deputy will vote.

Voters are evenly divided on the direction of the Federation, with 46 percent saying right direction and 46 wrong direction, and 8 percent offering no opinion. In IV the reading had turned negative for the first time in the {{AN|1760}} series, at 44 right and 48 wrong.

Nicolás Arreola, the Institute's director, again cautioned that a single quarter's reading is a snapshot of the public mood, not a verdict on the government's future.
|tldr=''The third regular [[Institute of Public Opinion|IOP]]/NBC News poll of {{AN|1760}}, conducted 19-21.VII, finds the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]] leading the [[Federal Humanist Party]] 37 to 31 on a fresh ballot, a six-point margin against four in IV. Government approval is 49 to 38, a net plus 11 against plus 7 in IV; the cost of living remains the top concern. [[Elena Svensson]] moves back ahead at net plus 16, confidence in a full coalition term is now evenly split, and direction of the Federation stands at 46 right against 46 wrong. The reading is a snapshot of the public mood, not a forecast of an election or a bill's fate.''
|impact_stability={{steady}} 0
|impact_approval={{increase}} +1
|impact_economy={{steady}} 0
|impact_regional={{steady}} 0
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====IOP/NBC News Public Opinion Polling====
=====National Party Voting Intention=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''NATIONAL PARTY VOTING INTENTION''' ''If a general election were held today, which party would you support?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 19-21.VII.{{AN|1760}}
! Party
! Percentage in Poll
! Change Since IV.{{AN|1760}}
|-
| [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] ([[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]])
| 37.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Federal Humanist Party]] ([[FHP]])
| 31.0%
| {{decrease}} −1.0%
|-
| [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] ([[Federal Consensus Party|FCP]])
| 14.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| [[Civic Governance Alliance]] ([[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]])
| 12.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| Independents & Other Candidates
| 4.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| [[Republican Party of Oportia]] ([[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]])
| 2.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|}

=====Government Approval=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''GOVERNMENT APPROVAL''' ''Do you approve or disapprove of the job the Federal Accord government is doing?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 19-21.VII.{{AN|1760}}
! Response
! Percentage
! Change Since IV.{{AN|1760}}
|-
| Approve
| 49.0%
| {{increase}} +2.0%
|-
| Disapprove
| 38.0%
| {{decrease}} −2.0%
|-
| No Opinion
| 13.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
! Net Approval
! {{increase}} +11.0%
! {{increase}} +4.0%
|}

=====Most Important Issue=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FACING THE FEDERATION''' ''What is the most important issue facing the Federation today?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 19-21.VII.{{AN|1760}}
! Issue
! Percentage
|-
| The cost of living
| 37.0%
|-
| Housing
| 20.0%
|-
| The economy and jobs
| 18.0%
|-
| The public debt
| 14.0%
|-
| Other / No opinion
| 11.0%
|}

=====Confidence in the Government=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''CONFIDENCE IN THE GOVERNMENT''' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 19-21.VII.{{AN|1760}}
! Question
! Confident
! Not confident
! Unsure
|-
| Will the government govern effectively? || 51.0% || 39.0% || 10.0%
|-
| Will the coalition last a full term? || 45.0% || 45.0% || 10.0%
|}

=====Party Leader Favorability Ratings=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''PARTY LEADER FAVORABILITY RATINGS''' % of registered voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 19-21.VII.{{AN|1760}}
! Leader
! Favorable
! Unfavorable
! No Opinion
! Net Favorability
! Change
|-
| [[Elena Svensson]] ([[CGA]]) Vice-Premier
| 48.0%
| 32.0%
| 20.0%
| {{increase}} +16.0%
| {{increase}} +2.0%
|-
| [[Yuiza Bohi'o]] ([[Wakara People's Party|WPP]]) Leader
| 39.0%
| 26.0%
| 35.0%
| {{increase}} +13.0%
| {{increase}} +2.0%
|-
| [[Piti Gándara]] (Independent) Independent Deputy for [[Alduria]]
| 30.0%
| 16.0%
| 54.0%
| {{increase}} +14.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] ([[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]]) President of the Government
| 46.0%
| 37.0%
| 17.0%
| {{increase}} +9.0%
| {{increase}} +4.0%
|-
| [[Francisco Gabaza]] ([[FCP]]) Leader
| 39.0%
| 35.0%
| 26.0%
| {{increase}} +4.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| [[Sofia Laurent]] ([[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]]) Leader
| 18.0%
| 18.0%
| 64.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| [[José Manuel Montero]] ([[FHP]]) Leader of the Opposition
| 36.0%
| 51.0%
| 13.0%
| {{decrease}} −15.0%
| {{decrease}} −2.0%
|}

=====Direction of the Federation=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''DIRECTION OF THE FEDERATION''' ''Do you think the Federation is headed in the right direction or the wrong direction?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 19-21.VII.{{AN|1760}}
! Response
! Percentage
! Change Since IV.{{AN|1760}}
|-
| Right Direction
| 46.0%
| {{increase}} +2.0%
|-
| Wrong Direction
| 46.0%
| {{decrease}} −2.0%
|-
| No Opinion
| 8.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|}

===24===
{{Main|Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760|Sinchi Roca II|Empress Clara}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}}{{team flag|Natopia|flag}}{{team flag|Anglien|flag}} EMPRESS CLARA IS RECEIVED BY HER FATHER, THE SOVEREIGN DUKE, AS THE ROYAL TOUR REACHES ANGLIEN
|image=NBC1760AnglienRoyalReception.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''Sovereign Duke [[Edgard III]] receives his daughter, Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]], and King [[Sinchi Roca II]] at the Palace of the Crown in [[Johannsessbuurg]], 24.VII.{{AN|1760}}.''
|bullet1=Sovereign Duke Edgard III Welcomes His Daughter and the King to the Palace of the Crown
|bullet2=Clara's {{AN|1753}} Rescript Authorized the Intervention That Freed Her Father's Duchy
|bullet3=Through Letters Patent of {{AN|1758}}, the Alexandrian Imperial Dignity Passes to Clara, Then to Sayari
|bullet4=Prime Minister Klaes Boerhaaf and His Ministers Attend the State Dinner
|bullet5=Wreath Laid by the King and Empress at Plein fonn Versoening
|bullet6=Bliven Fund, Which the Federation Declined to Join, Makes Its First Transfer This Year
|location=[[Johannsessbuurg]], [[Anglien]]
|body=King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] arrived at [[Johannsessbuurg]], the capital of the [[Anglien|Free Duchy of Anglien]], on 24.VII, the fourth leg of the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]]. They were the guests of the Empress's father, the [[Sovereign Duke of Anglien|Sovereign Duke]] [[Edgard III]], and of his son and heir, Prince [[Edgard Nathan]].

As Empress of the Natopians, Clara signed the rescript of XIII.{{AN|1753}} that authorized the [[Natopian intervention in Anglien|Natopian-led intervention]], which expelled the [[Nü Krantisk Repüblik]] from the duchy in {{AN|1754}}. During the occupation her father publicly called on her by name to act.<ref name="leg4intervention">[[Natopian intervention in Anglien]].</ref>

Now 95, the Duke spent his adult life in Natopia as Duke of Triegon and consort to Empress [[Vadoma I]], holding his Anglian title as a heraldic dignity until the intervention.<ref name="leg4edgard">[[Edgard III]].</ref><ref name="leg4duke">[[Sovereign Duke of Anglien]].</ref> He arrived by Natopian Navy vessel after the capital was secured and has kept his court in Johannsessbuurg since. Under the [[Constitution of Anglien|constitution]] ratified in {{AN|1759}} he is a ceremonial head of state.<ref name="leg4duke" />

In {{AN|1758}}, by letters patent issued as titular Emperor of the Alexandrians, the Duke named Clara his successor to that dignity. After her it passes to Crown Princess [[Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Sayari]], and from Sayari onward it is held with the Crown of [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]].<ref name="leg4edgard" />

Before the reception the King and Empress laid a wreath at [[Plein fonn Versoening]], the square built on the site of the demolished Governing Board complex, whose memorial wall carries the names of those killed under the occupation. The Duke then received the party in the Throne Hall of the Palace of the Crown, where the [[Charter of Anglien]] was promulgated in {{AN|1754}}, and gave a state dinner that evening in the State Dining Room.

Prime Minister [[Klaes Boerhaaf]], Chancellor [[Hendrik Braam]], and the Speaker of the [[Diet of Anglien|Diet]], [[Marta Svensdottir]], attended with members of the [[Council of Ministers of Anglien|Council of Ministers]]. Among them was Minister of External Affairs [[Sanne Okkerse]], who, as an émigré in Natopia during the occupation, had pressed the Anglian case at the Empress's court before the rescript was signed.<ref>[[Sanne Okkerse]].</ref> Ambassador [[Beatriz Salazar]], who has headed the Federation's embassy in the city since {{AN|1754}}, also attended.

''"My daughter signed the rescript that brought me here,"'' the Duke said at the dinner. ''"It is a better thing to receive her at my own door."'' ''"I signed it as Empress,"'' Clara replied. ''"I have come as your daughter."''

At sea, a New Alexandrian naval task force from [[Punta Santiago]] supplied the intervention's principal maritime strength.<ref name="leg4intervention" /> After the liberation the Federation led the civilian advisory office of the [[Concord Alliance Military Assistance Mission to Anglien|Concord Alliance's assistance mission]],<ref>[[Concord Alliance Military Assistance Mission to Anglien]].</ref> and a New Alexandrian diplomat, [[Alejandro Fuentes-Villanueva]], served as the alliance's [[CATO Commissioner of Peace for Anglien|Commissioner of Peace]] until the constitution was certified in {{AN|1759}}.<ref>[[CATO Commissioner of Peace for Anglien]].</ref>

On 20.II.{{AN|1759}}, during the [[Recession of 1757]], the Federation declined to subscribe to the [[Bliven Fund]], the endowment Anglien's transitional government designed to carry the duchy past the end of the reconstruction grants. Five Concord states capitalized the fund instead, Natopia supplying 84 percent, and it makes its first transfer this year, 4.25 percent of its value. The Federation had invested around 12 billion [[Anglian mark|Anglian marks]] in the [[Aquaria Modernization and Expansion Program|Aquaria]] nuclear new-build in {{AN|1757}}. Its Treasury and Federal Bank have undertaken to advise the fund's board on custody and audits.<ref>[[Bliven Fund]].</ref> Neither the King nor the Duke raised the fund in public, and the Royal Household said the matter rested with the Federal and Anglian governments.

As at the tour's earlier stops, no treaty was signed, and from Johannsessbuurg the King and Empress fly on to [[Tirlar]], the first of three stops in Natopia.
|tldr=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] called at [[Johannsessbuurg]] on the fourth leg of the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]], where the Empress's father, Sovereign Duke [[Edgard III]] of [[Anglien]], received them at the Palace of the Crown. As Empress of the Natopians, Clara had signed the {{AN|1753}} rescript that authorized the intervention ending the occupation of the duchy. Anglien's Prime Minister and cabinet dined with the royal party. The visit fell in the first payout year of the [[Bliven Fund]], which the Federation declined to join in {{AN|1759}}; the Royal Household said the matter rested with the Federal and Anglian governments.''
|impact_stability={{steady}} 0
|impact_approval={{steady}} 0
|impact_economy={{steady}} 0
|impact_regional={{increase}} +1
|impact_international={{increase}} +1
}}

==VIII (Estivis)==

===2===
{{Main|Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760|Sinchi Roca II|Empress Clara}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}}{{team flag|Anglien|flag}} ANGLIAN POLICE ARREST MAN OVER GRENADE THAT FAILED TO EXPLODE AT THE ROYAL WREATH-LAYING
|image=NBC1760ReconciliationSquare.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''[[Plein fonn Versoening]] in [[Johannsessbuurg]]. Police said a grenade thrown during the royal wreath-laying on 24.VII.{{AN|1760}} failed to detonate.''
|bullet1=Device Thrown During the 24.VII Wreath-Laying at Plein fonn Versoening Did Not Go Off
|bullet2=Joint Anglian and New Alexandrian Inquiry Led to an Arrest in Johannsessbuurg on 1.VIII
|bullet3=Police Say the Suspect Once Belonged to an NKR Study Group and Acted Alone
|bullet4=Officials Say Any Prosecution Would Go to the Court That Succeeded the NKR Tribunals
|bullet5=Royal Household Says the Tour Continues as Planned
|bullet6=Disclosure Was Held Back While the Inquiry Ran, Police Said
|location=[[Johannsessbuurg]], [[Anglien]]
|body=Police in [[Anglien]] have arrested a man suspected of throwing a hand grenade toward King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] as they laid a wreath at [[Plein fonn Versoening]] in [[Johannsessbuurg]] on 24.VII,<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#EMPRESS_CLARA_IS_RECEIVED_BY_HER_FATHER,_THE_SOVEREIGN_DUKE,_AS_THE_ROYAL_TOUR_REACHES_ANGLIEN|"Empress Clara is received by her father, the Sovereign Duke, as the royal tour reaches Anglien"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 24.VII.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> the [[Ducal Police Service of Anglien|Ducal Police Service]] said on 2.VIII.{{AN|1760}}. The grenade, wrapped in a cloth, landed short of the paved ceremonial area around the square's reflecting pool and did not detonate, police said.

Neither the royal party nor the crowd noticed at the time, according to the police. Officers of the [[Anglian Ducal Guard]] found the device while clearing the square after the ceremony, and the King and Empress were told that evening, after the state dinner at the Palace of the Crown. The police made no announcement until after the arrest.

The suspect, a man from Johannsessbuurg whose name has not been released, was detained on 1.VIII, the first anniversary of the constitution's entry into force, by the Special Operations Bureau, the joint intervention unit of the police and the Ducal Guard. The inquiry drew on the protective intelligence staff of the Federal Royal Guards, the New Alexandrian unit charged with protecting the King.<ref name="plotdps">[[Ducal Police Service of Anglien]].</ref><ref>[[Federal Forces of Nouvelle Alexandrie]].</ref><ref>[[Government of Anglien]].</ref> Police said he had belonged to an NKR study group before the liberation and had kept in contact with former members, but that they had found no sign of an organized network behind the attack. He has not been charged, and no lawyer acting for him had commented by 2.VIII.

The [[Special NKR Tribunals of Anglien|Special NKR Tribunals]] cannot hear the case, because they cover only acts committed through IX.{{AN|1756}}. Chapter X of the [[Constitution of Anglien|constitution]] established the [[Court for Crimes Against the Constitutional Order]] as the permanent successor to their jurisdiction.<ref>[[Special NKR Tribunals of Anglien]].</ref><ref>[[Constitution of Anglien]].</ref> Officials said any prosecution would be brought before that court.

''"We treated it as an attempt on the lives of the King and Empress from the moment it was found,"'' Director-General [[Jan-Hendrik Velsink]] of the Ducal Police Service said in a statement. ''"We believe he acted alone."''

The NKR underground collapsed as an organized force after the [[St. Aldric's Day Surge]] of {{AN|1756}}, in which its commander, [[Maich Grohndgraß]], was killed.<ref>[[St. Aldric's Day Surge]].</ref> During the surge, on 15.VII.{{AN|1756}}, a plainclothes police detail stopped a car bomb at the [[Cathedral of St. Aldric]].<ref name="plotdps" />

The [[Royal Household of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Royal Household]] said the tour would keep to its published itinerary. The royal party is scheduled to reach [[Tirlar]] on 3.VIII.
|tldr=''Anglian police said on 2.VIII that they had arrested a man over a hand grenade thrown toward King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] during the wreath-laying at [[Plein fonn Versoening]] in [[Johannsessbuurg]] on 24.VII, which failed to detonate. Police say the suspect, detained after a joint Anglian and New Alexandrian inquiry, once belonged to an NKR study group and acted alone; he has not been charged. The Royal Household said the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760|tour]] continues as planned.''
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===3===
{{Main|Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760|Sinchi Roca II|Empress Clara}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}}{{team flag|Natopia|flag}}{{team flag|Arboria|flag}} EMPRESS CLARA WELCOMES THE KING TO HER OWN COUNTRY AT TIRLAR
|image=NBC1760TirlarReception.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] and King [[Sinchi Roca II]] with Princess [[Rosamund]] at the state reception in [[Tirlar]] on 3.VIII.{{AN|1760}}.''
|bullet1=For the First Time on the Tour, the King Arrives as His Wife's Guest
|bullet2=Chancellor Marco Lungo III and Princess Rosamund of Arboria Greet the Royal Party
|bullet3=Rosamund, 87, Is the Wife of Prince Utas, Who Welcomed the Tour at Huyenkula
|bullet4=Arboria's Princess Guaranteed the Costs of Operation Sacred Ground, Planned Under Clara's Regency
|bullet5=Treaty of {{AN|1721}} Makes Sayari Heir to the Federation and Nathan Heir to Natopia
|bullet6=Ambassador Charlotte Beaumont Attends the Reception for the Federation
|location=[[Tirlar]], [[Natopia]]
|body=King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] reached [[Tirlar]] on 3.VIII.{{AN|1760}}, opening the three Natopian stops of the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]].<ref name="announcement" /> Clara has reigned in [[Natopia]] in her own right since {{AN|1752}}, and for the first time on the tour the King arrived as his wife's guest.

Tirlar is the capital of the [[Arboria|Principality of Arboria]], in the Apollonian portion of [[Western Natopia]], and a garrison city of the [[Natopian Defense Force]] and of the [[Raspur Pact]]'s [[Apollonia Command]].<ref name="leg5tirlar">[[Tirlar]].</ref> The [[Chancellor of Natopia|Chancellor]], [[Marco Lungo III]], came from [[Lindström]] to meet the party with Princess [[Rosamund]] of Arboria.<ref>[[Marco Lungo III]].</ref>

Rosamund gave a state reception for the King and Empress that evening, attended by Chancellor Lungo and by officers of the Government of Northern Arboria, which sits in the city.<ref>[[Arboria]].</ref> ''"We have been guests together in four capitals,"'' the Empress said at the reception. ''"In Tirlar it is my turn to be the host."'' [[Charlotte Beaumont]], appointed the Federation's ambassador in Lindström this year, was among the guests.<ref>[[Charlotte Beaumont]].</ref>

Princess of Arboria since {{AN|1743}}, Rosamund is 87. She first left Constancia as a girl, on her father's [[Great Tour of 1687]]. [[Jaime Augusto Joaquin Primo de Aguilar]], [[Autokrator of Constancia]] at the time, called at Tirlar on that progress as well as at Lindström, Redquill, and [[Cárdenas]].<ref name="leg5rosamund">[[Rosamund]].</ref><ref>[[Great Tour of 1687]].</ref> In {{AN|1700}}, at a ceremony in Tirlar, her mother vested her as Duchess of Mar Sara and declared her heiress to the principality.<ref name="leg5tirlar" /><ref name="leg5rosamund" /> In {{AN|1706}} she married [[Utas Enrique Naian|Prince Utas]], the King's first cousin, who received the royal party at [[Huyenkula]] on the tour's opening leg.<ref name="leg5rosamund" /><ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_KING_AND_EMPRESS_KEEP_FAITH_AT_HUYENKULA_AS_THE_QUEEN_MOTHER_COMES_HOME_TO_HURMU|"The King and Empress keep faith at Huyenkula as the Queen Mother comes home to Hurmu"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 16.VII.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

[[Operation Sacred Ground]], part of the [[Elijahn Restoration]], was launched on 2.VIII.{{AN|1752}}. Clara, then Regent for her mother, Empress [[Vadoma I]], oversaw its operational planning.<ref name="leg5clara">[[Empress Clara]].</ref> Rosamund guaranteed the operation's costs, from her own funds where needed, and the Government of Northern Arboria had merchant shipping procured and marshaled at Tirlar for the maritime corridor. A New Alexandrian contingent, [[Arctic Base Thorgils|Task Force "Thorgils"]], served in the operation.<ref>[[Operation Sacred Ground]].</ref>

The two crowns pass separately under the [[Treaty of Dynastic Separation]], signed at Vista de Nada in Lindström on 15.III.{{AN|1721}}. The King, heir to the Federation at the time, married Princess Adelaide, as the Empress was known before her accession, five months later. The treaty makes their eldest child, Crown Princess [[Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Sayari]], heir to the Federation, and their second, Prince [[Nathan, Prince of Lindström|Nathan]], heir to Natopia after his mother.<ref>[[Treaty of Dynastic Separation]].</ref>

Natopia and the Federation are allies in both the Raspur Pact and the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Concord Alliance]], which the two states founded with [[Oportia]] on 9.X.{{AN|1731}} as the Tripartite Treaty Organization.<ref>[[Foreign affairs of Nouvelle Alexandrie]].</ref><ref>[[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization]].</ref>

No agreements were announced at Tirlar. The royal party travels next to [[Chryse]] in the [[Benacian Union]] and returns to Natopia afterward for Redquill and Lindström.
|tldr=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] opened the Natopian stops of the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]] at [[Tirlar]], capital of [[Arboria]], with the Empress as host in her own country. Chancellor [[Marco Lungo III]] and Princess [[Rosamund]], wife of the King's cousin Prince Utas, received the party. Arboria had underwritten [[Operation Sacred Ground]], planned under Clara's regency. The tour continues to [[Chryse]].''
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===9===
{{Main|Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760|Sinchi Roca II|Empress Clara}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}}{{team flag|Benacian Union|flag}} THE BENACIAN UNION HOSTS THE KING AND EMPRESS FOR FOUR DAYS IN CHRYSE AND GOLDFIELD
|image=NBC1760ChryseFrescoVisit.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''King Sinchi Roca II and Empress Clara visit a fresco studio at the Chrysean Academy of Fine Arts during their goodwill tour.''
|bullet1=First Consul Lors Bakker-Kalirion Receives the Royal Couple at the New Residency in Chryse
|bullet2=Museum Visit, Fresco Studio and Ballet Evening Fill the Second Day
|bullet3=Princess Sofia Brings Her Twin Sons From Ketsire
|bullet4=Couple Tour the Bothan Institute, Where Princess Darya Was Educated
|bullet5=Ransenar's Congress Once Weighed Offering Its Crown to Both Their Families
|bullet6=From Goldfield, the Tour Heads Back to Natopia for Redquill
|location=[[Chryse]], [[Benacian Union]]
|body=King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] ended four days in the [[Benacian Union]], a partner of the Federation in the [[Raspur Pact]], on 9.VIII.{{AN|1760}}, the Union's stop on the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]].<ref name="announcement" /> The visit began in the capital, [[Chryse]], and closed with an audience in [[Goldfield]] with King [[Cosgrach I]] of [[Ransenar]], whose crown both their families were once considered for.

[[First Consul of the Benacian Union|First Consul]] [[Lors Bakker-Kalirion]], the Union's head of state and government since {{AN|1752}}, received the couple at the New Residency, his official residence, when they arrived on 6.VIII.<ref>[[First Consul of the Benacian Union]].</ref> That evening they attended a gala at the [[Chrysean Opera House]], home of the [[Benacian Philharmonic Orchestra]].<ref>[[Chrysean Opera House]].</ref>

Much of the second day went to institutions that grew up under [[Ayesha al-Osman]], who governed Chryse for half a century until {{AN|1741}}.<ref>[[Rulers of Chryse]].</ref> In the morning the royal couple toured the Khaz Modan Hall of the [[Benacian Museum of Antiquities]], of which she was patroness,<ref>[[Benacian Museum of Antiquities]].</ref> and later a fresco studio at the [[Chrysean Academy of Fine Arts]].<ref>[[Chrysean Academy of Fine Arts]].</ref> They ended the day at a performance by the [[Chrysean Ballet Company]], formed under her patronage in {{AN|1715}}.<ref>[[Chrysean Ballet Company]].</ref>

Princess [[Princess Sofia, Duchess of Hualla|Sofia, Duchess of Hualla]], the King's sister, came from her home in [[Ketsire]] with her twin sons, [[Aldillo Twins|Titu Inca Sumaq Aldillo and Malkir Sisa Qori Aldillo]], for a family day on 8.VIII. She has lived in the Union since her marriage to the late [[Brugen Aldef]].<ref>[[Princess Sofia, Duchess of Hualla]].</ref> Ayesha's son, [[Ardashir Kalir]], who succeeded her as High Commissioner for Chryse in {{AN|1741}}, gave a private lunch for the party.<ref>[[Ardashir Kalir]]; [[Rulers of Chryse]].</ref>

Afterward they crossed to the island of [[Botha]] to visit the [[Bothan Institute]], the girls' school Ayesha founded in the [[Palace of Botha]] in {{AN|1704}}.<ref>[[Bothan Institute]].</ref> She died at the palace in {{AN|1747}}.<ref>[[Ayesha al-Osman]].</ref> Princess [[Darya Ardashirdokht Osman|Darya]], daughter of the Khan of Raspur and wife of the couple's son Prince [[Nathan, Prince of Lindström|Nathan]], was a pupil there.<ref>[[Darya Ardashirdokht Osman]].</ref>

On the last day the royal party took the high-speed train to Goldfield,<ref>[[Chryse]].</ref> the capital of Ransenar, where King Cosgrach received them.<ref>[[Cosgrach I]].</ref> In {{AN|1706}}, when Ransenar's Congress was searching for a monarch, the foreign candidates it sounded out included the future Empress [[Vadoma I]], Clara's mother, who signaled she might accept, and the King's grandfather, King [[Manco Cápac|Manco Cápac I]], who turned it down. Congress settled instead on [[Ruadh Aldric]], whose candidacy Nouvelle Alexandrie and the Benacian Union both helped fund. His son Cosgrach, head of the [[House of Aldric]], has reigned since {{AN|1752}}.<ref>[[Ransenar]].</ref> ''"My grandfather turned this crown down, and my wife's mother came close to taking it,"'' the King said in Goldfield. ''"It is a pleasure to meet the man who wears it."''

Goldfield is one of the three seats of the [[Community of Goldfield]], the economic union whose members include the Benacian Union, Nouvelle Alexandrie and Natopia.<ref>[[Community of Goldfield]].</ref> No agreements were announced during the visit. The royal party returns to Natopia for Redquill, in [[Neridia (demesne)|Neridia]].
|tldr=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] spent four days in the [[Benacian Union]]. First Consul [[Lors Bakker-Kalirion]] received them in [[Chryse]], where they toured cultural institutions from the era of [[Ayesha al-Osman]], lunched with her son [[Ardashir Kalir]], and spent a day with the King's sister, Princess [[Princess Sofia, Duchess of Hualla|Sofia]], and her twin sons. In [[Goldfield]], King [[Cosgrach I]] of [[Ransenar]] received them; Ransenar's Congress had once sounded out both their families for its crown. The tour returns to Natopia.''
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===11===
{{Main|Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760|Sinchi Roca II|Empress Clara}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}}{{team flag|Natopia|flag}}{{team flag|Neridia|flag}} THE KING AND EMPRESS VISIT THEIR SON-IN-LAW'S FAMILY AT REDQUILL, WHERE THE KING'S AUNT RECEIVES THEM
|image=NBC1760RedquillFamilyReception.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] greets his aunt, [[Princess Nayaraq, Princess Royal|Princess Nayaraq]], at the reception hosted by Prince [[Janus of Neridia|Janus]] in [[Redquill]] on 11.VIII.{{AN|1760}}. Prince [[Elian]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] join the family gathering, three days before Nayaraq and Elian’s 75th wedding anniversary.''
|bullet1=Prince Janus Hosts His Wife's Parents While Crown Princess Sayari Stays Home Expecting Twins
|bullet2=Princess Nayaraq, 96, Is the King's Aunt and the Eldest Daughter of Manco Cápac I
|bullet3=Visit Falls Three Days Before Nayaraq and Prince Elian's 75th Wedding Anniversary
|bullet4=Redquill Houses the Neridian Commodities Exchange for Raspur Pact Trade
|bullet5=Treaty of {{AN|1721}} Makes Any Grandchild Who Could Inherit Both Crowns Renounce One
|bullet6=Constancia's Great Tour of {{AN|1687}} Also Called at Redquill
|location=Redquill, [[Natopia]]
|body=King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] reached Redquill on 11.VIII.{{AN|1760}} as guests of their son-in-law, Prince [[Janus of Neridia|Janus]], at the second of the three Natopian stops on the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]].<ref name="announcement" /> Crown Princess [[Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Sayari]], his wife, remained in the Federation, where she has stayed on medical advice since the start of Estivis (VIII) while she expects twins.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#ROYAL_HOUSEHOLD_CONFIRMS_CROWN_PRINCESS_SAYARI_IS_EXPECTING_TWINS;_THEY_WILL_STAND_THIRD_AND_FOURTH_IN_LINE|"Royal Household confirms Crown Princess Sayari is expecting twins; they will stand third and fourth in line"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 6.III.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

Redquill is a deep-water port on the island of [[Neridia (demesne)|Neridia]] and the ceremonial capital of the [[Dos Gardenias (demesne union)|Most Serene Union of Dos Gardenias]]. The union was home to the largest Alexandrian population before the Federation was founded.<ref>[[Dos Gardenias (demesne union)]].</ref> The city houses the [[Neridian Commodities Exchange]], where commodities from continental resource extraction zones are bought and sold and prices are set for [[Raspur Pact]] members.<ref>[[Neridian Commodities Exchange]].</ref>

Janus gave a reception for the King and Empress that evening. His grandparents, Prince Elian of Neridia and Dos Gardenias and Princess [[Princess Nayaraq, Princess Royal|Nayaraq]], both 96, received the royal party with him.<ref name="leg7eadric">[[House of Eadric]].</ref> Nayaraq, the [[Princess Royal (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Princess Royal]], is the younger sister of the King's late father, King [[Sinchi Roca I]], and King [[Manco Cápac|Manco Cápac I]]'s eldest daughter. For decades she was Senior Lady-in-Waiting to the Empress's mother, the late Empress [[Vadoma I]]. The visit fell three days before her 75th wedding anniversary; she and Elian married at Dos Gardenias on 14.VIII.{{AN|1685}}, and their own first children, Prince Nathan and Princess Ayllu, were twins, born the next year.<ref name="leg7nayaraq">[[Princess Nayaraq, Princess Royal]].</ref>

The King spoke briefly at the reception. ''"Sayari asked us to carry her love to Redquill,"'' he said. ''"She has promised to bring the children here herself."''

A major in the [[Natopian Defense Force|Natopian Army]], Janus, 38, is posted to its strategic planning staff, where his work includes liaison with allied militaries. He took New Alexandrian citizenship in V.{{AN|1750}} and married the Crown Princess that XII.<ref>[[Janus of Neridia]].</ref> Their son, Prince [[Inti, Duke of Vilcabamba|Inti]], born on 23.XII.{{AN|1755}}, is second in line to the New Alexandrian throne, and the twins will follow him.<ref>[[Inti, Duke of Vilcabamba]].</ref>

In Natopia the Crown Princess stands second in the line of succession, after her brother, Prince [[Nathan, Prince of Lindström|Nathan]]. Under the [[Treaty of Dynastic Separation]], any grandchild of the King and Empress who could inherit both crowns must renounce one before acceding to the other.<ref>[[Treaty of Dynastic Separation]].</ref>

Redquill was also a stop on the [[Great Tour of 1687]], the progress made by [[Jaime Augusto Joaquin Primo de Aguilar]], then [[Autokrator of Constancia]].<ref>[[Great Tour of 1687]].</ref><ref name="leg5rosamund" />

No agreements were announced at Redquill. The royal party travels next to [[Lindström]], the Natopian imperial capital and the last of the three Natopian stops.
|tldr=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] visited Redquill in [[Neridia (demesne)|Neridia]] as guests of their son-in-law, Prince [[Janus of Neridia|Janus]], while Crown Princess [[Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Sayari]] stayed home expecting twins. Janus's grandparents, Prince Elian and Princess [[Princess Nayaraq, Princess Royal|Nayaraq]], the King's aunt, received the party. The tour continues to [[Lindström]].''
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===14===
{{Main|Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760|Sinchi Roca II|Empress Clara}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}}{{team flag|Natopia|flag}} THE KING AND EMPRESS END THEIR NATOPIAN STOPS AT LINDSTRÖM AS GUESTS OF PRINCE NATHAN, HEIR TO NATOPIA
|image=NBC1760VistaDeNadaPalace.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''Vista de Nada Palace in Lindström, where Prince Nathan and Princess Darya hosted the King and Empress.''
|bullet1=Nathan and Princess Darya Receive His Parents at Vista de Nada Palace
|bullet2=At 36, the Spacefleet Squadron Leader Has Held the Heir's Title Since His Nineteenth Birthday
|bullet3=Empress Clara Visits the Tomb of Her Mother, Vadoma I, in the Imperial Mausoleum
|bullet4=Concord Alliance Secretary-General Receives the King at Concord House, Its Seat Since {{AN|1734}}
|bullet5=Window for Natopia's NAX€320 Billion in Recovery Orders Enters Its Final Month
|bullet6=Lindström Closes the Natopian Stops Before the Tour Moves On to Petropolis
|location=[[Lindström]], [[Natopia]]
|body=King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] reached [[Lindström]], the Natopian imperial capital, on 14.VIII.{{AN|1760}} as guests of their son, Prince [[Nathan, Prince of Lindström|Nathan]], the heir to the Natopian throne, and his wife, Princess [[Darya Ardashirdokht Osman|Darya]]. Lindström closes the Natopian stops of the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]].<ref name="announcement" />

With Crown Princess [[Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Sayari]] at home expecting twins, the couple were received by their second child. Empress [[Vadoma I]], Clara's mother, made Nathan Prince of Lindström, the title Natopia gives its heir apparent, at a ceremony in the city on his nineteenth birthday, 8.VII.{{AN|1743}}. The title comes with estates around the city. Nathan, now 36, holds a squadron leader's commission in the Natopian Spacefleet and keeps his Lindström residence at Vista de Nada Palace.<ref name="leg8nathan">[[Nathan, Prince of Lindström]].</ref>

Nathan and Darya gave a private dinner for his parents at Vista de Nada that evening. The treaty that divides the two successions was signed in the palace.<ref>[[Treaty of Dynastic Separation]].</ref> At the dinner, Nathan said: ''"My mother was born in this house. It is good to have her home for a night."''<ref>[[Empress Clara]].</ref>

Earlier in the day, the Empress and the King went privately to the Imperial Mausoleum at Vista de Nada, where Vadoma I was buried in {{AN|1752}} after her state funeral at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Calf. She lies beside her father, Emperor [[Nathan II]], under a marker that reads ''"She gathered the flock."''<ref>[[The Natopian Bulletin/1752]].</ref> The King attended that funeral with the Empress and their five children.<ref>[[Death and funeral of Vadoma I]].</ref> The Imperial Household gave no further details of the visit.

The King also called at [[Concord House]], the former Silverlight Palace, which the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Concord Alliance]] acquired in {{AN|1734}} as its headquarters.<ref>[[Concord House]].</ref> The alliance began in Lindström, where the Empress's mother, Vadoma I, and the King's father, [[Sinchi Roca I]], signed the [[Tripartite Pact]] that created its forerunner in {{AN|1731}}.<ref>[[Tripartite Pact]].</ref> The alliance's Secretary-General, [[Silvio Gianni Linard]] of [[Vegno]], received him there.

Chancellor [[Marco Lungo III]] met the King at the Chancellery Building as the window for Natopia's recovery orders entered its final month. Lungo signed the [[Lindström Recovery Protocol]] in the city with the then Premier, [[José Manuel Montero]], on 29.XV.{{AN|1759}}. Under it, Natopian state buyers and private firms were to order NAX€320 billion worth of New Alexandrian infrastructure, manufactured goods and defense work between Novarum (I) and Estivis (VIII) {{AN|1760}}, and Natopia would buy 30 metric tons of Alexandrium at a floor price of NAX€2,150 a gram.<ref>[[Lindström Recovery Protocol]].</ref> The government of Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] has since pressed for the orders to leave lasting industry in the Federation.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_ACCORD_PRESSES_TO_TURN_NATOPIA'S_RECOVERY_ORDERS_INTO_LASTING_NEW_ALEXANDRIAN_INDUSTRY|"The Accord presses to turn Natopia's recovery orders into lasting New Alexandrian industry"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 14.III.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> Neither government gave a figure for the orders placed so far.

No agreements were announced at Lindström. The royal party travels next to [[Petropolis]] in [[Constancia]].
|tldr=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] ended the Natopian stops of the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]] at [[Lindström]] as guests of their son, Prince [[Nathan, Prince of Lindström|Nathan]], the Natopian heir, and Princess [[Darya Ardashirdokht Osman|Darya]]. The Empress visited her mother's tomb. The King called at [[Concord House]] and met Chancellor [[Marco Lungo III]] as the window for Natopia's scheduled recovery orders entered its final month. The tour continues to [[Petropolis]].''
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===17===
{{Main|Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760|Sinchi Roca II|Empress Clara}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}}{{team flag|Constancia|flag}} THE KING DEDICATES A STATUE OF MANCO CÁPAC I IN PETROPOLIS, BESIDE THE SHRINE OF THE BASILEUS WHO DIED WITH HIM
|image=NBC1760MancoCapacMemorialPetropolis.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] beside the statue of [[Manco Cápac|Manco Cápac I]] at its dedication in [[Petropolis]], 17.VIII.{{AN|1760}}.''
|bullet1=Basileus Giakoumis II and the Autokráteira Rosamund Receive the Royal Couple Together
|bullet2=Condor One Was Shot Down in {{AN|1718}} as Manco Cápac I Flew Home From His First State Visit to Constancia
|bullet3=Statue Stands Beside the Shrine Where Basileus Giakoumis I Is Entombed
|bullet4=Ground Beneath the Statue Passes to Nouvelle Alexandrie in Perpetuity
|bullet5=Manco Cápac Spent Five Years in Constancian Exile, Where His Youngest Daughter Was Born
|bullet6=Cortes Will Be Asked to Approve the Transfer, the Department of State Says
|location=[[Petropolis]], [[Imperial State of Constancia|Constancia]]
|body=King [[Sinchi Roca II]] dedicated a statue of his grandfather, King [[Manco Cápac|Manco Cápac I]], in [[Petropolis]] on 17.VIII.{{AN|1760}}, beside the shrine where the late Basileus [[Giakoumis]] of [[Imperial State of Constancia|Constancia]] is entombed. The two men were killed together in {{AN|1718}}. Basileus [[Giakoumis II]] and his sister, the Autokráteira [[Rosamund]], both children of Giakoumis, received the King and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] at the ceremony. The couple arrived on 16.VIII for the ninth stop of the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]].<ref name="announcement" />

Manco Cápac made his first state visit to Constancia in Marittima (VI) {{AN|1718}}, a week of calls from [[Astérapolis]] to Petropolis, [[Aqaba]] and [[Nivardom]]. The visit came about because Giakoumis had remarked over dinner that, though the two countries were neighbors, no King of Nouvelle Alexandrie had ever paid the Imperial State a return visit.<ref>[[State visit of Manco Cápac to Constancia]].</ref> The Basileus left with him aboard [[Condor One]] at the end of it, bound for the Federation. Over [[Passas]], a missile brought the aircraft down, and everyone on board was killed. The [[Confederacy of the Dispossessed]] claimed the attack. Giakoumis was 125, and his body was flown back to Petropolis for a state funeral.<ref>[[Death of King Manco Cápac I and Basileus Giakoumis]].</ref>

Constancia had sheltered Manco Cápac long before that visit. When the [[Wechua Sorrow]] began, he spent five years in exile there, and his government-in-exile sat at Nivardom. His youngest daughter, Princess Urpi, was born during that exile.<ref>[[Manco Cápac]].</ref>

A decree from Giakoumis II, read at the ceremony, gives the ground on which the statue stands to Nouvelle Alexandrie in perpetuity. The decree calls the statue a mark of solidarity between two good neighbors and a sign that those who brought down Condor One did not prevail. The Federation's ambassador, [[Mateo Alarcón]], a treaty lawyer by training, accepted the deed.<ref>[[Mateo Alarcón]].</ref> The Department of State said the transfer would go before the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes]] for approval.

At the dedication, the King said: ''"My grandfather came to Constancia as an exile and left it as a friend. He and the Basileus made their last journey together. It is right that they should keep each other company here."''

Rosamund, as Princess of Arboria, had received the couple at [[Tirlar]] two weeks earlier.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#EMPRESS_CLARA_WELCOMES_THE_KING_TO_HER_OWN_COUNTRY_AT_TIRLAR|"Empress Clara welcomes the King to her own country at Tirlar"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 3.VIII.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> In {{AN|1759}}, diplomatic sources described a contest of precedence between the siblings' courts at the [[Summit on Zeed]], which sources close to the Imperial household disputed.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#CONSTANCIA_PALACE_TENSIONS|"Diplomatic sources say Constancia's palace tensions have resurfaced around the Zeed summit"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 18.III.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The royal party travels next to [[Rusjar]], in [[Commonwealth of Zeed|Zeed]].
|tldr=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] dedicated a statue of Manco Cápac I in [[Petropolis]], beside the shrine of Basileus [[Giakoumis]]; the two died together when [[Condor One]] was shot down in {{AN|1718}}. [[Giakoumis II]] and the Autokráteira [[Rosamund]] received the King and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] together, and a decree gave the statue's ground to Nouvelle Alexandrie in perpetuity. The tour continues to [[Rusjar]].''
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===20===
{{Main|Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760|Sinchi Roca II|Empress Clara}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}}{{team flag|Natopia|flag}}{{team flag|Zeed|flag}} ZEED IS PROMISED AN EQUAL SHARE OF AVEY'S PORT REVENUE AND ₦60 BILLION FROM NATOPIA IN RUSJAR
|image=NBC1760AveyZeedFunding.png
|image_size=400px
|image_caption=''[[Commonwealth of Zeed|Zeed]]'s announced share of [[Avey]]'s net port revenue rises to 50 percent from {{AN|1761}}. [[Natopia]]'s separate ten-year pledge remains subject to [[Frenzy]] approval.''
|bullet1=Sinchi Roca II Tells Zeed's National Assembly the Revenue Split Will Be Equal From Next Year
|bullet2=Talks to Open on Avey's Future Before Its Hundred-Year Term Ends in {{AN|1801}}
|bullet3=Clara, Speaking for Chancellor Lungo's Government, Pledges ₦60 Billion Over Ten Years
|bullet4=About Half Will Seed a Wealth Fund Owned by Zeed
|bullet5=Rusjar Airport, Irrigation and a Shared Avey-Rusjar Railway Take the Rest
|bullet6=Royal Couple Lay a Wreath at Avey's War Memorial
|location=[[Rusjar]], [[Commonwealth of Zeed|Zeed]]
|body=King [[Sinchi Roca II]] told Zeed's [[National Assembly of Zeed|National Assembly]] in [[Rusjar]] on 20.VIII.{{AN|1760}} that his government would give the [[Commonwealth of Zeed]] an equal share of the net revenue from the port of [[Avey]], which Nouvelle Alexandrie has administered since {{AN|1701}}, and would open talks on the port's future. Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]], speaking for the government of Chancellor [[Marco Lungo III]] of [[Natopia]], then pledged ₦60 billion over ten years for Zeed's development. President [[Vivek Jarkhanda]] and Prime Minister Hypatia Damarion received the couple for the tenth stop of the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]].<ref name="announcement" />

The King spoke for the government of Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], whose [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] approved the measures before the tour left [[Cárdenas]]. Under them, Zeed's share of the port's net revenue, 35 percent under the Avey Port Authority Corporation's charter, rises to half from next year. That share already makes up about 12 percent of the Commonwealth's budget, and the port carries about 78 percent of Zeed's international trade by volume.<ref name="leg10avey">[[Avey]].</ref> Part of the Federation's own share will go toward the railway between Avey and Rusjar that Zeed's development plans propose.<ref name="leg10plans">[[Development Plans of the Commonwealth of Zeed]].</ref>

The two governments will also open talks on the port's future before the hundred-year term runs out in {{AN|1801}}, through the Joint Oversight Commission, which already reviews the port's revenue distributions. Any change to the enclave's terms will go to the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] for ratification.

The Empress announced the Natopian pledge at a luncheon given by President Jarkhanda after the address. About half of the money will seed a national wealth fund owned by Zeed and run by a board with a Zeedic majority, on the model of the [[Bliven Fund]], which Natopia largely capitalized for [[Anglien]].<ref>[[Bliven Fund]].</ref> An Imperial Constancian Government strategy paper for Zeed suggests putting a substantial share of the country's resource revenue into a national wealth fund.<ref>[[Zeed Comprehensive Development Strategy]].</ref> The rest will go to the international airport at Rusjar that Zeed's development plans call for, and to irrigation and water works for Zeed's interior, which suffers periodic droughts, with training for the Zeedic staff who will run the new works.<ref name="leg10plans" /><ref>[[Commonwealth of Zeed]].</ref> Part of the money will also go toward the Avey-Rusjar railway, channeled through the development bank of the [[Community of Goldfield]], to which both countries belong.<ref>[[Community of Goldfield]].</ref> The [[Frenzy]] must still approve the spending.

The Empress said: ''"Zeed's future should be built in Zeed and owned by Zeed. That is how the fund in Anglien works, and it is how this one will work."''

The arrangement at Avey dates from the [[Third Euran War]], when New Alexandrian paratroopers landed near the port in {{AN|1699}}.<ref>[[Third Euran War]].</ref> The [[1701 Armistice of Alduria City]] that ended the fighting placed Avey under the Federation's protection "for a period of one-hundred years" and bound Zeed to join the [[Raspur Pact]].<ref>[[1701 Armistice of Alduria City]].</ref> Raspur Pact occupation of Zeed ended in {{AN|1716}}.<ref>[[Commonwealth of Zeed]].</ref> The revenue split was contentious at first.<ref name="leg10avey" />

In the Assembly, the King said: ''"For sixty years we have held Avey under the terms of a war. It is time we held it together, under the terms of a friendship."''

On 19.VIII, the day before the address, the couple laid a wreath at Avey's Monument to the Fallen, dedicated in {{AN|1746}} to the casualties of [[Operation Lightning Dawn]], in which Avey came under attack in {{AN|1745}} and New Alexandrian and Zeedic forces fought side by side.<ref>[[Operation Lightning Dawn]].</ref>

While the King was at the Assembly, the Empress toured the [[Rusjar Mechanical Machine-Building Plant]], the main target in Zeed of Operation Lightning Dawn. The plant built armored vehicles for Western Natopian forces between {{AN|1717}} and {{AN|1721}}.<ref>[[Rusjar Mechanical Machine-Building Plant]].</ref> [[Neridia Defense Industries]] builds the Natopian Defense Force's Cougar and Ocelot armored vehicles under license from the plant.<ref>[[Natopian Defense Force]].</ref>

Damarion's government said it welcomed both packages and would name its delegation to the Avey talks. The royal party travels next to [[Corum Electric City|Corum Electric]], in [[Western Corum]].
|tldr=''Nouvelle Alexandrie will split [[Avey]]'s net port revenue equally with [[Commonwealth of Zeed|Zeed]] from next year, help fund an Avey-Rusjar railway and open talks on the port's future, King [[Sinchi Roca II]] told Zeed's [[National Assembly of Zeed|National Assembly]] in [[Rusjar]]. Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]], for Chancellor [[Marco Lungo III]]'s government, added ₦60 billion over ten years from Natopia; about half will seed a wealth fund that Zeed will own. The tour continues to [[Corum Electric City|Corum Electric]].''
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===23===
{{Main|Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760|Sinchi Roca II|Empress Clara}}
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|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}}{{team flag|Anglien|flag}}{{team flag|Western Corum|flag}} EMPRESS CLARA HONORS THE WEST CORUMIAN BATTALION THAT FOUGHT IN ANGLIEN
|image=NBC1760ClaraCorumCitation.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''Empress Clara presents the Anglian citation to a representative of the Royal West Corumian Regiment’s 4th Battalion at Concord Hall.''
|bullet1=Clara Presents an Anglian Citation to the 4th Battalion of the Royal West Corumian Regiment
|bullet2=Battalion Lost Two Soldiers in the St. Aldric's Day Surge of {{AN|1756}}
|bullet3=Sinchi Roca II Thanks Corum Electric for the Generators Sent After the Cajamarca Earthquake
|bullet4=Queen Electra Is Invited to Visit Cárdenas and Cajamarca
|bullet5=Seven Years Since Western Corum Signed the Concord Alliance Treaty in the Same Hall
|location=[[Corum Electric City]], [[Western Corum]]
|body=Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] presented an Anglian citation on 23.VIII.{{AN|1760}} to the 4th Battalion of the [[Royal West Corumian Regiment]], which fought in [[Anglien]] during the [[St. Aldric's Day Surge]] of {{AN|1756}}. The ceremony was held at [[Concord Hall]] in [[Corum Electric City]], where [[Western Corum]] joined the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Concord Alliance]] seven years ago. Queen [[Electra Penguinwaffels|Electra]] of Western Corum received King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and the Empress, who arrived on 22.VIII for the eleventh stop of the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]].<ref name="announcement" />

She gave it on behalf of her father, Sovereign Duke [[Edgard III]] of Anglien, who conferred it on the advice of Prime Minister [[Klaes Boerhaaf]]'s government. It names the battalion's pursuit of an ambush cell and its part in the final assault north of [[Bahira]], and a streamer reading "Bahira {{AN|1756}}" was fixed to the battalion's colors. Electra, the regiment's colonel, took the salute.
[[File:NBC1760ScienceWithSparks.png|thumb|left|300px|''Queen Electra records Science With Sparks with King Sinchi Roca II as her guest.'']]
The battalion was reactivated in X.{{AN|1754}} and joined Western Corum's counterinsurgency contingent in Anglien, which served under the [[Concord Council]]'s stabilization framework.<ref>[[Royal West Corumian Regiment]].</ref><ref name="leg11natopia">[[Natopian intervention in Anglien]].</ref> The contingent and the [[Anglian Ducal Guard]] led the response when the [[Nü Krantisk Rapskaff]] (NKR) underground rose on 14.VII.{{AN|1756}}. Before dawn that day a cell ambushed a Guard convoy on the Bahira-Shelsa road and killed eleven Guard soldiers. Two days later the battalion's drones led the pursuit in which nine of the cell's eighteen members died. The Surge ended on 4.IX with a combined Guard and West Corumian assault on a farmstead north of Bahira, where the underground's leader, [[Maich Grohndgraß]], was killed. Two of the battalion's soldiers were shot dead by snipers in the Bahira interior.<ref name="leg11surge">[[St. Aldric's Day Surge]].</ref>

At the presentation, the Empress said: ''"Two soldiers of Western Corum died in my father's country. Anglien is in their debt, and it will not forget them."'' She also asked for a minute of silence for the eleven Guard soldiers killed on the Bahira-Shelsa road.

The stop came a month after a grenade was thrown toward the King and Empress during their wreath-laying in [[Johannsessbuurg]]. It failed to explode, and police said the man arrested once belonged to an NKR study group and acted alone.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#ANGLIAN_POLICE_ARREST_MAN_OVER_GRENADE_THAT_FAILED_TO_EXPLODE_AT_THE_ROYAL_WREATH-LAYING|"Anglian police arrest man over grenade that failed to explode at the royal wreath-laying"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 2.VIII.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

After the ceremony the royal party was shown the drones and quadwalkers that Western Corum used in the [[Mount Bijaro Campaign]]<ref name="leg11visit1753">[[1753 CATO state visit to Western Corum]].</ref> and later in Anglien.<ref name="leg11natopia" /> Western Corum is keeping the battalion as an operational unit, at first to test new equipment and tactics.

The King and Empress had last been in the hall on 9.IV.{{AN|1753}}, when Electra, then six and already Queen, signed the [[Concord Alliance Treaty]] for Western Corum with a pen her mother, Queen [[Mina Penguinwaffels|Mina II]] of [[East Zimia and the Wallis Islands]], had used at East Zimia's own accession in {{AN|1751}}. At that visit the King also announced the engagement of his niece, Princess [[Rosaura Amaru|Rosaura]], to Prince [[Farrukhān]] of Molivadia.<ref name="leg11visit1753" /> A year after the signing, Electra was a bridesmaid at the [[Wedding of Princess Urpi and Gerard Skuryov-Spooner|wedding]] of the King and Empress's daughter, Princess Urpi.<ref>[[Bridesminions]].</ref>

At a state dinner on 22.VIII, the King thanked the [[Corum Electric Corporation]], which sent emergency generators and electrical equipment to Nouvelle Alexandrie after the [[1757 Cajamarca micrasquake]], and invited the Queen to [[Cárdenas]] and to Cajamarca. After the earthquake, Electra had said she wanted to visit ''"once the situation has stabilised enough for [her] to not get underfoot."''<ref>[[1757 Cajamarca micrasquake]].</ref>

''"When the lights went out in Cajamarca, Corum sent the power to turn them back on,"'' the King said. ''"The Queen would never be underfoot in our country. She would be our guest."'' Electra replied: ''"Like a coqui, I'm quite small; so while I can make a bit of noise, at least I won't take up a lot of space! No promises about the rain, though..."'' No date was announced for the visit.

The King gave the Queen a restored print of ''[[Last Night on Botha]]'' and production papers from the [[Hans Backovic Archive and Film Institute]]. Electra has named the Caputian-New Alexandrian director [[Hans Backovic]] as a major influence on her own films.<ref>[[Electra Penguinwaffels]].</ref> Before the royal party left, she recorded an episode of ''[[Science With Sparks]]'', the children's science program she created and has presented on Mondovision since {{AN|1751}}, with the King as her guest.<ref>[[Science With Sparks]].</ref>

Ambassador [[Julián Condori]], a former power-industry engineer who handled the Federation's contacts with the [[Concord Business Council]], accompanied the King and Empress throughout the visit.<ref>[[Julián Condori]].</ref> The royal party travels next to Southman, in [[East Zimia and the Wallis Islands]], the final stop of the tour.
|tldr=''Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] presented an Anglian citation from her father, Sovereign Duke [[Edgard III]], to the West Corumian battalion that helped break the [[St. Aldric's Day Surge]] and lost two soldiers in Anglien. At a state dinner, King [[Sinchi Roca II]] thanked Corum Electric for its generators after the Cajamarca earthquake and invited Queen [[Electra Penguinwaffels|Electra]] to visit. She recorded an episode of ''[[Science With Sparks]]'' with him. The tour ends at Southman, in [[East Zimia and the Wallis Islands]].''
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===24===
==== Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month VIII, 1760) ====

''Published by the Nouvelle Alexandrie Statistics Bureau.''

Output grew at an annualized 4.6% in the second quarter of {{AN|1760}}, against a contraction of 4.4% in the first, and the year-on-year rate turned to growth of 0.3% from negative 1.8%. Unemployment fell to 8.8% from 9.0%, and consumer confidence rose to 93.1 from 75.2. Two more bills of the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] government's economic package became law in the quarter: the [[National Housing Reform and Expansion Act, 1760]] on 8.V, which puts the [[National Homebuilding Drive]] on a standing footing, and the [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]] on 10.V, which makes direct energy payments to households of low and middle income, revives the family allowance and locks pensions and benefits to inflation. The relief Act's cost is met from the appropriation of the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]] and not by new borrowing, the undertaking the Government gave when it sought the confidence of the Assembly. Under the budget, which received Royal Assent on 22.IV and has effect for the whole year, a reduced value-added tax rate of 5% applies to essential food and domestic energy. The order window of the [[Lindström Recovery Protocol]] ran to the end of the quarter, and the [[Treaty of Fontainebleau on Alexandrium Coordination|Fontainebleau]] reference price of [[Alexandrium]] rose to NAX€2,097.41 a gram, still below the NAX€2,150 the protocol sets for Natopia's reserve purchase. Public debt rose to 69.0% of output from 68.5% even as the quarterly deficit narrowed to 2.8% of GDP from 4.0%. Living costs had not yet eased: the cost-of-living index rose to 107.0 and housing affordability slipped to 96.0. One caveat applies to the output level. The growth rate is seasonally adjusted, and unadjusted quarterly output of NAX€12.48 trillion is slightly above the first quarter's NAX€12.46 trillion.

===== Headline panel =====

{| class="wikitable"
! Indicator !! Current !! Change !! Note
|-
| Real GDP (quarter) || NAX€12.48 trillion || {{increase}} NAX€22.05 billion || the quarter's output
|-
| Real GDP (trailing 4Q, annual) || NAX€47.01 trillion || {{increase}} NAX€41.50 billion || sum of the last four quarters
|-
| Real GDP growth (QoQ, annualized) || 4.6% || || quarter on quarter
|-
| Real GDP growth (YoY) || 0.3% || || year on year
|-
| Nominal GDP (annual) || NAX€49.46 trillion || {{increase}} NAX€211.81 billion || real times the deflator
|-
| GDP per capita (nominal) || NAX€94,380 || {{increase}} NAX€123 || the very-rich headline
|-
| Inflation (CPI, YoY) || 1.3% || {{steady}} ||
|-
| Cost-of-Living Index || 107.0 || {{increase}} 0.4 || 100 = {{AN|1757}} base
|-
| Unemployment rate || 8.8% || {{decrease}} 0.1% ||
|-
| Budget balance (quarter, % GDP) || -2.8% || {{increase}} 1.1% || deficit if negative
|-
| Public debt (% GDP) || 69.0% || {{increase}} 0.5% || debt/GDP guardrail
|-
| Trade balance (quarter, % GDP) || 3.5% || {{decrease}} 0.2% ||
|-
| Alexandrium price (NAX€/g) || 2,097.41 || {{increase}} 7.17 || volatility driver
|-
| Alexandrium federal revenue (quarter) || NAX€61.48 billion || {{increase}} NAX€0.21 billion || feeds the 12% mandate
|-
| Gini coefficient || 0.380 || {{steady}} || distribution headline
|-
| Urban-rural income gap || 1.80 || {{steady}} || income ratio
|-
| Housing Affordability Index || 96.0 || {{decrease}} 2.4 || price/rent vs income
|-
| Consumer Confidence Index || 93.1 || {{increase}} 17.9 || 100 = neutral
|}

===== Detailed appendix =====

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Macro detail
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Real GDP (quarter) || NAX€12.48 trillion
|-
| Nominal GDP (quarter) || NAX€13.19 trillion
|-
| GDP deflator || 105.7
|-
| Real GDP (trailing 4Q) || NAX€47.01 trillion
|-
| Nominal GDP (trailing 4Q) || NAX€49.46 trillion
|-
| Real growth (QoQ ann.) || 4.6%
|-
| Real growth (YoY) || 0.3%
|-
| Cost-of-Living Index || 107.0
|-
| House Price Index || 100.7
|-
| Housing Affordability Index || 96.0
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Labor
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Population || 524,093,603
|-
| Working-age population || 344,523,683
|-
| Labor force || 216,974,424
|-
| Employed || 197,784,945
|-
| Participation rate || 63.0%
|-
| Unemployment rate || 8.8%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Fiscal and debt
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Revenue (quarter) || NAX€5.13 trillion
|-
| Expenditure (quarter) || NAX€5.26 trillion
|-
| Primary balance (quarter) || NAX€-123.86 billion
|-
| Interest (quarter) || NAX€250.25 billion
|-
| Budget balance (quarter) || NAX€-374.11 billion
|-
| Public debt || NAX€34.11 trillion
|-
| Public debt (% GDP) || 69.0%
|-
| Interest burden (% revenue) || 4.9%
|-
| Reserve fund || NAX€1.78 trillion
|-
| Reserve draw (quarter) || NAX€0.00 billion
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ External
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Exports (quarter) || NAX€3.40 trillion
|-
| Imports (quarter) || NAX€2.94 trillion
|-
| Trade balance (quarter) || NAX€461.35 billion
|-
| Trade balance (% GDP) || 3.5%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Strategic resources (Alexandrium)
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Price (NAX€/g) || 2,097.41
|-
| Gross value (quarter) || NAX€245.92 billion
|-
| Export value (quarter) || NAX€172.14 billion
|-
| Federal revenue (quarter) || NAX€61.48 billion
|-
| Revenue baseline (quarter) || NAX€85.01 billion
|-
| Revenue shortfall (quarter) || NAX€23.53 billion
|-
| UARA volume levy (quarter) || NAX€7.62 billion
|-
| Ad-valorem take (quarter) || NAX€53.86 billion
|-
| Diversification earmark (12%) || NAX€7.38 billion
|-
| Resource-sector share of GDP || 1.9%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Sectoral output (shares sum to 100%)
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Agriculture || 6.0%
|-
| Industry || 30.1%
|-
| Services || 63.9%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Inequality
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Gini coefficient || 0.380
|-
| Urban-rural income gap || 1.80
|}

''Outlook (forecast):'' next-quarter projection unavailable at time of writing.

==IX (Aureoris)==
===2===
{{Main|Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760|Sinchi Roca II|Empress Clara}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}}{{team flag|East Zimia and the Wallis Islands|flag}} THE GRAVNOUGHT ZIMIA IS REMEMBERED AT SOUTHMAN, LAST OF THE TWELVE STOPS ON THE ROYAL GOODWILL TOUR
|image=
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=
|bullet1=Mina II Receives the Royal Party at Southman Palace, Days After Her Daughter Did in Corum Electric City
|bullet2=Over a State Dinner, the King Recalls the Gravnought Southman Turned Toward the Federation in {{AN|1757}}
|bullet3=Corum Command Officers Brief the King and Empress, With Grand Admiral Hans von Heida-Weisse as Escort
|bullet4=Erlo Wallis Attends One of His Last Functions Before Retiring
|bullet5=Ten States and a Thirty-Nine-Day Journey Behind Them, the King and Empress Fly Home on 3.IX
|location=[[Southman]], [[East Zimia and the Wallis Islands]]
|body=King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] reached [[Southman]], the capital of [[East Zimia and the Wallis Islands]], on 1.IX.{{AN|1760}}, the twelfth and last stop of the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]].<ref name="announcement" /> Queen [[Mina Penguinwaffels|Mina II]], whose daughter Queen [[Electra Penguinwaffels|Electra]] had received the royal party at the previous stop, welcomed them at [[Southman Palace]], nearly nine years after the state visit at which her kingdom signed the [[Concord Alliance Treaty]].<ref name="leg12visit1751">[[1751 royal visit to East Zimia and the Wallis Islands]].</ref> Beside her were Crown Companion [[Hans von Heida-Weisse]] and Supreme Arbiter [[Erlo Wallis]], who plans to retire and was attending one of his last major functions in office. In {{AN|1751}} Wallis had accompanied the King and the future Empress through the [[Erlo Sinders Regional Forest]], a visit he proposed himself.<ref name="leg12visit1751" />

The King spoke of the [[gravnought]] ''Zimia'' at a state dinner in the palace that evening. When the [[1757 Cajamarca micrasquake]] struck, the ship was on its way to [[New Hempton]]; Southman sent it to Nouvelle Alexandrie instead for the emergency airlift, and rescue teams from East Zimia followed.<ref>[[1757 Cajamarca micrasquake]].</ref> ''"A ship that was going somewhere else came to us instead,"'' the King said. ''"Nobody in Southman thought that order needed a debate,"'' Queen Mina said. ''"You were the first King of your country to visit us, and I am glad your journey ends with us."'' At a dinner in the same palace in {{AN|1751}}, the King had thanked the kingdom for hosting [[Raspur Pact]] forces during [[Operation Aglaia]].<ref name="leg12visit1751" />

On 2.IX the royal party visited the headquarters of the alliance's [[Corum Command (CATO)|Corum Command]], which East Zimia hosts in Southman.<ref>[[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization]].</ref> Prince Hans, Grand Admiral of the [[East Zimian and Wallisian War League]], escorted the King and Empress as senior officers briefed them on the alliance's watch around [[Corum]].<ref>[[Hans von Heida-Weisse]].</ref> The King asked about the drones and quadwalkers he had been shown in [[Corum Electric City]] three days earlier. [[Clémence Arnaud]], ambassador in Southman since earlier in the year, was with the royal party on both days. She came up through the Department of State's relief operations.<ref>[[Clémence Arnaud]].</ref>

The royal party flies home to [[Cárdenas]] on 3.IX, 39 days after it left the [[Palace of Carranza]] on 12.VII, having visited the twelve cities of its announced itinerary in ten states.<ref name="announcement" /> In [[Petropolis]] a decree of [[Giakoumis II]] gave the ground beneath the new statue of Manco Cápac I to Nouvelle Alexandrie, a transfer the Department of State said would go before the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes]] for approval.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_KING_DEDICATES_A_STATUE_OF_MANCO_CÁPAC_I_IN_PETROPOLIS,_BESIDE_THE_SHRINE_OF_THE_BASILEUS_WHO_DIED_WITH_HIM|"The King dedicates a statue of Manco Cápac I in Petropolis, beside the shrine of the Basileus who died with him"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 17.VIII.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> At [[Rusjar]] the King, for his government, offered Zeed an equal share of the net port revenue of [[Avey]] from next year and agreed to open talks on the port's future. Any change to the enclave's terms needs the ratification of the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]]. On behalf of Natopia's government, the Empress pledged ₦60 billion for Zeed's development, a sum the [[Frenzy]] must still approve.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#ZEED_IS_PROMISED_AN_EQUAL_SHARE_OF_AVEY'S_PORT_REVENUE_AND_₦60_BILLION_FROM_NATOPIA_IN_RUSJAR|"Zeed is promised an equal share of Avey's port revenue and ₦60 billion from Natopia in Rusjar"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 20.VIII.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

The tour ends ahead of the birth of Crown Princess [[Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Sayari]]'s twins, which the [[Royal Household of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Royal Household]] expects in the closing months of the year.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#ROYAL_HOUSEHOLD_CONFIRMS_CROWN_PRINCESS_SAYARI_IS_EXPECTING_TWINS;_THEY_WILL_STAND_THIRD_AND_FOURTH_IN_LINE|"Royal Household confirms Crown Princess Sayari is expecting twins; they will stand third and fourth in line"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 6.III.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>
|tldr=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] made the last of the twelve stops of the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]] in [[Southman]], received by Queen [[Mina Penguinwaffels|Mina II]] nearly nine years after [[East Zimia and the Wallis Islands]] signed the Concord Alliance Treaty there. That evening the King recalled the gravnought ''Zimia'', which Southman diverted from New Hempton to the Cajamarca relief, and on 2.IX the royal party visited the alliance's Corum Command. They fly home to [[Cárdenas]] on 3.IX, with Crown Princess Sayari's twins due before the year is out.''
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===4===
{{Main|Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE ROYAL TOUR'S PROMISES HEAD FOR THE CORTES, AND THE PARTIES SPLIT OVER AVEY AND THE GRENADE
|image=
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=
|bullet1=Premier Gonçalves Will Put the Convention Accession and the Petropolis Deed to a Vote
|bullet2=Avey Revenue Share Should Have Come to the Cortes, Montero Says While Backing Both
|bullet3=Fred Strong Asks How a Grenade Came Within Throwing Distance of the King and Empress
|bullet4=CGA Wants Deputies to Read the Full Petropolis Deed
|bullet5=Bohi'o: The Convention of Huyenkula Has Been on the Table Since {{AN|1755}}
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The day after King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] returned from the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]], the parties in the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes]] turned to what it had left them to decide. Two of the tour's commitments need the Cortes: the Federation's accession to the [[Convention of Huyenkula]] and the ground at [[Petropolis]] that a Constancian decree gave to Nouvelle Alexandrie in perpetuity.<ref name="tour-huyenkula">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_KING_AND_EMPRESS_KEEP_FAITH_AT_HUYENKULA_AS_THE_QUEEN_MOTHER_COMES_HOME_TO_HURMU|"The King and Empress keep faith at Huyenkula as the Queen Mother comes home to Hurmu"]], ''[[NBC Newsfeed]]'', 16.VII.{{AN|1760}}.</ref><ref name="tour-petropolis">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_KING_DEDICATES_A_STATUE_OF_MANCO_CÁPAC_I_IN_PETROPOLIS,_BESIDE_THE_SHRINE_OF_THE_BASILEUS_WHO_DIED_WITH_HIM|"The King dedicates a statue of Manco Cápac I in Petropolis, beside the shrine of the Basileus who died with him"]], ''[[NBC Newsfeed]]'', 17.VIII.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] (DSP/AJNA) said the government would bring both to a vote. ''"The King gave the Federation's word in Huyenkula, and our ambassador accepted the deed in Petropolis, both on the government's advice,"'' he said. ''"Now the Cortes decides, and I expect it to say yes."'' The equal share of [[Avey]]'s net port revenue that the King offered [[Commonwealth of Zeed|Zeed]] in [[Rusjar]] does not need a vote. The [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] approved it before the tour left, and only a change to the enclave's terms would go to the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]].<ref name="tour-rusjar">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#ZEED_IS_PROMISED_AN_EQUAL_SHARE_OF_AVEY'S_PORT_REVENUE_AND_₦60_BILLION_FROM_NATOPIA_IN_RUSJAR|"Zeed is promised an equal share of Avey's port revenue and ₦60 billion from Natopia in Rusjar"]], ''[[NBC Newsfeed]]'', 20.VIII.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

That point drew the sharpest reply. Leader of the Opposition [[José Manuel Montero]] (FHP), whose government began planning the tour, said the Federal Humanist Party would vote for the accession and the Petropolis transfer. He objected to the Avey decision. ''"We want a better partnership with Zeed as much as anyone,"'' he said. ''"But half of Avey's revenue is a decision for the Cortes, and deputies heard about it from Rusjar."''

[[Fred Strong]] (FHP), a former Vice-Premier and Secretary of Defense, raised the grenade thrown at the royal couple during the wreath-laying in [[Johannsessbuurg]] on 24.VII, which did not explode and was found only after the ceremony. The Anglian police said nothing about it until they had made an arrest on 1.VIII.<ref name="tour-arrest">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#ANGLIAN_POLICE_ARREST_MAN_OVER_GRENADE_THAT_FAILED_TO_EXPLODE_AT_THE_ROYAL_WREATH-LAYING|"Anglian police arrest man over grenade that failed to explode at the royal wreath-laying"]], ''[[NBC Newsfeed]]'', 2.VIII.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> ''"Someone got close enough to throw a grenade at the King and the Empress, and we only learned of it once the police had made an arrest,"'' Strong said. ''"I want the Federal Guards Service to tell the Cortes how that happened and what it has changed."''

The [[Civic Governance Alliance]], a partner in the governing Federal Accord, will back the Petropolis transfer but wants the full deed laid before deputies first, said [[Tomás Iñiguez]] (CGA), the Secretary of the Treasury and the party's floor leader. ''"We'll support it,"'' he said. ''"But the Federation would hold that ground forever, and deputies ought to read the whole deed before they vote."''

[[Yuiza Bohi'o]] (WPP/AJNA), the Secretary for Administrative Coordination and Efficiency and leader of the Wakara People's Party, welcomed the accession and pointed to its timing. The convention was introduced at the [[Micras Treaty Organization]] in {{AN|1755}}, when Montero was Premier. ''"This has been sitting on the table since {{AN|1755}},"'' she said. ''"Of course we'll vote for it."''
|tldr=''The day after the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]] ended, Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] said the Convention of Huyenkula accession and the Petropolis deed would go to the Cortes. The FHP backed both but objected that Avey's revenue share was decided without a vote, and Fred Strong asked how a grenade came within reach of the King and Empress.''
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}}

===9===
{{Main|Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} DRIED PASTA JOINS THE ESSENTIALS BASKET AT HALF THE STANDARD RATE OF VALUE ADDED TAX
|image=NBC1760PastaFamilySupper.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''Dried pasta joins the essentials basket at a reduced VAT rate of 5 percent from 1.X.1760.''
|bullet1=Treasury Secretary [[Tomás Iñiguez]] Lays a Revised Basket Before the Cortes
|bullet2=Dried Pasta Will Be Taxed at 5 Percent From 1.X.{{AN|1760}}
|bullet3=[[Casa Barilla]], the Federation's Largest Pasta Maker, Had Lobbied for the Reduction
|bullet4=Casa Barilla Says It Will Pass the Whole Cut On to Shoppers
|bullet5=Other Pasta Makers, Among Them [[Agrifoods]], Will Also Benefit
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The Secretary of the Treasury, [[Tomás Iñiguez]], on 9.IX.{{AN|1760}} added dried pasta to the essentials basket that the [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]] taxes at a reduced rate of value added tax. The revised basket was laid before the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes Federales]] the same day. From 1.X.{{AN|1760}}, dried pasta will carry value added tax at 5 percent, half the standard rate.<ref name="colra45">[[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]], Articles 4 and 5.</ref>

Under the Act, which received Royal Assent on 10.V.{{AN|1760}}, the Secretary of the Treasury defines and publishes the basket, confines it to essential food and domestic energy, and reviews it each year. In choosing its contents the Secretary must have regard to the goods that weigh most in the cost of living of households of low and middle income.<ref name="colra45" /> The Treasury said that dried pasta met that test as a staple of household meals across the Federation, citing the finding of the [[National Economic Council of Nouvelle Alexandrie|National Economic Council]] price committee that essentials had risen faster than headline inflation.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_ACCORD'S_PRICE_COMMITTEE_FINDS_ESSENTIALS_OUTPACING_THE_HEADLINE_RATE_AS_RELIEF_WAITS_ON_THE_CORTES|"The Accord's price committee finds essentials outpacing the headline rate as relief waits on the Cortes"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 10.IV.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

[[Casa Barilla]], the Federation's largest pasta maker, had pressed the Treasury for the change during the year.<ref>[[Casa Barilla]].</ref> Its chief executive, [[Shirley Barilla]], said the company would pass the whole reduction on to shoppers. ''"Pasta is what families eat at the end of the month, when the money runs short,"'' she said. ''"It belongs in the basket."''

The change also lowers the tax on the pasta lines of other producers, among them [[Agrifoods]], whose consumer products division sells dried pasta under its own brands.<ref>[[Agrifoods]].</ref>
|tldr=''Treasury Secretary [[Tomás Iñiguez]] added dried pasta to the essentials basket of the [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]], so from 1.X.{{AN|1760}} it will be taxed at 5 percent, half the standard rate. [[Casa Barilla]], which pressed for the change, says it will pass the whole cut on to shoppers.''
|impact_stability={{steady}} 0
|impact_approval={{increase}} +1
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===12===
{{See also|Lindström Recovery Protocol|Bank of Saint Andre|Federal Bank of Nouvelle Alexandrie}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}}{{team flag|Natopia|flag}} BANK OF SAINT ANDRE CONSORTIUM OPENS A NAX€60 BILLION WINDOW FOR THE FEDERATION'S REGIONAL LENDERS
|image=
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=
|bullet1=Federal Bank Approves the Lindström Bank Window Terms
|bullet2=Preferred Equity Goes to Qualifying Regional Lenders, Not to Banks Already in Resolution
|bullet3=Treasury Confirms No Federal Guarantee, Budget Line, or Assembly Vote Is Involved
|bullet4=Governor Martel's Supervisors Will Vet Each Lender Before Any Money Is Paid In
|bullet5=Regional Banks Expect the New Capital to Reopen Business Lending in the Manufacturing Regions
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=A consortium led by the [[Bank of Saint Andre]], the Natopian maritime lender, has opened the NAX€60 billion bank window of the [[Lindström Recovery Protocol]], and will subscribe preferred equity in regional lenders across the Federation under the supervision of the [[Federal Bank of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Bank]]. The Federal Bank approved the window's terms on 11.IX.{{AN|1760}}, and the consortium said the first subscriptions would follow once supervisors had cleared each applicant.

The window had been one of the last pieces of the Lindström framework still on paper. When the Protocol was signed on 29.XV.{{AN|1759}}, the bank window appeared in it only as a proposal under Federal Bank supervision, and regulated bank subscriptions were left for review after the caretaker government handed over to Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]].<ref name="LRP">[[Lindström Recovery Protocol]].</ref> Institutions already in resolution are excluded. The money is meant for lenders that remained solvent through the downturn but have too little capital to lend, the kind of regional institution that came under strain in {{AN|1758}}, when the [[Caisse Régionale de l'Alduria]] was wound up and its sound business sold to [[Quipu Bank]].

Under the terms the Federal Bank approved, each lender applies to the Bank's Division of Regional Financial Institutions, set up under the [[Comprehensive Financial Stabilization Act, 1749]], which examines its books before the consortium may buy its shares. Governor [[Lucienne Martel]] said the review would be the same one supervisors apply to any new capital. ''"This is private money, and it will be supervised as strictly as public money would be,"'' Martel said. ''"No institution receives a single écu from this window until our examiners are satisfied it can use the capital to lend."''

The Treasury published the disclosure that Treasury Secretary [[Tomás Iñiguez]] of the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] had promised before he took office, when he said any public exposure under the Protocol would be made known before it was authorized.<ref name="LRP" /> According to the disclosure, the window carries no federal guarantee and no line in the budget, and it needs no vote in the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]]. Preferred equity ranks ahead of ordinary shares for dividends but carries no vote in the running of the lender.

Luis Aramburu, the Bank of Saint Andre's chief executive, said the consortium would be judged on whether credit returned to the Regions. ''"Our business is financing ports, trade and the infrastructure that serves them, and much of that business runs through New Alexandrian regional banks,"'' Aramburu said. ''"Those banks have the customers and the projects. What they have lacked is capital."''

Regional bankers told NBC they expected the first applications from lenders in the manufacturing Regions, where small manufacturers and contractors have found credit hardest to obtain since the [[Recession of 1757|downturn]]. The Federal Bank did not say how many lenders had applied or how quickly the NAX€60 billion would be drawn. The window forms part of the Protocol's third investment platform, the one covering finance, digital services and aerospace.

[[José Manuel Montero]], the [[Leader of the Opposition of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Leader of the Opposition]], said the window had been negotiated by his caretaker government and that the Accord was now delivering it. Iñiguez said it had taken eight months to put Federal Bank supervision and the public disclosure in place before any money moved.
|tldr=''A [[Bank of Saint Andre]]-led consortium has opened the NAX€60 billion bank window of the [[Lindström Recovery Protocol]], subscribing preferred equity in solvent regional lenders under [[Federal Bank of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Bank]] supervision. Institutions in resolution are excluded, and the Federal Bank's Division of Regional Financial Institutions must clear each lender first. The Treasury disclosed that the window carries no federal guarantee, no budget line, and no Assembly vote. Governor [[Lucienne Martel]] promised strict supervision, and chief executive Luis Aramburu said the aim was to restore regional lending. [[José Manuel Montero]] said the window was negotiated by his caretaker government.''
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|impact_economy={{increase}} +1
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}}

===19===
{{See also|Lindström Recovery Protocol|Natopian-Nouvelle Alexandrie Joint Economic Council}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}}{{team flag|Natopia|flag}} NATOPIA OPENS A SECOND ORDERS WINDOW, WORTH NAX€160 BILLION, FOR NEW ALEXANDRIAN GOODS
|image=
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=
|bullet1=Joint Economic Council Renews the Lindström Orders at Half the First Window's Size
|bullet2=Infrastructure, Manufactured Goods, and Defense Output Are Covered From Aureoris (IX) Through Early Next Year
|bullet3=The Council Publishes No Breakdown of the Orders by Sector or Region
|bullet4=Iñiguez Pressed for More Orders for Domestic Manufacturers
|bullet5=The First Window of NAX€320 Billion Closed at the End of Estivis (VIII)
|location=[[Lindström]], [[Natopia]]
|body=Natopian public buyers and the companies taking part in the [[Lindström Recovery Protocol]] will place a further NAX€160 billion of orders for New Alexandrian infrastructure, manufactured goods and defense output, the [[Natopian-Nouvelle Alexandrie Joint Economic Council]] announced on 19.IX.{{AN|1760}}. The second window runs from Aureoris (IX) into early {{AN|1761}}.

The council's ministerial committee of economic ministers and central bank governors met in Lindström for its quarterly session. The new window is half the size of the first, which scheduled NAX€320 billion of orders between Novarum (I) and Estivis (VIII) and closed at the end of that month.<ref>[[Lindström Recovery Protocol]].</ref> Natopian buyers pay for the orders.

Treasury Secretary [[Tomás Iñiguez]] of the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] led the New Alexandrian delegation. He repeated the case he made at the council's Cárdenas plenary in Ventaris (III), and said the government had asked for a larger part of the new orders to go to companies that manufacture inside the Federation, rather than to Natopian firms with New Alexandrian subsidiaries.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE ACCORD PRESSES TO TURN NATOPIA'S RECOVERY ORDERS INTO LASTING NEW ALEXANDRIAN INDUSTRY|"The Accord Presses to Turn Natopia's Recovery Orders into Lasting New Alexandrian Industry"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 14.III.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> The council's communiqué did not say whether that request was met. ''"The first window kept factories open through the worst of the year,"'' Iñiguez said. ''"The second has to do more than that. We want these orders to leave behind jobs and capacity that stay here when the window closes."''

A spokesperson for the government of Chancellor [[Marco Lungo III]] said Natopia regarded the renewal as an investment in its own supply chains. ''"Natopian buyers need what New Alexandrian industry makes,"'' the spokesperson said. ''"The second window is smaller because the emergency is smaller, and that is good news for both countries."''

The council did not publish a breakdown of the NAX€160 billion by sector or by Region. [[Dingo Enterprises]] and [[Neridia Defense Industries]] were among the buyers in the first window, returning after their canceled orders had helped set off the [[1757 Alexandrium market crash]].
|tldr=''The [[Natopian-Nouvelle Alexandrie Joint Economic Council]] has opened a second NAX€160 billion window of Natopian orders for New Alexandrian infrastructure, manufactured goods and defense output, running from Aureoris (IX) into early {{AN|1761}}. It is half the size of the first window, which closed at the end of Estivis (VIII). Treasury Secretary [[Tomás Iñiguez]] sought a larger share for firms that manufacture in the Federation, and the communiqué did not say whether he got it. Natopia said the smaller window reflected a smaller emergency.''
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}}

==X (Solaris)==
===6===
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} BARILLAS AND KERULARIOS AMONG THE LARGEST DONORS AS THE HUMANISTS REBUILD IN OPPOSITION
|image=Federal Humanist Party Logo.png
|image_size=200px
|image_caption=''The Federal Humanist Party’s emblem.''
|bullet1=Filings Published by the [[Federal Elections Commission (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Federal Elections Commission]] Show Both Families Giving to the [[Federal Humanist Party]]
|bullet2=Ottavio and [[Shirley Barilla]] Each Gave the Most the Law Allows an Individual
|bullet3=[[George Lahaye Kerularios]] and [[Maximinus Lahaye Kerularios]] Also Gave the Legal Maximum as Individuals
|bullet4=Humanists Are Raising Money After Falling to 293 Seats at the {{AN|1759}} Election
|bullet5=Rival Families Who Fell Out Over Freight in {{AN|1742}} Now Meet Again in the Humanists' Donor Lists
|location=[[Punta Santiago]], [[Alduria]]
|body=Members of the Barilla and Kerularios families, who own two of the Federation's best-known companies, are among the largest donors to the [[Federal Humanist Party]] since its defeat at the {{AN|1759}} general election, according to filings published by the [[Federal Elections Commission (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Federal Elections Commission]] on 6.X.{{AN|1760}}.

Ottavio Barilla, chairman of the pasta maker [[Casa Barilla]], and his daughter [[Shirley Barilla]], its chief executive, each gave the most that an individual may give under the Federation's contribution limits. [[George Lahaye Kerularios]], chairman of [[Kerularios & Company]], and his son [[Maximinus Lahaye Kerularios]], its chief executive, did the same.<ref>[[Federal Elections Commission (Nouvelle Alexandrie)]].</ref> Neither company appears in the filings, and Kerularios & Company has a policy against direct political donations.<ref>[[Kerularios & Company]].</ref>

The Humanists governed the Federation from {{AN|1739}} until the Federal Accord took office in I.{{AN|1760}}. The party lost 79 seats at the election and now holds 293, and [[José Manuel Montero]] leads it as Leader of the Opposition.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#MONTERO_LEADS_THE_FEDERAL_HUMANISTS_INTO_OPPOSITION_AFTER_THE_PARTY'S_STEEPEST_DEFEAT_IN_A_GENERATION|"Montero leads the Federal Humanists into opposition after the party's steepest defeat in a generation"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 18.I.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> The Humanists voted against the Federal Accord's budget, whose higher rates fall on the largest companies and estates,<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_ACCORD'S_FIRST_BUDGET_BECOMES_LAW_AS_THE_CORTES_CLEARS_ITS_APPROPRIATIONS_AND_TAXATION_ACT|"The Accord's first budget becomes law as the Cortes clears its Appropriations and Taxation Act"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 22.IV.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> and against the [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]], the law under which Casa Barilla won its tax cut on dried pasta.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_ACCORD'S_COST-OF-LIVING_RELIEF_BECOMES_LAW,_CUTTING_TAX_ON_ESSENTIALS_AND_CREATING_A_CONSUMER_WATCHDOG|"The Accord's cost-of-living relief becomes law, cutting tax on essentials and creating a consumer watchdog"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 10.V.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> A party spokesperson said the donations would pay for its research staff and for organizing in the Regions it lost.

The Barillas came to the party later than older Humanist houses such as the [[Valkory family]] and the [[Almagro family]].<ref>[[Barilla family]].</ref> Since the party went into opposition, the Barilla and Kerularios families have competed to fund its rebuilding. Their companies first fell out over freight during the [[Port Wars of 1742]].

''"We give to the Humanists because we believe in what they stand for,"'' Shirley Barilla said. ''"Who else gives is their business."'' A spokesperson for the Kerularios family declined to comment.
|tldr=''Filings with the [[Federal Elections Commission (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Federal Elections Commission]] show members of the rival Barilla and Kerularios families each giving the most the law allows to the [[Federal Humanist Party]], which is rebuilding in opposition after falling to 293 seats. Neither company appears in the filings, and [[Kerularios & Company]] has a policy against political donations.''
|impact_stability={{steady}} 0
|impact_approval={{steady}} 0
}}

===20===
{{See also|Clean Government and Elections Act, 1760|Convention on Civil Aviation Accession Act, 1760|Federal Audit Office of Nouvelle Alexandrie}}

{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE ACCORD'S CLEAN GOVERNMENT ACT BECOMES LAW, TAKING THE AUDITOR OUT OF THE TREASURY AND COMPLETING ITS FIVE OPENING BILLS
|image=Tomas-iniguez-cga1756.jpg
|image_size=200px
|image_caption=''Treasury Secretary [[Tomás Iñiguez]], who brought the clean-government bill defeated in {{AN|1755}} and co-sponsored the Act that became law; file photograph.''
|bullet1=Federal Audit Office Leaves the Treasury and Will Report to the Cortes Alone
|bullet2=Peers Concurred by 55 Votes to 53 After the Assembly Carried the Bill 473 to 298
|bullet3=Not One Humanist Deputy Voted for the Act, Five Years After Their Party Defeated the {{AN|1754}} Bill
|bullet4=Ministers' Code of Conduct Now Carries the Force of Law
|bullet5=Large Party Donations Will Be Published the Day They Arrive, on a Register Open All Year
|bullet6=Civil Aviation Accession, Signed a Day Earlier, Clears the Way to Join the Convention
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=King [[Sinchi Roca II]] granted Royal Assent on 20.X.{{AN|1760}} to the [[Clean Government and Elections Act, 1760]], which takes the [[Federal Audit Office of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Audit Office]] out of the [[Department of Treasury (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Treasury]], gives the Committee of Ethics in Government the power to compel documents and testimony, and brings political action committees under the rules on party money. With the [[Convention on Civil Aviation Accession Act, 1760|civil aviation accession]] signed the day before, all five bills of the [[Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|Federal Accord]]'s opening program are now law.

The [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] carried the clean-government bill on 7.X.{{AN|1760}} by 473 votes to 298, with 30 abstentions.<ref name="divisions">[[14th Cortes Federales#Legislation introduced|Legislation introduced in the 14th Cortes Federales]].</ref> The three governing parties voted for it as a bloc, joined by 25 of the 50 independents, among them the 13 who follow [[Piti Gándara]]. The [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]] concurred on 17.X by 55 votes to 53, with 10 abstentions, and made no amendment. The Act came into force with the Assent.

Under the Act the Auditor-General is nominated by the Speaker on the recommendation of the Assembly's Committee on Appointments rather than by the Secretary of the Treasury, can be removed only by a two-thirds vote, and reports to the Cortes alone. The Committee of Ethics in Government leaves the Presidential Office as an independent statutory body under a Commissioner appointed on a three-fifths vote of the Assembly for a single six-year term, with the power to compel documents and testimony, and the Ministerial Code of Conduct becomes law. A public register of party accounts and large donations will stay open the year round, with large gifts disclosed the day they are received and every donation traced to its true source. The register and the new rules on political action committees take effect on a day the [[Federal Elections Commission (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Federal Elections Commission]] appoints, no later than 20.X.{{AN|1761}}.

The Act is the [[Civic Governance Alliance]]'s third bill for the reform. Its [[Clean Government Act, 1750]] stalled for four years without reaching a vote, and the [[Clean Government and Political Reform Act, 1754]] fell in the Assembly by 260 votes to 438 in {{AN|1755}}. The [[Federal Humanist Party|Federal Humanists]], then in government, said they did not dispute the bill's purpose but voted it down because the anti-corruption commission it proposed would duplicate the [[Anti-Corruption Agency of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Anti-Corruption Agency]], and pledged instead to widen that agency's mandate.<ref name="defeat1755">[[NBC Newsfeed/1755#CLEAN_GOVERNMENT_ACT_DEFEATED_260_TO_438_AS_HUMANISTS_VOTE_IT_DOWN_ON_DUPLICATION_GROUNDS;_SVENSSON_SAYS_"THIS_DOES_NOT_END_HERE"|"Clean Government Act defeated 260 to 438 as Humanists vote it down on duplication grounds"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 11.VI.{{AN|1755}}.</ref> The new Act proposes no anti-corruption commission; it moves the Audit Office out of the Treasury and makes the existing ethics office independent. All 293 Humanist deputies voted against it, and the [[Republican Party of Oportia]] abstained.

''"Last time we were told we were building something the country already had,"'' said Treasury Secretary [[Tomás Iñiguez]] (CGA), who brought the {{AN|1754}} bill and co-sponsored this one with [[Francisco Gabaza]] of the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]]. ''"So we built nothing new. We moved the auditor out of my own department and gave the ethics office the power to ask for the papers."''

The aviation Act, signed on 19.X, authorizes the Federation to join the [[Convention on Civil Aviation]], the one ancillary treaty of the [[Micras Treaty Organization]] it had not ratified. It grants foreign carriers the first six freedoms of the air on condition that their countries return them, and withholds the seventh through the tenth, which would have let foreign airlines fly between New Alexandrian cities or serve the Federation on routes that never touch their own countries. The Assembly passed it on 7.X by 728 votes to 22, with 51 abstentions, and 250 of the 293 Humanists voted for a Government bill for the first time in this Cortes. The Peers concurred on 16.X by 86 to 22, with 10 abstentions.<ref name="divisions" />

Secretary of State [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]] must now deposit the instrument of accession with the Organization at [[Huyenkula]]. The Act comes into force on a day she appoints, no earlier than that deposit.
|tldr=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] granted Royal Assent on 20.X.{{AN|1760}} to the [[Clean Government and Elections Act, 1760]], a day after signing the [[Convention on Civil Aviation Accession Act, 1760]], so that all five bills of the [[Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|Federal Accord]]'s opening program are now law. The clean-government Act, carried 473 to 298 in the Assembly and 55 to 53 by the Peers, moves the [[Federal Audit Office of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Audit Office]] from the Treasury to the Cortes, gives the ethics office power to compel evidence, puts the Ministerial Code into law and provides for a year-round register of party donations, to open no later than 20.X.{{AN|1761}}. It is the [[Civic Governance Alliance]]'s third bill for the reform; every Humanist deputy voted against. The aviation Act authorizes the Federation to join the [[Convention on Civil Aviation]], granting the first six freedoms of the air and withholding the rest.''
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===22===
{{See also|Institute of Public Opinion|New Alexandrian general election, 1759|Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE FOURTH IOP/NBC POLL FINDS THE ACCORD'S LEAD EASING TO FIVE AS APPROVAL STAYS NEAR PLUS 10
|image=NBC1760VoteIntentionPollX22.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''IOP/NBC News vote-intention graphic for the fourth regular poll of {{AN|1760}}, conducted 16-18.X.''
|bullet1=The Alliance Leads the Humanists 37 to 32, Down From Six Points in VII
|bullet2=Government Approval Stays Near Its VII Level at a Net Plus 10
|bullet3=Cost of Living Still Leads the Concerns as Housing Eases and the Jobs Concern Edges Up
|bullet4=Elena Svensson Stays Ahead as the Best-Liked Leader
|bullet5=Slightly More Voters Doubt Than Expect the Coalition to Last a Full Term
|bullet6=This X Reading Is a Snapshot, Not a Forecast of the Government's Fate
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The fourth regular [[Institute of Public Opinion|IOP]]/NBC News poll of {{AN|1760}}, conducted 16-18.X, finds the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] still ahead on a fresh ballot, but with its lead down a point from VII. Net approval is within a point of its VII reading, and voters are close to evenly divided on the Federation's direction.<ref name="pollX">Institute of Public Opinion for NBC News, fourth regular poll of {{AN|1760}}, conducted 16-18.X.{{AN|1760}}; margin of error plus or minus 2.2 percent.</ref>

On a fresh ballot the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]] leads the [[Federal Humanist Party]] 37 percent to 32, a five-point margin against six in VII. The Alliance is level at 37 and the Humanists gain a point. The [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] slips to 13, with the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] level at 12. Independents and other candidates stay at 4 percent, and the [[Republican Party of Oportia]] at 2.

Forty-eight percent approve of the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] administration and 38 percent disapprove, a net approval of plus 10, down from plus 11 in VII. Disapproval stays at 38 percent; approval is a point lower and no opinion a point higher, at 14 percent.

The cost of living remains the leading concern at 37 percent, the same as in VII. Housing is down to 19 from 20, while the economy and jobs rise to 19 from 18. The public debt registers 14 percent, with 11 percent naming another issue or offering no opinion. The reduced 5 percent rate of value added tax on dried pasta, added to the essentials basket on 9.IX, applies from 1.X, about two weeks before the poll's fieldwork.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#DRIED_PASTA_JOINS_THE_ESSENTIALS_BASKET_AT_HALF_THE_STANDARD_RATE_OF_VALUE_ADDED_TAX|"Dried pasta joins the essentials basket at half the standard rate of value added tax"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 9.IX.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> The poll asks what worries voters, and it does not measure the effect of any single measure on prices.

The confidence measures slip slightly. Fifty percent think the government will govern effectively, against 40 percent who lack confidence. Voters are at 44 to 46 on whether the coalition will last a full term, after the 45 to 45 reading in VII.

[[Elena Svensson]] leads the tested field at net favorability of plus 15, down from plus 16 in VII. Independent deputy [[Piti Gándara]] stays at plus 14. [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] slips to plus 8, and [[José Manuel Montero]] recovers two points to minus 13. The numbers measure standing in this poll; they do not determine who will win a future election or how any deputy will vote.

The Federation's direction splits 46 percent right to 47 wrong, with 7 percent offering no opinion. In VII the two readings were level at 46 each.

Nicolás Arreola, the Institute's director, again cautioned that a single quarter's reading is a snapshot of the public mood, not a verdict on the government's future.
|tldr=''The fourth regular [[Institute of Public Opinion|IOP]]/NBC News poll of {{AN|1760}}, conducted 16-18.X, finds the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]] leading the [[Federal Humanist Party]] 37 to 32 on a fresh ballot, a five-point margin against six in VII. Government approval is 48 to 38, a net plus 10 against plus 11 in VII; the cost of living remains the top concern. [[Elena Svensson]] stays ahead at net plus 15, confidence in a full coalition term is 44 to 46, and direction of the Federation stands at 46 right against 47 wrong. The reading is a snapshot of the public mood, not a forecast of an election or a bill's fate.''
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====IOP/NBC News Public Opinion Polling====
=====National Party Voting Intention=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''NATIONAL PARTY VOTING INTENTION''' ''If a general election were held today, which party would you support?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 16-18.X.{{AN|1760}}
! Party
! Percentage in Poll
! Change Since VII.{{AN|1760}}
|-
| [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] ([[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]])
| 37.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| [[Federal Humanist Party]] ([[FHP]])
| 32.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] ([[Federal Consensus Party|FCP]])
| 13.0%
| {{decrease}} −1.0%
|-
| [[Civic Governance Alliance]] ([[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]])
| 12.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| Independents & Other Candidates
| 4.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| [[Republican Party of Oportia]] ([[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]])
| 2.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|}

=====Government Approval=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''GOVERNMENT APPROVAL''' ''Do you approve or disapprove of the job the Federal Accord government is doing?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 16-18.X.{{AN|1760}}
! Response
! Percentage
! Change Since VII.{{AN|1760}}
|-
| Approve
| 48.0%
| {{decrease}} −1.0%
|-
| Disapprove
| 38.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| No Opinion
| 14.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
! Net Approval
! {{increase}} +10.0%
! {{decrease}} −1.0%
|}

=====Most Important Issue=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FACING THE FEDERATION''' ''What is the most important issue facing the Federation today?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 16-18.X.{{AN|1760}}
! Issue
! Percentage
|-
| The cost of living
| 37.0%
|-
| Housing
| 19.0%
|-
| The economy and jobs
| 19.0%
|-
| The public debt
| 14.0%
|-
| Other / No opinion
| 11.0%
|}

=====Confidence in the Government=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''CONFIDENCE IN THE GOVERNMENT''' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 16-18.X.{{AN|1760}}
! Question
! Confident
! Not confident
! Unsure
|-
| Will the government govern effectively? || 50.0% || 40.0% || 10.0%
|-
| Will the coalition last a full term? || 44.0% || 46.0% || 10.0%
|}

=====Party Leader Favorability Ratings=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''PARTY LEADER FAVORABILITY RATINGS''' % of registered voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 16-18.X.{{AN|1760}}
! Leader
! Favorable
! Unfavorable
! No Opinion
! Net Favorability
! Change
|-
| [[Elena Svensson]] ([[CGA]]) Vice-Premier
| 48.0%
| 33.0%
| 19.0%
| {{increase}} +15.0%
| {{decrease}} −1.0%
|-
| [[Yuiza Bohi'o]] ([[Wakara People's Party|WPP]]) Leader
| 38.0%
| 26.0%
| 36.0%
| {{increase}} +12.0%
| {{decrease}} −1.0%
|-
| [[Piti Gándara]] (Independent) Independent Deputy for [[Alduria]]
| 30.0%
| 16.0%
| 54.0%
| {{increase}} +14.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] ([[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]]) President of the Government
| 45.0%
| 37.0%
| 18.0%
| {{increase}} +8.0%
| {{decrease}} −1.0%
|-
| [[Francisco Gabaza]] ([[FCP]]) Leader
| 39.0%
| 35.0%
| 26.0%
| {{increase}} +4.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| [[Sofia Laurent]] ([[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]]) Leader
| 18.0%
| 18.0%
| 64.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| [[José Manuel Montero]] ([[FHP]]) Leader of the Opposition
| 37.0%
| 50.0%
| 13.0%
| {{decrease}} −13.0%
| {{increase}} +2.0%
|}

=====Direction of the Federation=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''DIRECTION OF THE FEDERATION''' ''Do you think the Federation is headed in the right direction or the wrong direction?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 16-18.X.{{AN|1760}}
! Response
! Percentage
! Change Since VII.{{AN|1760}}
|-
| Right Direction
| 46.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| Wrong Direction
| 47.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| No Opinion
| 7.0%
| {{decrease}} −1.0%
|}

==XI (Messoris)==
===15===
{{See also|Federal Consumer Protection Agency of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE SPEAKER NAMES TAMARA HUANCA MORENO TO HEAD THE CONSUMER PROTECTION AGENCY AFTER THE BUDGET COMMITTEE BACKS HER
|image=Federal Consumer Protection Agency logo.png
|image_size=200px
|image_caption=''The logo of the [[Federal Consumer Protection Agency of Nouvelle Alexandrie]], whose first head was named on 15.XI.{{AN|1760}}.''
|bullet1=Tamara Huanca Moreno, a Professor of Consumer and Competition Law, Is Named the Agency's First Head
|bullet2=The Budget and Finances Committee Backed Her by 27 Votes to 15 After an Eleven-Hour Hearing
|bullet3=Humanist Deputies Seydlitz and Strong Pressed Her on Cost and on Independence
|bullet4=She Told the Committee She Would Not Soften a Finding That Names a Large Firm
|bullet5=Unit Pricing Comes First, Written So a Shop With One Till Can Follow It
|bullet6=Speaker Orocobix Magüana Appointed Her for Six Years
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=By the time the [[Budget and Finances Committee]] put the question, late on the evening of 14.XI.{{AN|1760}}, Tamara Huanca Moreno had been at the witness table for most of eleven hours, and had been asked a dozen different ways whether the Federation needed her at all.

The committee recommended her by 27 votes to 15. The next morning the Speaker of the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]], [[Orocobix Magüana]], appointed her the first head of the [[Federal Consumer Protection Agency of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consumer Protection Agency]], the watchdog set up by the [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760|Cost of Living Relief Act]]. The Government has said the Agency will see that the tax cut on essentials reaches the shelf.<ref name="nbc18vi">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_GOVERNMENT_SETS_THE_CLOCK_ON_ITS_NEW_CONSUMER_WATCHDOG_AND_OPENS_THE_SEARCH_FOR_ITS_HEAD|"The Government sets the clock on its new consumer watchdog and opens the search for its head"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 18.VI.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> She holds the post for six years, and only a two-thirds vote of the Assembly, for cause, can remove her.<ref name="clra13">[[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]], Article 13.</ref> It is the same route by which Magüana named [[Ingrid Halvorsen]] Director of the [[Federal Budget and Costing Office]] on 24.V.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_FEDERAL_BUDGET_AND_COSTING_OFFICE_OPENS_AS_A_NONPARTISAN_REFEREE_FOR_THE_PUBLIC_ACCOUNTS|"The Federal Budget and Costing Office opens as a nonpartisan referee for the public accounts"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 24.V.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> The 15 votes against came from the [[Federal Humanist Party]], which voted as one against the Act in Sementis (V) and has argued since that the country will pay for the Agency twice.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_ACCORD'S_COST-OF-LIVING_RELIEF_BECOMES_LAW,_CUTTING_TAX_ON_ESSENTIALS_AND_CREATING_A_CONSUMER_WATCHDOG|"The Accord's cost-of-living relief becomes law, cutting tax on essentials and creating a consumer watchdog"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 10.V.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

Huanca Moreno, 51, has taught for nineteen years on the Faculty of Law at the [[University of Punta Santiago]], where she is Professor of Consumer and Competition Law. Before that she spent eight years as an economist in the Antitrust and Market Competitiveness Bureau of the [[Department of Trade and Industry (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Trade and Industry]], the unit the Act now directs the Agency to work alongside.<ref name="clra13" /> Her last project there was a survey of shelf prices for flour, cooking oil, and infant formula in eleven cities, which found the same packet selling at prices up to a third apart inside a single Region. Her textbook on unit pricing, ''Price by the Measure'', grew out of that survey, and the Act's unit-pricing rule, which requires the price of essential food and energy to be shown by a standard unit of quantity, is now hers to write and enforce.<ref>[[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]], Article 6.</ref> She belongs to no party and has never stood for office.

The chair, Rosalinda Tupa Villegas of the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]], opened the hearing by reading out the tenure clause. ''"Six years, and two-thirds to remove,"'' she said. ''"The Cortes wrote it that way so the head of this Agency would never need the Government's leave to say what she finds. Our job today is to learn whether she will say it."''

In her opening statement Huanca Moreno said the Agency's first work would be the dull part. ''"A family cannot compare a price it cannot read,"'' she said. ''"Before we review a single market, the label on a bag of rice has to tell you what a kilo costs, in every shop, in the same way."''

The Humanist questioning began with cost. [[Emmanuel Philibert Seydlitz]] (FHP), who sits for the [[Isles of Caputia]], asked what the new rules would mean for a grocer with one till on an island the supply boat calls at twice a week. ''"Every rule you write is a form somebody fills in, and the man who fills it in is not a lawyer,"'' he said. ''"He puts the hour it costs him on the price of the bread, and the household you mean to protect pays for its own protection."'' He said the Act funds the Agency from existing departmental appropriations rather than new money,<ref>[[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]], Article 19.</ref> and asked which other office would go short to pay for it.

Huanca Moreno said the unit rule would be written for the smallest shop first. ''"If a grocer with one till cannot follow it with a pencil and a shelf card, I have written it badly, and I will rewrite it,"'' she said. On the money, she said the Agency would publish what it spent each year beside what it found.

[[Fred Strong|Federico de Almagro y Strong]] (FHP), the former Vice-President, turned the chair's point about independence around. A body that answers to no minister, he said, can become a weapon for whichever majority chose its head, and he asked whether she would go easier on firms the Accord counted as friends. She said she would not soften a finding for anyone. ''"If the number is the number, it goes in the report,"'' she said. ''"If the largest firm in a market is charging the most for the same packet, the report will name it, whoever sits in the Council of State."''

Strong then asked whether the Agency would end up setting prices in the shops itself. ''"It will not. Apart from reference prices for medicines, the Act does not let me set a price, and I would not ask it to,"'' she said.<ref>[[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]], Articles 16 and 17.</ref>

[[José Manuel Montero]], the [[Leader of the Opposition of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Leader of the Opposition]], said after the vote that the Humanists had voted against the office. ''"Professor Huanca Moreno is plainly able, and that was never the question,"'' he said. ''"The question is why a country that has just been promised cheaper bread is paying for a new agency to check the price of it."''

Magüana signed the appointment on the morning of 15.XI. ''"The committee has done its part under the Act,"'' he said. ''"She answers to the Cortes now."''

The Agency must report to the Cortes each year, and each report goes before the chambers through the Secretary of Trade and Industry, [[Jacqueline Betancourt]], who said on 18.VI, when the Government opened the search for the Agency's head, that it would not leave the Agency a year in a drawer.<ref name="clra13" /><ref name="nbc18vi" /> Asked during the hearing where the first report would begin, Huanca Moreno answered: ''"With the price of a kilo of rice, in eleven cities. Then we will see who is charging what, and why."''
|tldr=''Speaker [[Orocobix Magüana]] appointed Tamara Huanca Moreno, a professor of consumer and competition law at the [[University of Punta Santiago]] and a former economist in the Department of Trade and Industry's antitrust bureau, head of the [[Federal Consumer Protection Agency of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consumer Protection Agency]] on 15.XI.{{AN|1760}}, after the [[Budget and Finances Committee]] recommended her by 27 votes to 15 following an eleven-hour hearing. Humanist deputies pressed her on what the Agency will cost shops and households and on whether it can stay independent; she said unit pricing comes first, written for the smallest shop, and that a report will name any firm the numbers point to. She serves six years and can be removed only by a two-thirds vote of the Assembly for cause.''
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|impact_regional={{steady}} 0
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==XII (Sylvaris)==
===9===
{{Main|Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Janus of Neridia}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}}{{team flag|Natopia|flag}} CROWN PRINCESS SAYARI GIVES BIRTH TO TWINS, A SON AND A DAUGHTER
|image=NBC1760RoyalTwinsCarranza.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''Residents gather outside the Palace of Carranza following the birth of Prince Pachacútec and Princess Anahí.''
|bullet1=Born at the [[Palace of Carranza]] on 9.XII.{{AN|1760}}, the Twins Will Be Known as Prince Pachacútec and Princess Anahí
|bullet2=Pachacútec, Born First, Stands Third in Line to the Throne; His Sister Anahí Stands Fourth
|bullet3=Mother and Both Children Are Well, the Royal Household Says
|bullet4=Their Maternal Grandparents, King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]], Waited at the Palace for the Births
|bullet5=Bells Ring in Lindström as Natopia Marks the Births
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=Crown Princess [[Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Sayari]], 38, gave birth to twins, a son and a daughter, at the [[Palace of Carranza]] in [[Cárdenas]] on 9.XII.{{AN|1760}}. The son was born first and the daughter a few minutes after him. In a statement that evening the [[Royal Household of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Royal Household]] said mother and both children were well. Prince [[Janus of Neridia|Janus]], their father, had been with the Princess throughout. His family, the [[House of Eadric]], issued its own statement from [[Neridia (demesne)|Neridia]] soon afterward.

The Royal Household announced the names the next morning. The son will be known as Prince Pachacútec and the daughter as Princess Anahí. [[María Teresa de Valencia]], the Lord Steward of the Royal Household, said the Princess and Prince Janus had chosen both names themselves before the birth.

The births came within the closing months of the year, as the household had said in III that they would. The Princess had stopped traveling outside the Federation from VIII on medical advice.<ref name="twinsannounce">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#ROYAL_HOUSEHOLD_CONFIRMS_CROWN_PRINCESS_SAYARI_IS_EXPECTING_TWINS;_THEY_WILL_STAND_THIRD_AND_FOURTH_IN_LINE|"Royal Household confirms Crown Princess Sayari is expecting twins; they will stand third and fourth in line"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 6.III.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> Twins are not new to Prince Janus's family: his grandmother, [[Princess Nayaraq, Princess Royal|Princess Nayaraq]], had twins as her first children in {{AN|1686}}.<ref>[[Princess Nayaraq, Princess Royal]].</ref>

Because Prince Pachacútec was born first, he stands third in line to the throne, behind his mother and his brother, Prince [[Inti, Duke of Vilcabamba|Inti]], and Princess Anahí stands fourth. The [[Succession to the Throne Act, 1700]] gives precedence to the elder child without regard to sex.<ref>[[Order of succession of Nouvelle Alexandrie]].</ref> Both children belong to the [[House of Inti-Carrillo]] from birth. Like their brother, they hold three citizenships from birth: New Alexandrian, Natopian, and that of [[Hurmu]], which comes through their mother's hereditary membership of the [[Order of the Holy Lakes]].<ref>[[Inti, Duke of Vilcabamba]]; [[Order of the Holy Lakes]].</ref>

King [[Sinchi Roca II]], back in Cárdenas since the end of the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]], waited at the palace with Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]], who had come from [[Lindström]] for the birth. Both had been at the palace for Prince Inti's birth on 23.XII.{{AN|1755}}.<ref name="intibirth">[[NBC Newsfeed/1755#CROWN_PRINCESS_SAYARI_GIVES_BIRTH_TO_A_SON;_FIRST_CHILD_OF_AN_HEIR_APPARENT_IN_33_YEARS|"Crown Princess Sayari gives birth to a son; first child of an heir apparent in 33 years"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 23.XII.{{AN|1755}}.</ref> ''"Our family is larger by two tonight, and Inti has a brother and a sister,"'' the King and the Empress said in a joint statement. ''"We thank the country for its patience, and we ask for a little more of it."''

In Lindström, the Imperial Household of [[Natopia]] announced the births within the hour. It had arranged no celebrations before the birth, and the bells of the capital were rung the next morning. Prince [[Nathan, Prince of Lindström|Nathan]], the Crown Princess's brother and heir to the Natopian throne, sent his congratulations to his sister. The twins enter the Natopian succession through their mother, who is second in line to that throne behind him.<ref name="twinsannounce" />

Premier [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] sent the Government's congratulations that evening, and Leader of the Opposition [[José Manuel Montero]] sent his own. From the chair, Speaker [[Orocobix Magüana]] said the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] would set aside time for felicitations at its next sitting, as it did for the announcement in III, and the [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]] made the same arrangement.

By the next morning a crowd had gathered at the palace gates. At midday on 10.XII the batteries above Cárdenas fired the salute they had fired for Prince Inti, and the bells of the [[Basilica of Saint Alexandra of Cárdenas]] rang again.<ref name="intibirth" /><ref>[[Basilica of Saint Alexandra of Cárdenas]].</ref> The household again asked that flowers go to [[Federation Park]] rather than the gates, and the proclamation of the births is due in the next [[The Federal Gazette|Federal Gazette]].
|tldr=''Crown Princess [[Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Sayari]], 38, gave birth to twins at the [[Palace of Carranza]] in [[Cárdenas]] on 9.XII.{{AN|1760}}. The son, Prince Pachacútec, was born first and stands third in line behind his mother and his brother, Prince [[Inti, Duke of Vilcabamba|Inti]]; his sister, Princess Anahí, stands fourth. Mother and children are well. King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] waited at the palace, and Natopia's Imperial Household marked the births in [[Lindström]].''
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===24===
==== Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month XII, 1760) ====
''Published by the Nouvelle Alexandrie Statistics Bureau.''

Output grew at an annualized 3.0% in the third quarter of {{AN|1760}}, up from 2.4% in the second, and the year-on-year rate rose to 1.2% from a revised decline of 0.7%. Figures for the first two quarters of {{AN|1760}} have been revised following the Bureau's annual benchmark review; comparisons below use the revised series. Unemployment held at 6.7%, and consumer confidence rose to 90.0 from 88.9. Natopian orders under the [[Lindström Recovery Protocol]] closed at NAX€420 billion when the order window ended in Estivis (VIII), NAX€100 billion above the planned figure, and deliveries ran through the quarter as Natopia's industrial expansion drew in more New Alexandrian goods. From 1.X, dried pasta joined the essentials basket taxed at the reduced 5% rate of value added tax under the [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]]. The deficit narrowed to 2.0% of output from 3.0% as receipts under the tax package of the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]] came in, and public debt eased to 67.1% of output from 67.2%. Living costs rose again, with the cost-of-living index at 110.0 from 109.3, while housing affordability improved to 88.9 from 87.4. NAX€200 billion of recovery borrowing remained frozen under the undertaking the Government gave at its investiture, to be released only by a separate act of the Cortes.

===== Headline panel =====
{| class="wikitable"
! Indicator !! Current !! Change !! Note
|-
| Real GDP (quarter) || NAX€12.54 trillion || {{increase}} NAX€207.61 billion || the quarter's output
|-
| Real GDP (trailing 4Q, annual) || NAX€46.45 trillion || {{increase}} NAX€148.24 billion || sum of the last four quarters
|-
| Real GDP growth (QoQ, annualized) || 3.0% || || quarter on quarter
|-
| Real GDP growth (YoY) || 1.2% || || year on year
|-
| Nominal GDP (annual) || NAX€50.06 trillion || {{increase}} NAX€472.70 billion || real times the deflator
|-
| GDP per capita (nominal) || NAX€95,225 || {{increase}} NAX€618 || the very-rich headline
|-
| Inflation (CPI, YoY) || 2.4% || {{steady}} ||
|-
| Cost-of-Living Index || 110.0 || {{increase}} 0.7 || 100 = {{AN|1757}} base
|-
| Unemployment rate || 6.7% || {{steady}} ||
|-
| Budget balance (quarter, % GDP) || -2.0% || {{increase}} 1.0% || deficit if negative
|-
| Public debt (% GDP) || 67.1% || {{decrease}} 0.1% || debt/GDP guardrail
|-
| Trade balance (quarter, % GDP) || 3.0% || {{increase}} 0.1% ||
|-
| Alexandrium price (NAX€/g) || 2,098.99 || {{increase}} 1.58 || volatility driver
|-
| Alexandrium federal revenue (quarter) || NAX€61.53 billion || {{increase}} NAX€0.05 billion || feeds the 12% mandate
|-
| Gini coefficient || 0.379 || {{steady}} || distribution headline
|-
| Urban-rural income gap || 1.80 || {{steady}} || income ratio
|-
| Housing Affordability Index || 88.9 || {{increase}} 1.5 || price/rent vs income
|-
| Consumer Confidence Index || 90.0 || {{increase}} 1.1 || 100 = neutral
|}

===== Detailed appendix =====
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Macro detail
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Real GDP (quarter) || NAX€12.54 trillion
|-
| Nominal GDP (quarter) || NAX€13.62 trillion
|-
| GDP deflator || 108.6
|-
| Real GDP (trailing 4Q) || NAX€46.45 trillion
|-
| Nominal GDP (trailing 4Q) || NAX€50.06 trillion
|-
| Real growth (QoQ ann.) || 3.0%
|-
| Real growth (YoY) || 1.2%
|-
| Cost-of-Living Index || 110.0
|-
| House Price Index || 109.8
|-
| Housing Affordability Index || 88.9
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Labor
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Population || 525,658,858
|-
| Working-age population || 345,552,635
|-
| Labor force || 219,358,868
|-
| Employed || 204,556,819
|-
| Participation rate || 63.5%
|-
| Unemployment rate || 6.7%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Fiscal and debt
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Revenue (quarter) || NAX€5.35 trillion
|-
| Expenditure (quarter) || NAX€5.38 trillion
|-
| Primary balance (quarter) || NAX€-25.99 billion
|-
| Interest (quarter) || NAX€247.13 billion
|-
| Budget balance (quarter) || NAX€-273.12 billion
|-
| Public debt || NAX€33.59 trillion
|-
| Public debt (% GDP) || 67.1%
|-
| Interest burden (% revenue) || 4.6%
|-
| Reserve fund || NAX€1.78 trillion
|-
| Reserve draw (quarter) || NAX€0.00 billion
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ External
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Exports (quarter) || NAX€3.51 trillion
|-
| Imports (quarter) || NAX€3.09 trillion
|-
| Trade balance (quarter) || NAX€412.47 billion
|-
| Trade balance (% GDP) || 3.0%
|-
| Écu, real, Q2 {{AN|1760}} = 100 || 100.0
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Strategic resources (Alexandrium)
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Price (NAX€/g) || 2,098.99
|-
| Gross value (quarter) || NAX€246.11 billion
|-
| Export value (quarter) || NAX€172.27 billion
|-
| Federal revenue (quarter) || NAX€61.53 billion
|-
| Revenue baseline (quarter) || NAX€85.01 billion
|-
| Revenue shortfall (quarter) || NAX€23.48 billion
|-
| UARA volume levy (quarter) || NAX€7.62 billion
|-
| Ad-valorem take (quarter) || NAX€53.91 billion
|-
| Diversification earmark (12%) || NAX€7.38 billion
|-
| Resource-sector share of GDP || 1.9%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Sectoral output (shares sum to 100%)
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Agriculture || 6.0%
|-
| Industry || 30.1%
|-
| Services || 63.9%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Inequality
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Gini coefficient || 0.379
|-
| Urban-rural income gap || 1.80
|}

''Outlook (forecast):'' real GDP growth is projected near 3.4% (annualized) next quarter, with unemployment near 6.6%. These are model projections, superseded by next quarter's actuals.

==XIII (Autumus)==
===8===
{{Main|Bliven Fund}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Anglien|flag}} THE BLIVEN FUND'S FIRST TRANSFER REACHES THE ANGLIAN TREASURY, PAID OUT BY A MINISTER WHOSE PARTY CAMPAIGNED AGAINST THE FUND
|image=BlivenFundCapitalization1759NBC.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''The [[Bliven Fund]], approved by the [[Concord Council]] in {{AN|1759}}, made its first transfer to the Anglian treasury on 8.XIII.{{AN|1760}}.''
|bullet1=The Endowment Paid 4.25 Percent of Its Market Value to the Treasury, as Its Rules Set for the First Year
|bullet2=By the Fund's Own Founding Ratio, the Sum Is Roughly an Eighth of a Year's Government Spending
|bullet3=Finance Minister Joost Veenstra Says Every Mark Will Be Published
|bullet4=His Party, te Landbond, Ran Against the Fund as the Old Establishment's Instrument
|bullet5=Former Minister Catrin Halvordssen, Whose Ministry Designed It, Says the Transfer Answers the Campaign
|bullet6=Natopia Supplied 84 Percent of the Capital; Nouvelle Alexandrie Subscribed None
|location=[[Johannsessbuurg]], [[Anglien]]
|body=The [[Bliven Fund]] made its first transfer to the treasury of the [[Anglien|Free Duchy of Anglien]] on 8.XIII.{{AN|1760}}, paying out 4.25 percent of its market value, the share its rules set for the first year. The minister who paid it out belongs to a party that spent last year's election campaign calling the fund a captured instrument of the old establishment.

The endowment was capitalized by five [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Concord Alliance]] states at roughly three times the duchy's annual government spending, and is meant to replace the reconstruction grants that ended with the transition.<ref name="bf">[[Bliven Fund]].</ref> By that founding ratio, a transfer of 4.25 percent comes to roughly an eighth of what the Anglian government spends in a year. The fund is invested entirely abroad and draws a share of its market value rather than a fixed sum, so later transfers will rise and fall with its returns. It is planned to pay out until about {{AN|1784}}.<ref name="bf" />

The Minister of Finance and Reconstruction, [[Joost Veenstra]] of ''te Landbond'', announced the transfer at the ministry. His party carried the interior bailiwicks of [[Bahira]] and [[Shelsa]] in the election of XII.{{AN|1759}} on the charge that the transitional government had captured the reconstruction money, and it named the Bliven Fund, drawn up inside the ministry he now runs, as the means.<ref name="bf" /> Asked whether he still held that view, Veenstra said the question was no longer who designed the fund but who watched it. ''"The money is in the treasury now, and the treasury answers to the Diet. Every mark of it will be published, and the first place anyone will look is Bahira and Shelsa,"'' he said.

The fund's board, which has an Anglian majority and seats directors nominated by the alliance until {{AN|1765}}, published its accounts alongside the transfer; its rules require it to publish the portfolio and its fees each quarter.<ref name="bf" /> The statement was issued in the board's name.

[[Catrin Halvordssen]], the transitional government's Minister of Finance and Reconstruction, whose ministry drew up the plan that went to the Concord Council in {{AN|1757}}, said the transfer answered the campaign against it. ''"For a year we were told this money would vanish into the capital,"'' she said. ''"It has arrived in the treasury, on the day and at the rate written down three years ago, and the people who said otherwise are the ones paying it out."''

[[Natopia]] supplied 84 percent of the capital, with [[East Zimia and the Wallis Islands]], [[Constancia]], [[Aerla]] and [[Vegno]] providing the rest. [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] declined to subscribe on 20.II.{{AN|1759}}, during the [[Recession of 1757|recession]], and offered non-capital support instead, including advice from its [[Department of Treasury (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Treasury]] and [[Federal Bank of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Bank]] on custody and audit.<ref name="bf" />

The transfer comes nearly ten months after the last Natopian soldiers left the garrison compound in Johannsessbuurg, ending the alliance's military presence in the duchy.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_LAST_NATOPIAN_TROOPS_LEAVE_JOHANNSESSBUURG_AS_THE_GARRISON_COMPOUND_PASSES_TO_THE_FREE_DUCHY|"The last Natopian troops leave Johannsessbuurg as the garrison compound passes to the Free Duchy"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 11.III.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>
|tldr=''The [[Bliven Fund]] made its first transfer to the Anglian treasury on 8.XIII.{{AN|1760}}, paying 4.25 percent of its market value, roughly an eighth of a year's government spending by the ratio on which it was capitalized. Finance Minister [[Joost Veenstra]], whose party ''te Landbond'' campaigned against the fund as the old establishment's instrument, said every mark would be published; former minister [[Catrin Halvordssen]], who designed it, called the transfer an answer to that campaign. [[Natopia]] supplied 84 percent of the capital; [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] subscribed none.''
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}}

===16===
{{See also|Lindström Recovery Protocol}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}}{{team flag|Natopia|flag}} NATOPIA BUYS NAX€100 BILLION OF THE FEDERATION'S FIRST RECOVERY BONDS
|image=
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=
|bullet1=Private Investors Took NAX€150 Billion of the NAX€250 Billion First Issue
|bullet2=Treasury Says the Issue Priced Inside the Protocol's Yield Cap
|bullet3=The Fifteen-Year Bonds Remain New Alexandrian Public Debt, Repaid by the Federation
|bullet4=Issue Falls Inside the Borrowing That the Supplementary Appropriation Act Authorized in Aureoris (IX)
|bullet5=Montero Says Selling Federal Debt to Natopia Does Not Make It Cheaper
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=Private investors bought NAX€150 billion of the Federation's first recovery bonds, and Natopia took the remaining NAX€100 billion of the NAX€250 billion issue, the Treasury said on 16.XIII.{{AN|1760}}. No bond was issued when the [[Lindström Recovery Protocol]] was signed in {{AN|1759}}; this is the first.

The fifteen-year bonds were sold under the Protocol's backstop, under which Natopia offered to buy authorized New Alexandrian recovery bonds that private investors do not take, up to NAX€250 billion.<ref>[[Lindström Recovery Protocol]].</ref> The Treasury said the issue priced inside the cap of 0.75 percentage points above equivalent Natopian government debt but did not publish the final yield. The rest of the backstop remains available for any further issue the Cortes authorizes.

The [[Supplementary Appropriation Act, 1760]], which raised the federal borrowing limit in Aureoris (IX), authorized the issue as part of borrowing the Treasury already needed to cover lower tax receipts. The bonds remain New Alexandrian public debt and will be repaid by the Federation.

Treasury Secretary [[Tomás Iñiguez]] of the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] said the issue showed the Federation could borrow at a reasonable cost while its economy recovered. ''"Three écus in five came from private buyers, and that is the number I watch,"'' Iñiguez said. ''"The backstop did what it was built to do. It meant we never had to sell this debt in a hurry or at any price the market chose to name."''

Market participants on the [[Nouvelle Alexandrie Stock Exchange]] told NBC that the Natopian commitment had steadied bidding.

[[José Manuel Montero]], the [[Leader of the Opposition of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Leader of the Opposition]], said the purchase changed who held the debt but not how much of it there was. ''"Selling our bonds to Natopia does not make them cheaper to repay,"'' Montero said. ''"It makes our recovery a little more dependent on decisions taken in Lindström."''
|tldr=''Private investors bought NAX€150 billion of the Federation's first NAX€250 billion recovery-bond issue, and Natopia took the remaining NAX€100 billion under the [[Lindström Recovery Protocol]] backstop. The fifteen-year bonds priced inside the Protocol's yield cap and remain New Alexandrian public debt. The issue falls within borrowing the [[Supplementary Appropriation Act, 1760]] already authorized. Treasury Secretary [[Tomás Iñiguez]] welcomed the private demand; [[José Manuel Montero]], the [[Leader of the Opposition of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Leader of the Opposition]], said the debt was no cheaper for being sold to Natopia.''
|impact_stability={{increase}} +1
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|impact_economy={{steady}} 0
|impact_regional={{steady}} 0
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==XIV (Pluvialis)==
===10===
{{Main|Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760|Constitution of Anglien}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Anglien|flag}}{{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} ANGLIAN PROSECUTORS CHARGE WOUTER DEKKERSZ WITH TRYING TO KILL THE KING AND EMPRESS AT THE WREATH-LAYING
|image=NBC1760ReconciliationSquare.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''[[Plein fonn Versoening]] in [[Johannsessbuurg]], where a grenade thrown during the royal wreath-laying on 24.VII.{{AN|1760}} failed to detonate.''
|bullet1=The Johannsessbuurg Man Arrested on 1.VIII Is Named for the First Time
|bullet2=He Faces Two Counts of Attempted Murder and One of an Attack on the Constitutional Order
|bullet3=His Is the First New Prosecution Brought Before the Court That Succeeded the NKR Tribunals
|bullet4=Prosecutors Say He Acted Alone and Do Not Allege Membership in a Proscribed Group
|bullet5=His Lawyer Says He Will Plead Not Guilty
|bullet6=No Trial Date Has Been Set, and the Royal Household Declines to Comment
|location=[[Johannsessbuurg]], [[Anglien]]
|body=Prosecutors in [[Anglien]] charged Wouter Dekkersz, a 34-year-old warehouse clerk from [[Johannsessbuurg]], on 10.XIV.{{AN|1760}} with trying to kill King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] by throwing a hand grenade toward them as they laid a wreath at [[Plein fonn Versoening]] on 24.VII. The King and Empress were in the duchy on the fourth leg of the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760|Royal Goodwill Tour]], and Clara had been received by her father, Sovereign Duke [[Edgard III]], the same day.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#EMPRESS_CLARA_IS_RECEIVED_BY_HER_FATHER,_THE_SOVEREIGN_DUKE,_AS_THE_ROYAL_TOUR_REACHES_ANGLIEN|"Empress Clara is received by her father, the Sovereign Duke, as the royal tour reaches Anglien"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 24.VII.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> The grenade, wrapped in cloth, landed short of the ceremonial area and did not explode.<ref name="arrest">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#ANGLIAN_POLICE_ARREST_MAN_OVER_GRENADE_THAT_FAILED_TO_EXPLODE_AT_THE_ROYAL_WREATH-LAYING|"Anglian police arrest man over grenade that failed to explode at the royal wreath-laying"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 2.VIII.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

The charge sheet, filed with the [[Court for Crimes Against the Constitutional Order]], names Dekkersz for the first time. He has been held since the [[Ducal Police Service of Anglien|Ducal Police Service]]'s Special Operations Bureau detained him on 1.VIII. He faces two counts of attempted murder, one for each of the royal couple, and one count of an attack on the constitutional order under Chapter X of the [[Constitution of Anglien|constitution]], which sets out the duchy's militant-democracy provisions and created the court as the permanent successor to the [[Special NKR Tribunals of Anglien|Special NKR Tribunals]].<ref>[[Constitution of Anglien]].</ref> It is the first new prosecution brought before the court since it took over the Tribunals' jurisdiction in IV.{{AN|1760}}.<ref>[[Anglien]].</ref>

The court's chief prosecutor, Ilse Vermaat, said the constitutional count reflected where and when the grenade was thrown, in the square named for the duchy's reconciliation, during the visit of a sovereign the duchy had invited. ''"An attack on guests of the Free Duchy, at that place, is an attack on the order the constitution protects,"'' she said.

Prosecutors do not allege that Dekkersz belonged to an organization proscribed under the [[Volksherstelwet|National Recovery Act]]. Police said on 2.VIII, the day after his arrest, that he took part in an NKR study group before the liberation and kept in touch with former members, but found no organized network behind the attack.<ref name="arrest" /> Vermaat said prosecutors had likewise found no organized network. Director-General [[Jan-Hendrik Velsink]] of the police had said on 2.VIII that the force believed he acted alone.<ref name="arrest" />

Dekkersz's lawyer, Femke Roos, said her client would plead not guilty to all three counts. ''"My client is charged with the gravest crime this court can try, on the strength of a device nobody saw thrown,"'' she said. ''"The prosecution will have to prove every step of that, and we will hold it to every one."'' She said he had made no statement to the police beyond confirming his name.

The inquiry drew on the protective intelligence staff of the Federal Royal Guards, the New Alexandrian unit that protects the King.<ref name="arrest" /> The [[Royal Household of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Royal Household]] said it would not comment on a case before an Anglian court. No trial date has been set.
|tldr=''Anglian prosecutors charged Wouter Dekkersz, 34, of [[Johannsessbuurg]] on 10.XIV.{{AN|1760}} with two counts of attempted murder of King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Empress Clara|Clara]] and one count of an attack on the constitutional order, over the grenade that failed to explode at the [[Plein fonn Versoening]] wreath-laying on 24.VII. It is the first new prosecution before the [[Court for Crimes Against the Constitutional Order]]. Prosecutors say he acted alone and allege no membership in a proscribed group; his lawyer says he will plead not guilty. No trial date has been set.''
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==XV (Concordia)==
===24===
==== Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month XV, 1760) ====
''Published by the Nouvelle Alexandrie Statistics Bureau.''

Output grew at an annualized 3.4% in the fourth quarter of {{AN|1760}}, faster than the third, and the year-on-year rate rose to 2.6% from 1.2%. Unemployment fell to 6.6% from 6.7%, and consumer confidence rose to 92.2 from 90.0. The [[Natopia|Natopian]] industrial expansion that lifted the [[Lindström Recovery Protocol|Lindström]] orders, reaching into robotics and space, continued through the quarter. The deficit held at 2.0% of output, and public debt eased to 66.9% of output from 67.1%. Living costs kept rising, with the cost-of-living index at 110.7, and housing affordability slipped to 87.8 from 88.9. The NAX€200 billion of recovery borrowing frozen at the Government's [[Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|investiture]] stayed frozen at the close of the year. One caveat applies to the output level. The growth rates are seasonally adjusted, and the fourth quarter runs three months where the third ran four, so quarterly output of NAX€9.45 trillion reads low against the third quarter's NAX€12.54 trillion chiefly for that reason.

===== Headline panel =====
{| class="wikitable"
! Indicator !! Current !! Change !! Note
|-
| Real GDP (quarter) || NAX€9.45 trillion || {{decrease}} NAX€3.08 trillion || the quarter's output
|-
| Real GDP (trailing 4Q, annual) || NAX€46.69 trillion || {{increase}} NAX€238.95 billion || sum of the last four quarters
|-
| Real GDP growth (QoQ, annualized) || 3.4% || || quarter on quarter
|-
| Real GDP growth (YoY) || 2.6% || || year on year
|-
| Nominal GDP (annual) || NAX€50.55 trillion || {{increase}} NAX€491.88 billion || real times the deflator
|-
| GDP per capita (nominal) || NAX€95,874 || {{increase}} NAX€649 || the very-rich headline
|-
| Inflation (CPI, YoY) || 2.4% || {{steady}} ||
|-
| Cost-of-Living Index || 110.7 || {{increase}} 0.7 || 100 = {{AN|1757}} base
|-
| Unemployment rate || 6.6% || {{decrease}} 0.2% ||
|-
| Budget balance (quarter, % GDP) || -2.0% || {{steady}} || deficit if negative
|-
| Public debt (% GDP) || 66.9% || {{decrease}} 0.2% || debt/GDP guardrail
|-
| Trade balance (quarter, % GDP) || 3.4% || {{increase}} 0.4% ||
|-
| Alexandrium price (NAX€/g) || 2,184.91 || {{increase}} 85.92 || volatility driver
|-
| Alexandrium federal revenue (quarter) || NAX€64.05 billion || {{increase}} NAX€2.52 billion || feeds the 12% mandate
|-
| Gini coefficient || 0.379 || {{steady}} || distribution headline
|-
| Urban-rural income gap || 1.79 || {{steady}} || income ratio
|-
| Housing Affordability Index || 87.8 || {{decrease}} 1.1 || price/rent vs income
|-
| Consumer Confidence Index || 92.2 || {{increase}} 2.1 || 100 = neutral
|}

===== Detailed appendix =====
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Macro detail
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Real GDP (quarter) || NAX€9.45 trillion
|-
| Nominal GDP (quarter) || NAX€10.33 trillion
|-
| GDP deflator || 109.2
|-
| Real GDP (trailing 4Q) || NAX€46.69 trillion
|-
| Nominal GDP (trailing 4Q) || NAX€50.55 trillion
|-
| Real growth (QoQ ann.) || 3.4%
|-
| Real growth (YoY) || 2.6%
|-
| Cost-of-Living Index || 110.7
|-
| House Price Index || 111.9
|-
| Housing Affordability Index || 87.8
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Labor
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Population || 527,228,787
|-
| Working-age population || 346,584,661
|-
| Labor force || 220,383,503
|-
| Employed || 205,889,687
|-
| Participation rate || 63.6%
|-
| Unemployment rate || 6.6%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Fiscal and debt
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Revenue (quarter) || NAX€4.12 trillion
|-
| Expenditure (quarter) || NAX€4.08 trillion
|-
| Primary balance (quarter) || NAX€39.36 billion
|-
| Interest (quarter) || NAX€249.16 billion
|-
| Budget balance (quarter) || NAX€-209.79 billion
|-
| Public debt || NAX€33.80 trillion
|-
| Public debt (% GDP) || 66.9%
|-
| Interest burden (% revenue) || 6.1%
|-
| Reserve fund || NAX€1.78 trillion
|-
| Reserve draw (quarter) || NAX€0.00 billion
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ External
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Exports (quarter) || NAX€2.71 trillion
|-
| Imports (quarter) || NAX€2.36 trillion
|-
| Trade balance (quarter) || NAX€352.47 billion
|-
| Trade balance (% GDP) || 3.4%
|-
| Écu, real, Q2 {{AN|1760}} = 100 || 99.8
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Strategic resources (Alexandrium)
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Price (NAX€/g) || 2,184.91
|-
| Gross value (quarter) || NAX€256.18 billion
|-
| Export value (quarter) || NAX€179.33 billion
|-
| Federal revenue (quarter) || NAX€64.05 billion
|-
| Revenue baseline (quarter) || NAX€85.01 billion
|-
| Revenue shortfall (quarter) || NAX€20.96 billion
|-
| UARA volume levy (quarter) || NAX€7.62 billion
|-
| Ad-valorem take (quarter) || NAX€56.42 billion
|-
| Diversification earmark (12%) || NAX€7.69 billion
|-
| Resource-sector share of GDP || 2.0%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Sectoral output (shares sum to 100%)
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Agriculture || 6.0%
|-
| Industry || 30.1%
|-
| Services || 63.9%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Inequality
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Gini coefficient || 0.379
|-
| Urban-rural income gap || 1.79
|}

''Outlook (forecast):'' next-quarter projection unavailable at time of writing.

==See also==
* [[NBC Newsfeed]]
* [[NBC Newsfeed/1759]]

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<div style="font-size:105%; font-weight:bold; color:#913A6A;">[[#GENERAL_ELECTION_RESULT|A hung 14th Cortes]]</div>
The Humanists finish first but fall 108 short of a majority; Premier Montero cannot form a government, and the Federal Accord later assembles an Alliance-led majority
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| style="width:33%; vertical-align:top; border:1px solid #C783A5; border-radius:4px; padding:0.55em; background:#FFFFFF;" | [[#SOIL_ACT_ASSEMBLY_PASSAGE|Soil and food bill passes]] The Assembly backs a ten-year soil and food-security program
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| style="width:33%; vertical-align:top; border:1px solid #C783A5; border-radius:4px; padding:0.55em; background:#FFFFFF;" | [[#THE_FEDERAL_NUCLEAR_REGULATOR_CLEARS_PROJECT_KALLPA'S_FIRST_REACTOR_FOR_CONSTRUCTION_UNDER_BINDING_LOW-ENRICHMENT_CONDITIONS|Kallpa reactor licensed]] The regulator clears construction under binding low-enrichment conditions
| style="width:33%; vertical-align:top; border:1px solid #C783A5; border-radius:4px; padding:0.55em; background:#FFFFFF;" | [[#ACCORD_SIGNED|Federal Accord signed]] AJNA, FCP and CGA agree a majority coalition
| style="width:33%; vertical-align:top; border:1px solid #C783A5; border-radius:4px; padding:0.55em; background:#FFFFFF;" | [[#TALENORE_AND_SHIREROTH_SIGN_TREATY_TO_RESTORE_THE_ISLAND'S_INDEPENDENCE|Talenore treaty signed]] The treaty provides for the island's independence and requires exchanged ratifications
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| style="width:33%; vertical-align:top; border:1px solid #C783A5; border-radius:4px; padding:0.55em; background:#FFFFFF;" | [[#UNEMPLOYMENT_HOLDS_AT_8_7_PERCENT_WHILE_DEBT_BRAKE_WITHHOLDS_NAX200_BILLION|Unemployment holds as the debt brake withholds NAX€200bn]] Joblessness holds at 8.7 percent while the final tranche remains unraised
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<div style="font-size:110%; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom:0.5em; color:#913A6A; border-bottom:2px solid #F3BD51; padding-bottom:0.2em;">Key events by month</div>
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<div style="font-weight:bold; color:#913A6A; border-bottom:1px solid #EED9E5; margin-bottom:0.3em; padding-bottom:0.15em;">[[#I (Novarum)|I · Novarum]]</div>
[[#NEWS_ACROSS_NOUVELLE_ALEXANDRIE|(7) News across the Federation]] [[#22nd_IMPERIAL_SYNKLETOS_OF_CONSTANCIA_CONVENES|(14) Constancia's 22nd Synkletos]] [[#COLLOQUY_OF_THE_FAITHS|(21) Four faiths meet in Cárdenas]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; color:#913A6A; border-bottom:1px solid #EED9E5; margin-bottom:0.3em; padding-bottom:0.15em;">[[#II (Montaris)|II · Montaris]]</div>
[[#OPORTIA_JOINS_THE_ROLL_AND_THE_ASSEMBLY_GROWS_TO_801_AS_THE_CENSUS_SETS_THE_ELECTION_MAP|(9) Assembly grows to 801]] [[#THE_GOVERNMENT_ANSWERS_THE_COST_OF_FOOD_WITH_A_TEN-YEAR_PLAN_TO_REBUILD_THE_FEDERATION'S_SOIL_AND_BRING_DOWN_PRICES|(18) Food and soil bill against the cost of living]] [[#NOUVELLE_ALEXANDRIE_WILL_NOT_UNDERWRITE_ANGLIEN'S_ENDOWMENT,_LEAVING_NATOPIA_TO_SEED_THE_BLIVEN_FUND_LARGELY_ALONE|(20) Declines the Bliven Fund]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; color:#913A6A; border-bottom:1px solid #EED9E5; margin-bottom:0.3em; padding-bottom:0.15em;">[[#III (Ventaris)|III · Ventaris]]</div>
[[#GERARD_SPECIAL_COUNSELOR|(8) Gerard named Special Counselor]] [[#MONTERO_LEADS_NOUVELLE_ALEXANDRIE_INTO_THE_PETROPOLIS_SUMMIT_ON_THE_FUTURE_OF_ZEED|(15) Summit on Zeed]] [[#CONSTANCIA_PALACE_TENSIONS|(18) Constancia's palace tensions]] [[#PRIX_DE_CHAMBERY|(24) A new arts prize for Chambéry]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; color:#913A6A; border-bottom:1px solid #EED9E5; margin-bottom:0.3em; padding-bottom:0.15em;">[[#IV (Floraris)|IV · Floraris]]</div>
[[#PROJECT_KALLPA_FILES_TO_BUILD_ITS_FIRST_REACTOR_IN_ALDURIA_AS_THE_COST_ESTIMATE_RISES|(9) Project Kallpa reactor]] [[#NEWS_AROUND_NAX_IV|(17) News across the Federation]] [[#QUIPU_ABSORBS_THE_CAISSE|(22) Quipu absorbs the Caisse Régionale]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; color:#913A6A; border-bottom:1px solid #EED9E5; margin-bottom:0.3em; padding-bottom:0.15em;">[[#V (Sementis)|V · Sementis]]</div>
[[#THE_ASSEMBLY_CARRIES_THE_NAX€750_BILLION_RECOVERY_ACT_731_TO_18_AS_THE_OPPOSITION_VOTES_YES_AND_CALLS_IT_LATE|(2) NAX€750bn Recovery Act]] [[#CGA_PARTY_FINANCE_1759|(16) Party finance and clean government]] [[#RIMARIMA_PILGRIMAGE|(24) Pilgrims fill the road to the Flaming Rock]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; color:#913A6A; border-bottom:1px solid #EED9E5; margin-bottom:0.3em; padding-bottom:0.15em;">[[#VI (Marittima)|VI · Marittima]]</div>
[[#NEWS_AROUND_NAX_VI|(8) News across the Federation]] [[#ECU_MUTUAL_AID|(13) Mutual-aid societies grow in the recession]] [[#THE_FEDERAL_NUCLEAR_REGULATOR_CLEARS_PROJECT_KALLPA'S_FIRST_REACTOR_FOR_CONSTRUCTION_UNDER_BINDING_LOW-ENRICHMENT_CONDITIONS|(20) Kallpa reactor licensed]]
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[[#ANGLIEN_VOTES_ON_A_PERMANENT_CONSTITUTION_THAT_WOULD_END_THE_TRANSITION_AND_BEGIN_THE_CONCORD_DRAWDOWN|(7) Anglien's constitutional referendum]] [[#AJNA_PUTS_HOUSING_AT_THE_CENTER_OF_THE_CAMPAIGN_AND_MOVES_TO_REVIVE_THE_TABLED_HOUSING_JUSTICE_ACT|(11) Housing at the center of the campaign]] [[#INTI_RAISES_ITS_ORBIT_ON_SUNLIGHT_ALONE_IN_A_FIRST_FOR_NOUVELLE_ALEXANDRIE|(19) Inti raises its orbit]] [[#PUBLIC_ORDER_BILL_DEFEATED|(20) Paramilitary-displays bill defeated]] [[#SOIL_ACT_ASSEMBLY_PASSAGE|(20) Soil and food bill passes]] [[#GÁNDARA_MAKES_CIVIL_LIBERTIES_A_TEST_OF_THE_CAMPAIGN,_PRESSING_THE_PARAMILITARY-DISPLAYS_BILL_THE_PARADES_RAISED_AND_THE_FAILED_CENSURE_LEFT_UNRESOLVED|(22) Gándara campaigns on the defeat]] [[#BOUCHARD'S_COALITION,_WHICH_HOLDS_MONTERO'S_MAJORITY,_ASKS_WHETHER_THE_RECOVERY_REACHED_PIRIYA_OR_ONLY_PUNTA_SANTIAGO|(24) A two-speed recovery in Alduria]] [[#ANGLIEN_RATIFIES|(23) Anglien ratifies its constitution]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; color:#913A6A; border-bottom:1px solid #EED9E5; margin-bottom:0.3em; padding-bottom:0.15em;">[[#VIII (Estivis)|VIII · Estivis]]</div>
[[#THIRTEENTH_CORTES_ADJOURNS_AS_ELECTION_SEASON_OPENS|(2) Thirteenth Cortes adjourns]] [[#AS_THE_CAMPAIGN_OPENS,_THE_RACE_TIGHTENS_AND_THE_GOVERNMENT'S_LEAD_OVER_THE_OPPOSITION_NARROWS_TO_A_POINT|(11) The campaign opens, the race tightens]] [[#PROJET_HORIZON_BREAKS_GROUND_ON_A_PLANT_TO_BUILD_THE_COLLIDER'S_ALEXANDRIUM-FREE_MAGNETS|(14) Projet Horizon breaks ground]] [[#CHILDREN_OF_THE_SUN_EXHIBITION|(20) Wechua and Wakara heritage in one room]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; color:#913A6A; border-bottom:1px solid #EED9E5; margin-bottom:0.3em; padding-bottom:0.15em;">[[#IX (Aureoris)|IX · Aureoris]]</div>
[[#STATE_OF_THE_RACE_IX|(1) The state of the race, two weeks out]] [[#AERLA_PRESIDENTIAL_FIELD|(9) Four candidates declare for Aerla's presidency]] [[#GENERAL_ELECTION_RESULT|(19) Humanists finish first in a hung Cortes]] [[#CGA_RULES_OUT_HUMANIST_GOV|(22) CGA rules out a Humanist government]] [[#FORMATION_TALKS_IX|(24) Consensus Party declares for an Alliance majority]]
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[[#MONTERO_FORMATION_FAILS|(3) Montero cannot form a government]] [[#GONCALVES_NAMED_FORMATEUR|(7) Crown names Gonçalves formateur]] [[#INTI_ANACAONA_BETROTHAL|(9) Prince Inti betrothed to Cacica Anacaona]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; color:#913A6A; border-bottom:1px solid #EED9E5; margin-bottom:0.3em; padding-bottom:0.15em;">[[#XI (Messoris)|XI · Messoris]]</div>
[[#CAMPAIGN_FINANCE_RETURNS_XI|(12) FEC campaign-finance returns]] 
[[#NATIONAL_RESILIENCE_FUND_OPENS_FIRST_REGISTER_WITH_ZERO_BALANCE|(15) National Resilience Fund first accounts]] 
[[#NATOPIA_CAPITALIZES_THE_BLIVEN_FUND_AS_CONCORD_ALLIES_CLOSE_ANGLIENS_AID_ERA|(24) Bliven Fund capitalization]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; color:#913A6A; border-bottom:1px solid #EED9E5; margin-bottom:0.3em; padding-bottom:0.15em;">[[#XII (Sylvaris)|XII · Sylvaris]]</div>
[[#TALENORE_AND_SHIREROTH_SIGN_TREATY_TO_RESTORE_THE_ISLAND'S_INDEPENDENCE|(6) Talenore independence treaty]] [[#CAJAMARCA_TUNNEL_ENGINEERING_TRAIN_XII18|(18) Cajamarca tunnel engineering milestone]] [[#HUMMINGBIRD_AND_CONDOR_FILM_XII22|(22) ''The Hummingbird and the Condor'' tops the box office]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; color:#913A6A; border-bottom:1px solid #EED9E5; margin-bottom:0.3em; padding-bottom:0.15em;">[[#XIII (Autumus)|XIII · Autumus]]</div>
[[#BEN_ALIV_FILM_XIII14|(14) ''The Last Lamp of Ben Aliv'' divides Judah]] [[#ACCORD_SIGNED|(23) Coalition agreement signed]] [[#KING_INVITES_GONCALVES|(24) King invites Gonçalves]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; color:#913A6A; border-bottom:1px solid #EED9E5; margin-bottom:0.3em; padding-bottom:0.15em;">[[#XIV (Pluvialis)|XIV · Pluvialis]]</div>
[[#FEDERAL_ACCORD_NAMES_ITS_PROPOSED_CABINET_AS_FITZGERALD_APPOINTMENT_REOPENS_PACT_DEBATE|(6) Federal Accord names its proposed cabinet]] [[#THE_NOTEBOOK_AND_THE_NUMBERS_GONCALVES_BRINGS_A_DOCKWORKERS_METHOD_TO_THE_EDGE_OF_GOVERNMENT|(12) The notebook and the numbers]] [[#UNITY_LINK_CLOSES_LAST_TUNNEL_AND_BRIDGE_GAPS|(20) Unity Link closes its last gaps]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; color:#913A6A; border-bottom:1px solid #EED9E5; margin-bottom:0.3em; padding-bottom:0.15em;">[[#XV (Concordia)|XV · Concordia]]</div>
[[#CAKARISTAN_CESSION|(9) Çakaristan cedes the Beneluccas]] [[#VASQUEZ_FILE_PASSES_TO_INCOMING_GOVERNMENT|(26) Incoming government inherits the Vásquez file]] [[#UNEMPLOYMENT_HOLDS_AT_8_7_PERCENT_WHILE_DEBT_BRAKE_WITHHOLDS_NAX200_BILLION|(28) Unemployment holds while debt brake withholds billions]] [[#NATOPIA_BACKS_NEW_ALEXANDRIAN_RECOVERY_WITH_ORDERS_ALEXANDRIUM_PURCHASES_CREDIT_AND_BANK_CAPITAL|(29) Natopia backs New Alexandrian recovery]] [[#FEDERAL_ACCORD_SAYS_IT_WILL_HONOR_LINDSTROM_AND_SEEK_BROADER_TWO_WAY_TRADE|(30) Federal Accord backs Lindström, seeks lasting industry]]
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Polling  ·  [[#NEITHER_BIG_PARTY_IS_CONSOLIDATING_THE_VOTE_FIVE_MONTHS_OUT_FROM_THE_ELECTION|(22.III) First poll]]  ·  [[#THE_RECOVERY_BUYS_THE_GOVERNMENT_APPROVAL,_NOT_VOTES|(22.VI) Second poll]]  ·  [[#AS_THE_CAMPAIGN_OPENS,_THE_RACE_TIGHTENS_AND_THE_GOVERNMENT'S_LEAD_OVER_THE_OPPOSITION_NARROWS_TO_A_POINT|(11.VIII) Campaign poll]]  ·  [[#POST_ELECTION_POLL_XIV|(16.XIV) Post-election poll]]
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==I (Novarum)==
===7===
{{NewsAroundNAX
|outlet1=[[The Cárdenas Press]]
|location1=Cárdenas, FCD
|headline1=AS THE ELECTION YEAR OPENS, THE RECOVERY IS STILL A BILL ON THE TABLE, NOT A PRICE IN THE SHOPS
|subheadline1_1=''The [[Recession of 1757]] Enters Its Third Year Since the [[1757 Alexandrium market crash|Alexandrium Crash]] Broke the Federation's Export Prices''
|subheadline1_2=''The NAX€750 Billion [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758|Recovery Package]] Has Sat Tabled Before the Federal Assembly Since Last Year''
|subheadline1_3=''Producing Regions Still Run Short-Time Shifts Across the Lower [[Alexandrium]] Grades''
|subheadline1_4=''The Household Food Basket Remains Dearer Than Before the Crash, and the Outer Regions Feel It Worst''
|subheadline1_5=''Registered Unemployment Holds Near Its High for the Downturn as Hiring Stays Cautious''
|outlet2=[[The Parap National Journal]]
|location2=Parap, WEC
|headline2=WECHUA GRANARIES OPEN THE YEAR FULL, BUT GROWERS WARN THE SOIL BENEATH THE HARVEST IS TIRING
|subheadline2_1=''The [[Wechua Nation]] Grows About Two-Fifths of the Federation's Cereals and Nearly All Its Quinoa''
|subheadline2_2=''Nouvelle Alexandrie Ranks Among the Five Largest Agricultural Producers on Micras''
|subheadline2_3=''Fertilizer and Fuel Costs Never Fell Back to Their Pre-Crash Levels After the Downturn''
|subheadline2_4=''Growers Report Thinning Topsoil and Slipping Yields After Years of Intensive Cropping''
|subheadline2_5=''Cooperatives Warn Another Full Harvest Cannot Be Taken for Granted Without Rebuilding the Land''
|outlet3=[[Le Monde]]
|location3=Gotfriedplatz, ICA
|headline3=FINANCE AND FISHING KEEP THE ISLES OF CAPUTIA STEADY WHILE THE MAINLAND RIDES OUT THE ALEXANDRIUM BUST
|subheadline3_1=''[[Gotfriedplatz]] Has Been the Archipelago's Financial Center Since Hammish Gold Built Its Banks''
|subheadline3_2=''The Federation Fields the Sixth-Largest Fishing Fleet on Micras, Much of Its Catch Drawn From the Isles''
|subheadline3_3=''Island Ports Land Sardines, Cod, and the Mussels Prized Well Beyond the [[Captive Sea]]''
|subheadline3_4=''The Keltian Directorate of the [[ESB Group]] Keeps Its Continental Offices at [[Seydlitz]]''
|subheadline3_5=''An Economy of Finance, Fishing, and Shipping Keeps the [[Isles of Caputia]] Largely Outside the [[Alexandrium]] Trade''
|outlet4=[[The Lyrican Herald]]
|location4=New Luthoria, NLA
|headline4=NEW LUTHORIA'S YOUNG ARE LEAVING FOR MAINLAND WORK FASTER THAN ITS ISLANDS CAN REPLACE THEM
|subheadline4_1=''Workers in Their Twenties Are Leaving [[New Luthoria]] for Alduria, Santander, and the Federal Capital''
|subheadline4_2=''Island Districts Report Schools Consolidating and Ferry and Clinic Services Thinning''
|subheadline4_3=''The Region's Naval Yards Say Skilled Berths Go Unfilled for Months at a Time''
|subheadline4_4=''A Seasonal Economy of Tourism and Small Ports Offers the Young Few Year-Round Careers''
|subheadline4_5=''Officials Warn That Each Departing Cohort Leaves the Next Harder to Keep at Home''
|outlet5=[[Newsflash]]
|location5=Punta Santiago, ALD
|headline5=THE YEAR AHEAD IN NEW ALEXANDRIAN SCIENCE: FOUR PROGRAMS BUILT TO OUTLAST ALEXANDRIUM
|subheadline5_1=''[[Project Kallpa]] Aims to License Its First Compact Reactor, of up to 85 Megawatts, Near [[Amapola]] in Alduria''
|subheadline5_2=''The Reactor Would Run on Domestic Uranium and Thorium, Not the [[Alexandrium]] Whose Crash Began the Recession''
|subheadline5_3=''[[Projet Horizon]] Is Re-Equipping the Federation's Existing Collider With Domestic, Alexandrium-Free Magnets''
|subheadline5_4=''The [[Inti (spacecraft)|Inti]] Solar Sail Prepares to Raise Its Orbit on Sunlight, Carrying No Onboard Fuel''
|subheadline5_5=''[[Foundation 1768]] Keeps Scaling the Diamond Power Devices First Fielded on the [[Punta Santiago]]-to-[[Piriya]] Corridor''
}}

===14===
{{Main|Imperial Synklētos}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Constancia|flag}} 22nd IMPERIAL SYNKLETOS OF CONSTANCIA CONVENES
|image=Constancia_Novo.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''A map of [[Constancia]], when [[Oportia]] was still extant; pre {{AN|1755}}.''
|bullet1=The Imperial Synkletos Is Constancia's Chamber of Elected Representatives
|bullet2=Unlike Foreign Legislatures, It Holds No Binding Legislative Power
|bullet3=It May Recommend Laws, but Cannot Compel Them
|bullet4=Constancians Vote for Parties, Not Individual Candidates
|bullet5=Ballots Also Elect Local Officials Alongside the Dikastis
|bullet6=A New Solidarity Party Enters an Unusually Fluid Political Moment
|location=[[Petropolis]]
|body=Constancia convenes its 22nd [[Imperial Synkletos]] on 14.I.{{AN|1759}} in a grand state ceremony at the Palace of Imperial Unity, a rite that invokes Crown, Church, and Citizenry.

Basileus [[Giakoumis II]] delivered the traditional speech from the throne, setting out the government's context and agenda. [[José Emmanuel Thorgils Kerularios]], Baron Kerularios, is the favorite to retain the [[Mesazon|Mesazonship]]. As an Imperial Senator, he belongs to a select few who hold their seats in the Imperial Synkletos for life, exempt from the periodic elections other members must survive.

The convocation comes amid mounting social and political strain. Rising prices and inflation have made it harder for ordinary Constancians to get by, while unchecked corruption has fed growing concern and unrest. Against that backdrop, the recent arrival of a new party, the Solidarity Party, is reshaping the country's political dynamics.

Many have long regarded the Imperial State as a one-party state in all but name, with the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party]] as the sole sanctioned party of government and other parties present only through state tokenism.
[[Category:Constancia]]
|tldr=Constancia's 22nd Imperial Synkletos convenes at the Palace of Imperial Unity, with Basileus Giakoumis II opening the term and Baron Kerularios favored to keep the Mesazonship. The advisory chamber meets amid inflation and corruption unrest, and against the rise of a new Solidarity Party challenging the long-dominant Nationalist & Humanist Party.
|impact_stability={{decrease}} -1
|impact_regional={{decrease}} -2
|impact_approval={{decrease}} -1
|impact_civil_liberties={{decrease}} -1
}}

===21===
{{Main|Colloquy of the Faiths of the Federation}}
{{See also|Faith of Inti|Yukiyu Atabey|Melusinian Faith|Bovinism}}

{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} FOUR OF THE FEDERATION'S FAITHS SIT DOWN TOGETHER IN CÁRDENAS TO TAKE THE MEASURE OF WHAT THEY SHARE
|image=ColloquyFaiths1759NBC.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''Senior clergy of the [[Faith of Inti]], [[Yukiyu Atabey]], [[Dozan Bovic Church]] and [[Melusinian Faith]] meet at the Colloquy of the Faiths in [[Cárdenas]], 21.I.{{AN|1759}}.''
|bullet1=The Faith of Inti, Yukiyu Atabey, the Bovic Church and the Melusinian Faith Sent Their Senior Clergy
|bullet2=Organizers Called It the First Colloquy to Seat the Four Together at One Table
|bullet3=Intian and Wakara Theologians Have Long Paired Their Doctrines of Balance
|bullet4=The {{AN|1750}} Royal Wedding, Held in Two Rites, Hung Over the Room as Precedent
|bullet5=A Traditionalist Voice Warned Against Blurring What the Faiths Do Not Hold in Common
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=They came from four different maps of the sacred, and they spent three days looking for the places where the maps overlap. From 19 to 21.I.{{AN|1759}}, senior clergy of the [[Faith of Inti]], [[Yukiyu Atabey]], the Bovic Church and the [[Melusinian Faith]] met in [[Cárdenas]] for a colloquy their conveners billed as the first to seat those four traditions together, held at a single round table in the Culture District. The Federation has brought its faiths together before, through the standing [[Interfaith Dialogue Council]], but that body's roster has never carried the Wakara [[Yukiyu Atabey]], and the organizers had built the meeting around the conversation the Council leaves out.

The point of the meeting was not agreement. Nouvelle Alexandrie counts adherents of a dozen traditions, and none of the four at the table claims the Federation as a whole. What the colloquy set out to name was narrower and older: the ground the faiths already stand on together, and the ground they do not.

Two of the Federation's three major religions sat at the table. The third, the [[Autocephalous Nazarene Church of Alexandria]], the largest religious movement in [[Alduria]], sits on the Council's roster beside the Faith of Inti and the Melusinian Faith, both of which sent clergy to Cárdenas.

The shared ground runs deepest between the two oldest traditions at the table. Theologians of the Faith of Inti and of Yukiyu Atabey have for generations paired their central doctrines, setting the Intian principle of ''yanantin'', the balance of complementary opposites, beside the Wakara union of [[Yukiyu Atabey|Yukiyu and Atabey]], the male god of the yuca and sea and the female goddess of fresh water. Both peoples name themselves children of the sun, and some Wakara hold their sun-father to be [[Inti]] himself. ''"We are not translating one faith into the other,"'' said a delegate who spoke for the Yukiyu Atabey delegation, sent from the faith's central sanctuary, the [[Yukiyu Atabey Temple]] at [[Guánica]], seat of the [[Bohique Supremo]]. ''"We are noticing that they were written in the same hand."''

The Bovic and Melusinian clergy came to a table where they were the newer neighbors, the one a church of Natopian origin seated at the Grand Dozan in Cárdenas, the other a diaspora faith whose Matriarch, [[Matriarch of New Zalae|Séraphine de la Mer]], keeps her see in exile at St. Melusine in [[New Caputia]]. Both traditions have shared rites with the Faith of Inti before. The colloquy's organizers pointed to the clearest instance in living memory: the wedding of Crown Princess [[Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Sayari]] and Prince [[Janus of Neridia]] in {{AN|1750}}, carried out over two days in two rites, an Intian ceremony at the [[Temple of the Sun]] and a Bovic one in Cárdenas, and watched by a fifth of the continent.

Not everyone at the table was there to find common cause. A senior ''[[Faith of Inti|paqo]]'' from the highlands warned the colloquy against mistaking resemblance for sameness. ''"A shared word for the sun is not a shared creed,"'' he said. ''"Respect is knowing where the other's country ends."'' Organizers said the caution was recorded, not answered, and that the colloquy would meet again.
|tldr=''Senior clergy of the [[Faith of Inti]], [[Yukiyu Atabey]], the Bovic Church and the [[Melusinian Faith]] met in [[Cárdenas]] from 19 to 21.I.{{AN|1759}} for a colloquy their conveners billed as the first to seat those four traditions at one table, a conversation the Federation's standing [[Interfaith Dialogue Council]] leaves out. The gathering set out to name the doctrine the Federation's faiths share and the ground they do not, drawing on the long-paired theologies of its two oldest traditions and on the {{AN|1750}} two-rite royal wedding as precedent. A highland traditionalist warned against blurring genuine differences, and the colloquy is to reconvene.''
|impact_social={{increase}} +1
|impact_culture={{increase}} +1
}}
[[Category:Nouvelle Alexandrie]]

==II (Montaris)==
===9===
{{Main|1758 New Alexandrian census}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} OPORTIA JOINS THE ROLL AND THE ASSEMBLY GROWS TO 801 AS THE CENSUS SETS THE ELECTION MAP
|image=NBC1758CensusAssemblyData.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''NBC News data graphic showing how the [[1758 New Alexandrian census]] enlarged the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] from 749 to 801 seats: 39 seats for [[Oportia]]'s first federal apportionment and 13 additional seats across the twelve continuing Regions.''
|bullet1=The Count Reached 514.8 Million People Across All Thirteen Regions
|bullet2=Oportia Was Enumerated by the Federation for the First Time
|bullet3=The Returns Enlarge the Federal Assembly From 749 Seats to 801 Ahead of the Coming Election
|bullet4=Oportia Enters the Chamber With 39 Seats and Its First Federal Vote
|bullet5=Below-Replacement Fertility Left Migration Carrying the Federation's Growth
|bullet6=New Luthoria Was the Only Region to Record a Fall in Population
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The [[Department of Interior (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Interior]] and the [[Nouvelle Alexandrie Statistics Bureau]] certified the apportionment drawn from the [[1758 New Alexandrian census]] on 9.II.{{AN|1759}}, fixing the map on which the Federation will elect its next [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes]]. The count put the federal population at 514,819,749 and enlarged the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] from 749 seats to 801, seating [[Oportia]] for the first time.<ref name="census">''The 1758 Federal Census of Population and Housing'', [[Department of Interior (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Interior]] and [[Nouvelle Alexandrie Statistics Bureau]].</ref>

For the first time, [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|the coming general election]] will be contested in all thirteen [[Administrative divisions of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Regions]]. Oportia, which acceded to the Federation in {{AN|1755}} and had never returned deputies to the federal chamber, enters with 39 of the 801 seats. The twelve Regions that elected the [[13th Cortes Federales]] were revised upward from their {{AN|1753}} apportionment, so that no continuing Region lost seats even as the newest one took its place.

Population rose by 38,985,501, or 8.19 percent, over the [[1753 New Alexandrian census|1753 count]]. Almost all of that increase was Oportia itself, enumerated federally for the first time at 25,434,584; across the twelve Regions common to both counts the population grew by 2.85 percent. ''"Most of the growth on the page is arithmetic, not births,"'' said Renata Oquendo, who directs the Statistics Bureau. ''"We added a Region of twenty-five million people to the ledger. Set Oportia aside, and what the twelve older Regions show is a Federation growing slowly, and growing on newcomers."''<ref name="census" />

That slower growth is the census's quieter finding. Fertility held below the replacement rate at 1.78 children per woman, the population aged to a median of about 39 years, and nearly one resident in five was now aged 64 or over. Natural increase ran at about 2.0 per 1,000, net migration at 3.6, so that the growth of the established Regions was carried more by arrivals than by births. [[New Luthoria]] was the only Region to record a fall in population. The findings feed directly into the argument the Federation is already having over labor supply, settlement, and the modernization of the [[Law of Graces]], and the Department of Interior cited the aging of the population among the pressures behind that debate.

The seat map redraws the ground the campaign will be fought on. [[Alduria]], the [[Wechua Nation]], and [[Santander]] each gained two seats and remain the three largest delegations; [[South Lyrica]] also gained two, and five further Regions gained one apiece, while the [[Cárdenas|Federal Capital District]], [[New Luthoria]], and the [[Islas de la Libertad]] held steady. Seats are apportioned among the Regions by the Droop quota with largest remainders, each Region guaranteed a minimum representation before the remainder is distributed.

Oportia is the unknown in the arithmetic. Its 39 seats make it the chamber's seventh-largest delegation, ahead of [[Boriquén]], [[Valencia]], and [[New Caputia]], and the largest bloc to enter without any federal voting record. Its realignment ran in an unexpected direction: the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party of Oportia|Nationalist and Humanist Party]], which had led the {{AN|1755}} campaign against joining the Federation, merged into the governing [[Federal Humanist Party]], while the [[Republican Party of Oportia]] alone kept a separate autonomist list. The Region that approved accession only 57 to 43, its interior and eastern departments voting no, is also the one that came nearest of any to capping the premiership at its first federal vote, rejecting the {{AN|1758}} term-limits amendment by 50.8 to 49.2. ''"Thirty-nine seats is not a rounding error, it is a mid-sized Region walking in with no past votes to model,"'' said Aurelio Retamozo, a psephologist at the [[University of Punta Santiago]]. ''"Every projection of the next Assembly has a hole in it exactly the shape of Oportia, and the parties know it. That is where the campaign will spend its money."''

Taken in the second year of the [[Recession of 1757]], the count carried the downturn's mark on its economic pages: short-time working across the [[Alexandrium]] grades of the producing Regions, unemployment up to about 7 percent, and a labor force strained by the aging the demographers had flagged. It also closed before the Federation's southern expansion: the territories occupied under [[Operation Salt Meridian]] in IX.{{AN|1758}}, with a population estimated near 3.1 million, fell outside the count and will first be enumerated at the next census. For {{AN|1759}}, the map is now fixed: 801 seats, thirteen Regions, and one of them voting for the first time.
|tldr=The Department of Interior and the Nouvelle Alexandrie Statistics Bureau certified the apportionment from the {{AN|1758}} census on 9.II.{{AN|1759}}, setting the map for the {{AN|1759}} general election. The count recorded a federal population of 514,819,749 and enlarged the Federal Assembly from 749 to 801 seats, seating Oportia for the first time with 39 seats in what will be the first election contested in all thirteen Regions. Almost all of the 8.19 percent rise since {{AN|1753}} was Oportia's first federal enumeration; the twelve continuing Regions grew 2.85 percent, with below-replacement fertility leaving migration to carry the Federation's growth and New Luthoria the only Region to shrink. Statistics Bureau director Renata Oquendo said the older Regions were growing slowly and on newcomers, while psephologist Aurelio Retamozo called Oportia's 39 untested seats the hole in every projection of the next Assembly.
|impact_stability={{increase}} +1
|impact_approval={{steady}} 0
}}

===18===
{{Main|Soil Stewardship and Food Abundance Act, 1759}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE GOVERNMENT ANSWERS THE COST OF FOOD WITH A TEN-YEAR PLAN TO REBUILD THE FEDERATION'S SOIL AND BRING DOWN PRICES
|image=SoilStewardshipWechuaField1759NBC.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''[[Wechua]] farmers and an agronomist from the [[Institute of Agricultural Sciences]] examine a soil core among quinoa and a legume cover crop at a highland demonstration plot in the [[Wechua Nation]], {{AN|1759}}.''
|bullet1=The Ten-Year Program Would Commit NAX€123 Billion of Federal Investment Each Year
|bullet2=Its Central Promise Is a Real Cut of Twenty to Thirty Percent in the Household Food Basket
|bullet3=The Bill Builds No New Ministry and Runs Through a Soil and Food Hub in Every Region
|bullet4=Baudelaire Called It Abundance Without Depletion and Rejected an Organic-Only Model
|bullet5=Three Opposition Parties Attacked the Cost, the Timing, and the Tilt Toward the Core Regions
|bullet6=With the Cortes Set to Dissolve, the Measure Stands as a Platform More Than a Law
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The government of Premier [[José Manuel Montero]] introduced its [[Soil Stewardship and Food Abundance Act, 1759|Soil Stewardship and Food Abundance Bill]] in the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] on 18.II.{{AN|1759}}, opening a ten-year program to rebuild the Federation's farm soils and bring down the real price of food. The bill would authorize federal investment of up to NAX€123 billion a year, and it makes agriculture the fourth pillar of the government's recovery agenda in the final year before the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|September election]].<ref name="firstreading">First reading of the [[Soil Stewardship and Food Abundance Act, 1759|Soil Stewardship and Food Abundance Bill]], [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]], 18.II.{{AN|1759}}, ''Cortes Federales''.</ref>

Introduced for the [[Council of State (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Council of State]] by Secretary of Energy and Environment [[Beatrice Baudelaire]] ([[Federal Humanist Party|FHP]]), the measure creates no new ministry. It works through the existing [[Department of Energy and Environment (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Energy and Environment]], whose Farm Service Agency and long-established [[Institute of Agricultural Sciences]] administer rural affairs, in coordination with the [[Department of Research and Development (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Research and Development]] and its Federal Agricultural Innovation Agency, and delivers support through a Regional Soil and Food Hub in each of the thirteen [[Regions of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Regions]]. Its authorized investment would run for a decade, up to 0.25 percent of national output each year, on the order of NAX€123 billion against a gross domestic product near NAX€49 trillion. Over that period the bill would bind the government to published ten-year targets for soil, water, output, food loss, and the price of a basic healthy-food basket.

Ministers presented the bill as a structural answer to the [[Recession of 1757]] and the cost-of-living pressure that followed the [[1757 Alexandrium market crash]]. The government's second-term technology programs had already carried its diversification agenda into industry and science: the energy program [[Project Kallpa]], the physics initiative [[Projet Horizon]], and the space program [[Inti (spacecraft)|Inti]]. The food bill, ministers said, was the fourth pillar, reaching into the land and the food supply. Its stated method is what the government calls sustainable intensification: producing more from each hectare of land, each unit of water, and each measure of fertilizer and feed, while rebuilding rather than exhausting the soil.

The Federation already feeds itself, and comfortably: the [[Wechua Nation]] grows about two-fifths of the country's cereals and almost all of its quinoa, and the [[Isles of Caputia]] supply more than two-fifths of its tomatoes from an intensive greenhouse sector. It is among the five largest agricultural producers on Micras. Ministers argued that this strength should not be mistaken for security, holding that today's abundant harvests rest on assets that can quietly erode: soil structure, reliable water, the incomes of working farmers, and the regional capacity to process and move food.

Baudelaire, a chemical engineer who has long argued that production and conservation can be pursued together, rejected any suggestion that the program was an organic-farming scheme. The measure is an unlikely one to carry her name: the [[Alliance for Natural Heritage]] has called her the most anti-environmental member of the government, and here she fronts a bill to rebuild the nation's soils. The bill rests instead on integrated soil fertility management, under which soil testing, targeted mineral fertilizer, compost and manure, rotation and legumes, improved seed from the Institute's Seed Bank at Punta Santiago, and better irrigation are combined and adapted to local conditions; it imposes no single cultivation method on the Federation's very different climates and soils. ''"We can grow more food and leave the land in better condition than we found it,"'' Baudelaire said, presenting the bill. ''"Those are not opposing goals, and this program refuses to treat them as if they were."'' The accompanying memorandum sets the aim more plainly still, as ''"abundance without depletion."''<ref name="firstreading" />

The bill sets a schedule of ten-year targets, measured from the completion of a national soil baseline. Chief among them is a cut of 20 to 30 percent in the real household price of a healthy-food basket, alongside a 50-to-70-percent rise in marketable vegetable production and smaller increases in poultry, eggs, pork, and beef, chiefly through productivity rather than larger herds. It pairs those production goals with published farm-gate-to-retail prices, competition enforcement against processors and retailers who capture the gains, and a targeted Healthy Food Access Credit for low-income households, children, and older adults, while ruling out general retail price controls.

The arithmetic of the Cortes shaped the bill as much as its content. The government holds 372 of the 749 seats in the Federal Assembly, three short of a majority, and governs with the confidence of the [[Aldurian Independent Coalition]]. With the [[13th Cortes Federales]] due to dissolve for the general election of 15-17.IX.{{AN|1759}}, little parliamentary time remained for the bill to advance beyond first reading, and it stood as much for the party's second-term agriculture platform as for an immediate prospect of law. Were it not to pass before the Cortes rose, the government could reintroduce it, in the same or a revised form, in the 14th Cortes after the election.

The recovery spending drew the objections it had drawn before. [[Yuiza Bohi'o]] of the [[Wakara People's Party]] argued that federal programs of this kind favored the core Regions over the outer ones. [[Francisco Gabaza]] of the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] questioned the borrowing behind the government's appropriations. [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], the Leader of the Opposition, held that immediate food support should come before the government's prestige investments. The caution was not confined to the opposition benches: Vice-Premier [[Fred Strong]] pressed for the program's commitments to be costed honestly and matched to demonstrated capability.<ref name="firstreading" />

Whether a bill unlikely to pass this side of the election can still shape it is the wager the government has made. The Federal Humanist Party will campaign on a plan to make food cheaper and the land more productive; its opponents will ask why, after a recession and a market crash, the answer arrives as a ten-year program in the closing months of a Cortes that is about to end.
|tldr=The government of Premier José Manuel Montero introduced the Soil Stewardship and Food Abundance Bill on 18.II.{{AN|1759}}, a ten-year program authorizing up to NAX€123 billion a year to rebuild the Federation's farm soils, raise food output, and cut the real household price of food by 20 to 30 percent. Introduced by Secretary of Energy and Environment Beatrice Baudelaire, it creates no new ministry and works through existing departments and a soil-and-food hub in every Region, standing as the fourth pillar of the government's recovery agenda beside its energy, physics, and space programs. With the 13th Cortes due to dissolve for the September election, the bill is as much the Federal Humanist Party's second-term agriculture platform as an immediate prospect of law; three opposition parties questioned its cost, its timing, and its balance between the core and outer Regions.
|impact_approval={{increase}} +1
|impact_economy={{steady}} 0
|impact_stability={{steady}} 0
}}

===20===
{{Main|Bliven Fund|Concord Alliance Treaty Organization}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}}{{team flag|Natopia|flag}}{{team flag|Anglien|flag}} NOUVELLE ALEXANDRIE WILL NOT UNDERWRITE ANGLIEN'S ENDOWMENT, LEAVING NATOPIA TO SEED THE BLIVEN FUND LARGELY ALONE
|image=BlivenFundNAXRefusal1759NBC.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''NBC News data graphic explaining the proposed [[Bliven Fund]] after [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] declined to subscribe on 20.II.{{AN|1759}}, leaving [[Natopia]] expected to provide most of a smaller endowment for [[Anglien]].''
|bullet1=The Federation Will Not Subscribe to the Proposed Bliven Fund
|bullet2=Natopia Is Now Expected to Seed the Endowment's Capital Largely on Its Own
|bullet3=Treasury Cast the Refusal as Keeping Long-Dated Money at Home in a Recession and Election Year
|bullet4=The Fund Would Be Capitalized at About Three Times Anglien's Annual Government Spending and Invested Entirely Abroad
|bullet5=Anglien's Transition Ends This Year and Winds Up the CATO Assistance Program That Was to Raise It
|bullet6=Opposition Leader Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves Said the Government Reached the Position He Set Out Two Years Ago
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=Nouvelle Alexandrie has told the [[Concord Council]] it will not subscribe to the [[Bliven Fund]], the sovereign endowment the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|CATO]] alliance was to raise for the [[Anglien|Free Duchy of Anglien]] before its assistance program ends this year. The decision, conveyed to the Council in the second month of {{AN|1759}}, leaves [[Natopia]] to provide the bulk of the capital largely on its own.<ref name="council">Proceedings of the [[Concord Council]] on the conclusion of the Anglien assistance program, II.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The [[Department of Treasury (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Treasury]] cast the refusal as a matter of timing and priority rather than of Anglien. Officials said the Federation would not enter a new quarter-century commitment of money invested abroad while the [[Recession of 1757|recession]] still weighed on the budget and domestic claims went unmet, and they noted that Treasury Secretary [[Warren Ferdinand]] had said from the start, when the plan was presented in {{AN|1757}}, that the Federation would not commit before contribution shares were settled. The refusal did not extend to Anglien's recovery as a whole: in {{AN|1757}} the Federation had backed the duchy's [[Aquaria Modernization and Expansion Program|Aquaria]] nuclear new-build with an investment of around [[Anglian mark|AM]] 12 billion, and officials drew the line at the open-ended endowment, not at the duchy. The decision came in an election year and in the second year of the recession.

Presented to the Concord Council on 12.V.{{AN|1757}} by Anglien's Transitional Prime Minister [[Eduard Vogt]], the Bliven Fund was designed to carry the duchy past the end of foreign aid. Under the plan of Finance Minister [[Catrin Halvordssen]], it would be capitalized at about three times Anglien's annual government spending, invested entirely abroad, and weighted toward the [[New Alexandrian écu]] and the [[Natopian natopo]], transferring four to five percent of its value to the Anglian treasury each year until {{AN|1784}}. The fund takes its name from the first word of the ducal motto, ''Wii Bliven, Wii Stans''.<ref name="fund">The Halvordssen plan for the [[Bliven Fund]], [[Ministry of Finance and Reconstruction of Anglien]], as presented to the [[Concord Council]] on 12.V.{{AN|1757}}.</ref>

The two governments had been named as the fund's largest expected contributors, and the Federation's withdrawal reshapes the plan around the one that remains. With the écu no longer set to anchor the portfolio, its weighting falls to the natopo. Removing the largest expected subscriber also takes off the table the question the Council had found hardest, how to apportion contribution shares among members whose aid to Anglien had been deliberately uneven.

In Johannsessbuurg, the [[Ministry of Finance and Reconstruction of Anglien|Ministry of Finance and Reconstruction]] said the endowment would be recalibrated to the capital actually pledged and that the constitutional transition would proceed on its own timetable, with the permanent constitution due to go before voters on 7.VII.{{AN|1759}}. Anglien had objected to counting any transfers from the fund against grants already programmed through the end of the transition; with a smaller fund now in view, that dispute recedes without resolving.

Leader of the Opposition [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] said the government had reached the position he set out when the fund was first proposed in {{AN|1757}}, that the Federation should not endow another country's budget to {{AN|1784}} before the claims of its own citizens were met. He welcomed the decision, and faulted the two years it had taken to reach it.

The refusal is being read outside the chamber as a statement about how the Federation now weighs its commitments abroad. ''"Nouvelle Alexandrie has chosen a domestic saving over an alliance gesture, and it has chosen it in the year of an election,"'' said Ismael Cardozo, an economist who studies sovereign funds. ''"The Bliven Fund does not fail, but it becomes Natopia's to carry. What Anglien is being handed is a smaller endowment and a clear lesson in which of its two large patrons will still write the long checks."'' The office of the [[CATO Commissioner of Peace for Anglien]], which coordinates the wind-down of CATO's presence, has taken no public position; the fund is the last piece of the assistance program still unsettled as the alliance prepares to close its work in the duchy.
|tldr=Nouvelle Alexandrie has told the [[Concord Council]] it will not subscribe to the [[Bliven Fund]], the sovereign endowment [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|CATO]] was to raise for the [[Anglien|Free Duchy of Anglien]] before its assistance program ends with the duchy's transition this year, leaving [[Natopia]] to provide the bulk of the capital largely on its own. The [[Department of Treasury (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Treasury]] cast the refusal as keeping long-dated money at home during the [[Recession of 1757|recession]] and an election year, noting that Secretary [[Warren Ferdinand]] had said in {{AN|1757}} the Federation would not commit before contribution shares were settled. Designed under Anglien Finance Minister [[Catrin Halvordssen]] to be capitalized at about three times the duchy's annual spending and weighted toward the [[New Alexandrian écu]] and the [[Natopian natopo]], the fund now tilts to the natopo without the Federation's share. Opposition Leader [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] said the government had reached the position he set out in {{AN|1757}}, while Anglien said the endowment would be recalibrated to the capital pledged and that the constitution still goes to referendum on 7.VII.{{AN|1759}}. [[Category:Nouvelle Alexandrie]][[Category:Natopia]][[Category:Anglien]]
|impact_international={{decrease}} -1
|impact_approval={{increase}} +1
}}

==III (Ventaris)==
===8===
{{See also|Gerard Skuryov-Spooner|Marquis of Yucay}}

{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} PRINCE GERARD OF YUCAY BECOMES SPECIAL COUNSELOR TO THE KING, AN ADVISORY POST WITHOUT A GOVERNMENT PORTFOLIO
|bullet1=King Sinchi Roca II Has Named His Soldier Son-in-Law to a Personal Advisory Role at Court
|bullet2=Prince Gerard, Marquis of Yucay, Holds the Rank of Lieutenant Colonel
|bullet3=The Counsel Runs to Raspur Pact and Allied-Military Liaison, Not the Federation's Defense Command
|bullet4=The Palace Says the Post Sits Outside the Government and the Military Chain of Command
|bullet5=Gerard Met Princess Urpi as a Raspur Pact Liaison Officer
|bullet6=He Joins Prince Janus of Neridia as a Second Royal In-Law in Allied-Military Liaison
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The Crown has drawn one of its own soldiers into the King's private counsel. On 8.III.{{AN|1759}}, the [[Royal Household of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Royal Household]] announced that King [[Sinchi Roca II]] had appointed his son-in-law [[Gerard Skuryov-Spooner|Prince Gerard, Marquis of Yucay]], a serving officer of the [[Highbloom Defence Force]], as Special Counselor to the King, a personal advisory post within the royal household.

Gerard advises the Sovereign on [[Raspur Pact]] and allied-military affairs, the work that first brought him to [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]], and on the wider questions of defense and security the King follows as ceremonial commander-in-chief. The counsel is distinct from the two statutory bodies whose names it echoes: the Special Counselors of the Federal Defense Committee, named under the [[Defense of the Federation Act, 1694]] on the advice of the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]], and the [[Counsellors of State Act, 1750|Counsellors of State]], who deputize for the Sovereign in a temporary absence. Gerard holds neither post, and his counsel carries no place in the elected government or the military chain of command.

''"The Special Counselor advises the King in a personal capacity, and nothing more,"'' a spokesman for the Royal Household said. ''"He commands nothing, signs nothing, and speaks for no ministry."''

Gerard, born in {{AN|1727}}, came to the Federation from [[Highbloom]] as a [[Raspur Pact]] liaison officer and married [[Urpi, Marchioness of Yucay|Princess Urpi]], the King's second daughter, in {{AN|1754}}. He was created [[Marquis of Yucay]] shortly after his marriage and promoted lieutenant colonel of the [[Highbloom Defence Force]] in {{AN|1758}}. He is the second of the King's sons-in-law drawn close to the Federation's defense affairs: [[Janus of Neridia|Prince Janus]], husband of Crown Princess [[Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Sayari]], serves as a liaison officer to allied militaries, and Princess Urpi holds a colonelcy in the Federal Forces.

Writers on the constitution treated the appointment as household business rather than a change in power. Under the Federation's parliamentary settlement the elected government directs defense policy and answers for it to the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]].

For now the post adds a line to the record of a soldier already inside the royal family, and a voice the King may call on in private.
|tldr=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] has appointed his son-in-law [[Gerard Skuryov-Spooner|Prince Gerard, Marquis of Yucay]] as Special Counselor to the King, a personal advisory post in the [[Royal Household of Nouvelle Alexandrie|royal household]] covering [[Raspur Pact]] and allied-military affairs. The Royal Household stressed that the counsel is personal and advisory: it is distinct from the statutory Special Counselors of the Federal Defense Committee and from the [[Counsellors of State Act, 1750|Counsellors of State]], and it sits outside the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] and the military chain of command. Gerard, a lieutenant colonel of the [[Highbloom Defence Force]] who married Princess Urpi in {{AN|1754}}, keeps his commission; he becomes the second royal in-law, after [[Janus of Neridia|Prince Janus]], drawn into the Federation's defense affairs.''
}}
[[Category:Nouvelle Alexandrie]]

===15===
{{Main|Summit on Zeed}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Zeed|flag}} MONTERO LEADS NOUVELLE ALEXANDRIE INTO THE PETROPOLIS SUMMIT ON THE FUTURE OF ZEED
|image=PetropolisSummitZeed1759NBC.png
|image_size=400px
|image_caption=''Premier [[Jose Manuel Montero|José Manuel Montero]] leads the New Alexandrian delegation into the opening session of the [[Summit on Zeed]] in [[Petropolis]], with Vice-Premier [[Fred Strong]] behind him, 15.III.{{AN|1759}}.''
|bullet1=Delegations Opened Talks at Petropolis on 15.III.{{AN|1759}} on the Long-Term Development and Governance of the Commonwealth of Zeed
|bullet2=Nouvelle Alexandrie Sent Its Front Bench: Premier Montero, Vice-Premier Strong, and Secretary of State Durand
|bullet3=Constancia Hosted the Meeting, Billed as a Follow-Up to the {{AN|1750}} Cárdenas Summit That First Set a Shared Course on Zeed
|bullet4=The Delegations Opened the Session Without a Communiqué and Set No Timetable for One
|bullet5=For the Federation the Stakes Run Through Avey, the Zeedic Port It Has Administered Since the Armistice of {{AN|1701}}
|bullet6=Zeed's Development Plans and the Labor Unrest Around Them Sit Behind the Summit's Talk of the Republic's Condition
|location=[[Petropolis]], [[Imperial State of Constancia|Constancia]]
|body=Delegations from Nouvelle Alexandrie, Natopia and Constancia joined the [[Commonwealth of Zeed]] at [[Petropolis]] on 15.III.{{AN|1759}} for a summit on the southwestern [[Eura]]n republic's future, the first devoted to Zeed since the [[Cárdenas Summit]] of {{AN|1750}}.<ref name="summit-open">Joint announcement of the [[Summit on Zeed]], Petropolis, 15.III.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The Federation sent its front bench. Premier [[Jose Manuel Montero|José Manuel Montero]] led the delegation with Vice-Premier and Secretary of Defense [[Fred Strong]] and Secretary of State [[Jean-Michel Durand]], who represented the Federation at Cárdenas in {{AN|1750}} in the same office. The lineup put the head of government, the defense chief and the chief diplomat at one table. Natopia was represented by Chancellor [[Marco Lungo III]], Secretary for Foreign Affairs [[Michelle Christophis]] and Secretary for Defense [[Daniel Lors Simrani-Kalirion]]; Constancia hosted, and the Commonwealth of Zeed sent a delegation of its own.

The stated purpose was to weigh the condition of the Commonwealth and, in the hosts' phrasing, ways forward for its development. Discussion returned to ground the powers first mapped at Cárdenas nine years earlier: how Zeed is to be governed, and where Euran and national interests lie in a republic that has sat inside the [[Raspur Pact]]'s orbit since its defeat in the Third Euran War. The {{AN|1750}} summit closed with what its record called clearer vision, support and objectives for Zeed's future; this one opened without a communiqué, and the hosts named no date for one.

A Humanist federal republic of some 67.8 million on the southwestern Euran coast, Zeed took its present form in {{AN|1716}} with the end of Raspur Pact occupation, the successor to the Union of the Republics of Zeed that the {{AN|1701}} Armistice of Alduria City had placed under Pact control. Its Presidency Council is led by President [[Vivek Jarkhanda]], with [[Hypatia Damarion]] as prime minister. The republic keeps close economic and diplomatic ties to Nouvelle Alexandrie, Constancia, [[Oportia]] and the [[Suren Confederacy]], and remains a member of the [[Micras Treaty Organization]] and the Raspur Pact.

For the Federation the interest in Zeed is concrete as well as diplomatic. Nouvelle Alexandrie has administered [[Avey]], Zeed's largest port and its primary commercial gateway, since the {{AN|1701}} Armistice, a stake that has tied the Federation to the republic's fortunes across the intervening decades.

What the summit concludes had not been announced as the delegations went into session. The Cárdenas meeting took a single day; whether Petropolis settles as quickly, and toward what, was the question the governments carried into the room.<ref name="cardenas-precedent">[[Cárdenas Summit]], 20.XII.{{AN|1750}}, Palace of Carranza, Cárdenas.</ref>
|tldr=''Delegations from Nouvelle Alexandrie, Natopia and Constancia joined the [[Commonwealth of Zeed]] at [[Petropolis]] on 15.III.{{AN|1759}} for a summit on the republic's future, the first devoted to Zeed since the {{AN|1750}} [[Cárdenas Summit]]. Premier José Manuel Montero led the Federation delegation in person alongside Vice-Premier Fred Strong and Secretary of State Jean-Michel Durand, weighing Zeed's governance and development and the Euran interests present in the republic since the {{AN|1701}} Armistice. The powers issued no communiqué and set no timetable for one as the talks began.''
|impact_stability={{steady}} 0
|impact_regional={{increase}} +1
|impact_approval={{steady}} 0
|impact_civil_liberties={{steady}} 0
}}

===18===

{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Constancia|flag}} DIPLOMATIC SOURCES SAY CONSTANCIA'S PALACE TENSIONS HAVE RESURFACED AROUND THE ZEED SUMMIT
|image=ConstancianPalaceTensions1759NBC.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''Autokráteira [[Rosamund]] and Basileus [[Giakoumis II]] appear with their separate delegations at the [[Summit on Zeed]] in [[Petropolis]], 15.III.{{AN|1759}}.''
|bullet1=Diplomatic Sources Say the Rift NBC Reported in {{AN|1752}} Has Flared Again Around the Petropolis Summit
|bullet2=Officials Cast Constancia's Hosting as a Contest of Precedence Between the Two Courts
|bullet3=The Compact Ranks the Autokráteira Ahead of the Basileus's Son, His Ambassador in Cárdenas
|bullet4=Neither Household Would Address the Reports on the Record
|bullet5=A Rumor Ties Field Marshal Periklês Metaxas's Summit Absence to Both His Health and the Succession
|bullet6=The Autokráteira's Own Son Already Governs Amaland in Her Name and Was Called Her Logical Heir
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=Diplomatic sources with access to the Constancian court say the tensions within the Imperial household that NBC first reported in {{AN|1752}} have resurfaced around the [[Summit on Zeed|summit at Petropolis]], again setting Basileus [[Giakoumis II]] against his elder sister, the Autokráteira [[Rosamund]], who holds plenipotentiary authority over the domestic affairs of the [[Imperial State of Constancia|Imperial State]].<ref name="summit-open"/>

The accounts, shared with NBC News by officials who requested anonymity given the sensitivity of the matter, cast Constancia's arrangements for hosting the 15.III talks as a contest of precedence between the two courts rather than a single Constancian welcome. The summit's own record gave them something to read: Rosamund led the Constancian delegation, while the Basileus was listed separately, under the [[Trans-Euran Command]]. None of it carries a source willing to be named, and neither the household of the Basileus nor the [[Autokrator of Constancia|Office of the Autokrator]] has addressed the reports.

The friction is not new. Under Giakoumis II, who has reigned since {{AN|1743}}, the day-to-day of domestic policy has drifted steadily to the Autokráteira and the [[Imperial Constancian Government]] of the day, a shift the {{AN|1752}} reporting traced to after-action reviews of the [[Fourth Euran War]] that faulted the Imperial State's military logistics and administration. The appointment of [[José Emmanuel Thorgils Kerularios|Mesazon Kerularios]] that year, widely read at the time as a reform mandate reflecting the Autokráteira's priorities over the sovereign's, remains the clearest public marker of where authority sits.

That contest runs into the succession itself. The [[Petropolis Compact]] ranks Rosamund ahead of the Basileus's own son, Prince [[Farrukhān]], the [[Prince of Molivadia]] who serves as Constancia's ambassador in Cárdenas and whom court sources in {{AN|1752}} called unprepared for the throne's demands. Her own son, Prince [[Alexander Ayreon-Kalirion]], already governs [[Amaland]] in her name; the same {{AN|1752}} assessment named him a logical heir to the Autokrator's office should she ascend.

''"Nothing about the underlying arrangement has changed since {{AN|1752}}, which is exactly why the talk keeps returning,"'' said Dr. [[Helena Vasquez]], professor of international relations at the [[University of Cárdenas]]. ''"The Autokráteira has run the domestic state for years. A summit simply gives everyone a fresh occasion to read the body language."''

Running alongside the palace talk is a quieter question about a soldier. ''Stratárchis'' (Field Marshal) [[Periklês Metaxas]], a deputy commander of the [[Trans-Euran Command]] and one of the senior figures of the [[Imperial Constancian Armed Forces]], did not attend the Petropolis gathering in person, sending his son ''Sarhang'' (Colonel) Heinrich Metaxas in his place, and the same sources tie his absence to speculation about his health. That absence touches more than a command roster: under the Petropolis Compact, Metaxas and his line are the ultimate heirs to the [[Principality of Molivadia]] should the Imperial line fail. Born in {{AN|1653}} and long kept in service by state-granted [[Longevity Serum|rejuvenation serum]], he has held commands across half a century of Euran campaigns; nothing firmer than the absence has been offered.

Sources close to the Imperial household disputed any suggestion of a breach, calling the relationship between the sovereign and the Autokráteira one of mutual respect and collaboration. The [[Department of State (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of State]] declined to comment on Constancia's internal affairs, repeating only that the Federation keeps the closest relations with [[Constancia]] and full confidence in its institutions.

For Nouvelle Alexandrie the interest is neither idle nor distant. The Constancian crown holds the New Alexandrian [[Dukedom of Santiago]], which passes with the Principality of Molivadia to Prince Farrukhān, and the Imperial house is tied by marriage into the New Alexandrian and Natopian royal lines through the [[House of Osman]]. Who holds the domestic upper hand in Petropolis is Constancia's own affair, but the Federation has reason to watch it. For now the court has said nothing, and the reports remain reports.[[Category:Constancia]]
|tldr=''Diplomatic sources tell NBC that the tensions between Basileus [[Giakoumis II]] and his elder sister, the Autokráteira [[Rosamund]], first reported in {{AN|1752}}, have resurfaced around the 15.III.{{AN|1759}} [[Summit on Zeed|summit at Petropolis]], where Rosamund led the Constancian delegation and the Basileus was listed separately. Officials cast the hosting as a contest of precedence between the two courts; no named source stands behind the accounts, and neither the Imperial household nor the [[Department of State (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of State]] would address them. The reports rest on a documented arrangement: domestic authority has drifted to the Autokráteira under Giakoumis II, and the [[Petropolis Compact]] ranks her ahead of the Basileus's son, Prince [[Farrukhān]], while her own son, Prince [[Alexander Ayreon-Kalirion]], already governs [[Amaland]] in her name. A separate rumor ties the summit absence of Field Marshal [[Periklês Metaxas]], the Compact's ultimate heir to the Principality of Molivadia, to questions about his health.''
|impact_international={{steady}} 0
}}

===22===
{{See also|New Alexandrian general election, 1759}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} NEITHER BIG PARTY IS CONSOLIDATING THE VOTE FIVE MONTHS OUT FROM THE ELECTION
|image=ElenaSvensson1750NAX.png
|image_size=200px
|image_caption=''[[Elena Svensson]], the Federation's most-liked leader, whose [[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]] gained ground in the first poll of the election year while the two largest parties both slipped; file photo, {{AN|1750}}.''
|bullet1=The First Regular IOP/NBC News Poll of {{AN|1759}} Finds Both the [[Federal Humanist Party|FHP]] and [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]]'s [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]] Slipping a Point, the Vote Draining to the Smaller Parties Rather Than From One Giant to the Other
|bullet2=Government Net Approval Slips to Minus 3 as the Term-Limits Victory Fails to Lift It and the Recession Enters a Third Year
|bullet3=[[Elena Svensson]]'s [[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]] Rises to 6 Percent With Party Finance Returning to the Front of the Argument, and She Holds Her Place as the Most-Liked Leader in the Federation
|bullet4=The [[Republican Party of Oportia]] Enters the Series for the First Time at 1 Percent, the First Poll to Carry an Oportian Party Since the Region's Realignment
|bullet5=[[Francisco Gabaza]]'s [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] Slides Again to 10 Percent and His Own Favorability Falls to Plus 6, the Quiet Leader's Standing Eroding a Fourth Poll Running
|bullet6=Civil Liberties Enters the Issue Table Behind the Cost of Living and the Recession, the [[Parade of Lassos and Nooses|Vanguard Parades]] and the Court Order Giving the Opposition a New Argument
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The first regular IOP/NBC News poll of {{AN|1759}}, conducted 19-21.III, finds an electorate that is leaving the governing party without going over to the opposition. The [[Federal Humanist Party]] slips a point to 41 percent and [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]]'s [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]] slips a point to 38, holding the gap at three, while the vote both shed goes not across the divide but out to the smaller parties and to independents. The Institute reads the quarter as a field that will not consolidate five months before the country votes.

The government took two things into the poll that might have lifted it and did not. It won the [[New Alexandrian premiership term limits referendum, 1758|term-limits referendum]] of 1.XII by 64 to 36, settling [[José Manuel Montero|Montero]]'s eligibility for a third term, and the [[1758 New Alexandrian census|census]] certified in II fixed the 801-seat map on which the election will be fought. Neither moved the government's standing. Net approval has slipped to minus 3 from the minus 2 of IX.{{AN|1758}}, and the Institute finds the referendum win banked as a settled fact rather than felt as a victory, with the [[Recession of 1757|recession]] entering its third year and the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758|recovery package]] tabled but unvoted before the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]].

What has taken its place at the front of the opposition's case is civil liberties. The [[Federal Capital District Court]]'s protective order for [[Sofia Reyes]] in XIV, the breaking-up of the [[Parade of Lassos and Nooses|Vanguard parades]], and Vice-President [[Fred Strong]]'s refusal to retract his blessing of them have put the affair third on the issue table, behind the cost of living and the recession and ahead of housing. The Institute notes that the government's own voters divided on the marches when it last asked, and that the argument reopened by the parades is one the opposition did not have a year ago.

The gainer of the quarter is the smallest of the national parties. [[Elena Svensson]]'s [[Civic Governance Alliance]] rises a point to 6 percent, its first gain in four polls, on the strength of the party-finance argument she has carried since the defeat of the CGA's [[Clean Government and Political Reform Act, 1754]] and promised to make the question of the election, and of her own standing: at a net plus 30 she remains the most-liked leader in the Federation, a point above her IX figure and clear of every rival. The Institute reads the CGA's rise as of a piece with the fragmentation it measures, a good-government vote detaching from the two largest parties rather than a surge behind a third.

The poll is also the first to carry a party from [[Oportia]]. The [[Republican Party of Oportia]], which alone among the Region's parties declined to fold into a national organization at the XIII.{{AN|1758}} realignment, enters the series at 1 percent on its own autonomist list, its support drawn from the interior departments that voted against [[Oportian integration referendum, 1755|accession]]. [[Sofia Laurent]], its leader, is unknown to four voters in five outside her Region, and the Institute cautions that a regional party polling near the margin of error is measured with less confidence than the national figures.

The [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] continues the slide that has run through the series. It falls a further point to 10 percent, and [[Francisco Gabaza]]'s own favorability drops to a net plus 6, down for the fourth poll running, the cost of a leader who has passed quietly through the term's fights. The Institute's closing note is that the two parties that spent the last two years absorbing the vote are now shedding it in different directions, and that a first poll of an election year has found no one able to gather it up.
|tldr=''The first regular IOP/NBC News poll of {{AN|1759}}, conducted 19-21.III, finds both the [[Federal Humanist Party|FHP]] and [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]] slipping a point, to 41 and 38, with the vote draining to the smaller parties rather than across the divide. Government net approval slips to minus 3 as the [[New Alexandrian premiership term limits referendum, 1758|term-limits victory]] fails to lift the government and the recession enters a third year. [[Elena Svensson]]'s [[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]] rises to 6 percent with party finance back at the front of the argument, and she holds her place as the most-liked leader at plus 30. The [[Republican Party of Oportia]] enters the series at 1 percent, the first poll to carry an Oportian party since the Region's realignment, while [[Francisco Gabaza|Gabaza]]'s Federal Consensus Party slides to 10 and his own favorability falls to plus 6.''
|impact_approval={{decrease}} -1
}}

====IOP/NBC News Public Opinion Polling====
=====National Party Voting Intention=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''NATIONAL PARTY VOTING INTENTION''' ''If the election were held today, which party would you support?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 19-21.III.{{AN|1759}}
! Party
! Percentage in Poll
! Change Since IX.{{AN|1758}} Poll
|-
| [[Federal Humanist Party]] ([[FHP]])
| 41.0%
| {{decrease}} -1.0%
|-
| [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] ([[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]])
| 38.0%
| {{decrease}} -1.0%
|-
| [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] ([[Federal Consensus Party|FCP]])
| 10.0%
| {{decrease}} -1.0%
|-
| [[Civic Governance Alliance]] ([[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]])
| 6.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Republican Party of Oportia]] ([[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]])
| 1.0%
| ''New''
|-
| Independents & Other Candidates
| 4.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|}

=====Party Leader Favorability Ratings=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''PARTY LEADER FAVORABILITY RATINGS''' % of registered voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 19-21.III.{{AN|1759}}
! Leader
! Favorable
! Unfavorable
! No Opinion
! Net Favorability
! Change
|-
| [[José Manuel Montero]] ([[FHP]]) Premier
| 44.0%
| 47.0%
| 9.0%
| {{decrease}} -3.0%
| {{decrease}} -1.0%
|-
| [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] ([[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|DSP]] / [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]]) Leader of the Opposition
| 49.0%
| 28.0%
| 23.0%
| {{increase}} +21.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Elena Svensson]] ([[CGA]]) CGA Leader
| 53.0%
| 23.0%
| 24.0%
| {{increase}} +30.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Francisco Gabaza]] ([[FCP]]) Leader
| 38.0%
| 32.0%
| 30.0%
| {{increase}} +6.0%
| {{decrease}} -2.0%
|-
| [[Yuiza Bohi'o]] ([[Wakara People's Party|WPP]]) Leader
| 36.0%
| 13.0%
| 51.0%
| {{increase}} +23.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| [[Émile Bouchard]] ([[Aldurian Independent Coalition|Aldurian Coalition]]) Coordinator
| 31.0%
| 20.0%
| 49.0%
| {{increase}} +11.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Sofia Laurent]] ([[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]]) Leader
| 12.0%
| 9.0%
| 79.0%
| {{increase}} +3.0%
| ''New''
|}

=====Government Approval=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''GOVERNMENT APPROVAL''' ''Do you approve or disapprove of the job the Montero government is doing?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 19-21.III.{{AN|1759}}
! Response
! Percentage
! Change Since IX.{{AN|1758}}
|-
| Approve
| 45.0%
| {{decrease}} -1.0%
|-
| Disapprove
| 48.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| No Opinion
| 7.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
! Net Approval
! {{decrease}} -3.0%
! {{decrease}} -1.0%
|}

=====Direction of the Federation=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''DIRECTION OF THE FEDERATION''' ''Do you think the Federation is headed in the right direction or the wrong direction?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 19-21.III.{{AN|1759}}
! Response
! Percentage
! Change Since IX.{{AN|1758}}
|-
| Right Direction
| 42.0%
| {{decrease}} -1.0%
|-
| Wrong Direction
| 50.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| No Opinion
| 8.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|}

===24===
{{See also|Eclat Magazine|Chambéry}}

{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} A CÁRDENAS MAGAZINE PLANTS A NEW ARTS PRIZE IN CHAMBÉRY AND HANDS IT FIRST TO A VALENCIAN PAINTER
|image=PrixDeChambery1759NBC.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''Amélie Rocourt receives the inaugural Prix de Chambéry before canvases from her "Captive Sea" cycle at the [[University of Chambéry]], 24.III.{{AN|1759}}.''
|bullet1=The Inaugural Prix de Chambéry Was Founded and Funded by the Eclat Media Group
|bullet2=Painter Amélie Rocourt Took the First Award for a Cycle of Captive Sea Canvases
|bullet3=The Prize Carries 60,000 Écu and a Commission to Exhibit at the University of Chambéry
|bullet4=Eclat Sited the Award in Valencia, Where It Sells the Fewest Copies
|bullet5=Some in the Region's Arts Circles Asked Whether a Magazine Should Anoint Its Own Canon
|location=[[Chambéry]], Valencia
|body=For a magazine that has kept its offices in [[Cárdenas]] since it moved there generations ago, [[Eclat Magazine|Eclat]] chose a pointed place to give away its new money: the old royal city on the Captive Sea that Alexandrians still call the cultural capital of their nation. On 24.III.{{AN|1759}}, at the [[University of Chambéry]], the [[Eclat Magazine|Eclat Media Group]] awarded the first Prix de Chambéry, a national arts prize it has endowed and means to give every year.

The inaugural laureate is Amélie Rocourt, a painter from the Valencian coast whose cycle of large seascapes, worked over four years along the shoreline south of Chambéry, the jury cited for ''"a patience the sea rarely rewards."'' The award carries 60,000 écu and a commission to mount a solo exhibition at the [[University of Chambéry]], in the city that was the royal capital of [[Valencia]] before the Kingdom joined the Federation.

The founding is a wager as much as a gift. Eclat, a general-interest magazine since {{AN|1686}}, sells more copies almost everywhere else than it does in Valencia, and executives said the prize was partly an attempt to close that distance. ''"You do not earn a region's attention by covering it from Cárdenas,"'' said Hélène Vaugirard, the group's editorial director, who chaired the jury. ''"You earn it by turning up, and by putting something on the table."''

The something-on-the-table has a model. The Federation's best-known literary award, the [[Quri Qillqa Prize of Wechua Literature|Quri Qillqa Prize]] of Wechua letters, pairs its purse with a worked gold pendant; the Prix de Chambéry pairs its purse with a wall. Organizers said future editions would rotate among painting, letters and music, and that the jury would draw from outside the magazine's own staff after this first year.

The reception in Valencia was not all applause. Several figures in the region's arts circles, while welcoming the money, questioned whether a commercial magazine should be in the business of naming the region's artists to itself. ''"A prize is a kind of authority,"'' said one gallerist in Chambéry who declined to be named ahead of her own season's openings. ''"We should be glad of the endowment and careful about who holds the pen."'' Vaugirard, asked about the objection, said the jury's independence was ''"the whole point of setting it up this way, and we will be judged on whether we keep to it."''
|tldr=''The [[Eclat Magazine|Eclat Media Group]] awarded the first Prix de Chambéry on 24.III.{{AN|1759}} at the [[University of Chambéry]] in [[Chambéry]], Valencia, naming the painter Amélie Rocourt its inaugural laureate for a cycle of Captive Sea seascapes. The annual prize carries 60,000 écu and an exhibition in Chambéry, and was sited deliberately in Valencia, the region where the Cárdenas-based magazine sells the fewest copies. Some in the region's arts world welcomed the endowment while questioning whether a magazine should anoint its own canon; the group said the jury's independence would be the test.''
|impact_culture={{increase}} +1
}}
[[Category:Nouvelle Alexandrie]]

==IV (Floraris)==
===9===
{{Main|Project Kallpa}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} PROJECT KALLPA FILES TO BUILD ITS FIRST REACTOR IN ALDURIA AS THE COST ESTIMATE RISES
|image=ProjectKallpaAmapolaSurvey1759NBC.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''Preconstruction geotechnical work at the proposed site of the first [[Project Kallpa]] reactor near [[Amapola]], [[Alduria]], during the {{AN|1759}} licensing phase.''
|bullet1=AlduATOM and the National Nuclear Laboratory Filed to Build the First Reactor in Alduria
|bullet2=The First-Unit Cost Estimate Has Risen Above the Figure Set at Launch
|bullet3=First Power Slipped About a Year Behind Schedule
|bullet4=The Compact Reactor Would Run on Domestic Uranium Rather Than Alexandrium
|bullet5=Vice-President Fred Strong Wants Ground Benchmarks Met Before Any Wider Commitment
|bullet6=Three Opposition Parties Seized on the Higher Bill and the Delay
|location=[[Amapola]], Alduria
|body=The [[National Nuclear Laboratory]] and [[AlduATOM]] applied on 9.IV.{{AN|1759}} for a license to build the first reactor of [[Project Kallpa]], the Federation's nuclear diversification program, and disclosed in the same filing that the first unit's cost estimate had risen roughly a third and its schedule had slipped about a year.

Lodged with the [[Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission]], the application covers a small modular reactor of up to eighty-five megawatts, the top of AlduATOM's SMR-10 line, to be built near the company's works at [[Amapola]] in [[Alduria]]. It opens the construction phase of Project Kallpa, the program launched in {{AN|1758}} to expand the Federation's civil nuclear capability on domestic uranium and thorium rather than on [[Alexandrium]], the commodity whose price collapse drove the [[Recession of 1757]].

At about NAX€850 million, against roughly NAX€650 million when the program set out, the first unit's estimate had risen by nearly a third, and the filing pushed the target for first power back a year. The revision is the program's first admitted setback, and it lands on the nuclear pillar of the diversification agenda the governing [[Federal Humanist Party]] has run on, five months before the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|general election of 1759]].

''"A first reactor of its kind costs what it costs, and we are putting the real number on the table before anyone has to ask for it,"'' said Dr. Wayra Ticona, the National Nuclear Laboratory's director for Project Kallpa. ''"The estimate moved because the design is real enough to price. Our policy is to claim no capability ahead of a milestone we can document, and that includes the bill."''

The program had warned from the start that a first-of-a-kind reactor carries the risk of cost overrun and delay that has attended the industry since its beginning. AlduATOM's own history includes a prototype accident in {{AN|1688}} that suspended its work for two years, and a first reactor line whose commercialization slipped from {{AN|1689}} to {{AN|1693}} on rising costs and stringent safety demands. A second constraint is fuel: the high-assay low-enriched uranium the compact reactors need comes from a single enrichment plant brought into service at [[Rimarima]] in {{AN|1738}}, and expanding that supply takes years.

As a civil project, the reactor draws no defense money. Its funding runs through the National Nuclear Laboratory's strategic-research grants, the budget of the [[Department of Energy and Environment (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Energy and Environment]], and the advanced-sciences strand of the [[Aldurian Economic Diversification and Recovery Act, 1755]], the same strand that funds the diamond-semiconductor program [[Foundation 1768]]. The arrangement follows the precedent of the [[Frontera Program]] of {{AN|1738}}, which a generation earlier directed a large federal appropriation into the sciences, nuclear research among them. AlduATOM builds and operates the reactor as the commercial prime; the National Nuclear Laboratory holds the design and the fuel.

The government kept its caution in view. Vice-President and Secretary of Defense [[Fred Strong]], whose office runs the dual-use side of the diversification agenda, said the overrun was the kind of result his review posture was built to catch, and that he had required the program's separate nuclear-propulsion track to meet ground-test benchmarks before any further commitment. ''"I would rather fund a reactor that is priced honestly than a projection that is priced to please,"'' Strong said.

The opposition was harder on the program. [[Yuiza Bohi'o]] of the [[Wakara People's Party]] returned to her charge that the program would ''"never build a clinic in Boriquén,"'' saying the NAX€200 million the estimate had grown would have gone further in the outer regions than into one reactor in Alduria. Francisco Gabaza of the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] said the overrun proved his case against the borrowing behind the diversification appropriations. Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves of the [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Democratic Socialist Party]] pointed to the reliance on a single contractor, and asked who checked the price AlduATOM set.

Review of the application now rests with the Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a process the program does not expect to close quickly. Dr. Rafael Ossandón, who leads AlduATOM's small modular reactor line, said the revised figures were the ones the company would build to. ''"A reactor sited and licensed on domestic fuel is worth more to the diversification case than a lower number we could not hold,"'' he said. The filing leaves the government defending a nuclear program that will cost more and arrive later than it first said, an argument the opposition will carry into the campaign.
|tldr=The National Nuclear Laboratory and AlduATOM applied on 9.IV.{{AN|1759}} to build the first reactor of Project Kallpa, an up-to-eighty-five-megawatt small modular reactor near Amapola in Alduria, and disclosed in the same filing that the first-unit cost had risen to about NAX€850 million from roughly NAX€650 million and that first power had slipped about a year. The overrun is the nuclear diversification program's first admitted setback, five months before the general election. Vice-President Fred Strong said it was the kind of result his benchmark posture guards against, and opposition figures called it proof the agenda reaches too far; the Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission now reviews the application.
|impact_approval={{decrease}} -1
}}

===17===

{{NewsAroundNAX
|outlet1=[[The Aldurian Sun]]
|location1=Potosí, SAN
|headline1=SANTANDER'S WORKSHOPS RUN SHORT WEEKS WHILE THE RECOVERY ACT STAYS ON THE TABLE
|subheadline1_1=''The NAX€750 Billion [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758|Recovery Act]] Has Sat Before the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] Since Last Year''
|subheadline1_2=''Santander Carries the Third-Largest Population in the Federation and a Manufacturing Base Built Around [[Potosí]] and Wechuahuasi''
|subheadline1_3=''Employers Report Shortening Hours Rather Than Cutting Payrolls, Holding Skilled Hands Against a Recovery They Cannot Date''
|subheadline1_4=''The [[Recession of 1757]] Runs Into Its Third Year With the Lower [[Alexandrium]] Grades Still Slow to Clear''
|subheadline1_5=''Regional Chambers Say It Is Now the Delay, and No Longer the Downturn, That Sets the Pace of Hiring''
|outlet2=[[Nouvelle Alexandrie Public Radio]]
|location2=Hato Rey, BOR
|headline2=BORIQUÉN'S SHIPYARDS AND LABORATORIES HOLD THEIR ORDER BOOKS AS THE METALS TRADE THINS
|subheadline2_1=''Boriquén's Industry Runs on Shipbuilding, Pharmaceuticals, and Electronics Rather Than on [[Alexandrium]]''
|subheadline2_2=''Hato Rey and Its Yards Sit on [[Lake Cherusken]] and the Shipping Routes That Carry Their Output Inland''
|subheadline2_3=''Extraction of the Region's Rarer Metals Has Slowed With the Wider Fall in Mineral Prices''
|subheadline2_4=''Federal and Regional Investment Since [[Operation Purple Splendor]] Built the Industrial Base Now Carrying the Region Through''
|subheadline2_5=''Wakara Households in the Interior Say Whatever Recovery Comes Has Always Reached Them Last''
|outlet3=[[The Lyrican Herald]]
|location3=Lausanne, SLY
|headline3=IN SOUTH LYRICA THE ARGUMENT IS NOT THE CRASH ANYMORE, IT IS THE PRICE OF THE WEEK
|subheadline3_1=''Households Across [[South Lyrica]] Report a Food Basket Still Dearer Than It Was Before the [[1757 Alexandrium market crash|Crash]]''
|subheadline3_2=''Six States Run From [[Lausanne]] Out to the Islands, and the Squeeze Reads Differently in Each''
|subheadline3_3=''Rents and Housing Costs Have Not Followed Wages Back Down Since the Downturn Began''
|subheadline3_4=''Chapters of the [[Écu Mutual Aid Societies]] Say Demand Has Outrun Budgets Set Before the Recession''
|subheadline3_5=''The Federation Votes Later This Year With the Recovery Package Still Unpassed''
|outlet4=[[The Aldurian]]
|location4=Beaufort, NLY
|headline4=THE NORTH LYRICAN BACKCOUNTRY IS ARGUING OVER WHETHER A FEDERAL RESCUE IS A RESCUE AT ALL
|subheadline4_1=''[[North Lyrica]] Kept Its Frontier Temper Long After That Temper Faded Elsewhere in the Federation''
|subheadline4_2=''[[Tomás Iñiguez]], Floor Leader of the [[Civic Governance Alliance]], Is a North Lyrican Who Sits for [[Alduria]] in the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]]''
|subheadline4_3=''Timber, Small Manufacturing, and Seasonal Work Carry Much of the Region's Employment''
|subheadline4_4=''Some Councils Press for Borrowed Federal Spending, Others for Waiting the Downturn Out''
|subheadline4_5=''The Argument Turns on Public Debt, Which Stands Higher Than It Did Before the [[Recession of 1757]] Began''
|outlet5=[[Eclat Magazine]]
|location5=Chambéry, VAL
|headline5=VALENCIA KEEPS ITS THEATERS AND LECTURE HALLS OPEN ON FLAT BUDGETS AND LONG GOODWILL
|subheadline5_1=''[[Valencia]] Takes "Knowledge and Compassion" for Its Motto and Builds Much of Its Public Life Around It''
|subheadline5_2=''Regional Arts and Education Funding Has Been Held Flat Through Three Years of Downturn''
|subheadline5_3=''[[Chambéry]] Companies Report Full Houses at Lower Ticket Prices''
|subheadline5_4=''Touring Programs Now Carry as Far as Mayenne, Lesve, and New Franciscania''
|subheadline5_5=''Directors Warn That Flat Funding Against Rising Prices Is a Cut in Everything but Name''
}}
===22===
{{Main|Recession of 1757}}
{{See also|Quipu Bank|Caisse Régionale de l'Alduria}}

{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE LAST OF ALDURIA'S OLD COOPERATIVE REOPENS UNDER QUIPU'S SIGN, AND ITS MEMBERS LOSE THE BANK THEY OWNED
|image=QuipuCaisseReflagging1759NBC.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''Workers replace the final [[Caisse Régionale de l'Alduria]] branch sign with [[Quipu Bank]] branding in a working-class quarter of [[Punta Santiago]], 22.IV.{{AN|1759}}.''
|bullet1=Quipu Bank Says It Has Now Reflagged Every Former Caisse Régionale Branch
|bullet2=The Cooperative Failed in the Recession and Its Deposits Passed to Quipu in {{AN|1758}}
|bullet3=Some 640,000 Aldurian and Wechua Households Kept Their Savings But Lost Their Votes
|bullet4=Quipu's Chief Called the Handover a Rescue of Deposits the Treasury Could Not Fund
|bullet5=Former Members Say a Bank They Owned Became a Bank That Merely Holds Their Money
|bullet6=The Federal Bank Points to Insured Balances and an Orderly, If Final, Wind-Down
|location=[[Punta Santiago]], Alduria
|body=The sign came down in a working-class quarter of [[Punta Santiago]] with little ceremony, and the one that went up belonged to the second-largest bank in the Federation. With the reflagging of that last branch on 22.IV.{{AN|1759}}, [[Quipu Bank]] said it had completed the absorption of the [[Caisse Régionale de l'Alduria]], the cooperative savings bank that Aldurian and Wechua working families had owned between them since {{AN|1701}}.

The cooperative did not survive the [[Recession of 1757]]. Weighted down by property-backed lending as the downturn reached its mortgage book, the Caisse was placed under mandatory intervention in {{AN|1758}}; a rescue was ruled out against the roughly NAX€55 billion the [[1757 Alexandrium market crash|Alexandrium crash]] had already torn out of the Treasury's forecasts, and in the autumn of that year its deposits and performing loans passed to Quipu. Its mutual structure was dissolved and its cooperative shares written to nothing. What closed on 22.IV was the last mechanical step: the branches themselves, now Quipu's.

Losses in a bank resolution fall in an order the Federation has written into law. The [[Financial Concentration and Resolution Act, 1755]], passed after the {{AN|1753}} securities crisis, empowers the Federal Bank to resolve a failing institution by imposing losses on shareholders and unsecured creditors before any public money is committed, while protecting insured depositors. In a cooperative, the members are the shareholders.

For the roughly 640,000 households on the Caisse's books, the arithmetic is double-edged. Their savings were protected in full, insured and carried across without a centime lost. What they no longer have is the thing the Caisse was: a bank they owned, whose small dividends came back to depositors and whose board they helped elect.

Quipu, a member of the Federation's Big Six and an institution built partly on absorbing failed lenders in earlier crises, had led the NAX€2.4 billion private placement that restored the Caisse's capital in {{AN|1753}}, five years before the Federal Bank's search for a buyer ended with it. Quipu put the completion in the language of rescue. ''"Nobody in Punta Santiago lost a centime of savings, and that was the whole assignment,"'' said Luis Valdez, the bank's chief executive. ''"A cooperative that could not meet a stress test in a recession was not going to be saved by sentiment. It was going to be saved by a balance sheet, and we brought one."''

Former members put it in colder terms. ''"We owned a bank. Now we are customers of one,"'' said Arnaud Benoist, who ran the Caisse in its final years and who signed the transfer. ''"The money is safe. The membership is gone, and with it a way Aldurians looked after each other for generations."'' Cooperative associations in the region have asked the government whether a member-owned successor might be chartered; no answer has come, with the Treasury holding the line on new commitments through the recession.

The [[Federal Bank of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Bank]], which supervised the wind-down, has stood by it as orderly. Every insured balance was honored to the Federation's NAX€500,000 ceiling, a spokesman noted, and no depositor queue ever formed. That the outcome was orderly is not in dispute. That it was final is what Punta Santiago is sitting with.
|tldr=''[[Quipu Bank]] said on 22.IV.{{AN|1759}} that it had reflagged the last former branch of the [[Caisse Régionale de l'Alduria]], completing its absorption of the cooperative savings bank that Aldurian and Wechua families had owned since {{AN|1701}}. The Caisse failed in the [[Recession of 1757]], was placed under mandatory intervention, and had its deposits and performing loans transferred to Quipu in {{AN|1758}} after a rescue was ruled out; its mutual structure was dissolved and its shares written to zero. The roughly 640,000 member households kept their insured savings in full but lost the bank they collectively owned. Quipu's chief cast the handover as a rescue of deposits; the cooperative's last director called it the end of a way Aldurians looked after each other, and the [[Federal Bank of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Bank]] defended the wind-down as orderly.''
|impact_economy={{increase}} +1
|impact_social={{decrease}} -1
|impact_regional={{decrease}} -1
}}
[[Category:Nouvelle Alexandrie]]

===24===

==== Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month IV, 1759) ====

''Published by the Nouvelle Alexandrie Statistics Bureau.''

The recession entered its third year in the first quarter of {{AN|1759}}, and the labor market weakened further. Unemployment rose to 8.1% from 7.6%, the highest reading of the downturn, while output contracted at an annualized 5.4% and the year-on-year growth rate stood at negative 3.2%. The Alexandrium price held at NAX€1,949.96 per gram, steady near the floor it had broken to at year-end, and federal receipts from the mineral again recorded NAX€57.16 billion. The [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758|recovery package]] remained before the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] through the quarter, so the accounts carried no part of it: the quarterly deficit narrowed to 3.6% of GDP from 4.4%, and public debt stood at 62.8%. The cost-of-living index rose to 105.1 against the {{AN|1757}} base while housing affordability improved to 102.0. The quarter also incorporates the [[1758 New Alexandrian census|first census of all thirteen Regions]], which enumerated 514.8 million residents; the population series is rebased to that count here, which is why it steps to 516.3 million. One caveat applies to the headline output figure: the first quarter runs four months where the fourth quarter of {{AN|1758}} ran three, so quarterly output of NAX€12.69 trillion reads high against the prior quarter chiefly for that reason, and the annualized growth rate is the better guide to the quarter's pace.

===== Headline panel =====

{| class="wikitable"
! Indicator !! Current !! Change !! Note
|-
| Real GDP (quarter) || NAX€12.69 trillion || {{increase}} NAX€3.07 trillion || the quarter's output
|-
| Real GDP (trailing 4Q, annual) || NAX€48.31 trillion || {{decrease}} NAX€415.67 billion || sum of the last four quarters
|-
| Real GDP growth (QoQ, annualized) || -5.4% || || quarter on quarter
|-
| Real GDP growth (YoY) || -3.2% || || year on year
|-
| Nominal GDP (annual) || NAX€49.95 trillion || {{decrease}} NAX€194.49 billion || real times the deflator
|-
| GDP per capita (nominal) || NAX€96,733 || {{decrease}} NAX€795 || the very-rich headline
|-
| Inflation (CPI, YoY) || 1.8% || {{decrease}} 0.1% ||
|-
| Cost-of-Living Index || 105.1 || {{increase}} 0.4 || 100 = {{AN|1757}} base
|-
| Unemployment rate || 8.1% || {{increase}} 0.5% ||
|-
| Budget balance (quarter, % GDP) || -3.6% || {{increase}} 0.7% || deficit if negative
|-
| Public debt (% GDP) || 62.8% || {{increase}} 1.2% || debt/GDP guardrail
|-
| Trade balance (quarter, % GDP) || 3.5% || {{decrease}} 0.2% ||
|-
| Alexandrium price (NAX€/g) || 1,949.96 || {{steady}} || volatility driver
|-
| Alexandrium federal revenue (quarter) || NAX€57.16 billion || {{steady}} || feeds the 12% mandate
|-
| Gini coefficient || 0.380 || {{steady}} || distribution headline
|-
| Urban-rural income gap || 1.80 || {{steady}} || income ratio
|-
| Housing Affordability Index || 102.0 || {{increase}} 0.7 || price/rent vs income
|-
| Consumer Confidence Index || 71.2 || {{increase}} 0.8 || 100 = neutral
|}



===== Detailed appendix =====

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Macro detail
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Real GDP (quarter) || NAX€12.69 trillion
|-
| Nominal GDP (quarter) || NAX€13.20 trillion
|-
| GDP deflator || 104.0
|-
| Real GDP (trailing 4Q) || NAX€48.31 trillion
|-
| Nominal GDP (trailing 4Q) || NAX€49.95 trillion
|-
| Real growth (QoQ ann.) || -5.4%
|-
| Real growth (YoY) || -3.2%
|-
| Cost-of-Living Index || 105.1
|-
| House Price Index || 97.2
|-
| Housing Affordability Index || 102.0
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Labor
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Population || 516,336,966
|-
| Working-age population || 339,424,699
|-
| Labor force || 213,428,997
|-
| Employed || 196,041,366
|-
| Participation rate || 62.9%
|-
| Unemployment rate || 8.1%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Fiscal and debt
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Revenue (quarter) || NAX€5.00 trillion
|-
| Expenditure (quarter) || NAX€5.25 trillion
|-
| Primary balance (quarter) || NAX€-247.96 billion
|-
| Interest (quarter) || NAX€229.21 billion
|-
| Budget balance (quarter) || NAX€-477.16 billion
|-
| Public debt || NAX€31.38 trillion
|-
| Public debt (% GDP) || 62.8%
|-
| Interest burden (% revenue) || 4.6%
|-
| Reserve fund || NAX€1.78 trillion
|-
| Reserve draw (quarter) || NAX€0.00 billion
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ External
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Exports (quarter) || NAX€3.39 trillion
|-
| Imports (quarter) || NAX€2.93 trillion
|-
| Trade balance (quarter) || NAX€460.52 billion
|-
| Trade balance (% GDP) || 3.5%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Strategic resources (Alexandrium)
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Price (NAX€/g) || 1,949.96
|-
| Gross value (quarter) || NAX€228.63 billion
|-
| Export value (quarter) || NAX€160.04 billion
|-
| Federal revenue (quarter) || NAX€57.16 billion
|-
| Revenue baseline (quarter) || NAX€85.01 billion
|-
| Revenue shortfall (quarter) || NAX€27.85 billion
|-
| UARA volume levy (quarter) || NAX€7.62 billion
|-
| Ad-valorem take (quarter) || NAX€49.54 billion
|-
| Diversification earmark (12%) || NAX€6.86 billion
|-
| Resource-sector share of GDP || 1.9%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Sectoral output (shares sum to 100%)
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Agriculture || 6.0%
|-
| Industry || 30.1%
|-
| Services || 63.9%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Inequality
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Gini coefficient || 0.380
|-
| Urban-rural income gap || 1.80
|}

''Outlook (forecast):'' real GDP growth is projected near -4.0% (annualized) next quarter, with unemployment near 8.6%. These are model projections, superseded by next quarter's actuals.

==V (Sementis)==
===2===
{{Main|Recession of 1757|Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE ASSEMBLY CARRIES THE NAX€750 BILLION RECOVERY ACT 731 TO 18 AS THE OPPOSITION VOTES YES AND CALLS IT LATE
|image=NBC1759RecoveryActVote.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''NBC News Data Desk graphic showing the 731–18 Federal Assembly vote on the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]] and the composition of its NAX€750 billion recovery package, 1.V.{{AN|1759}}.''
|bullet1=The Recovery Package Commits NAX€750 Billion Against the Recession
|bullet2=Six Hundred Billion of That Is Borrowed and Appropriated, the Rest Guarantees and Deferrals
|bullet3=Every Governing Deputy and Most of the Opposition Carried the Bill
|bullet4=Even the Leader of the Opposition Backed It While Calling It Eight Months Late
|bullet5=The Opposition Leader Said Unemployment Near Nine Percent Was Arrived At, Not Held Down
|bullet6=King Sinchi Roca II Granted Royal Assent the Day After the Division
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] passed the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]] on 1.V.{{AN|1759}} by 731 votes to 18, with no abstentions, sending the Federation's NAX€750 billion recovery package to the [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]], which concurred without a division the same day. King [[Sinchi Roca II]] granted Royal Assent on 2.V.{{AN|1759}}, and the Act came into force that day.<ref name="division">Federal Assembly division on the Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758, 1.V.{{AN|1759}}, ''Cortes Federales''.</ref>

It is the second and larger of the two federal answers to the [[Recession of 1757]], the downturn that began with the collapse of the [[Alexandrium]] export price at the close of {{AN|1757}} and deepened through the final quarter of {{AN|1758}}. It reopens the enacted [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758]] with NAX€600 billion of borrowed spending and a further NAX€150 billion in credit guarantees and tax deferrals that call on the Treasury only if they are drawn. Its emergency authorities expire at the close of {{AN|1759}}, the year the Federation next goes to the polls.

Passage was never in doubt once the [[Federal Humanist Party]] government and the opposition benches signaled they would vote it through. The governing party carried its 372 deputies unanimously; the [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Democratic Socialist Party]] supported it 188 to 8 and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] 111 to 8, with the smaller parties almost solid behind it. The 18 votes against came from a handful of [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]] deputies, a group of Federal Consensus fiscal hawks, and two independents.

Treasury Secretary [[Warren Ferdinand]] introduced the measure for the [[Council of State (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Council of State]] under a single slogan, work, home, and family. The Act tops up the wages of workers whose hours are cut so that firms shorten hours rather than dismiss, turns the idle hours to retraining, funds a [[National Homebuilding Drive]] toward half a million homes, and adds a marriage grant and a family-allowance uplift; the producing Regions get recovery pacts, credit guarantees channeled through their chambers, and a strategic floor under the Alexandrium price. ''"Six hundred billion of that is direct spending, borrowed and appropriated, and I will not pretend otherwise to this House,"'' Ferdinand said, pressing the case that the borrowing was bounded by a debt-brake at 65 percent of output and a sunset at the end of {{AN|1759}}. ''"This is a rescue, not a habit."'' Every écu paid to a Region, he said, would be reported to the House each quarter: ''"Members who want to know where the money went will not have to ask."''<ref name="debate">Federal Assembly debate on the Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758, ''Cortes Federales''.</ref>

Opposition support came with an indictment attached. [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], the Leader of the Opposition and head of the AJNA alliance, opened by promising the government its majority and then spending his speech attacking the bill that majority would pass. ''"The Opposition will vote for this Act,"'' he said. ''"Workers need this money. We will not play games with their livelihoods to make a point about the men who took eight months to find it."'' The Alexandrium price had collapsed a year earlier, he said, and the government had answered quarter after quarter with the budget it had already passed until the figures became impossible to survive. Six hundred billion écu, in his telling, was ''"an admission that everything before it fell short."''<ref name="debate" />

Gonçalves pressed hardest on the numbers the government offered as success and on the date the powers end. Unemployment near nine percent, he said, was ''"not held down, arrived at,"'' and a Homebuilding Drive that had laid no foundation was a promise, not a home. He said the emergency authorities would sunset at the close of {{AN|1759}}, the year of the general election, and called that ''"a rescue that expires the moment the election is over."'' He closed on a line for the campaign: ''"Half a rescue late is better than no rescue at all. But the government should not confuse our votes with our approval. We will remember who was slow."''<ref name="debate" />

One opposition leader was not heard from at all. [[Francisco Gabaza]], who leads the Federal Consensus Party, did not take the floor during the debate, and his party's 111 votes for the Act were cast without a word from its leader in the chamber. The fiscal case Gabaza did not make fell instead to the party's Finance Chairman, [[Godfredo Domínguez]], who spoke for the fiscal-hawk wing behind most of the FCP's eight votes against. ''"A party whose first commitment is fiscal responsibility cannot wave through six hundred billion écu of borrowing and say nothing,"'' Domínguez said, pointing to a debt path climbing toward the Act's own 65-percent ceiling; the failure, he said, was the leadership's silence, not the vote. Other Federal Consensus deputies, speaking privately, were blunter about Gabaza himself, saying they were disappointed he had left the party's case to others at such a moment; his silence, they said, has sharpened questions about his hold on the party and his standing with the public as the campaign opens.

The result leaves the government with its recovery authority and the opposition with its argument. The Federal Humanist Party heads into the {{AN|1759}} campaign able to say it moved NAX€750 billion through the House with support from every major party; its opponents will say it moved late, and that the powers it won expire the moment the votes are counted. Whether NAX€600 billion, borrowed and time-limited, was enough to answer a downturn that outran the earlier budget's assumptions is the question the campaign now inherits, and the first quarterly disbursement report will be its first test.
|tldr=The Federal Assembly passed the Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758 on 1.V.{{AN|1759}} by 731 votes to 18, and King Sinchi Roca II granted Royal Assent the next day, putting the Federation's NAX€750 billion recovery package into law. Treasury Secretary Warren Ferdinand presented it as a bounded rescue of work, home, and family, borrowed under a debt-brake and expiring at the end of {{AN|1759}}. The opposition voted for the Act while condemning it: Leader of the Opposition Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves called it eight months late, an admission that the earlier budget had fallen short, and a rescue timed to expire the moment the election is over.
|impact_economy={{increase}} +1
|impact_approval={{increase}} +1
|impact_stability={{increase}} +1
}}

===16===
{{Main|Civic Governance Alliance}}
====THE PARTY OF CLEAN HANDS MAKES ITS CASE IN AN ELECTION ABOUT THE PRICE OF BREAD====

{{NAXBroadsheet
|newspaper=THE CÁRDENAS PRESS
|edition=MORNING EDITION
|motto=The Federation's Daily Record
|price=NAX€1.00
|location_line=CÁRDENAS, FEDERATION OF NOUVELLE ALEXANDRIE
|date=16.V.{{AN|1759}}
|volume=Vol. XCI
|issue=No. 112
|headline=THE PARTY OF CLEAN HANDS MAKES ITS CASE IN AN ELECTION ABOUT THE PRICE OF BREAD
|subheadline=Born of the Pact of Shadows and owner of the integrity issue, the Civic Governance Alliance opens its {{AN|1759}} argument just as the recovery crowds every other question aside
|byline=MARISOL AUBERT, Political Correspondent
|byline_prefix=By
|dateline=CÁRDENAS
|lead=For nine years the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] has played watchdog in the [[Cortes Federales|Federal Assembly]], four of them from inside a coalition that kept the party's own bill off the floor and the last five from opposition. It is now a bloc of ten deputies that turns up when public money goes missing and asks, quietly and repeatedly, who signed for it. In an election year that has turned on the price of food and the weight of a NAX€750 billion recovery, the Alliance is betting the Federation still cares about clean government, even if it has stopped hearing much about it.
|body=With the general election set for 15-17.IX.{{AN|1759}}, the Alliance has begun laying out the case it means to carry to the ballot: that a recovery now moving NAX€750 billion through the Federation's accounts makes the transparency of political money only more pressing. It is an argument the party has made since the day it was founded, and it has rarely been harder to be heard.

In the chamber that work falls to [[Tomás Iñiguez]], the Alliance's floor leader in the 13th [[Cortes Federales]], a North Lyrican who sits for [[Alduria]] and carries the bloc on behalf of its coordinator, [[Elena Svensson]]. Iñiguez has built his standing on fine print. He won the grid-costing and tranche-by-tranche review written into the [[Cascade Reactor Deployment Act, 1757]]. A year later he wrote independent audits, published costings and separate votes on each disbursement into the opposition's [[National Resilience Fund Act, 1758|Fund bill]]. The bill was set aside without a division, but the government carried those safeguards into its [[National Resilience Fund Establishment Act, 1758|Establishment Act]], which the CGA still opposed over its cap. He wants the same discipline turned on the money behind the parties.

''"Every écu the Federation borrows to answer this recession is a reason to know who funds the people spending it,"'' Iñiguez said, ''"not a reason to look away."''

The Alliance's own remedy has been on the order paper, in one form or another, since the month the party was born. The [[Clean Government Act, 1750]], introduced by Svensson with all sixteen founding deputies as co-sponsors, would stand up an independent Federal Anti-Corruption Commission and write broad disclosure rules into federal law; it never reached a vote. Its successor, the [[Clean Government and Political Reform Act, 1754]], did reach the floor, and the Assembly defeated it. Svensson has pressed the argument since.

The Federation does police the money in its elections. The [[Federal Campaign Finance Act, 1686|Federal Campaign Finance Act]] of {{AN|1686}} built the [[Federal Elections Commission (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Federal Elections Commission]] and a public register of what donors give; the Campaign Finance Transparency Act of {{AN|1741}} later added rapid disclosure of large gifts and an Office of Political Finance Oversight to chase the breaches. What the Alliance points to is the gap those rules leave. The political action committees that have multiplied around the parties remain, in the law's own words, largely unregulated, and the machinery tightens at election time and loosens in between.

The contrast the party keeps pressing is the recovery act itself. When Treasury Secretary [[Warren Ferdinand]] carried the NAX€750 billion package through the Assembly, he built into it a quarterly public accounting, every disbursement set out Region by Region, with members who wanted to know where the money went, he told the House, spared the trouble of asking. The Federation, the Alliance argues, now demands more of the money it spends than of the money that funds the parties spending it.

Whether any of it lands is another question. The campaign so far has belonged to the cost of living, the recovery and housing, and the larger parties have met the Alliance's theme with a shrug and a turn back to the economy. Analysts who follow the Federation's small parties note that integrity tends to spike after a scandal and fade between them, and that the year has handed voters more immediate arithmetic than the provenance of a donation.

Its strongest card is its leader. Svensson, the most favorably rated party chief in the year's opening IOP/NBC poll, is better known and better liked than her ten-seat bloc is large. The party is betting that a close race leaves room for the group most identified with the one subject no larger party wants to own.

The government and the two biggest parties have been content to let the theme sit. Ministers point to the recovery act's own reporting rules as proof the books are already open; strategists in the larger parties, with the comfort of a lead, treat party finance as a boutique worry beside jobs and prices. The Alliance's answer reaches back to the scandals that made it. The party was founded in the wake of the [[Pact of Shadows scandal|Pact of Shadows]], which caught opposition leaders trading government posts for immunity, and the fraud case that ended with a former [[Federal Consensus Party]] leader, [[Diane Lockhart]], convicted on every count of looting the [[Digital Rights Foundation of Nouvelle Alexandrie]] and sent to prison. Sixteen deputies left their old parties over it and built the Alliance on one promise, that the next abuse of public trust would meet a rule already written. Those reforms, the party says, were never finished.

That has always been the wager: that clean government is a standing issue, not a fair-weather one, worth a vote even in a year with louder things to shout about. On 15.IX.{{AN|1759}} the Federation will set its price.
|continued=A4
|rights_text=All Rights Reserved.
|year={{AN|1759}}
|tldr=A campaign-positioning feature: the Civic Governance Alliance opens its {{AN|1759}} argument on party finance and clean government, its founding cause since the Pact of Shadows scandal, arguing the NAX€750bn recovery makes transparency of political money more pressing. Floor leader Tomás Iñiguez presses the case in the chamber; coordinator Elena Svensson is the most-liked party leader in the year's first poll. Framed by the party's stalled {{AN|1750}} Clean Government Act, the defeated {{AN|1754}} successor bill, and the existing campaign-finance regime (Acts of {{AN|1686}} and {{AN|1741}}, FEC). The theme is being crowded by the cost of living and the recovery. Result-free; no vote or division depicted.
|impact_stability={{steady}}
}}

===24===
{{See also|Flaming Rock of Rimarima|Faith of Inti}}

{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} IN A HARD YEAR, MORE PILGRIMS THAN USUAL ARE WALKING THE LAST MILES TO THE FLAMING ROCK
|image=RimarimaPilgrimage1759NBC.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''Pilgrims walk the traditional final approach to the [[Flaming Rock of Rimarima|Flaming Rock]], Nina Qaqa, during the {{AN|1759}} Nina Raymi rites.''
|bullet1=The High Temple Reports Its Busiest Pilgrimage Season at the Rock in Years
|bullet2=The Nina Raymi Fire Rites Drew Crowds Up the Spur of Mount Lacara
|bullet3=Pilgrims Cover the Final Three Kilometers to the Vents on Foot
|bullet4=Temple Stewards Say Many Arrive With Little to Spend and Ask for Less
|bullet5=Clergy Read the Recession in the Size of the Crowds, Not Only Their Devotion
|location=[[Rimarima]], Wechua Nation
|body=The last stretch to the flame is walked, always has been, and this year the road was fuller than the stewards had seen it in some time. Through the [[Faith of Inti|Nina Raymi]] fire rites around 24.V.{{AN|1759}}, pilgrims climbed the spur of [[Mount Lacara]] to the [[Flaming Rock of Rimarima]], the outcrop of burning gas that the Faith of Inti holds to be a gateway of the sun's own breath, and the [[High Temple of Rimarima]] recorded its heaviest season at the site in years.

The Rock, known in Wechua as ''Nina Qaqa'', has drawn the faithful for centuries. Dozens of natural vents burn without cease on a shoulder of the range some 12 kilometers from the city of [[Rimarima]], and by long custom the final three kilometers are covered on foot, the walk itself counted as an offering. On the festival's mornings the vents were ringed before dawn.

What the temple's stewards noticed this year was less the devotion, which does not change, than the arithmetic of the crowd. ''"We always have pilgrims. This year we have more of them, and they carry less,"'' said one steward of the High Temple, who has counted arrivals at the lower gate for a decade. Offerings were smaller and lodging thinner; many walkers slept along the approach rather than in the town.

The temple's clergy would not put a single cause to the crowds. The Federation has spent two years in the shadow of the [[Recession of 1757]], though, and a hard year has a way of turning feet toward old places. ''"People come to the breath of [[Inti]] in good seasons to give thanks and in poor ones to ask for steadiness,"'' said a senior priest at the site. ''"The Rock does not ask which kind of year brought you. It only asks that you walk the last part yourself."''

By the close of the rites the fires were doing what they have done for as long as anyone at the temple can account for: burning through the night on the mountain, tended by no one, while the road below emptied and the pilgrims turned for home.
|tldr=''The [[Flaming Rock of Rimarima]], ''Nina Qaqa'', an outcrop of ever-burning natural gas that the [[Faith of Inti]] holds to be a gateway of the sun's breath, drew its heaviest pilgrimage season in years around the Nina Raymi fire rites of 24.V.{{AN|1759}}, the [[High Temple of Rimarima]] reported. Pilgrims climbed the spur of [[Mount Lacara]] and covered the last three kilometers on foot by long custom, but temple stewards said many arrived with little to spend, and clergy read the size of the crowds against the [[Recession of 1757]] as much as against devotion.''
|impact_culture={{increase}} +1
|impact_social={{increase}} +1
}}
[[Category:Nouvelle Alexandrie]]

==VI (Marittima)==
===8===

{{NewsAroundNAX
|outlet1=[[The Federal Gazette]]
|location1=Ravaillac, NCA
|headline1=THE FIRST RECOVERY TRANCHE MOVES AS DEPARTMENTS PUBLISH THEIR DISBURSEMENT SCHEDULES
|subheadline1_1=''The [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758|Recovery Act]] Was Carried in the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] on the First of Month V and Received Royal Assent the Following Day''
|subheadline1_2=''NAX€600 Billion Is Borrowed and Appropriated, With a Further NAX€150 Billion in Guarantees and Deferrals''
|subheadline1_3=''Disbursement Runs Across the Remainder of the Year Rather Than in a Single Payment''
|subheadline1_4=''The Guarantees Call on the Treasury Only if They Are Drawn''
|subheadline1_5=''Administrations From [[Ravaillac]] to [[St. Melusine]], Seat of the [[Matriarch of New Zalae]], Are Publishing Their Own Allocation Schedules''
|outlet2=[[Science et Découverte]]
|location2=Nuevo Corcovado, IDL
|headline2=THE ISLAND FISHERIES OF THE LIBERTAD HOLD THE FEDERATION'S LONGEST RECORD OF ITS OWN WATERS
|subheadline2_1=''Six Island States Make Up the [[Islas de la Libertad]], From [[Nuevo Corcovado]] Out to Dorado''
|subheadline2_2=''Fishing and the Sea Carry Islands That Have No Large Interior to Fall Back On''
|subheadline2_3=''Island Landing Records Reach Back Further Than the Federation's Own Survey Series''
|subheadline2_4=''Researchers Say Small and Settled Island Populations Make the Long Record Unusually Clean''
|subheadline2_5=''The Survey's Funding Comes Up for Review With the Rest of the Science Budget''
|outlet3=[[The Voice of the Wide Spaces]]
|location3=Les Guilleux, ALD
|headline3=ON THE EDGE OF THE DESERT, THE RADIO IS STILL THE ONLY THING THAT REACHES EVERY HOLDING
|subheadline3_1=''The Station Broadcasts From Les Guilleux, in the Biscarrosse State of [[Alduria]], With Its Transmitter Out in the Middle of the Desert''
|subheadline3_2=''The Station Answers to Its Matriarch of the Voice, Sujari, Daughter of Pirti''
|subheadline3_3=''Holdings Past the Last Exchange Depend on the Signal for Weather, Prices, and Word of the Roads''
|subheadline3_4=''Recovery Spending Has Been Directed Chiefly at Cities and the Corridors Between Them''
|subheadline3_5=''Listeners Are Asking Whether the Backcountry Will See Any of It at All''
|outlet4=[[The Parap National Journal]]
|location4=Rimarima, WEC
|headline4=WECHUA COOPERATIVES ARE ALREADY WORKING THE SOIL THE FOOD BILL WAS WRITTEN TO SAVE
|subheadline4_1=''The [[Soil Stewardship and Food Abundance Act, 1759|Soil Stewardship and Food Abundance Bill]] Is Before the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]], Introduced by the [[Council of State (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Council of State]] in Month II''
|subheadline4_2=''The Bill Would Stand Up a National Soil Service and a Set of Regional Soil and Food Hubs''
|subheadline4_3=''Officers of the [[Cooperativa Agrícola del Keltia]] Say Those Hubs Would Formalize Work They Already Pay For Themselves''
|subheadline4_4=''Cooperatives Around [[Rimarima]] Are Running Rotation and Cover-Crop Schemes on Their Own Account''
|subheadline4_5=''The Same Valleys Feed the Pilgrim Season at the [[Flaming Rock of Rimarima|Flaming Rock]], Which Draws More Than Three Hundred Thousand Visitors a Year''
|outlet5=[[Vanie Herald]]
|location5=Vanie, OPO
|headline5=OPORTIA'S IRRIGATED VALLEYS ARE THE TEST OF WHETHER RECOVERY MONEY TRAVELS INLAND
|subheadline5_1=''[[Oportia]] Was Admitted as the Thirteenth Region in {{AN|1755}} Following the [[Oportian integration referendum, 1755|Integration Referendum]]''
|subheadline5_2=''Irrigated Corridors Along the [[Erik River]], the [[Rio Bravo]], and the [[Rio Douro]] Carry Most of the Region's Farming''
|subheadline5_3=''Beyond the Reach of Those Waters the Interior Is Desert and Semi-Arid Plain''
|subheadline5_4=''The Regional Economy Still Leans on Raw Materials While Manufacturing and Services Widen Slowly''
|subheadline5_5=''[[Vanie]] Officials Say the Real Test of the Recovery Is Whether It Reaches Past the Coast''
}}

===13===
{{Main|Recession of 1757}}
{{See also|Écu Mutual Aid Societies|Ayni}}

{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} A NETWORK OF NEIGHBORHOOD MUTUALS IS GROWING FASTEST WHERE THE RECESSION BITES HARDEST
|image=EcuMutualAidBoilerRepair1759NBC.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''Members of a neighborhood [[Écu Mutual Aid Societies|mutual]] oversee emergency repairs to a failed tenement boiler in [[Punta Santiago]], spring {{AN|1759}}.''
|bullet1=The Écu Mutual Aid Societies Report a Sharp Rise in New Members This Year
|bullet2=Emergency Small Loans and Burial Funds Are Doing the Heaviest Work
|bullet3=The Network Was Founded in Punta Santiago During the Écu Transition of {{AN|1687}}
|bullet4=Members Root the Model in the Wechua Duty of Reciprocal Help, Ayni
|bullet5=Critics Warn a Mutual Sector This Large Is a Symptom of Retreating Public Support
|location=[[Punta Santiago]], Alduria
|body=When a boiler failed in a tenement in [[Punta Santiago]] this spring and the landlord would not move, the tenants did not go to a bank. They went to their chapter of the [[Écu Mutual Aid Societies]], borrowed against the pooled subscriptions of a few hundred neighbors, and had the heat back on in a week. Multiplied across the Federation, that small transaction is why the seventy-two-year-old network says it is having its busiest year in a generation.

The societies are neither new nor small. Founded in {{AN|1687}} in Punta Santiago in the turbulence of the écu's introduction, the network now runs thousands of neighborhood chapters that take small regular subscriptions and lend them back out as emergency loans, mutual insurance and burial funds, backed by regional reserves the chapters hold in common. In an ordinary year it is quiet infrastructure. This has not been an ordinary year.

Officials of the federation of chapters say enrollment and emergency lending have both climbed most steeply in the regions the [[Recession of 1757]] hit hardest, [[Alduria]] and the industrial south among them. ''"People join a mutual when the ordinary supports thin out,"'' said a coordinator for the network's southern chapters. ''"A society cannot lend what a member does not put in, so what you are seeing is neighbors deciding to carry each other before anyone decides it for them."''

The model has a name older than the network. Organizers trace it to ''[[Ayni]]'', the Wechua obligation of reciprocal help, in which aid given is aid owed back, and they are candid that a mutual works only while its members keep faith with the arithmetic. The first society was a rotating credit fund in the Punta Santiago neighborhood of La Concordia, opened on 15.VII.{{AN|1687}} by an Alexandrian shopkeeper, a Martino carpenter and a Wechua textile merchant, on an initial fund of twelve thousand écus. In its first year it made zero-interest loans to forty-seven families. The rise comes in the same stretch of the year that the region's oldest cooperative bank, the [[Caisse Régionale de l'Alduria]], finished passing into commercial hands, and members draw the contrast themselves.

The growth does not read as good news to everyone. Some economists warn that a swelling mutual sector is a symptom, not a remedy, and that neighbors covering one another's boilers is what a recovery is supposed to make unnecessary. ''"Mutual aid is dignity, and it is also a measure of how far the state has stepped back,"'' said one analyst of the Federation's social economy. ''"A network this old should not have to grow this fast."'' The societies, for their part, said their job was to be there either way, and that they had been there since {{AN|1687}}.
|tldr=''The [[Écu Mutual Aid Societies]], a network of neighborhood cooperative mutuals founded in [[Punta Santiago]] during the écu transition of {{AN|1687}}, reported its busiest year in a generation in the first half of {{AN|1759}}, with new membership and emergency lending rising most steeply in the regions worst hit by the [[Recession of 1757]]. Organizers root the model in the Wechua duty of reciprocal help, ''[[Ayni]]'', and members drew a contrast with the recent passing of the cooperative [[Caisse Régionale de l'Alduria]] into commercial hands. Critics warned that a fast-growing mutual sector is a measure of how far ordinary supports have thinned, not a substitute for them.''
|impact_economy={{increase}} +1
|impact_social={{increase}} +1
}}
[[Category:Nouvelle Alexandrie]]

===20===
{{Main|Project Kallpa}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE FEDERAL NUCLEAR REGULATOR CLEARS PROJECT KALLPA'S FIRST REACTOR FOR CONSTRUCTION UNDER BINDING LOW-ENRICHMENT CONDITIONS
|image=ProjectKallpaAmapolaSurvey1759NBC.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''The proposed site of the first [[Project Kallpa]] reactor near [[Amapola]], shown during preconstruction geotechnical work in IV.{{AN|1759}}; federal regulators cleared construction on 20.VI.{{AN|1759}} under binding low-enrichment and inspection conditions.''
|bullet1=Federal Regulators Approved Construction With Binding Conditions Attached
|bullet2=Fuel Is Capped at the Civil Low-Enrichment Threshold the Federation Observes as a Disarmed State
|bullet3=Outside Inspectors From the Micras Disarmament Commission Keep Their Standing to Enter Every Site
|bullet4=Operating Power Waits on Pre-Startup Inspections the Commission Must Sign Off Before Fuel Is Loaded
|bullet5=The Compact Reactor Runs on Domestic Uranium, Not the Alexandrium Whose Crash Began the Recession
|bullet6=The Opposition Called the Approval a Costly Bet in the Middle of an Election Year
|location=[[Amapola]], Alduria
|body=The [[Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission]] granted a conditional construction license on 20.VI.{{AN|1759}} for the first reactor of [[Project Kallpa]], letting the Federation's nuclear diversification program break ground at [[Amapola]] while binding the plant to the low-enrichment limits and outside inspection the Federation accepts as a disarmed state.<ref name="fnrc-grant">Licensing decision of the [[Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission]] on the first Project Kallpa reactor, 20.VI.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The decision closes the review the [[National Nuclear Laboratory]] and [[AlduATOM]] opened on 9.IV.{{AN|1759}}, when the two partners applied to build a small modular reactor of up to eighty-five megawatts, the top of AlduATOM's SMR-10 line, near the company's works in [[Alduria]]. It is the first construction license the Commission has issued under the program, and it authorizes construction only; the Commission held back the authority to load fuel and run the reactor, which the license makes conditional on a separate round of pre-startup inspections once the plant is built. The Commission set the build to proceed in stages, each phase gated on a hold point its inspectors must clear, a discipline that echoes the tranche-by-tranche review the Assembly had written into the [[Cascade Reactor Deployment Act, 1757]]. ''"We are licensing a building site, not a running reactor,"'' said Dr. Théodore Salcedo, the Commission's chair. ''"The second license is the one that matters, and it is not written yet."''

The conditions are written around the Federation's disarmament commitments as much as around the reactor. Nouvelle Alexandrie declared 291 warheads when it ratified the [[Dorado Convention]] in {{AN|1734}}, the third-largest arsenal disclosed under the treaty, and completed the elimination of [[Nuclear weapons in Nouvelle Alexandrie|that arsenal]] in {{AN|1744}}. The Commission capped the plant's fuel at the civil low-enrichment threshold the Federation observes as a non-nuclear-weapon state, and preserved the standing of the [[Micras Disarmament Commission]], seated at [[Dorado]], to inspect the site; its Inspector-General, [[Céleste de Montluc]] of [[Oportia]], holds the office that would run those inspections. ''"A license is not a blank check, and this one reads like a leash,"'' said Dr. Wayra Ticona, the National Nuclear Laboratory's director for Project Kallpa. ''"We asked to build on domestic fuel inside the limits the Federation keeps, and the conditions are the price of that answer. We accept them."''

For the program the grant is the first firm step of the construction phase it has argued for since {{AN|1758}}, when Project Kallpa was launched to expand the Federation's civil nuclear capability on domestic uranium and thorium rather than on [[Alexandrium]], the commodity whose price collapse drove the [[Recession of 1757]]. It is one of three second-term technology pillars the governing [[Federal Humanist Party]] has run on, beside the physics program [[Projet Horizon]] and the diamond-semiconductor program [[Foundation 1768]], all funded to carry the Federation off the resource sector. Where AlduATOM's NexGen line runs on Alexandrium, the Kallpa unit runs on the high-assay low-enriched uranium the [[Rimarima]] Nuclear Facility has fabricated since {{AN|1738}}, drawn from a single enrichment plant whose output the program cannot expand quickly. The license lets the partners pour the first concrete on a design the filing had priced at about NAX€850 million, up roughly a third from the figure set at launch.

As a civil project the reactor draws no defense money. Its funding runs through the National Nuclear Laboratory's strategic-research grants and the advanced-sciences strand of the [[Aldurian Economic Diversification and Recovery Act, 1755]], following the precedent of the [[Frontera Program]] of {{AN|1738}}, which a generation earlier directed a large federal appropriation into nuclear and physics research. Part of that money comes from the [[Alexandrium]] economy itself: the statutory twelve-percent mandate the [[Unified Alexandrium Resource Authority]] administers routes a fixed share of Alexandrium revenues into the Federation's diversification programs. The commodity whose crash began the recession helps to pay for the reactor built to reduce the Federation's dependence on it.

The reactor's licensing sat with the independent Commission rather than with the government. Vice-President and Secretary of Defense [[Fred Strong]], whose office runs the dual-use side of the diversification agenda and who had pressed the program's separate nuclear-propulsion track to meet ground-test benchmarks, welcomed the conditions as the discipline he had asked for. ''"An independent regulator that says yes with a list attached is worth more than a ministry that says yes to please,"'' Strong said.

The opposition read the same decision as a bill the Federation was choosing to run up. [[Yuiza Bohi'o]] of the [[Wakara People's Party]] returned to her charge that the program would ''"never build a clinic in Boriquén,"'' saying a license to spend NAX€850 million on one reactor in Alduria settled nothing for the outer regions. Francisco Gabaza of the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] said an approval did not lower the cost the program had already conceded, and that the borrowing behind the diversification appropriations remained his objection whatever the regulator decided.

Dr. Sophie Marchand, a nuclear-policy scholar at the [[University of Punta Santiago]], said the conditions mattered more than the approval. ''"The interesting word in this license is not yes, it is the inspection schedule,"'' she said. ''"A state that gave up its weapons is licensing a reactor and inviting the disarmament inspectors in to watch it built. That is the Federation buying its own credibility, and it is cheaper than the reactor."''

Construction can begin at Amapola once the partners lodge the license conditions with the Commission; first power, which the filing had already pushed back about a year, waits on a build the regulator has now cleared to start. AlduATOM said it would break ground on the schedule the revised figures assume. ''"We have a site, a price we will hold, and now a license to build,"'' said Dr. Rafael Ossandón, who leads the company's small modular reactor line. ''"The next number that matters is the one the inspectors write down."''
|tldr=The Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission granted a conditional construction license on 20.VI.{{AN|1759}} for the first reactor of [[Project Kallpa]], letting the up-to-eighty-five-megawatt small modular reactor near [[Amapola]] in [[Alduria]] break ground while capping its fuel at the civil low-enrichment threshold, gating each construction phase on inspection hold points, and preserving the [[Micras Disarmament Commission]]'s standing to inspect the site under its Inspector-General [[Céleste de Montluc]]. Commission chair Dr. Théodore Salcedo stressed that the license authorizes construction only, holding back the authority to load fuel and operate the reactor for a later round of pre-startup inspections. The grant closes the review the [[National Nuclear Laboratory]] and [[AlduATOM]] opened with their 9.IV.{{AN|1759}} filing, which had priced the first unit at about NAX€850 million; the reactor stands beside [[Projet Horizon]] and [[Foundation 1768]] as the third of the governing Federal Humanist Party's diversification pillars, part-funded through the statutory diversification mandate by the very [[Alexandrium]] revenues the program is meant to move beyond. Vice-President [[Fred Strong]] welcomed the conditions as the discipline he had sought, while [[Yuiza Bohi'o]] and the Federal Consensus Party called the approval a costly bet unchanged by the regulator's yes.
|impact_approval={{increase}} +1
|impact_stability={{steady}} 0
}}

===22===
{{Main|Recession of 1757}}
{{See also|New Alexandrian general election, 1759}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE RECOVERY BUYS THE GOVERNMENT APPROVAL, NOT VOTES
|image=FranciscoGabaza.jpg
|image_size=180px
|image_caption=''[[Francisco Gabaza]], whose net favorability fell to plus 2, the lowest of any leader, after he did not speak in the recovery debate; file photo.''
|bullet1=The Second Regular IOP/NBC News Poll of {{AN|1759}} Finds Government Net Approval Recovering to Minus 1, Its Best Reading Since the Crash and Still Below the Line
|bullet2=The [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758|NAX€750 Billion Recovery Act]] Lifts the Government's Standing and the Country's Sense of Direction Without Returning the Vote to the [[Federal Humanist Party|FHP]], Which Holds at 41 Percent
|bullet3=[[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]]'s [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]] Slips Again to 37 Percent Even as the Leader of the Opposition's Own Favorability Rises, the Alliance Unable to Gather the Vote the Government Is Shedding
|bullet4=[[Francisco Gabaza]]'s Favorability Falls to Plus 2, the Lowest of Any Leader, After His Silence in the Recovery Debate, While His [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]]'s Own Support Holds at 10 on the Strength of Its Fiscal Hawks
|bullet5=[[Elena Svensson]]'s [[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]] Climbs to 7 Percent With Party Finance Now Named the Campaign's Defining Question, and She Extends Her Lead as the Most-Liked Leader
|bullet6=[[Sofia Laurent]]'s [[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]] Firms to 2 Percent as the Autonomist List Consolidates the Oportian Interior Ahead of the Region's First Federal Vote
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The second regular IOP/NBC News poll of {{AN|1759}}, conducted 19-21.VI, finds the [[José Manuel Montero|Montero]] government at its best standing since the [[1757 Alexandrium market crash]] and still short of the line. Net approval has recovered to minus 1, two points better than III and its strongest reading in a year and a half, and the share of the country calling the Federation's direction right has risen to 45 percent. The lift has a single source, and it did not reach the party numbers.

That source is the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]], the NAX€750 billion recovery package the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] carried 731 to 18 on 1.V. The Institute finds the Act responsible for the movement in approval and in direction, and equally absent from the vote: the [[Federal Humanist Party]] holds exactly where it stood in III, at 41 percent, its recovery in standing not translating into a single point of returning support. The pollsters read the gap as the mark of an electorate that credits the government with the rescue while withholding its vote, and note that [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|Gonçalves]]'s promise to remember who was slow appears to have done the government no more harm than good.

The opposition alliance did not gain from the government's stall. [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]] slips a further point to 37 percent even as Gonçalves's own favorability rises to a net plus 22, the Leader of the Opposition personally strengthened by a recovery vote he cast for while condemning, and his coalition unable to gather the vote the government is shedding. The Institute reads the alliance's drift as the same fragmentation the series has measured all year, with the ground the two largest parties are losing settling on the smaller ones.

The sharpest movement of the poll is a leader's, not a party's. [[Francisco Gabaza]]'s favorability falls four points to a net plus 2, the lowest rating of any leader in the poll and six points below his standing at the last poll of {{AN|1758}}, after he did not rise to speak in the recovery debate and left the Federal Consensus case to his Finance Chairman [[Godfredo Domínguez]] and the party's fiscal hawks. His party's own support holds at 10 percent, steadier than its leader: the Institute reads the Federal Consensus vote as holding on the case for fiscal restraint that Domínguez and the party's hawks carried in his place, the same argument against drawing down the [[National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie|federal reserves]] that Gabaza built through the [[Recession of 1757|recession]] and that the six hundred billion écu of borrowing in the recovery act has revived. It notes the unusual split of a party stabilizing while the figure at its head falls away. The reading has sharpened the questions about Gabaza's hold on the party that the recovery debate first raised.

[[Elena Svensson]] continues to run against the size of her party. The [[Civic Governance Alliance]] climbs a further point to 7 percent, and Svensson extends her lead as the most-liked leader in the Federation to a net plus 31, as the party-finance argument she has carried since {{AN|1755}} is now named on the issue table as the question the campaign will turn on, behind only the cost of living and the recovery itself. The [[Republican Party of Oportia]] firms to 2 percent, [[Sofia Laurent]]'s autonomist list consolidating the interior departments ahead of [[Oportia]]'s first federal vote, though it remains a regional figure measured at the edge of the poll's confidence. The Institute's closing note is that the recovery has changed how the country feels about its government without changing how it means to vote, and that with the campaign not yet open, the vote is more scattered than at any point in the series.
|tldr=''The second regular IOP/NBC News poll of {{AN|1759}}, conducted 19-21.VI, finds the [[José Manuel Montero|Montero]] government at its best standing since the crash and still underwater, net approval recovering to minus 1 on the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758|NAX€750 billion recovery package]] carried 1.V. The lift reached approval and the country's sense of direction but not the vote: the [[Federal Humanist Party|FHP]] holds at 41 percent, and [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]] slips again to 37 even as [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|Gonçalves]]'s own favorability rises. [[Francisco Gabaza]]'s favorability falls to plus 2 after his silence in the recovery debate while his party's support holds at 10; [[Elena Svensson]]'s [[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]] climbs to 7 with party finance now named the campaign's defining question, and the [[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]] firms to 2.''
|impact_approval={{increase}} +1
}}

====IOP/NBC News Public Opinion Polling====
=====National Party Voting Intention=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''NATIONAL PARTY VOTING INTENTION''' ''If the election were held today, which party would you support?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 19-21.VI.{{AN|1759}}
! Party
! Percentage in Poll
! Change Since III.{{AN|1759}} Poll
|-
| [[Federal Humanist Party]] ([[FHP]])
| 41.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] ([[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]])
| 37.0%
| {{decrease}} -1.0%
|-
| [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] ([[Federal Consensus Party|FCP]])
| 10.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| [[Civic Governance Alliance]] ([[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]])
| 7.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Republican Party of Oportia]] ([[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]])
| 2.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| Independents & Other Candidates
| 3.0%
| {{decrease}} -1.0%
|}

=====Party Leader Favorability Ratings=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''PARTY LEADER FAVORABILITY RATINGS''' % of registered voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 19-21.VI.{{AN|1759}}
! Leader
! Favorable
! Unfavorable
! No Opinion
! Net Favorability
! Change
|-
| [[José Manuel Montero]] ([[FHP]]) Premier
| 46.0%
| 47.0%
| 7.0%
| {{decrease}} -1.0%
| {{increase}} +2.0%
|-
| [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] ([[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|DSP]] / [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]]) Leader of the Opposition
| 50.0%
| 28.0%
| 22.0%
| {{increase}} +22.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Elena Svensson]] ([[CGA]]) CGA Leader
| 54.0%
| 23.0%
| 23.0%
| {{increase}} +31.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Francisco Gabaza]] ([[FCP]]) Leader
| 36.0%
| 34.0%
| 30.0%
| {{increase}} +2.0%
| {{decrease}} -4.0%
|-
| [[Yuiza Bohi'o]] ([[Wakara People's Party|WPP]]) Leader
| 37.0%
| 13.0%
| 50.0%
| {{increase}} +24.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Émile Bouchard]] ([[Aldurian Independent Coalition|Aldurian Coalition]]) Coordinator
| 31.0%
| 20.0%
| 49.0%
| {{increase}} +11.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| [[Sofia Laurent]] ([[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]]) Leader
| 15.0%
| 10.0%
| 75.0%
| {{increase}} +5.0%
| {{increase}} +2.0%
|}

=====Government Approval=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''GOVERNMENT APPROVAL''' ''Do you approve or disapprove of the job the Montero government is doing?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 19-21.VI.{{AN|1759}}
! Response
! Percentage
! Change Since III.{{AN|1759}}
|-
| Approve
| 47.0%
| {{increase}} +2.0%
|-
| Disapprove
| 48.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| No Opinion
| 5.0%
| {{decrease}} -2.0%
|-
! Net Approval
! {{decrease}} -1.0%
! {{increase}} +2.0%
|}

=====Direction of the Federation=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''DIRECTION OF THE FEDERATION''' ''Do you think the Federation is headed in the right direction or the wrong direction?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 19-21.VI.{{AN|1759}}
! Response
! Percentage
! Change Since III.{{AN|1759}}
|-
| Right Direction
| 45.0%
| {{increase}} +3.0%
|-
| Wrong Direction
| 47.0%
| {{decrease}} -3.0%
|-
| No Opinion
| 8.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|}

==VII (Crescentis)==
===7===
{{Main|Anglien national referendum, 1759|Constitution of Anglien}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Anglien|flag}} ANGLIEN VOTES ON A PERMANENT CONSTITUTION THAT WOULD END THE TRANSITION AND BEGIN THE CONCORD DRAWDOWN
|image=AnglienConstitutionVote1759NBC.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''Voters cast ballots in [[Johannsessbuurg]] during the [[Anglien national referendum, 1759|referendum on Anglien's permanent constitution]], 7.VII.{{AN|1759}}; the count and CATO certification were still pending.''
|bullet1=Anglien Holds Its First Direct National Vote Since Independence
|bullet2=Ratification Requires an Absolute Majority and Turnout of at Least Half the Register
|bullet3=A Yes Would Retire the Transitional Charter and Trigger the Duchy's First Competitive Election
|bullet4=Ratification Starts the Clock on the Natopian Garrison's Withdrawal and the CATO Mission's End
|bullet5=Nouvelle Alexandrie, a CATO Patron That Declined the Bliven Endowment, Weighs the Transition's Last Step
|bullet6=The CATO Commissioner Will Certify a Result the Charter Says the Diet Cannot Set Alone
|location=[[Johannsessbuurg]]
|body=Anglien went to the polls on 7.VII.{{AN|1759}} to ratify or reject a permanent constitution, the [[Anglien|Free Duchy]]'s first direct national vote since independence and the ballot that would close the transitional order its [[Charter of Anglien|Charter]] set in place in {{AN|1754}}. The count, and the certification the Charter reserves to the [[CATO Commissioner of Peace for Anglien|Concord Alliance Commissioner]], were still to come as polls closed.

The referendum was mandated by the Charter, promulgated by [[Edgard III]] on 15.X.{{AN|1754}}, which obliged the [[Diet of Anglien|Constitutional Diet]] to put a completed draft to the adult population within five years. Ratification turns on an absolute majority of valid votes, subject to a turnout of at least 50 percent of the register; preliminary rolls drawn from the [[1756-1757 Anglien census|{{AN|1757|noAN=y|nospan=y}} census]] put the eligible population near 880,000, which sets the turnout bar at roughly 440,000 votes. Should turnout fall short, the draft returns to the Diet for revision and a second vote within eighteen months. The Charter provides no path to ratification by the Diet alone.

The text on the ballot was adopted by the Constitutional Diet at its final plenary in II.{{AN|1759}}. It replaces the Charter's concentrated transitional authority with a bicameral order: an enlarged [[Diet of Anglien|Diet]] of 84 members alongside a second chamber, the [[Burgenraat]], seated from the duchy's twelve bailiwicks. Executive power would pass to a Prime Minister and a Chancellor of the Free Duchy answerable to the Diet, with the [[Sovereign Duke of Anglien|Sovereign Duke]] keeping a defined reserve role in place of the Charter's broad powers. The draft entrenches the duchy's non-alignment, names [[Edgard Nathan|Prince Edgard Nathan]] Duke-Apparent under absolute primogeniture, and makes permanent the transitional-justice bodies built after the occupation, among them the [[Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Anglien]], leaving the question of the [[Anglian mark]]'s peg to the [[Natopian natopo]] for the first elected government to settle.

Several of those choices stayed contested until late in the drafting. The reserve powers left to the crown divided the delegates: some saw a strong duke as the guarantor of stability, while others, after the occupation, wanted concentrated authority checked wherever it sat. Whether to write non-alignment into the constitution itself, reversible only by supermajority, or to leave it to ordinary law, was unresolved in committee into the final year.

Ratification would bring the Charter's sunset into effect and set the calendar that follows. The duchy's first competitive [[Anglien general election, 1759|general election]] is expected in XII.{{AN|1759}} under the new system, the first to fill the premiership [[Eduard Vogt]] holds on a transitional basis. The wind-down of the Concord Alliance presence is sequenced to the same schedule. The drawdown of the Natopian garrison stationed at Johannsessbuurg under the [[Treaty of Johannsessbuurg]] is to begin once the result is in and finish within six months of the first election; the [[Concord Alliance Military Assistance Mission to Anglien]] is to close its military functions after the constitutional process; and Commissioner [[Alejandro Fuentes-Villanueva]] has said publicly that he will step down when the process concludes. A rejected draft would extend the transition and delay that exit.

For Nouvelle Alexandrie the vote marks the near end of [[Anglien–Nouvelle Alexandrie relations|an arrangement it has helped carry]]. A member of the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Concord Alliance]] (CATO) and one of the duchy's two large patrons, the Federation backed Anglien's [[Aquaria Modernization and Expansion Program|Aquaria]] nuclear new-build with about [[Anglian mark|AM]] 12 billion in {{AN|1757}}, then declined in II.{{AN|1759}} to seed the [[Bliven Fund]], the endowment CATO had meant to raise for the duchy, and left [[Natopia]] to provide the capital. Secretary of State [[Jean-Michel Durand]] has framed the Federation's position as support for completing the transition on Anglien's own timetable rather than for open-ended commitments beyond it.

That distance is the story the vote tells outside the duchy, said Lucienne Abarca, who studies alliance politics at the [[University of Punta Santiago]]. ''"Nouvelle Alexandrie spent years helping stand this state up, and it is now declining to fund it forever while still wanting the transition to finish cleanly,"'' she said. ''"A patron that wants its client to walk on its own has to let go of the arm at some point, and this vote is where the Federation learns whether it built something that holds."''

The referendum is the first national vote held since the [[St. Aldric's Day Surge]] of {{AN|1756}}, the last coherent operation of the [[Nü Krantisk Rapskaff|NKR]] underground, was put down and its successor organizations proscribed under the [[Volksherstelwet|National Recovery Act]] of 22.XII.{{AN|1756}}. Polling-place security fell to the [[Ducal Police Service]], with the internal-security units of the [[Anglian Ducal Guard]] in support.

What the ballot decided was not to be known until the count was complete and the Commissioner had certified it. If the draft carries, the [[Constitution of Anglien|new constitution]] takes effect on 1.VIII.{{AN|1759}}, and the Free Duchy passes into a settled constitutional order for the first time since Edgard III promulgated the Charter five years ago. The ducal motto ''Wii Bliven, Wii Stans'', "We Remain, We Stand," gives the Bliven Fund its name; ratification would carry the duchy into the permanence the transition was built to reach.[[Category:Anglien]]
|tldr=''Anglien went to the polls on 7.VII.{{AN|1759}} to ratify or reject a permanent constitution, the [[Anglien|Free Duchy]]'s first direct national vote since independence and the ballot that would end the transitional order its {{AN|1754}} [[Charter of Anglien|Charter]] created. Ratification turns on an absolute majority and a turnout of at least half of a register near 880,000; a Yes would retire the Charter, trigger a first competitive election in XII.{{AN|1759}}, and begin the wind-down of the Concord Alliance presence, including the drawdown of the Natopian garrison at [[Johannsessbuurg]]. The adopted draft entrenches non-alignment, names [[Edgard Nathan|Prince Edgard Nathan]] Duke-Apparent under absolute primogeniture, and makes the transitional-justice bodies permanent. For Nouvelle Alexandrie, a Concord Alliance patron that backed Anglien's Aquaria reactor but declined to seed the [[Bliven Fund]], the vote begins the exit from an arrangement it has helped carry; Secretary of State [[Jean-Michel Durand]] framed the Federation's stance as support for completing the transition on Anglien's own timetable. The count and the [[CATO Commissioner of Peace for Anglien|Commissioner]]'s certification were still to come.''
|impact_international={{increase}} +1
|impact_approval={{steady}} 0
}}

===11===
{{Main|Housing Justice Act, 1757}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} AJNA PUTS HOUSING AT THE CENTER OF THE CAMPAIGN AND MOVES TO REVIVE THE TABLED HOUSING JUSTICE ACT
|image=AJNAHousingJusticeCampaign1759NBC.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''Leader of the Opposition [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] and [[Yuiza Bohi'o]] address reporters in [[Cárdenas]] as the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]] moved to revive the [[Housing Justice Act, 1757|Housing Justice Act]] and put housing at the center of its campaign, 11.VII.{{AN|1759}}.''
|bullet1=AJNA Made Housing a Central Issue of Its Campaign
|bullet2=Gonçalves Moved to Take the Tabled Housing Justice Act Back From the Hopper
|bullet3=The Bill Would Write an Enforceable Right to Adequate Housing Into Law and Repeal the Government's Supply-First Settlement
|bullet4=Gonçalves Called the Government's Homebuilding Drive a Promise With No Foundations Laid
|bullet5=Housing Secretary Seydlitz Said the Drive Was Already Building and the Bill Would Undo a Reform Barely in Force
|bullet6=Without the Aldurian Coalition, the Arithmetic That Tabled the Bill Does Not Change
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] put housing at the front of its case for the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|general election]] on 11.VII.{{AN|1759}}, with Leader of the Opposition [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] moving to take his tabled [[Housing Justice Act, 1757]] back up from the Hopper and challenging the government to show what its recovery-act homebuilding had built.<ref name="hja">[[Housing Justice Act, 1757]], before the [[13th Cortes Federales]].</ref>

The move reopens an argument the two sides have carried since {{AN|1756}}, and does so about two months before the country votes. Gonçalves, who leads the [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Democratic Socialist Party]] within the alliance, introduced the Housing Justice Act with [[Yuiza Bohi'o]] of the [[Wakara People's Party]] as co-sponsor on 19.VIII.{{AN|1757}}, and carried it as far as amendments before the government moved to table it at the close of that year. The motion was carried on the [[Federal Humanist Party]]'s majority, and the bill died without a vote on its merits, the sponsors' five amendments never put. Under the Assembly's standing orders the tabling was procedural rather than a defeat, and the bill returned to the Hopper, where it has sat since. Reviving it now, the opposition made housing one of the grounds on which it means to fight, alongside the [[Recession of 1757|recession]] and the cost of living, having promised at the tabling to carry the bill into the contests ahead.

The bill is the opposition's whole housing model written into law. It would state a right of every resident to adequate housing and make it justiciable before the [[High Court of Justice of Nouvelle Alexandrie|High Court of Justice]], stabilize rents and protect security of tenure, restore the first-time buyer credit the government had let lapse, and establish a [[Federal Housing Authority]] to build social and cooperative housing directly. To pay for it, the bill would move the [[National Housing Fund]] out of the [[Department of Treasury (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Treasury]], direct the returns of the [[Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund]] into it, set the land-value tax on a progressive basis, and add a surcharge on long-vacant homes. It would repeal the [[Housing Finance and Consolidation Act, 1756]], the supply-first settlement the government passed the year before, which consolidated the Federation's housing law, created the Fund under the Treasury, and let the old buyer credits expire on the argument that housing is a problem of supply and that the way to worsen it is to push money at demand.

''"Last year the government told this chamber that housing is a market and the most it would do was tidy the paperwork,"'' Gonçalves said, restating the case he had made for the bill. ''"This bill says housing is a right. The country can have the first or the second. It cannot have both, and in {{AN|1759}} it will choose."'' He turned the same charge on the government's recovery package, the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]] carried in V, whose [[National Homebuilding Drive]] promises half a million homes. A drive that had laid no foundation, he said, was a promise and not a home, and the campaign would measure the government on ground broken rather than on money announced.

The government defended its record and its settlement. Housing and Urban Development Secretary [[Emmanuel Philibert Seydlitz]] said the homebuilding drive was already letting contracts and turning ground, and that the opposition proposed to tear up a reform barely a year old and only beginning to work. ''"They would repeal the law that is building homes to debate a bill that would build none for years,"'' Seydlitz said. Treasury Secretary [[Warren Ferdinand]], who had presented the recovery act under the slogan of work, home, and family, said the drive would be reported to the House quarter by quarter, and that rent caps and a justiciable right of the kind the opposition wanted would dry up building and hand housing to the courts.

Whether the bill can move at all rests, as it did when the opposition last pressed housing, on the [[Aldurian Independent Coalition]]. Its provisions on social building and on the unbuilt housing promised under the [[Aldurian Economic Diversification and Recovery Act, 1755]] speak to the Coalition's standing grievance, and when the alliance forced an early housing vote in II.{{AN|1757}} the Coalition had abstained rather than vote against it. But the bill would repeal the government's own settlement, which the confidence-and-supply partner has said it will not do. Coordinator [[Émile Bouchard]] repeated that the Coalition wanted the houses and not the quarrel, and would not vote to repeal a law to build what that law already allowed. The [[Civic Governance Alliance]] has said it would back the building and the right while pressing on how they are funded. Without the Coalition, the arithmetic that tabled the bill does not change, and the opposition revived it knowing so.

Analysts read the move as a campaign act rather than a legislative one. [[Rodrigo Castellanos]], an economist at the [[Institute for Strategic Studies]], said the bill joined two arguments that did not have to travel together, a strong case for an enforceable right and a contested case for rent control, and that in a campaign the second would be made to carry the cost of the first. Housing sits behind the cost of living and the recession on the issue table, and behind the civil-liberties argument the [[Parade of Lassos and Nooses|Vanguard parades]] reopened, but the squeeze beneath it has not eased: the [[Federal Bank of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Bank]] figures that framed the bill in {{AN|1757}} had shown rents up 9 percent over the year and the median household in [[Cárdenas]] spending 34 percent of its income on housing. With the vote about two months off, both sides now have their housing argument set, the government on the homes it says it is building and the opposition on the right it says the government will not write.
|tldr=The [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] made housing a central issue of its campaign on 11.VII.{{AN|1759}}, with Leader of the Opposition [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] moving to take his [[Housing Justice Act, 1757]] back from the Hopper, where the government had tabled it on its majority without a vote on the merits, and attacking the recovery act's [[National Homebuilding Drive]] as an undelivered promise. The bill, co-sponsored by [[Yuiza Bohi'o]], would write an enforceable right to housing into law, stabilize rents, restore first-time buyer credits, and repeal the government's supply-first [[Housing Finance and Consolidation Act, 1756]]. Housing Secretary [[Emmanuel Philibert Seydlitz]] said the homebuilding drive was already building and the bill would undo a reform barely in force, while Treasury Secretary [[Warren Ferdinand]] warned rent caps and a justiciable right would dry up supply. The revival stays stuck without the [[Aldurian Independent Coalition]], whose [[Émile Bouchard]] again declined to repeal the government's own law, leaving it a campaign act more than a legislative one.
|impact_stability={{steady}} 0
|impact_approval={{decrease}} -1
|impact_economy={{steady}} 0
}}

===19===
{{Main|Inti (spacecraft)}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} INTI RAISES ITS ORBIT ON SUNLIGHT ALONE IN A FIRST FOR NOUVELLE ALEXANDRIE
|image=IntiSolarSail1759NBC.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''An official photograph of [[Inti (spacecraft)|Inti]] after full deployment of its four-boom, 200-square-meter aluminized solar sail in a near-1,000-kilometer orbit, {{AN|1759}}.''
|bullet1=ASANA's Inti Demonstrator Deployed a 200-Square-Meter Solar Sail in Orbit
|bullet2=The Craft Raised Its Orbit on Sunlight, Carrying No Fuel
|bullet3=A Jammed Boom Held Up Full Deployment for Several Days
|bullet4=Diversification-Act Funds Covered the NAX€90 Million Mission
|bullet5=Opposition Figures Question the Return on a 24-Kilogram Satellite
|bullet6=ASANA Points to a Larger Follow-On, Killa
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The [[Aeronautics and Space Administration of Nouvelle Alexandrie]] said on 19.VII.{{AN|1759}} that its Inti spacecraft had raised its own orbit using the pressure of sunlight on a deployed sail, the first propellantless orbital maneuver flown by a New Alexandrian craft.

The maneuver was the first flown result of the diversification agenda the governing [[Federal Humanist Party]] has pressed since the [[Recession of 1757]] to move the economy off [[Alexandrium]] mining and toward advanced science and manufacturing. It came two months before the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|1759 general election]].

[[Inti (spacecraft)|Inti]], named for the [[Faith of Inti|Wechua sun deity]], is a technology demonstrator: a 24-kilogram microsatellite built by [[Javelin Industries]] around a sail film from [[ESB Thermodynamics]], carrying no scientific payload beyond the instruments that measure its own sail. The sail spans 200 square meters, roughly 14 meters on a side, and is made of aluminized film about two micrometers thick. It produces thrust from sunlight alone, a push of a few tens of micronewtons that ASANA used over several weeks to lift the spacecraft's orbit by a measurable margin.

Launched from the [[Delgado Space Flight Center]] as a secondary payload aboard an MSS CelestiaX, the craft reached a circular orbit near 1,000 kilometers. The deployment that followed did not go cleanly. One of the four booms that pull the sail taut extended only partway, leaving a quadrant creased and shut. Controllers spun the spacecraft slowly about its long axis and let centrifugal force draw the folded film outward. After several days, the last quadrant reached full extension.

''"We flew a method, and the method worked,"'' said Dr. Sayri Mamani, the ASANA propulsion engineer who led the mission and had argued for a sail demonstrator since the mid-{{AN|1750}}s. ''"A jammed boom is the kind of problem you find out about only by flying, and we flew through it."''

The mission cost NAX€90 million, a small figure for a national space project, drawn from the advanced-sciences strand of the [[Aldurian Economic Diversification and Recovery Act, 1755]] and a matching contribution from the [[Aldurian Development Corporation]]. ASANA chose the low budget deliberately, to prove the technique without a large bill.

The opposition was not persuaded. [[Yuiza Bohi'o]] of the [[Wakara People's Party]] said a 24-kilogram demonstrator did little for constituents outside the industrial regions. Francisco Gabaza of the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] questioned the cost against the return, and Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves of the [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Democratic Socialist Party]] pointed to the share of the budget that went to contractors.

Caution came from inside the government as well. Vice-President and Secretary of Defense [[Fred Strong]], whose office runs the dual-use side of the diversification agenda, welcomed the flight but said a single demonstrator proved a method rather than an industry, and that ASANA had a record of announcing ambitions ahead of demonstrated capability.

ASANA said the demonstrator had met its objectives and used the result to argue for a larger follow-on, a heliocentric sail provisionally named [[Killa (spacecraft)|Killa]] for the Wechua moon deity, a deliberate pairing of sun and moon. Whether one small craft answers the wider bet on advanced science, alongside the [[Superconducting Super Collider|collider upgrade at Alduria]] and the photonics of [[Projet Prisme]], is a question the campaign will settle.
|tldr=ASANA said its Inti demonstrator raised its orbit on sunlight alone on 19.VII.{{AN|1759}}, the first propellantless maneuver by a New Alexandrian spacecraft and the first flown result of the diversification agenda two months before the general election. The NAX€90 million mission overcame a jammed sail boom; opposition figures and Vice-Premier Fred Strong called a single small demonstrator a method rather than an industry, and ASANA pointed to a larger follow-on named Killa.
|impact_stability={{increase}} +1
|impact_approval={{increase}} +1
}}

===20===

{{Main|Public Order (Paramilitary and Intimidatory Displays) Act, 1759|Parade of Lassos and Nooses}}
{{See also|Motion to censure Fred Strong, 1758|13th Cortes Federales|New Alexandrian general election, 1759}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE ASSEMBLY REJECTS THE PARAMILITARY-DISPLAYS BILL AS THE CONSENSUS PARTY'S ABSTENTION PROVES DECISIVE
|image=NBC1759PublicOrderVote.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''NBC News parliamentary graphic showing the 258–372 defeat of the [[Public Order (Paramilitary and Intimidatory Displays) Act, 1759|Public Order Bill]] and how the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]]'s 119 abstentions decided the division, 20.VII.{{AN|1759}}.''
|bullet1=The Federal Assembly Defeated the Public Order Bill 258 to 372, With the Consensus Party's 119 Deputies Abstaining
|bullet2=Had the Consensus Party Voted in Favor, the Bill Would Have Carried by 377 to 372
|bullet3=Its 258 Supporters Were the Same Benches That Filed the Failed Censure of Vice-Premier Fred Strong
|bullet4=Federal Humanist Deputies Voted the Measure Down, All 372 of Them
|bullet5=Defeat Ends the Bill, Which Followed the Parade of Lassos and Nooses and Dies in the 13th Cortes
|bullet6=A Civil-Liberties Fight Spills Into the Opening of the Campaign
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] rejected the [[Public Order (Paramilitary and Intimidatory Displays) Act, 1759|Public Order Bill]] on 20.VII.{{AN|1759}} by 258 votes to 372, and the number that decided it was the one that stayed neutral. The 119 deputies of the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] abstained; had they voted in favor, the division would have stood at 377 to 372 and the bill would have carried.<ref name="division_po_soil">Federal Assembly, ''Final divisions: Public Order and Soil Stewardship and Food Abundance Bills'', published division notice, 20.VII.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The bill was a private member's measure brought by the independent deputy [[Piti Gándara]], who introduced it on 6.I.{{AN|1759}} after the [[Parade of Lassos and Nooses]] of {{AN|1758}}, when cadres of the [[Humanist Vanguard]] marched with lassos and nooses through a university quarter and past the home of a sitting deputy. It would have prohibited paramilitary and intimidatory displays at public assemblies and private dwellings and allowed the [[High Court of Justice of Nouvelle Alexandrie|High Court of Justice]] to proscribe quasi-military organizations. The government opposed it.

The votes fell along the lines that the parade had already drawn. The [[Federal Humanist Party]]'s 372 deputies carried the measure down; the 258 in favor were the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]]'s 216, the [[Civic Governance Alliance]]'s 10, and all 32 independents, the same benches that had filed the failed [[Motion to censure Fred Strong, 1758|motion to censure Vice-Premier Fred Strong]] a year earlier. Between the two blocs sat the Consensus Party's 119, and the published division notice recorded no reason for its abstention.

The defeat ended the bill. None of its offenses or court powers came into force, and its passage through the [[13th Cortes Federales]] was over. Supporters cast the abstention as an evasion of a plain civil-liberties question; the Consensus Party, running as the ''responsible center'', called it a refusal to take sides in a quarrel between the government and the opposition. On the same docket the government had carried its [[Soil Stewardship and Food Abundance Act, 1759|soil and food program]] by 630 votes to none, the identical abstention counting for nothing there because every other party voted yes. On the Public Order bill it was decisive, and the question followed the Consensus Party into the campaign that was just then opening.
|tldr=''The Federal Assembly rejected independent Deputy [[Piti Gándara]]'s [[Public Order (Paramilitary and Intimidatory Displays) Act, 1759|Public Order Bill]] on 20.VII.{{AN|1759}} by 258 votes to 372, with the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]]'s 119 deputies abstaining. Had the party voted in favor the bill would have carried, 377 to 372, so its abstention decided the outcome. The measure, brought after the [[Parade of Lassos and Nooses]] to ban paramilitary displays and let the [[High Court of Justice of Nouvelle Alexandrie|High Court]] proscribe quasi-military groups, was opposed by the [[Federal Humanist Party]] and supported by the same [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]], [[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]], and independent benches that had filed the failed censure of Vice-Premier [[Fred Strong]]. Its defeat ended the bill in the [[13th Cortes Federales]], and the Consensus Party's abstention became a civil-liberties argument that carried into the general-election campaign.''
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[[Category:Nouvelle Alexandrie]]


{{Main|Soil Stewardship and Food Abundance Act, 1759}}
{{See also|13th Cortes Federales|Aldurian Economic Diversification and Recovery Act, 1755|José Manuel Montero}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE ASSEMBLY CARRIES THE GOVERNMENT'S SOIL AND FOOD BILL 630 TO NONE AS THE CONSENSUS PARTY ABSTAINS
|image=SoilStewardshipWechuaField1759NBC.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''[[Wechua]] farmers and an agronomist from the [[Institute of Agricultural Sciences]] examine a soil core among quinoa and a legume cover crop at a highland demonstration plot in the [[Wechua Nation]], {{AN|1759}}.''
|bullet1=The Federal Assembly Passed the Bill 630 to None, the Consensus Party's 119 Deputies Abstaining
|bullet2=Every Other Bloc Backed It, From the Humanists to the Opposition and the Independents
|bullet3=A Ten-Year Program Commits Up to NAX€123 Billion a Year to Rebuild the Federation's Soils
|bullet4=Its Central Pledge Is a Real Cut of Twenty to Thirty Percent in the Household Food Basket
|bullet5=Passage Does Not Make It Law, With the Chamber of Peers and Royal Assent Still to Come
|bullet6=The Vote Came Just Before the General-Election Campaign Opened
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] passed the government's [[Soil Stewardship and Food Abundance Act, 1759|Soil Stewardship and Food Abundance Bill]] on 20.VII.{{AN|1759}} by 630 votes to none, with the 119 deputies of the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] abstaining, days before the general-election campaign opened.<ref name="division_po_soil" />

Support crossed every bench but one. The [[Federal Humanist Party]]'s 372 deputies, the 196 of the [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Democratic Socialist Party]], the 20 of the [[Wakara People's Party]], the 10 of the [[Civic Governance Alliance]], and all 32 independents voted to pass it. Only the Federal Consensus Party held back, and its abstention did nothing to slow a bill every other bench supported.

Introduced on 18.II.{{AN|1759}} by Secretary of Energy and Environment [[Beatrice Baudelaire]] for the [[Council of State (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Council of State]], the measure opens a ten-year program of up to NAX€123 billion a year, about a quarter of one percent of national output, to rebuild the Federation's farm soils and bring down the real price of food, which the government casts as a structural response to the [[Recession of 1757]]. It creates no new ministry, working instead through the existing [[Department of Energy and Environment (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Energy and Environment]] and a soil-and-food hub in each of the thirteen Regions, and it binds the government to published ten-year targets, chief among them a cut of 20 to 30 percent in the real household cost of a basic healthy-food basket. Ministers have cast it as the fourth pillar of the recovery, beside the energy program [[Project Kallpa]], the physics initiative [[Projet Horizon]], and the space program [[Inti (spacecraft)|Inti]].

Several deputies backed the bill while pressing objections. [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], the Leader of the Opposition, voted for the bill while repeating that immediate food support should have come before the government's prestige investments. [[Yuiza Bohi'o]] of the Wakara People's Party backed it but held again that federal programs of this kind favor the core Regions over the outer ones. For the Consensus Party, leader [[Francisco Gabaza]] rested the abstention on the borrowing behind the government's appropriations, the objection his party has pressed against each of the recovery measures.

Passage by the Assembly is not the end of the road. The bill goes next to the [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]], and it cannot come into force until it has received the Royal Assent of King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and the Secretary has appointed a day for it to take effect. Until then its funding authority, its regional hubs, and its targets have no force in law. The government took the vote into the election campaign with its agriculture program carried in the Assembly and its passage into law still in the hands of the Peers and the Crown.
|tldr=''The Federal Assembly passed the government's Soil Stewardship and Food Abundance Bill on 20.VII.{{AN|1759}} by 630 votes to none, with the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]]'s 119 deputies abstaining and every other bloc in favor. Introduced by Secretary [[Beatrice Baudelaire]], the ten-year, NAX€123-billion-a-year program to rebuild the Federation's soils and cut the real household food price by 20 to 30 percent is the fourth pillar of Premier [[José Manuel Montero]]'s recovery agenda. The Consensus Party rested its abstention on the government's borrowing, the objection it has pressed against each of the recovery measures. The measure still needs the [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]] and the Royal Assent of King [[Sinchi Roca II]] before it can become law.''
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===22===

{{Main|Public Order (Paramilitary and Intimidatory Displays) Act, 1759|Parade of Lassos and Nooses}}
{{See also|Motion to censure Fred Strong, 1758|New Alexandrian general election, 1759|Humanist Vanguard}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} GÁNDARA MAKES THE DEFEATED PARAMILITARY-DISPLAYS BILL A CAMPAIGN TEST, PRESSING THE CONSENSUS PARTY ON THE ABSTENTION THAT DECIDED IT
|image=PitiGandaraCivilLiberties1759NBC.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''Independent Deputy [[Piti Gándara]] addresses an audience in [[Parap]] after making the defeat of her [[Public Order (Paramilitary and Intimidatory Displays) Act, 1759|Public Order bill]] a test of the general-election campaign, 22.VII.{{AN|1759}}.''
|bullet1=Independent Deputy Piti Gándara Pressed Every Party to Answer for How It Voted on Her Public Order Bill
|bullet2=Her Public Order Bill Fell 258 to 372 on 20.VII, the Consensus Party's 119 Deputies Abstaining
|bullet3=Gándara Framed the Measure as Aimed at Conduct, Not at Any Party
|bullet4=The Opposition's Censure of Vice-Premier Fred Strong Remains Five Endorsements Short in the Hopper
|bullet5=The Federal Humanist Party Defends the Humanist Vanguard's Marches as Lawful Assembly
|bullet6=Polling Found Majorities Opposed the Parades in Every Group, Including Among Humanist Voters
|location=[[Parap]], Wechua Nation
|body=On 22.VII.{{AN|1759}}, independent Deputy [[Piti Gándara]] pressed the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|general-election]] campaign to take up the civil-liberties question the [[Parade of Lassos and Nooses]] had opened, asking every party to answer for the defeat of the [[Public Order (Paramilitary and Intimidatory Displays) Act, 1759|Public Order bill]] she introduced, which the Federal Assembly had voted down two days earlier.<ref name="bill">[[Public Order (Paramilitary and Intimidatory Displays) Act, 1759]], defeated at its final division in the [[13th Cortes Federales]] on 20.VII.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The appeal set a third argument beside the recession and housing about two months before the country votes. Gándara chose [[Parap]], where cadres of the [[Humanist Vanguard]] had marched through the university quarter the year before, and put the question to the parties as one of conduct rather than allegiance: not whether they condemned the marches, most already had, but how each had voted when a general law against paramilitary and intimidatory display reached the floor, and whether such a law would find a majority in the Assembly the election would seat.

The bill answered the [[Parade of Lassos and Nooses]] of {{AN|1758}}, when the [[Humanist Vanguard|Vanguard]], the youth arm of the governing [[Federal Humanist Party]], carried lassos and nooses in torchlit columns through the academic districts of [[Cárdenas]] and Parap and outside the Cárdenas home of the activist [[Sofia Reyes]], who had been lassoed and dragged by a mounted gendarme during [[Operation Faun]] in {{AN|1750}}.<ref name="parade">[[Parade of Lassos and Nooses]].</ref> A [[Federal Capital District Court]] order protecting Reyes ended the marches. Her counsel, [[Marco Delgado]], had argued that the state could not treat ropes outside her home as harmless after it had paid for the injuries a lasso once inflicted. The [[Federal Gendarmerie of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Gendarmerie]] referred its own light-touch policing of them to its Bureau of Professional Integrity. An attempt to hold Vice-Premier [[Fred Strong]], who had given the campaign his blessing and declined to withdraw it, politically accountable failed on procedure: the [[Motion to censure Fred Strong, 1758|motion to censure Strong]] filed by Leader of the Opposition [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] drew 258 endorsements, five short of the number Speaker [[Carolina Mendez]] ruled a private-member resolution required, and it remains in the Hopper without a vote on its merits.<ref name="censure">[[Motion to censure Fred Strong, 1758]].</ref>

Gándara introduced her bill in the session that followed. The Federation had reached for such a law once before and let it fall: a [[Prohibition of Paramilitary Organizations Act, 1730|1730 bill]] by Deputy [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]] of the [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Democratic Socialist Party]], filed after clashes between the Vanguard and [[The Nouveau Wave]] before the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1729|1729 election]], had lapsed in the Hopper without becoming law. Gándara, an accountant from Nueva Sinagoga who sits for [[Alduria]] on the crossbench and takes no party whip, had endorsed the failed censure, and she cast the bill as the course left open once the House was not permitted to judge the minister. Where the Assembly could not weigh one man's conduct, she argued, it remained free to make a law binding on everyone alike, resting on the power the [[Proclamation of Punta Santiago]] reserves to the legislature at Article 19(5) to restrict assembly in the interests of public order while preserving peaceful protest and free expression. ''"I am not asking the House to punish a party,"'' Gándara said. ''"I am asking it to say that no one marches with a noose past a woman's door, whoever they vote for. Read the bill: it is about the rope, not the rosette."''

The [[Federal Humanist Party]] has not moved from the ground it took during the affair, and its 372 deputies voted the bill down. It continued to defend the Vanguard's columns as lawful assembly and patriotic expression, and Strong, who is also Secretary of Defense, has neither withdrawn his blessing nor apologized. Party figures described the bill as a solution aimed at the government's supporters in an election year, and warned that its offenses of display could be turned against ordinary marchers, flags, and emblems. Cast in general terms, the paramilitary-display offense names no party or badge, though it could reach an emblem like the enameled Red Hand badge worn by Vanguard cadres. Gándara answered that the text exempts ceremonial, religious, cultural, and lawful protest, and makes no offense out of conduct that is not intended or reckless. It confers no power of detention beyond ordinary arrest, the deliberate mark of a bill drawn against the detention regime the High Court struck in ''[[Marquez v. Council of State]]''. The power to proscribe a body it reserves to the [[High Court of Justice of Nouvelle Alexandrie|High Court of Justice]] alone, barring any ban by the executive or the legislature, in keeping with a bench that has held the liberties of the Proclamation to bind every organ of government since ''[[Citizens for Constitutional Rights v. Council of State]]''.

The opposition had carried the bill as far as it went. Gonçalves said the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]] had voted for it, as it had never doubted the case for a law against intimidation, though he held that the censure had named the accountability the bill could not supply. The [[Civic Governance Alliance]], which had also voted in favor, said it had backed a measured public-order statute that kept clear of lawful protest. The [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]], whose 119 abstentions had decided the division, defended them: its leader [[Francisco Gabaza]], who had faulted the Gendarmerie's slow intervention rather than the Vice-Premier when the marches ran and had kept the party off the censure, cast the abstention as a refusal to take sides in a quarrel between the government and the opposition. Supporters of the bill called the same silence an evasion of a plain question. Gándara did not dispute the arithmetic: the bill had fallen because the Consensus Party's votes stayed out of the lobby, and she told her audience she was campaigning for an Assembly that would pass such a law, not relitigating a division already lost.

Backers who had carried the civil-liberties argument longest welcomed the framing. ''"The censure asked the House to judge a minister, and the House found a reason not to,"'' said Núria Valdés, who teaches constitutional law at the [[University of Punta Santiago]]. ''"A general law is harder to duck, because it does not ask you to condemn a colleague, only to agree that a noose outside a home is not a political opinion. Whether the next Assembly agrees is the campaign's to settle."'' Aurelio Manrique, an organizer with the [[Movement for University Freedom]], the campaign that grew from Operation Faun, said the parades had told his members nothing they had not learned in {{AN|1750}}, and that a law naming the conduct would outlast any single vote of censure. Polling by the [[Institute of Public Opinion]] had found majorities opposed to the marches in every reported group, Federal Humanist voters among them, and Gándara left Parap having made the parties argue the question on the record with the vote two months off.
|tldr=''On 22.VII.{{AN|1759}}, independent Deputy [[Piti Gándara]] made the defeat of her [[Public Order (Paramilitary and Intimidatory Displays) Act, 1759|Public Order bill]] a test of the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|general-election]] campaign, pressing every party at [[Parap]] to answer for the vote two days earlier. Introduced after the [[Parade of Lassos and Nooses]] to ban paramilitary displays, the bill had fallen 258 to 372 when the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]]'s 119 deputies abstained and let it die. Gándara framed it as aimed at conduct rather than at the governing [[Federal Humanist Party]], whose [[Humanist Vanguard]] had carried lassos and nooses past the home of activist [[Sofia Reyes]] and whose Vice-Premier [[Fred Strong]] blessed the marches and declined to withdraw. She cast the law as the course left open after the [[Motion to censure Fred Strong, 1758|motion to censure Strong]] fell five endorsements short. The Federal Humanist Party still defends the marches as lawful assembly; the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]] and the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] had voted for the bill, while the Consensus Party defended its decisive abstention as a refusal to take sides. Gándara said she was campaigning for an Assembly that would pass such a law.''
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===23===

{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Anglien|flag}} ANGLIEN RATIFIES ITS PERMANENT CONSTITUTION, 79 PERCENT TO 21, AND THE CONCORD DRAWDOWN BEGINS
|image=AnglienConstitutionReferendum1759NBC.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''NBC News results graphic for the [[Anglien national referendum, 1759]]: the permanent constitution carried 79% to 21% on an 88% turnout, with all 12 bailiwicks voting Yes.''
|bullet1=Voters Ratify the Permanent Constitution by 79 Percent to 21 on an 88 Percent Turnout
|bullet2=From the First of Estivis (VIII), the New Constitution Takes Effect
|bullet3=The Yes Carried in All Twelve Bailiwicks, From the Capital to the Interior
|bullet4=A First Competitive Election Follows in Sylvaris (XII) to Fill the Premiership Vogt Holds on Trust
|bullet5=The Concord Drawdown Begins as Anglien's Own Guard and Maritime Service Assume Their Duties
|bullet6=Nouvelle Alexandrie Winds Up the Commissioner's Office It Led as Certification Ends Its Mandate
|location=[[Johannsessbuurg]]
|body=Anglien voted to adopt a permanent constitution, the [[CATO Commissioner of Peace for Anglien|Concord Alliance Commissioner]] certified on 23.VII.{{AN|1759}}, resolving the [[Anglien national referendum, 1759|referendum]] held on 7.VII and retiring the transitional [[Charter of Anglien|Charter]] the [[Anglien|Free Duchy]] has lived under since {{AN|1754}}.

The [[Constitution of Anglien]] carried with 79 percent of valid votes against 21 percent opposed, on a turnout of 88 percent, about 774,000 ballots from a register near 880,000. The result cleared both bars the Charter set, an absolute majority of valid votes and a turnout of at least half the register, roughly 440,000. The Yes carried in all twelve bailiwicks, from the capital to the interior. Commissioner [[Alejandro Fuentes-Villanueva]], whose office ran and certified the ballot, said the vote had met ''"the conditions the Charter laid down, in full and without qualification,"'' and that a turnout of nearly nine in ten had given the constitution ''"a mandate no transitional authority could ever have claimed for it."'' It was the first national ballot the duchy had held since the [[Nü Krantisk Rapskaff|NKR]] insurgency was broken in the [[St. Aldric's Day Surge]] of {{AN|1756}}.

Certification triggers the sunset the Charter wrote into itself in {{AN|1754}}. The new constitution takes effect on 1.VIII.{{AN|1759}}, replacing the concentrated transitional authority of the [[Sovereign Duke of Anglien|Sovereign Duke]] with a bicameral order, an enlarged [[Diet of Anglien|Diet]] and the [[Burgenraat]] seated from the bailiwicks, under a Prime Minister and a Chancellor answerable to the Diet. The text also entrenches the duchy's non-alignment and confirms [[Edgard Nathan|Prince Edgard Nathan]] as Duke-Apparent under absolute primogeniture. The duchy's first competitive [[Anglien general election, 1759|general election]] follows in XII.{{AN|1759}}, the first to fill the premiership [[Eduard Vogt]] has held on a transitional basis.

The result also starts the clock the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Concord Alliance]] set for its own exit. The [[Concord Alliance Military Assistance Mission to Anglien]], the roughly 450-strong CATO training mission, closes its military functions now that the constitutional process is complete, and the Natopian garrison at [[Johannsessbuurg]], held under the [[Treaty of Johannsessbuurg]], begins drawing down toward a permanent residual of about 1,800 kept as an external deterrent. The duties the mission trained for pass to Anglien's own forces, the [[Anglian Ducal Guard]], about 2,400 light infantry raised in {{AN|1754}} for territorial defense and internal security, and the [[Anglian Maritime Service]], a coast guard of some 1,400 and eighteen vessels. Formal naval defense stays a Natopian treaty responsibility.

The one in five who voted against carried the reservations that had divided the [[Diet of Anglien|Constitutional Diet]] to the end. Their case, pressed through the drafting and again in the campaign, was that a settlement written to guard against concentrated power still left too much of it with the crown, and that the duchy's non-alignment should have been left to ordinary law rather than entrenched against a future majority.

For Nouvelle Alexandrie, certification closes the Federation's most visible part in the transition. A member of the Concord Alliance and one of the duchy's two large patrons, it led the Commissioner's office and its detachment of about 150, ran the mission's civilian advisory office and its joint intelligence center, and backed Anglien's [[Aquaria Modernization and Expansion Program|Aquaria]] reactor with about [[Anglian mark|AM]] 12 billion in {{AN|1757}}. It also declined, in II.{{AN|1759}}, to seed the [[Bliven Fund]] the alliance had meant to raise, leaving [[Natopia]] to provide the capital. Secretary of State [[Jean-Michel Durand]] framed the Federation's course as backing for finishing the transition on Anglien's own timetable rather than for commitments beyond it.

That course is what the vote settles outside the duchy, said Lucienne Abarca, who studies alliance politics at the [[University of Punta Santiago]]. ''"The Federation helped stand this state up, and it is now handing over the keys,"'' she said. ''"A ratified constitution on a turnout like this is where a patron finds out whether what it built can stand on its own."'' What the settlement leaves open, the peg of the [[Anglian mark]] to the [[Natopian natopo]], it leaves to the first government the duchy elects for itself.[[Category:Anglien]]
|tldr=''Anglien ratified its permanent [[Constitution of Anglien|constitution]] by 79 percent to 21 on an 88 percent turnout, the [[CATO Commissioner of Peace for Anglien|Concord Alliance Commissioner]] certified on 23.VII.{{AN|1759}}, with the Yes carrying in all twelve bailiwicks and clearing both the absolute-majority and half-the-register bars the {{AN|1754}} [[Charter of Anglien|Charter]] set. It was the first national ballot since the [[Nü Krantisk Rapskaff|NKR]] insurgency's defeat in the [[St. Aldric's Day Surge]] of {{AN|1756}}. Certification retires the Charter, sets the [[Constitution of Anglien|new constitution]] to take effect on 1.VIII.{{AN|1759}}, and triggers the [[Anglien|Free Duchy]]'s first competitive [[Anglien general election, 1759|election]] in XII.{{AN|1759}}. It also begins the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Concord Alliance]] drawdown, the close of the [[Concord Alliance Military Assistance Mission to Anglien|training mission]] and the reduction of the Natopian garrison at [[Johannsessbuurg]] to a residual, with defense passing to the [[Anglian Ducal Guard]] and [[Anglian Maritime Service]]. For Nouvelle Alexandrie, which led the Commissioner's office and declined to seed the [[Bliven Fund]], certification ends its most visible role in the transition.''
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===24===
{{Main|Recession of 1757|Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758}}
{{See also|Émile Bouchard}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} BOUCHARD'S COALITION, WHICH HOLDS MONTERO'S MAJORITY, ASKS WHETHER THE RECOVERY REACHED PIRIYA OR ONLY PUNTA SANTIAGO
|image=PiriyaAlexandriumShortShift1759NBC.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''Workers leave the [[Piriya]] Alexandrium mine at the end of a shortened shift during three-day-week operations, 24.VII.{{AN|1759}}.''
|bullet1=Alduria Ran the Recession at Two Speeds, With Punta Santiago Hiring While Piriya Worked Three-Day Weeks
|bullet2=Coordinator Émile Bouchard's Coalition Made the Recovery's Uneven Reach Its Test of the NAX€750 Billion Rescue
|bullet3=The Recovery Act Pledged the Producing Regions Recovery Pacts, Credit Guarantees, and a Floor Under the Alexandrium Price
|bullet4=Bouchard Wants the Pacts and the Unbuilt Housing to Land in the Mine Towns, Not Only the Coast
|bullet5=Treasury Officials Say the Pacts Were Built for These Producing Regions
|bullet6=Economists Call the Divide Structural, a Price Glut No Rescue Can Reverse in a Quarter
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=On the coast at [[Punta Santiago]], the [[Punta Santiago Substrates]] foundry that grows the diamond wafers for the federal [[Foundation 1768]] electronics program is hiring, its order books full. In the interior, the [[Piriya]] mine still runs three days a week, the price of what it digs off by about a third since the crash. Both places sit in [[Alduria]], and the Federation's NAX€750 billion recovery was written to reach them both.

With about two months to the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|general election]], whether the recovery has reached both is the test the [[Aldurian Independent Coalition]] has set for it. On 24.VII.{{AN|1759}}, in the producing Regions its votes represent, Coordinator [[Émile Bouchard]] pressed the government to show that the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]] was reaching Piriya and not only Punta Santiago, that the recovery pacts and the housing promised the mine towns for years would arrive before the campaign closed.<ref name="eera">[[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]], carried by the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] 1.V.{{AN|1759}}; producing-Region provisions.</ref>

The divide is not new. Through {{AN|1757}} and {{AN|1758}}, Alduria ran its economy at two speeds. The advanced-sciences strand the governing [[Federal Humanist Party]] has backed since the downturn kept its order books and added jobs: the [[Aldurian Science and Technology Campus]] and [[Punta Santiago Substrates]], funded through the [[Aldurian Economic Diversification and Recovery Act, 1755]], together employ around 600. Aldurian unemployment held below the federal average through the worst of it, the mines kept open on short time rather than shut. The extraction strand Alduria was built on fell with the [[Alexandrium]] price. The [[Unified Alexandrium Resource Authority]] levy the Piriya mine pays is charged on the weight it digs and not the price it fetches, so the mine kept paying its way and cut to three days a week rather than closing; what collapsed was the value the town lived on, and behind it the mortgage arrears that ended with the [[Caisse Régionale de l'Alduria]] taken into intervention and sold to [[Quipu Bank]] in {{AN|1758}}.<ref name="diversification">[[Aldurian Economic Diversification and Recovery Act, 1755]].</ref>

The recovery act was written with that split in mind. Of its NAX€750 billion headline, NAX€600 billion is borrowed and spent directly, the rest credit guarantees and deferrals the Treasury pays only if they are drawn. Alongside the wage top-ups, retraining, and the [[National Homebuilding Drive]] that carry its slogan of work, home, and family, it gives the producing Regions their own instruments: recovery pacts negotiated through their chambers, credit guarantees channeled the same way, and a strategic floor under the Alexandrium price. It also carries forward the diversification act, built to move Alduria off Alexandrium before the metal ran short and now asked to cushion the opposite shock, a price glut rather than a scarcity.

Bouchard's argument is that the money and the science reach the coast first. The campus hires, he told audiences in the mine towns, while the pacts meant to reach Piriya remain to be signed and the houses the diversification act promised the Region remain unbuilt. His Coalition holds [[José Manuel Montero]]'s government in office on confidence and supply, and the grievance he pressed, that Alduria's diversification has been announced more often than delivered, is the one the Coalition has carried longest. He did not threaten the government's majority. He asked, in the phrase his deputies repeated through the week, that the recovery reach Piriya and not only Punta Santiago.

For Mireia Solano, a process technician on the Punta Santiago lines whose father spent his working life in the Piriya pit, the two speeds run through one family. ''"My shift is full and my father's is three days,"'' she said. ''"The recovery is real where I work. I am still waiting to see it where he does."''

At the far end of the line, the wait Piriya settled into after the crash has not lifted. Théo Vasseur, the shift foreman who let twelve of his forty men go that winter and put the rest on short time, said the recovery had reached the town as news before it reached it as work. ''"They passed the act in the spring and I read about it,"'' he said. ''"I have not seen a pact and I have not called a man back. The rock still comes up, the levy is still paid on its weight, and the men are still on three days. I will believe the rescue when there is a fourth day on the board."''

In reply, the government says the act was designed for exactly this. Treasury Secretary [[Warren Ferdinand]], who presented the recovery under the work-home-family slogan, has said the recovery pacts and the price floor are the producing Regions' share of the rescue, that the first disbursements are being settled with the Regional chambers now, and that every écu paid to a Region will be reported to the Federal Assembly quarter by quarter. The strategic floor under the Alexandrium price, Treasury officials note, is aimed at the extraction towns Bouchard speaks for, and the first quarterly disbursement report, the government's own promised test, will show where the money went.

Economists caution that a rescue can steady the mine towns without closing the gap. [[Rodrigo Castellanos]] of the [[Institute for Strategic Studies]], whose report on [[Peak Alexandrium]] dated the peak of the Federation's Alexandrium extraction to between {{AN|1765}} and {{AN|1768}} and named the scarcity the diversification act was built against, said the two speeds are structural, not a sign that the recovery has failed to arrive. ''"A price glut is not a bank run; you cannot spend your way back to the old royalties,"'' he said. ''"The recovery can hold Piriya steady, and the diversification can, over a decade, give it something else. Neither happens in a quarter, and a campaign is measured in weeks."''

The politics of the question are already on the record. The second IOP/NBC News poll of the year found the recovery had lifted the government's approval to its best reading since the crash without returning a point of the vote, the electorate crediting the rescue while withholding its support.<ref name="poll-vi">Second regular IOP/NBC News poll of {{AN|1759}}, conducted 19-21.VI.{{AN|1759}}.</ref> In Alduria the same split runs along the map: the recovery is felt on the coast and awaited inland, and whether NAX€600 billion reached both is a question that, for now, turns on which town is asked. The first disbursement report is the answer both sides say they are waiting for.
|tldr=''On 24.VII.{{AN|1759}}, Coordinator [[Émile Bouchard]] made the recovery's uneven reach across [[Alduria]] the [[Aldurian Independent Coalition]]'s test of the Federation's NAX€750 billion rescue, pressing the government to show the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]] was reaching the [[Piriya]] mine towns and not only the [[Punta Santiago]] science campus. Alduria ran the recession at two speeds, the advanced-sciences strand hiring while extraction worked three-day weeks, and the act's recovery pacts, credit guarantees, and Alexandrium price floor for the producing Regions have yet to be measured against the divide. Treasury Secretary [[Warren Ferdinand]] said the pacts were built for exactly those Regions and the first quarterly disbursement report would show the flow, while economists called the two speeds structural, a price glut no rescue reverses in a quarter. With about two months to the general election, the recovery has bought the government approval but not votes, and in Alduria the answer to whether the NAX€600 billion of direct spending was enough turns on which town is asked.''
|impact_stability={{decrease}} -1
|impact_approval={{steady}} 0
|impact_economy={{steady}} 0
}}

==VIII (Estivis)==
===2===

{{Main|13th Cortes Federales|New Alexandrian general election, 1759}}
{{See also|Cortes Federales Act, 1694|Legislative Palace of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Mace of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE THIRTEENTH CORTES ADJOURNS AS THE FEDERATION ENTERS ELECTION SEASON
|image=ThirteenthCortesAdjournment1759NBC.png
|image_size=400px
|image_caption=''Regional bearers carry the [[Mace of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Mace of State]] from the presentation table in the Assembly Convocation Hall after the [[13th Cortes Federales|Thirteenth Cortes]] adjourned in [[Cárdenas]], 2.VIII.{{AN|1759}}. The 749-deputy Assembly met in a chamber capable of accommodating the 801 seats to be contested in IX.{{AN|1759}}.''
|bullet1=Ordinary Sittings End After the Thirteenth Cortes Completes Its Last Scheduled Plenary Before the Election
|bullet2=Political Convention Treats the Adjournment as the Opening of Election Season, Though Campaigning Has Been Underway for Months
|bullet3=Formal Campaign Period Remains Scheduled to Begin on 13.VIII
|bullet4=Adjournment Does Not Dissolve the Cortes or End the Mandates of Its 749 Deputies
|bullet5=Next Election Will Fill 801 Seats, Including Oportia's First 39
|bullet6=Regional Bearers Carry the Mace from the Assembly Chamber at the Close of the Ceremony
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=King [[Sinchi Roca II]] adjourned the [[13th Cortes Federales|Thirteenth Cortes Federales]] by proclamation on 2.VIII.{{AN|1759}}, after the legislature completed its last scheduled plenary sitting before the general election. The act closed the ordinary parliamentary calendar of the Cortes that opened on 12.I.{{AN|1755}} and supplied the ceremony that the Federation's political class conventionally regards as the opening of election season.<ref name="adjournment">[[13th Cortes Federales]]; [[Cortes Federales Act, 1694]], section 3.</ref>

The act was an adjournment, not a dissolution. The 749 deputies of the outgoing [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] retained their mandates, and the Thirteenth Cortes remained the lawful legislature until the five-year term expired or the Cortes was dissolved. The statute also left a route for a special or extraordinary meeting if urgent business required one before the election.<ref name="legal">[[Cortes Federales Act, 1694]], sections 3 and 4; [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759]], electoral system.</ref>

Campaigning had long preceded the ceremony. Parties had selected candidates, tested election arguments in the Cortes and taken them across the Regions before the chambers rose. The adjournment nevertheless supplied the conventional dividing line between the ordinary parliamentary calendar and the election season. It did not alter the formal campaign calendar, which was still due to begin on 13.VIII, eleven days after the Cortes adjourned.<ref name="campaign">[[New Alexandrian general election, 1759]], campaign; [[NBC Newsfeed/1759#AS_THE_CAMPAIGN_OPENS,_THE_RACE_TIGHTENS_AND_THE_GOVERNMENT'S_LEAD_OVER_THE_OPPOSITION_NARROWS_TO_A_POINT|"As the campaign opens, the race tightens"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 11.VIII.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The physical chamber already pointed beyond the adjournment. The outgoing Assembly had 749 seats, the size at which it had stood since {{AN|1744}}. Reapportionment following the [[1758 New Alexandrian census]] enlarged the Assembly to 801 seats for the IX.{{AN|1759}} election, including the first 39 seats for [[Oportia]]. In the semicircular Assembly Convocation Hall, the additional capacity was visible around the outgoing members. Those seeking to return would first have to win a new mandate in IX.{{AN|1759}} before any of the 801 seats could be filled.<ref name="seats">[[New Alexandrian general election, 1759]], seat apportionment; [[Legislative Palace of Nouvelle Alexandrie]], Federal Assembly.</ref>

At the close, Speaker [[Carolina Mendez]] remained at the dais while [[Sayri Tʼito Waman]], the [[Lord Protector of the Cortes Federales|Lord Protector]], directed the regional bearers carrying the 4.2-meter [[Mace of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Mace of State]] from its reinforced presentation table and through the central aisle. Placing the Mace on that table formally commences a legislative session; carrying it from the chamber gave the adjournment its clearest public image without pretending that the Thirteenth Cortes had already ceased to exist.<ref name="mace">[[Mace of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]; [[Opening of the Cortes Federales]]; [[Lord Protector of the Cortes Federales]].</ref>

Deputies left the chamber as incumbents entering a campaign, not as members of a successor Assembly. The electorate would not choose the 801 members of the [[14th Cortes Federales|Fourteenth Cortes]] until IX.{{AN|1759}}. On 2.VIII, the transition was from the ordinary parliamentary calendar to the political election season, not from the Thirteenth Cortes to its successor.
|tldr=The [[13th Cortes Federales|Thirteenth Cortes]] adjourned on 2.VIII.{{AN|1759}} after its last scheduled plenary sitting before the general election. The ceremony conventionally opened election season even though campaigning was already underway and the formal campaign period would not begin until 13.VIII. Adjournment did not dissolve the Cortes or end the mandates of its 749 deputies, who remained the outgoing legislature and could still be called for urgent business. The IX.{{AN|1759}} election would contest an enlarged 801-seat Assembly, including [[Oportia]]'s first 39 seats. In the closing ceremony, regional bearers carried the [[Mace of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Mace of State]] from the presentation table and out through the Assembly Convocation Hall.
|impact_stability={{steady}} 0
|impact_approval={{steady}} 0
}}
===11===
{{See also|New Alexandrian general election, 1759}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} AS THE CAMPAIGN OPENS, THE RACE TIGHTENS AND THE GOVERNMENT'S LEAD OVER THE OPPOSITION NARROWS TO A POINT
|image=NBC1759StateOfRacePoll.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''IOP/NBC News vote-intention graphic for 7–9.VIII.{{AN|1759}}: [[Federal Humanist Party|FHP]] 39%, [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]] 38%, [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|FCP]] 10%, [[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]] 8%, independents and others 4%, and the [[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]] 1%.''
|bullet1=The First IOP/NBC News Poll of the Campaign Cuts the Federal Humanist Lead Over AJNA to a Single Point, 39 to 38
|bullet2=The Recovery That Lifted the Government's Standing Still Has Not Returned It the Vote, and the Opposition Has Begun to Close the Gap
|bullet3=Cost of Living Tops the Issues Voters Say Will Decide Their Vote, Ahead of the Economy and Housing
|bullet4=Montero and Gonçalves Run Level on Who Should Be Premier, Inside the Margin of Error
|bullet5=Party Finance Slips to Fifth as Pocketbook Issues Rise, Though the Civic Governance Alliance Still Owns It and Climbs to 8 Percent
|bullet6=Oportia's Thirty-Nine First-Time Seats Remain the Great Unknown of Every Projection
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The first IOP/NBC News poll of the {{AN|1759}} campaign, conducted 7-9.VIII, opens the contest with the narrowest gap the series has measured. The [[Federal Humanist Party]] leads the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]] alliance by a single point, 39 to 38, with the campaign due to begin on 13.VIII.<ref name="poll">Institute of Public Opinion for NBC News, first campaign poll of {{AN|1759}}, conducted 7-9.VIII.{{AN|1759}}; margin of error ±2.2 percent.</ref>

The vote will decide whether Premier [[José Manuel Montero]] wins a third term, a question the Federation left open in {{AN|1758}} when it rejected a two-term cap on the premiership 64 to 36 in a [[New Alexandrian premiership term limits referendum, 1758|binding referendum]]. It opens with his party at its weakest of the polling series and its lead all but gone.

The lead has closed from four points to one since the poll in VI, and it has closed from both ends. The governing party has slipped two points to 39, its recovery in standing still not translating into returning support, while the opposition alliance has gathered a point to 38. ''"For half a year the story was a government the recovery lifted but the vote would not follow,"'' said Nicolás Arreola, director of the [[Institute of Public Opinion]], which conducts the survey for the network. ''"What is new is the other half of the picture. The opposition has started, slowly, to collect what the government is shedding. A point is not a lead changing hands. It is the gap closing to where a campaign can move it."''<ref name="poll" />

Government approval has drawn level for the first time since the [[1757 Alexandrium market crash|crash]], at 47 percent approve to 47 disapprove, and the share of the country calling the Federation's direction right has risen to even with those calling it wrong. Both are the government's best readings of the recession, and neither has moved the party numbers with it. The [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] holds at 10 percent and the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] climbs a further point to 8, the smaller parties continuing to hold the ground the two largest have been losing.

For the first time the Institute published a full issue battery, and it ordered the campaign around the cost of living. Voters named the cost of living and food prices the issue most likely to decide their vote, at 23 percent, ahead of the economy and jobs at 20, housing at 13, and the regional gap between coast and interior at 11. Political integrity and party finance, which the VI poll had placed third behind only the cost of living and the recovery, slipped to fifth at 10 as the pocketbook issues climbed. ''"Party finance has not gone away, it has been crowded,"'' said Aurelio Retamozo, a psephologist at the [[University of Punta Santiago]]. ''"When the rent and the grocery bill are the whole of the conversation, a process argument gives ground. But a tenth of the country still names it their first issue, on a reform the last Assembly refused twice, and that is why the smaller parties are not going anywhere."''<ref name="poll" />

The question of which party could best handle each issue split the field. The government held the economy and foreign affairs; the opposition alliance led on housing, the cost of living, and the regional gap between the recovering coast and the lagging interior; the Federal Consensus Party led on debt and spending; and the Civic Governance Alliance led the field it has made its own, party finance, where it drew more trust than either of the two largest parties. On who should be Premier, voters split evenly between Montero and [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], 42 to 41, a gap well inside the margin.

Neither figure was offered a governing majority. At 39 percent the Federal Humanist Party stands well short of the 401 seats a majority of the 801-seat Assembly requires, in a chamber it has governed through on the votes of [[Émile Bouchard]]'s [[Aldurian Independent Coalition|Aldurian Coalition]]. Asked what government they wanted after the election, voters gave no outcome a plurality, 37 percent for a Federal Humanist-led government, 35 for an AJNA-led one, and 16 for a grand cross-party coalition.

The regional returns held the poll's largest reminder that the map is not yet drawn. The two largest parties traded the lead Region by Region: the AJNA bloc ran ahead in [[Alduria]], the Federation's most populous Region, where the [[Federal Consensus Party|Federal Consensus]] vote that once anchored the center-right had thinned, and across the old [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Democratic Socialist]] country of [[South Lyrica]], [[Valencia]], [[New Luthoria]], and [[Boriquén]], as well as the [[Wechua Nation]] that Montero himself represents, where it led the governing party 45 to 34. The [[Federal Humanist Party]] held its strongholds in [[North Lyrica]], the [[Isles of Caputia]], [[New Caputia]], and [[Santander]], while the Federal Consensus vote still ran first in [[Islas de la Libertad]]. In [[Oportia]], voting federally for the first time with 39 of the chamber's 801 seats, the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]] bloc and the [[Federal Consensus Party|Federal Consensus]] ran level for the lead, with the Federal Humanist Party, which had absorbed the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party of Oportia|former Nationalist and Humanist]] vote, a close third, while [[Sofia Laurent]]'s [[Republican Party of Oportia|autonomist list]] took roughly a sixth of the Region's vote. ''"Thirty-nine seats and no past vote to model, in a race this close, and every projection of the next Assembly is guessing at them,"'' Retamozo said. ''"Which way Oportia breaks, nobody can tell you yet, and it may be the thing that settles the whole election."''<ref name="poll" />
|tldr=The first IOP/NBC News poll of the {{AN|1759}} campaign, conducted 7-9.VIII, finds the race tightened to a single point as the campaign opens on 13.VIII to decide whether Premier [[José Manuel Montero|Montero]] wins a third term: the [[Federal Humanist Party]] leads the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]] alliance 39 to 38, down from a four-point gap in VI, the government slipping two points while the opposition gains one. Government approval has drawn level at 47-47 and the sense of direction has reached even, the government's best readings of the recession, without returning it the vote. A first full issue battery put the cost of living first at 23 percent, the economy at 20 and housing at 13, with political integrity and party finance slipping from third in the spring to fifth at 10 as pocketbook worries rose; voters split 42 to 41 between Montero and [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|Gonçalves]] on who should be Premier. The [[Civic Governance Alliance]] climbed to 8 percent and still led the field on party finance, while Oportia's 39 first-time seats remained the unknown in every projection.
|impact_approval={{increase}} +1
}}

====IOP/NBC News Public Opinion Polling====
=====National Party Voting Intention=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''NATIONAL PARTY VOTING INTENTION''' ''If the election were held today, which party would you support?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 7-9.VIII.{{AN|1759}}
! Party
! Percentage in Poll
! Change Since VI.{{AN|1759}} Poll
|-
| [[Federal Humanist Party]] ([[FHP]])
| 39.0%
| {{decrease}} -2.0%
|-
| [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] ([[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]])
| 38.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] ([[Federal Consensus Party|FCP]])
| 10.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| [[Civic Governance Alliance]] ([[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]])
| 8.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Republican Party of Oportia]] ([[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]])
| 1.0%
| {{decrease}} -1.0%
|-
| Independents & Other Candidates
| 4.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|}

=====Party Leader Favorability Ratings=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''PARTY LEADER FAVORABILITY RATINGS''' % of registered voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 7-9.VIII.{{AN|1759}}
! Leader
! Favorable
! Unfavorable
! No Opinion
! Net Favorability
! Change
|-
| [[José Manuel Montero]] ([[FHP]]) Premier
| 47.0%
| 47.0%
| 6.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] ([[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|DSP]] / [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]]) Leader of the Opposition
| 51.0%
| 28.0%
| 21.0%
| {{increase}} +23.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Elena Svensson]] ([[CGA]]) CGA Leader
| 54.0%
| 22.0%
| 24.0%
| {{increase}} +32.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Francisco Gabaza]] ([[FCP]]) Leader
| 35.0%
| 35.0%
| 30.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
| {{decrease}} -2.0%
|-
| [[Yuiza Bohi'o]] ([[Wakara People's Party|WPP]]) Leader
| 38.0%
| 13.0%
| 49.0%
| {{increase}} +25.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Émile Bouchard]] ([[Aldurian Independent Coalition|Aldurian Coalition]]) Coordinator
| 33.0%
| 21.0%
| 46.0%
| {{increase}} +12.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Sofia Laurent]] ([[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]]) Leader
| 16.0%
| 10.0%
| 74.0%
| {{increase}} +6.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|}

=====Government Approval=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''GOVERNMENT APPROVAL''' ''Do you approve or disapprove of the job the Montero government is doing?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 7-9.VIII.{{AN|1759}}
! Response
! Percentage
! Change Since VI.{{AN|1759}}
|-
| Approve
| 47.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|-
| Disapprove
| 47.0%
| {{decrease}} -1.0%
|-
| No Opinion
| 6.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
! Net Approval
! {{steady}} 0.0%
! {{increase}} +1.0%
|}

=====Direction of the Federation=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''DIRECTION OF THE FEDERATION''' ''Do you think the Federation is headed in the right direction or the wrong direction?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 7-9.VIII.{{AN|1759}}
! Response
! Percentage
! Change Since VI.{{AN|1759}}
|-
| Right Direction
| 46.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| Wrong Direction
| 46.0%
| {{decrease}} -1.0%
|-
| No Opinion
| 8.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|}

=====Most Important Issue Facing the Federation=====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FACING THE FEDERATION''' ''Which one issue will matter most to your vote in the coming general election?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 7-9.VIII.{{AN|1759}}
! Issue
! Percentage
|-
| Cost of living and food prices
| 23.0%
|-
| Economy and jobs
| 20.0%
|-
| Housing
| 13.0%
|-
| Regional inequality and the two-speed recovery
| 11.0%
|-
| Political integrity and party finance
| 10.0%
|-
| Civil liberties and public order
| 8.0%
|-
| Government debt and spending
| 6.0%
|-
| Foreign affairs and the Anglien drawdown
| 5.0%
|-
| Immigration, settlement and the Law of Graces
| 4.0%
|}

=====Importance of Issues to the Vote=====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''IMPORTANCE OF ISSUES TO THE VOTE''' ''How important will each issue be to your vote?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 7-9.VIII.{{AN|1759}}
! Issue
! Very important
! Somewhat important
! Not important
|-
| Cost of living and food prices || 78.0% || 18.0% || 4.0%
|-
| Economy and jobs || 74.0% || 21.0% || 5.0%
|-
| Housing || 61.0% || 30.0% || 9.0%
|-
| Regional inequality and the two-speed recovery || 55.0% || 33.0% || 12.0%
|-
| Political integrity and party finance || 52.0% || 34.0% || 14.0%
|-
| Civil liberties and public order || 49.0% || 37.0% || 14.0%
|-
| Government debt and spending || 47.0% || 38.0% || 15.0%
|-
| Foreign affairs and the Anglien drawdown || 40.0% || 40.0% || 20.0%
|-
| Immigration, settlement and the Law of Graces || 38.0% || 42.0% || 20.0%
|}

=====Party Best Able to Handle Each Issue=====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''PARTY BEST ABLE TO HANDLE EACH ISSUE''' ''Which party do you most trust to handle each issue?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 7-9.VIII.{{AN|1759}}
! Issue
! [[Federal Humanist Party|FHP]]
! [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]]
! [[Federal Consensus Party|FCP]]
! [[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]]
! No party / unsure
|-
| Cost of living and food prices || 30.0% || 37.0% || 9.0% || 8.0% || 16.0%
|-
| Economy and jobs || 38.0% || 34.0% || 12.0% || 6.0% || 10.0%
|-
| Housing || 28.0% || 42.0% || 6.0% || 6.0% || 18.0%
|-
| Regional inequality and the two-speed recovery || 27.0% || 35.0% || 7.0% || 8.0% || 23.0%
|-
| Political integrity and party finance || 15.0% || 24.0% || 9.0% || 34.0% || 18.0%
|-
| Civil liberties and public order || 26.0% || 30.0% || 10.0% || 14.0% || 20.0%
|-
| Government debt and spending || 30.0% || 20.0% || 31.0% || 7.0% || 12.0%
|-
| Foreign affairs and the Anglien drawdown || 41.0% || 26.0% || 9.0% || 6.0% || 18.0%
|-
| Immigration, settlement and the Law of Graces || 33.0% || 27.0% || 12.0% || 7.0% || 21.0%
|}

=====Vote Intention by Region=====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''VOTE INTENTION BY REGION''' ''If the election were held today, which party would you support?'', by Region % of registered New Alexandrian voters; Regions ordered by population Margin of error: ±3.5% within Regions Survey conducted 7-9.VIII.{{AN|1759}}
! Region
! [[Federal Humanist Party|FHP]]
! [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]]
! [[Federal Consensus Party|FCP]]
! [[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]]
! [[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]]
! Ind. & other
|-
| [[Alduria]] || 35.0% || 40.0% || 13.0% || 8.0% || n/a || 4.0%
|-
| [[Wechua Nation]] || 34.0% || 45.0% || 8.0% || 9.0% || n/a || 4.0%
|-
| [[Santander]] || 46.0% || 32.0% || 11.0% || 8.0% || n/a || 3.0%
|-
| [[South Lyrica]] || 32.0% || 50.0% || 7.0% || 8.0% || n/a || 3.0%
|-
| [[North Lyrica]] || 56.0% || 24.0% || 5.0% || 11.0% || n/a || 4.0%
|-
| [[Isles of Caputia]] || 58.0% || 20.0% || 8.0% || 10.0% || n/a || 4.0%
|-
| [[Oportia]] || 24.0% || 27.0% || 26.0% || 4.0% || 15.0% || 4.0%
|-
| [[Boriquén]] || 27.0% || 58.0% || 5.0% || 7.0% || n/a || 3.0%
|-
| [[Valencia]] || 26.0% || 55.0% || 9.0% || 7.0% || n/a || 3.0%
|-
| [[New Caputia]] || 53.0% || 22.0% || 13.0% || 8.0% || n/a || 4.0%
|-
| [[Islas de la Libertad]] || 33.0% || 16.0% || 38.0% || 10.0% || n/a || 3.0%
|-
| [[New Luthoria]] || 32.0% || 50.0% || 8.0% || 7.0% || n/a || 3.0%
|-
| [[Cárdenas|Federal Capital District]] || 39.0% || 33.0% || 15.0% || 10.0% || n/a || 3.0%
|}

=====Preferred Premier=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''PREFERRED PREMIER''' ''Regardless of the party you support, who would make the better Premier?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 7-9.VIII.{{AN|1759}}
! Candidate
! Percentage
|-
| [[José Manuel Montero]] ([[FHP]])
| 42.0%
|-
| [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] ([[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]])
| 41.0%
|-
| Neither / unsure
| 17.0%
|}

=====Preferred Government After the Election=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''PREFERRED GOVERNMENT AFTER THE ELECTION''' ''What kind of government would you most like to see form after the election?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 7-9.VIII.{{AN|1759}}
! Outcome
! Percentage
|-
| A Federal Humanist-led government
| 37.0%
|-
| An AJNA-led government
| 35.0%
|-
| A grand cross-party coalition
| 16.0%
|-
| No preference / unsure
| 12.0%
|}

=====Enthusiasm to Vote by Party=====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''ENTHUSIASM TO VOTE BY PARTY''' ''Share of each party's supporters who say they are certain to vote'' % of each party's identified supporters Margin of error: ±3.5% within groups Survey conducted 7-9.VIII.{{AN|1759}}
! Party
! Certain to vote
|-
| [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]]
| 74.0%
|-
| [[Federal Humanist Party|FHP]]
| 71.0%
|-
| [[Federal Consensus Party|FCP]]
| 69.0%
|-
| [[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]]
| 66.0%
|-
| [[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]]
| 63.0%
|-
| Independents & other
| 55.0%
|}

===14===
{{Main|Projet Horizon}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} PROJET HORIZON BREAKS GROUND ON A PLANT TO BUILD THE COLLIDER'S ALEXANDRIUM-FREE MAGNETS
|image=ProjetHorizonMagnetPlant1759NBC.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''Site engineers review early construction at [[Projet Horizon]]'s Alexandrium-free superconducting-magnet plant near [[Ardabil]], [[Alduria]], following the 14.VIII.{{AN|1759}} groundbreaking.''
|bullet1=Ground Broke in Alduria on an Alexandrium-Free Magnet Plant
|bullet2=The Plant Will Wind and Test a Home-Built String of Roughly 16-Tesla Niobium-Tin Magnets
|bullet3=Those Magnets Would Replace the Collider's Niobium-Titanium-Alexandrium Alloy
|bullet4=Engineers Kept the Upgrade Inside the Existing Ring, Digging No New Tunnel
|bullet5=Even the Government's Own Defense Chief Called a Plant Not Yet a Magnet
|bullet6=Opposition Leaders Called the Ceremony a Campaign Event a Month Before Voting
|location=[[Ardabil]], Alduria
|body=The [[Aldurian Collider Management Consortium]] broke ground on 14.VIII.{{AN|1759}} on a plant to build the [[Superconducting Super Collider]]'s magnets without [[Alexandrium]], the first physical construction under [[Projet Horizon]], the government's program to hold the frontier of physics while shedding the commodity that drove the [[Recession of 1757]].

The facility will rise in the technology corridor that has grown around the collider near [[Ardabil]], a short distance from [[CCI]]. It is to manufacture niobium-tin superconducting wire and to wind and test the first string of magnets the Federation has built at home, magnets that reach a field of roughly 16 tesla and carry no Alexandrium. They are meant to replace the collider's proprietary niobium-titanium-Alexandrium magnets in the existing 87.1-kilometer ring, an upgrade that requires no new tunnel and no new site.

''"We are going to build the magnet here, not buy the alloy,"'' said Dr. Nayra Quispe, the consortium physicist who leads the program's magnet track. ''"The machine that stands for New Alexandrian science was running on the resource we are trying to move past. This plant is how we take it off that resource."''

Projet Horizon, launched in {{AN|1758}}, is run through the consortium that operates the collider, with the [[Department of Research and Development (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Research and Development]] as its federal sponsor. It is not a new machine but a funding and mission framework that re-equips the existing one and widens its use into medicine and industry. The magnet track is its principal effort; the plant that broke ground is the industrial base the rest depends on.

The work carries no separate appropriation, following the model of the [[Frontera Program]] of {{AN|1738}}, an earlier federal science program the department ran without one. It draws on the consortium's standing capital-improvement program for the collider, budgeted at roughly NAX€1.5 billion through {{AN|1760}}, and on the advanced-sciences strand of the [[Aldurian Economic Diversification and Recovery Act, 1755]], the same strand that funds [[Foundation 1768]]. Because high-field magnets and the cryogenic plant that cools them have military as well as civil uses, the [[Force 1760]] procurement program funds the dual-use side. The magnet and superconductor contracts go to [[Dingo Enterprises]] of [[Natopia]], the firm that built the collider's original Alexandrium magnets, and to [[Javelin Industries]]; the Dingo contract falls under the [[Natopian-Nouvelle Alexandrie Joint Economic Council|Cárdenas Protocol]], under which the maker of the Alexandrium magnets is now contracted to build their Alexandrium-free successors.

Among those at the ceremony was [[Andres Ahuanal]], the theoretical physicist who had helped plan the collider a generation earlier and is now one of its honorary members. The event, the third visible step in the diversification agenda after the [[Inti (spacecraft)|Inti]] sail flight and the photonics work of [[Projet Prisme]], came a month before the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|general election]] that the governing [[Federal Humanist Party]] has run on.

The government kept its own caution in view. Vice-President and Secretary of Defense [[Fred Strong]], whose office runs the dual-use side of the program, welcomed the start but said a plant was not yet a magnet, and that he had required the magnet track to meet its demonstration benchmarks before any commitment to re-equip the whole collider. ''"I will judge this on a magnet that holds its field, not on a shovel,"'' Strong said.

The opposition was harder on the timing. [[Yuiza Bohi'o]] of the [[Wakara People's Party]] said a magnet plant in Alduria did little for the outer regions and that the ceremony belonged to the campaign more than to the economy. Francisco Gabaza of the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] pointed to the borrowing behind the diversification appropriations, and Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves of the [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Democratic Socialist Party]] said a prestige science facility drew money that more immediate industrial support needed first.

Consortium officials answered that the accelerator base is among the few frontier capabilities the Federation already holds, and that the plant would seed a domestic superconductor industry the country could turn to other uses, from [[Project Kallpa]] to the directed-energy work of [[Projet Faisceau]]. To the charge that the collider is a prestige project, they pointed to the program's medical track, which is to carry the accelerator's work into a [[National Proton Therapy Center]] for cancer treatment, run with [[MediCore Industries]]. Whether the machine that moves off Alexandrium answers the wider bet on advanced science is a question the campaign will settle.
|tldr=The Aldurian Collider Management Consortium broke ground on 14.VIII.{{AN|1759}} on a plant in Alduria to build Alexandrium-free niobium-tin magnets for the Superconducting Super Collider, the first physical construction under Projet Horizon, a month before the general election. The roughly 16-tesla magnets are to replace the collider's niobium-titanium-Alexandrium alloy in the existing ring with no new tunnel; funding runs through the collider's capital program, the Aldurian diversification act, and dual-use defense funds, with Dingo and Javelin holding the contracts. Vice-Premier Fred Strong called a plant not yet a magnet, and opposition figures called the timing a campaign event.
|impact_stability={{increase}} +1
|impact_approval={{increase}} +1
}}

===20===
{{See also|University of Cárdenas|Museum of Wechua Antiquities}}

{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} A CÁRDENAS EXHIBITION PUTS WECHUA AND WAKARA TREASURES IN ONE ROOM UNDER THE SIGN OF THE SUN
|image=ChildrenOfTheSunExhibition1759NBC.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''Visitors view a hammered [[Inti]] solar disc and [[quipu]] cords opposite [[Wakara]] goldwork and woven textiles at "Children of the Sun," an exhibition at the [[University of Cárdenas]], 20.VIII.{{AN|1759}}.''
|bullet1=The University of Cárdenas Opened the Show at Its University Museum
|bullet2=Inti Solar Discs and Wakara Goldwork Are Displayed Within Sight of Each Other
|bullet3=Key Loans Came North From the Museum of Wechua Antiquities at Parap
|bullet4=Quipu Cords and a Panel of Khipu Siq'i Script Anchor the Middle Galleries
|bullet5=Curators Framed Two Peoples Who Both Call Themselves Children of the Sun
|bullet6=One Scholar Cautioned Against Letting a Shared Theme Blur Two Distinct Traditions
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=Two peoples who have each called themselves children of the sun now have their heirlooms in the same set of rooms. On 20.VIII.{{AN|1759}} the [[University of Cárdenas]] opened ''Children of the Sun'', an exhibition at its University Museum that sets the solar heritage of the [[Wechua people|Wechua]] beside that of the [[Wakara]] of [[Boriquén]], the first time the two collections have been shown together at that scale in the capital.

The centerpieces traveled. Several of the hammered [[Inti]] solar discs and worked ceremonial vessels came north on loan from the [[Museum of Wechua Antiquities]] at [[Parap]], a designated national heritage site, and hang within sight of Wakara goldwork and the fine woven textiles for which the Lake Cherusken communities are known. Between the two, the middle galleries hold knotted quipu cords and a panel of ''[[Khipu Siq'i]]'', the stroke-based Wechua script, set as a bridge between two ways a people without a printing press kept its accounts and its stories.

The framing is deliberate, and its makers know it is also an argument. Wechua and Wakara are distinct nations with distinct languages and faiths, the one holding to the [[Faith of Inti]] and the other to [[Yukiyu Atabey]]; what the exhibition proposes is that their reverence for the sun is a genuine kinship and not a curator's coincidence. ''"You can walk this show and see two traditions answering the same question in their own words,"'' said Dr. Camila Restrepo of the University of Cárdenas, who advised on the exhibition. ''"They are not the same. They are relatives, and relatives are worth putting in a room together."''

That the show lands in a year of interfaith conversation is not lost on its organizers, who noted the earlier [[#COLLOQUY_OF_THE_FAITHS|colloquy of the Federation's faiths]] in the same city. The exhibition makes the cultural version of the colloquy's theological case.

The pairing has its skeptics among specialists. ''"A shared theme is a beautiful way to fill a gallery and a dangerous way to write history,"'' said one anthropologist of the Wakara who asked not to speak for her whole field. ''"The sun means one thing at Guánica and another at Huichajanca. Put them side by side, by all means, but keep the labels honest."'' The curators said they had tried to, and that the objection was one the show was built to invite rather than avoid.
|tldr=''The [[University of Cárdenas]] opened ''Children of the Sun'' on 20.VIII.{{AN|1759}} at its University Museum, an exhibition setting the solar heritage of the [[Wechua people|Wechua]] beside that of the [[Wakara]] of [[Boriquén]]: hammered [[Inti]] solar discs and ceremonial vessels loaned north from the [[Museum of Wechua Antiquities]] at [[Parap]], Wakara goldwork and textiles, and a central bridge of quipu cords and ''[[Khipu Siq'i]]'' script. Curators framed two distinct peoples who both call themselves children of the sun, tying the show to the year's interfaith colloquy, while one anthropologist cautioned against letting a shared theme blur genuinely different traditions.''
|impact_culture={{increase}} +1
|impact_social={{increase}} +1
|impact_education={{increase}} +1
}}
[[Category:Nouvelle Alexandrie]]

===24===

==== Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month VIII, 1759) ====

''Published by the Nouvelle Alexandrie Statistics Bureau.''

The [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758|Recovery Act]] took effect in the second quarter of {{AN|1759}}, and consumer confidence recovered while unemployment kept rising. Unemployment rose 0.5 points to 8.6% from 8.1%, and consumer confidence rose to 73.9 from 71.2, while the annualized pace of contraction narrowed to 4.0% from 5.4%. Output had not turned: the year-on-year growth rate widened to negative 4.0% from negative 3.2%, and trailing annual output fell to NAX€47.80 trillion. The Act, carried in the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] on the first of Month V, reopened the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758|{{AN|1758|noAN=y|nospan=y}} budget]] with NAX€600 billion of borrowed spending, disbursed across the remainder of the year, alongside a further NAX€150 billion in credit guarantees and tax deferrals that call on the Treasury only if they are drawn. The quarter's first tranche widened the deficit to 5.4% of GDP from 3.6% and lifted public debt to 64.6%. The [[National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie|National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund]] was left untouched by the Act, holding at NAX€1.78 trillion. The cost-of-living index rose to 105.5 and housing affordability eased to 101.8. One caveat applies to the headline output figure: the second quarter runs four months, so quarterly output of NAX€12.44 trillion is not directly comparable to a three-month quarter, and the annualized growth rate is the better guide to the quarter's pace.

===== Headline panel =====

{| class="wikitable"
! Indicator !! Current !! Change !! Note
|-
| Real GDP (quarter) || NAX€12.44 trillion || {{decrease}} NAX€246.99 billion || the quarter's output
|-
| Real GDP (trailing 4Q, annual) || NAX€47.80 trillion || {{decrease}} NAX€515.34 billion || sum of the last four quarters
|-
| Real GDP growth (QoQ, annualized) || -4.0% || || quarter on quarter
|-
| Real GDP growth (YoY) || -4.0% || || year on year
|-
| Nominal GDP (annual) || NAX€49.62 trillion || {{decrease}} NAX€324.22 billion || real times the deflator
|-
| GDP per capita (nominal) || NAX€95,819 || {{decrease}} NAX€914 || the very-rich headline
|-
| Inflation (CPI, YoY) || 1.6% || {{decrease}} 0.2% ||
|-
| Cost-of-Living Index || 105.5 || {{increase}} 0.4 || 100 = {{AN|1757}} base
|-
| Unemployment rate || 8.6% || {{increase}} 0.5% ||
|-
| Budget balance (quarter, % GDP) || -5.4% || {{decrease}} 1.8% || deficit if negative
|-
| Public debt (% GDP) || 64.6% || {{increase}} 1.8% || debt/GDP guardrail
|-
| Trade balance (quarter, % GDP) || 3.6% || {{increase}} 0.1% ||
|-
| Alexandrium price (NAX€/g) || 1,949.96 || {{steady}} || volatility driver
|-
| Alexandrium federal revenue (quarter) || NAX€57.16 billion || {{steady}} || feeds the 12% mandate
|-
| Gini coefficient || 0.380 || {{steady}} || distribution headline
|-
| Urban-rural income gap || 1.80 || {{steady}} || income ratio
|-
| Housing Affordability Index || 101.8 || {{decrease}} 0.1 || price/rent vs income
|-
| Consumer Confidence Index || 73.9 || {{increase}} 2.7 || 100 = neutral
|}



===== Detailed appendix =====

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Macro detail
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Real GDP (quarter) || NAX€12.44 trillion
|-
| Nominal GDP (quarter) || NAX€12.98 trillion
|-
| GDP deflator || 104.4
|-
| Real GDP (trailing 4Q) || NAX€47.80 trillion
|-
| Nominal GDP (trailing 4Q) || NAX€49.62 trillion
|-
| Real growth (QoQ ann.) || -4.0%
|-
| Real growth (YoY) || -4.0%
|-
| Cost-of-Living Index || 105.5
|-
| House Price Index || 96.4
|-
| Housing Affordability Index || 101.8
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Labor
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Population || 517,879,055
|-
| Working-age population || 340,438,422
|-
| Labor force || 213,705,708
|-
| Employed || 195,282,468
|-
| Participation rate || 62.8%
|-
| Unemployment rate || 8.6%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Fiscal and debt
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Revenue (quarter) || NAX€4.91 trillion
|-
| Expenditure (quarter) || NAX€5.38 trillion
|-
| Primary balance (quarter) || NAX€-466.47 billion
|-
| Interest (quarter) || NAX€232.75 billion
|-
| Budget balance (quarter) || NAX€-699.22 billion
|-
| Public debt || NAX€32.08 trillion
|-
| Public debt (% GDP) || 64.6%
|-
| Interest burden (% revenue) || 4.7%
|-
| Reserve fund || NAX€1.78 trillion
|-
| Reserve draw (quarter) || NAX€0.00 billion
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ External
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Exports (quarter) || NAX€3.34 trillion
|-
| Imports (quarter) || NAX€2.87 trillion
|-
| Trade balance (quarter) || NAX€467.53 billion
|-
| Trade balance (% GDP) || 3.6%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Strategic resources (Alexandrium)
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Price (NAX€/g) || 1,949.96
|-
| Gross value (quarter) || NAX€228.63 billion
|-
| Export value (quarter) || NAX€160.04 billion
|-
| Federal revenue (quarter) || NAX€57.16 billion
|-
| Revenue baseline (quarter) || NAX€85.01 billion
|-
| Revenue shortfall (quarter) || NAX€27.85 billion
|-
| UARA volume levy (quarter) || NAX€7.62 billion
|-
| Ad-valorem take (quarter) || NAX€49.54 billion
|-
| Diversification earmark (12%) || NAX€6.86 billion
|-
| Resource-sector share of GDP || 1.9%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Sectoral output (shares sum to 100%)
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Agriculture || 6.0%
|-
| Industry || 30.1%
|-
| Services || 63.9%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Inequality
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Gini coefficient || 0.380
|-
| Urban-rural income gap || 1.80
|}

''Outlook (forecast):'' real GDP growth is projected near 3.0% (annualized) next quarter, with unemployment near 8.7%. These are model projections, superseded by next quarter's actuals.

==IX (Aureoris)==
===1===
====EVERY CAMPAIGN IS RUNNING WELL AND THE RACE IS NO CLEARER FOR IT====

{{Main|New Alexandrian general election, 1759}}
{{NAXBroadsheet
|newspaper=THE CÁRDENAS PRESS
|edition=MORNING EDITION
|motto=The Federation's Daily Record
|price=NAX€1.00
|location_line=CÁRDENAS, FEDERATION OF NOUVELLE ALEXANDRIE
|date=1.IX.{{AN|1759}}
|volume=Vol. XCI
|issue=No. 193
|headline=EVERY CAMPAIGN IS RUNNING WELL AND THE RACE IS NO CLEARER FOR IT
|image=NBC1759StateOfRacePoll.png
|image_size=270px
|image_caption=''IOP/NBC News vote-intention graphic for 7–9.VIII.{{AN|1759}}: [[Federal Humanist Party|FHP]] 39%, [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]] 38%, [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|FCP]] 10%, [[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]] 8%, independents and others 4%, and the [[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]] 1%.''
|subheadline=A Single Point Separates the Two Largest Parties With a Fortnight to the Ballot, and Thirty-Nine Oportian Seats Sit Outside Every Projection
|byline=MARISOL AUBERT, Political Correspondent
|byline_prefix=By
|dateline=CÁRDENAS
|lead=With a fortnight to the opening of the poll on 15.IX.{{AN|1759}}, the campaigns contesting the Federation have settled into the shapes they will carry to the ballot, and the striking thing about them is how well they are all being run. Governing party and opposition, third force, single-issue group, regional list and crossbench: each has found a message it can hold and an organization to carry it. The result is a campaign season of unusual quality and unusual uncertainty, in which the sharpest operations in a generation have produced a race the last poll could not separate.
|body=The [[Institute of Public Opinion|IOP]]/NBC News poll of 7-9.VIII.{{AN|1759}} put the [[Federal Humanist Party]] on 39 percent and the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] on 38, a gap inside the margin of error, with the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] on 10, the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] on 8, independents and others on 4 and the [[Republican Party of Oportia]] on 1. Nothing in the three weeks since has given either of the two largest parties a reason to change course.

The Federal Humanists are fighting the most disciplined campaign of the cycle. Premier [[José Manuel Montero]], freed by the [[New Alexandrian premiership term limits referendum, 1758|term-limits referendum]] to seek a third consecutive term, is running on two arguments rather than one. The first is the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758|NAX€750 billion recovery package]] carried on 1.V by 731 votes to 18, which the party credits with returning its approval to even for the first time since the crash. The second is the answer to the grocery bill that the government legislated seven months ago and has been slow to campaign on: the [[Soil Stewardship and Food Abundance Act, 1759|Soil Stewardship and Food Abundance Act]], NAX€123 billion a year for ten years, promising a real cut of twenty to thirty percent in the household food basket. Campaign director Renata Ancasi has welded both to a ground operation running from [[Santander]] to the [[Isles of Caputia]], with fundraising ahead of projection and every surrogate held to the same three words: recovery, stability, experience.

The Alliance has answered with the strongest opposition campaign in a decade, and it is fighting on ground that is more its own than it looks. Where the government argues the recovery, [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] argues the rent and the grocery bill, and the Alliance leads on both cost of living and housing. Its two member parties are running one platform, the [[People's Deal]], out of one war room under campaign director Núria Feliu. The turnout operation is heaviest in [[Boriquén]], [[Valencia]], [[South Lyrica]] and [[New Luthoria]], the four Regions that voted to cap the premiership last year. The hard ground is [[Alduria]]. The Alliance is not taking Consensus territory there; it is trying to win back its own, having fallen from 62 Aldurian seats to 15 in {{AN|1754}} when local organizers and union officials broke away over the selection of a Santanderian leader. Gonçalves is campaigning hardest in the Region that rejected him.

The Federal Consensus Party is running well above its ten percent, and its case is more careful than its critics allow. The party voted for the recovery package along with almost the whole chamber. Its argument is about what the borrowing did to the debt path, not about whether the money was needed, and it is Finance Chairman [[Godfredo Domínguez]] who has carried it since telling the Assembly that a party whose first commitment is fiscal responsibility could not wave through six hundred billion écu of borrowing and say nothing. On debt and spending the Consensus is the most trusted party in the Federation, though only by a point, and on a question that ranks well down the list of what voters say will decide their vote. Its vote runs first in [[Islas de la Libertad]] and second in [[Oportia]], where the centrists who followed [[Clementina Duffy Carr]] out of the old governing party have given it a real machine. Whether [[Francisco Gabaza]] keeps his grip while the figures around him do the work is the question the party has carried all year.

The Civic Governance Alliance is fighting above its eight percent on the strength of a single asset and a specific grievance. [[Elena Svensson]] is the most-liked leader in the Federation, and the argument she carries has a date attached to it: in X.{{AN|1754}} Montero abandoned a signed preliminary coalition with her group rather than meet its price, which was passage of the clean-government reform, and turned to the Aldurian independents instead. The Assembly then threw the bill out 260 to 438, and threw out the amendments that would have restored it the following year. On political integrity and party finance the Alliance is trusted ahead of either large party, and it is the only campaign in the field whose central argument no rival is contesting.

The wild card is in Oportia. The [[Republican Party of Oportia]] has run the campaign of its life. At the [[Oportian general election, 1751|1751 Oportian election]] it finished third with 14 percent, one department and five mayoralties, and by last year it was openly discussing merger or dissolution. [[Sofia Laurent]], alone among the Region's leaders in refusing to fold into a national party, has carried the autonomist case into the interior and eastern departments that voted against accession, among them [[Pahlavye]], which cast the most lopsided No vote in the country. The party now polls fourth in the Region on 15 percent, behind three national parties separated by three points, while sitting at one percent nationally and unknown to three voters in four. Oportia returns thirty-nine seats for which no projection has a baseline, in a Region whose only prior federal-scale vote came nearer than any other to capping the premiership before declining to.

Two things sit outside the party campaigns and may matter more than either. The first is the crossbench: [[Émile Bouchard]]'s [[Aldurian Independent Coalition]] holds the government's majority of 384 of 749, polls above the Republicans nationally, and spent 24.VII asking in public whether the recovery had reached the [[Piriya]] mine towns or only the [[Punta Santiago]] science campus. It is the same coast-and-interior question Oportia has been asking since {{AN|1755}}, in a different Region and a different accent. The second is civil liberties, which the wire has set beside the recession and housing as one of the three arguments shaping this election, and which no party campaign has made its own.

What none of it settles is the result. Two campaigns are running near flawlessly and cannot both be rewarded. A third force is narrowly winning an argument few voters rank first. A single-issue group is consolidating a vote with nowhere obvious to go. Thirty-nine seats sit in a Region voting federally for the first time, and the bloc that keeps the government in office is not standing with it. The Federation has rarely gone into a poll with better-run campaigns or less idea what they will produce.
|continued=A4
|rights_text=All Rights Reserved.
|year={{AN|1759}}
|tldr=A state-of-the-race survey two weeks out from the 15-17.IX.{{AN|1759}} poll, drawn from the 7-9.VIII IOP/NBC News poll. All five party campaigns are running unusually well: FHP (Montero/Ancasi) on the recovery plus the Soil Stewardship Act; AJNA (Gonçalves/Feliu) on cost of living and housing, working to recover its own {{AN|1754}} Aldurian collapse rather than Consensus ground; FCP (Domínguez carrying it, not Gabaza) narrowly first on debt but on a low-salience issue; CGA (Svensson) on party finance, trusted ahead of either large party; RPO (Laurent) surging in Oportia's anti-accession departments, fourth in Region on 15 percent, 1 percent nationally, 39 seats with no baseline. Also covers the Aldurian Independent Coalition crossbench, which holds the majority, and notes civil liberties as the third shaping argument. No result is implied or predicted.
|impact_stability={{steady}}
}}

===9===

{{Main|Aerlan general election, 1760}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|image=AerlaMap1759MCS.png
|image_size=
|image_caption=''A map of [[Aerla]] (center, in light purple) in the continent of [[Keltia]]; {{AN|1759}}.''
|headline={{team flag|Aerla|flag}} FOUR CANDIDATES DECLARE FOR AERLA'S PRESIDENCY AS A TERM LIMIT CLOSES THE GUTHRIE ERA
|bullet1=Party Primaries Have Run Through {{AN|1759}} for a Ballot Set for 1.V.{{AN|1760}}
|bullet2=A Two-Term Limit Bars President Thomas Guthrie From Seeking Another Mandate
|bullet3=Alexander Kim Carries the Governing Democrats on a Pledge to Widen Guthrie's Health, Relief and Immigrant Programs
|bullet4=David Neylan Would Cut Taxes and Roll Back Renewable Investment
|bullet5=Neylan Pledges to Annex the Former San Lucido Lands, a Corridor Vegno Withdrew From in the East Keltian Collapse
|bullet6=Aerla and Vegno Both Sit in a Concord Alliance That Decides by Consensus
|location=[[Noursala]]
|body=Four candidates have declared for the presidency of [[Aerla]] ahead of a general election scheduled for 1.V.{{AN|1760}}, the seventh in the republic's history and the first that President [[Thomas Guthrie]] cannot contest. Party primaries have run through {{AN|1759}}, and the ballot will fill the presidency and all 121 seats of the [[National Assembly of Aerla|National Assembly]] on the same day.

Guthrie, the fourth [[President of Aerla|president]] of the republic and the first born after Aerlan independence, is barred from a third term by the Fifth Amendment of the Aerlan Constitution, which limits the presidency to two. He has held the office since the [[Aerlan general election, 1750|1750 election]]. The chamber his successor will face is larger than the one he has worked with. Under the [[Transcaledonia Integration Act, 1758]], the National Assembly grows from 110 seats to 121 at this election, and 61 will be needed for an absolute majority. The bill, introduced by the [[Conservative Bloc|Conservative]] assemblyman George Caron, carried 80 to 24. The eleven new seats come from the parishes of the [[Transcaledonia|Transcaledonian Territory]], annexed in {{AN|1737}} and unrepresented for more than twenty years; the parts of the territory that govern themselves and the jointly administered city of [[Kaledonija]] are excluded and return no member.

The [[Aerlan Democratic Party]], which took 70 of the Assembly's 110 seats at the [[Aerlan general election, 1755|1755 election]], selected Assemblyman [[Alexander Kim]] of Jacques Parish in a nationwide closed primary in early VII.{{AN|1759}}. Kim defeated the [[Agalore]] technology executive Wallace Neumann, who had run on a platform of education, healthcare and energy reform. Kim has pledged to continue the reforms begun under Guthrie, among them an expansion of the Aerlan Healthcare System, new immigrant welfare programs, and [[Public Relief Board|Public Relief]] funds he has promised to make more accessible and inclusive.

In V.{{AN|1759}}, a nationwide closed primary of the [[Conservative Bloc]], which held 25 seats, went to Assemblyman David Neylan of Genos Parish over Assemblyman Kevin Flowers of Fort Cassian Parish. Neylan has campaigned on lower taxes and on rolling back renewable energy investments he says ''"robbed Aerlan taxpayers"''. He has also pledged to widen Aerla's borders to the north and to annex the former lands of [[San Lucido]], which he has cast as securing the republic from ''"barbarians"''.

San Lucido, formally the Overseas Autonomous Territory of San Lucido and the Eastern Regions, is a historical region and corridor of northeastern [[Keltia]]. [[Vegno]] administered it as an overseas territory from {{AN|1718}} until {{AN|1737}}, when the [[East Keltian Collapse]] broke the territory's institutions and Vegno withdrew the last of its personnel. Vegno holds no territory on Keltia today. Authority in the corridor has remained fragmented since, resting with local groups, successor administrations and outside actors, none of them holding it whole.

The armed movement that overran eastern San Lucido during the collapse, the [[Confederacy of the Dispossessed]], was recorded as suppressed in {{AN|1750}}, though the same account holds that it never formally disbanded and that its surviving warbands went to ground.

[[Vegno]] acceded to the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Concord Alliance]] in {{AN|1738}} and Aerla in {{AN|1752}}, and the organization takes its major decisions by consensus among all seven member states. Nouvelle Alexandrie is one of the three founding members and holds the deputy secretary-generalship through Jacqueline d'Alessio y Venegas; the current Secretary-General, [[Silvio Gianni Linard]], is Vegnese.

''"An alliance that decides by consensus has to absorb whatever its members' voters hand it,"'' said Lucienne Abarca, who studies alliance politics at the [[University of Punta Santiago]]. ''"Nobody in the Concord Alliance gets a vote in an Aerlan primary, and that is the whole point of the thing. The question for Cárdenas is what happens the morning after, if a member's president arrives with a territorial claim already written into his platform."''

Franklin Hanneen, an assemblyman from Lawston Parish, was chosen unopposed by the [[Nazarene Bloc]] and has said he would repeal the [[Department of Church Affairs Abolition Act, 1752]] and fund church schools from the public purse.

A party congress in late {{AN|1758}} selected Isabelle Woulfe, a labor activist from Barnmond Parish, to carry the [[Aerlan Labor Party]] into its first general election. Woulfe has argued that the Democrats have not gone far enough on social and economic reform, and would fund agricultural collectives and tax the country's wealthiest. She has criticized Kim for declining to match that commitment.

No result follows until polls close on 1.V.{{AN|1760}}. Five parties hold seats in the outgoing chamber: the Democrats on 70, the Conservative Bloc on 25, the [[Hatayyian Democratic Party]] under Abdul Quddoos al-Akhtar on 6, the Nazarene Bloc on 5, and the [[Ranentsian Independence Party]] under Tvetsana Kirilova on 4.[[Category:Aerla]]
|tldr=''Aerla's presidential field is set eleven months out from a general election scheduled for 1.V.{{AN|1760}}, the seventh in the republic's history, which fills the presidency and all 121 seats of the [[National Assembly of Aerla|National Assembly]]. President [[Thomas Guthrie]] is term-limited out by the Fifth Amendment after holding office since {{AN|1750}}. Four candidates have declared: [[Alexander Kim]] for the governing [[Aerlan Democratic Party]] (70 of 110 seats in {{AN|1755}}), running on continuity with Guthrie's health, relief and immigrant reforms; David Neylan for the [[Conservative Bloc]] (25 seats), running on tax cuts, a rollback of renewable investment, and a pledge to annex the former [[San Lucido]] lands; Franklin Hanneen for the [[Nazarene Bloc]], unopposed; and Isabelle Woulfe for the [[Aerlan Labor Party]], contesting its first election. The Assembly grows from 110 seats to 121 under the [[Transcaledonia Integration Act, 1758]], a Conservative bill whose eleven new seats come from Transcaledonia. The San Lucido pledge carries beyond Aerla: [[Vegno]] withdrew from the territory in the {{AN|1737}} [[East Keltian Collapse]] and holds no Keltian territory today, and Vegno and Aerla are both Concord Alliance members in an organization that decides by consensus.''
|impact_international={{steady}} 0
}}



===19===
{{Main|New Alexandrian general election, 1759}}

{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE HUMANISTS FINISH FIRST BUT FALL 108 SHORT AS THE FEDERATION RETURNS A HUNG 14TH CORTES
|image=NBC Decision hemicycle 14th Cortes.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''NBC's Decision {{AN|1759}} seat diagram of the [[14th Cortes Federales]]: no party reached the 401-seat majority, the Federal Humanist Party largest on 293.''
|bullet1=No Party Reached the 401 Seats a Majority Requires
|bullet2=Montero's Federal Humanist Party Finished First With 293 Seats and Fell 108 Short
|bullet3=The Civic Governance Alliance Climbed From Ten Seats to 95 to Become the Third Party
|bullet4=Gonçalves's Alliance Carried Seven Regions, the Consensus Party Held One, and the Government Five
|bullet5=Oportia and the Republican Party of Oportia Entered the Chamber With Ten Seats at a First Vote
|bullet6=King Sinchi Roca II Appointed Montero Formateur to Attempt to Form a Government
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The [[Federal Humanist Party]] finished first at the general election of 15-17.IX.{{AN|1759}} but fell well short of a majority, and the [[Federal Elections Commission (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Federal Elections Commission]] certified a result on 19.IX.{{AN|1759}} that returned a hung [[14th Cortes Federales]].<ref name="fec">Certified result of the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759]], [[Federal Elections Commission (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Federal Elections Commission]], 19.IX.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The governing party took 293 of the 801 seats, 108 short of the 401 needed to command the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]], on 36.5 percent of the vote. It was the party's ninth successive first-place finish and its weakest, down from 372 seats and 48.9 percent in {{AN|1754}}. Turnout was 87.9 percent, far above the 53 percent of the last general election and closer to the Federation's historic levels.<ref name="fec" />

The night's largest movement was the [[Civic Governance Alliance]]'s. The party that had won ten seats in {{AN|1754}} returned 95 and 11.7 percent, passing the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] by two seats to become the Federation's third party on the party-finance and clean-government argument it had carried through the term. The Consensus Party fell to 93 seats and 11.6 percent. The [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] rose to 260 seats and 32.8 percent, and independents returned 50 deputies as the [[Republican Party of Oportia]] won ten seats at [[Oportia]]'s first federal vote since accession.<ref name="fec" />

The map divided along familiar lines. The Alliance finished first in seven of the thirteen Regions, the government in five, and the Consensus Party in one. The government's majorities were largest in the [[Isles of Caputia]] and [[North Lyrica]], and it held the [[Wechua Nation]], the second-most populous Region, by 56 seats to the Alliance's 46. It finished first in [[Santander]] as well, though on its steepest fall anywhere, down twenty-six seats. The Alliance carried [[Alduria]], reclaiming the Region where it had collapsed from 62 seats to 15 in {{AN|1754}} in a split over its leadership, and where the [[Aldurian Independent Coalition]] and other independents now took thirty of the 158 seats; it ran up its heaviest margins in [[Boriquén]] and [[Valencia]]. The Consensus Party held only [[Islas de la Libertad]], its historic base, where it edged the government by the narrowest of margins. Oportia split three ways at its first federal outing, the Alliance first on thirteen seats, the government second on eleven, and the Republican Party of Oportia third with the ten seats that carried it into the chamber; the Civic Governance Alliance's surge showed clearest in North Lyrica, where it took seventeen seats to finish second.<ref name="fec" />

If any part of the map had defied forecasting it was [[Oportia]]'s. ''"Thirty-nine seats and no past vote to model, and every projection of the new Assembly was guessing at them,"'' said Aurelio Retamozo, a psephologist at the [[University of Punta Santiago]] who had named the Region the hole in every projection before the vote. Its three-way split, and the ten seats it returned for the [[Republican Party of Oportia]], were the night's one genuinely new quantity.

The result drew measured statements from every headquarters. Premier [[José Manuel Montero]] said the Federal Humanist Party had ''"won this election as it has won every election for a generation,"'' and that he would ''"answer the King's charge and try to build a government the new Assembly can support."'' For the Alliance, [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] said the night ''"belongs to the parties that gained,"'' and that a chamber this closely divided ''"has more than one arithmetic in it."'' [[Elena Svensson]] of the Civic Governance Alliance, whose party had made the largest single gain, said voters had ''"answered the argument about clean hands with ninety-five seats,"'' and that her party ''"will be asked hard questions before it answers any of them."'' [[Francisco Gabaza]] of the Consensus Party called the losses ''"a night to learn from, not to explain away,"'' while [[Sofia Laurent]] said Oportia's ten Republican deputies would ''"sit for a Region that has waited a long time to be counted."''

No combination commanded the chamber on the numbers alone. A government led by either large party required the fifty independents, and the arithmetic gave the [[Aldurian Independent Coalition]] and the smaller parties the balance. The Alliance, first in seven Regions, set itself out as the basis for an alternative government, while the question of which side the Civic Governance Alliance would support became the decisive one of the formation to come.

With no majority available, King [[Sinchi Roca II]] invited Premier Montero to attempt to form a government and appointed him Formateur, asking him to report to the Crown on the prospects of an administration able to hold the confidence of the new Assembly. The shape of that administration, and whether Montero could assemble it, remained unsettled as the certified result was announced.
|tldr=''The [[Federal Humanist Party]] finished first at the 15-17.IX.{{AN|1759}} general election with 293 of 801 seats but fell 108 short of a majority, and the [[Federal Elections Commission (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Federal Elections Commission]] certified a hung [[14th Cortes Federales]] on 19.IX.{{AN|1759}}. The [[Civic Governance Alliance]] recorded the night's largest gain, rising from ten seats to 95 to pass the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]], while the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] took 260 seats and carried seven Regions to the government's five, the Consensus Party holding only [[Islas de la Libertad]]. Independents returned 50 deputies and the [[Republican Party of Oportia]] won ten at Oportia's first federal vote, on a turnout of 87.9 percent. King [[Sinchi Roca II]] appointed Premier [[José Manuel Montero]] Formateur to attempt to form a government from a chamber in which the fifty independents held the balance.''
|impact_stability={{decrease}} -1
|impact_approval={{decrease}} -1
}}

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; margin:0.6em auto; font-size:95%;"
|+ Certified national result, [[14th Cortes Federales]] (801 seats; 401 for a majority)
|-
! Party !! Leader !! Vote % !! Change !! Seats !! +/−
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Federal Humanist Party]] (FHP) || [[José Manuel Montero]] || 36.5 || {{decrease}} −12.3 || 293 || {{decrease}} −79
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] (AJNA) || [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] || 32.8 || {{increase}} +3.4 || 260 || {{increase}} +41
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Civic Governance Alliance]] (CGA) || [[Elena Svensson]] || 11.7 || {{increase}} +9.9 || 95 || {{increase}} +85
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] (FCP) || [[Francisco Gabaza]] || 11.6 || {{decrease}} −4.0 || 93 || {{decrease}} −26
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Independents and Unaligned || ''none'' || 6.1 || {{increase}} +1.8 || 50 || {{increase}} +21
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Republican Party of Oportia]] (RPO) || [[Sofia Laurent]] || 1.3 || ''new'' || 10 || ''new''
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | Total !! !! 100.0 !! !! 801 !!
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | Turnout !! colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | 87.9% ({{increase}} +34.9)
|}
<div style="text-align:center; font-size:88%; font-style:italic; margin:-0.3em 0 0.7em 0;">Alliance figures fold the [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Democratic Socialist Party]] and the [[Wakara People's Party]], as at the previous election.</div>

===22===
{{See also|14th Cortes Federales}}

{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE CIVIC GOVERNANCE ALLIANCE RULES OUT A HUMANIST GOVERNMENT, CLOSING MONTERO'S WIDER ROUTE TO A MAJORITY
|image=NBC Decision roads to 401.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''The routes to a 401-seat majority; the [[Civic Governance Alliance]]'s refusal closes the 438-seat [[FHP|Humanist]] path, leaving the government on the 436-seat route.''
|bullet1=The [[Civic Governance Alliance]] Will Not Enter or Support Any Humanist-Led Government
|bullet2=Svensson Tied the Refusal to Five Years of Stalled Clean-Government Reform
|bullet3=She Said the Party Did Not Win Its Mandate to Prop Up Those Who Blocked Reform
|bullet4=Montero's 438-Seat Route Through the Alliance and the Independents Now Closes
|bullet5=A Humanist Majority Runs Only Through the Consensus Party and the Fifty Independents
|bullet6=Svensson's 95 Seats, Her Party's Largest-Ever Gain, Move Into Play for the Opposition
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The [[Civic Governance Alliance]] will not enter or support a government led by the [[Federal Humanist Party]], its leader [[Elena Svensson]] said on 22.IX.{{AN|1759}}, closing the larger of the two routes by which Premier [[José Manuel Montero]] might have assembled a majority in the hung [[14th Cortes Federales]].

Svensson tied the decision to the party's founding cause, the party-finance and clean-government reform the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] had defeated twice during the [[13th Cortes Federales|13th Cortes]]. ''"We did not win this mandate to prop up the people who spent a term blocking it,"'' she said, holding that five years of stalled reform under the outgoing government could not be answered by joining or sustaining another one led by it.

The Civic Governance Alliance had returned 95 seats at the election of 15-17.IX.{{AN|1759}}, its largest gain and a rise from ten, and had passed the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] to become the Federation's third party. Those 95 seats had made the party the natural third leg of a Humanist majority: with the fifty independents, a Federal Humanist government supported by the Civic Governance Alliance would have reached 438, comfortably past the 401-seat line. The refusal removes that path.

It leaves Montero with the narrower one. A government resting on the Federal Humanist Party, the Federal Consensus Party, and the independents reaches 436, still a majority but a three-cornered one dependent on parties that spent the last term in opposition or constructive opposition to his own. The same 95 seats now count toward the other side of the chamber, where an [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] government with the Civic Governance Alliance and the independents would reach 405.

Montero, appointed Formateur by King [[Sinchi Roca II]] to attempt to form a government, continued to seek a working majority; the [[Aldurian Independent Coalition]] under [[Émile Bouchard]], whose votes had sustained the outgoing government, had made no commitment to the next one. Whether either large party could assemble a majority remained open as the formation period ran.
|tldr=''[[Civic Governance Alliance]] leader [[Elena Svensson]] said on 22.IX.{{AN|1759}} that her party would not enter or support a government led by the [[Federal Humanist Party]], citing five years of stalled clean-government reform: "We did not win this mandate to prop up the people who spent a term blocking it." The decision closes the larger of Premier [[José Manuel Montero]]'s two routes to a majority in the hung [[14th Cortes Federales]] and leaves a Humanist government reliant on the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] and the independents, at 436. The Civic Governance Alliance's 95 seats, its largest-ever gain, now count toward a possible [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]]-led bid, which with the independents would reach 405. Montero, appointed Formateur by King [[Sinchi Roca II]], continued to seek a majority as the formation period ran.''
|impact_stability={{decrease}} -1
|impact_approval={{steady}} 0
}}

===24===
{{See also|14th Cortes Federales}}

{{NAXNewsStory2|
|image=FedCon-NAX.png
|image_size=200px
|image_caption=''Logo of the [[Federal Consensus Party]].''
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE CONSENSUS PARTY DECLARES FOR AN ALLIANCE-LED MAJORITY, OPENING THREE-PARTY TALKS THAT WOULD SHUT OUT THE HUMANISTS
|bullet1=Consensus Party Leader Francisco Gabaza Ruled Out Any Humanist Government and Offered Talks With the Alliance and the Civic Governance Alliance
|bullet2=Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves Invited Both Parties to Formal Talks and Set the Alliance Out to Lead a Progressive Majority
|bullet3=Elena Svensson Confirmed the Civic Governance Alliance Would Engage, on Its Clean-Government Terms
|bullet4=The Three Parties Together Hold 448 Seats, Clear of the 401-Seat Line and Independent of the Crossbench
|bullet5=The Move Narrowed Montero's Remaining Route, Which Ran Through the Same Consensus Party
|bullet6=No Government Had Been Formed, and the Formateur's Attempt Continued
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] declared for a government led by the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] on 24.IX.{{AN|1759}}, its leader [[Francisco Gabaza]] saying no [[Federal Humanist Party|Humanist]] administration could deliver the recovery the country needed and offering to negotiate with the Alliance and the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] for a majority in the hung [[14th Cortes Federales]].

''"No Humanist government can deliver that plan,"'' Gabaza said, casting the party's move as a matter of taking responsibility for a working majority rather than of ideology, and setting the cost of living and the economy as the tests the outgoing government had failed.

The three parties together hold 448 of the 801 seats: the Alliance's 260, the Civic Governance Alliance's 95, and the Consensus Party's 93. That is a majority of forty-seven, and unlike the arithmetic that has framed the formation so far it does not depend on the fifty independents.

[[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], leader of the Alliance, welcomed the overture and invited both parties to ''"open formal talks, in good faith and without delay,"'' setting his party out to lead a progressive government, built on the Alliance's [[People's Deal]] platform, he said would govern for every Region. [[Elena Svensson]], whose [[Civic Governance Alliance]] had ruled out a Humanist government two days earlier, confirmed that her party would engage, and restated the conditions it had carried through the term: an independent audit of public spending, stronger measures against corruption, and a budget the Federation could stand behind. She said the party would not trade them away.

The declaration narrowed the position of Premier [[José Manuel Montero]], whom King [[Sinchi Roca II]] had appointed Formateur. With the Civic Governance Alliance already refusing him, the Premier's remaining route to a majority ran through the Consensus Party and the fifty independents, a combination worth 436 seats; the Consensus Party had now declared that it would negotiate with his opponents instead. The [[Aldurian Independent Coalition]] under [[Émile Bouchard]], whose votes had sustained the outgoing government, had made no commitment to either side.

No government had been formed and no vote taken. The three parties had opened talks rather than concluded them, portfolios and a common program remained to be settled, and Montero's mandate from the Crown ran on. Whether parties that had spent the campaign apart could govern together was the question the formation now turned on.
|tldr=''The [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] declared for a government led by the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] on 24.IX.{{AN|1759}}, its leader [[Francisco Gabaza]] saying no [[Federal Humanist Party|Humanist]] government could deliver and offering talks with the Alliance and the [[Civic Governance Alliance]]. The three parties together hold 448 of 801 seats, a majority that does not depend on the fifty independents. [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] invited both to formal talks and set the Alliance out to lead; [[Elena Svensson]], who had ruled out a [[Federal Humanist Party|Humanist]] government two days earlier, confirmed the Civic Governance Alliance would engage on its clean-government terms. The move narrowed Premier [[José Manuel Montero]]'s remaining route, which ran through the same Consensus Party. No government had been formed, and the Formateur's attempt continued.''
|impact_stability={{increase}} +1
|impact_approval={{steady}} 0
}}

==X (Solaris)==

===3===
{{See also|14th Cortes Federales}}

{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} MONTERO TELLS THE KING HE CANNOT FORM A GOVERNMENT AS BOTH HUMANIST ROUTES TO A MAJORITY CLOSE
|image=NBC Roads to 401 formation 1759.png
|image_size=400px
|image_caption=''Roads to 401: every Humanist route to a majority closed, leaving the 448-seat Alliance, Civic Governance and Consensus bloc the only one still open. {{AN|1759}}''
|bullet1=Montero Reports to King Sinchi Roca II That He Cannot Assemble a Majority in the 801-Seat Assembly
|bullet2=Both Humanist Routes to a Majority Ran Through the Fifty Independents, and Both Have Now Closed
|bullet3=Svensson's Civic Governance Alliance Shut the Wider Route, and the Consensus Party the Narrower One
|bullet4=Montero Stays On as Caretaker Premier While the Other Parties Talk
|bullet5=Only the 448-Seat Alliance, Civic Governance and Consensus Bloc Reaches a Majority Without the Independents
|bullet6=No Coalition Agreement Is Signed, and the Law Requires One Before Any Government Can Take Office
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=Premier [[José Manuel Montero]] told King [[Sinchi Roca II]] on 3.X.{{AN|1759}} that he could not form a government, ending the first attempt to seat one since the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|general election]] returned a hung [[14th Cortes Federales]], after both routes to a Humanist majority closed in the space of a week.<ref name="result">NBC Newsfeed, "THE HUMANISTS FINISH FIRST BUT FALL 108 SHORT AS THE FEDERATION RETURNS A HUNG 14TH CORTES," 19.IX.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The [[Federal Humanist Party]] finished first on 19.IX with 293 of the 801 seats, 108 short of the 401 that command a majority. King Sinchi Roca II had named Montero formateur on 21.IX, charging him to test whether a Humanist-led government could be built. Both combinations that could carry him to 401 ran through the fifty independent deputies, among them [[Émile Bouchard]]'s twelve-strong [[Aldurian Independent Coalition]], whose votes had sustained Montero's outgoing government but who made no commitment to the next: a wider bench with the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] reached 438, a narrower one with the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] reached 436.

Both closed within three days. On 22.IX the Civic Governance Alliance, which had surged from ten seats to ninety-five in the largest gain of the election, ruled out entering or supporting a Humanist government; its leader [[Elena Svensson]] said the party had not won its mandate ''"to prop up the people who spent a term blocking it,"'' a refusal that reached back to {{AN|1754}}, when Montero abandoned a signed preliminary coalition with the party rather than let its [[Clean Government and Political Reform Act, 1754|clean-government reform]] pass.<ref name="cga">NBC Newsfeed, "THE CIVIC GOVERNANCE ALLIANCE RULES OUT A HUMANIST GOVERNMENT," 22.IX.{{AN|1759}}.</ref> Two days later the Federal Consensus Party declared for an Alliance-led majority, its leader [[Francisco Gabaza]] saying ''"no Humanist government can deliver that plan"'' and shutting the narrower route.<ref name="fcp">NBC Newsfeed, "THE CONSENSUS PARTY DECLARES FOR AN ALLIANCE-LED MAJORITY," 24.IX.{{AN|1759}}.</ref> With both larger partners gone, the only majority still open to Montero rested on all fifty independents at once, a bench too loose to sustain a government, and he judged it could not be built.

In a short statement from [[Cárdenas]], Montero said he had told the King directly that the numbers were not there. ''"I would rather return this charge than pretend to a majority I cannot show,"'' he said. Under the [[Government Formation and Coalition Act, 1694]], his government stays in office in a caretaker capacity, barred from significant policy, new financial commitments, senior appointments and treaties, until a new one is appointed.<ref name="act">[[Government Formation and Coalition Act, 1694]], §8, §10.</ref>

The initiative passes to the parties that can reach a majority without him. Together the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] with 260 seats, the Civic Governance Alliance with 95 and the Federal Consensus Party with 93 command 448, the one majority on the floor that does not depend on the fifty independents. [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], who leads the Alliance and served as Leader of the Opposition in the last Cortes, said the three parties were closer than they had been and not yet where they needed to be. No agreement has been signed. The Civic Governance Alliance has set its terms at an independent audit of public spending and stronger measures against corruption, while the Federal Consensus Party, whose 93 seats are indispensable to the total, has tied its support to the fiscal restraint it made the center of its campaign.<ref name="fcp" />

The Act requires that any coalition publish a signed agreement, one setting out common policy, a means of handling disputes and collective responsibility, before it can take office, a document the three parties have not produced. King Sinchi Roca II will not enter the negotiations beyond facilitating them, as the Act provides, and will in time invite the figure the parties judge most likely to command the Assembly's confidence to form a government. Until they settle on one, Montero remains at the head of a caretaker administration, and the Federation's first 801-seat Cortes has yet to seat a government.
|tldr=''Montero's attempt to form a government fails after both routes to a Humanist majority close: the Civic Governance Alliance rules out backing him on 22.IX and the Federal Consensus Party declares for an Alliance-led majority on 24.IX, leaving only an unworkable bench of all fifty independents. He stays on as caretaker Premier while the Alliance, the Civic Governance Alliance and the Federal Consensus Party, the one 448-seat majority that needs no independents, continue talks that have produced no signed agreement.''
|impact_stability={{decrease}} -1
}}

===7===
{{See also|14th Cortes Federales}}

{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE CROWN NAMES GONÇALVES FORMATEUR, CHARGING THE ALLIANCE LEADER TO SEE WHETHER A MAJORITY CAN BE FORMED
|image=GoncalvesPremierKing1759NAX.png
|image_size=400px
|image_caption=''[[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] meets with the King at the [[Palace of Carranza]] after being named formateur, [[Cárdenas]]. {{AN|1759}}''
|bullet1=King [[Sinchi Roca II]] Names [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] Formateur Four Days After Montero Returned His Charge to the Crown
|bullet2=The Alliance Leader Is Charged to Test Whether a Government Can Command the Confidence of the 801-Seat Assembly
|bullet3=With Every Humanist Route Closed, the King Turns to the Leader of the Only Bloc That Can Command the Assembly
|bullet4=An Exploratory Mandate Makes Gonçalves Neither Premier Nor Yet the Assembly's Nominee
|bullet5=No Coalition Agreement Is Yet Signed, and the Law Requires One Before Any Government Can Take Office
|bullet6=Montero Stays On as Caretaker Premier, and It Is the First Time in Twenty Years the Crown Has Turned Beyond the Humanists
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=King [[Sinchi Roca II]] appointed [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], leader of the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]], formateur on 7.X.{{AN|1759}}, charging him to test whether a government able to command the confidence of the [[14th Cortes Federales]] can be formed. The charge passed to Gonçalves four days after [[José Manuel Montero]] returned his own to the Crown, unable to assemble a majority.<ref name="montero-charge-returned">NBC Newsfeed, "MONTERO TELLS THE KING HE CANNOT FORM A GOVERNMENT," 3.X.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The step followed the course the [[Government Formation and Coalition Act, 1694]] sets for a hung Cortes, under which the King asks the figure most likely to command the confidence of the Assembly to form a government. With every Humanist route to a majority closed, that figure is Gonçalves, whose 260-seat Alliance is the largest in the chamber and anchors the one bloc that can reach a majority, 448 seats alongside the [[Civic Governance Alliance]]'s 95 and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]]'s 93, the only majority on the floor of the 801-seat Cortes that does not rest on the fifty independents.<ref name="gfca-hung">[[Government Formation and Coalition Act, 1694]], §8 (Hung Cortes Federales), Part III.</ref>

The mandate is exploratory. It commissions Gonçalves to negotiate a common program and the signed coalition agreement the Act requires before any government can take office, and to show that the result would hold the chamber's confidence. It does not make him Premier: no government is formed, and Gonçalves takes no office, until an agreement is signed, a nominee is put to the Assembly, and that nominee wins its confidence. The three parties have not yet produced the agreement. The Civic Governance Alliance has set its terms at an independent audit of public spending and stronger measures against corruption, and the Federal Consensus Party, whose 93 seats are indispensable to the total, at the fiscal restraint it made the center of its campaign.

The Royal Household said the King had acted to safeguard the continuity of the Federation and would take no part in the negotiations beyond facilitating them, as the Act provides. [[José Manuel Montero]] remains at the head of a caretaker administration, barred from significant policy, and will tender its resignation only when a new government is appointed. In a short statement from [[Cárdenas]], Gonçalves said he had accepted the charge and would ''"bring the three parties to a written agreement and put a government before the new Cortes that can win its confidence."'' It is the first time in twenty years that the Crown has turned to a party other than the [[Federal Humanist Party]] to attempt a government.
|tldr=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] names [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], leader of the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]], formateur on 7.X.{{AN|1759}}, four days after [[José Manuel Montero]] returned his charge unable to form a government. Under the [[Government Formation and Coalition Act, 1694]] the King turns to the largest party of the only bloc that reaches a majority without the fifty independents, the Alliance's 260 seats anchoring a 448-seat bloc with the [[Civic Governance Alliance]]'s 95 and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]]'s 93. The charge is exploratory: it makes Gonçalves neither Premier nor yet the Assembly's nominee, and no government is formed until a coalition agreement is signed and a nominee wins the chamber's confidence. [[José Manuel Montero]] stays on as caretaker Premier.''
|impact_stability={{increase}} +1
}}

===9===

{{Main|House of Guarionex|House of Inti-Carrillo}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD AND THE HOUSE OF GUARIONEX BETROTH PRINCE INTI TO CACICA ANACAONA
|image=IntiAnacaonaBetrothal1759NBC.png
|image_size=300px
|image_caption=''The paired copies of the joint announcement betrothing Prince [[Inti, Duke of Vilcabamba|Inti]] to Cacica [[Anacaona]], bearing the arms of [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] and the [[House of Guarionex]], 9.X.{{AN|1759}}.''
|bullet1=The Two Houses Announced the Match Together From Cárdenas and Guánica
|bullet2=Prince Inti and Cacica Anacaona Were Born Seven Days Apart in the Winter of {{AN|1755}}
|bullet3=Each Child Stands Second in Line to a Throne, One Federal and One Princely
|bullet4=It Is the First Tie Ever Between the Reigning House and the Wakara Princes of Boriquén
|bullet5=Officials Cast the Match as a Union of Two Lines of the Sun
|bullet6=No Wedding Date Was Set, and Both Children Are Aged 3
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=Seven days apart, in the last month of {{AN|1755}}, two children were born into two houses that each trace their standing to the sun. On 9.X.{{AN|1759}} the [[Royal Household of Nouvelle Alexandrie]] and the [[House of Guarionex]] announced, in a joint statement issued at once from [[Cárdenas]] and [[Guánica]], that the two will one day marry.<ref name="joint">Joint statement of the Royal Household of Nouvelle Alexandrie and the House of Guarionex on the betrothal of the Duke of Vilcabamba and Cacica Anacaona, 9.X.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The betrothal binds His Royal Highness [[Inti, Duke of Vilcabamba|Prince Inti, Duke of Vilcabamba]], second in line to the throne, to Cacica [[Anacaona]], second in line to the principality of [[Boriquén]]. It is the first connection ever made between the reigning [[House of Inti-Carrillo]] and the [[House of Guarionex]], the Wakara princely house seated at Guánica, and the statement described it as a further binding of the Region of Boriquén to the Crown.

The symmetry runs deep enough that the households made a point of it. Prince Inti was born on 23.XII.{{AN|1755}} at the Palace of Carranza in Cárdenas, the first grandchild of King [[Sinchi Roca II]] and Empress [[Clara I]] and the first child born to an heir apparent in 33 years; Cacica Anacaona was born on 24.XII.{{AN|1755}} at Guánica, granddaughter of His Serene Highness [[Guarionex II]], the 1st Prince of Boriquén and the Region's hereditary viceroy. Each is the second in line to a separate inheritance, one federal and one princely, and the two are a day apart in age.

Officials cast the match as the meeting of two lines associated with the sun; her name is traditionally understood to mean golden flower in the [[Wakara language]], and his is the Wechua word for the sun. The affinity is not only rhetorical. Prince Inti is raised in the [[Faith of Inti]], the Wechua solar faith of his mother's line, and Cacica Anacaona in [[Yukiyu Atabey]], the ancestral faith of the Wakara. The two traditions are reckoned close kin, the Wakara pairing of Yukiyu and Atabey answering the Intian principle of ''yanantin''. Both peoples trace their descent to the sun, and some hold the Wakara sun-father to be [[Inti]] himself. The Faith of Inti teaches that a marriage is a ''tinkuy'', a convergence of complementary persons whose union is held to bring renewal.

Neither house set a wedding date. Both children are 3 years old, and the match is a promise held over a generation rather than an event of this one. How any future wedding would be conducted was left open, though the two traditions sit closer than most: Wakara and Wechua families have long intermarried across their faiths, each partner keeping their own observance and their children raised in either. When the Prince's own parents married in {{AN|1750}}, Crown Princess [[Sayari, Princess of Rimarima|Sayari]] and Prince [[Janus of Neridia]] held two ceremonies, one Intian and one Bovic, a wider distance than the one an Intian and Yukiyu Atabey union would cross. Any marriage would in time require the Sovereign's consent under the [[Royal Marriages Act, 1750]].

The tie reaches back to the terms on which Boriquén entered the Federation. The House of Guarionex holds a principality recognized, not created, by the [[Plan de Hato Rey]] of {{AN|1717}}, the settlement under which the Wakara cacique of the day requested annexation and the Region joined the Federation the following year. ''"A house that asked to come in is being asked, in the plainest dynastic terms, to stay,"'' said Dr. Camila Restrepo, who studies the Federation's nobility at the [[University of Cárdenas]]. ''"Boriquén has been a Region for four decades. This is the first time the reigning house has proposed to make it kin."''

The announcement fell in a month when the Federation was still without a government, Premier [[José Manuel Montero]] having told the King on 3.X.{{AN|1759}} that he could not form one.
|tldr=''The Royal Household of Nouvelle Alexandrie and the House of Guarionex announced on 9.X.{{AN|1759}} the betrothal of His Royal Highness Prince [[Inti, Duke of Vilcabamba|Inti, Duke of Vilcabamba]], second in line to the throne, to Cacica [[Anacaona]], second in line to the principality of [[Boriquén]]. It is the first tie between the reigning [[House of Inti-Carrillo]] and the Wakara princely [[House of Guarionex]], and the statement cast it as a further binding of Boriquén to the Crown and a union of two lines associated with the sun, the Wechua [[Faith of Inti]] and the Wakara [[Yukiyu Atabey]]. Born seven days apart in {{AN|1755}} and each second in line to a separate inheritance, Prince Inti and Cacica Anacaona are 3 years old; no wedding date was set, and any marriage would require the Sovereign's consent under the [[Royal Marriages Act, 1750]].''
|impact_stability={{increase}} +1
|impact_regional={{increase}} +1
|impact_approval={{increase}} +1
}}
[[Category:Nouvelle Alexandrie]]

==XI (Messoris)==
===12===
{{See also|New Alexandrian general election, 1759|New Alexandrian general election, 1754|Federal Elections Commission (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Civic Governance Alliance 1759 general election campaign (Nouvelle Alexandrie)}}

{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} FEC RETURNS PUT THE CAMPAIGN AT NAX€6.59 BILLION AND LEAVE NAX€612 MILLION TRACED ONLY TO PACS
|image=FECCampaignFinance1759NBC.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''NBC News campaign-finance graphic based on Federal Elections Commission returns published 12.XI.{{AN|1759}}, showing NAX€6.588 billion in recorded spending and the NAX€612 million PAC source-disclosure gap.''
|bullet1=Party and Candidate Committees Report NAX€5.806 Billion in Spending, 32.4 Percent More Than in {{AN|1754}}
|bullet2=FHP Reports NAX€2.384 Billion Spent; the DSP and WPP Together Report NAX€1.591 Billion
|bullet3=Forty-Three Registered Political Action Committees Report a Further NAX€781.4 Million in Election Communications
|bullet4=Database Entries Name the Purchasing Committee but Not the Original Source of NAX€612 Million of PAC Money
|bullet5=Commission Says Publication Is Not a Finding of Compliance and That Examination of the Returns Continues
|bullet6=Svensson Calls the Gap the Case for Source-Tracing; the FHP Says Every Humanist Receipt Is Public Under Existing Law
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The [[Federal Elections Commission (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Federal Elections Commission]] published the first consolidated account of the {{AN|1759}} federal campaign on 12.XI.{{AN|1759}}, recording NAX€5.806 billion in spending by party and candidate committees and a further NAX€781.4 million in election communications bought by registered political action committees. The combined NAX€6.588 billion makes the contest the most expensive in the Federation's history.<ref name="finance-returns-fec">[[Federal Elections Commission (Nouvelle Alexandrie)]].</ref>

The comparison with the previous election is substantial but not exact. Parties and candidates reported NAX€4.385 billion in spending in {{AN|1754}}.
On the same basis, spending in {{AN|1759}} rose 32.4 percent, to NAX€5.806 billion.
The separate PAC figure records communications placed outside the party accounts and was not included in the prior election summary.<ref name="finance-prior">Federal Elections Commission campaign-finance summary.</ref>

The [[Federal Humanist Party]] remained the largest spender, reporting NAX€2.384 billion. The [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Democratic Socialist Party]] and [[Wakara People's Party]], whose candidates stood together through the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]], reported NAX€1.591 billion between them. The [[Civic Governance Alliance]] reported NAX€642.1 million and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] NAX€576.8 million. The [[Republican Party of Oportia]]'s first federal campaign cost NAX€120.7 million, while independent candidates reported NAX€492.4 million collectively.

The harder number sits outside the table. Of the NAX€781.4 million in communications attributed to 43 registered political action committees, the database identifies the committee that purchased the advertisement or organized the canvass but stops at that committee for NAX€612 million. It does not identify the original contributors behind that money. That leaves 9.3 percent of all spending recorded in the consolidated account traceable to an immediate PAC but not to its original source.<ref name="prior-finance">[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#CGA_PARTY_FINANCE_1759|''NBC Newsfeed'', 16.V.{{AN|1759|noAN=y|nospan=y}}]].</ref>

The Commission said the bulletin was an accounting release, not a clearance certificate. Its Office of Political Finance Oversight will continue examining whether large gifts were reported promptly and whether expenditure reported by outside committees duplicates invoices in party returns. It announced no violation and opened no public enforcement case with the release.

The distinction became the day's political argument. [[Elena Svensson]], whose CGA rose from ten seats to 95 after making party finance its central issue, said the register now showed both the value and the limit of the existing law. ''"It tells the public which committee bought the message,"'' she said. ''"It still cannot tell the public whose money reached the committee."'' She said the CGA would seek original-source tracing for PAC money and year-round public accounts for parties in the next Cortes.<ref name="finance-returns-cga">[[Civic Governance Alliance 1759 general election campaign (Nouvelle Alexandrie)]].</ref>

The Humanists answered that every receipt and expenditure required of the party had been filed and made public. A Federal Humanist Party statement said lawful participation through an association should not be presented as evidence of misconduct and called for the Commission's examination to run its course.

The release came while [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] was attempting to assemble a majority under the King's charge. The Alliance, CGA and FCP were in talks, but no coalition agreement or common program had been signed. Svensson's proposed PAC rules therefore remained a CGA position rather than a commitment shared by the prospective partners. The returns had settled what the campaign cost. They had not settled what the next Cortes would require the public to be told about who paid for it.<ref name="finance-returns-formation">[[Government formation in Nouvelle Alexandrie]]; [[NBC Newsfeed/1759#GONCALVES_NAMED_FORMATEUR|''NBC Newsfeed'', 7.X.{{AN|1759|noAN=y|nospan=y}}]].</ref>
|tldr=The FEC's first consolidated post-election account records NAX€5.806 billion in party and candidate spending and NAX€781.4 million in PAC communications. Party and candidate spending rose 32.4 percent from {{AN|1754}}. The database traces NAX€612 million only to the purchasing PAC, not to its original contributors, exposing the disclosure gap the CGA campaigned on. The Commission announces no violation and says its examination continues. Gonçalves's formation talks remain open, and no common program has adopted the CGA's PAC rules.
|impact_stability={{steady}} 0
|impact_approval={{steady}} 0
}}

{| class="wikitable" style="margin:1em auto; text-align:right;"
|+ '''Post-election party and candidate returns as published 12.XI.{{AN|1759}}''' All financial figures in NAX€ millions; donor accounts are not unique persons
! style="text-align:left;" | Party or list
! Raised
! Spent
! Cash on hand
! Debt
! Donor accounts
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Federal Humanist Party]] || 2,472.8 || 2,383.6 || 89.2 || 16.8 || 9,842,617
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Democratic Socialist Party]] || 1,421.5 || 1,357.2 || 64.3 || 28.6 || 11,747,934
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Wakara People's Party]] || 246.2 || 233.4 || 12.8 || 4.1 || 2,930,952
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Civic Governance Alliance]] || 671.8 || 642.1 || 29.7 || 3.6 || 5,331,746
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] || 601.9 || 576.8 || 25.1 || 8.4 || 1,535,459
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Republican Party of Oportia]] || 127.6 || 120.7 || 6.9 || 1.2 || 1,329,167
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Independents and unaligned candidates || 516.3 || 492.4 || 23.9 || 14.5 || 6,793,421
|-
! style="text-align:right;" | Total
! 6,058.1
! 5,806.2
! 251.9
! 77.2
! 39,511,296
|}

===15===

{{Main|National Resilience Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|National Resilience Fund Establishment Act, 1758}}
{{See also|New Alexandrian National Resilience Fund referendum, 1757|Recession of 1757|Federal Audit Office of Nouvelle Alexandrie}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} NATIONAL RESILIENCE FUND OPENS ITS FIRST PUBLIC REGISTER WITH A ZERO BALANCE
|bullet1=First Annual Accounts Record No Contributions, No Disbursements and No Assets
|bullet2=Seven-Member Board Is Seated and the Public Register Is Now Open
|bullet3=Statute Delays Its First Assessment Until the First Fiscal Year Certified in Surplus
|bullet4=Current Year Has Not Closed, but a Quarterly Deficit of 5.4% of GDP Makes a {{AN|1759}} Surplus Assessment Unlikely
|bullet5=Federal Audit Office Finds No Transfers or Disbursements; Payout Controls Remain Untested
|bullet6=Empty Account Reopens the Dispute Over No-Borrowing Capitalization and Guaranteed Annual Appropriations
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The [[National Resilience Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|National Resilience Fund]] published its first annual accounts and contribution register on 15.XI.{{AN|1759}}, one year after its governing Act came into force. The ledger contains a single hard number: NAX€0.00. No contribution has entered the Fund, no disaster payment has left it and no asset is held in its name.<ref name="nrf-audit">National Resilience Fund Board of Trustees and [[Federal Audit Office of Nouvelle Alexandrie]], ''First annual accounts, audit and public register'', 15.XI.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The Fund was the institutional answer to the [[1757 Cajamarca micrasquake|Cajamarca disaster]] and the six-year [[Cajamarca Reconstruction Act, 1757|reconstruction program]], whose bond financing and tranche votes showed how slowly the Federation could assemble recovery money after a catastrophe.<ref name="cajamarca-origin">[[1757 Cajamarca micrasquake]]; [[Cajamarca Reconstruction Act, 1757]].</ref>

The report says the institution required by the [[New Alexandrian National Resilience Fund referendum, 1757|binding referendum]] of {{AN|1757}} now exists in law. Its seven-member Board of Trustees has been seated, the [[Department of Treasury (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Treasury]] has opened a separate account and the public register required by the [[National Resilience Fund Establishment Act, 1758|Establishment Act]] is available for inspection. Two trustees represent the Regions in rotation and one was nominated by the Federal Audit Office; serving ministers and political appointees do not form a majority.<ref name="nrf-act">[[National Resilience Fund Establishment Act, 1758]], Articles 12 through 16.</ref>

The first accounts reflect both the statutory timetable and the absence of other eligible receipts. The report records no contribution to date, including no asset-sale proceeds, fine, penalty or recovered money directed into the Fund. Any unspent appropriation for {{AN|1759}} remains a year-end question under Article 6. Article 16 makes the first assessed contribution due only for the first surplus fiscal year after commencement. The {{AN|1759}} fiscal year has not closed. The latest figures from the [[Recession of 1757|recession dashboard]] showed a quarterly deficit of 5.4% of GDP and public debt at 64.6 percent, making a surplus certification this year unlikely.<ref name="q2-dashboard">[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#Nouvelle_Alexandrie_Economic_Dashboard_(Month_VIII,_1759)|Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month VIII, 1759)]].</ref>

That means the Fund cannot yet perform the task for which voters created it. The law permits an initial emergency tranche of up to NAX€2 billion after a qualifying national disaster, followed by separate votes of the Cortes for later payments. With no assets in the account, the Fund cannot release either tranche. Immediate response remains the responsibility of the affected Region and designated federal services. For an event below the statutory threshold, federal assistance remains a matter for the existing [[National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie|National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund]]; any other assistance would require its own lawful authority.

The [[Federal Audit Office of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Audit Office]], auditing the Fund that the Treasury administers and the Board holds in trust, found no transfer from defense or security appropriations and no movement between the Fund, the ordinary emergency reserve and the [[Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund]]. Auditors therefore tested segregation and reporting controls, but not investment or payout controls, which have never been used.<ref name="nrf-audit" />

The accounts revive the argument the Cortes appeared to settle a year ago. The [[Federal Humanist Party]] government had opposed the referendum and implemented it through a NAX€50 billion fund that could be built without a new tax or new borrowing. Treasury Secretary [[Warren Ferdinand]] said the first accounts showed that the government had obeyed both the referendum and the fiscal limits approved by the Cortes.<ref name="nrf-reactions" />

[[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], who led the campaign for the Fund and is now attempting to form a government, said legal existence was not the same as preparedness.<ref name="nrf-reactions" /> His rival {{AN|1758}} bill would have set a minimum target of NAX€75 billion and supplied a guaranteed annual appropriation.<ref name="nrf-history">[[New Alexandrian National Resilience Fund referendum, 1757]]; [[National Resilience Fund Act, 1758]]; [[National Resilience Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)]].</ref>

[[Elena Svensson]], coordinator of the [[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]], said publication vindicated the party's demand for an independent audit and public register, but that a transparent zero remained a zero. [[Francisco Gabaza]], leader of the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|FCP]], called for the first eligible receipts to be transferred as soon as the law permits. His party had supported the enacted bill after securing audit and regional safeguards.<ref name="nrf-reactions">Statements on the first annual Fund accounts by Treasury Secretary [[Warren Ferdinand]], formateur [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], CGA coordinator [[Elena Svensson]] and FCP leader [[Francisco Gabaza]], 15.XI.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The Board cannot change the capitalization formula on its own. The Fund could receive an unspent appropriation or nonrecurring receipt under Article 6 before any surplus assessment. Changes to the capitalization formula or NAX€50 billion ceiling belong to the Cortes under Article 8. At the date of these accounts, the Federation therefore has a permanent disaster fund, a seated board and an audited account, but no assets held in it.
|tldr=The [[National Resilience Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|National Resilience Fund]] published its first annual accounts on 15.XI.{{AN|1759}} with a balance of NAX€0.00. Its seven-member board is seated, its separate Treasury account is open and the statutory public register records no contributions or disbursements. No nonrecurring receipt has entered the Fund to date, while any unspent {{AN|1759}} appropriation remains a year-end question. The first assessed contribution cannot be made until a fiscal year after commencement that Treasury certifies in surplus; {{AN|1759}} has not closed, but the latest quarterly deficit makes such a certification unlikely. The Fund remains unable to finance disaster recovery until it receives assets, reopening the dispute between the enacted no-tax, no-borrowing design and the opposition's rejected guaranteed-appropriation model.
|impact_approval={{decrease}} -1
|impact_stability={{steady}} 0
}}

===24===

{{Main|Bliven Fund|Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Anglien}}
{{See also|Constitution of Anglien|CATO Commissioner of Peace for Anglien|Concord Alliance Military Assistance Mission to Anglien|Anglien–Nouvelle Alexandrie relations}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Natopia|flag}}{{team flag|Anglien|flag}}{{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} NATOPIA SUPPLIES 84 PERCENT OF THE BLIVEN FUND AS CONCORD ALLIES REPLACE ANGLIEN'S EXPIRING GRANTS
|image=BlivenFundCapitalization1759NBC.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''NBC News data graphic showing the final Bliven Fund capitalization plan approved by the Concord Council on 24.XI.{{AN|1759}}: Natopia supplies 84 percent, East Zimia 6 percent, Constancia 5 percent, Aerla 3 percent and Vegno 2 percent; Nouvelle Alexandrie supplies no capital.''
|bullet1=[[Concord Council]] Approves the Final Capitalization Plan for the [[Bliven Fund]] on 24.XI.{{AN|1759}}
|bullet2=[[Natopia]] Will Provide 84 Percent of the Endowment; [[East Zimia and the Wallis Islands|East Zimia]], [[Constancia]], [[Aerla]] and [[Vegno]] Divide the Remainder
|bullet3=Capitalization Keeps the Target at Three Times [[Anglien]]'s Annual Government Expenditure, With the First Transfer Due in {{AN|1760}}
|bullet4=[[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] Will Provide No Fund Subscription, Grant or New Military Deployment
|bullet5=The Federation Instead Offers Civilian Financial, Audit, Customs and Administrative Support Under Existing Authority
|bullet6=An Anglian-Majority Board Will Control the Fund, With a CATO Minority Remaining Through {{AN|1765}}
|location=[[Lindström]], [[Natopia]]
|body=The [[Concord Council]] approved the final capitalization plan for the [[Bliven Fund]] on 24.XI.{{AN|1759}}. The plan gives the [[Anglien|Free Duchy of Anglien]] the endowment promised at the end of the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Concord Alliance]] assistance program. [[Natopia]] will supply nearly all of its capital.<ref name="fund-plan" />

Natopia will subscribe 84 percent of the fund. [[East Zimia and the Wallis Islands]], which announced the first smaller commitment on 1.VIII, will provide six percent; [[Constancia]] five percent, [[Aerla]] three percent and [[Vegno]] two percent. [[Western Corum]], which supplied a counter-insurgency and liaison contingent during the transition, will contribute technical assistance rather than capital.<ref name="camaa">[[Concord Alliance Military Assistance Mission to Anglien]].</ref> The subscriptions preserve the original target developed within the [[Ministry of Finance and Reconstruction of Anglien]] under Finance Minister Catrin Halvordssen in {{AN|1757}}: a corpus equal to about three times the duchy's annual government expenditure, invested abroad rather than spent down at once.<ref name="fund-plan">[[Bliven Fund]]; proceedings of the [[Concord Council]] on the conclusion of the Anglien assistance program, XI.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The agreement sets the first annual transfer at 4.25 percent of the fund's market value in {{AN|1760}}, within the four-to-five-percent range of the Halvordssen plan and after the [[Constitution of Anglien|constitutional transition]]. An Anglian-majority board seated in [[Johannsessbuurg]] will appoint foreign custodians and publish the portfolio and fees each quarter. CATO-nominated directors will hold a minority of seats through {{AN|1765}}, after which every appointment passes to Anglian institutions. The portfolio will remain weighted toward the [[Natopian natopo]], which already anchors the [[Anglian mark]]. The [[New Alexandrian écu]], [[Craitish cräite]], [[Hurmu crown]] and [[Meckelnburgh rixdollar]] will provide diversification. Its assets will remain separate from the natopo reserves securing the Anglian mark's currency board, making the fund a fiscal replacement for expiring grants rather than a change to the monetary regime.<ref name="currency">[[Ministry of Finance and Reconstruction of Anglien]]; [[Anglian mark]].</ref>

[[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] will not subscribe capital, issue a grant, guarantee the fund or replace the military personnel leaving with the Concord drawdown. That preserves the Federation's decision announced in II.{{AN|1759}}, when it refused a new quarter-century financial commitment during the [[Recession of 1757|recession]]. The office of the [[CATO Commissioner of Peace for Anglien]], whose only commissioner, New Alexandrian diplomat [[Alejandro Fuentes-Villanueva]], left the post when the referendum was certified, is due to close once the general election is certified.<ref name="certification">[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#ANGLIEN_RATIFIES|NBC News]], 23.VII.{{AN|1759}}; [[Constitution of Anglien]].</ref> No New Alexandrian combat unit will take the place of the departing mission personnel.<ref name="nax-refusal">[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#NOUVELLE_ALEXANDRIE_WILL_NOT_UNDERWRITE_ANGLIEN'S_ENDOWMENT,_LEAVING_NATOPIA_TO_SEED_THE_BLIVEN_FUND_LARGELY_ALONE|NBC News]], 20.II.{{AN|1759}}; [[CATO Commissioner of Peace for Anglien]].</ref>

The Federation instead offered non-capital support under existing departmental authority. The [[Federal Bank of Nouvelle Alexandrie]] and the [[Department of Treasury (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Treasury]] will advise the Anglian board on custody rules, asset reporting and audits. Customs authorities will prepare links between Anglian ports and New Alexandrian cargo and inspection systems. Trade officials will draft duty-free quotas for Anglian fish, timber and processed foods for the next Cortes to consider.

New Alexandrian banks may compete for commercial custody and investment mandates without a federal guarantee. Civilian legal, maritime and public-administration advisers may continue by invitation after the military functions of the [[Concord Alliance Military Assistance Mission to Anglien|CAMA-A]] end. That advisory channel is separate from the bilateral Natopian garrison established by the [[Treaty of Johannsessbuurg]], whose withdrawal follows Anglien's constitutional calendar.<ref name="civilian">[[Concord Alliance Military Assistance Mission to Anglien]]; [[Treaty of Johannsessbuurg]]; [[Anglien–Nouvelle Alexandrie relations]].</ref>

In Cárdenas, the arrangement leaves the next government room to act. Premier [[Jose Manuel Montero|José Manuel Montero]] remains in caretaker office while [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] serves as formateur under the [[Government Formation and Coalition Act, 1694]]. The caretaker government can continue existing technical programs, but the agreement does not bind the next [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes]] to a new appropriation, guarantee or tariff change. Gonçalves had argued when the fund was proposed in {{AN|1757}} that Anglien should be supported without endowing its budget from the New Alexandrian Treasury.<ref name="nax-refusal" />

For Anglien, the agreement changes the form of dependence but does not end it immediately. CATO grants covered about 58 percent of government expenditure in the first year of the transition.<ref name="currency" /> The Bliven Fund replaces expiring grants with an Anglian-controlled asset and a smaller annual draw. Natopia supplies most of the capital. Other Concord allies add smaller subscriptions or technical support. Nouvelle Alexandrie contributes no capital while maintaining much of its civilian relationship.
|tldr=The [[Concord Council]] approved the final [[Bliven Fund]] capitalization plan on 24.XI.{{AN|1759}}. [[Natopia]] will provide 84 percent of an endowment equal to about three times [[Anglien]]'s annual government expenditure, with [[East Zimia and the Wallis Islands|East Zimia]], [[Constancia]], [[Aerla]] and [[Vegno]] supplying the remainder. [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] will provide no subscription, grant, guarantee or new military deployment. It will instead offer civilian financial, audit, customs, legal and administrative support under existing authority while leaving tariffs and new spending to the next Cortes. An Anglian-majority board will begin annual transfers in {{AN|1760}}, with CATO retaining a minority of seats through {{AN|1765}}.
|impact_international={{increase}} +2
|impact_economy={{increase}} +1
|impact_stability={{increase}} +1
}}

==XII (Sylvaris)==
===6===

{{Main|Talenore}}
{{See also|Treaty of Recognition and Friendship between Shireroth and Talenore|Second Shiro-Talenorian Protection Treaty|Constitution of Talenore}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Talenore|flag}} {{team flag|Shireroth|flag}} TALENORE AND SHIREROTH SIGN TREATY TO RESTORE THE ISLAND'S INDEPENDENCE
|image=Independent Talenore 1759.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''Map of Talenore attached to the treaty signed at [[Shirekeep]]; {{AN|1759}}.''
|bullet1=Treaty Commits Shireroth to Relinquish Sovereignty and End the Protectorate Established over Talenore in {{AN|1665}}
|bullet2=Independence Settlement Will Take Effect Only After the Exchange of Ratifications
|bullet3=Ayreon VI Is to Remain Sardar Under a Legally Separate Talenorian Crown
|bullet4=Current Talenorian Officers Will Serve Until the First Election in {{AN|1760}}
|bullet5=New Relationship Provides for Nonaggression, Arbitration and Ninety-Day Visa-Free Travel
|bullet6=Treaty Leaves the Future of Shireroth's Military Base Unsettled
|location=[[Shirekeep]]
|body=[[Shireroth]] and [[Talenore]] signed the [[Treaty of Recognition and Friendship between Shireroth and Talenore]] at [[Shirekeep]] on 6.XII.{{AN|1759}}, providing for Shireroth to relinquish sovereignty over the island and recognize it as independent after ninety-four years as a protectorate. The settlement will take legal effect only when the two governments exchange instruments of ratification, and the treaty gives no date for that exchange.

Shirerithian Regent [[Rafi Hakimi bin Alsalam]] signed for the empire, while Governor General [[Leyla Avon-El Myksos]] signed for Talenore on behalf of the Sardar. Under the agreement, the [[Second Shiro-Talenorian Protection Treaty]] of 10.IV.{{AN|1665}} would be terminated. That pact had placed responsibility for Talenore's defense with Shireroth, allowed the empire to establish a military base on the island and required Talenore's foreign and foreign-trade policies to follow Shireroth's.

The separation would leave one dynastic link in place. The treaty retains [[Kaiser Ayreon VI]] as Sardar, but only with the powers provided by Talenorian law, and commits Shireroth not to interfere in the office. The [[Constitution of Talenore]] declares the Talenorian crown legally separate from the Shirerithian crown.

The agreement follows the constitutional reform of {{AN|1758}} that brought [[1750–1758 Talenore constitutional crisis|eight years of political instability]] to an end and placed Myksos at the head of the government. The constitution keeps existing officers in place through the transition and provides for Talenore's first election in {{AN|1760}}.

On entry into force, Talenore would assume the island's public debts and liabilities. The agreement also requires the settlement of Shirerithian court proceedings concerning Talenore and claims brought by Shireroth or Shirerithian nationals against Talenore or Talenorian nationals. Until Talenore establishes its own foreign service, it may ask Shireroth to represent it in countries where it has no mission. The treaty also provides for nonaggression, consultation and arbitration, together with reciprocal visa-free visits and transit of up to ninety days.

The document leaves one of the separation's largest practical questions unsettled. The Imperial Garrison, particularly MoMA Station Talenore, is one of the island's two largest economic actors, but the treaty does not say whether the base will close, transfer to Talenorian control or continue under a new agreement.
|tldr=''[[Talenore]] and [[Shireroth]] signed a treaty at [[Shirekeep]] on 6.XII.{{AN|1759}} providing for Talenore's independence and the end of the protectorate established in {{AN|1665}}. The agreement would keep [[Kaiser Ayreon VI]] as Sardar under a separate Talenorian crown, while Talenore prepares for its first election in {{AN|1760}}. It will take legal effect only after the two governments exchange ratifications, and it leaves the future of Shireroth's military base unsettled.''
|impact_international={{increase}} +1
|impact_stability={{steady}} 0
}}

===18===

{{Main|Cajamarca Reconstruction Act, 1757|1757 Cajamarca micrasquake}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} AN ENGINEERING TRAIN CROSSES THE CAJAMARCA TUNNEL FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE QUAKE AS 31,600 DISPLACED PEOPLE RETURN HOME
|bullet1=An Engineering Train Completes the First Passage Through the 6.4-Kilometer [[Cajamarca Tunnel]] Since the {{AN|1757}} Micrasquake
|bullet2=The Crossing Is a Construction Milestone, Not a Reopening; Track, Drainage, Signaling and Emergency Systems Still Face Commissioning
|bullet3=A Treasury Report Says NAX€52.4 Billion Has Been Authorized under the Six-Year Program and NAX€46.9 Billion Spent or Contractually Committed
|bullet4=Of the 38,000 People Displaced, 31,600 Have Returned to Repaired or Replacement Homes and 4,870 Remain in Transitional Accommodation
|bullet5=Land Claims Keep Work on 1,142 Old-Town and Village Plots Pending, Leaving the Most Complicated Homes Until Last
|bullet6=Auditors Find No Material Unlawful Expenditure but Flag Fourteen Contract Files for Correction before the Next Tranche Request
|location=[[Cajamarca]], [[Wechua Nation]]
|body=For the first time since the earth moved beneath Cajamarca, a train has passed all the way through the tunnel west of the city. An engineering locomotive completed a low-speed passage of the 6.4-kilometer [[Cajamarca Tunnel]] on 18.XII.{{AN|1759}}, crossing the damaged section near the eastern portal that collapsed in the [[1757 Cajamarca micrasquake]]. The line remains closed.

The passage appears in the latest thirty-day report on the [[Cajamarca Reconstruction Act, 1757|Cajamarca reconstruction program]], submitted by the [[Department of Treasury (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Treasury]] to the [[Budget and Finances Committee]].<ref name="progress-report">[[Department of Treasury (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Treasury]], ''Cajamarca Reconstruction Program: Thirty-Day Progress Report and Departmental Annexes'', 18.XII.{{AN|1759}}.</ref><ref name="cajamarca-act">[[Cajamarca Reconstruction Act, 1757]], Articles 4 and 6 through 12.</ref> The report records NAX€52.4 billion authorized under the six-year program, including the first NAX€20 billion tranche and later releases voted by the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes]]. Of that amount, NAX€46.9 billion has been paid or committed under signed contracts. The statutory NAX€100 billion figure remains a ceiling through {{AN|1763}}, not an appropriation already spent.

Housing has advanced farther than it had a year ago. Of the roughly 38,000 people displaced or left in unsafe homes by the magnitude 6.8 micrasquake, 31,600 have now returned to repaired or replacement homes built to the [[Wechua Nation]]'s updated seismic code. Another 4,870 remain in federally funded transitional accommodation. The balance have resettled elsewhere or left the program.<ref name="progress-report" /> Rosa Ticona, whose family was still living in a temporary unit when NBC reported from Cajamarca in V.{{AN|1758}}, received the keys to a replacement home in the old town this month.<ref name="last-report">[[NBC Newsfeed/1758]], 16.V.{{AN|1758}}.</ref><ref name="progress-report" />

The people still waiting are concentrated in the cases that have resisted the ordinary building schedule. The report lists 1,142 old-town and village plots where ownership or boundaries remain unresolved. Some households have accepted replacement sites. Others continue to pursue claims to their former lots. The report gives no date by which the last claims will be settled.<ref name="progress-report" />

The train passage confirms that workers have restored a traversable construction route through the damaged section. Commercial service cannot yet resume. Drainage, signaling, ventilation and emergency refuge systems must be commissioned, and the repaired bore must pass load testing before the [[Rail transport in Nouvelle Alexandrie|Keltian Bulk Line]] can carry regular traffic. The civil-works schedule places that work in early {{AN|1760}} but gives no reopening day. Until then, Cajamarca's freight will continue to move over the mountain roads that raised the cost of every stage of the rebuild.<ref name="progress-report" />

The [[Federal Audit Office of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Audit Office]] found no material unlawful expenditure in the releases examined. It did identify incomplete change-order records on fourteen contracts and delays in two rural housing packages.<ref name="audit-review">[[Federal Audit Office of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Audit Office]], ''Review of Cajamarca Reconstruction Program Releases through 18.XII.{{AN|1759}}'', 18.XII.{{AN|1759}}.</ref> The finding does not alter the Act's funding rule: money for the tunnel cannot move without a commensurate release for homes, and each new tranche must return to the Cortes with its costs and allocation stated.

The report makes no request for another tranche. Under the Act, any further release must return to the Cortes with its costs and its division between housing and the line stated in full. Existing contracts carry both parts of the reconstruction into {{AN|1760}}. The train passage records measurable progress. The line remains closed, and families are still waiting.
|tldr=''A low-speed engineering train crossed the full 6.4-kilometer [[Cajamarca Tunnel]] on 18.XII.{{AN|1759}}, the first complete passage since the {{AN|1757}} micrasquake, but the line remains closed while its operating systems and load tests are completed. A Treasury report records NAX€52.4 billion authorized and NAX€46.9 billion spent or committed under the six-year reconstruction program. Of roughly 38,000 displaced people, 31,600 have returned to permanent homes and 4,870 remain in transitional accommodation. The hardest cases include 1,142 plots with unresolved land claims. Existing contracts continue into {{AN|1760}}, while any next tranche must return to the Cortes with its housing and rail allocations stated.''
|impact_infrastructure={{increase}} +2
|impact_regional={{increase}} +1
|impact_stability={{increase}} +1
}}

===22===

{{Main|The Hummingbird and the Condor}}
{{See also|Cinema of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Wayra Pictures|Starlight Awards|Wechua Nation|Faith of Inti|New Alexandrian Zodiac}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} ''THE HUMMINGBIRD AND THE CONDOR'' TOPS THE BOX OFFICE AS THE RECESSION'S SURPRISE FAMILY HIT
|image=WechuaFamilyTV1759.jpg
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''A family in the [[Wechua Nation]] watches a broadcast during the {{AN|1759}} season in which [[Wayra Pictures]]' animated feature ''Q'inti Kunturwan'' became the Federation's most-watched film.''
|bullet1=Wayra Pictures' Animated Fable Is the First New Alexandrian Feature Released at Once in All Three Official Languages
|bullet2=The Hand-Drawn Parap Production Has Led the Domestic Box Office for Three Straight Weeks
|bullet3=Distributors in Natopia and the Euran Markets Have Bought the Largest Foreign Slate Any Local Animated Film Has Carried
|bullet4=Director Illari Mamani Built the Story on the Wechua Signs of the Hummingbird and the Condor
|bullet5=Exhibitors Credit a Hard Year for the Turn Toward One Affordable Outing the Whole Family Can Share
|bullet6=Some in Starlight City Ask Whether a Parap Animation House Can Do It Twice
|location=[[Parap]], Wechua Nation
|body=In a year when New Alexandrians have counted every écu, the cheapest seat in the Federation turned out to be a cartoon about a small bird and a large one. ''The Hummingbird and the Condor'', an animated feature from a studio in the highland city of [[Parap]], opened in the first week of [[Norton calendar|Sylvaris]] (XII) and has sat at the top of the box office ever since, the surprise film of a recession year.

Its distributor said on 22.XII.{{AN|1759}} that the picture had led the domestic box office for a third straight week and become the highest-grossing animated release in the Federation's history, and that it had sold a wider slate of foreign rights than any New Alexandrian animated film before it. It did so in a way none had managed before: released the same day in [[Alexandrian language|Alexandrian]], [[Martino language|Martino]] and [[Wechua language|Wechua]], the Federation's three official languages, with the Wechua version outselling the others in half the country.<ref name="wayra-release">Distribution statement, [[Wayra Pictures]], on the box-office and international sales of ''The Hummingbird and the Condor'', 22.XII.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The studio is not one of the giants. [[Wayra Pictures]], founded in Parap in {{AN|1735}} and named for the Wechua word for the wind, has spent a quarter-century making hand-drawn features rooted in Wechua storytelling, married to digital work and pitched at children and adults alike. Its debut, ''Legends of the Sky Serpent'', won the [[Starlight Awards|Starlight Award]] for Best Animated Film in {{AN|1737}}; it has not had a hit on this scale since.<ref name="cinema-nax">''[[Cinema of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]'', on Wayra Pictures and the Wechua animation tradition.</ref>

''The Hummingbird and the Condor'' takes its shape from the two [[New Alexandrian Zodiac|Wechua signs]] its title names, and from the theology beneath them. In the telling, the hummingbird, ''q'inti'', a creature of the inner world (''ukhu pacha''), and the condor, ''kuntur'', the great bird of the upper world (''hanan pacha''), set out across a drought-struck sky to find where the rains have gone. The [[Faith of Inti]] calls the balance of such complementary opposites ''yanantin'', and their meeting a ''tinkuy'', a convergence held to bring renewal, and reckons both birds signs of a single element, ''[[New Alexandrian Zodiac|wayra]]'', the wind, the word the studio took for its own name. Parap knows the greater of the two well: the city calls itself ''Kuntur Pacha'', the Condor's Realm, and keeps the [[Inti Kuntur Wasi]], the monument to the golden condor ''Qori Kuntur'', envoy of Inti, whose descent the Wechua hold to have founded the city. Director Illari Mamani, a Parap animator in her first feature, said the pairing was the point. ''"One bird is the size of a thumb and one has the wingspan of a doorway, and the whole film is them learning to fly the same sky,"'' Mamani said. ''"We did not set out to make a Wechua film that the rest of the country would tolerate. We made a film in Wechua first and trusted that a good story travels in any of our languages."''

Exhibitors put the film's reach down to the year as much as the picture. ''"In a good year this is a nice film that does nice business,"'' said Camila Duarte, who runs a chain of cinemas across [[Punta Santiago]] and the Aldurian coast. ''"In this year it is the one outing a family of four can still afford, and they are coming back a second and a third time. I have not sold matinees like this since before the crash."'' The [[Recession of 1757]], now in its third year, has thinned household budgets across the Federation and driven cinemas to discount the family seats the film has filled. It was the same hard year in which the pilgrimage to the [[Flaming Rock of Rimarima]] drew its heaviest season in years and a summer exhibition in [[Cárdenas]] set Wechua and Wakara solar treasures side by side.

The numbers are large for a Parap house. The distributor said the film had taken NAX€214 million at home in three weeks against a production budget it put near NAX€40 million, and had booked NAX€78 million in foreign pre-sales, led by [[Natopia]] and buyers across the Euran markets of the [[Raspur Pact]]. Wayra's head of production, Sumaq Rimachi, said the foreign interest had surprised the studio more than the domestic run. ''"We expected the Wechua Nation and we hoped for the coast,"'' Rimachi said. ''"We did not expect a distributor in Lindström to bid for a subtitled cartoon in a language most of its audience has never heard. A condor, it turns out, reads in any tongue."''

The success lands in an industry whose center of gravity sits far from Parap, in the studio district of Starlight City at [[Punta Santiago]], where the Federation's blockbusters are made and marketed. A Wechua-language feature from a highland independent topping the year's box office is, for that industry, a story about itself. It also extends a lineage the trade had treated as prestige rather than commerce, from Wayra's own {{AN|1737}} debut to Elena Vásquez's ''Daughters of Inti'' in {{AN|1741}}, the films that carried Wechua storytelling to a national audience without ever leading the box office outright.

Not everyone in Starlight City reads the result the same way. ''"One picture is a phenomenon, not a business model,"'' said a producer at a major Punta Santiago studio, who asked not to be named while the film was still in release. ''"A hard year sends families to the movies, and this was the right film in the right month. The question is whether Parap can build a second one before the recession ends and the arithmetic goes back to normal."'' Mamani, asked about the doubt, said Wayra was already storyboarding. Whether the studio can repeat it is a question the {{AN|1760}} slate will answer; the [[Starlight Awards|Starlight Awards of Merit and Achievement]], which the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (NAMPAS) gives out early in the new year, will offer the first verdict of the industry that the hummingbird and the condor flew over.
|tldr=''[[Wayra Pictures]]' animated feature ''The Hummingbird and the Condor'' (Wechua: ''Q'inti Kunturwan''), a hand-drawn fable from a studio in [[Parap]], became the surprise hit of the recession year: its distributor said on 22.XII.{{AN|1759}} that it had led the domestic box office for three straight weeks, become the highest-grossing New Alexandrian animated release, and sold the widest foreign slate of any local animated film. It was the first New Alexandrian feature released at once in all three official languages, [[Alexandrian language|Alexandrian]], [[Martino language|Martino]] and [[Wechua language|Wechua]], with the Wechua version leading sales in half the country. Director Illari Mamani built the story on the Wechua signs of the hummingbird (''q'inti'') and the condor (''kuntur'') and the [[Faith of Inti]]'s ''tinkuy'' of complementary opposites, grounded in Parap's identity as ''Kuntur Pacha''. Exhibitors credited the [[Recession of 1757]] for the turn toward an affordable family outing, while some in Starlight City at [[Punta Santiago]] questioned whether a Parap house could repeat it.''
|impact_culture={{increase}} +2
|impact_economy={{increase}} +1
|impact_social={{increase}} +1
}}

===24===

==== Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month XII, 1759) ====

''Published by the Nouvelle Alexandrie Statistics Bureau.''

[[Recession of 1757|The downturn]] began to ease in the third quarter of {{AN|1759}}, and output turned up for the first time since it began, though unemployment reached its highest reading of the downturn. Unemployment stood at 8.7%, against 8.6% in the second quarter, and the year-on-year growth rate narrowed to negative 3.1% from negative 4.0%, while trailing annual output fell to NAX€47.39 trillion from NAX€47.80 trillion. The annualized rate swung to growth of 3.0%, against a contraction of 4.0% in the second quarter. The [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758|Recovery Act]] continued to disburse its borrowed spending through the quarter, carried in the accounts alongside the multi-year [[Cajamarca Reconstruction Act, 1757|Cajamarca reconstruction]] bond, and the quarterly deficit held at 5.4% of GDP while public debt rose 1.7 points to 66.4%, crossing the 65% ceiling set in the Act's own debt brake. The Alexandrium price recovered NAX€24.00 to NAX€1,973.96 per gram, its first rise since the floor broke at the end of {{AN|1758}}, and federal receipts from the mineral edged up to NAX€57.86 billion. Consumer confidence jumped to 88.3 from 73.9 and housing affordability slipped to 98.9. The quarter also carried the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|general election]] of Month IX, certified on the nineteenth: the economy went to the vote with unemployment at 8.7 percent. One caveat applies to the headline output figure: the third quarter runs four months where the fourth quarter of {{AN|1758}} ran three, so quarterly output of NAX€12.65 trillion reads high against that quarter chiefly for that reason, and the annualized growth rate is the better guide to the quarter's pace.

===== Headline panel =====

{| class="wikitable"
! Indicator !! Current !! Change !! Note
|-
| Real GDP (quarter) || NAX€12.65 trillion || {{increase}} NAX€211.32 billion || the quarter's output
|-
| Real GDP (trailing 4Q, annual) || NAX€47.39 trillion || {{decrease}} NAX€405.93 billion || sum of the last four quarters
|-
| Real GDP growth (QoQ, annualized) || 3.0% || || quarter on quarter
|-
| Real GDP growth (YoY) || -3.1% || || year on year
|-
| Nominal GDP (annual) || NAX€49.39 trillion || {{decrease}} NAX€228.80 billion || real times the deflator
|-
| GDP per capita (nominal) || NAX€95,093 || {{decrease}} NAX€726 || the very-rich headline
|-
| Inflation (CPI, YoY) || 1.5% || {{decrease}} 0.1% ||
|-
| Cost-of-Living Index || 105.8 || {{increase}} 0.4 || 100 = {{AN|1757}} base
|-
| Unemployment rate || 8.7% || {{steady}} ||
|-
| Budget balance (quarter, % GDP) || -5.4% || {{steady}} || deficit if negative
|-
| Public debt (% GDP) || 66.4% || {{increase}} 1.7% || debt/GDP guardrail
|-
| Trade balance (quarter, % GDP) || 3.5% || {{decrease}} 0.1% ||
|-
| Alexandrium price (NAX€/g) || 1,973.96 || {{increase}} 24.00 || volatility driver
|-
| Alexandrium federal revenue (quarter) || NAX€57.86 billion || {{increase}} NAX€0.70 billion || feeds the 12% mandate
|-
| Gini coefficient || 0.380 || {{steady}} || distribution headline
|-
| Urban-rural income gap || 1.80 || {{steady}} || income ratio
|-
| Housing Affordability Index || 98.9 || {{decrease}} 2.9 || price/rent vs income
|-
| Consumer Confidence Index || 88.3 || {{increase}} 14.4 || 100 = neutral
|}



===== Detailed appendix =====

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Macro detail
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Real GDP (quarter) || NAX€12.65 trillion
|-
| Nominal GDP (quarter) || NAX€13.25 trillion
|-
| GDP deflator || 104.7
|-
| Real GDP (trailing 4Q) || NAX€47.39 trillion
|-
| Nominal GDP (trailing 4Q) || NAX€49.39 trillion
|-
| Real growth (QoQ ann.) || 3.0%
|-
| Real growth (YoY) || -3.1%
|-
| Cost-of-Living Index || 105.8
|-
| House Price Index || 98.5
|-
| Housing Affordability Index || 98.9
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Labor
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Population || 519,425,749
|-
| Working-age population || 341,455,174
|-
| Labor force || 214,805,165
|-
| Employed || 196,182,891
|-
| Participation rate || 62.9%
|-
| Unemployment rate || 8.7%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Fiscal and debt
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Revenue (quarter) || NAX€5.01 trillion
|-
| Expenditure (quarter) || NAX€5.48 trillion
|-
| Primary balance (quarter) || NAX€-470.94 billion
|-
| Interest (quarter) || NAX€237.93 billion
|-
| Budget balance (quarter) || NAX€-708.87 billion
|-
| Public debt || NAX€32.79 trillion
|-
| Public debt (% GDP) || 66.4%
|-
| Interest burden (% revenue) || 4.7%
|-
| Reserve fund || NAX€1.78 trillion
|-
| Reserve draw (quarter) || NAX€0.00 billion
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ External
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Exports (quarter) || NAX€3.41 trillion
|-
| Imports (quarter) || NAX€2.95 trillion
|-
| Trade balance (quarter) || NAX€460.27 billion
|-
| Trade balance (% GDP) || 3.5%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Strategic resources (Alexandrium)
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Price (NAX€/g) || 1,973.96
|-
| Gross value (quarter) || NAX€231.45 billion
|-
| Export value (quarter) || NAX€162.01 billion
|-
| Federal revenue (quarter) || NAX€57.86 billion
|-
| Revenue baseline (quarter) || NAX€85.01 billion
|-
| Revenue shortfall (quarter) || NAX€27.14 billion
|-
| UARA volume levy (quarter) || NAX€7.62 billion
|-
| Ad-valorem take (quarter) || NAX€50.24 billion
|-
| Diversification earmark (12%) || NAX€6.94 billion
|-
| Resource-sector share of GDP || 1.9%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Sectoral output (shares sum to 100%)
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Agriculture || 6.0%
|-
| Industry || 30.1%
|-
| Services || 63.9%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Inequality
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Gini coefficient || 0.380
|-
| Urban-rural income gap || 1.80
|}

''Outlook (forecast):'' real GDP growth is projected near -1.6% (annualized) next quarter, with unemployment near 8.7%. These are model projections, superseded by next quarter's actuals.

==XIII (Autumus)==

===14===

{{Main|The Last Lamp of Ben Aliv}}
{{See also|Judahite rite|Ben Aliv|Cinema of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Judah Film Festival|Last Night on Botha|Israati University of Judah}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} ''THE LAST LAMP OF BEN ALIV'' REBUILDS AN EXTINCT RITE FROM ITS ENEMIES' WORDS AS THE SEASON'S SLEEPER HIT
|image=Lamp of Ben Aliv.svg
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''The standing twelve-mouth lamp of the extinct [[Judahite rite]] at [[Ben Aliv]], the vessel the film takes its name from, held to have "never gone out and never been carried."''
|bullet1=Twilight Tales' Cárdenas Gothic Feature Was Filmed on Location in the Port City of Judah
|bullet2=The Film Stages the Extinct Judahite Rite and the Standing Lamp of Ben Aliv
|bullet3=Nearly Everything It Reconstructs Survives Only in the Hostile Yerenist Polemics That Once Attacked the Rite
|bullet4=The Film Reawakens the Israati University's Old Quarrel Over Whether an Enemy's Record Can Be Trusted
|bullet5=Israati Families Ask Who Owns a Rite Their Descent Outlived
|bullet6=No Government Ban Has Followed the Studio's Ghost-Story Defense
|location=[[Judah]], Wechua Nation
|body=The lamp at the center of the year's most argued-over film went dark three generations before anyone now living was born, and the people who made the film had to learn what it looked like from the people who despised it.

''The Last Lamp of Ben Aliv'', a period ghost story shot on location in the port city of [[Judah]] in the [[Cinema of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cárdenas Gothic]] style, opened to little notice at the start of [[Norton calendar|Autumus]] (XIII) and has become the sleeper hit of the season. On 14.XIII.{{AN|1759}} the [[Israati University of Judah]], the institution founded to recover the very rite the film stages, addressed the picture in public for the first time, its faculty divided over a question the film forces into the open: whether a faith known almost entirely through the words of its enemies can honestly be rebuilt at all.<ref name="university">Statement of the [[Israati University of Judah]] on ''The Last Lamp of Ben Aliv'', 14.XIII.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The film is the work of [[Twilight Tales Studios]], the [[Cárdenas]] studio [[Gabriel Moreno]] built into the home of the low-budget horror style critics named the Cárdenas Gothic. Its director, Renata Corvo, took a small crew east to Judah, the Wechua Nation port that was once the senior city of [[Anglia & Israat|Israat]], and shot among the old quarters where the rite had its seat. The veteran Cárdenas Gothic composer [[Allegra Van Bokhoven]], who has scored the studio's pictures for a generation, wrote its music. Made for the price of a single mainstream reel, the film was expected to fill a season's late shows and no more; instead it has sold out its houses week after week, carried by word of mouth and by an argument its makers did not plan for.

What the film reconstructs is the [[Judahite rite]], the eastern form of the [[Ashkenatza|Yehudi]] tradition in [[Anglia & Israat|Israat]] that ended as an organized body with the dissolution of the [[Caputia|Kingdom of the Union of Caputia]] in {{AN|1668}}. Its central image, and the film's title, is the standing lamp at [[Ben Aliv]]: a vessel of twelve mouths that the rite held had never gone out and never been carried, fed in its place rather than passed from hand to hand. The film stages the last tending of that lamp, its liturgy spoken in ''Haifan'', the tongue of the rite. Its climax turns on the flame going out, an image the rite itself had ritualized long before the end: once in its calendar cycle the vessel was left unfed and dark and the community kept the interval by attending nothing, so that on screen a viewer cannot always tell the ritual dark from the final one. The harder trouble is that almost none of it survives in the rite's own words. The Judahite literature is largely lost; what remains of its teaching survives inside the polemics the neighboring [[Yerenism|Yereni Church]] wrote against it, whose commentators quoted the Israati authorities at length to answer them. To rebuild the rite on screen, Corvo's writers worked from the record its enemies kept.

That is the ground the [[Israati University of Judah]] has occupied since its founding in {{AN|1734}}. The University was built on one answer to the question: its founder, the philologist Yoel Maccabi, held that a hostile witness is preferable to none, made the line the institution's motto, and set its scholars to recovering the rite's authorities, Nahum of Judah and Eliav of Ben Aliv, from the very paraphrases their enemies had left. The film has reopened the older quarrel the University's own existence was meant to settle. On one side stands the position the University was founded on, that a picture which sends people back to the sources is a gift; on the other, the objection the tradition never stopped making, that a text known only through its enemies is an allegation rather than a text, and that to stage the enemies' version is to let a polemic finish its work six centuries on. ''"The picture is beautiful and it is honest about one thing,"'' said Professor Adina Serel, who teaches the rite's history at the University. ''"It never pretends to show you the rite. It shows you the rite as the men who hated it chose to describe it, and it lets you feel the difference. Whether an audience keeps that difference in mind when the lights come up is the part none of us can score."'' The film underlines the problem with its own most-quoted line, spoken by Eliav of Ben Aliv, that a congregation will tolerate an obscure doctrine but not a feast kept on the wrong day. Even that line reaches the present only through a hostile quotation, and whether Eliav ever said it is not established.

The sharper objection has come from outside the lecture halls. The Israati are counted in the [[1758 New Alexandrian census|census]] as an ethnic category distinct from the confession, and their descent outlived the rite by generations; a family can be Israati by descent today without keeping, or being kept by, the rite at all. Some Israati families in Judah have asked by what right a Cárdenas studio stages their ancestors' extinguished faith at all, and from its enemies' pages at that. ''"They filmed my grandmother's grandmother's prayer from a book written to prove it was wrong,"'' said Miriam Toledano, who organized a letter of Israati residents to the studio. ''"I do not want it banned. I want it to say, on the screen, whose account this is."'' Others have welcomed the film for carrying a nearly forgotten history to an audience that would never open a philologist's monograph. ''"My grandmother could not get anyone to sit through her stories,"'' said Dov Almagor, an Israati bookseller in the port quarter. ''"Now strangers stop me to ask what a reckoning was. I will take the film, footnotes and all."''

Twilight Tales has not retreated, and no authority has asked it to. The studio, which trades in ghosts, has called the picture a ghost story rather than a reconstruction, an act of homage to a thing that is gone; the label is more exact than it sounds, for the rite held no personal hereafter, only what its teachers called a continuance in the keeping, the dead persisting as the obligations their households went on discharging. There has been no ban and no motion to impose one, a restraint that stands out in a Federation that banned the horror picture [[Last Night on Botha]] after a single [[Judah Film Festival]] screening, a prohibition that kept this film's own composer, Van Bokhoven, off the screen for seven years. The argument over ''The Last Lamp of Ben Aliv'' has stayed where the rite's own quarrels always stayed, on the page and in the lecture hall. What the film cannot settle is the question the rite left behind and the University still turns over. The lamp, the Judahite teachers held, was not lit for God but so that the community would have something it was bound to keep, and its worth lay in the keeping; its going out ended the testimony without lifting the obligation. The film asks what remains when the last lamp is lost, and hands the question to an audience holding only the record its enemies kept.
|tldr=''[[Twilight Tales Studios]]' ''The Last Lamp of Ben Aliv'', a [[Cinema of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cárdenas Gothic]] period ghost story filmed in [[Judah]] and directed by Renata Corvo, became the sleeper hit of the {{AN|1759}} season and, on 14.XIII, the subject of a divided public reckoning at the [[Israati University of Judah]]. The film stages the extinct [[Judahite rite]] and its standing twelve-mouth lamp at [[Ben Aliv]], but nearly everything it reconstructs survives only in the hostile [[Yerenism|Yerenist]] polemics that preserved the rite by quoting it to refute it. The film reopened the founding quarrel of the University, which was built on the position that a hostile witness is preferable to none, while some Israati families, of a descent that outlived the confession, questioned who owns the story and asked the studio to name whose account it stages. Twilight Tales called the film a ghost story rather than a reconstruction, a label the rite's own doctrine of the kept dead makes nearly literal; unlike the earlier banned [[Last Night on Botha]], no ban followed.''
|impact_culture={{increase}} +1
|impact_social={{decrease}} -1
}}

===23===

{{Main|Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|14th Cortes Federales}}
{{See also|New Alexandrian general election, 1759}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE ALLIANCE, CIVIC GOVERNANCE AND CONSENSUS PARTIES SIGN THE COALITION AGREEMENT REQUIRED TO FORM A GOVERNMENT
|image=CoalitionAgreementSigning1759NAX.png
|image_size=400px
|image_caption=''The leaders of the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]], the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] sign the coalition agreement in [[Cárdenas]]. {{AN|1759}}''
|bullet1=Three Parties Sign the Coalition Agreement Required Before Any Government Can Take Office
|bullet2=Their 448 Seats Are the Only Majority That Does Not Depend on the Fifty Independents
|bullet3=Consensus Party Takes the Interior and Research and Development, Its First Government Seats in a Generation
|bullet4=Civic Governance Alliance Takes the Vice-Premiership and the Treasury on an Independent-Audit and Anti-Corruption Condition
|bullet5=The Accord Revives the Frontera Program, Sets a 60 Percent Renewables Target and Passes the Long-Tabled Plurinational Amendment
|bullet6=The Initiative Passes to King Sinchi Roca II, With Montero Staying On as Caretaker Until a Government Wins the Assembly's Confidence
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=In [[Cárdenas]] on 23.XIII.{{AN|1759}}, the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]], the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] signed a coalition agreement. The document is the one the [[Government Formation and Coalition Act, 1694]] requires before a government can take office, and its signing clears the last bar on the road to the first administration in twenty years not led by the [[Federal Humanist Party]].<ref name="montero-fails">NBC Newsfeed, "MONTERO TELLS THE KING HE CANNOT FORM A GOVERNMENT," 3.X.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

[[File:FederalAccordPartyLogos1759.png|200px|thumb|left|The three party logos of the coaliton: [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] (AJNA), (bottom) [[Civic Governance Alliance]] (CGA), and the [[Federal Consensus Party]] (FCP). ]]
The agreement closes the talks that had run since [[José Manuel Montero]] returned his charge to the Crown on 3.X, unable to assemble a majority. Together the three parties hold 448 of the 801 seats, 260 for the Alliance, 95 for the Civic Governance Alliance and 93 for the Federal Consensus Party, the one majority on the floor of the [[14th Cortes Federales]] that does not rest on the fifty independents. The agreement names [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], who led the Alliance to first place in seven Regions and was Leader of the Opposition in the last Cortes, as the coalition's candidate for Premier, and gives the Vice-Premiership and the Treasury to the Civic Governance Alliance under [[Elena Svensson]], whose price for joining was an independent audit of public spending and stronger measures against corruption.

The Federal Consensus Party, led by [[Francisco Gabaza]], takes two seats in the Council of State, the Interior and Research and Development, its first turn in government in a generation. Its condition was the fiscal restraint it ran on, and the agreement binds every party's spending, the Consensus Party's science programs included, to a budget the three will write together and defend in public.

The program sets out the government's legislative priorities. It commits to bring down the cost of living and widen access to housing, to pass the clean-government reform the [[Clean Government and Political Reform Act, 1754|1754 bill]] failed to carry, to redraft the public-order and anti-paramilitary bill from the Interior, and to write a credible federal budget. It further commits to revive the [[Frontera Program]] and continue the [[New National Curriculum of Nouvelle Alexandrie|New National Curriculum]], to raise renewable power toward 60 percent of national generation, to protect civil liberties, and to build skilled work out of the science economy. The agreement also binds the government to pass the [[Plurinational Federation Constitutional Amendment Act, 1735|plurinational amendment]], first tabled by the [[Wakara People's Party]] in {{AN|1727}} and never once brought to a vote.

[[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|Gonçalves]] said the three parties had ''"settled the hard questions and written down the answers, so the country can see exactly what this government will do and hold us to it."'' For the Civic Governance Alliance, [[Elena Svensson|Svensson]] said her party had joined ''"on one condition above all, an honest budget and public money that is independently audited,"'' and that the condition was met. [[Francisco Gabaza|Gabaza]] said the Consensus Party had secured ''"the science and the fiscal discipline we asked the country for."''

Under the [[Government Formation and Coalition Act, 1694]], the initiative now passes to King [[Sinchi Roca II]], who facilitates the formation but does not enter it and will in time invite the coalition's nominee to form a government.<ref name="gfca-precond">[[Government Formation and Coalition Act, 1694]], §8 (Hung Cortes Federales), Part III; §10 (Requirement and Special Provisions for Coalition Agreements), Part IV.</ref> A government takes office only once that nominee is appointed and wins the confidence of the [[14th Cortes Federales]]. Until then [[José Manuel Montero]] remains at the head of a caretaker administration, barred from significant policy, and the Federation's first 801-seat Cortes has yet to seat a government.
|tldr=''The [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]], the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] sign the coalition agreement the [[Government Formation and Coalition Act, 1694]] requires, the last bar to the first government in twenty years not led by the [[Federal Humanist Party]]. Their 448 seats, 260, 95 and 93, are the only majority that does not need the fifty independents. The agreement names [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] as candidate for Premier, gives the Civic Governance Alliance the Vice-Premiership and Treasury on an audit-and-anti-corruption condition and the Federal Consensus Party the Interior and Research and Development on a fiscal-restraint one. The initiative passes to King [[Sinchi Roca II]] to invite the coalition's nominee, with [[José Manuel Montero]] staying caretaker until a government wins the Assembly's confidence.''
|impact_stability={{increase}} +1
|impact_approval={{increase}} +1
}}

===24===

{{Main|Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|14th Cortes Federales}}
{{See also|New Alexandrian general election, 1759}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} THE KING INVITES GONÇALVES TO FORM A GOVERNMENT AS THE THREE PARTIES PRESENT THEIR SIGNED AGREEMENT
|image=CoalitionKingMeeting1759NAX.png
|image_size=400px
|image_caption=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] with the three coalition leaders after inviting [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] to form a government, [[Cárdenas]]. {{AN|1759}}''
|bullet1=King Sinchi Roca II Invites Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves to Form a Government the Day After the Coalition Presents Its Signed Agreement
|bullet2=The King Acts Under the Government Formation and Coalition Act on the Only 448-Seat Majority That Can Command the New Assembly
|bullet3=Gonçalves Becomes the Coalition's Nominee and Does Not Take Office Until He Wins the Assembly's Confidence
|bullet4=Montero Stays On as Caretaker Premier Until the New Government Is Appointed
|bullet5=The Confidence Test Will Come on the Speech From the Throne and the Council of State Appointments
|bullet6=It Is the First Time in Twenty Years the Crown Has Turned to a Party Other Than the Federal Humanists
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=King [[Sinchi Roca II]] invited [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] to form a government on 24.XIII.{{AN|1759}}, the day after the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]], the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] presented the signed coalition agreement the [[Government Formation and Coalition Act, 1694]] requires before a government can take office.<ref name="accord-signing">NBC Newsfeed, "THE ALLIANCE, CIVIC GOVERNANCE AND CONSENSUS PARTIES SIGN THE COALITION AGREEMENT," 23.XIII.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The invitation followed the course the Act sets for a hung Cortes. On 7.X the King had named Gonçalves formateur, an exploratory charge to test whether a majority could be built; the signed agreement turned that charge into a formal invitation to govern.<ref name="formateur">NBC Newsfeed, "THE CROWN NAMES GONÇALVES FORMATEUR," 7.X.{{AN|1759}}.</ref> With a bloc able to command the Assembly now identified, the Crown invited the person the parties judged most likely to hold its confidence to serve as Premier and form a government. That is Gonçalves, whose 260-seat Alliance is the largest of three partners holding 448 of the 801 seats, alongside the Civic Governance Alliance's 95 and the Federal Consensus Party's 93. As the coalition's nominee he does not take office, and no government is formed, until he wins the confidence of the [[14th Cortes Federales]].

[[José Manuel Montero]] remains at the head of a caretaker administration, barred from significant policy, and will tender the government's resignation only when the new one is appointed. Under the Act, the first tests of the new government's confidence will come on the vote on the Speech from the Throne and on its Council of State appointments.<ref name="gfca-invite">[[Government Formation and Coalition Act, 1694]], §8 (Hung Cortes Federales), Part III; §9 (General Principles of Government Formation), Part III.</ref>

In a statement from [[Cárdenas]], Gonçalves said he had accepted the charge and would ''"bring a government and its program before the new Cortes and ask for its confidence."'' The Royal Household said the King had acted on the parties' own determination of who could command the Assembly and would take no further part in the politics of the formation, as the Act provides.

It is the first time in twenty years that the Crown has invited a party other than the [[Federal Humanist Party]] to form a government. The government will not take office on the invitation alone; it must first win the confidence of the 801-seat chamber, which has yet to seat a government.
|tldr=''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] invites [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] to form a government the day after the three coalition parties present the signed agreement the [[Government Formation and Coalition Act, 1694]] requires. Gonçalves, whose 260-seat Alliance leads a 448-seat majority with the Civic Governance Alliance's 95 and the Federal Consensus Party's 93, becomes the coalition's nominee but does not take office until he wins the confidence of the [[14th Cortes Federales]] on the Speech from the Throne and its Council of State appointments. [[José Manuel Montero]] stays on as caretaker Premier until the new government is appointed. It is the first time in twenty years the Crown has turned to a party other than the [[Federal Humanist Party]].''
|impact_stability={{increase}} +1
|impact_approval={{steady}} 0
}}

==XIV (Pluvialis)==

===6===

{{Main|Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759}}
{{See also|Government formation in Nouvelle Alexandrie|Gabrielle Fitzgerald|Rafael Escalante y Durán|14th Cortes Federales}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} FEDERAL ACCORD NAMES ITS PROPOSED CABINET AS FITZGERALD APPOINTMENT REOPENS PACT DEBATE
|image=FederalCivilServiceTransition1759NBC.png
|image_size=400px
|image_caption=''A senior officer of the [[Federal Civil Service System]] mediates a delayed handover briefing between outgoing [[Federal Humanist Party|FHP]] officials and the incoming [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] team in [[Cárdenas]], 6.XIV.{{AN|1759}}.''
|bullet1=Gonçalves Publicly Presents the Coalition's Ministerial Slate Covering All 17 Offices on 6.XIV.{{AN|1759}}
|bullet2=CGA Takes Treasury to Guarantee the Coalition Budget
|bullet3=Gabrielle Fitzgerald Goes to State and Pact Supporter Rafael Escalante to Defense
|bullet4=Fitzgerald's Military-Spending Record Draws Fire From Humanists and Unease Among Veterans
|bullet5=NASX Gains 0.8 Percent, With Financial Shares Up and Defense Shares Down
|bullet6=Civil Servants Impose a Common Handover Timetable as the Coalition Accuses Outgoing FHP Offices of Delays
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=[[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] presented the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]]'s full ministerial slate on 6.XIV.{{AN|1759}}, naming [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]] for State, [[Rafael Escalante y Durán|Rafael Escalante]] for Defense and the people the three coalition parties intend to place across 17 offices. The announcement ended the uncertainty over personnel but did not change the government. Premier [[José Manuel Montero]] and his secretaries remain in caretaker office until the [[14th Cortes Federales|Fourteenth Cortes]] completes the confidence and appointment process in {{AN|1760}}.<ref name="cabinet-formation">[[Government formation in Nouvelle Alexandrie]]; [[Government Formation and Coalition Act, 1694]], sections 8 to 10.</ref>

The slate puts the coalition's bargains into names. Gonçalves, leader of the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]], is its candidate for Premier. [[Elena Svensson]] of the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] would become Vice-Premier, with CGA floor leader [[Tomás Iñiguez]] at Treasury. [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] leader [[Francisco Gabaza]] would take Interior and Marisol Dávila Research and Development. AJNA holds the premiership and most remaining departments, while the CGA holds Treasury as the guarantor of a jointly written budget; the accord also promises independent spending audits.<ref name="cabinet-accord">[[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759]], Council of State and program for government.</ref>

Fitzgerald's nomination produced the sharpest argument. A Federal Assembly deputy since {{AN|1718}} and a founder and former leader of the [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Democratic Socialist Party]], she has spent years opposing the scale and priorities of [[Force 1752 initiative|Force 1752]] spending and military procurement. She challenged the initiative's naval share and moved three times to redirect about NAX€120 billion a year from the program to housing and social policy.<ref name="fitzgerald">[[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]]; [[Force 1752 initiative]], criticism and political opposition.</ref> That record puts a prominent former DSP leader at the center of the party's unresolved argument over the Pact. It does not amount to a policy of withdrawing the Federation from the [[Raspur Pact]]. The Alliance's {{AN|1759}} platform affirms continued Pact and [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|CATO]] membership, with stronger legislative oversight of war powers.<ref name="platform">[[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie 1759 general election campaign (Nouvelle Alexandrie)]], foreign affairs and defense.</ref>

The Defense appointment supplied the counterweight. Escalante, a retired general and former commander of the Allied Mission in Eastern Apollonia, Hurmu and Lyrica, is identified with Pact continuity and civilian control of the armed forces. Humanist deputies described the two appointments as evidence that the coalition had not settled its foreign policy. Pact-skeptical DSP activists welcomed Fitzgerald but criticized the platform's membership pledge, while veterans' groups took reassurance from Escalante and asked Gonçalves for an explicit statement that treaty obligations would be honored.<ref name="escalante">[[Rafael Escalante y Durán]].</ref>

Markets treated the slate as a measure of political certainty rather than an endorsement of every policy. The [[Nouvelle Alexandrie Stock Exchange]] Composite closed 0.8 percent higher. Financial shares gained 1.4 percent on CGA control of Treasury and the audit pledge; defense shares fell 1.1 percent as investors weighed Fitzgerald's appointment against Escalante's. The [[New Alexandrian écu|écu]] and government bonds finished little changed. Business groups welcomed a coalition with 448 Assembly seats but pressed for costings of its housing, regional-investment and renewable-energy commitments as public debt stood above the Recovery Act's 65 percent brake.<ref name="economy">[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month XII, 1759)|Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard, Month XII]]; [[Nouvelle Alexandrie Stock Exchange]].</ref>

Behind the political argument, the first handover briefings became contentious. Senior officers of the executive civil service issued common rules for handover books, but transition officials for the coalition said outgoing [[Federal Humanist Party|FHP]] political offices had delivered incomplete files and postponed briefings at short notice. The FHP denied any organized slowdown, saying each department had to verify its records, protect classified material and continue its caretaker duties until the new government wins confidence.

Career officials at State, Treasury, Interior and Defense nevertheless opened factual briefings while reserving decisions and classified directions to the serving secretaries. At State, the brief covered diplomatic missions, treaty obligations, the Foreign Service and relations with Pact allies, all within the Department's existing remit.<ref name="state">[[Department of State (Nouvelle Alexandrie)]].</ref> The [[Department of Administrative Coordination and Efficiency (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Administrative Coordination and Efficiency]] directed each department to name a career transition liaison and complete missing handover sections according to a common timetable. The arrangement gives the incoming coalition access to the machinery it may soon direct and leaves the outgoing government responsible for every decision made before the Cortes votes. The dispute remained unresolved.
|tldr=The [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] named its proposed government on 6.XIV.{{AN|1759}}, with CGA controlling the vice-premiership and Treasury, FCP taking Interior and Research and Development, and AJNA filling most other offices. [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]] at State reopened the DSP's unresolved argument over the [[Raspur Pact]], while Pact supporter [[Rafael Escalante y Durán|Rafael Escalante]] at Defense reassured veterans and defense interests. The NASX rose 0.8 percent, but defense shares fell. The first handover became contentious as coalition officials accused outgoing FHP political offices of delivering incomplete files and delaying briefings. The FHP denied organized obstruction, and career civil servants imposed a common timetable without transferring authority before the {{AN|1760}} confidence process.
|impact_stability={{increase}} +1
|impact_economy={{increase}} +1
|impact_international={{decrease}} -1
}}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Proposed Council of State appointments under the Federal Accord
! Office !! Party !! Nominee
|-
| [[President of the Government of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Premier]] (President of the Government) || AJNA (DSP) || [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]]
|-
| [[Vice-President of the Government of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Vice-Premier]] || CGA || [[Elena Svensson]]
|-
| [[Department of Treasury (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Treasury]] || CGA || [[Tomás Iñiguez]]
|-
| [[Department of Interior (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Interior]] || FCP || [[Francisco Gabaza]]
|-
| [[Department of Research and Development (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Research and Development]] || FCP || Marisol Dávila
|-
| [[Department of Administrative Coordination and Efficiency (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Administrative Coordination and Efficiency]] || AJNA (WPP) || [[Yuiza Bohi'o]]
|-
| [[Department of State (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|State]] || AJNA (DSP) || [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]]
|-
| [[Department of Justice (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Justice]] || AJNA (DSP) || [[Elias Marchand]]
|-
| [[Department of Defense (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Defense]] || AJNA (DSP) || [[Rafael Escalante y Durán|Rafael Escalante]]
|-
| [[Department of Energy and Environment (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Energy and Environment]] || AJNA (DSP) || [[Elena Lopez de Gautier]]
|-
| [[Department of Education, Sports, and Culture (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Education, Sports, and Culture]] || AJNA (DSP) || Sofia Estrada
|-
| [[Department of Social Security and National Solidarity (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Social Security]] || AJNA (WPP) || Ana Yuisa Caguax
|-
| [[Department of Civil Works and Transportation (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Civil Works and Transportation]] || AJNA (DSP) || [[Ricardo Inti Quispe]]
|-
| [[Department of Labor (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Labor]] || AJNA (DSP) || Carlos Dominguez
|-
| [[Department for National Mobilisation (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|National Mobilisation]] || AJNA (DSP) || George Falkirk
|-
| [[Department of Trade and Industry (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Trade and Industry]] || AJNA (DSP) || Jacqueline Betancourt
|-
| [[Department of Housing and Urban Development (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Housing and Urban Development]] || AJNA (WPP) || Mayani Guacanagari
|}

===12===

====THE NOTEBOOK AND THE NUMBERS====
{{Main|Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves}}
{{See also|Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Government formation in Nouvelle Alexandrie}}
{{NAXBroadsheet
|newspaper=[[The Aldurian]]
|edition=WEEKLY EDITION
|motto=''Established {{AN|1673|noAN=y|nospan=y}}''
|price=DIGITAL EDITION
|location_line=[[Punta Santiago]], [[Alduria|ALD]]
|date=12.XIV.{{AN|1759}}
|volume=LXXXVII
|issue=Political Profile
|headline=THE NOTEBOOK AND THE NUMBERS
|subheadline=From Jirishanca's docks to a 448-seat coalition, Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves brings a lifetime of organizing to the edge of government
|byline=FERDINAND DE ALMEIDA, Editor-in-Chief
|byline_prefix=By
|image=MarcosFerreiraGoncalves1754.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''Gonçalves in {{AN|1754}}. The former Jirishanca dockworker has represented Santander in the Federal Assembly since {{AN|1729}}.''
|dateline=CÁRDENAS
|lead=Before [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] counted votes in the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]], he counted grievances on the docks of [[Jirishanca]]. He wrote down every complaint, every promise from management and every favor done for a fellow worker in a small notebook. The habit outlasted his union career. It became the operating method of a politician who rarely tries to dominate a room and now stands at the center of a prospective 448-seat coalition.<ref name="goncalves-profile-biography">[[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], early life, trade-union career and political style.</ref>
|body=Gonçalves is 63, the son of a port cargo handler and a garment worker. He left school at sixteen to load ships beside his father, then studied labor relations in evening classes while continuing at the port. In {{AN|1718}}, at 22, he negotiated the settlement of a three-day overtime stoppage that secured a 12 percent pay increase and better safety provisions. He rose through the [[Labor unions in Nouvelle Alexandrie#Federation of Teamsters and Dockworkers (FTD)|Federation of Port and Maritime Workers]] by visiting workers at home, remembering their families and keeping the notebook current. He still lives in the Jirishanca neighborhood where he grew up, keeping a small Cárdenas apartment for Assembly sessions. He has described his politics just as plainly: wages feed people; principles do not.<ref name="goncalves-profile-biography" />

The same approach carried him from the Jirishanca Municipal Council in {{AN|1724}} to the Federal Assembly in {{AN|1729}}. He arrived in Cárdenas without a national following and spent years on labor, pensions, fisheries and food policy. He learned the standing orders, helped colleagues with small bills and committee assignments, and kept track of who had promised what. When the [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Democratic Socialist Party]] fell to 83 seats in {{AN|1744}}, he survived after Santander's unions lobbied to keep him high on the regional list. The defeat left him with a conclusion that has guided his career since: organization keeps seats when a party label does not.

Appointed DSP chief whip in {{AN|1745}}, Gonçalves rebuilt that network into a parliamentary machine. After the party expanded to 236 deputies in {{AN|1749}}, he created regional whip teams but kept meeting deputies one by one. During the [[Pact of Shadows scandal]] of {{AN|1750}}, when party leader [[Martina Vasquez]] fled and the caucus threatened to fracture, he kept most of it together without seeking the leadership. The arrangement drew criticism from younger deputies, who said it left them less room to act independently on important votes.<ref name="goncalves-profile-biography" />

He became DSP leader and Leader of the Opposition only after [[Leila Bensouda]] died in {{AN|1753}}. His first election as party leader ended in defeat. The [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] fell to 219 seats in {{AN|1754}}, and the DSP collapsed in [[Alduria]] after local figures and trade unionists broke with the selection of a Santanderian leader.<ref name="goncalves-profile-campaign">[[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie 1759 general election campaign (Nouvelle Alexandrie)]], background and platform.</ref> Four years later, Gonçalves backed a two-term limit on the premiership and lost again: the proposal was rejected nationally by 64 percent to 36, while his home Region of [[Santander]] voted against it by nearly three to one.<ref name="goncalves-profile-term-limits">[[New Alexandrian premiership term limits referendum, 1758]], results and regional results.</ref> Those defeats complicate his reputation for control. His method has worked more reliably inside a chamber than before the whole country.

The [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie 1759 general election campaign (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|{{AN|1759|noAN=y|nospan=y}} AJNA campaign]] brought him nearer. The Alliance ran on housing, the cost of living and a fairer recovery for the producing Regions.<ref name="goncalves-profile-campaign" /> It won 260 seats on 32.8 percent of the vote and carried seven Regions, but finished behind the [[Federal Humanist Party]]'s 293 seats. Gonçalves did not win the election outright. What he did was turn the hung result into the only coalition that does not depend on the chamber's fifty independents: AJNA, the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]], together holding 448 of 801 seats.<ref name="goncalves-profile-election">[[New Alexandrian general election, 1759]], results.</ref>

The [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] will test whether the Gonçalves method can hold three parties together. He must hold AJNA to a Civic Governance partner that controls the Treasury and a Consensus Party that campaigned on fiscal restraint, while delivering housing, clean-government reform, regional investment and a jointly funded budget. The agreement gives each partner a reason to remain: AJNA the premiership and most departments, the CGA the vice-premiership and Treasury, and the FCP Interior and Research and Development.<ref name="goncalves-profile-accord">[[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759]], Council of State and program for government.</ref>

The bargain shifts Gonçalves's work from private vote counting to public leadership. He has given few major speeches, held few press conferences and never appeared in a nationally televised debate.<ref name="goncalves-profile-biography" /> The coalition agreement now requires him to turn one-to-one caucus management into a program that AJNA, the CGA and the FCP can defend together.

He has not taken office. Premier [[José Manuel Montero]] and his secretaries remain the caretaker government, and the [[14th Cortes Federales]] will not complete the confidence and appointment process until {{AN|1760}}.<ref name="goncalves-profile-formation">[[Government formation in Nouvelle Alexandrie]], investiture and caretaker government.</ref> Gonçalves has spent thirty years learning how to find the votes. The Fourteenth Cortes will decide whether he can govern with them.
|rights_text=All Rights Reserved.
|year={{AN|1759}}
|tldr=[[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], the 63-year-old former Jirishanca dockworker who became a union organizer, federal deputy, DSP chief whip and Leader of the Opposition, stands at the edge of the premiership after assembling the 448-seat [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]]. His political method grew from the small notebook in which he recorded workplace grievances and promises, and from three decades of private vote counting in the Federal Assembly. That method survived the DSP's {{AN|1744}} collapse and the [[Pact of Shadows scandal]], but it did not prevent AJNA's {{AN|1754}} defeat or the rejection of the {{AN|1758}} term-limits proposal he supported. AJNA won 260 seats and seven Regions in {{AN|1759}} but finished second to the Humanists; Gonçalves reached a prospective majority by joining the CGA and FCP. He remains Premier-designate, not Premier, until the {{AN|1760}} confidence and appointment process.
|impact_stability={{increase}} +1
|impact_approval={{steady}} 0
}}

===16===

{{See also|Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|14th Cortes Federales}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} MOST NEW ALEXANDRIANS BACK THE ALLIANCE-LED FEDERAL ACCORD IN THE COALITION'S FIRST POLL
|image=NBC1759PostElectionPoll.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''IOP/NBC News post-election poll, 14-16.XIV.{{AN|1759}}: on a fresh ballot [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]] 38%, [[Federal Humanist Party|FHP]] 33%, [[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]] 13%, [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|FCP]] 13%, independents 2%, and the [[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]] 1%; approval of the new coalition 54% to 33%.''
|bullet1=A Clear Majority Backs the Formation of the Alliance-Led Federal Accord, 54 Percent to 33
|bullet2=On a Fresh Ballot the Alliance Overtakes the Humanists, 38 to 33, All Three Coalition Parties Gaining
|bullet3=Gonçalves, the Alliance's Candidate for Premier, Posts His Best Net Favorability of the Series While Montero's Turns Negative After the Defeat
|bullet4=The Country's Sense of Direction Turns Positive, 51 to 41, Its Best Reading of the Recession
|bullet5=Voters Split on Whether a Three-Party Coalition Can Last a Full Term, 46 to 41
|bullet6=Most Call the Coalition the Right Government to Form Over a Humanist-Led Alternative
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The first IOP/NBC News poll since the general election finds the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] opening with the Federation's goodwill, a clear majority behind the three-party coalition even before it takes office. Conducted 14-16.XIV, after the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]], the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] signed their agreement and [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] was named the coalition's candidate for Premier, it is the first reading of a public mood that had spent the recession at a standstill.<ref name="poll_post">Institute of Public Opinion for NBC News, first post-election poll of {{AN|1759}}, conducted 14-16.XIV.{{AN|1759}}; margin of error ±2.2 percent.</ref>

Fifty-four percent said they approved of the coalition's formation and thirty-three that they did not, with the rest undecided. The three parties had together carried a shade over 56 percent of the vote in IX, so approval of the arrangement runs a little below the combined support its parties won, short of the whole vote that produced it. ''"A new government almost always starts with more goodwill than it ends with, and this one is no exception,"'' said Nicolás Arreola, director of the [[Institute of Public Opinion]], which conducts the survey for the network. ''"A majority approves of the coalition before it has governed a day, a point or two below the vote its three parties actually won. That is what a honeymoon looks like. It is real, and it is not deep."''<ref name="poll_post" />

On a fresh ballot, the country put the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]] ahead of the [[Federal Humanist Party]], 38 percent to 33, the first Alliance lead the series has recorded. All three of the coalition's parties gained on their September shares, the Alliance up five points, the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] up to 13 and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] edging up to match it, while the governing party shed better than three points from the 36.5 that had still returned it the largest in the real vote and the independents who had polled outside the parties fell back. Together the three would take roughly 64 percent of a fresh vote, some eight points above the 56 they won in IX. This was where the goodwill showed plainest, and by the pollsters' reading least durably, a ballot no one would actually be asked to cast.<ref name="poll_post" />

The country's sense of its own direction turned positive for the first time since the [[1757 Alexandrium market crash|crash]]. Fifty-one percent called the Federation's direction right against forty-one who called it wrong, a net that had stood level at the campaign's open and underwater for two years before that. Government approval, still measured against Premier [[José Manuel Montero]]'s caretaker administration, slipped as his own standing fell after the defeat; the lift in the national mood attached to the government coming, not the one going.<ref name="poll_post" />

[[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], the Alliance's candidate for Premier, drew the best net favorability the series has recorded for him, 57 percent favorable to 27 unfavorable. [[Elena Svensson]], whose Civic Governance Alliance had made the election's largest gain, held the field's best net rating, 56 percent favorable to 22 against, and remained its most-liked leader as her party crossed from the crossbench into government. Montero dropped to net-negative, 42 favorable to 50 unfavorable, his lowest reading of the series, while [[Francisco Gabaza]] moved into modestly positive territory as his Consensus Party took its place in government as the smallest of the three partners.<ref name="poll_post" />

The goodwill had a clear floor, and the pollsters put it on the coalition's own arithmetic. Asked whether a government of three parties could hold together for a full term, the country divided almost evenly, 46 percent confident against 41 who were not, against a wider 51-to-36 margin who thought it would govern effectively in the near term. ''"They believe it can do the job, and they are not sure it can survive doing it,"'' said Aurelio Retamozo, a psephologist at the [[University of Punta Santiago]]. ''"That is the honest shape of goodwill for a coalition. The competence question gets the benefit of the doubt because nothing has gone wrong yet. The durability question gets the doubt itself, because everybody can count to three. The budget the Civic Governance Alliance made its price for joining, and the clean-government reform the last Assembly beat twice, are the seams people are watching."''<ref name="poll_post" />

Given a choice of governments, fifty-three percent named the Alliance-led coalition that formed and thirty percent a Federal Humanist-led government instead, with the rest holding no view; the fifty independents who had held the balance of the chamber were not offered as a governing option, none having claimed one. A plurality named the durability of a three-party coalition as their first concern about it, ahead of whether its promised clean-government and budget reforms would be delivered and whether it was sound to leave the largest single party out of government altogether. The poll was taken while the caretaker period ran on and the new administration was not expected to take office until early in {{AN|1760}}.<ref name="poll_post" />
|tldr=The first IOP/NBC News poll since the general election, conducted 14-16.XIV, finds the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] opening to a modest honeymoon: 54 percent approve of the three-party coalition's formation against 33 who disapprove, just short of the 56 percent of the vote its parties together won. On a fresh ballot the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]] led the [[Federal Humanist Party]] 38 to 33, all three coalition parties gaining on their election shares to a combined 64 percent. The Federation's sense of direction turned positive for the first time since the [[1757 Alexandrium market crash|crash]], 51 right to 41 wrong, and [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|Gonçalves]], the coalition's candidate for Premier, posted his best net favorability of the series while [[Elena Svensson|Svensson]] kept the field's highest net rating and [[José Manuel Montero|Montero]] fell net-negative after the defeat. The goodwill had a floor: voters divided 46 to 41 on whether a three-party coalition could last a full term even as 51 to 36 thought it would govern effectively, and named that durability their first concern. Fifty-three percent called the Alliance-led coalition the right government to form over a Humanist-led alternative, with the caretaker period still running and the new government not expected to take office until early in {{AN|1760}}.
|impact_stability={{increase}} +1
}}

====IOP/NBC News Public Opinion Polling====
=====National Party Voting Intention=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''NATIONAL PARTY VOTING INTENTION''' ''If a general election were held today, which party would you support?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 14-16.XIV.{{AN|1759}}
! Party
! Percentage in Poll
! Change Since IX Election
|-
| [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] ([[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]])
| 38.0%
| {{increase}} +5.2%
|-
| [[Federal Humanist Party]] ([[FHP]])
| 33.0%
| {{decrease}} −3.5%
|-
| [[Civic Governance Alliance]] ([[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]])
| 13.0%
| {{increase}} +1.3%
|-
| [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] ([[Federal Consensus Party|FCP]])
| 13.0%
| {{increase}} +1.4%
|-
| Independents & Other Candidates
| 2.0%
| {{decrease}} −4.1%
|-
| [[Republican Party of Oportia]] ([[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]])
| 1.0%
| {{decrease}} −0.3%
|}

=====Approval of the Federal Accord=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''APPROVAL OF THE FEDERAL ACCORD''' ''Do you approve or disapprove of the formation of the Alliance-led coalition government?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 14-16.XIV.{{AN|1759}}
! Response
! Percentage
|-
| Approve
| 54.0%
|-
| Disapprove
| 33.0%
|-
| No opinion
| 13.0%
|-
! Net Approval
! {{increase}} +21.0%
|}

=====Confidence in the Incoming Government=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''CONFIDENCE IN THE INCOMING GOVERNMENT''' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 14-16.XIV.{{AN|1759}}
! Question
! Confident
! Not confident
! Unsure
|-
| Will the coalition govern effectively? || 51.0% || 36.0% || 13.0%
|-
| Will the coalition last a full term? || 46.0% || 41.0% || 13.0%
|}

=====Party Leader Favorability Ratings=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''PARTY LEADER FAVORABILITY RATINGS''' % of registered voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 14-16.XIV.{{AN|1759}}
! Leader
! Favorable
! Unfavorable
! No Opinion
! Net Favorability
! Change
|-
| [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] ([[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|DSP]] / [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]]) Candidate for Premier
| 57.0%
| 27.0%
| 16.0%
| {{increase}} +30.0%
| {{increase}} +7.0%
|-
| [[José Manuel Montero]] ([[FHP]]) Caretaker Premier
| 42.0%
| 50.0%
| 8.0%
| {{decrease}} −8.0%
| {{decrease}} −8.0%
|-
| [[Elena Svensson]] ([[CGA]]) CGA Leader
| 56.0%
| 22.0%
| 22.0%
| {{increase}} +34.0%
| {{increase}} +2.0%
|-
| [[Francisco Gabaza]] ([[FCP]]) Leader
| 40.0%
| 34.0%
| 26.0%
| {{increase}} +6.0%
| {{increase}} +6.0%
|-
| [[Yuiza Bohi'o]] ([[Wakara People's Party|WPP]]) Leader
| 40.0%
| 14.0%
| 46.0%
| {{increase}} +26.0%
| {{increase}} +1.0%
|-
| [[Émile Bouchard]] ([[Aldurian Independent Coalition|Aldurian Coalition]]) Coordinator
| 34.0%
| 23.0%
| 43.0%
| {{increase}} +11.0%
| {{decrease}} −1.0%
|-
| [[Sofia Laurent]] ([[Republican Party of Oportia|RPO]]) Leader
| 17.0%
| 13.0%
| 70.0%
| {{increase}} +4.0%
| {{decrease}} −2.0%
|}

=====Direction of the Federation=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''DIRECTION OF THE FEDERATION''' ''Do you think the Federation is headed in the right direction or the wrong direction?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 14-16.XIV.{{AN|1759}}
! Response
! Percentage
! Change Since VIII.{{AN|1759}}
|-
| Right Direction
| 51.0%
| {{increase}} +5.0%
|-
| Wrong Direction
| 41.0%
| {{decrease}} −5.0%
|-
| No Opinion
| 8.0%
| {{steady}} 0.0%
|}

=====Preferred Government=====
{| class="wikitable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''PREFERRED GOVERNMENT''' ''Which government would you rather have seen form after the election?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 14-16.XIV.{{AN|1759}}
! Outcome
! Percentage
|-
| The Alliance-led Federal Accord that formed
| 53.0%
|-
| A Federal Humanist-led government instead
| 30.0%
|-
| No preference / another outcome
| 17.0%
|}

=====First Concern About the Coalition=====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ [[File:Logo-NBCPollingReport.png|left|75px]] '''FIRST CONCERN ABOUT THE COALITION''' ''What is your greatest concern about the incoming coalition?'' % of registered New Alexandrian voters Margin of error: ±2.2% Survey conducted 14-16.XIV.{{AN|1759}}
! Concern
! Percentage
|-
| Whether a three-party coalition can hold together
| 29.0%
|-
| Whether the promised clean-government and audit reforms will be delivered
| 21.0%
|-
| Whether the coalition's jointly written budget will hold the line on spending
| 17.0%
|-
| That the largest single party was left out of government
| 15.0%
|-
| No real concerns
| 12.0%
|-
| Unsure
| 6.0%
|}

===20===

{{Main|Sapphire Jubilee Bridge-Tunnel}}
{{See also|Federal Infrastructure Design Bureau|Federal Transportation Authority (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|South Lyrica|Islas de la Libertad}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} UNITY LINK CLOSES ITS LAST TUNNEL AND BRIDGE GAPS
|bullet1=Final Cable-Stayed Navigation Span Closed off Buenaventura on 11.XIV.{{AN|1759}}
|bullet2=Tunnel Crews Broke Through the Deepest Reach of the 67-Kilometer Main Channel Tunnel Eight Days Later
|bullet3=Both Closures Complete Phase II's Heavy Construction but Do Not Open the Crossing
|bullet4=Track, Power, Signaling, Ventilation, Fire Suppression and Shuttle-Terminal Work Continue Through {{AN|1761}}
|bullet5=Safety Testing and Certification Remain Scheduled for {{AN|1761}}-{{AN|1762}} Ahead of the {{AN|1762}} Opening
|bullet6=The Next Administration Would Inherit the Fit-Out, the {{AN|1757}} Marine Overrun and the Project's Regional Disputes
|location=[[Buenaventura]], [[South Lyrica|SLY]]
|body=The [[Sapphire Jubilee Bridge-Tunnel]], the 233.73-kilometer Unity Link between [[Buenaventura]] and Estefania, closed its last open tunnel and bridge gaps this month without opening to traffic. [[ESB Construction]] placed the closing deck section in the final cable-stayed navigation span off Buenaventura on 11.XIV.{{AN|1759}}. Eight days later, crews led by [[Parap Construction and Engineering]] broke through the deepest remaining reach of the main channel tunnel beneath the Strait of Lyrica.

The bridge closure joined the last of the coastal navigation spans. Their towers rise 185 meters above sea level and leave 65 meters of clearance for shipping. The [[Federal Maritime Administration]] managed vessel traffic around the work under the temporary separation scheme used since construction began. Surveying and structural checks now replace deck erection on the Buenaventura approach.<ref name="project">[[Sapphire Jubilee Bridge-Tunnel]], sections on route, construction and progress.</ref>

Below the strait, the breakthrough joined work driven from Isla Profunda and Isla Libertad at the planned meeting area about 34 kilometers from the [[South Lyrica]] side. The 67-kilometer main tunnel passes beneath water as deep as 120 meters and consists of two running tubes and a service and escape bore. It carries no roadway. Cars, trucks, and buses will cross the deep-water section aboard shuttle trains. The tunnel boring machines began their drives in III.{{AN|1752}}.<ref name="project" />

Together, the two closures complete the remaining Phase II work identified in last year's progress report, when the eight artificial islands were finished, the shallow bridge sections had joined and the first rails were being laid from [[Buenaventura]].<ref name="progress-story">[[NBC Newsfeed/1758|NBC Newsfeed]], "ON THE UNITY LINK, THE YEAR THE WORK TURNS FROM BUILDING THE CROSSING TO FITTING IT OUT," 19.VII.{{AN|1758}}.</ref> They do not complete the crossing. Track, overhead power, signaling, ventilation, fire suppression, road surfacing, toll equipment and the two vehicle-shuttle terminals remain under installation through {{AN|1761}}.

Before any public service begins, the [[Federal Transportation Authority (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Federal Transportation Authority]] must inspect the completed works, supervise operational testing and certify the bridge, tunnels and shuttle system. That process remains scheduled for {{AN|1761}}-{{AN|1762}}. Rail service is still projected for late {{AN|1761}} or early {{AN|1762}}, with road traffic and the vehicle shuttle following by the middle of {{AN|1762}}.<ref name="fta">[[Federal Transportation Authority (Nouvelle Alexandrie)]], section on functions; [[Sapphire Jubilee Bridge-Tunnel]], construction phases.</ref>

Cost remains unsettled. The NAX€58.4 billion estimate adopted in {{AN|1751}} predates the civil-works review of 21.I.{{AN|1757}}, which found the marine phase about NAX€1.8 billion over budget after storm damage and delays off Buenaventura.<ref name="review-story">[[NBC Newsfeed/1757|NBC Newsfeed]], "CIVIL WORKS REVIEW LANDS WITH THE BRIDGE-TUNNEL OVER BUDGET AFTER A HARD WINTER; SOUTH LYRICA AND CÁRDENAS DIVIDE OVER WHO PAYS," 21.I.{{AN|1757}}.</ref> The recession budget passed in {{AN|1758}} protected the bridge-tunnel supplementary while reducing or deferring spending elsewhere.<ref name="budget-story">[[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758]], Article 7; [[NBC Newsfeed/1758]], 8.I.{{AN|1758}}.</ref>

Closing the structural gaps does not settle the disputes around the project. [[Marguerite Fontaine]], the Governor of South Lyrica, supported finishing the crossing but demanded compensation for Buenaventura's harbor and fishing fleet and a regional place in setting the recovery schedule.<ref name="review-story" /> Civil Works Secretary [[Martin Blanchard]] has defended the federal expenditure by pointing to the project's projected NAX€3.2 billion in annual economic activity once operational.<ref name="project" /> On the island side, construction brought wages and new work while crowding inshore fishing and pearl-diving grounds.<ref name="island-story">[[NBC Newsfeed/1757|NBC Newsfeed]], "THE PEARL DIVERS OF ESTEFANÍA, WORKING A TRADE THEIR CHILDREN ARE LEAVING," 6.III.{{AN|1757}}.</ref> Neither argument ends when the last gap closes.

Blanchard remains Secretary of Civil Works and Transportation in Premier [[José Manuel Montero]]'s caretaker administration. Under the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] signed on 23.XIII.{{AN|1759}}, the department is assigned to the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] and [[Ricardo Inti Quispe]] is its nominee.<ref name="accord">[[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759]], Council of State table.</ref> The coalition has not taken office. If it wins confidence, its Civil Works team will inherit a crossing whose largest structures are joined and whose remaining work is less visible: fitting, testing, certifying, and paying for it before the first train can run.
|tldr=The [[Sapphire Jubilee Bridge-Tunnel]] closed its last two Phase II structural gaps in Month XIV of {{AN|1759}}. [[ESB Construction]] joined the final cable-stayed navigation span off [[Buenaventura]] on 11.XIV, and crews led by [[Parap Construction and Engineering]] broke through the deepest remaining reach of the 67-kilometer main tunnel eight days later. The events complete heavy construction, not the crossing. Track, power, signaling, ventilation, fire suppression, road surfacing, tolling and shuttle-terminal systems continue through {{AN|1761}}, followed by federal testing and certification before the projected {{AN|1762}} opening. The project also carries forward the NAX€1.8 billion marine-phase overrun found in {{AN|1757}}, South Lyrica's compensation demands and the transfer of the Civil Works portfolio from the Montero caretaker administration to the AJNA nominee named in the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]].
|impact_infrastructure={{increase}} +2
|impact_regional={{steady}} 0
}}

==XV (Concordia)==

===9===

{{Main|Çakaristan|Sanpantul}}
{{See also|Sri Pashana|Beneluccas}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Çakaristan|flag}} {{team flag|Sanpantul|flag}} ÇAKARISTAN CEDES THE BENELUCCAS AND SRI PASHANA TO SANPANTUL AS THE EMPIRE PULLS BACK FROM THE SKERRIES
|image=Sanpo Skerries.png
|image_size=250px
|image_caption=''The Sanpo Skerries between [[Apollonia]] and [[Keltia]]; the [[Beneluccas]] and [[Sri Pashana]] pass to [[Sanpantul]]; {{AN|1759}}.''
|bullet1=The Çakar Empire Cedes the Fifty-Million-Strong Sri Pashana and the Beneluccas to Sanpantul
|bullet2=Local Movements Drove the Handover in Both Territories
|bullet3=Coming After the Dromosker Crisis, the Cession Caps the Empire's Skerries Retreat
|bullet4=Some in the Federation Read It as Repositioning to Expand, Not Weakness
|bullet5=Nouvelle Alexandrie Watches From the Outside, Its Ties to the Empire Long Since Cut
|bullet6=The Federation Had Pressed the Empire to Move a Threatened Nuclear Test From Shared Waters
|location=[[Maulikpur]]
|body=The [[Çakaristan|Çakar Empire]], the most populous state on Micras, signed away two of its island holdings on 9.XV.{{AN|1759}}, ceding the [[Beneluccas]] and [[Sri Pashana]] to the [[Sanpantul|State of Sanpantul]] in a treaty signed at [[Maulikpur]] that caps two years of imperial retreat from the crowded island waters between [[Apollonia]] and [[Keltia]].

The Treaty of Maulikpur transfers the two territories to Sanpantul within sixty days, carrying over citizenship, a consulate, recognition of [[Craitism]], and air and ferry service, and it sets perpetual peace, mutual recognition, and free trade between the two states while ending the older [[Treaty of Agra]] and [[Treaty of Portpur]]. Çakaristan keeps only [[Bell Rock]], the equatorial island in the transferred [[Sri Pashana]] that hosts the [[Andromeda Spaceport]], which it leases back for a hundred years at a token rent and on which it may station no military force. It was signed for the empire by Grand Vizier [[Talal Sayfasad]] and for Sanpantul by Vice-President [[Jissoji Yukinaga]], and by its own terms binds neither state until both have ratified it.

The transfer is far larger than its smaller half suggests. [[Sri Pashana]], the governorate that carries [[Bell Rock]], holds more than fifty million people, and its accession would swell Sanpantul, a state of some twenty-two million, more than threefold; the [[Beneluccas]], the province that drew most of the notice, counts fewer than a million. Both were pushed from below. The [[Beneluccas]], Batavian-speaking and long ruled from Agra with little say of its own, its trade drawn for decades toward Sanpantul, had swung behind a union movement led by [[Elara van Lijnden]], who campaigned from {{AN|1757}} for the islands to become ''"a bridge between the two worlds."'' In Sri Pashana a corruption scandal around the imperial governor and student protests under the banner of peace and democracy had pushed the same way, carrying an opposition bloc to victory in the governorate at the {{AN|1757}} imperial elections. Formal talks with the [[Shahanshah]] opened in {{AN|1759}}, as the region reeled from the aftermath of the [[Dromosker Island Crisis]].

That crisis is the wider story the cession closes. It began in {{AN|1757}} when Çakaristan seized Dromosker Island and deposed its ruling house, drawing a naval standoff that ended with the empire abandoning the claim and [[Constancia]] occupying the island. As Çakaristan drew its forces down across the region, the neighboring island of [[Lija]] voted for independence in [[1759 Referendum of Lija|a referendum]] and left the empire, and the two Skerry provinces opened the talks that led to Maulikpur. One retreat produced three new maps.

Not everyone in the Federation reads the withdrawal as weakness. [[Robert Krieger]], the ambassador Nouvelle Alexandrie recalled from Çakaristan in {{AN|1757}}, said the empire may be trading exposed island holdings it cannot cheaply defend for a freer hand to press claims closer to its Apollonian core. ''"An empire that gives up a coastline it cannot hold is not always in retreat,"'' he said. ''"Sometimes it is clearing the board to move where it means to move next."'' Whether the pattern holds, he said, the Federation would judge by where Çakaristan turns after the Skerries, not by the treaties it signs leaving them.

That wary reading has a history behind it. Nouvelle Alexandrie [[Çakaristan-Nouvelle Alexandrie relations|severed relations with Çakaristan]] on 8.XI.{{AN|1757}} over the seizure of Dromosker, denouncing the {{AN|1717}} [[Treaty between Çakaristan and Nouvelle Alexandrie|Treaty of Tiegang]] that had bound the two, expelling the Çakari ambassador, and freezing the assets of senior imperial officials. When Çakaristan relinquished the Dromosker claim later that year and asked to restore relations, Secretary of State [[Jean-Michel Durand]] declined, saying the Federation would not renew ties with a state whose word it no longer trusted. Those relations remain severed.

The rupture widened at the end of {{AN|1757}}, when Çakaristan announced [[Operation Ocean Moon]], described at the time as a nuclear test to be held in the waters off eastern [[Lija]]. Nouvelle Alexandrie asked the empire to move any test to its own [[Apollonia]]n interior, away from island waters it shares with [[Sanpantul]], [[Constancia]], and the New Alexandrian territories of New Luthoria, Valencia, and South Lyrica, and it kept the matter before the [[Micras Disarmament Commission]] while stressing that the request was made ''"by a neighbor, on behalf of neighbors,"'' not as a reopening of the severance. Çakaristan has since described the operation as a strategic deception rather than a real test, and no detonation has been recorded.

For the Federation the frontier that matters is unchanged: Çakaristan remains its neighbor on [[Apollonia]], where the empire borders the New Alexandrian territory of [[Jaris (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Jaris]] across the Jaris Strait. What Maulikpur redraws lies an ocean away, in a Skerry archipelago passing to a state the empire has spent a generation drawing close, and which it now, in retreat, has let go.
|tldr=''The [[Çakaristan|Çakar Empire]] ceded the [[Beneluccas]] and the far larger [[Sri Pashana]], a governorate of more than fifty million, to the [[Sanpantul|State of Sanpantul]] in the Treaty of Maulikpur, signed 9.XV.{{AN|1759}}, transferring the two island territories within sixty days, setting perpetual peace and free trade, and ending the older [[Treaty of Agra]] and [[Treaty of Portpur]]; Çakaristan leases back only [[Bell Rock]], the [[Andromeda Spaceport]] island, and the deal binds neither state until both ratify it. Local movements drove the handover in both territories, and it caps the empire's retreat from the isles after the [[Dromosker Island Crisis]], the same withdrawal that saw [[Lija]] leave for independence. [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]], which [[Çakaristan-Nouvelle Alexandrie relations|severed relations]] with Çakaristan in {{AN|1757}} over Dromosker and refused to restore them, watches from the outside; some in the Federation, among them the recalled ambassador [[Robert Krieger]], read the retreat as repositioning to expand elsewhere. Nouvelle Alexandrie had earlier pressed the empire to move a threatened nuclear test away from shared island waters, which Çakaristan now calls a deception. The empire remains the Federation's neighbor on [[Apollonia]] at [[Jaris (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Jaris]], untouched by a cession an ocean away.''
|impact_international={{steady}} 0
}}

===26===

{{Main|Noursala Arrangement|Martina Vásquez}}
{{See also|Pact of Shadows scandal|Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Government formation in Nouvelle Alexandrie|Aerlan general election, 1760}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} {{team flag|Aerla|flag}} THE INCOMING ACCORD INHERITS MARTINA VÁSQUEZ'S HOUSE-ARREST FILE AND ITS NAX€4.1 MILLION ANNUAL BILL
|image=MartinaVazquez1739.png
|image_size=200px
|image_caption=''Former [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Democratic Socialist]] leader [[Martina Vásquez]], held under the [[Noursala Arrangement]] in [[Noursala]], [[Aerla]] since {{AN|1751}}; file photo, {{AN|1739}}.''
|bullet1=The Noursala Arrangement Now Passes From the Montero Caretaker Government to Its Successor
|bullet2=Nouvelle Alexandrie Has Paid Aerla for Her Supervision, the Bill Rising to NAX€4.1 Million a Year After Her {{AN|1751}} Breach
|bullet3=Premier-Designate Gonçalves Once Held the DSP Caucus Together When Vásquez Fled the Pact of Shadows
|bullet4=Her Vásquezista Faction Later Challenged Him in the {{AN|1754}} Open Letter Known as La Carta Muerta
|bullet5=Aerla Faces Its Own Handover as a Term Limit Ends the Guthrie Presidency in {{AN|1760}}
|bullet6=No Restriction Has Been Eased in More Than Eight Years
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The government forming under [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] will inherit the [[Noursala Arrangement]], the NAX€4.1-million-a-year deal that has kept [[Martina Vásquez]] under house arrest in [[Aerla]] since {{AN|1751}}, as the [[José Manuel Montero|Montero]] caretaker administration hands over its standing foreign commitments. The file is one of the quieter items in the transition to the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]], and one of the few that reaches back to the scandal that reshaped the last decade of New Alexandrian politics.<ref name="noursala">[[Noursala Arrangement]]; [[Martina Vásquez]].</ref>

Vásquez, who led the [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Democratic Socialist Party]] and the Alliance to their best result at the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1749|1749 election]], fled to [[Aerla]] in {{AN|1750}} as the [[Pact of Shadows scandal]] broke and the [[Anti-Corruption Agency of Nouvelle Alexandrie]] prepared a warrant. The [[Noursala Arrangement]], signed on 1.II.{{AN|1751}} by then-Secretary of State [[Jean-Michel Durand]] and Aerlan foreign minister [[Lucas Kessler]], confined her to [[Noursala]], Aerla's capital, under the supervision of Aerla's [[State Security Directorate]], within a five-kilometer radius of her residence, barred from politics, public statements about New Alexandrian affairs, and unsupervised contact with DSP officials. In return the Federation withdrew its extradition request and dropped the charges it had prepared ''in absentia''.<ref name="noursala" />

Nouvelle Alexandrie pays for the arrangement. After Vásquez broke its terms in III.{{AN|1751}} with a statement endorsing a candidate in a DSP leadership contest, [[Aerla]] imposed enhanced restrictions and Nouvelle Alexandrie raised its annual support payment from NAX€2.4 million to NAX€4.1 million to cover the added security. No restriction has been eased since. Vásquez answers the Anti-Corruption Agency's questions on the scandal in writing, through Aerlan intermediaries, under a cooperation clause that has never been closed.<ref name="noursala" />

The transfer is procedural rather than political. Career officials at the [[Department of State (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of State]] have entered the arrangement on the register of standing commitments prepared for the Accord's transition office, which separates the caretaker government's continuing obligations from the decisions reserved for the next administration.<ref name="formation_pos">[[Government formation in Nouvelle Alexandrie]]; ''[[NBC Newsfeed/1759|NBC Newsfeed]]'', "Federal Accord names its proposed cabinet as Fitzgerald appointment reopens Pact debate," 6.XIV.{{AN|1759}}.</ref> ''"It is a standing obligation like any other, and it will be handled as one,"'' said [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]], the Federal Accord's nominee for [[Department of State (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Secretary of State]]. ''"We will review the file when we hold the pen, not before."''

Gonçalves is not a stranger to the file. He was the party's chief whip when Vásquez fell, and held the DSP caucus together through the scandal without seeking the leadership himself.<ref name="goncalves">''[[NBC Newsfeed/1759|NBC Newsfeed]]'', profile of [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], 12.XIV.{{AN|1759}}.</ref> The tendency that stayed loyal to Vásquez after her fall, the ''Vásquezistas'' led by the deputy [[Ricardo Ortega]], later turned on him: in {{AN|1754}} Ortega challenged Gonçalves in an open letter, ''[[La Carta Muerta]]'', that drew nine of the party's signatures and collapsed within two days.<ref name="carta">[[Martina Vásquez]]; [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]].</ref>

The file also lands on a government whose third party exists because of the scandal it records. The [[Civic Governance Alliance]], which took 95 seats at the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|1759 election]] to become the Federation's third party and an Accord partner, was founded by deputies who broke from the opposition over the [[Pact of Shadows scandal]] and built the party on a promise of clean government.<ref name="cga_pos">[[Civic Governance Alliance]]; [[Pact of Shadows scandal]].</ref> The cooperation clause that keeps Vásquez answering the Anti-Corruption Agency belongs to the same unfinished inquiry.

Vásquez keeps a defender in Ortega. ''"Eight years of house arrest for a meeting no court ever tried is not accountability, it is a bill the Federation keeps paying to look tough,"'' Ortega said. The Democratic Socialist Party, which folds into the Alliance's figures at each election, has not commented on the transfer. A Department of State official, speaking on background because the file is not public, said the payments were current and the cooperation channel open.

The arrangement will outlast the two administrations that have carried it, and it binds two close allies. Nouvelle Alexandrie and Aerla are both members of the [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization]], which Aerla joined at a {{AN|1752}} accession visit. That visit also took up a military-passage arrangement for Nouvelle Alexandrie and [[Natopia]] toward northern [[Keltia]], and the Vásquez situation itself.<ref name="cato">[[1752 CATO state visit to Aerla]]; [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization]].</ref> Both governments are now changing hands. President [[Thomas Guthrie]], who has held the Aerlan presidency since {{AN|1750}}, is barred by a two-term limit from the [[Aerlan general election, 1760]] in V.{{AN|1760}}, and a new Aerlan president and National Assembly will take office months after the Accord does.<ref name="aerla">[[Aerlan general election, 1760]]; ''[[NBC Newsfeed/1759|NBC Newsfeed]]'', "Four candidates declare for Aerla's presidency as a term limit closes the Guthrie era," 9.IX.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

Nothing in the arrangement forces a decision on either capital. It has no fixed term, and its enhanced restrictions are long past the eighteen-month floor set in {{AN|1751}}. It continues unless a government reopens it. What the incoming administrations inherit is a standing payment, an open cooperation channel, and a former party leader who has spent eight years within five kilometers of a house in Noursala.
|tldr=''The government forming under [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] will inherit the [[Noursala Arrangement]], the NAX€4.1-million-a-year deal that has confined former Alliance leader [[Martina Vásquez]] to house arrest in [[Aerla]] since {{AN|1751}}, as the [[José Manuel Montero|Montero]] caretaker government hands its standing foreign commitments to the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]]. The transfer is procedural, carried on the register of continuing obligations, but the file reaches back to the [[Pact of Shadows scandal]]: Gonçalves held the DSP caucus together when Vásquez fled, her ''Vásquezista'' faction later challenged him in the {{AN|1754}} ''[[La Carta Muerta]]'', and the [[Civic Governance Alliance]], now an Accord partner and the Federation's third party, was itself founded on the scandal. Nouvelle Alexandrie has paid for the arrangement since {{AN|1751}} and raised the payment to NAX€4.1 million after Vásquez broke its terms; no restriction has since been eased. The deal will outlast both signatory governments, with [[Aerla]] set to replace the term-limited President [[Thomas Guthrie]] at its own election in V.{{AN|1760}}.''
|impact_international={{steady}} 0
|impact_stability={{steady}} 0
}}

===28===

{{Main|Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758}}
{{See also|Recession of 1757|General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} UNEMPLOYMENT HOLDS AT 8.7 PERCENT WHILE DEBT BRAKE WITHHOLDS NAX€200 BILLION
|image=NBC1759EconomyDebtBrake.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''NBC News Data Desk graphic showing the closing-quarter economic indicators and the Recovery Act debt brake: unemployment at 8.7 percent, public debt at 67.4 percent of GDP, and NAX€200 billion in further borrowing left undrawn.''
|bullet1=Employment Rose by 0.41 Million as Unemployment Held at 8.7 Percent
|bullet2=The Economy Slipped Back Into a 1.6 Percent Contraction, and Debt at 67.4 Percent Left the Final NAX€200 Billion Recovery Act Tranche Unborrowed
|bullet3=The Cortes Must Decide Separately Whether to Release the Borrowing and Which Expired Emergency Powers to Renew
|bullet4=Montero Remains Caretaker; the Federal Accord Has Not Stated Its Position on Either Decision
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=About 0.41 million more New Alexandrians were in work at the close of {{AN|1759}} than at the end of the previous quarter. Employment rose to 196.59 million from 196.18 million, and unemployment held at 8.7 percent. The economy slipped back into contraction after its third-quarter rebound: output fell at an annualized 1.6 percent, against growth of 3.0 percent in the quarter before.<ref name="q4-dashboard">[[#Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month XV, 1759)|Nouvelle Alexandrie Statistics Bureau, ''Economic Dashboard (Month XV, 1759)'']], 28.XV.{{AN|1759}}; [[#Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month XII, 1759)|''Economic Dashboard (Month XII, 1759)'']].</ref>

The public accounts put a limit on how much more the government could spend under the recovery law. Debt reached NAX€33.22 trillion, or 67.4 percent of output, one point higher than in the third quarter. Article 17 barred Treasury from using the last NAX€200 billion of the Act's borrowing line without a resolution of the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes Federales]]. That money was never raised. Earlier spending and commitments stayed in place.<ref name="brake-law">[[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]], Articles 4 through 18; [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758]], Article 10.</ref>

Other indicators showed a recovery that had not yet held. The year-on-year decline in output narrowed to 2.0 percent from 3.1 percent, its second straight improvement, while consumer confidence fell 8.9 points to 79.4, giving back part of its third-quarter jump. Alexandrium gained NAX€21.12 to NAX€1,995.09 a gram. Households still faced a cost-of-living index of 106.2, up 0.4 point, and housing affordability slipped another 0.8 point to 98.1.<ref name="q4-dashboard" />

The original package provided NAX€750 billion through two different channels. A NAX€600 billion direct appropriation was financed by borrowing; NAX€150 billion took the form of credit guarantees and tax deferrals that required no new borrowing. Treasury financed two NAX€200 billion tranches of the direct line before the brake stopped the third. The contingent facility was fully drawn before year-end, but that did not mean another NAX€150 billion of cash spending: guarantees cost Treasury only if borrowers default, and deferred taxes remain owed.<ref name="q4-dashboard" /><ref name="brake-law" />

Of the direct appropriation, NAX€200 billion was assigned to employment protection and the producing Regions, NAX€150 billion to homebuilding and NAX€100 billion to diversification. The other NAX€150 billion covered public works and accelerated procurement, family support, and a regional and banking backstop. The accounts do not attach the unborrowed tranche to any one of those purposes, so no named program lost NAX€200 billion that it had already received.<ref name="brake-law" />

Ordinary government finance kept running. The quarterly deficit narrowed to 4.4 percent of output from 5.4 percent, although it still amounted to NAX€430.90 billion, including NAX€243.19 billion in interest costs. Article 17 governs only borrowing under the Recovery Act. It did not replace the ordinary-budget borrowing authority or impose a hard ceiling on all federal debt, which is why the ratio finished above 65 percent after the emergency tranche was withheld.<ref name="q4-dashboard" /><ref name="brake-law" />

That return to the Cortes was the safeguard Treasury Secretary [[Warren Ferdinand]] offered when he tabled the bill on 6.XV.{{AN|1758}}. [[Francisco Gabaza]], leader of the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]], had argued that another NAX€600 billion remained debt whatever account carried it and that a 65 percent brake encouraged Treasury to borrow up to the line. ''"Six hundred billion borrowed and not one écu of it beyond the reach of this House, under a debt-brake and an expiry date,"'' Ferdinand said. Gabaza later voted for the Act, and 111 of the FCP's 119 deputies joined the 731-to-18 majority that passed it.<ref name="act-tabling">[[NBC Newsfeed/1758|NBC Newsfeed]], "NAX€750 BILLION TO FIGHT THE RECESSION, MOST OF IT BORROWED," 6.XV.{{AN|1758}}; [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]], Federal Assembly final reading, 1.V.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

Ferdinand's expiry date produced a separate consequence at year-end. Article 18 closed six emergency powers to new use: work-sharing and retraining, the National Homebuilding Drive, family and household support, credit guarantees, tax deferrals in the producing Regions, and strategic Alexandrium procurement. Grants, guarantees and commitments already made remain valid.<ref name="program-law">[[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]], Articles 6 through 18.</ref>

For workers, the lapse means departments cannot enroll new support under a scheme that covered up to two-thirds of wages lost when an employer cut hours by between 10 percent and 50 percent instead of dismissing staff, with part of the released time used for retraining. The NAX€150 billion Homebuilding Drive, which targeted at least 500,000 homes, cannot make new grants or guarantees under its expired authority. New family support also stopped, including marriage establishment grants of up to NAX€15,000 and the temporary child-allowance increase. Existing commitments survive.<ref name="program-law" />

For firms, no new guarantee may be issued under the expired power that covered up to 80 percent of a qualifying loan, subject to a NAX€100 billion ceiling on guarantees outstanding. Treasury also cannot grant a new interest-free tax deferral of up to twelve months to a firm in a producing Region. Guarantees already issued and deferrals already granted remain effective, and the postponed taxes are still due.<ref name="program-law-2">[[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]], Articles 10, 13 and 18.</ref>

The [[14th Cortes Federales|Fourteenth Cortes]] must address the two limits separately. An Article 17 resolution would reopen access to the NAX€200 billion borrowing line. Renewing an Article 18 power would allow that program to operate again. Without both steps, newly borrowed Recovery Act money could not be put through an expired program; without either, the money stays unborrowed and all six powers remain closed to new use.<ref name="brake-law" />

[[José Manuel Montero]] was still caretaker premier when the brake took effect. His administration remains the lawful executive, but caretaker rules restrict significant policy and new financial commitments. King [[Sinchi Roca II]] has invited [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] to form a government after the Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie, the Civic Governance Alliance and the Federal Consensus Party signed the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]]. The three parties hold 448 of the Federal Assembly's 801 seats.<ref name="formation">[[Government Formation and Coalition Act, 1694]], caretaker and government-formation provisions; [[NBC Newsfeed/1759|NBC Newsfeed]], "MONTERO TELLS THE KING HE CANNOT FORM A GOVERNMENT," 3.X.{{AN|1759}}; "THE KING INVITES GONÇALVES TO FORM A GOVERNMENT AS THE THREE PARTIES PRESENT THEIR SIGNED AGREEMENT," 24.XIII.{{AN|1759}}.</ref><ref name="federal-accord">[[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759]], Council of State and program sections.</ref>

Treasury would pass to the [[Civic Governance Alliance]], with [[Tomás Iñiguez]] named for the portfolio, if Gonçalves wins the Cortes's confidence through votes on the Speech from the Throne and the proposed Council of State. Neither the coalition nor Iñiguez was in office at publication. The Accord promises to reduce the cost of living, make housing more affordable and write a joint budget, but it takes no position on releasing the NAX€200 billion or renewing the expired powers.<ref name="federal-accord" /><ref name="formation" />

''Revision note: The Statistics Bureau's benchmark review of Month XII, {{AN|1760}} restated public debt at the close of {{AN|1759}} to NAX€32.50 trillion, 65.9 percent of output, from the NAX€33.22 trillion (67.4 percent) first reported here. This story stands as first published.''
|tldr=Employment rose by 0.41 million in the final quarter as unemployment held at 8.7 percent and output slipped back into a 1.6 percent annualized contraction. Debt at 67.4 percent left the last NAX€200 billion of Recovery Act borrowing undrawn, while a separate sunset closed six emergency powers to new use without disturbing existing commitments. The Fourteenth Cortes must decide separately whether to authorize the borrowing and which powers to renew; Montero remains caretaker, and the Federal Accord has not yet taken office or stated its position on either question.
|impact_economy=+1
|impact_stability=-1
}}

==== Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month XV, 1759) ====

''Published by the Nouvelle Alexandrie Statistics Bureau.''

The annual measure of output kept improving in the fourth quarter of {{AN|1759}}, though the quarter itself turned back to contraction. The annualized pace of decline was 1.6%, against growth of 3.0% in the third quarter, and the year-on-year growth rate improved to negative 2.0% from negative 3.1%, its second straight narrowing since [[Recession of 1757|the recession]] broadened in {{AN|1758}}. Unemployment stood at 8.7%, little changed from the third quarter, and consumer confidence fell 8.9 points to 79.4, giving back part of its third-quarter jump. The [[Oportia-Nouvelle Alexandrie integration|accession]] of [[Oportia]], the federation's thirteenth Region, registered in the national accounts for the first time this quarter, its [[Port Félix]] coastal economy carried onto the federal books as enumeration caught up with a Region admitted in {{AN|1755}}. The [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758|Recovery Act]] drew the last of its NAX€150 billion contingent facility before the Act's emergency authorities expired at the close of the year, and the Alexandrium price recovered a further NAX€21.12 to NAX€1,995.09 per gram. The public accounts pressed against their own limit: public debt rose 1.0 point to 67.4%, further past the 65% ceiling in the Act's debt brake, which held back a further NAX€200 billion of borrowing under the Act until the Cortes authorizes it, while the quarterly deficit narrowed to 4.4% of GDP. Housing affordability slipped again to 98.1. Government remained in caretaker hands as the [[14th Cortes Federales|new Cortes]] assembled. One caveat applies to the headline output figure: the fourth quarter runs three months where the earlier quarters of the year ran four, so quarterly output of NAX€9.42 trillion reads low against them for that reason, and the annualized growth rate is the better guide to the quarter's pace.

===== Headline panel =====

{| class="wikitable"
! Indicator !! Current !! Change !! Note
|-
| Real GDP (quarter) || NAX€9.42 trillion || {{decrease}} NAX€3.23 trillion || the quarter's output
|-
| Real GDP (trailing 4Q, annual) || NAX€47.19 trillion || {{decrease}} NAX€196.98 billion || sum of the last four quarters
|-
| Real GDP growth (QoQ, annualized) || -1.6% || || quarter on quarter
|-
| Real GDP growth (YoY) || -2.0% || || year on year
|-
| Nominal GDP (annual) || NAX€49.32 trillion || {{decrease}} NAX€71.89 billion || real times the deflator
|-
| GDP per capita (nominal) || NAX€94,672 || {{decrease}} NAX€421 || the very-rich headline
|-
| Inflation (CPI, YoY) || 1.4% || {{decrease}} 0.1% ||
|-
| Cost-of-Living Index || 106.2 || {{increase}} 0.4 || 100 = {{AN|1757}} base
|-
| Unemployment rate || 8.7% || {{increase}} 0.1% ||
|-
| Budget balance (quarter, % GDP) || -4.4% || {{increase}} 1.0% || deficit if negative
|-
| Public debt (% GDP) || 67.4% || {{increase}} 1.0% || debt/GDP guardrail
|-
| Trade balance (quarter, % GDP) || 3.9% || {{increase}} 0.4% ||
|-
| Alexandrium price (NAX€/g) || 1,995.09 || {{increase}} 21.12 || volatility driver
|-
| Alexandrium federal revenue (quarter) || NAX€58.48 billion || {{increase}} NAX€0.62 billion || feeds the 12% mandate
|-
| Gini coefficient || 0.380 || {{steady}} || distribution headline
|-
| Urban-rural income gap || 1.80 || {{steady}} || income ratio
|-
| Housing Affordability Index || 98.1 || {{decrease}} 0.8 || price/rent vs income
|-
| Consumer Confidence Index || 79.4 || {{decrease}} 8.9 || 100 = neutral
|}



===== Detailed appendix =====

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Macro detail
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Real GDP (quarter) || NAX€9.42 trillion
|-
| Nominal GDP (quarter) || NAX€9.90 trillion
|-
| GDP deflator || 105.1
|-
| Real GDP (trailing 4Q) || NAX€47.19 trillion
|-
| Nominal GDP (trailing 4Q) || NAX€49.32 trillion
|-
| Real growth (QoQ ann.) || -1.6%
|-
| Real growth (YoY) || -2.0%
|-
| Cost-of-Living Index || 106.2
|-
| House Price Index || 98.8
|-
| Housing Affordability Index || 98.1
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Labor
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Population || 520,977,063
|-
| Working-age population || 342,474,961
|-
| Labor force || 215,422,036
|-
| Employed || 196,591,299
|-
| Participation rate || 62.9%
|-
| Unemployment rate || 8.7%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Fiscal and debt
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Revenue (quarter) || NAX€3.76 trillion
|-
| Expenditure (quarter) || NAX€3.95 trillion
|-
| Primary balance (quarter) || NAX€-187.71 billion
|-
| Interest (quarter) || NAX€243.19 billion
|-
| Budget balance (quarter) || NAX€-430.90 billion
|-
| Public debt || NAX€33.22 trillion
|-
| Public debt (% GDP) || 67.4%
|-
| Interest burden (% revenue) || 6.5%
|-
| Reserve fund || NAX€1.78 trillion
|-
| Reserve draw (quarter) || NAX€0.00 billion
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ External
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Exports (quarter) || NAX€2.59 trillion
|-
| Imports (quarter) || NAX€2.20 trillion
|-
| Trade balance (quarter) || NAX€387.18 billion
|-
| Trade balance (% GDP) || 3.9%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Strategic resources (Alexandrium)
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Price (NAX€/g) || 1,995.09
|-
| Gross value (quarter) || NAX€233.92 billion
|-
| Export value (quarter) || NAX€163.75 billion
|-
| Federal revenue (quarter) || NAX€58.48 billion
|-
| Revenue baseline (quarter) || NAX€85.01 billion
|-
| Revenue shortfall (quarter) || NAX€26.53 billion
|-
| UARA volume levy (quarter) || NAX€7.62 billion
|-
| Ad-valorem take (quarter) || NAX€50.86 billion
|-
| Diversification earmark (12%) || NAX€7.02 billion
|-
| Resource-sector share of GDP || 1.9%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Sectoral output (shares sum to 100%)
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Agriculture || 6.0%
|-
| Industry || 30.1%
|-
| Services || 63.9%
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ Inequality
! Indicator !! Value
|-
| Gini coefficient || 0.380
|-
| Urban-rural income gap || 1.80
|}

''Outlook (forecast):'' real GDP growth is projected near -4.4% (annualized) next quarter, with unemployment near 9.0%. These are model projections, superseded by next quarter's actuals.

===29===

{{Main|Lindström Recovery Protocol|Natopian-Nouvelle Alexandrie Joint Economic Council|Recession of 1757}}
{{See also|Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758|1757 Alexandrium market crash|Cárdenas Protocol|Banking in Nouvelle Alexandrie}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Natopia|flag}} {{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} NATOPIA BACKS NEW ALEXANDRIAN RECOVERY WITH ORDERS, ALEXANDRIUM PURCHASES, CREDIT AND BANK CAPITAL
|image=LindstromRecoveryProtocol1759NBC.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''Premier [[José Manuel Montero]] and Natopian Chancellor [[Marco Lungo III]] sign the Lindström Recovery Protocol in [[Lindström]], 29.XV.{{AN|1759}}.''
|bullet1=Montero and Lungo Sign the [[Lindström Recovery Protocol]] on 29.XV.{{AN|1759}}
|bullet2=Natopia Plans NAX€320 Billion of New Alexandrian Orders for the First Half of {{AN|1760}}
|bullet3=A 30-Tonne Alexandrium Offtake Sets a Minimum Purchase Price of NAX€2,150 a Gram
|bullet4=Natopia Offers a NAX€250 Billion Recovery-Bond Backstop, Subject to Authorization by the Cortes
|bullet5=NAX€360 Billion Private-Capital Pipeline Spans All 13 Regions and 16 Companies and Joint Ventures
|bullet6=Markets Rally as the Incoming Federal Accord Demands Full Review of the Caretaker Government's Agreement
|location=[[Lindström]], [[Natopia]]
|body=Premier [[José Manuel Montero]] and Natopian Chancellor [[Marco Lungo III]] signed a [[Lindström Recovery Protocol|four-part, non-binding economic framework]] in [[Lindström]] on 29.XV.{{AN|1759}}, combining Natopian orders, [[Alexandrium]] purchases, credit support and NAX€360 billion of private capital. [[Empress Clara]] authorized the Natopian foreign-affairs provisions before the signing. Negotiated through the [[Natopian-Nouvelle Alexandrie Joint Economic Council]], the Lindström Recovery Protocol is intended to lift output during the first two quarters of {{AN|1760}} without another New Alexandrian-funded stimulus.<ref name="nnjec">[[Natopian-Nouvelle Alexandrie Joint Economic Council]]; [[Cárdenas Protocol]]; [[Empress of the Natopians]].</ref>

Natopian public buyers and participating companies are scheduled to place NAX€320 billion in infrastructure, manufactured-goods and defense orders between I and VIII.{{AN|1760}}. [[Neridia Defense Industries]] and [[Dingo Enterprises]], whose cancellation of major Alexandrium orders helped break the market in XII.{{AN|1757}}, are among the returning buyers. These are purchases of New Alexandrian output, not New Alexandrian public expenditure or borrowing.<ref name="crash">[[1757 Alexandrium market crash]]; [[Recession of 1757]].</ref>

The protocol also calls for Natopia to take 30 metric tonnes of refined Alexandrium for a strategic materials reserve at no less than NAX€2,150 a gram. That contractual minimum matches the non-binding reference price adopted by the [[Euran Alexandrium Coordination Organization]] under the [[Treaty of Fontainebleau on Alexandrium Coordination|Fontainebleau treaty]]. At that price the purchase is worth NAX€64.5 billion. It does not bind other buyers, but it places a major purchaser at the reference level after Alexandrium closed Month XV at NAX€1,995.09 a gram.<ref name="dashboard">[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month XV, 1759)|Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard, Month XV]]; [[NBC Newsfeed/1757|NBC Newsfeed]], "EACO SETS A FLOOR UNDER ALEXANDRIUM AT FONTAINEBLEAU," 24.XIII.{{AN|1757}}.</ref>

Natopia offered to backstop up to NAX€250 billion of New Alexandrian recovery bonds, buying any authorized issue not taken up by private investors. The proposed bonds have a fifteen-year maturity and a yield capped at 0.75 percentage points above equivalent Natopian government debt. The protocol places the backstop outside the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758|Recovery Act]]'s Article 16 facility. Article 17 does not itself prohibit ordinary borrowing, but any issued bond would remain New Alexandrian public debt and require authorization from the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes Federales]]. No bond was issued at signing.<ref name="brake">[[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]], Articles 16 and 17.</ref>

Three four-year private-capital platforms schedule NAX€120 billion of equity and equipment for I-VIII.{{AN|1760}}. The NAX€135 billion advanced-industry platform assigns NAX€35 billion to [[Alduria]], NAX€30 billion to [[Oportia]], NAX€25 billion each to the [[Wechua Nation]] and [[Boriquén]], and NAX€20 billion to [[New Caputia]]. [[Alexandrium Nexus Ventures]], Dingo, NDI, [[OAMEX]], [[Precision Defense Machining]], [[Quantum Navigation Systems]], [[Augur Industries Incorporated|Augur Industries]] and the Natopian subsidiary of the [[Deep Freeze Consortium]] would develop Alexandrium components, precision manufacturing, industrial automation, navigation electronics and industrial parks.<ref name="industry">[[Administrative divisions of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]; [[Alexandrium Nexus Ventures]]; [[Neridia Defense Industries]]; [[Quantum Navigation Systems]].</ref>

The NAX€120 billion ports, water and blue-economy platform assigns NAX€22 billion to [[Santander]], NAX€20 billion to [[Valencia]], NAX€18 billion each to the [[Isles of Caputia]] and [[New Luthoria]], NAX€17 billion to the [[Islas de la Libertad]], and NAX€25 billion to [[South Lyrica]]. [[East Natopian Shipping Corporation]], [[Transegale Trading Company]], [[Aquarius Desalination Technologies]], OAMEX, Dingo and Deep Freeze's Natopian subsidiary would finance, supply or operate freight terminals, cold-storage networks, desalination plants, ship-repair yards, island transport and offshore-service bases.<ref name="ports">[[East Natopian Shipping Corporation]]; [[Aquarius Desalination Technologies]]; [[Isles of Caputia]]; [[Valencia]].</ref>

A third platform, worth NAX€105 billion, covers finance, digital services and aerospace. NAX€25 billion would establish a financial, data and media campus in the [[Cárdenas|Federal Capital District]], and NAX€20 billion would fund satellite ground stations, emergency communications and an aerospace-training center in [[North Lyrica]]. The [[Bank of Saint Andre]], [[Ziegeland Media Group]], [[AuroraStream]], [[NatAlex Launch Alliance]], [[Dingo Exploration Corporation|DingoX]] and Quantum Navigation would participate. A separate NAX€60 billion Bank of Saint Andre-led window would subscribe preferred equity in qualifying regional lenders across the Federation under [[Federal Bank of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Bank]] supervision. Institutions already in resolution are excluded.<ref name="banks">[[Banking in Nouvelle Alexandrie]]; [[Bank of Saint Andre]]; [[NatAlex Launch Alliance]].</ref>

The signing prompted a transition dispute. Montero remains the lawful Premier, but his government is in caretaker office and constrained on significant policy and financial commitments.<ref name="caretaker">[[Government Formation and Coalition Act, 1694]], sections 8 and 10.</ref> Senior civil servants therefore drafted the protocol as a framework, not an appropriation, guarantee, concession or bond issue. Natopian orders and investments may begin where private contracts and existing approvals suffice. Borrowing, regulated bank subscriptions, permits and concessions require the competent New Alexandrian authority. The [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] welcomed the regional spread but objected that its transition team received the final text only after Natopia approved it. Treasury nominee [[Tomás Iñiguez]] said any public exposure would be disclosed before authorization.

The [[Nouvelle Alexandrie Stock Exchange]] Composite rose 2.1 percent; regional-bank shares gained 3.8 percent and manufacturing shares 2.9 percent. Alexandrium rose 4.7 percent to NAX€2,088.86 a gram, still below the protocol's purchase price, while government bonds strengthened modestly. Markets priced the orders and initial capital rather than the undrawn bond backstop or the full four-year investment pipeline.

The four parts are not one spending figure. Orders and mineral purchases are Natopian demand, project and bank subscriptions are private capital, and the bond backstop becomes New Alexandrian public debt only if used. The protocol supplies external demand and a federation-wide pipeline while leaving elected authorities to decide what credit and regulatory exposure to accept.
|tldr=Natopia and the Montero caretaker government signed the non-binding [[Lindström Recovery Protocol]] on 29.XV.{{AN|1759}}. It schedules NAX€320 billion of New Alexandrian orders for the first half of {{AN|1760}}, calls for a 30-tonne Alexandrium purchase at no less than NAX€2,150 a gram, offers a NAX€250 billion recovery-bond backstop, and proposes NAX€360 billion of private capital across all 13 Regions. The purchases and private investment do not add to New Alexandrian public debt. Any recovery bond issued under the backstop would count as public debt and require ordinary Cortes authorization. Markets rallied, while the incoming Federal Accord welcomed the regional spread but demanded review of the caretaker government's framework.
|impact_economy={{increase}} +2
|impact_international={{increase}} +1
|impact_stability={{increase}} +1
}}

===30===


{{Main|Lindström Recovery Protocol|Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759}}
{{See also|Natopian-Nouvelle Alexandrie Joint Economic Council|Cárdenas Protocol|Natopia-Nouvelle Alexandrie relations|Government formation in Nouvelle Alexandrie}}
{{NAXNewsStory2|
|headline={{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie|flag}} FEDERAL ACCORD SAYS LINDSTRÖM WILL STAND AND SEEKS TO BUILD LASTING INDUSTRY FROM THE NATOPIAN ORDERS
|image=LindstromContinuityTrade1759NBC.png
|image_size=350px
|image_caption=''NBC News data graphic summarizing the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]]'s 30.XV.{{AN|1759}} pledge to honor the [[Lindström Recovery Protocol]] and to anchor the Natopian recovery orders in New Alexandrian industry.''
|bullet1=The Coalition Will Honor the Recovery Protocol if It Takes Office
|bullet2=Orders, the Alexandrium Purchase, Private Investment and the Bond Backstop Would Continue Under Existing Legal Controls
|bullet3=The Accord Wants the Council's First Plenary to Turn the Natopian Orders Into Lasting New Alexandrian Industry and Investment
|bullet4=It Would Settle the Borrowing, Bank Subscriptions and Approvals Reserved to New Alexandrian Authorities
|bullet5=Future Talks Would Ease Customs Documents, Product Standards, Investment Timetables and Professional Recognition Between the Two Pact Members
|bullet6=Fitzgerald Joins the Consultations, but the Coalition Cannot Bind the Federation Before It Takes Office
|location=[[Cárdenas]], FCD
|body=The [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] will honor the [[Lindström Recovery Protocol]] if it takes office, its transition office announced on 30.XV.{{AN|1759}} after talks with the caretaker and Natopian governments. The undertaking preserves the protocol's orders, Alexandrium purchase and private-investment program while leaving borrowing, bank subscriptions, permits and concessions to the authorizations already required by law.<ref name="accord-continuity">Federal Accord transition office, ''Statement on the Lindström Recovery Protocol and Bilateral Economic Relations'', 30.XV.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The statement leaves the coalition's objection on the record while committing it to honor the protocol. When Premier [[José Manuel Montero]] and Chancellor [[Marco Lungo III]] signed the protocol one day earlier, Federal Accord officials welcomed its spread across all thirteen Regions but protested that Natopia approved the final text before the transition team received it. Career officials from State and Treasury then prepared an implementation register separating private contracts and measures available under existing authority from decisions reserved for the next government, the [[Federal Bank of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Bank]] or the Cortes.<ref name="protocol">[[Lindström Recovery Protocol]], legal and transition status; ''[[NBC Newsfeed/1759|NBC Newsfeed]]'', 29.XV.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The Accord now says it will not seek to cancel the NAX€320 billion Natopian order schedule, the 30-tonne strategic Alexandrium purchase or the NAX€360 billion private-capital program. Companies and Natopian purchasers may proceed where contracts and approvals already permit. The NAX€250 billion recovery-bond backstop will remain available, but no recovery bond may be issued without authorization by the Cortes. Treasury nominee [[Tomás Iñiguez]] also retained his promise to disclose any public exposure before approval. Regulated bank subscriptions, investment permits and concessions remain with their competent authorities.

The coalition's transition office proposed that the incoming government make the recovery orders the business of the [[Natopian-Nouvelle Alexandrie Joint Economic Council]]'s first {{AN|1760}} plenary. Because both nations already trade freely as [[Raspur Pact]] members, whose treaty guarantees the free movement of goods and services, the note framed the plenary's task as durability rather than access: converting the Natopian order flow into durable New Alexandrian production and investment, and settling the borrowing, bank subscriptions and approvals the coalition had reserved to the competent New Alexandrian authorities. Within that open market, the note still looked to broaden what the two economies buy from each other. On the New Alexandrian side that meant heavier purchases of Natopian machine tools, semiconductor-production equipment, medicines, transport and water systems, shipping, finance and professional services, though it set no quota and made no public procurement commitment. Its stated aim was to root the order flow in domestic capacity and lower business costs, not to open a market the Pact had opened long before.

Natopia, for its part, was asked to buy more from New Alexandrian sectors outside the mineral, advanced-technology and defense trades that dominate the public relationship, among them food and beverages, textiles and consumer goods, civilian ships and repair services, tourism, media, finance and engineering. It set out an agenda for future negotiators to pursue mutual recognition of product standards, common digital customs documents, published timetables for investment reviews and easier recognition of professional qualifications, the facilitation work that deepens trade between members already inside the [[Raspur Pact]]'s free-trade area. No tariff or licensing rule changed on 30.XV, and none needed to.

Prospective State Secretary [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]] joined the consultations with Natopian officials. Her participation connected the continuity pledge to the coalition's unresolved debate over Raspur Pact policy after her opposition to [[Force 1752 initiative|Force 1752]] spending became an issue when the cabinet slate was announced.<ref name="cabinet">''[[NBC Newsfeed/1759|NBC Newsfeed]]'', "Federal Accord names its proposed cabinet as Fitzgerald appointment reopens Pact debate," 6.XIV.{{AN|1759}}.</ref> The coalition remains outside government and cannot bind the Federation before the confidence and appointment process. Its political undertaking is to carry Lindström into the review and authorization process after taking office, rather than make renegotiation a condition of taking office.<ref name="accord-lindstrom-formation">[[Government formation in Nouvelle Alexandrie]]; [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759]].</ref>
|tldr=The [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] announced on 30.XV.{{AN|1759}} that it will honor the non-binding [[Lindström Recovery Protocol]] after consultations with the Montero caretaker government and Natopian officials. The coalition pledged to preserve Natopian orders, the strategic Alexandrium purchase, private investment and the recovery-bond backstop while requiring the existing authorizations for debt, regulated bank subscriptions, permits and concessions. Because both nations already trade freely as [[Raspur Pact]] members, it asked the bilateral economic council to make its first {{AN|1760}} plenary about durability rather than market access: building lasting New Alexandrian industry and investment from the Natopian order flow, settling the financing terms reserved to New Alexandrian authorities, and deepening the facilitation, diversification and mutual recognition that grow trade already open under the Pact.
|impact_approval={{increase}} +1
|impact_economy={{increase}} +1
|impact_stability={{increase}} +1
}}

==See also==
* [[NBC Newsfeed]]
* [[Recession of 1757]]
* [[1758 New Alexandrian census]]
* [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]]
* [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759]]
* [[14th Cortes Federales]]
* [[Government formation in Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
* [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

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Economy of Nouvelle Alexandrie

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|align=center colspan=2 | <center><big>'''Economy of [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]]'''</big>
|-
| align=center colspan=2 |
[[File:CurrencySignAWF.png|200px]]
</center>
|-
|'''Currency:'''|| {{unbulleted list|the [[New Alexandrian écu|New Alexandrian écu (€, NAX€)]] (official)|the [[Natopian natopo|Natopian Natopo (₦)]]}}
|-
|'''GDP:'''|| NAX€49.32 trillion ({{AN|1759}})
|-
|'''GDP by Sector:'''||
{{unbulleted list|Agriculture: 6.0%|Industry: 30.1%|Services: 63.9%}}({{AN|1759}})
|-
|'''Marketplace'''||
|-
| align=center colspan=2 |
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|-
|'''Industries:''' ||
{{unbulleted list|Machinery|Petroleum|Chemicals|Automobiles|Metallurgy|Aircraft|Ships|Electronics|Textiles|Jewelry|Food and Beverage|Tobacco|Handicrafts|Tourism}}
|-
|'''Major Industry (% of GDP):'''|| {{unbulleted list|Agriculture, forestry, and fishing: 6.0%|Mining: 3.6%|Petrochemical: 4%| Manufacturing: 17.2%|Construction: 5.6%|Commerce and tourism: 12.9%|Transport, communications, and utilities: 7.9%|Government: 9.5%|Business, social and other services: 33.3%}}
|-
|'''Largest 5 Companies (Value in NAX€):'''|| {{unbulleted list|[[Kerularios & Company]] (NAX€ XX)|[[ESB Susa]] (NAX€ XX)|[[Pontecorvo Firm]] (NAX€ XX)|[[Javelin Industries]] (NAX€ XX)}}
|-
|'''Labor Force:'''||
|-
|'''Labor Force by Sector:'''||
|-
|'''Unemployed:'''|| 8.7% ({{AN|1759}})
|-
| align=center colspan=2 |
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|-
|'''Budget:''' || ''Revenues'': NAX€18.68 trillion 37.9% of GDP ''Expenses'': NAX€21.00 trillion 42.6% of GDP {{AN|1759}}, revised series
|-
|'''Budget Surplus or Deficit:''' || {{decrease}} NAX€2.32 trillion deficit (4.7% of GDP) ''Public Debt'': NAX€32.50 trillion (65.9% of GDP) {{AN|1759}}, revised series; debt first reported at NAX€33.22 trillion (67.4% of GDP)
|-
|'''Inflation Rate:''' || 2.4% {{AN|1759}}
|-
| align=center colspan=2 |
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|-
|'''Exports:''' || oil, natural gas, marble, motor vehicles, consumer goods, electronics, electrical equipment, pharmaceuticals, metals, transport equipment, foodstuffs, textiles, rubber and plastic products, rice, potatoes, quinoa, soybeans, and soy products.
|-
|'''Export Partners:''' || {{unbulleted list|{{team flag|Natopia}}|{{team flag|Constancia}}|{{team flag|Benacian Union}}|{{team flag|Ransenar}}|{{team flag|Craitland}}|{{team flag|Sanama}}}}
|-
|'''Imports:''' || machinery, consumer goods, data processing equipment, vehicles, chemicals, metals, electric equipment, pharmaceuticals, foodstuffs, agricultural products, silver, zinc, measuring and medical control instruments, pharmaceuticals, furniture.
|-
|'''Import Partners:'''|| {{unbulleted list|{{team flag|Natopia}}|{{team flag|Constancia}}|{{team flag|Benacian Union}}|{{team flag|Sanama}}|{{team flag|Ransenar}}|{{team flag|Sanama}}}}
|-
|'''Reserves of Foreign Currency:''' ||
|-
|}
The '''economy of [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]]''' is a large, emerging, social market economy characterized by a high level of foreign trade. The [[Nouvelle Alexandrie|New Alexandrian]] economy has improved substantially since the foundation of the Federation in {{AN|1685}} as [[New Prosperity Plan|increased public investments]] in industrial development, infrastructure, water, sanitation, electric power, and others led to pronounced downward trends in unemployment and economic inequality. Its economy is diversified, although the export of commodities makes up a large part of its economic activity. This makes the economy subject to the risks of price volatility in international markets.

New Alexandrian economic performance is tied to exports, which provide hard currency to finance the country's imports and external debt payments. [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]]'s main exports are oil, natural gas, marble, copper, ships, motor vehicles, consumer goods, electronics, electrical equipment, pharmaceuticals, metals, transport equipment, textiles, rubber and plastic products, rice, wheat, potatoes, chocolate, coffee, sugar, quinoa, soybeans, soy products, and foodstuffs. [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] is one of the largest producers of petroleum and natural gas in [[Micras]]. It also has a large internal market, catering to [[Demographics of Nouvelle Alexandrie|hundreds of millions of New Alexandrians]]. This large internal market has also led to the flourishing of a large services sector in the economy.

[[Nouvelle Alexandrie|Nouvelle Alexandrie]]'s largest trade partners are [[Natopia]], [[Constancia]], the [[Benacian Union]], [[Ransenar]], [[Sanama]], [[Craitland]], the [[The Hexarchy|Hexarchy]], and [[Hurmu]]. [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] generally runs an annual trade surplus and has a considerable net international investment surplus.

The country's economy faces difficult challenges with establishing lasting, self-sustaining economic growth and in securing a more egalitarian distribution of income, in particular, the disparity between urban and rural areas of the country. [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] benefits from being rich in natural resources, having a highly literate population, a strong export-oriented economy, and a diversified industrial base. Its quality university education and the establishment of a highly motivated and educated populace is largely responsible for ushering in [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]]'s high technology boom and rapid economic development. The country has developed a strong educational infrastructure, and a high-quality incubation system for new cutting edge ideas to create value driven goods and services. These developments have allowed the country to create a high concentration of high-tech companies across the country's [[Administrative divisions of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Regions]]. These companies are financially backed by a strong venture capital industry. Its central high technology hub, the [[CarSan Tech Corridor]], covers the area along the roads and railways from the capital, [[Cardenas]], to the Port of [[Wechuahuasi]]. Numerous companies originating in [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] have been acquired by global corporations for their reliable and quality corporate personnel and talent.

Between {{AN|1690}} and {{AN|1705}} (15 years), many ports across [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] became key in the growth of entrepôt trade, mainly in the [[Administrative divisions of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Regions]] of [[Alduria]], [[Santander]], [[Islas de la Libertad]], [[South Lyrica]], and [[New Luthoria]]. The locations of these Regions made it possible for certain ports and cities to facilitate the development of a large manufacturing base around the purchase of raw goods and refining them for export. This was facilitated further with the completion of key infrastructure projects from the [[New Prosperity Plan]] over these same 15 years. New highways, roads, airports, railways, and ports have opened up, interconnecting the Federation and encouraging trade. The seven most important ports in [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]], in order of tonnage capacity, are [[Punta Santiago]], [[Wechuahuasi]], [[Puerto Carrillo]], [[Judah]], [[Nuevo Corcovado]], [[Piriya]], and [[Norvind]].

To fuel economic growth and finance large infrastructure and welfare programs, governments in [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] have taken measures to promote innovation, encourage entrepreneurship, and to re-train the workforce through the [[New Prosperity Plan]]. The dynamism of the New Alexandrian economy has attracted attention from international business and investors, especially from friendly nations in the [[Raspur Pact]]. The public sector is used both as an investor and as a catalyst for economic development and innovation. The government of [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] has two sovereign wealth funds, the [[Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund]] and the [[Hydrocarbon Nationalization, Levy, and Strategic Reserve Act, 1695|Strategic Energy Reserve Fund]], which are used to manage the country's reserves. Initially the state's role was oriented more toward managing industries for economic development, but in recent decades the objectives of [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]]'s sovereign wealth funds have shifted to a commercial basis.

[[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] is a member of the [[Raspur Pact]], granting the economy access to one of the largest free trade and freedom of movement arrangements with [[Raspur_Pact#Membership|12 other nations]].

==History==
=== Unification Period ===
The nation of Nouvelle Alexandrie came about through the uniting of [[Alduria]] and [[Wechua Nation]], given form with the [[Proclamation of Punta Santiago]]. It inherited a diverse, but advanced economy, with high industrial manufacturing and technological power in Alduria, and a big agricultural and mining economy from Wechua Nation.

The unification brought at the first new economic power - if only due to a near doubling of GDP - as the agricultural production of Wechua, combined with its rich resources such as marble, natural gas, and minerals, fuelled new economic growth, made possible by Alduria's advanced manufacturing. Beyond industrial power, Alduria and Wechua held the majority of their economic power in services. Education and the financial sector, as well as tourism, were strong economic contributors. Unification brought newfound opportunities for tourism and banking.

The unification did necessitate the creation of a united single currency. President [[Alejandro Campos]] created the écu. At the same time, he encouraged a free-market economy, as was the case in Alduria before the unification. The planned economy of Wechua, however, suffered at first from this change in economic planning. Economic investment was coupled with liberalisation of the market, including shifting towards services, and promoting private investment and participation.

=== New Prosperity Plan ===
The [[New Prosperity Plan]] was a series of economic plans and policies to rapidly stimulate the social, political, economic, and financial growth of the nation. The immediate laws that came from it had profound effect on the economy, social wellbeing, finances, and development of Nouvelle Alexandrie. The laws passed in {{AN year|1685}} and {{AN year|1686}} created a central bank, a national minimal wage, trade unions rights and regulations, social security programs, housing programs, a national health institute, a national science institute, industrial development programs, a national program for infrastructure development, food security regulations, the national tax system, and and environmental protection programs.

The national program for infrastructure saw the creation of a highway network, national railway network, and civil works ranging from governance to airports and power plants, as well as the national system of parks. Local networks such as metros, tramways, and commuter lines, were also accomplished. Beyond that, four culture projects invested in media, sports, and culture.

The Plan was finished as part of three Five Year Plans, between {{AN year|1685}} and {{AN year|1701}}, when it was regionalized in favor of regional economic planning. The plan gained favor from economists and the population due to the rapid expansion of transport links, new civil works and culture, and energy production. But there was criticism as well: many bankers saw the federal debt growing fast, which gave rise to high budget deficits and borrowing needs. Economists saw the problem with fitting the Plan into the market economy that Nouvelle Alexandrie was pursuing, especially concerning free enterprise and economic liberties for the population. Politicians, on the other hand, berated the growth of federal government to administer the Plan, as well as the extensive expansion of bureaucracy and administrative capacity.

=== Recession of 1709 ===
{{Main|Recession of 1709}}
In {{AN year|1709}}, the economy of Nouvelle Alexandrie, along with many allies in the [[Raspur Pact]], such as neighbor [[Constancia]] and [[Ransenar]], suffered from a spike in inflation, brought about by the [[Division of the Natopian Empire]]. Economic uncertainty, falling supply chains and manufacturing capacity, and the aftermath of the [[Great Vanic Revolt]] led to a shrinking of economies GDP fell in successive quarters. The results where consumer good and foodstuffs shortages, which drove further inflation, and harmed tax incomes, leading to higher deficits. The Nouvelle Alexandrie economy was heavily interconnected through the Raspur Pact, but also the [[Community of Goldfield]] and the [[Euran Economic Union]].

The recession lasted for only 13 months, but had profound impact on the economy, ending a long period of expansion and growth. The most affected sectors were tourism, retail, transport, housing, manufacturing, and finances. By {{AN year|1711}}, when the Natopian division was cleared, and infrastructure projects such as the Alduria High Speed Line and the [[Santander Railway Corporation|SRC]] Potosí Line, along with the Cárdenas-Potosí Highway, created new economic recovery. Coupled with investments and financial reforms, especially the currency reform in {{AN year|1711}}, the economy grew and unemployment fell steadily from {{AN year|1712}} onwards.

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=== Recovery and economic boom ===

=== Economic development ===

=== Recession of 1726 ===
{{Main|Recession of 1726}}

==Data==
{{Main|Economic Data of Nouvelle Alexandrie}}
The quarterly figures are published in the National Economic Journal, released as a section of each year's [[NBC Newsfeed]]. The full set of published dashboards is listed below.

{{NAXEconomicDashboardList}}
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+GDP and Workforce ({{AN year|1715}})
! colspan="3" |Primary Sector
|-
!Subsector
!% of total production
!% of workforce
|-
|Agriculture
|3.5%
|9.2%
|-
|Fishery
|1.5%
|3.7%
|-
|Logging
|1%
|2.4%
|-
|Mining
|3.6%
|8.1%
|-
|Petrochemical
|4%
|5.5%
|-
! colspan="3" |Secondary Sector
|-
|Chemicals
|2.2%
|1.9%
|-
|Construction
|5.6%
|5.7%
|-
|Consumer Goods
|5.8%
|6.3%
|-
|Heavy Industry
|2.1%
|1.9%
|-
|Metallurgy
|3.8%
|4.8%
|-
|Textiles
|2.3%
|2.2%
|-
! colspan="3" |Tertiary Sector
|-
|Business
|22.1%
|23.4%
|-
|Commerce
|9.4%
|11.3%
|-
|Communications
|2.3%
|1.6%
|-
|Social Services
|6.2%
|2.2%
|-
|Tourism
|5.5%
|4.9%
|-
|Transport
|5.1%
|4.8%
|-
|Utilities
|0.5%
|1.2%
|-
|Other Services
|3%
|0.8%
|}
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+GDP Growth
!Financial Year
!GDP (NAX écu)
!Growth rate (average where applicable)
|-
|{{AN year|1685}}
|€ 4,823,657,131,051
|N/A
|-
|{{AN year|1690}}
|€ 5,470,075,731,084
|2.5%
|-
|{{AN year|1695}}
|€ 6,540,058,829,207
|3.5%
|-
|{{AN year|1700}}
|€ 7,842,844,106,844
|3.6%
|-
|{{AN year|1705}}
|€ 9,502,248,609,577
|3.8%
|-
|{{AN year|1708}}
|€ 10,012,352,825,658
|0.4%
|-
|{{AN year|1709}}
|€ 9,681,945,182,411
| -3.3%
|-
|{{AN year|1710}}
|€ 9,430,214,607,668
| -2.6%
|-
|{{AN year|1711}}
|€ 9,383,063,534,630
| -0.5%
|-
|{{AN year|1715}}
|€ 10,165,889,312,563
|1.5%
|-
|{{AN year|1718}}
|€ 10,958,168,912,727
|2.5%
|}
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+Unemployment Figures
!Financial Year
!% of unemployment
|-
|{{AN year|1685}}
|9.2%
|-
|{{AN year|1690}}
|8.5%
|-
|{{AN year|1695}}
|9.1%
|-
|{{AN year|1700}}
|8.8%
|-
|{{AN year|1705}}
|7.3%
|-
|{{AN year|1708}}
|7.4%
|-
|{{AN year|1709}}
|13.1%
|-
|{{AN year|1710}}
|11.3%
|-
|{{AN year|1711}}
|9.6%
|-
|{{AN year|1715}}
|7.8%
|}

==Sectors==

=== Primary Sector ===

==== Agriculture and Fishery ====
The farming and fishing production of Nouvelle Alexandrie has been strong since its creation. Owing to fertile lands in Keltia, as well as the Islands economic dependency on fishing, agriculture and fishing remains a big part of the national GDP, at 6%, while employing about 13% of the entire population. Farming in Nouvelle Alexandrie is highly efficient: in Wechua and Santander, land consolidation started happening in {{AN year|1690}}, along with mechanisation. In terms of livestock farming, it has been illegal since {{AN year|1700}} to have battery cages and factory farms.

The most produced crop in agriculture are cereal grains: Wheat takes up about 30% of all farms, with Rice at 20%, and other grains take up 10%. About 15% of all farms are fruit farms, including greenhouses. 10% of farms are dedicated to vegetables; potatoes foremost. 10% of farms are dedicated to textiles, such as cotton, flax, jute, and hemp. Tobacco is also farmed, with more than 2% of farms dedicated to it. 3% of farms are dedicated to floriculture. In terms of consumption: about 35% of all farms are solely dedicated to the production of animal feed, with the other 65% for human consumption.

In livestock farming, almost 30% of farms are dedicated to Cattle; 25% to Poultry (of which 85% Chicken); 20% to Pigs; 15% to Sheep; and 10% to other animals, such as goats, llamas, and horses.

Fishing is a major economic force of the economy of the Islands. For example, it employs almost 25% of all people of the [[Islas de la Libertad]]. Crustacean fishing is also big on the islands, especially in [[South Lyrica]].
{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|[[Agrifoods]]
|Lucas Val
|Animal Feed Processor
|-
|[[Fertix]]
|Xavier Escudero
|Fertilizer Producer
|-
|[[FarmVitality]]
|Fernando Ariza
|Soil Researcher
|}

==== Mining ====

===== Mineral Mining =====
Nouvelle Alexandrie has mountain ranges that have been the source of multiple minerals. Especially in Keltia, the Chinchaysuyu Mountains have been a source for banded iron formations, which is used to extract iron ore. At the same time, the Junín Coal Field is the largest source of coal in the country. The Kuntisuyu Mountains are the main source of marble and quarrying. There is Quartzite mining in Alduria, which is the biggest source of Silicon. In [[Santander]], there are large clay and shale mining around Rosselló. Potash mining has declined, but is mostly present in Bassumorto. Lastly, pearl hunting is done on the [[Islas de la Libertad]], while minor Gold mining exists on [[New Luthoria]]. The largest export of minerals is in Iron, which is a major income source from predominantly [[Raspur Pact]] allies. The [[Euran Economic Union]] allies are also a major partner for Silicon trading.

===== Uranium Mining =====
There exists a minor uranium mining operation in [[South Lyrica]], where the only source of Uranium in the Federation is found. In accordance with laws and foreign policies, trade has been limited to [[Raspur Pact]] allies.

==== Oil & Gas Mining ====
The largest land oil reserves are in Lyrica, where the Montchèry and Llactapata Oil Fields produce more than 30% of all oil. The Huichajanca Oil Field in Wechua is the main producer on Keltia, while the Amapola and Tudela Fields are the land oil extraction sites in Eura. But the bulk of oil production lies in offshore installations: on the Alduria coast, there are 5 sea oil field operations, while on the Keltia coast, there are 3, and at [[New Luthoria]], there are 2. Nouvelle Alexandrie is one of the biggest exporters of oil in the world. More than 40% of all oil exports are however reserved to [[Raspur Pact]] allies.

Natural Gas is also present, most dominantly in the Chambéry Gas Field in Valencia. But like oil, gas extraction is done mostly on sea. Nouvelle Alexandrie is a net natural gas exporter.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|[[Ferronix]]
|Antia Biel
|Iron Ore Miner
|-
|[[Sillicogem]]
|Sergio Valderas
|Silicon Miner
|-
|[[Cardinal Stone Works]]
|Jose Manuel Melero
|Quarrier and Marble-maker
|-
|[[National Uranium Mining Corporation]]
|[[Department of Energy and Environment (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Energy and Environment]]
|Uranium Mining
|-
|[[Aldurian Oil Company]]
|Andres Gálvez
|Oil Company
|-
|[[WechuGas]]
|Jaime Benítez
|Gas Company
|}

==== Forestry ====
The Logging industry in Nouvelle Alexandrie is modest, mostly concentrated in [[Santander]]. It is mostly planned forestry and mechanized, with conifers and hardwood as the primary product. Bosque Balderas, near [[Ciudad Real]], is the largest source of timber in the nation.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable Enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|Balderas Guardabosque
|Xavier Labrador
|Timer Maker
|}

=== Secondary Sector ===

==== Textiles ====
The textile industry is one of the major exports of Nouvelle Alexandrie. It is concentrated and mostly automated, with an increasing emphasis on synthetic textiles, owing to oil production. It is notable that women form a larger part of the textile workforce than the national average: this is a remnant of homespun textile production.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|Fiberwave
|Triana Catalá
|Textile Producer
|-
|Silkpeak
|Amanda Conde-Rey
|Textile Producer
|}

==== Consumer Goods ====
The general industry is a major contributor to the economy, with production ranging from cosmetics to electronics. The industry is one of the few heavy industry remaining in the country, however it is slowly being automatized. The sector is highly diverse, with important production in medical equipment as well. Food and drink processing is a further branch; the [[Soft drink industry of Nouvelle Alexandrie|soft drink industry]] alone employed about 38,000 people directly in {{AN|1759}}.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Layout of consumer goods sectors
! colspan="2" |Sector
!% of total production
!% of total workforce
|-
| rowspan="4" |Durable
|Appliances
|28%
|15%
|-
|Electronics
|22%
|20%
|-
|Furniture
|10%
|11%
|-
|Medical Equipment
|14%
|4%
|-
| rowspan="4" |Non-durable
|Cleaning Products
|5%
|8%
|-
|Cosmetics
|10%
|10%
|-
|Hygiene Supplies
|8%
|10%
|-
|Office & School Supplies
|3%
|12%
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|[[Dishwire]]
|Marc Carreiro
|Kitchen Appliances
|-
|Cleancycle
|Cristina Monte
|Washing Appliances
|-
|[[CyberAlexis Systems]]
|Erik Peña
|Computers & Software Developer
|-
|MobileZen
|Ibai Lagos
|Consumer Electronics Maker
|-
|Prodigitech
|Mario Valdueza
|Computer Builder
|-
|Falcon Creek
|Joan Acin
|Furniture Maker
|-
|Red Cedar
|Thiago Castellano
|Furniture Maker
|-
|Pationic
|Cesar Alguacil
|Medical Equipment Maker
|-
|Sanic
|Ana Santolaria
|Medical Equipment Maker
|-
|Qualime
|Bruno Artigas
|Cleaning Products Maker
|-
|Herbell
|Miguel Herbell
|Perfume Maker
|-
|Florisle
|Kevin Hidalgo
|Cosmetics Maker
|-
|Jewella
|Beatriz Burgos
|Cosmetics Maker
|-
|Conmone
|Manuela Bolea
|Hygienic Products Maker
|-
|Officeche
|Juan Ferreiro
|Office Supplies Maker
|-
|Educatic
|Patricia Bolea
|School Supplies Maker
|}

=== Metallurgy ===
Due to the availability of metals and coal, the production of steel and other alloys is a major part of the manufacturing business in Nouvelle Alexandrie. Of these, Steel and Aluminium production are foremost. The metal industry supplies other sectors such as consumer goods and heavy industry as well. It is highly specialized and automatized, employing only 14% of the secondary sector workforce while contributing more than 35% of the GDP output in manufacturing.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|Metalfy
|Samuel Briones
|Steel & Alloy Maker
|-
|Puranno
|Juan Carlos Madrid
|Alloy Maker
|-
|Horizon Aluminium
|Miguel Vergara
|Aluminium Maker
|}

=== Chemicals ===
The production of medicines and other chemicals, such as polymers, fertilizers, pesticides, paints, acids, additives, flavors, and fragnances is a considerable industry in Nouvelle Alexandrie. Despite having low economic power and being mostly automatized, it performs key industrial functions for much of the other sectors, including manufacturing.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|Chemivon
|Javier Llopis
|Fertilizers & Pesticides Maker
|-
|Proxima
|Isabella Aragón
|Polymers Maker
|-
|Chroma Lab Co.
|Valeria Merino
|Additives & Flavors Maker
|-
|Cemcero
|Irene Encanto
|Paint & Pigments Maker
|-
|Chemplex
|Jorge Saldaña
|Acids & Bases Maker
|-
|[[Aldurian Pharmaceuticals]]
|Manuel Tejero
|Pharmaceutical Company
|-
|[[Farmacéutica del Ande]]
|Dr. Jean-Luc Dubois
|Pharmaceutical Company
|-
|[[Innocare Pharma]]
|Diana Cueva
|Pharmaceutical Company
|-
|[[Viracocha Biotech]]
|Matias Méndez-Arán
|Pharmaceutical Company
|}

==== Construction ====
The construction sector has been a large part of the economy, through the [[New Prosperity Plan]] and in the aftermath of the [[Recession of 1709]]. The construction sector is somewhat more regulated than other sectors, with the major state-owned company [[National Construction Corporation]] dominating projects in several sectors, such as railways.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|[[National Construction Corporation]]
|[[Department of Civil Works and Transportation (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Civil Works and Transportation]]
|Construction Company
|-
|[[ESB Construction]]
|[[Esmeralda al-Osman]]
|Construction Company
|-
|[[Parap Construction and Engineering]]
|Adrian Escrivá
|Construction Company
|-
|[[Whitmore & Sons]]
|Edmund Whitmore
|Construction Company
|-
|[[LaFleur Construction]]
|Mathieu LaFleur
|Construction Company
|-
|[[Lyrican Development Corporation]]
|Gabriel Gallardo
|Construction Company
|-
|[[Cardenas Construction Corp.]]
|Louise Valverde
|Construction Company
|-
|[[Construcciones Meridiano S.A.]]
|Lucía Meridiano Vásquez
|Construction Company
|}

==== Settlement companies and property developers ====
{{See also|Chartered settlement companies (Nouvelle Alexandrie)}}

==== Heavy Industry ====
The Heavy Industry encompasses large and complex industrial processes, such as ship manufacturing, the automotive industry, machine tools, and aerospace manufacturing. In Nouvelle Alexandrie, the machine industry is the largest of these, while ship manufacturing, as a major naval nation, is also important for the economy. Both the Aerospace and Shipbuilding industries have large parts controlled by the government, mostly pertaining to defense manufacturing.
{| class="wikitable"
!Sector
!% of total production
!% of total workforce
|-
|Aerospace
|16%
|18%
|-
|Automotive
|15%
|20%
|-
|Machine Tools
|47%
|35%
|-
|Shipbuilding
|22%
|27%
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|[[Javelin Industries]]
|Alfonso Torrente
|Aerospace & Defense Manufacturer
|-
|[[Ahvaz Automotive Engineering Company]]
|[[Katja Magda Thorgilsdottir]]
|Automotive Producer
|-
|[[Aldurian Motor Company]]
|Ignacio Fidalgo
|Automotive Producer
|-
|[[Tudela Motor Company]]
|Mehran Nazeri
|Automotive Producer
|-
|Farmaker
|Maria Jose Prado
|Machine Tools Producer
|-
|M-Tools
|Eva Domínguez
|Machine Tools Producer
|-
|Boss Build
|Miguel Biescas
|Machine Tools Producer
|-
|[[Pontecorvo Firm]]
|Adam Linares
|Shipbuilder
|-
|[[ESB Armada]]
|Abril Cantero
|Shipbuilder
|-
|[[FBP]]
|David Collado
|Defense Manufacturer
|-
|[[Rimarima Armaments]]
|John Martinez
|Defense Manufacturer
|}

=== Tertiary Industry ===

==== Transportation ====
The transportation sector is a major part of the economy. As a major naval nation, much transport is done by airplane and ships. Beyond that, Nouvelle Alexandrie has an extensive highway network, part of the [[Pan-Euran Highway]] and [[Pan-Keltian Highway]], and a [[Rail transport in Nouvelle Alexandrie|national rail network]] with freight lines and high-speed track.
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Type of transportation
!% of total transports
|-
|Road
|45%
|-
|Rail
|22%
|-
|Air
|15%
|-
|Water
|18%
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|Heline Cargo
|Luis Pastor
|Truck Transporter
|-
|Paravel
|Marcos Colina-Alcaie
|Truck Transporter
|-
|[[Nouvelle Alexandrie Railways]] Freight
|Guillaume Vaca
|Freightliner
|-
|[[Santander Railway Corporation]]
|Angelito Falcone
|Freightliner
|-
|T-Cargo Air
|Alberto Escudero
|Air Cargo Transporter
|-
|Aerose
|Zoe Anglés
|Air Cargo Transporter
|-
|Skycargo Inc.
|Omar Ramos
|Air Cargo Transporter
|-
|[[Kerularios & Company]]
|Cristian Peris
|Ship Cargo Transporter
|-
|T-Cargo Sea
|Alberto Escudero
|Ship Cargo Transporter
|}

==== Communications ====
The Telecommunications sector connects the nation together. Due to its geography, the country depends on its national television, radio, and telephony networks. It has however, only modest economic power and employs some of the smallest workforces in the nation. The main broadcaster, NBC, is publicly owned. It is however an important connection for other sectors in the economy.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|[[National Broadcasting Corporation (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|National Broadcasting Corporation]]
|[[Department of Communications (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Communications]]
|Television & Radio Service
|-
|[[Central Broadcasting Company (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Central Broadcasting Company]]
|[[ESB Media]]
|Television & Radio Service
|-
|[[AlexTV Corp]]
|Geraldo Capon
|Television & Radio Service
|-
|[[NAXConnect]]
|[[Sarbanes-Lopez CyberSecurity]]
|Internet Provider
|-
|[[Larousse Publishing Corporation]]
|Rufio Trevisan
|Newspaper & Books Publisher
|-
|[[Aldurian Publishing Group]]
|Sara Maldonado
|Newspaper & Books Publisher
|-
|[[Cárdenas News Group]]
|Dominga Moreau
|Newspaper Publisher
|}

==== Tourism ====
Tourist services and cultural venues are a growing part of the economy in Nouvelle Alexandrie, being as large as the transport sector in terms of GDP contribution and workforce. The market economy of the nation has led to many small and large tourism businesses growing around the natural beauty of the Islands and the cultural heritage of Alduria and Wechua.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|[[Scouter Travel]]
|Jose Luis Sastre
|Travel Agency
|-
|[[Cititour]]
|Santiago Artigas
|Travel Agency
|-
|[[Paloma Hotels]]
|Cristina Panicucco
|Hotel Chain
|-
|[[HotelBev]]
|Felix Cocci
|Hospitality and Beverage Company
|-
|[[Raymon Hotels]]
|Hernan Raymon
|Hotel Chain
|-
|[[Aldurian Cruises]]
|Jorge Betances de Seda
|Holiday Cruises
|-
|[[Ocean Summit Cruises]]
|Alexander Botín
|Holiday Cruises
|}

==== Energy ====
The energy sector of Nouvelle Alexandrie is mostly devolved, with regional governments in charge of generation decisions. Renewable sources supplied about 35% of national demand in {{AN|1758}}, up from 24% in {{AN|1724}}. Much of the growth came from projects coordinated by the [[Renewable Energy Development Authority]]: the [[Sachua Arequibo Offshore Wind Farm]] off the coast of the [[Islas de la Libertad]], the four offshore wind farms of the [[Lyrican Renewable Energy Grid]], and the modernization of the [[Nouradin Hydroproject]], operated by [[Électricité d'Aldurie-Wechua]], the Federation's largest public electric utility. The accession of [[Oportia]] in {{AN|1755}} added its substantial solar capacity to the national mix. Under the [[Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection Act, 1719]], the [[Department of Energy and Environment (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Energy and Environment]] maintains a national renewable energy target, set at an advisory 20% soon after the Act's passage and, as of {{AN|1758}}, never revised.

Federal investment has leaned toward nuclear power. The [[Alexandrium Power Grid Modernization Act, 1745]] financed a decade of grid modernization that cut transmission losses below 2%, deployed 50 GWh of grid-scale storage, and brought the [[National Energy Commission (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|National Energy Commission]]'s [[Alexandrium]] microreactors to about 15% of national baseload generation by {{AN|1755}}. Under the [[Cascade Reactor Deployment Act, 1757]], retiring plants are exchanged for [[Alexandrium Cascade Reactor]]s, a design certified for commercial use in {{AN|1755}} that won its first foreign order in {{AN|1757}}, for [[Anglien]]'s [[Aquaria Nuclear Generating Station]]. A Cascade unit needs far less fuel than the designs it replaces, an 87% efficiency gain expected to slow the growth of Alexandrium consumption in the energy sector; on the design's certification the [[Institute for Strategic Studies]] extended its [[Peak Alexandrium|projected horizon]] for the exhaustion of the Federation's reserves from about {{AN|1795}} to past {{AN|1850}}. The fossil share of the mix fell from roughly 71% in {{AN|1715}} to 43% in {{AN|1758}}, with natural gas remaining the largest single source. In terms of economic power, energy makes the smallest GDP contribution of any tertiary subsector and employs one of its smallest workforces.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Energy mix ({{AN year|1758}})
! colspan="2" |Source
!% of energy mix
!Total production ({{AN year|1758}})
|-
| rowspan="4" |Renewable
|Wind Energy
|12.5%
|6,490 TWh
|-
|Solar Energy
|7.8%
|4,050 TWh
|-
|Hydroelectricity
|13.2%
|6,850 TWh
|-
|Geothermal
|1.5%
|780 TWh
|-
| rowspan="3" |Non-fossil
|Alexandrium Microreactors
|11.8%
|6,120 TWh
|-
|Nuclear (Uranium)
|9.6%
|4,980 TWh
|-
|Biomass
|0.6%
|310 TWh
|-
| rowspan="3" |Fossil
|Oil
|11.6%
|6,020 TWh
|-
|Natural Gas
|30.8%
|15,990 TWh
|-
|Coal
|0.6%
|310 TWh
|}

==Currency==
==Infrastructure==
The nation of Nouvelle Alexandrie has an extensive network of roads, railways, airports, and harbors:

* [[Pan-Keltian Highway]]
* [[Pan-Euran Highway]]
* [[National Tampu System]]
* [[Wechua Nation|Qhapaq Nan]]
* [[Rail transport in Nouvelle Alexandrie|National Rail Network]]
* [[Cárdenas International Airport]]
* [[Punta Santiago International Airport]]
* [[Parap International Airport]]
* [[Cárdenas Metro]]
* [[Punta Santiago Metro]]
* [[Parap MetroRail System]]
* [[Port of Jirishanca]]

==Foreign trade and investment==
==Issues==
[[Category:Economy of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
[[Category:Economy]]
[[Category:Agriculture of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]

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{{Infobox
|name = Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves
|title = Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves
|image = [[File:GoncalvesPremierKing1759NAX.png|250px]]
|caption = [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] with King [[Sinchi Roca II]] at the [[Palace of Carranza]] after being named formateur, [[Cárdenas]]. {{AN|1759}}
|header1 =
| label1 = In office
| data1 = 15.I.{{AN|1760}} to present
|header2 =
| label2 = [[Vice-President of the Government of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Vice-Premier]]
| data2 = [[Elena Svensson]] ([[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]])
|header3 =
| label3 = Preceded by
| data3 = [[Administration of Premier José Manuel Montero|José Manuel Montero]] ([[Federal Humanist Party|FHP]], {{AN|1749}}-{{AN|1760}})
|header4 =
| label4 = Party
| data4 = [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|AJNA]] ([[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|DSP]]), [[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]], [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|FCP]]
|header5 =
| label5 = Election
| data5 = [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|1759]]
|header6 =
| label6 = Seat count
| data6 = 448 of 801 seats
|header7 =
| label7 = Legislature
| data7 = [[14th Cortes Federales]]
|belowstyle =
|below =
}}
The '''Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves''' is the government of [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] formed after the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|general election of 1759]] and invested by the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] on 15.I.{{AN|1760}}. It rests on the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]], a three-party coalition of the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]], the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]], which together hold 448 of the 801 seats of the enlarged Assembly returned at that election.

It is the first government since {{AN|1739}} not led by the [[Federal Humanist Party]], and the first led by the Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie. The Alliance entered government for the first time. The Civic Governance Alliance, which had held five Secretaryships in [[José Manuel Montero|Montero]]'s coalition from {{AN|1750}},<ref name="cga1750">[[NBC Newsfeed/1750#14|"FHP and Civic Governance Alliance announce coalition government on eve of Cortes opening"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 14.I.{{AN|1750}}.</ref> and the Federal Consensus Party, out of office for many years, both returned to it.<ref name="accord">[[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759]].</ref>

[[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] came to the premiership from the [[Leader of the Opposition of Nouvelle Alexandrie|leadership of the opposition]], which he had held since {{AN|1753}}. The Government took office with the [[Recession of 1757]] still running, the emergency authorities of the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]] at the end of their statutory life, the last tranche of that Act's borrowing frozen by its own debt brake, and no appropriation in force for the new term. It also inherited two undertakings entered into before it existed: a Natopian recovery framework signed by its caretaker predecessor, and a standing diplomatic file in [[Aerla]].

== Background and formation ==
Government formation in the Federation is governed by the [[Government Formation and Coalition Act, 1694]], which makes a written coalition agreement a precondition of a coalition taking office and holds an outgoing Premier under caretaker constraint until the position is resolved.<ref name="gfca">[[Government Formation and Coalition Act, 1694]].</ref> Four months separated the election from the signing of that agreement, and the new Government was installed in the opening month of {{AN|1760}}.

=== 1759 general election ===
{{Main|New Alexandrian general election, 1759}}
[[File:NBC Roads to 401 formation 1759.png|thumb|right|280px|''The seat arithmetic of the hung Assembly. The [[Federal Humanist Party|Federal Humanists]] held 293 of the 801 seats, and the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]], [[Civic Governance Alliance|Civic Governance]] and [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Consensus]] bloc of 448 was the only majority still open. {{AN|1759}}'']]
Polling on 15 to 17.IX.{{AN|1759}}, the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|1759 general election]] was the first contested for a [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] of 801 seats, enlarged from 749 following the accession of the Region of [[Oportia]]. No party won an overall majority. The [[Federal Humanist Party]] finished first on 293 seats, 108 short of the 401 needed for a majority and 79 down on its previous return, while the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] took 260 seats and carried seven Regions to the Humanists' five. The [[Civic Governance Alliance]] recorded the largest gain of the election, rising from 10 seats to 95, and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] fell to 93. Fifty independents were returned, and the [[Republican Party of Oportia]] entered the Assembly for the first time with 10 seats.<ref name="election">[[New Alexandrian general election, 1759]].</ref>

=== Coalition negotiations ===
[[File:CoalitionAgreementSigning1759NAX.png|thumb|left|280px|''The leaders of the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]], the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] sign the coalition agreement in [[Cárdenas]]. {{AN|1759}}'']]
As leader of the largest party, [[José Manuel Montero]] was the King's first choice as formateur, charged with establishing whether he could command the confidence of the Assembly. No party held close to a majority, and no combination reaching 401 seats excluded the fifty independents. On 22.IX.{{AN|1759}} the Civic Governance Alliance ruled out entering or supporting a government led by the Federal Humanists, which removed the only combination that reached 401 with Humanist support. Montero reported to the King on 3.X.{{AN|1759}} that he could not assemble a majority, and the Crown commissioned [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] as formateur four days later.<ref name="formateur">[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#GONCALVES_NAMED_FORMATEUR|"The Crown names Gonçalves formateur"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 7.X.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

Three parties then negotiated through the closing months of {{AN|1759}} and signed the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] on 23.XIII.{{AN|1759}}. The agreement distributes the offices of the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] among them, sets out a program for government, and binds the partners on confidence, supply and the budget. Under its terms the Civic Governance Alliance takes the Treasury as the guarantor of the coalition budget, which the agreement records as its condition for joining, and the Federal Consensus Party takes the Interior and Research and Development.<ref name="accord" /> That the party of clean government should name the Treasury as its price followed from its origins: the Civic Governance Alliance was formed on 2.I.{{AN|1750}} by sixteen deputies who broke with their parties over the [[Pact of Shadows scandal]], and it has organized around anti-corruption and governance integrity ever since.

=== Government formation ===
[[File:CoalitionKingMeeting1759NAX.png|thumb|right|280px|''King [[Sinchi Roca II]] with the three coalition leaders after inviting [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] to form a government, [[Cárdenas]]. {{AN|1759}}'']]
The [[14th Cortes Federales]] opened on 12.I.{{AN|1760}} at the [[Legislative Palace of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Legislative Palace]] in [[Cárdenas]]. The Assembly's first act was to elect a Speaker. [[Orocobix Magüana]], a [[Wakara People's Party]] deputy for [[Boriquén]] who had sat with the Alliance, defeated the Federal Humanist nominee [[Alexander Melas]] of [[Valencia]] by 480 votes to 321 from 801 valid ballots. He is the first [[Wakara]] to hold the office, and relinquished his party affiliation on taking the chair as custom requires. King [[Sinchi Roca II]] then delivered the Speech from the Throne, which set out the program of the incoming Government.<ref name="opening">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_FEDERAL_ACCORD_TAKES_POWER_AS_THE_KING_OPENS_AN_ENLARGED_14TH_CORTES|"The Federal Accord takes power as the King opens an enlarged 14th Cortes"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 12.I.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

An Opening does not by itself install a government. Three days later the Assembly divided on the Address in Reply and sustained the Government by 461 votes to 293, the Accord parties carrying it, with thirteen independents, against the Federal Humanists while the ten [[Republican Party of Oportia]] deputies and the remaining thirty-seven independents withheld their votes. The House went on to elect Gonçalves [[President of the Government of Nouvelle Alexandrie|President of the Government]] and to approve the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] he laid before it. Montero, Premier since {{AN|1749}} and caretaker through the formation, took his seat as [[Leader of the Opposition of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Leader of the Opposition]].<ref name="14thcortes">[[14th Cortes Federales]].</ref>

A dockworker and labor organizer at the [[Port of Jirishanca]] in [[Santander]], Gonçalves entered the Federal Assembly in {{AN|1729}} and served as the [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Democratic Socialist Party]]'s chief whip from {{AN|1745}}, holding the caucus together through the [[Pact of Shadows scandal]] without seeking its leadership. He won that leadership in {{AN|1753}} and led the opposition for the seven years before taking office.

== Inherited position ==
The Government's opening agenda was largely set before it took office.

The [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]], a NAX€750 billion recovery package assembled by the [[Administration of Premier José Manuel Montero|Montero administration]] against the deepening of the [[Recession of 1757]], carried two limits. Article 18 set its emergency authorities to expire at the close of {{AN|1759}}, among them the work-sharing scheme, the [[National Homebuilding Drive]] and the credit guarantees, leaving the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes Federales]] to renew them, reshape them, or let them lapse.<ref name="eera">[[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]].</ref> Article 17 set a debt brake at 65 percent of GDP. Public debt stood at 67.4 percent at the close of {{AN|1759}} on the figures then published (65.9 percent after the Statistics Bureau's benchmark review of XII.{{AN|1760}}), having passed the 65 percent ceiling in the third quarter, which left the last NAX€200 billion of the Act's borrowing line undrawn and unavailable without a resolution of the Cortes Federales.<ref name="debtbrake">[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#UNEMPLOYMENT_HOLDS_AT_8_7_PERCENT_WHILE_DEBT_BRAKE_WITHHOLDS_NAX200_BILLION|"Unemployment holds at 8.7 percent while debt brake withholds NAX€200 billion"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 28.XV.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

Beyond the Act, the last enacted appropriation was the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758]], leaving no budget in force for the new term.<ref name="gata">[[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758]].</ref> The Federal Accord binds all three partners to vote for a jointly written budget drawn up under the Treasury, and requires that budget to fund every commitment in the agreement.<ref name="accord" />

The outgoing Premier also signed the [[Lindström Recovery Protocol]] as caretaker, at [[Lindström]] in [[Natopia]] on 29.XV.{{AN|1759}}. The non-binding framework scheduled NAX€320 billion of Natopian orders, a 30-tonne [[Alexandrium]] purchase at no less than NAX€2,150 a gram, and a NAX€360 billion private-capital program reaching all thirteen Regions. Natopia further offered to take up to NAX€250 billion of New Alexandrian recovery bonds left unbought by private investors, though no such bond may be issued without the authorization of the Cortes.<ref name="lindstrom">[[Lindström Recovery Protocol]].</ref> The incoming coalition objected that the final text had been approved before its transition team saw it, then undertook to honor the Protocol while reserving borrowing, bank subscriptions and regulated approvals to the competent New Alexandrian authorities.<ref name="lindstrom-accord">[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#FEDERAL_ACCORD_SAYS_LINDSTRÖM_WILL_STAND_AND_SEEKS_TO_BUILD_LASTING_INDUSTRY_FROM_THE_NATOPIAN_ORDERS|"Federal Accord says Lindström will stand and seeks to build lasting industry from the Natopian orders"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 30.XV.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

A standing diplomatic commitment passed to the Government as well. The [[Noursala Arrangement]] of 1.II.{{AN|1751}} keeps [[Martina Vásquez]], who chaired the Alliance until she fled the Federation during the [[Pact of Shadows scandal]], under indefinite house arrest in [[Noursala]] in [[Aerla]], in exchange for the withdrawal of the Federation's extradition request. Career officials entered the file and its annual cost of NAX€4.1 million on the register of standing commitments prepared for the Accord's transition office.<ref name="noursala">[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#THE_INCOMING_ACCORD_INHERITS_MARTINA_VÁSQUEZ'S_HOUSE-ARREST_FILE_AND_ITS_NAX€4.1_MILLION_ANNUAL_BILL|"The incoming Accord inherits Martina Vásquez's house-arrest file and its NAX€4.1 million annual bill"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 26.XV.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

== Program for government ==
[[File:FederalAccordLogo1759.png|thumb|left|200px|''The emblem of the Federal Accord, the coalition of the three governing parties.'']]
The program opens on the cost of living, which the Accord makes the Government's first economic charge, and pairs it with the housing commitment at the core of the Alliance's [[People's Deal]]. Alongside these the agreement undertakes to protect civil liberties under the law and to build skilled employment out of the science and technology economy.<ref name="accord" />

Clean-government reform is the charge the Accord gives to its two smaller parties. The agreement records that the reform was beaten twice under the last government, and it commits the Federal Consensus Party and the Civic Governance Alliance to bring it forward in the first session of the new Cortes, carrying independent audits of public money and real powers for the ministerial integrity office. The same section promises government time and the whips for a redrafted public-order bill, a jointly drawn budget, and policy judged by its results in line with the [[Parap Principles]].<ref name="accord" />

The public-order commitment inherits a defeat. The [[Public Order (Paramilitary and Intimidatory Displays) Act, 1759]], a private member's bill brought by the independent deputy [[Piti Gándara]] after the [[Parade of Lassos and Nooses]], fell in the [[13th Cortes Federales]] on 20.VII.{{AN|1759}} by 372 votes to 258. The Federal Consensus Party abstained; the 119 votes it withheld would have carried the bill.<ref name="publicorder">[[Public Order (Paramilitary and Intimidatory Displays) Act, 1759]].</ref> The Accord gives that same party the Interior, and the redraft with it.

On science, education and the environment the Government undertakes to revive and expand the [[Frontera Program]]; to keep the [[New National Curriculum of Nouvelle Alexandrie|New National Curriculum]] and continue funding health and education; and to raise renewable energy to 60 percent of national generation while modernizing the grid. For [[Boriquén]] the parties committed it to invest in the region; to protect the [[Wakara language]] and Wakara culture in law; and to pass the [[Plurinational Federation Constitutional Amendment Act, 1735|Plurinational Federation Constitutional Amendment Act]], which would amend the [[Proclamation of Punta Santiago]] to recognize the Federation as a union of many peoples.<ref name="accord" />

=== Speech from the Throne ===
King [[Sinchi Roca II]] presented the program to the chambers on 12.I.{{AN|1760}}, setting five priorities: the prosperity of ordinary households; integrity in public life; investment in science, skills and clean energy; the Federation as a union of many peoples; and security abroad. Of the fourth, the King said the Government would ask the Cortes to write the union of many peoples ''"plainly into the Federation's own foundations,"'' language the Accord ties to the [[Plurinational Federation Constitutional Amendment Act, 1735|Plurinational Federation Constitutional Amendment Act]]. He told the chambers: ''"We are not one people who tolerate our differences. We are many peoples who have chosen one another."'' The full text was published as the [[NBC Newsfeed/1760#Throne Speech|Throne Speech of 12.I.{{AN|1760|noAN=y|nospan=y}}]].<ref name="opening" />

== Council of State ==
{{Main|Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie}}
Gonçalves presented the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] to the Federal Assembly on 15.I.{{AN|1760}}, following the distribution of offices agreed in the Accord. The Alliance holds the premiership and the majority of departments; the Civic Governance Alliance holds the Vice-Premiership and the Treasury; the Federal Consensus Party holds the Interior and Research and Development.<ref name="accord" />

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Council of State of the Federal Accord government
! Office !! Party !! Holder
|-
| [[President of the Government of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Premier]] (President of the Government) || {{color box|#ff0000}} AJNA (DSP) || [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]]
|-
| [[Vice-President of the Government of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Vice-Premier]] || {{color box|#556B7F}} CGA || [[Elena Svensson]]
|-
| [[Department of Treasury (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Treasury]] || {{color box|#556B7F}} CGA || [[Tomás Iñiguez]]
|-
| [[Department of Interior (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Interior]] || {{color box|#9cdbf3}} FCP || [[Francisco Gabaza]]
|-
| [[Department of Research and Development (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Research and Development]] || {{color box|#9cdbf3}} FCP || [[Marisol Dávila]]
|-
| [[Department of Administrative Coordination and Efficiency (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Administrative Coordination and Efficiency]] || {{color box|#18584f}} AJNA (WPP) || [[Yuiza Bohi'o]]
|-
| [[Department of State (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|State]] || {{color box|#ff0000}} AJNA (DSP) || [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]]
|-
| [[Department of Justice (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Justice]] || {{color box|#ff0000}} AJNA (DSP) || [[Elias Marchand]]
|-
| [[Department of Defense (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Defense]] || {{color box|#ff0000}} AJNA (DSP) || [[Rafael Escalante y Durán|Rafael Escalante]]
|-
| [[Department of Energy and Environment (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Energy and Environment]] || {{color box|#ff0000}} AJNA (DSP) || [[Elena Lopez de Gautier]]
|-
| [[Department of Education, Sports, and Culture (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Education, Sports, and Culture]] || {{color box|#ff0000}} AJNA (DSP) || [[Sofia Estrada]]
|-
| [[Department of Social Security and National Solidarity (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Social Security]] || {{color box|#18584f}} AJNA (WPP) || [[Ana Yuisa Caguax]]
|-
| [[Department of Civil Works and Transportation (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Civil Works and Transportation]] || {{color box|#ff0000}} AJNA (DSP) || [[Ricardo Inti Quispe]]
|-
| [[Department of Labor (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Labor]] || {{color box|#ff0000}} AJNA (DSP) || [[Carlos Dominguez]]
|-
| [[Department for National Mobilisation (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|National Mobilisation]] || {{color box|#ff0000}} AJNA (DSP) || [[George Falkirk]]
|-
| [[Department of Trade and Industry (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Trade and Industry]] || {{color box|#ff0000}} AJNA (DSP) || [[Jacqueline Betancourt]]
|-
| [[Department of Housing and Urban Development (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Housing and Urban Development]] || {{color box|#18584f}} AJNA (WPP) || [[Mayani Guacanagari]]
|}

The Government also named two Special Counselors to the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] on its formation, [[Cao Qiang]] and [[Alfonso Rivas]], both [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] deputies for [[Alduria]]. Drawn from the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]], they sit without a departmental portfolio and advise the Council and the Premier on the Government's legislative program and on questions that cross departmental lines.<ref name="counselors">[[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]; [[Cao Qiang]]; [[Alfonso Rivas]].</ref>

== Foreign policy ==
Security abroad was the fifth of the Throne Speech's five priorities, and the Accord's written program commits the Government to continue the Federation's obligations to its [[Raspur Pact]] and [[Concord Alliance Treaty Organization|Concord Alliance]] allies, together with its involvement in the [[Micras Treaty Organization]] and other international bodies.<ref name="accord" /> The Alliance's own platform affirmed the same memberships. What it did not carry into the agreement were the conditions it had attached to them, stronger legislative oversight of war powers and a shift of emphasis toward diplomacy.<ref name="cabinet">[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#FEDERAL_ACCORD_NAMES_ITS_PROPOSED_CABINET_AS_FITZGERALD_APPOINTMENT_REOPENS_PACT_DEBATE|"Federal Accord names its proposed cabinet as Fitzgerald appointment reopens Pact debate"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 6.XIV.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

That argument remains unsettled inside the governing party, and the Council of State holds both sides of it. [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]], who moved three times as a deputy to redirect spending away from the [[Force 1752 initiative]], holds State. [[Rafael Escalante y Durán|Rafael Escalante]], a retired general identified with continuity in the Pact, holds Defense. Federal Humanist deputies read the two appointments as evidence that the coalition had not settled its foreign policy.<ref name="cabinet" />

The first foreign-policy question the Government faced was inherited rather than chosen. Unable to bind the Federation before the confidence vote, the coalition's transition office had proposed that the incoming government make the recovery orders the business of the [[Natopian-Nouvelle Alexandrie Joint Economic Council]]'s first plenary of {{AN|1760}}. Because the two nations already trade freely as [[Raspur Pact]] members, the transition note set the plenary's task as durability rather than access: turning the Natopian order flow into lasting New Alexandrian industry and investment, and settling the financing terms it had reserved to the competent New Alexandrian authorities.<ref name="lindstrom-accord" />

The plenary met in [[Cárdenas]] in III.{{AN|1760}}, where Treasury Secretary Tomás Iñiguez argued that the orders should leave plant, technology, and skilled work in the Federation after they ended.<ref name="plenary">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE ACCORD PRESSES TO TURN NATOPIA'S RECOVERY ORDERS INTO LASTING NEW ALEXANDRIAN INDUSTRY|"The Accord presses to turn Natopia's recovery orders into lasting New Alexandrian industry"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 14.III.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> The first orders window closed at the end of VIII.{{AN|1760}}.<ref name="orders2" /> On 12.IX.{{AN|1760}} the [[Bank of Saint Andre]]-led consortium opened a NAX€60 billion window for solvent regional lenders, on terms approved by the [[Federal Bank of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Bank]], with no federal guarantee and no budget line.<ref name="bankwindow">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#BANK OF SAINT ANDRE CONSORTIUM OPENS A NAX€60 BILLION WINDOW FOR THE FEDERATION'S REGIONAL LENDERS|"Bank of Saint Andre consortium opens a NAX€60 billion window for the Federation's regional lenders"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 12.IX.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> A week later the Joint Economic Council's ministerial committee, meeting in Lindström, announced a second orders window of NAX€160 billion running into early {{AN|1761}}. Iñiguez, leading the New Alexandrian delegation, asked that a larger share of the new orders go to companies manufacturing inside the Federation; the council's communiqué did not say whether the request was met.<ref name="orders2">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#NATOPIA OPENS A SECOND ORDERS WINDOW, WORTH NAX€160 BILLION, FOR NEW ALEXANDRIAN GOODS|"Natopia opens a second orders window, worth NAX€160 billion, for New Alexandrian goods"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 19.IX.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> In XIII.{{AN|1760}}, under the borrowing limit raised by the [[Supplementary Appropriation Act, 1760]], the Treasury placed its first issue of recovery bonds, worth NAX€250 billion; private investors bought NAX€150 billion and Natopia took the remaining NAX€100 billion under the backstop.<ref name="bonds">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#NATOPIA BUYS NAX€100 BILLION OF THE FEDERATION'S FIRST RECOVERY BONDS|"Natopia buys NAX€100 billion of the Federation's first recovery bonds"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 16.XIII.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

== Relations with the Cortes ==
With 448 seats the Government commands a majority of 47 over the 401 needed to carry a division, but it is a coalition majority and depends on all three partners holding together. The Federal Consensus Party undertook in the Accord to support the Government on confidence and supply for the full term of the [[14th Cortes Federales|14th Cortes]], and the three party leaders, or people they appoint, are to meet regularly to keep the program on track and to settle disagreements before they reach the floor.<ref name="accord" />

[[José Manuel Montero]] leads the opposition at the head of the 293 Federal Humanist deputies, alongside the ten deputies of the [[Republican Party of Oportia]] under [[Sofia Laurent]] and the fifty independents who sit with neither side.<ref name="opening" /> On the Address in Reply the Republican Party of Oportia abstained, as did thirty-seven of the independents, while thirteen independents crossed to support the Government.<ref name="14thcortes" /> An opposition front bench had not been named at the Government's investiture.

== Legislative agenda ==
The Government's first legislative program was a set of five bills, which the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] brought before the [[14th Cortes Federales|14th Cortes]] in the opening weeks of its first session.

* [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]], the Accord's first budget and the measure on which the rest of the program depended. It was drawn up jointly under the Treasury, and no general budget had been enacted since the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758]].
* [[National Housing Reform and Expansion Act, 1760]], carrying the housing commitment at the core of the Alliance's [[People's Deal]].
* [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]], answering the charge the Accord places first among the Government's economic undertakings.
* [[Clean Government and Elections Act, 1760]], the clean-government reform beaten twice under the last government, which the agreement charges the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] and the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] with bringing forward in the first session.
* [[Convention on Civil Aviation Accession Act, 1760]], authorizing the Federation's accession to the [[Micras Treaty Organization]]'s Convention on Civil Aviation.

All five became law in {{AN|1760}}: three over its opening months, and the civil aviation and clean-government Acts on 19 and 20.X.{{AN|1760}}.<ref>[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_ACCORD'S_CLEAN_GOVERNMENT_ACT_BECOMES_LAW,_TAKING_THE_AUDITOR_OUT_OF_THE_TREASURY_AND_COMPLETING_ITS_FIVE_OPENING_BILLS|"The Accord's Clean Government Act becomes law, taking the auditor out of the Treasury and completing its five opening bills"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 20.X.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> The budget received Royal Assent on 22.IV.{{AN|1760}}.<ref name="budgetlaw">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_ACCORD'S_FIRST_BUDGET_BECOMES_LAW_AS_THE_CORTES_CLEARS_ITS_APPROPRIATIONS_AND_TAXATION_ACT|"The Accord's first budget becomes law as the Cortes clears its Appropriations and Taxation Act"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 22.IV.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> It repealed the debt brake in Article 17 of the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758|recovery Act]], put a standing fiscal framework in its place, and left the undrawn NAX€200 billion tranche frozen, to be released only by a separate act of the Cortes.<ref name="gata1760">[[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]].</ref> The housing act followed on 8.V.{{AN|1760}} and the cost-of-living act on 10.V.{{AN|1760}}. The program was completed when the aviation accession act received Royal Assent on 19.X.{{AN|1760}} and the clean-government act on 20.X.{{AN|1760}}.<ref name="14thcortes" />

Eight further government bills have been introduced in the same Cortes, two of them alongside the first program in II.{{AN|1760}} and six from III.{{AN|1760}} onward. Five of the eight have since become law:<ref name="14thcortes" />

* [[Frontera Science and Research Act, 1760]], which puts the civilian science establishment on a statutory footing and restores the Frontera Program to its civilian character. The Assembly passed it by 474 votes to 296, with 31 abstentions, and it received Royal Assent on 6.IX.{{AN|1760}}.
* [[Improper Solicitation and Public Gifts Act, 1760]], which forbids pressing an improper request on a public official, or acting on one, even where no money changes hands, and limits the gifts an official may accept to ordinary courtesies. The Assembly passed it by 472 votes to 298, with 31 abstentions, and it received Royal Assent on 7.IX.{{AN|1760}}.
* [[Supplementary Appropriation Act, 1760]], which raised the federal borrowing limit to meet the shortfall left by lower tax receipts.<ref name="bonds" /> The Assembly passed it by 469 votes to 297, with 35 abstentions, and it received Royal Assent on 21.IX.{{AN|1760}}.
* [[Public Order and Liberties Act, 1760]], the redraft of the defeated public-order bill, banning paramilitary and intimidatory displays and private bodies organized to usurp public force, with guarantees for lawful assembly and expression. The Assembly passed it by 478 votes to 301, with 22 abstentions, and it received Royal Assent on 1.III.{{AN|1762}}.
* [[Avey Port Revenue and Joint Oversight Act, 1760]], giving legal effect to the undertakings King [[Sinchi Roca II]] announced to the [[National Assembly of Zeed]] in [[Rusjar]] during the [[Royal Goodwill Tour of 1760]]. The Assembly passed it by 658 votes to 85, with 58 abstentions, and it received Royal Assent on 23.II.{{AN|1762}}.

The other three are before the Assembly:

* [[Public Diplomacy Act, 1760]], placing the Federation's outreach to foreign publics under a five-year master plan, a coordinating council, and a fund audited by the [[Federal Audit Office of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Audit Office]].
* [[Authentication of Public Documents Act, 1760]], creating a single certificate that vouches for the signature and seal on a New Alexandrian document used abroad, and providing for the recognition of foreign documents at home.
* [[Fair Work and Employment Standards Act, 1760]], which for the first time in statute limits the working week and protects employees against unfair dismissal, and puts the sectoral wage boards piloted under the budget on a permanent footing.

== See also ==
* [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]]
* [[Elena Svensson]]
* [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759]]
* [[14th Cortes Federales]]
* [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759]]
* [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
* [[Government formation in Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
* [[Government and politics of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
* [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
* [[Administration of Premier José Manuel Montero]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Government of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
[[Category:Politics of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
[[Category:Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
[[Category:14th Cortes Federales]]

Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758

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{{Nouvelle Alexandrie Article}}
{{NAXLegislation
| short_title = Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758
| parliament = 13th Cortes Federales
| long_title = ''An Act to make comprehensive supplementary provision for the operation of the Government of the Federation of Nouvelle Alexandrie in response to the deepening of the Recession of 1757; to protect employment through work-sharing, short-time support, and retraining; to establish a National Homebuilding Drive; to support the formation of families and households; to provide for tripartite recovery pacts, credit guarantees, and a regional recovery compact; to accelerate economic diversification and to put a strategic floor under the price of Alexandrium; to authorize borrowing, to provide for a debt-brake, and to fix the expiry of the emergency authorities at the close of 1759; among other purposes.''
| bill_number = FA-1758-14
| introduced_by = The [[Council of State (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Council of State]] (Government of Premier [[José Manuel Montero]])
| Extent = Entire Federation of Nouvelle Alexandrie
| royal_assent = 2.V.{{AN|1759}}
| commencement = 2.V.{{AN|1759}}
| status = Amended
| amendments = [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]] (repealed Article 17)
| related_legislation = {{unbulleted list|[[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758]]|[[Alexandrium Sustainability and Strategic Management Act, 1750]]|[[Aldurian Economic Diversification and Recovery Act, 1755]]|[[National Skills and Technical Education Act, 1757]]|[[Housing Justice Act, 1757]]|[[National Resilience Fund Establishment Act, 1758]]|[[National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]|[[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]]|[[National Housing Reform and Expansion Act, 1760]]}}
}}
The '''Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758''' ([[Alexandrian language|Alexandrian]]: ''Loi d'urgence et de redressement économique, 1758''; [[Martino language|Martino]]: ''Ley de Emergencia y Recuperación Económica, 1758'') is a law of [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] that makes comprehensive supplementary provision in response to the deepening of the [[Recession of 1757]] at the close of {{AN|1758}}. It provides a recovery package of NAX€750 billion, supplementary to the enacted [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758]], and its emergency authorities ran through the election year {{AN|1759}} and expired at its close. The Treasury financed two NAX€200 billion tranches of the direct appropriation before the Act's debt-brake halted the third, and the brake was repealed by the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]].

The legislation was introduced by the [[Council of State (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Council of State]] of Premier [[José Manuel Montero]] on 6.XV.{{AN|1758}} and tabled by [[Department of Treasury (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Treasury Secretary]] [[Warren Ferdinand]]. The [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] passed it on 1.V.{{AN|1759}} by 731 votes to 18, with no abstentions; the [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]] passed it without division the same day, and King [[Sinchi Roca II]] granted Royal Assent on 2.V.{{AN|1759}}. It came into force that day.<ref name="eera-passage">[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#THE ASSEMBLY CARRIES THE NAX€750 BILLION RECOVERY ACT 731 TO 18 AS THE OPPOSITION VOTES YES AND CALLS IT LATE|"The Assembly carries the NAX€750 billion Recovery Act 731 to 18"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 2.V.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

The package is built in two layers. A direct appropriation of NAX€600 billion, financed by borrowing, funds employment protection, a [[National Homebuilding Drive]], support for families, and the recovery of the producing Regions. Around it, a further NAX€150 billion is committed as credit guarantees and tax deferrals: instruments that call on the Treasury only in the event of default, or defer rather than forgo revenue, and so add to the package's reach without adding to the borrowing. The Government presented the measure as a large but temporary recovery package; tabling it, Ferdinand said that all of the borrowing would stay under parliamentary control, bounded by a debt-brake and an expiry date.<ref name="eera-tabling">[[NBC Newsfeed/1758#NAX€750 BILLION TO FIGHT THE RECESSION, MOST OF IT BORROWED|"NAX€750 billion to fight the recession, most of it borrowed"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 6.XV.{{AN|1758}}.</ref>

The measure is written on corporatist lines. Its central instrument is a scheme of [[wikipedia:Job sharing|work-sharing]] and short-time support, under which the Federation tops up the wages of workers whose hours are cut so that firms carrying idle capacity through the downturn shorten hours and keep their workers, with the idle hours turned to training under federal programs, including the [[National Skills and Technical Education Act, 1757]]. Beside it the Act builds homes, supports young families, concludes tripartite recovery pacts between the producer chambers, the unions, and the state, and ties the regional backstop to a reciprocal compact under which a Region receiving federal support brings its own chambers and reserves to the table. The whole is placed under a debt-brake and a sunset at the close of {{AN|1759}}, and draws nothing from the Federation's reserves.

==Background==
{{Main|Recession of 1757}}
The recession began with the collapse in the export price of [[Alexandrium]] known as the [[1757 Alexandrium market crash|Glut of {{AN|1757|noAN=y|nospan=y}}]]. Across {{AN|1757}} new supply from [[Constancia]], [[Suren]], the central [[Eura]] deposits, and [[Oportia]] outran demand as production discipline frayed among the members of the [[Euran Alexandrium Coordination Organization]] (EACO), and the price broke on 5.XII.{{AN|1757}}, falling from NAX€2,798.50 to NAX€2,117 a gram, about a quarter below the NAX€2,900 at which it had opened the year.<ref name="dash1757xii">[[NBC Newsfeed/1757#Nouvelle_Alexandrie_Economic_Dashboard_(Month_XII,_1757)|"Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month XII, 1757)"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 28.XII.{{AN|1757}}.</ref><ref name="dash1757iv">[[NBC Newsfeed/1757#Nouvelle_Alexandrie_Economic_Dashboard_(Month_IV,_1757)|"Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month IV, 1757)"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 28.IV.{{AN|1757}}.</ref> Because the [[Unified Alexandrium Resource Authority]] levy of NAX€65 a gram is charged on weight rather than price, its yield held up,<ref name="forecast-1757">[[NBC Newsfeed/1757#TREASURY'S REVISED FORECAST BOOKS A NAX€55 BILLION HOLE IN NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET; THE CRASH BECOMES A FISCAL PROBLEM|"Treasury's revised forecast books a NAX€55 billion hole in next year's budget"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 12.XIII.{{AN|1757}}.</ref> cushioning the fall in headline Alexandrium revenue.<ref name="dash1757xii" /> Most of that revenue, however, is indexed to value rather than weight,<ref name="forecast-1757" /> and by the twelfth month federal receipts from the mineral were about 27 percent below their level at the start of the year.<ref name="dash1757xii" />

Because raw extraction is a small share of output, the shock reached the wider economy chiefly through a collapse of confidence and through financial stress.<ref name="dash1757xii" /> The fragility of the [[Caisse Régionale de l'Alduria]] amplified it: the regional lender, the one lender publicly named in the [[PBS banking crisis, 1753-1754|property-backed securities crisis of the early 1750s]], had come under the [[Federal Bank of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Bank]]'s enhanced supervision on 29.VI.{{AN|1757}} as arrears rose in its mortgage book across [[Alduria]] and the [[Wechua Nation]].<ref name="caisse-1757">[[NBC Newsfeed/1757#FEDERAL BANK FLAGS ITS OLD PROBLEM LENDER FOR ENHANCED SUPERVISION AS ALDURIAN MORTGAGE ARREARS CLIMB|"Federal Bank flags its old problem lender for enhanced supervision as Aldurian mortgage arrears climb"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 29.VI.{{AN|1757}}.</ref> The Federal Bank placed the Caisse under mandatory intervention on 26.V.{{AN|1758}},<ref name="caisse-1758-intervention">[[NBC Newsfeed/1758#THE FEDERAL BANK INTERVENES AT THE CAISSE RÉGIONALE AND RULES OUT A SECOND RESCUE|"The Federal Bank intervenes at the Caisse Régionale and rules out a second rescue"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 26.V.{{AN|1758}}.</ref> and on 26.VIII.{{AN|1758}} announced that [[Quipu Bank]] would take over its deposits and performing loans and that the cooperative would be dissolved as a mutual.<ref name="caisse-1758-sale">[[NBC Newsfeed/1758#THE CAISSE RÉGIONALE IS SOLD TO QUIPU BANK AT THE NINETY-DAY MARK, ITS DEPOSITS KEPT WHOLE AND ITS MUTUAL ENDED|"The Caisse Régionale is sold to Quipu Bank at the ninety-day mark"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 26.VIII.{{AN|1758}}.</ref>

The [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758]], the revised federal budget tabled by Ferdinand and passed by the Federal Assembly on 1.IV.{{AN|1758}} by 503 votes to 216,<ref name="discord-gata-final-division">Federal Assembly division on the General Appropriations and Taxation Act, {{AN|1758}}, 1.IV.{{AN|1758}}, [https://discord.com/channels/932832788615426148/932833861942009866/1526294621628534824 Discord].</ref> met the first year of the downturn. It protected the producing Regions rather than cutting into them, accelerated the diversification program of the [[Aldurian Economic Diversification and Recovery Act, 1755]], which commits twelve percent of federal Alexandrium revenue to non-resource investment and guarantees retraining to workers displaced from the sector, drew NAX€220 billion from the [[National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie|National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund]] under the [[Counter-Cyclical Stabilization Mechanism]], and financed the remainder of the deficit by borrowing. It was built on the Treasury's assumption that the economy would contract by about two percent in {{AN|1758}} with unemployment rising toward nine percent, and that the Alexandrium price would hold near the reference floor of NAX€2,150 a gram that EACO had adopted at [[Fontainebleau]] on 24.XIII.{{AN|1757}}.<ref name="eaco">[[NBC Newsfeed/1757#EACO SETS A FLOOR UNDER ALEXANDRIUM AT FONTAINEBLEAU; THE FOUR PRODUCERS AGREE TO HOLD THE PRICE, NOT TO LIFT IT|"EACO sets a floor under Alexandrium at Fontainebleau"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 24.XIII.{{AN|1757}}.</ref>

That reading held through the first three quarters and broke in the fourth. The Fontainebleau floor had been agreed as a guideline rather than as a binding cartel discipline, and in the closing quarter of {{AN|1758}} it gave way; the Alexandrium price slid again to below NAX€2,000 a gram, confidence fell with it, and the regional shock became a national contraction of demand.<ref name="dash1758xv">[[NBC Newsfeed/1758#Nouvelle_Alexandrie_Economic_Dashboard_(Month_XV,_1758)|"Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month XV, 1758)"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 28.XV.{{AN|1758}}.</ref><ref name="eera-tabling" /> The budget's price assumption had failed, but its other forecasts held: unemployment rose from 6.5 percent at the start of the year to 7.6 percent at its close,<ref name="dash1758iv">[[NBC Newsfeed/1758#Nouvelle_Alexandrie_Economic_Dashboard_(Month_IV,_1758)|"Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month IV, 1758)"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 28.IV.{{AN|1758}}.</ref><ref name="dash1758xv" /> below the level the budget assumed, and the contraction remained within its forecast.<ref name="eera-tabling" /> The Government judged that the broken floor called for a second and larger intervention and brought this bill forward in the final weeks of {{AN|1758}}.

==Key provisions==
The Act is a supplementary measure. It leaves the tax settlement of the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758]] untouched, imposes no new tax and raises none, and adds its provisions to the enacted budget rather than replacing it. The package totals NAX€750 billion: a direct appropriation of NAX€600 billion met by borrowing, and NAX€150 billion in credit guarantees and tax deferrals that carry no new borrowing.

The direct appropriation of NAX€600 billion is directed in six parts:

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Direction of the direct appropriation
! Program !! Appropriation (NAX€ billions)
|-
| Protection of employment and the producing Regions (work-sharing, short-time, retraining) || 200
|-
| National Homebuilding Drive (urban housing and construction) || 150
|-
| Support of demand through public works and accelerated procurement || 75
|-
| Regional and banking backstop || 25
|-
| Acceleration of economic diversification || 100
|-
| Support for the formation of families and households || 50
|-
! Direct total !! 600
|}

At the center of the package is a scheme of work-sharing and short-time support. Where a firm faced with a fall in demand reduces the working hours of its employees instead of dismissing them, the Federation meets a part of the resulting loss of wages, so that the burden of the downturn is shared as shorter hours across a workforce rather than concentrated as unemployment on those dismissed. Hours released by the reduction are turned, so far as they can be, to retraining under the Federation's available programs, including the [[National Skills and Technical Education Act, 1757]], so that a worker carried through the downturn leaves it with more skill than before. It was the principal instrument by which the Government sought to hold back the rise in unemployment that its revised forecast projected.

A National Homebuilding Drive, administered by the [[Department of Housing and Urban Development (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Housing and Urban Development]], provides federal grants and loan guarantees to build homes at scale in the cities, with a national target of not fewer than five hundred thousand new homes. The Drive is directed to employ, so far as it can, the workers carried on the short-time rolls; it fast-tracks the permits its projects require, and it gives priority in the allocation of the homes it builds to young and growing families.

The formation of families and households is supported through a marriage establishment grant that helps a newly married couple set up a household, a temporary uplift to the family allowance for each child, priority for married and growing families in the new housing, and a weighting of the work-sharing wage support toward households carrying the support of children. These measures are administered by the [[Department of Social Security and National Solidarity (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Social Security and National Solidarity]] under the Federation's standing power to provide family allowances, enumerated in the [[Cortes Federales Act, 1694]].

In each producing sector the Council of State may conclude a tripartite recovery pact between the sector's producer chamber, its unions, and the state, setting out the commitments of each party to sustain output and employment. The Act also authorizes credit guarantees, to a ceiling of NAX€100 billion, channeled through the producer chambers to keep sound firms solvent through the contraction of lending; the guarantees are contingent liabilities that call on the Treasury only in the event of default and carry no appropriation on their face.

A Region drawing on the regional and banking backstop undertakes in return to stand up the recovery pacts of its own producing sectors and to hold a resilience reserve of its own, with the federal share set greatest where regional fiscal capacity is least, on the co-funding principle established by the [[National Resilience Fund Establishment Act, 1758]]. Support is administered through the Region and its producer chambers, and the Act does not transfer the ordinary functions of a regional government to the Federation.

Among the Act's structural and strategic measures are a fast track for the permits required by diversification projects, a deferral (and not a remission) of tax falling due from firms in the producing Regions, and a strategic procurement floor under the Alexandrium price, operated through the [[Counter-Cyclical Stabilization Mechanism]] of the [[Alexandrium Sustainability and Strategic Management Act, 1750]] where the EACO guideline failed to hold it; the Act further directs the Government to press within the [[Raspur Pact]] and EACO for a binding discipline on Alexandrium supply. The Treasury is required to publish a quarterly statement of the disbursements made under the Act, Region by Region, continuing the reporting undertaking given during the passage of the enacted budget.

The whole of the direct appropriation is met by borrowing, and no sum is drawn from any federal reserve. That borrowing is placed under a debt-brake: should gross public debt exceed 65 percent of output, the Secretary of the Treasury may borrow no further under the Act until the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes Federales]] authorizes it by resolution. The Act's emergency authorities expire at the close of {{AN|1759}} unless the Cortes renews them. They lapsed unrenewed.

==Economic and fiscal outlook==
A revised statement of the Treasury's projections accompanied the bill when it was tabled on 6.XV.{{AN|1758}}. The closing quarter of {{AN|1758}} had broken the Alexandrium price the enacted budget assumed, and with policy unchanged the Treasury projected unemployment of about 7.6 percent and a contraction near 2.0 percent, the figures on which the year closed.<ref name="dash1758xv" /> The Act was designed to arrest that path. The Treasury's forecast assumed that, with the package in place, unemployment in {{AN|1759}} would be held near 7.2 percent and the contraction narrowed to near 0.9 percent.<ref name="eera-tabling" /><ref name="review-1758">[[NBC Newsfeed/1758#ANALYSIS: THE FEDERATION SPENT THE RECESSION'S SECOND YEAR ON A BRIDGE THE TREASURY SAID WAS NOT ENDLESS, AND REACHED THE ELECTION WITH THE FLOOR BROKEN AND THE RESERVE A TENTH LOWER|"Analysis: the Federation spent the recession's second year on a bridge the Treasury said was not endless"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 24.XV.{{AN|1758}}.</ref>

Adding the package's NAX€600 billion of borrowing to the enacted {{AN|1758}} budget, the Treasury projected net new borrowing of about NAX€1,961.9 billion, up from the NAX€1,361.9 billion the budget authorized, and public debt of about NAX€31,219 billion at the close of {{AN|1758}},<ref name="fedbudget-recent">[[Federal budget of Nouvelle Alexandrie#Recent budgets|Federal budget of Nouvelle Alexandrie]], "Recent budgets".</ref> near 62.0 percent of output, against the 60.8 percent the budget projected.<ref name="eera-tabling" /> In the event, {{AN|1758}} closed with public debt at 61.6 percent of output.<ref name="dash1758xv" /> The package drew nothing on the [[National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie|National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund]], which stood at NAX€1,780 billion.<ref name="eera-tabling" />

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Revised fiscal outlook tabled with the package, 6.XV.{{AN|1758}}
! Indicator !! Assumed in the enacted {{AN|1758}} budget !! Forecast with the package
|-
| Real GDP growth || −2.0% || ~−0.9% in {{AN|1759}}
|-
| Unemployment rate || ~8.6%, rising || ~7.2% in {{AN|1759}}, against 7.6% projected without the package
|-
| Package headline (NAX€ billions) || None || 750 (600 borrowed + 150 guarantees and deferrals)
|-
| Net new borrowing, {{AN|1758}} budget basis (NAX€ billions) || 1,361.9 || ~1,961.9 (+600)
|-
| Public debt, {{AN|1758}} budget basis (NAX€ billions) || 30,613.7 (60.8%) || ~31,219 (62.0%)
|-
| National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund (NAX€ billions) || 1,780.0 || 1,780.0 (untouched)
|}

==Legislative history==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Legislative history of the Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, {{AN|1758}}
! Stage !! Date !! Chamber !! Action !! Votes (Y-N-A) !! Details
|-
| 1 || 6.XV.{{AN|1758}} || Federal Assembly || Introduction || - || Introduced by the [[Council of State (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Council of State]]; tabled by Treasury Secretary [[Warren Ferdinand]]
|-
| 2 || - || Federal Assembly || Committee Review || - || No separate committee date is recorded in the legislative history
|-
| 3 || - || Federal Assembly || Procedural record || - || No separate procedural date is recorded in the legislative history
|-
| 4 || 1.V.{{AN|1759}} || Federal Assembly || Final division || 731-18-0 || Passed; sent to the [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]]<ref name="eera-passage" />
|-
| 5 || 1.V.{{AN|1759}} || Chamber of Peers || Concurrence || - || Passed without division
|-
| 6 || 2.V.{{AN|1759}} || - || Royal Assent || - || Signed into law by King [[Sinchi Roca II]]
|}

The Government introduced the Act on 6.XV.{{AN|1758}}. The Federal Assembly's final division on 1.V.{{AN|1759}} carried the measure by 731 votes to 18, with no abstentions. The Chamber of Peers concurred without division the same day, and King Sinchi Roca II granted Royal Assent on 2.V.{{AN|1759}}.

==Bill as submitted to the Hopper of the Federal Assembly, 1758 AN==
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'''Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758'''

THE READING OF 
A 
BILL 
TO 
make comprehensive supplementary provision for the operation of the Government of the Federation of Nouvelle Alexandrie in response to the deepening of the Recession of 1757; to protect employment through work-sharing, short-time support, and retraining; to establish a National Homebuilding Drive; to support the formation of families and households; to provide for tripartite recovery pacts, credit guarantees, and a regional recovery compact; to accelerate economic diversification and to put a strategic floor under the price of Alexandrium; to authorize borrowing, to provide for a debt-brake, and to fix the expiry of the emergency authorities at the close of 1759; ''among other purposes''. 

'''Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758''' 

Presented by the [[Council of State (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Council of State]] (Government of Premier [[José Manuel Montero]]) 
Ordered, by the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie]], 
to be Printed, 6.XV.{{AN|1758}}. 

'''BE IT ENACTED''' by the [[King of Nouvelle Alexandrie|King]]'s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes Federales]], in this present session assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
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<center> '''ARTICLE I''' 
''CITATION AND COMMENCEMENT'' </center>

'''Article 1: Citation.''' 
#This Act may be cited as the "Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758".
#This Act is supplementary to the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758]], which continues in force, and comes into force in accordance with Article 20.

<center> '''ARTICLE II''' 
''DEFINITIONS'' </center>

'''Article 2: Definitions.''' 
#In this Act:
##"the Treasury" means the [[Department of Treasury (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Treasury]], and "the Secretary of the Treasury" its head;
##"the Council of State" means the [[Council of State (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Council of State]] of the Federation;
##"Region" means a Region of the [[Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federation]];
##"producing sector" means a sector of the economy dependent upon the extraction of [[Alexandrium]] or upon industry directly derived from it;
##"producing Region" means [[Alduria]], [[Oportia]], and any Region so designated by the Council of State by reason of its dependence upon a producing sector;
##"producer chamber" means the recognized representative body of the employers of a producing sector;
##"the short-time rolls" means the register of workers supported under Article 6;
##"young or growing family" means a couple married within the three years then last past, or a household maintaining one or more dependent children;
##"the Drive" means the National Homebuilding Drive established under Article 7;
##"the package" means the whole of the direct appropriation and the contingent instruments provided by this Act.

<center> '''ARTICLE III''' 
''PURPOSE'' </center>

'''Article 3: Purpose.''' 
#The purposes of this Act are:
##to arrest the deepening of the [[Recession of 1757]] and to hold unemployment below ten per centum (10%);
##to protect employment by the sharing of shorter hours in place of dismissal, and to turn the hours so released to skill;
##to build homes and to support the formation of families and households;
##to sustain the producing sectors through recovery pacts and guarantees, acting through the Regions and their chambers rather than over them;
##to steady the export price of [[Alexandrium]]; and
##to do all of these under the control of the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes Federales]], subject to a debt-brake and to a fixed expiry.

<center> '''ARTICLE IV''' 
''SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATION'' </center>

'''Article 4: Supplementary appropriation.''' 
#There is appropriated, out of the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and supplementary to the sums appropriated by the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758]], the sum of NAX€600,000,000,000, in response to the deepening of the [[Recession of 1757]].
#The sum appropriated in paragraph 1 is directed as follows:

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Direction of the direct appropriation
! Program !! Appropriation (NAX€ billions)
|-
| Protection of employment and the producing Regions || 200
|-
| National Homebuilding Drive || 150
|-
| Support of demand through public works and accelerated procurement || 75
|-
| Regional and banking backstop || 25
|-
| Acceleration of economic diversification || 100
|-
| Support for the formation of families and households || 50
|-
! Total !! 600
|}

'''Article 5: Character of the appropriation.''' 
#The whole of the appropriation under Article 4 is met by borrowing authorized under Article 16.
#No sum is drawn from the [[National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie|National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund]] or from any other federal reserve for the purposes of this Act.
#This Act imposes no new tax and alters no tax rate, bracket, credit, allowance, or exemption in force for the year {{AN|1758}}.
#Beyond the direct appropriation, this Act provides credit guarantees under Article 10 and tax deferrals under Article 13, being contingent or deferred instruments that carry no new borrowing; the total commitment of the package, direct and contingent, is NAX€750,000,000,000.

<center> '''ARTICLE V''' 
''PROTECTION OF EMPLOYMENT'' </center>

'''Article 6: Work-sharing, short-time support, and retraining.''' 
#There is established a scheme of work-sharing and short-time support, administered by the [[Department of Labor (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Labor]] and funded within the sums directed to the protection of employment under Article 4. A worker supported under the scheme is entered on the short-time rolls.
#Where an employer, faced with a fall in demand, reduces the working hours of an employee by not less than one-tenth and not more than one-half in place of dismissing the employee, the Federation shall meet up to two-thirds of the wages lost to the reduction of hours, for a period not exceeding twelve (12) months.
#Support under this Article is conditional upon the employer retaining the worker in employment and making no dismissal of the worker for redundancy during the period of support and for three (3) months thereafter.
#Not less than one-third of the hours released by a reduction under this Article shall, so far as they can be, be turned to federal retraining programs in force, including, if enacted, programs under the [[National Skills and Technical Education Act, 1757]], and, for a worker of a producing sector, under the retraining entitlement of the [[Aldurian Economic Diversification and Recovery Act, 1755]], the cost of which the Federation shall meet within the appropriation, so that a worker carried through the downturn leaves it with more skill than before.
#Where the household of a supported worker maintains the support of one or more dependent children, the wage support under paragraph 2 shall be increased by a further one-tenth.
#The Secretary of Labor shall provide by regulation for the operation of the scheme and shall report to the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes Federales]] each quarter on the number of workers supported and the hours turned to retraining.

<center> '''ARTICLE VI''' 
''NATIONAL HOMEBUILDING DRIVE'' </center>

'''Article 7: National Homebuilding Drive.''' 
#There is established a National Homebuilding Drive, administered by the [[Department of Housing and Urban Development (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Housing and Urban Development]] and funded within the sums directed to it under Article 4.
#The Drive shall provide grants and loan guarantees to the Regions, to municipalities, and to approved builders for the construction of homes at scale in the cities of the Federation, toward a national target of not fewer than five hundred thousand (500,000) new homes, of which the greater part shall be homes suited to families of three (3) or more habitable rooms.
#The permits and approvals required by a project under the Drive shall be determined within sixty (60) days; and where a permit is neither granted nor refused with written reasons within that period, it is deemed granted.
#The Drive shall employ, so far as it can, workers carried on the short-time rolls under Article 6.
#A share of the homes built under the Drive shall be reserved for, and priority in their allocation given to, young and growing families.
#The Secretary shall report to the Cortes Federales each quarter on the number of homes started and completed under the Drive and on the number of workers it has employed.

<center> '''ARTICLE VII''' 
''FAMILIES AND HOUSEHOLDS'' </center>

'''Article 8: Support for the formation of families and households.''' 
#There is established, administered by the [[Department of Social Security and National Solidarity (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Social Security and National Solidarity]] and funded within the sums directed to it under Article 4:
##a marriage establishment grant, being a one-time payment not exceeding NAX€15,000 to a newly married couple establishing a household, payable once in respect of a couple;
##a temporary uplift, for the duration of this Act, to the family allowance payable in respect of each dependent child;
##priority for married and growing families in the allocation of homes built under Article 7.
#The whole of the support under this Article shall not exceed the sums directed to it under Article 4.
#The Secretary shall provide by regulation for the amount, eligibility, and administration of the grant and the uplift, and shall report to the Cortes Federales each quarter on the sums paid.

<center> '''ARTICLE VIII''' 
''CORPORATIST RECOVERY INSTRUMENTS'' </center>

'''Article 9: Tripartite recovery pacts.''' 
#The [[Council of State (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Council of State]] is authorized to conclude, in any producing sector, a recovery pact between the producer chamber of the sector, the unions of the sector, and the state, setting out the commitments of each party to sustain output and employment through the downturn.
#A recovery pact may direct the disbursement of sums appropriated by this Act in support of the commitments it records, shall state the term for which it is made, and shall be laid before the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes Federales]] and published.
#The Council of State shall review each recovery pact at least once in each half-year of its term.

'''Article 10: Credit guarantees.''' 
#The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to guarantee, through the producer chambers, the lending of credit to solvent firms in the producing sectors, so that sound firms are not lost to the contraction of lending during the downturn.
#A guarantee under this Article shall not cover more than four-fifths (80%) of the principal of a loan, and the total of the guarantees outstanding under this Article shall not at any time exceed NAX€100,000,000,000.
#A fee shall be charged for a guarantee under this Article, set by the Secretary of the Treasury to meet its expected cost to the Federation.
#A guarantee under this Article is a contingent liability of the Federation, calling upon the Treasury only in the event of default, and is not an appropriation; the Treasury shall maintain and publish a register of the guarantees given.

<center> '''ARTICLE IX''' 
''REGIONAL RECOVERY COMPACT'' </center>

'''Article 11: Regional recovery compact.''' 
#A Region drawing on the regional and banking backstop under this Act shall undertake, as a condition of the support, to conclude the recovery pacts of its own producing sectors under Article 9 and to maintain a resilience reserve of its own.
#The support shall meet that part of a Region's recovery cost that exceeds a deductible of two per centum (2%) of the Region's annual revenue; and above the deductible the federal share shall be three parts in four (75%), rising to nine parts in ten (90%) for a Region whose fiscal capacity falls below a level the Treasury shall publish.
#Support under this Article shall be administered through the Region and its producer chambers, on the co-funding principle established by the [[National Resilience Fund Establishment Act, 1758]], and the Federation shall not by this Act assume the ordinary functions of a regional government.

<center> '''ARTICLE X''' 
''STRUCTURAL AND STRATEGIC MEASURES'' </center>

'''Article 12: Diversification permits.''' 
#The permits and approvals required by projects under the economic diversification programs of the Federation shall be determined within sixty (60) days, so that investment approved under those programs is not delayed in administration.

'''Article 13: Deferral of tax in the producing Regions.''' 
#The Secretary of the Treasury may defer, and shall not remit, the payment of tax falling due from a firm in a producing Region during the downturn, for a period not exceeding twelve (12) months and without interest on the deferred sum.
#A sum deferred under this Article remains owed to the Treasury and is secured as an ordinary debt due to the Federation.

'''Article 14: Strategic procurement floor.''' 
#The Council of State is authorized to purchase [[Alexandrium]] into a strategic reserve of the Federation when the export price falls below a level that the Council of State shall set and publish, so as to place a floor under the price by procurement.
#Purchases under this Article shall be conducted through the [[Counter-Cyclical Stabilization Mechanism]] established by Article 32 of the [[Alexandrium Sustainability and Strategic Management Act, 1750]], and shall not exceed in the aggregate a sum that the Council of State shall set and report to the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes Federales]].
#Alexandrium purchased under this Article may be sold when the price has recovered, and the proceeds shall be paid into the Treasury.

'''Article 15: Binding supply discipline.''' 
#The Government shall press within the [[Raspur Pact]] and the [[Euran Alexandrium Coordination Organization]] for a binding discipline on the supply of Alexandrium, in place of the reference-price guideline adopted at [[Fontainebleau]] that did not hold.

<center> '''ARTICLE XI''' 
''FINANCING, DEBT-BRAKE, AND DURATION'' </center>

'''Article 16: Borrowing authority.''' 
#The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to borrow on the credit of the Federation such sums as are necessary to finance the direct appropriation of this Act, not exceeding NAX€600,000,000,000 in net new borrowing, additional to the borrowing authorized by the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758]].
#No drawing shall be made under this Act on the [[National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie|National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund]].

'''Article 17: Debt-brake.''' 
#If gross public debt exceeds sixty-five per centum (65%) of gross domestic product, the Secretary of the Treasury shall not borrow further under Article 16 until the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes Federales]] has authorized the further borrowing by resolution.
#The Secretary shall report to the Cortes Federales each quarter on the borrowing conducted under this Act and on the level of gross public debt.

'''Article 18: Duration and expiry.''' 
#The emergency authorities conferred by this Act, being the scheme under Article 6, the Drive under Article 7, the support under Article 8, the guarantees under Article 10, the deferrals under Article 13, and the procurement under Article 14, shall expire at the close of the year {{AN|1759}} unless the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes Federales]] renews them.
#The expiry of an authority under this Article does not affect a grant, guarantee, or commitment already made under it.

<center> '''ARTICLE XII''' 
''TRANSPARENCY AND REPORTING'' </center>

'''Article 19: Transparency and reporting.''' 
#The Secretary of the Treasury shall publish, each quarter, a consolidated statement of: the disbursements made under this Act, set out Region by Region; the homes started and completed under the Drive; the workers supported and retrained under Article 6; the guarantees outstanding under Article 10; and the level of gross public debt.
#The statement shall be laid before the Budget and Finances Committee of the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes Federales]] and published for any citizen to read, continuing the undertaking on regional reporting given during the passage of the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758]].

<center> '''ARTICLE XIII''' 
''COMMENCEMENT AND APPLICATION'' </center>

'''Article 20: Commencement and application.''' 
#This Act extends to the whole of the [[Federation of Nouvelle Alexandrie]].
#This Act shall not come into force until it has received the Royal Assent of [[King of Nouvelle Alexandrie|H.M. King]] [[Sinchi Roca II]].
#This Act shall be published in the [[The Federal Gazette|Federal Gazette]] within seven (7) days of the Royal Assent.
#This Act shall have effect from its commencement until the close of the year {{AN|1759}}, subject to Article 18, save that Articles 16 and 17 shall continue in force until repealed.
#If any provision of this Act is held invalid or unenforceable, that provision alone, and not the whole Act, shall be inoperative.
 </div>

==Amendments==
Article 17 (the debt-brake) was repealed by Article 30 of the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]], which commenced on 22.IV.{{AN|1760}} and replaced it with fiscal rules directed to a medium-term anchor of gross public debt below 65 percent of output.<ref name="gata1760">[[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]], Articles 28 to 32.</ref>

==Voting record==
The Act passed the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] by 731 votes to 18, with no abstentions. The vote produced a large majority across the governing and opposition benches, while a handful of deputies from the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] (AJNA), a group of [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] (FCP) fiscal hawks, and two independent deputies opposed the measure.<ref name="eera-passage" />

===Federal Assembly final reading (1.V.1759 AN)===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Notable votes on the Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, {{AN|1758}}
! Deputy !! Region !! Party !! Vote !! Signature !! Role/Notes
|-
| [[José Manuel Montero]] || {{team flag|Wechua|name=Wechua Nation}} || [[Federal Humanist Party|FHP]] || {{Yes}} || ''J. M. Montero'' || Premier
|-
| [[Fred Strong]] || {{team flag|North Lyrica}} || [[Federal Humanist Party|FHP]] || {{Yes}} || ''F. Strong'' || Vice-Premier; Secretary of Defense
|-
| Sumaili Humahuaca || {{team flag|Wechua|name=Wechua Nation}} || [[Federal Humanist Party|FHP]] || {{Yes}} || ''S. Humahuaca'' || FHP deputy
|-
| [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] || {{team flag|Santander}} || [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|DSP]] || {{Yes}} || ''M. F. Gonçalves'' || Leader of the Opposition; AJNA leader
|-
| Pierre-Antoine Blaise || {{team flag|Valencia}} || [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|DSP]] || {{Yes}} || ''P.-A. Blaise'' || DSP deputy
|-
| [[Francisco Gabaza]] || {{team flag|Alduria}} || [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|FCP]] || {{Yes}} || ''F. Gabaza'' || FCP leader
|}

====Vote summary by party====
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 550px;"
|+ Federal Assembly final reading, 1.V.{{AN|1759}}
! Political party !! Yes !! No !! Abstain !! Total !! % Support
|-
| [[Federal Humanist Party]] (FHP) || 372 || 0 || 0 || 372 || 100%
|-
| [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Democratic Socialist Party]] (DSP) || 188 || 8 || 0 || 196 || 95.9%
|-
| [[Wakara People's Party]] (WPP) || 20 || 0 || 0 || 20 || 100%
|-
| [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] (FCP) || 111 || 8 || 0 || 119 || 93.3%
|-
| [[Civic Governance Alliance]] (CGA) || 10 || 0 || 0 || 10 || 100%
|-
| Independent || 30 || 2 || 0 || 32 || 93.8%
|-
| style="background:#ccc;" | Total || style="background:#90EE90;" | 731 || style="background:#FFB6C1;" | 18 || style="background:#F0F0F0;" | 0 || 749 || 97.6%
|}

===Chamber of Peers final reading (1.V.1759 AN)===
The Chamber of Peers passed the Act without division on 1.V.{{AN|1759}}.

===Analysis===
The Act passed with a large but not unanimous majority. The outcome was settled before the division, since the governing party and the opposition benches had both declared their support, and the debate centered on the Act's lateness, its borrowing, and the date its powers would end.<ref name="eera-passage" />

====The Government's case====
The Government presented the Act as a second response to a downturn that had outrun the assumptions behind the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758]]. The earlier budget had protected the producing Regions and used the National Fiscal Reserve; the new measure instead put NAX€600 billion of direct spending on the borrowing account while adding guarantees and deferrals around it. Treasury Secretary Warren Ferdinand's formulation, ''"six hundred billion borrowed and not one écu of it beyond the reach of this House, under a debt-brake and an expiry date"'', summarized the Government's argument: the intervention was temporary and subject to continuing legislative control.<ref name="eera-tabling" />

The program was designed to meet the recession with reduced hours and public construction and to avoid mass dismissal. Ferdinand introduced work-sharing, short-time support, retraining, homebuilding, family support, regional recovery pacts, and credit guarantees together under the slogan "work, home, and family".<ref name="eera-passage" />

====The opposition and the fiscal hawks====
The opposition voted for the Act while criticizing it. The Democratic Socialist Party supported the measure by 188 votes to 8 and the Federal Consensus Party by 111 votes to 8, and neither minority formed a blocking coalition.<ref name="eera-passage" /> [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], the Leader of the Opposition and head of the AJNA, had called the spring budget too little for the producing Regions.<ref name="eera-tabling" /> In the debate he promised the Government its majority and called the Act eight months late. He described its sum as ''"an admission that everything before it fell short"'' and said the sunset made it ''"a rescue that expires the moment the election is over."''<ref name="eera-passage" />

[[Francisco Gabaza]], the leader of the Federal Consensus Party, had objected to the borrowing when the bill was tabled, arguing that a debt-brake set at 65 percent invited the Treasury to borrow up to the line.<ref name="eera-tabling" /> He did not speak in the debate. The party's Finance Chairman, [[Godfredo Domínguez]], made the fiscal case for the hawks behind most of its eight votes against. Two independents also voted against the Act.<ref name="eera-passage" />

====What the division decided====
The 731-18-0 result authorized a recovery program in two parts. The NAX€600 billion direct appropriation would be spent through employment protection, housing, public works, regional support, diversification, and family measures. The further NAX€150 billion in guarantees and tax deferrals would widen the package without becoming an immediate call on the Treasury. In return, the Act carried a higher debt path, quarterly public reporting, a debt-brake, and expiry at the end of {{AN|1759}}.<ref name="eera-tabling" /><ref name="eera-passage" />

===Royal Assent===
King Sinchi Roca II granted Royal Assent on 2.V.{{AN|1759}}, and the Act came into force that day.

==Effects and implementation==
On enactment the Act put the Federation's larger recovery package into force without replacing the enacted budget. It left the tax settlement of the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758]] in place, drew nothing from the National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund, and financed its direct appropriation through borrowing authorized under the Act.<ref name="eera-tabling" />

===Employment and skills===
The work-sharing and short-time scheme was the Act's main labor-market instrument. A firm that reduced hours instead of dismissing workers could receive federal support for part of the resulting wage loss, and the hours released were to be used for retraining under federal programs, including the [[National Skills and Technical Education Act, 1757]]. The scheme was intended to keep workers attached to their firms through the downturn.<ref name="eera-tabling" />

===Housing, families, and demand===
The [[National Homebuilding Drive]] combined a five-hundred-thousand-home target with grants, loan guarantees, a sixty-day limit on permit decisions, and priority for young and growing families. The same construction program was meant to absorb workers placed on the short-time rolls.<ref name="eera-tabling" /> Article 8 provided a marriage establishment grant, a temporary uplift to the family allowance, and housing priority for married and growing families, and Article 6 raised the work-sharing wage support by a tenth for households with children.

===Regional recovery and private credit===
Tripartite recovery pacts brought the producer chambers, the unions, and the state together, and federal assistance was tied to reciprocal regional commitments: a Region drawing on the regional and banking backstop had to establish its own recovery pacts and resilience reserve. Credit guarantees of up to NAX€100 billion were routed through producer chambers to keep otherwise sound firms solvent during a contraction in lending. With the tax deferrals, the guarantees formed a NAX€150 billion contingent facility that required no new borrowing.<ref name="eera-tabling" /> The facility was fully drawn before the close of {{AN|1759}}, though not as cash spending: the guarantees would cost the Treasury only on default, and the deferred taxes remained owed.<ref name="q4-1759-brake">[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#UNEMPLOYMENT_HOLDS_AT_8_7_PERCENT_WHILE_DEBT_BRAKE_WITHHOLDS_NAX200_BILLION|"Unemployment holds at 8.7 percent while debt brake withholds NAX€200 billion"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 28.XV.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

===Strategic measures and reporting===
Fast-track permits and tax deferrals supported diversification in the producing Regions, and a strategic procurement floor gave the Government a tool to support the Alexandrium price where the EACO guideline failed.<ref name="eera-tabling" /> Article 19 required quarterly statements reporting disbursements by Region, homes started and completed, workers supported and retrained, guarantees outstanding, and gross public debt.

==Aftermath==
The Government had won passage of the Act with support from every major party, but eighteen deputies, among them FCP fiscal hawks, voted against it. Because its authorities were set to expire at the close of {{AN|1759}}, whether to renew them became a question for the year of the general election.<ref name="eera-passage" /> A poll by the [[Institute of Public Opinion]] for NBC News, taken 19–21.VI.{{AN|1759}}, credited the Act with lifting the Government's net approval to minus 1, its best reading since the crash, but found no return of votes: the [[Federal Humanist Party]] held at 41 percent. Gabaza's net favorability fell to plus 2 after he did not speak in the recovery debate.<ref name="poll-1759vi">[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#THE RECOVERY BUYS THE GOVERNMENT APPROVAL, NOT VOTES|"The recovery buys the government approval, not votes"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 22.VI.{{AN|1759}}.</ref>

In the run-up to the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|1759 general election]], [[Émile Bouchard]]'s [[Aldurian Independent Coalition]], on whose votes the Government's majority rested, asked whether the package had reached the [[Piriya]] mine towns or only the [[Aldurian Science and Technology Campus|science campus]] at [[Punta Santiago]].<ref name="two-speed">[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#BOUCHARD'S_COALITION,_WHICH_HOLDS_MONTERO'S_MAJORITY,_ASKS_WHETHER_THE_RECOVERY_REACHED_PIRIYA_OR_ONLY_PUNTA_SANTIAGO|"Bouchard's coalition asks whether the recovery reached Piriya or only Punta Santiago"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 24.VII.{{AN|1759}}.</ref> Treasury Secretary Ferdinand replied that the recovery pacts and the price floor were the producing Regions' share of the rescue, and the economist [[Rodrigo Castellanos]] of the [[Institute for Strategic Studies]] called the gap between the mine towns and the campus structural rather than a sign that the recovery had failed to arrive.<ref name="two-speed" />

Unemployment ended {{AN|1759}} above the Treasury's forecast. At the close of the year it stood at 8.7 percent,<ref name="q4-1759-brake" /> against the 7.2 percent forecast when the bill was tabled<ref name="eera-tabling" /> and the 8.1 percent already measured in the first quarter.<ref name="dash1759iv">[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#Nouvelle_Alexandrie_Economic_Dashboard_(Month_IV,_1759)|"Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month IV, 1759)"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 24.IV.{{AN|1759}}.</ref> The Treasury had forecast a contraction near 0.9 percent for the year;<ref name="eera-tabling" /> in the fourth quarter output was 2.0 percent below its level a year earlier, a shortfall that had narrowed from 3.1 percent in the third.<ref name="q4-1759-brake" /> Over the quarter itself output fell at an annualized 1.6 percent, after growth of 3.0 percent in the third quarter, while employment rose by 0.41 million.<ref name="q4-1759-brake" />

Gross public debt, 61.6 percent of output at the close of {{AN|1758}},<ref name="dash1758xv" /> crossed the 65 percent trigger of the Article 17 debt-brake in the third quarter of {{AN|1759}}.<ref name="dash1759xii">[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#Nouvelle_Alexandrie_Economic_Dashboard_(Month_XII,_1759)|"Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month XII, 1759)"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 24.XII.{{AN|1759}}.</ref> The Treasury had financed two NAX€200 billion tranches of the direct appropriation before the brake stopped the third. Debt closed the year at 67.4 percent on the figures then published, and at 65.9 percent after the benchmark review the [[Nouvelle Alexandrie Statistics Bureau]] made in XII.{{AN|1760}}. The brake applied only to borrowing under this Act, so ordinary deficits carried the ratio higher. Under Article 18 the Act's six emergency powers closed to new use at the end of the year, while commitments already made remained in force.<ref name="q4-1759-brake" />

The general election of {{AN|1759}} returned a hung Assembly. On 29.XV.{{AN|1759}}, with the final tranche still unborrowed, Montero, by then caretaker Premier, signed the [[Lindström Recovery Protocol]] with [[Natopia]], a non-binding framework of Natopian orders, a strategic Alexandrium purchase, a private-capital program, and a recovery-bond backstop. The backstop stood outside the Act's Article 16 borrowing program, though any bond issued under it would remain public debt requiring authorization by the Cortes.<ref name="lindstrom">[[Lindström Recovery Protocol]], "Background", "Terms", and "Legal and transition status".</ref>

Ferreira Gonçalves sought the confidence of the Cortes on 15.I.{{AN|1760}}. He accepted two undertakings pressed by [[Piti Gándara]], the deputy for Alduria: that the recovery accounts be laid before the appropriation was moved, and that the withheld NAX€200 billion be released only by a separate act.<ref name="gata1760-bg">[[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760#Background|General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]], "Background".</ref><ref name="confidence-1760">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE ACCORD WINS THE CONFIDENCE OF THE CORTES, 461 TO 293, AND GONÇALVES TAKES OFFICE|"The Accord wins the confidence of the Cortes, 461 to 293"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 15.I.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> Thirteen independents voted with the 448 deputies of the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]]; the motion carried by 461 votes to 293, and the [[Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves|Ferreira Gonçalves government]] took office.<ref name="confidence-1760" /> The [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]], the first budget of the [[14th Cortes Federales]], repealed the Act's debt-brake, replaced it with a standing fiscal framework overseen by the [[Federal Debt Review Board]], and established a [[Federal Budget and Costing Office]] to cost each budget.<ref name="gata1760" /> Under Gándara's undertaking, the repeal did not itself release the withheld tranche, and the act needed to release it was still before the Cortes after the {{AN|1760}} budget became law.<ref name="gata1760-bg" /><ref name="dash1760iv">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#Nouvelle_Alexandrie_Economic_Dashboard_(Month_IV,_1760)|"Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month IV, 1760)"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 24.IV.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

Several of the Act's measures outlived its emergency authorities. The {{AN|1760}} budget carried the [[wikipedia:Job sharing|work-sharing]] scheme and the [[National Homebuilding Drive]] into its regular appropriations,<ref name="gata1760" /> and the Drive's emergency authority was then superseded by the [[National Housing Reform and Expansion Act, 1760]], which directs at least two-fifths of each year's building to the interior and the producing Regions.<ref name="nhrea1760">[[National Housing Reform and Expansion Act, 1760]], Articles 3, 6 and 7; Royal Assent 8.V.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> The [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]] revived the family-allowance uplift and the marriage establishment grant and made both permanent, widening the grant to any newly established household.<ref name="colra1760">[[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]], Article 8; Royal Assent 10.V.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

The first recovery bonds were issued late in {{AN|1760}} as ordinary federal borrowing rather than under this Act. The [[Supplementary Appropriation Act, 1760]], which raised the federal borrowing limit in IX.{{AN|1760}}, had already allowed for the debt. The Treasury needed the money in any case to make up lower tax receipts. According to a Treasury statement of 16.XIII.{{AN|1760}}, the issue came to NAX€250 billion in fifteen-year bonds, of which private investors bought NAX€150 billion and Natopia the other NAX€100 billion through the backstop of the Lindström Recovery Protocol. The Federation remained liable for the bonds as its own public debt.<ref name="bonds">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#NATOPIA BUYS NAX€100 BILLION OF THE FEDERATION'S FIRST RECOVERY BONDS|"Natopia buys NAX€100 billion of the Federation's first recovery bonds"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 16.XIII.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> Treasury Secretary [[Tomás Iñiguez]] said the sale showed the Federation could raise money on reasonable terms while it recovered, and pointed to the private share of three écus in five. Montero, speaking as [[Leader of the Opposition of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Leader of the Opposition]], said that selling the bonds to Natopia made them no cheaper to repay and left the recovery somewhat more reliant on Natopian decisions.<ref name="bonds" />

==See also==
* [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758]]
* [[Recession of 1757]]
* [[1757 Alexandrium market crash]]
* [[Federal budget of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
* [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]]
* [[Supplementary Appropriation Act, 1760]]
* [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]]
* [[National Housing Reform and Expansion Act, 1760]]
* [[National Skills and Technical Education Act, 1757]]
* [[Housing Justice Act, 1757]]
* [[National Resilience Fund Establishment Act, 1758]]
* [[Aldurian Economic Diversification and Recovery Act, 1755]]
* [[Administration of Premier José Manuel Montero]]
* [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759]]
* [[NBC Newsfeed/1758]]
* [[NBC Newsfeed/1759]]
* [[NBC Newsfeed/1760]]

==References==
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[[Category:Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
[[Category:New Alexandrian Law]]
[[Category:Economy of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
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Federal budget of Nouvelle Alexandrie

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{{Infobox government budget
| country = Federation of Nouvelle Alexandrie
| fiscal_year = {{AN|1758}}
| budget_total = NAX€20,941.9 billion as enacted
| revenues = NAX€19,360.0 billion
| expenditures = NAX€20,941.9 billion as enacted
| deficit = NAX€1,581.9 billion as enacted (3.1% of GDP)
| GDP = NAX€50,348 billion ({{AN|1758}} budget as enacted); about NAX€50,140 billion as recorded at the close of {{AN|1758}}
| debt = NAX€30,613.7 billion as enacted (60.8% of GDP); about NAX€31,219 billion (62.0%) projected after the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]]; about NAX€30,900 billion (61.6%) at the close of {{AN|1758}}
| date_submitted = 8.I.{{AN|1758}}
| submitted_by = [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]]
| date_approved = 2.IV.{{AN|1758}}
| approved_by = [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
| tax_rates = {{Unbulleted list|Progressive income tax up to 40%|Corporate tax 18% (15% for firms under 100 employees)|Social contributions 38% of earnings up to NAX€230,000 (employee and employer combined)|Value added tax 10%|Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund contribution tax 8%|Alexandrium volume levy NAX€65 per gram}}
| debt_repayment = NAX€883.4 billion interest; about NAX€306 billion principal ({{AN|1758}})
| special_funds = {{Unbulleted list|People's Contribution Fund|Special National Defense Fund|Federal Infrastructure Fund|Social Services and Education Special Reserve Fund|National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund|National Emergency Management Fund|National Resilience Fund}}
| sovereign_wealth_fund = [[Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund]]
| notes =
| references =
| below =
}}
The '''federal budget of Nouvelle Alexandrie''' comprises the spending and revenues of the government of the [[Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federation of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]. The budget is the financial representation of the priorities of the government. The government primarily spends on healthcare, retirement, and defense programs. The non-partisan [[Legislative Budget Office]] of the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie]] provides extensive analysis of the budget and its economic effects.

A single instrument, the general appropriations and taxation Act, carries both the appropriations for the year and the rates of federal taxation, so that the spending and revenue sides are settled together. Federal spending is dominated by the block transfer to the Regions, which has taken about a fifth of every budget since {{AN|1730}}, and by labor, defense, and social security. Revenue rests chiefly on the federal income tax and the social contributions levied on earnings.

Alongside the annual appropriations the Federation maintains a system of federal special funds, dedicated Treasury accounts that carry their balances between years, of which the [[National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie|National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund]] is the largest and serves as the reserve for counter-cyclical drawings. The [[Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund]] stands outside the operating budget, receiving a dedicated contribution tax and returning half its investment income to general revenues. The Federation has run a deficit in recent budgets, and public debt has risen from roughly 47 percent of GDP around {{AN|1730}} to 61.6 percent at the close of {{AN|1758}} and, on the revised series, 65.9 percent at the close of {{AN|1759}}.

The budget in force in {{AN|1758}} was set by the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758]], tabled by [[Department of Treasury (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Treasury Secretary]] [[Warren Ferdinand]] and given Royal Assent by King [[Sinchi Roca II]] on 2.IV.{{AN|1758}}, and reopened later that year by the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]].

==History==
The Federation's early public finances were shaped by the [[New Prosperity Plan]] and by the [[Chartered settlement companies (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|chartered settlement companies]] through which much of its territorial expansion was financed, an arrangement that left substantial obligations off the federal accounts. The reckoning that followed, over the 1690s and into the 1710s, produced the system of federal special funds described below, which gave those obligations a place in the accounts as well as creating dedicated reserves.

The instrument dates to the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1719]], which created the idle lands tax still levied in {{AN|1758}}. That Act was introduced in the [[6th Cortes Federales]] by [[Paolo Antonio Aguilar]], Deputy from [[Santander]]. A Deputy likewise introduced the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1730]] in the [[8th Cortes Federales]]. By {{AN|1758}} the instrument had become a government measure, introduced by the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] itself and tabled by the Secretary of the Treasury.

The composition of federal spending has been more stable than its scale. Appropriations rose from NAX€8,979.1 billion under the {{AN|1730}} Act to NAX€20,941.9 billion in {{AN|1758}}, while the Regional Budget held its share of the total across both. The conspicuous change is the cost of the debt. Servicing took NAX€14.0 billion, or 0.156% of appropriations, in {{AN|1730}}, and NAX€883.4 billion, or 4.2%, in {{AN|1758}}.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Federal appropriations compared (NAX€ billions)
! Line !! {{AN|1730}} !! {{AN|1758}}
|-
| Total appropriations || 8,979.1 || 20,941.9
|-
| Regional Budget || 1,900.0 (21.3%) || 4,251.1 (20.3%)
|-
| Debt servicing || 14.0 (0.156%) || 883.4 (4.2%)
|}

==Budget process==
The [[Office of Management and Budget]], within the [[Department of Treasury (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of the Treasury]], prepares the budget and supervises its administration across the executive agencies once enacted. The [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] proposes it, and the Secretary of the Treasury tables it in the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]].

The [[Budget and Finances Committee]] of the Federal Assembly then reports on the bill, and measures carrying fiscal provisions are referred to it jointly with the committee for the subject matter. Its report is not a formality: the committee has repeatedly recast government measures at committee stage, and it receives the Treasury's continuing reports on the execution of appropriations it has approved.

The [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]] is the revising house, and its powers over a budget are narrower than over ordinary legislation. Under Part III of the [[Cortes Federales Act, 1694]] a proposed law appropriating revenue or imposing taxation may not originate in the Chamber, and the Peers may not amend it, nor amend any bill so as to increase a charge or burden on the people. What the Chamber may do is return such a bill to the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] by message, requesting the omission or amendment of particular items; the Assembly may make those changes or not, as it thinks fit. The Budget is also among the matters the Chamber may not delegate to a standing committee, so it is taken in plenary. Enactment follows Royal Assent, after which the appropriations and the tax rates take effect together.

The Cortes Federales may amend an enacted budget during the year by a further Act, which adds to the appropriations already voted rather than replacing them.

Execution is audited by the [[Federal Audit Office of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Audit Office]], the Federation's supreme audit institution, established under the [[Federal Audit Office Establishment and Function Act, 1737]] within the Department of the Treasury. The Office supervises the implementation of the budget and certifies the federal financial reports, and its Auditor-General, appointed for a single non-renewable term of six years, lays an annual report before the Cortes Federales. Individual appropriating Acts routinely name the Office as the auditor of the programs they fund.

==Receipts==
{{Main|Taxation in Nouvelle Alexandrie}}
Federal receipts are projected head by head at the rates set by the general appropriations and taxation Act for the year. The federal income tax and the social solidarity tax are the two largest heads by a wide margin, together supplying nearly three quarters of all receipts, followed by the value added tax and the federal corporate tax. Beneath them sit the unemployment insurance tax, the gift and estate tax, the dividend received from the [[Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund]], and a long tail of smaller heads, among them customs and import duties and the idle lands, carbon, petroleum, documentary stamp, tobacco, and real estate taxes.

Certain receipts are collected but excluded from operating revenue. The Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund contribution tax is deposited directly into the fund and is not available for appropriation. So is the share of the [[Unified Alexandrium Resource Authority]] volume levy owed to the Region of [[Alduria]], together with the levy's other per-gram allocations. The [[Alexandrium Sustainability and Strategic Management Act, 1750]] divides the NAX€65 charged on each gram across nine dedicated funds and recipients:

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Alexandrium volume levy allocation, per gram (NAX€)
! Destination !! Per gram
|-
| [[Strategic Reserve and Conservation Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Strategic Reserve and Conservation Fund]] || 25.00
|-
| [[UARA Unified Operations Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|UARA Unified Operations Fund]] || 15.00
|-
| [[Circular Economy and Recycling Program Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Circular Economy and Recycling Program Fund]] || 8.00
|-
| [[Strategic Research and Development Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Strategic Research and Development Fund]] || 7.00
|-
| [[Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund]] || 3.50
|-
| [[Regional and Rural Equalization Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Regional and Rural Equalization Fund]] || 2.00
|-
| Region of [[Alduria]] || 2.00
|-
| [[National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie|National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund]] || 1.50
|-
| [[National Qullqa System]] || 1.00
|-
! Total !! 65.00
|}

A further statutory requirement directs 12 percent of federal Alexandrium revenues, NAX€29.8 billion in {{AN|1758}}, into non-resource investment.

Alexandrium reaches the budget by two routes that behave differently. The volume levy is charged on weight, so its yield does not move with the price; the value-indexed taxation of the sector does. The distinction was visible in {{AN|1758}}, when the levy held steady through the fall in the mineral's price while Alexandrium receipts as a whole fell 19.4 percent, from NAX€308 billion to NAX€248 billion.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Projected federal receipts by head, {{AN|1758}} (NAX€ billions)
! Receipt head !! Amount
|-
| Federal corporate tax || 1,762.2
|-
| Federal income tax || 7,304.2
|-
| Income tax credits || −883.6
|-
| Value added tax || 2,013.9
|-
| Customs and import duties || 100.7
|-
| Social solidarity tax || 6,899.4
|-
| Unemployment insurance tax || 591.4
|-
| Gift and estate tax || 414.6
|-
| Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund dividends || 400.0
|-
| Alexandrium federal receipts || 248.2
|-
| Idle lands tax || 138.7
|-
| Carbon tax || 95.5
|-
| Petroleum tax || 92.3
|-
| Documentary stamp tax || 58.6
|-
| Tobacco tax || 44.5
|-
| Real estate tax || 39.0
|-
| Other receipts || 40.4
|-
! Total receipts !! 19,360.0
|}

==Expenditures==
{{Main|Expenditures in the Nouvelle Alexandrie federal budget}}
Appropriations divide into departmental programs and the service of the public debt. The [[Administrative divisions of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Regional Budget]], the block transfer to the thirteen Regions, is the single largest line and has been about a fifth of the total since {{AN|1730}}. Labor, defense, and social security follow. In {{AN|1758}} each of those three took a share in double figures, and with the Regional Budget they accounted for 57.1 percent of all federal spending.

A budget may also carry targeted measures within the departmental totals rather than as a separate appropriation. The {{AN|1758}} Act carried two, an additional NAX€10 billion for the program of the [[Aldurian Economic Diversification and Recovery Act, 1755]] and NAX€8 billion for a transition measure in [[Oportia]], funded by NAX€15 billion of savings and deferrals identified across other departments.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Appropriations by department, {{AN|1758}}
! Department !! Appropriation (NAX€ billions) !! % of total
|-
| [[Administrative divisions of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Regional Budget]] || 4,251.1 || 20.3%
|-
| [[Department of Labor (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Labor]] || 2,732.2 || 13.0%
|-
| [[Department of Defense (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Defense]] || 2,640.4 || 12.6%
|-
| [[Department of Social Security and National Solidarity (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Social Security and National Solidarity]] || 2,345.4 || 11.2%
|-
| [[Department of Civil Works and Transportation (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Civil Works and Transportation]] || 1,424.8 || 6.8%
|-
| [[Department of Education, Sports, and Culture (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Education, Culture, and Sports]] || 1,323.9 || 6.3%
|-
| [[Department of Energy and Environment (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Energy and Environment]] || 1,020.7 || 4.9%
|-
| Debt repayment and servicing || 883.4 || 4.2%
|-
| [[Department for National Mobilisation (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department for National Mobilisation]] || 831.9 || 4.0%
|-
| [[Department of Interior (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Interior]] || 766.5 || 3.7%
|-
| [[Department of Research and Development (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Research and Development]] || 612.2 || 2.9%
|-
| [[Department of Treasury (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Treasury]] || 434.5 || 2.1%
|-
| [[Department of State (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of State]] || 381.5 || 1.8%
|-
| Others || 374.9 || 1.8%
|-
| [[Department of Justice (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Justice]] || 329.8 || 1.6%
|-
| [[Department of Housing and Urban Development (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Housing and Urban Development]] || 306.7 || 1.5%
|-
| [[Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund]] || 146.1 || 0.7%
|-
| [[Department of Trade and Industry (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Trade and Industry]] || 135.9 || 0.6%
|-
! Total !! 20,941.9 !!
|}

==Special funds==
{{Main|Federal Special Funds of Nouvelle Alexandrie}}
* [[People's Contribution Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
* [[Special National Defense Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
* [[Federal Infrastructure Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
* [[Social Services and Education Special Reserve Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
* [[National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
* [[National Emergency Management Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
* [[National Resilience Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)]]

Alongside the annual appropriations the Federation maintains a system of federal special funds, dedicated accounts in the [[Department of Treasury (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Treasury]], each tied to a stated national purpose and each carrying its balance between years instead of lapsing at the close of the fiscal year. The [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes Federales]] created the system in the late 1690s, after the fiscal reckoning that followed the [[New Prosperity Plan]] era. It served two purposes. It established dedicated reserves for specific national purposes, and it gave the Federation a mechanism for gradually recognizing and resolving the liabilities the Plan had left off the federal balance sheet. Capitalization came from direct appropriations, from redirected [[Chartered settlement companies (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|settlement company]] assets, and from accounting adjustments.

Each fund carries a distinct mandate. Military contingencies are the charge of the [[Special National Defense Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Special National Defense Fund]], which also absorbed infrastructure obligations attached to defense installations and strategic transportation networks, and through which the annual authorization for the [[Federal Forces of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Forces]] is drawn. Infrastructure maintenance and the completion of New Prosperity Plan projects fall to the [[Federal Infrastructure Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Infrastructure Fund]]. The [[Social Services and Education Special Reserve Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Social Services and Education Special Reserve Fund]] supports the social programs established under the same Plan. General-purpose reserves against economic shocks are held by the [[National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie|National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund]]. Disaster response and civil defense capabilities are maintained by the [[National Emergency Management Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie|National Emergency Management Fund]].

Two later funds sit outside that original structure. The [[National Resilience Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|National Resilience Fund]] was established by the binding [[New Alexandrian National Resilience Fund referendum, 1757|referendum]] of 24.XII.{{AN|1757}} and given its statutory form by the [[National Resilience Fund Establishment Act, 1758]], in force 15.XI.{{AN|1758}}. A dedicated reserve of last resort for recovery from qualifying national disasters, it is capped at NAX€50 billion, with no single disbursement above NAX€15 billion. It is capitalized from unspent appropriations, non-recurring receipts, and fifteen percent of a certified year-end surplus, without new taxation or borrowing. It neither absorbs nor supplements the National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund, and each disbursement beyond a first emergency tranche requires a specific resolution of the Cortes Federales. The establishing Act does not itself provide that the Fund has reached any particular balance: its first contribution falls due from the first fiscal year after commencement that the Treasury certifies in surplus, and no surplus was certified for the deficit year of {{AN|1758}}, so the Fund carried no balance into {{AN|1759}}.

Older than the rest in conception but separate in purpose, the [[People's Contribution Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie|People's Contribution Fund]] was created by Article IV of the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1719]] and opened in {{AN|1720}} as a dedicated instrument for the reduction of the national debt. Three sources feed it. Contributions from any individual, organization, or corporation are exempt from all tax; a taxpayer may elect that no more than half of the income tax due for the year be allocated to the Fund; and commercial bank accounts held by individuals and organizations, though not by corporations, that have lain dormant for ten years are escheated into it. At the close of each calendar year half of the Fund is applied to the service of the national debt, more than NAX€110 billion in total between {{AN|1720}} and {{AN|1757}}. Because the balance is spent down each year rather than accumulated, its holdings have remained small beside the Federation's total debt, standing at NAX€3.6 billion at the close of {{AN|1757}} and NAX€3.5 billion in {{AN|1759}}.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Federal special fund balances (NAX€ billions)
! Fund !! {{AN|1719}} !! {{AN|1750}} !! {{AN|1759}} !! Principal drawdowns and movement
|-
| Special National Defense Fund || 781.0 || 200.0 || 164.0 || [[Force 1752 initiative]], the [[Fourth Euran War]], military modernization
|-
| Federal Infrastructure Fund || 270.0 || 50.0 || 55.0 || High-speed rail completion, the [[Pan-Euran Highway|Pan-Euran]] and [[Pan-Keltian Highway|Pan-Keltian]] highways
|-
| Social Services and Education Special Reserve Fund || 90.0 || 120.0 || 143.0 || Modest growth; refugee integration costs offset by [[Alexandrium]] revenue
|-
| National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund || 127.0 || 1,500.0 || 1,808.0 || Drawn NAX€220 billion in {{AN|1758}} from NAX€2,000 billion to NAX€1,780 billion; recovered on levy inflow with no further drawing authorized in {{AN|1759}}
|-
| National Emergency Management Fund || 30.0 || 50.0 || 59.0 || Modest growth; less frequently drawn upon
|-
! Subtotal, five original funds !! 1,298.0 !! 1,920.0 !! 2,229.0 !!
|-
| People's Contribution Fund || || 3.1 || 3.5 || Debt-reduction sinking fund, opened {{AN|1720}}; half applied to debt service each year-end
|-
| National Resilience Fund || || || not yet capitalized || Established {{AN|1758}}; capped at NAX€50 billion; first contribution due from the first certified surplus
|}

The five original funds do not share a common trajectory. The Special National Defense Fund and the Federal Infrastructure Fund were drawn down to finance the [[Force 1752 initiative]], the [[Fourth Euran War]], and the completion of the high-speed rail and highway programs, the Defense Fund falling from NAX€781.0 billion in {{AN|1719}} to NAX€164.0 billion in {{AN|1759}}. The National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund moved the other way, rising from NAX€127.0 billion to NAX€1,808.0 billion on Alexandrium levy receipts and windfall allocations, overtaking the Special National Defense Fund as the largest of the funds and holding four-fifths of the NAX€2,229.0 billion carried across the five original funds in {{AN|1759}}. The two funds added since, the People's Contribution Fund and the National Resilience Fund, stand apart from that group in both scale and purpose: the first a small, self-liquidating debt-reduction account, the second a capped disaster reserve not yet capitalized.

Since the [[Alexandrium Sustainability and Strategic Management Act, 1750]] the National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund has drawn a fixed share of the Alexandrium levy, NAX€1.50 of the NAX€65 charged on every gram extracted, one of nine dedicated shares of the levy, and it serves as the reserve from which the [[Counter-Cyclical Stabilization Mechanism]] makes its drawdowns. Its statutory objective is capital preservation and liquidity, not investment growth. Where the [[Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund]] accumulates assets against future returns, the National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund is held to be drawn down, carrying services and standing commitments through a revenue shock without emergency borrowing or mid-year cuts. Because such a drawing spends from an asset, it finances part of a deficit without adding to the public debt. The Mechanism was triggered for the first time after the [[1757 Alexandrium market crash]]; across {{AN|1758}} a drawing of NAX€220 billion authorized by the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758]] took the Fund from NAX€2,000 billion to NAX€1,780 billion, NAX€55 billion in each quarter of the year. By {{AN|1759}} it had recovered to NAX€1,808.0 billion as levy receipts resumed and no further drawing was authorized.

==Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund==
{{Main|Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)}}
The [[Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund]] stands outside the operating budget and meets it at several points. The contribution tax, levied at 8 percent, pays into the fund and cannot be appropriated. The fund also receives NAX€3.50 of the NAX€65 levied on each gram of [[Alexandrium]] extracted, under the allocations set by the [[Alexandrium Sustainability and Strategic Management Act, 1750]]. In the other direction, the Federation's half-share of the fund's annual investment returns is received into general revenues under the fund's standing distribution policy, and appears in the receipts table as a dividend; it came to some NAX€400 billion in {{AN|1758}}. The fund also appears in the appropriations table in its own right, at NAX€146.1 billion in {{AN|1758}}.

The Sovereign Wealth Fund differs from the special funds in kind. It is an investment vehicle rather than a reserve held against a stated contingency, and the {{AN|1750}} Act bars it from holding Alexandrium extraction, processing, or related assets, a prohibition written to keep a fund intended to outlast the mineral from being exposed to it. Its assets stood at NAX€8.6 trillion at the close of {{AN|1758}}, 3.9 times the combined balances of the special funds.

==Surpluses, deficits, and debt==
The Federation has run a deficit in recent budgets, financed by net borrowing and, where the counter-cyclical mechanism is engaged, by drawings on the National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund. Public debt stood at NAX€12 trillion against a GDP of NAX€25.5 trillion around {{AN|1730}}, a ratio of roughly 47 percent; the ratio was reported at about a quarter of output at the {{AN|1750}} position. The {{AN|1758}} budget as enacted projected debt of NAX€30,613.7 billion against output of NAX€50,348 billion, a ratio of 60.8 percent; debt closed {{AN|1758}} at about NAX€30,900 billion, 61.6 percent of output, and {{AN|1759}} at 67.4 percent as first reported. The [[Nouvelle Alexandrie Statistics Bureau]] revised the {{AN|1759}} close to NAX€32,496.3 billion, 65.9 percent of output, in its benchmark review of XII.{{AN|1760}}. The rising cost of servicing the debt is the largest single change in the composition of federal spending across the period.

Debt service is met from the appropriations as interest, while repayments of principal are conducted as debt-management operations within the year's borrowing authority and are not accounted as expenditure. Where the Treasury certifies a year in surplus, fifteen percent of the certified surplus is directed to the [[National Resilience Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|National Resilience Fund]]; in a year it does not certify, that fund receives no contribution.

Borrowing under the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]] was subject to a debt brake: if gross public debt exceeded 65 percent of GDP, the Secretary of the Treasury could borrow no further under that Act until the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes Federales]] authorized it. The brake did not apply to borrowing under the ordinary budget. The [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]] repealed that brake and replaced it with a standing fiscal framework.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Fiscal summary, {{AN|1758}} (NAX€ billions)
! colspan="2" | Item !! Amount
|-
| colspan="2" | Total receipts || 19,360.0
|-
| || ''of which'' general and tax receipts || ''19,111.8''
|-
| || ''of which'' Alexandrium federal receipts || ''248.2''
|-
| colspan="2" | Total outlays || 20,941.9
|-
| || ''of which'' departmental programs || ''20,058.5''
|-
| || ''of which'' debt interest || ''883.4''
|-
| colspan="2" | Overall balance || −1,581.9 (−3.1% of GDP)
|-
| colspan="2" | Financing: National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund drawing || 220.0
|-
| colspan="2" | Financing: net borrowing || 1,361.9
|-
| colspan="2" | Public debt, end of year || 30,613.7 (60.8% of GDP)
|-
| colspan="2" | National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund, end of year || 1,780.0
|}

==Recent budgets==
The [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758]] was the first budget written after the [[1757 Alexandrium market crash]] and the [[Recession of 1757]]. It carried the {{AN|1757}} tax rates forward unchanged and made the whole of its adjustment on the spending and financing sides, protecting the producing Regions rather than reducing spending in them, and meeting the cost through savings elsewhere, a drawing on the National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund, and borrowing.

The [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]], assented to on 2.V.{{AN|1759}}, reopened that budget with a recovery package of NAX€750 billion, of which NAX€600 billion was a direct appropriation met entirely by borrowing and NAX€150 billion took the form of credit guarantees and tax deferrals requiring no new borrowing. It left the year's tax settlement in place and drew nothing further from the National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund. Measured against the enacted budget, the package was projected to lift net new borrowing from NAX€1,361.9 billion to about NAX€1,961.9 billion and public debt to about NAX€31,219 billion, near 62.0 percent of GDP. The borrowing was placed under a debt-brake requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to return to the Cortes Federales before borrowing further if gross public debt were to cross 65 percent of GDP.

==Budgets==
* [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1719]]
* [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1730]]
* [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1758]]
* [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]]
* [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]]

==See also==
* [[Economy of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
* [[Federal Revenue Authority]]
* [[Nouvelle Alexandrie Statistics Bureau]]
* [[Legislative Budget Office]]
* [[Office of Management and Budget]]
* [[Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)]]

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[[Category:Economy of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
[[Category:Taxation in Nouvelle Alexandrie]]

Economy of Nouvelle Alexandrie

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|align=center colspan=2 | <center><big>'''Economy of [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]]'''</big>
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|'''Currency:'''|| {{unbulleted list|the [[New Alexandrian écu|New Alexandrian écu (€, NAX€)]] (official)|the [[Natopian natopo|Natopian Natopo (₦)]]}}
|-
|'''GDP:'''|| NAX€49.32 trillion ({{AN|1759}})
|-
|'''GDP by Sector:'''||
{{unbulleted list|Agriculture: 6.0%|Industry: 30.1%|Services: 63.9%}}({{AN|1759}})
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|'''Marketplace'''||
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|'''Industries:''' ||
{{unbulleted list|Machinery|Petroleum|Chemicals|Automobiles|Metallurgy|Aircraft|Ships|Electronics|Textiles|Jewelry|Food and Beverage|Tobacco|Handicrafts|Tourism}}
|-
|'''Major Industry (% of GDP):'''|| {{unbulleted list|Agriculture, forestry, and fishing: 6.0%|Mining: 3.6%|Petrochemical: 4%| Manufacturing: 17.2%|Construction: 5.6%|Commerce and tourism: 12.9%|Transport, communications, and utilities: 7.9%|Government: 9.5%|Business, social and other services: 33.3%}}
|-
|'''Largest 5 Companies (Value in NAX€):'''|| {{unbulleted list|[[Kerularios & Company]] (NAX€ XX)|[[ESB Susa]] (NAX€ XX)|[[Pontecorvo Firm]] (NAX€ XX)|[[Javelin Industries]] (NAX€ XX)}}
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|'''Labor Force:'''||
|-
|'''Labor Force by Sector:'''||
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|'''Unemployed:'''|| 8.7% ({{AN|1759}})
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| align=center colspan=2 |
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|'''Budget:''' || ''Revenues'': NAX€18.68 trillion 37.9% of GDP ''Expenses'': NAX€21.00 trillion 42.6% of GDP {{AN|1759}}
|-
|'''Budget Surplus or Deficit:''' || {{decrease}} NAX€2.32 trillion deficit (4.7% of GDP) ''Public Debt'': NAX€32.50 trillion (65.9% of GDP) {{AN|1759}}, revised
|-
|'''Inflation Rate:''' || 2.4% {{AN|1759}}
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|'''Exports:''' || oil, natural gas, marble, motor vehicles, consumer goods, electronics, electrical equipment, pharmaceuticals, metals, transport equipment, foodstuffs, textiles, rubber and plastic products, rice, potatoes, quinoa, soybeans, and soy products.
|-
|'''Export Partners:''' || {{unbulleted list|{{team flag|Natopia}}|{{team flag|Constancia}}|{{team flag|Benacian Union}}|{{team flag|Ransenar}}|{{team flag|Craitland}}|{{team flag|Sanama}}}}
|-
|'''Imports:''' || machinery, consumer goods, data processing equipment, vehicles, chemicals, metals, electric equipment, pharmaceuticals, foodstuffs, agricultural products, silver, zinc, measuring and medical control instruments, pharmaceuticals, furniture.
|-
|'''Import Partners:'''|| {{unbulleted list|{{team flag|Natopia}}|{{team flag|Constancia}}|{{team flag|Benacian Union}}|{{team flag|Sanama}}|{{team flag|Ransenar}}|{{team flag|Sanama}}}}
|-
|'''Reserves of Foreign Currency:''' ||
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The '''economy of [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]]''' is a large, emerging, social market economy characterized by a high level of foreign trade. The [[Nouvelle Alexandrie|New Alexandrian]] economy has improved substantially since the foundation of the Federation in {{AN|1685}} as [[New Prosperity Plan|increased public investments]] in industrial development, infrastructure, water, sanitation, electric power, and others led to pronounced downward trends in unemployment and economic inequality. Its economy is diversified, although the export of commodities makes up a large part of its economic activity. This makes the economy subject to the risks of price volatility in international markets.

New Alexandrian economic performance is tied to exports, which provide hard currency to finance the country's imports and external debt payments. [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]]'s main exports are oil, natural gas, marble, copper, ships, motor vehicles, consumer goods, electronics, electrical equipment, pharmaceuticals, metals, transport equipment, textiles, rubber and plastic products, rice, wheat, potatoes, chocolate, coffee, sugar, quinoa, soybeans, soy products, and foodstuffs. [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] is one of the largest producers of petroleum and natural gas in [[Micras]]. It also has a large internal market, catering to [[Demographics of Nouvelle Alexandrie|hundreds of millions of New Alexandrians]]. This large internal market has also led to the flourishing of a large services sector in the economy.

[[Nouvelle Alexandrie|Nouvelle Alexandrie]]'s largest trade partners are [[Natopia]], [[Constancia]], the [[Benacian Union]], [[Ransenar]], [[Sanama]], [[Craitland]], the [[The Hexarchy|Hexarchy]], and [[Hurmu]]. [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] generally runs an annual trade surplus and has a considerable net international investment surplus.

The country's economy faces difficult challenges with establishing lasting, self-sustaining economic growth and in securing a more egalitarian distribution of income, in particular, the disparity between urban and rural areas of the country. [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] benefits from being rich in natural resources, having a highly literate population, a strong export-oriented economy, and a diversified industrial base. Its quality university education and the establishment of a highly motivated and educated populace is largely responsible for ushering in [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]]'s high technology boom and rapid economic development. The country has developed a strong educational infrastructure, and a high-quality incubation system for new cutting edge ideas to create value driven goods and services. These developments have allowed the country to create a high concentration of high-tech companies across the country's [[Administrative divisions of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Regions]]. These companies are financially backed by a strong venture capital industry. Its central high technology hub, the [[CarSan Tech Corridor]], covers the area along the roads and railways from the capital, [[Cardenas]], to the Port of [[Wechuahuasi]]. Numerous companies originating in [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] have been acquired by global corporations for their reliable and quality corporate personnel and talent.

Between {{AN|1690}} and {{AN|1705}} (15 years), many ports across [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] became key in the growth of entrepôt trade, mainly in the [[Administrative divisions of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Regions]] of [[Alduria]], [[Santander]], [[Islas de la Libertad]], [[South Lyrica]], and [[New Luthoria]]. The locations of these Regions made it possible for certain ports and cities to facilitate the development of a large manufacturing base around the purchase of raw goods and refining them for export. This was facilitated further with the completion of key infrastructure projects from the [[New Prosperity Plan]] over these same 15 years. New highways, roads, airports, railways, and ports have opened up, interconnecting the Federation and encouraging trade. The seven most important ports in [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]], in order of tonnage capacity, are [[Punta Santiago]], [[Wechuahuasi]], [[Puerto Carrillo]], [[Judah]], [[Nuevo Corcovado]], [[Piriya]], and [[Norvind]].

To fuel economic growth and finance large infrastructure and welfare programs, governments in [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] have taken measures to promote innovation, encourage entrepreneurship, and to re-train the workforce through the [[New Prosperity Plan]]. The dynamism of the New Alexandrian economy has attracted attention from international business and investors, especially from friendly nations in the [[Raspur Pact]]. The public sector is used both as an investor and as a catalyst for economic development and innovation. The government of [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] has two sovereign wealth funds, the [[Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund]] and the [[Hydrocarbon Nationalization, Levy, and Strategic Reserve Act, 1695|Strategic Energy Reserve Fund]], which are used to manage the country's reserves. Initially the state's role was oriented more toward managing industries for economic development, but in recent decades the objectives of [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]]'s sovereign wealth funds have shifted to a commercial basis.

[[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] is a member of the [[Raspur Pact]], granting the economy access to one of the largest free trade and freedom of movement arrangements with [[Raspur_Pact#Membership|12 other nations]].

==History==
=== Unification Period ===
The nation of Nouvelle Alexandrie came about through the uniting of [[Alduria]] and [[Wechua Nation]], given form with the [[Proclamation of Punta Santiago]]. It inherited a diverse, but advanced economy, with high industrial manufacturing and technological power in Alduria, and a big agricultural and mining economy from Wechua Nation.

The unification brought at the first new economic power - if only due to a near doubling of GDP - as the agricultural production of Wechua, combined with its rich resources such as marble, natural gas, and minerals, fuelled new economic growth, made possible by Alduria's advanced manufacturing. Beyond industrial power, Alduria and Wechua held the majority of their economic power in services. Education and the financial sector, as well as tourism, were strong economic contributors. Unification brought newfound opportunities for tourism and banking.

The unification did necessitate the creation of a united single currency. President [[Alejandro Campos]] created the écu. At the same time, he encouraged a free-market economy, as was the case in Alduria before the unification. The planned economy of Wechua, however, suffered at first from this change in economic planning. Economic investment was coupled with liberalisation of the market, including shifting towards services, and promoting private investment and participation.

=== New Prosperity Plan ===
The [[New Prosperity Plan]] was a series of economic plans and policies to rapidly stimulate the social, political, economic, and financial growth of the nation. The immediate laws that came from it had profound effect on the economy, social wellbeing, finances, and development of Nouvelle Alexandrie. The laws passed in {{AN year|1685}} and {{AN year|1686}} created a central bank, a national minimal wage, trade unions rights and regulations, social security programs, housing programs, a national health institute, a national science institute, industrial development programs, a national program for infrastructure development, food security regulations, the national tax system, and and environmental protection programs.

The national program for infrastructure saw the creation of a highway network, national railway network, and civil works ranging from governance to airports and power plants, as well as the national system of parks. Local networks such as metros, tramways, and commuter lines, were also accomplished. Beyond that, four culture projects invested in media, sports, and culture.

The Plan was finished as part of three Five Year Plans, between {{AN year|1685}} and {{AN year|1701}}, when it was regionalized in favor of regional economic planning. The plan gained favor from economists and the population due to the rapid expansion of transport links, new civil works and culture, and energy production. But there was criticism as well: many bankers saw the federal debt growing fast, which gave rise to high budget deficits and borrowing needs. Economists saw the problem with fitting the Plan into the market economy that Nouvelle Alexandrie was pursuing, especially concerning free enterprise and economic liberties for the population. Politicians, on the other hand, berated the growth of federal government to administer the Plan, as well as the extensive expansion of bureaucracy and administrative capacity.

=== Recession of 1709 ===
{{Main|Recession of 1709}}
In {{AN year|1709}}, the economy of Nouvelle Alexandrie, along with many allies in the [[Raspur Pact]], such as neighbor [[Constancia]] and [[Ransenar]], suffered from a spike in inflation, brought about by the [[Division of the Natopian Empire]]. Economic uncertainty, falling supply chains and manufacturing capacity, and the aftermath of the [[Great Vanic Revolt]] led to a shrinking of economies GDP fell in successive quarters. The results where consumer good and foodstuffs shortages, which drove further inflation, and harmed tax incomes, leading to higher deficits. The Nouvelle Alexandrie economy was heavily interconnected through the Raspur Pact, but also the [[Community of Goldfield]] and the [[Euran Economic Union]].

The recession lasted for only 13 months, but had profound impact on the economy, ending a long period of expansion and growth. The most affected sectors were tourism, retail, transport, housing, manufacturing, and finances. By {{AN year|1711}}, when the Natopian division was cleared, and infrastructure projects such as the Alduria High Speed Line and the [[Santander Railway Corporation|SRC]] Potosí Line, along with the Cárdenas-Potosí Highway, created new economic recovery. Coupled with investments and financial reforms, especially the currency reform in {{AN year|1711}}, the economy grew and unemployment fell steadily from {{AN year|1712}} onwards.

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=== Recovery and economic boom ===

=== Economic development ===

=== Recession of 1726 ===
{{Main|Recession of 1726}}

==Data==
{{Main|Economic Data of Nouvelle Alexandrie}}
The quarterly figures are published in the National Economic Journal, released as a section of each year's [[NBC Newsfeed]]. The full set of published dashboards is listed below.

{{NAXEconomicDashboardList}}
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+GDP and Workforce ({{AN year|1715}})
! colspan="3" |Primary Sector
|-
!Subsector
!% of total production
!% of workforce
|-
|Agriculture
|3.5%
|9.2%
|-
|Fishery
|1.5%
|3.7%
|-
|Logging
|1%
|2.4%
|-
|Mining
|3.6%
|8.1%
|-
|Petrochemical
|4%
|5.5%
|-
! colspan="3" |Secondary Sector
|-
|Chemicals
|2.2%
|1.9%
|-
|Construction
|5.6%
|5.7%
|-
|Consumer Goods
|5.8%
|6.3%
|-
|Heavy Industry
|2.1%
|1.9%
|-
|Metallurgy
|3.8%
|4.8%
|-
|Textiles
|2.3%
|2.2%
|-
! colspan="3" |Tertiary Sector
|-
|Business
|22.1%
|23.4%
|-
|Commerce
|9.4%
|11.3%
|-
|Communications
|2.3%
|1.6%
|-
|Social Services
|6.2%
|2.2%
|-
|Tourism
|5.5%
|4.9%
|-
|Transport
|5.1%
|4.8%
|-
|Utilities
|0.5%
|1.2%
|-
|Other Services
|3%
|0.8%
|}
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+GDP Growth
!Financial Year
!GDP (NAX écu)
!Growth rate (average where applicable)
|-
|{{AN year|1685}}
|€ 4,823,657,131,051
|N/A
|-
|{{AN year|1690}}
|€ 5,470,075,731,084
|2.5%
|-
|{{AN year|1695}}
|€ 6,540,058,829,207
|3.5%
|-
|{{AN year|1700}}
|€ 7,842,844,106,844
|3.6%
|-
|{{AN year|1705}}
|€ 9,502,248,609,577
|3.8%
|-
|{{AN year|1708}}
|€ 10,012,352,825,658
|0.4%
|-
|{{AN year|1709}}
|€ 9,681,945,182,411
| -3.3%
|-
|{{AN year|1710}}
|€ 9,430,214,607,668
| -2.6%
|-
|{{AN year|1711}}
|€ 9,383,063,534,630
| -0.5%
|-
|{{AN year|1715}}
|€ 10,165,889,312,563
|1.5%
|-
|{{AN year|1718}}
|€ 10,958,168,912,727
|2.5%
|}
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+Unemployment Figures
!Financial Year
!% of unemployment
|-
|{{AN year|1685}}
|9.2%
|-
|{{AN year|1690}}
|8.5%
|-
|{{AN year|1695}}
|9.1%
|-
|{{AN year|1700}}
|8.8%
|-
|{{AN year|1705}}
|7.3%
|-
|{{AN year|1708}}
|7.4%
|-
|{{AN year|1709}}
|13.1%
|-
|{{AN year|1710}}
|11.3%
|-
|{{AN year|1711}}
|9.6%
|-
|{{AN year|1715}}
|7.8%
|}

==Sectors==

=== Primary Sector ===

==== Agriculture and Fishery ====
The farming and fishing production of Nouvelle Alexandrie has been strong since its creation. Owing to fertile lands in Keltia, as well as the Islands economic dependency on fishing, agriculture and fishing remains a big part of the national GDP, at 6%, while employing about 13% of the entire population. Farming in Nouvelle Alexandrie is highly efficient: in Wechua and Santander, land consolidation started happening in {{AN year|1690}}, along with mechanisation. In terms of livestock farming, it has been illegal since {{AN year|1700}} to have battery cages and factory farms.

The most produced crop in agriculture are cereal grains: Wheat takes up about 30% of all farms, with Rice at 20%, and other grains take up 10%. About 15% of all farms are fruit farms, including greenhouses. 10% of farms are dedicated to vegetables; potatoes foremost. 10% of farms are dedicated to textiles, such as cotton, flax, jute, and hemp. Tobacco is also farmed, with more than 2% of farms dedicated to it. 3% of farms are dedicated to floriculture. In terms of consumption: about 35% of all farms are solely dedicated to the production of animal feed, with the other 65% for human consumption.

In livestock farming, almost 30% of farms are dedicated to Cattle; 25% to Poultry (of which 85% Chicken); 20% to Pigs; 15% to Sheep; and 10% to other animals, such as goats, llamas, and horses.

Fishing is a major economic force of the economy of the Islands. For example, it employs almost 25% of all people of the [[Islas de la Libertad]]. Crustacean fishing is also big on the islands, especially in [[South Lyrica]].
{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|[[Agrifoods]]
|Lucas Val
|Animal Feed Processor
|-
|[[Fertix]]
|Xavier Escudero
|Fertilizer Producer
|-
|[[FarmVitality]]
|Fernando Ariza
|Soil Researcher
|}

==== Mining ====

===== Mineral Mining =====
Nouvelle Alexandrie has mountain ranges that have been the source of multiple minerals. Especially in Keltia, the Chinchaysuyu Mountains have been a source for banded iron formations, which is used to extract iron ore. At the same time, the Junín Coal Field is the largest source of coal in the country. The Kuntisuyu Mountains are the main source of marble and quarrying. There is Quartzite mining in Alduria, which is the biggest source of Silicon. In [[Santander]], there are large clay and shale mining around Rosselló. Potash mining has declined, but is mostly present in Bassumorto. Lastly, pearl hunting is done on the [[Islas de la Libertad]], while minor Gold mining exists on [[New Luthoria]]. The largest export of minerals is in Iron, which is a major income source from predominantly [[Raspur Pact]] allies. The [[Euran Economic Union]] allies are also a major partner for Silicon trading.

===== Uranium Mining =====
There exists a minor uranium mining operation in [[South Lyrica]], where the only source of Uranium in the Federation is found. In accordance with laws and foreign policies, trade has been limited to [[Raspur Pact]] allies.

==== Oil & Gas Mining ====
The largest land oil reserves are in Lyrica, where the Montchèry and Llactapata Oil Fields produce more than 30% of all oil. The Huichajanca Oil Field in Wechua is the main producer on Keltia, while the Amapola and Tudela Fields are the land oil extraction sites in Eura. But the bulk of oil production lies in offshore installations: on the Alduria coast, there are 5 sea oil field operations, while on the Keltia coast, there are 3, and at [[New Luthoria]], there are 2. Nouvelle Alexandrie is one of the biggest exporters of oil in the world. More than 40% of all oil exports are however reserved to [[Raspur Pact]] allies.

Natural Gas is also present, most dominantly in the Chambéry Gas Field in Valencia. But like oil, gas extraction is done mostly on sea. Nouvelle Alexandrie is a net natural gas exporter.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|[[Ferronix]]
|Antia Biel
|Iron Ore Miner
|-
|[[Sillicogem]]
|Sergio Valderas
|Silicon Miner
|-
|[[Cardinal Stone Works]]
|Jose Manuel Melero
|Quarrier and Marble-maker
|-
|[[National Uranium Mining Corporation]]
|[[Department of Energy and Environment (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Energy and Environment]]
|Uranium Mining
|-
|[[Aldurian Oil Company]]
|Andres Gálvez
|Oil Company
|-
|[[WechuGas]]
|Jaime Benítez
|Gas Company
|}

==== Forestry ====
The Logging industry in Nouvelle Alexandrie is modest, mostly concentrated in [[Santander]]. It is mostly planned forestry and mechanized, with conifers and hardwood as the primary product. Bosque Balderas, near [[Ciudad Real]], is the largest source of timber in the nation.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable Enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|Balderas Guardabosque
|Xavier Labrador
|Timer Maker
|}

=== Secondary Sector ===

==== Textiles ====
The textile industry is one of the major exports of Nouvelle Alexandrie. It is concentrated and mostly automated, with an increasing emphasis on synthetic textiles, owing to oil production. It is notable that women form a larger part of the textile workforce than the national average: this is a remnant of homespun textile production.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|Fiberwave
|Triana Catalá
|Textile Producer
|-
|Silkpeak
|Amanda Conde-Rey
|Textile Producer
|}

==== Consumer Goods ====
The general industry is a major contributor to the economy, with production ranging from cosmetics to electronics. The industry is one of the few heavy industry remaining in the country, however it is slowly being automatized. The sector is highly diverse, with important production in medical equipment as well. Food and drink processing is a further branch; the [[Soft drink industry of Nouvelle Alexandrie|soft drink industry]] alone employed about 38,000 people directly in {{AN|1759}}.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Layout of consumer goods sectors
! colspan="2" |Sector
!% of total production
!% of total workforce
|-
| rowspan="4" |Durable
|Appliances
|28%
|15%
|-
|Electronics
|22%
|20%
|-
|Furniture
|10%
|11%
|-
|Medical Equipment
|14%
|4%
|-
| rowspan="4" |Non-durable
|Cleaning Products
|5%
|8%
|-
|Cosmetics
|10%
|10%
|-
|Hygiene Supplies
|8%
|10%
|-
|Office & School Supplies
|3%
|12%
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|[[Dishwire]]
|Marc Carreiro
|Kitchen Appliances
|-
|Cleancycle
|Cristina Monte
|Washing Appliances
|-
|[[CyberAlexis Systems]]
|Erik Peña
|Computers & Software Developer
|-
|MobileZen
|Ibai Lagos
|Consumer Electronics Maker
|-
|Prodigitech
|Mario Valdueza
|Computer Builder
|-
|Falcon Creek
|Joan Acin
|Furniture Maker
|-
|Red Cedar
|Thiago Castellano
|Furniture Maker
|-
|Pationic
|Cesar Alguacil
|Medical Equipment Maker
|-
|Sanic
|Ana Santolaria
|Medical Equipment Maker
|-
|Qualime
|Bruno Artigas
|Cleaning Products Maker
|-
|Herbell
|Miguel Herbell
|Perfume Maker
|-
|Florisle
|Kevin Hidalgo
|Cosmetics Maker
|-
|Jewella
|Beatriz Burgos
|Cosmetics Maker
|-
|Conmone
|Manuela Bolea
|Hygienic Products Maker
|-
|Officeche
|Juan Ferreiro
|Office Supplies Maker
|-
|Educatic
|Patricia Bolea
|School Supplies Maker
|}

=== Metallurgy ===
Due to the availability of metals and coal, the production of steel and other alloys is a major part of the manufacturing business in Nouvelle Alexandrie. Of these, Steel and Aluminium production are foremost. The metal industry supplies other sectors such as consumer goods and heavy industry as well. It is highly specialized and automatized, employing only 14% of the secondary sector workforce while contributing more than 35% of the GDP output in manufacturing.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|Metalfy
|Samuel Briones
|Steel & Alloy Maker
|-
|Puranno
|Juan Carlos Madrid
|Alloy Maker
|-
|Horizon Aluminium
|Miguel Vergara
|Aluminium Maker
|}

=== Chemicals ===
The production of medicines and other chemicals, such as polymers, fertilizers, pesticides, paints, acids, additives, flavors, and fragnances is a considerable industry in Nouvelle Alexandrie. Despite having low economic power and being mostly automatized, it performs key industrial functions for much of the other sectors, including manufacturing.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|Chemivon
|Javier Llopis
|Fertilizers & Pesticides Maker
|-
|Proxima
|Isabella Aragón
|Polymers Maker
|-
|Chroma Lab Co.
|Valeria Merino
|Additives & Flavors Maker
|-
|Cemcero
|Irene Encanto
|Paint & Pigments Maker
|-
|Chemplex
|Jorge Saldaña
|Acids & Bases Maker
|-
|[[Aldurian Pharmaceuticals]]
|Manuel Tejero
|Pharmaceutical Company
|-
|[[Farmacéutica del Ande]]
|Dr. Jean-Luc Dubois
|Pharmaceutical Company
|-
|[[Innocare Pharma]]
|Diana Cueva
|Pharmaceutical Company
|-
|[[Viracocha Biotech]]
|Matias Méndez-Arán
|Pharmaceutical Company
|}

==== Construction ====
The construction sector has been a large part of the economy, through the [[New Prosperity Plan]] and in the aftermath of the [[Recession of 1709]]. The construction sector is somewhat more regulated than other sectors, with the major state-owned company [[National Construction Corporation]] dominating projects in several sectors, such as railways.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|[[National Construction Corporation]]
|[[Department of Civil Works and Transportation (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Civil Works and Transportation]]
|Construction Company
|-
|[[ESB Construction]]
|[[Esmeralda al-Osman]]
|Construction Company
|-
|[[Parap Construction and Engineering]]
|Adrian Escrivá
|Construction Company
|-
|[[Whitmore & Sons]]
|Edmund Whitmore
|Construction Company
|-
|[[LaFleur Construction]]
|Mathieu LaFleur
|Construction Company
|-
|[[Lyrican Development Corporation]]
|Gabriel Gallardo
|Construction Company
|-
|[[Cardenas Construction Corp.]]
|Louise Valverde
|Construction Company
|-
|[[Construcciones Meridiano S.A.]]
|Lucía Meridiano Vásquez
|Construction Company
|}

==== Settlement companies and property developers ====
{{See also|Chartered settlement companies (Nouvelle Alexandrie)}}

==== Heavy Industry ====
The Heavy Industry encompasses large and complex industrial processes, such as ship manufacturing, the automotive industry, machine tools, and aerospace manufacturing. In Nouvelle Alexandrie, the machine industry is the largest of these, while ship manufacturing, as a major naval nation, is also important for the economy. Both the Aerospace and Shipbuilding industries have large parts controlled by the government, mostly pertaining to defense manufacturing.
{| class="wikitable"
!Sector
!% of total production
!% of total workforce
|-
|Aerospace
|16%
|18%
|-
|Automotive
|15%
|20%
|-
|Machine Tools
|47%
|35%
|-
|Shipbuilding
|22%
|27%
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|[[Javelin Industries]]
|Alfonso Torrente
|Aerospace & Defense Manufacturer
|-
|[[Ahvaz Automotive Engineering Company]]
|[[Katja Magda Thorgilsdottir]]
|Automotive Producer
|-
|[[Aldurian Motor Company]]
|Ignacio Fidalgo
|Automotive Producer
|-
|[[Tudela Motor Company]]
|Mehran Nazeri
|Automotive Producer
|-
|Farmaker
|Maria Jose Prado
|Machine Tools Producer
|-
|M-Tools
|Eva Domínguez
|Machine Tools Producer
|-
|Boss Build
|Miguel Biescas
|Machine Tools Producer
|-
|[[Pontecorvo Firm]]
|Adam Linares
|Shipbuilder
|-
|[[ESB Armada]]
|Abril Cantero
|Shipbuilder
|-
|[[FBP]]
|David Collado
|Defense Manufacturer
|-
|[[Rimarima Armaments]]
|John Martinez
|Defense Manufacturer
|}

=== Tertiary Industry ===

==== Transportation ====
The transportation sector is a major part of the economy. As a major naval nation, much transport is done by airplane and ships. Beyond that, Nouvelle Alexandrie has an extensive highway network, part of the [[Pan-Euran Highway]] and [[Pan-Keltian Highway]], and a [[Rail transport in Nouvelle Alexandrie|national rail network]] with freight lines and high-speed track.
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Type of transportation
!% of total transports
|-
|Road
|45%
|-
|Rail
|22%
|-
|Air
|15%
|-
|Water
|18%
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|Heline Cargo
|Luis Pastor
|Truck Transporter
|-
|Paravel
|Marcos Colina-Alcaie
|Truck Transporter
|-
|[[Nouvelle Alexandrie Railways]] Freight
|Guillaume Vaca
|Freightliner
|-
|[[Santander Railway Corporation]]
|Angelito Falcone
|Freightliner
|-
|T-Cargo Air
|Alberto Escudero
|Air Cargo Transporter
|-
|Aerose
|Zoe Anglés
|Air Cargo Transporter
|-
|Skycargo Inc.
|Omar Ramos
|Air Cargo Transporter
|-
|[[Kerularios & Company]]
|Cristian Peris
|Ship Cargo Transporter
|-
|T-Cargo Sea
|Alberto Escudero
|Ship Cargo Transporter
|}

==== Communications ====
The Telecommunications sector connects the nation together. Due to its geography, the country depends on its national television, radio, and telephony networks. It has however, only modest economic power and employs some of the smallest workforces in the nation. The main broadcaster, NBC, is publicly owned. It is however an important connection for other sectors in the economy.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|[[National Broadcasting Corporation (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|National Broadcasting Corporation]]
|[[Department of Communications (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Communications]]
|Television & Radio Service
|-
|[[Central Broadcasting Company (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Central Broadcasting Company]]
|[[ESB Media]]
|Television & Radio Service
|-
|[[AlexTV Corp]]
|Geraldo Capon
|Television & Radio Service
|-
|[[NAXConnect]]
|[[Sarbanes-Lopez CyberSecurity]]
|Internet Provider
|-
|[[Larousse Publishing Corporation]]
|Rufio Trevisan
|Newspaper & Books Publisher
|-
|[[Aldurian Publishing Group]]
|Sara Maldonado
|Newspaper & Books Publisher
|-
|[[Cárdenas News Group]]
|Dominga Moreau
|Newspaper Publisher
|}

==== Tourism ====
Tourist services and cultural venues are a growing part of the economy in Nouvelle Alexandrie, being as large as the transport sector in terms of GDP contribution and workforce. The market economy of the nation has led to many small and large tourism businesses growing around the natural beauty of the Islands and the cultural heritage of Alduria and Wechua.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable enterprises
!Name
!Owner
!Activity
|-
|[[Scouter Travel]]
|Jose Luis Sastre
|Travel Agency
|-
|[[Cititour]]
|Santiago Artigas
|Travel Agency
|-
|[[Paloma Hotels]]
|Cristina Panicucco
|Hotel Chain
|-
|[[HotelBev]]
|Felix Cocci
|Hospitality and Beverage Company
|-
|[[Raymon Hotels]]
|Hernan Raymon
|Hotel Chain
|-
|[[Aldurian Cruises]]
|Jorge Betances de Seda
|Holiday Cruises
|-
|[[Ocean Summit Cruises]]
|Alexander Botín
|Holiday Cruises
|}

==== Energy ====
The energy sector of Nouvelle Alexandrie is mostly devolved, with regional governments in charge of generation decisions. Renewable sources supplied about 35% of national demand in {{AN|1758}}, up from 24% in {{AN|1724}}. Much of the growth came from projects coordinated by the [[Renewable Energy Development Authority]]: the [[Sachua Arequibo Offshore Wind Farm]] off the coast of the [[Islas de la Libertad]], the four offshore wind farms of the [[Lyrican Renewable Energy Grid]], and the modernization of the [[Nouradin Hydroproject]], operated by [[Électricité d'Aldurie-Wechua]], the Federation's largest public electric utility. The accession of [[Oportia]] in {{AN|1755}} added its substantial solar capacity to the national mix. Under the [[Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection Act, 1719]], the [[Department of Energy and Environment (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Energy and Environment]] maintains a national renewable energy target, set at an advisory 20% soon after the Act's passage and, as of {{AN|1758}}, never revised.

Federal investment has leaned toward nuclear power. The [[Alexandrium Power Grid Modernization Act, 1745]] financed a decade of grid modernization that cut transmission losses below 2%, deployed 50 GWh of grid-scale storage, and brought the [[National Energy Commission (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|National Energy Commission]]'s [[Alexandrium]] microreactors to about 15% of national baseload generation by {{AN|1755}}. Under the [[Cascade Reactor Deployment Act, 1757]], retiring plants are exchanged for [[Alexandrium Cascade Reactor]]s, a design certified for commercial use in {{AN|1755}} that won its first foreign order in {{AN|1757}}, for [[Anglien]]'s [[Aquaria Nuclear Generating Station]]. A Cascade unit needs far less fuel than the designs it replaces, an 87% efficiency gain expected to slow the growth of Alexandrium consumption in the energy sector; on the design's certification the [[Institute for Strategic Studies]] extended its [[Peak Alexandrium|projected horizon]] for the exhaustion of the Federation's reserves from about {{AN|1795}} to past {{AN|1850}}. The fossil share of the mix fell from roughly 71% in {{AN|1715}} to 43% in {{AN|1758}}, with natural gas remaining the largest single source. In terms of economic power, energy makes the smallest GDP contribution of any tertiary subsector and employs one of its smallest workforces.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Energy mix ({{AN year|1758}})
! colspan="2" |Source
!% of energy mix
!Total production ({{AN year|1758}})
|-
| rowspan="4" |Renewable
|Wind Energy
|12.5%
|6,490 TWh
|-
|Solar Energy
|7.8%
|4,050 TWh
|-
|Hydroelectricity
|13.2%
|6,850 TWh
|-
|Geothermal
|1.5%
|780 TWh
|-
| rowspan="3" |Non-fossil
|Alexandrium Microreactors
|11.8%
|6,120 TWh
|-
|Nuclear (Uranium)
|9.6%
|4,980 TWh
|-
|Biomass
|0.6%
|310 TWh
|-
| rowspan="3" |Fossil
|Oil
|11.6%
|6,020 TWh
|-
|Natural Gas
|30.8%
|15,990 TWh
|-
|Coal
|0.6%
|310 TWh
|}

==Currency==
==Infrastructure==
The nation of Nouvelle Alexandrie has an extensive network of roads, railways, airports, and harbors:

* [[Pan-Keltian Highway]]
* [[Pan-Euran Highway]]
* [[National Tampu System]]
* [[Wechua Nation|Qhapaq Nan]]
* [[Rail transport in Nouvelle Alexandrie|National Rail Network]]
* [[Cárdenas International Airport]]
* [[Punta Santiago International Airport]]
* [[Parap International Airport]]
* [[Cárdenas Metro]]
* [[Punta Santiago Metro]]
* [[Parap MetroRail System]]
* [[Port of Jirishanca]]

==Foreign trade and investment==
==Issues==
[[Category:Economy of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
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Supplementary Appropriation Act, 1760

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{{Nouvelle Alexandrie Article}}
{{NAXLegislation
| short_title = Supplementary Appropriation Act, 1760
| parliament = 14th Cortes Federales
| long_title = ''An Act to raise the limit on net new borrowing for the year 1760 set by the General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760; to authorize the first issue of recovery bonds within that limit; to make no appropriation in addition to the sums already appropriated for the year; and for connected purposes.''
| bill_number = FA-1760-15
| introduced_by = The [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] (Government of the Federal Accord), tabled by [[Department of Treasury (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Treasury Secretary]] [[Tomás Iñiguez]] ([[Civic Governance Alliance|CGA]])
| Extent = Entire Federation of Nouvelle Alexandrie
| royal_assent = 21.IX.{{AN|1760}}
| commencement = 21.IX.{{AN|1760}}
| status = Current
| date_introduced = 3.IX.{{AN|1760}}
| last_updated = 21.IX.{{AN|1760}}
| amendments = None
| related_legislation = {{unbulleted list|[[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]]|[[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]]|[[Lindström Recovery Protocol]]}}
}}
The '''Supplementary Appropriation Act, 1760''' ([[Alexandrian language|Alexandrian]]: ''Loi de crédits supplémentaires, 1760''; [[Martino language|Martino]]: ''Ley de Apropiación Suplementaria, 1760''; [[Wechua language|Wechua]]: ''Yapasqa Qullqi Kamachiy, 1760'') is a law of [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] that raised the federal borrowing limit for {{AN|1760}} set by the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]] from NAX€975 billion to NAX€1,600 billion. The [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] introduced it on 3.IX.{{AN|1760}}. The [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] passed it by 469 votes to 297 and the [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]] by 59 to 49, and it received Royal Assent on 21.IX.{{AN|1760}}.<ref name="divisions">[[14th Cortes Federales#Legislation introduced|Legislation introduced in the 14th Cortes Federales]].</ref>

The Act appropriated no new money. Tax receipts in the first two quarters of the year fell short of the budget's forecast, and by the close of VIII.{{AN|1760}} the Treasury had used most of the year's borrowing limit. The Act let the Treasury borrow to cover the shortfall instead of holding back spending already voted. It also authorized the first issue of recovery bonds, which the Treasury sold in XIII.{{AN|1760}} with the backing of the [[Lindström Recovery Protocol]].<ref name="lrp">[[Lindström Recovery Protocol#Recovery bonds|Lindström Recovery Protocol]], "Recovery bonds".</ref> It left in place the withholding of NAX€200 billion of emergency borrowing under the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]], which only a separate act of the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes]] may release.<ref name="eera">[[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758#Aftermath|Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]], "Aftermath".</ref>

== Background ==
The [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]], the first budget of the [[14th Cortes Federales]], appropriated NAX€21,155.0 billion against forecast receipts of NAX€20,180.0 billion. Its Article 37 limited the Treasury's net new borrowing for the year to NAX€975 billion, the size of the forecast deficit.<ref name="gata">[[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]], Article 37 and "Economic and fiscal outlook"; Royal Assent 22.IV.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> The limit left no margin for a shortfall in revenue. Article 33 of the same Act also barred any drawing in the year from the [[National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie|National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund]], the reserve meant to carry federal services through a revenue shock without emergency borrowing.<ref name="gata33">[[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]], Article 33.</ref><ref name="nfref">[[National Fiscal Reserve and Emergency Fund of Nouvelle Alexandrie]].</ref> The Cortes had added to the federal borrowing in {{AN|1759}}, when the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758|recovery Act]] appropriated NAX€600 billion, met by borrowing, on top of the NAX€1,361.9 billion authorized by the {{AN|1758}} budget.<ref name="eera-pkg">[[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]].</ref> Under the [[Lindström Recovery Protocol]], Natopia had offered to take up to NAX€250 billion of New Alexandrian recovery bonds left unbought by private investors, though no such bond could be issued without the authorization of the Cortes.<ref name="lrp-terms">[[Lindström Recovery Protocol#Terms|Lindström Recovery Protocol]], "Terms".</ref>

Receipts came in below the forecast. By the close of VIII.{{AN|1760}} the Treasury had, on the figures then published, borrowed NAX€895.2 billion over the first two quarters,<ref name="dashIV">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month IV, 1760)|"Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month IV, 1760)"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 24.IV.{{AN|1760}}.</ref><ref name="dashVIII">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month VIII, 1760)|"Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month VIII, 1760)"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 24.VIII.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> leaving NAX€79.8 billion of the year's limit, while it expected the third quarter alone to need about NAX€368 billion. Without a higher limit the Treasury would have had to hold back payments the Cortes had already voted.

When the Government sought the confidence of the Cortes in I.{{AN|1760}}, it undertook that the NAX€200 billion of undrawn emergency borrowing under the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]] would stay withheld until a separate act of the Cortes released it. The independent deputy [[Piti Gándara]] had pressed for the undertaking, and thirteen independents led by her backed the Government on the vote of confidence.<ref name="confidence">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE ACCORD WINS THE CONFIDENCE OF THE CORTES, 461 TO 293, AND GONÇALVES TAKES OFFICE|"The Accord wins the confidence of the Cortes, 461 to 293, and Gonçalves takes office"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 15.I.{{AN|1760}}.</ref><ref name="eera" /> From the start of the session the opposition questioned how the Government would pay for its plans: in II.{{AN|1760}} [[José Manuel Montero]], the [[Leader of the Opposition of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Leader of the Opposition]], said the opening program gave ''"not one honest word about where the money is to come from once the emergency borrowing runs out"''.<ref name="program">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE FEDERAL ACCORD AGREES ITS OPENING LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM AFTER WEEKS OF COALITION BARGAINING|"The Federal Accord agrees its opening legislative program after weeks of coalition bargaining"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 1.II.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> The Government later asked the Cortes for a higher borrowing limit and left the tranche withheld.

== Key provisions ==
The Act amends Article 37 of the {{AN|1760}} budget to raise the borrowing limit from NAX€975 billion to NAX€1,600 billion. It authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to raise up to NAX€250 billion of that borrowing by an issue of recovery bonds with a term of not more than fifteen years, the sum and maturity of Natopia's backstop under the [[Lindström Recovery Protocol]].<ref name="backstop1759">[[NBC Newsfeed/1759#NATOPIA BACKS NEW ALEXANDRIAN RECOVERY WITH ORDERS, ALEXANDRIUM PURCHASES, CREDIT AND BANK CAPITAL|"Natopia backs New Alexandrian recovery with orders, Alexandrium purchases, credit and bank capital"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 29.XV.{{AN|1759}}.</ref> The backstop may take any part of the issue that private investors do not buy. The Act makes no appropriation beyond the sums already voted for the year, and it does not release the withheld emergency tranche. The Secretary must report the year's borrowing to the Cortes within thirty days of the close of the year.

== Effects and implementation ==
The Treasury borrowed NAX€1,305.8 billion in {{AN|1760}}, NAX€330.8 billion more than the original limit and within the raised one. Receipts for the year came to NAX€19,673.0 billion, NAX€507.0 billion short of the forecast, while spending ran NAX€176.2 billion below the sums appropriated.

In XII.{{AN|1760}} the [[Nouvelle Alexandrie Statistics Bureau]] revised its figures for the first two quarters of the year following its annual benchmark review.<ref name="dashXII">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month XII, 1760)|"Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month XII, 1760)"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 24.XII.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> The revised series restates gross public debt at the close of {{AN|1759}} at 65.9 percent of output, against the 67.4 percent first reported.<ref name="frozen">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE FEDERAL ACCORD INHERITS A FROZEN NAX€200 BILLION AND THE BUDGET FIGHT TO RELEASE IT|"The Federal Accord inherits a frozen NAX€200 billion and the budget fight to release it"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 14.I.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> On that series debt reached 67.2 percent at the close of VIII.{{AN|1760}}<ref name="dashXII" /> and 66.9 percent at the close of the year,<ref name="dashXV">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month XV, 1760)|"Nouvelle Alexandrie Economic Dashboard (Month XV, 1760)"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 24.XV.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> 1.0 point higher than at the close of {{AN|1759}} and 1.9 points above the 65 percent medium-term anchor of the standing fiscal framework.<ref name="gata" /> The [[Federal Debt Review Board]], which the budget Act continued in its Article 31, must report to the Cortes at least once a year on the path of gross public debt.<ref name="gata31">[[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]], Article 31.</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Federal borrowing and debt by quarter, {{AN|1760}}, revised series (NAX€ billion)
! Quarter !! Months !! Receipts !! Net borrowing !! Gross debt at close !! Debt to output
|-
| Opening || close of {{AN|1759}} || - || - || 32,496.3 || 65.9%
|-
| First || I to IV || 5,092.6 || 422.5 || 32,918.8 || 66.7%
|-
| Second || V to VIII || 5,111.1 || 400.4 || 33,319.2 || 67.2%<ref name="dashXII" />
|-
| Third<ref name="dashXII" /> || IX to XII || 5,353.8 || 273.1 || 33,592.3 || 67.1%
|-
| Fourth<ref name="dashXV" /> || XIII to XV || 4,115.5 || 209.8 || 33,802.1 || 66.9%
|-
| style="background:#ccc;" | Year || - || 19,673.0 || 1,305.8 || 33,802.1 || 66.9%
|}

According to a Treasury statement of 16.XIII.{{AN|1760}}, the first issue of recovery bonds under the Act came to NAX€250 billion in fifteen-year bonds, of which private investors bought NAX€150 billion and Natopia the other NAX€100 billion through the backstop of the [[Lindström Recovery Protocol]]. The bonds priced inside the Protocol's yield cap, though the final yield was not disclosed.<ref name="bonds">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#NATOPIA BUYS NAX€100 BILLION OF THE FEDERATION'S FIRST RECOVERY BONDS|"Natopia buys NAX€100 billion of the Federation's first recovery bonds"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 16.XIII.{{AN|1760}}.</ref><ref name="lrp" /> The issue fell within the borrowing the Act had allowed to cover lower tax receipts, and the Federation will repay the bonds as its own public debt.<ref name="bonds" />

== Legislative history ==
Treasury Secretary [[Tomás Iñiguez]] tabled the bill for the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] on 3.IX.{{AN|1760}}.<ref name="divisions" /> Article 35 of the budget Act requires an independent note from the [[Federal Budget and Costing Office]] estimating the cost and effect of every major bill before the Cortes.<ref name="gata35">[[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]], Articles 32 and 35.</ref> The Office, under its Director [[Ingrid Halvorsen]],<ref name="fbco">[[Federal Budget and Costing Office]].</ref> laid its note on the bill before the Cortes on 8.IX.{{AN|1760}}. It put the Treasury's borrowing need for the rest of the year at about NAX€645 billion, some NAX€565 billion more than was left under the original limit, and found that the new limit would leave a margin of about NAX€60 billion above that need. At the average rate of 3 percent that the Federation paid on its debt, the Office estimated that borrowing above the original limit would cost about NAX€17 billion a year in interest once drawn, and it forecast gross debt near 69.6 percent of output at the close of the year.

The bill took the ordinary legislative procedure, and the [[Budget and Finances Committee]] reported it without amendment on 10.IX.{{AN|1760}}. The [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] carried it at its final division on 16.IX.{{AN|1760}} by 469 votes to 297, with 35 abstentions. The [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]] concurred on 19.IX.{{AN|1760}} by 59 to 49, with 10 abstentions. King [[Sinchi Roca II]] granted Royal Assent on 21.IX.{{AN|1760}}, and the Act came into force the same day.<ref name="divisions" />

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Legislative history
! Stage !! Date !! Chamber !! Action !! Votes (Y-N-A) !! Details
|-
| 1 || 3.IX.{{AN|1760}} || Federal Assembly || Introduction || - || Introduced by the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]]; tabled by Treasury Secretary [[Tomás Iñiguez]]
|-
| 2 || 10.IX.{{AN|1760}} || Federal Assembly || Committee report || - || [[Budget and Finances Committee]]; reported without amendment
|-
| 3 || 16.IX.{{AN|1760}} || Federal Assembly || Final division || 469-297-35 || Passed; sent to the [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]]
|-
| 4 || 19.IX.{{AN|1760}} || Chamber of Peers || Concurrence || 59-49-10 || Concurred without amendment
|-
| 5 || 21.IX.{{AN|1760}} || - || Royal Assent || - || Signed into law by King [[Sinchi Roca II]]; came into force the same day
|}

== Bill as submitted to the Hopper of the Federal Assembly, {{AN|1760}} ==
<div style="padding: 1px; text-align:left; margin:auto; border:1px solid #7BA05B; color:#000000; width:90%;"><center>
[[File:NewAlexandriaCOA.png|100px|center]]
'''Supplementary Appropriation Act, 1760'''

THE READING OF 
A 
BILL 
TO 
raise the limit on net new borrowing for the year 1760 set by the General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760; to authorize the first issue of recovery bonds within that limit; to make no appropriation in addition to the sums already appropriated for the year; and for connected purposes.

'''Supplementary Appropriation Act, 1760''' 

Presented by the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] 
Ordered, by the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie]], 
to be Printed, 3.IX.{{AN|1760}}. 

'''''BE IT ENACTED''' by the [[King of Nouvelle Alexandrie|King]]'s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes Federales]], in this present session assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-''
</center>

<center> '''PART I''' 
''GENERAL PROVISIONS'' </center>

'''Article 1: Citation.''' 
#This Act may be cited as the Supplementary Appropriation Act, 1760.

'''Article 2: Definitions.''' 
#In this Act:
##"Appropriation Act" means the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]];
##"Protocol" means the [[Lindström Recovery Protocol]];
##"recovery bond" means a bond issued by the Secretary under Article 6;
##"Secretary" means the Secretary of the Treasury;
##"withheld tranche" means the NAX€200,000,000,000 of borrowing authorized by the [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]] and not drawn at the close of the year 1759.

'''Article 3: Purpose.''' 
#The purpose of this Act is to allow the Federation to finance the sums appropriated for the year 1760 where receipts fall short of the forecast on which the Appropriation Act was made.

<center> '''PART II''' 
''BORROWING'' </center>

'''Article 4: Limit on net new borrowing.''' 
#Article 37 of the Appropriation Act is amended as follows.
#In paragraph 1, for "NAX€975,000,000,000" substitute "NAX€1,600,000,000,000".
#The fiscal rules of Article 30 of the Appropriation Act continue to apply to borrowing under the limit as amended.

'''Article 5: No additional appropriation.''' 
#This Act appropriates no sum in addition to the sums appropriated by Article 15 of the Appropriation Act.
#The Secretary must not apply borrowing under this Act to any purpose other than the payment of sums appropriated by the Appropriation Act or the service of the public debt.

<center> '''PART III''' 
''RECOVERY BONDS'' </center>

'''Article 6: Recovery bonds.''' 
#The Secretary may raise not more than NAX€250,000,000,000 of the borrowing authorized by Article 37 of the Appropriation Act by an issue of recovery bonds.
#A recovery bond must have a term of not more than fifteen (15) years and is a charge on the credit of the Federation.
#The Secretary may accept the purchase under the Protocol of any recovery bonds not taken by private investors.
#The Secretary must lay before the Cortes, within fourteen (14) days of each issue, a statement of the sum issued, the term, and the sums taken by private investors and under the Protocol.

'''Article 7: Withheld tranche.''' 
#This Act does not release the withheld tranche.
#The withheld tranche may be released only by an Act of the Cortes passed for that purpose.

'''Article 8: Report to the Cortes.''' 
#The Secretary must lay before the Cortes, within thirty (30) days of the close of the year 1760, a report of the net new borrowing done in the year, the recovery bonds issued, and the receipts and payments of the Federation for the year.

<center> '''PART IV''' 
''CLOSING PROVISIONS'' </center>

'''Article 9: Commencement and application.''' 
#This Act applies to all of the [[Federation of Nouvelle Alexandrie]].
#This Act does not become law unless it has been given Royal Assent by [[King of Nouvelle Alexandrie|H.M. King]] [[Sinchi Roca II]], and must be published in the [[The Federal Gazette|Federal Gazette]] within seven (7) days of the Assent.
#This Act comes into force on the day on which it receives Royal Assent.
#Articles 4 and 6(1) have effect for the year 1760 only; Articles 5, 6(2) to 6(4), 7 and 8 continue in force after the close of that year.
#If a provision of this Act is held invalid or unenforceable, only that provision, and not the whole Act, is inoperative.
 </div>

== Amendments ==
''No amendments to date.''

== Voting record ==
The three parties of the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] held 448 of the 801 seats and voted for the bill: the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]], formed by the {{NAX party|DSP}} and the {{NAX party|WPP}}; the {{NAX party|CGA}}; and the {{NAX party|FCP}}, which is also bound to support the Government on confidence and supply. The bill was carried on the final division by 469 votes to 297, with 35 abstentions.<ref name="divisions" />

===Federal Assembly final reading (16.IX.{{AN|1760}})===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Notable votes on the Supplementary Appropriation Act, {{AN|1760}}
! Deputy !! Region !! Party !! Vote !! Role/Notes
|-
| [[Tomás Iñiguez]] || {{team flag|North Lyrica}} || {{NAX party|CGA|abbr=yes}} || {{Yes}} || Treasury Secretary; tabled the bill for the Government of the Federal Accord
|-
| [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] || {{team flag|Santander}} || {{NAX party|DSP|abbr=yes}} || {{Yes}} || Premier; the bill was a government measure
|-
| [[Pierre-Antoine Blaise]] || {{team flag|Valencia}} || {{NAX party|DSP|abbr=yes}} || {{Yes}} || Deputy since {{AN|1749}}
|-
| [[José Manuel Montero]] || {{team flag|Wechua|name=Wechua Nation}} || {{NAX party|FHP|abbr=yes}} || {{No}} || Leader of the Opposition
|-
| [[Fred Strong]] || {{team flag|North Lyrica}} || {{NAX party|FHP|abbr=yes}} || {{No}} || Former Vice-Premier and Secretary of Defense
|-
| [[Sumaili Humahuaca]] || {{team flag|Wechua|name=Wechua Nation}} || {{NAX party|FHP|abbr=yes}} || {{No}} || Former Secretary of Justice
|-
| [[Yuiza Bohi'o]] || {{team flag|Boriquén}} || {{NAX party|WPP|abbr=yes}} || {{Yes}} || Leader of the Wakara People's Party, a coalition party
|-
| [[Francisco Gabaza]] || {{team flag|Santander}} || {{NAX party|FCP|abbr=yes}} || {{Yes}} || Leader of the Federal Consensus Party; supported passage under the Accord
|-
| [[Cao Qiang]] || {{team flag|Alduria}} || {{NAX party|FCP|abbr=yes}} || {{Yes}} || Special Counselor to the Council of State
|-
| [[Piti Gándara]] || {{team flag|Alduria}} || Independent || {{Yes}} || Pressed the undertaking that keeps the emergency tranche withheld
|}

====Vote summary by party====
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 550px;"
|+ Federal Assembly final reading, 16.IX.{{AN|1760}}
! Political party !! Yes !! No !! Abstain/absent !! Total !! % Support
|-
| {{NAX party|DSP}} || 232 || 0 || 0 || 232 || 100%
|-
| {{NAX party|WPP}} || 28 || 0 || 0 || 28 || 100%
|-
| {{NAX party|CGA}} || 95 || 0 || 0 || 95 || 100%
|-
| {{NAX party|FCP}} || 93 || 0 || 0 || 93 || 100%
|-
| {{NAX party|FHP}} || 0 || 293 || 0 || 293 || 0%
|-
| {{NAX party|RPO}} || 0 || 0 || 10 || 10 || 0%
|-
| Independent || 21 || 4 || 25 || 50 || 42%
|-
| style="background:#ccc;" | Total || style="background:#90EE90;" | 469 || style="background:#FFB6C1;" | 297 || style="background:#F0F0F0;" | 35 || 801 || 58.6%
|}

===Analysis===
The three Accord parties voted as a bloc, and their 448 votes were a majority of the Assembly on their own. The {{NAX party|FHP}} voted against as a body, and the {{NAX party|RPO}} abstained. Twenty-one independents supported the bill and four opposed it, three more in favor than had voted for the budget in IV.{{AN|1760}}.<ref name="gata-vote">[[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760#Voting record|General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]], "Voting record".</ref>

The bill passed by 172 votes; the budget had passed by 169. The bill did not release the withheld emergency tranche, which under the undertaking [[Piti Gándara]] pressed in I.{{AN|1760}} only a separate act may release, and Gándara voted for the bill.<ref name="confidence" />

=== Chamber of Peers ===
The [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]] concurred in the bill on 19.IX.{{AN|1760}} by 59 votes to 49, with 10 abstentions.<ref name="divisions" /> As a revising house the Chamber may delay or amend an ordinary bill but cannot block one, and a bill on which it takes no decision within sixty days is deemed passed.<ref name="gata-peers">[[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760#Chamber of Peers|General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]], "Chamber of Peers".</ref>

=== Royal Assent ===
The bill received the Royal Assent of King [[Sinchi Roca II]] on 21.IX.{{AN|1760}}, on which day the Act commenced.<ref name="divisions" />

== Aftermath ==
After the first recovery-bond sale in XIII.{{AN|1760}}, Treasury Secretary [[Tomás Iñiguez]] said: ''"Three écus in five came from private buyers, and that is the number I watch. The backstop did what it was built to do. It meant we never had to sell this debt in a hurry or at any price the market chose to name."'' Montero said that ''"selling our bonds to Natopia does not make them cheaper to repay"'' and that the sale made the recovery ''"a little more dependent on decisions taken in Lindström"''.<ref name="bonds" /> The rest of the Protocol's backstop remained available for any further issue the Cortes might authorize.<ref name="bonds" />

== See also ==
* [[NBC Newsfeed/1760]]
* [[Federal budget of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
* [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]]
* [[Economic Emergency and Recovery Act, 1758]]
* [[Lindström Recovery Protocol]]
* [[Recession of 1757]]
* [[Federal Budget and Costing Office]]
* [[Federal Debt Review Board]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
[[Category:Economy of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
[[Category:14th Cortes Federales]]

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Wakara Language and Culture Protection Act, 1761

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{{Nouvelle Alexandrie Article}}
{{NAXLegislation
| short_title = Wakara Language and Culture Protection Act, 1761
| parliament = 14th Cortes Federales
| long_title = ''An Act to give effect to Article 27 of the General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760 and to Article I of the Plan de Hato Rey; to make the Wakara language a co-official language of the Federation alongside Alexandrian, Martino, and Wechua; to place on a statutory footing the publication of federal law in the Wakara language and to provide for its use with federal bodies and in federal courts; to continue the Guatu Wakarabo and to set its functions; to support education, publishing, and broadcasting in the Wakara language and to protect Wakara cultural heritage; to provide for a program of federal investment in Boriquén agreed with its Government; to amend the Wakara Identity Act, 1724; among other purposes.''
| bill_number = FA-1761-02
| introduced_by = [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] (Government of the Federal Accord), sponsored by [[Sofia Estrada]] ([[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|DSP]] / Secretary of Education, Sports, and Culture) and [[Mayani Guacanagari]] (Wakara People's Party / Secretary of Housing and Urban Development)
| Extent = Entire Federation of Nouvelle Alexandrie
| royal_assent = 8.VI.{{AN|1762}}
| commencement = 8.VI.{{AN|1762}}
| status = Current
| date_introduced = 19.III.{{AN|1761}}
| last_updated = 8.VI.{{AN|1762}}
| amendments = None
| related_legislation = {{unbulleted list|[[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]]|[[Plan de Hato Rey]]|[[Boriquén Admission Act, 1718]]|[[Wakara Identity Act, 1724]]|[[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759]]}}
}}
The '''Wakara Language and Culture Protection Act, 1761''' ([[Alexandrian language|Alexandrian]]: ''Loi sur la protection de la langue et de la culture wakara, 1761''; [[Martino language|Martino]]: ''Ley de Protección de la Lengua y la Cultura Wakara, 1761''; [[Wechua language|Wechua]]: ''Wakara Simimanta Kamachiy, 1761''; [[Wakara language|Wakara]]: ''Areyto-kato Wakarabo, 1761'') is a law of [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]], passed by the [[14th Cortes Federales]] on the proposal of the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] of the Federal Accord and given Royal Assent on 8.VI.{{AN|1762}}. It gives effect to Article 27 of the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]], which provided for the legal protection of the Wakara language and Wakara culture and for investment in [[Boriquén]]. It also gives statutory form to Article I of the [[Plan de Hato Rey]] of {{AN|1717}}, under which the Federation undertook to recognize and protect the Wakara language.

Brought by [[Sofia Estrada]], the Secretary of Education, Sports, and Culture, with [[Mayani Guacanagari]] of the [[Wakara People's Party]], the Act makes Wakara the fourth co-official language of the Federation, beside Alexandrian, Martino, and Wechua. It puts on a statutory footing the Wakara edition of the Federal Gazette, lets a person write to any federal body in Wakara and speak it in any federal court, and requires federal bodies that serve the public in person in Boriquén and the Cherusken district of [[Santander]] to serve people there in Wakara. It continues the [[Guatu Wakarabo]], the Wakara Language Council founded in {{AN|1725}}, as the authority on the language's standard form, funds teaching, publishing, and broadcasting in Wakara, and requires a register of Wakara cultural heritage. A program of federal investment in Boriquén, agreed with the Region's Government, covers its storm-exposed electricity grid, health clinics, schools, and the Port of Hato Rey. The constitutional standing of the Wakara people and questions of self-government are left outside the Act.

== Background ==
Wakara is the ancestral language of the [[Wakara people]], native to the lands around [[Lake Cherusken]] in southeastern [[Keltia]]. Under [[Gran Verionia]] and the colonial regimes that followed, its use was discouraged in official life and [[Martino language|Martino]] became the language of government and commerce.<ref name="lang">[[Wakara language]].</ref> The [[Plan de Hato Rey]], signed at [[Hato Rey]] on 23.VI.{{AN|1717}}, set the terms on which the Wakara joined [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]]. Its Article I provides that the Wakara people and their culture, "including their language, traditions, and customs, shall be legally recognized and protected" by the Government, and its Article III establishes [[Boriquén]] as an autonomous political entity.<ref name="plan">[[Plan de Hato Rey]], Articles I and III.</ref> The Plan was ratified by the [[Boriquén Admission Act, 1718]].<ref name="admission">[[Boriquén Admission Act, 1718]].</ref>

The [[Wakara Identity Act, 1724]], brought by [[Mayani Guacanagari]] and [[Beatriz Daguao]] in the [[7th Cortes Federales]], created the Cultural Association of the Wakara Nation, the [[Wakara Commission on Culture and the Arts]], the Wakara Entrepreneurship Council, and the Wakara Spiritual Institute. It reached the language only through modules on Wakara culture, history, and language in the national curriculum, and gave the language no legal standing.<ref name="wia">[[Wakara Identity Act, 1724]].</ref> The [[Guatu Wakarabo]], the Wakara Language Council, was established in {{AN|1725}}, within the Wakara Renaissance that had begun after Boriquén's admission, to standardize the language and lead its revival; the Renaissance brought Wakara into the schools of Boriquén and the [[Areyto Legislativo de Boriquén]]. Wakara is a recognized regional language of Boriquén, where official documents must be published in Wakara alongside Alexandrian and Martino translations, and it holds protected status in the Cherusken district of [[Santander]]. At federal level, Alexandrian and Martino remain dominant.<ref name="lang" /> The [[The Federal Gazette|Federal Gazette]], published by the [[Office of National Records]], added Wakara to its official translations after Boriquén's accession in {{AN|1719}}; its issues are published in Wakara, and all its language versions carry equal legal authority.<ref name="gazette">[[The Federal Gazette]]; [[Office of National Records]].</ref> The Act puts that edition on a statutory footing.

The Speech from the Throne that opened the [[14th Cortes Federales]] in {{AN|1760}} promised that the Government "will honor the tongues and the traditions of its several nations, from the Wechua highlands to the shores of Boriquén".<ref name="throne">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#Throne Speech|Speech from the Throne of Nouvelle Alexandrie]], delivered to the [[14th Cortes Federales]] on 12.I.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> The [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759]] committed the Government to investment in the Region and legal protection for the Wakara language and Wakara culture.<ref name="accord">[[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759]], section 7.</ref> Article 27 of the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]] made provision for both, but named no sum and created no mechanism.<ref name="gata">[[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]], Article 27.</ref>

== Key provisions ==
The Act makes Wakara a co-official language with the same standing as Alexandrian, Martino, and Wechua. It requires the [[Office of National Records]] to continue publishing every Act and every issue of the Gazette in Wakara with the same authority as the other versions, lets a person write to any federal body in Wakara and receive a reply in it, and allows a party or witness to use Wakara in any federal court with an interpreter at public expense. Federal bodies that serve the public in person in Boriquén, or in the Cherusken district of Santander once it is designated, are required to serve the public in Wakara and to publish their notices and forms in it, and federal registers record a Wakara name as the person gives it.

The Act continues the Guatu Wakarabo as an independent agency that sets the standard orthography, publishes terminology for law and administration, certifies translators and interpreters, and hears complaints of refused service. Its nine members are nominated by the Government of Boriquén, the Cultural Association of the Wakara Nation, and the Government of Santander.

In education and culture, the Act requires Wakara to be recognized as a language of instruction wherever a Region teaches in it, funds teacher training and teaching materials, and allows grants for Wakara publishing and broadcasting. It requires the Wakara Commission on Culture and the Arts to keep a register of Wakara heritage, prepared with the Wakara Cultural Preservation Society, and federal bodies are to consult the Commission before works affecting a registered site.

For Boriquén, the Act requires the Secretary of Administrative Coordination and Efficiency to prepare, in agreement with the Region's Government, an investment program for the storm-exposed grid, health clinics, schools, and the Port of Hato Rey, funded from sums the Cortes appropriates and reported as its own line in the Treasury's quarterly statement by Region. It provides for a review judged by results in the manner of the [[Parap Principles]].

=== Provisions in outline ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Structure of the Act
! Part !! Articles !! Subject
|-
| I || 1–4 || General provisions: citation, definitions, purpose, and scope
|-
| II || 5–10 || Status and use of the language: co-official status, federal law and publications, the Lake Cherusken area, federal bodies, federal courts, and personal names
|-
| III || 11–13 || The Guatu Wakarabo: continuation, functions, and membership
|-
| IV || 14–16 || Education, media, and heritage: instruction and teaching materials, publishing and broadcasting, and consultation on the heritage register
|-
| V || 17–18 || Investment in Boriquén: the investment program, the Region's agreement, and reporting
|-
| VI || 19–23 || Final provisions: amendment of the Act of {{AN|1724}}, constitutional basis, regulations, review, and commencement
|}

== Legislative history ==
The [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] introduced the bill on 19.III.{{AN|1761}}. The Secretary of Education, Sports, and Culture, [[Sofia Estrada]], moved it at second reading in the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] on 24.II.{{AN|1762}}, and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, [[Mayani Guacanagari]], spoke in its support. The Assembly carried it on the final division of 24.V.{{AN|1762}} by 478 votes to 301, with 22 abstentions; the [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]] concurred on 4.VI.{{AN|1762}} by 66 to 42, with 10 abstentions; and King [[Sinchi Roca II]] granted Royal Assent on 8.VI.{{AN|1762}}, on which day the Act came into force.<ref name="divisions">[[14th Cortes Federales#Legislation introduced|Legislation introduced in the 14th Cortes Federales]].</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Legislative history
! Stage !! Date !! Chamber !! Action !! Votes (Y-N-A) !! Details
|-
| 1 || 19.III.{{AN|1761}} || Federal Assembly || Introduction || - || Introduced for the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] by [[Sofia Estrada]] (DSP, Secretary of Education, Sports, and Culture) and [[Mayani Guacanagari]] (WPP, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development)
|-
| 2 || 24.II.{{AN|1762}} || Federal Assembly || Second reading debate opened || - || Moved by [[Sofia Estrada]]; supported by [[Mayani Guacanagari]]
|-
| 3 || 24.V.{{AN|1762}} || Federal Assembly || Final division || 478-301-22 || Passed; sent to the [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]]
|-
| 4 || 4.VI.{{AN|1762}} || Chamber of Peers || Concurrence || 66-42-10 || Concurred without amendment
|-
| 5 || 8.VI.{{AN|1762}} || - || Royal Assent || - || Signed into law by King [[Sinchi Roca II]]
|}

== Bill as submitted to the Hopper of the Federal Assembly, {{AN|1761}} ==
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'''Wakara Language and Culture Protection Act, 1761'''

THE READING OF 
A 
BILL 
TO 
give effect to Article 27 of the General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760 and to Article I of the Plan de Hato Rey; to make the Wakara language a co-official language of the Federation alongside Alexandrian, Martino, and Wechua; to place on a statutory footing the publication of federal law in the Wakara language and to provide for its use with federal bodies and in federal courts; to continue the Guatu Wakarabo and to set its functions; to support education, publishing, and broadcasting in the Wakara language and to protect Wakara cultural heritage; to provide for a program of federal investment in Boriquén agreed with its Government; to amend the Wakara Identity Act, 1724; ''among other purposes''. 

'''Wakara Language and Culture Protection Act, 1761''' 

Presented for the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] by [[Sofia Estrada]] ([[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|DSP]]), [[Department of Education, Sports, and Culture (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Secretary of Education, Sports, and Culture]], and [[Mayani Guacanagari]] ([[Wakara People's Party]]), Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
Ordered, by the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie]], 
to be Printed, {{AN|1761}}. 

'''BE IT ENACTED''' by the [[King of Nouvelle Alexandrie|King]]'s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes Federales]], in this present session assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
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<center> '''PART I''' ''GENERAL PROVISIONS'' </center>

'''Article 1: Citation.''' 
#This Act may be cited as the "Wakara Language and Culture Protection Act, 1761".

'''Article 2: Definitions.''' 
#In this Act:
##"the 1724 Act" means the [[Wakara Identity Act, 1724]];
##"the Appropriation Act" means the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]];
##"the Commission" means the [[Wakara Commission on Culture and the Arts]] established under the 1724 Act;
##"the Council" means the [[Guatu Wakarabo]], the Wakara Language Council continued by Article 11;
##"the Department" means the [[Department of Education, Sports, and Culture (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Education, Sports, and Culture]];
##"federal body" means a department, agency, office, or court of the Federation, and a person exercising a function on behalf of one;
##"the Gazette" means [[The Federal Gazette|the Federal Gazette]];
##"the Lake Cherusken area" means the Cherusken district of the Region of [[Santander]], or the part of it the Secretary designates under Article 7;
##"the Plan" means the [[Plan de Hato Rey]], ratified by the [[Boriquén Admission Act, 1718]];
##"the program" means the Boriquén investment program prepared under Article 17;
##"the Secretary" means the Secretary of Education, Sports, and Culture;
##"Wakara" means the Wakara language (''Wakarabo'').

'''Article 3: Purpose.''' 
#The purposes of this Act are:
##to give effect to the legal protection of the Wakara language and Wakara culture provided for by Article 27 of the Appropriation Act and to the recognition promised by Article I of the Plan;
##to make Wakara a co-official language of the Federation, and to allow a person to use it with federal bodies and in federal courts;
##to support the teaching, publishing, and broadcasting of Wakara and the protection of Wakara cultural heritage; and
##to give effect to the investment in Boriquén provided for by Article 27 of the Appropriation Act.

'''Article 4: Scope.''' 
#This Act binds federal bodies, and does not alter the law of the Region of [[Boriquén]] on the use of Wakara, which continues in force.
#This Act does not determine the constitutional status of the Wakara people or any question of self-government.

<center> '''PART II''' ''STATUS AND USE OF THE LANGUAGE'' </center>

'''Article 5: Co-official status.''' 
#Wakara is a co-official language of the Federation, with the same standing as Alexandrian, Martino, and Wechua.
#The Federation recognizes and protects Wakara in accordance with Article I of the Plan.

'''Article 6: Federal law and publications.''' 
#The [[Office of National Records]] must continue to publish each Act of the Cortes Federales and each issue of the Gazette in Wakara, with the same authority as the other versions.
#A federal body that publishes a notice, form, or public document for use in Boriquén or the Lake Cherusken area must publish it in Wakara at the same time as in the other languages in which it is published.

'''Article 7: The Lake Cherusken area.''' 
#The Secretary must designate the Cherusken district of the Region of Santander, or a part of it, as the Lake Cherusken area within one hundred and eighty days beginning with the day this Act comes into force, after consulting the Government of the Region of Santander and the Council.
#Article 6(2) and Article 8(2) and (3) apply in the Lake Cherusken area beginning with the day the designation is published in the Gazette.

'''Article 8: Use of Wakara with federal bodies.''' 
#A person may communicate in writing in Wakara with any federal body, and is entitled to a written reply in Wakara.
#A person may deal in Wakara, in person, with a federal body that serves the public in person in Boriquén or the Lake Cherusken area, and is entitled to be answered in Wakara.
#Each federal body that serves the public in person in Boriquén or the Lake Cherusken area must have available staff able to deal with the public in Wakara.
#A person who is refused a service in Wakara under this Article may complain to the Council, and the Council must report each complaint, and its outcome, to the Secretary and in its report under Article 12(2).

'''Article 9: Use of Wakara in federal courts.''' 
#In proceedings before a federal court, a party or a witness may use Wakara.
#The court must provide interpretation for a party or witness who uses Wakara, at public expense.

'''Article 10: Personal names.''' 
#A federal register, including the registers of births, deaths, and marriages and the register of passports, must record a personal name in Wakara as the person gives it, including its diacritics.

<center> '''PART III''' ''THE GUATU WAKARABO'' </center>

'''Article 11: Continuation of the Council.''' 
#The Guatu Wakarabo, the Wakara Language Council established in {{AN|1725}}, continues as a body corporate.
#The Council is an independent agency under the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]], and is independent of the Government in the exercise of its functions under Article 12.

'''Article 12: Functions of the Council.''' 
#The Council has the following functions:
##to set the standard orthography of Wakara;
##to prepare and publish dictionaries and the terminology of Wakara for law, administration, science, and education;
##to advise federal bodies on the use of Wakara;
##to certify translators and interpreters of Wakara for federal bodies and courts; and
##to receive complaints under Article 8.
#The Council must lay a report on the state and use of Wakara, and on the exercise of its functions, before the Cortes Federales once in each year.

'''Article 13: Membership.''' 
#The Council consists of nine members appointed by the Secretary for a term of five years.
#The Secretary must appoint four members on the nomination of the Government of the Region of Boriquén, four on the nomination of the Cultural Association of the Wakara Nation established under the 1724 Act, and one on the nomination of the Government of the Region of Santander.
#The Secretary may remove a member before the end of the term only for incapacity or misconduct, after notice and an opportunity to be heard.

<center> '''PART IV''' ''EDUCATION, MEDIA, AND HERITAGE'' </center>

'''Article 14: Education.''' 
#The Department must recognize Wakara as a language of instruction in the educational standards of the Federation, where a Region provides instruction in it.
#The Department must fund, from sums appropriated for the purpose, the training of teachers of and in Wakara and the preparation of teaching materials in Wakara, and must prepare those materials with the Council, in accordance with Article I(2)(c) and (d) of the Plan.

'''Article 15: Publishing and broadcasting.''' 
#The Department may make grants for publishing, broadcasting, and digital media in Wakara.
#The Department must report the grants made under this Article in each year to the Cortes Federales.

'''Article 16: Cultural heritage.''' 
#A federal body must consult the Commission before it carries out, consents to, or funds works that would affect a site entered in the register of Wakara cultural heritage kept under paragraph 4A of Section III of the 1724 Act.

<center> '''PART V''' ''INVESTMENT IN BORIQUÉN'' </center>

'''Article 17: Boriquén investment program.''' 
#The Secretary of Administrative Coordination and Efficiency must prepare, with the Secretaries of Energy and Environment, of Social Security and National Solidarity, of Education, Sports, and Culture, and of Civil Works and Transportation, and in agreement with the Government of the Region of Boriquén, a program of federal investment in Boriquén, and must lay it before the Cortes Federales within one year beginning with the day this Act comes into force.
#The program must address:
##the resilience of the electricity grid in Boriquén against storms;
##health clinics and primary care;
##schools, and education in Wakara; and
##the Port of Hato Rey and transport in the Region.
#The program must state the projects it includes, their estimated cost, and the order in which they are to be carried out.
#In preparing the program, the Secretary of Administrative Coordination and Efficiency must consult the Wakara Entrepreneurship Council established under the 1724 Act.
#The program is funded from the sums the Cortes Federales appropriates to it.

'''Article 18: Agreement and reporting.''' 
#A federal body must not carry out a project under the program without the agreement of the Government of the Region of Boriquén.
#The Secretary of the Treasury must show the spending on the program as a separate line in the quarterly statement of federal disbursements by Region under Article 34 of the Appropriation Act.
#The Secretary of Administrative Coordination and Efficiency must lay a report on the progress of the program before the Cortes Federales once in each year.

<center> '''PART VI''' ''FINAL PROVISIONS'' </center>

'''Article 19: Amendment of the 1724 Act.''' 
#The 1724 Act is amended as follows.
#In Section III, after paragraph 4 insert:
##"4A. The Wakara Commission on Culture and the Arts shall keep a register of the sites, objects, and practices of Wakara cultural heritage, prepared with the [[Wakara Cultural Preservation Society]], and shall report on their condition in its annual report."

'''Article 20: Constitutional basis.''' 
#This Act is enacted under Articles 1(5) (cultural diversity), 2(5) (educational standards; public health; inter-regional infrastructure), 2(7) (coordination with a Region), 9 (non-discrimination by language), and 47 (agencies) of the [[Proclamation of Punta Santiago]].
#The powers of the Region of Boriquén under Article 2(6) of the Proclamation are not diminished by this Act.

'''Article 21: Regulations.''' 
#The Secretary may make regulations for carrying this Act into effect.
#Regulations under this Act must be published in the Gazette.

'''Article 22: Review.''' 
#The Secretary must review the operation of this Act, and lay a report of the review before the Cortes Federales, within three years beginning with the day this Act comes into force and afterward at intervals of not more than five years.
#A review must assess:
##the use of Wakara with federal bodies;
##the number of speakers of Wakara recorded by the [[Nouvelle Alexandrie Statistics Bureau|Statistics Bureau]]; and
##the progress of the program.
#A review must judge this Act by its results, in the manner of the [[Parap Principles]].

'''Article 23: Commencement and severability.''' 
#This Act comes into force on receiving the Royal Assent.
#This Act must be published in the Gazette within seven days beginning with the day of the Royal Assent.
#If a provision of this Act is held to be invalid, the remaining provisions continue in force.
 </div>

== Amendments ==
None.

== Voting record ==
Under the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759]] the three governing parties, together holding 448 of the 801 seats, were committed to the Government's legislative program, of which this Act was a part. The Federal Assembly carried the bill on the final division of 24.V.{{AN|1762}}; the result is below.<ref name="divisions" />

===Federal Assembly final reading (24.V.{{AN|1762}})===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Notable votes on the Wakara Language and Culture Protection Act, {{AN|1761}}
! Deputy !! Region !! Party !! Vote !! Role/Notes
|-
| [[Mayani Guacanagari]] || {{team flag|Boriquén}} || {{NAX party|WPP|abbr=yes}} || {{Yes}} || Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; co-sponsor of the bill
|-
| [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] || {{team flag|Santander}} || {{NAX party|DSP|abbr=yes}} || {{Yes}} || Premier
|-
| [[Elena Lopez de Gautier]] || {{team flag|Valencia}} || {{NAX party|DSP|abbr=yes}} || {{Yes}} || Secretary of Energy and Environment
|-
| [[Elena Svensson]] || {{team flag|North Lyrica}} || {{NAX party|CGA|abbr=yes}} || {{Yes}} || Vice-Premier; Coordinator of the Civic Governance Alliance
|-
| [[Francisco Gabaza]] || {{team flag|Santander}} || {{NAX party|FCP|abbr=yes}} || {{Yes}} || Leader of the Federal Consensus Party
|-
| [[Cao Qiang]] || {{team flag|Alduria}} || {{NAX party|FCP|abbr=yes}} || {{Yes}} || Special Counselor to the Council of State
|-
| [[Pierre-Antoine Blaise]] || {{team flag|Valencia}} || {{NAX party|DSP|abbr=yes}} || {{Yes}} ||
|-
| [[José Manuel Montero]] || {{team flag|Wechua|name=Wechua Nation}} || {{NAX party|FHP|abbr=yes}} || {{No}} || Leader of the Opposition; the Federal Humanists opposed the bill
|-
| [[Fred Strong]] || {{team flag|North Lyrica}} || {{NAX party|FHP|abbr=yes}} || {{No}} || Former Vice-Premier and Secretary of Defense
|-
| [[Sumaili Humahuaca]] || {{team flag|Wechua|name=Wechua Nation}} || {{NAX party|FHP|abbr=yes}} || {{No}} || Former Secretary of Justice
|-
| [[Emmanuel Philibert Seydlitz]] || {{team flag|Isles of Caputia}} || {{NAX party|FHP|abbr=yes}} || {{No}} || Deputy for the Isles of Caputia
|}

====Vote summary by party====
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 550px;"
|+ Federal Assembly final reading, 24.V.{{AN|1762}}
! Political party !! Yes !! No !! Abstain/absent !! Total !! % Support
|-
| {{NAX party|DSP}} || 232 || 0 || 0 || 232 || 100%
|-
| {{NAX party|WPP}} || 28 || 0 || 0 || 28 || 100%
|-
| {{NAX party|CGA}} || 95 || 0 || 0 || 95 || 100%
|-
| {{NAX party|FCP}} || 93 || 0 || 0 || 93 || 100%
|-
| {{NAX party|FHP}} || 0 || 293 || 0 || 293 || 0%
|-
| {{NAX party|RPO}} || 0 || 0 || 10 || 10 || 0%
|-
| Independent || 30 || 8 || 12 || 50 || 60%
|-
| style="background:#ccc;" | Total || style="background:#90EE90;" | 478 || style="background:#FFB6C1;" | 301 || style="background:#F0F0F0;" | 22 || 801 || 59.7%
|}

===Analysis===
The three parties of the Federal Accord voted for the bill as a bloc: the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] (the Democratic Socialist Party and the Wakara People's Party), the [[Civic Governance Alliance]], and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]]. The whole of the [[Federal Humanist Party]] opposition voted against it. The [[Republican Party of Oportia]] abstained. Thirty of the fifty independents supported the bill, eight opposed it, and twelve abstained.

=== Chamber of Peers ===
The [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]] concurred on 4.VI.{{AN|1762}} by 66 votes to 42, with 10 abstentions. As a revising house the Chamber may delay or amend an ordinary bill but cannot block one, and a bill on which it takes no decision within sixty days is deemed passed; it made no amendment.

=== Royal Assent ===
King [[Sinchi Roca II]] granted Royal Assent on 8.VI.{{AN|1762}}, and the Act came into force on that day under its Article 23, which requires its publication in the [[The Federal Gazette|Federal Gazette]] within seven days.

== See also ==
* [[Wakara language]]
* [[Wakara people]]
* [[Boriquén]]
* [[Plan de Hato Rey]]
* [[Wakara Identity Act, 1724]]
* [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]]
* [[14th Cortes Federales]]
* [[Plurinational Federation Constitutional Amendment Act, 1762]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
[[Category:New Alexandrian Law]]
[[Category:14th Cortes Federales]]

Clean Energy and Grid Modernization Act, 1761

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{{Nouvelle Alexandrie Article}}
{{NAXLegislation
| short_title = Clean Energy and Grid Modernization Act, 1761
| parliament = 14th Cortes Federales
| long_title = ''An Act to fix the date by which renewable generation is to reach sixty per centum of national generation under the General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760, and an interim milestone toward it; to set time limits for the certification and grid connection of new generation; to continue the Federal Grid and Transmission Authority and to set its functions, including a national transmission plan; to provide for the competitive allocation of contracts for difference; to require each Region to prepare a renewable generation plan; to provide for the closure of coal-fired generation and to establish an Energy Transition Fund for the Regions and workers affected by the decline of coal-fired, oil-fired, and gas-fired generation; to amend the Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection Act, 1719; among other purposes.''
| bill_number = FA-1761-01
| introduced_by = [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] (Government of the Federal Accord), sponsored by [[Elena Lopez de Gautier]] ([[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|DSP]] / Secretary of Energy and Environment)
| Extent = Entire Federation of Nouvelle Alexandrie
| royal_assent = 7.VI.{{AN|1762}}
| commencement = 7.VI.{{AN|1762}}
| status = Current
| date_introduced = 12.III.{{AN|1761}}
| last_updated = 7.VI.{{AN|1762}}
| amendments = None
| related_legislation = {{unbulleted list|[[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]]|[[Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection Act, 1719]]|[[Alexandrium Power Grid Modernization Act, 1745]]|[[Cascade Reactor Deployment Act, 1757]]|[[Clean Air Act, 1736]]|[[Aldurian Economic Diversification and Recovery Act, 1755]]|[[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759]]}}
}}
The '''Clean Energy and Grid Modernization Act, 1761''' ([[Alexandrian language|Alexandrian]]: ''Loi sur l'énergie propre et la modernisation du réseau, 1761''; [[Martino language|Martino]]: ''Ley de Energía Limpia y Modernización de la Red, 1761''; [[Wechua language|Wechua]]: ''Ch'uya Kallpamanta Kamachiy, 1761'') is a law of [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]], passed by the [[14th Cortes Federales]] on the proposal of the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] of the Federal Accord and given Royal Assent on 7.VI.{{AN|1762}}. It gives effect to Article 26 of the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]], which set the Federation's aim of raising renewable generation toward sixty percent of national generation but fixed no date for it. The Act sets the year {{AN|1770}} for that target and an interim milestone of fifty percent in {{AN|1765}}.

Brought by [[Elena Lopez de Gautier]], the Secretary of Energy and Environment, the Act sets fixed time limits for the certification and connection decisions that the Secretary's order of {{AN|1760}} asked the Commission to speed up, and continues the [[Federal Grid and Transmission Authority]] within the [[National Energy Commission (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|National Energy Commission]] with the duty of preparing a national transmission plan. It requires the contracts for difference the budget authorized to be awarded by competition, and requires each Region to file a renewable generation plan without imposing a regional quota, since the [[Proclamation of Punta Santiago]] leaves generation to the Regions. Coal-fired generation ends on the first day of {{AN|1766}}, and an Energy Transition Fund is established for the Regions and workers affected by the decline of coal-fired, oil-fired, and gas-fired generation.

== Background ==
The Federation's renewable policy rests on Article 6 of the [[Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection Act, 1719]], which requires the [[Department of Energy and Environment (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Energy and Environment]] to establish a national renewable energy target but fixes no value and no date. The Department set an advisory target of twenty percent after the Act passed, and as of {{AN|1758}} it had neither revised the figure nor made it binding.<ref name="a1719">[[Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection Act, 1719#National renewable energy target|Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection Act, 1719]], Article 6.</ref> From {{AN|1722}} the expansion of renewable generation was carried by the [[Renewable Energy Development Authority]], founded when renewable sources supplied 16.8 percent of the national mix.<ref name="ader">[[Renewable Energy Development Authority]].</ref> Renewable sources supplied about 35 percent of national demand in {{AN|1758}}, up from 24 percent in {{AN|1724}}, and decisions on generation remain mostly with the Regions.<ref name="econ">[[Economy of Nouvelle Alexandrie]], energy section.</ref>

The grid that carries that power was last reshaped by the [[Alexandrium Power Grid Modernization Act, 1745]], a ten-year program administered jointly by the Departments of Energy and Environment and of Research and Development.<ref name="a1745">[[Alexandrium Power Grid Modernization Act, 1745]].</ref> The [[Cascade Reactor Deployment Act, 1757]] relied on the Energy Commission's [[Federal Grid and Transmission Authority]] to certify the transmission costs of each tranche of new reactors, but it created no new body and did not set out the Authority's wider functions.<ref name="cascade">[[Cascade Reactor Deployment Act, 1757]].</ref>

The [[People's Deal]], the platform the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] released in {{AN|1751}}, set a target of sixty percent renewable electricity generation by {{AN|1765}}.<ref name="pd">[[People's Deal]].</ref> The [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759]] carried the figure into the program of the new government, committing it to raise renewable energy to sixty percent of national generation and to modernize the grid, led by Research and Development.<ref name="accord">[[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759]], section 4.</ref> The [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]] wrote the aim into law. Its Article 26 counts solar, wind, water, geothermal, and tidal generation and green hydrogen toward the target, leaves out the burning of biomass and nuclear generation, directs the Secretaries of Energy and Environment and of Research and Development to streamline the permitting and connection of new generation, and allows the Treasury to enter contracts for difference.<ref name="gata">[[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]], Article 26.</ref> The exclusion of biomass was a definition the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] won in the budget negotiations.<ref name="nbcprogram">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE FEDERAL ACCORD AGREES ITS OPENING LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM AFTER WEEKS OF COALITION BARGAINING|NBC Newsfeed]], 1.II.{{AN|1760}}.</ref>

While the budget was before the Cortes, Lopez de Gautier directed the National Energy Commission to shorten the certification and grid-connection times that held up new renewable projects. The order was administrative and carried no target.<ref name="nbcorder">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE FEDERAL ACCORD ADVANCES ITS PROGRAM AS ITS BILLS GO BEFORE THE CORTES|NBC Newsfeed]], 22.II.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> The first delivery scorecard of the committee the Premier set up under the [[National Economic Council of Nouvelle Alexandrie|National Economic Council]] counted it among the measures moving by administrative action.<ref name="nbcscorecard">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE ACCORD'S PRICE COMMITTEE FINDS ESSENTIALS OUTPACING THE HEADLINE RATE AS RELIEF WAITS ON THE CORTES|NBC Newsfeed]], 10.IV.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> This Act sets time limits for the decisions the order asked the Commission to speed up, and supplies the machinery and the transition provisions that Article 26 did not. As a major bill, it required an evidence note from the [[Federal Budget and Costing Office]] under Article 35 of the budget Act.<ref name="gata" />

== Key provisions ==
Article 26 of the budget Act alone decides what counts toward the target, and the Act ties itself to it. It fixes {{AN|1770}} as the year for the sixty percent target and sets an interim milestone of fifty percent in {{AN|1765}}. The [[Nouvelle Alexandrie Statistics Bureau|Statistics Bureau]] publishes the renewable share each year, and the Secretary reports it to the Cortes alongside a low-carbon share that adds nuclear and Alexandrium generation for information only. A fixed reference path runs from the share for {{AN|1761}} to the milestone and on to the target, and a year below it obliges the Secretary to lay a statement of causes and remedies within ninety days.

Decisions the Secretary's order of {{AN|1760}} asked the Commission to speed up now carry time limits: 120 days to decide a complete application for certification, and 180 days for the Federal Grid and Transmission Authority to offer a connection to the national transmission system or refuse one with reasons. The Authority keeps a public register of connection applications ordered by readiness, and a single lead federal authority coordinates the federal consents for each project.

The Act continues the Authority within the Energy Commission and requires it to prepare a national transmission plan, with the concurrence of the Secretary of Research and Development, within eighteen months and every three years after. The plan carries an evidence note from the Federal Budget and Costing Office. The Act bars the Authority from owning or operating generation and transfers no asset from a utility or a Region.

Under the Act, contracts for difference are awarded only in competitive allocation rounds held at least once a year until {{AN|1770}}, ranked by strike price, for no more than fifteen years, with payments in both directions and their contingent liabilities reported to the [[Federal Debt Review Board]].

Regions are required to file a renewable generation plan within a year and to revise it every three years, but no regional quota is imposed.

Coal-fired generation for the national transmission system or a distribution network ends on 1.I.{{AN|1766}}, a ban grounded in the federal power over public health, alongside the regulation of stationary sources under the [[Clean Air Act, 1736]]. It reaches the coal-fired units of the [[Cárdenas Coal Power Station]] and the [[Las Brisas Coal and Gas Complex]], both listed among the infrastructure of [[Électricité d'Aldurie-Wechua]], and leaves a unit free to convert to another fuel. The Act requires operators to file closure plans. An Energy Transition Fund, administered by the Secretaries of Energy and Environment and of Labor from sums the Cortes appropriates, supports workers and Regions losing coal, oil, and gas generation. It does not pay for costs already allocated under the Cascade Act or the Aldurian diversification Act.

The Act also amends Article 6 of the Act of {{AN|1719}}, making its national target the target of the budget Act, and provides for a review within three years judged by results in the manner of the [[Parap Principles]].

=== Provisions in outline ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Structure of the Act
! Part !! Articles !! Subject
|-
| I || 1–4 || General provisions: citation, definitions, purpose, and the relationship to the budget Act
|-
| II || 5–8 || The target and its milestone: the {{AN|1770}} date, the {{AN|1765}} milestone, measurement, and the shortfall statement
|-
| III || 9–11 || Certification and connection: time limits, the connection register, and federal permitting
|-
| IV || 12–15 || The Federal Grid and Transmission Authority: continuation, functions, the national transmission plan, and existing systems
|-
| V || 16–17 || Contracts for difference: allocation by competition, terms, and reporting
|-
| VI || 18–19 || The Regions: regional competence and regional renewable generation plans
|-
| VII || 20–23 || Coal and the transition Regions: closure of coal-fired generation, closure plans, the Energy Transition Fund, and transition Regions
|-
| VIII || 24–28 || Final provisions: amendment of the Act of {{AN|1719}}, constitutional basis, regulations, review, and commencement
|}

== Legislative history ==
The [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] introduced the bill on 12.III.{{AN|1761}}, and the Secretary of Energy and Environment, [[Elena Lopez de Gautier]], moved it at second reading in the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] on 24.II.{{AN|1762}}. The Assembly carried it on the final division of 24.V.{{AN|1762}} by 478 votes to 301, with 22 abstentions; the [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]] concurred on 3.VI.{{AN|1762}} by 62 to 46, with 10 abstentions; and King [[Sinchi Roca II]] granted Royal Assent on 7.VI.{{AN|1762}}, on which day the Act came into force.<ref name="divisions">[[14th Cortes Federales#Legislation introduced|Legislation introduced in the 14th Cortes Federales]].</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Legislative history
! Stage !! Date !! Chamber !! Action !! Votes (Y-N-A) !! Details
|-
| 1 || 12.III.{{AN|1761}} || Federal Assembly || Introduction || - || Introduced for the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] by [[Elena Lopez de Gautier]] (DSP, Secretary of Energy and Environment)
|-
| 2 || 24.II.{{AN|1762}} || Federal Assembly || Second reading debate opened || - || Moved by [[Elena Lopez de Gautier]]
|-
| 3 || 24.V.{{AN|1762}} || Federal Assembly || Final division || 478-301-22 || Passed; sent to the [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]]
|-
| 4 || 3.VI.{{AN|1762}} || Chamber of Peers || Concurrence || 62-46-10 || Concurred without amendment
|-
| 5 || 7.VI.{{AN|1762}} || - || Royal Assent || - || Signed into law by King [[Sinchi Roca II]]
|}

== Bill as submitted to the Hopper of the Federal Assembly, {{AN|1761}} ==
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'''Clean Energy and Grid Modernization Act, 1761'''

THE READING OF 
A 
BILL 
TO 
fix the date by which renewable generation is to reach sixty per centum of national generation under the General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760, and an interim milestone toward it; to set time limits for the certification and grid connection of new generation; to continue the Federal Grid and Transmission Authority and to set its functions, including a national transmission plan; to provide for the competitive allocation of contracts for difference; to require each Region to prepare a renewable generation plan; to provide for the closure of coal-fired generation and to establish an Energy Transition Fund for the Regions and workers affected by the decline of coal-fired, oil-fired, and gas-fired generation; to amend the Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection Act, 1719; ''among other purposes''. 

'''Clean Energy and Grid Modernization Act, 1761''' 

Presented for the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] by [[Elena Lopez de Gautier]] ([[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|DSP]]), [[Department of Energy and Environment (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Secretary of Energy and Environment]] 
Ordered, by the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie]], 
to be Printed, {{AN|1761}}. 

'''BE IT ENACTED''' by the [[King of Nouvelle Alexandrie|King]]'s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Cortes Federales]], in this present session assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
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<center> '''PART I''' ''GENERAL PROVISIONS'' </center>

'''Article 1: Citation.''' 
#This Act may be cited as the "Clean Energy and Grid Modernization Act, 1761".

'''Article 2: Definitions.''' 
#In this Act:
##"the 1719 Act" means the [[Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection Act, 1719]];
##"the Appropriation Act" means the [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]];
##"the Authority" means the [[Federal Grid and Transmission Authority]];
##"the Cascade Act" means the [[Cascade Reactor Deployment Act, 1757]];
##"the Clean Air Act" means the [[Clean Air Act, 1736]];
##"coal-fired generation" means the generation of electricity by the combustion of coal, whether alone or with another fuel;
##"coal-fired unit" means a generating unit that carries out coal-fired generation;
##"the Commission" means the [[National Energy Commission (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|National Energy Commission]];
##"complete application" means an application for certification or for connection to the national transmission system that contains every document and item of information the Commission specifies under Article 10;
##"contract for difference" means a contract entered into by the Secretary of the Treasury under paragraph 3 of Article 26 of the Appropriation Act;
##"the Department" means the [[Department of Energy and Environment (Nouvelle Alexandrie)|Department of Energy and Environment]];
##"distribution network" means a system of lines that carries electricity within a Region from the national transmission system or from generation to consumers;
##"the Fund" means the Energy Transition Fund established by Article 22;
##"the Gazette" means [[The Federal Gazette|the Federal Gazette]];
##"low-carbon share" means the renewable share together with the share of national generation from nuclear generation and from Alexandrium generation, expressed as a percentage;
##"national transmission system" means the transmission lines, substations, and interconnections that carry electricity between Regions, or that the Authority designates under Article 14 as part of that system;
##"the Proclamation" means the [[Proclamation of Punta Santiago]];
##"reference price" means the market price of electricity that a contract for difference specifies for comparison with the strike price;
##"renewable generation" has the meaning given by paragraph 4 of Article 26 of the Appropriation Act;
##"renewable share" means the electricity from renewable generation in a year, expressed as a percentage of national generation in that year;
##"the Secretary" means the Secretary of Energy and Environment;
##"strike price" means the price per unit of electricity fixed by a contract for difference, or offered for one in a bid in an allocation round;
##"transition Region" means a Region designated under Article 23.

'''Article 3: Purpose.''' 
#The purposes of this Act are:
##to fix the date and the interim milestone for the target set by Article 26 of the Appropriation Act;
##to make the certification and connection of new generation timely and predictable;
##to plan and build the national transmission system that carries new generation between Regions;
##to allocate contracts for difference by competition; and
##to close coal-fired generation and to support the Regions and workers affected by the decline of coal-fired, oil-fired, and gas-fired generation.

'''Article 4: Relationship to the Appropriation Act.''' 
#This Act gives effect to Article 26 of the Appropriation Act and must be construed as one with it.
#Nothing in this Act, or in a regulation made under it, alters what counts toward the milestone or the target, which paragraphs 4 and 5 of Article 26 of the Appropriation Act govern.
#Nothing in this Act alters the fiscal rules of Article 30 of the Appropriation Act.

<center> '''PART II''' ''THE TARGET AND ITS MILESTONE'' </center>

'''Article 5: Target.''' 
#The target under paragraph 1 of Article 26 of the Appropriation Act is a renewable share of sixty per centum (60%) in the year {{AN|1770}}.

'''Article 6: Interim milestone.''' 
#The interim milestone toward the target in Article 5 is a renewable share of fifty per centum (50%) in the year {{AN|1765}}.
#The Secretary, the Commission, and the Authority must exercise their functions under this Act and the Appropriation Act with a view to the renewable share reaching the milestone and the target.

'''Article 7: Measurement and annual report.''' 
#The [[Nouvelle Alexandrie Statistics Bureau|Statistics Bureau]] must publish, for each year, the national generation of electricity by source, the renewable share, and the low-carbon share.
#The Secretary must lay before the Cortes Federales, within ninety days beginning with the day the Statistics Bureau publishes the figures for a year, a report that states:
##the renewable share and the low-carbon share for that year;
##the progress of the renewable share toward the milestone in Article 6 and the target in Article 5;
##the number of applications for certification and for connection decided within, and outside, the time limits of Article 9, and each decision not made by the day stated under paragraph 3 of Article 9; and
##the contracts for difference allocated in that year and their contingent liabilities.
#The low-carbon share is reported for information only.

'''Article 8: Reference path and shortfall statement.''' 
#The reference path is the straight line that runs from the renewable share for the year {{AN|1761}}, as the Statistics Bureau publishes it under Article 7, to fifty per centum (50%) in the year {{AN|1765}}, and from fifty per centum (50%) in the year {{AN|1765}} to sixty per centum (60%) in the year {{AN|1770}}.
#If a report under Article 7 shows that the renewable share for a year is below the reference path for that year, the Secretary must lay before the Cortes Federales, within ninety days beginning with the day the report is laid, a statement that:
##identifies the causes of the shortfall; and
##sets out the measures the Department, the Commission, and the Authority will take to return the renewable share to the reference path.

<center> '''PART III''' ''CERTIFICATION AND CONNECTION'' </center>

'''Article 9: Time limits for certification and connection.''' 
#The Commission must decide a complete application for the certification of new generation within one hundred and twenty days beginning with the day it receives the application.
#The Authority must make an offer of connection to the national transmission system, or give written reasons for refusing one, within one hundred and eighty days beginning with the day it receives a complete application for connection.
#If the Commission or the Authority cannot meet a time limit in this Article, it must notify the applicant before the limit expires, give its reasons, and state a day, no more than sixty days after the limit expires, by which it will decide.

'''Article 10: Applications and the connection queue.''' 
#The Commission must specify, and publish, the documents and information that make an application complete.
#The Authority must keep and publish a register of the applications for connection before it, showing for each application the day it was received, the Region, the source and capacity of the generation, and its stage.
#The Authority must order the applications in the register by their readiness to connect, by criteria it publishes, which must include the security of the site and the progress of the consents the generation requires.
#The Authority may remove from the register an application that does not meet the criteria within a period it specifies, after giving the applicant notice and an opportunity to meet them.

'''Article 11: Federal permitting.''' 
#The Secretary and the Secretary of Research and Development must designate, for each project of renewable generation that requires a consent from more than one federal department or agency, a lead federal authority.
#The lead federal authority must:
##coordinate the reviews of the federal departments and agencies concerned, and arrange for them to proceed at the same time;
##send the person proposing the project one consolidated request for any further information; and
##publish a schedule for the decisions on the project.
#This Article does not alter the consents a Region requires under its own law.

<center> '''PART IV''' ''THE FEDERAL GRID AND TRANSMISSION AUTHORITY'' </center>

'''Article 12: Continuation of the Authority.''' 
#The Federal Grid and Transmission Authority continues as an authority within the Commission.
#The Authority acts under the direction of the Commission, and the Secretary is answerable to the Cortes Federales for the exercise of its functions.

'''Article 13: Functions of the Authority.''' 
#The Authority has the following functions:
##to prepare the national transmission plan under Article 14;
##to plan, and to procure the construction of, the national transmission system;
##to decide applications for connection to the national transmission system under Article 9;
##to keep the connection register under Article 10;
##to set the terms of open and non-discriminatory access to the national transmission system;
##to certify transmission costs where an Act requires it, including under the Cascade Act; and
##to set standards for the resilience of the national transmission system against storms, other natural hazards, and attack, consistent with the technical standards the Department of Research and Development sets under Article 6 of the [[Alexandrium Power Grid Modernization Act, 1745]].
#The Authority must not own or operate generation.

'''Article 14: National transmission plan.''' 
#The Authority must prepare a national transmission plan, with the concurrence of the Secretary of Research and Development, and lay it before the Cortes Federales within eighteen months beginning with the day this Act comes into force, and must revise it at intervals of not more than three years.
#The plan must:
##set out the transmission the national transmission system requires for the renewable share to reach the milestone in Article 6 and the target in Article 5;
##designate the lines, substations, and interconnections that form part of the national transmission system;
##identify the storage and flexible capacity the national transmission system requires; and
##state the estimated cost of each project and the order in which projects are to be built.
#In preparing the plan, the Authority must consult each Region, the public electric utilities, and the [[Renewable Energy Development Authority]], and must take account of the regional plans filed under Article 19.
#The [[Federal Budget and Costing Office]] must attach an evidence note to the plan, in the manner of Article 35 of the Appropriation Act, before the plan is laid.

'''Article 15: Existing systems and utilities.''' 
#This Act does not transfer the ownership of any transmission line, substation, or other asset from a public electric utility, a Region, or any other person.
#A public electric utility that owns part of the national transmission system must operate it on the terms of access the Authority sets under Article 13.
#Nothing in this Act limits the [[Alexandrium Power Grid Modernization Act, 1745]].

<center> '''PART V''' ''CONTRACTS FOR DIFFERENCE'' </center>

'''Article 16: Allocation by competition.''' 
#The Secretary of the Treasury may enter a contract for difference only with a person selected in an allocation round held under this Article.
#The Commission must hold an allocation round at least once in each year until the end of the year {{AN|1770}}, and afterward at intervals the Secretary sets.
#Before each allocation round, the Secretary, with the consent of the Secretary of the Treasury, must publish:
##the capacity to be allocated;
##any division of that capacity by source or by Region;
##the maximum strike price;
##any criteria, in addition to strike price, that the Commission will apply under paragraph 4; and
##the timetable of the round.
#The Commission must rank the bids in an allocation round by strike price, and may apply, in addition, the criteria published under paragraph 3.
#Only renewable generation is eligible for a contract for difference.

'''Article 17: Terms and reporting of contracts for difference.''' 
#A contract for difference must not run for more than fifteen years beginning with the day the generation it supports is first connected.
#A contract for difference must state its strike price and its reference price, and must provide for payment by the generator when the reference price exceeds the strike price as well as for payment to the generator when it falls below it.
#The Secretary of the Treasury must report the contingent liabilities under contracts for difference to the [[Federal Debt Review Board]] in the form the Board specifies, and the Board must include them in its report under Article 31 of the Appropriation Act.

<center> '''PART VI''' ''THE REGIONS'' </center>

'''Article 18: Regional competence.''' 
#Except as Part VII provides, decisions on generation within a Region remain with the Region, and nothing in this Act requires a Region to build, to permit, or to refuse any generation.
#Neither this Act nor a regulation made under it imposes a quota of renewable generation on a Region.

'''Article 19: Regional renewable generation plans.''' 
#Each Region must prepare a renewable generation plan and file it with the Department within one year beginning with the day this Act comes into force, and must revise it at intervals of not more than three years.
#A renewable generation plan must state:
##the renewable generation in the Region, and its share of the generation in the Region, in the latest year for which figures are published;
##the renewable generation the Region expects to permit or to build in the period of the plan;
##the connections to the national transmission system the Region requires; and
##the measures the Region will take on the permitting of renewable generation and on land for it.
#The Secretary must publish each plan filed, and must include in each report under Article 7 a summary of the plans and of their combined effect on the renewable share.
#If a Region has not filed a plan or a revision required by paragraph 1, the Secretary must state that in the next report under Article 7.
#The Department may give a Region technical and financial assistance to prepare its plan, from sums appropriated for the purpose.

<center> '''PART VII''' ''COAL AND THE TRANSITION REGIONS'' </center>

'''Article 20: Closure of coal-fired generation.''' 
#A person must not carry out coal-fired generation for supply to the national transmission system or to a distribution network on or after 1.I.{{AN|1766}}.
#Paragraph 1 applies to the coal-fired units of the [[Cárdenas Coal Power Station]] and of the [[Las Brisas Coal and Gas Complex]], and to any other coal-fired generation.
#Paragraph 1 does not prevent a unit from converting to another fuel, or from generating electricity by burning gas alone.
#The Commission must withdraw the certification of every coal-fired unit with effect from 1.I.{{AN|1766}}.
#An emission permit under Article 6 of the Clean Air Act does not authorize coal-fired generation that paragraph 1 prohibits.
#A coal-fired unit that ceases coal-fired generation under this Article is not, by reason only of that cessation, a retiring unit under the Cascade Act, but the Commission may determine its retirement under Article 6 of that Act.

'''Article 21: Closure plans.''' 
#The operator of a coal-fired unit must file a closure plan with the Commission within one year beginning with the day this Act comes into force.
#A closure plan must state:
##the day on which the unit will cease coal-fired generation;
##the number of workers whose employment the closure will end or reduce; and
##the arrangements for the restoration of the site.
#The Authority must assess each closure plan and must publish its assessment of the effect of the closure on the security of supply in the Region and on the national transmission system.

'''Article 22: Energy Transition Fund.''' 
#The Energy Transition Fund is established.
#The Fund consists of the sums the Cortes Federales appropriates to it.
#The Secretary and the Secretary of Labor must administer the Fund jointly.
#The Fund may be applied only to:
##income support, retraining, and placement for workers whose employment in coal-fired, oil-fired, or gas-fired generation, or in the production of fuel for that generation, ends or is reduced;
##investment in employment and infrastructure in a transition Region; and
##the restoration of land used for coal-fired generation or for the production of coal.
#The Fund must not pay for a cost for which a sum has been allocated under Article 16 of the Cascade Act or under Article 10 of the [[Aldurian Economic Diversification and Recovery Act, 1755]].
#The Secretary and the Secretary of Labor must lay an account of the Fund before the Cortes Federales once in each year.

'''Article 23: Transition Regions.''' 
#The Secretary and the Secretary of Labor must designate as a transition Region each Region in which coal-fired, oil-fired, or gas-fired generation, or the production of fuel for that generation, is a significant source of employment, by criteria they publish.
#The Secretary and the Secretary of Labor must review each designation at intervals of not more than three years.

<center> '''PART VIII''' ''FINAL PROVISIONS'' </center>

'''Article 24: Amendment of the 1719 Act.''' 
#The 1719 Act is amended as follows.
#In Article 6, after paragraph 2 insert:
##"2A. The national renewable energy target established under paragraph 2 shall be the target set by Article 26 of the General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760, to be met by the dates set by Articles 5 and 6 of the Clean Energy and Grid Modernization Act, 1761."

'''Article 25: Constitutional basis.''' 
#This Act is enacted under the competence of the Federation over the regulation of inter-regional commerce and over inter-regional infrastructure, conferred by Article 2(5) of the Proclamation, and under Article 47 of the Proclamation (organization of agencies).
#Articles 20 and 21 are enacted under the competence of the Federation over the promotion of public health, and Articles 22 and 23 under its competence over national solidarity systems, both conferred by Article 2(5) of the Proclamation.
#Except as Part VII provides, the powers over generation within a Region that Article 2(6) of the Proclamation leaves to the Regions are not affected by this Act.

'''Article 26: Regulations.''' 
#The Secretary may make regulations for carrying this Act into effect.
#Regulations under this Act must be published in the Gazette.

'''Article 27: Review.''' 
#The Secretary must review the operation of this Act, and lay a report of the review before the Cortes Federales, within three years beginning with the day this Act comes into force and afterward at intervals of not more than five years.
#A review must assess the effect of this Act on the renewable share, on the cost of electricity to households and undertakings, on the security of supply, and on employment in the transition Regions, and must judge the Act by its results, in the manner of the Parap Principles.

'''Article 28: Commencement and severability.''' 
#This Act comes into force on receiving the Royal Assent.
#This Act must be published in the Gazette within seven days beginning with the day of the Royal Assent.
#If a provision of this Act is held to be invalid, the remaining provisions continue in force.
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== Amendments ==
None.

== Voting record ==
Under the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759]] the three governing parties, together holding 448 of the 801 seats, were committed to the Government's legislative program, of which this Act was a part.<ref name="accord" /> The Federal Assembly carried the bill on the final division of 24.V.{{AN|1762}}; the result is below.<ref name="divisions" />

===Federal Assembly final reading (24.V.{{AN|1762}})===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Notable votes on the Clean Energy and Grid Modernization Act, {{AN|1761}}
! Deputy !! Region !! Party !! Vote !! Role/Notes
|-
| [[Elena Lopez de Gautier]] || {{team flag|Valencia}} || {{NAX party|DSP|abbr=yes}} || {{Yes}} || Secretary of Energy and Environment; moved the bill
|-
| [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] || {{team flag|Santander}} || {{NAX party|DSP|abbr=yes}} || {{Yes}} || Premier
|-
| [[Elena Svensson]] || {{team flag|North Lyrica}} || {{NAX party|CGA|abbr=yes}} || {{Yes}} || Vice-Premier; Coordinator of the Civic Governance Alliance
|-
| [[Francisco Gabaza]] || {{team flag|Santander}} || {{NAX party|FCP|abbr=yes}} || {{Yes}} || Leader of the Federal Consensus Party
|-
| [[Cao Qiang]] || {{team flag|Alduria}} || {{NAX party|FCP|abbr=yes}} || {{Yes}} || Special Counselor to the Council of State
|-
| [[Pierre-Antoine Blaise]] || {{team flag|Valencia}} || {{NAX party|DSP|abbr=yes}} || {{Yes}} ||
|-
| [[José Manuel Montero]] || {{team flag|Wechua|name=Wechua Nation}} || {{NAX party|FHP|abbr=yes}} || {{No}} || Leader of the Opposition; the Federal Humanists opposed the bill
|-
| [[Fred Strong]] || {{team flag|North Lyrica}} || {{NAX party|FHP|abbr=yes}} || {{No}} || Former Vice-Premier and Secretary of Defense
|-
| [[Sumaili Humahuaca]] || {{team flag|Wechua|name=Wechua Nation}} || {{NAX party|FHP|abbr=yes}} || {{No}} || Former Secretary of Justice
|-
| [[Emmanuel Philibert Seydlitz]] || {{team flag|Isles of Caputia}} || {{NAX party|FHP|abbr=yes}} || {{No}} || Deputy for the Isles of Caputia
|}

====Vote summary by party====
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 550px;"
|+ Federal Assembly final reading, 24.V.{{AN|1762}}
! Political party !! Yes !! No !! Abstain/absent !! Total !! % Support
|-
| {{NAX party|DSP}} || 232 || 0 || 0 || 232 || 100%
|-
| {{NAX party|WPP}} || 28 || 0 || 0 || 28 || 100%
|-
| {{NAX party|CGA}} || 95 || 0 || 0 || 95 || 100%
|-
| {{NAX party|FCP}} || 93 || 0 || 0 || 93 || 100%
|-
| {{NAX party|FHP}} || 0 || 293 || 0 || 293 || 0%
|-
| {{NAX party|RPO}} || 0 || 0 || 10 || 10 || 0%
|-
| Independent || 30 || 8 || 12 || 50 || 60%
|-
| style="background:#ccc;" | Total || style="background:#90EE90;" | 478 || style="background:#FFB6C1;" | 301 || style="background:#F0F0F0;" | 22 || 801 || 59.7%
|}

===Analysis===
The three parties of the Federal Accord voted for the bill as a bloc: the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]] (the Democratic Socialist Party and the Wakara People's Party), the [[Civic Governance Alliance]], and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]]. The whole of the [[Federal Humanist Party]] opposition voted against it. The [[Republican Party of Oportia]] abstained. Thirty of the fifty independents supported the bill, eight opposed it, and twelve abstained.

=== Chamber of Peers ===
The [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]] concurred on 3.VI.{{AN|1762}} by 62 votes to 46, with 10 abstentions. As a revising house the Chamber may delay or amend an ordinary bill but cannot block one, and a bill on which it takes no decision within sixty days is deemed passed; it made no amendment.

=== Royal Assent ===
King [[Sinchi Roca II]] granted Royal Assent on 7.VI.{{AN|1762}}, and the Act came into force on that day under its Article 28, which requires its publication in the [[The Federal Gazette|Federal Gazette]] within seven days.

== See also ==
* [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]]
* [[Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection Act, 1719]]
* [[Alexandrium Power Grid Modernization Act, 1745]]
* [[Cascade Reactor Deployment Act, 1757]]
* [[National Energy Commission (Nouvelle Alexandrie)]]
* [[Renewable Energy Development Authority]]
* [[Department of Energy and Environment (Nouvelle Alexandrie)]]
* [[Economy of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
* [[Clean Air Act, 1736]]
* [[14th Cortes Federales]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
[[Category:New Alexandrian Law]]
[[Category:14th Cortes Federales]]
[[Category:Energy in Nouvelle Alexandrie]]

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{{WIP}}{{Nouvelle Alexandrie Article}}
{{Cortes Federales Session
| ordinal = 14th
| term_start = 12.I.{{AN|1760}}
| term_end =
| election = [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|14th general election]] ({{AN|1759}})
| total_members = 801 deputies + variable peerage
| premier = [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]]
| premier_party = {{NAX party|DSP|abbr=yes}} ({{NAX party|AJNA|abbr=yes}})
| speaker = [[Orocobix Magüana]]
| speaker_party = Non-partisan ({{NAX party|WPP|abbr=yes}} origin), [[Boriquén]]
| lord_president = [[Lord Anglés, Marquess of Alpamayo]]
| lord_president_party = Independent, Non-Aligned
| opposition_leader = [[José Manuel Montero]]
| opposition_party = {{NAX party|FHP|abbr=yes}}
| federal_assembly_chart = NBC Decision hemicycle 14th Cortes.png
| chamber_peers_chart =
| previous = [[13th Cortes Federales]]
| next =
}}
The '''14th Cortes Federales''' is the current session of the [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie]], the bicameral legislature of the Federation of [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]]. It was returned by the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|general election of 1759]], the first held to the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]] of 801 seats, enlarged following the accession of the Region of [[Oportia]], and opened on 12.I.{{AN|1760}}.

No party won an overall majority. The [[Federal Humanist Party]] of Premier [[José Manuel Montero]] finished first with 293 of the 801 seats, 108 short of the 401 required for a majority, returning a hung Assembly. After King [[Sinchi Roca II]] invited Montero to form a government and he proved unable to assemble a majority, the King commissioned [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], leader of the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]], as formateur. The Alliance, the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]], holding 448 seats between them, formed the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]] and took office under Premier Gonçalves, the first government since {{AN|1739}} not led by the Federal Humanists.

== Election and formation ==
{{Main|New Alexandrian general election, 1759}}

=== Federal Assembly ===
The Federal Assembly was enlarged from 749 to 801 seats under the standing population-revision requirement of the [[Cortes Federales Act, 1694]], following the [[1758 New Alexandrian census]], with no existing Region losing seats. Its 801 members were returned as follows.

==== Composition ====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;"
|+ Federal Assembly composition following the {{AN|1759}} general election<ref>[[New Alexandrian general election, 1759]].</ref>
! Parliamentary Party !! Seats !! Change from {{AN|1754}}
|-
| {{NAX party|FHP}} || 293 || 79 fewer {{decrease}}
|-
| {{NAX party|DSP}} || 232 || 36 more {{increase}}
|-
| {{NAX party|CGA}} || 95 || 85 more {{increase}}
|-
| {{NAX party|FCP}} || 93 || 26 fewer {{decrease}}
|-
| Independents || 50 || 21 more {{increase}}
|-
| {{NAX party|WPP}} || 28 || 5 more {{increase}}
|-
| {{NAX party|RPO}} || 10 || ''new''
|-
! Total !! 801 !!
|}
An overall majority requires 401 seats. The [[Democratic Socialist Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Democratic Socialists]] and the [[Wakara People's Party]] contested the election within the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]], which won 260 seats combined. The [[Republican Party of Oportia]], a regional party contesting only in [[Oportia]], entered the Federal Assembly for the first time at the Region's first federal general election, winning 10 seats under [[Sofia Laurent]].

=== Chamber of Peers ===
The [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]], the upper house, is not renewed at a general election; its membership carries over from the [[13th Cortes Federales]].

== Government formation ==
Because no party emerged from the [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759|1759 election]] with an overall majority, the composition of the next government fell to be settled through negotiation. As the largest party, the [[Federal Humanist Party]] received the first opportunity: on 19.IX.{{AN|1759}} King [[Sinchi Roca II]] appointed its leader [[José Manuel Montero]] formateur, charged with establishing whether he could command the confidence of the 801-seat [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]].

No single party held close to a majority, leaving the 50 independent deputies pivotal to any combination. The Federal Humanists could approach a majority only with the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] or the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]] alongside independent support, while the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]], the Civic Governance Alliance and the Federal Consensus Party together held 448 seats.

On 22.IX.{{AN|1759}} the Civic Governance Alliance, which recorded the largest gain of the election, publicly ruled out entering or supporting a government led by the Federal Humanist Party, narrowing the arithmetic available to Montero. Montero was unable to assemble a majority, and the King then commissioned [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], leader of the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie]], as formateur. The Alliance, the Civic Governance Alliance and the [[Federal Consensus Party of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Consensus Party]], holding 448 seats between them, negotiated the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759]], which they signed on 23.XIII.{{AN|1759}} and which provides for an Alliance-led government to replace the [[Administration of Premier José Manuel Montero|administration of Premier Montero]]. The Accord government took office with the Opening of the 14th Cortes and the confidence proceedings that followed; see [[#Opening session|Opening session]] below.

== Opening session ==
The 14th Cortes Federales opened on 12.I.{{AN|1760}} at the [[Legislative Palace]] in [[Cárdenas]], seating the largest Federal Assembly in the Federation's history. [[Lord Protector of the Cortes Federales|Lord Protector]] [[Sayri Tʼito Waman]], Baron of Ausangate, led the procession bearing the Mace of State down the central aisle in the ceremonial dress of the Apu Kalanayak, formally bringing the Cortes into session. In the traditional address that opens a sitting, Waman invoked the Wechua phrase ''"Huk sunqulla, huk yuyaylla"'' ("with one heart, with one mind"), a formula the King's Speech would echo in its own opening words. He cautioned the new majority not to mistake the size of its victory for the breadth of its mandate, reminding the House that citizens expect ''"results and not performance."''

The Assembly's first act was to elect a Speaker. [[Orocobix Magüana]], a [[Wakara People's Party]] deputy for [[Boriquén]] sitting within the [[Alliance for a Just Nouvelle Alexandrie|Alliance]] bloc, was elected [[Speaker of the Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Speaker]] by 480 votes to 321 over the [[Federal Humanist Party]] nominee [[Alexander Melas]] of [[Valencia]], from 801 valid ballots. Magüana became the first [[Wakara]] to hold the office, which has existed since {{AN|1693}}; by custom he set aside his party affiliation on taking the chair.<ref name="opening">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_FEDERAL_ACCORD_TAKES_POWER_AS_THE_KING_OPENS_AN_ENLARGED_14TH_CORTES|"The Federal Accord takes power as the King opens an enlarged 14th Cortes"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 12.I.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> Before taking the chair, Magüana told the Assembly that ''"the opposition will get a fair hearing in this chamber, and so will the government,"'' warning that ''"on the day either one tries to talk over the other, it will find me standing in the way."''

The Opening was a joint sitting of the Federation's constitutional order: the [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Chamber of Peers]], carried over from the [[13th Cortes Federales]] under Lord President [[Lord Anglés, Marquess of Alpamayo|Anglés]]; the nine justices of the [[High Court of Justice of Nouvelle Alexandrie|High Court of Justice]] under Chief Justice [[Élisée Pierrat]]; and the incoming Council of State. King [[Sinchi Roca II]] attended with Empress [[Clara I|Clara]], and among the regional governors in the galleries was [[Clementina Duffy Carr]], the first Governor of [[Oportia]] to see her Region seated in a federal Assembly.

=== Speech from the Throne ===
{{Main|Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves}}
King [[Sinchi Roca II]] delivered the Speech from the Throne, the program of the incoming Government, setting five priorities: the prosperity of ordinary households, integrity in public life, investment in science, skills and clean energy, the Federation as a union of many peoples, and security abroad. The King said the Government would ask the Cortes to write the union of many peoples ''"plainly into the Federation's own foundations,"'' language the Accord ties to the long-pending [[Plurinational Federation Constitutional Amendment Act, 1735]].<ref name="opening" /> Framing that priority as a matter of consent, the King told the chambers: ''"We are not one people who tolerate our differences. We are many peoples who have chosen one another."'' The full text was published as the [[NBC Newsfeed/1760#Throne Speech|Throne Speech of 12.I.{{AN|1760|noAN=y|nospan=y}}]].

=== Confidence and investiture ===
The confidence vote on the Address in Reply was held on 15.I.{{AN|1760}}. The Government was sustained by 461 votes to 293, with 47 abstentions: the three Federal Accord parties, holding 448 seats, were joined by thirteen independents in carrying the Address against the Federal Humanist Party, while the ten deputies of the [[Republican Party of Oportia]] and the remaining thirty-seven independents abstained.<ref name="confidence">[[NBC Newsfeed/1760#THE_ACCORD_WINS_THE_CONFIDENCE_OF_THE_CORTES,_461_TO_293,_AND_GONÇALVES_TAKES_OFFICE|"The Accord wins the confidence of the Cortes, 461 to 293, and Gonçalves takes office"]], ''NBC Newsfeed'', 15.I.{{AN|1760}}.</ref> The Assembly then elected [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] President of the Government and approved the [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] he presented, and the new administration took office. [[José Manuel Montero]], Premier through the [[13th Cortes Federales|13th Cortes]] and caretaker since the election, became [[Leader of the Opposition of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Leader of the Opposition]].

== Legislative agenda ==


=== Government ===


=== Opposition ===


== Legislation introduced ==
Seventeen bills have been introduced in the 14th Cortes Federales: fourteen in {{AN|1760}}, two in {{AN|1761}} and one in {{AN|1762}}. Sixteen are government bills and one is an opposition bill. All originate in the [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Federal Assembly]]; five of the government bills formed the [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759|Federal Accord]]'s first legislative program. Thirteen of the seventeen have since passed both Houses and received [[King of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Royal Assent]]; the remaining four are still before the Assembly.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; width:100%;"
|+ Legislation introduced in the 14th Cortes Federales
! No. !! Short title !! Sponsor !! Type !! Introduced !! class="unsortable" | Assembly vote !! class="unsortable" | Chamber of Peers !! Status !! Assent
|-
| FA-1760-02 || [[General Appropriations and Taxation Act, 1760]] || [[Tomás Iñiguez]] ({{NAX party|CGA|abbr=yes}}) || Government || data-sort-value="1760.02.02" | 2.II.{{AN|1760}} || 466 to 297 (38 abs) || 61 to 47 (10 abs) || style="background:#d4f4d4;" | Assented || 22.IV.{{AN|1760}}
|-
| FA-1760-03 || [[National Housing Reform and Expansion Act, 1760]] || [[Mayani Guacanagari]] ({{NAX party|WPP|abbr=yes}}) || Government || data-sort-value="1760.02.05" | 5.II.{{AN|1760}} || 472 to 295 (34 abs) || 58 to 52 (8 abs) || style="background:#d4f4d4;" | Assented || 8.V.{{AN|1760}}
|-
| FA-1760-04 || [[Cost of Living Relief Act, 1760]] || [[Ana Yuisa Caguax]] ({{NAX party|WPP|abbr=yes}}) || Government || data-sort-value="1760.02.12" | 12.II.{{AN|1760}} || 475 to 294 (32 abs) || 56 to 54 (8 abs) || style="background:#d4f4d4;" | Assented || 10.V.{{AN|1760}}
|-
| FA-1760-05 || [[Clean Government and Elections Act, 1760]] || [[Tomás Iñiguez]] ({{NAX party|CGA|abbr=yes}}); [[Francisco Gabaza]] ({{NAX party|FCP|abbr=yes}}) || Government || data-sort-value="1760.02.19" | 19.II.{{AN|1760}} || 473 to 298 (30 abs) || 55 to 53 (10 abs) || style="background:#d4f4d4;" | Assented || 20.X.{{AN|1760}}
|-
| FA-1760-06 || [[Convention on Civil Aviation Accession Act, 1760]] || [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]] ({{NAX party|DSP|abbr=yes}}) || Government || data-sort-value="1760.02.05" | 5.II.{{AN|1760}} || 728 to 22 (51 abs) || 86 to 22 (10 abs) || style="background:#d4f4d4;" | Assented || 19.X.{{AN|1760}}
|-
| FA-1760-07 || [[Federal Assembly Vacancy Act, 1760]] || [[Emmanuel Philibert Seydlitz]] ({{NAX party|FHP|abbr=yes}}) || Opposition || data-sort-value="1760.02.06" | 6.II.{{AN|1760}} || 446 to 325 (30 abs) || 72 to 36 (10 abs) || style="background:#d4f4d4;" | Assented || 24.II.{{AN|1762}}
|-
| FA-1760-08 || [[Public Order and Liberties Act, 1760]] || [[Francisco Gabaza]] ({{NAX party|FCP|abbr=yes}}); [[Piti Gándara]] (Independent) || Government || data-sort-value="1760.02.10" | 10.II.{{AN|1760}} || 478 to 301 (22 abs) || 56 to 52 (10 abs) || style="background:#d4f4d4;" | Assented || 1.III.{{AN|1762}}
|-
| FA-1760-09 || [[Frontera Science and Research Act, 1760]] || [[Marisol Dávila]] ({{NAX party|FCP|abbr=yes}}); [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] ({{NAX party|DSP|abbr=yes}}) || Government || data-sort-value="1760.02.11" | 11.II.{{AN|1760}} || 474 to 296 (31 abs) || 64 to 44 (10 abs) || style="background:#d4f4d4;" | Assented || 6.IX.{{AN|1760}}
|-
| FA-1760-10 || [[Improper Solicitation and Public Gifts Act, 1760]] || [[Elias Marchand]] ({{NAX party|AJNA|abbr=yes}}); [[Tomás Iñiguez]] ({{NAX party|CGA|abbr=yes}}) || Government || data-sort-value="1760.03.12" | 12.III.{{AN|1760}} || 472 to 298 (31 abs) || 57 to 51 (10 abs) || style="background:#d4f4d4;" | Assented || 7.IX.{{AN|1760}}
|-
| FA-1760-11 || [[Public Diplomacy Act, 1760]] || [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]] ({{NAX party|DSP|abbr=yes}}) || Government || data-sort-value="1760.07.20" | 20.VII.{{AN|1760}} || ''pending'' || ''pending'' || style="background:#cfe2ff;" | Introduced || ''pending''
|-
| FA-1760-12 || [[Authentication of Public Documents Act, 1760]] || [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]] ({{NAX party|DSP|abbr=yes}}); [[Elias Marchand]] ({{NAX party|AJNA|abbr=yes}}) || Government || data-sort-value="1760.08.08" | 8.VIII.{{AN|1760}} || ''pending'' || ''pending'' || style="background:#cfe2ff;" | Introduced || ''pending''
|-
| FA-1760-13 || [[Fair Work and Employment Standards Act, 1760]] || [[Carlos Dominguez]] ({{NAX party|DSP|abbr=yes}}); [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]] ({{NAX party|DSP|abbr=yes}}) || Government || data-sort-value="1760.08.22" | 22.VIII.{{AN|1760}} || ''pending'' || ''pending'' || style="background:#cfe2ff;" | Introduced || ''pending''
|-
| FA-1760-14 || [[Avey Port Revenue and Joint Oversight Act, 1760]] || [[Gabrielle Fitzgerald]] ({{NAX party|DSP|abbr=yes}}) || Government || data-sort-value="1760.15.14" | 14.XV.{{AN|1760}} || 658 to 85 (58 abs) || 84 to 24 (10 abs) || style="background:#d4f4d4;" | Assented || 23.II.{{AN|1762}}
|-
| FA-1760-15 || [[Supplementary Appropriation Act, 1760]] || [[Tomás Iñiguez]] ({{NAX party|CGA|abbr=yes}}) || Government || data-sort-value="1760.09.03" | 3.IX.{{AN|1760}} || 469 to 297 (35 abs) || 59 to 49 (10 abs) || style="background:#d4f4d4;" | Assented || 21.IX.{{AN|1760}}
|-
| FA-1761-01 || [[Clean Energy and Grid Modernization Act, 1761]] || [[Elena Lopez de Gautier]] ({{NAX party|DSP|abbr=yes}}) || Government || data-sort-value="1761.03.12" | 12.III.{{AN|1761}} || 478 to 301 (22 abs) || 62 to 46 (10 abs) || style="background:#d4f4d4;" | Assented || 7.VI.{{AN|1762}}
|-
| FA-1761-02 || [[Wakara Language and Culture Protection Act, 1761]] || [[Sofia Estrada]] ({{NAX party|DSP|abbr=yes}}); [[Mayani Guacanagari]] ({{NAX party|WPP|abbr=yes}}) || Government || data-sort-value="1761.03.19" | 19.III.{{AN|1761}} || 478 to 301 (22 abs) || 66 to 42 (10 abs) || style="background:#d4f4d4;" | Assented || 8.VI.{{AN|1762}}
|-
| FA-1762-02 || [[Plurinational Federation Constitutional Amendment Act, 1762]] || [[Mayani Guacanagari]] ({{NAX party|WPP|abbr=yes}}) || Government || data-sort-value="1762.00.00" | {{AN|1762}} || ''pending'' || ''pending'' || style="background:#cfe2ff;" | Introduced || ''pending''
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%;"
|+ Status key
| style="background:#cfe2ff;" | Introduced / second reading
| style="background:#fff3cd;" | In committee
| style="background:#e2e3ff;" | Passed by Assembly
| style="background:#d4f4d4;" | Assented / enacted
| style="background:#f8d7da;" | Failed / withdrawn
|}

== Leadership ==
The officers of the 14th Cortes and the leaders of its parliamentary parties are recorded below; the tables are extended as the Assembly names its officers and the parties settle their front benches.

=== Cortes Federales leadership ===

==== Federal Assembly ====
{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Name !! Party
|-
| [[Speaker of the Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Speaker]] || [[Orocobix Magüana]] || Non-partisan ({{NAX party|WPP|abbr=yes}} origin)
|-
| [[Leader of the Opposition of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Leader of the Opposition]] || [[José Manuel Montero]] || {{NAX party|FHP}}
|}

==== Chamber of Peers ====
{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Name
|-
| [[Lord President of the Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Lord President]] || [[Lord Anglés, Marquess of Alpamayo]]
|}

=== Council of State ===
{{Main|Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves}}
The Federal Accord government's [[Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie|Council of State]] is led by President of the Government [[Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]], with [[Elena Svensson]] of the [[Civic Governance Alliance]] as Vice-Premier and [[Tomás Iñiguez]] at the Treasury.

=== Shadow Council of State ===
{{Main|Shadow Council of State of Nouvelle Alexandrie}}


== Parliamentary business statistics ==


== Membership ==
{{Main|List of members of the 14th Cortes Federales}}

=== Federal Assembly ===


=== Chamber of Peers ===


== See also ==
* [[New Alexandrian general election, 1759]]
* [[Federal Accord coalition agreement, 1759]]
* [[Administration of Premier Marcos Ferreira Gonçalves]]
* [[Government formation in Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
* [[13th Cortes Federales]]
* [[Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
* [[Federal Assembly of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]
* [[Chamber of Peers of Nouvelle Alexandrie]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

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|title = 14th Cortes Federales
|before = [[13th Cortes Federales]]
|after = [[15th Cortes Federales]]
|years = {{AN|1760}}-{{AN|1765}}
}}
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