Phalanx said:
I'm back, for good. Now I just need a week or so to read up on what's been going on.
Did you guys blow up the island while I was gone or what?
Time for another famous Summary!
Blade! kicked half the National Assembly out on their ass...emblies

for being lazy dolts who weren't doing anything, Morgan stood on the sidelines cheering, Josephus kicked things up a notch when he pointed out that the ESRP had gotten shafted, and then the CRO announced that it couldn't help it.
Meanwhile, the following people disappeared:
MDIA Jools
MECT Robertsson
MTEF Langley
Half the National Assembly
Some other people
The following people reappeared:
MDIA Jools
You
William K. Edridge
Blade!
There's a diamond gala going on for snooty snotbag Witney von Vaam (don't tell her I said that), and Jools was going to go on a world tour before departing, and God knows where he wants to go now. Morgan said if there wasn't any government activity, he'd run for Prez again, so now there's government activity.
200 million new newspapers opened (we had 2.5 people per newspaper at one point) and 199,999,999 closed the week later, leaving only
The EUtopian Today standing among the NEWspapers.
And, lastly, Per Renard Rouge announced plans for a $700,000,000-worth new postcard enterprise complete with--
Okay, now I'm pulling your leg.
Plus, the military tribunal is about to end, and the tension is so thick a guillotine would shatter cutting it.