BREST PARLIAMENT

This story begins in Belarus, around June of 2020.

Written by Lesley Zore.

PROLOGUE

Resolution Brest

Due to the rising tensions in the country of Belarus, the Minsk Coalition has proposed to:

• Ban all parties in opposition from entering the Minsk Parliament

• Build a parliament in the Brest region, where a fourth of the country will be partially controlled by a regional Brest Parliament, which has to agree with the central government on any change in its area

• There shall be an election for entry into the Brest Parliament every 5 weeks; there shall be 100 seats (a seat per rounded percent of votes gained).

This proposal gains 68% support in the Minsk Parliament.

WEEK ONE

First Brest Parliamentary Election

Seats Results of the First Parliamentary Election of Brest:

• The Anti-Lukashenka Party (ALP) 27%

• Liberal Party of Belarus (LPB) 23%

• Corbynista Party of Brest (CPB) 21%

• Nationalist Party of Belarus (NPB) 19%

• Rus Party (RUS) 6%

• Brest Succession Party (BSP) 4%

The Anti-Lukashenka Party, Liberal Party of Belarus and Brest Succession Party form a coalition with 54 seats in total.

Lukashenka Removal

The Anti-Lukashenka Party (ALP) has proposed to demand Lukashenka’s resignation. Brest Parliament voted as follows:

• Yes 72% (Mostly ALP, LPB, CPB)

• Abstain 8%

• No 20%

The Minsk Parliament denied the proposal.

Lukashenka Ultimatum

The ALP and BSP propose an ultimatum to the central gov’t, stating:

• Lukashenka should resign

• Otherwise, Brest threatens with a declaration of independence

The result of the vote is:

• Yes 53% (Mostly ALP, BSP, LPB)

• No 47%

Minsk government replies with the conclusion:

• Brest region has violated the Law byu threatening use of force to replace the leadership,

• Henceforth, the Brest Government is to be terminated

Ultimatum Realisation

The BSP proposes the following:

• Brest Parliament declares the independence of the Brest Republic (BR).

• BR is to function as a sovereign and independent country, as a parliamentary republic

• There is no need for a symbolic president - everything is to be handled by the Parliament, the Prime Minister and the Committees the parliament sets up.

• BR is to take arms and take control over all the areas of south-western Belarus, from Brest to Hrodna, Baranavichy and Mazyr.

• The Brest Republic is to function independently from Belarus and the Minsk Government

• This decision does not need to be verified by the Minck Parliament

• Parliamentary reelection is to be held in the beginning of the next week, and then every 10 weeks as regular.

• Liberal party of Belarus renames into the Liberal Party of Brest

The results:

• Yes 51% (Mostly ALP, BSP)

• Abstain 1%

• No 48% (Mostly RUS, NPB)

The Minsk Government does not get to verify this document.

WEEK TWO

Second Brest Parliamentary Election

Seats Results of the Parliamentary Election no. 2:

• Liberal Party of Brest (LPB) 37%

• Independence Party (IND) 14%

• Rus Party (RUS) 13%

• Corbynista Party of Brest (CPB) 13%

• Left Party (LP) 12%

• Reunification Party (RP) 9%

• Nazi Party of East-Slavia (NES) 2%

LPB, IND and NES have entered into a center-right coalition. According to the statement of the Chairperson of the LPB, “NES has been only invited to go above 50% and they have only entered to be in the coalition. We have no ties with nazism”.

First Prime Minister of Brest

The founder of the Independence Party has been proposed to become a Prime Minister of Brest by the Left Party, who is in line with the IND.

The results:

• Yes 69% (Mostly LP, CPB, IND, RP)

• Abstain 1%

• No 30% (Mostly LPB)

As a conclusion, the founder and ex-chairperson of the IND has been sworn in as the Prime Minister (PM) of the Brest Republic (BR). Their name is “Nestor Brestor”.

The Initial Brest Legislation

The following constitution has been proposed by the LP:

• Current Belarus Legislation is copied, including the Constitution, but names etc. are adapted to the BR.

• Death Penalty is removed and all cases involving death penalty are chenged into life inprisonment

Results:

• Yes 98%

• No 2% (Mostly NES)

Brest Defence

It has been noted that Belarussian tanks have attacked the village of Pileščycy. Noting that, the RUS party has been successful at negotiating for Russian Nukes, should the Minsk gov’t be threatened to recognize BR or face a nuclear strike?

Results:

• Yes 51%

• Abstain 39%

• No 10%

Minsk replied with an invitation to peace talks in the city of Stolin, controlled by no-one.

Treaty of Stolin

The IND party has brought the treaty signed with Minsk to ratification in the Parliament. The treaty states the following:

• Belarus (BL) is to recognize the independence of the Brest Republic (BR).

• BL is to acknowledge, recognize and respect autonomy and independence of BR, including its military control.

• BL-BR border is to be controlled by joint patrols and by the UN and is to be open.

• The BL-BR border shall go as follows: The border at the Dieveniškes enclave, Syabrova Lake, Navusć village, Lake Kroman, town of Mir, Veluta Lake, the town of Ol’gomel’, Glushkovichi. The lines between those borders are to be nearly straight, with some clearly defined demarcation lines.

Results:

• Yes 87%

• Abstain 4%

• No 9% (Mostly NES, RP)

The Minsk Government has approved the Treaty of Stolin as well.

The Brest Republic is now a recognized and fully functional republic.

Nuclear Disarmament

The Left Party proposes:

• Nuclear armament should be dissolved and the material should be transferred into nuclear reactors, or if possible, made useless otherwise

• Nuclear weapons’ plans should be destroyed

• This law takes effect as soon as the units on the border become strong enough to be able to counter foreign threats without the need of foreign intervention. This means it takes effect at the beginning of the next week.

The results:

• Yes 72%

• Absent 3%

• No 25% (Mostly NES, RUS, RP)

WEEK THREE

Gender Recognition Law

LP proposes the following law:

• BR should remove the classification of personal sex from the ID card and other documents and law.

• BR ends division of all institutions and practices into sexes. Ungendered (gender-neutral) toilets, sports, schools etc. are to be used.

• Gender, as a different topic than personal sex, should be given support for. Transition should be quick and free.

• BR should punish, severely, and transphobic or similar action

Results:

• Yes 48% (Mostly LP, CPB, LPB)

• Abstain 1%

• No 51%

Reelection Declaration

Based on the protests, launched in reaction to the parliamentary denial of the Gender Recognition Law, the LOM government should resign and a preliminary election should take place, CPB proposes.

• Yes 59% (Mostly CPB, LP, IND, RUS)

• Abstain 2%

• No 39% (Mostly LPB)

WEEK FOUR

Third Parliamentary Election of Brest

The Seats results of the Third Parliamentary Election of Brest:

• Left Party (LP) 29%

• Equity Party (EQP) 24%

• Corbynista Party of Brest (CPB) 16%

• Liberal Party of Brest (LPB) 11%

• Reunification Party (RP) 13%

• Radical Accelerationist Nazi Party (RAN) 7%

LP, EQP, CPB form the coalition, totalling 69 seats, which is above the constitutional-changing majority (the later is set to 67 votes).

Due to ideological disagreements, LPB, RP, and RAN do not succeed in forming an opposition.

Second PM of BR

EQP proposes the chairperson of LP Manska Alaya to become the Prime Minister of the Brest Republic.

The results:

• Yes 72% (Mostly Coalition)

• Abstain 18% (Mostly RAN, RP)

• No 10% (Mostly LPB)

Left Block

Parties LP, EQP and CPB form the “Alt-Left Party” (ALP), led by the former chairperson of EQP. The updated parliament seat structure is built as follows:

• Alt-Left Party (ALP) 69%

• Liberal Party of Brest (LPB) 11%

• Reunification Party (RP) 13%

• Radical Accelerationist Nazi Party (RAN) 7%

ALP is the sole coalition party, in cooperation with the LPB.

Gender Recognition Law

ALP proposes the following law:

• BR should remove the classification of personal sex from the ID card and other documents and law.

• BR ends division of all institutions and practices into sexes. Ungendered (gender-neutral) toilets, sports, schools etc. are to be used.

• Gender, as a different topic than personal sex, should be given support for. Transition should be quick and free.

• BR should punish, severely, and transphobic or similar action

Results:

• Yes 59% (Mostly ALP)

• Abstain 3%

• No 38% (Mostly RAN, RP, parts of LPB and the former CPB)

Stability Declaration

The parliament should promise to last with no preliminary election for the whole ten-week term, ALP proposes, thus declaring the Parliament its tool.

Results:

• Yes 81%

• Abstain 8%

• No 11%

Election Reform

The LPB proposes to note election results, not only parliamentary seats results, into this report log. Therefore, the parties which got less than 1% of the vote will be noted as well.

Results:

• Yes 87%

• Abstain 4%

• No 9%

WEEK FIVE

Entry into the United Nations

After three weeks of negotiations between the Reunification Party, the Minsk Government, the Independence Party of Brest, the Alt-Left Party and the United Nations Committee on Territorial and Geopolitical Issues in Eastern Europe, the following agreement has been sent to the Brest parliament for a verification.

• Brest Republic (BR) is to join the United Nations

• Brest Republic should publicly release the documents detailing and verifying the destruction of its nuclear arsenal

• Reunification Party is to be cut off from financing from Minsk

• Rus Party is to be cut off from its finances in Moscow

• Independance Party is to be dissolved

• The following Brest Parliamentary Elections are to be supervised by the UN

Results:

• Yes 94%

• Abstain 3% (Mostly RAN, RP)

• No 4% (Mostly RAN, RP)

WEEK SIX

Proposal on preliminary election

RAN party proposes a preliminary election.

Results:

• Yes 11% (Mostly RAN, RP)

• Abstain 2%

• No 87%

Jail Abolition

Alt Left Party (ALP) proposes the following:

• The jailing system is to be abolished and replaced with rehabilitation and compensation

Results:

• Yes 57% (Mostly ALP)

• Abstain 5%

• No 38%

However, 57% is not enough for a constitutional majority. This law would change the constitution, but it did not achieve 67% support, necessary for that.

Death Penalty Reinforcement

Reunification Party (RP) proposes to reintroduce Death Penalty for:

• A military takeover of areas, controlled by other countries

• Attempt at a territorial succession

• Repetitive, mass or greater violation(s) of Geneva Protocols and Conventions

• Points listed above are valid for violations committed in past

Results

• Yes 23% (Mostly RAN, RP)

• Abstain 2%

• No 75% (Mostly ALP, LPB)

Note that the combination of the second and the fourth note would move most members of the ALP and LPB to the death penalty.

The Putsch Nationale

The parliament notes that the Party Militia of the RAN has taken over small cities and villages in the southern half of the Brest Republic, while the RP has bombed a number of railways and roads at the north of the country.
 The parliament is asked by a member of the Liberal Party of Brest to pass the following:

• Acknowledging the recent illegal, provocative and destructive behaviour of the RAN and RP parties,

• Implementing the request of the United Nations security Council and the General Assembly regarding the mentioned parties,

• The parliament dissolves the Radical Accelerationist Nazi Party (RAN) and the Reunification Party (RP);

• The Brest Republic releases the material guaranteeing the nuclear disarmament, conducted days before, as dictated by the United Nations

Result:

• Yes 68% (Mostly ALP, some LPB)

• Abstain 3% (Mostly LPB)

• No 29% (Mostly RAN, RP, some LPB)

Henceforth, the RAN and the RP are removed from the parliament. The ALP and the LPB reach the following agreement - the parliament is divided up like so:

• Alt-Left Party (ALP) 61%

• Liberal Party of Brest (LPB) 39%

The Defence of Lida

The ALP notifies the Parliament in Brest of the following:

• The militia of the former Reunification Party (RP) has taken over residential districts in the town of Lida near the Belarussian border

• The militia of the former RP has laid a siege to the centre of the city, which is still controlled by the legitimate governmental forces

The ALP concludes the following maneuvers should be conducted:

• A powerful air raid should hit the city of Lida to annihilate the uprising

Results:

• Yes 2%

• Abstain 39%

• No 59%

The Lida Safety Protocol

The ALP proposes for the digital server to leak the name of the person who proposed to bomb the city of Lida, which is unconstitutional, hence needs at least 67% support to come true.

• Yes 65% (Mostly ALP)

• Abstain 20% (Mostly LPB)

• No 15%

The name was not leaked.

The Battle of Brest

It has been reported that the last remains of the Reunification Party (RP) have assembled some light infantry, currently nearing the Parliament of Brest. The ALP proposes to declare the State of Emergency, drive the military into the Capital City and protect the parliament with 200 heavy and 400 light infantry, 10 light tanks and 1 helicopter, given that they have assembled between 40 and 100 soldiers, equipped them with rifles, and 2 light tanks.

Results:

• Yes 89%

• Abstain 2%

• No 9%

Brest Safety Protocol

Due to the ongoing battle of Brest, the LPB proposes to:

• Close down all the public transport in Brest

• Close down the schools in Brest

• Ring the alarms to tell everyone to stay at home

• Declare a curfew between 11pm and 5am, with no penalties for violators, no enforcement.

The results:

• Yes 37%

• Abstain 12%

• No 51%

The chairperson of the ALP proclaimed: “Such an action would be a beginning of a totalitarian regime, and unconstitutional. Liberal party of Brest? More like a Crypto-totalitarian party!”

Analysts are noting that the divide between the ALP and the LPB is ever stronger.

The ALP is abusing every unpopular action of the LPB to gain power. “And you call yourself alt-leftists?”, replied the LPB chairperson to the accusation by the ALP.

Brest Retaliation

The LPB proclaims the following:

• The battle of Brest has ended

• The Republic (BR) was victorious in its overwhelming defense

• The Fascist desant on Brest was unsuccessful

• 13 BR soliders were killed, 27 injured

• 31 fascist soldiers were killed, 28 injured, 168 captured

• Although the fascist force was more numerous than expected, it was poorly armed and had no tanks or IFV vehicles.

The LPB, hence, proposes the following:

• A special trial should be held against captured and injured putsch soldiers, including all their ranks and organizers, which were, surprisingly, present.

• The trial shall be supervised by the Brest committee, Minsk committee, and a United Nations committee.

Results:

• Yes 61%

• Abstain 37%

• No 2%

Note that many MoP-s did not resist as they knew this is about a trial against the people, who attempted to murder them.

WEEK SEVEN

Brest Ruple

The ALP proposes a new monetary currency, Brest Ruble, to replace the Belarussian Ruble. The sign is to be “€”.

Results:

• Yes 23%

• Abstain 17%

• No 60%

Brest Dollar 

The ALP proposes a new monetary currency, Brest Dollar, to replace the Belarussian Ruble. The sign is to be “$”.

Results:

• Yes 73%

• Abstain 17%

• No 20%

Initial Economic Plan

The Committee on State Incomes has calculated the weekly income of the Brest Republic, measured in Brest Dollars $.

• Agriculture, 200 million $

• Industry, 400 million $

• Income tax (average 20% - class based), 2 billion $

• Corporate tax (10%), 1.5 billion $

• Transport and border tax (10%), 100 million $

• Paid public sector services, 200 million $

• Land tax (5% of profit), 100 million $

• Foreign investments, 100 million $

• War reparations, 200 million $

• Other, 300 million $

TOTAL: 5.1 billion $

The Committee on Monetary Reserves has calculated the reserve funds of the Brest Republic:

• Gold, 2 billion $

• Digital reserves, 17 billion $

• Other, 1 billion $

TOTAL: 18 billion $

It must be noted that this worth means nothing if it is not compared to the size of the income/outcome.

Following the above notions, the ALP proposes to set the weekly outcome budget for the current and future weeks like so:

• Public sector wages, 1 billion $

• Government, 100 million $

• Armament, 200 million $

• Soldiers, 200 million $

• Scientific research, 200 million $

• Infrastructural sustainability, 200 million $

• Culture and arts, 100 million $

• Repaying loans 100 million $

• Agricultural support 100 million $

• Post-war rebuilding 100 million $

• Brest Retaliation Trial costs for UN proceedings 100 million $

• Other, 1.2 billion $

• Additional projects 1 billion $

IN TOTAL: 4.6 billion $

This would leave a weekly plus of 0.5 billion $, and allow for 1.2 billion$ weekly to be spent on development, infrastructure, research and other projects.

However, the LPB declares a violent blockade against such an economic plan, as it does not include the 100 million $ weekly membership fee into the new Libertarian League, which they are willing to join (those 100 million $ are necessary to fund common activities, which benefit the member).

Due to the LPB’s demand, the results are as follows:

• Yes 16%

• Abstain 41%

• No 46 % (Mostly LPB)

The Alternate Budget

A common LPB-ALP team proposes the following budget.

INCOME:

• Agriculture, 200 million $

• Industry, 400 million $

• Income tax (average 20% - class based), 2 billion $

• Corporate tax (10%), 1.5 billion $

• Transport and border tax (10%), 100 million $

• Paid public sector services, 200 million $

• Land tax (5% of profit), 100 million $

• Foreign investments, 100 million $

• War reparations, 200 million $

• Other, 300 million $

TOTAL: 5.1 billion $

RESERVES:

• Gold, 2 billion $

• Digital reserves, 15 billion $

• Supplies and material reserves, 2 billion $

• Other, 1 billion $

TOTAL: 18 billion $

LOANS:

• International Monetary Fund, 2 billion $

• France, 300 million $

• The USA, 100 million $

• Saudi Arabia, 100 million $

TOTAL: 2.5 billion

OUTCOME:

• Public sector wages, 1 billion $

• Government, 100 million $

• Armament, 200 million $

• Soldiers, 200 million $

• Scientific research, 200 million $

• Infrastructural sustainability, 200 million $

• Culture and arts, 100 million $

• Repaying loans 100 million $

• Agricultural support 100 million $

• Post-war rebuilding 100 million $

• Libertarian League membership fee 100 million $

• Brest Retaliation Trial costs for UN proceedings 100 million $

• Other, 1.2 billion $

• Additional projects 1 billion $

IN TOTAL: 4.7 billion $

This would leave a weekly plus of 0.4 billion $, and allow for 1 billion$ weekly to be spent on development, infrastructure, research and other projects. State reserves, minus the loans, total 15.5 billion $.

Results:

• Yes 72%

• Abstain 7%

• No 21 %

The budget is now in place.

Libertarian League

The Alt-Left party proposes the following letter to the libertarian League:

“The Brest Republic (BR) wishes to join the Libertarian League”.

The ALP claims, membership would grant BR the following:

• Membership in a coalition of progressive and successful states (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Iceland, Canada)

• Military protection from the CSTO

• Military training

• Sharing research

• Sharing military intel

• Membership in a prominent organization

• Neutrality in the NATO-CSTO dispute and protection at the same time

• The chance to initiate a new Non-Aligned Movement

Results:

• Yes 51%

• Abstain 3%

• No 46% (Mostly ALP, who is starting to get split into the stalinist and the social democrat fraction - they are equally strong).

ALP breakup

Due to divisions in ALP during the last few days between the isolationist stalinists, and the centrist-based social-democrats, and due to most of the alt-leftists quitting, the trotskyist Chairperson resigns. They are succeeded by a stalinist, who changes the emblem of the party to the emblem of the Third Internationale and proposes the following:

• All the power in the State is to be transferred to the ALP senate, who is to figure out resolutions inside a one-party bureaucracy-based platform

• Details are to be filled in by the way

Results:

• Yes 15%

• Abstain 48% (Mostly “no” voters, too scared to refuse the regime)

• No 37%

The Social Democrats proclaimed their succession from the ALP into a new party, named the Social Democratic Center (SDC). The remains of the alt-left thought proclaim their Left Party (LP). The Chairperson of the ALP renames the party into the Bolshevik Party (BP).

The parliamentary structure is now as follows:

• Bolshevik Party (BP) 42 seats

• Liberal Party of Brest (LPB) 40 seats

• Left Party (LP) 7 seats

• Social Democratic Center (SDC) 11 seats

To preserve the old centrist, internationally popular government, LPB and SDC form a coalition of 51 seats, with LP as their side partner. This coalition does not have the 67 percent necessary to change the constitution.

The chairperson of the Social Democratic Center, who was previously a senator in the Alt-Left Party, is proposed to be a Prime Minister by the LPB.

Results:

• Yes 58 % (LPB, LP, SDC)

• Abstain 3 % (BP)

• No 39 % (SDC)

Exceptional Execution

According to the Minsk law, UN law and the resolution of the trial, the head of the former Reunification Party and their Party Militia has been given the Life in Jail, but the Belarussian Peace Convoy has let the Brest Parliament to decide between a death penalty and life imprisonment.

Results:

• Life imprisonment 59%

• Abstain 15%

• Death Penalty 26%

The former chairperson of the Reunification Party will not be served a death penalty, but will be imprisoned for life.

Other captured soldiers got mostly pardoned for being simple recruits. 10% of the militia and party got a penalty, mostly up to 5 years in prison, forced disarmament and confiscation of means of production.

Some prominent penalties:

• Chairperson of the Reunification Party and the head of the RP militia: life in jail

• Chairperson of the Radical Accelerationist Nazi Party and the head of the RAN militia: 25 years in prison

• Head of RP propaganda: 13 years in prison

• Head of RP special operations, planned the Descent on Brest: 120 years in prison

• Head of the RAN anti-polish sector: 49 years in prison

• Head of RP communications system: 21 years in prison

Tank production

A member of the Bolshevik Party proposes the following:

• The state should invest 200 million into tank production of T-14 Armata 2 tanks, sufficient for production of 54 pieces of the tank

Another member of the parliament proclaims that “at least 2 billion $ would be needed to research such a tank at all. I’d prefer building a direct railway between Pinsk and Slonim. So vote against!”

Results:

• Yes 39 %

• Abstain 1 %

• No 60 %

Pinsk-Slonim railway

The Social Democratic Center (SDC) proposes for a direct Pinsk-Slonim railway to be built.

Results:

• Yes 72%

• Abstain 3%

• No 25%

700 million $ from this week’s additional projects’ budget will be devoted into the railway, leaving additional 300 million$ for this week’s projects.

Tank production

A bolshevik party member proposes the following idea:

• Buy russian Armata t-14

• ???

• profit

The parliament votes on buying 50 Armata t-14 tanks from Russia for 250 million $.

Result:

• Yes 58%

• Abstain 2%

• No 40% (Mostly LPB)

WEEK EIGHT

-

No events happened in the eight week of the Brest Republic.

WEEK NINE

Lybian National Council

The parliament receives a request from the Libyan National Council (LNC), the new National Transitional Council, proposing:

• Brest Republic (BR) should denounce its ties and cooperation with the House of Representatives of Libya

• BR should recognize the LNC as the sole representative of the Libyan people, and the all others living inside the borders of Libya

• BR should ship LNC 30 of the Armata tanks

• LNC will be 400 million $ in debt to the BR

Results:

• Yes 47% (Mostly LPB)

• Abstain 9%

• No 44%

Libertarian League

Due to:

• instability of parties inside the Brest Parliament

• Brest’s policies on freedoms of movement, gathering, and public assembly,

• Due to Brest’s policy on military

A security meeting of the Libertarian League has voted with a 84% approval, to remove the Brest Republic from the league - while blessing it for its

• Gender policies

• Freedom of expression

The security meeting has come to a final conclusion.

An appeal cannot be made.

The parliament votes whether or not it is worth sending a note of protest to the League.

Results:

• Yes 12%

• Abstain 70% (no-one cares lol)

• No 18%

WEEK TEN

NRBC Protocols

The Left Party (LP) proposes the following:

• Each school, building with more than 50 residents, governmental building, settlement, needs a nuclear bunker

• Bunkers should have turnable analog and digital communications between all of them

• Every bunker needs to have air regenerators, capable enough to replace the ventilating system

• Every bunker in a school or in a residential building with over 50 residents, should be able to host at least 200 people for 2 years

• Every bunker in a school with over 150 students+teachers, or a residential building with over 150 residents, should be able to host at least 500 people for 2 years

• Every bunker in a residential building with over 450 people, in a school with 450 students+teachers, or in a governmental building of high importance, should be able to host at least 2000 people for 5 years

• Every bunker in a minor governmental building should be able to host at least 40 people for 1 and a half year

• A minor governmental building is a governmental building which is not of high importance

• A governmental building of high importance is: the parliament, the main State Media complex, the Central Crisis Management, each of the Ministries, an embassy of a country with more than 50 million residents, Central Army Headquarters

• Every bunker in a building of high importance is to be protected by 200 members of light infantry, 40 members of heavy infantry, 15 IFVs, 10 light tanks, and a rocket launcher - in peace time and the times of crisis

• Every bunker in a residential building with over 450 people, in a school with 450 students+teachers, is to be armed with at least 30 members of light infantry, 8 members of heavy infantry, 4 IFVs, 4 light tanks

• The cost of this is 2 billion $, and will take the whole week and next week’s “additional projects” expense.

• Construction should be launched as soon as possible, but the project itself should not be rushed. Make this the best NRBC defence in the world. For Jreg! Greg Guevara for life!

Result:

• Yes 59%

• Abstain 17%

• No 24%

Libyan Fraud

The Bolshevik Party (BP) reveals documents related to the Lybian National Council.

The documents prove:

• The Liberal Party of Brest (LPB) has cooperated with the Lybian National Council (LNC) to deliver the recognition request

• LNC has made a payment of 100 million Brest Dollars ($) to LPB for political representation purposes

• LNC has made a payment of 47 million $ to LPB chairperson for recognition purposes

• LNC has offered a payment of 300 million $ to LPB chairperson for military support purposes

• LNC has bought between 30 and 40 T-34 tanks, created in the former USSR, then owned by the RAN party and later confiscated by the LPB party for 4 billion $

• LNC has used LPB’s intel and connections to ensure logistical support in its As Sidr offensive [note: this is a fictional offensive].

• RAN party, which attempted a coup against the state of Belarrusian Republic (BR) weeks ago, bought their tanks from the LNC, which ordered them from LPB-owned fraction of the polish Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (Polish Armament Group) tank company for 178 million $ of Army Armament Budget

Due to this of a reveal, the Bolshevik Party presses the following charges:

• Against the chairperson of the Liberal Party of Brest (LPB): fraud, corruption, war crimes, crimes against humanity, supplying a terrorist organization

• Against the LPB party itself: fraud, corruption, war crimes, crimes against humanity, supplying a terrorist organization

• Against the Parties Militia Secretary of the LPB: war crimes, crimes against humanity, supplying a terrorist organization, organizing usage of heavy arms in the party’s possession, arming a party with heavy weaponry, party-sided investment into armament, abuse of armament for political reasons

And proposes to:

• Transfer the stated charges to a fast, public and effective civil trial

• Cut 50% of finances to the LPB party

Results:

• Yes 51% (BP, LP, and some SDC)

• Abstain 2%

• No 47% (All of LPB+some SDC)

Parties Militias

Given the events regarding the Libyan Fraud Scandal of Week Nine of the Brest Republic, a Left Party member of the Parliament of Brest proposes the following:

• Political parties participating in an election at any time, or entering parliament any time (e.g. General Parties), are not allowed to possess arms of any kind

• General Parties are not allowed to organize operations, control of, ranking, training of, recruiting, supplying of, or in any kind materially supporting or organizing an armed group, a militia, a centralized mob, a formation of people designed for military action or other similar party armed wing

• A chairperson of a party which brakes any of those two points, and everyone responsible for its organization, is to face between 3 and 15 years in prison. In case that the violation of this law resulted in a violent clash or a skirmish, mentioned people are to face between 6 and 20 years in prison. In case that the violation of the law left more than 200 injured, or more than 100 dead, or presented itself in a form of a coup d’etat, the chairperson of the party and everyone responsible for its organization, are to face between 10 and 40 years in prison. In case that a violation of this law left more than 2000 injured, or more than 1000 dead, or presented itself in a form of a violent power struggle longer than 20 days, the mentioned roles are to face between 12 years in prison and life imprisonment. In the case that violation of this law resulted in another group breaking any of the points, and the party supported or collaborated in such action, the party chairperson and the people behind the action are to face between 2 and 20 years in prison and if necessary, a later extradition to the political state which was hindered by it

• If this law receives constitutional majority support of 67%, it will affect violations, committed up to three weeks before the passing of the bill (after the Putsch Nationale, before the Libya Scandal). If this law does not receive a 67% support, it will only affect future violations, as a law is expected to do by the constitution

Results:

• Yes 56%

• Astain 14%

• No 30%

Party Popular Funding Principle

The LPB proposes the following:

• Weekly, each party shall be given as many million $, as many seats it has in the parliament

We shall observe the critiques of those with a lower number of seats.

• The SDC: “This law will boost the Bolshevik Party (BP) and the Liberal Party of Brest (LPB) into a full control over the state.”

• The Left Party (LP): “This law will demolish democracy!”

We shall also observe the defence of the bigger parties.

• The Bolshevik Party: “This will secure the dictatorship of the proletariat! Give me money, I'm the vanguard!!!”

• The Liberal Party of Brest: “Look. First of all, who cares about it. The people live in a populist regime, not in a technocracy. They aren’t going to follow what is technically constructive and usable, but what the richer parties say. We need money to cover our legal processes regarding the false accusations of our cooperation with the National Council of Libya, and mainly I want money. Now shut up and let us do our very important work.”

Results:

• Yes 75% (Mostly BP and LPB)

• Abstain 2%

• No 23%

The SDC and the LP cannot appeal to the constitutional court because the law achieved constitutional majority.

The SDC and the LP promise to call for a referendum. “National referendums, or plebiscites, are elections whereby citizens can determine whether a specific legal text can become official law or not. For this to take place, one of the following conditions must be met: The president wishes to hold one, both houses of the National Assembly request to hold one, or the citizens petition for it. If the National Assembly calls for a plebiscite, a majority is needed in both chambers for it to be official. If the citizens request a plebiscite, they must gather 430,000 signatures from eligible voters across the country. Additionally, over 30,000 people from each region must sign the petition, including the capital Minsk. Once either condition is met, the president must issue a decree setting the date of the national plebiscite. The plebiscite must take place less than three months after the decree was signed. Local cities can hold their own plebiscites if ten percent of the local population ask for it.”, says Wikipedia. The SDC and the LP cannot achieve a majority inside the Parliament, and cannot gather 430’000 signatures, but the chairperson of the SDC is the Prime Minister, and the role of the President was handed over to the Prime Minister.

Therefore, the Prime Minister declares that a referendum shall take place this very week, before the first round of payouts could take place.

The Referendum

The referendum proposes for the Party Popular Funding Principle law to be repealed.

Results:

• Yes 69%

• No 31%

Note that the turnout was really law, around 38%.

The LPB appeals to the Constitutional Court to dismiss the referendum for the low participation rate, but the request is not taken care of due to it being denied by the Appeal Filtering Committee. Note that the latter denied the appeal due to the turnout still being high enough to show a realistic result, and due to how clean the result was.

WEEK ELEVEN

The Report on the Lybian Fraud Scandal process

The sentences regarding the Lybian Fraud Scandal are as follows.

• Chairperson of the Liberal Party of Brest (LPB): 3.92 billion $ penalty (98% of their net worth), 6 years in prison, removal from all political positions

• Parties Militia Secretary of LPB: 200 million $ fine (99.99% of their net worth), 20 years in prison, removal from all political positions

• The LPB party is not allowed participation in the next parliamentary elections

• All funding of the LPB party is to be cut by 90% until the next parliamentary election

• All military assets of the LPB are to be confiscated by the Brest Republic’s (BR) army.

• All financial assets of the LPB are to be transferred to the State Reserves - loans not counted, now 20 billion $ in size.

• All equipment shipped to the Lybian National Council by the LPB is to be retrieved. If this is not possible, the LNC should be imposed a boycott on.

• This process took place on the High Court, hence cannot be appealed.

The parliament gets to decide whether or not it is possible to retrieve the equipment, sent to the LNC. If they decide not to do so, a boycott must be imposed against the LNC.

Results:

• Yes 21%

• Abstain 7%

• No 72%

Henceforth, a boycott is issued against the LNC.

Smoking Bill

The Bolshevik Party proposes the following:

• Smoking in public areas, 10 meters away from another person, is banned

• In case of a complaint of another person nearby the smoker to the legal system, if the cameras can provide the proof of the violation, the smoker is fined between 100 and 1000 Brest Dollars ($)

• In case that the smoker was less than 1 meter away from another person, the fine is between 190 and 2000 $

The Prime Minister proposes for the first indent to be changed into: “Smoking in public areas, 5 meters or less away from another person, is banned”.

Results:

• Implement one of the two/Yes 78%

• Abstain 3%

• No 19%

Which one should be implemented (does not need 50% but must have the highest support, higher than the “no” from the results above, hence the higher one with at least 20% support will be chosen):

• 10 meters version 35%

• 5 meters version 38%

• Abstain (mostly people who previously voted “no”) 27%

Hence, it is now partially illegal to smoke in public areas 5 or less meters away from somebody else, especially less than 1 meter away from other people.

WEEK TWELVE

Political Freedoms Bill

The Liberal Party of Brest proposes the following:

• A party cannot be blocked off the election by any legal means

• Party funding cannot be lowered by a court proceeding

• All verdicts regarding party participation in elections or its funding are to be declared dismissed, denounced and treated as absolutely invalid.

The LP notes that this would let the LPB continue their path to a constitutional majority with ease against their common interest.

Results:

• Yes 42% (Mostly LPB, some SDC)

• Abstain 14% (Mostly SDC, some LPB)

• No 46% (Mostly LP, BP, some SDC)

The newly appointed chairperson of the LPB makes a speech:

“This is a final betrayal. It is the opposition which has decided to wrongly attack our party for the crimes we had not committed. After all we did to save our party, after all the ideas we proposed to keep a stable, modern and a moderate parliament of liberalism and social democracy, the Social Democratic Center has decided to backstab us. Is this a democracy? No; after the coup of the Iron Front, the Reds have teamed up in a Workers’ Front. We declare a state of emergency inside the party. They are trying to banish us; only to gain power!”

The chairperson of the Bolshevik Party replied:

“We declare a coalition of the BP, LP and partially SDC. We do not have a constitutional majority. We cannot even pass any radical laws, as the SDC will block them off. Do not worry. We are not yet able to install a Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Our goal is not to ban other parties, but to punish those who support neoliberal regimes, against other neoliberal regimes, and steal my, I mean our, State Reserves.”

The chairperson of the SDC, who is the Prime Minister as well, stood up and declared:

“I do not agree for the SDC to take part in any of the two possible coalitions. The Bolshevik Party and the Liberal Party of Brest are both power-hungry monsters. We are not extremists, let’s just have elections if a coalition cannot be formed.”

The chairperson of the Left Party replied:
 “We did wow to run this full term. Let’s not break up the coalition so little time before the ordinary elections come up. BP has 42 seats; LPB has 40 seats; LP has 7 seats; SDC has 11 seats. Let us think of something…”

A member of the SDC spoke up:

“Not only the LBP, the SDC is unstable as well. This is all due to a divide inside the party, between the social democrats, and the emerging radically social-democratic force inside the party. As radical social democrats, we have decided to split away. Let both parts have their parties, and everyone will be cool.”

The new parliament seat buildup:

• Bolshevik Party (BP) 42 seats

• Liberal Party of Brest (LPB) 40 seats

• Left Party (LP) 7 seats

• Social Democratic Center (SDC) 6 seats

• Radical Social Party (RSP) 5 seats

The RSP, LP and BP form a new coalition of 53 seats. 53% is enough for a coalition, for a majority, but not for a constitutional majority. The parliament may proceed as usual, now under the banner of the most powerful Bolshevik Party.

Political Security Bill

The Bolshevik Party has proposed the following idea:

• The next election should not be supervised by the UN

• The following election shall be supervised by a join team of coalition parties, according to their seats in parliament

Results:

• Yes 39% (Mostly BP)

• Abstain 29% (Mostly LPB due to fear)

• No 41% (Mostly SDC, LP, RSP)

“How is this a coalition?”, shouts the chairperson of the Bolshevik Party.

“Shut up, we’re in a coalition, but we won’t support power-grabbing!”, the chairperson of the Radical Social Party replied.

“But… The workers!”, said the chairperson of the BP.

“Shut it”, everyone said.

And everyone did shut up.

WEEK THIRTEEN

Russian Language

The Russian Ethnic Committee has proposed for the Russian Language to become an officially recognized, sponsored and protected minority language over all of the Belarussian Republic. Also, it has been proposed for the parliament to announce its recognition that the “evil Rus Party” from the first election of Brest Parliament was not the true representative of the Russian People, instead the Russian Ethnic Committee and the State are to be declared as their real representation.

• Yes 89%

• Abstain 6%

• No 5%

Lida-Pinsk highway

The Radical Social Party proposes for a highway to be built between the cities of Lida and Pinsk, to complete the railway-highway cross going through the State. This will cost the State the weekly budget for additional projects.

Results:

• Yes 73%

• Abstain 2%

• No 25% (Mostly LPB, who claimed that that money should rather be spent on a new airport or two)

WEEK FOURTEEN

Fourth Brest Parliamentary Election

It’s Parliamentary Election Time!

The results:

• Bolshevik Party (BP) - 69% - 69 seats

• Radical Social Party (RSP) - 19% - 19 seats

• Social Democratic Center (SDC) - 10% - 10 seats

• Section of the Modern Center (SMC) - 1% - 1 seat

• Union of the Modern Movement (UMM) - 0.6% - 1 seat

• Party of the Monarchist Restoration of Brest (PMR) - 0.3%- 0 seats

• Pirate Party (PP) - 0.06% - 0 seats

• Green Party (GP) - 0.04% - 0 seats

The Bolshevik Party declares a coalition by themselves, claiming a constitutional majority.

One Party Union

The Bolshevik Party proposes for the parliament to be renamed into the Supreme Soviet and for the Bolshevik Party to reign all by itself.

Results:

• Yes 56% (Even parts of the BP voted against this idea or abstained)

• Abstain 14%

• No 30%

As this would need a constitutional majority, it is declined.

The Bolshevik Party asks the RSP to enter its coalition, but the latter refuses to do so.

UN report

The UN reports that almost all of their political advisors overseeing elections have disappeared and all data has been lost. Only 3 out of 184 watchdogs have returned from the Brest Republic. Two of them are fighting for their lives in a hospital in Geneva, the third one is reporting a masked person assaulting and threatening them. Surprisingly, the masked person was wearing a pin with a picture of Lenin and Stalin. The UN proclaims that the Parliament of Brest should suspend all its activities until more is known about the elections. They could either be rigged, or all of this could’ve been set up to point fingers at the Bolshevik Party.

Hours pass, as the parliament is having a long break, seeing that the UN is willing to intervene in the case that the Bolshevik Party ignores the demand to pause their activities.

Hours later, an armed convoy of UN special forces pushes through the BR border with Poland with no warning, and is to Brest in 20 minutes. The parliament is soon surrounded, and 60 heavily armed infantry soldiers block the exits. The Special Advisor of the United Nations walks into the parliament.

“The United Nations has concluded that the Fourth Brest Parliamentary Election was rigged and is not legitimate. Political violence, fake ballots and digital manipulation were all used.”

At that moment, a loud explosion is heard. The UN soldiers start screaming. The UN Special Advisor starts running towards the exit, but collapses short of their goal. A member of the Bolshevik Party has just riddled them with bullets.

Soon, the UN Convoy surrendered. The chairperson of the Bolshevik Party now orders for them to be forcefully extradited across the Polish Border.

The vote on extradition

The BP proposes for all UN forces inside BR to be extradited to the Third Polish Republic.

Results:

• Yes 97%

• Abstain 1%

• No 2%

All UN soldiers are extradited.

The vote on preliminary election

The United Nations proposes for a parliamentary election to be held in Brest.

Result:

• Yes 100%

• Abstain 0%

• No 0%

“This is strange, I abstained”, a member of the SDC shouts.

“I voted against an election”, a member of RSP shouts.

The chairperson of the BP stands up and says: “Let’s have some fun on the election, comrades.”

A member of the Radical Social Party stands up and throws a small rock towards the Prime Minister, but misses them. The PM is also the chairperson of the SDC. They stand up and say “Why lynch me? I resign. Lynch and stone the Bolsheviks, it was not me who abused the system!”

The Fourth Prime Minister of Brest

The BP proposes the chairperson of the Bolshevik Party to become the prime minister.

Results:

• Yes 100%

• Abstain 0%

• No 0%

WEEK FIFTEEN

Brest Parliamentary Election

The new parliamentary election results are as follows:

• Bolshevik Party (BP) - 100% - 100 seats

The Bolshevik Party, with the constitutional majority, constitutes the sole coalition party.

The Preparation

It has been noted that a new party - the Cooperative Left Party (CLP) - has been formed but does not wish to rerun the elections. They have started assembling arms and organizing hundreds of people in their armed ranks.

It has been noted that the Liberal Party of Brest has an approximate 15% support amongst the populace and is starting to assemble their armed forces.

It has been noted that the Radical Social Party has taken control of a military base near Stolin and is driving the tanks towards the Capital City.

The Bolshevik Party proposes the following:

• State of Emergency is to be declared

• All armed forces are to be put into the state of readiness

• 2 thousand heavily armed soldiers are to be put in crucial points in Brest and around the Capital

• 4 thousand lightly armed soldiers are to be put in crucial points in Brest and around the Capital

• 100 tanks are to be put in crucial points in Brest and around the Capital

• Air Force is to be put in full readiness

• All governmental and civil bunkers are to be prepared to be evacuated into

Results:

• Yes 100%

• Abstain 0%

• No 0%

The Battle of Žabinka

The CLP has taken over the village of Žabinka between the cities of Brest and Kobryn. Their strength is between 200 and 500 soldiers.

The RSP and the LPB have joined together into the Free Party (FP) and have taken over the village of Kleiniki, near the city of Brest. Their strength is around 3000 soldiers and 470 tanks.

The Bolshevik Party proposes an air raid of 30 close air support planes to be sent to destroy as much of the FP forces as possible.

• Yes 57%

• Abstain 4%

• No 39%

30 planes are sent. 27 get shot down by the FP AA defence short of their objective. Only 2 succeed to deal any damage, but mysteriously explode after killing between 5 and 10 FP soldiers each. One plane turns back and escapes destruction.

The FP forces attack the northern sector of the defense belt of Brest. With side fire from the CLP against the Bolshevik soldiers, the two break the northern and northeastern sector of the Brest Defence Belt.

The Puškinskaja Riot

The vul. Puškinskaja street has been taken over by an unapproved protest, organized by the Socialist Students’ Association (SSA) and the Socialist Rifle Association (SRA).

A member of the protest has used a minigun to down 17 State Soldiers, who tried to calm down the protest.

The Bolshevik Party proposes for all remaining tank forces to take care of the protest; and for all remaining infantry to cover the broken northern and northeastern part of the Defence Belt of the Brest City.

Results:

• Yes 100%

• Abstain 0%

• No 0%

The Bolshevik Retreat

Before Bolshevik reinforcements could arrive, the Free Party together with the Cooperative Left Party had succeeded in breaking through all the remains of the Northern and Eastern defence area of the defence belt of the Brest City. The forces of the FP and the CLP have united with the SSA-SRA protesters and have surrounded the city center.

The Bolshevik Party proposes the following:

• The Bolshevik Party should retreat towards Pinsk

• All forces should be evacuated out of Brest

• A new line of defence is to be set up near Pinsk, to defend the power of actual leftism

Results:

• Yes 100%

• Abstain 0%

• No 0%

Liberation

The CLP, FP, SSA and SRA finally march into the evacuated, now vacant parliament building.

The CLP calls for an election.

“Yeeeeesssss” is heard from the crowd.

The founder of the Brest wing of the Socialist Rifle Association proposes: “Let us transfer the election over to the United Nations. Let’s not make them simply supervise the election, but control and hold it as well… We will supervise it, of course…”

“Yeeeeesssss” is heard from the crowd.

“The city of Brest has been liberated”, the founder of the SRA states.

WEEK SIXTEEN

The Parliamentary Election of Brest

A parliamentary election, organized and supported by the UN on the behalf of the Breast-controlling parties takes place in all of the country, except in the city of Pinsk, which is still under the control of the Bolshevik Party.

Results:

• Cooperative Left Party (CLP) - 24% - 24 seats

• Free Party (FP) - 23% - 23 seats

• Socialist Students’ Association (SSA) - 19% - 19 seats

• Corbynista Party of Brest (CPB) - 15% - 15 seats

• Libertarian Left Party (LLP) - 14% - 14 seats

• Liberal Party of Brest (LPB) - 3% - 3 seats

• Bolshevik Party (BP) - 1% - 1 seat

• Left Party (LP) - 0.6% - 1 seat

• Anarchist Party of Capital - 0.28% - 0 seats

• Christian Democratic Alliance - 0.1% - 0 seats

• Reunification Party - 0.02% - 0 seats

The Cooperative Left Party (CLP), the Socialist Students’ Association (SSA) and the Libertarian Left Party (LLP) form a coalition. Together they control 57% of the parliament, which is not a constitutional majority, hence there is no threat of a regime taking place.

The three parties pledge to build a Brest of Equals, a Brest of Freedom, a Brest of True Democracy.
Pinsk Offensive

The Free Party proposes for an offensive to be conducted towards the city of brest, the last remaining stronghold of the Bolshevik Regime.

The FP proposes for three waves of an offensive to be summoned. Each wave should consist of 3’000 soldiers, 80 tanks and 50 close air support planes. Note that most armed forces were taken over by the new government and are meant to be sent in this offensive.

Results:

• Yes 59%

• Abstain 12%

• No 29%

The offensive breaks the southern defensive belt of Pinsk in the first wave and breaks into the center, where it halts and awaits the second and the third way. The combined offensive forces completely demolish the governmental buildings in Pinsk and declare victory of the new government of the Brest Republic over the Bolshevik Tyranny.

WEEK SEVENTEEN

Governmental Spooky Forces

The Free Party proposes for the Army to be renamed into the Governmental Spooky Forces.

Results:

• Yes 2%

• Abstain 3%

• No 95%

People’s Spooky Forces

The Free Party proposes for the Armed Forces to be renamed into “People’s Spooky Forces”.

Results:

• Yes 59%

• Abstain 2%

• No 39%

Special Anti-Terrorist Agency (SATA)

The Socialist Students’ Association observes the following:

• Terrorism, funded by the Belarussian government is a big threat

• The Brest Republic has no special forces to combat terrorism

• The Brest Republic (BR) has been hit by more than 10 acts of terrorism, which cost the BR more than 200 lifes and injured at least 400 additional civilians

And proposes the following to be voted for on the referendum:

• 1% of the defence budget should be transferred to a new civil-governmental defence branch named Special Anti-Terrorist Agency (SATA).

• SATA should employ 500 professionally trained soldiers, trained in headquarters close combat, escorts, counter-terrorism etc.

• A SATA squad should consist of: 4 specially trained light infantry, 1 helicopter crewed by regular forces, 2 technicians, 2 snipers, and 2 universal professionally trained soldiers.

• As a SATA squad consists of 10 soldiers, there should be 30 SATA squads in the agency. Additional 200 soldiers should be arranged into 10 special defence battalions, each made of 20 light infantry

• SATA squads are to be controlled, activated, and if necessary sanctioned by a joint team of technical experts, political advisors and civil representatives. There should be 5 civil security teams, 5 political security teams and 5 technical security teams. An operation is assigned one of each of the teams by the government. The operation can only start, change, etc. on joint agreement of all three security teams. Each security team has 24 people, operating in 8-hour turns and may control multiple operations at a time if necessary.

• The government cannot directly enforce actions onto SATA squads, as those respond directly to the security teams and to the law

• The Security Teams are to be selected as follows. Political Security Teams are to be appointed by the leadership of the Armed Forces (People’s Spooky Forces). Technical Security Teams are to be appointed by SATA squads in an in-SATA election. Civil security teams are to be appointed by a SATA Civil Security Membership election, a non-party election into the ranks of the security team.

• A SATA operation is to be designed, proposed and advised for by the Parliamentary Vote.

• SATA will respond and intervene in following types of operations: defence of governmental points in the BR, protection of foreign delegations or official delegations of international or foreign organizations or unions of high-security risk, deactivation and neutralization of NRBC threats, protection of NRBC items, protection or reclamation of vehicles and other individual/isolated areas possibly taken by foreign forces/organizations/individuals/…, other similar examples of terrorism/NRBC threats.

Parliamentary result:

• Yes 68%

• Abstain 11%

• No 21%

Referendum result:

• Yes 59%

• No 41%

Referendum turnout was 58%.

The SATA forces, including 30 SATA squads, 200 additional soldiers, security teams and support have been set up.

Operation Anti-Watchtower

The Corbynista Party of Brest proposes the following:

• 2 SATA squads are to take care of infrastructure into the Brest City.

• 3 SATA squads are to take care of infrastructure and security of the city center

• 5 SATA squads are to protect the most important governmental buildings

• 10 SATA squads + 4 defence battalions (100+80) soldiers of SATA are to join the Pinsk offensive against the former government of Brest. They are to take care of the infrastructure near the border of Belarus, to prevent the contact between belarus and Pinsk forces, and to watch for any attempts for Belarussian intervention, and to pose a threat to Belarus, forcing it to back off in case of an attempted intervention

• The forces planned to protect areas in the capital are to be dismissed from their alert positions as soon as military opposition in the Pinsk area is removed and order is destroyed in the area, maximally 2 weeks from this point

• The forces planned to protect areas near the Belorussian border are to be dismissed from their alert positions as soon as military opposition in the Pinsk area is removed and order is destroyed in the area, maximally 2 weeks from this point

Results:

• Yes 62%

• Abstain 4%

• No 34%

WEEK EIGHTEEN

Ending the Brest Civil War

The leadership of the People’s Spooky Forces notes:

• In the last 12 hours there has not been a single military clash in the city of Pinsk

• All known units of the former government have surrendered

• The former prime minister and the head of military committed assisted suicide minutes before the fall of their bunkers

• Other governmental and high-ranked party members have been sent for a trial in Brest, secured by professionally trained army squads

• The secondary representative of the gov’t, the minister of foreign affairs, the representative of the party and the secondary head of the armed forces of the former government have signed a dissolution of the army, a declaration of surrender and have agreed to transitional talks in Pinsk or Brest which should be swift, transparent and democratic

• It can be stated that a complete, effective and glorious military victory has been achieved and the Brest Civil War has now ended.

From the points presented above, the leadership of the military has consulted civil security teams and similar institutions. After taking advice from public and technical institutions and committees, the leadership of the army (People’s Spooky Forces) sends the parliament the following proposals.

Proposal number 1:

• The parliament should declare for the civil war to be over

• The parliament should enter transitory negotiations with the former government, in favor of democracy, transparency and equality

Proposal number 2:

• A military parade including infantry, light tanks and uncharged, headless conventional missiles should be held in both Brest and Pinsk

Proposal number 3:

• The parliament should wov to rebuild the damaged areas, mostly concentrated in the northeast of Brest and in Pinsk.

• The parliament should vow to organize compensation for people and/or groups hindered, limited, assaulted, partially or otherwise eradicated, repressed or otherwise damaged by the former government

Proposal number 4:

• The parliament should recall the army into its usual state

• The parliament should recall all SATA squads into their usual state and stop all of its irregular operations

Proposal 5:

• The parliament should demand death penalty for all tried members of the former government and the BP party found guily of any presented charges.

Parliamentary results on proposal 1 (declaration of victory):

• Yes 84%

• Abstain 3%

• No 13%

Parliamentary results on proposal 2 (parades):

• Yes 49%

• Abstain 6%

• No 45%

Parliamentary results on proposal 3 (rebuilding and compensation):

• Yes 71%

• Abstain 9%

• No 20%

Parliamentary results on proposal 4 (general de-escalation):

• Yes 74%

• Abstain 5%

• No 21%

Parliamentary results on proposal 5 (death penalties):

• Yes 19%

• Abstain 24%

• No 57%

Therefore - proposals 1, 3, and 4 are passed and introduced.

Treaty on Governmental Transition

The “head representative of the Bolshevik Party” (HERBP) and the “Technical Negotiator of the Brest Republic” (TNBR) have come to agree on the following terms, now being proposed to the Parliament of Brest:

• The Bolshevik Party (BP) has been defeated and is not a power in politics

• The new government is the sole legitimate representative of the Brest Republic (BR)

• For actions committed in the duration of the civil war, neither the BP nor the BR will be tried on the basis of party usage, storage or confiscation of arms, on the basis of troop organization, movement or other acts prohibitable and made punishable by the parties militias law of week ten of the Brest Parliament Log. “War is war”. The sole exceptions to this amnesia are genocide, targeted violence, supremacist or otherwise unacceptable internal policies taken care of by the given party or parties in the conflict.

• The Bolshevik Party will not be disbanded or banned from politics but will have to transparently reelect all of its leadership, organization, prominence and policies

• The Bolshevik Party will not oppose or block a fair, transparent and a democratic trial against members of its leadership and other sectors, who have been charged or will be charged in the following days based on their possible crimes, possibly committed during the civil war

• The Bolshevik Party will cut all its ties with foreign governments, militias or other organizations

• All international memberships, recognitions, participations, or other projects which the previous government has entered are transferred over to the new, current government

• Additional terms can be agreed to by the parliamentary majority of the Brest Parliament, the sole representative of the Brest Republic

• The ousted government additionally confirms the permission to declare or dismiss the State of Emergency to the currently functional and victorious government of the Brest Republic. The latter dismisses the State of Emergency

• A preliminary election is to be held in the beginning of the next week

• This, finalized by the preliminary election, is to conclude the initial political instabilities of the Brest Republic; this should be followed by political stability and successful response to any and all crisis to come

• Before the preliminary election, a referendum should be made, for elections to be held every four weeks, instead for ten weeks

Parliamentary Results for the Support of the Peace Terms:

• Yes 77%

• Abstain 12%

• No 11%

WEEK NINETEEN

The Election Term Referendum

Should the parliamentary elections take place every four weeks instead of every 10 weeks?

Referendum results:

• Yes 69%

• No 31%

Referendum turnout was 63%

Parliamentary Election

Parliamentary Elections Results:

• Socialist Students’ Association (SSA) - 29% - 29 seats

• Free Party (FP) - 27% - 27 seats

• Cooperative Left Party (CLP) - 19% - 19 seats

• Libertarian Left Party (LLP) - 15% - 15 seats

• Corbynista Party of Brest (CPB) - 5% - 5 seats

• Liberal Party of Brest (LPB) - 4% - 4 seats

• Peaceful Party (PP) - 0.26% - 1 seat

• Left Party (LP) - 0.24% - 1 seat

• Bolshevik Party (BP) - 0.2% - 0 seats

• Anarchist Party of Capital - 0.18% - 0 seats

• Christian Democratic Alliance - 0.1% - 0 seats

• Reunification Party - 0.02% - 0 seats

The Socialist Students’ Association, the Libertarian Left Party, the left Party, the Peaceful Party and the Corbynista Party of Brest form a coalition of 51 seats, successfully presenting a union of more than 50% of the parliament, not threatening a constitutional majority.

Note that this coalition cooperates with the Free Party and the Cooperative Left Party as friendly parties, but do not wish to merge into a total coalition. Note that the Liberal Party of Brest protests as it deems itself compatible with the coalition but was not accepted into the alliance.

Stability Protocol

The SAA proposes:

• This parliament promises to hold the whole 4-week term with no preliminary election necessary, securing the picture of stability of the state.

Results:

• Yes 61% (Coalition and some supporting members of other parties)

• Abstain 23% (No-one cares about promises, really)

• No 16% (LPB, parts of FP)

WEEK TWENTY

Operation Containment

The Third Technical Security Team of the Safety Anti-Terrorist Agency (SATA) has transferred an emergency note to the parliament of Brest.

The note is as follows.

At the parliament of Brest, 10 people wearing black suits have broken into an airplane from outside. They have blocked themselves in and shot some of their automatic rifles into the railway. They are using a megaphone to communicate with the outside.

Their demands are: 1. Amnesty to themselves, 2. Renaming of People’s Spooky Forces into the Armed Forces, 3. All governmental power should be transferred to the Reunification Party, 4. Unless these demands are met in the time frame of 96 hours, all 102 of plane passengers will be killed one after another and even more damage will be done

The Parliament is asked as to what shall be done.

The Technical Security Team number 3 has concluded that the best plan of action might be as follows:

• 40 drones should be flown nearby the plane, disguising as reconnaissance drones sent to observe this situation

• 5 of those drones should cut holes in the ceiling of the airplane

• All drones are to then fly into the airplane

• Those drones are to then fly into the heads of the attackers, 4 drones per attacker, to cut their skins and skulls using rotors

• Those drones are to be piloted by Drone Society of Brest, supervised by members of SATA squads and all three security teams

• The pictures of the attackers, which will be used for identification, have been assembled using night vision traffic cameras from the time of the attack

One of the members of parliament comments that this is simply brutal and inhumane. The drones should only fire “huge webs, neutralizing the enemy”. A member of the Left Party replies that “This is simply not effective and would take months to develop”.

“Let’s simply run into the attackers’ faces with 3 drones per attacker and use the remaining 10 drones to cause confusion. In the meantime, let's board the plane and arrest the attackers” someone replies.

Parliamentary result over a vote over the proposal, as improved by parliamentary suggestions:

• Yes 61%

• Abstain 7%

• No 32%

The action takes place. The drones neutralize seven targets quickly enough. Three targets manage to grab a weapon. Of those, two destroy the drones targeting them with no injuries. One person receives a cut in their elbow and in their teeth but escapes into the toilet. The two people who are still active start shooting into the crowd and fire between ten and twenty shots. One of them screams into the megaphone “Stop or I kill the remaining hosta-”. At that very moment, they lose the megaphone as they are arrested by the SATA squad. The squad then jumps in the plane and starts shooting at the only remaining active terrorist, who jumps behind a group of passengers and starts shooting back. As the SATA declines to shoot into the crowd, four SATA squad members are shot before another SATA squad approaches the terrorist from the back and arrests them. The only remaining terrorist comes from the toilet, stabs the closest SATA member and jumps out of the airplane. Shot dead running on the runway.

Two out of four shot SATA squad members died.

Out of 102 passengers, 19 died, 24 were injured.

No crew member was not injured.

The two arrested terrorists face charges of terrorism, hijaking of a viechle, organization of a party militia, political terrorism, mass shooting and mass murder. Other eight terrorists died.

Two members of technical security committee and one SATA member have been arrested on charges of mistreatment and murder from neglegance. Others who used drones in the action will not face charges as they presented orders from high command as an overwhelming evidence of innocence.

It has been noted by the state media that the deaths of the terrorists were brutal and painful. Much of the public anger has thus fallen against the parliament, who is also seen as guilty for low effectiveness - many civilian deaths could’ve been avoided, they say.

The prime minister issues a speech:

“The government has failed at its most basic mission, they say. They claim we have failed at protecting the citizens of this country. Such a claim is full of ignorance and hatred. Was it not for our intervention, all the passengers would be dead. Since we created the SATA, we can finally intervene against those basically weekly terrorist attacks and start slowing them down, and start lowering the number of victims. The system is new and is not perfect. It took us two days to assemble the forces for our first proper anti-terrorist operation, and it was better than seeing the terrorists win. We promise that, in cooperation with other progressive and successful nations, we are developing our security forces and are seeking to institute an effective, swift and responsive mechanism for dealing with such issues. We are doing our best to prevent acts of terrorism, and we have done a lot. Thank you. Don’t forget to vote for us to help us stop terrorism!”

EU membership

Given the successful stabilization of Brest politics, liberalization of civil policies and transparent democratization of Brest, the EU invites Brest to join.

The European Union has asked for the decision to be arrived to through a referendum.

The European Union will, if Brest Republic consents to joining, give Brest a 2 year transition period to accept and introduce all european laws and policies.

The parliament votes for the referendum to be held:

• Yes, hold the referendum 61%

• Abstain 8%

• No 31%

Parliamentary results:

• Yes, Join the EU 29%

• No, Do not join the EU 71%

Public turnout was 59.72%.

Education Protocols

The Libertarian Left Party proposes the following:

• Sexual assaults in schools and other education buildings, or executed by members of such institutions, are to be penalized with triple the penalty

• Physical assaults in schools and other education buildings, or executed by members of such institutions, are to be penalized with double the penalty

• Report teams are to be set up, which are to analyze the testifications, evidence, events and similar anonymously and ping the People’s Spooky Forces to arrest individuals or groups of individuals who committed a crime, or crimes from the first or the second indent

• Report teams are to treat victims as anonymous reporters, who are not to be published unless they themselves express the demand for such a publication to be done

• Whistleblowers of a crime or crimes from the first two indents by an individual or a group of individuals are to receive, if they insist to it, a bonus from 10 to 1000 brest dollars. The necessity and the size of the bonus is to be determined by the report team, who receives funds from the school budget itself

• A proceeding cannot be held with victim’s disconsent to the proceeding

• The victim of the crime from the first indent, or the victim of a more serious and violent version of the crime from the second indent, is to be compensated with whatever is agreed to in a secret treaty between the report team and the victim.

• Report teams are to consist of 5 professional psychologists. There is to be 1 report team per 200 students. This may require psychologists from abroad.

Results:

• Yes 79%

• Abstain 13%

• No 8%

Font Resolution

The Socailist Students’ Association (SSA) proposes the following:

• All official documents of Brest Republic (BR) should be created using Times New Roman 12, instead of Arial 14.

• Documents, printed after this week will only be valid, if created using Times New Roman 12.

• Additional technical committees are to set up rules for document creation

Results:

• Yes 17% (Mostly SSA)

• Abstain 28%

• No 55%

WEEK TWENTY-ONE

Traditional Embodiment of Brest

The Christian-Pacifist wing of the Peaceful Party has proposed to the parliamentary represented communist-pacifist wing of the Peaceful Party to propose the following:

• The victory in Pinsk is to be celebrated with a church being built in the city to glorify the fallen civilians

The proposal has been forwarded to the parliament.

Results:

• Yes 6% (Mostly PP, other anti-coalition parties)

• Abstain 32% (Mostly pro-coalition parties)

• No 62% (Mostly coalition, pro-coalition parties)

The chairperson of the Socialist Students’ Association spoke up: “Religion is the opium. It blinds people. Our nation is bright enough to cope with reality with no need for any church-based institution to take place in the region. We will not allow any church to begin misleading the people. We, adults, are guided solely by truth!”

Most of the parliament shouted “Aye!” in confirmation.

Saturday bill

Given the weakened international markets, demolished by the Third Conventional Sino-American Battle for Hawaii, the Liberal Party of Brest proposes the following:

• The maximum weekly working hours for employees, not affected by other treaties or exceptional legal grounds, are to be highered from 35 to 42 hours, allowing for a six-day week, with eight-hour workdays. This is to be reversed in as 4 weeks pass, or if there is a 2-week period of markets in Eastern Europe rising.

Results:

• Yes 18%

• Abstain 3%

• No 79%

Glory

The Cooperative Left Party proposes the following:

• Each school should have a portrait of Karl Marx

• The state should buy exactly 18481917 portraits of Max Stirner

Everybody signed the response “I agree but wtf”

Due to material, thus socioeconomic conditions, limiting the society from satisfying the ego of one participating in itself by using the virtual system of currency to produce or buy 18481917 portraits of Max Stirner, the parliamentary results are as follows:

• Yes 13% (people jokingly saying ‘yes’)

• Abstain 58% (people who would say ‘yes’ if, and only if, the state could afford so many portraits)

• No 29% (people picking ‘no’ due to materialistic reasons)

The chairperson of the Cooperative Left Party speaks up: “But truly… This is 18 million portraits; if we are economical, each can cost us 10 brest dollars. This means we would have to spend 180 million brest dollars to purchase it. Let’s reconsider it, how fun of an international story it would make. It would make us at least 500 million brest dollars only from media coverage and tourism! Let’s reconsider it, let’s vote again.”

The electronic system allows for a new attempt.

• Yes 20% (People convinced by the speech)

• Abstain 30% (People who agree with the joke but aren’t really sure)

• No 50% (People who don’t wanna bet that much money)

Parliamentary Pardon

The Liberal Party of Brest proposes the following:

• One sentenced to 10 or more years in prison, or to a fine or return of money larger than 120 times the amount of the average monthly salary, gets 2 chances after the verdict is achieved and before the punishment is concluded, to appeal to the parliament about a pardon

• The parliament can achieve a majority vote to pardon the accused person, or to lower their punishment.

Result:

• Yes 68% (needed a constitutional majority)

• Abstain 11%

• No 21%

Prison Time Appeal

A member of the bolshevik party, who was found guilty and who was sentenced to jail on following criteria:

• Organizing party militia - 5 years

• Funding party armed wings - 5 years

• Forcefully recruiting individuals in a political party armed wing - 10 years

• Fraud - 3 years

• Support of a foreign terrorist organization - 8 years

• Mass murder - 12 years

• Mass sexual assault - 25 years

• Rape - 50 years

• Tyranny - 15 years

• Conducting a military offensive against a legitimate people’s representative - 10 years

• Physical violence - 12 years

• As the sentence is higher than 20 years, a total confiscation of all economic assets is conducted,

asks the parliament to lower their punishment, to, if possible, release them.

Results:

• Yes 12%

• Abstain 21%

• No 67%

Prison Limit Bill

The Liberal Party of Brest proposes the following:

• No prison verdict can produce an imprisonment longer than 50 years

• All existing penalties, which guarantee for a prisoner to stay in prison for more than 50 more years, are to be lowered to 50 years imprisonment

• This affects life imprisonments as well

• This bill does not affect verdicts issued under an international agreement, foreign verdict or other paper(s), liebling the Brest Republic to imprison a person, or persons, for life.

Results:

• Yes 59%

• Abstain 2%

• No 39%

Prison Limit Change

The Liberal Party of Brest proposes the following:

• The maximum prison sentence should be highered from 40 to 45 years

Results:

• Yes 37%

• Abstain 22%

• No 41%

Pardon Limitation

The Left Party proposes that appeal for a pardon shall not be made for, nor can the parliament pardon without the constitutional majority, for violations or sentences, including:

• Genocide

• Slave trade or exploitation (wage labour does not count)

• Rape, Sexual Assault, Pedophilic Assault and other sexually-related crimes

• Characteristically-targeted murder

• Party handling of militias or other violations breaching the Parties Militias bill

• Tyranny

• Second, third, or later verdict against a person charged of that crime

• Sentences found legitimate by international agreements, proceedings, foreign verdicts or other verdicts, over which the Brest Republic has no authority to dismiss, change, and/or disvalue these charges, verdicts or other ratified, legitimate, enforced punishments or assigned future punishments

Results:

• Yes 71%

• Abstain 5%

• No 24%

WEEK TWENTY-TWO

Budget

The Socialist Students’ Association proposes the following budget, after noting new needs in healthcare and infrastructural recovery, and a higher success in production.

INCOME:

• Agriculture, 200 million $

• Industry, 500 million $

• Income tax (average 20% - class based), 2 billion $

• Corporate tax (20%), 3 billion $

• Transport and border tax (10%), 100 million $

• Paid public sector services, 200 million $

• Land tax (7% of profit), 200 million $

• Foreign investments, 100 million $

• War reparations, 200 million $

• Other, 400 million $

TOTAL: 6.9 billion $

RESERVES:

• Gold, 2 billion $

• Digital reserves, 16 billion $

• Supplies and material reserves, 2 billion $

• Other, 1 billion $

TOTAL: 21 billion $

LOANS:

• International Monetary Fund, 2 billion $

• United Nations Peacekeeping Force, 1 billion $

• France, 300 million $

• The USA, 100 million $

• Saudi Arabia, 100 million $

TOTAL: 3.5 billion

OUTCOME:

• Public sector wages, 1 billion $

• Government, 100 million $

• Armament, 300 million $

• Soldiers, 200 million $

• Scientific research, 200 million $

• Infrastructural sustainability, 300 million $

• Culture and arts, 100 million $

• Repaying loans 100 million $

• Agricultural support 100 million $

• Post-war rebuilding 200 million $

• Libertarian League removal fee loan 100 million $

• Brest Retaliation Trial costs for UN proceedings 0 $ (Payed)

• Brest Reparations to UN for the Civil War damage to others 100 million $

• Other, 1.2 billion $

• Additional projects 1.2 billion $

IN TOTAL: 5.3 billion $

This would leave a weekly plus of 1.6 billion $, while allowing for 1.2 billion$ weekly to be spent on development, infrastructure, research and other projects. State reserves, minus the loans, total 17.5 billion $.

Results:

• Yes 68%

• Abstain 6%

• No 26 %

The budget is now in place, note that the economy is growing faster than when the last budget was accepted. The economy is growing faster than the Minsk-based Belarussian economy.

Criminal Code (cc10248710923) bill

The Libertarian Left Party proposes the following:

• In a trial of any form of sexual misconduct/violence, the burden of proving a consent should fall on the accused, instead of the burden of proving a disconsent falling on the victim.

Results:

• Yes 82%

• Abstain 7%

• No 11%

Public Deradicalization Bill

The SSA party proposes the following:

• Each media distributor with more than 5000 daily views or reads needs to forward each of their articles, probable to reach at least 1000 views or reads, to the parliament for a verification.

A member of the Free Party points out: “This would be a massive infringement on the autonomy of media in the Republic. We must recognize that far-right radicalization does not happen so much through the only two papers in the Republic that meet the requirements (The Daily Worker, People’s News on Liberation). Prevention of radicalization through censorship is near to impossible to achieve. Let us seek education, positive engagement and planned deradicalization - not governmental misconduct which only pushes the unlawful to occur underground!”

The chairman of the SAA laughed the speaker off and asserted that “This is utter bulshit. We cannot tolerate intolerance. The common worker must be taught the value of our unity and how it is only and solely about class. Everything boils down to class.”

It must be noted that many Parliament Members reacted to this statement by attaching the notice of Class Reductionism to the SAA chairman’s thoughts.

Results:

• Yes 24%

• Abstain 7%

• No 69%

Political Turmoil Resolution

SAA notes that there are protests in some cities in support of the Free Party and the Libertarian Party of Brest against the so-called “Revisionist Master Governmental SAA Party”.

The SAA proposes the following:

• The creator of the slogan is to be charged with Treason, Revolt, Revolution, Party militia holding and to be executed

• National guards are to patrol the streets and disperse any crowds trying to politically infringe on the Democratic Reasoning behind the SSA

Results:

• Yes 48%

• Abstain 9%

• No 43%

WEEK TWENTY-THREE

Brest Parliamentary Election

The results of the parliamentary election of Brest are presented here. It must be noted the previous term was the first term completed peacefully, with no coups or trouble. The state is now stable and shall move on.

Results:

• Free Party (FP) - 28% - 28 seats

• Intersectional Brest (IB) - 26% - 26 seats

• Libertarian Left Party (LLP) - 16% - 16 seats

• Socialist Students’ Association (SSA) - 15% - 15 seats

• Cooperative Left Party (CLP) - 6% - 6 seats

• Liberal Party of Brest (LPB) - 5.5% - 5 seats

• Peaceful Party (PP) - 1.5% - 2 seats

• Left Party (LP) - 0.8% - 1 seat

• Anarchist Party of Capital - left (APCL) - 0.7% - 1 seat

• Bolshevik Party (BP) - 0.3% - 0 seats

• Christian-Democratic Union (CDU) - 0.18% - 0 seats

• Anarchist Party of Individual Capital (APC) - 0.02% - 0 seats

FP, IB, LLP, and APCL form the coalition with 71 seats, thus constituting a constitutional majority. However, there is a big division between the majority of the coalition and the LLP which makes it impossible for a constitutional regime to take over, while keeping the possibility of democratic and transparent constitutional changes open.

A study of the public opinions finds that 74.9% of citizens admire the new coalition; 7.1% do not take note of its positivity or negativity; 5.2% do not know how to respond; 2.6% dislike the coalition; only 0.2% oppose the new coalition entirely. A correlation between opposition against the coalition and self-proclaimed supporters of BP/CDU was found. A correlation between the dislike of the coalition and self-proclaimed support of BP/LP/APC/CLP/LPB was found.

It has also been found that tensions in the country have ceased. There are no active protests or serious instabilities. There are only healthy and constructive criticisms, supported and/or welcomed by the Coalition itself.

If the state is not only stable, but a true pillar of democracy, this government should peacefully remain in power for four more weeks, until the Week Twenty-Seven of the Republic of Brest, when the next regular parliamentary election is scheduled.

Representation of the BR in the UN

The UN and the Brest Republic have finally prepared all the documentation and recognition necessary for the BR to start its day-to-day business-as-usual in the United Nations.

The BR may now decide to finally send its advisors and representatives, chosen democratically in the meantime, to the UN apparatuses.

This shall initiate full membership of the BR in the international community.

Results:

• Yes 78%

• Abstain 3%

• No 29%

Earthquake reparations

The Free Party notes the following:

• There has been a giant earthquake near the Polish-held city of Chelm

• The far-southern areas of the Brest Republic (BR) have been hit hard by the earthquake

• In the BR, the intensity reached the level VII on the European Macroseismic Scale (EMS) in certain areas.

• Outside BR, around Chelm, the intensity reached was level VIII-IX on the EMS.

• There have been around 300 confirmed death cases, 9500 injuries, and 200 reported missing individuals in BR

• Numbers of casualties or missing people are ten times that in Poland and Ukraine, added together.

• The earthquake happened only 10 minutes ago, thereby future developments are uncertain

The Free Party and the Cooperative Left Party thereby propose the following:

• 90% of this week’s additional project budget and leftover resources shall be directed towards interventions and reparations regarding material damage in southern Brest Republic (BR) caused by the earthquake.

• Remaining 10% of the named funds shall be donated to the Third Polish Republic and Ukraine.

• As the OECD, the UN, the IMF, the Pentagon, the ECB and other parties that have to do with brest’s loans have agreed to, all of this week’s loans meant to be paid to foreign parties or states are to be directed towards earthquake reparations. Those funds are to be pardoned and do not have to be paid.

• As the IB Party suggests, the Brest Republic’s Committee on Oppressed Groups, the Institute on Gender Equity, the Intersectional Committee and the State Media are to conduct a joint study regarding the distribution of damage among certain groups and derive conclusions on what communities/groups are to be subsidized/compensated additionally (with 10% of reparations-related funds)

• If and only if there is another earthquake in the following 24 hours, the Seismological Committee shall report to the parliament with their notice and their proposals

Results:

• Yes 65% (So low due to disagreement on point Two of the proposal)

• Abstain 19% (Due to the point Two of the proposal)

• No 16% (Due to the point Two of the proposal)

Pinsk Marshes Militarization

Due to the lack of Brest’s military presence in the Pinsk Marshes, the Socialist Students’ Association proposes the following:

• 100 tanks should be bought from the Russian Federation and sent to cover open, unshielded areas in the Pinsk Marshes.

Results:

• Yes 26%

• Abstain 13%

• No 61%

WEEK TWENTY-FOUR

Pinsk Airport

The Free Party proposes for an additional airport to be built in the city of Pinsk, for commercial travel purposes.

Results:

• Yes 21%

• Abstain 22%

• No 57%

The Anarchist Party of Capital - left has noted that the committee on infrastructure has issued a warning against speeding to build an airport in a city with a great enough railway and road connectivity to the Brest airport.

Intervention in the border regions between the Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic (Transnistria) and the UN-Backed Moldovan Government-held areas

The Moldovan Embassy has asked the parliament of the Brest Republic to station troops at the river of Dniester, on the Moldovan-controlled area near Chisinau.

The Intersectional Brest Party notes that the Foreign Relations Committee of Brest has already chosen to recognize the autonomy and stability of the Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic.

The Intersectional Brest Party proposes that it might be a violation of Brest’s own laws to conduct such a military maneuver with no openly declared state of war with Pridnestrovie, a region quite cooperative with the Brest government.

The result of the vote on the Intervention at the Dnieper River:

• Yes 18%

• Abstain 21%

• No 61%

Final Secularization Bill

The Intersectional Brest (IB) party proposes the following:

• All religious institutions are to be disallowed from conducting gatherings, monetary transactions, private trials, possession of military or other force, recruiting, propagating or otherwise taking part in the Brest Republic (BR) as an organization

• All religious-related institutions are to be prohibited from funding non-governmental organizations, parties, governmental programs, media, privately-held companies with headquarters in the BR, or funding any organization, as an organization, through or using BR.

• All religious organizations are to be prohibited from owning land in or outside the BR. This does not criminalize non-secular states, but does criminalize officials in church-only states (of these, only the area in Rome named the City of Vatican meets the criteria).

• Any and all institutions, which breach these points, are to be warned, and, if necessary, boycotted, penalized, or even shut down.

• This law is put in place to prevent religious organizations from discriminating on basis of gender, sexual orientation and body autonomy first and foremost, but will in long term also help fight other forms of discrimination, including belief discrimination, which is only boosted by religious organizations

Results:

• Yes 76%

• Abstain 12%

• No 12%

Sterilization Bill

The Intersectional Brest (IB) party proposes the following:

• Persons, convicted of pedophilic actions, are to be castrated, if over 25 years of age

• The process of personal castration is to take place after and only if approved by a review and an investigation by a special team of medics, psychologists and other personnel chosen by the Medical Ethics Committee

Results:

• Yes 50%

• No 50%

“This question results in a tie, hence it shall be handed over to the Medical Ethics Committee to decide on it,” proposes the chairperson of the Peaceful Party.

Results for letting the Medical Ethics Committee answer on whether or not to pass the Sterilization bill, and the Committee does not have to report back:

• Yes 73%

• Abstain 5%

• No 22%

WEEK TWENTY-FIVE

The Involvement in Belarus

The High Court of Brest informs the Parliament of Brest of its independent decision:

• Lukashenko has been found guilty of fraud, tyranny, war crimes and other violations, defined as such in the Brest Penal Code.

• Lukashenko is to be arrested - captured in exile, if necessary.

• Lukashenko is to be transferred to the Brest Republic where they are to serve a life sentence, wearing a papakha hat.

• Lukashenko is to be carried by force due to his refusal to enter the Brest Republic themselves.

The Peaceful Party proposes to dismiss the Court’s decision, which takes the constitutional majority to achieve, but may prevent a war.

Results:

• Yes 59%

• Abstain 14%

• No 27%

This does not bring forward a constitutional majority.

The Ultimatum

The Republic of Belarus informs the Republic of Brest:

• The Belarussian President has been arrested by the Brest armed forces, who entered Belarus with arms

• The Brest Republic has thus kidnapped a Belarussian governmental member of high importance, and initiated an act of war by issuing an armed invasion

• The Belarussian Republic gives the Republic of Brest 2 days to release Lukashenko, pay 20 million Brest Dollars in reparations to Belarus, pay 5 million Brest Dollars in reparations to Lukashenko and issue a formal apology regarding the event

• In the event that the conditions of the third indent are not met, the Republic of Belarus shall take use of its right to launch a military intervention, and if necessary, expansion, into the territory, currently held by the Brest Republic.

Given the conditions described in the intends above, the Intersectional Brest (IB) party proposes to conduct what is commanded in the third indent of the Ultimatum.

This proposal is unconstitutional, hence it requires a constitutional majority to proceed.

Results:

• Yes 77%

• Abstain 13%

• No 10%

Apparently, Members of Parliament do not wish for a war or a political unrest.

Lukashenka Death

The Belarussian Secret Police notes the following:

• Lukashenka has died to a shot in head after being escorted to Minsk

• The assassin has connections to the Intersectional Brest (IB) party

Thereby, the Belarussian Foreign Affairs Ministry notifies the Brest Parliament of the following conclusion:

• Belarus declares a State of War with the Brest Republic.

WEEK TWENTY-SIX

Unrests in Minsk

The Free Party notes the following:

• Given the death of the Belarussian head of state Lukashenko, the Belarussian army is falling apart

• It seems that civil initiative “Liberation Front” has taken over a number of governmental buildings in Belarus

• It seems that pro-Brest guerilla forces have taken over chunks of countryside in Belarus

The Free Party proposes the following:

• The Brest Republic shall ask the rebellious government of Belarus for unification under Brest terms

Results:

• Yes 69%

• Abstain 2%

• No 29%

The rebellious government has accepted the unification, thereby joining the Brest Republic.

The Slovenian Civil War

The Students’ Socialist Association (SSA) notes the following:

• A day ago, daily protests in the country of Slovenia erupted into an armed uprising

• Workers’ councils have been set up and are being led by a coalition of Lesleyist anarchists and Ultrasocialist Libertarian Technocrats.

• The Committee on Land Occupation (CLO) has voted in favour of recognition of the Ljubljana Federation as a country

• The International Intersectional Committee has voted in favour of recognizing the legitimacy and fairness of the government of the Ljubljana Federation and has dismissed the internationally backed government of Janez Janša as a fascist dictatorship

The SSA thereby proposes the following:

• The Brest Republic shall create a committee “Committee on Slovenian Civil War” (CSCW), responsible to transferring arms and other support to the Ljubljana Federation

• The CSCW shall cease to exist once the Slovenian Civil War comes to an end, as the CLO withdraws the recognition of the Republic of Slovenia or the Ljubljana Federation.

Results:

• Yes 79%

• Abstain 11%

• No 10%

The Annexation

Given the developments in Belarus, a member of the Free Party announces:

• The whole of Belarus is now under pro-Brest forces’ control

Thereby, they propose:

• Belarus is to be annexed and incorporated into Brest Republic

• Peace is to be proclaimed

• Belarussian Parliament is to be dissolved, and their last decision is whether or not to accept incorporation into the Brest Republic.

Results:

• Yes 72%

• Abstain 5%

• No 23%

The Belarussian Parliament accepts the proposal as well, although under pressure.

Prosperity Confirmation

The Cooperative Left Party proposes the following:

• A team of investigators is to be set up, named the Investigative Team for Nationwide Prosperity (ITNP).

• ITNP is to be set up by the High Court of Brest.

• ITNP is to investigate all the currently-held areas of Brest, including all areas held by Belarus during the war

• ITNP is to report back to the Brest Parliament if ITNP finds flaws in or incomplete parts of incorporation of Belarus into Brest

Results:

• Yes 58%

• Abstain 13%

• No 29%

Zhlobin Airport

The Libertarian Left Party proposes the following:

• A public airport shall be build in Zhlobin

Results:

• Yes 31%

• Abstain 11%

• No 58%

Polatsk Airport

The Libertarian Left Party proposes the following:

• A public airport shall be build in Polatsk

Results:

• Yes 68%

• Abstain 5%

• No 27%

The airport will take the whole weekly budget’s additional projects’ resources.

Babruysk Airport

The Libertarian Left Party proposes the following:

• A public party shall be build in Babruysk

Results:

• Yes 31%

• Abstain 12%

• No 57%

WEEK TWENTY-SEVEN

Parliamentary Election of Brest

The Brest Republic holds its regular parliamentary election.

The election is going to be affected by the newly incorporated Belarussian territories, but the variation shall be marginal.

Results:

• Free Party (FP) - 28% - 28 seats

• Socialist Students’ Association (SSA) - 15% - 15 seats

• Belarussian Party (BP) - 14% - 14 seats

• Libertarian Left Party (LLP) - 13% - 13 seats

• Intersectional Brest (IB) - 12% - 12 seats

• Cooperative Left Party (CLP) - 6% - 6 seats

• Liberal Party of Brest (LPB) - 3.7% - 4 seats

• Andreu Nin Foundation (ANF) - 2.8% - 2 seats

• Intersectional Belarus (IBL) - 1.9% - 2 seats

• Peaceful Party (PP) - 1.6% - 2 seats

• Left Party (LP) - 0.85% - 1 seat

• Anarchist Party of Capital - left (APCL) - 0.75% - 1 seat

• Bolshevik Party (BP) - 0.2% - 0 seats

• Christian-Democratic Union (CDU) - 0.17% - 0 seats

• Anarchist Party of Individual Capital (APC) - 0.03% - 0 seats

FP (28 seats), LLP (13 seats), IB (12 seats) and ANF (2 seats) form a coalition of 55 seats, thus controlling a majority of over 50 seats. They do not pose a danger to the constitutional order of the republic, as they do not come close to controlling the constitutional majority of 67 seats.

It is highly expected that as the newly incorporated Belarus becomes more ideologically adapted to Brest, the current coalition will gain a constitutional majority.

Apparently even the far-left and far-libertarian SSA is too hierarchical and reactionary for the new coalition to be let in.

M1 Coalition

Given the territorial success, multiple-terms stability and success, the LLP proposes for the current governmental coalition to be named the “M1 Coalition”, after the Brest-Minsk-Orsha highway.

FP, LLP, IB and ANF all internally approved the proposal.

Smolensk Incident

The Emergency Committee and the Nuclear Safety Committee submit the following report, created with help by Poland, to the Brest Parliament.

• 8 minutes before the submission of this report, 2 dozen rockets took off near Smolensk and headed for Brest.

• Polish Intelligence has concluded the rockets are carrying nuclear warheads

• The Emergency Committee proposes for the rockets to be intercepted in-air, by an anti-nuclear laser.

• In the case of a mid-air nuclear explosion, Nuclear Safety Teams and SATA teams are to be deployed in the area and civilian population is to be evacuated.

Results:

• Yes 64%

• Abstain 11%

• 25%

SATA nuclear report

SATA, the Nuclear Safety Committee and the Emergency Committee report to the parliament:

• All rockets have been intercepted near the town of Horki on the Belarussian side of Russo-Belarussian border.

• Measurements of nuclear material show the rockets did not carry nuclear warheads, but were a mix of EMP strikes and MOAB-level bombs.

• No damage to Brest Republic or its residents has been recorded

Thereby, the Emergency Committee proposes for all Russian diplomats to be exiled and for a formal apology from Kremlin to be requested, and half a billion Brest Dollars of reparations.

Results:

• Yes 58%

• Abstain 22%

• No 20%

The Kremlin apologized for its action and disarmed its anti-Brest forces. This was followed by a normalization in relations.

Brest Budget

The budget is measured in Brest Dollars ($).

INCOME:

• Agriculture, 400 million $

• Industry, 1 billion $

• Income tax (average 20% - class based), 4 billion $

• Corporate tax (20%), 6 billion $

• Transport and border tax (10%), 200 million $

• Paid public sector services, 400 million $

• Land tax (7% of profit), 400 million $

• Foreign investments, 200 million $

• War reparations, 400 million $

• Other, 800 million $

TOTAL: 13.8 billion $

RESERVES:

• Gold, 3 billion $

• Digital reserves, 20 billion $

• Supplies and material reserves, 2.5 billion $

• Other, 3 billion $

TOTAL: 28.5 billion $

LOANS:

• International Monetary Fund, 2.1 billion $

• United Nations Peacekeeping Force, 0.5 billion $

• France, 200 million $

• The USA, 100 million $

• Saudi Arabia, 100 million $

TOTAL: 3 billion

OUTCOME:

• Public sector wages, 2 billion $

• Government, 200 million $

• Armament, 500 million $

• Soldiers, 300 million $

• Scientific research, 700 million $

• Infrastructural sustainability, 700 million $

• Culture and arts, 500 million $

• Other, 1.1 billion $

• Additional projects, 2.2 billion $

IN TOTAL: 8 billion $

This would leave a weekly plus of 5.8 billion $, while allowing for 2.2 billion $ weekly to be spent on additional development, infrastructure, research and other projects. State reserves, minus the loans, total 25.5 billion $.

The budget has been highly increased after the annexation of Belarus.

Transition

The Belarussian Party proposes for the Brest Republic to be renamed into the Belarussian National Republic.

Results:

• Yes 18%

• Abstain 4%

• No 78%

It just so happens that even the Belarussian Party (BP) was split in the vote. There are two elements of the party - nationalist element and the element of the restoration of the old Belarus.

In BP, the head of the party threatens to oust any element of the party not compatible with the nationalistic outfit. In response, a member of the restoration movement presents an ultimatum - the party shall either turn to the restoration of the old Belarussian system, split into two or cease to exist.

The head of the BP vetoes the options - but cannot prevent a split.

6 out of 14 members of the BP in Parliament split off into the “Belarussian Democratic Party”.

The remaining 8 BP’s Members of Parliament rename the BP into the “Party of the Belarussian Nation”.

Now, the seats are arranged as follows:

• Free Party (FP) - 28 seats

• Socialist Students’ Association (SSA) - 15 seats

• Libertarian Left Party (LLP) - 13 seats

• Intersectional Brest (IB) - 12 seats

• Party of the Belarussian Nation (PBN) - 8 seats

• Belarussian Democratic Party (BDP) - 6 seats

• Cooperative Left Party (CLP) - 6 seats

• Liberal Party of Brest (LPB) - 4 seats

• Andreu Nin Foundation (ANF) - 2 seats

• Intersectional Belarus (IBL) - 2 seats

• Peaceful Party (PP) - 2 seats

• Left Party (LP) - 1 seat

• Anarchist Party of Capital - left (APCL) - 1 seat

FP (28 seats), LLP (13 seats), IB (12 seats) and ANF (2 seats) are still in a coalition, thereby the System remains stable.

Can Brest hold on to the fourth term with no coup attempts, civil wars, parliamentary destruction etc.?

WEEK TWENTY-EIGHT

The Peaceful Party (PP) notifies the parliament of the Tirana Committee Peace Resolution treaty. The treaty shall be displayed below.

 The Peaceful Party proposes the following:

• The peace in Slovenia is to be glorified and the victory of Anarchists is to be hailed at.

Results:

• Yes 87%

• Abstain 4%

• No 9%

Proclamation of the Republic

The Intersectional Brest notes the following:

• The oppressive regime of Lukashenko has been removed

• A new, free Belarus has been built since

• There is no need to stick to the name of the Brest Republic since the whole of Belarus is now under control of the Brest Republic

The Intersectional Brest thereby proposes the following:

• The Brest Republic, or the Republic of Brest, should rename into the Republic of Belarus

• The Brest Republic shall exercise the former role of the former Republic of Belarus

Results:

• Yes 71%

• Abstain 6%

• No 23%

WEEK TWENTY-SEVEN

Logs Finalization

The Libertarian Left Party notes the following:

• The Republic of Belarus (RB) has been completely stable

• The stability of the RB has been so prominent that it has been included in a number of international organisations and has been seen as a successful state

The Libertarian Left Party proposes the following:

• It shall be proclaimed that the RB shall stay until the International Revolution shall wash all the countries of the world away

• Due to the predictability and stability of the nation-state of Belarus, presented here, logging the events, votes and other phenomena in the Brest Parliament is no longer necessary

• The logging of the decision-making of the Parliament shall henceforth, irreversibly, discontinue.

Results:

• Yes 100%

• Abstain 0%

• No 0%