White Lotus Political Panel - OPEN FOR ALL TO POST (stay inRP of course)

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Hakiro Kaito was standing in the middle of the congress chamber, waiting patiently until all the guests would arrive and settle down.
He eyed the two large reserved places for Okane Financial, and Admiral Wanabe. He looked again as the commander of the 44th Honshu division, Itto-Kaisa Akashi Haikiri stepped inside the chamber along with the local chief of police and several other military and police officers.

Once everyone were settled down he began his speech.

Konnichiwa honorable guests, that chose to attend in this great day. I wish to welcome you all and thank you all for your support in the Republic, and its democratic ways. He made a small pause I will not delay with too many words, and start with a short brief on our humble party's history: In the year 795 A.S, myself and a few other veterans set in this very room and debated on how we can progress our great nation's future. How we can improve the economical status and rebuild the damaged relationship we have with one of the largest economical bodies that are part of our nation - The Gas Miners Guild.

We came to the conclusion that the emperor was simply bad for Kusari as a whole. This was when we made our little party, that grew among the years.

Now, we will continue with our Head Of Finances, Sakura Hitama, who will explain the economical plan we have made to strengthen our house and make our people's lives better.

As he steps down, a woman looking about 30 years old steps up and makes her speech

Konbanwa everyone she makes a wide smile

I am Sakura Hitama, former financial chief of the Honshu fleet, and now the Head Of Finances of the White Lotus party. As you may have guessed, the White Lotus have a strict plan to rebuild our damaged economy. In many aspects without doubt, one can say our house is failing because of the negligence of the former Emperor.

I am in the belief that if one builds strong economy - one can in no doubt build a strong house based on said economy, in all aspects - civilian, welfare and military strength.

Our plan, in general, would be to relocate some of the forces we currently have in a way that will let traders pass safely in our home, letting higher taxing rate and more state income.
One of the major parts is to rebuild the highly damaged relationship we have with our brothers at the Gas Miners Guild. The GMG is a strong military and economical body, by having tighter relationship we can have better involvement in the mining and production of H-fuel, which means higher profit which in turn will make higher taxation for the house.

Moreover with the GMG's help we can have better control on pirate elements in Honshu, thus making some of our forces more available to be sent on the problematic Hokkaido and Kyushu, better securing those will mean higher income and more traffic in our great house.

We also plan to draw back forces from Nagano and Rishiri to a minimum possible, that way we could better secure gas mining in Hokkaido rather than face both high numbers of Blood Dragons and Golden Chrysanthemums on the one side, and Farmer Alliance ships on the other.

While this might seem like a military plan, it is not such at all. The moving of the forces is purely for economical needs, since by better securing our traffic we can reach higher taxation.

Now there is also the subject of Gallia. As you may know, Gallia holds a huge economical value - they have huge industry, advanced technologies and important minerals and elements that are rare in Sirius sector. Our neutrality with all of Sirius is a key point to encourage traders from Kusari to head over to Gallia in order to purchase commodities there and later sell them all over.

More over, any foreign trader that wish to import from Gallia must do so via Kusari given the war between Gallia to Bretonia, which gives us anther reason to strengthen the security on the main traffic routes in order to bring prosperity to our house.

After the long speech, she looks a bit breathless, she straightens a bit and looks directly on the crowd

Questions?

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