Kusari Parliamentary Elections (April 827A.S.) - Voting

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Ai Nakashima, former bounty hunter and currently in employment of Kishiro. It would be her first elections, having had decided to leave her home - then original Kusari Empire - behind to experience freedom at last. Sitting in her planetside office on Honshu after the hours, she reviewed political views of all registered parties competing to win hearts and minds of entire population. Conscription? Capital punishment? Enforcers being jury, judge and executioner? What place and time do they think we live in? We are not regressed backwater kingdom anymore. Unity party was much more promising, even if she herself had reservations against being tied to Samura too much. So called Justice Party, the very concept of calling everyone who is not us, "Gaijin" is what held us back for generations. Majima - what? How did he managed to get on the list? Social Democrats had very sound goals though which will never be accepted by majority of Kusari. Too far fetching. Yukokai, they must had been new on the block. Not bad, not bad if it weren't for fact they would bring Kusari society and culture as a whole to be just what Empire used to be, just under different management.

Droplets of rain assaulted the big panoramic window in her room. She had decided to vote strategically, though it was not an easy choice. Only Honshu Unity Party was able to win against the troglodytes from Sunrise. She reached out to her wardrobe looking for adequate attire to endure storming elements of this water planet. She had neglected her duty as daughter of Kusari too long.

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