For the first time in history, the translation process between English and Carsiekan will be fully automated. A website will soon be launched which will include an easy to use dictionary and possibly a direct text translator. For the first time, novices will be able to generate sentences in the language and translate them back to English in seconds, allowing rapid learning and easy promotion of the language.

The regeneration of Carsiekan fluency in DaeZig is made inevitable, not possible, by the development of this website. Carsiekan will again be a healthy secondary language and the largest micronational language.

Vamont Cina is officially nuts, if it wasn’t already. Recently elected Community Administrator Lord Sicone Vamont is considering a most unorthodox candidate as his deputy: a limited artificial intelligence construct.

Already providing a wide array of services to DaeZig, the time-honored Aurora services bot now looks forward to possible appointment as Secondary Community Administrator of Vamont. Why? No one really knows. Apparently an administrator does not need to be sentient in order to perform her (its) duties, as virtually any action taken by an administrator can be imitated by a few lines of code.

Lord Vamont’s eccentric obsession with AI goes back to the mid 2000s, when he had his girlfriends pretend to be androids in order to impress his colleagues. Replacing his friend of seven years, Lord Breaker, with an AI bot, is only the latest record.

For now, the appointment is only under consideration. In the event that it occurs, there are plenty of forces which could stop it, ranging from the Vamontian citizenry to the Empress herself. It is important to remember, however, that this is DaeZig. If no one is in a bad mood when Aurora is appointed, if she is appointed, it is entirely possible that the Vamont Cina will welcome its first artificial administrator.

Very few things are known to upset the DaeZig political equilibrium. Be it war, social upheaval, administrative schisms or otherwise, there are very few things known to provoke genuine panic or uncertainty throughout the entire system. DaeZig is a machine which has shown itself to be eerily content with any situation it finds itself in. Perhaps ironically the exception to this, the one thing DaeZig can not get used to, is the passage of time itself.

The Council of Lords was caught awestruck dumb when it learned that Empress Daesiga, its faithful master for three years, had resigned. Lord Sakon, a man known for his composure and formal attitude, found himself in tears. Lord Entibo, in a usual bout of bizarre behavior, resisted the urge to go around handing out black armbands (in /me, of course). DaeZig neither wanted to nor had a plan to replace Empress Daesiga, who was expected to reign until at least 2015.

Empress Daesiga, now Xaoutiui Daesiga, resigned on October 9, stating that the actions of Maleificus in 2010 had made her feel like a figurehead and that she had been unable to recover from that.

The Imperial Sovereign of DaeZig is, in fact, far from a figurehead. The Imperial Sovereign is an all-powerful figure whose will, no matter what it may be, is taboo to defy. Only the democratically elected Overseer and the Director of the Black Army can openly oppose the sovereign without risking political isolation. It is perhaps for this reason that DaeZig was apprehensive, almost unwilling to replace a sovereign who was so lenient that she mistook herself for a figurehead and whose record setting 3 year reign had defined the DaeZig political environment for generations.

The ascendant, Lord Rene, stepped out of the shadows to claim a throne that she had been promised back in 2009. Empress Rene comes from the same generation as Daesiga, “newer” by a number of months.

With the Zaegunsak many times rewritten during the reign of Daesiga, it is likely that the political process will remain much the same. What is absolutely certain, though, is that DaeZig must adjust to this new era. After all, if someone can adapt to the concept of a cyber-state, they can adapt to anything. That is the way of DaeZig.

A recent purge of inactive ZNC accounts by VacantMinded Computer Services revealed a large number of Sinsirans having abandoned their ZNC accounts and gone inactive. This, coupled with recent examinations of IndoSinsira which found the community to have declined in activity since 2010, show a general downward trend in Sinsira’s overall population and activity base. Sinsira’s active population, once estimated at over 200, has now visibly dropped to between 70 and 110. The Sinsiran Community Administration has said that it does not have a plan to reverse this trend.

Meanwhile, outside of Sinsira, DaeZig administrators have voiced differing opinions on the Sinsiran situation. “We must find a way to remedy this,” said a nervous-sounding Lord Sakon, District Administrator of Lorense and one of DaeZig’s longest-serving veteran staff. Vamontian Community Administrator Lord Vamont, Sakon’s e-father and former Emperor of DaeZig, expressed a completely different viewpoint. “Over the years, the DaeZig population has fluctuated. A few dozen one moment, a few hundred the next, then back and fourth endlessly. This is normal,” he stated.

Empress Daesiga has repeatedly called for population growth, but with stability being treated as paramount, very few realistic plans have been put forward. “You link a server [to an IRC network], then it’s a fight to see who controls the network,” remarked one external observer, adding that “[the DaeZig administration] does not seem like the kind of people who like losing any of their control.”

IRC links which threaten DaeZig’s absolute sovereignty over its cyberspace are considered to be detrimental, with the potential of rendering the country a failed state. Sinsira has always been very cautious of IRC links and has not hesitated to eject administrators and servers viewed as potentially antipatriotic. Keeping this in mind, if the community ever felt the dire need to expand its population base, it would have a virtually endless number of compliant communities to suck up. It is perhaps this security that keeps Sinsirans and their administration content with their dipping population. In any case, the general consensus within the DaeZig administration is that, as this news agency has asserted many times before, DaeZig is invincible. Population dips do not change this, regardless of whether they are an issue in need of a “remedy” or simply “normal”.

In the past months, there has been a surge of effort from DaeZig’s roleplaying leaders, veterans and experts to try and bring DaeZig back to RP life.

On the Internet, there are many communities who exist mainly inside text-based virtual worlds. DaeZig has historically had one foot into this practice, which was largely pioneered by otakus in the 2000s. In the stagnation that was the later Silvian era, most of DaeZig’s seasoned roleplayers vanished from the spot and took their skills and content with them. The Administration has long lived in denial of this cultural death, continuing to prop up dormant roleplaying communities like the Imperial Guard and the DaeZae RPers. Recently, the Administration has aligned itself with reality and made surgical attempts to patch together all remaining “ATL-Canon” communities (communities whose games fall into the oldest universe, “ATL”). The result has been a complete failure.

Anyone who has wandered into #Relay on the IRC server of Vamont’s Risardya District or Sinsira’s #Forest_of_the_Daezaeka will have seen an odd sight: a tiny pack of administrators and other individuals trying to arrange their schedules to participate in “mass” roleplays. It is somewhat ironic that the overwhelmingly vast majority of DaeZigs neither know nor care about the art of roleplaying, especially since DaeZig was founded by roleplayers.

With the obvious failure of the last ditch “jump starting” effort currently faltering, DaeZig faces the prospect of having to restart. Restart what? It’s important to know what exactly is going on.

The DaeZig roleplaying universe, or “ATL timeline” is a massively detailed roleplaying canon which has been formed over the course of nearly a decade. With content added by dozens of players over such a long period, most of whom are long gone, it is becoming increasingly difficult to pass the game on. Founders of the universe have largely given up, as the task of teaching became “overwhelming” as universe co-founder Lord Breaker put it when he bailed out in 2008.

As Breaker’s co-player, Vamontian Community Administrator Lord Vamont is saying (or rather threatening), DaeZig will have to kill what amounts to a national roleplaying timeline and start from scratch with new timelines created by newly created networks of individuals. “The plan was to get roleplaying leaders and experts playing,” he explained, “and then bring other individuals into the roleplay and essentially rebuild the old DaeZig roleplaying community.”

“No one seems interested in doing their jobs. So this is how it is: five more days for leaders to lead and experts to contribute, or there will be no ATL. We’ll kill it. I, and Lord Breaker too, we’ll refuse to teach people anything. All articles on the subject will be deleted from our cyberspace. The entire ATL timeline will be dead, killed, all except for the Daezaeka Order which will inherit it, and only their material will remain,” said Vamont.

The Daezaeka Order, DaeZig’s most well-known roleplaying group, is having its own inactivity crisis, but protected from disestablishment by the Zaegunsak and currently under restoration after a long hiatus by its Commander, it is well postured to fill the space left by the rest of the esteemed ATL players. “Lately I’ve been mingling with a different RP community, and this shows promise, both in canon and otherwise. I’m hoping a friendly relationship between both communities will bring more [recruiting potential],” Lady Rene, the Daezaeka Commander who now works totally alone to rebuild her Order, said.

Tens of thousands are taking to the streets across America to voice their opposition to a government they consider corrupt and completely out of control. In a movement modeled after the recent Egyptian Revolution, a core group of hundreds of protesters has occupied parts of New York City and launches daily marches which routinely draw in thousands of people. In other cities across the country, the same scene is unfolding.

What began as a small and poorly coordinated protest has developed to borderline unrest. Protests against bankers, protests against war, protests to avenge the death of Troy Davis, all launched from the Internet and all loosely united in their cause. The American government, clearly frightened, has reacted with a futile hard-handed response: over 800 arrests in total, levels of arrests comparable to those in Middle Eastern countries amidst the continuing Arab Spring.

Lord Sakon voiced his opinion on the matter. “Since the civil rights movements, and the cold war, people have been beginning to fight for themselves [...] Like the time[s] of old, people are finally tired of those that are in control and are taking back control. This was long overdo. America is truely the longest living government for a REASON. They showed their people an idea which seemed like freedom then SCREWED THEM,” Sakon asserted. “Therefore, they are taking that ideal and making it a reality. As it should be, honestly,” he added, showing his DeathZig sense of irony.

Sakon also spoke of the issue from a foreign policy vantage point after he acknowledged the role of Anonymous in organizing the protests, Anonymous, which has shown support for micronations in the past: “4chan was a bomb waiting to go off [...] The current leaders of the United States don’t respect us. If [a 4chan-led movement] in charge means a greater chance for DaeZig to get the respect it deserves, then I back [the revolution].”

Whether or not a revolutionary American government would respect micronations, DaeZig would be very happy with any situation in which corruption in the United States was lessened. The people of the world can not be treated as livestock, and more and more it is becoming apparent that even in this new age of technology, there is no force which can overcome the will of the people.

With the polls now closed in Sinsira, the results are in. The Valstrazian Ziggist Conservative Party through September won an overwhelming victory in the final phase of DaeZig’s multi-month elections. Lord Kabaka smashed Lord Entibo by a brutal 25-2 margin in the first democratic competition for the position of Sinsira Community Administrator. For Overseer, Kabaka outpaced Lord Maleificus and Lord Sakon respectively 20-4-3.

It was widely predicted that Sinsira’s population size would prove decisive in the first DaeZig elections, but in fact IndoSinsiran join-parting tendencies often made it a game of cat and mouse to collect the vote at all. Given the results, however, it would not appear that things would have been much different if the vote had been collected by welcome script. The immense margin by which the VZCP candidates won these past few months demonstrates that the vast majority of DaeZigs are either partial to their administrators or have had enough of violent and botched attempts to change the policy status quo.

The Valstrazian Ziggist Conservative Party doctrine of conservatism, libertarianism and pragmatism bodes well with virtually every section of the DaeZig citizenry and cellphone-touting denizenry. “Baptized in battle’s flames”, a line from the DaeZig anthem well describes even the most recent generations of DaeZigs who recently endured a year of eccentric management by a man who once called himself a prophet.

There was quiet concern among the administration about the idea that DaeZig citizens, not much different than other Internet dwellers, might not be understanding of the democratic concept. Indeed, 18 people ignored the message containing the ballot or voiced opinions exactly down those lines which ranged from fear that the ballot was some kind of purge tool to a simple dislike of making choices between members of their community. Needless to say, more people voted than didn’t and those who didn’t never expressed any direct dislike of democracy being applied to online communities.

It is needless to say that DaeZig’s first elections turned out ~exactly as hoped~, especially for the Valstrazian Ziggist Conservative party which indeed was responsible for the democratic Zaegunsak. The party’s already-ruling administrators swore amongst themselves to abide by that constitution and comply with the outcome of the polls no matter what it turned out to be and intend to do so for the next elections and all subsequent elections after that as DaeZig again braves her way in the opposite direction of the rest of the Internet, this time speeding down a democratic path in which the cyberspace belongs to the people.

DaeZig’s next administrative elections will be held in 2013.