Deportation translated - part 1

[ggsasha]

Deportation. (Mini-novel - transutopiya)

Prologue. CNN, Lanton, Tintung Island, Nelson County, Meganesia. Camera. On air.

The camera shows a smiling bald man in the middle of a plaza framed by thick flowering shrubs. In the center of the plaza stands a silver statue of a young girl dressed in a lava-lava on a clumsy stone pedestal.

- As you know,

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- As you know, Meganesia is now in the center of a major international scandal, and I am reporting from the main square of its capital Lanton, located on Tintung island. Formerly, this place was the governor’s residence, but it got blown up during the so-called aluminium revolution. Only a piece of the base stone remains, which now hosts a monument to Queen Laonirua, or, as the locals call her, Queen Lao.

The real name of Queen Laonirua was Lisa Korn. Ms Korn, born in Boston to an African American and a Chinese, began her career by performing in musicals in the virtual theater of Nicholas Skinner. When Skinner was later convicted of tax evasion, they escaped the US together and moved to Lanton, which at the time was the administrative center of British Oceania. Here they got involved in a Batak nationalist revolt which tried to restore the monarchy that existed before the British dominion. Miss Korn presented herself as a heiress to an ancient royal family, using her resemblance to an aboriginal. This clumsy scam would have remained only a joke, if Ms. Korn wouldn’t accidentally get shot during a clash between Bataks with the colonial authorities, exactly when she was singing «Go down, Moses» by Louis Armstrong.

A dead Ms. Korn made a far more convincing Queen Laonirua than a live one, and the next day the local ultras were chanting «Let my people go» - the refrain of the song and the line from the Bible book of Exodus. However, the crowd was met by the police with water cannons and tear gas. In response, the ultras invited mercenaries - Hutus and Vietnamese military instructors, who staged mine warfare in Lanton and on the Tintung island. All the administrative buildings and barracks of the colonial troops got destroyed on the same day. The mercenary raids forced the British troops to leave the island, then the entire Nelson archipelago, and later the nearby archipelago. The rebels have established Meganesia, an independent confederation of four archipelagos, and adopted the "Magna Carta" - a strange mixture of communism, fascism and Rousseauism.

The self-proclaimed National Convention appointed a technocratic government and established the Supreme Court manned by elected judges, and gave it draconian powers. The best of the mercenaries formed a police force which carried out the decisions of this court. The archipelago experienced a wave of repressions and nationalizations. The Batak nationalist party tried to remind of its role in the coup - but was cruelly drowned in blood. The revolution, as always, devoured his children. The Supreme Court banned all political parties and all state institutions, declaring state anti-national idea and a stronghold of the old regime.

These reforms have attracted a significant number of leftist groups from South America. These were promptly organized into an armed force. They compensated for their lack of experience with extreme brutality of their operations and terrorist acts. After a bloody incident involving the US-Japanese concession Pandzhong, the Supreme Court declared terrorism an official military doctrine. This caused a half-yearly international isolation of Meganesia, which was interrupted only because of the need to maintain

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Are you posting my own text in the comments or what?

[tarantoga]

Just to remind you that there is lj-cut tag

[ggsasha]

Aha, thanks.