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Malarbor says: Today is 5000 ASC - five thousand days since the foundation of this sector of micronationalism. That's almost fourteen years. So congratulations. We're like a sixth of the way to having wasted our lives! Anyone who wants to party should drop into #micronations and give congratulations/condolences to the folks there.

The new millennium is beginning on a higher note for some of us than others, with David Bergsdrumfort getting engaged yesterday. Congratulations, David! Slightly more political but still encouraging - the talks on the peaceful reunification of Shireroth and West Elwynn are proceeding apace, or in some cases even better than apace. The main obstacle now seems to be the legalities of merging Imperial States in a constitutionally correct manner.

At home things are unusually quiet, perhaps because the Kaiseress is off on holiday. Mar Sara took the silver in hockey, leaving behind a mixture of disappointment and of joy that they made it as far as they did. The Landsraad may finally vote on the long-tabled and much-maligned proposal to quit the Bastion. And Gilles Melang's attempts to get a stock market running in Shireroth have been met with what can only be called an indifference almost violent in its intensity.

In foreign news, the rogue state of Wahlstadt made some new enemies recently by murdering former Kaiser-turned-human-rights-activist Elijah Ayreon, a deed so foul that the repercussions forced them to flee the fledgling Dominion and seek the protection of Jingdao. Elijah's relatives in Natopia have recovered his body for a proper burial, but the actions have produced a chill in relations even more than usual for heavily-Balkanized Cibola.

Five thousand years hence, will such atrocities at last be a thing of the past? Will the Benacian Question be resolved? Will Mar Sara be four thousand nine hundred ninety nine time consecutive undefeated hockey champions? MALARBOR DEMANDS YOU STAY AND FIND OUT!