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Who should be the next Monarch of Altona?

Princess Constance
3 (25%)
Prince Rutger
5 (41.7%)
Prince Lukas
4 (33.3%)

Total Members Voted: 12

Voting closed: June 25, 2021, 09:11:25 PM

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Be The Witan
« on: June 12, 2021, 12:42:09 AM »
On the 1st of June 2021 His Majesty King Gottschalk of Altsona passed away after a long battle with liver disease. As is tradition in the Kingdom of Altona the children of the King will now be questioned by the Witan, a body made up of 100 randomly selected citizens. Then on the 19th June 2021 all currently voulentary service members of the military will vote for who they wish to be the new monarch.

OOC - I will be opening to forum votes on the 19th for who people want to be my new monarch. In the mean time I'm happy to answer questions as though people are part of the Witan.


Constance SülldorfRutger SülldorfLukas Sülldorf
Constance, otherwise known to family and friends as Connie was born in 1985. She attended the Queen Adelias Academy for her education and worn several prizes for artwork during her time there. In 2003 she attended University and deferred her National Service. She graduated in 2006 with a degree in Architecture and as legally required joined the military for two years. She served in the Royal Engineers for her two years. Following leaving military service she began working for her father King Gottschalk on a vision he had to return classical design to the capital which had begun to take on a more modern feel. She has been instumental in many of the nations more significant construction projects since 2009.

In 2017 she married Duke Klaus Ruddenheir and the pair now have one child, Sigmund, who was born in 2019. 
Rutger was born in 1983.

He was educated at the prestigious Altona Grammar School for Boys where he graduated 18th in a year group of 45. Following his graduation he elected to complete his two years of manditory military service in the Air Force as a member of the Air Defence Guard which provide ground security for Air Bases. Following completion of this in 2004 he began to attend University where he studied History. Upon graduation he began working within the nations Sovereign Wealth Fund to help ensure family oversight. He was responsible for pushing for several investments into "Green" Technology companies. In 2016 he became the nations Minister for Tourism before switching to Minister for Security in 2019 as position he held until his father died.

He is married to Heidi who is a Doctor at the Army Memorial Hospital specialising in brain injuries since 2007. They have two children, Karl who was born in 2009 and Matilda born in 2012.
Lukas was born in 1980 and is the eldest child of King Gottschalk and Queen Lucille. As with boys of the family he attended Altona Grammar School for Boys and graduated 33rd out of a year group of 49 students. He was not much of an academic and so voulenteered for regular military service rather than national service. He joined the Royal Parachute Regiment in 1998 and seemed to excel at soldiering. In 2003 he was transfered to the 1st Battalion which is in essence the elite of the Parachute Regiment. He served in that until 2010 when he took up a position in T Battalion which undertakes the administration of training new recruits. By 2015 he was Chief of Training for the unit. In 2015 he returned to regular service. Despite his father asking him to take up some government position he refused preferring to stay in the military.

In 2003 he married Kamille who was the daughter of a prominent Wildhüter of the faith. The pair of four children, Gottschalk who was born in 2005, Hans who was born in 2008, Victoria who was born in 2011 and Gertrude who was born in 2015.
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Re: Be The Witan
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2021, 11:42:38 PM »
OOC: I hope I did not misunderstand your thread.  :)


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"Your Highness...what do you think is the path forward for our nation, the Kingdom of Atlsona? And which changes would you bring in contrast with your late beloved father?"

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Re: Be The Witan
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2021, 10:26:31 PM »
Princess Constance

"If elected I see the path forward one of making Altona more than a mega-city sat on the Illumic coast. We have vast woodlands to our East and South that have contributed nothing to our nation since its establishment. Our population is growing year upon year and the density of the people living here is steadily moving ever onwards. Altona must therefore expand. I would make my priority the construction of a series of new towns, nothing massive, perhaps no more than ten. Each would be limited to around 200,000 inhabitants maximum. The construction of them would prevent a long term future for our nation. We need to utilise the space we have for a whole manner of projects to unleash the vast potential we have.

Prince Rutger

"Altona has just plodded through the last few decades. We've done great work building amazing infastructure to help our city become a bustling modern city with great public services, amazing service sector jobs and a good financial sector. What we lack though are markets beyond our own region. We sit on the Illumic, a busy waterway vital for trade. We need to capitalise on that and on the fact that the region enjoys so many organisations like MICA. We need to take a step my father never did and join bodies such as that. Over the waters we've an amazing potential partner in East Moreland. We have a ethnic kinship with Hassfurt and in Zimalia we have a nation that is stock full of natural resources. Over our Southern border Eskdale is building itself up and Lakhzovia to our East could be an interesting partner moving forward. These are people we need to work with."

Prince Lukas

"My father was a man who was happy to be idolised by the Altonans. He ensured that everyone of us had food on the table, money in our pocket and a work life balance that mean standards of living here are high. There are though Altonans left behind. We have a significant gap between the wealthiest of our nation and the least prosperous. While these enjoy a standard higher than many on Mundus we must do more to ensure every Altonan enjoys the bounty of our nation. To do this our sovereign wealth fund needs to be utilised more. We wisely never allowed our oil and gas to be owned by private companies and now we can ensure this is used wisely. I wish to fund more high standard education and open this up to Mundus. I want Altonan degrees to be the envy of Mundus, through knowledge we empower the people."

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Re: Be The Witan
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2021, 09:05:31 AM »
What do you see as the biggest failure of Altona in the last 50 years?
What do you see as the biggest success of Altona in the last 50 years?

Optional Question:- Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie?

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Re: Be The Witan
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2021, 09:05:16 PM »
Princess Constance

Altona's biggest failing over the last 50 years has been the fact that we failed to break free from our Illumic-centric view of the world. We set ourselves apart from the world all but economically. As a result we've prospered financially but culturally, artistically and just recreationally things have not gone well. Mundus is a fascinating place and we've done so little with it. As to our great strength it has to be the way we used our sovereign wealth fund. When so many places allowed their natural resources to fall into the hands of private individuals and create a wealthy elite based on blind luck we ensured that wealth was used for the nation. We've a world class health and education system underpinned by the sovereign wealth fund.

Die Hard is a quality film, but Christmas isn't a thing here.

Prince Rutger

Or biggest failure has been in not being a good neighbour. Crisis after crisis in our region has been meet with words by ourselves while others take action. When Seaforth had its Eugenics War we should have stepped in, when East Moreland had a Regency Crisis we did nothing, when Heyra found themselves with an environmental nightmare we should have done more.

Our biggest strength though has been our national unity. While most nations across Mundus have faced some crisis, be it from within or outside ours has not. This has left us a nation with a unified identity, one proud of its culture, its religion and its strength. I think moving forward there are many great things our nation will do regardless of who wears the crown.

A good action film is a year round treat.

Prince Lukas

Our failure as Altonans is that despite sitting on an impressive sovereign wealth fund we are not sitting on an impressive record of achievement. We have companies across Mundus doing great things such as putting people into space, breaking the boundaries of science and yet we merely invest within opportunities overseas  and that present themselves. Our success though is that in our society no one is left behind on purpose. There are always sad examples of where things go wrong or where someone slips through the net but everyone here has access to quality education, great health care, good access to things like green spaces, public transport, libraries, recreation. If someone is willing to strive hard then here in Altona they will be a success and that for us is a great achievement.

Die Hard 1 & 2 are Christmas films, the other 70000 are not. 

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Re: Be The Witan
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2021, 08:51:59 PM »

It is my duty and honour to report the results of the voting by members of the Altonan military regarding the new monarch of our beloved homeland.

Following a period of 5 days in which all those voulentarily serving in the military have been given an oppurtunity to cast a vote for one of the three eligible candidates. These votes were then collected in and counted by members of the Witan who also verified the legitimacy of all aspects of the process.

The votes cast are as follows

Her Royal Highness Princess Constance = 20,626 votes
His Royal Highness Prince Rutger = 34,403 votes
His Royal Highness Prince Lukas  = 27,473 votes

As a result the Kingdom of Altona have selected His Royal Highness Prince Rutger as the future King of Altona.

Long Live His Royal Majesty King Rutger the First of Altona.

 
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