Lemurian Population Explostion!

[Lemuriania]

The Nexes Blade: International Edition

Population Explostion/Immagration Causes Government to Worry

A serious influx of Genus Liberalis immgrants as well as an unexplained baby boom amougst furs, scales and humans alike has government officials and the general poplus worried.

"We've never experienced a situation like this before," says Professor Phen'Wenke Ced'Sgneht, "Our population is growing at an incalcuible rate! A nation that could once hold both the enviroment and 50,000 people is now holding roughly 190,000 people as well as our beautiful jungle. Something has got to give!"

Random opinions has been sprouting faster than mango trees, but one motive is obviously. Lemuriania is going to take Genus Liberalis.

"Half of their poplus is already inside our borders anyway!" shouts deli owner Doly'Noy Forooy, "Getting all that land from GL wouldn't be that bad. Plus, a little more savana wouldn't kill us. I see our savana reserve up their in the North-West corner. It's nice."

Press Minster YDolyvor’Noy ThoNows only confirms this assumption. "The lands won in the GL campaigns will ultimately become apart of Lemuriania. The process itself may take several decades for the natives to get adjusted to, but they will be granted the same rights as our citizens."

However, YDolyvor’Noy ThoNows goes on to add, "This does not mean that GL has enough land for us to move into. With the rescent unexplained baby boom, we'll still need to obtain more land.. and fast."

CEO Phen'Evele Yenem suggests, "We could always just pave over some of our trees. Trying to co-exists with nature has been tricky and is only getting trickier. If we just cut down a few jungles, it's only going to make more space for us!"

Mistress of Commerce Phen’Lles Meht Lle while not making any official statements, have commenting, "We could just buy some land from the Federation itself. Perhaps something from the Nogitsune region. I hear it's lovely this time of year. Or maybe Ken-Ohki."

Mistress of the Nation Soxo’Noy Nytyonrynnyn Lydo states unofficially, "If I had my choice, I'd just expand the borders of Lemuriania by buying land from the locals around us. A little more of everything, expecially something along the bay. We need a few good ports."

Do you have an opinion? Tell us what you think! Send in your letters to [e-mail] and they could be posted in the next issue!

[OOC: Since this paper is delievered all over the world in some way shape or form, what you could do is be a newspaper reader in another nation and post an 'editorial-ish' responce! ]

[K IX]

To the Editor of the Nexes Blade,
Re: Population Explosion, 10 April 2005

In all this talk about expanding borders or disturbing the environment to accomodate the influx of Genus Liberalis immigrants, it seems one simple solution that can avoid space-related problems is available: build taller residences that can house more people, such as skyscrapers

Jon Slyclaw, Eruda (K IX)

[The Union of Tinis]

To the Editor of the Nexes Blade,
Re: Population Explosion, 10 April 2005

Even during the times when our two countries didn't get along, people like me in what makes up the Tinisian right, could remind the enviormental twonks on the left that they could abbandon their restrictions on all things captialist and still retain a green Tinis. So with respect to what Lemuriania should do about their population explosion, I'd very much hate to see them tearing down their forests. On the flip side, I don't think the radicals in my own government could tolerate an expanding Lemuriania for very long. I'm afraid even my own party, the Tinis Nationalist Party, may have some words about such. But if they do, I'll be voting for the Anti-Union candidates next time around.

But here's a thought, what about anexing the big desert? Sure life there'd be hard, but no one else wants it. And if that happens, I might find myself investing what little money my government lets me keep into a water cartel or some such.

-Marv Grunbreck, Ofanza (Tinis)

[Lemuriania]

Meanwhile, in a crowded leature stood a aye-aye named Zhen'Pepeeg Ced'Yeg, known through-out the Federation as the DSL's foremost geographer. In a chair just left of stage sat Mistress of Foreign Affairs Phen�Skeeps Hselgne, a ring-tail lemur in conservative dress. Out from them was delegates of both the Lemuran congress as well as members of the Furry Federation. Pepeeg adjusted his bow-tie and spoke.

"Well.. Um, good evening everyone! As you know, I'm Professor Zhen'Pepeeg but for the sake of simplisity, you can call me what they call me in Tinis. Money Monger."

He waits for a laugh, but the room remains dead silent.

"Okay then. Guess I'll just stick with statistics and maps." he says and dims the lights and starts a PowerPoint presentation of sorts.




"About 400 or so years ago, there was only seven states ... two of them was won from old war campaigns with the old Ciata Empire. The rest was naturally apart of the old Lemurstan that had be unifed under Zhen'Mseneeretebel... called 'the Defyer' by outside theologians. As you can see here, this is one of the orginal flags dating back from that era. The seven stars each represent a state.. The golden one being the one Zhen'Mseneeretebel was born in---which was held in high reverence by Orthadox Mesesejians."



"This is Lemuriania today. Seventeen states. Expanding our borders has been apart of our history for quite some times. ...and not just through conquest either! A lot of those states join Lemuriania through business dealings with the locals or simple because other lemurs and lizards wanted to join a nation with a track-record of supporting civil liberties or thriving economics."

"However, I'm sure you fine representives aren't here for Lemurania 101. I'm hear because of the population problem. The government has made it clear that simply paving over some jungles isn't enough. Statists show that building taller apartment buildings would only compact any degenerates and turn apartments into crime towers... Not to mention this would only work in the short term. We'd keep building buildings or adding more stories to pre-existing buildings. The whole process would eventually lead to deforestization. That why the Democratic States of Lemuriania has came up with the only possible plan."



"Expanding the borders once more. This plan all the issues we've discussed here today as well as many other issues on the Lemuriania's agenda, including recession. As you can see from the chart, the green represents the immediate areas the DSL wants to expand into (which includes Genius Liberalis). The grey area is also area desired by the DSL but not seen as important. The black area has roughly two meanings. One, this is the theoretical limit at which Lemuriania could expand before becoming so large that it collapses on itself."



"The second is dealing with the humans that live all through-out the Federation. Some peoples, such as those of the island nation K XI, can easily coexists. We Lemurians are having a much more difficult time accepting them. It's been intergrating into our culture to hate them...
It's even build into the more Orthadox of the religions. Our soultion? Place a home land for humans out in this black area. It will knock down Lemuriania's population a few pegs and let the humans live in piece. Any questions?"

[Ciata]

The said:

But here's a thought, what about anexing the big desert? Sure life there'd be hard, but no one else wants it. And if that happens, I might find myself investing what little money my government lets me keep into a water cartel or some such.

Ciata is currently putting the finishing touches on it's terra-forming project, and some type of deal could be reached so that that land could become far more usefull. What we lack in military and economy, we have made up in our bio and fusion technologies.