Vanaza Print - National & World News 2

**Provisional Military Structure Straining**
The Nydian Revolutionary Armies' transition from war to peace has been a rocky one. Though His Grace, Duke Korneli I, has done what is in his power to keep the military in line, government action to reorganize the military into a professional force with a set budget and numbers is desperately needed. Hand-in-hand with this reality is the need to establish a separate and independent police force. As things stand, the provisional command structure is struggling to prevent desertions and abuses of power among the rank and file.

**Economists Divided on Njde, but Agree that Action is Needed**
The most respected names in economics have been in a state of both panic and outrage that both PM Njde and his one-time rival, the incoming Minister of Industry Nanava, have rejected the gold standard as a monetary model. Conceding that fiat currencies have had their use in short terms for staving off certain particular economic scenarios, these economists have balked at the idea that a fiat currency should be used with permanence. New school economists disagree, and are bullish on the pospects of the Nydian economy should the nation become the first in the world to establish a permanent fiat currency. However, both agree that the government needs to act sooner rather than later to establish a currency. There is currently much confusion regarding the value or validity of continued use of the Steinmark in transactions. Some have stopped accepting this currency altogether, and barter economics have taken over much of the country.

**Nesska Military Activity Grows**
The Nesskan Empire flexed its muscles again last week with a major military parade in the capital of Arkadiygrad. The parade celebrated what Nesska deemed the demise of Steinard ambitions to exercise its power in the east, and Emperor Feodosiy II personally participated in the parade from his horsedrawn carriage. Meanwhile, outside of the pomp and spectacle in the capital, there has been real military mobilization and training exercises on many of the borders of Nesska, including the southern border near the small Muslim states on its southern border, the Aruzene Republic and Chyenistan, who owe their independence to the Steinard counterweight to Nesska in the region, which no longer exists. As well, Nesska has mobilized on the border with Stein and even its northwestern neighbors, Luathia and Doldan. Thankfully, there has been comparatively little activity near to Nydia. Aruzene dignitaries have arrived in all of its immediate neighbors: Nydia, Chyenistan and the Tukhamen Republic to press for support in the event of war.

**Stein Ramps Up Military Activity**
Though we do not yet know where Nesska intends to exercise its military power, Stein clearly is preparing for the worst case scenario: a full Nesskan invasion of their rebellious eastern subjects. The Steinard military is in no means broken, and has moved the big guns into Cisvorua, the rebellious colony on the Nesskan border, including 4 prototype tanks which were never deployed against Nydia. It remains a technology which Nesska does not have, at least to our knowledge. Steinard diplomats are in Nydia more or less to demand a formal peace that will recognize Nydia's independence with current borders.