Citizens, the Empire stands at a crossroads. As your new Emperor, We are aware of Our obligation to protect and preserve the Empire and to create a society which functions effectively economically, politically and socially. To do so, certain changes must be made and certain sacrifices must be demanded from every citizen. The changes described in this edict shall be implemented immediately or as soon as practical, and shall be in effect until rescinded.
These decisions cannot be constrained by the external forces arrayed against us. The goal of these external forces is to weaken the Empire. To do so, they must undermine our common goals, try to destroy our common identity, and find ways to dilute our collective strength. For this reason, effective immediately we have resigned from all international bodies including the United Nations. We will select which international bodies with which this Empire we should be aligned and We will decide which international treaties to ratify.
It has been suggested that citizens of so-called democracies are "free" because they have certain constitutionally guaranteed rights, but these are not as important as they seem. The degree of personal freedom that exists in a society is determined more by economic and technological structure than by its laws or its form of government. Therefore, there shall be no constitutionally guaranteed rights and We shall confer or withdraw the rights of our citizens at Our sole discretion.
We are certain there are those who will advocate a return to representative democracy. There are those who will hold forth democracy as a panacea for all of the ills of society. Must statements and representations about democracy are false. Politicians who claim to represent the citizens in other nation-states may in reality have a different political agenda than their constituents. Politics itself has been described as the art of compromise. Representative
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