With the merge of The Vincence Empire into Callista growing ever more distant, activity in Callista spiked. First off on the agenda of the RMB was the further discussion of roleplay reform, something that would become very important in the coming Prime Ministerial election. Talks of what the responsibilities and authority of the roleplay mods were and the nature of a good roleplay post were among the highlighted concerns. Shortly after this, The dream of kirby released his long-awaited update to Haruhi Japan's "Saga of Bruxxa Iceberg" now called "The Callista and Friends Iceberg". The creation of such a keep of information caused great joy in the community of Callista and of those other regions involved. As a result of the aforementioned roleplay-related disputes, as well as a stagnation of the current roleplay map, it was voted on and decided that Callista would have a new roleplay map. This time, the map was only centered around North and Central America (with South America being added later). This specific roleplay saw just as much initial success as the previous, however, the difference here was that the roleplay posts from this roleplay in specific had been extended for the longest period of time in the region's history, and, at the moment that I am recording this, is still ongoing. After the creation of this new map, discussions in the RMB turned from roleplay to the soon to occur Prime Ministerial election. Hot topics regarding this affair involved the continuation of Prime Minister Baloo Kingdom's time in politics, the role and importance of roleplay to Callista, whether or not Callista is worse-off because of the merge, and what kinds of reform were necessary in government and roleplay if any. It was at around that official party voting blocks began to form around the five announced candidacies for Prime Minister, among those including Plus Nova Imperii/Ethics committee of the scpf, Baloo Kingdom/Nooooooooooooooo, Yazakhastan/Unknown, Dollystana/Komahina, and Yes humans are recyclable/Unknown. The Plus Nova Imperii, Yazakhastan, and Dollystana administrations were Tsarist Party aligned while the Baloo Kingdom and Yes humans are recyclable were aligned with the Baloominati. Not soon after, a recent surge in interest in regional politics caused for the resurgence of an effort to formally ban New Yi Empire from Callista this was done in an unprecedented executive decision by Tsar Sorianora, effectively ending discussion on the matter. Adding to ban the ban crisis, a nation known as "Tiber and Rione" was found to be incredibly suspicious on ban evasion and the such. As a result, the NationStates Moderators were forced to step in and deescalate the scenario. Luckily, nothing was damaged in the process. And to continue the previous paused trends of Callistan RMB behavior, discussions thus resumed on the upcoming Prime Ministerial election. In tandem with this, Yazakhastan claimed, I, Baloo Kingdom's leadership illegitimate in an official statement in the RMB. This, however, never ended up amounting into anything. Proceeding this, after numerous requests, the Sixth Callistan Minecraft Realm was started. This proved to be one of the most popular yet, even outdoing the original and Second Callistan Minecraft Realm in consistent popularity and activity. It was an off-site method of interregional and intraregional friendship-building. Something unrelated; as a response to the widely popular Callista and Friends Iceberg, Baloo Kingdom, with his recently created YouTube channel, released two videos detailing and explaining the iceberg's many entries with some help from Barlyy. These videos gained much traction and served as one of Callista's first reaches past this site itself. In other news, regional line founder Bruxxa made a brief appearance on the RMB, to much of the delight of the people. Also at around this time, Komahina disbanded the LDP of Callista claiming that he had become upset with the Tsarists, and rejoined the Baloominati. This essentially derailed Dollystana's candidacy, now LPM-less. Additionally, Callista reached yet another landmark RMB page number, achieving 4000 pages of RMB posts since the founding of Callista. Estimates conclude that the average day during this time period yielded an average of 270 posts. Shortly after this, as well as due to the flourishing roleplay, Arisyan moved back to Callista from Konglomera, presumptuously ending his break. And thus, discussions began once again on regional politics and the future of roleplay. The main topic of discussion at this time was the creation of a roleplay regional officer that would be directly voted on by the people and would have a final say in roleplay disputes. This was pushed heavily for by the Tsarists and eventually, it was brought to a vote. In the vote, the idea of a roleplay regional officer survived, but it was not yet implemented. The April 1st Prime Minister elections were soon, but due to timing issues, the scheduled debates were cancelled. Over in the Institute of Cellulose, enjoyers of the RMB had to deal with a nation referred to as "Panto" who had repeatedly harassed members of the Institute of Cellulose in past. This became an issue of Callista once Yazakhastan brought up that it was possible that "Panto" could attempt to to the same in Callista. No bans took place, but the warning was there. And finally, it was time for the Prime Minister elections. Due to missing specifications in candidacy, only Baloo Kingdom and Plus Nova Imperii's candidacies were put on the poll, respectively. The poll lasted 12 hours, shorter than the previous elections, and resulted in an unprecedented tie of 13-13. It also had the highest voter turnout rate in all of history up to this point. This had never happened before in Callista, and therefore, there were no constitutional presets on what to do in this scenario. Some suggested the Tsar choose the winners while others preferred to leave the decision to chance. In the end, chance won out, and a wheel spin was live-streamed on the Callistan discord server. Even this wheel spin was drenched in controversy, as a lack of specifications on the nature of the wheel spin led to multiple heated arguments post-spin. However, after a fifth and final spin, things were resolved, leaving spin as a 3-2 win for Baloo Kingdom. Despite the extremely close win, the Baloominati vowed to not underscore the voices of the other half of the region, stating immediate amendments to the constitution needed to be made. Soon drafted and passed were the Election Clarification and Creation of a Minister of Roleplay amendments, which specified what to do in the case of a tie, and created the Minister of Interior Affairs as well as the namesake Minister of Roleplay. To say that this period of Callistan history was an uneventful one would be a severe understatement. The effects of the merge were still being felt and Callista had to find a new footing in its populace. But nevertheless, Callista lived on.

To start off this time in history, we bring ourselves first to the April 2022 Head Justice Election. This election pitted the Independent Yazakhastan against the Baloominati's The dream of kirby and the New Tsarists' Tsardom of Alaska (Dollystana). In the end, and after a rather close race, The dream of kirby once again emerged victorious as Head Justice. Short after this election, saga founder, Bruxxa, started to become more active on the RMBs of Callista and The Tavern much more than his previous long breaks. This new activity leans into the next factoid to share; on the average day, there were roughly 207 RMB posts on the Callistan RMB, slightly less than that of the last time period. Also regarding the RMB, political discussions seemed to coincide with the return of Bruxxa, though unrelated, of which these discussions mainly were that of mainly economic topic. Regardless, it was now time for the very first election of a Minister of Roleplay in the history of Callista. The candidates for this election included the Independent Yazakhastan, the New Tsarists' Ethics committee of the scpf, and the Baloominati's Komahina. Given the roleplay popularity of the Ethics committee of the scpf, it wasn't a surprise that they were the one to come out on top in this monumental election. This marked the first time in a long while in which a party other than the Baloominati won a public election. Hopefully, given the official addition of a Minister based on Roleplay, the majority of roleplay disputes could finally be resolved quickly and without controversy; which for the most part were. In other news, nations Rutabegvile and Dollystana began to co-run a "quote of the day" service that would select a memorable RMB post from Callista to be featured in a dispatch. They're resasoning for its creation was to be a replacement for the now-defunct "quote of the day" from Callista's WFE. In tandem with this, general conversation and roleplay posts remained prevalent while a new map was proposed. This new map was one of fantasy, something that Callista had not yet seen. Given the nature of map, The Greater Western Union was given the role of cartographer. The original roleplay map remained, however it became much less active. Not soon after this, Bruxxa and others brought up the topic of whom was truly the heir of the regional line. This had been a long contested question, which, it turns out, lead to the question of divinity, with Bruxxa claiming that I, Baloo Kingdom, with the turn heir and Sorianora was not actually divine in the canon of the regional line. Others, such as Haruhi Japan argued their own divinity over former member of The Vincence Empire while Yazakhastan continued to defend the authority of the Tsar. Also on the topic of government and power, former Prime Minister Barlyy was doing well politically in other regions, attaining the position of Deputy Prime Minister in Institute of Cellulose. In relation, I, Baloo Kingdom, finally released a special preview of the awaited "1984: A Callistan Odyssey", a parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey. As sort of a soft ending to the 1900s Americas roleplay map, Oilanzandia created a catastrophic oil fire event to end the map in a bit of fun. As a result of the events that transpired during this time, the declaration that Callista had officially become "BCK 2.0" was made by former Head Justice Arisyan. In relation to the notion of historical achievements, it was also suggested at around this time, originally by Dollystana, that the name of this saga, "The Saga of Bruxxa", should be renamed to something that would be more all-encompassing of the regional line as a whole such as "The Saga of Us". I, along with others, both argued for and against a name change, and in the end, the name stayed the same. Not soon after, the next part of the "Callista and Friends Iceberg Explained" series was released on the BalooKingdomYT youtube channel. And on a less fortunate note, Lieutenant Prime Minister Nooooooooooooooo resigned from his position to move to his own region of Karanlik Yollar for the sake of a founder badge for the hopefully nearing third season of NationStates Trading Cards. Nooooooooooooooo moved a puppet nation to Callista to fill his role as Lieutenant Prime Minister called Mushroom Gorge. Lastly, to close out this time period, former Head Justice Cerata notified members of government that his ban term was over. This however, was contested by many in government claiming that either that the original ban was meant to last for an indefinite amount of time and not just few months or that despite this, Cerata did not deserve to be unbanned from Callista. And with that, the section has concluded. Overall, a number of things occurred for positive, and the lasting hope of such things happening again would continue into the future.

Somewhat unfortunately for the regional line, the sloth month of May struck once again. With many of their active members being caught up in some academics-related commitment, Callista just had to make do with the activity it got. To start things up, general RMB conversation and roleplay posts were the two things that could characterize this period in time. The newly-formed fantasy roleplay gave those interested something worthwhile to do, while those uninterested had fun discussing, chatting, and joking with one another. Shortly after the beginning of the month, Minister of Foreign Affairs Barlyy resigned from the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs as a result of personal tragedy. This caused his seat in government to remain vacant for a long while. This was a major point of contention with Tsarists advocating for the seat to be filled by Dollystana and others nominating Yazakhastan Additionally, Arisyan finally went on vacation in the form of quitting NationStates after many months of claiming to do so. On an unrelated note, citizen of Callista, Oilanzandia, created his own region in the form of The League of the Black Droplet. After a raid on said region, and an ensuing flame war reminiscent of the Grieve Tan Tragedy, Oilanzandia was deated by the NationStates moderators and was reincarnated as Boilanzandia. Not long after, The Greater Western Union's fanatsy roleplay map received its own dispatch page on Callista Dispatches in order to make the current roleplay system more organized. Filling in the cracks of unimportant historical events was again more fun on the RMB. Whether it be memes, inside jokes, or references, they could be found on the Callista RMB of May 2022; Callista then reached the milestone of the RMB page 4500. Reinvigorating the theme of political events, Yazakhastan switched the direction and leaning of his political party from the "Orthodox Party of Callista" to the "Peoples Party of Callista". As a result, the idea of adding an official bill of rights to the Callista constitution was brought forth. This discussion was mainly ended by Barlyy's argument that the rights of the people are already listed in the constitution. Offsite, the BalooKingdomYT YouTube channel was growing in attention and video count, serving as an additional regional pastime. Back to the site, Barlyy re-entered the NationStates Trading Card game once again gaining an astonishing 14,000 bank in a single day. Slightly related, Barlyy also co-authored a World Assembly declaration against the use of inflation in the NationStates Trading Card community. This proposal was brought into quorum and as of the writing of this section, looks to pass. And finally, to wrap up the month, on June 8th the seventh Callista Minecraft Realm was opened; this time themed around the recently released "Wild Update" to the game. As of the writing of this section, this realm in particular has seen somewhat above average activity. And with that, the month has been finished. In general, a rather slow-paced 30 days, but still eventful enough.

After a while of the “same old same old”, the events leading up to the July 2022 Callistan Prime Minister Elections came to shake some things up. Starting this trend was the successful passing of a World Assembly Security Council declaration co-authored by former Prime Minister of Callista and founder of Konglomera, Barlyy. Although Barlyy insisted the achievement with insignificant, it made history in being the first site-wide permanent imprint made by Callista. Some time after, Callista Now! politician Yazakhastan required character witnesses for the hopeful repeal of their ban from the Institute of Cellulose, and many citizens of Callista came to their aid. Later, the planned Baloo’s No Bison Burger Plane Trip event began and had montages posted to YouTube. On the more political side of things, members of the New Tsarist Party (soon the Constitutional Tsarist Party) questioned at-the-time Lieutenant Prime Minister and Prime Minister candidate Nooooooooooooooo regarding whether or not he was fit to candidate for Prime Minister, with Baloominati members pitching their opinions in as well. Regardless, Nooooooooooooooo did not drop his candidacy. Not soon after, Plus Nova Imperii started yet another new historical roleplay in Callista this time themed around the idea of a world without WWI. After this, roleplay and general discussion on the RMB made a fairly decent pace although barely quelling the “summer slump” fears of members of the Callistan RMB. In a twist of events, due to the choice to endorse the Nooooooooooooooo-Dollystana candidacy for the July 2022 elections as well as an eagerness for a change of administration, Baloominati co-leader Barlyy officially left the organization in favor of the New Tsarist Party. This represented a dramatic shift in the tone of regional politics, one that had been coming for a long time. On a different note, the previously permanently banned nation Ofthelord’s ban from Callista was reconsidered but ultimately denied. But back on topic with regional politics, the Prime Ministerial debates were back but with the new concept of simply being interviews showcasing the viewpoints of candidates Nooooooooooooooo, Plus Nova Imperii, and Yazakhastan to the voting populace. These interviews were brought to life with text-to-speech programs are uploaded to the BalooKingdomYT YouTube channel. With the lack of a structured debate, arguments were left to the RMB. Mainly on the chopping block at the time was the apparent lack of replacement made for Barlyy’s position of Minister of Foreign Affairs after his brief hiatus from the site. This was brought up as a point of Baloominati incompetence but ultimately ruled to be a misunderstanding built on the fact that regional founder Sorianora forgot to appoint the Baloominati replacement, that being Dollystana. In real life, the death of famous Minecraft YouTuber Technoblade prompted a memorial message on the regional announcements for Callista. And then, it was finally here; the July 2022 Prime Minister Elections. Under the Baloominati were Nooooooooooooooo and Dollystana, under the New Tsarist Party were Plus Nova Imperii and Ethics committee of the scpf, and under Callista Now!/PPC were Yazakhastan and Feylania. After a close tie for the majority of the day, a small lead by the New Tsarist Party paired with a lack of voter turnout for the Baloominati led to Nooooooooooooooo conceding defeat. For the first time since the dawn of Callista, the Tsarist Party had been placed back into power. Thankfully, when compared to the previous Prime Minister election, the July 2022 Prime Minister Election was much less full of controversy; and besides typical questions of vote legality, the inability for new Prime Minister Plus Nova Imperii to gain the seat of World Assembly Delegate from Sorianora and myself was a point of contention soon resolved. A week later, it was time for the July 2022 Head Justice Election. The Baloominati hailed myself, Baloo Kingdom, as well as Zebruski, and Callista Now! hailed Yazakhastan. Similar to the first elections featuring the Baloominati, the Baloominati was able to secure a significant lead and victory, sparking my becoming of Head Justice. Three days afterward, however, a lack of communication caused the July 10th Minister of Roleplay Election was missed and set to be delayed to later date. Until then, Callista did not have a Minister of Roleplay. This mix-up prompted the proposal of additional constitutional amendments, pairing with those made immediately after the recent Prime Minister Election to clarify election rules. The new amendment, and those prior, aimed to clarify rules on who could vote and what to do in case of the incident that has just occurred. But to close out this more eventful month period, a bit of drama erupted in the attempted raid of The Tavern by Lily. The raid was foiled by Bruxxa who oddly joined Lily afterward. And with this mystery, this ends what may indeed be the beginning of a completely new era for Callista.

In order properly introduce the new era of Callista, the delayed election of a new Minister of Foreign Affairs needed to be held. The runnings of this election in particular were Yazakhastan of the Callista Now! party, The Greater Western Union of the Constitutional Tsarist Party, and former Lieutenant Prime Minister Nooooooooooooooo of the Baloominati. The Greater Western Union was able to claim victory with a comfortable margin, solidifying trend of decreased Baloominati influence in regional politics. Not long after the election, the Baloo's No Bison Burger Plane Trip officially came to an end. Not even too long after that, myself, Baloo Kingdom, became the first known member of Callista to become an issues author. To back to the previous section's unfinished plotlines, Bruxxa explained to Callista that he had joined Lily out of the desire to reacquire interest in NationStates. And that was about the end of that. At about that time, Yazakhastan's Callista Now! evolved into the Church of True: a traditional regional religion that incorporated elements of Bluecrown theology with the early-founder lore of the regional line. Through its very controversial rise, it managed to deal with pushback long enough and well enough to remain in existence. Following Barlyy's temporary explained hiatus from NationStates, the Rome Administration decided to replace Barlyy's position of Minister of Foreign Affairs with party member Ferneus. As a result of this obligatory administrative move, multiple stalled amendments to the constitution of Callista were put up to the process of acceptance. First up was yet another election clarification amendment, authored by myself, which one made into law further specified the procedures for more rare occurrences in elections. Continuing the activity train was Yazakhastan's proposal to replace the national anthem of Callista with a piece less monarchy-associated than "God Bless the Tsar", but after some discussion, the current anthem remained. As this was happening, Prime Minister Plus Nova Imperii announced a dispatch contest to be held inter-regionally; the first event of this kind to be held in a while. After this event was said and done, Nooooooooooooooo was declared the winner. Following the decision to unban former Head Justice Cerata officially from Callista, Cerata briefly rejoined the region to stay his short ban from Institute of Cellulose. Matching the trend of call-backs to the past of the regional line, an alleged puppet account of Dominion remnants called Tolarian academy messaged members of Callista through the RMB and telegrams reminding older members of what came before them. The Church of True saw this as a sign that their prophecies of the return of the ancient were true and Tolarian academy confirmed this to an extent. Others, however, remained skeptical and cautious. On a completely different note, I, Baloo Kingdom again became the WA Delegate of Callista despite the role meaning to go to Plus Nova Imperii either due to a lack of concern for the seat of the World Assembly delegacy or the hard to reverse hold on the position the Baloominati held for over a year prior. Back on the topic of constitutional amendments, Plus Nova Imperii's judicial review amendment made it through the voting process and became law, giving the Head Justice the constitutional ability to change the Constitution and it's amendments through court rulings appropriately. Seemingly returning from his hiatus, Barlyy demanded to the Rome Administration that he receive his role as the Minister of Foreign Affairs back from Ferneus, which was done. On the extra-NationStates side of things, content for the potential Undertale parody game BCKTale was released through both the dispatch contest in the form of additional character concept sprites and on the BalooKingdomYT YouTube channel in the form of concept music tracks. Also at around this time, Dollystana's meme region Mc Mc Mc became the featured region of the day on the NationStates World page. To revitalize the regional roleplay aspect of Callista, the Rome Administration organized a unique mafia-based roleplay open to region members and members of embassies to join. The roleplay saw immediate success and as of the writing of this section, remains strong. And to close off yet another section of regional history, a short but heated argument between members of the Constitutional Tsarist Party and the Baloominati/Church of True began over the nature of each other's rise and fall and so on. Luckily, as previously stated, this argument was short lived, and each differences were left aside at least mostly.

Following a period of time that had waned the Great Slump of 2022, a new period of temporary bliss had arrived. The Callista Mafia Roleplay continued to see good activity and lasted essentially to the end of this section. With this roleplay and the end of summer boost in activity, the RMB was looking up in activity, nothing stellar, but certainly much better than the slump. Not soon after, word of a possible third Drewpocalypse, this time in the form of a Tiktokpocalypse was looming over NationStates. Members of the RMB discussed their takes on the matter, although nothing of note resulted from the word. This was followed by a minor roleplay dispute that was resolved within the day. Later, the BalooKingdomYT channel uploaded a QnA video with Callista and Institute of Cellulose submitted questions, bringing Callista further onto YouTube. On the more technical side of the region, the topic of the RMB warning was brought up by government officials for discussion and reconsideration. The Constitutional Tsarist Party tended to advocate for a more forgiving system that would also better keep track of grievances while Baloominati-allied members maintained the current system worked fine. In the end, nothing much came of the discussion, yet again. Fueling more activity on the RMB was yet another rehash of The Vincence Empire-Callista Merge feud. Komahina (Haruhi Japan) argued that there were multiple faulty aspects of The Vincence Empire that were the responsibility of his previous subjects rather than his own, while some Callistans as well as previous members of The Vincence Empire argued that the region was doomed from the start and that this discussion should have been dead in the water by now. Continuing the trend of arguments, political candidates Barlyy and Nooooooooooooooo dug up old graves into trenches and duked it out over a battle of "who's the worst". In the end, everybody agreed to put their differences aside...probably until election week. In a case of deja vu, The Tavern was raided yet again, this time by Lily. For the first time in a while, Callista actually launched a defender raid of The Tavern, comprising of myself and Plus Nova Imperii, that was successful in reclaiming the region. Bruxxa was able to reassert proper order of things shortly after the successful defense. As a result, however, the World Assembly Delegacy of Callista fell yet again away from an elected official, and instead to Tsar Sorianora who remains Delegate for the remainder of this section. In the end of an era, Yazakhastan moved from Callista back to the Institute of Cellulose after a successful ban appeal. And then, the beginnings of the crisis. After doing a sussy goofy ahh roleplay in the Bluecrown Keep RMB, Dominioan and Nooooooooooooooo were both DEATed by the NationStates Moderators. This was both a shock to some and a breeze to others. Regardless, this was the largest blow to the player base we had seen in a while. Luckily of the two involved, neither of their main puppets were harmed and they lived on as normal with Galactic Powers (Dominioan) and Mushroom Gorge (Nooooooooooooooo) respectively. This also prompted Nooooooooooooooo's region, Karanlik Yollar to be jeopardized and therefore naturally duplicated in the form of the region, Dark Paths. These events, however, also prompted other members of Callista to consider taking a permanent break from the game including Dollystana and Arisyan. Similarly to The Tavern, the old puppet storage of The Vincence Empire, New Vincencia was raided. Unfortunately, that raid stood. Adding to the CTE Crisis was the of DEAT of Dollystana after allegedly doxxing Plus Nova Imperii on the RMB of Callista. With this many people getting their main accounts removed, questions on the stability of Callista were raised, but ultimately dismissed. To take people's minds off of the crisis, I started up the eighth Callista Minecraft Realm, at least to much initial success. Barlyy, under the account Barl goodman, then did a fun straw poll on the comedic outcome of the upcoming October 1st Election, in which, the winner was hard to determine due to numerous fraud voters. And to finish out the section is the CTEing of ye old nation Yes humans are recyclable; hopefully due to trends in activity, they would return soon. Luckily, it at least seemed that Callista had survived another month, and hopefully, it would survive the next.

If the previous section was any indication of what would occur in the next, we'd be in for a surprise. To start things off, Mushroom Gorge was appointed as Minister of Internal Affairs under Plus Nova Imperii to fill to position with someone more active. Almost simultaneously, Arisyan showed up briefly with an update post detailing how great life had become because they no longer had to worry over NationStates. Like usual, regional roleplay continued as normal, although it became sparse at times similar to the previous section. In real life, Queen Elizabeth II died, and the people of NationStates paid their respects and pondered the implications of this historic moment. Next, Mushroom Gorge released "Ohio Burger News #9", continuing the long-running on-and-off series of satire regional news. Due to a combination of the approaching site-wide event, N-Day, and some minor recruiting and revival efforts by Komahina, activity on the RMB of Callista shot up and remained consistently high until the day after the upcoming October 1st Prime Minister elections. And so, N-Day⁷ began; because Callista did not choose a faction name, Callistans were encouraged to join the Institute of Cellulose's faction, the Institute of Kaboom. Like usual, the big faction ended up dominating and winning the event, leading to general apathy in smaller factions like Institute of Kaboom. In other news, Komahina's faction, called The Dark Plague, reached number 7 on the scoreboard. As a result of the activity spike, the 5000th page of Callista's RMB was reached. After this point, a new political climate begun, one with a considerable divide between hardcore Tsarists and hardcore Balooists. Starting this was Bruxxa's removal of myself as the heir to the regional line, being replaced by Haruhi Japan (Komahina). Despite this, pro-Baloo sentiment remained prevalent, but often not as much as pro-CTP sentiment. As a result, Barlyy brought Yazakhastan, a loud Balooist advocate to court over defamation charges, the first court case in a long while. I, being Head Justice, presided over the case and after the presenting of evidence and some debate, Yazakhastan was deemed "Not Guilty", however, was also barred from future near-defamatory speech. During this, The H Corporation introduced an interregional flag contest, whose winner was eventually determined to be The Greater Western Union. Not soon after, the candidate interviews, hosted by then Prime Minister Plus Nova Imperii were held between CTP candidate Ethics committee of the scpf and Baloominati candidate Mushroom Gorge, shortly after which the elections begun. The October 1st 2022 Prime Minister elections also included Cerata, but they were absent from the debates and eventually disqualified for not being a citizen of Callista. The elections were going smoothly until it was uncovered by Barlyy that Mushroom Gorge had committed puppet fraud with at least three puppets. Mushroom Gorge admitted this and left the region with the puppets. Barlyy pressed charges against Mushroom Gorge and his puppets and intially myself as well. I then presided over the case after charges were dropped against me and after some deliberation and presentations of evidence, Mushroom Gorge and his puppets were banned from Callista temporarily. Needles to say, Ethics committee of the scpf and the CTP won the election automatically, solidifying CTP control over the regional government. Many cite this as the definite end of the Baloominati. Shortly after the CTP victory, Ethics committee of the scpf released their cabinet picks and nominations for the soon Head Justice and Minister of Roleplay Elections, but Tsar Sorianora took the Minister of Roleplay nomination as official and appointed nominee Ferneus to the position. Regardless, the Baloominati only retained one position from the previous organization. Because of the events of the Prime Minister election, many were suspicious of newcomers to Callista believing them to be puppets of Mushroom Gorge; no nations were convicted. Supposedly at around this time, the social networking app Tiktok had a sudden interest in NationStates and spurred a small "Tiktokpocalypse" which didn't seem to effect Callista all that much. But alas, the October 8th Head Justice elections were upon the region, this time pitting the CTP former Prime Minister Plus Nova Imperii against the incumbent Head Justice, myself as well as Cerata yet again. The election remained close the majority of the race, with Cerata dropping out and accidentally causing the election to tip in Plus Nova Imperii's favor, resulting in a CTP victory. As a reflection of the previous flag contest, The Great Hiatus (The H Corporation) started a short spooky story contest, the winner of which had not been decided as of the writing of this section. Back on the political side of things, new Lieutenant Prime Minister Barlyy introduced the "Judicial Reform Act" amendment, which would grant the power of Judicial Review to the Head Justice and establish the new appointed role of Chief Prosecutor, to a vote. The amendment passed 11-1. Lastly, on the YouTube side of things, the BalooKingdomYT channel released a long-delayed NSCards video. Overall, this time period averaged 158 RMB posts a day, much higher than the previous few, showing significant growth for Callista and a rebound from the CTE Crisis and summer activity slump. Times were definitely changing for Callista.

As it tends to be with the RMB, the rough month of November, being fixed in the middle of election seasons wasn't as active as October. But to start things off, Mushroom Gorge's ban from Callista's Discord server, which wasn't too much. Shortly after, Barlyy yet again decided to leave NationStates indefinitely, an event that disheartened many Callistans, despite the fact that they would eventually return a few weeks later. And with Barlyy's leave came Poskukune's return. But in order to move on from specific nations, Z-Day¹¹ was upon Callista, but things seemed to go well initially with efforts to stay zombie-free. That was until Komahina and a few others began to infect the region with zombies leading to an inevitable zombie takeover of Callista despite many's efforts to find cures. To give some hope to those hoping for the release of Season 3 of NationStates trading cards, the NationStates developer team released an update to the trading card system that effectively removed the inflation of cards for the most part as well as make some other changes to how stats effect certain traits. The most consequential part of this update, however, was that it caused a worldwide crash in DV with many seeing upwards of a 75% reduction in DV, usually higher for those with many inflated cards. This received mixed reception, but overall, many were able to recover their standings in the world of NationStates trading cards. Mirroring events in the real world, those on the RMB of Callista began to discuss the United States 2022 Midterm Elections as well as share their philosophies of society and how it should and shouldn't work. Certainly some interesting stuff. And then, at long last, for the 20th Birthday of NationStates, the NationStates trading cards Season 3 preview began. This was to the joy of pretty much everyone who had been waiting over two years for this long-anticipated arrival. Both founder Sorianora and Barlyy managed to achieve cards of the "epic" rarity with other such as myself and Plus Nova Imperii achieving "ultra-rare" status. Not shortly after in the real world, the 8 billionth person was born, which is somewhat off-topic. Just as the 8 billionth person was brought into the world, Rutabegvile was brought back into the world of NationStates. In order to stimulate RMB growth, Ethics committee of the scpf, Plus Nova Imperii, and a few others started new roleplay, this time centered around a Callistan Civil War. The map was limited mainly to Russia and Eastern Europe which caused a sometimes needed constraint. In tandem to this, Season 3 was officially released about a week after announced and just about everyone in Callista was trying to get their hands on their card as soon as possible. Some were successful, and others went ahead and tried to get the card of everyone in the region. To continue the trend of real world events influencing the RMB, the Qatar 2022 World Cup began and occasionally member of the RMB would post opinions or updates on the games. Returning to the game side of things, CTP regional officer The siberian confederacy, was decided to be sacked due to non-existent activity for over a month. No replacement was officially chosen and they ceased to exist a few days later. To round out the timeframe, Callista hit yet another major milestone, this time being its second anniversary. On November 22nd, 2022, a day that surprisingly many Callistans missed, Callista became a two-year-old region. The time after this was filled mainly with random casual discussions and roleplay posts for the Callistan Civil War roleplay. Despite technically being a slump month, a couple very significant things did indeed happen. Perhaps the slump stemmed from a misconception on the parameters of regional activity. Or perhaps not.

This particular section of the history dispatch was difficult to write, but to start things off the infamous month of November ended, beginning the festive month of December. After the advent of the final month of 2022, things in Callista were standard. Mostly an abundance of casual posts and discussion in anticipation of the end of the year festivities. To spice things up a bit the long-dormant nation Viciebskaja once again rose from the dead to say hello on the RMB of Callista, much to the delight of many. As the third season of NationStates Trading Cards had recently released, a race for whomever could complete the full collection of cards containing the region of Callista stamped upon them had begun in the background. And so, casual discussion continued on the RMB. This was immediately followed by a sudden emphasis on regional politics the sooner the election for Prime Minster came. The majority of discussions involved candidacies and issues with the current and past administrations. To top it off, Callista Dispatches ended up accidentally CTEing, bringing a bit of attention to government inactivity. Shortly after, Barlyy decided to temporarily retire from NationStates. As a result, Konglomera ended up empty and unwatched and so it was raided by Haruhi Japan. To get back to more positive things, the ninth Minecraft realm of Callista was opened to the public and was at least initially a massive success. Continuing the trend of historical regions being raided, The Tavern was raided by an unknown raider force originating from Suspicious. Almost immediately afterward, NationStates unexpectedly went down due to a server failure. According to Max Barry and the game moderation team, the site would take a couple of days to get back up and have the servers restored. And so, for about five days, no one had access to NationStates. NationStates returned on December 27th with just enough time for players to prepare for the new year. The folks who returned after their forced hiatus had been previously forced to communicate through Discord or just to simply touch grass. With that, 2022 was over. On the first hours of 2023, Mushroom Gorge's regional ban from Callista was finally lifted, allowing him to post on the RMB but not vote or hold office in the regional government. Speaking of elections, because NationStates went down in prime election season, the government agreed to delay the elections for Prime Minister to January 15th. The first unfortunate thing that happened in 2023 was regional legend Arisyan CTEing from inactivity as a result of his retirement from the site. Unfortunately, at about this time, Barlyy ended up in the hospital after sustaining injuries from a fall. Shortly after, Galactic Powers proposed an updated coat of arms from Callista that featured references to historical figures. This new coat of arms was met with a lot of approval, and the new coat of arms was to be implemented very soon after. The penultimate event of the section was the controversy that surrounded the region of Red Wolf Alliance, with friendly region Alcris urging Callista to cut ties lest ties but cut with them. As of the writing of this section, no consensus has been made on the matter and embassies remain open both ways. And for the final event, we have Poskukune’s CTEing; yet another old legend who has left the regional circle. Overall, I would say that this section was a much larger mixed bag than the last, whether that could be considered a good thing or a bad thing.

Coming out of the previous section of history lays a much lengthier chapter in the Callistan story. It all started with the January Prime Minister election season ramping up. As mentioned prior, due to the NationStates multi-day server crash near the end of December 2022, the Callistan Prime Minister Election was pushed back to the later day of January 15th rather than January 1st. The prime points of contention were the activity of the Ethics committee of the scpf’s administration, the capabilities of the Baloominati to run the region, and whether or not the government should continue to run the way it had in the past. In the time before the election, a number of other topics were discussed on the now very typically chatroom-esque RMB of Callista. These real-world topics mainly focused on the United States budget deficit and American economics in general. Plus Nova Imperii took some time to purge a handful of embassies that had fallen below our embassy requirements or had been raided since the last check. It was also around this time that the Callistan flag was changed back to its new Ukrainian background from the holiday season. For the final bit of discussion before the election, both CTP and Baloominati members deliberated on taking action on regional founder Sorianora’s inactivity problem. The Baloominati suggested an executive delegacy, while some CTP members pondered a possible break-off region. In the end, it was decided that Sorianora should choose a trustable member of Callista to give his account password to so that the person who received it could be more active and carry out the executive function of the founder account without having to wait for Sorianora to log on. However this plan remained on hold for now, because election day was here. The candidates were Plus Nova Imperii, under the Constitutional Tsarist Party, and myself, under the Baloominati. The election day itself was chock-full of turbulence in the form of disenfranchised voting, partisan rambling, and controversies. In the end, I was elected as Prime Minister garnering almost ⅔ of the vote after an intense election. The CTP conceded, and the Baloo Administration’s cabinet was installed. There was an attempt to create a more bipartisan cabinet, but the majority of the cabinet was still Baloominati, resulting in outrage from some CTP members. In the gap between the Prime Minister Election and the Head Justice Election, East Cash Universe made a return to Callista to say hello again. But as always, it was time for another election. The two candidates for Head Justice were again Plus Nova Imperii under the Constitutional Tsarist Party as well as Caesar Von Bingen, who under technical terms, ran under the Baloominati despite having membership in both the Baloominati and the CTP. During the election itself, which took place on February 18th, Caesar Von Bingen’s candidacy drew questions from the CTP opposition as Caesar Von Bingen has been listed under the Baloominati in the election poll. Some CTP members argued that the only reason the election had been so close was because of the Baloominati name attached to Caesar Von Bingen, which they claimed should not be associated. Regardless, Caesar Von Bingen still ended up winning the election by a very small margin. Shortly after said election, I proposed a new amendment to the constitution, the main objective of which was to create the regional officer position of Minister of Recruitment. After some disagreement and discussion, the amendment ended up passing at a later point by a slim majority, and Komahina was made the first Minister of Recruitment. As a result, recruitment efforts dramatically increased in Callista, and after some time, the regional population had risen as high as 80 nations. Also at around the same time, Yazakhastan decided to reintroduce the Church of True to Callista and become somewhat more active in the region’s affairs. Then it was time for the Minister of Roleplay Election, which ended up not being an election at all. The Baloominati fielded no candidates, as did no other party besides the CTP. Their candidate, former Prime Minister Ethics committee of the scpf, therefore won by default, becoming the Minister of Roleplay. As this occurred, it became the first point in many months where that government had been completely full and active. The next day, January 21st, the official puppet storage region of Callista, New Callista, became the featured region of the day on the NationStates "World" page. To finally cap off the saga of determining what to do about Sorianora’s inactivity, Sorianora himself simply decided to give I, Baloo Kingdom, the password to his account. This was taken a number of different ways by the Callistan public, if not simply being surreal to most. Continuing the trend of implementing new reforms, Unified Democratic Europe, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, drafted an updated set of embassy laws to be voted on. They passed virtually unopposed, showing some good bipartisan progress. During this process, retired member Arisyan made a brief return to NationStates to give an update on how his life was going and to say hello to his friends in Callista and elsewhere. After all of that politics, conversation in Callista shifted back to the casual and ideological discussion of the real world. Topics included Super Bowl XLII, the drama over the Chinese spy balloons, earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, the math skills of certain members of government, the 2023 State of the Union Address, and dystopian novels. One political thing did happen in this timeframe however, there were debates over whether Callista should accept the United Regions of Valeria’s invitation to join them. The people of Callista overwhelmingly declined the offer. On February 10th, the regional line became officially 1300 days old. Shifting shortly back again to discussion of the real world, Callistans spent time discussing the recent derailment of a chemical-carrying cargo train in East Palestine, Ohio. On February 14th, the site-wide contest for “Best Nation” was again held after the success of the previous. In Callista, the nation Bartratina was voted the best in the region collectively by the site. Given the time of year, it was once again the season for the Great Ohioan Disappearance, but some short time before that, there was a small but notable phenomenon of Callistans wearing my flag. This ended once people started to edit parts of the WFE and regional flag to also bear resemblance to my own flag and persona. After the Great Ohioan Disappearance had concluded, Poskukune made another one of his periodic appearances. Not soon after, on February 23rd, Callista reached its 5500 RMB page milestone. And not soon after that, the now biannual N-Day, this now being N-Day⁸, was upon Callista. This time around, Callista had no official plans to create its own faction, so members were recommended to join a friendly region’s faction or a large and powerful one. The interregional communication spurred on by N-Day⁸ stirred the idea of renewing some of Callista’s alliances with other regions. This idea was highly disliked by the CTP, who reasoned that the alliances would mean nothing and waste time, and highly favored by the Baloominati, who reasoned that there would be no harm as a result of establishing more formal ties with close regions such as The Vincence Empire and Institute of Cellulose. In the end, nothing was decided on the subject. And to wrap up this section of history came a surprisingly successful roleplay seeing some pressure from the Baloo administration while also gaining self-motivation, both Plus Nova Imperii and Ethics committee of the scpf formed a roleplay they deemed as “The Final Callistan Roleplay”. However, seeing the massive amount of activity it spurred, it may be said that this will not be the final roleplay for Callista. But only time will tell, as well as the approaching April 1st Prime Minister Election.

Going into our next slightly-over-one-month period of time, The Greater Western Union returned from CTEdom and the “Final Callistan Roleplay” continued as strong as ever. Moving away from the game side of things, Tsardom of Alaska created the r/baloominati subreddit, which, to my knowledge, hasn’t taken off yet. As the roleplay was continuing to be overly-successful, questions emerged on whether or not making casual or discussion posts on the RMB was even viable anymore. These issues would soon be resolved as the balance between casual talk and roleplay began to stabilize. At around this time, Mushroom Gorge inconspicuously left Callista for the Bluecrown Keep. Also at around this time, Sorianora was able to make a more full return to his NationStates account that previously was being handled by myself. To give some statistics regarding the speed of the RMB throughout this time, the average number of RMB posts a day was 161.4, somewhat close to the RMB speed of early Callista. To add onto the list of nation account changes, the long-standing nation Haroldiaistan CTEd yet again. This happened whilst discussion of the next possible Callistan Minecraft realm began again, resulting in a petition for Haroldiaistan to be banned from the next realm as a punishment for his shenanigans in the previous realms. The petition garnered a significant proportion of signatories from the whole of typical realm members, prompting the rethinking of realm policy. Filling the void of the next week or so was more of the “Final Callistan Roleplay”, which seemed to be the only thing that filled the minds of those in Callista as well as those from participating allied regions. Returning from roleplay, Callista received an invitation to join the NationStates Trans Alliance. This proposal, after some brief discussion, was popularly rejected, solidifying the tendency of Callista to disclude themselves from regional alliances. Shortly thereafter, upon purchasing the extremely rare Cornroof Season 3 trading card, I became the first person to complete the Season 3 Callista card collection. Also at around this time: despite facing a slew of possible spam reforms, ultimately, no reforms were officially proposed or passed. Because the Prime Minister Elections were nearing, debates between the two candidates, myself and Galactic Powers under the Baloominati and Plus Nova Imperii and Ethics committee of the scpf under the Constitutional Tsarist Party, were scheduled for a point in time before the April 1st Election. As a result of the indeterminate nature of the debate’s time, the debates never ended up happening. And so, the April 1st 2023 Prime Minister Election was underway. Somewhat surprisingly, this election cycle ended up being probably the calmest and most cordial of any that had come before it. It seemed that no hard feelings had been felt between either party, at least for the most part. In the end, I was able to secure another term in office. Not soon after the elections had concluded, Unified Democratic Europe announced that he would be leaving Callista for the West Pacific, claiming that Callista had changed too much from the version that he knew. Shortly after Unified Democratic Europe left, NationStates released its possible late-April-Fools update, adding regional maps to the game. Plus Nova Imperii was the first to upload a copy of the roleplay map at the time, and for a short while, Callista’s map was the seventh most endorsed in the world, soon being overtaken by feeders and larger UCRs. Returning once again from his infinite NationStates vacation, ARIsyan- made yet another appearance on the RMB of Callista. As times had changed, Mushroom Gorge decided it was time to update the regional banner yet again, updating some of the countryball art and adding and subtracting nations. On April 6th, 2023, the embassy between Callista and the Institute of Cellulose reached its two-year anniversary. This was seen by many as yet another accomplishment of the long-lasting friendship between two young UCRs. Feeling compelled by history, Barrow Cove released an insightful dispatch titled, “The Tavern: A lively hall to a dim memory”, giving details into the early days of the regional line and apologizing for his past actions. As sort of a break from the eternally final roleplay, discussion in Callista turned towards real-world politics and ideologies, at least for a short while. Just like that, the April 2023 Head Justice Election for Callista was right around the corner. However, things would soon take a historic turn. Following talks between lead party officials in both the Baloominati and the CTP, it was agreed that a bargain would be made for these usually elected positions. Plus Nova Imperii was to be given the Head Justice position and Ethics committee of the scpf was to be given the Minister of Recruitment position in exchange for Komahina receiving the Minister of Roleplay position and Caesar Von Bingen receiving the Chief Prosecutor position. Not since the 2021 heyday of the Baloominati had a deal of such magnitude been struck, but even then, not on this scale. Regardless, this meant the cancellation of the Head Justice and Minister of Roleplay Elections in 2023 for the month of April. Not too long after the deal had been struck, Bruxxa made a brief appearance to speak with Callista just in time for Easter. And just as Easter ceased, so did long-time mystery Messenger a. It was at around this time when the RMB of Callista reached its 5800 page milestone, fairly standard for Callista’s average RMB speed. And it was then when the highly-anticipated NationStates “Frontiers” update was released. Sorianora was automatically designated as Governor of Callista, and shortly thereafter, Plus Nova Imperii was made Successor to the position of Governor, finally cementing his claim to the Tsarevich. Galactic Powers also decided to transition Bluecrown Keep into a Frontier. To close out this chapter in history came the drama that began with the attempted reclamation of the historical region New World Roman Empire. When it was pointed out that there were a suspicious number of raider puppets in the region, Callista’s usually dormant military sect went into action. Things were complicated when defenders arrived in the region, either presuming the Callistan military to be a raider faction or neglecting to immediately pass the region on to its rightful owners, securing the delegacy. In addition to this, defenders flooded into Callista to simultaneously defend us from a quorum raid alleged called by the Communist Bloc due to my own approval of a proposal to prevent the Communist Bloc from transitioning into a Frontier. This temporarily inflated Callista’s population to well over 100 nations, a rather interesting way to reach that important milestone. Once the proposal had reached quorum, the threat of a raid ceased, and the defenders began to gradually filter out of Callista. On the New World Roman Empire side of the drama, things were not as clear, and as of writing this, the fate of the region is unclear. It should be noted, however, that someone, possibly the defenders, has restored the original WFE of the region. Only the time between now and the next update will tell the fates not yet sealed in the present.

Before I continue with chronicling the next section of our history, I would like to resolve some of the tension left by the previous section. As of the writing of this section, New World Roman Empire seems to remain in the same state as it did almost two months ago. New World Roman Empire still has its old restored WFE from the days long ago when it was a functioning region, and still is filled with a couple remaining defender puppets, which seem to be gradually CTEing. With that out of the way, I can continue. As it seems to be usual, roleplay posting, casual discussion, and real-world political commentary remained the largest driving forces in the RMB of Callista, each holding a fairly equal portion of this section’s activity. The Church of True spread some of the last of its prophecies, and hasn’t been heard of much since. In the middle of May of 2023, a new amendment, the first in a couple of months and the second of 2023, was proposed by Head Justice Plus Nova Imperii. This new amendment would serve the purpose of creating an official successor to Tsar Sorianora in any case where he could no longer hold the duties of the Tsardom. This successor, Plus Nova Imperii himself, had been unofficially the Tsar’s successor up until that point, but the amendment simply made it official, utilizing the recent NationStates “Frontiers” Update as well. The amendment passed without much pushback, and shortly after it passed, the Callista meme dispatch was finally updated after many months of no new content with several new memes from The Great Hiatus/The H Corporation. Over in the Institute of Cellulose, Cormoe became Prime Minister, making way for a new age of interregional politics between the Institute of Cellulose and Callista. At around the same time, over in Bluecrown Keep, things were looking up, at least for a while. This was a result of an effort made by Galactic Powers, Enaia, and Mushroom Gorge to secure executive power of Bluecrown Keep through the transitioning of the region into a Frontier. After some time, this change was reversed to ensure Galactic Powers remained governor. Following trends of change in other regions, Haruhi Japan decided that it was time for The Vincence Empire to end. This made way for a successor region called The Vincence Pact, also founded by an alternate account of Haruhi Japan, which became a Frontier. The Vincence Pact, as a Frontier, was able to quickly gain over 100 member nations. However, it should be noted that The Vincence Pact’s activity still paled in comparison to Callista, a trait that can be observed in most other feeder regions. It should also be mentioned that all of this news of Frontiers sparked discussion in Callista around the idea of transitioning Callista into a Frontier as well. Somewhat surprisingly, the general consensus was an overwhelming “no”. As this was all going on, the Second (now annual) NationStates World Trade Fair took place. This time around, thanks to the efforts of primarily Boilanzandia, Callista was able to take 6th place in Most Stashed Patriotic Flags by the end of the event. Not very long after, ARIsyan- made his monthly visitation to the people of Callista, and at the same time, long-time Callistan citizen Zebruski decided to take a “Arisyan-style” vacation from NationStates, however it is unclear if this decision remains in-effect or not. Back to the mainstream of Callista, as a result of the policies of Minister of Roleplay Komahina, the current roleplay saw a couple of changes in order to make the roleplay more universally active and easier to manage. Having noticed that Callista, despite being almost three years old as a region, still did not have a Welcome Telegram, I decided to petition for the creation of such a telegram. The idea was well-received and led to the creation, proposal, and passage of a new amendment of my own that would constitutionally institute the creation of a Welcome Telegram for Callista, as well as expand the voting power of the average citizen. During the creation of the amendment, a new recruitment effort began to make up for the lost mass of the leftover defenders from the raiding fiasco of the previous section. It was also at around this time that the RMB of Callista reached page 6000. The RMB speed around the time was about 95 posts a day. Directly preceding a period of little historical significance, somewhat ironically, came the creation of the 10th Minecraft Realm of Callista. As it was sort of an anniversary world, being the tenth iteration, a custom texture pack was later installed to add some weight to the occasion. During the runtime of the realm, Bruxxa/The tavern made an extremely brief appearance on Callista’s RMB. After a year of hiatus, Baloo’s Bison Burger Road Trip made its return for its fourth run, this time taking a more laid back and less major presence. To close out this section of our history, one of Callista and the Institute of Cellulose’s ally regions, NATO 2022 seemed to have been in danger of a raid. After some deliberation in the government of Callista, no aid was to be provided, and the threat determined to be non-existent. And that is all there was. The next election season was rapidly approaching, and neither side of Callista’s political spectrum seemed to have officially put forth campaigns, reminiscent of the summer days of 2021. As before, only the future holds the resolution in this matter.

It could not have been foretold that the events that took place in this chapter of regional and interregional history would have occurred in the ways that they did. That being said, I will attempt to provide an account of these certain events with the least amount of bias possible. But before that happens, we must talk about the hang-up of the previous section, that being the upcoming July 1st 2023 Prime Minister Election in Callista. Discussion of regional politics, as it almost always is in the time before election season, was fervent. A lot of the discussions being had were either over the relevance of having the word “Holy” included in Tsar Sorianora title or over whether or not the Baloo Kingdom administration had really delivered on the promises they made since the last election for Prime Minister. In response to criticism from the opposition, the Baloo Kingdom administration swiftly rolled out the awaited running ban log and citizens log on the Callista Dispatches account, also formally instating the “citizenship check” that was described in a recent amendment to the constitution of Callista It was also at around this time that the long-running NationStates mini-game of “Cards Against NationStates” was brought back into the light temporarily as per a site-wide announcement from Maz Barry on the “News” page. Nevertheless, it was again finally time for the elections to commence. This time around, Tsarevich Plus Nova Imperii campaigned for Prime Minister with fellow CTP member Ferneus being his LPM choice, going against the incumbent Baloo Kingdom administration, now with former Minister of Roleplay Komahina as the LPM choice instead of Galactic Powers. After a competitive campaign season, the Baloo Kingdom administration managed to secure another three months in office by a respectable margin. Since Komahina had been the Minister of Roleplay, Ferneus was made the interim Minister of Roleplay until the official election could take place about a week later. Given that it had been nine months since the Mushroom Gorge’s political ban had begun, he was now eligible to run for office and vote in elections in Callista legally, something that would cause to announce his candidacy in the upcoming July 8th 2023 Head Justice Election. Mushroom Gorge would also then propose his “July 2nd Amendment”, which would end up not going to vote until later. Naturally, discussion in Callista then focused on the Head Justice and Minister of Roleplay elections, as the still longest-running roleplay in the history of Callista continued to be as popular as ever. Also, continuing Mushroom Gorge resurgence as a politically active member of Callista, Mushroom Gorge submitted a proposal to the Security Council which aimed to condemn Superpower spain’s alternative accounts for their various crimes. It was unable to secure enough approvals and when ultimately withdrawn by Mushroom Gorge. Also filling the time between the Prime Minister and Head Justice elections was the accidental renewal of the tenth official Minecraft Realm of Callista. Regardless, it was now finally time for the July 8th 2023 Head Justice Election. The CTP-backed former Prime Minister Superpower spain was slated to run against the previously mentioned Baloominati-backed Mushroom Gorge, however, soon after the election had formally begun, it was realized that Superpower spain had not been a citizen. Since election rules dictate that all candidates for any election must announce their candidacy 24 hours in advance of election day, no replacement could be made for Superpower spain, allowing Mushroom Gorge to win by default. Mushroom Gorge then chose former LPM Galactic Powers to be Chief Prosecutor. Two days later, the July 10th 2023 Minister of Roleplay Election began, pitting the CTP-backed TheCarpathianMountains against the Baloominati-backed North Goguryeo. At the end of the day, North Goguryeo secured a sizable win for Minister of Roleplay. This moment was in particular significant because the government of Callista, excluding permanent positions such as Tsar, Tsarevich, and the Callista Dispatches account, was nearly entirely controlled by the Baloominati. Now that the election season had officially concluded, it was time Callista to return to normal; not really. Former regional troll Ofthelord launched another troll attempt on Callista after many months of hiatus, impersonating numerous members of Callista and was ultimately stopped by the filing of a GHR and NS Mod intervention. Adding to the drama, Tsar Sorianora temporarily forgot his account password. If he had been unable to locate his password, his account would likely CTE and cause Plus Nova Imperii to graduate from Tsarevich to full-blown Tsar as a result of the “Successor Amendment”. After regaining access to his account, Sorianora began the first wave of his embassy purging, which he reasoned would clean up our embassy list and obligations as well as make embassies with larger UCRs, feeders, and sinkers more likely to succeed. After over a week, Mushroom Gorge’s “July 2nd Amendment” was brought to vote in Callista. The amendment passed by a sizable margin and began its work to clarify and reformat the constitution as whole. As can similarly be observed in the previous section of the history dispatch, a discussion began once again on whether or not the regional officer position of Minister of Recruitment should exist or not. Opponents of the position claimed that the role was effectively useless and over-complicated the government, suggesting that it be dissolved, and its roles being delegated to the Minister of Internal Affairs. It should also be noted that the speed of the RMB during this time period was remarkably high, with a whopping average of 238.5 posts a day of the RMB of Callista. After so much talk of amendments and government, talk eventually relaxed to that of Star Wars politics, bringing Bruxxa temporarily back into the fray, as Baloo’s Bison Burger Road Trip 4 simultaneously ended. Feeling the need to increase the interregional power of Callista, the Baloo Kingdom administration fronted a campaign called an “endorsement party”, which aimed to increase the average number of World Assembly endorsements in Callista by sending a region-wide telegram encouraging the act. This led to Callista rising to the position of 53rd in average number of World Assembly endorsements. It was then time for what is probably the most influential event in the recent history of Callista. Two then-anonymous informants supplied information to Chief Prosecutor Galactic Powers that I, Baloo Kingdom, had violated citizenship procedure when adding King of the ratfolk to the citizen dispatch of Callista after they had ceased to exist without them having to reapply for citizenship. After first questioning me directly, Chief Prosecutor Galactic Powers made the decision to send the case to the Head Justice, Mushroom Gorge. After considering the validity of the evidence, Mushroom Gorge formally began the trial of Baloo Kingdom. After a lengthy period of debate and defense, as well as due other weighing factors, Mushroom Gorge determined that I, Baloo Kingdom, was guilty of violating citizenship procedure. It was made clear that the Head Justice did not see the action as malicious or an attempt of puppet fraud, however, Baloo Kingdom was sentenced to a two month political suspension, something relatively unprecedented for Callista. I would be dismissed from my position as Prime Minister and Komahina would take my place as Interim Prime Minister until a special election could be held two days later to elect a new Prime Minister that would serve until the suspension was over, when I would be re-appointed to my position of Prime Minister until the end of my term. I would also be unable to run in the coming October election. What happened next was surprising. A number of Callistans were shocked by the verdict and began to protest the Callista, causing Plus Nova Imperii to out themselves as one of the informants in the case. Among this number was Interim Prime Minister Komahina and Minister of Roleplay North Goguryeo, who both resigned from their positions in protest of the verdict and additionally threatened to leave Callista with many of the other protestors. This caused Head Justice Mushroom Gorge to become the new interim Prime Minister, as well as adding to the growing chaos in the wake of the verdict. Tsarevich Plus Nova Imperii then quickly proposed a new amendment named the “July 26th Amendment” whose aim was to legalize the concepts put forth by the verdict. In anticipation of the upcoming special election, a record number of candidates formed their campaigns, creating five distinct political parties. These political parties will be spoken about in more detail at a later point in this section of the dispatch. During the chaos, long-time member of both Callista and The Vincence Empire, Ethics committee of the scpf ceased to exist, causing TheCarpathianMountains to be later appointed to fill the role of Minister of Recruitment in Ethics committee of the scpf’s leave, even after their eventual return from the dead. The entire crisis surrounding the court case and its verdict was luckily brought to an end when Tsar Sorianora stepped in to use his authority to make an indisputable decision on the case. After reviewing the facts, Sorianora reversed Mushroom Gorge’s verdict and determined that Baloo Kingdom was not guilty due to the clauses of the constitution used to incriminate him being too vague in comparison with the clauses used in defense. As a part of the new verdict, I was restored to my position of Prime Minister, and Komahina and North Goguryeo were treated the same. Despite the new verdict, I announced that I would voluntarily not run for Prime Minister in the coming October elections. This effectively continued the flame of the special election, allowing the newly formed political parties to continue to exist and campaign. With the longest serving Prime Minister in the history of Callista out of the running, a new age of Callistan politics had begun, and to kick it off, Plus Nova Imperii announced the dissolution of the Constitutional Tsarist Party. The five campaigns and political parties that formed from the court case drama were as follows, Komahina and North Goguryeo under the Baloominati, Mushroom Gorge and ARIsyan- under the newly formed Callistan Populist Party, Rhenzern and PositiveRoleplayer under the newly formed Callistan Independent Party, Caesar Von Bingen and TheCarpathianMountains under the newly formed PRO Callista, and The Great Hiatus and Zebruski under the newly formed National Restoration of Callista Party. If you would like more specific information on the new age parties, either see Callista Dispatches or the “Other Historical Documents” section both the main history sections. Plus Nova Imperii began weekly coverage of the new parties and campaigns while Sorianora continued his embassy purge with a second wave. After a day or so, the “July 26th Amendment” was put to vote and passed by a sizable margin, removing the word “Holy” from the title of Tsar Sorianora and putting in place everything that had been determined in the recent court case as legal. Now that the court case was out of the way, and a new age of politics had begun, things finally went back to normal as they usually do in the months between election seasons. Galactic Powers did a voice reveal, regional roleplay resumed its regular flow, and the party campaigns for October continued to change and evolve. For such a very monumental time in history, things felt mostly normal again.