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Concord, Boston
Nora walked through the bustling concord street, coming down from Sanctuary. It was the first town market, the street was bustling with people buying and selling, playing games and for the first time in a while enjoying themselves. As she looked up, she noticed the two minutemen in the church, keeping watch, she noticed the 4 minutemen patrolling the street, nodding and ensuring everyone was okay. She looked on as she saw the museum had it’s two guards posted outside, with people going in and out with supplies and other major goods that were being stored by the minutemen. In the week after they had taken the concord area, securing routes through and the ability to ensure safety, prosperity had bloomed. The local settlements had seen an increase in caps being brought in, goods being traded and the health and wellbeing of their residents. She turned to Preston, who had been walking beside her, “You know, if this is what we can achieve in a week, imagine what we can achieve with the entirety of the commonwealth.”

Nora had instituted many different laws and regulations to help the minutemen- by declaring that for a period of time, the minutemen would operate as the peacekeepers, answerable to herself and Preston alone, she was able to ensure that crime rates stayed low as she passed laws, covering all areas of crime and punishment, tax rates established on bringing in money to help pay for improvements to lives in the area- such as roads, schools and even a small hospital was planning on opening, paid for by the taxes collected by the minutemen, available to everyone. The taxes collected by the minutemen were done by simply having the businesses collect how much money they made in a week, and 5% would be collected by the government. The settlements ran as independently as they could, with the Minutemen taxes being used to purchase supplies, equipment and other necessities required by a blooming nation to thrive and survive. The taxes paid by everyone in the society, benefited everyone in the system. Workers earned a wage, with their goods produced being available to the minutemen, farms produced food that other settlements would need, while they collected the scrap that went into other settlements that built weapons and other such things. All of these things led to an exchange of goods that allowed a mutual wealth to emerge. This collectivised system, while communism in all but name seemed brutal and uncalled for- the ability to give to people that needed it and spread the benefits of the entire system were good. This stumped Nora, who had wanted to introduce a thriving working democracy. However, the benefits of her having power and providing the goods required for survival through the power of the minutemen was far greater. Her idea of democracy had shifted, leading her to believe that instead a council would be formed of Settlements, each nominating one person, who would point out where they needed support in their local areas, such as if they had a shortage of food, workers or protection. These would be sorted out by Nora and Preston, which allowed the system to work far better as they power to shift the resources all over the place to better protect the commonwealth. This ability to create a government, ruled through primarily the military, but with a democratic touch pleased Nora. It allowed her to have control, but not let it go to her head- she even insisted that the settlements have the power to remove her as the General, through a vote not only by the council heads, but every settlement that was deemed under the protection of the minutemen. She liked this idea of government, and while support was high for her, she moved quickly to spread the word on this idea, in all the settlements and if they wanted to hold their first elections, they were welcome to- including the newly formed settlement of Concord- where, the recently rebuilt freedom of museum had been reformed into a town hall, perfect to run these new council meetings from. The future looked bright for once.

The council is formed
Nora stood in front of the collected members from the settlements, she looked them all, one at a time. “Please take a seat, thank you for coming. While I am eager to hear of any lingering concerns, I want you to first understand how this will work- you have been appointed the heads of your settlements, that means you report in to me at these meetings, which will be held every week, with at least a days warning. Due to my shifting schedule, I cannot yet hold down a firm date for this every week. Now, I wanted to let you know I intend to move on Lexington- the Corvega factory is of too valuable assistance to be left in the hands in raiders when we can repair it and use it in our production of weapons. Now, I am happy to hear of your concerns surrounding anything else, please fire away.”

As the meeting progressed, the general theme was the idea of the recent founding of a raider nation to the north, under the name ‘Rust Devils’ which Nora vowed to in fact tend to herself, by going as an envoy to understand more about the faction, while Preston would lead the attack on Lexington.

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