South China Morning Post

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Dragon Throne Issues Loyalty Proclamation and Summons All Local Administrators

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Beijing - Following months of a live and let live policy, the Dragon Throne has today issued a loyalty proclamation, ordering all heads of the Provinces, Prefectures, Counties, Townships, Basic Autonomies, and the administrations of Hong Kong and Macau to swear their loyalty to the Dragon Throne, commit to administrate fairly and without corruption, and to act against all insurrection within their territories, as well as guarding over those below them doing the same. Depending on severity, the punishment for breaking the oath can range from prison sentences to, in the case of insurrection or severe corruption, death. The Proclamation was made to allow Republican, and even Communist-era, administrators who administer their territories well to remain in place so that the Celestial Government only has to replace those who do not administer well.

Facing a severe liquidity crisis and economic depression in addition to a need to establish control of the central government and its institutions, the Celestial Government had so far opted to more or less leave lower administrative divisions to remain with their existing governmental structures to guarantee stability. Even now with the daunting task of replacing the entire Court system with a fair and impartial alternative, the focus of the Forbidden City is primarily on properly ridding Chinese society of the excesses of the Communist government. "We must serve and protect the interests of 1.4 billion people, while the Communists and Republicans allowed corruption and nepotism to thrive, not all of them are bad administrators. Her Celestial Majesty wishes to give all those capable of service the chance to continue serving the Chinese people the ability to do so." A spokesperson for the Dragon Throne responded to our questions.

Under the proclamation the administrators of provinces, prefectures, and the administrations of Hong Kong and Macau, have been summoned to the Forbidden City where they will perform their oaths in front of the Dragon Throne and before the people of China. Administrators of counties, townships and basic autonomies will then be summoned by their prefectural heads to perform the oaths before them inside the prefectural capitals. With nearly 300,000 basic autonomies it was deemed unfeasible to perform all the ceremonies in the capital. The punishments listed in the oath for various violations line up with existing laws for those offences.

The Celestial Government still expects that despite the Proclamation it may need to replace as many as half of all lower level administrators due to corruption or ineffective administration.