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Jörgen Frithiof (Sweden) Minister of Offense
All states have enemies. The common human way of dealing with conflicts is with aggression, which seems, historically speaking, inevitable, and the common way of dealing with this aggression has been to interact with some kind of physical aggression, like going to war.
Personally I think this should be beneath the level of Ladonia. Instead of Defence we should use Offense. Our enemies should be verbally offended, not physically abused. Remember, a kill is over in a couple of second - an insult is forever. Therefore I see it as my duty and pleasure to candidate for the head post of the Ministry of Offense, to see to that we keep our enemies insulted! My name is Jörgen Frithiof, currently the Minister of the newly introduced Ministry of Offense. The aim of the Ministry of Offense is to, in full co-operation with all other parties involved, work for the benefit of our glorious Ladonia. On our path we have forces working against us, and to protect us against these evil forces we will have to work on a strategy to defend ourselves, defensively and offensively. The Ministry of Offense do not believe in bloodshed. We should not hurt our foe physically. We should hurt there feelings instead. Why? It's simple. If you kill someone he dies, if you insult him, he'll have to live with it forever. Hehe.
Therefore we see it as our duty to cherish, guard and develop the Noble Art of Insulting within Ladonia, to protect us, and of course just for the fun of it. Jörgen Frithiof, son of a b.......artender and Minister of Offense.
The Day of Holy Offense is the 23d of January.
Len Rodman (USA) Minister of Existentialism
Existentialism is the title of the set of philosophical ideals that emphasizes the existence of the human being, the lack of meaning and purpose in life, and the solitude of human existence. Humans have no essence, no essential self, and are no more that what they are. They are simply what they have created and achieved for themself. Existentialism acquires its name from insisting that existence precedes essence.
Existentialist thinkers are of the view that the metaphysical explanation of existence as given by the traditional schools of philosophy fails to produce satisfactory results. They also maintain that the problem of being ought to take precedence in all philosophical inquiry. Existence is always particular, unique and individual. Existentialist are opposed to the view laws explaining human freedom and activity can be formulated.
Existentialism stresses the risk, the voidness of human reality and admits that the human being is thrown into the world, the world in which pain, frustration, sickness, contempt, malaise and death dominates.
Lisa Johnson (USA) Minister of Mythological Beasts
Mythological Beasts are important creatures who deserve representation in the Ladonian government. There is, after all, a beautiful green dragon on our nation's flag, itself being green
altogether. It is essential that dragons, elves, nymphs and sprites, (whether of stream of woodland), be represented by a human who takes their interests seriously.
I propose to introduce legislation to protect many groves, copses and littoral verges in Ladonia as favored habitats of these endangered and valued members of our nation. Where would one be, after all, without the help of local sprites or nymphs when one's transport dies abruptly on a dark and lonely lane? I myself have been the recipient of the aid of The Invisible on numerous occasions. Such aid must be made available to all citizens of our nation. My duties as Minister will ensure such entities may continue their good agencies for our benefit and their own.
A word or two about dragons. Many of them are gentle enough beasts who need only understanding, regular feeding of poultry, scale raking and a great deal of mucking out. Happily, there are dwarves available, the mining business isn't what it used to be. Said dwarves only need a bit of clean straw and a warm place now and then and they're happy as...
It should therefore be patently obvious the my credentials are not only impeccable but nicely shiney. My vast experience with Mythological Creatures speaks for itself. I will both advocate and adjudicate on their behalf in a timely and inexpensive manner. If they or Parliament request, I will gladly present all sides of every matter to everyone and sit on a very uncomfortable stone while it all gets sorted out.
I remain, Lisa, wife to Pete, of email fame, yet free human in my own right, willing and able to negotiate another email address, and a humble servant of our nation of Ladonia.
--Lisa, wife to ...shh! I hear a sylph!
The creation of a Minister that hears all Ladonians and help them in several ways. For example: The luckiest ladonians can pay taxes by helping the less-lucky ones one day every month. How can they help them? Maybe hearing problems and try to give them solution. Some of those problems could be hunger, broken family, inestability, etc. By being a day with that person and of course sharing our way of life with those unluckiest (sharing food, clothes, rides, etc) we can make a big difference and a mora democratic country focused in helping every ladonian to have a nice life, and having the right to know the way of life of the luckiest ones even for just one day every month.
It would be nice also to have a system to find and contact other ladonians by visiting www.ladonia.net and with a search machine where we can entry the ladonian citizen number or maybe ask to have a list of ladonians of any specific country. When the list appears we can find there a place to leave them a message or to contact them by email.
I have Comunication Sciences, so is very important for me to be well comunicated with everybody. The Ladonia Herald is a great way to be informed of important things in Ladonia, but what about a space for Ladonias to publicate their own thoughts or classifieds (not sells or buys) but messages for other ladonians or optimist thoughts?
I am 26 years old, but I think my age is not a problem to propose myself to a minister. Having ideas form all types of people and all over the world can make together a better place to visit...LADONIA should be known as the only place on earth where people is not fighting, and where there's no place for wars or injustice. Let's make Ladonia a bigger and happier country!!!
Marie Tilander (Sweden) Minister of Good Wine Drinking
I will work for "how" to drink a good wine and "to" drink a good wine.
There is no occasion and no meal which a glass of wine can't add splendour to. Good wine drinking has also an intensified influence on the mind and you can easily reach the dimension where you can solve most of the problems in the world. In this dimension you also can put yourself in a meditational state where you can feel good about yourself and everybody else and let your consciousness take you to a new and higher level in peace and harmony.
My two mottos are: "Life is to short for a bad wine" and "In vino veritas".
Marten Visser (Netherlands) Ministery of Festivities (MOF)
In these sorrow and troublesome times we, as Ladonians, have to make a difference. There is much to many negativism, tears and anger going on in this world.
When there is reason to have a festivity, we of MOF, make this a true festivity. Even when there is no reason to have a festivy, the MOF organise a party because this world NEEDS a laugh, joy and happiness. (and because we just want to party...)
Lets Ladonian be a country where joy rules, not fear. We must live together on this tiny planet and when the big meteroid slams into our world, we truly can say: AT LEAST WE HAD A MOF!
Mike Arman (USA) Minister of Finance (Official Pilot)
The Ministry of Finance has several functions.
First is to ensure that the nation has enough money to pay for the things it needs, such as seasonings for Poke Sallet, inventory for the National Store and postage stamps.
We do this by taxing the people, actions and things we don't like, and rewarding the people who do things we do like. In other countries, this is sometimes called bribery, but we prefer to call it "positive fiscal reinforcement".
Note that the Ministry of Finance does not decide what the national needs are - the council of ministers and the prime minister do this - the Ministry of Finance just provides the funds to carry out the program.
Second is to ensure that Ladonia maintains in a fiscally responsible condition, that we have more money than we spend, and that the money we have is kept safely. This sounds crashingly dull, but rest assured that if we spend more money than we have, we will be barraged by telephone calls from collection agencies, some of whom are downright hateful.
(In the USA, the most egregious actions of bill collectors are prohibited by law. The Ministry of Finance is suggesting to the council of ministers that bill collectors should be outlawed in Ladonia. Question - does Ladonia have capital punishment?)
The third function of the Ministry of Finance is to preserve the integrity of the currency. This is done by selecting designs of great beauty and timelessness to be used on the currency, so people in less fortunate lands will want Ladonian currency not only for its intrinsic value, but also as works of art, and they will be (quite properly) awed and amazed by our sophistication and good taste.
Presently, the Ladonian Air Force is under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Finance (because it is my airplane), and presumably the LAA (Ladonian Aviation Authority) and LASA (I won't insult your intelligence) are also. As the government of Ladonia expands, as governments everywhere do, the LAA and LASA may become more independent agencies. Hopefully, they will maintain close ties with the Ministry of Finance.
Miloslav Surgos (Slovakia) Minister of Coincidence and Destiny
Coincidence and Destiny are the two powers which are standing in contrariety but anyway, they have a strong influence on the lifes of all the people, Ladonians inclusive. The main task of the MoCD is to hold these two powers in balance to secure unspoiled development of Ladonia without some cruel jokes of Coincidence or rigidity caused by fatal waiting for the Destiny.
The Ministry has two Offices. Office of Coincidence and Office of Destiny. The Ministry uses two inevitable tools: the Dice for the first task and the Tarot cards for the second one.
Embassy of Remony Ladonia to Slovak republic
Embassy was set up in the Slovak capital Bratislava on the sovereign territory (75 sqm) of the remony. Its main task is to strenghten the position of Ladonia in Central Europe.
Nada Pavlak (Australia) Minister of All Things that Virtually Doesn't Exist
(ATTVDE) For all those who like a catchy acronym and aren't sure how my Ministry's acronym is pronounced think of the english word: "attitude" so you say it
like you mean it!
You say it like you say the name of your favourite football team when its
winning!
A-T-T-V-De! A-T-T-V-De! A-T-T-V-De! A-T-T-V-De!
And always with the exclamation point at the end!
A-T-T-V-De! A-T-T-V-De! A-T-T-V-De! A-T-T-V-De!
The mission of the Ministry for all things that virtually don't exist
(ATTVDE) is to give the citizens of Ladonia the warm inner glow that comes
from a government agency which is regulating the irregularities that prove
the indemonstrable through explaining indecipherable phenomena. In addition
we will redistribute the indivisible and dilute dilemmas by deecrees described
dictatorially as dross by the indirect.
The role of the Ministry for all things that virtually don't exist (ATTVDE)
is to: obviate the obvious;
obvert the obtuse;
obdurate the obscene and
obstruct the obstinate through obsequious observance of monopoly
megalomania.
The key tasks for the coming year for the Ministry for all things that virtually don't exist (ATTVDE) is to: form a close bond with other TTVDEs through deeds of mutual recognition. The first of these being to direct all Ladonians to the website of the virtually independent principality of Hutt River Province at: http://www.huttriver.net/; list all other TTVDEs found cyberatorially; create meaningless titles for discovered deritus, and extensive mythography of the land of Ladonia.
Cecilia Parsberg, Minister of Endlessnissism
It has been a long process of research, both inner and outer, to find the title that can hold my mission. It started with "total-masculinity" and then went to "sight" and now in the end, I found that endlessnessism is the name of the state of being when being a Minister in a State.
I must admit that I didn't invent the notion. The word was written on the door to a painter in Australia, it was seen by a friend of mine who went there to meet his father for the first time in his life. He told me this when he came back from his trip. This was many years ago. I gave it once to a record company as a label for a compilation-CD, not for a single song or a single music group, but for all music groups and songs together.
And this story might seem as a didada, but all of this is very important because the mission of the Minister of Endlessnessism is to connect dreams, events, notions, images, persons, situations, places and so forth. It is an endless chain.
Peter Lundgren (Sweden) Minister of Evolution and Slow Change (Former Minister of Constant Revolution)
THE MINISTRY OF CONSTANT REVOLUTION (Sometimes referred to only as THE
MINISTRY OF REVOLUTION, or the M of R) will randomly oppose of anything considered by the Ministry to be unrevolutionary. It reserves itself the right to take inconsequent and unfair decisions for the sake of the Revolution. The main goal is to KEEP THE WHEEL SPINNING! The M of R is also closely connected with the Revolutionary Workers Party of Ladonia, RWP(L), whose main goal is to make nobles sweat. (When it comes to the Constitution, we are neither for nor against, it lays in the arbitrary nature of the Ministry to break it, if that is considered necessary.) TEMPURA MUTANTUR!
Rui de Sousa (Portugal) Minister of Future Hope
The first objective of this small ministry is quite simple in fact, this administrative division will try to handle and understand the hopes and dreams towards the future of all the Ladonians. When i say future, i am not talking about one life time, i am referring to the 100 - infinite range, i am also not talking about individual hopes and dreams, the purpose of this ministry is to try to find the position of the Ladonians about the universe, aliens, mankind, about divinities. The purpose of this ministry to try to find the truth of existence.
The second objective is much more "earthling", if i may say so. In close collaboration with the internet ministry and all the other science and technology ministries, this division would try to create some kind of forums where the first point could be openly discussed. It is also one objective of this ministry to do some scientific research, namely - SETI, astronomy, theories about the universe, theories about man, etc.
The primary goal of this ministry is to try to find the answear for the existence of life; why there is life? where did it came from? This are the questions that have haunted me for all my short existence and these are questions that i want to share with you, it is my hope that we can find the answears, with that in hand i think its possible to move to the next question; Where are we going to? Has you all know, the future is not what it was, its with great amusement that i see the visions of future of the 50's or 60's and i cant stop wondering if today we are not making exactly the same kind of previsions...
I, as minister of the future hope, took the liberty of creating a Ladonia team in the SETI@home project, i think that extra terrestrial search is one of the biggest and most honorable endeavors ever taken by Humans, in that line of thought, Ladonia must be in it. In my young hastiness, i created the team without asking the opinion of the cabinet, for that i apologize, it will not happen again. If the cabinet does not agree with the Ladonia SETI team i can disband it.
There is only one more thing, it has gotten to my atencion: MEG -motionless electromagnetic generator, the inventor claims that this device will be the answear to all energetic problems, i am a bit skeptical about this, apart of having some doubts about the viability of this machine, there is one thing the concerns me the most; the reverse reaction...
Lord SigWhig (Sweden) Minister of Idleness
The Ministry of Idleness has a mission, although long forgotten. Our daily routines are centered on participation in Ladonian affairs by reducing input. We are committed to changing the standards by lowering our voices and thoughts. Basically we care for the standard of conduct by a process of ever lowering it and pushing the frontiers to new nadirs. Unbeknownst to ourselves we have spread words of caution to generations of listless Ladonian youths: Do less! Don't move! Use your brains somewhere else!
Our staff will be available to all honest citizens on generous pub hours and the consultation fee is from one to upwards several beers. Bribes are encouraged and can simply be paid through the bartender at Chez le Screein Bass, Wotan City, Ladonia, LAD. Positions available to uninterested slobs and bag-ladies, preferrably with a genuine dyslectic mind. Absentmindedness is a merit. Procrastination is a life style.
Be unaware! Stand firm, do less! And, again: ˙p!
Terry Hayden (England) Minister of Time and Llamas
Time, I believe, is a novel concept that needs much investigation and research.
We, As Ladonians have a much more sophisticated brain in looking at the
concept of time, we understand the relationship between time and the humble
Llama.
Time is currently divided into sections such as days or years, hours or seconds. I suggest this is irrelevant, time is an individual concept, each Ladonian having their own time to use however they wish. As we know Ladionian time is 5 minutes ahead, you therefore have 5 minutes extra in Ladonia.
We should use this extra time to think of the Llama, and to contemplate the time. Further I propose to make the Llama a protected animal in Ladonia.
Wenche Blomberg, Widow Countess, (Norway) Minister of Madness and euforic travel
Someone has to take the responsibility for madness, deviance and expanded imagination of Ladonia and Ladonians. After all, this is the orginal source of our common universe. The general task of this ministry will be to bless madness and grant its various expressions a free haven. (Personal counselling will be limited, however.)
At your service, Ladonia. I slept with Napoleon in my younger days. The Day of Full Madness is the 21 of June, the Day of Half Madness is the 21 of December.
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