Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia

As the final preparations are taking place to constitute the union of the South Slavic peoples, the incessant debates within the Serbian parliament have not come to any sort of an end. Nikola Pašić longtime Serbian statesman, has assumed himself to be the first Prime Minister of the new state, to be tasked with forming its first government, but personal disagreements with the regent Prince Alexander have now thrown that askew. Some MPs assume that Alexander will instead choose Pašić’s #2 – Stojan Protić.

The difficult task of dealing with the rising tide of Bolshevism, too, presents itself as a challenge to the would-be statebuilders, as the Serbian Social Democratic Party has scheduled a Congress of all the Marxist parties that would be included in the new Kingdom to be held in July of this year. Agitation has occurred from these Marxists in Belgrade, where they have especially gained support from the tens of thousands of displaced Serbian refugees who are struggling to make ends meet in the ruined Belgrade.

The next major challenge that the new Parliament will have to grapple with is the issue of land reform, something promised by the regent to break up the major feudal era estates and transition the state towards a more market-based system of small farmers.

As the military was put on high alert to crush any resistance to unification, and teams of diplomats already left Belgrade to head towards Zagreb and Sarajevo to entrench the new state, the regent made a surprising announcement that would shake the National Party of Radicals to its core. He chose a Serb from the former Austrian Empire, Ljubomir Davidović, to be tasked with forming the first government. Davidović was a member of the State Party of Serbian, Croatian and Slovene Democrats (Democratic Party).

The state of the military at the end of the Great War saw the Kingdom of Serbia with 145,225 soldiers, increased to 160,000 with the incorporation of roughly 15,000 former Austro-Hungarian officers and volunteers that had been under the command of the National Council. Security concerns with peasant brigands, internal dissent, and the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization have demanded a further mobilization, with our military now sitting at just under 450,000 soldiers. This is putting an even greater weight on our economy, and the mobilization is only further strengthening the state’s communist elements. We must secure our stability so that we can demobilize, and these men can return to the important jobs of farming as we are currently extremely dependent on American food imports.

Thus, stands the state as it moves into the final step of unification. The national project of the Serbian people is now nearly completed: serving as a Piedmont for the South Slavic people, we are on the verge of true greatness and the opportunity to transform this troubled, wartorn, agricultural region into a viable and modern European state. Long live the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes! Long live King Peter! Long live the regent Prince Alexander!