For the first time in exactly one year, every single member of the hundred elected members of the countries Mandate Commission have met in the Red Fort to oversee the electoral season. Every year, up to 1/3 of the seats are randomly assigned to new citizens, shifting the balance for the upcoming year and forcing groups to seek the elusive simple majority to run the Mandate as they wish. This is the last election for Rana Tadros, a chosen favourite of the Copt-Sunni Bloc, and her twilight year in office is reflected by a continued downswing in that parties fortunes.

With the discovery of another major state across the Red Sea, the current climate is heavily revolving around Military Investments and Expanding up the Nile. The Red Fort Commission, traditionally the strongest party, has this year been forced to ally with the Unions and a number of independent minded members to establish a Quorum.

A Red Fort - Union Coalition currently rules the Mandate

In order to buy support, the governing party were forced to concede on two financial points:

• -2.5% GDP Government Spending
• -2.5% Military Budget to be transferred to Infrastructure

These will be applied to next years budget.

Furthermore, the Unions are to be given voting support for their ambitions to source raw materials across the delta.

In return, the Red Fort Commission is free to follow their own agenda this year: Expansion down the Nile, Conservative Military Investments, and a disproportionate focus on the capital of Old Mansoura.

Mandate Evaluates Natural Gas Infrastructure

Off the coast of the Nile Delta the old British Protectorate funded the construction of Natural Gas rigs as part of an investment program. Most of the rigs still stand, forming artificial reefs that protected the fragile fishing waters of the eastern Mediterranean during the Quiet Years, and are known to the administration. However a formal and comprehensive survey of equipment has not yet been made, and at the behest of their new political partners, the administration has outfitted an intellectual expedition to investigate the platforms to see if any are still operational - or at least comprehensible.