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Throne Speech opens Great Hanover's vicennial Parliament

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Bergen “Be good or be gone” seems to be the theme emerging for the 20 th anniversary year of the Kingdom of Great Hanover, which, when you think about it, is fitting enough. That’s essentially the attitude by which Hanover was reclaimed in the first place. After a New Year’s Day address in which the king took anti-vaxxers and right-wing extremists to task for the part they’ve played in making the world an increasingly less delightful place in which to live, His Majesty’s government devoted a great deal of text in its first throne speech of 2022 to warning cyber-bullies and “individuals who exhibit toxic or anti-social behavior” not to expect to find the red carpet rolled out for them within the social media of Great Hanover. Following a successful “ Restoration Parliament” which was convened for a short time in late 2021, the government set forth its agenda for the 2022 legislative season in what is set to be the first of two parliamentary sessions convened this year.   A verit

HANOVER AT 20: The year 2022 marks twentieth anniversary of the launch of the miniature Kingdom of Hanover

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  l Bergen On New Year’s Day, 2022, the first (and latest) Hanoverian monarch ushered in the twentieth anniversary year of the Kingdom of Great Hanover by delivering remarks which centered largely upon growing frustrations with misinformation and conspiracies surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Taking anti-vaxxers to task, the king observed that we, the vaccinated, may find ourselves “increasingly frustrated with them, perhaps, for extending the life of this global plague unnecessarily through their strident rejection of science, facts, and medicine.” A week later, the president of the French Republic would astonish the French media, simultaneously infuriating conservatives and delighting centrists by declaring that he intended to “piss-off” the unvaccinated with his government’s vaccination mandates. The prime minister of Canada would go on to publicly express his own frustrations with the unvaccinated, and the president of the United States would position himself inside the US