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The Politics Situation of The Republic

A good place to start with this is the 4 states of the republic: Prosper, Southlight, Far East Sang (now known as FES)and Great Wolfacre. Despite not being about politics one thing to mention is that if we follow normal naming conventions then the existence of FES implies that there is another place called Sang that exists westward of FES as you wouldn't name somewhere by the direction unless there was another place by the same name, this Sang is most likely a city of sorts.

The Legislature

Thanks to Corvus Crow (don't take that out of context) we get quite a lot of information about the political system of the Republic. We learn that he is the representative of Great Wolfacre, the largest of the states, this implies one of two things either that each state only has one representative or that each state has one representative on the top then other representatives that deal with the other areas of a constituency a little like in America with the house and the senate or like Scotland which has a much similar system to what I am describing.

This second situation would make a more representative government so that is the more likely of the situations but who knows maybe President Wintersea wants to have an unrepresentative legislature. If you go by the first situation there would only be 4 representatives in the legislature which would be insanely stupid for a legislature. However, considering how it seems like these terms are only 1 year long which, if we look at the us house of representatives, would make a quite unstable government but again that could be because of President Wintersea wanting to control the narrative by having a weak legislature for her to control as a powerful executive.

Political Parties

We hear from the prologue that the Wintersea party has been in power for 9 ages at the time of Morningtide on the age of aristocrats, and if you do the maths of 11 to 17 ish years per terms you get between 99 to 153 years that the Wintersea party has been in power. And if you believe what Squall said when he said that he helped President Wintersea take over the states then it implies that the Wintersea party has been in power since Squall was banished from Nevermoor 100 years prior to the age of aristocrats.

One big question that comes of this is that if the Wintersea party has been in power for all the time that the Republic has been the Republic it begs the question on if there are other political parties. While you could argue that Corvus being stressed in the first book implies that there is another political party but people of the same political parties can run against each other.

The Monarchy

It is revealed in book 2 that there is a monarchy in the republic however there is some nuance. We are introduced to the House of Ra which is the monarchy of FES. This is important that we get this clarification as it implies that there is either a monarchy in all the states or that only FES has a monarchy. It makes more sense on it's own that FES is the only monarchy however we are told in one like in Hollowpox that the Free State has a Queen which can imply that each of the states have their own monarchy but the other option is also a possibility.

However, it doesn't matter what the type of monarchy it is as to how it fits into the politics. It is a near 100% chance that the type of monarchy in this is a constitutional monarchy which means that the Monarch doesn't have any real power other than in places like tradition. This is the most likely option as all information that we get about President Wintersea would imply that she would want to keep all the power in the Republic which would mean she would not allow for any type of power to be in the monarchy.

That is all, I apologise if i forgot something as I only learned the political systems of the UK and US

[thatoneweirdo0113]

Meducoid Mycelium Cure

So I've had this theory for quite a while and thought I would share it. I would like to clarify that I don't have any type of high education in chemistry or biology so take this with a grain of sugar. This theory doesn't cover the sugar bowl or the apples in the arboretum.

So, as a bit of context, this theory came to be when I was doing an in depth re-watch of A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix) and by in depth I mean pausing at least every 5 minuets to have a debate with my friend. We noticed that at 4 points rutabagas were mentioned, and mentioning something once is fine, twice is a coincidence, thrice is suspicious and quadrice means that its important. 2 of the times rutabagas were mentioned were in areas where you had to pause to see (Rutabaga River and rutabagas mentioned in 'An Incomplete History of Secret Organisations'). the other 2 times was Esme having a basket of rutabagas and Colette (or Kevin) saying how they could start a rutabaga farm.

My first thought was that it was a substitute for horseradish but because I have no culinary knowledge (and have never had horseradish, wasabi or rutabagas so I have no idea if they even tasted similar) I went to reddit to find if they knew but I only had two answers, one person said that using rutabagas to cure the Meducoid Mycelium would be useless and the other said maybe as they are both spicy vegetables.

But I wasn't satisfied so I did my own digging.

I figured that if both horseradish and wasabi cure the Meducoid Mycelium they mush share a chemical of sort so I googled it. Apparently they share a chemical called Allyl isothiocyanate (AIT). I got this from this website. so you can judge how true this is. Also on that website it mentioned that AIT is well known to prohibit bacteria and fungal growth (this is on sentence 3, this is the direct quote 'It is well known that AIT shows inhibitory effect on the growth of food poisoning bacteria and fungi.').

I then went digging and the website is right AIT is a fungicide. Also I went digging some more about other foods with AIT in it and this is the list Wasabi, Horseradish, broccoli, radish, cabbage, mustard and other cruciferous vegetables (I got this information in this website on the first paragraph of the introduction).

so I did my final bit of research of what more examples of cruciferous vegetables and here is the final list of foods that should cure the Meducoid Mycelium: Horseradish, Land cress, Ethiopian mustard, Kale, Chinese broccoli, Cabbage, Savoy cabbage, Brussels sprouts, Kohlrabi, Broccoli, Broccolini, Broccoloflower, Broccoli romanesco, Chinese cabbage, Cauliflower, Wild broccoli, Komatsuna, Mizuna, Rapini (broccoli rabe), Choy sum (flowering cabbage), Chinese cabbage (napa cabbage), Turnip roots, Siberian kale, Canola/rapeseed, Wrapped heart mustard cabbage, Mustard seeds, White mustard seeds, Black mustard seeds, Tasoi, Wild arugula, Arugula, Field pepperweed, Maca, Garden cress, Watercress, Radish, Daikon, Wasabi and yes Rutabaga.

(this is my proof of were I got these . I know its Wikipedia but I trust it with this. )