The sun rose today for the first time on the new Republic of Poyais. Voting began in the early hours and is expected to last into the night without incident. The ugly rumors of the former emperor’s return have not come to fruition, and although security has been alert, no explosions or even the threat of bombs manifested in the weeks leading to this historic day. Julia McGregor, estranged daughter of the former emperor, removed herself from presidential nomination, stating that Poiyas needed “new leadership that would not be attached to my family name if we are to ever be truly free to forge a new future as a people.”
A shipment of blasters has replenished the interim government’s security forces, dashing all threats of an imperial return to Poiyas. Democracy, it would seem, has taken root in the beyonder nation and means to stay.
