"Tonight I bring you the State of the Confederation. In the last 15 years, our Confederation has grown. We have vanquished one enemy, and continue to hunt down and root out Precursor ships when we find them.
"As many of you know, Prime Minister Wiacek passed away 3 years ago. In the three years of my administration, we have opened up production of ship components to civilian concerns. Our knowledge of the universe around us has grown. And the aliens of Amethyst are now our citizens, admittedly with limited rights. But as they become more integrated into our society, they will have the rights all Confederation citizens enjoy.
"Thanks to the unceasing efforts of the Survey Corps, and the capture of the Amethyst Alliance's astrographic databases, we have knowledge of 100 systems, with 68% of them fully surveyed. In addition, and Earth-like planet in the Gliese-67 system has been discovered. It is distant, being six transits from Sol and four from Gateway. Survey ships will be sent out to fully explore this arm of the galaxy.
"Earth's population is 2.5 billion citizens, with the next highest population being Amethyst with a population of 1.5 billion. Mars has reached 257 million citizens. Novaterra has crested the 100 million mark, and Neue Berlin is just over 50 million. Gateway is just shy of 40 million citizens, and Draco Major is at just over one and a half million citizens. The total number of citizens is just over 4.5 billion.
"The newscasters continue to harangue this administration, like the previous with claims that we are spending more credits than we are bringing in. This is true, but our reserves; built up to a substantial amount during Prime Minister Wiacek's administration has more than enough to out-weigh any current deficit spending.
"Expansion into the planned Draconis sector continues, as does the planning of the Wolf sector based in Wolf 629. Amethyst will be included in the Core sector as soon as sufficient infrastructure expansion to the Core sector HQ is completed.
"On the military side, the Joint Admirals, with my approval have decided to shift destroyer class ships into a system protection role, and keep cruisers, battlecruisers and battleships as the main expeditionary ships.
"Good night my fellow citizens of the Terran Confederation."
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"The State of the Confederation, as brought to you by Prime Minister Monte Helbig. For more in-depth analysis of the state of the Confederation, click the metalink to the ConfedNet, keyword economy.
"In other news, the CFL has approved an expansion team for Amethyst. The new team will be called the Amethyst Jaguars, and will be eligible for the Superbowl in 2166. Don't forget next Sunday, broadcast in Tru3D across the Confederation, Superbowl 199 with the Raiders of Mars playing against the Neue Berlin Panzers."
