Our dear Estates-General Members,

We, Edgard the Second, by the Grace of God and Will of the People Emperor of Alexandria, present Ourselves here on this Eleventh day of May of the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Five to formally open the Estates-General and to outline the priorities of Our Government for the coming term.

It is Our great joy to come before you today on this historic occasion to open the first Estates-General of the New Alexandria. At the outset, We had longed for the day when We might see the mechanisms of representative democracy installed within Our government. Today We look with enormous satisfaction upon this body, elected by the people to work in concert with the Crown for the creation and maintenance of a nation built upon the principles of freedom, justice and honor.

We are confident that this, the people’s representative body, will employ all its efforts toward maintaining and perfecting Our parliamentary monarchy as enshrined in the Constitution. We gather here confident of the Constitution now in force and the system of laws that is to follow.

As we look with pride upon our achievements as a community and as a nation, we know fully that there is much more work ahead of us, for in Alexandria, like in any nation, the work can never be finished. Let us today commit ourselves anew to the building of a new, better, stronger Alexandria, each bringing our contributions to the project in one united effort. The great work of the creation of the New Alexandria continues.

To this end, it shall be amongst the priorities of Our Government to fully develop Our yet incomplete system of justice, recruiting talented individuals to serve the Crown as judges and prosecutors. A well-developed judicial power is necessary to the preservation of the rule of law within Our realm.

Government should work proactively to expand our society through an aggressive outreach, attempting to draw new citizens into Our realm and to develop ideas which will increase their desire to be active participants within our common society.

All of these priorities, as well as many others, Our Government shall embrace, and therefore shall We embrace them. It is Our sincere desire to cooperate in every way possible with Our Government to ward the achievement of every objective presented for the benefit of all Alexandrians and the growth of Our realm.

At the inception of this New Alexandria, and until the proclamation of the Constitution, the people of Alexandria did not enjoy the blessings of a democratically elected government. Rather, all justice and law emanated directly from Our person and was dispensed through Our hands. We have seen fit to share a great deal of Our authority with individuals selected by Our subjects to represent them in the Estates-General and to administer the affairs of the nation on their behalf in Our Government. Yet the Crown, too, has its own constitutionally enshrined prerogatives and over this, Our realm, We remain Sovereign. Government, then, in a constitutional parliamentary monarchy, is a partnership between the Sovereign, the people and their elected representatives. It should never be said that the Estates-General more than the Crown represents the people, neither vice-versa. Both Crown and Estates-General work hand-in-hand, their discreet prerogatives maintained and clearly outlined by the Constitution, for the people’s welfare.

Let us cherish and rejoice in our system of government, adhering faithfully to the principles and precepts enshrined in the Constitution. We shall consider it Our solemn and sacred duty to maintain the character of Our Government as defined by the Constitution and We shall not waver in our duty to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.

We impart to all Our loving subjects gathered today in this chamber Our sincere sentiments of thanks and congratulations as We extend to this body Our sure hand of friendship, partnership and cooperation.

May the blessing of Almighty God be upon the Estates-General and upon Alexandria, now and always.