Chapter Seventy Nine: The Fantasy Foreman

The Right Honorable Kurt Toto, the Fantasy Foreman of the Union and the Leader of the world Congress Assembled, has been duly summoned through the Letter of the Great Seal to serve as a Member of the newly constituted Other Maters Commission by the effect of the nomination of the Chief Minister for the Conduct of State, and confirmed by the most Solemn order of the Committee of the Whole of the Planetary Co-Operation.

It was very uncommon during the modern era for the Planetary Co-Operation at-Large to involve the wCongress and the Union of Fantasy Purveyors in any governance conduct involving state investigations, especially with regards to alleged corruption within the more superior authority of the Ministry of Space and the Establishment in general. But noticable changes have been happening in the past five years of Space polity, with the Office for Resignations being responsible for a lot of these reforms by causing many bills to pass legislation favoring more devolved authority within the world of Fantasy.

However, this important political development may be stalled by recent happenings involving public accountability, where the Space Transportation was being dragged into an alleged systematic corruption scheme involving the illicit trade of proliferated scams passing through the Office's jurisdiction on border control. It was his own intuition telling him that there is more to this issue than a simple allegation of cases of random graft and corruption, but part of a massive plan to sabotage the granting of even wider freedoms to the constitutional rights of the resident world of Fantasy.

Of course he has no real evidence to this effect, but the hunch was definitely there, stronger, and refusing to leave the suspicions of his conscious mind. He is indeed feeling something perilous about the latest progress in political discourse at Planet rue Dominard. Something is definitely not right from the set of circumstances. He can truly sense it with his own intuition.

The reasons for his inclusion to this Other Matters Commission was quite odd, too; he has never heaard of such justification for an independent appointment before, especially when reading about the investigative nature of the constituted mandate, even going further in praising his duly "unmatched reputation and deeper knowledge of the intricacies of the world of Fantasy," with the predicate of the subject letter also applauding the probative value of his reports to wCongress and to the Central Committee of the Union of Fantasy Purveyors.

The letter also emphasized his involvement in commerce and trade as a competent ambassador for the promotion of fairness and equal access to opportunities, and his intelligent and eloquent rhetoric, coupled with his rich and varied experience, would be a great addition to the competence of the said Other Matters Commission.

But the lack of interest of rue Dominard in further discussing the other proposals of the Office for Resignations to grant more favorable local conditions and the improvement of quality of life in Fantasy territory was enough reasons for him not to be convinced of the sincerity of this surprising gesture. Nevertheless, he was more trusting of the Chief Minister for the Conduct of State than any other politician in particular.

There seems to be no other way to avoid the Co-Operative's initiative to further impose colonial taxes for the use of commercial routes despite serious opposition of key Fantasy Purveyors on the matter (the business of selling dreams is a nasty thing, indeed), but instead of heeding objections in a free debate, the Chancellor of the Constitution has insisted that the measure is urgently needed so that a large portion of the new taxes will be used to adequately fund the Delegation Colony Guards, as part of the implementation of the controversial Comprehensive Security Act that was passed to greatly improve the national security of Orbital Systems.

Yet, this Ministry propaganda is a farce. The Ministry of Space was simply using the economy of the world of Fantasy as a cash cow. It was very evident in the language of political debates and statements of policy designed to simply persuade popular assent rather than to actually open the Bill to further scrutinize its content based on merit.

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