Government officials in the western country of Danikistan finally confirmed today that the President had secretly stepped down a few weeks earlier on June 16. Following the admission from the Comatose (Danikistani Parliament), the Secretary-General confirmed the abdication.

However, there is confusion as to where Danikistani jurisdiction now lies. Currently there is no head of state in the country as the Privy Council at the Comatose continues to run affairs.

The President's last orders was that the country be maintained. He also hinted that he might run for office in the future. From these directives, the Secretary-General announced that a competition would be soon held to find a suitable country to head Danikistan as a Congressional Mandate in the meantime.

Further unrest continues to plague the country of Nosheenada. In spite of an agreement with rebel groups earlier this year and substantial foreign aid from Marcusburg, insurgents assassinated the Foreign Minister of the new democratic cabinet in the beginning of June.

They insisted the government was illegitimate because the Supreme Ruler remained head of the new democratic government in spite of her fascist past.

This sparked a slow war of attrition between rebel groups and those loyal to the new democratic government. However, the tide turned on July 12 as military generals at the Pentagon (Nosheenadan military command) ordered a widespread attack on all rebel positions.

Wanting to prevent further bloodshed, commanders staged a widespread mutiny which led to a massacre of forces loyal to the democratic cabinet. The Supreme Ruler has fled the country once again and Nosheenada is yet another country without a head of state.

A mob of over one hundred thousand people took to the streets in this normally quiet nation today demanding the Supreme Ruler of Smartaford outline a vision for her country or step down immediately.

It has been over a year since the Supreme Ruler's government built schools or roads for the people; and as the country continues to grow, people are demanding that services be maintained and that Smartaford assume its rightful place in the world as a pioneer of human rights and international law.

"What happened to this country? We were the first to draft a doctrine against aggression that Congressional Parliament still uses to this very day," quipped one protester.

She continued, "And now what are we? A country where schools don't have enough teachers and hospitals regularly turn away ambulances. We have lost our way."

Although the situation still remains under control for the time being as Smartaforders are not accustomed to the use of force, experts are not so sure that the protests can remain peaceful for much longer.

Being formally abandoned by the Commissar is merely the final chapter in this country's long and prolonged decline. The Chief Soviet of Jollywood finally admitted that the Commissar had left the country back in February and the collective of eight farms had been working together to keep the country running since then.

Apparently that was not enough. On June 28, the Great Powers Forum proclaimed Jollywood a failed state and a worthy target of Responsible Determination. Sources in the Soviet say this move had a profound impact on the acting Commissar, leading to the relevation of the actual Commissar's abdication much earlier.

Unlike the Danikistani scenario, Congressional Parliament was not aware of the abdication until the acting Commissar's announcement on July 11. However, the Secretary-General has stated that another competition, similar to that for Danikistan, would be held for Jollywood as well.

In the midst of such turmoil, analysts insist that countries around the world can learn a lesson from these four troubled nations. The Mapp has changed. Peoples are no longer content to be ignored and taken for granted. Some have even gone so far to dub this recent phenomenon the "Reveillance".

In other words, that is to say, Responsible Determination may now be invoked by the people of a country and not just by other foreign heads of state. Leaders are advised to neglect their domains at their own risk.