Ruminations From the Glen

The Glennish Parliamentary Experience Through the Years Anyone who has paid even the slightest attention to the Sconnish Parliament will see and understand that it takes its cues from the Parliament of the United Kingdom. And while the Parliament of the Kingdom of Scone may not exactly be the rivet-counter’s replica of Westminster, there is no doubt as to the template our Parliament follows. Our Parliament’s design goes back to the year 2003 when the first Parliament of the Kingdom of Hanover was opened. The habit of doing things the way we do them around here goes back even earlier than that, however.  The earliest Hanoverian Parliament took many of its cues, as it happens, from the experience of lawmaking in a now defunct simulation-based polity called “The Kingdom of Morovia,” of which the very earliest Hanoverians had all been participants. The essence of the Morovian legislative experience was lively, informed debate amongst the members of the kingdom’s legislative assembly, w...

THE INSTALLATION ORDO OF QUEEN ALEXANDRA On May 19. 2013, King James II (today called "Christian Rex Emden-Holstein") abdicated the throne of the Glennish Kingdoms of Hanover and Sconeland and was succeeded upon the Glennish throne by my sister, HRH Princess Shannon Alexandra, Duchess of Claremont (in the Kingdom of Hanover). Alexandra's reign was a reign on paper as she never personally exercised her mandate in any way, shape, or form (not that she had been expected to). Queen Alexandra amounted to a convenient arrangement whereby the Crown could be permanently set beyond the reach of Glennish subjects who altogether too often managed to obsess over or fixate upon the monarch and the monarchy. In the end, the queen-in-name-only arrangement proved intolerable to some and the scenario ultimately led to the breakup of the GK in 2014. As we embarked upon Queen Alexandra's ephemeral reign, however, we wanted to somehow endow it with substance and majesty, immersing our si...