Pacifica

by on November 23, 2019 at 12:01 am
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Governor Mahana proved extremely popular as she took Hawaii deep down the path into sovereign territory as many other American States were doing. If the Federal Government could not pay its bills, the States had to step up. Some failed to do so and chaos reigned. Hawaii succeeded, and many soon began using a name out of history. The Kingdom of Hawaii. Governor Mahana did not partake in such grandiose pronouncements, but she also did not seek to stop the name’s usage. And as she won election after election over the years and decades that followed, people slowly began to call her Queen Mahana. In the end, the State Legislature modified the State Constitution to make it official. The Kingdom of Hawaii lived once again, and it drafted Governor Mahana to serve as its first new Queen. And as Hawaii built colonies throughout the stars, it became the Star Kingdom of Hawaii, with Queen Mahana at the helm until the day she chose to retire. Yes, she chose to retire, and that set a precedent for the Queens that would follow.

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Pacifica

by on November 22, 2019 at 12:01 am
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The Hawaiian Crown Fund is an amazing venture started during the Second Great Depression. Mounting losses in tourism alarmed the citizens, which gave Governor Mahana the freedom to nationalize the old Crown Lands and levy monthly rents on the new tenants to make up the loss in external revenue. This money went into the Crown Fund, a portion of which was paid out on a monthly basis to every confirmed citizen of Hawaii to help them keep the lights on and food on their tables. The Crown Fund has expanded over the centuries to pay for basic medical care and other social services, and countless businesses owned by Hawaiian citizens found their start with low interest Crown Loans. Careful management helped it fund the creation of new islands and taller buildings, and the Palmyra Elevator reached orbit thanks to the Crown Fund. New colonies in the Solar System and beyond were started by monies earned by the Crown Lands, and the hearts of many of those colonies are Crown Lands in their own rights, the rents of which cycle back into the Crown Fund for the future generations of Hawaii and her colonies. Two things make the Crown Fund truly special in Hawaii. First, is that any benefit or dividend handed out from the Crown Fund is utterly and totally exempt from any tax assessors. And second, the Crown Fund is personally administered by the Hawaiian Head of State, not the legislature.

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Pacifica

by on November 21, 2019 at 12:01 am
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The Kingdom of Hawaii’s Crown Lands were confiscated during the overthrow of the last Queen, but the native Hawaiians never forgot. The various royal families and native rights groups fought in the courts and congress to return the lands, and found many allies. But while the American federal government eventually would pass a resolution specifically naming the overthrow illegal, the movement to actually return the lands never fully materialized until the Second Great Depression. Governor Mahana faced a sudden drop in tourism dollars that threatened to destabilize their entire economy, and the old Crown Lands had always been some of the richest and productive lands on the islands. They made a lot of money, and Governor Mahana wanted that money to go to the people of Hawaii. So she used her emergency powers to nationalize every acre of confirmed Crown Land, and required the new tenants to pay rent for the land that went into the new Crown Fund, which would be set aside to help the Hawaiians survive the economic chaos to come.

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Pacifica

by on November 20, 2019 at 12:01 am
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The political campaign for the vacated governorship of Hawaii brought Hawaii into the Second Great Depression with destroyed political careers, jailed politicians, and gutted political parties. The last man standing on Election Day was actually a woman. Mahana La’anui had first gained prominence by winning the Miss Hawaii competition, led numerous Hawaiian cultural remembrance organizations afterwards, and was a real life princess. Her family was one of the few that still traced its lineage back to the last Queen of Hawaii. She was attractive, an excellent public speaker, a proud proponent of Hawaii’s cultural history, and the last real option the voters had short of trying to start an entire new election campaign. No one had the stomach for that and she won with a landslide vote and an easy smile that disarmed every single one of her surviving political opponents. They would learn to regret that in the decades that followed.

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Pacifica

by on November 19, 2019 at 12:01 am
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The reduced tourism coming in from the mainland greatly affected the Hawaiian economy during the Second Great Depression, but it was not the locals’ primary concern. They had a local political crisis that was far more important to them. Having ousted one governor for high crimes against Hawaii, with prosecutors eagerly waiting to pounce on him with a legion of lawsuits that would easily total life in prison, they had to weather another campaign season to replace him. The leading candidates of the two dominant parties of the time led vitriolic campaigns accusing each other of everything from being idiots to traitors. Then the press began reporting that the investigation into the ex-governor’s participation in under-age sex rings had expanded to their circles as well. That set off a feeding frenzy in the competing news services that went further into the gutter and effectively destroyed their campaigns. It was a divisive time for Hawaii.

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