Fellow citizens:

I come before you to announce that I will not seek reelection.

I thank you for the opportunity to have served the republic, but apathy is so severe, especially where the site administrators are concerned, I simply cannot see the point in seeking a second term.

Instead, I will devote my time and energy to The East Titulia Company. With only a few exceptions, my partners in the company are the very people who have kept Titulia going since last year’s twin debacles — the second terms of Presidents Teacher and McVicker.

What I enjoy about what we are developing in East Titulia is that our business is conducted in an atmosphere of cooperation; when we disagree, we work out. It is a lot more fun than trying to accomplish something in greater Titulia. In East Titulia, no one is running around calling themselves the opposition and launching unwarranted attacks on people.

Of course, we would be much further along with the development of East Titulia if not for Lea Carmody’s theft of our private and confidential business records. Former Attorney General Tvarivich collected enough evidence to have Ms. Carmody charged with theft, and that is an option that remains on the table for us, if we so choose.

Ms. Carmody is part of the no-fun bunch, the people who take pleasure in spoiling other people’s fun. I came here to have fun, not to be insulted by people who consider this a game to be won or lost, who think deceit and theft and defamation are all fair aspects of the game.

These are the people who are killing Titulia.

Of course, they have, and no doubt will again, say the Linardists are at fault. But all we really have ever done is keep them from taking over. So, since we have stood in the way of the fulfillment of their deranged lust for power in an imaginary republic, we have been under continual attack here. We have been slandered and libeled in every imaginable way. But even so, we have tried to work with every group of people in Titulia, including the very people who have attacked us, defamed us, stolen from us, and betrayed our trust.

The one factor that separates the members of The East Titulia Company from so many other citizens of Titulia is that we are not operating from an us vs. them point of view. The business of The East Titulia Company is conducted harmoniously because we are all in it together, and give one another the respect we each deserve.

I attempted to bring the same approach to the governance of Titulia, and reached out to members of the LRP to include them in my government. I appointed Kyralee Bayford to an editor position with The Titulia Post, lobbied energetically for James Matthews to be hired as assistant attorney general, which he was, and offered my electoral opponent, Ms. Carmody, a position on my cabinet.

From the beginning, it was clear that Mr. Matthews and Ms. Carmody were up to no good, that they had accepted my hand of cooperation, not to better Titulia, but to attempt to use the positions as a way to discredit my administration.

I, for one, don’t have time for this kind of mean-spirited nonsense, and neither do my partners in The East Titulia Company. We will return our attention to creating a cool and fun place for ourselves on the 20 or so blocks of land we own on the East side of Titulia City, and anyone who wants to have fun will be invited to join us. And we promise none of the no-fun bunch will be around to spoil the good times.

Again, I thank you for the opportunity to have been your president. I remain,

For the republic,
William D. Money