Various pieces of news

Greater Farnham has reversed his decision to stand down as Chairperson of Hethrum. There was recently an attempted invasion of the region, and he has decided it would be best to stay on.

More applications - the FRA continues to expand, with applications from Cingeta and Lichentia received this week.

The embassies with The NPF and Red Sox Nation have been closed.

A possible treaty with the COFR is under discussion.

Debates are underway in the Regional Assembly about organising the Assembly, and changing the types of membership available to regions, to entice those that are less keen on defending.

Northern Chittowa has been demanding reports from the members of the Cabinet, which will be published shortly. Falconias has asked that certain parts of his report are censored, leading Sanzar to speculate that our Intel Officer had 'found evidence NC was gay'. NC has described the claims about his sexuality as 'a pack of lies', although they refuse to go away.

More details about all these stories, in particular the last one, will appear in the next update.

Northern Chittowa finally comes out

The news that we had all expected to hear has finally arrived. Northern Chittowa, the Arch Chancellor of the FRA, and member of such regions as the GRA, Lazarus, and GB&I, has finally come out of the closet. The COFR Herald, written by Jivdom, a close and trusted friend of 'NC', reported the following:

Prominent Nationstates personality Northern Chittowa inadvertently came out of the closet in the GRA.

Jivdom said that his evidence came the GRA having 2 Citizenship threads, and "he used the one that I declared to be gay... I assumed he was trying to tell us something...".

Northern Chittowa has refused to deny the claims, which have only served to fuel the speculation that Jivdom's 'outing' is genuine. Additionally, he has turned down the chance to 'prove' his heterosexuality by taking the 'Gay test' (http://www.faxtoons.com/quiz/gay_quiz.php ), and a well-placed source alleged that he had in fact already taken the test, but refused to post the results, as they were "as close as you can get to 100% without being Elton John".

Reactions from the wider NS World have generally been receptive, although Pidgeon Island of the GRA was overheard muttering about lynching. One important figure in the FRA reacted by exclaiming that he has never known that NC has been in the closet, which has led some to believe that he has been leading a double life, with a presence in the well-known NationStates region 'Gay'.