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Region: The Coalition of Democratic Nations

Assorted News from the United Territories - November 2023

Post-Vaporwave; An Internet Sensation Gripping the Nation

    A movement in music dubbed "Post-Vaporwave" by Kommin netizens has gained rapid popularity. An explosion of artists have embraced richer, darker basses and faster tempos while taking heavy inspiration from the motifs of 2010s Vaporwave. Sampling and track chopping, while remaining core themes of Post-Vaporwave tracks, often accompany original synth tracks and even harmonic voice synthesis. The genre's origin on the internet has brought great variety among artists; Kommin artist LEYIL's DnB experience has influenced his latest tracks that can be called Post-Vaporwave in ways that differ from artists known for EDM or Lo-Fi. The tie-ins of Vaporwave and experimental methods are producing an interesting and evolving culture worth keeping an eye on.

The Power of AI brings KomminCoffee Prices Down

    Technology enthusiasts and coffee drinkers alike will appreciate North Star Agribusiness's (KomEx: DLH) new coffee farming methods. North Star, owner of the KomminCoffee chain of artisan coffee shops, started to deploy machine-learning techniques to coffee farm automation, a field in which it has historically proven to be difficult, as automating coffee farming in the past has a gamut of trade-offs. Automization picks high volumes of coffee cherries, but it might be under-ripe, or over-ripe, or maybe parts of the crop were devastated by some problem and wasn't caught by harvest time. "Machine learning is changing all that," says an agricultural engineer at North Star, "For almost the past ten years, we've been constantly simulating, testing, simulating, testing... new approaches to automation. It has been a long time coming and a lot of money invested, but we're deploying the equipment now and we'll start seeing the coffee prices drop within two to five years with minimal loss in quality!" In the meantime, the company has plans to purchase even more land in coffee-growing countries to deploy the new farming methods in.

Legislative Assembly Relaxes Immigration Policy

    Concerns over underpopulation and resulting problems for the domestic labor market in Komminland have led to a shift in the government's immigration and residency policies. The Legislative Assembly passed a law amending the stringent requirements, such as professional fluency in Kommin for work-residencies and prohibitive review periods for refuge-seekers. New programs have been instituted to make transition to living in Kommin society easier, such as subsidized classes in Kommin law, history, and language. Although many citizens have noted important concerns, such as the resulting reduction in the national healthcare budget and the possible difficulties of integration, the government states that it is a necessary investment. "As a whole, our country has the money needed to get a start now," say legislators on the pro-immigration committee, "In the short term, some national projects will slow down, but we absolutely cannot procrastinate until it is too late. We either act now or fail later, and the government chooses to act now."

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