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Obiang Melembe Nguema sat at his immaculately organized desk, an ornate black pen engraved with his initials in his hand as he looked over a steadily shortening pile of legal documents neatly laid out before him. Obiang's diligent dedication to the work ahead of him belied a cool, relaxed acceptance of his recent promotion to the cabinet; it was an added responsibility that he acknowledged as a genuine reflection of his talent and expertise, without allowing it to at all imbue him with an overconfidence that could affect his psyche, and therefore his work. Obiang's antipathy for self-congratulations did not also extend to an antipathy for criticizing those he had succeeded, however. At the moment, the new Minister of Justice was half way through the documents he'd assigned for himself to complete by the end of the day—which was as much work as his predecessor in the department seemed to have been able to accomplish every week.

The task of taking over the Bureau of Justice held unique challenges, due not only to the fundamental importance of the office, but also the mismanagement it had previously languished under. The SPP's misrule had been a drag on both Samgola's justice system as well as the perceived competency of the Bassong Administration as a whole; it was a lingering issue that Nguema had been sent in to rectify. A Samgolan national with foreign credentials from the legal programs of prestigious Cambridge and Yale, Nguema had been using his status as one of the country's top jurists to criticize the National Regime since well before Rubusana's fall. Predictably, he had been jailed for it, having attracted the president's ire for his opposition to its extralegal actions and spent several years in prison as a consequence He had escaped only because a national militia—one lost to memory—had managed to take over the prison in which he was being held, and granted him freedom. His cold demeanor was unaffected by the experience, but his dedication to individual liberty was strengthened by it.

Nguema was an MNA in addition to his new cabinet portfolio, and was seen as being a leader of the liberty wing of the D.A.R. Technically not an émigré per se, despite his foreign education, Obiang was also a lapsed Christian. His religious beliefs were unimportant to him, though, helping to balance out the sometimes zealous nature of the religious divide in the D.A.R. In fact, Minister Nguema was utterly dedicated to laïcité, and to keeping the protection of liberty as the main function of the justice system. Obiang M. Nguema's diligence and dryness would hopefully be perfect to do away with the laziness and corruption that had plagued his office (and his government's reputation) before his elevation to cabinet. One could only hope, for the country's sake, that it would be so.

Nguema's earliest challenge was the Obagmeni case. Under any other country's justice system, assigning it would be a simple feat, but Samgola's laws were infamously arcane and poorly written—a strain on the country left over from the errors of the Rubusana Administration. Each court's jurisdiction was poorly defined, and delays and fines incurred from bureaucratic mistakes were a serious hindrance whenever cases were misassigned, which happened often. The process was, unfortunately, little better than random chance. Still: a decision needed to be made. Minister Nguema chose to assign Ms. Obagmeni's lawsuit against her employer to State Court, where the typo-ridden court procedures of Samgola specified that cases would be heard relating to "suits wagered(sp) between individuals and other entities". Hopefully, Samgola's grossly ambiguous and wasteful legal system would not claim yet another victim.

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Workers employed by the Bureau of Transportation and Urban Development continued their work in Fetima, constructing the news routes of the national highway system that would more permanently and efficiently connect this region of Samgola to the wider economy of the country. Their superiors' superiors had not received any indication to stop or delay or reroute their construction, and so they did not.

Environmentalism was a minority issue in Samgola. Although Samuel Bassong and the DAR did have their connections to ecological groups, their sympathy for the preservation of nature did not exceed Samgola's need to move forward, economically and socially. The Brick & Mortar Act had been a massive success thus far, cutting unemployment and homelessness nearly in half, and permanently increasing the interconnectedness and infrastructural quality of Samgola's national economy. Progress could not and would not be stopped in the interest of saving the trees. A bone could be thrown to the environmentalist movement later on, and in a way that would further Samgola's interests—but it would not be here, and it would not be now.

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The case shall be recommended to [b]State Court[/b].
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[b][u]Back the Construction Efforts[/u][/b]: The Brick & Mortar Act must maintain it's momentum, lest we lose further jobs and progress. The Fetima Wildlife Reserve is one of many, and it will only be reduced in size and not destroyed or tarnished.
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