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Highlights! 
The internet is so hard these days 
without tl;drs.  
 
 
● Rainbows… Rainbows 
Everywhere! Taki helps 
us celebrate Pride. 
● Karma Awards. We had   
two Karma Awards this 
month! Congrats to all 
our winners. 
Rainbows… Rainbows Everywhere! 
● Law Review:  Takura Calxur
Constellation of Karmic  The month of June is generally recognized to be the month of Pride, the month dedicated to celebrating the 
Rights. Paul begins a  LGBTQ+ community. Does this stop people from celebrating them other months? No, of course not. But this month 
segment on Karmic Law. 
is the month that they celebrate more visibly all of the achievements made by society and the forward steps we as 
● Fuzzbuckets Lesson #6. 
humans are taking to further equality and justice and understanding. 
Fuzz teaches us a life 
So why June? Why pick June out of all of the other perfectly valid options? Well, it’s a bit of a sad story. On 
lesson.  
● The Karma Dream. A  June 28, 1969 police raided a gay bar at the Stonewall Inn. These were the beginnings of the Stonewall Riots, 
group poem written for  violent protestations against the stigmatization and oppression of the LGBTQ+ community, and hurtled the issues 
Fridate on the RMB.  of representation and equality for this group of people into the limelight. Since that spark point we have come 
● Karma’s Founding Day!  leaps and bounds. There is still hatred and misunderstanding and fear, but people are able to be open about their 
Lev catches us up on  identities in so many ways that were simply not possible before then. 
Founding week activities.  So why is it called Pride then? That is more difficult to answer, but again, it goes back to the history of 
  oppression and cultural shame of the community. People were killed, people were fired, people were ostracized. 
After Stonewall, and in the ensuing movement to secure equality and acceptance the LGBTQ+ community 
The Augurs 
adopted “Pride” as a way of showing their rebellion to the fear and shame that had held them quiet in the past. 
Writers: 
They were no longer afraid of expressing themselves, of being themselves, they had p
​ ride​ in their identity. 
Takura Calxur 
It has been a long journey, and a hard one, and there are still challenges facing us in the present and the future, but 
Paulus Asteorra 
FreshStep  we have made so many great leaps forward culturally and we should celebrate that while looking ever to the 
Fuzzbuckets  future where the hate and fear many LGBTQ+ people live with today is but a distant memory. 
Levont Calxur  To send you off, I want to say this: being part of the LGBTQ+ community does not mean you fit a mold. It is 
  simply an umbrella to help unify many diverse and unique people in all of their wonderful glory. Each person who 
Art:  chooses to identify under this label is different. So take some time this month to get to know someone (or more!) 
FreshStep  who identifies as part of this community and celebrate their story!
Laniron Summers 
   
Editor:  
Altino Asteorra 
Karma Awards 
  Hosted by Zalidia 
 
Most Active: Bean  Most Active: Lev 
Most Helpfu;l: Taki  Most Helpful: Lev 
Most Promising Newcomer: Jinkies  Most Promising Newbie: Code 
Best Flag: Lan  Best Flag: Lan 
Best Ideas: Fuzz  Most Likely to become a Sage: Taki 
Most Likely to Become a Sage: Taki  Friendliest: Bean 
Friendliest: Bean  Most Inspirational: Fuzz 
Most Inspirational: Fuzz  Karman of the Year: Taki 

 
 Law Review: Constellation of Karmic Rights   
 
Paulus Asteorra 
 
As a Jiva themself sows, so they themself reap; no Jiva inherits the good or evil act of another Jiva. 
This is how Article I of the Guidance opens. This first Section prohibits the usage of group 
responsibility. Jiva may not be punished or rewarded solely on the basis of association with 
another person. For example, if three persons have an rp alliance and two of them rebel against 
Karma, the third one may not be punished solely for formerly having an alliance with the traitors, 
that had nothing to do with their later treason. However, such provision does not completely 
disallow punishing the whole group of people, if the group has a design to harm Karma. These 
kinds of groups may be designated Hostile Entities in Karma’s law. A Jiva associating with such 
Entities, in spite of proscription, is personally guilty for doing so, therefore it is not a violation of 
the rule mentioned here to punish them for such an association. Later in the Section, this sentence 
follows T
​ he fruit is of the same quality as the action.​ This is not a prescription of the punishment 
by talion (punishing somebody by doing the same as they did to another, e.g. “an eye for an eye 
and a tooth for a tooth”), but a call to reward the Jiva for good actions and punish them for bad 
actions and not the other way around. This first section, fittingly, is the concept of karma 
conveyed in the legal terminology. 
 
Section 2 of the Constellation of Karmic Rights enumerates the rights to f​ ree speech, expression, 
petition and assembly a
​ nd furthermore declares that these rights ​shall not be restrained arbitrarily 
by any action of the governance​. Some rights have an absolute character, these do not. Their 
exercise should be limited due to both the rights of other people (such as the right to not be 
 
discriminated against) and the common good of the region as a whole (e.g., unlawfully 
distributing sensitive information is not protected free speech either).    
   
Section 3 establishes two things - first, that ​No Jiva may be denied the due process of the law​. 
Fuzzbuckets Lesson #7 
This forbids punishments imposed by arbitrary judgment without such process, but it should be 
Fuzzbuckets 
pointed out that said process does not have to be a criminal trial established by the Karmic Code 
 
of Justice, said Code does not say the Sages must use this procedure exclusively. According to  A woman had struggled all her life to find any 
the Sangha’s law, a Jiva may also be declared a Hostile Entity, in which case the procedures that  sense of purpose within it. Everything she 
need to be followed to make such a decision fulfill the requirements for a process. Second thing  touched, seemed to go wrong. She hated how 
she looked and she hated her seeming inability 
established by Section 3 is that no citizen of Karma may be m
​ ade to suffer unreasonable 
to get anything done. She longed, so much to 
punishments for their crimes​. Unreasonable punishment is that which is unnecessarily harsh and  fully explore the world she had been fascinated 
when determining what constitutes a r​ easonable ​penalty, two questions should be answered:  by since she was young. But for some reason, 
What penalty the individual deserves and what further measures may be needed to preserve the  she kept getting rejected from the very realm 
community’s well-being? An example of such a punishment would be a six month ban from the  she wanted to enter. It did not matter what she 
did, she had for some reason, been blocked off. 
region (what the individual would deserve) and an indefinite ban from participating in the 
Sadly, realizing she was most likely punished for 
government of Karma (what would be needed for community’s preservation) for a case of  whatever reason, she quietly took to simply 
Espionage.  studying spirituality and practicing some 
  universal concepts, with decent success. What 
These first three Sections of the Guidance contain perhaps the most important rights for the  seemed to be evil spirits bothered and tortured 
her actions and thoughts for years, making her 
people, but are also often misunderstood (especially the freedom of speech). Together they 
question the very fabric of her existence. Until 
protect a Jiva’s liberty in their social life, however not to an extent that some would like to  one day, she was approached by a person who 
imagine.  had their own story to share. The woman then 
realized she had to trust God again, and she did. 
Within months, and by consistently trying to 
  spread kindness and love, and dropping seeds 
of wisdom among the many places she visited, 
as well as improving some of her vices, her voice 
was heard. She felt something shift inside her 
and awaken. God had come to recognize her 
progress and her desire to be a better person, 
and began the process of enabling her to do 
what she had always wanted to do--explore the 
spiritual realms beyond Earth. The lesson is, 
whether you believe in God or not, if you put the 
effort into improving yourself and your situation, 
good things will come your way. Before roses, 
there must be rain.   
 
Trust the process. 

 
  
 

 
 
 
A Fridate poem compiled by the nations of:  Energy twists and turn endlessly in a spiral, pushing, pushing 
  from your opening spirit 
The Litterbox, Fuzzbuckets, Beansburrow,  into the populace of colorful poppies you are surrounded by. 
Gor Entonemen, Takura, Tahk Avros,   
Polts and Qualia, Sancta Romana Ecclesia, and Almaz Aralia!  A garden 
  a field of life 
  sparkling flames licking at desperate shadows 
I raise my eyes and the sunlight warms them  who flee into corners 
Igniting the fire, surrendering to mayhem   
  A field of black roses lies at the base of the hill 
The endless years of prison have come to an end.  and as all the world goes still, a scent of death rises through 
The fire lit inside by the sight of the sun purging the darkness  From the chasm below the roses, goes the rock, ore, and flame 
  The glowing set of eyes below, the barking, growling hound of 
A whisper of wind creeps along, biting your ear.  hell 
The contrast sends shivers throughout your core, a reminder that you've  A monster of three heads, and a trillion gnashing fangs Cerberus 
made it to the 12th year.  That dog unveiled from the earth, patrolling his dungeon of souls 
  he who snarls through the darkness, a dog that rattled my 
Standing tall in front of the gates that caged your spirit for centuries  bones, and I will never escape 
the notice of your revoked sentence vindicates your freedom   
and arouses the thrills that boil your frigid blood, reviving a lifeless heart.  But even if I my can see no path at all 
  Suitable for making a successful escape, 
an eagle  May I not create by belief one that will preserve me whole 
so will you soar,  And shall it not surely lead into my rest safe? 
through the forbidden skies,   
closer to the sun than ever before  For even if our sight perceives but a darkness vast, 
  Hope is always that dim light which dies as last. 
A victim, no longer   
The sky fights back, though not an enemy  We are dying, time is passing 
You grow stronger  We all surviving, but there is no hiding 
   
Forlorn I coax your beautiful mind, though your eyes  Solitude releases it's powerful grasp, I need not fight 
Betray fury of a thoughtless kind  Serenity finds me, and I close my eyes 
Vibrations from your opening spirit break the current  Embraced in her shroud of hope 

 
Karma’s Founding Day! 
Levont Calxur 
 
Unless you were living under a rock for the past week or so, you are probably already aware that Karma’s Founding Day has just passed, a date that 
had no importance 4 years ago and was just seen as a normal day in the month of May. Most of you probably don’t remember how Karma started, how 
it climbed its way up the ranks, and how it got to this point, and most of you probably weren’t in NationStates or Karma around that time, well it’s 
alright because I wasn’t around back then either. During Karma’s early days, it wasn’t really that special of a region, I mean sure it was a meritocracy, 
which I guess you can consider unique considering that NationStates’ only form of government was and still is, a filthy democracy. Karma had basically 
no nations, no World Assembly Members, no nothing, but how did we get here? What happened? 
 
 
Well, that in of itself, is a long story, but I’ll give you the short version of it… It took Karma around 5 months to reach an all-time high nation count of 152 
nations, which is great when you look at it, and not so great when you read my follow-up sentences. The nation count began declining, and the region 
was pretty much dead 6 months after that milestone of 152 nations. This wasn’t the end of Karma, however, or else we wouldn’t be here… 1 year after 
that decline in activity and nations, the region was back at an incline. Altino decided to refound the region, organize it more, change what was ‘wrong’, 
and bring the nation count back up, and well… It happened, and here we are. It may look like nothing happened in those 3 years, but don’t let my very 
short summary of the ‘events’ that happened during that time fool you.  
 
 
Now, back to the present! The Culture Department has organized some events to celebrate this great day, the events went on for the entire week, from 
May 25th till May 30th. There were a lot of celebrations, from the Collective RMB Story, Fridate, CYOA, Mad Libs, and many others! It was an 
action-filled week that you shouldn’t have missed and if you did… there’s always next year!  
 Tako Tuesday 
Takura Calxur 

Manakish with fancy special spices (Za’atar spice) 

Wow,  hmm,  it’s  been  a  month. And somehow that feels like no time at all and all the time in the world. I’ve been stuck 
at  home  since  mid-March,  and  I  know  for  some  of  you  it’s  been  longer  than  that.  It  feels  like,  with  one  motion,  our 
whole lives have been upended. We’ve been torn f 
rom  our  familiar  haunts  and  familiar  routines  and  thrust  into  a  new  reality  of  isolation  and  uncertainty.  And  that’s 
probably  the  worst  part  of  all  this.  We just don’t know. We don’t know when it will stop or if it will come back and we 
don’t  know how we will proceed from here. If you have the answer to any of those questions feel free to hit me up and 
tell  me,  I’d  love  to  know.  But  what  I  do  know  is  that  you  aren’t  here  to  read  about  society,  you’re  here  to  read  about 
food.  So,  since food has become my comfort these past months, I will share with you a recipe for Manaqish. This is like 
pizza,  but  a  lot  less  Italian.  Lev  brought  it to my attention during a Fridate a few weeks ago, and I’ve finally found time 
to  try  it  out.  I’m  not  sure  how  precisely  perfect  it  will  be,  but  I  figure  I’m  close  enough.  I did have to make up my own 
spice  mixture  since  I don’t have Za’atar spice on hand. And I know Lev doesn’t fully approve of these, but hey, he can’t 
stop you, and they a
​ re​ very good. This is probably the longest intro paragraph I’ve written before. So let’s just, get to the recipe. Enjoy! 

 
Ingredients:  Directions: 
Dough:  1. mix water sugar and yeast and set aside 10 minutes until frothy 
● 1 cup - warm water  2. in a mixing bowl, combine flour salt and olive oil, then make a well in the 
center and add the yeast mixture 
● ½ tsp - sugar 
3. once the ingredients are combined turn the dough onto a lightly floured 
● 2¼ tsp - yeast 
surface and knead until smooth and elastic 
● 3 cups - flour  4. place dough in a lightly oiled container and let rise in a warm place for 1 hr 
● 1 tsp - salt  and 30 min 
● 2 TBSP - olive oil  5. knead lightly and split into 8 balls, and let rise for another 30 minutes 
6. combine spices and olive oil for topping. Do whatever feels right for you for 
 
spice proportions, so long as you end up with 7-8 TBSP 
Spices Topping: 
7. preheat the oven to 400 F and place a baking sheet in the oven. 
● 7-8 TBSP - Za’atar spice  8. roll out the dough balls into circles and push little dimples in it. give each 
● if you don’t have that:  about 1 TBSP of the spices. take the pan out of the oven and oil it lightly, 
● Dried Oregano  then arrange the manakish on the sheet (if you run out of space just use a 
new sheet) 
● Sumac/Lemon Zest 
9. bake 7-8 minutes, until the edges and bottoms are browned. then let sit 5 
● Sesame Seeds 
minutes. 
● Marjoram/Oregano  10. cover liberally with tomatoes and cheese and enjoy 
● Thyme 
● ½ cup - olive oil