Mounting criticism of the Academy’ handling of the Plague epidemic, has led to the commisioning of numerous experimental procedures in the study of altitude. The Royal Academy of Aerobiology has commissioned Dr Claude Belgon to conduct experiments enroute to Lawrencia over the coming months, in conjunction with the Aerial Board of Authority. While 123,000 people have succumbed to the Magnetic Plague this month, First Minister Windermere Longfield was out of reach via videograph as he was attending a Sporting Exhibition in the Outer Regions League, adhering to his electoral mandate, “Sport before All.”