Emergency Transitional Administration

The Emergency Transitional Administration is the current ruling government of the country of Draakur, also known as the United Kingdom of Ottonia. Following the collapse of the previous Royal government during the South Ottonian Revolution, government loyalists fled to the Draakur Archipelago, which had been successfully held by military and civil authorities. Rather than relinquish power in the emergency, negotiations were held between the UKO government officials in Draakurr and the mainlanders arriving in the islands, leading to the creation of the Draakurrae-led Emergency Transitional Administration to oversee both final evacuations from the mainland as well as critical structural reforms to the UKO to ensure its ability to persist on Draakurr.

Nominally, the ETA serves at the pleasure of the Storkeneg, Vitus I. However, many observers, especially those members of the previous UKO administration critical of the ETA, have called the government a military junta due to its hard departures from previous UKO policies, including dramatically-increasing taxes on the wealthy (particularly the aristocracy), abolishing the formal legal separation between aristocrats and commoners, terminating discriminatory measures against non-Fabrians, instituting numerous social safetynets (including measures previously unknown or extremely neglected in South Ottonia such as public healthcare, widespread public housing, public pensions, secular public schools, and robust food assistance), additional attempts at rapprochment with the Federation of Ottonian Republics, and providing for the establishment of an elected, proportionally-representative legislature.

In addition, the administration, headed up by former military governor Stevan Grimmeburger, has been accused of Draakurrae nationalist sympathies and "crypto-Wernerism", although these accusations have been deflected by Grimmeburger, claiming "If [the UKO] is to survive, it must begin behaving like a modern nation, with all that that entails. We have seen first-hand what awaits us if we fail to do so."