On April 14, the Wave held a rally in Jackson City, in the parking lot of the Phoenix Building (aka the Bank of Port Ventura building) to discuss what happened recently.

First, the North Venice situation has been resolved. Second, the Wave elected its first round of officers. Next, the Wave announced that the Ministry of ... is pursuing an additional $38.1 million [K533.4m] for the Shai Island project (the military base, research centers, etc.) to cap off the $61.9 million [K866.6m] that was originally granted at the Budget Sessions in March in order to have a total of $100 million [K1.4 billion - with a B] going towards an important facet of the CSP's "path of prosperity".

On top of that, the Wave leader had some rather depressing news to tell. Earlier that day, the CSP had announced that $2 million [K28m] in funding for agricultural and horticultural programs had been cut under Nationalist (CNP) pressure. Perhaps the most controversial of these cuts involved a re-seeding program that was created last year, in which approximately 300 jobs were lost.

Some Wave members postulated that the money was now going into the pockets of the CNP as well as the those of Nationalist sympathisers.

However, some of the money is now known to be going to a composting initiative in the wake of those cuts, while the rest is unaccounted for with no future planned use.

"Well that's just great! Twenty-eight million kratt for a pile of dirt! What's gotten into them?" one worker shouted to his comrades.

After that had been calmed down, suggestions for keeping food on the table (so to speak) and creating agricultural/farming jobs (and making sure they stay) in Cosarara were being kicked around.

On April 15, news of the bombings in Boston reached Cosarara. Fearing an attack by "twinkies", a new term coined by Socialist supporters, the Wave arranged an urgent meeting of the new Wave leadership.

"We've got two explosions at the Boston Marathon. Three people are dead, and over a hundred are injured. We don't know who did it, but I'm suspecting one of them twinkies!"

"I knew it! That al-Qaeda moron's snatching up recruits for her terrorist organization! She's fightin' for jihad!"

"I think we need to understand that this means war against the terrorists - get that military base built!"

"However, we shouldn't forget that North Korea is right behind them. In fact, they may just have the capability to mount a nuclear warhead on top of a ballistic missile and fire it our direction. We just found that out yesterday."

"Wow..."

The briefing continued for about 25 more minutes before adjournment.