Ascension Address Redux

Loyal subjects; upon my ascension I was greeted with disturbing reports from my ambassadors, reports that the principalities, free cities, and states that make up my Empire were attempting to assert themselves in most egregious manners, manners which deny my God-given right to rule from my Imperial throne. We are an Empire drawn together by the fact that all must recognize the sovereignty that lies with me and do ourselves only harm, lead ourselves only into ruin when we attempt to free ourselves from the common bonds of the Empire. No state shall declare itself sovereign, none shall succeed with these misplaced attempts to unify the Empire, whether by noble marriage or war, so long as I reign.

Truman, by grace of God, Emperor