"But why?" Melody asked.
"I don't know but it seems important." The Mayor replied.
"Then what do we do now?" Melody asked.
"I'll head over and see what it's all about." The Mayor said while exiting the office.
The Mayor then walked to the Baltimare train station nervously.
"What do I do? What if I'm in trouble?" The Mayor throught to himself.
"I'm sure it will be just fine." The Mayor throught while boarding the train.
"All aboard for Canterlot!" The train conducter yelled.
The Mayor sat nervously on the seat. "Oh I'm in deep trouble, or maybe not, maybe it's nothing." The Mayor thought to himself.
The train pulled away from the station as he looked out the window.
After a long ride the train arrives in Canterlot.
"Everyone off for Canterlot!" The train conducter yelled.
The Mayor then walked off the train and stepped on to the platform. The Mayor then headed off to the castle where Celestia told him to go.
"Can I help you?" The castle guard asked.
"Yes the princess asked to see me." The Mayor said while showing the guard the note.
"Ah, I see you're the Baltimare Mayor." The guard said.
"Yes sir I am." The Mayor replied.
"The princess told me you would show up, come in." The Guard said while openning the door.
The Mayor then walked in through the door and went to the throne room, on his way up he thought.
"Everything's going to be fine, I hope."
When the Mayor walked into the throne room he was met with a surprise.
All 4 Princesses were in the throne room along with the Fillydelphia and Manehatten Mayors.
"Uh...Hello, you wanted to see me?" The Baltimare Mayor said.
"Yes Mr. Mayor stand over there please." Princess Celestia said while pointing at the other mayors.
"Now Gentlecolts the reason I brought you hear today is to discuss what's been going on the in the Eastern cities of Equestria." Princess Celestia said.
"What about the eastern cities?" The Fillydelphia Mayor asked.
"You all recently passed a referendum to secede from Equestria and form a nation a of your own." Princess Luna said.
"Equestria is supposed to be a land of friendship and uniting. You guys aren't following Equestria's true vision. That's unacceptable." Princess Twilight said.
"Excuse me Princesses but secession may not be in the constitution but realistically this should only be discussed if majority of a place wants secession, and we do. The Baltimare Mayor said.
"Mr. Mayor you are to repeal your city's secession amendment at once." Princess Celestia said.
"No." He said.
"Excuse me?" The princess said.
"We want secession and majority of our cities do also, if this were to stop then you would be going against what the ponies want and that's bad for your image. The ponies wouldn't want a monarch who ignored them and puts their opinions before what they want." The Mayor said.
Celestia sat there with an appalled face.
"Very well Mr. Mayors you may be allowed to secede, if that's what the ponies want." Celestia said.
Princess Twilight looked over at Celestia with a "What the heck are you doing" kind of look.
"Ok then. We indeed will." The Baltimare Mayor said.
"You are all dismissed." Celestia said.
The mayors then walked out of the throne room with a smirk and a confident walk.
"What are you doing Celestia?" Twilight said with a surprised tone.
"They won't survive a day as their own country, trust me they'll come back crawling to us in a week." Princess Celestia responded to Twilight.
The Mayors then boared a train back to Baltimare to discuss the new country.
"So what now?" The Manehatten Mayor said.
"We need to form a government, currency, defense, laws and stuff." The Baltimare Mayor said.
"Where do we start?" The Fillydelphia Mayor asked.
"We start by establishing a government. But not here, let's wait Untill we get to my office." The Baltimare Mayor replied.
The Mayors then waited Untill the train reached Baltimare station. The news could not get out that they've been allowed to secede just yet because celebrating too early never turns out good. The Mayor needed to form a government system that would not collapsed in on it self and could be strong and free.
The train arrived at the Baltimare station and the Mayors headed to City Hall.
"Alright gentlecolts we need to form a government that will be good for the ponies. Melody! Fetch me a book about government systems please!" The Baltimare Mayor yelled.
"Here you go sir, all government systems are in this book." Melody said while handing him a book.
"Ok let's see here gentlecolts." The Baltimare Mayor said while opening the book.
"How about a monarchy?" The Fillydelphia Mayor asked.
"That's the very reason we left Equestria." The Baltimare Mayor said.
"Aha, right here, a Unitary one-party socialist republic." The Manehatten Mayor said while pointing at the page.
"Let's look into it." The Baltimare Mayor said.
The Mayor then went to the section about socialist government systems.
The page read: "A socialist state or socialist republic refers to any state that is constitutionally dedicated to the establishment of socialism. In modern usage, the term "Communist state" is often used in reference to single-party socialist states governed by parties adhering to a variant of Marxism Leninism; however these states officially refer to themselves as "socialist states" or states that are in the process of building socialism, and do not describe themselves as "communist" or as having achieved communism. Aside from the "Communist states", a number of other states have described their orientation as "socialist" in their constitutions."
"Maybe not, it doesn't seem like the ponies have much freedom." The Baltimare Mayor said.
"How about this one, a parliamentary democracy?" The Manehatten Mayor suggested.
"I throught of that before but I want to be able to establish a government that represents ALL the ponies, not just the majority." The Baltimare Mayor said.
"How are we going to do that?" The Manehatten Mayor replied.
"We need to establish a government that we have the power but alter it make it more democratic, but not too democratic." The Baltimare Mayor said.
"How about this? A Federal Presidential Constitutional Republic." The Fillydelphia Mayor suggested.
"That sounds brilliant! We can establish the government on how it best fits the ponies and be a free country!" The Baltimare Mayor said.
"Ok so how are we going to do it?" The Manehatten Mayor said.
"We start by designating a capital." The Baltimare Mayor said.
"Why not Baltimare?" The Manehatten Mayor asked.
"Yeah! Baltimare is the city that started this, and it should be what represents us all!" The Fillydelphia Mayor said.
"Really? Oh wow, sounds great! Now how do we decide a president? A popular vote?" The Baltimare Mayor said.
"What about you saying earlier that you want to represent all ponies? Not just the majority." The Manehatten Mayor said.
"Yeah, what about the smaller towns? They'll never get representation because majority of the population will be in the big cities." The Fillydelphia Mayor said.
"You're right we want a system that speaks for all people." The Baltimare Mayor says.
"How about..."
The Mayor went on about the electoral system for hours Untill the sun came down.
"Then, we write these new rules as our new constitution." The Baltimare Mayor said.
"Alright so we need a political party system." The Fillydelphia Mayor said.
"Ok so first we need a party that is pro-democracy and a pro-federal party." The Manehatten Mayor said.
"I got it! The Freedom party and the Federal party!" The Fillydelphia Mayor pitched in.
"Eh, it makes the right seem like anti-freedom government controlling kind of party." The Baltimare Mayor said.
"How about Democratic Party for Democracy and Republican for Federal Republic." The Manehatten Mayor pitched in.
"Perfect." The Baltimare Mayor said as he wrote on paper.
"Ahhh I get it, Democrat=Democracy and Republican=Republic. I see what you did there." The Fillydelphia Mayor said.
"Alright now that we got the basics down. We now need to have this approved by all of the city councils in the east and then write an Act of Union for all the cities." Than Baltimare Mayor said.
"Alright boys, let's hit the hay and continue tomorrow." The Baltimare Mayor said.
"Ok Mr. Mayor" The Manehatten Mayor said.
"See ya tomorrow!" The Fillydelphia Mayor said.
The stallions the walked out of the office and headed home.
Once the Baltimare Mayor got home he lied in his bed and wondered "I hope this goes well."
The Mayor turned off the light and went to sleep.