Ris

From Scandia

The Ris are one of the nine language republics of the CHzS. Each constitutes a sovereign state, even though intermingled with the ethnic and territorial republics.

Some of the linguistic and ethnic Hz republics rotate their headquarters - not the Ris. The estate of one of the most famous Ris personalities -- late 1300's industrialist T. Janofer Bisny -- is a fitting focus for Ris language and culture. The Ris Dejinny Spolecnost (Historical Society) and Ris Studies Institute both are based at the Bisny estate. Dinsovar presses print much of the weekly run of the CHzS's largest Ris-language newspaper -- some fittingly housed in 200-year-old brick buildings once the property of T. Janofer Bisny's grandfather - a glassworks back then. The Ris Presse-Courante has a circulation of over eight million.

Santosbourg's Ris pioneered the use of first the telegraph, now Scandianet, to transmit entire editions of a newspaper to a remote printing plant. Plenty of papers' reporters had filed reports cross-country by wire for years, when in 1378 the Ris Presse-Courante realized that printing papers for Vrcholsce and then shipping them two days by rail made little sense. By parallel use of severel telex lines they began transmitting entire thirty and forty page editions to printers in Pannonszony and Jazarkany. True, it took twelve to fifteen hours. But that beat fifty hours by train.

Nowadays it takes more like fifteen minutes with a T1 Scandianet connection, and that is even with occasional color photos and the inevitable election advertisement section.