Article XI had introduced a resolution on Saturday, February 2, 2008, to relocate the headquarters of the federal government to Lebanon, Kansas. An 1898 geographic land survey had concluded this was the "geographic center of the 48 contiguous U.S. states" and a small monument had been erected to designate the site as such. Adjacent to a pasture that often was inhabited by a nearby herd of cows, the site attracted scant attention, which was just fine with most local residents. There was a small "Chapen of the Center" where visitors were invited to peruse an open Bible and meditate if they so chose. A picnic table was parked nearby where some local residents would come for a Sunday outing and ocassional passers-by would rest before resuming their journey. Locals were content to go on about their lives without fanfare, in relative obscurity. 99% of American citizens, if asked where the exact center of the U.S.A. was located, probably wouldn't have a clue - and even fewer thought it appropriate to plan a visit to the site.
On Tuesday, March 4, 2008, everything changed. American voters had overwhelmingly approved the resolution. The referendum became law, and O.U.T.R.A.G.E. members immediately converged on the little town to begin planning for the relocation of the federal government's central operations. Eight days later, the massive hurricane that traveled up the eastern coast of the United States completely obliterated Washington, D.C. In a matter of minutes, the task of building a new government center became crucial. After the O.U.T.R.A.G.E. bombings, the White House and the Capitol Building had been demolished, but many other government buildings remained standing which could have served as temporary government headquarters while new facilities were planned and consructed. Now the nation's capital was reduced to a ruck of rubble and still-smoldering rubbish. Only a miracle had preserved some of the most significant memorials and monuments; everything else was laid to waste as one might imagine the cities of Soddom and Gomorrah to look after God's wrath had been unleashed on those Biblical hotspots of sin and corruption.
O.U.T.R.A.G.E. members had scoured the town of Lebanon, Kansas searching for available land. Among the thousands of O.U.T.R.A.G.E. members were architects, real estate agents, contractors and other professionals who could serve as catalysts for bringing this project together quickly. Individuals from all walks of life had skills to contribute; building a new nation's capital would truly become the work of the people. When folks in Lebanon learned what was happening, a surprising thing transpired: before this cataclysmic series of events, the 'normal' procedure would have been to put land up for sale at obscenely inflated prices. The rationale would be to get as much as one could for his property; now the rationale had shifted to one of patriotism and national cooperation. Farmers with adjoining land offered to donate all or a portion of their properties to the project. The Lebanon town council held an emergency session and passed legislation which provided local property owners with tax rebates and other incentives for relinquishing their land. Even land owned by the town was deeded ver to the federal government. Offers poured in from around the country offering to buy nearby available land from owners who couldn't afford to give it away; these new buyers, in turn, were offering to donate the land to the government instead of trying to make "a killing" on an impormptu land investment.
In St. Kitts, meanwhile, a panel of expert planners were busy creating a whole new concept of a centralized government that only served as a small hub; elected members of Congress would not move to Lebanon, Kansas. Instead, they would all be connected by strikingly similiar technologies as those that had been used to blow up most of the central government in Washington, DC. Members of Congress would remain in their hometown communities, close to their constituents, and far removed from the influences of powerful lobbyists, well-organized special interest groups, wealthy individuals, and swaggering executives and representatives of big business. Planning the physical construction of the new nation's capitol wouldn't be nearly as challenging as planning the organizational structure of how all Americans would now become more integrated into their government's activities. From now on, most issues involving the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government would be put to a referendum. A non-binding resolution would be introduced, after which a public vote would take place. Elected officials would then vote the resolution into law...and God help the Representative or Senator who voted against the desires of his constituency!
O.U.T.R.A.G.E. was methodically transforming the United States of America from a republic form of government into a true democracy - perhaps to become one of the purest forms of democracy ever to be established in the history of the world.