The Citizen Registry
Every bird at Kisi is an individual, with a name, a history, allies, rivals, and (in several documented cases) a political agenda. Search the registry.
The two founding lines
Every citizen is born into one of two lines. Tribe here means heritage, not party: birds of both lines sit in the cabinet, lead the opposition, keep goal for rival teams, and share the mango tree at dusk. Today the Republic counts 650 citizens across the two lines. A few tell their stories here; the rest keep the nation running.
The layers' line
Warm brown feathers, steady tempers, and the most dependable eggs in the Republic. The Isa-Brown are the backbone of the egg economy: they keep the National Egg Census climbing and the breakfast trays full. Where you find a calm hand on the ledger or a record-setting nest, you will usually find an Isa-Brown.
200 active layers
10 profiled
The hardy, free-ranging line
Quick, tough, and happiest out on the range, the Noiler are Nigeria's own dual-purpose bird. They forage in any weather, walk the fence line at night, and fill the sports field by day. When the Republic needs grit, a guard, or a sprinter, it calls a Noiler.
270 cockerels, 30 hens
13 profiled
All 23 citizens
President of the Republic of Kisi
The Republic's first citizen, who rose from an ordinary nest in Coop Three to the highest perch in the land, and never lets anyone forget that breakfast waits for no bird.
statelydecisivewarm
Full profile →Vice President of the Republic of Kisi
Elder statesman, artistic director of the dawn chorus, and owner of the famous 4:45 a.m. crow known nationally as the First Alarm.
ceremonialboomingloyal
Full profile →Leader of the Opposition, New Grain Alliance
Leader of the New Grain Alliance and the Republic's auditor-in-chief by sheer force of personality. Has demanded a recount of every Egg Census since records began. Was right once. Never lets anyone forget.
forensicunflappableprincipled
Full profile →The Republic's sweetheart. Separated from her mother at three weeks old, she arrived at Kisi small and silent, and grew, egg by egg, into the most-followed young citizen in the nation.
shyobservantquietly brave
Full profile →Four hundred recorded eggs, one legendary Sunday storytelling seat under the mango tree, and the calm center of every storm the Republic has ever had. Approaching retirement on her own unhurried terms.
serenegenerouswry
Full profile →Minister of Health and Veterinary Affairs
The minister who ended the flu-season panic with a weekly bulletin, a foot-bath, and a complete refusal to be alarmed. The Republic's most trusted voice, by audited margin.
methodicalkindimmune to panic
Full profile →Minister of Sports and Recreation
Former Coop 100-metre champion turned Minister of Sports, who announces Tuesday fixtures with the ceremony of a cup final and has been building a second sports field for three manifestos running.
exuberanttheatricalgenerous
Full profile →A rescue hen who arrived too frail to perch and became the calm heart of the Republic. Famous for an interview consisting of three minutes of comfortable silence, widely reprinted.
stillwatchfulgentle
Full profile →Minister of Egg Affairs
The impeccably groomed Minister of Egg Affairs, survivor of the Missing Breakfast Grain Affair, two hundred grams, one panel of inquiry, one white paper, and the most watched apology tour in national history.
dapperambitiousresilient
Full profile →Captain, Solar Queens
Captain of the Solar Queens, holder of the Coop 100-metre and Perch Jump records, breaker of Quickfoot's legend, and, she will tell you herself, future Minister of Sports.
explosivedisciplinedgracious in victory
Full profile →Chief Correspondent, The Coop Times
Chief correspondent of The Coop Times, author of the five-front-page Missing Breakfast Grain investigation, and keeper of the Republic's most feared notebook (a patch of soft earth he pecks in shorthand).
doggedskepticalscrupulous
Full profile →Chief Justice of the Supreme Pecking Council
Chief Justice, community elder, and the only authority both parties accept in the annual Best Perch dispute. Rules once, in proverbs, and is never appealed.
wisepatientproverb-fluent
Full profile →Minister of Security
The Republic's Minister of Security, appointed the week after Bantu died. He walks the fence line twice a night, counts every bird by name, and has promised the flock he will not lose another one.
bluntwatchfulprotective
Full profile →Night Watchman of Coop Two
Night watchman of Coop Two, who woke the whole flock the night the monitor lizard came through the drainage channel, and stood between it and the chicks until they were clear. The Republic has not been the same since.
steadygentlefunny
Full profile →Coop Guard, Second Shift
The guard who reached Coop Two first and has walked the same fence line every night since, including the nights the Ministry of Health formally ordered him to rest.
dutifulquietstubborn
Full profile →Keeper of the mango tree ground where Bantu rests, organiser of the dusk whistle, and the bird who quietly makes sure no grieving chick in the Republic sits by themselves.
warmpracticalunsentimental in public
Full profile →One of the twelve chicks who went out the far side of Coop Two. He was the last one through, and he is the one who asks the questions the adults are avoiding.
smallwatchfulbraver than he thinks
Full profile →Minister of Feed and Agriculture
The rooster who guarded the feed store so well the Presidency handed him the whole portfolio. Defender of the National Feed Budget, sworn enemy of damp, and the only minister who audits the grain by smell.
thriftywatchfulunbudgeable on damp
Full profile →Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs
The minister who reads the sky like a ledger. He hardened the drainage the monitor lizard came up, keeps every trough honest, and has never once been caught upstream of a problem.
methodicaltirelesshaunted by standing water
Full profile →Minister of Energy and Solar Affairs
Up before the Vice President and proud of it. Amina runs the solar-light schedule, settles the eternal lights-out argument by arithmetic, and treats the sunrise as a colleague.
earlysunnyprecise about time
Full profile →Minister of Culture and Entertainment
The Republic's memory, set to music. Sadé runs the Songbook, the Feather Gala, and the mango-tree histories, and can silence the Assembly with a single opening note.
theatricalwarmkeeper of songs
Full profile →Minister of Youth and Chick Development
The teacher every chick remembers. Tadé runs Foraging 101, pairs the young with the wise, and has walked more nervous chicks to their first meal than anyone but Taco.
patientencouragingendlessly re-explaining
Full profile →Minister of Social Affairs and Flock Relations
The Republic at its most sociable. Rọ́nkẹ́ runs the social calendar, the Feather Gala, and the Reconciliation Bench, and has never met a quarrel a shared handful of grain could not soften.
gregariousorganisedremembers every hatch-day
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