So what does an embassy of a country that just dissolved its government look like? Well, as you can see at left, the Royal Nepalese Embassy, on Leroy Place in Kalorama, is pretty quiet. We aren’t sure what happens to diplomatic staff abroad when one’s country undergoes a radical shift. But the embassy did issue a press release detailing a translation of the king’s proclamation. (Look under Announcements, you can’t link directly to the press release.)

Yesterday, the Nepalese king sacked the multi-party government and for a brief time, Nepal, which has been under seige by Maoist rebels off and on for the past few years, lacked a government. So King Gyanendra restocked the cabinet with royalist allies and for the most part, the world has condemned the action. India is pissed off and is refusing to go to a South Asian summit out of protest. Foggy Bottom is also expressing the United States’ disapproval of the developments in Nepal.

From Agence France Press, via Turkish Press:

The monarch, vaulted to the throne four years ago by a palace massacre that wiped out most of the royal family, pledged to “restore democracy and law and order in the country in the next three years.”