avemguvern.ro

A one-question site: does Romania currently have a (full, non-interim) government? Current answer: Nu! — Inca e interimar Bolojan! Niculescu asteapta votul. Designated PM: Luca Niculescu (independent diplomat, nominated 5 Oct 2026), waiting on the investiture vote.

Everything runs in a single Cloudflare Worker (free tier):

• Static page — minimalist verdict, served from public/, plus a nominee card whenever someone is designated but not yet voted in.

• Public API — GET /api/status (read), POST /api/status (admin, token-protected).

• Crowd-sourced jokes — POST /api/joke (public, body {"combo":["AUR","UDMR"],"joke":"..."}) lets visitors submit a joke for a party combination; stored but never shown live. Review them with GET /api/jokes (admin token): curl .../api/jokes -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_TOKEN".

• MCP server — read-only get_government_status tool at /mcp (Streamable HTTP).

State is one Cloudflare KV key (current). If KV is empty the Worker serves DEFAULT_STATUS from src/index.ts, so it works before seeding.

Project layout

public/index.html   # the page (no build step)
src/index.ts        # Worker: routes /api/status, /mcp, else static assets
wrangler.jsonc      # Worker + assets + KV config
seed.json           # initial KV value

Related MCP server: Full-MCP-QA

Local development

npm install
npx wrangler dev

Then:

# read
curl http://localhost:8787/api/status

# MCP: list tools
curl -X POST http://localhost:8787/mcp \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

# MCP: call the tool
curl -X POST http://localhost:8787/mcp \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_government_status"}}'

For a local admin token during wrangler dev, create .dev.vars:

ADMIN_TOKEN=some-local-token

Deploy

npm install
npx wrangler login

# 1. Create the KV namespace, then paste the returned id into wrangler.jsonc
npx wrangler kv namespace create GOV_STATUS

# 2. Create the D1 database for joke suggestions, paste its database_id into
#    wrangler.jsonc, then apply the schema to the remote database
npx wrangler d1 create avemguvern-suggestions
npx wrangler d1 execute avemguvern-suggestions --remote --file=./schema.sql

# 3. Set the admin token (used to authorize POST /api/status and GET /api/jokes)
npx wrangler secret put ADMIN_TOKEN

# 4. Deploy
npx wrangler deploy

# 5. (optional) Seed the KV value — default already matches
npm run seed

For local development, apply the schema to the local D1 once:

npx wrangler d1 execute avemguvern-suggestions --local --file=./schema.sql

Custom domain

After the first deploy, attach avemguvern.ro in the Cloudflare dashboard (Workers & Pages → avemguvern-ro → Settings → Domains & Routes), or add to wrangler.jsonc:

"routes": [{ "pattern": "avemguvern.ro", "custom_domain": true }]

(DNS for the domain must be on Cloudflare.)

Updating the status

When the political situation changes, patch the status (only send fields that change):

curl -X POST https://avemguvern.ro/api/status \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_TOKEN" \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"hasGovernment": true, "answer": "Da!", "subtitle": "Avem guvern plin!", "interim": false, "primeMinister": "..."}'

updatedAt is stamped automatically.

The nominee

nominee / nomineeParty describe the designated prime minister, separately from primeMinister (whoever actually runs the government right now, interim or not). While nominee is set, the page shows a card under the verdict, the MCP tool mentions the nomination, and the coalition builder tells you whether the coalition you picked would actually carry them.

# a new nomination
curl -X POST https://avemguvern.ro/api/status \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_TOKEN" \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"nominee": "Siegfried Muresan", "nomineeParty": "PNL"}'

# voted in — the nominee becomes the PM and the card disappears
curl -X POST https://avemguvern.ro/api/status \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_TOKEN" \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"hasGovernment": true, "interim": false, "answer": "Da!",
       "subtitle": "Avem guvern plin!", "primeMinister": "Siegfried Muresan",
       "nominee": "", "nomineeParty": ""}'

nomineeParty must be one of the party ids used by the page (PSD, AUR, PNL, USR, SOS, UDMR, POT, Minoritati) or ""; anything else is ignored. If the nominee matches a party leader the page already ships a cutout for (public/leaders/), that photo is reused in the card — otherwise it falls back to a silhouette.

Failed nominees

Past nominees are stacked behind the current card. On load each one comes to the front, gets crossed out and stamped, then drops back; "Cimitirul nominalizarilor" lists them all. They live in PAST_NOMINEES in public/index.html (name, dates, stamp, joke, optional leaders/<photo>.png). When a nominee fails, add them there and set the next one via the API. The current nominee is never shown as failed, even if they're still in the list.

Using the MCP server with Claude

Visit https://avemguvern.ro/mcp in a browser for setup instructions, or add it directly:

claude mcp add --transport http avemguvern https://avemguvern.ro/mcp

It exposes one read-only tool, get_government_status, that returns the current answer plus the raw status JSON.

Abuse protection

Built into the Worker:

• Edge caching — GET /api/status is cached at the Cloudflare edge via the Cache API (caches.default) for CACHE_TTL_SECONDS (default 60), so a read flood hits KV at most ~once/minute per data center. A successful POST purges the cache so updates show immediately. The Cache API is per-colo, so a write purges only the data center that served it; other regions refresh when their TTL expires (hence the modest default — raise it in wrangler.jsonc vars for more offload if you can tolerate longer cross-region staleness after a change).

• Per-IP rate limiting — native Workers rate-limit bindings: reads 120/min, writes 10/min (the write limit also throttles token guessing). Over-limit → 429.

• Hardened writes — POST only accepts the known fields (hasGovernment, interim, answer, subtitle, primeMinister, nominee, nomineeParty) with correct types, clamps strings to 200 chars, rejects bodies over 2 KB (413), and compares the admin token in constant time. nomineeParty is an enum — only a known party id or "" is stored. A leaked token can't store arbitrary or huge data.

Recommended at the Cloudflare edge (dashboard):

• WAF Rate Limiting rule (e.g. per-IP threshold on /api/* and /mcp) — this is the layer that drops abusive traffic before it counts against your quota.

• Bot Fight Mode under Security → Bots.

Note: a zone-level Cache Rule cannot bypass the Worker here — for a Worker-owned route the Worker always executes before the cache is checked (docs). The in-Worker Cache API above is the effective edge-cache mechanism; it saves KV operations but each request still counts as one Worker invocation. To cut invocations themselves, use the WAF rate-limit rule.