The Inevitable Independence(OPEN|MT)

by **Agusia** » Sat Oct 18, 2014 6:16 pm

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PALAST DER HEITERKEIT, TORSTENSTADT | THE AGUSIAN CONFEDERATION

Palast der Heiterkeit during the Early Hours of the Night

Palast der Heiterkeit (German | English Translation: Palace of Serenity), commonly known as Heiterkeit, is the official residence of the Protector of Agusia and the Grand Secretary of the Crown in Agusia, located in Torstenstadt in the Agusian Confederation. It housed 28 of the 39 Grand Secretaries of the Crown in Agusia and 17 of 24 Crown Princes of Schutzenphalia and West Ruhntuhnkuhnland who reigned as Protectors.

Heiterkeit was built in December 25, 1838 by Großprinz Leonhard VIII (Reign as Great Prince: 1838-1880) to Crown Prince Walther IV (As Crown Prince: 1839-1880 | As Great Prince: 1881-1924) as a Christmas gift, the Palace subsequently became a princely residence and the official residence of the Crown Prince as Protector as it was the only residence in Agusia available and suitable for the Crown Prince's use. After March 25, 1897, Heiterkeit also became the official residence of the Grand Secretary, 11 Grand Secretaries who did not resided in the Palace took residence in leased opulent and palatial homes or in sumptuous real estate properties acceptable for occupancy confiscated by the Crown.

The Palace consists of the original/main building and two wings. The Main Building is built in Victorian and loose Palladian style, the Offices of the Crown Prince and the Grand Secretary are located there. The Right and Left Wings are also built in the same style as the Main Building, spanning however approximately 110 meters from end to end. The Right is officially being resided by the Crown Prince while the Left is for the Grand Secretary and his or her family.

Heiterkeit's design was based from Huis ten Bosch in The Hague, the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

At Night - Hundreds of Agusians with scores of Schutzenphalians peacefully protested before the imposing gates of Palast Der Heiterkeit against the system of nomination and appointment of the Agusian Chief of Government, the Grand Secretary. To be nominated for the Office of Agusian Confederation Grand Secretary, you must be of Schutzenphalian blood and citizenry and that the choice on who is to be appointed Grand Secretary rests on the will of the Crown. Agusia is still under Schutzenphalian Dominion despite being, according to the facts, a protectorate, its peoples until now separated by their allegiances, beliefs and opinions even after the Agusian Confederation Constitution was proclaimed in March 17, 1897, which united all Schutzenphalian protectorates and colonies into one state.

The Agusian State is flawed with its own divisibility when it was meant to officially establish bonds between the peoples of Agusia, an unattainable goal indeed.

"DOWN FALLS THE DECEPTIVE GOVERNMENT, UP FLIES FREEDOM!" An unknown man shouted amongst the protesters while waving the Agusian Confederation Flag, wearing a plain white shirt with the words "A Princess, His Highness fUeR SUM BoOTIe!" an attire similar to several others in the protest.

"REFORMEN EURE HOHEIT, REFORMEN JETZT!" Another protester, an old Schutzenphalian Colonial, yelled in German.

"LISTEN TO THE CRIES OF THE PEOPLE YOUR HIGHNESS HAVE SWORN TO PROTECT, THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE IN RETURN OF YOUR HIGHNESS' GRACE!" A teenage girl called out, clinging unto the rusty iron bars defining the Palace Grounds from Torstenstadt's Streets, facing the Palace's facade.

His Highness Crown Prince Torsten the Third of Schutzenphalia and West Ruhntuhnkuhnland, Protector of Agusia, Lord Protector of the Archipelagic Grand Duchy and Knight Grand Commander of the Order of Sankt Margrethe is fast asleep in his chambers. The Right Honourable Grand Secretary Kai Lars-Lorenz Baasch however is not and is forced by his ears to listen to the Protesters for the rest of the night. Since his appointment to be the 40th Agusian Confederation Grand Secretary, quarterly economic growth became more stable thanks to newly implemented policies supporting small businesses, subsidies on organic farming, and grants on rural development. More schools were to be built and a new university is in the works and welfare is to have a larger budget next year, yet in spite of that all, the Agusian Peoples demand reform.

The Peoples over the years have grown more and more aware of their situation, aware that they were under foreign rule, that their chief of state is a blue-blooded foreign symbol, outraged with the undeniable reality that they cannot even choose their chief of government, who must not be an Agusian and is to be chosen by a crown over the seas and far away.

"How could His Highness rest in zeitlich die ruhe vhile his subjects spend zhe night simply putting forward zheir humble vishes, zhey've clearly stated zheir loyalty . . . Vell, most of zhem but, zhis should be taken and handled seriously by die Krone at once before zhe Peoples take initiative in zheir hands, enforcing zheir demands vith or vithout His Highness," said the Grand Secretary to his secretary through a telephone on his nightstand, distressed with the growing noise outside the Palace, " . . . What do you mean by petitioning, as in to zhe Krone, now? You are aware zhat Seine Hoheit is in his chambers now and zhat I von't be able to disturb him, right? It does not matter if I am zhe Grand Secretary . . . It only matters if it is an extreme matter of urgency . . . Der Großprinz, I do not answer to Seine Hoheit Fürst . . . Da . . . Zhere are no definite protocols for my office of if or vhen and whom to report, nevertheless zhat His Sovereign Highness vould not be pleased vith zhis - not zhe protests but of me suddenly calling him."

The Grand Secretary paused and looked at his room's windows, overlooking the Palace Grounds and the City Streets beyond the Grounds, watching the people waving picket signs superimposed with rude mannerisms, wearing satirical masks of political figures such as the Grand Secretary himself and the Crown Prince, and burning the Schutzenphalia and West Ruhntuhnkuhnland National Flag.

"Fine, fine, I vill try to contact and inform zhe Homeland tomorrow, I am physically and mentally in dire need of required relaxation for eight hours . . . Gute nacht, gute nach- . . . Ja, zhe Prince, ja, Gute nacht."

works? · by **Abanhfleft** » Sun Oct 19, 2014 6:25 am

He preferred to call himself an "expatriate." For all intents and purposes, however, he was an illegal alien living in Agusia to escape justice as interpreted by the Democratic Republic of Abanhfleft. Or at least that was what his handlers from the Ministry of State Security had told him to say to anyone who asked. If no asked him what he was doing, then he was supposed to say nothing. Such was life for Morgan Trombly.

He'd been in Agusia for so long that he couldn't really recall much of what he had been ordered to do before he was given a one-way plane ticket to Agusia, this continent-sized colony of Schutzenphalia. If Britain had Australia, then Schutzenphalia had Agusia. At least that was how Morgan thought of it. Anyway, all he remembered about his mission was to tell Abanhfleft if an independence movement was beginning to gain momentum in the area. He'd been shown geological maps of the region by his handlers, and he vaguely remembered seeing vast deposits of coal, oil, and precious metals scattered throughout the continent.

Trombly's day had begun the same way as had many others. He woke up at eight in the morning, walked to the local Gasthaus where he had found both a source of income and close friends in the form of the von Wilhelmsens, a family of Schutzenphalian Colonials. Morgan had even gotten to know the family's patriarch at the time, Claus Maria Ritter von Wilhelmsen, just a few days before the old man passed away in his sleep. He even attended the old man's funeral, a burial befitting that of a Schutzenphalian Knight. Now the Gasthaus was owned and operated by Gerhard Erich Ritter von Wilhelmsen, who was close friends with Morgan Trombly, and the guy who had "ignored" Trombly's status as an illegal alien and hired the Fleftic to work for his Gasthaus.

The von Wilhelmsens' Gasthaus was located near the Palast der Heiterkeit, what could arguably be called the capitol building of the city of Torstenstadt, itself the capital city of Agusia. The locals called the city Xerano in their native language, and the two names were almost interchangeable, at least as far as the native Agusians were concerned. Trombly usually worked day and night in the Gasthaus, and there was usually a steady stream of customers coming in to the establishment availing the inn's late-night services. Beer and coffee flowed freely during the nighttime. Except for tonight. Strangely, there was a lack of people coming into the Gasthaus, and Trombly was naturally curious. He sought out Gerhard, and when he found him sitting in front of the television, he asked him, in near-perfect German, "Where are all the people?"

"Apparently, they are all in front of the Heiterkeit," Gerhard replied, also in German. "The natives are crying out for independence."

"Really?" Morgan asked as he went closer to the TV. "They're only asking for it now?"

"Of course not, Morgan," Gerhard replied. "They've been seeking independence since Opa Claus was as old as my son Julius."

"Ach, that TV coverage is shit," Morgan said. "I'm going out to take a look at this."

"Morgan!" Gerhard called out. "Watch yourself out there. The protests may be peaceful now, but you don't want to get caught when the Polizei come in to disperse, what with your legal status and everything."

"Don't worry, Gerhard," Morgan said as he put on his coat. "I won't." And he went out into the night, and walked towards the Heiterkeit. When he got there, he saw that a small, but sizable crowd had formed around the gates of the palace. The police were somewhere in the distance, but for the moment they were letting what was happening unfold peacefully.

"Down falls the deceptive government, up flies freedom!" a male voice shouted in the middle of the crowd. "Reform, your Highness, reform now!" an older man shouted in German, almost in reply to the the first man's shout. A third voice, a young woman this time, chimed in, saying, "Listen to the cries of the people your Highness have sworn to protect, the people who have pledged their allegiance to you for your grace!"

It was chaos, utter chaos. And it was what Morgan Trombly had wanted to see. He took out his phone, a Korean-made phone that he had received in the mail a few months ago, with the inscription "From your loving Family" on the wrapping paper. He took a picture of the protesters gathered around the palace, added a message, and then he sent it to the only number listed in the phone's contacts, a contact named "Home."


THEY WANT INDEPENDENCE NOW. THE TIME IS RIPE.

by **Schutzenphalia and West Ruhntuhnkuhnland** » Sun Oct 19, 2014 11:54 am

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Juliane Rahn. Bright, ambitious, and cold-blooded, Rahn is currently a junior Member of the Schutzenphalian Diet for the governing Christian Democratic Party (CDP). Her current assignment - Junior Minister for Sports and Culture - is seen as a "fluff" appointment, simply designed to boost the profile of a young, female, photogenic minister for the party's sake, and offers little substance for her. She has designs on much loftier posts, and will jump at any chance for political advancement.

Paul Fried. Civil servant in the Foreign and Colonial Office, he works for Nadja Eigner, Secretary to the Minister, Birgit Frey, as respectively her Director of Political Operations. Neither has a great deal of faith in Frey, a career politician with little foreign policy experience. Paul has seen reports coming in for months documenting growing levels of dissent in Agusia.

Front page of Der Nordschutzenphalenglaubreiterfluchtschlamterkrötische Flümederthelweiderverlautzällegerwißmeinschlaftsörbschlimmelbeobachter.

"Unprecedented" protests cause concern on capital streets

Government officials have expressed concern about the scale and intensity of last night's protests that saw several hundred angry demonstrators take to the streets, chanting slogans, waving banners, and demanding changes. "This is unprecedented," said a spokesman for Palace security. "We haven't seen anything quite on this scale before." While a curfew has been ruled out, additional security procedures have not, and there is a possibility of certain key military facilities being placed on a state of heightened alert. "Certainly, this is something we're going to be keeping a very close eye on to see how it develops," said MD Juliane Rahn. The protests, sparked by the Schutzenphalian national ice hockey team's 3-0 loss to Mapletish in a poorly officiated game in Vaugania, are expected to continue into the morning.

Also in the news
CBL calls for small business rate cut ... p. 4
Schutzenphalian Red Cross "neutral" on launch of International Health Agency ... p. 7
Archaeologists identify new mammoth "grave site" ... p. 14
Small arms: the global picture ... p. 19 - 20
Man bites dog ... p. 22
Palace plays down reports of unrest in Agusia ... p.23

Office of the Secretary, Foreign and Colonial Office, Uberwienerschnitzelstadt.

Beobachter

Battlestar Schutzenphalia

protests

The protests in Agusia.

Agusia

colony

busy

Environment

works? · by **Abanhfleft** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 7:34 am

Port Thimpodopoulos had grown so much in the past three years. Three years ago, the site upon which Port Thimpodopoulos was to be built was a mix of marshland and forests. Now, the place was the home of ten million people, and it had all the appearances of a proper Fleftic city: lots of residential areas and small buildings, with only a few skyscrapers in the city center and some of the downtown areas. A single light rail system had also been installed in the city in the first year since she had been living here, and it arguably made travel between throughout the city that much easier.

Port Thimpodopoulos was the site where the first Fleftic military forces deployed to secure the colonial lands had landed, and therefore the beginnings of the colony's first city and eventual capital was built there by the military. At first, no one knew what to call the site, but when a soldier of the Army Engineering Corps died on the site during the third day of construction, it was immediately decided that the settlement was to be named after. He was Sergeant Major Pythagoras Thimpodopoulos, and the settlement would soon become known as Port Thimpodopoulos.

Major General Nadejda Palomarska had never thought once in her life that she would be ordered--by her own president, no less--to invade and take over another country in the guise of a mutiny. The Socialist States had been, so to speak, "mishandling" the land that had been given to them as a potential colony, and therefore the Democratic Republic of Abanhfleft had decided that it had more rights to the colony than the Socialist States. General Palomarska, under orders directly from President Makhdoum Be himself, and with the secret support of Governor Petrarchos Kulbano, had been told to stage a "mutiny" against the Democratic Republic and invade the Socialist States' colony with the 16th Colonial Expeditionary Force, which had been placed under her command. Their objective was the Haritzaga Peninsula, which had been colonized "very badly" by the Socialist States. Because officially Palomarska was revolting against Abanhfleft, the Socialist States couldn't really accuse Abanhfleft of invading its territory, and because the Socialists had sent only a few battalions and companies of infantry to secure the colony, Palomarska and the 16th ColExFor had easily steamrolled through the defenders, and within weeks Nadejda Palomarska was the Military Dictator of the Colonial Republic of Haritzaga, ruling from her capital city in Anttonaga. Palomarska only held her position for a couple of weeks, before a few moderates from the Socialist States that had defected to Abanhfleft arrived to set up a "proper" government following her invasion. Zubaylar, Etxeberria, and Goretzka, their names were. They had helped her in organizing the referendum in which the citizens of Haritzaga voted for union with the Democratic Republic of Abanhfleft through the Colony of the Fhulghamous Peninsula. After Haritzaga merged with Fhulghamous, Palomarska had been welcomed back into Abanhfleft with open arms, the public having conveniently forgotten that she had "mutinied" against the Democratic Republic. It was the reason why she was still wearing the uniform of a major general in the Fleftic Army, and the reason why she had been called from the ExFor's main base in Narneroggi to Port Thim.

Back in the present day, Palomarska sat in a light rail train as it hauled her and many more passengers from the district of Poltava-ne-Arrdori to the city center. She recalled the message that had been sent to her cellphone by the unknown number that she otherwise knew very well. It was the reason why she was in mufti when she decided to go to the capital. A funny incident happened to her when she first boarded this new light rail system. All the seats were occupied when she first came in, and she was forced to stand up while the train barreled its way to the next station. Just before arriving in the next station, a man got up and offered her his seat, for which she thanked him. Only later, when the man got off, did she come to the realization that the man would have left her standing up if it was not yet his stop. Well, at least she wasn't a feminist, she thought to herself.

Palomarska got off at Central Station. After descending from the elevated platform onto street level, she marveled once again at how the state had so quickly managed to reach the colonial capital, even when it had been built to give Fleftics a chance to escape the hectic life of the mainland Democratic Republic. The roads were only three years old, at most, and yet the Ministry of Public Works and Highways was already doing reblocking and repaving projects. Truly, where there's a will, there's a way.

Palomarska entered the Capitol Building right in the center of Port Thim, passing by the bronze statue of Sergeant Major Thimpodopoulos riding his trusty armored road roller. At first, the guard refused to admit her into the governor's offices because she was in mufti, but after she showed the guards her Army ID, and the commander of the guard was told by Governor Kulbano's personal assistant--Krycek, his name was, Nadejda remembered--that the governor was indeed expecting this woman, the guards personally escorted her to the governor's offices.

Governor Petrarchos Kulbano of the Colony of the Fhulghamous and Haritzaga Peninsulas did not appear like he was fit to be the leader of a city administrative council, let alone an entire colony. He had a ruddy face, very curly brown hair, and he had a habit of wearing mysterious talisman-line necklaces, and brown suits that were never that pleasing to the eye, but nevertheless he was one of the more brilliant members of the Kulbano political dynasty, which was deeply entrenched in both Fleftic history and politics. Nadejda Palomarska herself also didn't look like a major general: she had a young face that belied the fact that she was actually 35 years old, and her doe-like gray eyes and blonde-brown hair made her look more like an airheaded hotel heiress than a brilliant military tactician, and she was also wearing a red turtleneck sweater under a blue uniform-like blouse; not really the best clothes to wear in tropical Fhulghamous. Two people, looking like what they weren't; the architects of Abanhfleft's latest victory.

Governor Kulbano set down whatever document it was that he was reading when Titus Krycek announced that Major Palomarska had arrived. "Ah, Nadejda!" he greeted. "Glad to see that you can come on such short notice. Although you must be really sweating under that turtleneck."

"You really had me rushing, Peter," replied Palomarska, addressing Kulbano by one of his many nicknames. "And when you told me to come in mufti, I had to grab the first civvies I could find." She settled into a more comfortable position in her seat and said, "All right. Does the president want me to invade another country again?"

"Not really 'invade' as much as 'help,'" Kulbano replied cryptically. "No, that's too unclear. Let's try this again. This time, it's not about invading another country. We're going to help them."

"Who's 'them?'" Nadejda had to ask.

"Have you heard of the Kingdom of Schutzenphalia and West Ruhntuhnkuhnland?" Petrarchos asked in reply.

"I may have," Palomarska replied. "I'm not really sure."

"Well, Schutzenphalia has this colony, called Agusia. It's the size of a continent. Kind of like Australia. Anyway, the people of Agusia want to be independent from Schutzenphalia."

"So? What's this got to do with Abanhfleft?"

"Agusia has resources, that's what it has to do with the Democratic Republic," Kulbano replied. "Coal, oil, precious metals; you name it, they have it. They also have fruit and tea plantations."

"Okay. But what do I have to do with it? Do you want me to send some boots there, help the independence process along?"

"No, there's no need for that kind of drastic action," Kulbano told Palomarska. "Why don't I let Titus here take over?"

"Thank you, Governor," said Krycek. "General, as you may have known or suspected, I was once a member of the Ministry of State Security. And while I have left that institution, I still have many contacts in it. And one of those contacts has just told me, in a conversation that never took place, and in words that are ambiguous either way, that Agusia wants out of Schutzenphalia. Now, because it's the people themselves that want to be independent, we won't even have to send troops over there to help their in their noble struggle, so to speak. All we need to do is reach out to some of the more radical groups and convince them that the Democratic Republic will support them in their struggle to throw off the Schutzenphalian yoke so unfairly imposed upon them."

"Did I mention that Titus here is also a political scriptwriter?" Petrarchos said.

"What is my part in all of this?" Nadejda asked. "Will I have to go there and 'secure' their 'cooperation?'"

"That's not necessary, General," Krycek replied. "The Ministry already has assets there doing that thing already. All we need from you, General, is as much spare equipment that you can spare from your armories to provide to these freedom fighters."

"I don't want to sound like a broken record, Mr. Krycek," Palomarska said, "but I still can't see what we can possibly gain from supporting Agusian independence. For all I know, they hate Abanhfleft with a passion."

"They don't, General," Krycek replied in a tone that implied that it was indeed the truth. "And I also do not want to sound like a broken record, but this continent is home to all sorts of resources that our Democratic Republic is needing so much right now." He took a map case leaning on the governor's table, opened it, and unfurled a map depicting a landmass unknown to Palomarska, presumably Agusia, on the table. "As you can see, General, the continent is home of huge deposits of coal, oil, and precious metals like gold, silver, and bronze," Krycek continued. "All these things are needed by the Democratic Republic to keep itself running. Of significant note is that the truly massive deposits are located in areas where independence and separatist sentiments are high."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"It means, General, that if ever Agusia is given independence, these areas will want to break off from an independent Agusia and go forth into the world on their own. Once we manage to convince these separatists that we will guarantee their independence, we can, slowly and surely, worm our way into their inner workings by virtue of our veritable influence, and get rights to all these vital deposits."

"That sounds like what the Belgians did with the Congo and Katanga back in the 1960s," Palomarska said. "And we all know how that turned out."

"This one will be different, General, I assure you," Krycek said. "We will not repeat the mistakes of the Belgians."

"Yes. We're probably going to make brand new mistakes of our own."

MAJOR CHARACTERS
Governor Petrarchos Kulbano: Leader of the Fhulghamous Peninsula Colony, the nearest Fleftic territory to Agusia. Handled civil affairs in the colony while "rebelling" Fleftic Army forces occupied the neighboring Haritzaga Peninsula. Basically looks like Giorgio Tsoukalos.
Major General Nadejda Palomarska: Commanding officer of the 16th Colonial Expeditionary Force of the Fleftic Army. Declared a "mutiny" against the Democratic Republic and invaded the Haritzaga Peninsula with her army, eventually leading to the territory's inclusion into Fhulghamous Peninsula Colony. Basically looks like Natalia Poklonskaya.
(OOC: Yes, I'm ripping off Schutzenphalia's character sheet

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by **Agusia** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:17 pm

O.O.C Statement
I was too tired to think at the time this was first posted and so the content was very disappointing to see. Now, I have edited and re-posted this reply to assure that the RP will not be neglected as it progresses.

By the way, I find the character sheets quite fetching a though it would take me a long time as I have too many characters in mind to create a summarized background description to.

Afternoon, in the Office of the Right Honourable Grand Secretary of the Agusian Confederation - Grand Secretary Kai Baasch watched the masses of people growing in both numbers and noise from the safety of his office through its detailed stained windows, re-imagining in its corners the time when Schutzenphalians first landed on Agusian soil to the time when Agusia was completely forced and manipulated under "Schutzenphalian Guidance and Protection", submitting to total Schutzenphalian Dominion. The Protesters are bulging through Palast Heiterkeit's fences and reaching out towards the Palace, waving and grasping air as if the most hated person of their lives is right in front of them in almost near reach.

The Grand Secretary for the past eight hours was occupied and stressed with the matters of state and its incurring massive disturbance, now facing a new crisis with his physical state as he is inwardly exhausted and confused as a result of being overwhelmed of how the turbulence became a national disorder. Never been the Grand Secretary and the rest of His Highness' Government with its past predecessors saw such disruption that they had to get in touch with the Homeland for the first time in five decades since the Agusian Confederation Uprisings of 1960 for an emergency.

Activists blockading the Mercantile Democracy of Kiyahopal's city center

This morning, the Grand Secretary has directly ordered the "Großartigen und Gelassene Torstenstadt Polizeikorps" to dispatch police officers and regulars from the "Torstenstadt Polizei Taktische Einheit" to Palast Heiterkeit and strictly observe the protesters and to only take action if they threaten or disrupt the peace. Since the order, which was given this morning, police officers stood with the crowd, maintaining vigilance and a presence of order to keep protesters from having recourse to violence and to give off a feeling of discouragement until the protest disperses on its own.

Soon after, the Grand Secretary received a call from the Chairman of the Crown Council, the Right Honourable Peter Karsten Kaspar Gloeckner, who was not happy with the protests outside Heiterkeit and a group of people claiming to be activists of "Lu Revonara Glockara's Olie" gathering in front of "Kronprinz Lothar Halle" foretelling the end of Schutzenphalian rule is near.

As the Sun was at its peak in the middle of day, the Grand Secretary then invited the rest of the Confederate Government, the Agusian Cabinet and the Council of His Highness' Armed Forces, in Heitkerkeit for an emergency meeting. It was only then that the Grand Secretary knew the damage done by last night's protests, which he ironically called as a "mere pinch", has set aflame the unhappiness in the provinces and member states of the Confederation, tens of thousands of Agusians hand-in-hand with Schutzenphalian colonials now demanding for change as soon as it is needed be.

A demonstration in the Province of Edasilora

The Grand Secretary considered in seeking advice from Crown Prince Torsten the Third but he then sought the wisdom of the "Großprinz Kronrat im Agusian Eidgenossenschaft" instead after concluding that the Crown Prince is not yet ready to use and share his knowledge of politics on the basis of being an inexperienced statesman. The Agusian Eidgenossenschaft Kronrat gave their answer: Ignore protesters and wait for the Homeland to either give required counsel or intervention. The Grand Secretary however hopes to listen to the Agusian Peoples' demands of true democracy and reforms, in spite of that the Agusian Kronrat strongly suggested the Grand Secretary to just ignore as changes will increase the People's consciousness and fuel their desire to fulfil their own self-interests and will try to gain a greater voice in government, in the end the People would be then demanding for independence - to be free at last of Schutzenphalian control. Little does the Kronrat know that their predictions is already happening and that there is no time left to ignore the People; the Confederation must initiate the People's demands into a reality as fast as possible before the Test of Time determines Agusia's fate, God seems to be the only being to answer the question whether the Confederation survives in all odds.

The Grand Secretary afterwards received calls from the provincial governors and leaders of the member states, inquiring if there would be a summit of Agusian Confederation leaders in Torstenstadt regarding the recurring demonstrations; a quarter of them later were complaining to their so-called "Protector", questioning his abilities as chief of state, regardless of his true legal capabilities in governing the Confederation, and as a paternal unifying figure of the Nation other than His Grand and Serene Highness Großprinz Kristian XII of the Grand and Serene Principality of Schutzenphalia and West Ruhntuhnkuhnland while the rest wanted to have an audience with the Agusian Confederation's Protector.

At the moment that the sun sank and the moon rose, the Grand Secretary sat down to try and think of what should be his next course of action but soon succumbing into procrastinating while his eyes were affixed at Prince Torsten's portrait alongside Great Prince Kristian the Twelfth's hanging above the doors of his office.

"Gott . . . Bitte helfen sie uns in unseren sünden."

by **Schutzenphalia and West Ruhntuhnkuhnland** » Sun Oct 26, 2014 1:49 pm

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Paul Fried.

Foreign and Colonial Office Cable #A2b22ygtTk (encrypted)

FROM:

FAO:

CC:

The security of the Crown Prince.
The security of Schutzenphalian nationals and expatriates.
The security of Schutzenphalian owned commercial interests, in particular the new processing plant at Schwesenberg and the ILM refinery at Kud unter Wassenheft.
Political analysis of Agusian government instruments for possible internal reforms.
Intelligence briefing on subversive influences within the protest movement.
Media policy in handling ongoing response to the protest.
Options for military activation.

by **Agusia** » Sun Oct 26, 2014 10:02 pm

The Agusian Confederation
Official Communique

FROM: Secretary to the Office of the Grand Secretary
TO: Secretary to the Minister of Foreign and Colonial Affairs
CC: The Crown of Schutzenphalia and West Ruhntuhnkuhnland
ENCRYPTION: AGU_H-T-B_12251838170818973251897 | SUBJECT: Homeland Affairs
Your request for our superiors and colleagues to make arrangements for a meeting between His Highness' Government and the Foreign and Colonial Office will be made. It shall be held at a crown residence other than the Palace of Serenity which will include the presence of His Highness Crown Prince Torsten the Third as the Confederation's Chief of State; the Chairman of the Crown Council, the Right Honourable Peter Karsten Kaspar Gloeckner as the representative of the Confederation Legislature; and the Chairman of the Council of His Highness' Armed Forces, the Right Honourable Raimund Poldi Franz Ebner as the representative of the Agusian Guard.

The Crown Residence mentioned will not be named however until we are at a safer point of time in the future due to security concerns for His Highness the Crown Prince and the Right Honourable Grand Secretary. We wish this will not be an insult to you and our superiors in the Homeland, most especially His Grand and Serene Highness Großprinz Kristian the Twelfth, it is purely for the sake of the Crown Prince despite the fact that this missive is encrypted and that the protection provided to His Highness the Crown Prince is more than enough that is either required or optimal.

The Venue shall be revealed along with the security detail, which also remains undisclosed, at the date of the Director of Political Operation's arrival in Torstenstadt. We will look forward to Director Paul Fried's upcoming appearance. This missive will not reveal any of our immediate responses to the Meeting's Agenda and will only be discussed at the Venue.

works? · by **Abanhfleft** » Mon Oct 27, 2014 8:08 am

CRESCENT NEWS NETWORK
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GOVERNOR-GENERAL: SEPARATISM IN NEARBY COLONIES WILL NOT SPREAD TO FHULGHAMOUS
By Lorrin Paulicki

Governor-General Petrarchos Kulbano of the Fhulghamous Peninsula is "absolutely convinced" that the developing separatist situation in Agusia will not spread to Abanhfleft's colonies. (Crescent News Network/Yancy Johnson)

PORT THIMPODOPOULOS, FHULGHAMOUS PENINSULA - "I am absolutely convinced that there is no way on Earth that the separatist sentiments harbored by the citizens of the Schutzenphalian colony of Agusia will spread to Fhulghamous, Trendstart, or even our nation's client states in Oontaz and Copper." So says Governor-General Petrarchos Kulbano of the Fhulghamous Peninsula, when asked about what effect the recent separatist and independence protests in Agusia could affect Fhulghamous, the nearest Fleftic territory to the continent-sized colony of the kingdom of Schutzenphalia. Agusia, located almost two thousand kilometers away from Port Thimpodopoulos, was first settled by Schutzenphalia in the early 19th century. The natives of the area were former nomadic tribes that soon settled down and formed numerous city-states when the Schutzenphalians first came. Records of the time of the Schutzenphalian conquest of the area were unclear, with some sources saying that the Schutzenphalians used a "divide and conquer" strategy and pitted rival city-states against each other and then moving in once the two sides were thoroughly beaten down. while others maintained that the area had been colonized peacefully, with city-states willfully agreeing to come under Schutzenphalian protection in exchange for land, resources, and such. But whatever the case, the fact remains that Schutzenphalia successfully conquered the entirety of the Agusian continent by the early 20th century.

The role of people and history in the "Agusian question"

"Agusia is a separate nation in itself, having existed when our own country was still in its infancy," said Kulbano. "It should therefore come as no surprise that the native Agusians are clamoring for independence, and yet international political analysts seem completely taken by surprise by this series of events. And therein lies the main difference between Agusia and Fhulghamous: Agusia already had her own people when the Schutzenphalians came along. Fhulghamous, meanwhile, was an untouched new world when we Fleftics first came to it in 2008, 2009; and therefore had no indigenous population. The people of Fhulghamous are Fleftics, while the people of Agusia are Agusians, and not Schutzenphalians. We would not, do not, wish to be separate from the Democratic Republic because it is our country. The Agusians, meanwhile, have no obligations to the king of Schutzenphalia except for the politico-diplomatic one, and therefore it is just right for them to declare their want, their need, for independence."

When asked about the possibility of Fleftic intervention should a widescale revolt indeed take place, Kulbano replied, "While it's been a sort of a trademark for the Fleftic Armed Forces to come charging right into any area that's going through the slightest rumbles of revolutionary thought, I have reason to believe that the Democratic Republic will elect to keep itself out of this affair this time. It's a Schutzenphalian matter, but if the monarchists should ask for help from us republican rabble, then President [Makhdoum] Be would certainly not hesitate to jump in at the soonest possible opportunity."

A military option from Abanhfleft?

Major General Nadejda Palomarska thinks that the chances of a Fleftic expeditionary force to assist Schutzenphalia in keeping the peace in Agusia are "slim to none." (Crescent News Network/Ignaszy bin Lev)

The 16th Colonial Expeditionary Force of the Democratic Republic of Abanhfleft Army, a sizable force of 12,000 men and women and their equipment, has been in place in Fhulghamous since early 2011, replacing the Engineer Corps units that laid the groundwork for Port Thimpodopoulos when the Fleftics first arrived in the area. Major General Nadejda Palomarska, current commander of the 16th CEF, had this to say when asked about the possibility of Fleftic intervention in Agusia: "The chances of an armed Fleftic intervention are slim to none."

"Agusia is, for all intents and purposes, Schutzenphalian territory," Palomarska elaborated. "If Abanhfleft were to send an army to Agusia, Schutzenphalia could very easily interpret it as an invasion of their sovereign lands, and war would become inevitable for our two countries. And that is ignoring the fact that Schutzenphalia and Abanhfleft have warm and cordial relations with each other. A more realistic scenario would be that Schutzenphalia will ask for Abanhfleft's help in dealing with their natives, our reputation having preceded us since the dawn of our nation."

And when asked about the possibility of her 16th CEF being deployed to Agusia if Schutzenphalia were indeed to ask for help from its "neighbors" Abanhfleft, all the general had to say was, "I go where my superiors order me to go."

Fleftic colonial forces placed on "heightened readiness"

Soldiers of the 16th CEF are on increased training after they, along with other Fleftic colonial forces, were placed on a "heightened readiness" status. (Crescent News Network/Harald Holcim)

The Fleftic Armed Forces has decided that due to the nationalist revolts sparked by colonialism currently sweeping through Agusia, all colonial forces, especially those stationed in Oontaz Dert Li Ng, Copper Cuprum, Trendstart, and Fhulghamous, are to be placed on "heightened readiness" status, which commands all forces to be ready to secure key points in their areas of responsibility within twenty-four hours of rioting or possible rebellion. Many of the soldiers in these so-called "Colonial Expeditionary Forces" are used to being on such states of alert that it has become almost a truth of life for them. However, some new volunteers and conscripts that have been assigned to these forces are understandably concerned about their fate should they have to be mobilized.

"It's an undescribable feeling, this," said Sergeant First Class Hiram Bellocq V, a volunteer soldier. "We're all taught to be happy about war and battle, even glorify it. But when you're about to be thrust into the fight itself, it's like butterflies have spawned by the thousands in your stomach. You think that death is glorious, but when you're about to face death itself, you just can't seem to bring yourself to come face to face with it."

Meanwhile, at least one of the Army's conscripted youngsters have misgivings about the whole thing. "I don't want to die just so some foreigner can enjoy some freedom," said Private Grigory Nablukov. "I mean, why can't they get a gun and fight their own war? Why put their freedom at the hands of people who probably won't care if they get it or not?" However, when push comes to shove, duty and honor still mattered above personal thoughts and beliefs. "If my orders are to go fight for the Schutzenphalians against the Agusians," said both Private Nablukov and Sergeant Bellocq, "then we are supposed to say, 'yes, sir,' and perform the duties asked of us."

"We must seek a peaceful solution"

Vice President Arthur Rogun is set to lead a small delegation of diplomats to both Schutzenphalia and Agusia to hopefully help both sides come to a peaceful agreement. (Crescent News Network/Natasha Burke)

Vice President Arthur Rogun recently announced during a ribbon-cutting ceremony that he had been personally recommended by President Makhdoum Be to lead a small delegation of Fleftic diplomats and politicians to both Schutzenphalia and Agusia, in an effort to help the two sides come to some sort of peaceful agreement. "This will not be an easy job for anyone who undertakes it," Rogun said. "It is truly hard to approach this from an outsider's perspective, because we know so little about these two peoples, vastly different from since the dawn of time. But I am confident that peace can be achieved. All we need to know is how they want to achieve it."

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