[DRAFT] City of the World's Desire

[Berhakonia]

Validity
Valid for all nations

Description
Known colloquially as "the City of the World's Desire", @@RANDOMNAME@@opolis is a majority-Tiberoi island with a sizable @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ minority, owing to the centuries of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ colonization. After Tiberika fought a hard-earned war to retake the island, alleged reports of ethnic violence and genocide perpetrated against the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ minority by far-right Tiberoi paramilitaries began surfacing worldwide, much to the shock and dismay of the international community. Taking advantage of the instability in neighbouring Tiberika, @@NAME@@ used this violence as a casus beli to invade and temporarily occupy the northern half of the island to protect the @@DEMONYMASJECTIVE@@ minority. Six decades later, and it is crystal clear that the occupation has done little to quell tensions between the two communities. Now, it is just a matter of what to do with the occupied land.

Option
"@@NAME@@ has no reason to be on the island in the first place, so let me make this clear to you," sneers the rude and rambunctious Tiberoi ambassador as he pulls out an old map from two centuries ago to drive his point across, "your occupation has done nothing to settle tensions between the rightful Tiberoi and your beloved minority, all your corrupt, imperialist regime has accomplished is divide our nation further down the centre. It's been sixty long years since Bloody November, and our fringe groups aren't exactly pining to gun down every single @@DEMONYM@@ they see. Times have changed, and you must respect that. Relinquish your grasp on the island so we can finally reunite with our lost brothers and sisters."

Effect
Blood is thinner than water in @@NAME@@

Option
"Please, @@LEADER@@, you can't let that madman get what he wants," cries, @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ activist, @@RANDOMNAME@@ as she wipes her tears with 100 @@CURRENCY@@ bills. "Please, you have to believe us, the @@DEMONYM@@ occupation has done nothing but help our ailing community. My great-great-great grandfather's mailman's sister died in the Bloody November riots, t-t-they..." @@RANDOMNAME@@ trails off and chokes on her own words, "they p-put her body in a giant freezer and turned her into a comedically-large human popsicle! Please, you have to maintain the occupation to prevent these genocidal dogs from repeating these attrocities."

Effect
It's not imperialism when @@NAME@@ does it

Option
"Everyone, everyone, please settle down," coos your Minister of Ivory Tower Virtue-Signalling and Underhanded Machiavellianism, as he busts out a 557-page presentation on the ethics of sharing, "there is no need to veer to either extreme and give in to the deep-seated desires of extremist sociopaths. Have any of you considered what the people want? Instead, I propose a two-state solution, @@NAME@@ backs out of @@RANDOMNAME@@opolis, while a @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@-majority state is set up in the north to guarentee the rights of ethnic minorities. In addition, the northern and southern halves of the island may elect to reunite via referendum. Nothing bad could possibly go wrong..." Your minister chuckles sheepishly as he slides a copy of "Neo-Imperialism for Knuckleheads" to you.

Effect
@@NAME@@ claims that covertly playing both sides of a conflict counts as humanitarian work

[Homyland]

Very cool! Although that "minister of ivory tower virtue-signalling and underhanded machiavellianism" could be changed to "Minister of Ivory Tower Virtue-Signaling and Underhanded Machiavellianism".

[SherpDaWerp]

@@NAME@@ used this violence as a casus beli to invade and temporarily occupy the northern half of the island to protect the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ minority

As much as "I didn't do that" seems to have come in-vogue for very small autonomy concerns... I didn't do that. Invading another country in a manner is the subject of entire issue chains (in fact, An International Incident is basically the plot of your description), and it's definitely not a standard assumption that you can make about @@name@@'s past.

Also, given one of the International Incident plotlines leads to the annexation of Brazilistan, a lot of colony-based issues have already been explored using Brazilistan as a colony. I'm not 100% sure if your issue covers much more than "we've got a colony, wat do", which is pretty similar to #405, #450, and #1350.

[Berhakonia]

@@NAME@@ used this violence as a casus beli to invade and temporarily occupy the northern half of the island to protect the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ minority

As much as "I didn't do that" seems to have come in-vogue for very small autonomy concerns... I didn't do that. Invading another country in a manner is the subject of entire issue chains (in fact, An International Incident is basically the plot of your description), and it's definitely not a standard assumption that you can make about @@name@@'s past.

Also, given one of the International Incident plotlines leads to the annexation of Brazilistan, a lot of colony-based issues have already been explored using Brazilistan as a colony. I'm not 100% sure if your issue covers much more than "we've got a colony, wat do", which is pretty similar to #405, #450, and #1350.

It's no surprise that I based this proposal loosely off the Northern Cyprus crisis, and it was never my goal to replace any of the pre-existing occupation/colonization issues present in NS. Still, I feel that there is a considerable enough difference between occupying a nation for the express purpose of creating a colony, and mediating a decades-old territorial dispute that came as a result of centuries of invasions and colonialism. I wanted something to capture the scars and stigma of Ottoman rule in the Balkans and present an experience utterly detached from the plethora of western viewpoints that dominate NS issues (intermixed with ridiculous strawman talking-points for comedic effect, of course).

I can't really think of a way to exclude your nation from recieving this issue. I understand that RP is important, but NS already has numerous issues that can just as easily break RP (the one where your leader has a closed-doors affair with his/her secretary, for example). Think of this issue as less of an International Incident and more akin to any of the Violetstone Tribe issues, in which the initial incident occured so far in the past that it wouldn't bear any relevance addressing.

Thank you for the feedback, though. Any criticism is well-appreciated.

[Berhakonia]

Very cool! Although that "minister of ivory tower virtue-signalling and underhanded machiavellianism" could be changed to "Minister of Ivory Tower Virtue-Signaling and Underhanded Machiavellianism".

Thank you :^)

I will edit the OP accordingly

[Australian rePublic]

Why wouldn't you have incorporated this island into @@NAME@@ 6 decades ago