TURTLESHROOM LEGATION QUARTER REGISTRATION [OPEN TO ALL]

[TURTLESHROOM II]

The following audio recording is an official message from President Wyatt Wizzard of The Free Land of Arctica-Aleutia

Salutations. As one look through my country's data will tell you, we are very far apart in terms of ideology, but my nation has begun taking initiatives to establish diplomatic relations with numerous countries regardless of relations in hopes of preventing unnecessary conflict.

However, before we begin the process of choosing a candidate to send, there is something I feel the need to ask in the interest of the Arctica-Aleutian people.

Why does your country ban vampires from taking on a diplomatic position like this one? Although many proclaim them to be unholy creatures, they are not mentioned in the Bible to my knowledge. In addition, vampires in my country mostly follow Christianity. Even if you think they cannot be 'saved', I would think you'd be glad that they chose to serve God instead of Satan. Admittedly vampires in my country were once harmed by crosses, etc., but through some miracle this has stopped, likely due to them accepting society and religion.

I had no plans to send a vampire as a diplomat, but since much of my nation's population is vampiric I believed I should seek a response to these points before establishing relations.

Representation of a nation will not be hindered by an unholy presence in that nation unless that unholy presence directly governs that nation, or that nation willingly follows the ways of the unholy presence. The existence of vampires in your country does not prohibit you from filing an application with the Legation Quarter.

What makes your vampires still abominable in TurtleShroom?

For starters, the Christian religion explicitly states, in Acts 15, that a Christian shall not willingly consume blood. Unless your vampires are up to drink V-8 tomato juice or deal in the business of "Sanguinarian energy eating", they are committing an explicit sin, and they are unrepentant. Further, vampires must feed on either blood or a substitute in order to exist. As such, they will commit aggression against another creature in order to sustain themselves.

It is honorable that your nation's vampires are attempting to right themselves and find God, but that does not change what they are or that they are consuming blood in express violation of Acts 15. In addition (although this may not be the case for your race of vampires), most classes of vampire only create ("turn") new vampires with the consent of the other party. There are a few strains of contagious vampires, but they are not that common. Assuming your vampires are not contagious, they have only propagated themselves of their own free will, magnifying their sin.

Either way, in accordance with TurtleShroomian law and old Slavic custom, vampires may be killed at-will by any able-bodied TurtleShroomer. We advise, if not implore, your vampire race to not enter TurtleShroom if they value their lives.

[Arctica-Aleutia]

The following audio recording is an official message from President Wyatt Wizzard of The Free Land of Arctica-Aleutia

Salutations. As one look through my country's data will tell you, we are very far apart in terms of ideology, but my nation has begun taking initiatives to establish diplomatic relations with numerous countries regardless of relations in hopes of preventing unnecessary conflict.

However, before we begin the process of choosing a candidate to send, there is something I feel the need to ask in the interest of the Arctica-Aleutian people.

Why does your country ban vampires from taking on a diplomatic position like this one? Although many proclaim them to be unholy creatures, they are not mentioned in the Bible to my knowledge. In addition, vampires in my country mostly follow Christianity. Even if you think they cannot be 'saved', I would think you'd be glad that they chose to serve God instead of Satan. Admittedly vampires in my country were once harmed by crosses, etc., but through some miracle this has stopped, likely due to them accepting society and religion.

I had no plans to send a vampire as a diplomat, but since much of my nation's population is vampiric I believed I should seek a response to these points before establishing relations.

Representation of a nation will not be hindered by an unholy presence in that nation unless that unholy presence directly governs that nation, or that nation willingly follows the ways of the unholy presence. The existence of vampires in your country does not prohibit you from filing an application with the Legation Quarter.

What makes your vampires still abominable in TurtleShroom?

For starters, the Christian religion explicitly states, in Acts 15, that a Christian shall not willingly consume blood. Unless your vampires are up to drink V-8 tomato juice or deal in the business of "Sanguinarian energy eating", they are committing an explicit sin, and they are unrepentant. Further, vampires must feed on either blood or a substitute in order to exist. As such, they will commit aggression against another creature in order to sustain themselves.

It is honorable that your nation's vampires are attempting to right themselves and find God, but that does not change what they are or that they are consuming blood in express violation of Acts 15. In addition (although this may not be the case for your race of vampires), most classes of vampire only create ("turn") new vampires with the consent of the other party. There are a few strains of contagious vampires, but they are not that common. Assuming your vampires are not contagious, they have only propagated themselves of their own free will, magnifying their sin.

Either way, in accordance with TurtleShroomian law and old Slavic custom, vampires may be killed at-will by any able-bodied TurtleShroomer. We advise, if not implore, your vampire race to not enter TurtleShroom if they value their lives.

Many vampires use a chemical that serves as a substitute for blood, though some admittedly do drink donated human blood. A few have to drink human blood for purely medical reasons. Churches here debate whether that special case counts as a sin, and the general consensus is that it is permissible because it is necessary to prevent death. As for your statement that they are aggressive towards humans, in the past hundred years there have been no more cases of 'human-hunting' vampires than there have been cases of human cannibalism. In other words, nearly zero.

I know your reaction to this is likely to be fiery, but I have been married to a vampiress for some time and thus know a fair bit about their behavior. They aren't that different from us, at least the ones in Arctica-Aleutia.

Perhaps one day we'll be able to work out a solution to this controversy, but for now I will place a moratorium on vampire travel to Turtleshroom for the sake of all parties involved. As you may know, I do not approve of many of your nation's policies, but as long as people have the right to leave if they feel oppressed I will not attempt to badger you there.

The process of selecting an candidate for diplomacy has begun now.

EDIT: My apologies, but after further research another issue has come to my attention and stirred my advisors into a most annoying shouting match. The bit about humans being killed for marrying human-like species with animal features is concerning, given the small but cultured population of kitsunes and half-kitsunes in Arctica-Aleutia, my adopted son being among them. I am not aware of their nature in Turtleshroom, but they are of human mindset in my universe and thus treated equally. Again, I have no wish to start an argument, but I thought that I should make it clear that my country does not support this. My personal feelings aside, you can imagine that my people wouldn't be very happy with me if I ignored this entirely.

I know you probably wouldn't be open to this, but I hope that someday our nations can learn more about each others' sapient species in the hope of fostering greater acceptance, for our mutual benefit.

[The Grand Duchy Of Nova Capile]

This communique is delivered to the Turtleshroomian State Diplomatic Corps on behalf of the Grand Duke of Nova Capile and the Foreign Ministry. Greetings, trusted friends. After much delay on their part, the Foreign Ministry has finally approved the establishment of a Capilean diplomatic mission in your beautiful, God-loving country, and not a moment too soon. Just as we have seen through with the founding of a Turtleshroomian embassy in Capile, we hope your government shall graciously allow us to send our own emissaries to your Legation Quarter. The Legate we have chosen is another brother in Christ, and we believe he will be open and accepting of the different species that make their home in Turtleshroom. He is very excited to become the first Capilean Legate to Turtleshroom, and, should he be approved, will endeavour to further warm relations between our two nations under Christ. We here at the Auslandsbüro wish you nothing but the best. Turtleshroom is in all of our hearts and prayers, and we hope that God will guide you safely through your current trials and tribulations. Witness the hand and seal of the Grand Duke: PART I: BASIC INFORMATION FULL COUNTRY NAME: The Grand Duchy of Nova Capile GOVERNMENT TYPE/DESCRIPTION: Consitutional Parliamentary Monarchy IS YOUR NATION A MARXIST STATE OR NAZI/NATIONAL SOCIALIST STATE? (Y/N) – N LEGATE’S NAME: Rudolph Haas LEGATE’S SPECIES: Human LEGATE’S GENDER: Male AGE OF LEGATE: 44 DESCRIPTION OF LEGATE: BIOGRAPHY OF LEGATE: Rudolph Haas was born in Jaroburg, a smaller fishing town in the south-east corner of Capile known for its Finnish quarter. Haas himself has Finnish ancestors on his mother's side. As a child he took an interest in Fußball, an explosively popular sport for Capilean youths, and probably owing to his considerable height and build, came to be a great local player. Rudolph also became a devoted worshiper of Christ at a young age, and continues to serve him to this very day. Haas continued to actively play Fußball through high school and into college(he received a football scholarship from the University of Orangetown). Although he dreamed of becoming a professional player, Haas decided against pursuing a career in sports, which he thought was unrealistic, and instead chose to major in political science, as ambassadorial duties had always interested him. Beginning his career as an adjutant to the Capilean Ambassador to Finland, Haas made a name for himself as a successful negotiator, which he attributed to his natural friendliness, likeability, and large personality. He was reassigned as the Ambassador to Romania for two years before resigning his position and spending five years back home, where he married and fathered two children. Haas reapplied for his old position, and was granted it, before being transferred to serve as Deputy Ambassador to Germany for several years. Now Haas has asked to be reassigned, and we have selected him as the primary candidate to serve as Capilean Legate to Turtleshroom. PART II: SPECIFICS OF LEGATE LEGATE’S RELIGION: Capilean Lutheran Christian LEGATE’S POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Monarchistische Allianz (Monarchist Party) LEGATE’S MARITAL STATUS: Married LEGATE’S CRIMINAL RECORD: N/A HEIGHT OF LEGATE: 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 meters) DOES YOUR LEGATE HAVE ANY NON-MAGICAL/INNATE/PSYCHIC POWERS? – N IF SO, WHAT ARE THEY? ARE THEY EXTRAORDINARY FOR HIS SPECIES? (Y/N) – N/A HAS YOUR LEGATE EVER DIVORCED? (Y/N) – N IF SO, ON WHAT GROUNDS? – N/A BEFORE HIS ASSIGNMENT, WAS YOUR LEGATE IN A COHABITATIONAL LIVING ARRANGEMENT WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX OF HIS SPECIES? (Y/N) - Y IS YOUR LEGATE AN ORDAINED CLERGYMAN OF HIS FAITH? (Y/N) – N DOES YOUR LEGATE HAVE A MILITARY BACKGROUND OR EXPERIENCE? (Y/N) – N HAS YOUR LEGATE EVER BEEN INVOLVED IN ESPIONAGE, FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC? (Y/N) – N IS YOUR LEGATE A NOBLEMAN/OF NOBLE BLOOD/HOLDING A TITLE OF NOBILITY? (Y/N) – N PART III: LEGATION ACCOMPYNAMENT AND ADD-ONS PERSONAL WEAPONS OF LEGATE, FAMILY, AND STAFF: Fourteen semi-automatic pistols LEGATE’S TRANSPORTATION: Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 Cabriolet LEGATE’S FAMILY BEING BROUGHT IN: Katrin Haas, 40, wife Friedrich Haas, 16, son Liesel Haas, 10, daughter LEGATE’S STAFF (list each, with reason for presence): Hermann Kohl, Assistant to the Ambassador Wolfgang Stropp, Personal Secretary Anton Hoch, Military Attache Julius Borg, Security Chief Helmut Schweiz, Security Guard Wilhelm Öster, Security Guard Jean Gaumont, Security Guard Otto Lehr, Chauffer LEGATE SPECIAL NEEDS AND ACCOMODATIONS DOES YOUR LEGATE TOLERATE THE PRESENCE OF NON-HUMANS, OR IS HE WILLING TO DO SO? (Y/N) – Y IS YOUR LEGATE NOW, OR HAS HE EVER BEEN, A DRUNKARD, CONSUMER OF ALCOHOL, OR ADDICT TO ANY RECREATIONAL/NON-PHARMACEUTICAL DRUG ASIDE FROM TOBACCO? (Y/N) – N DOES YOUR LEGATE NEED CUSTOM/SPECIAL/ADAPTED PLUMBING? (Y/N) – N IF SO, WHAT IS IT: N/A DOES YOUR LEGATE HAVE ANY MEDICAL CONDITIONS? (Y/N) – Y IF SO, WHAT ARE THEY? – Recurring knee and leg pains and aches, a result of his Fußball career IS YOUR LEGATE OF SOUND MIND? (Y/N) - Y DOES YOUR LEGATE HAVE ANY PHYSICAL HANDICAPS NECESSITATING ACCESSIBILITY? (Y/N) – N IF SO, WHAT ARE THEY? – N/A DOES YOUR LEGATE HAVE ANY ALLERGIES? (Y/N) – Y (Shrimp) IS YOUR LEGATE CAPABLE OF USING A TELEPHONE, FAX MACHINE, OR COMPUTER? (Y/N) – Y THE CAPITAL OF TURTLESHROOM IS JONESBORO, WHICH IS IN A JUNGLE. CAN YOUR LEGATE WITHSTAND A TROPICAL RAINFOREST BIOME WITH A CLEARLY DEFINED, MONSOON WET/DRY SEASON CLIMATE? (Y/N) – Y REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION DOES YOUR LEGATE AGREE TO ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF DWELLING IN THE TURTLESHROOMIAN LEGATION QUARTER, INCLUDING SUBJECTION TO TURTLESHROOMIAN LAWS, EXTRATERRITORIALITY, AND RESPONSIBILITIES TO HIMSELF, HIS PROPERTY, AND OTHERS? (Y/N) – Y ETC. DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE TURTLESHROOMIAN DIPLOMATIC CORPS? - N/A DO YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL NOTES, CLARIFICATIONS, OR ALERTS YOU WISH TO ISSUE THE TURTLESHROOMIAN DIPLOMATIC CORPS? -[/b] N/A DO YOU WISH FOR TURTLESHROOM TO ESTABLISH A DIPLOMATIC PRESENCE IN YOUR NATION'S LEGATION QUARTERS/ETC.? - Already Accomplished _____________________________________ SIGNED Kalvin Englebert, Minister of Foreign Affairs

[TURTLESHROOM II]

KINGDOM OF THE UNITED TURTLES, MUSHROOMS, AND MEN OF TURTLESHROOM
EXECUTIVE CABINET
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
TURTLESHROOMIAN STATE DIPLOMATIC CORPS
DEAN

TO THE CAPILEAN CROWN AND THE ROYAL COURT THEREOF
YOUR GRACE:

We need not hesitate to state that your application for our Legation Quarter has been ACCEPTED IN FULL. The identifications and background checks of the honored Legate and his family have been received.

Requests for security personnel has been granted. Weapons applications have been granted. The notice for your vehicle has been received and granted. Miniature flags for your country and the Legation Quarter will be affixed to the hood to enable free parking.

Per custom, the Legate and all associates accompanying him will be subject to blood sampling for the purposes of DNA profiling, and will be presented to our tailors for his recquisite robe, and sashes for his family and staff.

We are both honored and privileged to see a nation so devout and upright. Even with her flaws and rooms for improvement in the terms of the dignity of females, Capilea has already presented herself as a beacon of civilization and civilized behavior, and only now is she beginning to reach the natural end of civilization: that is, the freedom of all.

We wish you and your nation nothing but success. Our thoughts and prayers go out to your people and their government, going through the growing pains of liberalizing its society while walking the fine balance between freedom and morality.


Thank you.
-DEAN OF THE TURTLESHROOMIAN STATE DIPLOMATIC CORPS, IN REPRESENTATION OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE KINGDOM OF TURTLES, MUSHROOMS, AND MEN OF TURTLESHROOM

[Rupudska]

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Encryption: NONE
To: Dean of the Turtleshroomian State Diplomatic Corps
Subject: Diplomatic mission application

Greetings!

On behalf of the people and government of the Holy Romagnan Empire of Karlsland, I, Liesel Poplawski, with permission of His Imperial Majesty, would like to establish an embassy in Jonesboro, in order to bring about proper diplomatic relations between our Empire and Turtleshroom.

In the name of Wir Frederick VI von Gottes Gnaden Heiliger Römagnischer Kaiser, zu aller Zeiten mehrer des Reiches, König der Deutschen, König von Preußen, Markgraf zu Brandenburg, Burggraf zu Nürnberg, Graf zu Hohenzollern, Souveräner und oberster Herzog von Schlesien wie auch der Grafschaft Glatz, Großherzog vom Niederrhein und Posen, Herzog zu Sachsen, Westfalen und Engern, zu Pommern, Lüneburg, Holstein und Schleswig, zu Magdeburg, Bremen, Geldern, Cleve, Jülich und Berg, sowie auch der Wenden und Kaschuben, zu Krossen, Lauenburg, Mecklenburg, Landgraf zu Hessen und Thüringen, Markgraf der Ober- und Niederlausitz, Prinz von Oranien, Fürst zu Rügen, zu Ostfriesland, zu Paderborn und Pyrmont, zu Halberstadt, Münster, Minden, Osnabrück, Hildesheim, zu Verden, Kammin, Fulda, Nassau und Mörs, gefürsteter Graf zu Henneberg, Graf der Mark und zu Ravensberg, zu Hohenstein, Tecklenburg und Lingen, zu Mansfeld, Sigmaringen und Veringen, Herr von Frankfurt,

I have the honor to remain,
Liesel Poplawski, Minister of Foreign Affairs

PART I: BASIC INFORMATION

FULL COUNTRY NAME: The Holy Romagnan Empire of Karlsland

GOVERNMENT TYPE/DESCRIPTION:
IS YOUR NATION A MARXIST STATE OR NAZI/NATIONAL SOCIALIST STATE? (Y/N) – N

LEGATE’S NAME: Erich Mahler

LEGATE’S SPECIES: Human

LEGATE’S GENDER: Male

AGE OF LEGATE: 43

DESCRIPTION OF LEGATE***: Pale, blonde, and twig-like, an appearance not helped by being two meters tall

BIOGRAPHY OF LEGATE: Born in Posen. Initially served as ambassadorial staff to Ethiopia, then moved up to Ambassador, which was his previous position

PART II: SPECIFICS OF LEGATE

LEGATE’S RELIGION: Church of Karlsland

LEGATE’S POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Centre-right (OOC: Unsure of what you mean by this. Do you mean political party or political alignment?)

LEGATE’S MARITAL STATUS: Single

LEGATE’S CRIMINAL RECORD: N/A


HEIGHT OF LEGATE: 2 m


DOES YOUR LEGATE HAVE ANY NON-MAGICAL/INNATE/PSYCHIC POWERS? – N/A
IF SO, WHAT ARE THEY? ARE THEY EXTRAORDINARY FOR HIS SPECIES? (Y/N) –

HAS YOUR LEGATE EVER DIVORCED? (Y/N) – N/A
IF SO, ON WHAT GROUNDS? –

BEFORE HIS ASSIGNMENT, WAS YOUR LEGATE IN A COHABITATIONAL LIVING ARRANGEMENT WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX OF HIS SPECIES? (Y/N) - N


IS YOUR LEGATE AN ORDAINED CLERGYMAN OF HIS FAITH?****** (Y/N) – N

DOES YOUR LEGATE HAVE A MILITARY BACKGROUND OR EXPERIENCE? (Y/N) – N

HAS YOUR LEGATE EVER BEEN INVOLVED IN ESPIONAGE, FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC? (Y/N) – N

IS YOUR LEGATE A NOBLEMAN/OF NOBLE BLOOD/HOLDING A TITLE OF NOBILITY? (Y/N)******* – N

PART III: LEGATION ACCOMPYNAMENT AND ADD-ONS

PERSONAL WEAPONS OF LEGATE, FAMILY, AND STAFF****: N/A

LEGATE’S TRANSPORTATION (optional): 1x 2017 Jaakola Ambassador sedan, armored (OOC: Name of model, not an ambassador-specific sedan)

LEGATE’S FAMILY BEING BROUGHT IN (list each with short description and relation) N/A

LEGATE’S STAFF (list each, with reason for presence):

• 10x security staff, for obvious reasons
  15x diplomatic understaff, for clerical duties and in the event the legate falls ill

LEGATE SPECIAL NEEDS AND ACCOMODATIONS

DOES YOUR LEGATE TOLERATE THE PRESENCE OF NON-HUMANS, OR IS HE WILLING TO DO SO? (Y/N) – Y

IS YOUR LEGATE NOW, OR HAS HE EVER BEEN, A DRUNKARD, CONSUMER OF ALCOHOL, OR ADDICT TO ANY RECREATIONAL/NON-PHARMACEUTICAL DRUG ASIDE FROM TOBACCO?***** (Y/N) – N

DOES YOUR LEGATE NEED CUSTOM/SPECIAL/ADAPTED PLUMBING? (Y/N) – N
IF SO, WHAT IS IT:

DOES YOUR LEGATE HAVE ANY MEDICAL CONDITIONS? (Y/N) – N
IF SO, WHAT ARE THEY? –

IS YOUR LEGATE OF SOUND MIND? (Y/N) - N

DOES YOUR LEGATE HAVE ANY PHSYCIAL HANDICAPS NECCESITATING ACCESSIBILITY? (Y/N) – N
IF SO, WHAT ARE THEY? –

DOES YOUR LEGATE HAVE ANY ALLERGIES? (Y/N) – Latex

IS YOUR LEGATE CAPABLE OF USING A TELEPHONE, FAX MACHINE, OR COMPUTER? (Y/N) – Y

THE CAPITAL OF TURTLESHROOM IS JONESBORO, WHICH IS IN A JUNGLE. CAN YOUR LEGATE WITHSTAND A TROPICAL RAINFOREST BIOME WITH A CLEARLY DEFINED, MONSOON WET/DRY SEASON CLIMATE? (Y/N) – Y

REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION

DOES YOUR LEGATE AGREE TO ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF DWELLING IN THE TURTLESHROOMIAN LEGATION QUARTER, INCLUDING SUBJECTION TO TURTLESHROOMIAN LAWS, EXTRATERRITORIALITY, AND RESPONSIBILITIES TO HIMSELF, HIS PROPERTY, AND OTHERS? (Y/N) – Y

ETC.

DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE TURTLESHROOMIAN DIPLOMATIC CORPS? - N

DO YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL NOTES, CLARIFICATIONS, OR ALERTS YOU WISH TO ISSUE THE TURTLESHROOMIAN DIPLOMATIC CORPS? -[/b] N

DO YOU WISH FOR TURTLESHROOM TO ESTABLISH A DIPLOMATIC PRESENCE IN YOUR NATION'S LEGATION QUARTERS/ETC.? (link) - Y

[TURTLESHROOM II]

KINGDOM OF THE UNITED TURTLES, MUSHROOMS, AND MEN OF TURTLESHROOM
EXECUTIVE CABINET
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
TURTLESHROOMIAN STATE DIPLOMATIC CORPS
DEAN

TO THE RUPUDSKA-KARLSLANDITE IMPERIAL CROWN AND THE ROYAL COURT THEREOF, TO THE EMPIRE'S FOREIGN AFFAIRS HEADMASTER
YOUR HONOR:


Requests for security personnel has been granted. Weapons applications have been granted. The notice for your vehicle has been received and granted. Miniature flags for your country and the Legation Quarter will be affixed to the hood to enable free parking.

Per custom, the Legate and all associates accompanying him will be subject to blood sampling for the purposes of DNA profiling, and will be presented to our tailors for his requisite robe, and sashes for his family and staff.

We are humbled and honored to have you here in TurtleShroom.


Thank you.
-DEAN OF THE TURTLESHROOMIAN STATE DIPLOMATIC CORPS, IN REPRESENTATION OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE KINGDOM OF TURTLES, MUSHROOMS, AND MEN OF TURTLESHROOM

[Saurisisia]

PART I: BASIC INFORMATION

FULL COUNTRY NAME: The United Federal Provinces of Saurisia

GOVERNMENT TYPE/DESCRIPTION: Federal directorial republic
IS YOUR NATION A MARXIST STATE OR NAZI/NATIONAL SOCIALIST STATE? (Y/N) – Never, we have had to put down rebels who believed in such nonsense in the past, with much bloodshed and heartache.

LEGATE’S NAME: Tulio Qixian Zhao

LEGATE’S SPECIES: Microraptor yin sapiens

LEGATE’S GENDER: Male

AGE OF LEGATE: 45

DESCRIPTION OF LEGATE***: 4"6; blue, green, yellow, and red feathers; bluish-gray scales; yellow-green eyes

BIOGRAPHY OF LEGATE: Tulio is the son of immigrants fleeing Yinlong after the civil war there sixty years ago, when the old Emperor died and a dispute over the throne erupted between his nephews. Their respective families settled in the port city of Tylos, which has a still-growing minority community of Yinlongese. Although Tulio, his five siblings, and his parents all practiced the traditional faith of their people, Tulio has encountered a fair few Yinlongese who were Nestorians (as Yinlong has had a long history with the practitioners with that particular Christian sect). Whereas his parents did their compulsory military service, Tulio abstained in favor of pursuing an academic career, financed in part by Army bonds. He studied theology and became interested in traveling abroad and after doing so, visiting Vingaard, Amury, Wellington, and Redwing; he then decided a career in diplomacy would be best for him. He first served in the embassy staff of the ambassador to Vulpinia, and his befriending the daughter of a prominent diplomat got him the connections he needed to jumpstart his career.

PART II: SPECIFICS OF LEGATE

LEGATE’S RELIGION (include both religion and sect if applicable, e.g. “Russian Orthodox Christian”, etc.) Despite his own fascination with the various Christian sects, Tulio is a practitioner of Lu, the Yinlongese national religion (it's essentially a mixture of Tao, Confucianism, and Shinto).

LEGATE’S POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Despite his academic nature, Tulio holds mildly social conservative values, mostly regarding sex and sexuality.

LEGATE’S MARITAL STATUS: He's mated to Shufang Zhao, three years his junior.

LEGATE’S CRIMINAL RECORD: Nonexistent, Tulio aspires to be a model citizen.


HEIGHT OF LEGATE:


DOES YOUR LEGATE HAVE ANY NON-MAGICAL/INNATE/PSYCHIC POWERS? – No. Such powers are fairly-rare among Saurians, and were held in high regard in Yinlong.
IF SO, WHAT ARE THEY? ARE THEY EXTRAORDINARY FOR HIS SPECIES? (Y/N) –

HAS YOUR LEGATE EVER DIVORCED? (Y/N) – No.
IF SO, ON WHAT GROUNDS? –

BEFORE HIS ASSIGNMENT, WAS YOUR LEGATE IN A COHABITATIONAL LIVING ARRANGEMENT WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX OF HIS SPECIES? (Y/N) -

IS YOUR LEGATE AN ORDAINED CLERGYMAN OF HIS FAITH?****** (Y/N) – No.

DOES YOUR LEGATE HAVE A MILITARY BACKGROUND OR EXPERIENCE? (Y/N) – No, his parents have, but he chose a different path.

HAS YOUR LEGATE EVER BEEN INVOLVED IN ESPIONAGE, FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC? (Y/N) – No.

IS YOUR LEGATE A NOBLEMAN/OF NOBLE BLOOD/HOLDING A TITLE OF NOBILITY? (Y/N)******* – Not that he knows of, as far he's aware of, both his parents came from simple peasant families.

PART III: LEGATION ACCOMPYNAMENT AND ADD-ONS

PERSONAL WEAPONS OF LEGATE, FAMILY, AND STAFF****: The Legate and his mate both carry .25 pistols, and as for the security staff, they are as listed:

x10 7.62mm Modello 1988 pistols
x5 7.26mm Modello 1983 submachine guns
x3 Modello 1961 shotguns
x2 7.5x38mm Modello 1976 carbine rifles

LEGATE’S TRANSPORTATION (optional):

LEGATE’S FAMILY BEING BROUGHT IN (list each with short description and relation) Just his mate, they have no chicks to speak of.

LEGATE’S STAFF (list each, with reason for presence): x10 security staff
x15 diplomatic staff
x12 service staff

LEGATE SPECIAL NEEDS AND ACCOMODATIONS

DOES YOUR LEGATE TOLERATE THE PRESENCE OF NON-HUMANS, OR IS HE WILLING TO DO SO? (Y/N) – Considering the Legate is a non-human, we think he should be fine.

IS YOUR LEGATE NOW, OR HAS HE EVER BEEN, A DRUNKARD, CONSUMER OF ALCOHOL, OR ADDICT TO ANY RECREATIONAL/NON-PHARMACEUTICAL DRUG ASIDE FROM TOBACCO?***** (Y/N) – He has consumed both alcohol and tobacco from time to time, though he doesn't particularly care for either most of the time.

DOES YOUR LEGATE NEED CUSTOM/SPECIAL/ADAPTED PLUMBING? (Y/N) – No.
IF SO, WHAT IS IT:

DOES YOUR LEGATE HAVE ANY MEDICAL CONDITIONS? (Y/N) – No.
IF SO, WHAT ARE THEY? –

IS YOUR LEGATE OF SOUND MIND? (Y/N) - Yes.

DOES YOUR LEGATE HAVE ANY PHSYCIAL HANDICAPS NECCESITATING ACCESSIBILITY? (Y/N) – No.
IF SO, WHAT ARE THEY? –

DOES YOUR LEGATE HAVE ANY ALLERGIES? (Y/N) – He has a lactose intolerance.

IS YOUR LEGATE CAPABLE OF USING A TELEPHONE, FAX MACHINE, OR COMPUTER? (Y/N) – Yes.

THE CAPITAL OF TURTLESHROOM IS JONESBORO, WHICH IS IN A JUNGLE. CAN YOUR LEGATE WITHSTAND A TROPICAL RAINFOREST BIOME WITH A CLEARLY DEFINED, MONSOON WET/DRY SEASON CLIMATE? (Y/N) – Considering his home is located in a tropical environment, and his species has evolved to thrive in tropical environments, he should be fine.

REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION

DOES YOUR LEGATE AGREE TO ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF DWELLING IN THE TURTLESHROOMIAN LEGATION QUARTER, INCLUDING SUBJECTION TO TURTLESHROOMIAN LAWS, EXTRATERRITORIALITY, AND RESPONSIBILITIES TO HIMSELF, HIS PROPERTY, AND OTHERS? (Y/N) – Yes.

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DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE TURTLESHROOMIAN DIPLOMATIC CORPS? - No.

DO YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL NOTES, CLARIFICATIONS, OR ALERTS YOU WISH TO ISSUE THE TURTLESHROOMIAN DIPLOMATIC CORPS? -[/b] No.

DO YOU WISH FOR TURTLESHROOM TO ESTABLISH A DIPLOMATIC PRESENCE IN YOUR NATION'S LEGATION QUARTERS/ETC.? (link) - Perhaps.


_____________________________________
SIGNED

[TURTLESHROOM II]

KINGDOM OF THE UNITED TURTLES, MUSHROOMS, AND MEN OF TURTLESHROOM
EXECUTIVE CABINET
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
TURTLESHROOMIAN STATE DIPLOMATIC CORPS
DEAN

TO THE APPLICABLE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND OFFICIALS THEREOF OF THE REPUBLIC OF SAURISIA:

Thank you for your application. Mister Zhou's application has been ACCEPTED IN FULL. All applications for security, weapons, and accommodations for Mister Zhou's wife have been granted. Identification papers and verification have been received.

Per protocol, the honored Legate and his spouse, as well as any other personnel, will be fingerprinted and submitted to the routine blood tests for identification and safekeeping. If the honored Legate does not have fingerprints, some other means of identification for his species will be expected in its stead.

Our tailors will fit the appropriate, requisite blue robe for Mister Zhou's body and sashes for his staff and spouse.

We are honored to have you representing the great nation of Saurisia in TurtleShroom. May God bless your peoples and the honored Legate.



Thank you.
-DEAN OF THE TURTLESHROOMIAN STATE DIPLOMATIC CORPS, IN REPRESENTATION OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE KINGDOM OF TURTLES, MUSHROOMS, AND MEN OF TURTLESHROOM

[Medwedian Democratic Federation]

PART I: BASIC INFORMATION

FULL COUNTRY NAME: Medwedian Democratic Federation

GOVERNMENT TYPE/DESCRIPTION: Totalitarian military ultraconservative ultranationalist dictatorship.
IS YOUR NATION A MARXIST STATE OR NAZI/NATIONAL SOCIALIST STATE? (Y/N) – NO

LEGATE’S NAME: The Honourable General-Major Herbert Ebenhardsen

LEGATE’S SPECIES: Humanoid Bear (Ursoid)

LEGATE’S GENDER: Male

AGE OF LEGATE:

DESCRIPTION OF LEGATE***:

Humanoid bear of brown fur color, with moustache and sideburns. Mandated to wear military uniforms by Medwedian law. Usually, said uniforms consist of a pickelhaube, a green jacket with rank insignia and decorations, white pants with double red stripes, black leather knee-high boots and a ceremonial sword.

BIOGRAPHY OF LEGATE:

Born in 1955 in St. Martin (Governorate of Tullemark). Educated in Medwed City Federal Grammar School No. 7 (elite boarding school), went to military university and specialized in diplomacy and torture technology. Served as officer in the 7th Medwedian-Canadian war where he led his batallion almost to the US border, in the 13th, 14th and 15th War against Ponies, in the 8th War against the International Vegetarian Coalition. Bearer of numerous decorations, including His Excellency's Order for Heroism and Bravery (2nd and 1st Class) and the Federal Bravery Medal.

PART II: SPECIFICS OF LEGATE

LEGATE’S RELIGION (include both religion and sect if applicable, e.g. “Russian Orthodox Christian”, etc.) Medwedian Orthodox Christian

LEGATE’S POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Medwedisk Folksparti (Medwedian People's Party, the only legal political party of the Medwedian Democratic Federation)

LEGATE’S MARITAL STATUS: Unmarried

LEGATE’S CRIMINAL RECORD: Never committed any crime, not even speeding on the road.


HEIGHT OF LEGATE: 178 cm


DOES YOUR LEGATE HAVE ANY NON-MAGICAL/INNATE/PSYCHIC POWERS? – No.
IF SO, WHAT ARE THEY? ARE THEY EXTRAORDINARY FOR HIS SPECIES? (Y/N) – N/A

HAS YOUR LEGATE EVER DIVORCED? (Y/N) – No
IF SO, ON WHAT GROUNDS? – N/A

BEFORE HIS ASSIGNMENT, WAS YOUR LEGATE IN A COHABITATIONAL LIVING ARRANGEMENT WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX OF HIS SPECIES? (Y/N) - No


IS YOUR LEGATE AN ORDAINED CLERGYMAN OF HIS FAITH?****** (Y/N) – No

DOES YOUR LEGATE HAVE A MILITARY BACKGROUND OR EXPERIENCE? (Y/N) – Yes

HAS YOUR LEGATE EVER BEEN INVOLVED IN ESPIONAGE, FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC? (Y/N) – [CLASSIFIED]

IS YOUR LEGATE A NOBLEMAN/OF NOBLE BLOOD/HOLDING A TITLE OF NOBILITY? (Y/N)******* – Yes - Herbert Ebenhardsen has ancestors from the noble house of Tulleborg. Herbert Ebenhardsen is related to His Excellency. However, Ebenhardsen does not bear any official title of nobility.

PART III: LEGATION ACCOMPYNAMENT AND ADD-ONS

PERSONAL WEAPONS OF LEGATE, FAMILY, AND STAFF****: Two hundred fifty-four (254) AK-47 semiautomatic rifles (Martinsbjerg Factory variant); Seventy-two (72) AK-74 semiautomatic rifles (MF variant); One hundred twenty-six KP-4 handguns; Forty-two (42) HA-774b handheld machineguns; twelve (12) R6-77k handheld rocket launchers; total of 985 kilograms of spare ammunition; seven (7) N-55 Portable Nuclear Bombs

LEGATE’S TRANSPORTATION (optional): Twenty-six (26) heavily-armored Herbertsen-Martinsen stretch limousines; Five (5) Trabant (1975 model) cars

LEGATE’S FAMILY BEING BROUGHT IN (list each with short description and relation) No family.

LEGATE’S STAFF (list each, with reason for presence):

• The Honourable General-Major Ebenhard Petersen (Deputy Legate)
  
• General-Lieutenant Herbert Worgov (2nd Deputy Legate)
  
• General-Brigadier Martin Popov (Chief of the Legate Staff)
  
• General-Brigadier Albert Martin Høgersvang (Deputy Chief of the Legate Staff)
  
• Brigadier Martin Brodvanger (Chief Secretary)
  
• General-Brigadier Rupert Fartler (Chief of the Legate Security)
  
• Colonel Ivan Guddenbjerg (Deputy Chief of the Legate Security)
  
• Colonel Herbert Blergen Poisner (Chief Personal Cook)
  
• Lieutenant Colonel Nikolaj Womit (Deputy Chief Personal Cook)
  
• Prof.-Dr.-Dr. General-Lieutenant Martin Schmertz (Chief Personal Doctor)
  
• Prof.-Dr. General-Brigadier Ungbert Owanger-Brodersen (Deputy Chief Personal Doctor)
  
• A total of 250 servants, guards and assistants who can not be named for the sake of brevity and will mostly be housed in simple hotels that will be booked by the staff. A team of 20 servants and 10 guards is requested to be allowed residence in 5 rooms of the Legate Hotel that will be repurposed as dorms with 6 beds each.
  

LEGATE SPECIAL NEEDS AND ACCOMODATIONS: The Legate demands to eat meat, preferably beef, pork or lamb, every day. The Legate requests that a constant supply line of the Austrian Almdudler lemonade and of Twinings Earl Grey tea for him and his staff and servants is maintained. The Legate desires to be able to contact His Excellency, Our Beloved Leader, the Glorious and Honourable President of the Medwedian Democratic Federation, High Marshal Theodor Lynden Frankenstein daily by means of video conference using a computer that he will bring with him. The Legate requests that he is regularly provided with sentient ponies (Prisoners of war) for the purpose of their recreational torture.

DOES YOUR LEGATE TOLERATE THE PRESENCE OF NON-HUMANS, OR IS HE WILLING TO DO SO? (Y/N) – He only tolerates the presence of Humans and Ursoids and hates non-humanoids, especially sentient ponies.

IS YOUR LEGATE NOW, OR HAS HE EVER BEEN, A DRUNKARD, CONSUMER OF ALCOHOL, OR ADDICT TO ANY RECREATIONAL/NON-PHARMACEUTICAL DRUG ASIDE FROM TOBACCO?***** (Y/N) – No. He doesn't consume tobacco, either.

DOES YOUR LEGATE NEED CUSTOM/SPECIAL/ADAPTED PLUMBING? (Y/N) – No.
IF SO, WHAT IS IT: N/A

DOES YOUR LEGATE HAVE ANY MEDICAL CONDITIONS? (Y/N) – Yes.
IF SO, WHAT ARE THEY? – Rheumatitis, magnesium deficiency (calf cramps).

IS YOUR LEGATE OF SOUND MIND? (Y/N) - Yes.

DOES YOUR LEGATE HAVE ANY PHSYCIAL HANDICAPS NECCESITATING ACCESSIBILITY? (Y/N) – No.
IF SO, WHAT ARE THEY? – N/A

DOES YOUR LEGATE HAVE ANY ALLERGIES? (Y/N) – Yes. Severe fish allergy.

IS YOUR LEGATE CAPABLE OF USING A TELEPHONE, FAX MACHINE, OR COMPUTER? (Y/N) – Yes.

THE CAPITAL OF TURTLESHROOM IS JONESBORO, WHICH IS IN A JUNGLE. CAN YOUR LEGATE WITHSTAND A TROPICAL RAINFOREST BIOME WITH A CLEARLY DEFINED, MONSOON WET/DRY SEASON CLIMATE? (Y/N) – Yes.

REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION

DOES YOUR LEGATE AGREE TO ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF DWELLING IN THE TURTLESHROOMIAN LEGATION QUARTER, INCLUDING SUBJECTION TO TURTLESHROOMIAN LAWS, EXTRATERRITORIALITY, AND RESPONSIBILITIES TO HIMSELF, HIS PROPERTY, AND OTHERS? (Y/N) Yes.

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DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE TURTLESHROOMIAN DIPLOMATIC CORPS? -

Does the Government of Turtleshroom with to engage in the Medwedian International Torturer and Executioner Exchange Program and in the Medwedian International Labour and Concentration Camp Construction Assistance Program?

DO YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL NOTES, CLARIFICATIONS, OR ALERTS YOU WISH TO ISSUE THE TURTLESHROOMIAN DIPLOMATIC CORPS? -[/b]

No.

DO YOU WISH FOR TURTLESHROOM TO ESTABLISH A DIPLOMATIC PRESENCE IN YOUR NATION'S LEGATION QUARTERS/ETC.? Yes (sorry, no link can be provided yet) -


EBENHARDSEN

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SIGNED,
The Honourable General-Major Herbert Ebenhardsen

[TURTLESHROOM II]

KINGDOM OF THE UNITED TURTLES, MUSHROOMS, AND MEN OF TURTLESHROOM
EXECUTIVE CABINET
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
TURTLESHROOMIAN STATE DIPLOMATIC CORPS
DEAN

TO ANY APPLICABLE COMMISSARIAT OR DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE MEDWEDITE STATE:

After careful review of your application, the Legation Quarter has elected to put your application ON HOLD pending further investigation.

The outstandingly bizzare requests and weaponry applications, as well as a direct offering to TurtleShroom to breach the treaties it is bound by, imposed as terms of her surrender, indicates malice or at least ignorance of TurtleShroomian matters. Indeed, the honored Two Star General seems rather brutish, given that he has the audacity to request provision of innocents for the purpose of torment.

The following issues need to be addressed prior to application:

• Are you sure you're not a National Socialist? The "Concentration Camp Assistance Program" and self-pronfessed totalitarianism speaks very much about you being Nazis.
• We cannot honor your request for twenty six stretch-limousines. We will allow two and the cars.
• You do understand that this is a Legation Quarter and not an ambassadorial campus, right? Your honored Legate and relatives, respectively, will be living and working in your Legation Quarter suite and will be on-site in the family compounds, should there be too many people to occupy the Legation Quarter.
• The honored Legate does not need two hundred fifty servants or a chef. The following personnel requests have been denied: all cooks, all Deputies to senior offices, the two Deputy Legates.
• We will allow three of the requested two hundred fifty servants. You will be required to pay for their lodging at any commercial hotel or residence and must transport them to and from anywhere you go yourself.
• The Legation Quarter provides an all-you-can-eat Vegas-style buffet with dozens of choices of entres and sides daily and without fail, staffed by TurtleShroomian cooks. Your requested meats are served on-site, and thus, your cooks are not required.
• Are you attempting to stage a military filibuster against TurtleShroom, or are you securing your Legate? You shall not violate the sovereignty or security of TurtleShroom by importing any form of bomb, projectile, RPG, grenade, or any weapon that cannot exercise discernment. You will be allowed twelve machine guns, sixty hand guns, nine AK-74 rifles, and eleven AK-47 rifles.
• While we commend the equine disdain of the honored Legate, the honored Legate's intolerance of non-humans that are not bears is a red flag that speaks significantly against the acceptance of the honored Legate. Clarification is neccesary, lest the Medwedite state be required to propose another candidate.
• It is good to see that the honored Legate has an appreciation for tea. However, we will not accept a tea-based rider as specific as this, or in the quantities you demand. If you so wish, you may purchase and demand your own bags of black Earl Grey Tea from your homeland, or attempt to purchase it from TurtleShroomian stores, and it will be delivered to your Legation suite for your own preparation. A hot plate for boiling water will be provided. Otherwise, you may obtain complimentary TurtleShroomian tea bags (or pour fresh tea, hot or cold) in the buffet hall, and take these with you or get refills. (If you are interested in expanding your tea horizons, consider trying TurtleShroomian sweetened ice tea. It's cold, but delicious.)
• The Legation Quarter will not convert its suites to bunk beds for duplicitous staff.
• You will be allowed twelve guardsmen plus the Chief of Security, and you will pay for their lodging and accomodations. Two will be allowed to live directly in the Legation Quarter suite with you, and bunk beds will be provided for this. Both may be armed if you so desire. The other ten will accompany you on your travels, etc. . One of these may stand guard outside your suite's door if you so wish.
• Your request for personal teleconferencing and computing is extraordinary for a nation we have never encounted, and will this have to deny this request. You may communicate through the provided computer and telephone. However, if you are willing to pay extra, we will provide with an, independant, separate, instant hotline with which you can contact the esteemed Grand Marshall of your nation at any time.

The following requests have been granted in full:

• All of your medical staff has been granted full entry. Once the structure is complete, your bear-based vetrinarians shall work in the on-site hospital alongside TurtleShroomian and other foreign medics, including the honored medical Legate of Allanea, at Medwedite expense. You will share any medical knowledge or expertise concerning vetirinary care and care for sentient, bipedal bears in general, with TurtleShroom.
• Your meal requests are already fulfilled by the Legation Quarter buffets. You will have no problem acquiring your various preferences in meat and are free to dine at any time. Your requests for meat have been accepted by default.
• While we cannot, and will not, accept riders that specific, your request for lemonade is reasonable and has thus been accepted. To accomodate your request, as offered in the orignal charter, your suite will be granted a full-size refridgerator to store your lemonade and other perishables. Each day at dawn, the honored Legate shall be presented with gallons of fresh lemonade, using combinations of real lemons and lemon juice instead of powder, for his enjoyment and the enjoyment of his staff. Initial provisions will be three gallons, adjusted as needed based on the honored Legate's consumption. If the consumption is too high, the honored Legate will be charged for the excess.
• Your request for approximately sixty poods of ammunition will be fully honored.
• Access and inclusion will be granted to the Chief Secretary, Chief of Staff, and Chief of Legate Security. The Chief Secretary will be provided offices on the Legation Quarter compound at our expense. If applicable, he may live in your suite with you.

We expect a follow-up to these points. Any counter-offer shall be directed to the Legation Quarter and, specifically, to me. Your interest in closer diplomatic ties with TurtleShroom is greatly appreciated. God bless you.


Thank you.
-DEAN OF THE TURTLESHROOMIAN STATE DIPLOMATIC CORPS, IN REPRESENTATION OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE KINGDOM OF TURTLES, MUSHROOMS, AND MEN OF TURTLESHROOM

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Your commitment to fighting the Ponyist menace is greatly respected. While TurtleShroom is bound by treaty and thus cannot facilitate any harm upon sentient horses for any reason whatsoever, we will not intervene if you seek to capture some for yourself.  There are remnants of sentient horse civilizations in the jungles, assuming the Zim Belt rebels or Necron Death Squads do not get them, or you, first. Do not torture anyone on Legation Quarter grounds. Also, don't get caught: if you do, we will be forced to expel your Legate per our policy.

Our nation has a long and storied tradition of fast, humane, effecient, deterring, and just execution. We are interested in your Executioner Exchange Program, but do not want to be involved with your Torture Exchange Program.


[Medwedian Democratic Federation]

MEDWEDISK FØDERALMINISTERIET FYR UDENLANGER
MEDWEDIAN FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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Medwed,
the 17th Day of February of the 2018th Year of the Lord

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To whom it may apply, specifically to the Honourable Dean of the Turtleshroomian Diplomatic Corps:

After prolonged consideration, we have decided to proceed with the process of establishing formalized diplomatic relations with the Second Sacred Junta of Turtleshroom. As such, a revision of our application has occured, and we have hereby changed it to your needs, eliminating the positions, supplies or amenities you disallow. The Designated Legate of the Medwedian Democratic Federation to the Sacred Sacred Junta of Turtleshroom, the Honourable General-Major Herbert Ebenhardsen, has agreed to forfeit the servant body he intended to bring and to refrain from torturing equines on the premises of the Legate Quarters.

We are making the following clarifications in addition:

• The Almdudler lemonade, of which a supply line shall be set up, is produced in Austria. It is made from alpine herbs and is exported to Medwedia in wide qualities.

• The Designated Legate has agreed to bring in a 500-kilogram supply of Twinings Earl Grey tea from his own tea cellar posessions.

• The Designated Legate does indeed wish that at least one guard stands by the door of his suite at all times.

We also hereby clarify, that despite our usage of the terms "work camp", "death camp", "extermination camp" and "concentration camp", we do NOT by any means adhere to the National-Socialist ideology. We have fought against Hitler in the Second World War and see him as an evil person, especially because he was a vegetarian. The Medwedian ideology seems to be severely conservative and patriotic to the foreign observer, but it is not fascist. Nobody is punished in Medwedia just for their descent. No foreigner understands that it is the love towards our people and our fatherland, not the imperialist quest for world vegetarianism.

The Designated Legate and the Medwedian Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs will swiftly answer any inquiries and hope that the application is accepted.

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SIGNED,
Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Medwedian Democratic Federation,
The Honourable
Field Marshal Antek Igor MARTINSVANGER

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OOC: How do you like my new communique format?

[TURTLESHROOM II]

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KINGDOM OF THE UNITED TURTLES, MUSHROOMS, AND MEN OF TURTLESHROOM
EXECUTIVE CABINET
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
TURTLESHROOMIAN STATE DIPLOMATIC CORPS
DEAN

TO ANY APPLICABLE COMMISSARIAT OR DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE MEDWEDITE STATE:

It is not fascism, but National Socialism and the supremacy of any one human race over the others, coupled with the declared inferiority, mistreatment, dehumanization, and even extermination of innocents, that we object to. TurtleShroom was under fascist rule for over thirty years. Not once was anything but civic nationalism practiced by them. Nazis were a mockery and disgrace to fascism.

In regards to your application, you having understood and agreed to our stipulations, now present your revised application, which has been ACCEPTED IN FULL. However, we cannot oblige to make your special lemonade, and will instead insist on our original offer. While spices are not expensive in TurtleShroom, we do not feel that it is appropriate to spend tax money on one Legate, with whose country we have no other ties or awareness of, for his own drinking pleasure.

The honored Legate's request for importing crates of tea has been granted, but the honored Legate will be required to store it off-site at the Legate's expense. Your servant corps, limited to our stipulations as noted, may bring your tea into the Legation Quarter at your expense. You will be expected to prepare your own tea; we will still provide the hot plate, and you may use any sugar or other tea additives in the buffet hall.

Upon arrival, the honored Legate and his staff will be fingerprinted or paw-printed and subject, as standard, to blood sampling for DNA profiling purposes. The honored Legate will be issued his custom-tailored robe, and sashes will be given to his staff and security. In order to identify the Legate and Legation staff, and in order to ensure that he and his staff enjoy the privileges and immunities of their office, these garments are not optional unless in emergencies.

As the honored Legate will be providing and paying for his own security, the Chancellery Guard protection and coverage will be greatly reduced. The honored Legate's accepted vehicles will be affixed with miniature Medwedite and Legation flags, as per free parking protocol.

Subject to our previous stipulations, all revised applications for weapons, security personnel, and staff, etc. for the Legate have been granted. Revised dentifications and notifications have been received for all personel and family. As you know, you will be expected to house and pay for lodging and non-family staff, excluding your Chief Secretary. Your request for a Medwedite guardsman to post outside your door, while unusual, has been granted.

For a review of any stipulations, the honored Legate may refer to our previous dispatch. Your instant no-dial hotline with your head of state or applicable Minister of Foreign Affairs will be installed and ready for your use upon your arrival.

We are humbled and honored to have you here in TurtleShroom.


Thank you.
-DEAN OF THE TURTLESHROOMIAN STATE DIPLOMATIC CORPS, IN REPRESENTATION OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE KINGDOM OF TURTLES, MUSHROOMS, AND MEN OF TURTLESHROOM

[Medwedian Democratic Federation]

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(FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE MEDWEDIAN DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION)

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Medwed,
the 17th Day of February of the 2018th Year of the Lord

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To whom it may apply:

We desire to show our greatest gratitudes towards you for the final granting of the permission to establish diplomatic relations.

The Legate shall arrive tomorrow on his personal jet, together with his servants and personnel. The jet will be stored at our expense in the nearest airport to the embassy grounds.

We wish to request that the lemonade, just like the tea, is brought with the Legate, again in the extent of half a ton, in a self-cooling crate. We have already booked storage spaces and several offices and accomodations for personnel that are not registered in the application.

Also, we request that you observe the correct adjective for our nation and people of our nationality, Medwedian, and refrain from using the term Medwedite, which counts as slightly derogatory.

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WE ARE HIGHLY INTERESTED IN TAKING OUT PONYIST NESTS -STOP- REQUEST PERMISSION TO SEND 10.000 SPECIAL FORCES PERSONNEL IN COVERT OPERATION -STOP- STEALTH PLANES UTILIZING CLASSIFIED TECHNOLOGY WILL BE USED -STOP- EXCEPT FULL EXTERMINATION OF EQUINE POPULATION WITHIN 3 MONTHS -STOP- SPECIAL BIOWEAPON TAILORED TO TARGET PONIES

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SIGNED,
Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Medwedian Democratic Federation,
The Honourable
Field Marshal Antek Igor MARTINSVANGER

GLORY TO GOD AND FATHERLAND!
GLORY TO MEDWEDIA!
GLORY TO HIS EXCELLENCY, OUR BELOVED LEADER, THE GLORIOUS AND HONOURABLE PRESIDENT OF THE MEDWEDIAN DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION, HIGH MARSHAL THEODOR LYNDEN FRANKENSTEIN!

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[The Ctan]

Vinyatírion, Menelmacar

Omelas. The name was one that derived from the writings of the Dramathurge Le-Guin, a parable and tale that was everything from philosophical quandry to allegory. The tale of a paradisical city state without want which remained only so by the suffering of a single individual, a child, imprisoned in the bowels of the Earth. It was a tale about many things, short but significant, variations upon this theme were part of the literary education of children and others on the road to becoming citizens of the Great Civilization. It was part of the Corpus Literis Civilis of the Great Civilization; along with many other texts, it taught the failings of utilitarianism, it taught the ethic of responsibility, and the credo of universal responsibility.

Here, beneath the teeming city whose spires reached the stratosphere, as far beneath the ground as those gleaming heights were above it, beneath the arcades where children played and the colonnaded gymnasia where the Menelmacari improved their bodies in endless tests of physical skill, the theatres and the great soaring opera house with its own clouds, the observation platforms and the city-forests that breathed for the vast city like lungs, there was a reflection of that tale. A prison beneath the great palace of the House of Fëanor. The city was within the nigh-extinct caldera of an ancient super-volcano, the pulse of the living Earth flowing through it, where a vast part of the continental crust had broken in times long past. The volcano was tamed, channelled by ancient arts, and provided abundant geo-thermal power, though the inhabitants had long exceeded the output of such a power source, and plentiful building materials, porphyry and marble, and many more, that had attracted the Noldor, with their affinity for delving into the Earth.

The prison was a bleak place, so deep that the rock itself was warm to the touch, and insulated by gates and barred barriers. Here, the prisoner languished; languishing was all that was possible in this place. A guardian that never slept nor rested in its vigil stood watch nearby, wrought of that same stone, and few indeed could pass. The Earth was hewed with runes of healing and succor, that would otherwise be welcome, but here, served to prevent suicide and force the prisoner to remain sane. The prisoner would never die of natural causes within this age of the Earth; she had seen to that herself before her capture, replacing much of her body with living plastics and alchemical creations built on the backs of other suffering.

The door rarely opened; the cell was an ancient bubble of rock that could house hundreds, and the prisoner had not left in years that grew long and heavy by now, it was not dark; illuminated enough that the prisoner could see herself. Food was presented at times, dropped from a chute above, and enough facilities to remove waste existed in the cell to allow a degree of cleanliness; the Lord Ranisath did not wish his prize to die.

She had once been an Empress; in happier times, perhaps, she had ruled a nation whose name had been forgotten, whose people had been destroyed in the billions. She had herself to blame for that, a fascist and a slave-owner, she had sworn and singed a treaty with abolitionist nations to prohibit slavery in her realm, and for this she would in her tyranny, be left at peace.

She had reneged on that treaty. The nation had been destroyed by abolitionist crusaders, and she had fled, hoping to find a chance to flee and live. The Lord Ranisath’s webs had ensnared her; and he had promised her sanctuary in his house. This he had given, for he lived far above her. No slaver could be permitted to walk free in the land of Menelmacar, though, that was the Lady’s command, and so she had been taken to the deeping cells.

Here she had remained; here she would abide until the end of days.

Death she had craved long ago, but she would not receive it, for Death was a mercy for the recidivist; the Great Civilization hated many things more than slavery, and among them, the recidivist enslaver was such a being.

It was well known that she was here, there were five principles of justice, or so the C’tani were taught, deterrence, rehabilitation, protection of others, retribution, and symbolic denunciation; deterrence was the goal here. The prisoner had likely forgotten her name, and who she used to be, but it was well known, as was her fate. She had once been Ling Tan, Empress of Greater Tezdrian, a nation that had now died at last the lingering death inflicted on it by the crusader-state of Lyras for her oathbreaking.

It was well known to all, that was the point, that the price of oathbreaking with crusader powers could be heavy; the Great Civilization was one such, and it had made a point of showing at whiles that the punishment fell hardest upon the rulers of those it opposed, personally. The King of Altea was called a prince by now, and a prisoner within his own land, forced to stand at the side of the Great Civilization’s Regent. The Premier of New Freedomstan, had been handed over to the enemies he had attacked, despite being a personal friend of the Lord Ranisath before his crimes, who had watched with stern unsmiling countenance as he was executed by Slow Slicing. In the Sherant Desert of Aligreth, in a high tower, a Prince of the Scandinvans endured the long years of imprisonment alone and forgotten by all, save the propagandists of the C’tani. On and on the tally went of those who had once stood high among the mighty and paid at the hands of the C’tani for their crimes against the powerless.

There was no immunity for the heads of states in the eyes of the Great Civilization. Such stern commitment to justice, they said, was what made them Great.

For a first crime, one could sue for forgiveness; for a second, committed in full knowledge that one had received mercy, there was far less compassion. Less so then for the crime of genocide, which they held as worse than mere slavery; a slave could be freed at any time, and most wounds could be healed, a murder victim could rarely be raised from the grip of death ethically.

High above the cells of Vinyatirion, and above the highest of its towers, satellites orbited; watching with the same unceasing vigilance that the guards watched the cell, from their high vantage point, they tabulated and matriculated the deeds of those states on Arda that had been granted such forgiveness by the C’tani; and the coldly precise minds that watched through these eyes.

OOC: Just a florid reminder that this is all being watched constantly, and particularly the equine communities who the C’tani regard themselves as the protectors of. Ten thousand special forces is an entire division, and the C’tani have human intelligence gathering on the ground in the form of the Treaty Compliance Navigators, AKA Death Squads, who are not professional at the moment, but can be augmented by their android soldiers at any time.

Any evidence – and remember that interrogation will likely include (because remember, this is ponies and mind-control magic is a thing in their canon) mind-probe or mental enslavement magic, so the issues about torture generating false-positives are irrelevant – of collusion by General Long and his regime would result in a war that makes the last invasion of Turtleshroom look like a playground slap-fight.

And of course, they’d go after Medwedia with even more aggression than the time Menelmacar bombed the Medweds too. In-character actions have in-character consequences, of course. I don’t know anything about this… yet. But keeping it under wraps will be beyond difficult and I hope you guys are okay with that.

Approved with Menelmacar.

[Medwedian Democratic Federation]

How about making a RP about a covert invasion of the Turtleshroomian jungle by the Medwedian army?

[Allanea]

How about making a RP about a covert invasion of the Turtleshroomian jungle by the Medwedian army?

This is a lovely idea! As someone who has military bases in nearby Hiluxia, I would love to participate!

[Medwedian Democratic Federation]

How about making a RP about a covert invasion of the Turtleshroomian jungle by the Medwedian army?

This is a lovely idea! As someone who has military bases in nearby Hiluxia, I would love to participate!

OOC: So...let's make a plan.

I have the following idea:

- Medwedian intelligence service learns of the presence of ponies in Turtleshroom. Seeing that Turtleshroom is not allowed to kill ponies, the government decides to do them a "favour".

- A small operation that involves the covert and unofficial insertion of a medium-sized force begins. A makeshift concentration camp for the extermination of prisoners is built.

- Large Ponyist nations get the news, enter the war. Possibly they can declare war on Turtleshroom because Turtleshroom tolerates the killing of ponies by Medwedian forces. Maybe a three-sided war - after all, Turtleshroom wouldn't be very happy about the Medwedian provocation that turns it into a scapegoat.

[Allanea]

OOC: Let's wait until TS gets online before we continue discussing things, it is after all his thread.

[TURTLESHROOM II]

{ OOC: Having concluded the Dark Harvest, I have a strict "TurtleShroom is not to be invaded by a foreign power" rule on my canon. Once was enough, and it's been six years since that story, and I'm still not out of the woods. As such, I will not permit a second invasion from the C'Tan, Menelmacar, or any other party against my nation. However, I will allow any form of battle between Medwedia and anyone else on TS soil, as long as TS itself is not the target. }

{ OOC: Consequently, TS cannot afford to allow ten thousand men and/or war bears to storm TS. They'd be caught and TS would become the scapegoat. Besides, TS was expecting Medwedia to send hunters/poachers/adventure tourists to the Zim Belt in order to hunt down the ponies, in the same limited matter as the Necron Death Squads are protecting them. In the eyes of General Long II, who authored the top secret memo, that offer is a Military Filibuster in disguise. }

{ OOC: Also, even if TurtleShroom were to allow that many Medwedian soldiers, they wouldn't tolerate extermination camps or concentration camps. That's way too far, even for the pony problem, and that's saying something, as a fringe group in TS considered humane/instantaneous execution for the purpose of meat processing to be a good idea. It also doesn't help the "we are not Nazis" promise the Medwedians tried to assure TS of. Heck, since their first interaction, TurtleShroomers have begun to colliqually refer to Medwedians as "Bear Nazis", despite the government's insistence on trusting their word. }

[Allanea]

OOC: Beyond anything that was said, it is also likely impossible to 'secretly infiltrate' ten thousand men by airlift without them being noticed, or at least in something vaguely resembling technology as we know it today, even given the fairly limited military power of Turtleshroom. This would require the use of dozens upon dozens of aircraft, and either the aircraft or the soldiers would be spotted, if not by Turtleshroom, then by people in the surrounding nations (and Allanea has a military presence directly next to Turtleshroom).

At this point, Turtleshroom would be entirely entitled to call upon the world community to help it, and Allanea would intervene, not to fight Turtleshroom, but to defend it from Nazi bears. Unsurprisingly perhaps, literal Nazi bears whose life ambition is to murder adorable pink ponies are not very popular in my nation.

[Menelmacar]

OOC: It would certainly be impossible to hide an infiltration on such a scale from Menelmacar or the C'tani.

[Medwedian Democratic Federation]

OOC: So what would be a realistic ORBAT that would stay unnoticed?

Also, the Medwedian troops would probably try to agitate local villagers and spread propaganda leaflets from the air, leading to nightly torch-and-pitchfork runs onto pony nests.

[Allanea]

OOC: So what would be a realistic ORBAT that would stay unnoticed?

Also, the Medwedian troops would probably try to agitate local villagers and spread propaganda leaflets from the air, leading to nightly torch-and-pitchfork runs onto pony nests.

OOC: I don't want to speak on behalf of Turtleshroom, and he's the final arbiter of what is possible in his nation, but I would think the number in question is probably in the dozens of men at best. That's of course entirely okay since your purpose is essentially terrorism and genocide, which can be accomplished with very small quantities of troops if the troops know what they're doing and the opponents are badly prepared....

..whether or not Turtleshroom's ponies are badly prepared, of course, is another question entirely!

[Menelmacar]

OOC: I'd like to second Allanea's assessment that a deployment on a small scale could be carried out relatively easily. Most of the folks in the Zim Belt and so on are already primed for pony hunting so a few dozen guys should have no trouble riling them up.

[Medwedian Democratic Federation]

OOC: The Medwedian troops will bring tactical nuclear grenades with them and not hesitate to use them if the situation gets tricky or a large herd of ponies is detected. It is possible that the local torch-and-pitchfork militias will get some of them. The grenades used by the Medwedian army are comparable with the Davy Crockett.

Also, what do you think of the establishment of a Medwedian puppet state by the anti-ponyist militias?