Reichsministerium Auswärtiges Amt (Vadterland Q&A)

[The Rapture Republic]

”What is freedom? Is something worth fighting for...? Or is it just another word used by politicians to wage pointless wars?”
-VictorNet

[Zitravgrad]

*sign language*
"Greetings, today I am here to discuss about a generic topic, hence my message is not encrypted."
...
"I understand that... your nation is in wartime. How is the public opinion on people with disability? Do the public and the private sectors provide accessibility for them? (i.e. wheelchair-accessible buildings, Braille, sign language) How well does your medical technology help to relieve or cure such disability? How is their employment prospective in your country?"
...
"Thank you for your time."
- Christov Kirillovich Pereverzev, Director of the Oprichnina

[Normund]

Alfred Best - Common Citizen

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Hello,

I’ve heard that your world has magic in it. How does it work? How has it affected your nation’s culture?

[Vadterland]

(Sorry these have piled up. I thought people forgot this was a thing, and I’ll be answering these later today if I can.)
/skip

[Vadterland]

*sign language*
"Greetings, today I am here to discuss about a generic topic, hence my message is not encrypted."
...
"I understand that... your nation is in wartime. How is the public opinion on people with disability? Do the public and the private sectors provide accessibility for them? (i.e. wheelchair-accessible buildings, Braille, sign language) How well does your medical technology help to relieve or cure such disability? How is their employment prospective in your country?"
...
"Thank you for your time."
- Christov Kirillovich Pereverzev, Director of the Oprichnina

"To Director Pereverzev of Zitravgrad,

The public opinion on individuals with disability is somewhat complicated, however it is overall sympathetic considering that among the disabled are many veterans who have returned home from the front badly wounded. While the private and public sectors of the Empire have made some efforts to provide greater accessibility to the disabled, the material and personnel demands of wartime have more or less completely halted the endeavor.

Our world's medical technology has, naturally, been unable to completely eliminate disability, however strides in conventional prosthetics have relieved some of the Empire's physically disabled, and advances in experimental treatments aided by magic have shown promise in reversing certain conditions such as blindness, however again material shortages as well as a lack of mages on the homefront have made progress in this field extremely slow.

As for employment opportunities, the handicapped are of course at a disadvantage. Positions from munitions factory workers to shop clerks are preferably staffed with more able-bodied individuals by employers. This is understandably disheartening and perhaps grim to more advanced societies where they can be accommodated, however the Empire's less fortunate are not at the mercy of discrimination when all is said and done. The permanently disabled and the families thereof have been entitled to pensions to ensure their well-being since the late 19th century, and are provided for to the extent that the Imperial government can in these trying times."
- Joachim von Neurath, Imperial Minister for Foreign Affairs

(If this wasn't a great answer, sorry, it's late and I'm running on fumes here after an all-nighter. I'll have something for Normund later tomorrow, and that one shouldn't be too difficult considering the length of the question. The response to it will be edited in this post. Sorry to keep you guys waiting.)

[Normund]

Alfred Best - Common Citizen

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Hello,

I’ve heard that your world has magic in it. How does it work? How has it affected your nation’s culture?

/ahem

[Occiterra]

Danial Harvey — Truck Driver

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What is the range of non-mainstream ideologies occasionally identified by authorities? Are there any particularly ludicrous ones, or burgeoning movements?

[Emishin]

*How your political views on our nation, Emishin ?*

Ryuma Suzuki
Member of Cabinet Office

[Occiterra]

Danial Harvey — Truck Driver

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What is the range of non-mainstream ideologies occasionally identified by authorities? Are there any particularly ludicrous ones, or burgeoning movements?

/bump