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Lauzanne Independence Day marks 40 years of freedom!


Soldiers of the 14th Guards Infantry Brigade during the Independence Day 2020 parade.

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By RAFAIL BORISYEV

RASELAN, LAUZANNE

Raselan is abuzz with energy for the coming October 17. Tourists are arriving in droves, pennants showing the blue and purple of the flag are being hung up all around the city, and an excitement is building. In a little over a week, Lauzanne celebrates it's 40th anniversary as an independent nation.

Breaking off from the Warsaw Pact and declaring a Federal Republic in 1981, the country has faced significant hardship through three wars, recovering from a post-Soviet economy, political unrest and pressure from foreign nations. From the Civil War, to the Refusal War and most recently the Spring War, Lauzanne nonetheless has survived this long and thrived. Being one of the strongest economies in Eastern Europe with a high standard of living, Lauzanne is the envy of many.

With the 40th anniversary of Lauzanne's independence will come a special parade along with an address to the nation and the world from President Waffenschmidt. Already, dignitaries from many nations are entering the country, hoping to see the proceedings.

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With the end of the Spring War in 2019, Lauzanne enters into a new stage of it's history... One in a world that seeks to pull it in many directions. But will Lauzanne fall in line with one of the world's superpowers, or will it stand tall and free?

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Will you send dignitaries to observe this auspicious event? Or will your nation simply make a statement for the occasion?

APPLICATION

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NATION NAME:
GOVERNMENT TYPE:
SENDING DIGNITARIES/OFFICIAL MESSAGE? (Will you send people, or will your government simply send a message of affirmation or otherwise?):
DIGNITARIES SENT:
SPECIAL REQUESTS:
WHEN DID THE SPRING WAR END?:


NATION NAME: Commonwealth of the Kingdoms of Prussia and Poland
GOVERNMENT TYPE: Federal Republic pretending to be a stratocracy pretending to be a monarchy pretending to be a republic pretending to be a stratocracy pretending to be a republic pretending to be a monarchy-
SENDING DIGNITARIES/OFFICIAL MESSAGE? (Will you send people, or will your government simply send a message of affirmation or otherwise?): Dignitaries + message of affirmation.
DIGNITARIES SENT:
>Gen. Lilianna Aleksandra Macduff
>Minister of Defense Andre Kuczera
>Ambassador Johannes Tserclaes
>More may be added for the funny.
SPECIAL REQUESTS: Macduff is visually impaired and requires the use of a seeing-eye dog and a cane.
WHEN DID THE SPRING WAR END?: 2019

NATION NAME: The Empire of Greater Nifon
GOVERNMENT TYPE: Single Party Authoritarian Military Dictatorship
SENDING DIGNITARIES/OFFICIAL MESSAGE? (Will you send people, or will your government simply send a message of affirmation or otherwise?): Dignitary + a diplomatic message
DIGNITARIES SENT:
- Inspector General of the Armed Forces: Yamaguchi Kaien.
SPECIAL REQUESTS: -
WHEN DID THE SPRING WAR END?: 2019

NATION NAME: The State of the Masses of the Neo Japanese States
GOVERNMENT TYPE:
De jure: Federal Communist State under the guidance of Mother Amaterasu
De facto: Federal Marxist-Leninist-Sanzoist Multi-Party Socialist State under an Emperor
SENDING DIGNITARIES/OFFICIAL MESSAGE? (Will you send people, or will your government simply send a message of affirmation or otherwise?): Dignitary + Embassy Request
DIGNITARIES SENT:
- Princess Mako of Akishino
SPECIAL REQUESTS: The Royal Princess is a high value personnel.
WHEN DID THE SPRING WAR END?: 2019

NATION NAME: The Holy Kingdom of Cassadia
GOVERNMENT TYPE: Autocratic Absolute Monarchy
SENDING DIGNITARIES/OFFICIAL MESSAGE? (Will you send people, or will your government simply send a message of affirmation or otherwise?):

The Crown-Government has expressed solidarity for their Lauzannean counterparts to send a single dignitary of military background,. So long as the illustrious hosts are to accept their request for the invitation of Lieutenant-colonel Mikhail Sparkov to be given the green light to attend the procession.

Lieutenant-colonel Mikhail Sparkov is a decorated high-ranking officer, distinguishing himself as a junior NCO serving in Her Majesty's Royal Marine Corp at the time of the flare-up of the Millennium War which suddenly erupted with the massive incursion into the Overseas Dependency of New Carthage shortly after the death of the Duke of the House of Oxenstierna who was assassinated in a drone strike by the Cassadians in a carefully planned operation that aimed and succeeded in covertly gathering implicating evidence of having played crucial role as the main provider of material and financial means to Hizb Al-Shahid, the terrorist group played a central role in staging a mass terror attack on the Cassadian homeland that claimed the lives of almost three thousand people dead or injured after hijacking civilian airliners that were then forcefully diverted into the ground against several landmarks, the Headquarters of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Krillin Trade Center and the Royal Palace of Carthage being the main targets of their attack.

With the outbreak of this invasion, then-Junior Sergeant Mikhail Sparkov would be from among a sizeable contingent consisting of several units that would be the first to be airlifted to a fast-deteriorating military situation in Albarazil. Although largely trivial in the grand scheme of the war, Sparkov would go on to perform with distinction his duties to his superior officer, Crown, and the men under his command. Gaining a reputation for his do-or-die approach to orders and resolute character to see through his orders carried out at any cost by any means necessary, despite the often ghast odds facing his unit and sister Marine formations who served as the tip of the spear at the head of a vast conscript-heavy grouping of forces following their lead in battle. The role of this "tactical offensive vanguard" being to exploit holes in the line clearing the way for conscript units to pour through gaps and weak points which his unit was one of many - assigned to the task of exploiting "chinks" in the defensive lines of the Ejorikeans.

Wounded in the late stage of the conflict, the injuries he sustained in an advanced active combat area as a result of a stray mortar round rendered him unable to fulfill his duties for the duration of the conflict. Much to his vociferous grief and pleading requests petitioning the top brass to reinstate him back to active service after regaining control of his motor functions. A call that would never be responded to so much with even a short rejection to his demand.

After the war, Mikhail Sparkov would make full recovery and finally be brought back to active duty, after enrolling in the Etropole Officer Academy Of Warfighting And Operational Excellence. Once again proving his mettle in the eyes of his superior and prejudiced examiners who discriminated against him because of his ethnic Sche'gor origin. The marine would go on to complete his education for a commissioned officer, with a starting rank of Major. Over the next several years, he would rise through the ranks of the officer corps of the marine corp, persisting at his job as a determined and skilled professional who would become a voice in a small, but passionate collective of military officers, strategists, planners, and scientists working in the military field who were doggedly avowed in their belief for comprehensive reform to the Cassadian Armed Forces as a result of several serious shortcomings in the structure and strategic mobility of an operationally cumbersome juggernaut that was organized, trained and structured to fight a large, conventional defensive war rather than a large-scale overseas conflict that required rapid deployment. A disaster in the making only averted by a small handful of formations from the specialized and professional "Old Regiment" Land Force units, Airborne, Marine and Border Troop units that bled the colossal conventional armies of the Ejorikeans to a stalemate, keeping the tide at bay until much-needed reinforcements from the Homeland.

His passive-aggressive stubbornness in his entrenched beliefs would come to earn him the nickname of the " Gentle Pitbull". After several years and the excellent performance of units under his command in wargames, his efforts would finally be rewarded by figures sympathetic to his cause of bringing the Cassadian military fully into the 21st century. Attaining a seat on the Joint Forces Command and Equipment Procurement Committee, after his promotion to a Lieutenant colonel, giving patronage to the financing, complete development, and fielding of newer military systems such as the MFBI-2011 and BPT-2013 since he has been given a seat on the council of such important decision-making bodies pertaining the development of Cassadia's military. August bodies that for too long were headed and controlled by reformers whose vision was stuck within the boundary of mindset for the Cold War, in their belief of continued modernization of existing platforms and the fielding of a vast conscript army.

Lieutenant colonel Mikhail Sparkov is aiming to change and do away with the aging top brass that has held the military back.

DIGNITARIES SENT: 1 (Lieutenant-Colonel Mikhail Sparkov)
SPECIAL REQUESTS: None that are of importance.
WHEN DID THE SPRING WAR END?: 2019.

Good evening,
if no one minds, I would like to participate in this RP. My app is below.

All five of you are accepted, OP going up hopefully soonish

Lauzanne wrote:All five of you are accepted, OP going up hopefully soonish

Wondeful! : D Small question, though: Dresscode. Would traditional costumes be allowed? Also considering that said costume includes fur from a formally living animal, I thought it to be prudent to ask before my dignitaries are arrested or something...

The Selkie wrote:

Lauzanne wrote:All five of you are accepted, OP going up hopefully soonish

Wondeful! : D Small question, though: Dresscode. Would traditional costumes be allowed? Also considering that said costume includes fur from a formally living animal, I thought it to be prudent to ask before my dignitaries are arrested or something...

Ceremonial uniforms are preferred where possible, fur is fine.

Lauzanne wrote:

The Selkie wrote:
Wondeful! : D Small question, though: Dresscode. Would traditional costumes be allowed? Also considering that said costume includes fur from a formally living animal, I thought it to be prudent to ask before my dignitaries are arrested or something...

Ceremonial uniforms are preferred where possible, fur is fine.

Understood - though, for the record, my two lassies aren't active military. Thank you!

NATION NAME:
The Confederation of the New Visayan Islands
GOVERNMENT TYPE:
Federal, Semi-Directorial Republic
SENDING DIGNITARIES/OFFICIAL MESSAGE? (Will you send people, or will your government simply send a message of affirmation or otherwise?):
Both, as the official message will be carried by Vice President Ishikawa.
DIGNITARIES SENT:
- Francisco Ishikawa - Vice President of the New Visayan Islands
- Alfred Galvez - Deputy Director of the Visayan Intelligence Agency
- Ursula Jao-Rabuya - Admiral, Visayan Confederation Navy; Vice Chief of Naval Operations
- Remedios Ortiz-Melencion - Ambassador to Lauzanne
- Michelle Andrade - Rear Admiral (lower half), retired, Visayan Confederation Navy; Deputy Chief of Mission to Lauzanne
- Damian Peteros - Special Agent, Visayan Bureau of Investigation; Legal Attaché to Lauzanne
- Matthew Edward Advincula - Commercial Attaché to Lauzanne; Agent Jarvis, Visayan Intelligence Agency
SPECIAL REQUESTS:
- Alfred Galvez is vegan.
- Michelle Andreade is Jewish, therefore requires kosher.
WHEN DID THE SPRING WAR END?:
2019

NATION NAME: Catholic Republic of Langenia
GOVERNMENT TYPE: Unitary Catholic semi-presidential republic (definitely not an autocratic stratocracy)
SENDING DIGNITARIES/OFFICIAL MESSAGE? (Will you send people, or will your government simply send a message of affirmation or otherwise?): Dignitaries and message of congratulations
DIGNITARIES SENT: The Catholic Republic will be sending the following dignitaries to the event:
-Foreign Minister Julio Sanchez
-Defense Minister Martin Gonzalez
-Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces General Antonio Juarez
SPECIAL REQUESTS: N/A
WHEN DID THE SPRING WAR END?: 2019

wwwww this is a horrid idea wwwwww

NATION NAME: Ezhara
GOVERNMENT TYPE: Confederation
SENDING DIGNITARIES/OFFICIAL MESSAGE? (Will you send people, or will your government simply send a message of affirmation or otherwise?): Dignitaries
DIGNITARIES SENT: Semyon Yurievich Han, Olga Antonovich Han
SPECIAL REQUESTS: Other attendees will include Dmitri Sokolov, Eiko Michori, Kasem Chuquivitu
WHEN DID THE SPRING WAR END?: 2019

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I will say accepted, and chances are NVI would have an embassy with Lauzanne already. Unfortunately True Faith/Leonid won't be in attendance here, and as for Sparkov, the NVI delegation can be set up a ways away from them on the stands, to prevent incidents. As for Vegan food, that can be provided.



Accepted.



Accepted, make sure they bring hearing protection.

Great, that means I can put in the Visayan Embassy folks in my app.

NATION NAME: United Republic of Magnecia
GOVERNMENT TYPE: Federal Presidential Constitutional Republic
SENDING DIGNITARIES/OFFICIAL MESSAGE? (Will you send people, or will your government simply send a message of affirmation or otherwise?): Dignitaries
DIGNITARIES SENT:
Vice President Richard McCartney
Secretary of State Robert Miller
Under-Secretary of Defense Martin Schlosberg
SPECIAL REQUESTS: None
WHEN DID THE SPRING WAR END?: 2019

NATION NAME: The Federation of Democratic Exodian Territories
GOVERNMENT TYPE: mixed-democratic presidential (gubernatorial) multi-party secretly schizo-corporate republic
SENDING DIGNITARIES/OFFICIAL MESSAGE? (Will you send people, or will your government simply send a message of affirmation or otherwise?): Dignitaries and a message of friendship.
DIGNITARIES SENT:
>Lieutenant Governor Richard Weirhand
>State Minister Naomi Dearing
>General Alfonso Cruz (Exodian Army)
SPECIAL REQUESTS: Lieutenant Governor Weirhand is to be treated as a high-value person and the Exodian delegation wishes to bring several bodyguards, two or more for each delegate.
WHEN DID THE SPRING WAR END?: 2019

Accepted.



Also accepted.

OP should be up in a day or two, watch this space

Always enjoy threads such as these!

NATION NAME: The Republics & Kingdom of Xuande-Xiphoi
GOVERNMENT TYPE: Federal republic
SENDING DIGNITARIES/OFFICIAL MESSAGE? : Xuande-Xiphoi will send the non-resident Ambassador of Xuande-Xiphoi to Lauzanne (resident Ambassador to Polaris), Ambassador Kynthia Papoutsis
DIGNITARIES SENT: 1 dignitary, Ambassador Papoutsis. Entourage to include:

Ambassador Kynthia Papoutsis
Mr. Winston Papoutsis, the Ambassador's husband
Ms. Chang Bai, aide to the Ambassador
Mr. Zhihao Wong, security aide to the Ambassador.

SPECIAL REQUESTS: Security and vehicle transportation for the Ambassador and her entourage is to be provided to be provided by the host nation; the cost of transportation will be reimbursed by the Xuande-Xiphoian Government. The Ambassador's security officer will not be armed.
WHEN DID THE SPRING WAR END?: 2019

I would envisage that given the end of the recent war and the Ambassador's visit that this may lead to the establishment of diplomatic missions between nations for further engagement

Accepted, IC will be up soon.

IC is now up

Lauzanne wrote:[...]

IC is now up

Awesome. I'll post tomorrow, if no one minds.

This has been somewhere in my plans, but I haven't had any time to myself for writing, really. Still planning on doing something.

NATION NAME: The Jamesian Republic
GOVERNMENT TYPE: Federal Constitutional Democracy
SENDING DIGNITARIES/OFFICIAL MESSAGE? (Will you send people, or will your government simply send a message of affirmation or otherwise?): Send People
DIGNITARIES SENT: Scott Lewis (President of The Jamesian Republic) Douglas Hopkins (Jamesian Ambassador to the International Assembly) David Peterson (Secretary of State)
SPECIAL REQUESTS: None
WHEN DID THE SPRING WAR END?: 2019

Posted. If there are any questions or remarks...

NATION NAME: The Kingdom of South China Xingdao
GOVERNMENT TYPE: Unitary Parliamentary constitutional monarchy with territories
SENDING DIGNITARIES/OFFICIAL MESSAGE? (Will you send people, or will your government simply send a message of affirmation or otherwise?): Dignitaries
DIGNITARIES SENT: Guo Lanfen
SPECIAL REQUESTS: We would like to bring some of our excellent Chinese and Sino-Indian cuisine for your nation to try; different from some Chinese cuisines and also some of our high-technology equipment, including 20 different automobiles.
These require careful handling. Over sixty chefs are planned to be brought in if we can get the visas for them to work here as government workers.
WHEN DID THE SPRING WAR END?: 2019