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4:38 am
2 May 2019
Munkcestrian-Leyslander border
Lord President George Fenwick II had decided to improve his approval ratings with a quick, successful war against the hippie socialists to the south. He had chosen the morning after International Workers' Day/May Day, when the Leyslanders would all be suffering hangovers and still dizzy from dancing around the maypole. George Fenwick II being a genius tactician, this was a foolproof plan.
The Leyslander soldiers were fast asleep when the Munkcestrian tank pulled up at the border crossing. The tank smashed through the barrier as the soldiers slept. A few of them woke up from the sound, only to immediately suffer from the hangover caused by the previous night's festivities. Fenwick's plan was successful, as the same scene was repeated everywhere on the border. Only a few sober soldiers were able to resist, and they were quickly forced to surrender. There were no Munkcestrian casualties at all, while a Leyslander soldier who had been awake all night ended up falling into and drowning in a pond.
Enslavement teams arrived by 6 am to take away most of the captured soldiers, packing them into trucks which then drove off to the Munkcestrian slave markets. The obviously ideological soldiers were not so lucky, however. They were instead forced to dig their own graves and were then shot by the Munkcestrian forces, as they were too subversive to be enslaved.
5:12 am
2 May 2019
Palace of the Leyslanders
Prime Minister Nicholas Millbourne, a 60-year-old grey-haired man, was in his bed with only one other person, his similarly-aged wife, when he was woken up and informed of the invasion by his staff. Meanwhile, Lord President George Fenwick II was at that moment surrounded by nubile young women in his harem. He did not need to be awake, for he knew that everything would go according to plan.
"Shit," said the prime minister as he reached for his glasses.
