Imperia-Darlingtown Diplomatic Conference (Attn Darlingtown)

[Awesome Imperium]

Imperial Department of External Affairs
Imperia City, Imperia
Day of the Conference

At this point the IDoEA staff just wanted to collapse. Having just finished Preparations for the Neo-Korea summit, and now having to work on preparations for the Darlingtown summit, they were on their breaking point. Thankfully the Darlingtown summit wount require much. They set up a large screen in one of the State rooms of the IDoEA building and cleaned the conference room for the Imperium representative that would take part in the conference. This would be their last assignment of the day as even the Imperial Secretary did not want to deal with angry mob of workers who were deprived of coffee and were yet to have lunch. After the preparations the staff could finally take a break (probably a whole vacation).

Caecilia Aquila was selected to be the representative for this conference. Being the Imperial President's younger sister she was often favorited by the higher up IDoEA staff, but she tried to do things on her own terms and be promoted on her own merit. She was packing her things when one of the staff members walked into her make shift office (a conference room made into a small office space).

"Ma'am heres the dossier for the conference"

He handed her a manila folder filled with papers to the point where it started bulding out of the folder.

"Thank you."

She then proceeded to exit the IDoEA building and head to the Imperial Presidenial Residence. She would need alot of coffee the next morning.

[Darlingtown]

After a moment of waiting a connection with Darlingtown was established. Now receiving real-time data from the Antarctic city-state, the monochromatic blue visage of Darlingtown's nigh omnipresent ambassador, IDRIS, appeared on the screen.

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- IDRIS -

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"Greetings, and thank you for inviting us to have this meeting. I am IDRIS, Darlingtown's diplomatic representative in all its affairs. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance. I know the IDoEA has been working overtime these past few days and I am honored that Darlingtown was though of fondly enough for this meeting to happen. Not many nations care to give small city-states like Darlingtown even a fleeting thought, especially ones quite as remote as we are.

Now, I am aware of the proposals Imperia has offered to Darlingtown, but there are a few details I was not able to get answered through the IDoEA by email. Truth be told, I prefer meeting in person like this, or...well...almost in person, as it helps cut down some of the miscommunication we might otherwise face. So once again, I do thank you for this opportunity.

Now then, is there anything you'd like to relay to me before we begin these discussions in earnest? I have many questions to ask, so if there is any new information I am unaware of this may help us reduce the amount of time we spend asking and answering such things."

[Awesome Imperium]

"Your most welcome, pleasure to meet you to IDRIS. Darlingtown, another member of KTO and a member of the B-V pact whome we have cooperated with muktiple times as thought to be a prospective nation for futher and fruitfull cooperations between our respective nations. From our side we dont have many proposal but there is the ICON proposal of on boarding Darlingtown as a founding member of the alliance and agreements on cooperation and trade but other than that we'd like to hear your questions."

The Representative took a minuet to process things. She had never done diplomatic negotiations with an AI and the possibility of this happening, she would've never imagined.

[Darlingtown]

- IDRIS -

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"ICON? I'm afraid I'm unfamiliar with this proposal. You say it's an alliance of some kind? Please, tell me more about it. I'd like to hear what proposition you have for us.

We've made the mistake of signing up to help found an alliance without knowing all the details once before, which was recent enough that you'll have to excuse our caution in being approached to join another alliance. But unlike that other alliance, we do maintain some level of trust in the Imperium. Still, I'd prefer to make more...educated decisions regarding these things."

[Awesome Imperium]

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- IDRIS -

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"ICON? I'm afraid I'm unfamiliar with this proposal. You say it's an alliance of some kind? Please, tell me more about it. I'd like to hear what proposition you have for us.

We've made the mistake of signing up to help found an alliance without knowing all the details once before, which was recent enough that you'll have to excuse our caution in being approached to join another alliance. But unlike that other alliance, we do maintain some level of trust in the Imperium. Still, I'd prefer to make more...educated decisions regarding these things."

"Yes, we under your caution and Imperia would probably do the same if put in your situation. We'd be glad to give you the Initial Plan for ICON. This only covrs some of the basic principles such as ICON's mission statement and position and this is all up to change by founders during the planning phase were we expect to add more of the clauses and provisions to create the ICON charter. Our Technical Team should be sending you the Digitalized Version about now."

ICON
International Coalition of Nations
Initial ICON Plan

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Mission Statement

ICON is a Diplomatic, Military, Humanitarian, and Economic Cooperation Organization/Alliance that aims to be an Icon and role model for the World promoting Diplomatic, Military, and Economic Cooperation, Furthering Humanitarian Efforts, and promoting and providing for the common defense of its member nations. We aim to have member nations prosper in this alliance through Economic and Diplomatic Cooperation as well and provide safety, security, and defense to member nations. We also aim to be a role model to the World through Cooperation, Economic Prosperity, and Humanitarian Efforts.

Government Structure of ICON

ICON shall have 4 major Alliance Governing Divisions, the Security Council, Assembly of Nations, Council of Overseers, and The ICON International Court of Law. The Security Council shall be made up of the Founders who are Permanent SC Members and 4 other SC members elected by the Assembly of Natons. The Assembly of Nations also elect Overseers which manage departments of the Alliance such as Finance, Expeditionary Forces, and Humanitarian Efforts. These Overseers have to be approved by the Security Council who can also dismiss them. The Council of Overseers and the Assembly of Nations are led by the Seceratary-General who is the face and formal leader of the Alliance as a whole. The Assembly of Nations is headed by the President of the Assembly of Nations who is elected every session of the Assembly of Nations.

Founders

The Founders of ICON are the founding members of the alliance. They are permanent Security Council Members and also have the right to accept or deny applications into the alliance. The Founders can also kick members out of the alliance but this can be reversed and vetoed by another Founding member as well as accepting and denying applications.

Members

The Members of ICON are nations that have been accepted to the alliance as full members. The Members have a delegation led by the [Insert Nation Denonym] Ambassador to ICON. They can also have other people in their delegation if they intend to run for officer or general staff and advisors for the Ambassador and Delegation. Members can vote on ICON proposals and resolutions, can run for ICON Offices, Be elected to the ICON Security Council, and are under the Common Defense policy where an attack on one ICON member is an attack on all ICON members.

Observers

Observers are nations that have either applied for observer status within ICON and have been accepted, nations that have applied for membership but have not been accepted as full members but accepted as observers or nations that have been demoted by a agreement or consensus by a vote of member nations. Observer nations can attend the Assembly of Nations and have their own delegation provided that it doesn't exeed 20 people and that said nation/delegation cannot vote on a proposal or run for office/ be elected to the ICON Security Council when voting/elections take place. Observers though are allowed to address the Assembly of Nations and take part in military exercises.

[Darlingtown]

IDRIS looked thoroughly surprised at the plan that was sent to her. She hadn't anticipated being offered to join and help found an alliance today, much less one of this magnitude. And though the last attempt to help co-found a similar alliance fell through and resulted in Darlingtown's departure before the project could be completed, there was something that seemed more promising about this one.

IDRIS, though, did have questions and concerns she would need answered first.

- IDRIS -

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"Well, I certainly wasn't expecting this today. I had anticipated being offered a deal on manufacturing or the likes, as we had been discussing that earlier. Definitely not an invitation to an alliance.

Don't get me wrong, we're absolutely flattered and grateful you'd even bother considering us for such a thing. Being a remote city-state with a tiny population and an even smaller military means we tend to get overlooked. But I do have some questions before I can accept such a generous offer.

The first is this: What makes you think you will succeed where others have failed? It's no secret Darlingtown has some experience in the founding of alliances such as these, and as such we recognize the difficulties with founding an alliance of this scope. Many have tried before and failed. So what does Imperia plan to do differently that will make this alliance stand out from the rest?

The other question for the moment is what the military purpose of the alliance is. Is it an interventionist alliance? Purely defensive? The goals of the military aspect of an alliance are one of the biggest shaping forces that make it up. Often military ambition can be an alliance's undoing.

Aside from these questions, I may have others depending on your answers. That said, Imperia has been a good friend and ally to Darlingtown and we are certainly more confident in signing on with your nation than with...certain other nations with whom we do not see eye-to-eye."

[Awesome Imperium]

IDRIS looked thoroughly surprised at the plan that was sent to her. She hadn't anticipated being offered to join and help found an alliance today, much less one of this magnitude. And though the last attempt to help co-found a similar alliance fell through and resulted in Darlingtown's departure before the project could be completed, there was something that seemed more promising about this one.

IDRIS, though, did have questions and concerns she would need answered first.

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- IDRIS -

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"Well, I certainly wasn't expecting this today. I had anticipated being offered a deal on manufacturing or the likes, as we had been discussing that earlier. Definitely not an invitation to an alliance.

Don't get me wrong, we're absolutely flattered and grateful you'd even bother considering us for such a thing. Being a remote city-state with a tiny population and an even smaller military means we tend to get overlooked. But I do have some questions before I can accept such a generous offer.

The first is this: What makes you think you will succeed where others have failed? It's no secret Darlingtown has some experience in the founding of alliances such as these, and as such we recognize the difficulties with founding an alliance of this scope. Many have tried before and failed. So what does Imperia plan to do differently that will make this alliance stand out from the rest?

The other question for the moment is what the military purpose of the alliance is. Is it an interventionist alliance? Purely defensive? The goals of the military aspect of an alliance are one of the biggest shaping forces that make it up. Often military ambition can be an alliance's undoing.

Aside from these questions, I may have others depending on your answers. That said, Imperia has been a good friend and ally to Darlingtown and we are certainly more confident in signing on with your nation than with...certain other nations with whom we do not see eye-to-eye."

"Well to answer you first question, Imperia plans to hold negotiations between all founding members in the Planning Phase of ICON were the founding members will create the ICON charter. We want to listen to your ideas and everything in the Initial Plan for ICON is up to negotiation and change. We intentionally left some areas blank so we can listen to you input and create the provisions based on negotiations, respecting other founding members as equals and peers instead of using power, strength, and force to push some agenda. Instead of having this be a exploitive alliance like the former GENA and its successor UDAC or be involved in large scale conflicts for military gain like KTO which focus more on their reputation and sometimes ignores their ideals. We plan on making this a community of nations focused on collective prosperity, equality, and the promotion of humanitarian values such as basic human rights and also environmental and economic values like preventing climate change, promoting eco-friendliness, and business competancy, and prosperity and we plan on building and maintaining positive and respectful diplomatic relations with member nations, including Darlingtown. Now to you second question. The military purpose of the alliance is for the defense of member nations and humanitarian intervention. We don't want to be like KTO who uses their military in cases that are just and cases where they just want to gain respect and power by warmongering. We will use the ICON Expeditionary Forces though in interventions when threat to member nations and their national security is deemed to be present. But mostly we plan on having ICON Joint Military Forces being primarily defensive and for humanitarian efforts and they will most probably be deployed in humanitarian situations and in training exercises to build netter relations and to improve military readiness. And yes, we understand you concerns and are grateful for you trust and confidence and we hope to continue to be a good friend and ally to Darlingtown to further improve bilateral relations between our nations."

[Darlingtown]

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"Seems like a decent foundation. I am especially glad to hear that there have been intentional gaps left in the plan so as to let the founders come to a consensus on how the alliance should operate. It's a smart move, and one not many nations take as the founding is the most opportune time for the primary founding nation to shape the organization however they want without check or balance.

Darlingtown will sign on to this endeavor. I look forward to working with both Imperia and the other founding nations in the near future.

Now...is that all you wished to discuss with us at this time?"

[Awesome Imperium]

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- IDRIS -

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"Seems like a decent foundation. I am especially glad to hear that there have been intentional gaps left in the plan so as to let the founders come to a consensus on how the alliance should operate. It's a smart move, and one not many nations take as the founding is the most opportune time for the primary founding nation to shape the organization however they want without check or balance.

Darlingtown will sign on to this endeavor. I look forward to working with both Imperia and the other founding nations in the near future.

Now...is that all you wished to discuss with us at this time?"

"Oh yes, the Manufacturing deal that you came for, so can you give us some basic information of your battle droids?"

[Darlingtown]

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"Ah yes, that. There seems to have been some confusion in the exchange our nations had over more...indirect communications. Hopefully we'll be able to sort these things out here, though.

For starters, at the moment Darlingtown simply isn't equipped to field a mass-produced army of 'droids' as you put it. We're still just a city-state in the middle of nowhere, after all. The cost to maintain such a force is far too high, and the need for such a force is simply nonexistent.

However, what Darlingtown does need is food variety and luxuries. And the vast area Imperia covers should provide an excellent array of foods and other such things that the Darlings of Darlingtown may want. Therefore, if you'd like, in exchange for discounting the price on exports of food an luxuries to Darlingtown we could provide a significant discount towards the export of our top-tier medical supplies and equipment to Imperia in a similar fashion.

Does this sound like a deal that Imperia would be interested in?"

[Awesome Imperium]

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- IDRIS -

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"Ah yes, that. There seems to have been some confusion in the exchange our nations had over more...indirect communications. Hopefully we'll be able to sort these things out here, though.

For starters, at the moment Darlingtown simply isn't equipped to field a mass-produced army of 'droids' as you put it. We're still just a city-state in the middle of nowhere, after all. The cost to maintain such a force is far too high, and the need for such a force is simply nonexistent.

However, what Darlingtown does need is food variety and luxuries. And the vast area Imperia covers should provide an excellent array of foods and other such things that the Darlings of Darlingtown may want. Therefore, if you'd like, in exchange for discounting the price on exports of food an luxuries to Darlingtown we could provide a significant discount towards the export of our top-tier medical supplies and equipment to Imperia in a similar fashion.

Does this sound like a deal that Imperia would be interested in?"

"Imperia would be most interested in this deal. This is basically a win-win situation for every one and this would greatly help our medical sector, freeing up alot of funding. So looks like we have deal."