To The International Community,
Due to the aggressive policies of the Sufforian government, it is with a heavy heart that I, Emperor Arathor I, with the authorization of the people's High Council, declare that a state of war now exists between Osthia and Sufforia. I have never tolerated threats to the wellbeing of any of my people, even if they are not truly mine, and I will not cease in letting Sufforia know that threats against my people will be dealt with quick and severe punishments in the form of the Osthian military. Sufforian civilians will not be targetted unless they pose themselves as a threat to the wellbeing of my soldiers. POWs, in accordance with the World Asssembly, will be treated with medical care, as well as a shelter until the war is done. The Sufforian Senate calls me a despot, well, only a despot would declare that all Sufforians would die by his hand. I am not that kind of man, and no Dralien monarch ever shall be, by the grace of God!
Sincerely,
Emperor Arathor I of Osthia and Quencilvania, King of Ostharia, High-Prince of Filsia, and Kamdoche of Syvorji
Arathor stepped out onto the balcony of the Imperial Palace, overlooking the thorngs of patriotic Osthians smiling and waving to their emperor. "Citizens of Osthia! Osthians, Quencilvanians, Ostharians, Filsians, and Syvorjins! All of us have been blindly and cruelly challenged by Sufforia, as they have called us a nation of "despots," of corruption, of tyranny! However, they have prooved themselves to be a nation of tyranny! They threatened Osthians with death by hanging if they showed support for "evil" me. In Osthia, however, Sufforians are allowed their freedoms, and I ask you, the Osthian people, to be kind to them, and not to stoop to the low of the Sufforian government. Today, Osthia will march against Sufforia, and we will have victory in the name of God!" The crowds cheered, and Osthia mobilised for war.
http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=79194
^OOC: So you all know what led up to this.

