Dozens of cars drove on the black street in front of the Presidential palace with their yellow and red headlights reflecting off the windows of the nearby building. The sky was as black as charcoal, and the moon was full that night. Inside the Presidential Palace, President Joachim Murat was sitting at a huge and heavily decorated desk. He clutched a bottle of turning leaf wine in his hand and began to pour it into his wine glass, considerate of the consequences that would he endure should he miss. Even presidents thought about such elementary things. He began to take multiple but small sips out of the glass he poured. Setting it on the table, he picked up several white documents from his desk. Budget reports, unemployment, crime rate, and a report that caught his eye. It was titled in huge, bold, italic print ''Deficit Report'' His hand began to shake as he read further down the paper. The deficit was growing at a rate of twenty percent a month, and the nation would become bankrupt within several months if no action was taken. The Parliament had already made an appeal through international channels for aid, but several diplomatic conferences that had been discussed never came to be. With elections to come in less then half a year, he knew he had to act fast before he became the most hated man in Asevul and voted out of office in a landslide. The previous time, he had hired his ministers to pursue an economic bailout, but this time he decided that an appeal from a semi-important president would sway the international community more then some bureaucrats writing a letter. He was especially concerned that if he did not handle the situation correctly, that the Conservative Party would lose a majority in the Asevul senate and Parliament. The liberal and communist party's(two major opposition parties) had a combined twenty nine seats out of fifty in the senate, and two hundred thirty seven in the Parliament. If his party was responsible for an economic meltdown it would take his party decades to repair the political damage. If they managed to pick up a net gain during midterm elections they could form a coalition and would be able to pass each others proposals while conversely blocking all the conservative party's proposals. Realizing he lost his train of thought, he awoke from his deep thinking and began to think more on the response and not the aftermath. He did not want to cause a panic by announcing publicly that an economic crisis loomed, and he knew the media would spread word of it fast. He thought more, then remembered an old International Channel that was used for contacting the highest up leaders of the world. He got up, walked outside his office, and walked through several corridors full of paintings of national heroes, and approached a silver elevator. He took a card out of his pocket and scanned it through a scanner on a panel next to the elevator. He walked inside where he noticed the inside was a lot more decorated the exterior and took a silver key out of his pocket, inserted it into a keyhole, where a panel opened where several buttons for floors that only authorized personnel were allowed in revealed themselves. He pressed floor thirteen, and waited for the elevator to reach its destination. When it did, he departed it and the elevator led straight to a room with several pieces of technology that could be used to create a video file that could be sent over International Channels, after receiving help from the staff who were stationed in that area, he finally sat in front of the camera, with a gray suit and black tie. After receiving confirmation that the link was made, he began to speak:
International leaders around the world, please hear the plea of the people of Asevul. Although are people do not know so, an economic crisis looms and we afraid that only your aid can stop it before almost two hundred million people are driven into severe poverty. We have done so before, but we ask your leaders to visit us at the Presidential Palace in order to discuss terms of loans that we can use to pay off our debts and help fix the deficit. Do note, that if this plea is ignored by your leaders, that our nation will fall into decay. We ask you to take this into consideration and hope we can reach an agreement as soon as we can possibly can. Thank You.
He stood up to return to his office. Little did he know, a small black device was inside the room that recorded the audio of the entire video. An operative for the communist party had placed one there, as they knew that the only reason the president would visit that room is for crisis emergencies. They planned to release it to all Asevul media organizations in order to bring the communist into power, where they would form a coalition government with the liberal party and have a huge majority while the Conservative Party picks up the shattered fragments left of its former glory. Things were about to get a lot worse.
