5679: Shar-Mearvi Conference (Xsampa - Tel Bira)

[GreekIdiot]

Iliad Mearvi, Foreign Secretary, City State of Tel Bira

So you understand our predicament. Your ask is indeed absurd. Your guardrails, almost absent. 

And I'm not your comrade, M. Shar - no offence. 

You're dealing with a few of the most capitalist places in the world, the Triad Republic included. Joining the Migrant Accords will entangle you with Bannerhafen exactly under the mutual alignment assurances we're both seeking in the Red Bass Ocean and for regional trade.

Your fleet will be positioned in Rishon Le Hofesh. No mutual alignment assurances with Wiel? No bueno. Forget Haifbourg. And even without the fleet, your ultimate goal is to fly a flag over the Medebir Nisrad. You think that's going to happen without the Jelbosphere's say so?

So, what about my guardrails? No Vamaj. OK. At the mercy of your own internal policies. Of a strict nature, that is.

You just said it yourself: we shake hands, you annex, slam the door.

No mutual alignment assurances with us?

Iliad opens up a printed out map of Amudim's current border makings and shows Shar.

You have to understand, M. Shar. 

Those of us outside the fanatic circles of Yishelem's past Yeudi expansionism do not share the false unity of former Beiteynu. We are hometown people of the diaspora. Multicultural. Himmelshtern itself has been reshaped in the last couple of centuries through its entanglement with N&D and Artania. Sholemberg is a trade-faring place, bustling with expats, especially Pontesians. Haifbourg reeks of Jelbic horses.

There is no Beiteynu. And we'd rather get rid of the fucking stench of the last remnants of the Beiteynuese Government.

Sooner, rather than later.

Iliad hastily scraps the map and starts packing his things, ready to get up and leave. He hesitates.

You're asking us for a piece of our land, M. Shar.

And the only way you're getting it is through serious entanglement. With the Jelbic. With the Triad Republic. With us.

Iliad gets up to leave, avoiding eye contact.