[Discuss] Strategic secessions (was:Re: Life without a Judge)

[Andrew Asche]

>  Well, I can easily see where this story got started. From the Wiki:

That wiki page is written by someone in Fontan who is not even part of
the realm.  It is neither endorsed nor official.  It is one person
writing about what he sees.

That said, look at where we are.  Our relations with OR and Fontan are
at the same level.  Further, Fontan has been talking peace with OI for
ages.  Our new realm is already at war with them and invading.

Also, anyone who has spent any time in Fontan knows how strongly
democracy is supported.  Our realm is not a democracy, far from it, it
is a monarchy with a sultan.

The realm itself was planned by a core of people and was in fact
*leaked* to the mass of Fontan, at which point people who were against
it demanded that it be voted upon and accepted and all that rot.  I
assure you that the plans would have gone ahead regardless of those
decisions.

In all I will repeat that we are *not* a puppet realm of Fontan, and
we were not created to pursue the same wars with strategic advantage.
Fontan already has all the strategic advantages, it obviously doens't
need any more, and I think the fact that we've already pursued a
radically different political and diplomatic path than Fontan shows
that we're *not* just "another" Fontan.

Oh, and as for the fact that Fontan hasn't dropped everything to
attack us...Think of it like this...Fontan is essentially appeasing us
at this time to save some work.  They know that we're not likely to be
outright hostile to them, and hey, we might get done something that
they'd have had to do otherwise.  So they're saying "we'll leave you
be for now, while we do more important things"

Seriously...Fontan is a democracy where there are referendums to
decide whether or not there should be a referendum.  The idea of
concocting a realm in secret, having it leaked, having to fight tooth
and nail (in words) for the idea to be "allowed" to proceed, then
forming a monarchy....If  you call that a strategic secession....Well,
it just isn't.