Alecrast announces peaceful annexation of former Sheepsta islands

[Archaic]

Following the recent dissolution of the parliment of United States of Sheepsta in the face of numerous rebal uprisings from those loyal to Cardinal Ew, successor to Lord Protector Liam of Sheep, Alecrast Ranger units, in conjunction with Rocket, Aqua and Magma units from the Federation of Bulbagarden from the BMGf region, have moved in to restore order to a nation where rule by Biker Gangs would seem a happy dream. At the request of the citizens council and following a free referendum on the issue, the Commonwealth of Alecrast has absorbed the northern half of the former Sheepsta nation as a regional protectorate, with the Federation of Bulbagarden taking over administration of the southern regions.

In other news, there will be a public execution today of Cardinal Ew in the Northern Sheepsta capital of Lambston following the passing of new capital punishment laws in the nation following the Alecrast takeover.

[Archaic]

Alecrast would like to know exactly what the problem is with the execution of a known war criminal responsible for a large number of massacres of Alecrast and Sheepstan citizens.

[Jack_www]

Why is this necessary?? United States of Sheepsta are our allies and why have we not been aprised of this stituation?? Your action concern us a great deal. We request that you and your friends from other regions to withdraw from Sheepsta at once. We do not buy into this so called dissorder as you call it.

[Archaic]

[Out Of Character] Check the Nationstates page and do a search for Sheepsta. They ceased to exist just under a week ago. I'm trying to represent this in an RP sense that would make some logical sense.[/OOC]

[Jack_www]

ooc:
OH i see. SHeep most have gotten rid of his nation and did not say anything.

[GeneralTacticus]

OOC: No, he must have just abandoned it. He's been in hospital (with a tumour, IIRC), and I imagine he didn't have time to log in and keep it running.

[DarkCloud]

The Foreign Minister of Iguana Fire condemns this annexation as a crime against the people of sheepsta who are entitled their own democratic/ or otherwise, governemnt as they see fit.

[GeneralTacticus]

In case the representative from Iguana Fire has not noticed, the annexation was conducted after the dissolution of the Sheepstan democracy, and was ratified democratically by the Sheepstan people.

[Archaic]

Both Alecrast and Bulbagarden consider these regions to be a protectorate of their nations. We will of course give the nation the right to leave the Commonwealth and Federation if they should wish to do so after the current chaos has been resolved.

[Jack_www]

We must futher consult our allies and intelligence before we commit any forces to peacekeeping in SHeepsta

[DarkCloud]

In case the representative from Iguana Fire has not noticed, the annexation was conducted after the dissolution of the Sheepstan democracy, and was ratified democratically by the Sheepstan people.

The Foreign Minister of Iguana Fire wishes for a second, internationally monitored election, having right to believe that the previous election was rigged since it was rushed into the space of a week.

[Archaic]

A computerized ballot system was used for the referendum, with instantaneous tallying of results. The system has already been in development in Alecrast for some time, and was intended to be first used in our parlimentary elections. It was the use of this that allowed for such a quick poll.

[Archaic]

More news just at hand.

Fernando Bou, former Deputy Prime Minister of the United States of Sheepsta and current head of the North Sheepsta Citizen's Council and of the combined Sheepsta Citizen's Council has been knighted by his Majesty Monarch Archaic as His Lordship the Knight-Protector of North Sheepsta, and has been inducted into the Council of 15 as Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, representing the Athar faction.

Given that the Ministery for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry is the only Athar seat on the council at this point in time, this represents a significant level of power being granted towards the new Sheepsta protectorate.

The Athar's were recently left without a corperate sponsor after the Pascal Wager, President of the Alecrast Society of Freethinkers and Secular Humanists, left the Organisation to join the Guvnors, taking his society and its sponsorship with him. Following this appointment, the North Sheepsta Citizen's Council has become the Athar's new corperate sponsor.

It is unknown at this point in time how much co-operation the new Minister will give towards the plans of the Minister for Environment and Heritage, His Lordship the Duke of Raiden, Nelson Wetherington (Dustmen) and the Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, Her Ladyship the Duchess of Sonii, Nabiki Tendo (Sensates) in their thusfar consistant approval for logging of many old growth forests. Thusfar, the previous Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, George Braken, head of the Animal Liberation Society's political wing, Shin Grein, allowed this for forests hopelessly contaminated by the various attacks both recently and during the Chaos Wars, but obviously this cannot continue for much longer, with most of those forests having already been cleared.

[Giovanni Wine]

The Kingdom of Wine agrees with the positions of the United States of Jackson and of Iguana Fire, the Free nation of Sheepsta was an ally to the Kingdom, after that we helped the democratic factions take the power against the Catholic Fundamentalists.

We ask for a second election to be held, and internationally monitorized as we believe that the previous one was done too fast, and as we don't believe in those new methods as they are unsafe to a possible attack from hackers.

We also would like to know why did Alecrast invited a nation from outside Apolyton to mess around in our regional affaires, we believe Alecrast should have, before intervening, consulted the Regional court, and should have asked for permission in order to call an external ally to intervene in that matter

(In other words: we want no stinking non-Apolytoners in Apolyton )

Saluti
King Giovanni Bennati da Moncalieri
Prime Minister: GrandDuke Francesco Morelli da Pinerolo

[Archaic]

As I said in the ODSN Thread.....

Alecrast and Bulbagarden both invite any international inspectors in as the other nations of the Apolyton Region deem necessary. Quite frankly, we wouldn't mind a little help with the peacekeeping. We may have become the new legitimate government of the isles through free referendum, but there are still forces loyal to the soon to be executed Cardinal Ew out there, and we do expect there to be some sort of rescue attempt before the execution takes place.

As for getting another region involved, the Federation of Bulbagarden and the BMGf region are a small region to our south, across the Sea of Schoolgirls. The nation is already involved in free trade and military agreements with the Alecrast government, and co-operated with us on this partly out of our alliance, and partly out of concern for their own safety should the Sheepsta Rebals somehow gain control of the former nation's few remaining nuclear weapons.


Also, on the issue of our new methods being vulnerable to hackers......I think you gravely underestimate the HSA that Alecrast implimented back just before we were attacked, to prevent any potential takeover from the Akira AI. In any case, as to the speed, while it was true that the referendum campaign was short, necessarily so in our opinion due to the rebels of Cardinal Ew, preperations for these elections have been ongoing for quite sometime.

[OOC]If it's not obvious enough, the Federation of Bulbagarden is my other nation (And one that's made it to the world top 10 a total of 3 times. Whoo~!). So it technically *is* an Apolytoner in Apolyton. And anyway, that's just Xenophobia. If we adopted that kind of attitude in everything, where would we get our Japanese Schoolgirls?[/OOC]