Gunnland
FTR
Institute for Social Research
Île-des-Pins, Lower Marpesia, Gunnland
The conference was the brainchild of Théophile Gladstone-Pape, who wanted to gauge the interest in Lars to joining a Northern Tiburan Empire with Elben, Bourgogne, and Gunnland. Gladstone-Pape dreamed of a new Catholic hegemon rising to control the continent. Too bad they're Jansenists, he kept thinking. The Francophone Marpesienne MT wore slacks, not a kilt. Théophile resented the clannish control over his country and dreamed of a more civilized, ancient power formation.
Of course none of this could be said outright. Instead Foreign Secretary Stephen Larkin, seated next to him (in a blue-and-green Gunn kilt, of course) would do the talking, at least at first.
Larkin had different plans, the official foreign policy. He was going to try again to ram through a trade deal with the Crotobaltislavonians and extract mining concessions from them. Gunnland was going to try again. Rumors that the Moravcsik Plan had stalled, and that Ivar-Banja Luka relations had grown tepid, had convinced Windhaven to try again. A few hundred million fiorinos from Lars would work as a nice carrot, also. Larkin would also look to negotiate a Council of the North-Bourgogne-Lars free trade deal, so that Gunnish goods were guaranteed to reach Eiffelloretalian markets duty-free. This was his overarching interest.
There were rumors in Windhaven that the queen would replace the foreign secretary if he failed a second time to achieve his economic-integration plans, which the Slavonians had backed out at the last minute in the greatest embarrassment of his career. Larkin didn't know whether to feel smugly satisfied, how is that Moravcscik Plan working out for you now, you assholes? or furious with the Slavonians. The problem with these communists is that they found ways to make money even when nobody else around them was.
"Welcome to Île-des-Pins, my friends, welcome to Gunnland."
Île-des-Pins, Lower Marpesia, Gunnland
The conference was the brainchild of Théophile Gladstone-Pape, who wanted to gauge the interest in Lars to joining a Northern Tiburan Empire with Elben, Bourgogne, and Gunnland. Gladstone-Pape dreamed of a new Catholic hegemon rising to control the continent. Too bad they're Jansenists, he kept thinking. The Francophone Marpesienne MT wore slacks, not a kilt. Théophile resented the clannish control over his country and dreamed of a more civilized, ancient power formation.
Of course none of this could be said outright. Instead Foreign Secretary Stephen Larkin, seated next to him (in a blue-and-green Gunn kilt, of course) would do the talking, at least at first.
Larkin had different plans, the official foreign policy. He was going to try again to ram through a trade deal with the Crotobaltislavonians and extract mining concessions from them. Gunnland was going to try again. Rumors that the Moravcsik Plan had stalled, and that Ivar-Banja Luka relations had grown tepid, had convinced Windhaven to try again. A few hundred million fiorinos from Lars would work as a nice carrot, also. Larkin would also look to negotiate a Council of the North-Bourgogne-Lars free trade deal, so that Gunnish goods were guaranteed to reach Eiffelloretalian markets duty-free. This was his overarching interest.
There were rumors in Windhaven that the queen would replace the foreign secretary if he failed a second time to achieve his economic-integration plans, which the Slavonians had backed out at the last minute in the greatest embarrassment of his career. Larkin didn't know whether to feel smugly satisfied, how is that Moravcscik Plan working out for you now, you assholes? or furious with the Slavonians. The problem with these communists is that they found ways to make money even when nobody else around them was.
"Welcome to Île-des-Pins, my friends, welcome to Gunnland."