((OOC: To save time and because I don't think role-playing out a Third conference to settle on all these terms would be very interesting or productive, I present the results of the Happened-off-screen Third Midweis Conference, in which a bunch of Gallo-Germanic nations agreed to present to the...
Got nemt mit ain hant un git mit der andereh.
-Yiddish Phrase, "God takes with one hand, and gives with the other."
It was the wedding of the youngest of the Ben-Aharon daughters, the beautiful frizzy-haired Portia Ben-Aharon. Over a hundred of Bergenheim's most respected and wealthy jews had...
Bockenthule Estate, West of Midweis, August 2018
The skies were a cornflower blue, hot sun baking the rolling, lush fields that surrounded the rural estate and its roccoco architecture. This conference would be far from the city, and, hopefully, the distractions of the rabble and the pleasures...
TO:
Gerhard Schenk Graf von Schlabrendorff, His Majesty's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Elbe
Stephen G. Larkin, Foreign Secretary of the Kingdom of Gunnland
Tristen Kreutzwald, Foreign Affairs Minister for the Department of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Geotri
Rüdiger Zimmermann...
Our dear beloved Lady, who hears us when we roam;
Look down on us poor soldiers and bring us safely home!
Stave off the cold and hunger, and help us sate our drought,
We came with lots of money, and none when we came out!
The drumming! The drumming!
Alarm! Alarm! Alarm!
Heiriderideran...
Republic of Bergenheim
Office of the Archchancellor
Midweis, July 21st 2018
Coded Most Secret
To the attention of our neighbour and friend governments of Eiffeland and Trivodnia,
Honoured Leaders, the nightmare we have striven to avert with all our labour has come to pass. Despite the best...
Its nearly that time of year again, folks!
Despite the looming prospect of global war once again, BergCon 2018 is opening its doors to all comers. If you have comics, movies, tv programmes, toys, electronic games consoles or video games to show off, BergCon is the hot, hot, happeningest place...
Eldgarten Conference Centre, Midweis, January 4th, 2018
The early January snows were slowly beginning to clear, replaced by biting, hard wind and bleak, grey skies. The roads of the Capital were lined with filthy slush, the Municipal street cleaners having worked tirelessly to clear and salt...
Republic of Bergenheim
Office of the Archchancellor
Midweis, 1st January 2018
Open Access-Diplomatic Codes-Most Urgent
To the attention of the governments of Kadikistan, Crotobaltoslavonia, Trivodnia, Elbe, Geotri, Eiffeland, Nichtstein/Retalia and Xinhai.
Honoured Leaders of many nations...
With the current stock of third generation fighters rapidly aging and with replacements and surplus parts in short supply, it has been authorised for the Bergenheim National Air Force to purchase between 20 and 30 3.5 or 4th generation multi-role fighters, depending on price, for a maximum...
A cold-wind blew across the parade-grounds of the Konigsruhe parade-ground. It blew, and kicked up soft clumps of unsettled snow, unmarked by the tread of jackboot or the shovel of the draftees whose job it was to keep the parade ground clean.
Lotti Degurechaff watched the snows fall. From the...
Prologue
The story begins, as old good stories do, during a dark and stormy night. The Glorious Revolution of 1519 saw the armies of the Canton Lords at the gates of Konigsruhe, cannon dragged behind them through the wintry muck and thick forests that surrounded the high castle walls.
King...
"Simple Germanic" Controversy Sparks Parent's Ire
The introduction on a trial basis throughout the Midgard Canton of school lessons taught in "Simple Germanic" has led to considerable protests, both at the regional and national level. Parents who spent years learning the more elegant "Berg...
Free Companies of Bergenheim
As represented by Kurst, Schuyer and Brecht, Inc.
Preamble:
Representing the Free Companies of Bergenheim, Kurst, Schuyer and Brecht have acted as the legal intermediaries of choice for over two hundred years. Although there are dozens of mercenary and private...
December 5th, 1956, Deep Hinterland
It was a beautiful, if cold, starry night in the Deep Hinterland. In the far south of Tizona, where the ground was hard and arid, stony soil that was desert for all practical purposes, but wasn't quite sand, like the True Kalahari to the west and south. It...
EL MUNDO
WINTER ENERGY CRISIS BLAMED ON DAM DELAYS
Congress Censures Tizona Hydroelectric CEO
by Emmanuel Nicolo, November 29th, 1956
The deepening Energy Crisis has officially been blamed on the ongoing delays in the Hydro-electric Project in the south of the country. The CEO of Tizona...