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On 10th January 1940, a German Messerschmitt Bf 108 made an emergency landing on a field near Vucht, in neutral Belgium. In the plane there was Major Reinberger, the organiser of the 7. Flieger-Division's supply, the formation that, some time later, would land German paratroopers behind the Belgian lines at Namur. He was carrying secret documents, describing part of the Fall Gelb Plan, a war plan for the invasion of the Low Countries, including Belgium.
The Major was captured by a Belgian border patrol and then taken to a border guardhouse. There, he tried to stuff the papers into a burning stove nearby, but the Belgian Captain who captured him, snatched the papers from the fire, badly burning his own hand.
The secret documents were then translated and the King and the government were informed of their content. Then also friendly country governments, the Dutch, the Luxembourgish and the French ones, were informed of this plan.
In particular, the French offered their help to the Belgians, asking to deploy their own troops in Belgium, so that to continue the Maginot Line (the defensive system on the Rhine river at the French-German border) up to the North Sea. Neutral Belgium was in fact already invaded by the Germans in World War I, and the Fall Gelb Plan was an update, using modern weaponry, of the former plan used to attack France through Belgium.
But the Belgians refused the help of the French, hoping that this refusal would have convinced the Germans to do not invade Belgium again.
Real life Belgians know what happened only four months later, when the German attacked the neutral Belgium, and succeeded in encircling the French army.

On 30 August 1939, Henri Guisan was elected as General by the Federal Assembly of Switzerland to organize the military of the Swiss Nation during the upcoming World War II. One of his first orders, was that to secure the huge Swiss gold reserves from the plains (Zurich) to the mountains (Gotthard pass), in order to make a lot more difficult a take over by an eventual invading German Army.

Well: I was born eSwiss, not eBelgian.
I came to eBelgium where I found a Community much more friendly with young citizens. A community were young citizens get supplies from the state thorugh the in-game Belgian Training Academy and the forum-based citizen packs.
These programs are currently run, not thanks to the Belgian tax income, but only thanks to the Belgian reserves.

Driven by trustworthy information and by precedent, I decided, as Belgian President, to secure national savings of more than three years to a friendly country. The savings are returned only to a trustworthy President, someone who doesn't have connection with the enemies of eBelgium, someone who always abode by the laws set up by the honest citizens of eBelgium.

Probably I exaggerated with my caution, yeah: probably I did. But I showed you how easy would be for a Country President with a foreign friend to steal the reserves which were stockpiled for so long.
Two lessons I draw from this: first, only candidates who are 100% safe should be elected as Country President, second, do not take so seriously a game were two guys, living thousands of kilometers far from your home, can destroy in some minutes, what you built in years.

As for me, I resigned from both the Belgian National Army and the All Togethers Party, because I did it only as President of eBelgium. I finally found a sort of "job", so I go back to a 2-clicking mode, and probably I left the eCountry to a eCountry were honest citizens, who care of all the Community, and plotters, who care only for their friends, are not considered equal.

by Tony Clifford
Former Country President of eBelgium