~ Who Is Running This Ship [updated title w/o rash insult] ~

Day 1,870, 14:26 • Published in India Albania • by Roger Griswald


I am saddened today to see that not only has our long time ally and friend eCroatia attacked us, but that the eIndian government has voted to sign an MPP with our long time enemy eIndonesia.

While I was not surprised that eIndia’s short-sighted and mis-managed government would want to be aligned with eIndonesia as they actually think that CoT has some interest in our membership in their alliance (which to be clear they do not); I was very surprised that eCroatia would attack eIndia unprovoked. While I have had many issues with eCroatia in the past, they are generally respected as an eNation and have been a long-standing ally to eIndia.

Upon closer inspection, eCroatia’s motivation for this new conflict has become clear. On several occasions over the last two weeks, eCroatia has requested to shift their regions around within eIndia. They have asked to move northward distancing themselves from eIndonesia and thereby reducing any future conflict on eIndia’s soil. However, our government has refused these requests. In fact our government has bluntly instructed eCroatia that they are no longer welcome.

As anyone can see from the game map, eCroatia has no regions other than those they are renting from us, so in effect eIndia’s government was telling eCroatia that they should allow themselves to be wiped from the game.

Faced with this choice and the fact that our government has been becoming friendly with CoT member-eNations, eCroatia has decided to execute their region swap without our permission, in the hopes that future eIndian governments will be more accommodating and forgiving. This seems like a foolish move for eCroatia, but I guess now that eIndia is no longer in EDEN/GEA, they are assuming the we no longer wish to be friends.

While I would love to tell you eIndia’s government’s side of this sotry, I really have no idea what it is as there hasn’t been a solid update since the former MoFA, alector resigned a few days ago, though the newly appointed MoFA did publish a piece of propoganda explaining why she was the best for the job.



All that I have seen is that our CP, the cabinet, and Congress embarrassed our country by voting in favour of an MPP with eIndonesia (who were at war with us just two short weeks ago), even though eIndonesia’s government voted it down. So why would our government be in favour of an alliance with eIndonesia. Well the answer is obvious; they are looking to shift eIndia’s alliances to be in the Circle of Trust (commonly referred to as CoT, EDEN/GEA’s natural enemy). There is just one problem with this agenda; the CoT has no interest in our being a member.

While the CoT has enjoyed that we are distracting EDEN and eCroatia with the dog and pony show put on by our government, the fact remains that eSerbia has no interest in eCroatia loosing its regions in eIndia. In fact they are more then happy to see eCroatia far away from them and allowing eSerbia to reap the rewards of eCroatia resource bonuses. What the eIndian government is not telling its citizens is that they know this, in fact they are very much aware of the fact that it was eSerbia that told eIndonesia to vote down an MPP with us.

With all of this information out in the air, it is impossible for eIndia’s citizens to not assume one of the two possible facts about our government:

Either our government incompetent, or willfully pushing us towards being wiped from the map, but turning everyone in the game against us?

I used to assume the former, but recent events make it seem impossible that any experienced player wouldn’t realize when our country is being played for a fool.