How the Superalliances Betrayed South Korea

Day 672, 19:40 • Published in South Korea Bolivia • by Arjay Phoenician

The act of rebirth, in and of itself, ought to be seen for the miracle it is. When a country comes back from nothingness, regenerated after weeks of negotiation, such a country deserves its chance to stand on its legs, dry its wings, and take flight. Even if it is destined to inhabit the sky we call eRepublik for just a moment before it is devoured by predators, I would like to think most citizens of this world would like to at least see it leave the nest before its dream of freedom is destroyed.

South Korea, as created by the legitimate South Korean community and fostered by the Japanese government, should have been deemed such a miracle, and as such, the rest of us should have been rooting for it to succeed in its infancy, even for just a moment, just to form its own government and let their hard work bear fruit.

Unfortunately, South Korea became just another battlefield for the superalliances to spread their manure. Instead of giving the legitimate start-up community a chance to decide its destiny for even a day, partisan blindness and hubris gave Spade and his group the middle finger. As a result, those who stole sovereignty from this group have become entrenched, and while I have no doubt the good guys will eventually win, and Spade and his community will dig themselves out, kick the so-called Theocrats out, and take their place in the sky, they will do so in spite PEACE’s and the former ATLANTIS’s apathy, negligence, and even sabotage.

As a member of PEACE, you would think Japan would have the alliance’s blessings in the reincarnation of legitimate North and South Korean nations. Quite the contrary. Japan has not had the friendliest of relations with PEACE in recent months, one of the primary reasons being their unwillingness to play warmonger with the rest of the alliance, balking at Indonesia’s offers to freely use their islands to launch their invasion of Hawaii and California. Japan’s concerns have taken a backseat as a result. In part, because Japan does not fall in lockstep with the rest of the PEACE, the bureaucrats that control the alliance have deemed their issues, like maintaining the integrity of their own sovereignty as the so-called Theocrats waged resistance wars in their own borders, not worth their time.

PEACE has also neglected Japan because, let’s face it, their Charter is an Orwellian joke, and calling themselves a “defensive alliance” is hauntingly reminiscent of Ingsoc’s WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. PEACE isn’t interested in actually protecting its member states. There’s nothing sexy about following their own Charter and protecting their members from threat. PEACE is all about war, aggression, domination, and there are few people in the world who would disagree with that assessment; even those high up in the PEACE strata would say to that accusation, yeah, Arjay, we’re about kicking ass and taking names, what are you going to do about it? Being an empire would be disgusting, but at least there would be a degree of honesty in calling PEACE an empire instead of an alliance, and there would be a vague shred of integrity if PEACE took seriously its written commitment to defend member states.

There are plenty of people in Germany and Italy who would agree that PEACE isn’t about protecting its client nations from external threats or political takeovers. Japan is not alone in being neglected.

The nations of the former ATLANTIS alliance, currently in fragments called EDEN, FORTIS, and “neutral” nations, did even more to betray the legitimate South Korean community. Their support of the so-called Theocrats is the definition of partisan blindness, the cynical belief that “the enemy of my enemy must be my friend”. In their zeal to kick PEACE in the shins, they will take any band of thieves, mercenaries, and criminals, and they will lionize them as champions of freedom, just so they can do the dirty work. The so-called Theocrats are EDEN’s goons, willing to dish out the cheap shots the parent countries won't perform for themselves. They are hitmen. They are thugs for hire.

We all know the history of the so-called Theocrats. They PTO’d Switzerland, they thought so little of it that they let it be taken over, and in gratitude, nations in the EDEN/FORTIS axis applauded and even assisted them in taking and keeping South Korea. Some might hem and haw over the details, but that’s the general timeline. The thing I can’t fathom is, who do these countries think they are? Who are they to decide the fate of the legitimate South Korean community? They only thing that can explain how such countries can support a band of PTO thieves is superalliance arrogance, their hate for PEACE is so overwhelming an impulse that it’s all they can act on. It’s a grotesque double-standard that so many seem to accept, that a PTO is a horrible act when you’re the victim, but an accepted means to an end when you benefit.

I’m really straining to find a fundamental difference between PEACE and the fragments of ATLANTIS, seeking to discover how one alliance is somehow more honorable than the other. I’ve spent a lot of time criticizing PEACE, but truly, that’s only because they’re the current King of the Hill. In watching the other guys, EDEN/FORTIS and their satellites, I fail to see why one would root for them as opposed to PEACE.

PEACE and ATLANTIS Jr. showed that they will bastardize anything for the sake of superalliance arrogance. If you didn’t know it before, you know it now. All you have to do is look back over the last month.

The legitimate South Korean community, led by Spade, did all the right things, and they continue to do the honorable thing. They worked with the Japanese to negotiate a sovereign South Korea. Such deeds demand respect. They should not be crushed for their efforts, because quite truly, the rest of the world watches, and they realize that new and reborn countries are not seen as miracles to cherish, but prey for the warbeasts to salivate over and devour. The superalliance don’t care about creation, only theft and brutality, and this cynical reality is something everyone out there, especially those seeking to create an ePanama, eJamaica, eNew Zealand, or revive a country like eNorth Korea, must take into consideration. The superalliances don’t see them as miracles; at best, they’re battlefields for two corrupt powers to fight over which is more corrupt, at worst, they’re something to steal, to bastardize, to destroy. They’re as cheap and guttural of victories as there are at eRepublik. True bullying.

And I truly cannot see how one is somehow more honorable than the other. A pox on both their houses.