So I leave for a Week...

Day 1,122, 18:43 • Published in Pakistan United Kingdom • by Dishmcds

Last week, it was well known that we negotiated with EDEN in regards of what was going to be done with the Indian regions, China, and the future of Pakistan. While this conversation has largely been kept secret, an agreement in principle had been made. The participants were Crista from EDEN, Iseutz from India, Krems from the US, myself on behalf of Pakistan, and Blodance, the President of China.

The agreement was that India would regain half of it's regions of free will, Pakistan would not contest that. China would gain 3 regions, and the US would gain 3 regions, to act as a buffer from Pakistan and India, and allow India to grow as its economy had been crushed by being deleted and having all of their companies swallowed to Pakistan. China agreed to this, as did the US. This was in part to show that Pakistan has friends on all sides, and realised its place on the World Stage in terms of our position and power. We had other goals, which were then communicated as we were moving into SE Asia to procure other resources. We had arranged a deal with Thailand for regions there to act as a base of operations, and told everyone involved those would begin. The southern half of India would have been RW'd back, so we wanted to move quickly so we didn't lose our border, and avenue for expansion.

To our knowledge, India wasn't necessarily upset with the agreement with Pakistan. They knew that over time they would manage to gain more and more regions, as did we. We had already returned the favor that they had given us some months ago in deleting them, so really there was no point in trying to ensure that we kept regions we knew we couldn't support. India was more upset with the US's involvement in holding their regions, due to previous experience. From what I understand, that arrangement was what led to their last disagreement with EDEN anyway.

We had in fact been trying to get rid of half those regions already.

Somewhere along the line, China, however, misunderstood the arrangement. They invaded Pakistan, which we knew they'd have to enter through an original anyway. We didn't fight there, and moved into Thailand. The agreement we have with Thailand has nothing to do with anyone else, which Ifke can confirm. If Blodance had bothered to check with him, he would have known that, and not went completely bonkers on what we were doing.

There's also the fact that apparently the country they're afraid of is Indonesia, which has neither the MPP firepower nor the resources to compete with China, and hasn't for quite a while. Indonesia is a proud people, and we're lucky to have them as allies, but we're not naive. We hope China is not either. Our aim is not to rehash tired arguments or wars, it is to further Erepublik, and do something that hasn't been done four million times before. We're trying to be new and improved.

So this is what I ask:

What does India get from this? They get some regions back. China gets to have war for about two weeks total, then they can go back to sitting in their own regions, and doing nothing aggressive. We offered better solutions to both. At that time, perhaps it was naive of us to figure that logic, rather than emotion would be implied to a thought, but I suppose in Erepublik that's too much to ask.

This is not an alliance war. India nor Pakistan is an official member of any Alliance. Pakistan has no real desire to be, and we've maintained that stance for as long as I can remember, even going back to my days as SG of Phoenix. We work together for a common goal, but we're not married to anyone. Let's work for a better World, something that is different than what it was last year. For those who don't remember, not long ago China and India were both part of the Pakistani Empire, then roles reversed, and now we're stuck in the same cycle. Why not be independent and break that cycle for once?

If logic is too hard to see, then perhaps we're not playing the same strategy game, although it would be nice if everyone would be on the same page as to what Erepublik is, and how it works.

Hugs and Kisses,
Just Another Guy