Germany Failed Me

Day 501, 21:44 • Published in Germany United Kingdom • by Elisa Vorimberg

Not long ago, towards the end of our neutrality, I was walking on clouds. I had a job with the German Defense Flak Tiger, a state owned company that built the defense system for Bavaria. I was earning 25DEM a day and plenty more with a hard worker medal, a super soldier medal, and winning a congressional election. All within my first month of erepublik.

Germany-Austria was the perfect country. Food was dirt cheap, I was (and kinda still am) handing out free food to anyone that needs it. I even started up a company.

But then rumors popped up everywhere, join PEACE, join ATLANTIS. Everyone, even myself was in on it. Posting articles and comments on the issue like mad. I knew it was only a matter of time before the government had to make a choice.

The day before Isy announced our final decision, I was contacted by the Brazilian ambassador to Germany. He told me that Isy and DKN weren't answering his messages and wanted to know where we stood on our decision to join PEACE or ATLANTIS. I told him we were leaning towards ATLANTIS, the current rumor at that time. He asked if giving Burgenland back might change our minds. I told him it might. And he started negotiating a deal between Brazil and Hungary that would give us Burgenland.
We will never know if that would have worked. Perhaps it could have. What if it did? WHAT IF LOSING AUSTRIA COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED BY OUR PRESIDENT REPLYING TO 1 DAMN MESSAGE!? Only hours later Isy announced that we had joined ATLANTIS.

And so it was, PEACE retaliation was almost instant. Former Austrian regions have been overrun. Including the one in which German Defense Flak Tiger is based. And since you can't work for a company in a different country, many Germans including me lost our jobs. I now work for a mere 6DEM, less than a 4th of what I worked for before. My entire salary is going to keeping my company alive. I can only keep giving out food because of generous donations (mostly from trade syndicate: [url] http://www.erepublik.com/en/organization/1330062 [/url]). I can no longer pay for my own weapons, and the Bundeswehr is too incompetent to give any (I got a total of 1 weapon from them the entire war, I have requested more but got lectured for messaging them directly).

If it was as simple as wanting to, I would leave Germany. I have a moving ticket saved, sometimes I think about using it. The only things keeping me here are an obligation to those that voted me into congress, and an obligation to not abandon Germany in its time of need.

We now face a presidential election more important than any other. Previously it didn't make a huge difference who you voted for. Now the entire fate of Germany is in the balance. Make the right decision.

And to whoever wins: It is now your job to find a way to fix Germany. Don't screw it up!