A promise to Australia

Day 780, 07:34 • Published in Australia Romania • by SA Min. of Foreign Affairs

As we’re sure you’ve heard by now, Brazil’s new president has indicated Brazil wants to occupy a new region as one of his national goals, that region being Western Australia.

As we all know, for better or for worse, South Africa currently lies between the Brazilian-occupied region of Gauteng and Australia’s Western Australia. Two of South Africa’s regions border WA: KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape. Eastern Cape borders Indonesia. We currently have an open war with them, but also a non-aggression pact.

Neither of those regions borders Gauteng. And if you look here, you’ll see that South African congress has accepted a peace offer from Brazil. So there’ll be no open war, which means no foreseeable forced passage through South Africa to Australia.

A legitimate concern you may have with this situation is, “South Africa let Brazil through before, they’ll do it again!”

South Africa agreed to an anti-takeover action with Brazil, whereby Brazil would occupy three of our six regions so that we could limit congressional seats to thirty. The PTO group was fierce, made up of the infamous 4chan group and 888channers. After successfully destroying Venezuela, they’d made their presence known in South Africa and were creating hundreds of multies a day.

Only after the ATO action was in effect, the PTO group hacked into various citizen accounts, including that of the then-president. Not only her citizen account as hacked, but also her email account, South Africa’s national forums and her IRC identity. The PTO group then went on to publish gore on the national forums and publish the president’s personal contact information on various sites around the Internet with the intent to harass her.

This in no way justifies the lack of foresight South Africa had with trusting Brazil to keep to its contract and not to declare war on Australia – but in our minds it does prove just how serious the PTO group was in destroying South Africa. We firmly believe that if we hadn’t agreed to the ATO action, the channers wouldn’t have reacted so violently, thereby drawing enough attention to themselves for admins to swing the banhammer.

So our message to you now is: Australians and South Africans will always see the events leading up to the attack of Australia differently. We ask that you put those feelings behind you and accept our apologies.

Furthermore, we make a promise to you here today: South Africa will not let Brazil through our territories willingly again.

However, we will also not let Australia through our territories to get to Gauteng, an idea that’s been thrown around by a number of citizens on both sides of the border.

Why? Because South Africa would like to maintain good relations with all our neighbours: Australia, Brazil and Indonesia. We will stand by Australia in times of strife and war as part of our brotherhood in Sol, but we continue to believe in non-aggression with Brazil and Indonesia. Our negotiations have gotten us this far, violence is not in our nature and Brazil and Indonesia respect us for that – we hope you can too.

We foresee increased pressure from EDEN to let Australia through our territories, especially if your president succeeds in his goal to get Australia into EDEN. We’re not interested in joining either of the super alliances. We urge both PHOENIX and EDEN to acknowledge our decision to remain non-aggressive and to respect our sovereignty.

And if all else fails, we’re going to put up one hell of a fight.

Signe😛
Mark Morcom
South African president

Ines Schumacher
South Africa MoFA