Derscon
22-09-2005, 21:54
Council Chamber, Kremlin Palace
2200
"This is a proposterous idea!" shouted the Minister of State Security, Yuri Golovko. The Council of Ministers had been in session for over five hours, and everyone was a bit testy from the tedious yet frighteningly explosive debate from a landmark decision, one that hasn't been thought up in just short of three thousand years -- not in Derscon, anyways.
"Look," Minister of Culture Sir Charles Camille Saint-Saens responded, much calmer than his comrade across the elliptical table. "Let's face it -- we have been ruling Derscon autocratically since the Republic was first overthrown. While the international community follows a path of political equality, while our Eternal Empire is stationary in our Divine Right Monarchy system."
Czar Alexei Alexandrovich Andropov XIV, Monarch of the Divine Prussian Empire of Derscon, Sultan of the Eternal Empire, Guardian of the Covanent of God, and Arch-Chancellor of the Greater Prussia scanned the faces of his Ministers as he watched the battle between Golovko and Saens. He himself was unsure of the path that this was going, or where it would take him. Alexei already introduced a number of "reforms" aimed at making Derscon more tolerant to the international community, upsetting a (small) number of conservatives. However, this could be toeing the line. After all, the monarchy was put in place because of the corruptness of the Senate just short of three thousand years ago.
He took a sip of his drink as the battle continued. What would my father think? The late Czar Rekjyavich Ivan Andropov III wasn't exactly a reformer in the modern sense of the word. In fact, he would be concidered a reactionary by most people's definition. He was also very reclusive, like Big Brother in Orwell's 1984. Well, Alexei thought. He'd probably lecture me on how I've already gone too far. He shook it out of his mind as Papen began to speak.
"I must admit," Foreign Minister Count Franz von Papen stated. "That many of the Greater Prussian monarchies would look down upon us. However, judging from the majority of the international community -- most of which are democratic in some form or another -- they would clearly hold Derscon in less of a bad light."
Alexei nodded. "Thank you, Papen. However, it seems we all need to ajourn and recoop. We will continue this tomorrow."
2200
"This is a proposterous idea!" shouted the Minister of State Security, Yuri Golovko. The Council of Ministers had been in session for over five hours, and everyone was a bit testy from the tedious yet frighteningly explosive debate from a landmark decision, one that hasn't been thought up in just short of three thousand years -- not in Derscon, anyways.
"Look," Minister of Culture Sir Charles Camille Saint-Saens responded, much calmer than his comrade across the elliptical table. "Let's face it -- we have been ruling Derscon autocratically since the Republic was first overthrown. While the international community follows a path of political equality, while our Eternal Empire is stationary in our Divine Right Monarchy system."
Czar Alexei Alexandrovich Andropov XIV, Monarch of the Divine Prussian Empire of Derscon, Sultan of the Eternal Empire, Guardian of the Covanent of God, and Arch-Chancellor of the Greater Prussia scanned the faces of his Ministers as he watched the battle between Golovko and Saens. He himself was unsure of the path that this was going, or where it would take him. Alexei already introduced a number of "reforms" aimed at making Derscon more tolerant to the international community, upsetting a (small) number of conservatives. However, this could be toeing the line. After all, the monarchy was put in place because of the corruptness of the Senate just short of three thousand years ago.
He took a sip of his drink as the battle continued. What would my father think? The late Czar Rekjyavich Ivan Andropov III wasn't exactly a reformer in the modern sense of the word. In fact, he would be concidered a reactionary by most people's definition. He was also very reclusive, like Big Brother in Orwell's 1984. Well, Alexei thought. He'd probably lecture me on how I've already gone too far. He shook it out of his mind as Papen began to speak.
"I must admit," Foreign Minister Count Franz von Papen stated. "That many of the Greater Prussian monarchies would look down upon us. However, judging from the majority of the international community -- most of which are democratic in some form or another -- they would clearly hold Derscon in less of a bad light."
Alexei nodded. "Thank you, Papen. However, it seems we all need to ajourn and recoop. We will continue this tomorrow."