NationStates Jolt Archive


Reconciliation (Attn: Dra-pol, Open)

Geronia
01-01-2006, 22:38
OOC: This isn't really as much of a typical RP as it sounds, in actuality, I need to reestablish national credibility and bring together all the stuff that's happening with Geronia. I've been invited back to RP as the Southern part of the Korean peninsula (not as South Dalania this time) and I need to pretty much set up some sort of thing to get it all together here.

This is not an escalation or call to arms against any of the surrounding nations (IE: Dra-pol) although any nations who would like to provide international aid or jump into the rebuilding are welcome.

Oh and Banduria, if you read this, the RP for independence is still relevant so don't worry about that.

IC:

-Excerpt from "A Modern History of the Korean Peninsula"-
Professor Kim Jong Yu, former department chair, Seoul National University

The War had come and gone and so had the better days of the Southern half of the Korean peninsula. Once under the thriving control of the South Dalanian government, the massive invasion by Dra-pol had stunned the South beyond measure. Despite the training and modernized equipment of the South Dalanian Army, waves of Northern forces swarming over the 38th Parallel had routed and completely destroyed the South Dalanian forces; the peninsula only being saved by the efforts of hard-fighting Hindustani forces, who had stopped the invaders just shy of Suwon and Andong.

The chaos in what had been South Dalania was beyond measure. Refugees had fled abroad or as far south as they could get, straining the resources of a country that had been cut in half by the invasion. The death of President Choi during the mass exodus from Seoul had staggered the morale of the South Dalanian forces and the National Assembly had been widely dispersed by the conflict; a majority of its members had fled to safety in exile, died while fleeing Seoul, or were now confined in the "re-education camps" that had blossomed around Occupied Seoul.

It was in this way that the government of South Dalania had fallen, that the country had become a protectorate of the Bandurian government. South Dalania as a country had been forgotten, it's name lost to the ages under the Bandurian occupation. The GRF commanders, fighting to regain independence, did not see it come for years. But come it did and a new government arose with a new national identity: Geronia.

Geronia's first steps into the international community were small. Massive shipments of international humanitarian aid propped up the country's citizens and with half the country under the control of Dra-pol, things looked grim for the nation.

A new National Assembly was elected in which charismatic and young leaders steered the country toward a bright new future. Diplomatic and business relations were opened with several countries including the Ammo Conglomerate of Krakinheds and the nation of Flintlewoodle, measures which showed growth in the economy.

Deprived of the protection of the Bandurian military against threats from Dra-pol following the end of the occupation, Geronia took small steps to guarantee its security. At the time of this writing, Geronia is seeking defense treaties and contracts with other nations and is making defensive re-armament of its national armed forces a priority.

While the threat from the North may never disappear entirely, the small nation south of the newly drawn 36th Parallel Demarcation Line is still moving towards a brighter future.
Geronia
02-01-2006, 01:05
36th Parallel Demarcation Line near Suwon
Border between Dra-pol and Geronia
January 1st, 2006, 0110 hours

The New Year only brought cold and more winter hardship to the militarized border between the Choson People's Republic of Dra-pol and the Republic of Geronia. Numbering only some 175,000 soldiers, the ROG army was merely a shadow of its former predecessor. At its might, the South Dalanian army had wielded nearly a million soldiers under arms and had possessed a highly trained and versatile attack force which had defended the 38th Parallel since 1953. No longer.

Captain Kwang Min Shik sipped his tea as he looked out from the relative warmth and safety of his newly-built observation post along the 36th Parallel. In Caimen, Taegu, and the cities in the South, he knew fireworks were arcing to celebrate the new year, but here in the western end of border near Suwon, military authorities had banned public celebrations on pain of arrest, for fear of provoking the North. While the civillian government controlled matters in Geronia, President Choi and the National Assembly had wisely decided to leave the frontier with Dra-pol under martial law, wisely fearing a repeat of the invasion which had lost Seoul to the enemy. In response the military leaders had done their best to fortify the border between the two nations, although they knew static fortifications were a thing of the past, there simply wasn't the funding to begin large-scale purchasing of modernized field artillery, fighter aircraft, and armored vehicles that would bring the ROG up to speed. For now, the ROG would be dependent on a few foreign purchases, Flintlewoodle designed weaponry, and the few armaments factories in the South untouched by the war.

The radio next to him crackled. "Captain Kwang, how's the situation going there?"

He set down the tea and picked up the walkie-talkie, keying the Talk button. "There isn't much activity along the border tonight. The usual propaganda of course, but the Commies seem to be pretty quiet otherwise."

"Keep your eyes open Captain. You know very well what these Reds are capable of. Report back at the end of your watch."

"Understood," concluded the captain, setting the radio back on the table in front of him. His Daewoo K2 rifle slung over his shoulder, he kept his eyes on the border, trying his best to ignore the propaganda that blared in, carried on the winds.

"Soldiers of the puppet Southern regime! Lay down your arms! Fighting against your true people is an affront! Come over to paradise where rice is plentiful and no citizen goes unfed! Abandon your corrupt capitalist masters in Caimen and Taegu! Join us in solidarity!"

"It's going to be a long night," sighed the captain as he sipped once again.
Dra-pol
02-01-2006, 20:15
OOC: Uh-oh, I think we may have a problem/misunderstanding.

Dra-pol doesn't play in the mainstream of NS, and hasn't for a year or something. It is no longer the nation of five billion or whatever people that enabled the UPA to enlist two hundred million soldiers et cetera. That's what AMW is about: it was created during the wars between Dra-pol and Quinntonia, when we realised how absurd it was to fight billions against billions on a planet that was supposed to be able to support human life and adhere to earthly physics.

Some in AMW play two nations, like Beth Gellert, which exists in AMW in part of India and outside as a nation of nearly six billion on a fictional landmass, but I have long since given-up trying to play in the unstructured and unduly competative mainstream of NS.

What does this mean for you? Well, more or less whatever you like. You are welcome to play South Korea in AMW (and to have the government re-name it Geronia if you like), or to play Geronia in AMW as a completely different country that isn't in Korea and doesn't have to be anything like the real-life country it replaces (for example, you could play Geronia on Australia's land mass, with 20 million residents, but have them all be ethnic Koreans if you like, and say they sailed there a thousand years ago or something).

You're also perfectly free to continue playing in the mainstream of NS, but it can't be with exactly the same nation as in AMW. Of course you can still use Geronia wherever the heck you like, it's your nation, but in AMW, South Korea has never fought Banduria, because Banduria just doesn't exist in AMW. I don't know, does this make sense? It would have to be a separate Geronia outside AMW, and you'd have to find another North Korea, because I'm not out there anymore.

I hope this doesn't sound like a lot of rules or dictates: we're not trying to tell anyone else how to play, we're just opting out of the main world, I suppose (though, as I say, some use two manifestations of their nations to do both, because they like what we're doing but don't want to give-up on the rest).

Sorry if this messes things up for you, I would continue to play your North Korea in the main worlds, but I just don't have the energy to deal with all that again.
Geronia
02-01-2006, 21:54
OOC: I know...a thousand apologies ><. I just realized after I posted all that that it doesn't match up with the whole AMW standard for RP and I was like "Crap."

Since I get it now, we'll just let this one die and I'll get on the whole AMW thing ASAP without mixing up with NS general.

Sorry man.