NationStates Jolt Archive

Liberian 'Negotiations': A Temporary Home

Several million displaced Pantheaan citizens were now scattered about Rome, Japan, and the Federation. As was planned many thousands of the engineering and architecturally inclined Pantheaans found themselves shipped to Bjornoyan Zaire and Novaya Zemlya to assist in constructing several Bjornoyan outposts until their debt was repaid and Pantheaa was deemed safe enough for them to be returned home.

Still about there was about 500,000 Pantheaans that Visara could not place anywhere with good reason. Space was getting crowded, but Wilhelm had an idea.

A small section of Liberia had remained rather backward and scarcely habited for several years. Negotiations with local politicians were going well, and several refugee camps were being constructed.

A fleet of over 300 military vessels made its way from Bjornoyan Equitorial to help escort the refugee vessels. Over a few months a rapid influx of Pantheaan citizens and Bjornoyan Federal Peacekeepers would be injected like a virus into the unsuspecting host that was Turtelian Liberia.

With any luck the Bjornoyan influence would soon overwhelm the inactive defenders of Turetelian Liberia.

Dialectic

The great Exodus from the Pantheaan mainland had reversed as thousands upon thousands of Pantheaan refugees found themselves in Liberia. The refugees were clearly confused by this strange turn of events but soon adjusted. By now the majority of the refugees had discovered complaining or rioting got them nowhere while general apathy and lazy consumerist tendencies led their new employer, Visara, to look upon them favorably.

Co-operating with a paradoxically efficiency the refugees constructed their own refugee camps from the generous supplies offered by Visara much in the same way Kreynorian refugees were treated during the brief and failed invasion of Kenya by Teh Ninjinian forces. Visara had the strange ability to give just enough so their people could stand on their own should they need to. And at the moment the refugees needed to have a bit of independence for both Visara and their sake.

Visara was slowly running out of excess capital to fund this epic project, but would not abandoned the refugees until they could become self-sufficient. As much as the Corporation hated ‘freedom’ in the liberal sense of the word it admired ‘independence’ in its own sense, being defined as capable of sustaining itself within the confines of the Corporate law. Visara only liked freedom when it was the one defining it, and it always had been in Bjornoya.

On the other side the Pantheaan refugees were slowly becoming annoyed by the bizarre environment Visara was creating for them. For months the refugees had been dealing with the uniformed, indiscernible, employees of Visara who from an outsider’s point of view had no rank, just numbers. Dealing with such people especially when searching for lost family members or acquiring accurate information from home was frustrating to say the least.

The two could find a bit of breathing room on the desolate and backwards territory that was once Turtelian Liberia. Within several months the cultural and material dialect between the Bjornoyan and Turtelian systems would tear the Turtelian culture and government asunder. Visara had a few more tricks up its sleeves.