The platypus people
06-01-2008, 20:48
Technically the most serene republic of the platypus people formed last week, but with all the paperwork and administration involved in setting up a new government, we could only create a brief history of our people and how we came to be a nation today. We realise that new nations spring up all the time, and thus that this may not appear to be an international incident as such, but if you would be willing to give us your time and perhaps friendship to a naive, new nation, we would be most grateful.
Originally an ethnic grouping from the long forgotten nation of Latvawgo, which was located in what is now the icy regions of the far north. After one of our people grew disenfranchised with society and let off a bomb in the capital city, our whole people were treated with contempt and suspicion until a bill was passed by the queen condemning anyone belonging to our class to a life of slavery to ‘protect’ ordinary Latvawgonians from another explosion. We served them tirelessly for a whole decade, at the end of which most people had forgotten the cause or even that we existed, when one of our ‘superiors’, a man by the name of Joseph Platypus, had a sudden change of heart and, one night, freed us all, giving us a boat on which to escape. Since then we have lived as sailing nomads for a century, gradually building up our fleet to the behemoth it is today, until we found a beautiful strip of unspoilt uninhabited tropical land which we colonised about five years ago. We gradually built ourselves up into a nation until December 2007, when we held elections and Andrew Marlow, head of the solution Party, was elected to form our first government.
However beautiful our land may be, it is sparse in terms of resources, as the nature of our main industries show; therefore any trade agreements would be welcome.
Shahin Jalali
Foreign Minister of The Most Serene Republic of the Platypus people
Originally an ethnic grouping from the long forgotten nation of Latvawgo, which was located in what is now the icy regions of the far north. After one of our people grew disenfranchised with society and let off a bomb in the capital city, our whole people were treated with contempt and suspicion until a bill was passed by the queen condemning anyone belonging to our class to a life of slavery to ‘protect’ ordinary Latvawgonians from another explosion. We served them tirelessly for a whole decade, at the end of which most people had forgotten the cause or even that we existed, when one of our ‘superiors’, a man by the name of Joseph Platypus, had a sudden change of heart and, one night, freed us all, giving us a boat on which to escape. Since then we have lived as sailing nomads for a century, gradually building up our fleet to the behemoth it is today, until we found a beautiful strip of unspoilt uninhabited tropical land which we colonised about five years ago. We gradually built ourselves up into a nation until December 2007, when we held elections and Andrew Marlow, head of the solution Party, was elected to form our first government.
However beautiful our land may be, it is sparse in terms of resources, as the nature of our main industries show; therefore any trade agreements would be welcome.
Shahin Jalali
Foreign Minister of The Most Serene Republic of the Platypus people