NationStates Jolt Archive

March 9, 2140

We bring you this special bulliten from MBC News:

Officials at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Maineiacs City have announced that fomer president Anderson McDermott, who was brought in last week suffering from emphysema, died this morning at age 72. McDermott was the youngest man ever elected president of Maineiacs in 2100, at the age of 33. He served two terms, and presided over a period of economic growth and scientific advancement that ended abruptly when his second term ended in 2109. The election of 2108 was won by Jessica Thompson of Anderson's then-ruling Social Democrat Party; Thompson was struck down by an assassin's bullet shortly after taking the oath of office. This led to the Fundamentalist Coup of 2109 that was put down after less than a year through foreign intervention. In the aftermath of the coup, Anderson served as interim President until 2112 when new elections could be scheduled. McDermott then settled into the role of elder statesman, and had lately served as humanitarian ambassador for his daughter, Allison McDermott's administration. President McDermott has said that her father's funeral will be held in Maineiacs City on Saturday, March 12. Numerous family friends and governemnt officials will be in attendance, and the President has extend an invitation to the leaders of nations throughout the multiverse to attend and pay their respects to the man that almost single-handedly rebuilt the nation after the destruction caused by the coup and the subsequent war.

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I will attend. the democratic republic of carrias is honoured to attend the funeral of such a great man

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I will attend. the democratic republic of carrias is honoured to attend the funeral of such a great man

The government of Maineiacs is honored to recieve the delegation from Carrias. We only regret that communications between our two nations had to begin under such tragic circumstances.

Sincerely,
Allison McDermott,
President,
Liberal Utopia of Maineiacs

I, President Warren Smith, will attend the funeral of such an honourable man.

FROM: Undershi Provisional Government Foreign Relations Secretariat
TO: The Government of Maineiacs
Re: State funeral

The Undershi Provisional Government extends its condolences to the people of Maineiacs for their loss. With your permission, a special delegation from the Foreign Relations Secretariat will attend the funeral, to show Undershi's solidarity with the people of your nation during this time of national mourning.

Reguards,

Abdul Koch, Foreign Relations Secretary of the Undershi Provisional Government

I, President Warren Smith, will attend the funeral of such an honourable man.

to: Warren Smith, President, Rastier
re: funeral

Dear Mr. President:
Thank you for your show of support. We look forward to meeting you.

Allison McDermott
President,
Liberal Utopia of Maineiacs


FROM: Undershi Provisional Government Foreign Relations Secretariat
TO: The Government of Maineiacs
Re: State funeral

The Undershi Provisional Government extends its condolences to the people of Maineiacs for their loss. With your permission, a special delegation from the Foreign Relations Secretariat will attend the funeral, to show Undershi's solidarity with the people of your nation during this time of national mourning.

Reguards,

Abdul Koch, Foreign Relations Secretary of the Undershi Provisional Government

Dear Mr. Koch:

Thank you, and we look forward to meeting your delegation.

Allison McDermott
President,
Liberal Utopia of Maineiacs

Undershi City, Undershi Province, The Undershi Empire

Abdul Koch checked the papers over one last time, decided he was satisfied, and looked at the men across the desk from him. Yuri Mendez and Robert Gold, two men from the old days. Who'd worked with his back when the Provisional Government's Foreign Affairs Secretariat was the Undershi Empire's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Good men.

He smilled, as he handed them their papers:

"I hope you enjoy your trip. Here are your papers, from the Provisional Government. You'll be the first Undershis to conduct a diplomatic mission under these papers, so that's something, I guess." no more words to say, as they looked at their papers. Blue and black ink, printed on low quality paper, no gloss... new papers, so very different from the gold-stamped papers they'd had when they'd worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before the lost war... those had been nice, red leather cover, gothic lettering, gold-foil Undershi star on the cover and above every page... but times had changed.

He watched them go without comment, staring at the discolored patch on the wall of his office where until recently there'd been a picture of the old Leader, Aleksander Miller. Nothing there now.