Mondoth
16-06-2008, 00:58
The image on the screen panned across a lovely white sand beach, showing crystal blue waters creased with perfectly formed white crested waves, being surfed by young men and women with movie-star looks while equally photogenic children frolicked closer to shore, where a pleasant group of middle aged men and women were gathered around a grill, laughing and drinking frosty beers. In the background a few aesthetically pleasing mega-hotels stood silent watch over the beach, waiting to offer a cool shelter from the sun later int he day. The camera then tracked through a picturesque coastal town full of lovely little shops and quaint drinking establishments. The camera keeps on till reaching a sign, 'Montegra beach' and then a web-address was flashed where more could be learned about this excellent Mondothian vacation location.
The next Commercial was less subtle, a family trying to plan an international holiday, interspersed with flashes of the family dealing with customs, getting cramped on a long international flight and arriving to find their luggage has been seized by custom. Then, the family spots a flier for 'Lovely Aslejah' which has everything they're looking for in a vacation spot, and best of all, It's a Mondothian Island!
It had started subtly months before. Mondothian channels available in Estonsko had begun running a larger number of vacation ads for locations in Mondoth. It probably wouldn't have been noticeable to anyone who didn't watch TV religiously, but it was there. The beginning of a patriation campaign. Soon, a new ad campaign extolling the virtues of Mondoth's world-class health care system complete with images of sparkling clean hospitals and rich, smiling private doctors surrounded by attractive young nurses attending fit looking patients in sunlit rooms with views of picturesque cities.
Shortly thereafter, no Estonskan that watched TV could avoid seeing how wonderful life in Mondoth must be, with it's numerous vacation spots right across the channel from Estonsko, it's utter lack of income taxes, it's beautiful and high quality schools and healthy, attractive population served by a booming health care industry.
Anyone who was paying attention could see what was happening, and the next move was obvious. Soon, mass mailing began appearing in Estonskan mailboxes, urging the consideration of an Annexation by Mondoth, with incentives listed such as exemption from the already minimal Mondothian taxes for five years, dual citizenship with Cohenia for anyone who wanted it, as well as compensation for moving off the islands, whether to the Mondothian mainland or to Cohenia, with a promise of continuing tax and citizenship benefits either way.
but the Mondothians weren't counting Cohenia out either. knowing that the military complex on the eponymous large island meant that Cohenia wasn't like to take the potential annexation of the chain lightly, and so, Mondoth began quietly preparing for war.
OOC: I'm not very good at starting these things >.> this is pretty much closed except for Havenites,though I suppose any of my or Cohenia's extra-havenic allies who wanted could join. Otherwise, we don't need everybody and his dog taking one side or the other.
EDIT: stuff, should read a little better.
The next Commercial was less subtle, a family trying to plan an international holiday, interspersed with flashes of the family dealing with customs, getting cramped on a long international flight and arriving to find their luggage has been seized by custom. Then, the family spots a flier for 'Lovely Aslejah' which has everything they're looking for in a vacation spot, and best of all, It's a Mondothian Island!
It had started subtly months before. Mondothian channels available in Estonsko had begun running a larger number of vacation ads for locations in Mondoth. It probably wouldn't have been noticeable to anyone who didn't watch TV religiously, but it was there. The beginning of a patriation campaign. Soon, a new ad campaign extolling the virtues of Mondoth's world-class health care system complete with images of sparkling clean hospitals and rich, smiling private doctors surrounded by attractive young nurses attending fit looking patients in sunlit rooms with views of picturesque cities.
Shortly thereafter, no Estonskan that watched TV could avoid seeing how wonderful life in Mondoth must be, with it's numerous vacation spots right across the channel from Estonsko, it's utter lack of income taxes, it's beautiful and high quality schools and healthy, attractive population served by a booming health care industry.
Anyone who was paying attention could see what was happening, and the next move was obvious. Soon, mass mailing began appearing in Estonskan mailboxes, urging the consideration of an Annexation by Mondoth, with incentives listed such as exemption from the already minimal Mondothian taxes for five years, dual citizenship with Cohenia for anyone who wanted it, as well as compensation for moving off the islands, whether to the Mondothian mainland or to Cohenia, with a promise of continuing tax and citizenship benefits either way.
but the Mondothians weren't counting Cohenia out either. knowing that the military complex on the eponymous large island meant that Cohenia wasn't like to take the potential annexation of the chain lightly, and so, Mondoth began quietly preparing for war.
OOC: I'm not very good at starting these things >.> this is pretty much closed except for Havenites,though I suppose any of my or Cohenia's extra-havenic allies who wanted could join. Otherwise, we don't need everybody and his dog taking one side or the other.
EDIT: stuff, should read a little better.