The Royal Code
11-10-2008, 20:54
The parliament building of Hessia was now a deserted, dusty, open space. It once bustled with busy politicians and the like, but now offered no legislation to the collapsed government of Hessia.
The past year had been one of political and economic turmoil. Two years of constant drought had yielded the poorest crop yields in the nations history. Peasants looked with despair over the horizon to see the rain clouds pass silently onward.
In light of the food shortages, Hessian politicians drew definitive lines on how to address the issue. Conflict arose over literally every proposed idea, from importing water, to importing food. Neither party would pass the other's proposals, hence nothing was ever accomplished.
Over the course of the last 12 months, regulated political debate was slowly eroded away, giving way to verbal attacks, threats, and the like. It was during the last session of parliament, did the United North Party declare that it would recede from Parliament, and effectively, Hessia itself. The south, not knowing what approach to take, threatened a military seizure of the North's main shipping port. Such threats prompted the North to fire back with their own threats of invasion.
For the following thirty days, the two factions built up their armed forces. The nation, split at the very center across a parallel, was effectively cut in half, with warring factions controlling each state. The North, with their conservative republicanism ideas, backed nearly 80% of Hessia's industry, and was able to produce an enormous supply of arms remarkably quickly. The more Liberal Socialist south, being the more rural of the two, lacked stocked arms, but had a terrain advantage, being mostly covered my mountains.
Divisions amassed on the boarder and virtually all communication between the North and South broke down. A country, which from top to bottom stretched 600 miles, and 250 miles wide, had it's dividing line drawn at the northern base of the Southern Hessian Mountains, along the banks of the Lion river. Thousands of miles of wilderness to the north, south, and west, and an endless ocean to the east, this conflict was bound to become a congested bloodbath.
The fate of the nation rested in the hands of their commanders.
The past year had been one of political and economic turmoil. Two years of constant drought had yielded the poorest crop yields in the nations history. Peasants looked with despair over the horizon to see the rain clouds pass silently onward.
In light of the food shortages, Hessian politicians drew definitive lines on how to address the issue. Conflict arose over literally every proposed idea, from importing water, to importing food. Neither party would pass the other's proposals, hence nothing was ever accomplished.
Over the course of the last 12 months, regulated political debate was slowly eroded away, giving way to verbal attacks, threats, and the like. It was during the last session of parliament, did the United North Party declare that it would recede from Parliament, and effectively, Hessia itself. The south, not knowing what approach to take, threatened a military seizure of the North's main shipping port. Such threats prompted the North to fire back with their own threats of invasion.
For the following thirty days, the two factions built up their armed forces. The nation, split at the very center across a parallel, was effectively cut in half, with warring factions controlling each state. The North, with their conservative republicanism ideas, backed nearly 80% of Hessia's industry, and was able to produce an enormous supply of arms remarkably quickly. The more Liberal Socialist south, being the more rural of the two, lacked stocked arms, but had a terrain advantage, being mostly covered my mountains.
Divisions amassed on the boarder and virtually all communication between the North and South broke down. A country, which from top to bottom stretched 600 miles, and 250 miles wide, had it's dividing line drawn at the northern base of the Southern Hessian Mountains, along the banks of the Lion river. Thousands of miles of wilderness to the north, south, and west, and an endless ocean to the east, this conflict was bound to become a congested bloodbath.
The fate of the nation rested in the hands of their commanders.