High Commissioner Ibrahim Hussein Al-Madhavi and his entourage arrived at Harbordale International amidst the diplomatic fray and were ferried post-haste to the city centre to watch the parade. The High Commissioner, a resolute individual, had little time for the beautiful mountain landscape that had unfurled outside his plane window on the way to Harbordale, and instead busied himself in documentation about Cascadia, specifically, it's ongoing heroin problem.
Hailing from the source country of a majority of the world's heroin, despite government efforts, Ibrahim felt uniquely placed to work with the Cascadians in their mutual interest, and planned to broach the subject.
Opportunities to network with the other dignitaries present were also to be noted. In the end, the Revolution Day march was just about the only thing Ibrahim cared nothing for, he mused, as their car pulled into the city centre...