Date:- 2nd of September, 2022
Topic:- A Warning
Ruling King:- Stefan Basil IV
FROM THE DESK OF THE KING:
The situation in Eigg has forced me to make several reflections on our nations own pass. Much like Federation and the Kingdom, Severrusavia was supposed was supposed to be greater than the some of its parts. However, due to mismanagement, disastrous socialist policies, the federation would eventually collapse into ethnic conflicts and warring states, a situation that lasted over a decade and was only alleviated by the unification under my grandfather's Kingdom. These conflicts claimed thousands of lives, and the scars inflicted on the worst affected areas of the country can still be seen today. It is the greatest regret of many men that they failed to stop the conflict.
However, it didn't have to be that way. The situation arose over a failure from both sides, from the federal government and the constituent nations, to adapt to the changing world. Nevsky, seeing the changing winds of history and realising that socialism was a failed and dying ideology, should have guided the country away from it, and towards the future. As history will tell you, however, he failed to do this.
In turn, the constituent nations and their governments shouldn't have shaken the foundations of the federation. The right for a man to fight for God, his nation and for his family is a sacred right. Yet, those that fought the Black Games fought in turn against their own nation, for by paralysing the federation they paralysed themselves.
Severrusavia was a union without God and without wealth. Yet, it was not a union without hope. The Federal Socialist United Republic was doomed to fail, as socialism itself will inevitably strangle any who adopts it, yet Severrusavia could have remained, and perhaps flourished. Yet we can never know. All history knows is the millions of voices, crying out as brother fought brother in the fields and streets of the failed Severrusavia.
It is thus that I issue a warning, from a country born from the embers of a failed union, to the Federation of Dál Riata and the Kingdom of Eigg, for those that do not heed history's warning are doomed to repeat the failures of the path. Only through working together can you flourish, a simple message, but an important one. Pragmatism and compromise will reap the benefits of the future. If Eigg must be free, let it! The rift between your peoples will only increase if the wishes of both are not respected. But, I plead to Eigg, do not paralyse the federation in response to the actions by said federation. Hostility will only breed hostility. Be civil! The clenched fist is only blessed by the Lord if action cannot be achieved with the outstretched hand. The federation, if wise and educated in history's lesson, will make concessions. If not, they have failed to adapt and history will claim them. After all, life does not forgive weakness.