2018/10/28,
It seems rather impressive that nations throughout the Mundus are only starting to involve themselves in the Iwi-Seleucid ongoing cold war only following the controversial decision, by Iwi Laws of Justice, of the execution of a former Seleucid Military Official and the disposal of his dead body in international waters. While of this remains important for moral issues, enhance why nations have started to involve themselves in this conflict by directly opposing or supporting one of the two parties, what remains far from being settled are the economic involvements in such matter, which are part of a larger movement and a domino chain that one might not have expected in the first place, setting thus the future of the Mundus economy and its geopolitic.
A triangle of crisis start to be formed, with a group of rebel against the established power in Paracambi having rose, openly showing strength in a series of attack, with the most recent touching directly the Ruler’s wife of the nation,
with her death, Empress Madeline in the heart of the Aluhampton Royal Palace as the Rastafarian militant group was “angry” at the Emperor’s position on a group known as the Papa Legba's Army to be in open rebellion against the established Government of Bakkermaya. This come destabilising recent investments made in the nation, most particularly the one in the island of Alemba which is known to be a tourist attraction, and to be a great potential in terms of tourists per year, with personal investment made by the Lodjain Stasiuk for instance in a local hotel, which is a reconverted Dartfordian military base. Question of the financial durability carried by such project may openly be asked, and if this project was to become a total failure due to the uncertain climate, how would the Paracambian economy sort this out? As even if even if the island of Alemba have a certain autonomy, allowing it to smooth its legislation with a 0% corporate tax, safety remains key for a tourist industry. This comes at a worst cost for Bakkermaya, which have an open rebellion of insurgent willing to join the nation of Paracambi as they are seeking to “create an Albion wide Empire for the Vodou faith”, something the Vodou Emperor of Paracambi had opposed resulting in the said attack on the Royal Palace.
View on the Sea of Alucard from a luxurious hotel in Alemba, ParacambiAll of this to come to what? The Iwi-Seleucid-Paracambi triangle is becoming slowly, but surely, a triangle of crisis. Following the many crisis having erupted in the Illumic in the last decades, it is now this part of the Mundus that the nations are listening. The Sea of Kyne remains one of the most strategic corner when coming to trade, having directly or indirectly involved the 10 largest economies with a minimum of 20% of their sea imports and exports passing through this area. While the Illumic is demilitarising itself, with programs announced by the Rokkenjimans over Somerset and Heyrans by cancelling a fighters’ orders, the Sea of Kyne is only a rising activity, with the Ecclesiastical State announcing clearly its intention to deal with the matter in personally, as its leader,
Pope Peter II announced a sort of crusade against the Papa Legba's Army based in Bakkermaya due to the many violences made by the group, as the “Ecclesiastical government will coordinate a war-time strategy with its fellow allies”. On the other side, the
Rokkenjiman have announced that from the Q.K.N.B., a Rokkenjiman permanent naval base in Dartfordia, which following rumours is being renegotiated, a Carrier Strike Group had departed to “check against unwarranted unilateral actions without any form of sanction”, more precisely targeting the Ecclesiastical force which shall appear in the region, making, respectively the 3rd and 2nd largest economies, “playing” between the Sea of Kyne and Sea of Alucard. On the other hand, the
Bakkermayan wish to handle the crisis regionally, by involving the Council of Albion which have yet responded, and have seen a Bakkermayan office accusing directly the Paracambian of laxist, by stating “Paracambians have somehow allowed this group to take shape” and considering that they didn’t took enough responsibility of the situation by adding “people need to step up and take responsibility for the problems that their faith have taken”, while on the other hand the
Bakkermayan Lynchwood, a Governmental Official, have considered them to be “fools that are playing a dangerous game” and adding that they “are nothing more than an inconveniance”, letting us see a clear lack of communication in the Bakkermayan chain of hierarchy, at least between the civilian and military stances. What remains certain is that the crisis remains far from being over, with violences by the rebels pursuing, while they continue to pledge allegiance to the Emperor of Paracambi, the same Emperor which officially did not dismissed the rebels and even stated “It is my dream to one day see all people embrace the faith that is Vodou” as an answer to what happened near the township of High Fell in the Sea of Alucard.
The said crisis is expected to have impact on the joint Lodjain-Bakkermayan venture following the Treaty of Harby
signed recently, only last September. The Island of Harby have an ever-growing heavy-exportations harbour complexe that is to be the central key in this Trade Zone that is to be built, however with rising tensions and 2 out of the Top 3 Mundus-economies inviting them to the area, investors might question how wise such investment could be. Notice that such issue may extend itself to the natural gas extraction alongside precious metals, that are both a developing industry and are both among the top 3 exports of Lodja.
With this, we covered the Paracambian-corner, which extends itself to the Sea of Alucard, only to join the Seleucid-corner. An always under-question moral-stance over Tamora, military operations between Seleucid and Iwi all over the Sea of Kyne with arrestation of an Iwi military submarine recently by Seleucid Navy in questionable terms, a Cenneg base being like a bullet pointed at the Royal Seleucid and the Slava Bishop breaking ties with the Ecclesiastical which are known to be quite reactive over such matters, we consider our readers to better know the situation following how impactful it is on the oil barrel’s price, without forgetting that, out of the
3 Members of the O.P.E.N. organisation, 2 are in the region and its founding Members, respectively Tamora and the Royal Seleucid. The congruous
C.E.P. deal
signed between Tamora and what is known as the Heyran Conglomerate, even if under
polemic, adds yet another minor actor to the region, which is highly under surveillance already, while this give many opportunities as we already covered in one of our
previous article.
An Arda Tuluvan container-ship in a Lodjain harbourFinally, the Unified Iwi close the triangle, allowing it also to become a 3 dimensions space if we will, with the most recent events including the destruction by Seleucid forces of an oil extraction platform and as said earlier in this article, polemic around the
execution of a former Seleucid Official which we invite you to dive in through one of our
article dedicated to the matter. This would be forgetting the bubonic plague having appeared last February and stopped more or less last May, which can be, following direct Iwi statements, “has origins in Royal Seleucid aircraft from The Iwi” with
confirmation more or less by the Cross-Mundus Agency Members, as the plague had direct impacts to financial centres as they are heavily connected through air-transportation between them. With this
can be add effective strikes arranged by Iwi forces directly in Seleucid territory against Seleucid facilitates evaluated by the Iwi to have been producing Sarin gas during the occupation of the Commonwealth by the Royal Seleucid.
What can we get from those many factors? A clear rise of tensions and change in terms of concerns of the Mundus, passing from the Illumic to Kyne-Alucard as mentioned earlier. Such change follows also the Mundus GDP, with nations with larger demographics expressing a higher GDP each year at an alarming rate, putting aside the former colonial powers and Empires alongside what have been known as the “Occidental Mundus”. This geopolitical balance, being shoved in a swing, will give much work to the nations of Seaforth, East Moreland and Achkaerin which were generally in the centre of interest in the Illumic, allowing them to take a more observer-like stance in the coming crisis, while pushing the Rokkenjiman, Dartfordian and Ecclesiastical to enforce their respective positions, and this, against the benefits of their own economies which have known to benefit from the relative remoteness of the previous crisis, mostly against the defunct U.S.R.. What is to be expected? A relative desertion of the previously popular finance centres of the Illumic and up North at the profit of the nation with cheaper living conditions and labour such as Royal Seleucid, Tamora and Arda Tuluva, showing many advantages for good-producing companies along-side important oil reserves.
