27. Diplomacy
| At the end of the colonial war, the UR and especially the BRE understood the importance of diplomatic relations and the international image. Especially as each one controls an intercontinental and multiculturel empire. This is why the colonial peace treaty (between UR and BRE) was also used to create the Global Diplomacy Organization, place of permanent peace talks between all the powers (that is the powerfull states) of the world. A neutral ground had to be found, and as no territory was independent in the neighbourhoods of the capitals of the UR and of the BRE, it was finally the solution suggested by the BRE which was retained : |
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| Thus, the Channel Isles were declared neutral zone as long as at least one of the fonding nations of the GDO would sit in it (i.e. UR or BRE). In practice the few inhabitants of the islands passed from the yoke of the BRE to that of an organization only interested by the safeguard of the neutrality of the islands and by diplomacy. |
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| Today all the independent states recognized by the UR or the BRE have a diplomatic representative in the GDO, with a decisional capacity directly related to the population of his country. Even if theoredicaly the goal of the GDO is to prevent that skirmishes transform the Second Global War, a nation can always leave the GDO for warmongering reasons. The only innovation of the GDO is that the ideological quarrels of the BRE and the UR found an attentive audience. However since a few years, the rapid rise in power of the Levant Empire and the slow decomposition of the Ottoman Empire have been a spectacle even more entertaining. The principal building of the GDO is a complex including rooms for debates, negociations, and office work. The whole in a Art Nouveau style which gives to the island of Sark a continental charm. One will note the existence of an air terminal on the island of Jersey, where many UR aircrafts converge. On Guernsey a vast port has its share of battleships, from BRE, the new world, or the Ottoman Empire. To finish a sub-marine base on Alderney allows the Levant submarines to end their sub-Arctic trips. Each station is used as filter against fire arms, indeed the diplomats declared them prohibited on the islands. This is why the majority of the bodyguards of the diplomats are solid fighters able to defend them with their bare hands. |
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