The Eagle Rises in a new world

The Papaldian Empire:The Myth,The Legend

Esthirant

"What's happening with the plan?!" came an angry shout.

"Yes...The imperial oversight army's 22 ship fleet will depart shortly to administer punishment to Fenn," the aide replied nervously.

The Papaldia Empire's 3rd foreign affairs department was located in a facility outside the palace. Just like Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, these departments were in charge of diplomacy, but in Papaldia the responsibilities were split between three separate departments.

The 1st department was found in the palace and dealt solely with the five superpowers in the civilized area. These relationships required the most delicate care, the most scrupulous political decision-making, so only the elite of the elite were assigned there.

Next, the 2nd department was situated outside the palace and handled foreign relations with other countries in the civilized area other than the superpowers. Using their national power as leverage, they pushed forward Papaldia's national interests while pulling back against unreasonable conditions.Because these countries were all backed by other superpowers, they couldn't just recklessly exploit them, so a level of prudence was necessary. This was where the rest of the elites worked.

Finally, the 3rd department was in charge of all countries outside the civilized area, also known as the "barbarian countries." They were given leave to apply as much pressure as necessary to squeeze whatever they wanted from these countries. With permission from the imperial oversight army, they were allowed to take punitive action on them whenever necessary. Because there were so many barbarian countries,60% of the entire foreign affairs department worked here.

The national resource acquisition stratagem being executed behind the scenes in the Kingdom of Lauria had failed because the strategy team had moved independently.Because they had invested so many resources into it,it wasn't possible for them to hide their failure,but all the information was currently still limited to the 3rd foreign affairs department, so no one else knew about the country called the Russian Empire.

Returning to previous matter at hand...

About 210 km east of the Third Civilization superpower Papaldia,there was an island shaped like a backwards comma that was 150 km in length and 60 km in width.This was the Kingdom of Fenn.East of Fenn, across the bay like a mirror, was the comma-shaped Holy Land of Gahara. Another 500 km east of Gahara lay the Russian Empire.

As part of the emperor's national expansion initiative,the 3rd foreign affairs department demanded that a 400 square kilometer area in Fenn be gifted to Papaldia.That area only contained forests—the 3rd department could gain credit for obtaining land for the initiative; it wasn't being used by Fenn anyway,so it was no loss for them;it would be an act of loyalty towards Papaldia,so they could turn into a semi-civilized state once Papaldia shared some of their technologies;and finally, they would become allied with Papaldia,which,given the power behind their name,would be a large deterrent for any surrounding countries that were thinking of invading them.Papaldia would expand, and Fenn would get rich.

Fenn for some reason rejected this amazing proposal, so the department prepared a second proposal to lease the same site from them for 498 years. Fenn's Sword King Shihan politely declined the second proposal as well.

"They're throwing mud on our name as a superpower," fumed Kyeos, the department head. He decided to dispatch the oversight army's fleet.

3th foreign Office,reception

"I apologize for the trouble; if the department head is indisposed, any official will do. Please allow us to meet with someone who has authority."

A group of officials from Russian's Ministry of Foreign Affairs had been stuck in this routine for three months.