The Loyalist

Nations represented the people, at least partially. It was a complicated, ambiguous, varying amalgamation of representing the people, the government, and themself as a person - or "person". An ancient Nation once said, "Nations are like Jesus, in a way; we are wholly our people, wholly our government, and wholly ourselves." This quote, though attributed to the Nation of the Roman Empire, had a speaker lost to time. The likelihood of it being Rome was doubted, even. Not even the oldest of Nations remembered who said it. However, it was probably a Catholic nation, ostensibly (which narrowed it down so much, most Nations sarcastically thought whenever they debated their own existence, an occurrence common and unavoidable when one can live as long as they do).
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Content warnings: use of religious ideas to compare things (perhaps a better way to phrase this is religious imagery for metaphors? Specifically, Catholicism, or Christianity to be broader). Food, existentialism for Nations, probably several that I've missed. Please tell me any I missed, and proceed with caution.

This is written platonically, but could be read romantically.

No, America is not hosting the next G7 Summit. My excuse is that I never specified the year. Unless I did, I'm not finished writing yet... If that does happen... you saw none of this

Credits in second chapter due to exceeding character limit!

Cover:
Sorry if it's kind of shitty. It could have been a better drawing but also I kind of really like it. Originally, I was going to trace it, but I decided to try one more time. I hope it looks like the actual flower, lol.
The reference imagine I used: https://www.classicroses.co.uk/roses/maiden-s-blush-great-shrub-rose.html
The explanation behind it can be found here https://uelac.ca/monuments/loyalist-rose/ and here https://www.uelac.org/SirGuyCarleton/loyalist-icons.php