Eternity RPC Board
The Capital District, West Brigidna
Septum, 1598
There had been much work in the capital district over the past several years, on developing new systems, integrating old ones, and forming the new state. This work was long and difficult, and had found at least moderate success in most areas.
With the foundation of the new West Brigidnan Union the matter of old ties became a topic of conversation. Namely, the West Brigidnan Economic Agreement (WBEA) which had been initially formed in the 1570s after being deliberated upon for some years, even decades if one considered some of the most early academic discussions.
With the new state being formed the WBEA was now largely a moot point outside of members Kave and Ostland. Rather than continue the WBEA, however, it could be simple enough to just establish close economic relations with the two rather small states, and maintain some of the agreements in the WBEA, such as currency and open borders.
The WBEA always had ambitions for being something more but never developed as such. The times were never right, and rival economic organizations developed in tandem, such as the one spearheaded by the Lanlanians.
However in recent years the climate had changed. Lanlania softened. Nerysia began slowly opening itself up. There was a group within the WBU legislature who had ambitions of a larger WBEA, not just for the West Brigidnan states, but perhaps the entire continent. Eventually, the more ambitious leaders believed, they could go global. This was seen as perhaps overly ambitious, but for them, such lofty goals typically resulted in an achievement somewhere near the destination, even if not quite so far.
So, an email was crafted -- a rough agenda of topics to discuss. The major and more ambitious pieces were there, open borders, currency, and others. As well there were minor pieces that would likely be easier to agree on, such as visas, imoorts/exports, tariffs, etc.
The email highlighted the success of the WBEA at uniting diverse peoples and building a robust economy (one of the largest in the world) and how, on a larger scale, this could potentially be reproduced.
The email was sent to all the nations of Brigidna, from the large, the Lanlanias, Nerysias, Severyanes, to the moderates, the Gehennas, the Lomarres, the Karjelinns, to the smalls, the Nentsias, the Ashfords, the Harmajaas.
It was incredibly ambitious. It was likely to be unsuccessful, at least in some capacity. It was bold. It was done.
And so, a pebble was pushed down a hill. Where it would land, and what it would do along the way, was still unknown.
Septum, 1598
There had been much work in the capital district over the past several years, on developing new systems, integrating old ones, and forming the new state. This work was long and difficult, and had found at least moderate success in most areas.
With the foundation of the new West Brigidnan Union the matter of old ties became a topic of conversation. Namely, the West Brigidnan Economic Agreement (WBEA) which had been initially formed in the 1570s after being deliberated upon for some years, even decades if one considered some of the most early academic discussions.
With the new state being formed the WBEA was now largely a moot point outside of members Kave and Ostland. Rather than continue the WBEA, however, it could be simple enough to just establish close economic relations with the two rather small states, and maintain some of the agreements in the WBEA, such as currency and open borders.
The WBEA always had ambitions for being something more but never developed as such. The times were never right, and rival economic organizations developed in tandem, such as the one spearheaded by the Lanlanians.
However in recent years the climate had changed. Lanlania softened. Nerysia began slowly opening itself up. There was a group within the WBU legislature who had ambitions of a larger WBEA, not just for the West Brigidnan states, but perhaps the entire continent. Eventually, the more ambitious leaders believed, they could go global. This was seen as perhaps overly ambitious, but for them, such lofty goals typically resulted in an achievement somewhere near the destination, even if not quite so far.
So, an email was crafted -- a rough agenda of topics to discuss. The major and more ambitious pieces were there, open borders, currency, and others. As well there were minor pieces that would likely be easier to agree on, such as visas, imoorts/exports, tariffs, etc.
The email highlighted the success of the WBEA at uniting diverse peoples and building a robust economy (one of the largest in the world) and how, on a larger scale, this could potentially be reproduced.
The email was sent to all the nations of Brigidna, from the large, the Lanlanias, Nerysias, Severyanes, to the moderates, the Gehennas, the Lomarres, the Karjelinns, to the smalls, the Nentsias, the Ashfords, the Harmajaas.
It was incredibly ambitious. It was likely to be unsuccessful, at least in some capacity. It was bold. It was done.
And so, a pebble was pushed down a hill. Where it would land, and what it would do along the way, was still unknown.