Jack of Harts

The Attican Insurrection was one of the quickest national takeovers of the current century, transmitted live across the networks all over the world. The Pineland administration came back from vacation to say that they were shocked, shocked to find out that the Attican military was so incompetent or unwilling to handle a few terrorists. The complete collapse was a total surprise, but what could they do? The previous administration had locked them into a withdrawal that they had no choice but honor. It was so sad that the Attican government had fled rather than fight for their country. If they wouldn’t fight in their own civil war, there was no reason for Pineland to continue pouring their blood and treasure into the morass. So they were doing the right thing for Pineland in washing their hands of the issue and walking away.

The previous administration had made an agreement with the Islamic Republic of Attica and the Islamic Congress of Attica to remove Pineland forces if the two cooperated towards forming a coalition government. The new administration changed the withdrawal deadline from winter to the middle of fighting season, ignored the preconditions the Islamic Congress had to live by, and did not declare a general evacuation of Pineland citizens and allies to get them out of the country. They then evacuated all military personnel from their primary military base, in the middle of the night, without telling their Attican allies, over a month before the new deadline. They also pulled out all of the Pineland technicians maintaining the Attican air force, stopped paying the Attican army and police, and removed all other support from them. The chaos that caused could not be underestimated.

The People’s Democratic Republic of Acadia released a biological weapon upon the world that killed millions and brought the worldwide economy to a crashing halt. Acadian agents inside Pineland used the health crisis to destabilize the administration and support the opposing candidates in the upcoming election. Bought and paid-for politicians fought them with every political weapon they had, and compromised generals interfered with administration policies and orders. Some even called their Acadian counterparts to undermine the administration’s positions. Election laws and procedures were changed to remove anti-fraud measures for the health crisis. Allegations of widespread fraud and foreign collusion rocked Pineland after the election, resulting in further domestic unrest in the nation. A new administration was sworn in though, to the great approval of Acadia and their agents in Pineland.