First off, on the behalf of SPQR, i would like to apologize for acting so aggressively, so quickly. We had heard rumors that Nova requested help from the Liberatas in her crusade for independence. In hindsight we made the wrong choice to take aggressive action. Normally we are not an aggressive nation, but dealing with Kaiserinreich lately things boiled over and we made a mistake.

History (brief)
SPQR went mostly inactive late fall, we had a few citizens still playing but not as many as now. During this time Silianat, the emperor of SPQR, left signs in our land, as well as landmarks. While we were semi-inactive Nova moved into a town we called Zana, she removed all of Silianat's signs and burned our flags, creating Kaiserin. During the winter SPQR came back stronger and noticed Kaiserin living in our land. Nova seemed friendly at the time and easy to work with. Nova made us aware of Volterra just north of her, this is were things went down hill. Nova would constantly fight over land with Volterra, a very peaceful nation, mostly builders. This is the time that we negotiated our annexation treaty with Nova, mostly to handle foreign affairs and not let war break out in our region.

Since then

We had to deal with Kaiserin fighting Volterra over land, numerous times. During one of these times of heated debate, Nova and MRL, escorted 2 players into Volterra where someone griefed Volterra. (minor griefing) Nova later stated it was Yoshi_sam doing the griefing.
Nova stating Yoshi did damage to volterra while nova was showing him volterra
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Nova generated direct conflict with our close neighbors by repeatedly connecting to the CIC rail without permission. A crime for which she still owes /u/TealNerd reparations for. This also looked bad on SPQR's part
Nova v. CIC

Kaiserinreich has posted numerous recruitment letters, which in the eyes of spqr are fine. The problem being they never mentioned they were an SPQR territory. You may say "so what", but then we have to explain to their new citizens about our taxes, government, etc. This makes SPQR look unorganized and inefficient. This was later worked out with a national recruitment letter, which Nova voted "yes" on, but they declared independence before it was used.

Here are the treaties we are accused of "holding a sword to her head" for her to sign:

Original Treaty
Revising request of above treaty by nova (Which was a month ago)
The new treaty she wrote
Nova's yes vote, as well as showing she was a senator

Recently (Sunday) a senator brought to our attention the idea of giving Kaisereich their independence. I told him i would talk with nova, because we have had worked together before over Volterra/Kaiserin land disputes.
Draft of Nova's and Herbie's ideas
As you can see my terms were very harsh, but that's how negotiations go.

The treaty i took the the SPQR senate

This independence treaty was only in the senate for 12-16 hours, mostly overnight. All of this explains the actions of SPQR. (as I said we apologize for) I could show you more documents showing the problems we have had since Kaiserinreich has moved into our region, but i feel this is long enough. SPQR did not want it this way, and we were working on a peaceful independence treaty, I asked Nova to have patience. The document I proposed to the senate were mostly nova's wishes. We wanted our land claims protected, our rails protected, and overall peace within our region.

Yes SPQR has made mistakes, but this is what happened today by a kaiserinreich citizen
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