Galactic Khmer Empire

Rallying ‘Round the Flag: Our brand-new flag (besides being beautiful) has proven to be very popular among the Khmer contingents of our populace, flying proudly everywhere from the palace of Angkor Tom to the newly-incorporated parts of our empire. However, our empire is increasingly becoming multicultural, and the rest of our subjects haven’t taken so fondly to the flag. What shall we do to unite our domain under one banner?

• Option 1: Surely, our people are war-weary, so we must pursue peace with what remains of Burma. [Requires a peace with Burma.]
• Option 2: Nay, let us instead take a page from the smaller nations around us and conduct war with stalwart determination, in order to prevail once and for all over our foes!
• Option 3: We shall emulate our Dutch friends, pursuing trade with all corners of the world for the sake of appeasing our citizens!
• Option 4: We ought to take after Taiwan by unifying our empire under the mandate of Klo, the Great One Above!

Church of St. Klo and the Order of WOSE

Finding a Greater Purpose: Discontentment has begun to multiply among the faithful of the Church of St. Klo, as they wonder whether spreading the good word should really be the Church’s sole purpose as an autonomous organization. The faithful entreat us to consider pursuing a greater purpose; what shall it be?

• Option 1: Our purpose shall be to satisfy our parishioners’ material wants!
• Option 2: Our purpose shall be to discover a land to call our own!
• Option 3: Our purpose shall be to forcibly make a land our own! [WARNING: MAY LEAD TO WAR]
• Option 4: Blasphemers, the lot of you! Klo is the only purpose we need!

Burma

The Cornered Tiger Strikes the Hardest: Our best efforts have proven all for naught, as our longtime Khmer nemesis, who we were once capable of beating back in war, has removed us from our ancestral homelands. The well-oiled Khmer war machine has left us in a sticky situation, but do we still have something to show those who presume us dead?

• Option 1: We are Burmese, and we don’t propose to give up so easily! We shall have dignity, or we will die fighting for it!
• Option 2: On second thought, giving up doesn’t sound like such a bad idea after all. At least we’ll survive that way. [Requires a peace with Khmer.]
• Option 3: Let’s find somewhere far away from the Khmer, where we can hopefully live in peace.
• Option 4: Why don’t we try to pull off something really sneaky to hopefully prevent the Khmer from messing with us any further?

Dutch East India Company

Chivalry in the Time of Empires: We’ve managed to expand to the entire Indonesian archipelago and even beyond, becoming fabulously wealthy in the process. However, amidst our largesse, a popular sentiment has arisen against what many of our people see as our crooked merchants and callous leadership. They bemoan our lack of morals, with our corpulent leader Randy in particular becoming a symbol for certain segments of society to rail against.

• Option 1: If Randy is the issue, then we should convince Randy to step down.
• Option 2: Nonsense! We must give our populace something more to believe in! [choose an existing religion]
• Option 3: Let us assuage our people’s doubts by demonstrating our chivalry on the battlefield! [WARNING: MAY LEAD TO WAR]
• Option 4: Morality? ‘Tis a silly concept indeed! Our booming economy will surely sort out this “problem” for us!

Philippines

Revival of the Regime: The good news is that we’re well on our way to reuniting the Philippine archipelago. The bad news is that so much of it rebelled from our rule in the first place. How did we reach this point, and more importantly, what must we do to ensure it won’t happen again?

• Option 1: We must put an end to the Mandate of Heavaime once and for all! That way, the Aimeists cannot effectively spread their seditious beliefs to our people.
• Option 2: We must crack down on the various vices of Taiwanese slavers and other associated crooks, who have plied their trade in our lands for too long!
• Option 3: We must do a better job of defending our leadership! If so many of our leaders hadn’t been enslaved or killed, our subjects never would have strayed.
• Option 4: We must strengthen our national identity by encouraging the arts to flourish! Our culture was once the envy of the world, and it can again be something to cherish.

Taiwan

Changing Destiny: Slave trafficking to curry more favor with Aime is all well and good, but unfortunately, it’s not doing anything for our temporal concerns, namely that we’re surrounded by and weaker than a bunch of heathens who don’t worship Aime. How will we change our destiny?

• Option 1: Well, advances in our war against the Philippines would certainly help matters...
• Option 2: Well, reasserting our control over the breakaway republic of Iowa City would certainly help matters…
• Option 3: Well, some good old bread and circuses for the common people would certainly help matters...
• Option 4: We have no need to change anything. We’re first in the eyes of Aime, and that’s all that matters.

Heavenly Slave State of Canada

Emerging from the Shadows of Tainan: Now that we are finally at peace with our neighbors, the time for reflection and questioning our place in this world has come. Are we doomed to forever be Canada in name only, and Taiwan in spirit, or shall we assert our inner Canadianness somehow?

• Option 1: How about we set aside national parks containing those few Sulu cultists who remain for our mounties to patrol? That’s a great idea, eh?
• Option 2: How about we have our scientists discover how to make our surroundings look like Canada? That’s a great idea, eh?
• Option 3: How about we open up a bunch of Asian fusion restaurants and promote our cities as suitable destinations for Taiwanese second houses? That’s a great idea, eh?
• Option 4: Sorry, but we enjoy being Taiwan’s foremost puppet state.

People’s Republic of Iowa City

Rolando, the Knight Who Says Gay Rights, or: Freedom of Expression in the Age of Communism: As if we didn’t already have enough problems with having to forcibly break free from Taiwan to assert any sort of independence, some flamboyant fellow who calls himself Rolando has shown up in Iowa City. He wishes to reside here, and pledges to use his connections and largesse to aid our efforts to forge a separate path from Taiwan, so long as we enshrine freedom of expression as an inalienable right for all the citizens of the PRIC. What shall we do about Rolando?

• Option 1: What is this “freedom of expression” nonsense? This “Rolando” should learn to hunker down like a good worker, or else be sent to the gulag!
• Option 2: How about we tell this Rolando a lie to get him to do what we want, while still preserving our communist principles?
• Option 3: Sure, let’s give Rolando what he desires. It might not be very communistic of us, but it’s more important that we maintain our sovereignty.
• Option 4: Why don’t we just make the guy someone else’s problem? [choose another faction]