Qal, The Trinity, International Wing.
'Fellow people, I assume you have heard of the tension between Alssahra and Sach'aqa, whom share borders. Some countries, notably Fornoire, have already intervened, feeling it their need to interfere with another countries issues. The situation sparked due to large tariffs imposed on Sach'aqa by Alssahra, regarding trade on the river Nahr. This in itself was not enough to spark the threat of war from Sach'aqa obviously..' #78 Manager of International Affairs Edyrm Zumgwyn stated, before being interrupted by a farmer known as Halamar.
'Threat of war? You describe a threat of war as mere 'tension' between countries?' Halamar interrupted.
'Well yes, because I believe that it can be resolved diplomatically if both nation cooperate' Edyrm answered 'are you alright with this?'
'Yeah fine go ahead' Halamar replied 'It's just some of us have not heard of this situation yet so I was a bit struck when I realized we were talking about war'
'Ah yes I will make sure to describe in more detail the event later on, as well as show several newspaper articles on the big screen' Edyrm said, gesturing at the large projection screen behind him, 'alright, as I was saying, this was obviously not enough to spark the threat of war from Sach'aqa, but after reading a copy of the letter that Sach'aqa sent online, then also researching more into the matter, I found that Sach'aqa had faced brutal colonization and oppression from Alssahra, which I'm sure you all know is a dictatorship. I believe this and the large restrictions on their trade routes has caused the threat of war, which, due to this evidence, I believe to be completely justified' Edyrm paused as a murmur stirred in the audience. As the chatter died down he continued 'now, although war may have been a bit to much to fast on their part, I think that we need to support them and try to coax them back to a friendly relationship with Alssahra, while getting Alssahra to perhaps meet them halfway by compensating them for what they need and lessening tariffs on the River Nahr. That is my case, please consider this before deciding to attack them like other countries have so far. Edyrm sat down on a chair in the front row of the audience to hear the next speaker, #46 Manager of International Affairs and a noted isolationist called Ailduin Varnala, who was once again making a case for not getting involved.
'Fellow people, Edyrm hear has made a good case on behalf of Sach'aqa, but he did not address the issue of why we should get involved at all. Do we not have our own problems? The stronghold of Karknar still holds strong and he and his men take more land and prisoners everyday. Should we not clean up our own problems before we try to clean up other nations ones? Although I agree that Alssahra needs to lessen tariffs and perhaps take measures to ensure that the compensate Sach'aqa for the problems caused by the colonization, Sach'aqa still should not have declared war like that. Both of these countries seem childish and need to sort out these problems themselves, us interfering in their problems is only going to raise tension and tempers between us and the side we choose not to support. I implore you to vote to not take action, so that we can instead focus on our problems, rather than that of two countries that can't make up'. Ailduin sat down near Edyrm and got ready to listen to the third and final case, presented by a citizen who worked several jobs called Jaonos Zumfiel, who was in favour of helping Alssahra.
'Fellow people, you have heard two arguments already, both presented by Managers and are undoubtedly a lot better written then mine' this caused a few laughs 'I think that we should help out Alssahra, they are the ones being attacked and they have no obligation to lift tariffs if they don't want to, hell we should know, with our heavy and might I add, discriminatory tariffs levied upon capitalist nations, while we trade freely with communist ones. Sach'aqa has no right to declare war, the woes inflicted upon them by colonists was most likely an event that happened far in the past and had nothing to do with Alssahra's present leader, so why should they pay for it. I ask that you make the right choice and follow Fornoires example by voting to help Alssahra'.
Jaonos sat down at the other end of the meeting room while Hagmar, the coordinator stepped up to announce that the vote would be released and that the meeting was dismissed. All 100 viewers left the room, with a lot of them voting as they exited. The 'ivote' app notified the population of the issue and provided recordings of the presenters cases. In 5 days the voting closed, with 96.576% of the population having voted. These are the results.
Pro Sach'aqa: 47% of votes.
Pro Alssahra: 26% of votes.
Staying out: 27% of votes.
With this outcome the Trinity put out a public notice that Sach'aqa would be receiving support, they also notified Sach'aqa and Alssahra of the outcome as well. Supplies and medics would be sent to Sach'aqa to help if war broke out, as well as 25 Managers of International Affairs, with Edyrm leading them as acting voice of Oscad.