Treaty Between TNI and TSP

[Charles I. Cerebella]

I feel honour bound to defend Balder here. It had a difficult beginning as any region would being born into a situation where both sides of the game are trying to be involved and work together when they have never cooperated in any sphere before. Yet after all of that it has now turned into a beacon of of successful cooperation and for those of us that have stayed and contributed it has been immensely rewarding. I currently sit in the Council of State there and have as my colleagues people I'd have never thought I would work alongside. I don't think the Pact of Friendship had anything to do with a downhill slide there, that was just a symptom of the strains of defenders and invaders working together trying to build a region from scratch for the first time ever. There were many TNI and Europeian citizens who were already involved in Balder, many of us who have stayed for the long haul and built up the region to where it is now. The Pact of Friendship was issued by myself on behalf of TNI and Rachel Anumia on behalf of Europeia because we wanted to make clear that our involvement there was not an attempt to control the region or anything like it. We promised not to try and take the delegacy, we promised our good intentions, we promised to respect Balder's laws and we promised to provide assistance in transferring the delegacy to a popularly elected one all of which we have stuck to. All of that without asking anything at all from Balder in return. We also invited other regions and organisations to accede to it which I believe some did though I can't find the thread in Balder anymore thanks to the lovely archiving people did in the early days... But yes, I firmly believe Balder to be a fine example of a neutral region that raiders and defenders have equal say and can cooperate for the benefit of the region itself rather than any other region. That isn't something to be belittled. Yes it still has its tensions and conflicts but I'm just pleased that it has been tried.