The Morovian Telegraph

{Editor's Note: Capistrano gets the swallows, Morovia gets the rest... Summer in Morovia wouldn't be complete without the annual and always short-lived March of the Paper Soldiers.

Well, since The Briesk Evening Standard has already scooped us on the serious side of this issue, we may as well go for laughs.

So we submit this recently intercepted piece of diplomatic correspondence.}



Dear Mr. Bjorn Asgeirsson:

Please convey my warmest regards to President Yarl Berg of the Republic of Morovia, which shouldn't be too hard as you are both one and the same paper doll - that is, if you even ARE Yarl Berg (paranoid, I know, but trust me, I know of which I speak, I'm no slouch in the paper doll business myself!)

His revival of the Republic of Morovia some two and a half years after it peacefully went inert is a master stroke of timing. Um, master stroke of...diplomacy. Er, of strategy?

Oh well, it was a master stroke of something!

And something certain to raise the level of micronationalism from the sublime to the ridiculous, which is where both you and I belong, I mean, where both you and I know it belongs.

The President's ploy may also exploit differences in the rump Kingdom's government. The King offers amnesty. The Prosecutor-General is preparing for legal action. And General Foong has recently been seen obsessively cleaning his ivory-handled pistols.

Berg's offer of amnesty was a most cunning ploy to split the coalition of the non-dolls as well, and I hear that the document shredders have been going full blast at His Former Majesty's Ministry of Home Affairs.

Speaking of His Former Majesty, has President Berg considered a position for Vincent?

I know, I know, having some guy with a crown around in a republic kind of clashes with the decor. Still, maybe President Berg could go on tour throughout the micronational landscape and, you know, borrow a little credibility by dragging Vincent, similar to way America's President Bush is dragging war hero Senator John McCain around to um, bolster his own, er, indifferent...

Not, of course, that President Berg needs to borrow credibility or anything...

That's something I'm a bit of an expert on as well, you know.

Regards,
Emperor Jacobus

P.S. Comrade Titov and GrandDuke Theo send their regards.