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All hail the GR ministry of Finance!

[quote name='Horatio II' timestamp='1281262966' post='2404438'] At the moment Drai is running. If that isn't bad enough he's running unopposed. Please, run for minister of trains and save the republican rail network from the tyranny of Drai. [/quote] This.

o/ GR! So glad we have forums again!

Yay!

o/ Karma o/ Greenland Republic o7 Pacifica

Is this topic finally losing steam? Excellent, perhaps now some actual negotiation can be done...

That's very true - Karma has fought together and will give peace together. If it takes a little longer to sort out the value of the reparations, then so be it.

The manner of the peace is important.

I agree. I'll see what can be done.

That's a very good point. Pacificans may well be worried that the reperations will be assessed unfairly. How are we, Karma, planning on assessing their ability to pay?

Oh, okay, but thanks anyway - it was a good idea. It should now get proper coverage.

Thanks Valashi, that's helpful - I'll take it back to GR. However, while I see your point about not being able to send out the cash from the warchests quickly, think about it this way; you can have every nation with over 3,000,000 send out as many offers of 3,000,000 as they can. Over time, this can be replaced by cash from those large warchests. In effect, it's still coming out of the chests, but indirectly, and much more rapidly. Also, it would be unfair, given the magnitude of the reps, to demand that they be paid within a short time frame, so I feel confident that unavoidable tardiness will be tolerated to some extent.

Fair point. It may not look much like it from this topic, but we are discussing whether the terms should be altered. I have to warn you though, there's a lot of people in Karma who won't budge very far. If it truly is impossible, then it won't be asked. However, I need an answer; it seems to me that given the massive warchests (which I mentioned last page) that many NPO nations STILL FIGHTING have (we're talking 250 million, typically) I'm not sure I can accept the argument that you can't pay straight away. Even after fourteen days of fighting, there should be enough spare cash to pay the reps (not sure about asking that the tech come from larger nations though. That seems like a kick in the teeth to me, one I'm not sure we should be delivering).

Incidentally, I want to ask about whether Pacifica really wouldn't be able to pay. The warchests of some of the nations who are still in the war are quite huge. Thirty of them would be enough to pay the cash.

Apologies. It feels wrong to keep on posting this, but at the moment much of this topic is largely superfluous. Let's have reasoned debate. To re-iterate: