With only a few countries opening High Commissions and CP not pushing for more opening, some claim that the Commissions are only part of a much greater plan by the new Secretary-General to fundamentally alter the nature of the Mapp.

Although almost everyone agrees that the War of 2K1 was a turning point in civilization, revisionist historians have now relabeled the war as one of ideology instead of mere vested national interests.

The Nexus, they say, was founded on the premise that all countries had a right to exist even if they were failed states. The Confederacy looked upon these countries as their rightful prey. They even saw themselves as doing a service for the Mapp.

With the Nexus victorious, however, the Confederate ideology came to an abrupt end. That is, until the Confederacy broke apart. Historians now claim that the Nexus's ideology was never that strong to begin with. It was only a kneejerk reaction to the aggressive ideology that the Confederacy espoused. The hasty merger of the PTO (Marcusburg's empire) and UCL (Lindsholm's empire) into the Nexus is evidence of this.

Therefore when the Vaticonian wars broke out (a Nexus civil war in essence), the Nexus was easily dissolved since it was founded on shaky ground. The successor organization GX was formed as an exclusive club of the strong without having to carry the burden of the weak.

However, contrary to expectation, the situation was no longer a direct continuation of the way things were before the War of 2K1 happened. Back then, larger countries were busy gobbling up smaller countries and forging empires. But in this new age, the GX couldn't continue this trend. As leaders of the Nexus, they had already spread their propaganda for the right of all countries to exist into the far corners of the world.

They had won, but it was a negative peace. They could not enjoy the fruits of their victory since ironically they were constrained by the very means they had used to triumph over the Confederacy.

They could no longer forge empire by claiming to protect the smaller countries from invasion, as there was no longer an enemy. The defeated ex-Confederate countries were in no condition to fight and smart enough to realize their weakness after years of military limitations.

And so the Mapp settled into a stagnant slumber. The ex-Confederate nations refused to expand, compete, or advance (as a natural consequence) for fear of being attacked by the GX. The GX could not expand, compete, or advance since they were bound by propaganda and the lack of a clearly defined enemy. All that was left were the failed states, with the odd exception of a few countries. But they had so large a gap to narrow and so much to catch up on that their presence won't be felt for years.

Without pushing and prodding from larger countries, the failed states fell further and further into a deep coma. Some even died. Neonoe succumbed to the most humiliating death of all - it was built over by a neighbour. Country after country declared bankruptcy.

This greatly alarmed Congressional Parliament, whose mandate was essentially identical to the former Nexus's (which explains why the organization seemed to favour the Nexus over the Confederacy consistently throughout history). It had thought it was finally successful. Without war, all nations had a right to exist, even failed states.

After all, countries were left alone to live in a world peace. Even if that peace was merely draped over the insipid stagnation the Mapp had sunk into.

The theory went that if countries were left alone, they could develop into unique entities that would enrich the international diversity of the Mapp. But the proliferation of failed states showed that this was simply not to be.

Congressional Parliament became a victim of its own success. It had overachieved its outdated mandate and led the Mapp into a coma from which no one knew if it could ever awaken from.

Ironically the old Secretary-General had been warned by the former leader of the Hanseatic League, the Emm, of just such a scenario. When the Emm abdicated, he predicted that the Mapp would stagnate under the weight of the Great Powers, notably the GX. Take away his proditistic angle (i.e. he wanted countries to unite against the Great Powers) and he was more or less right.

On some level, Congressional officials knew he was right as well. But they held out hope that they had traveled down the right path. Ever since the dawn of Mapp civilization, their mandate was to maintain world peace and for the first time ever it seemed to be within reach. So they happily dressed up stagnation as success. But the success was empty.

Congressional Parliament had gambled that those odd exceptions - the slowly developing countries between the GX, the ex-Confederate nations, and the failed states would pick up the slack. They would be the engine of a new Mapp, a new peaceful but dynamic world.

But Congressional officials didn't realize the huge gap in demographics, finances, armaments, and technology these countries had to close. All attempts by Congressional Parliament to accelerate the growth of these countries failed. Without a strong authoritarian hand (CP was built on the premise of respecting sovereignty), the only impetus for progress had to come from within these countries. And that was hardly a sure thing.

Hemmed in by a lethargic GX, a fearful group of ex-Confederate countries, and an ocean of failed states laden with toxic apathy, Congressional Parliament finally overcame its denial of stagnation and realized that the Mapp was headed on a course towards a cold entropic death.

And so it desperately tried to change course this past summer. It seized upon the result of half-hearted attempts by Marcusburg to reinvigorate its foreign policy: responsible determination. This move allowed Congressional Parliament to abandon failed states, in effect, contradicting its mandate.

Then came the realization that this wasn't enough. Even the slowly progressing countries were beginning to fail. By trying to develop too much too soon, they were also heading into bankruptcy. Only a plethora of emergency grants from Marcusburg saved these countries (reportedly obtained only after Congressional officials pleaded with the central bank for weeks). But even all the money in the world couldn't stop the hemorrhaging.

Many realized this would be the final nail in the coffin. The Secretary-General knew he had to act and thus ordered the drafting of the now famous Reform Dossier to answer the following questions: How to keep the slowly progressing countries afloat? How to keep the last hopes of a viable Mapp alive? How to stop the Mapp from plunging into a dark age?

The answer was more than he bargained for. The Reform Dossier committee came back and told him to resign. After two weeks of resistance, the Secretary-General finally capitulated. He had already let too much damage happen. No one inside the walls of the Parliament had any faith left in him. And so he left.

In his place came a radical new Secretary-General who appreciated the current dangerous and precarious state of the Mapp. It would take some radical surgery to fix the world, that is, if it could be fixed. He took up the Reform Dossier's recommendations and pushed forward on two major routes.

First, the obvious route - to make Congressional Parliament more open and accessible to countries. While a seeming redundancy for the big countries that Congressional Parliament normally talks to (e.g. the Great Powers, the Major Powers), the real objective of this is to make it extremely easy, maybe even irresistable, for the slowly progressing countries to ignore help. If you couldn't coerce them into developing, entice them.

Secondly, the conspiracy - the High Commissions. Not only would this help make Congressional assistance irresistable to countries by being in-your-face but, more importantly, the Commissions were designed to force countries to sign up for Congressional help. The seeds had been planted for a great future purge.

By putting the onus on the countries, Congressional Parliament can easily leave failed states to die in a revived world (i.e. those without High Commissions). It was just putting the doctrine of responsible determination into practice. The Secretary-General is planning to kill two birds with one stone - helping the slowly progressive countries while weaving the destruction of failed states.

The only question lies in how to revive the Mapp.

Is it too little, too late?

(Editor's Note: No one has confirmed this hypothesis. When confronted with the question at a press conference, the new Secretary-General replied, "This is all total nonsense. Such a consipracy theory sounds like it was concocted by a stressed-out med student who's averaging 5 hours of sleep a night and only has 3 days before a huge exam!")