On the evening of December 7, 2004, rampant rumours concerning possible Gorditan intervention in the ongoing internal conflict between the people of Buenos Altos and its negligent ruler, the Maestro, came to fruition.

At a closed-door meeting between the Gorditan ambassador to CP and the CP President, Gorditas received an emergency authorization of intervening in Buenos Altos in the name of Responsible Determination.

Shortly thereafter in the Chateau de Feu (Parliament), the Prime Minister of Gorditas proclaimed that the people of Buenos Altos had suffered enough and the country would assume control of Buenos Altos as a protector to save it from internal destruction.

The announcement split the Buenaltan public. Although there was widespread resentment of the Maestro for letting their country degenerate, many Buenaltans remained deeply grateful for the leadership shown by the Maestro in early 2003.

Within weeks, the Maestro had made Buenos Altos the most democratic country in the world, and had constructed a grand musical palace whose showcasing of the arts remains unrivalled throughout the Mapp. However the Maestro's energies soon expired and the grand palace was never finished while the country gradually lost is democratic roots, even becoming labeled a dictatorship by Congressional Parliament.

So those who opposed Gorditan intervention rose up in arms and targeted the 10,000 Gorditan troops already stationed in the country, who formed part of the A-FOR that had protected Buenos Altos from foreign aggression since early 2003 on the behalf of the Maestro's request.

The Buenaltan military immediately moved to protect the troops. In the ensuing clash, the angry mob of nearly 60,000 defeated the Gorditan and Buenaltan soldiers as they were stunned by the sheer ferocity and the substantial armamentarium of the mob, some of whose members had been stashing weapons for months in preparation for a violent coup d'etat against the Maestro. The mob did not target the remainder of the A-FOR, comprised of 10,000 troops from Marcusburg. 10,000 A-FOR troops from Lindsholm had been airlifted out of the country the day before.

In Gorditas, the bloodshed shocked the Prime Minister, who ordered 250,000 troops into Buenos Altos to protect a convoy delivering relief supplies into the country. Buenaltans of all stripes saw this as a thinly veiled counterattack and an additional 40,000 people rose to join the mob, now coalescing into an organized resistance.

But against the backdrop of 250,000 troops - indeed an entire army division - the Buenaltan resistance was unable to fight back and the country was pacified by sunrise on December 8.