The Prime Chancellor of Marcusburg has ordered these troops to act as peacekeepers and police officers instead of soldiers, thereby waiving international law that would have required Marcusburg to annex Samchorage in seven days. The peacekeepers have been ordered to cooperate fully with the Samchoragean police so as to respond to an emergency situation within the country.

For months, peaceful demonstrations have occurred daily outside the Samokritzg (Samchoragean Parliament) where ordinary Samchorageans have protested against the current political situation.

Protests began when Samchorageans learned that their President had secretly attempted to abdicate to Marcusburg in the summer of 2004. Fearing the effect such a development may have on the Mapp in general, the Prime Chancellor rebuffed the President's overtures and agreed to help manage the country economically in return for control of Samchorage's military. Samchorageans were enraged at both the fact that their President had tried abandoning them, and that he had partially sold his country out to a foreign power.

Marcusburg soon found itself watching Samchorage slide into chaos since its officials could only advise the President economically. They could not force his hand. The President's continued squandering of his country's wealth and power accelerated the Samokritzg protests, leading to Marcusburg asking, and getting approval, for Forum Resolution 23.

After the resolution was passed, Samchorageans found themselves caught between a rock and a hard place. Were they to choose continued rule from a negligent President, or were they to submit their proud and mighty nation to the will of foreigners?

Surprisingly, they were able to carve a third path - for awhile. Living in denial, Samchorageans went about their daily lives normally as if nothing had happened. That is, until January 2005.

By then, the pendulum had swung far enough away from the President. Local groups had become so fed up with the status-quo that they decided to capture the President's attention by staging acts of civil disobedience. The range of acts were as varied as the groups involved. Some organized strikes that temporarily crippled national industries while others orchestrated downtown demonstrations which were always on the edge of turning violent.

In light of those events, the Prime Chancellor flew to Samchorage in the middle of January and spoke before the members of parliament and the government cabinet in the Samokritzg. He garnered their support for Forum Resolution 23 after promising not to annex Samchorage into Marcusburg should peacekeepers be deployed into an unstable Samchorage on the brink of collapse.

On February 10, 2005, the situation turned violent. A series of murders and kidnappings rocked the country, culminating in the assassination of several high-ranking Samchoragean officials. By nightfall, hysteria swept the nation, provoking an emergency broadcast from Marcusburg that jammed the country's airwaves at 11:24 PM.

An urgent plea by the Prime Chancellor directly to all Samchorageans to maintain calm heralded the arrival of peacekeepers. They were greeted respectfully, albeit reluctantly, and restored order in the country by day's end. It appears that Forum Resolution 23 has been a success so far - but the question remains, for how long?