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This time I have the craziest "country" of Primera in my hands - Benelux . Benelux is supposed to be a combined nation of two countries - Belgium and Netherlands. We'll see how it's gonna work out but right now we can see how the "president" of this "country" sees the project.
EDIT: Welcome Bangladesh, another country I could interview some day!
1. Welcome
kefkef1 , president of something called Benelux!
1. Haha, thank you. Glad to be here.
2. So what IS Benelux?
2. Well there has always been a special bond between the Netherlands and Belgium, for example our common language. We like each other a lot and because we are both rather small countries we decided to join forces and have common goals to really mean something in e-sim.
3. But what would be the point of combining 2 countries and how it's gonna work?
3. Well being 2 small nations isn't really something alliances need, but combined we could really help out so it is interesting for both ourselves and our allies, at this point we are negotiating how we can make our economy and military power unite so both countries will grow into 1 big nation. We are not aiming to become the greatest power on e-sim, but we would like to have some influence
4. Who came up with the idea and how are you going to make it into reality? Do the people of Netherlands and Belgium approve the idea?
4. Euhm we already had a common irc channel #slowlands so we were already close, and a few months ago we were both getting really bored of our 'neutral' status, so that's when we came together and decided to attack the UK, and i think back then was the first time we started speaking of working together as 1 nation and divide the income of North Eastern England. I think that the people of Belgium and the Netherlands approve, i haven't heard a single complaint in articles or on IRC, and i think they can all see this could be the beginning of a new power on E-sim. But like i said there is still a lot of work to and we are not nearly finished, but both governments are enthusiastic so i have good hopes
5. Aprox how long time is there until the end of the project and how have you become the "president" of it?
5. Well i am hoping it will be finished as soon as possible, at this time we are fighting for our freedom, and thanks to our good allies from MP (especially Poland, Lithuania and the USA) we are succeeding so far. Once we are free we should be getting some more money again, and then we can start by buying a new mu and spend allot of money in it so we can have a good supply system, so as you can see it will take some time, but i hope over the next term or 2 to be completely finished.
And as for how i became Prince-Regent of the Benelux, we first had a meeting where we decided that our leader should be elected by the CP, vCP, MoD and MoFA of each country, and they elected me. then we continued on debating the name of our 'leader' and i voted for something else, but they voted for Prince-Regent and i wear the title with proud.
6. You shouldn't, Prince-Regent is an utterly dumb name.
What does a person of such title have to manage anyways?
6. Hahah i have heard that everywhere but i don't care what the people say about it, indeed i could have said that i wanted an other name, but we are a democracy and i will live by those rules.
and my responsibilities are that i need to arrange meetings and that i have the final decision after consulting with my HQ and both governments, so a bit like a supreme commander from an alliance but with an original name, the same way as our union is original and 1 of a kind in e-sim.
7. Who are the enemies and allies of the newly formed country?
7. Our most important enemies are France and the UK who still have most of our regions, and of course they have their allies so we have quite a few enemies, luckily for us we have a lot of allies too. Magnum Pactum of course where we were invited by our good friends the USA, Lith and PL like i said earlier but we have some friends outside the alliance too, for example Brazil and even Ireland. We also have a good relationship with Macedonia due to the fact that there are a lot of Macedonians in Belgium, though this is less now that we allied with Greece..
8. I believe that's enough of Benelux... Thanks and good luck!
8. Thank you too, and have a good day.
It's called double-peace on a skateboard.
More in my interview series (Find your CP or a friend
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1. Interview with Ameshanu, CP of Australia, PART I / Interview with Ameshanu, CP of Australia, PART II
2. Interview with ricardolin, CP of Canada
3. Interview with Asuka Langley Soryu, SC of Auletian Pact
4. Interview with SMTaishan, CP of Sweden
5. Interview with Maxxst, former PD of Phoenix
6. Interview with Evilorkie, Game Operator
7. Interview with Sharous, CP of Lithuania
8. Interview with DreamForest, PTOer
9. Interview with Mark Stray, CP of Portugal, Part I / Interview with Mark Stray, CP of Portugal, Part II
10. [FUN] Interview with Lolz911, dead president of Colombia
11. Interview with Damon Mortis, CP of Italy
12. Interview with Depeche, Compass Charities
13. Interview with Mi6Ma6, CP of Bulgaria
14. Interview with bananaboy378, Game Operator
15. Interview with bhanu27, CP of India
16. Interview with yuvy15, CP of Israel
17. Interview with XTALL, CP of Iran
18. Interview with jij5354, CP of Estonia
19. Interview with lupus12, CP of Poland
20. Interview with Kiecho, CP of Netherlands
21. Interview with daenyboi, the "Liberator" of Sweden
22. Interview with smecherturk, CP of Turkey
23. Interview with siegehart, CP of Indonesia
24. Interview with cc92140, CP of France
25. Interview with Lord Mushroom, CP of United States of America
26. Interview with ZiiLz, CP of Latvia
27. Interview with emmm21ics, CP of Romania
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