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The Diplomatic Corps Act
Liam D'Erable writes home to the triumvirate with yet another report on the situation in Keyraht, he describes how a monarch has been selected despite the best hopes but that the situation is still prime for a republican revolution... if Payesians can offer the support necessary. Nonetheless, his letter concerns an entirely different development. He writes about the needs for an established bureaucracy to handle diplomacy within Pays D'Espoir, he describes how other nations are capable of hosting permanent embassies within Keyraht, yet Pays D'Espoir can, sans adhoc solutions, only send a singular diplomat abroad at a time.

He explains it as the difference between a professional army and a citizen militia "though the citizen militia might fight valiantly for his country, they can only fight defensively for a short period. As a free people surrounded by the oppressed, we are bound to be on the permanent defence, a task simply unsuitable for a citizen army or a citizen diplomatic corps alike." With this he proposes legislation, from abroad, to establish a Payesian diplomatic corp, it should be no surprise to anyone that he is seeking a return home with an upcoming election.

The legislation calls for a course within the university of Montfeu to cover the art of diplomacy along with the languages of the various other states which spot the globe. To attend such a course, an examination system is established across all the universities within Pays D'Espoir. Taking the exam is, in and of itself free, subsidised by the state. Though concerns exist over how people will travel to the universities to take the exam, but the diplomatic corp course is meant as a post graduate degree similar to law school and therefor most applicants should already be wealthy enough he argues, and those who aren't will either be gifted enough to think of their own solution, or not fit to serve their republic in such a manner yet. After successfully passing the rigorous course, one will be appointed as a junior diplomat. Two junior diplomats will accompany each senior diplomat abroad to head an embassy and also to report home separately in order to ensure the good behaviour of the diplomat. One of the reasons for two junior diplomats is to ensure if they report home negatively, the senior diplomat will be unable to know which reported negatively. He argues the junior diplomats will replace the firekeepers that accompany triumvirs for diplomats. After several years as a junior diplomat, one will be entitled to a promotion to become a senior diplomat upon a vacancy opening up. Along with these positions, senior diplomats will be open to educate the classes for the diplomatic corps, to act as advisors to the triumvirs on foreign policy doctrine, or to be sent to other missions that may appear and each will be accompanied by junior diplomats all the same. The legislation covers nearly every issue that could arise including the management of the individual embassies, the exact level of oversight of the triumvirate, among others. Interestingly it even includes a clause for the firekeepers to revoke the position of any diplomat who is deemed to be going over their head and for some amount to travel. On government expenses, to any embassy abroad. These clauses are near certainly in order to ensure the firekeepers do not veto the legislation as going against their constitutional rights as if the legislation needs to go before a vote of the public assembly Liam D'Erable will be unable to return home for the elections. The legislation also covers the interim before diplomats graduate by legislating that they will be appointed from among the most merited in the nation with the approval of the triumvirate . However, any such individual will still need to have passed the examination first to be a candidate and be a polyglot.

At first Julliete attempts to stall discussion on the legislation with Simon D'Eau, she discusses the pedantic "why not 4 junior diplomats?" for days on ends, then she discusses how such a diplomatic corp will "damage the health of our young republic by taking power of the hand of elected official into a plutocratic bureaucracy" she argues Liam D'Erables time in Keyraht and seeing Frankian diplomats "corrupted him". She dances around pertinent issues asking "will the exams be held in local languages or the new national language?" she then argues it should wait until that issue is resolved before being discussed again, saving her from taking a side while stalling it further. She states that clearly such diplomatic corps will be a large expenditure, and instiute new laws, and therefor is not a matter for the triumvirate to discuss alone. She argues that it would ruin the beautiful serene isolationism of "notre pays".

Liam D'Erable is thus trapped in Keyraht for some time, until he thinks of a solution by utilizing a constitutional quirk within Pays D'Espoir. He asks the firekeepers accompagnying him on his travel for permision to use the moral authority granted to the firekeepers to condemn the entire Keyrahti leadership of heresy, arguing that after all if they are Payesians at heart as the PPP suggests they are under the purview of the firekeeper moral judgement, it is a weak argument. But the main goal is that such a power is granted to the firekeepers as a whole, and therefor the council which attends him is unable to approve of the request without going home to discuss it with the rest of the firekeepers. Without firekeepers to attend to him, he is legally required to return home with them according to the very fabric of the constitution out ruling any decision of the triumvirs. Thus he is able to return home and pass his diplomatic corp bill. But not without a high cost, the act he pulled is deemed "morally corrupt" by the firekeepers as a whole and therefor published to the entire country, harming his reputation along with the fact that the republic promised in Keyraht has failed to materialize yet. With himself being unable to campaign for some time also he is in dangerous shape for the upcoming election, still, he should not be discounted yet. Though his ploy has costed himself critical public support, it has returned to his party their most crucial asset, his mind.

Replacement diplomats are being sent to Keyraht, however the citizen diplomats are grandfathered in for the varsovia peace accords.