President NinjaCow64 looked out the window. He knew he had made the right decision not to get involved. His nation had planned for something like this for decades, but they had only got a working prototype together a few weeks ago. Good timing, too. Nuclear winter was the second greatest threat against N, second to the parrots. That's why he ordered the best nuclear physicists to create a protection against radiation. The shielding wouldn't work against a hit by a warhead, but the radiation it left afterwards would be much less threatening to the populace. Of course, this meant that there was no money to be put into space travel research, but his people fought for this land, they would not be forced into space because of some war that they didn't even partake in.
"Sir, are you ready?" asked his secretary. He nodded, he had been ready for this speech for a long time.
"My friends," started NinjaCow64 "Fellow citizens of N. The radiation that has covered our planet is probably the second greatest threat we have ever faced. When I first heard of the concept of Nuclear war, I was scared. Scared that one day, someone would do something like this. And they have, which makes me glad that we have invested time and money into this project.
Today, we are activating 12 radiation shielding sites near N which will protect our cities from external radiation. Unfortunately, we cannot do much about the radiation inside our borders and the borders of the areas of the Thanyou Empire that we have annexed, as their governors surrendered to us moments ago. I have a map of the rough locations of the sites and the area it will protect."
Key:
Dark Blue: Radiation Shielding Site
Light Blue: All things behind this line are protected from external radiation. They are also all now part of N.
Green: Quarantined Zones, by the order of President NinjaCow64.
"I would also like to give my apologies to the Holy Christosian Dominion, as we needed to have a station in your territory to fully protect ours. The governor of that region has decided to join N and we have accepted. We are sending $5 million nollars worth of computers to your government to aid with your space program to compensate for the loss of territory. We don't war I don't believe your people want it either, so let's find a compromise.
We may seem like terrible people for not sharing our technology, however, we are afraid that the technology could be used to make a devastating weapon, which would destroy what little we have left.
In the words of the philosopher Trial and Error, the world is truly between a rock and a hard place. But N will survive. We will not perish. We will not frightened. And we will not leave." *applause*
OCC: I hope this isn't too futuristic, but considering I have sent exactly 0 ships into space and practically everyone else has done something to do with space, I hope that will balance it out.