The king walked into A.S.S. (Austria Secret Service) headquarters in a big 5-sided building in Vienna. He did not know what the meeting he was attending was about, but he was sure it was important, and as the letter had said, urgent.
He walked into the head office, and sat down in a chair.
“Now Josef, tell me what this meeting is about.”
“Well, as you know, a senior member of my agency caught the Franz II faking a genocide”
“Yes, I am aware of this.”
“Well, then you should be aware that the Sarajevo Accord was a tool used by him simply to have a reason to declare war on him. Is that correct?”
“Why of course”
The King was getting more and more apprehensive the longer the conversation went on.
“Than why have you been using it for your own purposes?”
King Charles stammered at that, and could not muster a reply.
“Of course. You are just like him. Do you know who was responsible for the death of Franz?”
“I’m not like him!”
“Oh, but you are. Remember, we arranged his death. We secured the nation’s safety by assassinating him. We are not afraid to do the same thing again.”
“I shall rescind the Accord immediately.”
“Good! Dass nicht wir vergessen - Lest we forget. Now, onto some more business – neutrality. Neutrality is becoming bad for Austria. Do you know what happens when you do something bad for Austria? We depose you!”
“So we should join the Axis then?”
“Yes. Send a message as soon as we get back. Parliament will pass it. The top 3 parties all hate the commies.”
“One question – why is your opinion that neutrality is so bad?”
“Sometimes you can’t make it on your own. We have no allies while neutral.”
“I’ve tried to get allies. What do you call Mexico and Germany?”
“Axis members.”
“Ok. Finally, I have gotten a report about how the Germanic peoples hate the equality we tried to implement. Do you have any suggestions about how to fix that?”
“Taxes. By race – Germans normal tax, Slavs and Jews a little higher, Turks a lot higher. Slavs and Jews won’t rebel for 0.5%, and we don’t care about the Turks anyways. It also makes them feel better than the Turks, something we want in our minorities.”
“That is a very good idea. I shall sign that now. I am king, I can skip parliament every so often.”
“Good that you like it. Last thing you need to do to preserve Austria – get at least 2 parties to leave parliament and replace them with some Germanic Peoples Party. I say get rid of the Socialists and Bulgarian Independence Parties. That should be enough to establish them as a party. Goodbye.”
“Wait! One last thing – should I send a report to you on this?”
“Who do you think I am, the King? You rule this country, not me. I just protect it from evil.”
King Charles left the A.S.S. HQ very relieved. He followed all his instructions to the letter. No bombs came for him, and no bullets. He was also assured of his rule over Austria-Hungary-Yugoslavia. Nobody could take that from him during his lifetime.
EDIT - @EQ in my stats, shouldn't it say 6 IC per turn? Since I improved eco with 10 IC.