Robert Can't
Éponine
One Night In Bangkok
The year is 2027 and the world lies on the brink of all out war. Conflict lies behind every word spoken and diplomats are facing tougher and tougher situations as relations between the major power blocks continue to deteriorate. In Brussels the European Union battles on despite several nations such as the United Kingdom and Greece unceremoniously leaving. The Union's lengthy and undeclared war with Russia continues to dominate the headlines as forces continue to be mobilised eastern Ukraine and following the intervention in Turkey conflict still rages throughout Anatolia against the Russian backed rebels and in Cyprus where the British backed Greeks have taken up arms.
Climate change continues to become a major issue with desertification running rampant along with noticeable sea level increases over the past decade. Driving a wedge between the major western powers and China climate change has become an issue of international politics. Many are calling for government to listen to reason instead of playing political games with life on earth. In 2021 a major international conference on climate change was held in Ottawa however this ended with the world only more divided.
Russia and the United Kingdom have broken away from the old efforts and non-proliferation and are seeing a large increase in their production of nuclear missiles. Similarly America and France have seen fit to follow suit. Proxy wars dot across the map and cyber espionage has been employed to great effect. After the results of the 2022 election in the USA were overturned after evidence of foreign tampering a deep paranoia has set in among the ordinary folk and government intelligence agencies are increasingly viewed with suspicion.
But there is hope. Nobody wants nuclear war to break out but for many it feels inevitable, as tensions continued to escalate one last ditch attempt is being made to secure world peace: The Bangkok Peace Conference - hosted by Thailand these talks aim to allow for a compromise between the great powers and prevent global nuclear war.
Climate change continues to become a major issue with desertification running rampant along with noticeable sea level increases over the past decade. Driving a wedge between the major western powers and China climate change has become an issue of international politics. Many are calling for government to listen to reason instead of playing political games with life on earth. In 2021 a major international conference on climate change was held in Ottawa however this ended with the world only more divided.
Russia and the United Kingdom have broken away from the old efforts and non-proliferation and are seeing a large increase in their production of nuclear missiles. Similarly America and France have seen fit to follow suit. Proxy wars dot across the map and cyber espionage has been employed to great effect. After the results of the 2022 election in the USA were overturned after evidence of foreign tampering a deep paranoia has set in among the ordinary folk and government intelligence agencies are increasingly viewed with suspicion.
But there is hope. Nobody wants nuclear war to break out but for many it feels inevitable, as tensions continued to escalate one last ditch attempt is being made to secure world peace: The Bangkok Peace Conference - hosted by Thailand these talks aim to allow for a compromise between the great powers and prevent global nuclear war.
The Major Delegations
Bangkok - The host delegation from Bangkok set up the conference in order to ensure world peace. Unlike many of the other delegation attending they don't have too much of their own agenda and instead are looking only to the success of the conference as a whole.
EEAS (Brussels) - The European Delegation is looking first and foremost to see an end to the conflicts that are affecting them and their allies in Turkey, Ukraine and West Africa. Following their intervention in Turkey they also are facing may allegations of unwanted regime changes the delegation is likely to be publicly in support of measures curtailing such actions though the Government has been widely accused of really having interests in ensuring that they can continue. As for the Ottawa conference they are firmly of the opinion that a global strategy to counter climate change is needed and are some of the strongest proponents of that viewpoint.
Quai d'Orsay - The French delegation is attending as part of the European block. The nation has been continuing to develop as the major nuclear player in the EU and thus it forms a vital part of the defence strategy of the Union. Domestically though there continue to be waves of dissatisfaction at the EU from the French people and following the spectacular failure of the Paris Peace conference of 2025 the French delegates are especially sceptical of the conference as a whole.
Auswärtiges Amt - While France continues to be a major components of the EU's defence strategy Germany remains the economic heart of the Union. Along with the Benelux they have been some of the strongest proponents of strengthening the Union and are not likely to want to budge on anything that could weaken the already fraying fabric of Europe.EEAS (Brussels) - The European Delegation is looking first and foremost to see an end to the conflicts that are affecting them and their allies in Turkey, Ukraine and West Africa. Following their intervention in Turkey they also are facing may allegations of unwanted regime changes the delegation is likely to be publicly in support of measures curtailing such actions though the Government has been widely accused of really having interests in ensuring that they can continue. As for the Ottawa conference they are firmly of the opinion that a global strategy to counter climate change is needed and are some of the strongest proponents of that viewpoint.
Quai d'Orsay - The French delegation is attending as part of the European block. The nation has been continuing to develop as the major nuclear player in the EU and thus it forms a vital part of the defence strategy of the Union. Domestically though there continue to be waves of dissatisfaction at the EU from the French people and following the spectacular failure of the Paris Peace conference of 2025 the French delegates are especially sceptical of the conference as a whole.
Abuja - A key ally of Brussels in the West African region Nigeria has been of vital importance in securing the environmental security of the region as it faces issues of deforestation and desertification. Nigeria is not official a member of the European Union but has been supportive of their action in the region and has taken part in some of the European interventions in African countries.
Washington - The age old enemy of the Kremlin, Foggy Bottom has been playing a dicey game with counterparts in the Russian delegation in the build up to the conference. Proxy wars continue to rage in Colombia and the Philippines and in just the past few weeks a new American fleet arrived in Taiwan. The delegation from Washington is keenly aware that with the rise of London and Brussels their influence is decreasing and will be doing all they can to maintain themselves as the most important delegation. The delegates are assumed to also be bringing harsh criticism to Chinese who supposedly interfered with the 2022 elections. In regards to the Ottawa conference the USA continues to pledge its support to combating climate change however it is know that their government acknowledges that it would not want to be seen interfering with the internal affairs of other nations with a binding treaty on this issue.
The USA continues to be the highly in favour of the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction a position that is popular not just in the USA but also in many other countries around the world.
Jerusalem - The ever contentious nation of Israel continues to be contentious. Their delegation is - perhaps even more firmly that that of the USA - opposed to the Kremlin and its influence in the near and far East. Since it is also believed that the nation is developing its own nuclear program it is suspected that the delegation may be willing to go against Washington on the issue of non-proliferation.
Tokyo - The delegation from Tokyo also aligns itself with Washington though it is known to be placing much less importance on economic safeguards and has and much greater concern with peace in the region and non-proliferation.
Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE) - Mexico has been fighting a war in Colombia for the past five years against the Brazilian backed militias present there and the nation has grown tired of the conflict. The delegation is likely to be looking for peace but will be highly in favour of the introduction of measures to curtail the proliferation of foreign interventions and proxy wars.
Whitehall - The delegation from London represents the United Kingdom and the interests of the free trade and defence block that formed in the wake of the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union. Holding together a fragile coalition of nations who have drastically different views to each other Whitehall's job will be as much keeping their own delegations in line as pursuing their own goals. The United Kingdom's government's opinion on nuclear weapons is clear in that they support their right and those of their allies to build a nuclear arsenal to contain any aggression from Russia, China, or Pakistan. On environmental issues they affirm the need to regulations but also the autonomy to make such laws for individual nations. Recently in environmental issues they have been clashing with the EU over fisheries in the North Sea.
Global Affairs Canada / Affaires mondiales Canada (GAC/AMC) - The Ottawa delegation is unsurprisingly massively in favour of including a conclusion to the talks that were initiated in the Ottawa conference in 2021. As part of the Commonwealth free trade zone they are generally supportive of the UK's government however their positions on environmental issues is much firmer.
Canberra - Facing a massive refugee crisis from both the environmental devastation of mainland Asia as well as the continuing conflict in the Philippines the Australia delegation will likely be looking to put a stop to ecological devastation as well as military conflict in the area. The delegation may also be seeking some agreement on international support for the refugees.
Raisina Hill - Ecological devastation may have hit across the subcontinent but the Indian delegation is likely to prioritise the country's strengths of its large economy and population and is unlikely to want to submit to any global ecological plan. India has also made its case clear on its construction of nuclear weapons and raised concerns about the similar actions undertaken by Pakistan's government. Other concerns the delegation is likely to raise are the fisheries of the Indian Ocean along with the laws governing national claims on extra-terrestrial bodies.
The Kremlin - The influence the extends from the Kremlin has in recent years spread into China and the Middle East in a more official capacity. China and Russia were unified in their foreign stance following the rapid expansion of the British and Indian nuclear arsenals and together formed a power block to contain the influence of London in international affairs. The Russian delegation is likely looking to weaken their enemies in Brussels and London while maintaining the primacy of their allies in South America and the Middle East.
Itamaraty -In South America Brazil has consolidated its position of dominance in the region and following the Ottawa Climate Change Conference of 2021 has aligned itself with Russia and China. With its ongoing proxy war in Colombia it is expected that the delegation will be looking to support measures to curtail US influence though without a doubt their main priority in the talks will be to ensure that resulting treaty from the talks does not contain any binding commitments to tackling deforestation or climate change as Brazil continues its economic boom.
Beijing - Though the Russians are seen to be the lead delegation for their block it is well known that china is rapidly eclipsing Russia in terms of economic and military power and Chine should not be mistaken for a Russian lap dog. The Chinese delegation is highly unlikely to agree to any treaty that recognises Taiwan and is also strongly against ecological matters being taken out of the hands of sovereign states.
Bāq-e Melli - The Iranians hold a lot of sway over the world in terms of their natural resources and there is no doubt that the delegates from the Bāq-e Melli are going to use this fact to their advantage in the negotiations. Since the thaw in relations between Tehran and the west it is likely that they are going to be flexible on oil security issues if it can be used as a bargaining chip to reduce the influence of Israel or India.
Each player will take on the roll of a diplomatic delegation (preliminary listings below). Of those the five most important will be the host delegation and the delegations from Brussels, Washington, London and Moscow (The seats of the leaders of the four main power blocks threatening world war). Each player has two statistics that they can look at - the faith of the leadership and the faith of the people in their delegation. If the leadership gets too pissed off with you they may publicly withdraw support from the conference. However this does not mean that the delegates can not continue their work and should faith be regained the nation may once again begin support the peace process. If two great powers withdraw their support from the conference then global war breaks out and everyone dies.
The game is divided into debate sessions and each round last four days as follows:
Day 1: Deciding the agenda - nations can table an agenda of four issues from the issue list and the agenda with the most support is chosen.
Days 2-4: The players table a solution for the set of four issues on the agenda. If one of these solutions receives majority support it passes on to treaty stage where if all delegates (whose leadership are currently supporting the conference) either agree or abstain it is written into the proposed Bangkok Peace Treaty (though there is nothing to stop the delegations from revisiting an issues on a later agenda).
Once the treaty has at least 20 issues written into it then during the agenda phase a delegation can suggest that it is finished and if all delegates whose leadership is supporting the conference either agree or abstain then the treaty is finished and world leaders will be called to Bangkok to sign the treaty. This will hopefully cause world peace to break out and the player will have won the game.
Each player is given a copy of their home nation's agenda and if the delegation goes against that agenda government support drops. Popular support will drop if nations make unpopular choices or are seen to be blocking the conference. Some government will also have given their delegations secret agendas which are usually secret and stuff.
Meanwhile Bangkok also happens to be a wonderful city for the delegates to visit in their down time. So each day a delegate may state if they wish to spend any time at as massage parlour, bar, or find a place to play some chess each of which give their own distinct advantages. You may also find that you can attempt to use subterfuge to your advantage, plotting to discredit or poison your rivals and thus make the peace process flow more smoothly in your direction.
Though, of course, you would only want to do this to appease those at home - at the end of the day everyone has a single goal and that is to avert a world war.
Sign ups
At this stage sign ups call for you to make an ordered preference list of at least 5 delegations which you would like to play as. There are three lists below and you must pick at least one delegation from each list. Its unlikely that there will be enough players to need the third list so I haven't put up full descriptions for them but if you have any questions then feel free to ask.
Spoiler LIST ONE :
Spoiler LIST TWO :
Spoiler LIST THREE :
Lastly I know this thread has potential to crash into real life politics a bit too much but lets try to keep on the light side of things and not get too bogged down in that. After all this is a game and is about having fun.
Sign ups begin now!
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