Peter Ebbesen said:...a top secret design document recently acquired with a five finger discount in Leipzig indicate that of the more than seven thousand new provinces added to the game, the original plan called for six thousand of them to be in the Balkans. A handwritten note scrawled on the cover of the document reads "This will finally solve the Balkan issue once and for all, as every Balkan nationalist on the forum can have a province of his own, and they'll all be within the same region for carpet bombing. I know this because Tyler knows this."
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