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FM issues travel advisories for War-torn destinations
Endralon and New Verham top list of dangerous places
Kaliburg, Grand Duchy of Ananto
May 3, 5699


FM Sir Thomas Harney advises Kalistanis to avoid places where people dislike Kalistanis

Her Imperial Majesty's Foreign Minister has issued formal travel advisories to dangerous places in Terra. "While Her Imperial Majesty, Empress Carolina II Ananto wants Kalistanis to go out into the world and experience life in other nations to the fullest, she would also prefer that they return home safely, and there are a number of places on this planet where that is not a next to certain probability anymore. So we are advising Kalistanis to temporarily refrain from travel to these places until things calm down and people can enjoy spending their money abroad safely and leisurely rather than worrying about ducking tanks and militants shooting at members of the Royal Family."

Among those placed on the Travel Advisory list are New Verham and Endralon, both of whom are experiencing significant political turmoil. "New Verham," said the Foreign Minister, "where, according to our information, tens of Kalistani tourists will travel in the coming decade, is nonetheless continuing a long tradition of instability and corruption in the developing world. This instability is largely ethnic in its character, from what we can ascertain, and it also appears to be being stoked by outside actors. Definitely not a safe place for yet another group, the dozens or so of Kalistanis who may want to go there, to insert themselves at this time. Just better to go somewhere that it is safe and you can have fun, somewhere like Xsampa, if you really must go to Dovani."

Endralon was similarly labeled unstable and dangerous for Kalistani tourists. "We aren't quite sure what is happening there, but we also suspect some foreign intervention in their politics, and would just advise Kalistanis to avoid this place entirely." The Foreign Minister also noted the existence of ethnic tension around Zergon separatism as one of the primary causes for the tensions. "This is, and should be a purely internal matter that unfortunately we feel is being exploited to serve foreign ends, and Her Imperial Majesty feels that Endralon is only at the start of its troubles. But like New Verham, Kalistan maintains no diplomatic outposts in Endralon, and would not be able to offer any assistance to Kalistanis who may find themselves in an arbitrary arrest situation or in the middle of a firefight accidentally because they are ignorant of the domestic and international actors who are stoking this violence. So it is better that Kalistanis just refrain from travelling to the eastern Artanian state for the time being."

The Foreign Minister said these travel advisories are routine, and are not enforced law. "We are simply saying that Kalistanis who do go there cannot expect us to help them if they find themselves in trouble, and the liklihood that they will find themselves in trouble is increasingly high. But this is not a sanction of any sort on the nations themselves." Sir Harney said that Kalistan maintains travel advisories for a number of states, including Kalistan's long standing travel advisory for Trigunia/Nadiya, Amudim, and more recently, Luthori. "In Trigunia, that government has a long history of violation of human rights: Their policies suggest Kalistanis are simply not welcome there, and they subject even their own citizens, even their own monarchs to arbitrary incarceration. Amudim may have ended their internal conflict, but the place is still widely viewed as unstable and unwelcoming to Kalistan, and Luthori most recently has experienced anti-monarchist violence and we would not want to see Kalistanis caught in the cross fire." Of these three, the Luthorian travel advisory is considered to be the least harsh and merely advises tourists to the Artanian Kingdom to contact the Kalistani Embassy if they find themselves in trouble, as Kalistan does not maintain extradition agreements with Luthori.

"Her Imperial Majesty values world travel and commerce," said Sir Harney. "We are just concerned by the rise of violence and just anti-Kalistani sentiment in general. We do not want these other, less professional, more ham-fisted governments or their insane hordes of democrats targeting our citizens who go there to visit them just because they woke up on the wrong side of the bed one morning, so the Empress is merely advising extreme caution when going to some of these places. We are waiting to see whether Luthori passes something like Lese Majestie before we will remove them from the advisory list so that is easy, but the other ones would have to do a lot more to ensure the safety of our people before we would consider them safe for Kalistani travel and tourism. We advise alternatives and extra planning if you cannot avoid travel to some of these hot spots in the world, because if, for some reason, you find yourself in a place like Nadiya or New Verham, there are no friendly faces for hundreds or thousands of miles and literally everyone between those two points hates you because you are Kalistani. It's just a fact. Be safe out there, people."

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