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ODEN-K prepares to flood Eastern Artanian Nations with inexpensive, high quality product
"Change in Relations" said to be catalyst for alteration of Export targets
Kaliburg, Grand Duchy of Ananto
May 4, 5584


Ananto Growers' Syndicate Operation in Dah will be one of the more than 50 suppliers for ODEN-K's "DFA Program"

ODEN-K, the last major player in the world's oldest and only legal drug cartel, announced that it is taking an unprecedented step in alteration of its export policies going forward.  "Her Imperial Majesty has put out an 'All-Hands On Deck' call for Kalistanis to do what we can to fight fascism," said ODEN-K Director Caroline Carter in a press conference.  "Therefore, effectively immediately, ODEN-K, in a program called DFA, will be picking up the costs of exporting ODEN products from Kalistan to a list of specific Artanian States who we all pretty much believe should take a toke and chill a bit."  Carter said the nations include Kundrati and nations that are geographically adjacent to Kundrati, and the move is seen largely as an effort to undermine public support for fascism in Kundrati.

"ODEN does not move product ourselves," said Carter.  "Instead our warehouse here in Port Davon welcomes international shippers, all of whom are absolutely 100 percent legitimate businesspeople, to purchase, most often in bulk, to bring it back into their own countries.  We don't ask questions, we just collect the money, pay our taxes and salaries, and then return the rest of it to the Growers' Syndicates.  But this is one way ODEN can support the broader effort to combat fascism."  Carter said that the ODEN warehouse partners with more than 50 different growers' syndicates, both on the duchy level and among the smaller scale farmers.  The program amounts to a subsidy by ODEN to grower syndicates to protect their earnings, while allowing ODEN to absolutely flood eastern Artania with marijuana, cocaine, opium and other narcotics, LSD and Mushrooms, and various stimulants, depressants and hallucinogenic.

"Yes, the change in relations between the Kalistani Government and the Kundrati Government has altered our policy here at ODEN," said Carter.  "But more importantly, ODEN has been on the retreat as of late, and while one country or another leaving the cartel doesn't affect what we do here in Kalistan, we are a business, and our business is selling the world intoxicating and addicting substances, and we feel that our market share on the continent has been slipping.  So really, it is a happy coincidence that we can target a hostile government at the same time that our business model needs a bit of a boost."

Carter insists that ODEN-K is a fully independent operation and has no connection to the House Ananto or the Anantonese Government.  "We work next to them, not for them," said Carter.  "ODEN-K does a lot of things that Kalistan benefits in.  For example, we buy from the Growers, we guarantee them a good price.  But the Growers' Syndicates have their own internal structure and do their own thing.  It is a happy coincidence that we can help them out.  Same with the legal drug trade here in Kalistan.  The Government needs someone to ensure high quality, safety and full consumer information, and ODEN happens to be the perfect organization to do that.  But they still charge us taxes for the privilege of operating.  Their Government still regulates our activity.  We aren't the same as the Government.  We are a civil service organization, just like every other organization."  

In this case, though Carter says her Organization is fully on board with Kalistani Foreign Policy Goals.  "I have had the opportunity to meet Her Imperial Majesty.  Highlight of my entire life, but she politely explained what she needed from me, I said we couldn't do that, but here's another way we could support her Foreign Policy." And this, according to Carter, the DFA program was the result.  "DFA will continue for between six months to a year, and the entire time we will evaluate our success.  We expect to see an immediate uptick of traffic, especially from Eastern Artanian Nations here in Kaliburg.  After the program ends, we will happily report what we were able to transfer to Artania."  DFA is currently in effect in Kaliburg, and to qualify, you merely need to demonstrate that you are an Importer from either Kundtari, or any nation geographically adjacent to Kundrati.  ODEN-K officials will inspect the documents and orders will be filled at that point.  ODEN maintains two docks at Port Davon with a total of 8 berths for those who arrive by sea and can load their orders directly into their respective cargo holds.