Kanjor

[Drax]

CLAIRON PICARD
 
GOVERNOR GENERAL ON UNION OF CANRILLE
 
Governor General’s Palace, March 20, 5599: After a State Council meeting which primarily dealt with deployment of Imperial Command assets and paying for them, CLAIRON PICARD asked Governor General Constance Berthier if Communaute de Kanjor would stay in the truncated Canrillaise Empire, or ditch the Empire and start acting like a republic again. Berthier responded:
 

That is a fair question since Communaute de Kanjor does not and can not pretend it is Royaume Uni de Lourenne and does not have the power or influence it had even when we act as de facto leader of the Union of Canrille.
 
There are some definite advantages to maintaining the Union of Canrille even in its truncated form as well as a difficulty.  In the first place, it does give us ready access to purchasing military assets some of which are duplicative but some key items are not.
 
Second, we are more powerful since we are currently operating some Lourennais fleets we did not build which certainly enhances our defense capacity. And with control of the Bank of Canrille we can pay for their maintenance, the subject of our State Council meeting today.
 
Third, it has given us the economic opportunity to work in harmony with our neighbors on projects to mutually enhance our economic prosperity.  And may do so again.
 
Fourth, and really most important, the Union of Canrille is a humanitarian alliance.  With the withdrawal of the World Congress from influence, there is from time a need for collective action to relieve suffering and sometimes to stop oppression.
 
Even in its truncated form, the Union of Canrille is finding ways to act to relieve the suffering of victims of war, disaster and oppression. And have every reason to believe we can continue to do so.
 
The difficulty we have is selecting how much of the repression we can try and stop. Royaume Uni de Lourenne was for a while the most powerful nation on Terra and was called upon to act often.  As a member of the Union of Canrille, we supported that action.
 
In addition to having less capacity to intervene than Royaume Uni de Lourenne, we have a long history of inclination to preferring to live and let live or neutrality. 
 
At the moment there is a truly reprehensible regime oppressing its own people; we like most of Terra have sanctions in place but have not acted to wipe it from the face of the earth. 
 
There is also a warmonger picking fights for no known purpose, but its current victim seems content to and capable of handling a low grade mutually destructive state of conflict indefinitely.
 
In the absence of Terra wide organized consideration of action in either of these cases, our inclination has been to leave that sort of thing to its continental neighbors. Let me state clearly, we would seriously consider joining an international effort to support a solution but that does mean we could lead one.
 
Further our own intelligence indicates several situations we may well have to address so we do not need to be involved outside Seleya today if we can avoid it.

Governor General's Palace