Kanjor

[Drax]

CLAIRON PICARD
 
GOVERNOR GENERAL ON CANRILLE UNION AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE
 
Governor General’s Palace, January 15, 5626:  After a Council of Ministers meeting on trade policy, CLAIRON PICARD asked Governor General Michel Malfois whether Royaume Uni de Kanjor would remain in the Union of Canrille, even though trade with it had dried up, and Malfois replied:
 

The short answer to your question is “sort of.” There are two issues involved.  The current government will technically remain in the Union of Canrille in order to maintain certain organizational assets and benefits that go with membership therein. The best known is three of the five extant Lourennais built fleets are under our operational control since we have the ranking flag officer assigned to the Union of Canrille’s Imperial Command Headquarters  in Atyr.
 
There are others.  The normal  maintenance of these fleets comes not from the Defense budget but interest on the funds held by the Bank of Canrille as an arm of the Union of Canrille which we operate by virtue of providing the top management thereto. Further, the satellite defense system protecting us is operated by Imperial Command Headquarters.
 
Membership in the Union of Canrille gives members access to direct purchases of certain military equipment not otherwise available.
 
The technological maintenance, replacement and repair of that satellite system is handled by a company organized under the laws of Rildanor, L’Etoile Canrille, which is the repository of that Lourennais technology and the Lourennais Soteira  defensive radar technology which came our way by vitue of the Union of Canrille.  Our Kanjorean subsidiary of L’Etoile Canrille is currently providing that support for satellite defense and outfitting much of the National Navy and the 5th Imperial Fleet with Soteira radar.
 
So we are operating some things by virtue of our membership in the Union of Canrille and plan to continue to do so. The real question is whether to consolidate all aspects under The Defense Ministry or continue to have responsibility in various ministries and the Governor General.
 
We will of course not try to act like we have the military power the Union of Canrille once had. In point of fact, on the whole we are reverting to our policy of respecting sovereignty and live and let live outside of a few pariahs. We are open to humanitarian projects.
 
As to the other issue, Canraillaise nations were our main trading partners and with their growing isolation the income from those partners is drying up.  They were our most important but not our only partners. We have ongoing contractual relations with nations in Majatra, Seleya, Artania and Dovani.
 
So it is very much in our interest to cease our focus on Canrille and develop other trading partners.

Governor General Malfois