Badara

[Drax]

CAUTIOUS APPROACH TO INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS
 
MANARA  ALBRAYD SRIA AL-MUSAMI
(If it’s in the Monsoon, it’s got to be true)
 
Foreign Ministry, August 17, 5668: Asked by the Monsoon whether he would be bringing any change in policy to the Foreign Ministry, the Free Radical Supper Club (FRSC)’s Foreign Minister, Abdul Aziz, responded:
 

Not so you would notice it.  We want to trade with most everyone but have economic relations beyond that with three nations, Kafuristan, Istalia and Lodamun.. We also see predictable income from oil exports as quite desirable and may well need to confer more with the other major oil producers.  We are producing well under capacity and are sensitive to fluctuations.
 
The old security relations prior to our most recent drift into isolation and decay from which we are emerging are largely moribund so as a small nation, not blundering into an unnecessary conflict is a major objective at the moment.
 
Another thing we definitely want to avoid is another invasion from religious wingnuts. Accordingly we certainly want to work with other nations with Ahmadi populations to insure this will not recur.
 
It is also clear many of the more successful  nations are monarchies and partial to monarchies. We are very unlikely to head that way in the foreseeable future and may well find ourselves pretty much excluded from many initiatives.  We are by no means anti monarchy in any sense we just are not going to have one.

 
Asked who is likely to be the new General Intelligence Service Director, Aziz replied:
 

I do not even know how the selection process works or for that matter where its funding appears in the budget.

 Foreign Minister Aziz