A frontier to chaos

A report from the former Saidercray-Brechenlass frontier

More than 1,500 km of demarcation line formed the frontier between Saidercray and Brechenlass, which could be reached within an hour by car from the cities of Dropaney and Hilngare, and it didn't take much more time to arrive at Saidercray coming from north Brechenlassian cities New Saratoga or Himmlichstadt.
The frontier to Brechenlass extended trough hills and mountains, hit and left rivers. With a ruin of a castle here, a rural highlander village there and many rocks and trees inbetween, our western borderland is a landscape which you can either call idyllic or boring and which wouldn't have anyone's guess for the place where a large-scale operation of red cross, police, military etc. would try to prevent a humanitarian catastrophy in late spring 2007.

Kedalfaxes "Kennerwyck Times and Post" of April 29 reported from Kedalfaxian Commonwealth member state Brechenlass: "[A] sudden, quick, and violent struggle erupted in Brechenlass, destroying the government, and leaving an unknown number of people dead. Power and communication infrastructure was knocked out completely." More dramatically spoken: What once has been our frontier to Brechenlass, is now our border to chaos.

News do not arrive from -former?- Brechenlass since, yet something else does: refugees. They do not know why all this happened in their state, they do not know what happened in general, but they know what happened right to them, and knowing this made them flee, taking with them not much more than what is purely necessary to survive. Fortunately for Saidercray, all major Brechenlassian cities are closer to Schnauzerland or Eisophca than they are to us, so most of those who escaped might have escaped to one of these states, but the number of those who chose Saidercray as their destination is big enough.Those of our provinces which border or Brechenlass, which are five of ten, from Burgow in central northern Saidercray over Tynborough, Varaylia and Fainland to our most southern province Coastland, have been put into state of emergency by President Woshkal.

Tent towns are built to receive the refugees which arrive covered with dust, with their faces marked by their occurences, but without any home. Hospitals in western Saidercray run on low flame for doctors have been sent borderwards, and relief organizations call for contribution in nationwide collection campaign.

The vague situation in our western neighbour country renders everything more difficult. There is no person to speak to on the other side, since the old government has obviously been overwhelmed without a new leader of whatsoever kind having risen afterwards, which means that all diplomatic contact is torn. There is no answer on who the men behind the uprising are and on what their motivation is. In an unlikely, yet not impossible worst case, the riots might spread to neighbouring states like Saidercray. To prevent this, border controls have been tightened to keep all those out who might be troublemakers instead of refugees.

It appears that until there are clear pointers to the backgrounds and the outcome of the chaos, Saidercray can only wait and do its very best to help.

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