Negotiations have been completed!

[hellzabeth]

I'M BACK BITCHES

Did you miss me?

So I managed to convince my parents to let me online more often, though I've been sneaking on and off for a while beforehand (not that any of you saw anything RIGHT? >> ) and thus I am back, 6 days earlier than previously thought. 8D

*gets back to writing Family Ties*

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OKAY ALL OF THIS IS GOING BY MEMORY I WILL GIVE MORE ACCURATE STUFF LATER: Usually, yeah. We tend to give a lot of our neighbours tons of aid and leave it at that, but when trouble goes down we occasionally go over with the army to act as peace keepers. One of the main things I remember about that was East Timor in... 2006, I think? They were having troubles getting their elections under control and so Australia and a few other members of the Pacific Islands Forum intervened. Fiji is pissed off at Australia right now, because Australia kicked him out of the Forum (well, it was a group thing but yeah) and then later he got booted out of the Commonwealth, because the military gov in charge of him refuses to hold democratic elections. He accused Australia of being a "bully" or something like that and last I heard he was accusing Australia and New Zealand of spying on him. I can't remember if it was wire tapping, normal espionage, or what but it was something like that.

If we're talking Australia's jurisdiction, he'd probably intervene with anyone in the Forum who got in trouble, as well as Indonesia. And then there's always Malaysia and Singapore, he has that defense agreement with them, NZ and England (and if I remember correctly, Malay and Singapore fight sometimes because originally Malaysia wanted Singapore to be one with her). Papua New Guinea and Nauru are his babies though, they were his "trusted territories" for most of the 20th Century. Nauru hated him for a while, because he was a loving but fail fail fail parent and they only recently reconciled. As for anyone starting a fight... Indonesia is the big power after him and NZ and she sometimes gets a bit tiffy with Papua and East Timor, if I remember correctly. Papua New Guinea and Indonesia have border disputes sometimes, and East Timor only got his independence from her in 2002 after she occupied him in 1976 (with Australian and American backing, because the independent East Timor gov apparently had commie help?!?! I'm not 100% sure on the details there). So there's that.

ummmm what else am I forgetting. Obviously anyone who lays a hand on New Zealand will get a smackdown, but no one's dumb enough to try that. She's also likely to follow him wherever he may go, her gov tends to put a lot of emphasis on trans-Tasman friendship, but she might try to talk him out of anything drastic.