Shireshire, flagx9999, Kanto

[Scott of Hyperborea]

The Duchy Shuffle continues, with Brookshire and Goldshire considering a megamerger into...Shireshire? Musica? Goldbrook? Meanwhile, just to make things more confusing, Straylight considers leaving Yardistan. Can a Kildare-Elwynn-Duchy of Babkha merger be far behind?

The flag saga continues, with the Explosion Flag winning the design contest. It will get put before the Landsraad just as soon as the Duchy situation sorts itself out - by Shyriath and Greg have already made impassioned pleas to reject it.

In other news, CJ Miller of Kanto negotiated a treaty, joined, got land, inspired a cheesy song, and then left all in the space of a few days. The Small Commonwealth is analyzing its economy. Kildare's getting pretty active again but Mom never trusts me enough to report on their stuff and always gives all their news for me like I'm still a sapling or something. Oh, and Harvey Steffke is still looking for people for a new Diplomacy game. Come on, guys.

Little bit of an activity slump recently, eh? Only one solution - OVERTHROW THE KAISER! MUAHAHA. MALARBOR DEMA...nah, you do that too much already.

[Al'Magroth]

So declaring oneself a Dark Lord isn't enough to stop an activity slump? It worked on Gralus ...

[Malliki Tosha]

We don't care enough.

[Cho'Gall]

Well if you declare yourself a dark lord you might as well forge in secret, a master ring, to control all others...

[Harvey Steffke]

SHIRESHIRE

[Aurangzeb Khan]

Ardashire

[Bill3000]

Ardashire

Maybe if it was Goldshire and Elwynn merging