Foghorn, a former Shirerothan (Shirerithian? We really need to have one of those officialized...) citizen, basically said that there was no Shireroth issue, and that there needs to be no way of "dealing" with us. Olorix, on the other hand, had the following response:
Short and sweet: he doesn't like us. From a more analytical perspective, it means to me that we might have something to deal with from them in the future, if he's given the power to do so. He's no idiot, though he's on his way with his increasing propensity towards Steven-ism. He wouldn't do anything publicly unless they had some upper hand that they managed to gain on us. But he doesn't like us because we're powerful, and he doesn't like us because Antica is a part of Shireroth, not to mention the land dispute. I'm planning to keep my own eye on them, though their intelligence offices have been rather dormant, to my knowledge.Shireroth isn't an issue itself, as Foghorn noted, but I believe that we need to seriously look at our relations with them. Shireroth publically embarrased us, and have continuously treated us poorly: first by not recognising us for an extended period, then extending a half-arsed treaty to us out of fear of insulting Delphi, then giving us a diktat of a single Antican province that was supposed to make us sit down, shut up, and never ask for our rightful land again. I do not advocate hostility toward Shireroth, but just we ought to treat others as they treat us, and additionally I believe we should focus on supporting micronational underdogs who are experiencing the same crap from the superpowers in our sector.
In short, I'm trying to kick things off and not seem like I'm slacking off, and make sure that we're prepared for a term of Olorix as speaker of the Republic of Antica.