Let it all burn.

Drbeansguy

When the TVs cut and the regular scheduled programs continue again, most skimtari feel conflicted after watching the announcement. If fighting the bugs means their entire culture and nation would be destroyed, all the work they did destroyed because nations opened their eyes and they didn't like being called out? Some wouldn't stand for this, this is the girffin administration's fault, and for that, their worlds will burn.

"Well this is all going to shit." Says one bar patron to another. "The nation is gonna go on a path of destruction and the executive committee election is already over. Ten whole years of the Griffin administration fighting a war that no longer benefits us. Yeah, like I'm grateful for them literally founding the nation, but when will they realize that they are going too far?" Patrons shuffle around the patron who keeps talking without noticing them. "In fact, they are going too far, don't they have a referendum coming up? What if we just vote to end the war, I mean its literally in the charter that all referendums have to be enforced of the ethics committee will force a council shuffle. Wont burn too much down if we stop this before it gets worse. Shouldnt burn too much"

Drbeansguy

Three weeks later
The capital districts

Word spread fast in the districts, most of the general population already agreed that the war needed to end before things got worse for them. The lines for the 80th national referendum were long but differed from last year. MoSs agents replaced the bureaucrats and the available vote options were replaced by the MoSs coordinator of the Captial District. Murmures filled the lines as people wondered why the MoSs were here, maybe there was another bomb threat? Then the Coordinator began to speak. "My compatriots, we share your Greef in these trying times, and it pains me and my men when I am to say. To ensure state security is reinforced, the National Referendums will be shut down immediately." This was met with whispers at first, the talking, then an uproar. "You can't do this!" Yells one skimtari, "The Court of Ethics will stop this." More screams along the same lines begin to fill the entire district, then the coordinator speaks up again. "Should you linger and fight the word of the MoSs you will be met force, and of course that also means incarceration at Point Nova or Betterment. So choose your next actions carefully."

The silence was palpable. no one moved other than the Coordinator turning off his speaker system. Then the skimtari began to file out, and slowly but surely the district area was being cleared, other than a few hundred skimtari. "THIS IS AN OUTRAGE, WE KNOW OUR RIGHTS." Yells one disgruntled citizen. "WE AREN'T MOVING UNTIL YOU GIVE US OUR REFERENDUM." But the Cordinator does not move, nods on both of his sides. Then all the standing agents rushed the remaining skimtari, taking their handcuffs and tasers, and moved. The attack was quick and ruthless, all the skimtari were beaten and dragged away news crews and underground journalists were able to capture only the aftermath. Calling it the "The slow burn of Teprorian democracy as we know it!."