The Foreign Office of Balian

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77 Balian Annum [1944], 1st of Godfrey’s Triumph

 

The Grand Intent

The Foreign Office has existed for several hundred years, originating from the Holy Orenian Empire and its many pillars of government. With aid of these old records, the Foreign Office shall once again be re-established, utilizing a similar structure and chain of command segnor Dante Falcone invented centuries ago. In the wake of unrest across Aevos, the Foreign Office shall serve to keep the Kingdom of Balian free from political unrest, serve as the realm’s diplomatic core, and enact the monarch’s will on a national scale.

 

 

 

 

 

Corpus Diplomatica

His Royal Majesty’s Diplomatic Service, otherwise dubbed the ‘Diplomatic Corps’, is an assembly of all diplomats, ambassadors, and envoys beneath the Secretary of Foreign Affairs & the Crown. They enjoy certain privileges, have certain responsibilities, and must follow certain rules as a result of their employment. Below is the chain of command of these corps, from highest to lowest.

 

Royal Legate, John Galbraith – Circa. 1944

 

The head of the Foreign Office, also called the Royal Legate, who handles all employment within the Corps from envoys to their Ambassador Extraordinaries. The Secretary alone represents the will and testament of the Crown.

 

 

 

There shall be an Ambassador Extraordinary for each region Aevos has been divided into by the Foreign Office. The Ambassador Extraordinaries serve as heads for the respective region they’re in charge of, monitoring regular Ambassadors and Envoys beneath them, alongside renewing treaties & tending to higher diplomatic needs for that region should the Secretary be unable. Their primary goal is to establish Embassies, which regular Ambassadors shall head.

 

Ambassador Extraordinary de Crownlands: This role oversees diplomatic work within the crownlands and the lands surrounding it, including Haelun’or, Nevaehlen, Amathine, and Krugmar, alongside any other nations which may appear within their proximity [region 1].

 

Ambassador Extraordinary de Floodplains: This role oversees diplomatic work within the Floodplains and the lands surrounding it, including Lurin, Vortice, Norland, and Dun’farthing, alongside any other nations which may appear within their proximity  [region 2].

 

Ambassador Extraordinary de Heartlands: This role oversees diplomatic work within the Heartlands and the lands surrounding it, including Aunn, Petra, Adria, and Haense, alongside any other nations which may appear within their proximity  [region 3].

 

Ambassador Extraordinary de International: This role oversees diplomatic work within the nations that don’t necessarily fit into one distinct area or category, including Haense, Urguan, Talar’nor, Nor’asath, and Numendil, alongside any other nations which may appear within their proximity  [region 4].

 

 

Ambassadors work beneath the Ambassador Extraordinary they’re assigned to, taking care of whichever Embassy they’ve been assigned to as its head. Ambassadors should be well versed in the culture(s) of the nation they have their embassy in, and at the embassy often. They represent their upper home government (the Segnoria), but not the Crown.

 

 

Envoys are beneath their respective Ambassador & Ambassador Extraordinary, sometimes also posted at an embassy. They may lead minor diplomatic missions, and while they represent their home government (i.e. the Citizen’s Commune), they cannot represent their realm’s Crown.

 

 

This role makes up the bulk of the Diplomatic Corps. They aid Envoys, Ambassadors, and their Ambassador Extraordinary in missions but cannot lead or represent Balian officially. Their most common duty is traveling to other nations in order to transport official documents.

 

Balian Ambassadors being received in Petra – Circa. 1930

 

Diplomatic Immunity & Other Privileges

As written by Dante Falcone.

 

I. The diplomat in question shall not be persecuted or prosecuted while on a diplomatic mission, kept safe from the sting of foreign law to avoid diplomatic incidents.

 

II. The diplomat shall not be harmed while on a diplomatic mission, a show of good faith to return them in adequate health – ‘lest they suffer during their work abroad.

 

III. The diplomat shall not be detained while on a diplomatic mission, not be held or kept from leaving at summons demanding immediate return to the Kingdom, as would be respectful – anything else would be seen as a DEPLORABLE insult.

 

IV. The host nation at any time can declare a member of the diplomatic staff a persona non grata and revoke their diplomatic immunity given a  reasonable amount of time to remove themselves from the host nation, though this scant mercy will NEVER extend to traitors of the crown; thusly being revoked or granted after careful deliberation by the Foreign Office personnel.

 

V. Actions not covered under diplomatic immunity are those outside of the diplomat’s official functions, therefore their safety cannot be ensured by the greater Office should they breach these terms, and stray outside of their purposes whilst traveling abroad on their behalf.

 

VI. The family members of those on a diplomatic mission shall enjoy the same protections while abroad in the diplomat's assigned nation  for as long as the diplomat is employed, and registered with an exclusively purposed pass.

 

Safe Passage & Inviolability

I. Diplomats moving throughout foreign nations in which official diplomatic relations are established are to ensure safe passage of all diplomatic persons.

 

II. Dangers on the roads are to be dealt with in a timely manner by each host nation with established diplomatic relations, those being brigands, marauders, and out-of-place wildlife.

 

 

I. The premises of a diplomatic mission, such as an embassy, are inviolable and must not be entered by the host country except by the permission of the head of the diplomatic mission. Furthermore, a host country must protect the mission from intrusion or damage. The host country must never search the premises, nor seize its documents or property, unless there is a serious need.

II. The archives and documents of a diplomatic mission are inviolable. The receiving country shall not seize or open such documents.

III. The host country must permit and protect free communication between diplomats of the mission and their home country without fear of the host nation’s Intelligence Services.

 

Enrollment

If you are interested in enrolling within the Corps, locate the headquarters of the Office within Portoregne, or, send a bird to the Secretary for an interview.

 

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Signed

His Excellency, John Augustus Galbraith, Baron of Castelorena, Patriarch of Galbraith, Ward to the King, Secretary of the Foreign Office, Royal Legate.

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Dante Falcone, from the unmarked mausoleum his embalmed form was stored within - rattled the walls of his carved tomb, in a nightmare. The longest memory.