Esteemed Citizens of the Empire,
We, as the Kingdom of Curonia and Archduchy of Suffonia, are writing this letter to you to express our dissatisfaction with the state of the Orenian Administration. We joined this Empire with our own will, voluntarily trusting that ALEXANDER II could unite humanity under one banner, for we had and always believed in a united humanity. But alas, His Majesty, Alexander II has passed away, and his Empire crumbled under the Lord Protectorate and continued to fall until it completely sunk into the swamp of incompetence under Peter III and his appointees.
The Orenian Council claims to be the unifier for the human realms however, they have reduced the imperial name to a mockery of its once prestigious glory. They have no respect for honorable lords and gentlemen. They discredit nobility in every act. They reduced honourable lords and kings who fought for the human realm and the holy faith to be administered by quill-pusher bureaucrats. The swamp of greedy, corrupt and incompetent bureaucrats flooded imperial ranks once held by loyal lords and ladies. We admire the Archchancellor for trying to drain this swamp of corruption, but what little he can achieve against these odds is constantly undermined by Peter III, who has allowed himself to be leashed by his own appointees. Shame on those who stained the empire, shame on those who stained the imperial bloodline.
Corrupt and avaricious Orenian Bureaucrats ignored the traditions and culture of the Kingdoms and States under the Empire and made a mockery of our ways. Placing their snouts in the trough, these Bureaucrats dismantles proud nations for their self interest. First they came for our legislative rights, then they came for our judicial rights and if we don’t stop them when we look around we will see ourselves left with no rights at all! The promises offered to us, and gifted to us, by Alexander II which were our pinnacle reasons for voluntarily joining the Empire were cast-aside and forgotten about.
Thus as we had voluntarily joined the Empire in 1718, 23 years later we now voluntarily leave and declare our independence. We hope his honourable majesty the King of Hanseti-Ruska will see the reason beyond our acts and remove the imperial shackles around his Kingdom stand with us as independent states.
Ave Freedom! Ave Humanity!
HIS EXCELLENCY, Angelo de Alba, Lord Regent of the Kingdom of Curonia & Count of Astorga.
HIS HIGHNESS, Prince William Devereux, Heir to the throne of Curonia.
HIS EXCELLENCY, John Nicholas of the House of Suffolk, Lord Protector of Suffonia