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You discuss the fight in the displacement camp with other donor countries.

All agree Myca clearly cannot maintain order in the camps and needs help distributing humanitarian aid. You ask the UN secretary-general to send in professional and neutral peacekeepers. He says UN peacekeepers are overstretched with so many crises and armed conflicts around the world. You argue that Mycans should be able to receive food, water, and blankets without fearing for their safety.

Eventually, he agrees. Humanitarian workers praise the move, but the Mycan government is offended.

Then the State Department Office of Foreign Assistance tells you the price of aid commitments you made significantly increased due to inflation. Now you have exceeded Myca’s annual assistance budget. You must make some difficult financial choices.

Offending the government may have serious consequences. When the crisis is past, maybe they won’t be so willing to cooperate with us on graphite trade.

U.S. graphite importer

The United States is making too much of one isolated incident. Distribution in the camps is actually going quite smoothly.

— Mycan ambassador to the UN

Mycans should protect Mycans. We don’t need foreign troops coming here like some occupying army.

— Local Mycan paramilitary soldier
UN peacekeeper on a tank with a blue helmet