President Gordon stood before the senate as he adjusted his reading glasses while looking at a few of his talking points.
"Ladies and Gentlemen of the senate, for the past 5 years now we have been working to better our country by promoting industrial and business growth, by giving our citizens the rights all sentient beings deserve and providing a safe land for them to inhabit. I think these efforts have culminated to create the most stable Allegheny region we have seen since the 10 year era of peace within the city-states in the forties. However since as far back as i can remember our people have never interacted, on a major scale, with the outside world.
It’s time to remedy this senators, it’s time to grow up and become a true nation, to interact, to trade with out neighbors. We have hit a plateau in growth and if we continue our isolationist polices we will surely wither away. I propose that we lift the immigration ban, that we make alliances, that we share our economic success with the rest of the world by allowing them to invest and buy Alleghenian products. In my opinion this is the only way we can finally become a proper nation."
An announcer spoke into the microphone.
“Senator Jarred Hopkins Democrat of Port Vue moves to speak.”
The senate coordinator motioned him her approval.
Senator Hopkins stood up.
“Mr. President, myself and a few other of my Democrat constituents have compiled a few points we would like to make about the state of the East Pacific. To my knowledge the nations of this planet are at best highly unstable and with our small military defense force in my opinion it would be foolish to even try to make our presence known. Also we feel that openly trading with other nations could possibly put several of our highly esteemed corporations out of business. How can we know that they can even compete? Also, to lift the immigration ban would be foolish, how can we know that these “potential immigrants” aren’t terrorists looking to create havoc to our innocent people?”
Another unnamed senator stood up, “That’s a bunch of fear mongering bullshit!”
The senate coordinator rapped her gavel on the table, “You sir are out of line, there will be order in this senate hall!”
The President sighed and removed his glasses, “No he is right a lot of those fears are not unfounded, but i feel that this will go well, i ask you this, how can we possibly ever know how we can handle ourselves in any problems if we don’t face our fears and push on. To sit here and to not interact with other people of other countries is in my opinion quite childish. If someone wanted to destroy us it would have happened already. I will personally show the people of this world that we are ready. I must, we must… we must do this. The republic of Allegheny is ready for this, our people are ready for this. You have spoken to your districts, you have conversed with the people. As their representatives you are obligated to pass this motion into law.”
The senate coordinator set up the vote on the computer system.
“Commence the vote, you have one hour.”
President Gordon sat back with a good feeling, he was ready for this, he was ready to show the world that the R.O.A. could compete with the best, he only hoped that The East Pacific would be as kind to Allegheny as Allegheny was willing to be to them.
A day later the bill was finally passed, and the media frenzy began with 24 hour coverage of the events that would soon possibly follow. People cheered while others feared what could happen.
OOC:Hope this was a good start, not sure if this should be in the other Rp forum. hope you like!)