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Background

Founded by Chimaea, previously a historic nations and Halls of Memory member, now no longer deceased. Upon Chimaea's leave it seemed as though Baron was going through a slight period of stagnation, considerably lower in prevalence than what it had previously been. The region, maintained for a substantial period of time by The Kindom of El Sentiel, some hope to welcome new members. involvement in UN activity is present at current in the region, with by convention, taken a congressional vote, for the allocated of the region's delegate vote.

History

The region of Baron was originally the Empire of Baron, with Chimaea as the initial and longest-serving regional delegate. It was in this period that the region was part of the infamous Chimaean-Clock Hill War, which was the first major intra-regional war which ended in a limitted nuclear exchange between Chimaean ally Rastonia and Clock Hill ally Buttfaces (yes, that was its real name). The war started when Chimaean Air Force planes intercepted a Clock Hill spy plane and escorted it back into Clock Hill airpsace. Clock Hill then used this as a reason to launch attacks on the Chimaean-Clock Hill border, which were then repulsed by Chimaean troops. The largest Chimaean deployment of the day saw an Armed Forces presence of around 50-80, 000 troops on the border. The region was split into two factions which went to war over Clock Hill and Chimaea. The Chimaean alliance won and took control of Clock Hill, though at the greatest expense as Rastonia was crippled by the nuclear exchange and Buttfaces was completely destroyed.

This war set the scene for a Chimaean-oriented political sphere of influence throughout Baron, with Chimaea dominating the balance of powers. All of this changed, however, when Street Island, a semi-autonomous territory part of the Chimaean Commonwealth, declared independance in a violent coup and called for aid from strident critic of Chimaean policy, Potentis, and its allies. The Chimaean bloc rushed to defend Chimaea and there followed a tense standoff as Chimaean forces blockaded Street Island, forced the Street Island Nationalists out of power and reinstated the democratic government. Chimaea recieved a lot of international and intra-regional condemnation which served to weaken Chimaean influence throughout Baron.

After these events there was a long period of comparitive calm throughout Baron. There were several minor incidents and the threat of a Reich attack on Baron territory, but this passed without emerging. Eventually Chimaea, realising the danger of having no Regional Founder, organised an exodus from the Empire of Baron. Instead of resurrecting the Empire, Baron was created as another region occupying the same geographical space.

There followed a period of peace and prosperity for Baron, which ended when the majority of nations within Baron, including Chimaea, left. The Kingdom of El Sentiel adopted as a caretaker nation and eventually, after a period of desolation, Baron flourished once more. Now with 40-odd nations and a combined GDP heading into the hundreds of trillions of dollars (USD), Baron stands as a prominent force and influence in the Nationstates world.

Current affairs

Conflicts

Acta Sanctorum: The Second Baron War

The Commonwealth of Chimaea discovered that the Holy Empire of Rathanan is constructing nuclear silos capable of mass nuclear attack. Whilst the Baron Defence Grid prevents lone nuclear strikes, mass nuclear attacks (using multiple nuclear missiles) cannot be prevented. Alarmed at this threat to Baron security and Chimaean domination of the balance of power within Baron, Chimaea asked the Grand House of Baron to vote on sactions to be placed on Rathanan, based on a report released by Baron Aid detailing Rathanan human rights abuse.

Put on the defensive, Rathanan threatened Chimaea with nuclear aggression, thereby revealing the presense of nuclear weapons within the Holy Empire. With the tensions between the two nations increasing, Chimaea went ahead with the planned sanctions, creating a Naval embargo of Rathanan.

The situation escallated further when Rathanan agents secretly kidnapped the Chimaean Ambassador to the Grand House of Baron, later killing him through burning. The Commonwealth, realising what had happened and knowing the Ambassador knew sensitive information, started Operation Broken Arrow, a plan to partially invade Rathanan and destroy the majority of its nuclear arsenal, preventing them from having a mass attack capability.

It was at this juncture that Bordoria entered the situation on Rathanan's side, launching a surprise attack at Chimaea, destroying a lot of the port at East Port and Gladys Island. Chimaea condemned Bordoria and retalliated, though Bordorian propaganda claimed the immense missile attack had only wiped out one warehouse.

While the war raged within Rathanan, the war of words continued in the Grand House with both sides accusing the other of war crimes. Chimaea addressed these concerns, suggesting a Grand House Inquiry into the claims. Demands for compensation from Rathanan were firmly rebuffed, with Chimaea pledging only an increase in funding for Baron Aid.

The war is now at a head with a massive battle between Chimaean Marines and Airborne and several armies of Rathanan and Bordoria whilst the majority of Chimaean forces within Rathanan, their primary mission goal accomplished, plans to withdraw during the battle...

Baron mutual defense and assistance system

Proposed by The Commonwealth of Chimaea. (direct quote)

In the interest of a mutual defence against certain inter-regional attacks upon Baron, I propose the following:

1. Collective regional funding and expansion of the Chimaean Satellite Defence Grid, which was put into place when a limitted nuclear exchange during the Chimaean-Clock Hill war completely destroyed one Baron nation and crippled another. The Defence Grid has the ability to detect ballistic missile launches, compute trajectories and launch counter measures such as lasers and multiple interception missiles against a certain number of launched missiles.
2. Resurrection of the Baron Security Council, along with the Baron Intervention Taskforce for the purposes of military intervention and defence against regional enemies, as well as peacekeeping. These forces will be under rotational military command depending on the mission and member nations will need to donate personnel, equipment, supplies and so forth for a smaller active defence force which would be ready to react to any threat against Baron security.
3. Creation of Baron Aid, an independant humanitarian organisation for the rapid and effective treatment of humanitarian emergencies.
4. Creation of the Baron Monetary Fund, which would provide economic assistance to Baron nations and deliver a fair and level playing field for intra-regional trade and so forth.

Active member nations

External links

• Baron organisational thread