The End Affair

The End Affair was a 2022 political scandal between the Enderwolf States of Minecraft and the Borgian Empire. Occurring after the aftermath of the Castonian-Saints War, The Borgian government sought to gain territorial control of the End, along with the Kingdom of Vasellhiem and the Saints of Death. The plan was created in secret and involved a rigged lawsuit and a military invasion and occupation of Enderwolf territories in the End. The discovery of the plans led to the increased divisions between the Eastern and Western Worlds and further cemented the ideas of political isolation, and neutrality from the differing spheres.

### Background

The End dimension was controlled by the End Empire during the Second Mine War, when the End Empire united with the Wolf Empire following Mine War II, the newly created Enderwolf Empire inherited the entire End. Under the presidency of Evilbear88, the End had an "Open Door" policy with other nations, allowing foreign merchants and citizens to gain access to raw materials found exclusively in the End. The state of Bespin located in the End was officially given statehood in 2013 and spannned from Evilbear88's birthplace all the way to the Borgian End, with the rest remaining as territories.

During the Phony War and the subsequent Castonian Saints War in 2022, the fuels of a potential Mine War III led to an inevtiable end to the "Open Door" policy in the state. The Enderwolf States Goverment ended the free trade zone and began to enforce the payment of raw materials and military equipment such as elytras. In June of 2022, the Congress of the Enderwolf States approved of putting export tariffs on the goods in order to increase revenue and to decrease demand on goods in order to free up goods to assist Castonia under the Lend-Lease Act of 2022 and the Castonian Fighter Pilots Act of 2022. During the course of the war, a series of conferences were held between the "Big Three" (Redstonia, E.S.M. and Borgia) about the potential of Mine War III and the future of the World, with all powers agreeing to enforce order in the world, dissolve the fascist state of the Saints of Death, intervene in the war, and to not act in the interests of eachother.

After the fall of the United Kingdom of Castonia and the Republic of Forvia following the Battle of Pastizales. Eastern Powers took advantage of a weakened West and called to an end to the Elytra monopoly in the Enderwolf States, and called for the Enderwolf States to secede territories to the East. President SPIDERMAN 326 rejected the proposal and refusing to cede core territory to foreign powers, but proposed to continue the "Open Door Policy" and making the End a free trade and demiltarized zone, and removing the tariffs on all End goods, Lil Bones refused and once again demanded territory, threating to cut off all trade to the West. Following intense debate between SPIDERMAN 326 and King Lil Bones of Vasellheim, the United Alliances General Assembly officially passed Assembly Resolution No.5, in a supermajoity vote, allowing the Enderwolves to maintain the monopoly and to maintain control over the End under official law. The Vasellheim Delegation officially left the United Alliances in protest. The aftermath of Resolution No.5 and the Castonian-Saints War showed that the United Allies had no power in maintaining peace and order in the world, with major countries not following UA guidelines or resolutions. This led to the creation of Assembly Resolution No.6 which officially established two spheres in the world, with each being diplomatically isolated and independent from each other, before the official collapse of the UA. Following the passage of the resolution, and reports from the Department of Homeland Security about a threat in the End territories, a Select Joint-Congressional Committee led by Senator RobDRobot (D-NK) and Representative ThatLuckGod (D-NR) launched a formal investigation and found stunning evidence.

### Findings of the Joint Select Committee

By reading transcripts and gathering witness testimony, the committee found that the Borgian Empire established an elaborate plan with the help of the Saints of Death and the Kingdom of Vasellheim to overturn the democratic institutions of the United Alliances. The plan ranged from blackmailing delegations to the United Alliances, Creating an unlawful and rigged lawsuit against the Enderwolf States in the International Court of Justice, potentially invading The Enderwolf States militarily, creating a fake story of Enderwolf Genocide in the End, and Establishing a false claim over the nether to potentially weaken ESM.

Following the passage of Resolution No.5, Borgia collaborated with HaloCrafter, the fascist dictator of the Saints of Death to blackmail Castonian and Forvian officials to change their votes against ESM. HaloCrafter proposed to decrease the amount of work quotas to Castonian miners and offered to free all the slaves located in Forvia in exchange for a vote change. ImaginaryZix of the Castonian Government in Exile rejected the proposal and the Forvian Government in Exile refused to even answer the request. Following the failure to illegally change the votes, HaloCrafter contacted President SPIDERMAN 326 to negotiate. He offered to not invade the Enderwolf States and offer the country protection in exchange for surrender of the End, allowing with the emancipation of Castonian and Forvian slaves in accordance to SPIDERMAN 326's Emancipation Proclamation. SPIDERMAN 326 once again refused to cede any territory to the Saints of Death and claimed that he would reject any offer with the loss of territory, but admitted that he would give up the territory under the rule of law if the UA ordered.

After the failure of blackmailing foreign nations, Borgian and Vasellheim sought to bring the case to the International Court of Justice, in order to balance out ESM's experience in law and solid claims on the End, The Borgians created a plan to rig the court in their favor. The Borgian government hired Vasellheinian Minister of Industry Rascat to be their lawyer while breaking into the Court's classified archives to study classified legal documents relating to past cases the Enderwolf States represented in order to gain knowledge of how the Enderwolves make their cases. The Borgian Government also planned to pack the court with foreign nationals to make the judges easier to convince, and also illegally started on their written briefs months before the lawsuit was supposed to be taken to court, giving them an advantage in planning and preparation. The breif contained false information about a fabricated Borgian investigation, falsified End history and information about the operations of the Enderwolf Government (Such as representation in the State of Bespin), False info about a genoicde in the End, and a fake claim supporting Vasellheims inheritance of the Nether.

If the Enderwolves managed to win the case against all odds, Halocrafter would invade the End, with Vasellheinan support and would split the End amongst themselves. The invasion would be similar to that of Castonia and would be a lightining assult and would target strategic resources such as Elytra reserves. Borgia rejected any attempt to invade ESM, fearing Mine War III, but did not discourage the idea from initiating. However King Sarge VIII of Borgia did state that "We must take the End in order to weaken the Enderwolf economy" which violated the agreement the major powers had at Yalta.

Borgia argued to the UA that the Enderwolf Goverment have been committing genocide against endermen and other creatures of the end and argued that they do not have representation in Enderwolf Government. The Enderwolf Government easily refuted these claims arguing that the creatures are the end are legally taxonomically classified as "mobs" and animals and that the enderpearls were farmed in a mercful and painless manner under Food and Drug Administration, and also argued that they use gold reserves to trade with native piglins for enderpeals. Borgia insisted that endermen were people and that the goverment is massaciring them in a "planned genocide". Evilbear88, the former king of the End once said that the end were not people, but Sarge VIII pushed the issue citing endermen service in Mine War II and pushed for endermen to be granted personal status. SPIDERMAN 326 easily destroyed this argument by saying "Wolves serves in the wolf army [In Mine War II]. Although their sacrifices should be appreciated and not be in vain around the world, this does not change the fact that they are just dogs, the same reasoning applies to the End. Borgia is merely uneducated about functions of the Enderwolf Goverment, the history of Civil Rights in ESM, and the role of race relations in our Republic. If an enderman is granted citizen status, does ESM gain compensation if any foreigner kills and enderman on their land? Do we need to regulate how they cross international boarders? I have seen many Borgians kill endermen roaming their territory, does this mean they are killing Enderwolf Citizens?". SPIDERMAN 326 finished off by saying "What is next? Will a cow be granted citizenship? perhaps a pig?" Borgia later argued that the endermen do not have representation in congress or during elections, which was once again refuted by the Enderwolves when they refuted that the Borgian's were uneducated in how elections are run, citing that during primaries and presidential elections, delegates (instead of the popular vote) are chosen to pick candidates and explains that's why there are vacant house seats in the End, but can still participate in elections. President SPIDERMAN 326 said in a statement "I do not think the Borgians are arrogant, arrogance means refusing the truth even when you know its wrong. They are merely uneducated about our government and is a good chance for them to learn about how our institutions work".

Borgia finally tried to argue that Vasellheim had claims on the entire Nether dimension even though there was no history or evidence behind it. The only evidence Borgia managed to gain was a statement from King Lil Bones who also supported this claim. ESM argued that Vasellheim just emerged as a major power six months prior and does not even have any bases or history in the region unlike ESM's 13 year history of their respective region. With SPIDERMAN 326 saying to King Lil Bones during an argument "Show me the history behind the claim, then I shall support it", which both goverments failed to do. The investigation found out that their claim was falsely made and the history was fabricated in order to damage ESM by cutting off the West's supply of blaze rods and other materials from the nether. Even though Vasellheim has been the first country to legally claim the nether since the short lived Nether Empire in 2012, the claim was later discovered to not have any reasoning nor evidence behind it. Meanwhile ESM argued that their claim did have history, from the End Empire, prior to Mine War Two, to the unification of the Republic, to it being admitted statehood, all in a span of decades, while trying to seek a compromise on the issue.

### Reactions

Following the results of the investigation, reaction from the West was critical of the plan, with President SPIDERMAN 326 making a statment saying "This shows us that the East serves to undermine our democratic institutions and are seeking to abolish the order that has governed us for decades. They seek to abuse these institutions to benefit them, rather than following the rule of law, and when these institutions don't agree with them, they try to abolish them. Today is a day in which democracy tried to be illegally overthrown by authoritarianism, and once again, democracy will fight another day with vigor never before seen on this Earth". Vice-President Rexuroy96 offically called the actions an "act of cowardice" and said that the east was "scared that we are winning" and personally denounced eastern leaders of the actions. President Denisgamerguy of Redstonia called it a "desperate act to break the rules" and called it a "deeply disturbing"

Prime Minister of Castonia NavalCC was deeply shocked by the plan and the blackmail of castonian officials, the revelations of the plan and the prior war later led to the abdication of King Imaginaryzix, leading the Castonian government in Exile and the Free Castonian forces to collapse and be in disarray, prompting Enderwolf Intervention. President Hracer of Forvia argued that the plan was the main reasoning and the need behind the separate hemisphere doctrine.

Eastern leader have refused to comment on the affair.