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[center][h3][sup]The United Kingdom of Athos & Stules[/sup][/h3][/center]
[b][u]Excerpt from Joseph Kaur's, [i]Safe Haven from Refugees Caught in The Middle[/i][/u][/b]

Before the Arlington Peace Conference was held, The Terrible War had just begun and the world was suddenly changed. Portton Bay was overfill with ships that were carrying thousands of refugees, looking from safe haven away from their war-torn countries. King William Griffiths V accepted the refugees and established several temporary camps around the coastlines and in several cities, including Parma. The war had caused chaos from the Kingdom as they weren't prepared from the flooding of refugees, so much that the ships were thought to be enemy ships coming from Tsardom of Ventium.

Despite the huge waves of refugees, the Royal Family supported the refugees and often visited these temporary camps to give speeches or to help out in anyway possible. Prime Minister Nicholas Shaw, on the other hand, worried that the Royal Family would be assassinated by them at one of the temporary camps. And at the start of the war, supported the Survaekom's shipments to Oslad and was against the embargo of the Survaek Empire. However, the Royal Family and Parliament agreed to declared Neutrality and list Portton Bay as neutral seas.

When Shaw refused the request, his political party impeached him from his works and replaced him with Jonathan Duncan. Nicholas left the country and went straight to Vornehm. The Prime Minister Jonathan Duncan declared neutrality on 02, July 1916 and then declared Portton Bay as neutral seas from refugees two days later. 

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[i][sup]Several refugees from Zellonian Empire, getting ready to sleep in one of the temporary camps[/sup][/i]

Soon after the declaration, refugees from all over went straight towards The United Kingdom of Athos & Stules and welcomed by the people. The Prime Minister soon sent several ships to gather the refugees from nations, that were apart of the Terrible War. Near the month of November, propaganda cards began to appear all over ports of nations and especially in the neighboring nation, Ventium. They were encouraging people from the countries to leave and join the 'kingdoms of peace'.

Ventium blamed Athos & Stules from sending out the cards and causing an estimated of 300,000 people in the month of November. The Prime Minister declined that his countries made the cards and that they were made by 'independent sources of unknown'. But, the cards did their job and brought in about 700,000 refugees in the months of November of 1916 to March of 1917. 

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[i][sup]The propaganda card with text: Refugees in front of and across the border[/sup][/i]

The refugees soon spread out over the entire country and handed over to the care of the Provincial Refugee committees. It cost the country about 300 billion to set and provide from the refugees over the course of the war. Parliament was afraid of riots and manifestations against the countries and then soon would target each other. Because of that, Parliament approved a bill that separated out refugees based on their country's alignment from "safely reasons". Even known, it didn't completely stop the random attack on refugees from each other. 

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[i][sup]One of the first temporary camps set up during the war near the city of Parma[/sup][/i]