Maroonation

Maroonation is a Lac Glacei syndicated television program. It is a parody of geopolitics with an anti-war rhetoric that plays on states and situations happening (or have already happened) on Micras.

Premise

Planet Maroo

The series is set on the fictional planet of Maroo. It’s very simple geography depicts and rounded mega-continent similar to Pangaea that has broken into several smaller continents and islands.

Viewers follow an ensemble cast of characters as they lead armies, diplomats and political drama across the world.

The world is divided into several major nations: Sweetdonia, Lawnada, Xcreta, Tropicalus, Yuki, Kalaboo, and Dou Dou. Most of the conflict in the series centers over the longstanding dispute of ownership over the island of Dou Dou, which both Xcreta and Kalaboo claim but which the locals want nothing to do with either of them.

The Sweetdish Prime Minister is often seen promoting world peace and fostering a sense of neutrality while secretly selling arms and building up vast amounts of wealth. The Lawnadians sit quietly off to the side rattling spears while building up a vast military-industrial complex and occasionally sparring with the revolutionary communist state of Tropicalus. In the far south is Yuki which while exerting a serene outer appearance is actually quite totalitarian and isolationist. In the meantime the empire of Kalaboo and the neo-fascist state of Xcreta are locked in a stalemate that may-or-may-not-be intentional over the island state of Dou Dou, which really just wants to be left alone. Over all this geopolitical drama the events of the series unfold.

Main Characters

• Horatio Blundvelt as the President of Lawnada

• Jakaratha Nawruba as the Emperor of Kalaboo

• Elias Whitler as the Supreme Leader of Xcreta

• Kristian Northur as the Prime Minister of Sweetdonia

• Sari Chang as the Empress of Yuki

• Pablo Esqueziel as Premier of Tropicalus

• Hank Tolette as President of Dou Dou

Episodes

Season One

Episode One - Blundt Statement

In the first episode the various state leaders are introduced via the international diplomacy forum, the Global Peace Initiative (a fictionalized equivalent of blocs such as the Raspur Pact), who are meeting to continue the squabble over the status of Dou Dou. While the two opposing leaders, Nawruba and Whitler, argue on the chamber floor, Tolette becomes increasingly agitated at being ignored as the president-elect of the island nation, eventually storming out saying he's "been flushed down the drain!". After this incident the scene shifts to Greenlawn, the capital of Lawnada, where Blundvelt is giving a speech on the lawn of the palatial mansion, the Green House. In his late eighties and struggling with his mental faculties, he absent-mindedly blurts out the blunt statement that Lawnada has joined an alliance with the Sweetdish (SLAM - Sweetdish-Lawnadian Allied Mission) which sets of a string of hostility from Tropicalus and Kalaboo. Nawruba, knowing full well he can't even force a victory on Dou Dou, rattles his sabres and threatens nuclear armageddon, much to the growing boredom of everyone else who have already heard it a hundred times before. Later on the various leaders are on a conference call together and are now jovial towards one-another, congratulating each other on how they will all profit from the military sales the growing tensions will inevitably create. Chang and Tolette, the only two to show a shred of conscience, roll their eyes and hang up on the others as the scene fades to black.

Episode Two - Whitler's Mother

The second episode focuses on the longstanding conflict between Xcreta and Kalaboo. The show starts with a flashback to Whitler's youth. While vacationing with his family in Boombabwe, the capital of Kalaboo, his mother is brutally murdered before his eyes by Kalabooan extremists. He takes this as a personal vendetta against the Kalabooans and vows to wipe their people off the map. As such he returns to Xcreta and uses the wealth obtained by his parents' life insurance to build a technology empire through control of a social media platform known as BEETER. Not only is the platform immensely successful, but Whitler's BEETS are followed by millions, propelling him to stardom. He then uses his fame and money to buy his way into politics, at first obtaining a seat on the Senate. He then bribes and bullies his way into complete control of the Urania Senate, with them eventually appointing him Supreme Leader for life. With his power over Xcreta complete he transforms it into a technological neo-fascist state with a vast military industrial complex fueled by social media propaganda. Using his spies, he incites the conflict between the tiny island state of Dou Dou and Kalaboo, forcing Kalaboo to invade. Under the pretense of aiding the Douddies, Xcreta sends the Imperial Army to the island and confronts Kalaboo. With neither side refusing to back down, the dispute conflagrates into open war; exactly what Whitler wanted. As the final scene fades out, deep in the bowels of Urania, Xcretan scientists work ceaselessly on a nuclear missile.

Episode Two - A Dish Best Served Sweet

Opening on a panorama of a small frigid island somewhere in the Arctic, Xcretan scientists huddle in a bunker, the outside only visible through a small slitted window of heavy tinted glass. As they watch, the scene changes from a blustery mix of white snow to orange flame as the ground erupts into a giant mushroom cloud. The first nuclear explosion has been detonated on Maroo. Back in Urania, the floor of the Senate is awash with argument as Senators lob threats at each other; some wanting to smash Kalaboo, others warning of the portent of nuclear holocaust. Supreme Leader Whitler presides over all, calm and controlled, assured that his power is absolute now that he wields the power of the atom. He calms the Senate, placating them by insisting that Xcreta's dominance over Kalaboo (and possibly the world) is now a certainty, revealing that a dozen other nuclear missiles are already under construction. Calling his contemporaries at the GPI via a web meeting, he gloats over Nawruba that Kalaboo will be destroyed by a rain of nuclear fire. While Nawruba is livid with anger, as the Kalabooans do not have technology anywhere close to that of Xcreta, the Sweetdish Prime Minister calmly asks to speak. When he obtains the mic he calmly informs the group that Sweetdonia already has a nuclear arsenal, to the shock and amazement of the other members, having achieved fission several years ago, and that their arsenal numbers in the hundreds. He then informs Whitler that any use of nuclear weapons will result in the immediate annihilation of Xcreta, forcing the Supreme Leader to back down and rely on conventional weapons to settle the conflict with Kalaboo. After Whitler leaves the conference, he is seen having a tantrum on the floor of the Senate.