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
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.
