Thread:Co-Pres CatRepublic/@comment-15776551-20130930052322/@comment-15776551-20131003075245

Many thanks, Co-President Kelly,

We are honored to call the Cat Republic a friend. I do apologize for the rather late response, but I've recently been losing many an hour of sleep over the one thing keeping us from becoming a true nation, even if it is no more than a city-state. Land. As of yet, we have no territory of our own, and as of now, the only peaceful way to acquire a reasonable territory is through the adverse possession of an abandoned summer camp in the local area. It is a good size for a starting country, about 122 overgrown acres with a wooded area, access to a considerably sized lake, and over 50 structures already in place, though in need of major repair, with many treasures left behind such as silverware, tables, bunks, a rowboat, tractors, a flagpole, keys to the bunkhouse cabins and other buildings, boilers, generators, and possibly a kiln. This process, however, will take 30 years as that is the statutory time period necessary to file such a claim in New Jersey, USA. As it stands, the area is strictly watched over by neigboring residents due to the excessive vandalism which has taken place over the years since its closing. In that time, anyone could easily call the local police to have us removed from the property, or worse arrested for tresspassing. I tell you this because I would very much llike to hear your country's story. What advice have you on dealing with the US when it comes to claiming territory peacefully? My people do not want to enter into a war they know they cannot win, much less enter war at all if avoidable.

Sincerely and with much gratitude,

HM King Robert McCreed I

P.S.

Aside from attempting an adverse possession claim, I have personally emailed both the local mayor and the current (to the best of my knowledge through researching public tax assessment records for this county) owner of the property and have yet to hear back. My porposition to them was that since the back taxes are into the hundreds of thousands of USD, and the cost of repairs alone would be in about the same range, in exchange for fixing everything up, maintaining the property (and making many people who used to camp there in the summers when it was open very happy to see it being restored and preserved), and keeping an open trade policy with, at the very least, the State of New Jersey, the property and all structures on it be given to me and my people. We need not stay on the electrical grid, as the generators may still work, and if not, electricity isn't entirely necesary anyway, so that's another thing less to worry about for them. After explaining this plan, His Excellency President Baugh supported the idea, and I believe if I were to get support from not only the former campers, but from other nations as well, it might make things that much easier on us all.