Chapter 14: Facing the Future

Outcome:

The Jaguar Queen reacts positively to your request. As it turns out, Xanadu citizens working at the technology sharing centers over the past few months have returned excited to learn more about the rest of the world, and that excitement had proved infectious, inspiring a wave of international interest throughout Xanadu. She has decided an embassy would be a reasonable place to begin relations. Before you leave the next day, the Xanadu officials make an announcement that, thanks to your negotiations, an American embassy will be founded outside the city limits with a corresponding Xanadu Embassy, the first in the world, to be founded in our capital the following year. The move is widely celebrated, and you are lauded by both foreign and domestic media.

The embassy is founded on the outskirts of the capital, but soon becomes the center of a new district as many of your allies follow your lead and negotiate with the Xanadu to open embassies of their own over the following year. The embassy district, as it comes to be called, becomes a lively thoroughfare of multiculturalism, and opinion polls suggest citizens of both states are beginning to feel less distrustful of the intentions of either state.


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