That settled it.
Abstain?
That was standard practice for the Eastern Nation. The other four overlords had also developed a certain immunity to this Eastern Nation that looked like a harmless little white rabbit on the outside.
You do your thing.
As long as you don't vote against it, everything will be fine.
Besides...
Abstaining could also be interpreted as a form of agreement. At most, it meant: Although I agree with your proposal, I don't entirely approve of some of the wording in it.
In short.
Abstention meant agreement.
Five Major Overlords, four votes in favor, and one abstention. What came next was simple.
At the emergency meeting of the Security Council's permanent members, the Elysée Palace representative spoke passionately, directing all their fire at Wakanda, an inconspicuous place that looked like a tribe pretending to be a nation and that would collapse without Security Council funding.
The Elysée Palace representative launched a fierce attack on this tiny tribe, leaving the many small nations that still had no idea what was happening utterly confused.
Why had they suddenly opened fire on Wakanda, a place with a negative GDP per capita?
Could it be that the Elysée Palace had been beaten up by Wakanda, whose GDP per capita was negative, and was now lashing out in humiliation?
This...
That seemed unlikely.
After first eliminating one correct answer, everyone racked their brains, but no one could come up with another reasonable explanation.
Then, the votes from the other four Major Overlords left the other countries' scalps tingling even more.
Good grief.
Had Wakanda just been expelled from the planet?
In a single sentence.
The Elysée Palace representative proposed a vote to kick Wakanda out of the Security Council chamber on charges of organizing terrorism, interfering with ongoing peacekeeping operations, and... crimes