In Charka, a small city in the Transcaucasian region of the Russian Empire, all the senior leaders of the Three Peoples United Kingdom—Greeks, Armenians, and Slavs—had gathered to discuss a matter that concerned the kingdom's very fate!
From its name alone, it was obvious that the Three Peoples United Kingdom was a hastily cobbled-together state. Under the Ottoman Empire's policy of ethnic slaughter, they had huddled together for warmth and survival.
From the moment it was founded, it had been riddled with internal conflicts. Fortunately, President Victor Kisis possessed immense prestige and had repeatedly led the kingdom's forces to defeat the Ottomans. Though they had ultimately still lost, that had been a disparity of strength and did nothing to diminish his renown.
Especially after they had been forced into a strategic retreat, Victor Kisis had essentially taken control of the kingdom's armed forces. But it was no use at all. On Russian soil, they had no choice but to keep their tails tucked between their legs!
After the World War, they had originally planned to attend the Paris Peace Conference as an independent state. Unfortunately, their independence had not been recognized by any country. They were even living under the roof of the Russian Empire, without any territory of their own.
That was awkward. Naturally, the conference refused their request. If it recognized them as an independent country, then how would their territory be defined?
Their original founding grounds were now Bulgarian territory. The key was that, when fleeing for their lives, every last one of them had run like the wind. Not a single person from the Three Peoples United Kingdom remained there now. How could they still declare sovereignty over it?
International law had never stipulated that a place became your territory simply because you had once lived