The Emperor of Latveria returned to the royal city and met with Regent Victor von Doom in the reception hall.
During his absence, Victor von Doom had been handling things well enough that the Emperor had found nothing requiring his attention. "Except this." The Regent pulled up files from an encrypted data channel. "Did you forget that we still have some guests staying in Latveria? Heinrich Zemo, whom you sent the Hellfire Knights to rescue from prison during the Wakandan civil war, has now been locked in a new prison awaiting disposition. And the Avengers... you practically moved the entire Avengers over here. Those people aren't exactly well-behaved."
"Oh, I really did forget." Salomon laughed awkwardly. "But our offices aren't far apart. Did you really need to use a psychic projection to talk to me?"
"Because you dumped all the administrative work on me!" Victor von Doom's voice was filled with fury, clearly displeased by the Emperor's laziness. "I'm currently underground supervising experimental progress, and in five minutes I have to approve a series of construction plans. If your ass is still sitting on the throne, then urge the Ministry of Internal Affairs to speed up its handling of the banking crisis and private lending in the Albanian Province. Until the economic problems there are resolved, our infrastructure projects in the Albanian Province will face enormous difficulties, and so will the construction of the Bosnia and Herzegovina shipyard. A navy is more cost-effective than Helicarriers. We need to field a fleet capable of controlling the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, along with those nuclear submarines..."
Once Victor von Doom started talking, he could not stop.
Many projects across Latveria were now under construction, while the Hellfire Knights had been dispatched throughout the country to purge rebel forces and ensure