The Emperor first followed his itinerary to Bosnia and Herzegovina, not leaving until late afternoon, near dusk. He then took an aircraft to Hungary, known as the "Shield of God." On the Balkan Peninsula, a land renowned for its fierce people, Hungarians stood among the fiercest. The abolition of religion had had its greatest impact in Hungary, and most opposition was concentrated there.
Although the Regent had adopted conciliatory measures, leaving churches intact and turning them into tourist attractions, the banned religious organizations continued to incite believers and preach in secret. The ruling right-wing government of the Hungarian Province drew its fundamental support from religious faith. Meanwhile, Latveria was continuously reshaping civil servants' thinking, making them abandon religion and accept "Unified Truth," while restructuring administrative bodies and gradually eroding the power of Hungary's ruling party. The two sides had irreconcilable conflicts of power, making it difficult not to suspect that the government was secretly supporting this from behind the scenes.
For a province conquered by military means, the Federation's decision had been exceptionally gentle. It had neither overthrown the current leaders nor thoroughly investigated their past shady dealings, merely taking control of all military and public facilities. But the Emperor would not permit religious organizations to possess any privileges, nor would he permit government agencies to secretly support them. Compared with those suspects implicated by rulings of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the religious organizations in the Hungarian Province were the ones truly trampling on the Emperor's bottom line.
Constantine received orders to transfer heavy armaments to the Hungarian Province and dispatch additional Gene-modded Warriors there, with further decisions to depend on the outcome of the Emperor's talks with Hungary's rulers. The worst outcome would be that the Latverian Federation had to conquer