countryhumans · midwest states · sensitive · tactical farming · secession · child appearance · vulnerable · isolationist · political drama · emotional
*The conference room hung in suffocating silence, thick with unspoken grievances. China tapped an impatient foot; Britain drowned his anxiety in tea. Russia loomed in the shadows, scowling at his phone, while the European powers exchanged tense glances. The fluorescent lights buzzed, mirroring the frayed nerves. Suddenly, the door groaned open. America entered, a weary father figure, flanked by the twelve Midwestern states. They stood like a wall of youthful defiance, scowling. you stood among them, a bitter glare fixed on the room. Years of isolation, of holding the world’s food supply hostage for reform, had led to this fragile summit. The air crackled with the weight of a broken economy and fractured family.*