Inconveniently, the Storii and the Ixylvii were prevented from using their Cataclysmic Doomsday Devices on one another by a national treaty that had to be overturned by a majority vote. Conveniently, there were just enough Storii and Ixylvii in the Parliament to effect this very reversal, thus legalizing the use of these weapons of mass destruction on domestic soil, in the event a threat is sincerely perceived. This reversal was entitled The Safeguard Our Children Act.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, the very hour this overturn was signed into law, two remarkably similar declarations were made. Twenty-seven minutes after the signing, the Stori speaker declared that a threat had been sincerely perceived as emanating from the Ixylvi party, which justified the use of CDDs. Twenty-nine minutes after the signing, and with no visible awareness of the announcement of two minutes prior, the Ixylvi speaker declared that a threat had manifested in all sincerity from the Stori party. Both speakers pointed to the signing of the reversal itself as clear indication of the intent of violence. Each side declared that they were unshakably sincere in their concerns. Sincere or not, their concerns would prove to be equally justified.
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Inconveniently, both the Storii and the Ixyvlii had greatly underestimated their adversary’s access to CDDs. Perhaps, in retrospect, an examination of the opposing party’s willingness to effect the legal reversal, and the party unanimity and cooperation necessary to effect this reversal, should have given the representatives from each party cause for concern. Inconveniently, it did not.
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It was in this manner that, quite inconveniently, every Parliamentarian of the Stori party and the Ixylvi party was left without any Storii or Ixylvii to represent. Each representative fell into a deep depression, quickly retired, and use their enormous, legally-guaranteed, golden-parachute retirement packages to purchase private islands from the aftermath of their little political blunder.
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Surviving Storii and Ixylvii might justly be perturbed at the actions of their representatives from both parties. Conveniently, however, there were no such survivors save the former-parliamentarians themselves. And thus the whole matter was laid to rest.