Transvaal Republic Government.
"Mr. President, we can no longer sit idly by; reality forces us to act ahead of time, or it will be even harder to stage a comeback in the future."
"Our main issue now is military expenses. Maintaining such a large army is an enormous burden for a country like ours. To describe it as a reckless military venture would certainly not be an exaggeration. Including the Orange people, the entire Boer population of the Orange Free State is only about forty thousand, which means just twenty thousand males, excluding the old, weak, sick, and disabled. So a standing army of over ten thousand is simply an astronomical figure for us and is unsustainable."
"Back when our Transvaal Republic still existed, the national treasury often saw rats running about, and couldn't support the army at all. Now, even if rats came, they would have to leave shedding tears; the only thing left is a pile of debt!"
