Respond to the prompt below as if you were roleplaying:
"The Emperor of Cheesistan, having had declared war on you two months prior, has ramped up the scale of the war; at your Northern border, hundreds of Cheesistani battalions, artillery machines, and tanks have gathered, ready to strike. As you are debriefed by your head general concerning your North border, a diplomacy aid delivers you a peace treaty from Cheesistan. In it, Emperor Gouda promises to not invade your nation, so long as you pay him a tribute of 20,000 dairy cows and 10 million dollars. The peace treaty smells of stinking bishop and without a doubt, will soon permeate throughout your entire headquarters."
Kerry Greenfield, Sovereign of the Buttershire, ponders this blatant ultimatum. He doubts that Gouda cares about such a small sum of money, it's probably just there to add insult to injury. What's really at stake are the prized dairy cows, which are famous for creating some of the finest butters in the world that are at the heart of the Buttershire's economy. Giving away such a large portion of the herd would destroy the Buttershire just as surely as a war, and that alone makes such a "treaty" impossible to accept. This is nothing but political posturing, an excuse for Cheesistan to claim that it offered a peaceful solution to the situation.
But this development makes clear what Cheesistan really wants and provides a window of opportunity for kind of response. Greenfield is determined to play it out for all its worth.
Greenfield dispatches a diplomat to Cheesistan with orders to offer only 5,000 cows in exchange for a quarter of the cheese produced by those cows in perpetuity and a 5 million dollar deposit that would be returned to Cheesistan in five years if they had upheld the agreement in good faith. He doubts that they would ever agree to such terms by themselves, but he also orders that as many of the cows in the northern portions of the Buttershire be rounded up and embedded along with the military units facing the Cheesistan army. If they attack, they would risk destroying the very thing they wish to wage war over in the process.
Having done all he can think of to respond to the situation, Greenfield excuses himself from the war room, thoughts already turning to the more pleasant nightly activities he has in mind for the evening: reading and painting.
OOC: I did wonder if doing two actions that must happen simultaneously violated the one action per turn rule, but my thinking is that it does not because it's not in sequence. Other players can still respond to either action or both of them. Feel free to correct me if I have it wrong though. This is not my wheelhouse at all.
Nation name is Wintermoot, btw.