Discussion of the Maori and New Swiss War...

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The precise extent and history of Maori ambitions, and the reasoning leading to them, are not secret, and it's my intent that they be considered 'common knowledge' - in one degree or another of formality, and in however many more or less politic phrasings appropriate to the speaker, it's consistent across all levels of the Maori government: What they tell outsiders, what they tell each other, what they tell their people. The only 'fakery' involved is meta-historical - OTL' Polynesian culture never carried out the kind of broad internal and external trade I've described in their Navalism equivalents, even though it had the technical ability to do so.