Newly appointed Ambassador Nakia of Wakanda’s River Tribe stressed that the country has not opened its borders to outside visitors but urged a visit to their outreach centers. Fox News, meanwhile, has run 24-hour coverage of “The Wakandan Threat.” Many African Americans have taken to social media to express their newfound allegiance to Wakanda and adopted the cross-arm over chest salute to demonstrate their loyalty to the Wakandan crown. Applicants argue that they are subject to continual persecution in the United States, that their lives are at risk from official violence, and that Wakanda owes a moral duty to provide asylum after its centuries of willfully ignoring atrocities in Africa and among the diaspora. The newly expanded Wakandan Embassy has been besieged by prospective immigrants, the vast majority African-American, while tens of thousands more have written letters requesting asylum. In the United States, an emergent migration crisis has prompted a strong response from both Wakandan and U.S. Economists are perplexed as to how Wakanda’s shift from supposedly one of the poorest nations in the world to the richest will affect the global economy, especially given Wakanda’s own market-averse policies. Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross, “How can a tribal nation like this be trusted with such destructive potential?” While the United States reportedly has a back channel to the Wakandan leadership, Russia and China have already arranged high-level summits. “They use this material casually,” commented U.S. The video goes on to detail Wakanda’s claimed hyper-achievements: nanotechnology that allows for replicable organs, an average lifespan in the 100s, and a quality of life for the ordinary citizen that surpasses that enjoyed by the top 1 percent in the United States. T’Challa himself provides a voice-over describing the country’s semi-mythical history, tracing back to the impact of a vibranium meteorite, and the subsequent foundation of the country by five tribes, giving it the name “Wakanda” - “The Family.” As a camera swoops over brush, the trees themselves seem to glitch, and a futuristic skyline resembling a mixture of New York, Timbuktu, and Cairo appears. “Welcome to the Future,” an introductory film produced by Wakanda’s newly founded Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is now the most watched video ever on YouTube. We will only offer vibranium-based technologies to those in need.” Questions were immediately raised about the general’s own famous appearance surfing on the roof of a car in South Korea in a red dress she quickly replied “it was an impromptu example of the car’s safety features,” and relinquished the microphone. “We will not provide weapons, but instead we will offer our human resources to mediate conflicts. General Okoye of the River Tribe, taking to the podium after T’Challa’s speech, made the Wakadan position clear. But Wakanda’s stocks of vibranium, the supermaterial previously used in the construction of “weapons of cosmic destruction,” is arousing particular worry. If Wakanda’s technology was limited to medicine, global anxiety might be less acute. The term “uber-developed” nation has been coined to describe the country’s widespread use of advanced magnetic levitation trains, flying vehicles, opaque holograms, and spinal cord-healing beads. The announcement by King T’Challa at the United Nations General Assembly that the Kingdom of Wakanda is not a developing nation of textiles, farms, and shepherds - estimated in the 2016 CIA World Factbook to have a GDP per person of approximately $760 - but a technological superpower has left global leaders and analysts stunned. It’s been six weeks since the “Wakanda speech,” and the world is still reeling.
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