With the quickly advancing Germans in the Southern areas, A mass exodus of the entire nation is announced, citizens are given the choice to stay with the Germans, or to leave with the government, very few stay. Most, though loyal to their government, lament at leaving their ancestral homelands, lands the Aarlandic people have been living for 20,000 years. many people near the war zone, especially those with military family members, are the most panicked to leave, sometimes leaving behind lots of personal possessions. A change in this empire is encroaching rapidly, and it looks to be a dark change. As one Aarland political leader said: "its hard for these people to just willingly hand over their old homes to a nation they don't even know, much less even like. yet they do it anyway. we do not force them, yet they follow us anyway. It shows no matter how bad it may get, our people still believe in the communist dream, that, beyond anything else, brings a tear to my eye." Military fleets are encouraged to leave the Frontlines and instead focus on getting soldiers and whatever citizens they can away from the front lines, and out of he empire, a flight path is set, and citizens begin leaving the old empires borders en masse.
