Department for Foreign Missions
Berschesministerium fur auberpolitik aubermissionburo

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Welcome and congratulations on your diplomatic mission's establishment on behalf of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
This handbook will show you important procedures to follow during your mission.

ANNEX A: DEFINITION OF AN EMBASSY: 
An 'embassy' is the foreign mission. Each nation is entitled to one primary embassy (i.e. chancery prefix 'Embassy of) in a major city (i.e. preferably a major financial hub or the capital Metropolitan Brient)  and ten permanent secondary embassies (i.e. chancery prefix 'Consulate of') in a major or minor city not near the primary mission (eligible cities are cities listed on the Map of the South Pacific). 

ANNEX B: ENTITLEMENTS OF EVERY MISSION: 
Every permanent foreign mission is entitled to a chancery and if accepted residence within the city. All guest diplomats and staff are required to have a diplomatic identification card (shown below) at all times, particularly to claim diplomatic immunity or to receive diplomatic mail addressed to the mission. These diplomatic cards have to be returned or partially/fully destroyed after the end or dissolution of the mission and may not be used to claim diplomatic immunity for a stranger or outside the sovereign territory of Besern.

 

Forgery of diplomatic identification has same status as forgery of the national personal identification card (NPAN) and offenders will be liable to imprisonment or fines under Besernian law. Forgery by a diplomat will result in revocation of diplomatic status and deportation under persona-non-grata. In the event of the loss of the card, a new card can be redeemed by sending an electronic mail letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

WARNING: THE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER WILL CHANGE SHOULD A NEW CARD BE REQUESTED AND THE LOST CARD WILL BE DEEMED INVALID, EVEN IF IT IS FOUND BY THE OWNER. USING OF THE LOST CARD KNOWINGLY MAY BE CLASSIFIED AS A FORGERY OR FALSIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS AND WILL RESULT IN A PERSONA-NON-GRATA. A FINDING OF A LOST CARD MUST BE RETURNED OR PARTIALLY OR FULLY DESTROYED REGARDLESS OF ANY CONTEXT.

WARNING: Loss of the diplomatic identification card without any other supporting documents (i.e. foreign mission identification certificate) will revoke your right to diplomatic immunity. Should you lose your card and do not possess any supporting documents, return to your chancery if possible or if you are abroad, contact the nearest Besernian foreign mission. If you are in imminent danger, please call the federal police hotline. They may subject you to a digital database check should you continue to claim diplomatic immunity.

For more information, please get into contact with the Department for Foreign Missions.
In case of dire emergency, you may call the federal police hotline or for minor emergencies, the state or district emergency hotlines.