Author's Note- Hey everyone, today I am highlighting one of my very favorite long form games. Also, just has a heads up it is incredibly difficult to write a story that involves England and Sealand in the same room that also doesn't involve a ton of swearing. As a result I didn't write a whole lot of dialog. I know you all would like to get to the story but before that a quick shout out to all you amazing reviewers. Thank you to Mofalle, Guest, C, EverythingMath, and Saoirsewolf. I glad that Canada's predicament entertained you.

Disclaimer- I do not own Hetalia or Twilight Imperium. That said I do write fanfiction for Hetalia and I totally kick butt when I play Twilight Imperium…that has to count for something, right?

Twilight Imperium

Twilight Imperium, while it was a relatively new the personification of Great Britain couldn't help but had to admit that it had rapidly become one of his very favorite games to play. It was an empire's game. One that allowed him to use all the skills of negotiation, the subterfuge, the war planning that he had cultivated for hundreds of years. Unfortunately, the shear intensity of the game meant that it was difficult to convince other people to play with him.

England had been in a really good mood the past week because he had managed to a round of his favorite game at the world meeting. This was a feat because it was challenging for any of them to carve out the 6 to 18 (depending on the number of players) hours to play. He had been so thrilled that he hadn't bothered to look at the list of participants who were coming over to his house until it was already too late.

At a quarter to nine Sealand burst into England normally calm home without even bothering to knock. The micronation took a good look at the board game and then instead that the sea fortress played the Mentak Coalition. England tried to argue that he always played space pirates when he played the game, only to have Sealand begin to swear at him on the top of his lungs. The argument ended when America cracked his front door in half on the first knock and then promptly claimed England's second choice in race, the lionoid Emirates of Hacan, as his own. A migraine already starting to develop behind his eyes, England settled on playing the Universities of Jol-Nar. Even though they were a fairly wimpy races as far as fire power, they were at least educated.

The actual game play went just about as smoothly as the race selection. Within two turns America was already complaining that he was both bored and confused. Sealand on the other hand had grasped the game mechanics and seemed to be trying to disrupt game play in every way that he could. It took all of England's skill to keep the game from being completely derailed and to convince Sealand to stop poking holes in his sofa.

By hour two England had already vowed that next time he was going to have to drag a few of the Nordics into play. Norway and Sweden both knew the joy of being an empire, both could think on their feet. This meant that even though the Nordics would insist that England provide them with high quality coffee and probably drinks all of his beer, the former empire would at least be challenged. A challenge that was worthy of his participation, England corrected himself as he watched America dare Sealand to put one of the cargo ship pieces up his nose.

"I think that this game may have outstayed its welcome. Why don't we declare it a draw and go do something else."

"Oh come on England. That is totally unepic!" America said with such feeling that for a few short moments England had hope that the game could successfully be played to its conclusion. But then his former colony opened his mouth again that that hope was dashed. "I am clearly the winner."

England snapped.

"No you are not the winner." The former empire ranted. "I do not know if you are capable of sitting through this game let alone winning it. You are an idiotic fool with the attention span of a goldfish." England slammed his hand against the table sending pieces flying and the stopped out of the room to find a secluded spot to cool off.

"Man, England totally has a stick up his butt today."America said with a shrug as he started to put the game away.

"Who cares?" Sealand said flicking one of the plastic starships across the room. "We should totally trash his kitchen."

End Note-If you have never played it, yes Twilight Imperium really does take between 6 and 18 hours to complete. Among my group of friends Twilight Imperium is known a game worthy of Antarctica because it is a great game to play if you are trapped at the South Pole all winter or are wait out a blizzard. This said, if they people you are playing with don't have a long attention span (think America) or are not trapped with you (think Sealand) it will be an uphill battle to play to completion.

Next Game-Dodge Ball-There are some games where surrender isn't an option…but that won't stop Northern Italy from trying.