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"See, I've arranged everything to adhere to recommended social distancing requirements," Britain was telling Italy through the phone. "It's outside, every chair is two meters apart, and everybody is wearing a mask!" He hissed that last part to America, the only person not wearing a mask.

"COVID's still a hoax, I'm the only one who sees it" he said, before immediately coughing. Canada slid him a 'this mask is useless' mask. Putting it on, he smiled. "This'll show you how I feel about masks."

Suddenly, a distant BOOM was heard throughout the meeting, drawing all of the countries' attentions. Italy screamed at the noise and hung up.

"What was that?" Turkey asked.

"America, what did you do?" Japan questioned.

America scoffed. "I didn't do anything. Not this time?"

Germany raised a skeptical eyebrow. "Oh really? If it wasn't you, then who did it?"

From the same direction of the noise, Lebanon came stumbling in, out of breath, and covered in ashes and soot. He fell into his chair, and looked to be in pain "My capitol," he whined. "please Allah…h..help!"

"Bloody hell!" Britain exclaimed. He ran to the injured country's side, along with Turkey. "Lebanon, what happened? Are you okay?"

"Lebanon? Like… the cities?" America questioned.

"It's a country in the middle east," Canada explained.

"Oh… ew… one of those countries."

Germany sighed. "America, now's not the time."

"M-my capital exploded!" Lebanon explained, bringing attention back to him. "There's a crater… Oh, Allah, it hurts." He coughed weakly. "I don't know what did it… But it's devastating so many families. I won't recover from this for years. Decades even."

"That is quite unfortunate," France mumbled.

"I'll try and help you the best I can," Britain reassured.

Russia let out a small laugh. "The explosion. It wasn't by any chance all that ammonium nitrate I stranded there a while ago, was it? Or is it more of a Chernobyl thing?"

"It was obviously a terrorist. I mean, what else would you expect from-" America started saying.

"Halt die Klappe, bevor ich dich für immer zum Schweigen bringe!" Germany hissed at him. Despite not knowing what he said, America did shut up. He'd never admit it, since he isn't like Italy, but Germans could be pretty intimidating.

Lebanon looked over all of the countries. 'This year… These idiots…' He thought. Sighing, stood up. "You know what? That's it. This is it! I'm done. Through. It's over! I'm gone! Finished! Over! I will never do this again! Look at all of you!" He laughed. "You think you're all important countries, is that what you think? You are all laughing stocks. You are all jokes. Your people are laughing at you. You're nothing. You all have no brains, no ability, nothing!" He knocked over a cup on the table. "I quit." He just up and left after that.

The countries all stood in a collective shock. It was dead quiet for minutes. "What the bloody hell, you can't just quit!" Britain yelled, breaking the silence, but Lebanon was already nowhere to be seen.

"I mean… he's gone... so clearly we can…" New Zealand mumbled.

"We can quit? I would have done that years ago," France whined.

America lifted his finger. He was about to say something so incredibly insensitive that Canada did the liberty of censoring it for you. The rest of the countries could hear it though, and it disgusted them all. Of course, America saw nothing wrong with what he said and was sitting there, smiling innocently.

"Vhat the f*** is wrong vith you, shut your stupid fat mouth! Dis isn't about you!" Germany exclaimed, scolding America. He stormed over and shoved America's chair into the corner of a nearby wall with him still in it. "Stay in this corner and think about vat you've done, Dummkopf!" He slid a dunce cap onto America's head and then stormed back to his seat.

"Oh yeah," New Zealand said. "America just reminded me. You know how he's been saying that 'mail-in-voting is a fraud' and that he would postpone his election if it wasn't for his constitution?"

Britain sighed. "Yes. And he's waging a war on his whole postal service too for no good reason."

"My reasons are beyond your understanding!" America imputed from his corner. "FedEx is supreme!"

"You are in a silent corner! Shut up!" Germany yelled. America rolled his eyes, but did shut his mouth.

"Well," New Zealand said, bringing the attention back to him, "I don't have those same rules in my book, so I'm postponing my election due to the virus."

"But I thought you completely eliminated the virus over there," Japan said.

New Zealand shrugged. "It flared up recently, and I got, like, four more cases. That's practically half my population. I guess I wasn't aggressive enough on it." As he talked, he was sanitizing the table around him.

A sudden heat flash hit the table and thunder boomed near them. The countries all looked to the noise to see another lighting bolt over America's head as he laughed like a maniac.

He still sat in his little corner, but his dunce cap was on fire. Something was glowing in his hand too. Upon further inspection, on the tips of a couple fingers was some spinning smoke. "Look dudes, I made a fire tornado! How awesome, am I right?" He laughed. "California never fails to amaze me." Behind him, two hurricanes were forming in the distance. "Or Texas."

"Sacré bleu! How on Earth is this conforming to the Paris Agreement?" France asked.

"Brah, I abandoned that years ago. You guys didn't like my plan of angrily tweeting about the heat, so, really, I didn't have a choice besides leaving."

Turkey sighed. "The world really is ending, huh?" he mumbled. "I'd like to say it was nice knowing ya, but that'd be a lie."

Nobody could argue with that. It really did seem like the end of the world.

To be continued...