ok so this is not happening during current times there are no current year politics in this
the 3rd of march. bulgaria wakes up. it's his liberation day! his national holiday! basically like a birthday but for a nation. ok he's gonna be busy with visiting celebrations across the country. but... something is not right. not a single one of his friends has called him and greeted him. usually, it's romania who wakes him up by calling him but this time, he was woken up by his alarm, not by the ringing of his phone.
throughout the day, he scrolls through his social media. nope. nothing. no one's greeting him. no one's even mentioning him or his national holiday. he scrolls past a photo of tatarstan, bashkiria and chuvashia all on one horse doing acrobatic stuff and weird poses (LIKE JOJO BUT ON A HORSE and they're holding each other with tatarstan stepping on his friends' shoulders like it's circus) and miraculously not falling off the horse. dayum his bro's living his life. poor horse though. how does it stand 3 people at once.
he proceeds with his day, waiting for his friends to call him (or at least text him). but nobody greets him. he becomes more and more sullen... his bosses ask if he's ok but he pretends that everything is fine. well, they were greeted by the bosses of other countries so that's fine? finally, his bosses assume that he's upset bc of the entire russophobes vs russophiles bs and stop asking him, thus leaving him alone.
at the end of the day, he goes home. he enters the dark cold house (it's not like he can leave the ac on with such electricity prices) and turns the lights on. the hallway is empty.
he begins taking his shoes off and tears start forming in his eyes.
'ugh... stupid friends... not even a single one of them greeted me for my national holiday... and I always greet them on their national holidays! guess they don't care about me! f*cking losers... I don't need them! my dad was right! I gotta be a heartless egoist! f*ck friendship... who's my friend anyway? that nerd romania with the ugly haircut? who took dobrogea away from me? my so called "best friend" couldn't even bother to text me on my national holiday! or that catman weirdo greece who can't say one proper sentence without sounding like a sleepy robot? who took western thrace away from me? sucker u don't have enough money to wipe you a** or even smile yet you try to make urself appear soooo important and haughty and sooo much better than me by not greeting me... and that damn backstabber serbia... who took macedonia away from me... do I even have to say anything?!... and turkey... what a "good" friend! yeah! you took over my lands! ruined my country, my culture! my people suffered for half a millennium, being discriminated, forced to pay higher taxes, kidnapped, robbed or murdered without justice, having their kids taken away from them to be brainwashed... and all you did was bathe in riches! all you did was pick your nose instead of talking to your bosses and making them stop all of that! and then russia... hoo boiii! you pretended to liberate me... only so you could control me and fuck my life up! and then there's finland aka mr goody two shoes oh gee we get it you're so productive in the eu ur so much better than me but not everyone has had ur circumstances u spoiled brat! and then there's that ho ukraine with the big tits oh we get it ur so nice and kind and caring and shit but u couldn't even text me "happy liberation day"? do u think u can get away with not greeting ur friends just bc u have huge badonkers? f*ck that b*tch hungary, she could've helped me kick ottoman a** back then but she was too busy waiting for a d**k to grow... and that loser poland who acts like he's high all the time... bosnia I recognized u first as a country yet u can't even greet me on my holiday? f u man!... america ur sooo good ur such a hero u always attack and attack countries all over the globe ur armies kill so many innocents just so ur country can get dem tasty resources F U!...'
then he proceeds to trashtalk other nations eg the baltics, germany, belarus, the western balkans, other non-european countries, etc. then he kicks open the door of the living room with the intention of flopping onto the sofa, watching tv and getting drunk but...
LIGHT. CAKE. YET UNLIT CANDLES. YET UNPOPPED CONFETTI. DECORATIONS. BALLOONS. BANNERS. ALL HIS FRIENDS ARE THERE. romania. greece. serbia. macedonia. turkey. russia. finland. ukraine. hungary. poland. bosnia. america. the baltics. germany. belarus. the western balkans. all eastern europe. some western europeans. many countries from outside of europe. regions. republics. even tatarstan is there. and bashkiria. and chuvashia. and the horse's grazing in the garden (how tf did they get it here?)
bulgaria's so shocked that his jaw drops and his tears stop flowing.
everyone's stunned and staring at him.
'bulgaria... we just wanted to surprise you...' romania says in a small voice.