Republic of Equatorial Khundu

Via crisis reports and casualty projections presented to the President; its suffering is the moral pressure behind the Oval exchange.

Sovereign territory experiencing internal collapse and violence, whose instability constrains and pressures external actors like the U.S.

Highlights structural asymmetries in global response capacity and forces the White House to reconcile moral rhetoric with operational risk.

Fragmented internal authority and violent factionalism implied; this fragmentation directly informs the report's cautionary conclusions.

Via the forced‑depletion report's subject matter and Bartlet's verbal summary of the situation.

A weak state whose internal violence invites external scrutiny and potential intervention, while lacking the capacity to resolve the crisis alone.

Khundu's crisis exposes international inequalities and tests the administration's willingness to convert moral outrage into costly action.

Implied ethnic/paramilitary conflict and governance failure that constrain possible policy responses.