Khundu Capitol
Detailed Involvements
Events with rich location context
The 'capitol' is referenced by Bartlet as the place mentioned in his sketchy intelligence briefing; it functions as the originally reported epicenter and as evidence of the administration's limited situational awareness.
Mentioned matter-of-factly, then revealed as underreported — contributing to a mood of informational uncertainty.
Initial intelligence datum and focal point for clarifying the scale of violence.
Signals the gap between official briefings and on-the-ground reality.
Not directly accessible; information filtered through intelligence channels.
Khundu's capital is the geographic referent for the forced‑depletion report; although not onstage, it is the locus of violence and strategic calculation that reframes the Oval Office conversation from ceremony to crisis.
Not depicted visually; inferred as chaotic, violent, and humanitarianly dire based on the report's content.
Battleground and source of humanitarian catastrophe prompting U.S. analysis.
Represents the distant human cost that pierces Washington's rituals, forcing moral consequence into ceremonial planning.
Conflict zone; not directly accessible to the Oval Office actors without policy and operational commitments.
The Khundu Capitol is named as the ultimate objective should the 36‑hour demand fail—it's the political center the 101st is prepared to seize, making abstract threat specific and territorially focused.
Implied as a contested, high‑risk urban target and the seat of regime power.
Military objective and symbolic seat of Nzele's authority.
Represents the regime's core; taking it would be a decisive blow to Nzele's rule and a visible act of regime change.
Contested, likely under control of Nzele's forces prior to any assault.
Events at This Location
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At a White House prayer breakfast Cardinal Patrick leads a solemn invocation for Americans and the victims of erupting violence in Khundu. The ritual is abruptly ruptured when Archbishop Zake …
In the Oval Office Bartlet abruptly changes his mind about which Bible to use for the inauguration, asking Charlie to fetch the Jonathan Edwards Bible from Northampton, Massachusetts — a …
Bartlet vents private fury at procedural delay—sarcastically mocking NEC "scoring hell" and OMB's request for more hours on revenue calculations—while Leo tries to thread domestic political needles (Sam McGarry, the …