Embassy of Monsa, Paradise City

Embassy of the Principality of Monsa, Paradise City
Location	Paradise City, Blackhelm Confederacy
Address	1 Platea Monsa
Ambassador	Lorenzo Batista Gasset

The Embassy of the Principality of Monsa, Paradise City is the diplomatic mission of Monsa in the Blackhelm Confederacy, located within the Palatium Monsa in the Campus Martius section of the city. The embassy is led by ambassador Lorenzo Batista Gasset, who is concurrently accredited to Bungussi,Kwalawi, and Gautenga.

Diana Carolina Monsan Cultural Gallery

The Diana Carolina Monsan Cultural Gallery hosts an array of paintings, sculptures, and other artworks commissioned by the Monsan-born Exponential Empress Diana Carolina, and serves as an important cultural link bonding the histories of Monsa and the Blackhelm Confederacy. The venue currently has more than 100 pieces of art on display, as well as several dresses and other accessories that were once owned by the Empress - particularly items she owned during her younger years while living in Monsa. The Gallery is open to the public most days, except for Sundays and both Blackhelm Confederate and Monsan national holidays.

2002 Anti-LGBT Protests

Main article: 2002 Paradise City Anti-LGBT Protests

Sidestreet view of crowds gathering in the Platea Monsa during the 2002 protests outside the Monsan embassy

The Monsan embassy became the site of violent protests after the Monsan government announced that it would become one of the first in the region to legalize same-sex marriages. At around 12:00 on Dec. 2, just a day after the Monsan government announced their decision, crowds began to gather at the embassy with ringleaders charging that the Monsan government was ushering in a new era of debauchery, and many attempted to gain access to the structure.

Members of the Carabiniers of Monsa, who were employed as security at the embassy, swiftly moved to meet the protesters armed with riot shields and tear gas, and fighting broke out at approximately 13:45. During the ensuing clash, several protestors were injured but the Caribiniers were able to maintain their positions outside the embassy. Local Paradise City Police responded to the situation within minutes after the crowd's gathering, but were unable to get to the embassy due to the mob occupying the surrounding streets, and with the crowds being relatively peaceful for the first hour of the gathering opted not to engage in order to maintain the peace.

At roughly 14:05 officers finally began to do battle with the crowd after realizing that protestors were engaged with Monsan security. The charge by the policed confined the mob between them and the Monsan Carabiniers, and many crowd members decided to break into the buildings around the platea and stores along the surrounding streets in an attempt to escape the tear gas and clubs of the officers. After nearly an hour of street fighting, organizers of the crowd managed to pull together enough individuals to charge the line of Paradise City police officers at the north end of Via Marius VIII, causing the heaviest fighting of the day. In total, two protestors were killed and dozens of officers and protestors were injured in the melee that followed.

By the nightfall, the police had apprehended hundreds of individuals in connection to the riot, and several million dollars in damage was done to the high-end shops along the street where the riot took place.

See also

• List of diplomatic missions and trade organizations in Paradise City