As the newborn Republic of Ishgard grows into a world power, it slowly warms it's frosty relationships with the rest of the world. It doesn't mean Ishgard has to like it. Enter the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ('the Foreign Office'), who represents Ishgard to the rest of the world, and represents a chance for Ishgard to move all it's black sheep out of the City. The first major foreign mission, a consulate to Hingashi, is a dramatically underfunded and understaffed plot of land outside Kugane proper with a shoestring for a budget and a deeply disliked reformist as it's leader. While the work these diplomats do is important to the future of Eorzea, the misfits and outcasts of the Cold North struggle to make that point to really anyone but themselves.