The Regional Office, Thetford
Over the course of the next couple of weeks, Ragnar was stuck in the mud of administrative hell.
Conquering East Anglia had been the easy part. The physics of the "God Hammer" and the chemistry of napalm were predictable. People, however, were messy variables.
Ragnar was tasked with incorporating the entire kingdom of East Anglia into the Jernheim Corporate structure. He had to go through the necessary procedures to declare Guthrum as the "Regional Manager", while simultaneously managing the harvest of 200,000 acres of newly acquired farmland.
Word quickly spread of Ragnar's rapid "hostile takeover" of the neighboring kingdom. The other Saxon Kings of Wessex and Mercia were left scratching their heads, wondering how a Viking industrialist had managed to force the Great Heathen Army of East Anglia to surrender in under twenty-four hours.
