1984 Seafaring Confederation-United States Conflict

The 1984 Seafaring Confederation-United States Conflict was an international diplomatic conflict between the Seafaring Confederation and the after the capture and subsequent execution of six agents of the  caught spying on Rockallic government members and employees. The conflict saw the U.S. and the Seafaring Confederation and its member states call back their respective embassadors and high representatives, and caused a long freeze in diplomatic relations between the two entities.

The crisis was resolved in January 1985 after the signing of the Treaty of An Bhá nan Éirith Ghréine, which set out that both parties would call back their spies and intelligence agents in each other's countries, and that from that point on the CIA and the SCISS would cooperate more strongly. The government of the Seafaring Confederation pardoned the remaining 18 caught American spies and returned them to the United States; the U.S. had not caught any of the Seafaring spies, who returned to the Seafaring Confederation and were deployed elsewhere.

The conflict still resonates in the present relationship between the two entities, which is often described as "distant" and "reluctant".