City of Norvos

Norvos is a Norvian town located southeast of Lumaire. Founded on July 7th 2021, it began as a logging and mining town but soon evolved into a trading city when the town started seeing more people joining.

The town has no taxes on its citizen, provides everyone with basic iron gear and has got a 0% unemployment rate. Additionally, all citizens have diamond armor and tools making its military noticeably effective.

History
The city was founded on July 7th 2021 by Vistulicus when he thought the taiga could've been a profitable place to set camp. Later people joined him and the small lumbering settlement expanded into a fortified town with big stone walls and many other structures.

On the 11th of July 2021, the third member to join Norvos named "IslandANZAC" was exploring west, and journeyed through a desert meeting a kind person from a town further west, "Ederan". The town offered the Norvian lots of gifts, and soon the Norvian passed this information onto Vistulicus, creating a strong alliance with the town. IslandANZAC and Vistulicus began planning a way to gain independence from GUS (Grand union of Sorligste), who was at that time occupying the land.

The next day Vistulicus was alerted that GUS needed help defeating some insurgents to the west. It was at this time he found out that their allies, "Ederan" were declaring independence from the GUS. These must have been the insurgents that they were referring to. Quickly a plan was formed to turn on the GUS at the battle, and with the help of their allies in Ederan, they would declare independence for themselves. However this didn't happen, because at the battle, the GUS attacked the Ederans before the war was supposed to begin, leading to confusion within the Ederan's ranks and ultimately a loss. However this did not stop IslandANZAC from killing two GUS soldiers who had split up from the rest of their force on the way back.

Soon there was a lot of disruption within Norvos, and an almost civil-war stance as half of Norvos were resentful towards Vistulicus for not leading the Norvians into battle against the GUS soldiers. This ultimately caused a few members to leave with Island and settle elsewhere, but they would come back in the future. A meeting was organised between HighKing_Castie, IslandANZAC and WillAtomic. It was decided that the Norvians that had left Norvos, would support Castie in a rebellion and would place Castie in-charge of Norvos, as Castie was also irritated by Vistulicus's actions but was still in Norvos at the time. Although this also didn't occur because the leadership of the town was given over to HighKing_Castie, as he was the creator of the cities' fortifications.

After the peaceful removal of Vist from leadership, Castie immediatly started claiming land around the town to increase its size and ability to protect itself as some parts of the towns walls were left unclaimed by vist either due to incompetance or to him stealing funds from the town and refusing to pay into any upgrades of the town.

Soon after the build up a new town called Atopolis sprung up and began imediate diplomatic contact with Norvos and Norvos willingly sent them a lend lease of 30 diamonds which to this day still remains to be repaid, the towns first major build up began with a new area of farm land and a giant wall to guard the Northern part of the farm land from bandits and raiders, then a new town was started across the river called Laila which quickly became the towns cultural hub, adding into it a great library and many religious buildings aswell as a grand citidel, the town is currently in the process of becoming a province in a way to secure there land from incursions from Atopolis and other smaller towns

Now Norvos is now getting a province in the Northwest of Sorligste with it's colonies around Norvos. So far Fernandes, Mitaburg, Port Leon, South Endeavour and Argadon have been settled. Also a few Norvians settled the free city of Njardarheimar in the ice archipellago.

On 17/09/2021 Norvos became an independent country after buying it's independence from Tortuga for $200,000.

Culture
Despite not being a culturally rich town and having being founded only recently, the town's members are pretty culturally diverse. The town has its own unique official religion and its citizens aren't all from Sorgliste. Thanks to this the town has developed to be quite tolerant towards other people's culture. Due to it's start as a mining town it's still in the towns nature that the citizens of Norvos voluntarily help the town growing and do mining or production activities to make money. The town doesn't take contractors for hire and most people don't use public storage because they prefer private property with the exception of farms and utilities.

Economy
The Norvian people mine or fish for their money, besides that trees, animals and crops are farmed to sell to other towns. There is no tax, however on 10/09/2021 there was a one day $200 tax to extract some money out of passive members before kicking them from the town. On 09/09/2021 Norvos decided to accept a deal from the emperor of Tortuga, TheSexyCanadian, to buy independence for the entire province for $200,000. They started mining a lot to increase the city balance from the usual $60,000 buffer to $260,000 to have money ready for upkeep and the independence purchase. On 11/09/2021 the Norvian city balance reached $274,000. From now on Norvos will only work with

Religion
The town is secular, allowing all religions. Currently, the Fesdrosian religion has a temple there. There are rumors about another religion starting in Norvos. On the 2nd of September a new religion was founded with the addition of the Benth church in Laila.

Geography and Buildings
Norvos is a town situated on a plains and a taiga biome. It's surrounded by mainly taiga, plains, forests and wooden hills, which makes it the perfect location for a lumber town, though it made defending the town slightly harder on the sides with forests. The city has a dry river running across it and a lake to the west. Further west of the lake there is a large desert that recently has seen some settling by Norvos.

The city is divided into districts, there are 3 small ones and 2 big ones. The small ones are the city center, the lake district and the outer main city. The big ones are the agricultural district and the desert district (or Laila). The outer main city consists of the military district, the trading district and the hobby plot district.

Government and politics
Since Castie became mayor in mid July, the position of mayor never has been an electible position. Norvos was still small at the time he became mayor so he made the people that stayed with Norvos Lord's, a Lord was able to deposit/withdraw money, (un)claim land and invite/kick members to the town. Norvos worked with the positions of Lord Diplomat and Lord Commander. At the start of August, the population started to grow decently with an effective recruitment campaign initiated by a new recruit called Jayant2K. In a week the population had grows from 7 to 16 members and around that time the mayor decided it became time to make Lord diplomat electible and add a new electible position called Lord Trader. The population boom continued and the population reached 25 members a week later so a new electible position called Lord Agriculture was added. When August reached it's end it was time for new elections. The population had reached 56 members at this point in time and a few small towns were settled by Norvians, so a lot of new positions needed to be added.

As of the 27/08/2021 an election was held by Mayor Castie, the election was to decide the town name to NorvosXLaila with a vote of 100% sticking with the old name. For a few minutes the town was "NorvosXLaila", During the event many memes were made in favour of the original name. On 02/09/2021 Mayor Castie held an election about whether the townhall should be moved to the citadel in Laila or the townhall in Norvos should get an upgrade. Once again the people of Norvos voted against their mayor's plans.

Drug Activity
As of the time of updating the wiki, there is only one known supplier of drugs, stinkypoo06 is currently the only drug dealer with decent stock for a new dealer. Currently, the only person who has tested any drugs in Norvos is Noobatorian3301 who tested Meth. Only 3 members know of the current Meth Lab location. Also if reading this, buy drugs from Stinkypoo06 he sells pretty good drugs. With prices so low, it feels like you're getting away with something. There are rumors that the Leon family is running huge drug operations in Norvos.

Conflicts
Currently, no major conflicts have happened apart from a mock war with the neighbouring region of Ato.