Republic of Aristios

The Republic of Aristios was the successor nation of the Commonwealth of Aristios, formed after the conclusion of the Aristii Civil War.

Background
After the civil war Aristios became a constitutional monarchy with Inverse as its Emperor. Half of its population was lost and a few provinces had ceded. There was huge distrust between the citizens at the start. During the civil war, Astrya, now known as Azad, as well as Abaddon and Vento seceded. Otto was relegated to a three day Chancellorship to help transition the nation and Inverse was the new Emperor.

Echo's first term
Even early on a certain tension between pro-empire and pro-Republic factions formed. Otto Olea was banished from Aristios due to a law being passed that banished players banned from the Stoneworks Minecraft Server, this law had been criticised by the pro-empire faction for being targeted at Otto. The first open democratic election of the Republic were held for the first Chancellor which Echo Regis won with only ~26% of the vote. The election had many candidates due to no political parties and not many established factions being formed at this point. During this time Aristios had to recoup their losses from the civil war. People moved away from large cities such as Lakial and Oleapolis. The province of Castellum which had been gaining traction ever since the late empire gained a huge population surge, becoming the highest populated province in Aristios, forming more than half the total population of the nation in its first two internal census, with around 35 and 37 citizens those 2 months.

Echo's second term
Chancellor Echo Regis announced his plans to run for a second term after realizing that he was only remembered as the Chancellor who was in power when a catgirl mascot was created. Azreil Myrilay also intended to run again as he was the candidate with the second highest amount of votes from the last election, and he claimed that Echo did not fulfill his promises as Chancellor. In this election, Echo represented the Aristii Social-Liberalist Union and Azreil represented Chrysos Aetos, opposing parties. Echo ended up winning with a 59.1% majority. The first notable change in his second term was the implementation of a new flag for Aristios (however the bill for the replacement was passed in the last term) replacing Purple with Red and the Double-headed Eagle with a Hibiscus flower whilst at the same time, the building of a new capital city district, Novapolis began.

Collapse of Azad and Abbadon
After a territory dispute between Azad and Aristios, Azad sent a small force to an Aristii Fortress. After losing this battle the Azadian government collapsed, with Aristios claiming their land and reforming the province of Astrya.

Shortly after this event, the Azardom of Abbadon decided to move, seceding their land to Aristios who then gave a chunk of Abbadon. After this Aristios granted a piece of land from area to Xemalatau who were promised an Eldham Colony by Abbadon.

Castellum Expansion act
On one fateful day, a bill was passed in the senate that gave the land of West Astillia to the province of Castellum. This bill was not announced to the public but when it was discovered, the citizens of Astillia were distraught. The borders between the provinces had been the same since Voclaria-Transcardia joined the Empire. After seeing the outcry, the new governor of Castellum at the time, Logui Fielinya Olmero, reached out to the governor of Astillia to find a compromise between the two provinces. Governor Murdius Gerrat-Olea returned to the province council with the proposed borders of Logui and approved it unanimously. The area agreed upon expanded the pre-act Castellum borders up to the new city of Valkorius and after consultation with the mayor of Corinthia, the other new city decided to join Astillia. This proposal was later on approved by the Senate. After the incident, relations between the two provinces went back to being friendly rivals again.

Echo's third term
The third Chancellor election was rife with controversy. Both Echo and Azreil intended to run again but a third candidate was running also for Chrysos Aetos: Wize Nifty Olea. However Wize would not be in the race for long due to a registration scandal. It was discovered that Wize had illegally approved the registration of a number of voters. The Minister of Judgement, Z, immediately cracked down and told him "Step down or there will be consequences". Wize argued in his defense claiming that it wasnt an offense big enough to kick him, and accused Z of corruption because it was clear Wize would win (in his opinion despite losing the Chancellor race). Echo ended up winning the election with a 59.1% Majority.

Trial of Murdius en Gerrat-Olea
It was discovered that Otto Olea was not banned from the Chrysos Aetos party's discord implying treason from the party's leader; Murdius Gerrat-Olea. This trial was a big event with most of Aristios knowing about it. The prosecution was made up of Aristii government officials whilst Murdius was defended by Hunter Reese who managed to get Murdius acquitted of most charges yet he was still found guilty of corruption and was restricted from Government.

Yurkian Resistance
However the government was unaware Murdius's supposed dissent and the registration scandal were connected events when Triumvir Draphonaris of The Zamotz Union was invited to a meeting between Murdius, Wize, and the first Emperor of Aristios, Zar en Olea. Draphonaris quickly noticed that the Oleas were planning actions to reform the empire. Draphonaris reported this to the Republic who promptly removed all parties from Government.

Between this and Wize's scandal, the People of Yurki, who were extremely loyal to Wize and isolated from mainland Aristios, caused dissent and rioted in the streets against Aristii loyalists in the lands. The Aristii Senate decided to evict the province from the Republic, leaving Yurki as an independent state. The Republic leadership requested major powers to invade Yurki to destory the final Olea loyalists. Astyllea, Ozeanburg, and O'Block soon invaded. The battle was swift with enemies storming the island of Sybada leaving the main island now abandoned and under Astyellan rule.

Zar en Olea had grown old at this point. Once the Republic soldiers tried to arrest him his students fought back. After realizing what his homeland had turned it he escaped and instead of facing the courts went to the Oleapolis Public Forum, a place he had built and was the home of philosophy and a massive archive of both Imperial and Republican document and he burned the forum down and himself with it. This was a massive blow to Aristii historians and philosophers leaving the past blurry. However a new forum began construction in Novapolis which was rebuilt by the Republican historians.

Murdius fled to Serrona in Eldham and founded Exousía with the capital city being New Sybada but this quickly collapsed due to both a civil war and their client state being annexed by the Vulperium and where then vassalised by Vulperium. It is also believed the Wize fled to the Soleannan Imperium and was named Duke of Reykara.

Logui's First Term
In an election noted by the retirement of both Echo and his eternal rival Azriel from politics leaving Logui to run for ASLU and Iron Occida to run for the new Republican Capitalist Party as Chrysos Aetos had been entirely disbanded with the Repubican members of the party forming the RCP and the Monarchists and Conservatives forming the Imperial Nationalist Party. It is notable that Iron had a disdain for parties and switched from Chrysos to ASLU (pre the false coup) and then to the RCP to run for Chancellor. After this election party membership was then no longer made mandatory for Chancellor or Senatorship.