Miningboy

Minir G. Boyt, (IGN: Miningboy_12), or simply known as Miningboy, is a Montroigian miner, pollster, and politician who served as the 3rd Minister of Justice of Montroig and 6th Guardian of Montroig as well as the founder and owner of Mini-Pollsters. Miningboy currently serves as the 8th Minister of Culture of Montroig.

Early Life
The birthdate and age of Miningboy are unknown. It is however known that Miningboy was born to two forced miners, hence the name Minir. It is also known that his developmental experience at the bottom of the hierarchy helped shape his reformist views and his disdain for abuse of authority.

Notability in Montroig
It is unknown when Miningboy entered Montroig or if he was there the entire time just underground. Miningboy first started participating in Montroig’s government during Caterina's first term as Guardian of Montroig. Since then he has become one of the most well known members of Montroig inside the nation and outside of it as well.

Opposition to the Socialist Trajectory Act
Miningboy was a prominent member of those opposed to the Socialist Trajectory Act. Miningboy believed the act went against the democratic principles of Montroig and would tip Montroig to bias Socialist immigrants and would kill political opposition. What infuriated Miningboy more was the fact that the at-the-time Guardian Caterina acknowledged these flaws and were fine with them, which Miningboy believed was an admission of her trying to take power through the SMP. He along with other opposition members helped stall congress for over an hour on the single bill.

First Run for Guardian
Miningboy ran for Guardian as an independent on June 2, 2021 against Caterina, Zimbel, DasJafss, and Kiwi. Miningboy at first attempted to build a coalition with all non-SMP parties to help defeat Caterina after the Socialist Trajectory Act and her passive aggressively berating a child to change a bill that would remove her from holding two seats. The coalition ended up falling apart before it could be fully formed so he ran as an independent. Miningboy ran on a platform of constitutional reform, electoral reform, and anti-corruption; all were problems plaguing Montroig at the time. Miningboy ended up losing this election by a sizable margin.

Reform as a Private-Citizen
Despite losing the election, Miningboy did not stop from pushing his agenda. During this time Miningboy became the most prolific legal writer in Montroig and added dozens of pages to Montroig’s Constitution and legal code. These laws and amendments guaranteed secret ballots, ended voter intimidation, and removed abuse of power by banning elected officials from holding two seats. Most notably out of these was the Reformed Constitutional Reform Amendment, which fixed many flaws in Montroig’s Constitution and had notable additions of the position of Vice-Guardian and the ability for there to be Minister appointments and snap elections. It was also well known as it was the longest document to be proposed in Montroig’s history.

Second Run for Guardian
Following Caterina’s resignation of the Guardianship after becoming Empress of Uldarash, Caterina declared a snap election. The path of succession from the Guardianship was established with the Reformed Constitutional Reform Amendment, but it only took effect after the election. Miningboy ran for Guardian in this election as an independent on June 19, 2021 against Prot and JosephioStalin. Miningboy ran on a platform of social programs and innovative banking and trade programs. During this campaign Miningboy was contacted by the Jacobin club to make a quid pro quo deal, which Miningboy responded with a non-answer and never accepted, believing it to be a corrupt bargain. Prot ended up winning the election after Miningboy was eliminated in the first round by one vote. Miningboy was content with the election as he saw Prot’s ascendency to the Guardianship as the end of far-left power-abusing politics in Montroig.

Third Run for Guardian
Since Prot only took over for the rest of Caterina’s term, a new election for Guardian was held shortly afterward. Miningboy ran in this election as an independent on July 1, 2021 against Tuka and ArcadianSheep. Tuka dropped out after being exposed by Miningboy for corruption and voter intimidation and endorsed Arcadian, likely out of spite against Miningboy. Miningboy ran on mostly the same platform as his last campaign and joined Arcadian in opposition to the Montroig-Chevkri Union Constitution. Arcadian won this election in a landslide. Miningboy would later admit that he didn’t put much of a focus in campaigning as he saw Arcadian as like minded at the time.

Minister of Justice
After Arcadian became Guardian he appointed Miningboy as Minister of Justice. Miningboy’s tenure as Minister of Justice didn’t see much at the time. The most notable occurrence in his tenure was the Kiwi’s judicial review case on the Free Labor Bill. Despite personal opposition, Miningboy informed the judge, Macaroknee, of both sides of the argument and allowed others to speak not allowing his opinion to be inserted. The case saw the temporary removal of the Free Labor Bill until it was constitutionally passed shortly afterward in the next congress. Miningboy won the snap election for Minister of Justice, which was uncontested, and lost re-election to Legal, which Miningboy attested to Legal’s spam of meme adverts blocking all other candidates from campaigning.

Montroig-Chevkri Union
After Arcadian became Guardian he appointed Miningboy as being in charge of drafting a new Montroig-Chevkri Union Constitution. Miningboy created the Montroig-Chevkri Union Constitutional Convention, where he held multiple votes on what to have in the constitution. After writing the final draft of the constitution Miningboy sent it to the Guardian Arcadian, seeking his approval as he felt it was necessary for its passing. Arcadian proceeded to never read it, despite how many times he said he would, leading to a rift between Miningboy and Arcadian. Seeing interest dying the Montroig-Chevkri Union after Arcadian’s inaction Miningboy then contact Buck to hold a poll in Montroig to gauge if there was still interest in the Montroig-Chevkri Union, so he could tell if the constitution would pass without Arcadian’s approval. Buck refused to hold any of these polls no matter how many times he was asked, likely due to his vested interest in his Communist Constitution for the Montroig-Chevkri Union that he wrote without the knowledge of the majority of people in both Montroig and Chevkri. Miningboy then asked Prot to host the poll, to which he obliged. The poll showed that the Montroig-Chekri Union no longer had enough supporters to pass any constitution and Miningboy terminated the convention and any attempts to pass his constitution as a result.

Return to a Private-Citizen
Out of office, Miningboy wrote more laws to help make Montroig more accessible as well as creating and promoting the system of ranked choice voting that is currently seen throughout Stoneworks for Montroig. Miningboy considers this formation of ranked choice his greatest contribution to both Rathnir and Eldham. His time out of office saw the divide between him and Arcadian grow as he felt Arcadian’s general inaction in office was poisoning Montroig and blamed it for the rise of numerous crises.

Fourth Run for Guardian
Seeing Montroig falling apart under Arcadian, Miningboy had made clear his intention to run against him who he deemed was, “More focused on banning birch trees than actually running the nation.” Miningboy ran for the Guardianship as an independent on July 28, 2021 against Arcadian and DimitrisDuchos. Miningboy ran on the promises from his previous campaigns as well as promises to tackle the new crises plaguing Montroig, especially the housing crisis. Miningboy also felt the obligation to expose DimitrisDuchos’ attempted Jacobin Club backroom deal and did so. Miningboy’s campaign also saw the first declaration of Vice-Guardian on a ticket, Legal. Following this Arcadian declared Dutchy, a relatively new player, to be Vice-Guardian. The day the election was posted, Miningboy and Arcadian got into a heated argument that both parties felt was too harsh and ineffective. Another notable event was Arcadian bailing on the congress that occurred during the election, leaving Miningboy to lead it. Miningboy lost this election in a semi-close vote. This campaign is also notable for featuring the first legitimate Stoneworks campaign video.

First Attempted Impeachment of Arcadian
On August 3, 2021, Arcadian muted JFK, along with Anomalous Crow and Mayoreo in the Montroig Discord after a player discovered that the @everyone ping was allowed for some non-admin users. The resulting spam led to chaos. JFK then drafted articles of impeachment since he unjustly had his rights taken away. Miningboy seeing this decided to compile a list of other legal and constitutional violations including Anomalous Crow’s muting. Most notable of these were the pointing out of the illegal discrepancies in the Guardian election that went to favor Arcadian. Whilst JFK withdrew his articles of impeachment, Miningboy kept his. Arcadian responded by saying it was unjustified, but Miningboy pointed out that the vote was only to hold a trial to help the citizens see if he was guilty, not to impeach him immediately. The congress where it was presented saw Arcadian struggle to refute the charges and backed into mostly responding to them with “I didn’t know that wasn’t allowed” or “That would have been too much work”. The vote on the procedural step ultimately failed.

Second Attempted Removal of Arcadian
On August 13, 2021, Arcadian posted the votes on his own impeachment. Miningboy, worried about the potential abuse of power from Arcadian, started asking people he was certain voted for the procedural step if they would share their votes to him. The results showed that Arcadian had in-fact tampered with the vote to make himself look better. The amendment for his immediate removal was drafted and went around Montroig and achieved many signatures behind it. Arcadian however went completely inactive during this, making his removal pointless. The amendment was never put up to vote.

Shadow Guardian
Arcadian’s inactivity for the rest of his term, put the responsibilities of Guardian on their Vice-Guardian, Dutchy. Dutchy, unable to vc and inexperienced in Montroig politics, relied heavily on Miningboy to run the nation. Miningboy willingly took this responsibility and started leading congresses and creating votes for Dutchy to post as well as counting elections for them. Despite Dutchy’s and Miningboy’s best effort, the inactivity of Arcadian was dragging activity in Montroig to an all time low, with congresses only having 3-5 people participating in them.

Fifth Run for Guardian
Miningboy again ran for Guardian as an independent on June 2, 2021 against JFK, Agapitikos, Buck, Fael, and Legal. This election was the most crowded in Montroig’s history. Miningboy ran on a campaign of everything he had promised prior as well as new promises to find better ways to fundraise to help reduce taxes, a problem at the time that was kicking new citizens out of Montroig. Because of Arcadian’s absence, Miningboy was forced to organize the Guardian debate. This debate is considered to be the deciding factor for many undecided voters to vote for Miningboy. A notable moment in this debate was mid-way through, Miningboy donating 50,000 into Terroja to prevent its imminent disbanding due to low funds. Miningboy ended up winning this election by one vote in the final round. Empress Caterina however illegally obtained access to the election form and immediately attempted to delegitimize Miningboy’s victory through voter intimidation.

First Term as Guardian
Upon taking office, Miningboy immediately opened up applications for government positions, opened up his long promised loan program, as well as did everything Arcadian refused to do, such as make a government schedule and hosted some additional votes. Miningboy saw the nomination of two judges and a Vice-Guardian, marking the first time in months since Montroig has had a full government. Miningboy saw the creation of the first commission, the independence commission, which was to explore potential plans for Montrogian independence.

Miningboy’s term saw the end of the housing crisis, the end of the bankruptcy crisis, and the end of the then-current inactivity crisis. It saw the first tied election in Montroig’s history and saw Montroig declare war against vampires after they blotted out the sun. It also saw another independence referendum take place, which ultimately failed. Miningboy also attempted to create trade deals, but they ultimately fell apart at the start over Miningboy attempting to implement a minimum wage to signatory nations in the infamous, “what is this supposed to mean? I have to pay people? I’m socialist and even I think this is wack” response. Both the attempted trade deal and independence referendum would come to haunt Miningboy.

Scandals
Miningboy was set against the dominant political regime in Montroig and thus had a lot to struggle against to achieve anything as Guardian. This led to a lot of friction between him and other members of government, which made simple maneuvers an extreme hassle that would be twisted to smear him later.

One example of this was the faux-admin situation, in which Miningboy would give fake admin roles to Caterina and Arcadian with all the perms of admins except the ability to view the #real-admin-chat channel, which just posted gifs of obama, and the independence commission channels. He publicly stated that he did this, after being exposed, because he feared that they, having motives against the commission, would use the information against it or otherwise leak it to Uldarash. Privately Miningboy also did this since Arcadian was inactive as an admin and Caterina had refused to ban a previous player for rampant toxicity, sexism, x-ray hacks, and leaking of dm’s, for unknown reasons, but Miningboy believed it was because of this player's opposition to Miningboy. Caterina only supported the banning of this player after they expressed their homophobia, which is something that personally targets Caterina. Miningboy seeing the double-standard deemed Caterina unsuitable to be admin.

Another example was the Serradenue land sale scandal. Miningboy, upon being offered a large sum of money for unused and unclaimed land in Serradenue for a market, sold it. Miningboy saw this deal as a win-win as it would bring players to Serradenue, develop unused land, and make Montroig richer. Other leaders in Montroig agreed with this decision at the time including Empress Caterina. However, Arcadian had secretly agreed to merge Serradenue with the neighboring nation of Illystra, which brought the sale into dispute.

One other example was the Foubrac incident. In an attempt to promote fiscal responsibility, Miningboy made a log of spending that was revealed at the end of a month. Whilst the spending went mostly fine, Foubrac, the then-Minister of Defense forgot to announce their money was put into Montroig, or they just didn’t. The end result was it looked like Foubrac was spending a large chunk of Montroig's funds on undisclosed military supplies, which he may have been doing. Foubrac, unable to accept responsibility, ranted against Miningboy and blamed him for his own misdoings. One last scandal was the ownership handovers. This scandal is actually surrounding Arcadian and Empress Caterina, not Miningboy. Despite repeated attempts to gain ownership over Terroja since he was Guardian, Arcadian ultimately refused or delayed handing it over to the point that Miningboy never got ownership. Caterina also initially refused and then delayed the handover of Serradenue to Miningboy or Prot, who both wanted to help repopulate the town, to the point where Caterina held it until the end of the Miningboy Guardianship.

Run for Re-election
Miningboy ran for re-election as Guardian as an independent on September 27, 2021 against Badue, Mayorea, Buck, and Dutchy. This election is known for backroom politics and Buck’s smear campaign. The backroom politics occurred when Buck had made personal promises and nominations to other parties to gain their support, while Miningboy maintained his independence from parties. Buck’s smear campaign came out as a response to Miningboy pointing out Buck’s genocide denial regarding the Holodomor, which Miningboy was called out for “going to far”. Miningboy still holds it was the right thing to do and believes he should have also reported Buck for violation of the Stoneworks ToS. Buck’s smear campaign ultimately ended after Miningboy stated that he was done with spending time refuting the constant slander thrown at him and would rather spend the time offline. Miningboy won this election in the final round by one vote.

Another point of controversy during this election was the voter registration act, which was a bill agreed on by both Buck and Miningboy to create greater election security in response to the rampant shady votes in the independence vote. Many citizens in opposition to Miningboy saw this as an attempt for Miningboy to rig the election, despite the fact it was agreed on by the two leading candidates, and that it ended up hurting Miningboy.

Second Term as Guardian and Trial
Miningboy attempted to continue his first term policies, however on October 5th, the day after his re-election, a judicial petition was started in the Second Empire of Uldarash to prosecute Miningboy and JFK. Miningboy was petitioned for the following charges, none of which were written law: Miningboy chose CoCo as a lawyer due to being busy from irl events. Miningboy pleaded innocent to the crimes as no evidence was presented until the deadline to submit evidence had passed, preventing Miningboy from building a case against it or even knowing anything he could have done wrong. The evidence presented by the prosecution for the trial was a single edited clip of Miningboy mis-speaking out of context in response to slander by Empress Caterina during the independence vote that happened during his first term. The case then went on to propose the trade deal attempted by Miningboy was actually code for secret alliances. Miningboy dismissed this as a conspiracy. There was no evidence supporting the other charges, and Miningboy had solid evidence disproving any claims from the prosecution. Although Miningboy was hopeful the court would see the truth, he understood the unlikeliness of it based on the Judge’s statements before the trial prematurely pronouncing him guilty.

In the court ruling, Miningboy was acquitted of all charges except the “Pizza Gate-esque one”, to which he was exiled. Miningboy maintained his innocence and stated that the whole event was a “clear show trial”. Empress Caterina immediately talked to Miningboy and stated that he didn’t want Miningboy’s exile, implying that he only wanted Miningboy’s removal from office. Caterina has since moved to saying that Miningboy was innocent.

Miningboy saw the whole event as a conspiracy against him. He saw Aurora’s participation in slandering him as them attempting to silence Miningboy for his questioning of Uldarashi war policy and strongly pro-democratic activism. He saw Caterina’s participation as her attempting to have him removed for defeating candidates from the SMP, the party Caterina leads, twice in elections. He saw the judge’s participation as revenge for him removing her seat as a voting member of the high council after Miningboy revised her draft that included it.

Miningboy's Actions
After Miningboy was exiled, he held that he could not be removed because of conflict in jurisdiction. Miningboy relented power to Ics_de and eventually resigned to clear up any question of power, believing the stability of Montroig more important than his office. Miningboy ended up going into hiding out of fear of potential assassination as after the trial he had become a martyr for the pro-democratic and reformer groups within Uldarash, as well as becoming a central figure for Montroig for the independence movement. Mininingboy made a slight return after the start of the Uldarashi Civil War, but went into hiding again shortly afterward. Miningboy still maintains his innocence to this day.

Effect of Exile
Shortly after the ruling, Miningboy got into a long call with Argon Retter regarding how flawed the trial was and ended up becoming friends with him. This would lead to Argon renouncing his Auroran loyalties and aligning with Montroig. Opinions regarding Miningboy’s trial also drove the first wedge between the constituent nations of Uldarash that would lead to the Uldarashi Schism and the Uldarashi Civil War.

Return
Shortly after the dissolution of Uldarash, the rise of the tyrant Cynthia, and Montroig’s entry into the Union of Haven, Miningboy returned from hiding, finding out he had been deemed Montroig’s best conservative, despite not being a conservative. Miningboy seeing the horrible bashing of Montroig’s government during his absence, deemed that he must attempt to fix it. Miningboy would then run for Minister of Culture against Fael and Lapis. Miningboy ran on a platform with the notable inclusions of the restart of the Weekly Dawn and the construction of an amusement park. Miningboy won 100% of the first round votes and holds the office currently.

Political Positions
Miningboy took to a liberal political position, but was often considered a conservative by the SMP and its members, either through misinterpretation of policy or malice. Miningboy believes in a rather pacifistic foreign policy, believing most wars in Stoneworks to be unjust, but he also believes in intervention to help defend non-authoritarian democracies throughout Stoneworks. Miningboy believes in a free market economy in a mix of ordoliberal and social democratic regulation and welfare. Miningboy was ultimately pragmatic and would often compromise on his views to see any of them partially enacted. Miningboy also held disdain for the judge Matt, who he felt would let personal bias guide his decisions instead of constitutional interpretation.

Military Service
Miningboy served in the Akratian War on the side of Montroig and Uldarash. Shortly afterward he was inducted into the Uldarashi military because of passing training and his previous service. Miningboy was removed from the military role in what was likely an attempt to purge inactive players, but was never given the role back, despite being active and asking, which was likely never read. During the Allium-Coalition War Miningboy participated in an intelligence role, leaking the plans of Bardonia while the battle was going on. His information helped shorten the Battle of New Dorasterrock by exposing Bardonian espionage attempts and documented fortified Bardonian positions.

Legal Career
Miningboy was appointed prosecutor by Arcadian and served as the prosecutor in two cases. One regarding Badue, the other pigmelon. Miningboy won both these cases.