Burgamere

The United Burgamerian Socialist Republic, commonly reffered to as the "UBSR" or just "Burgamere," is a nation located in central Sparwood, currently in its fifth incarnation. It was founded by General Secretary Travis, and is currently led by Commissar of Councils E_WM and General Secretary Anon, who decides foreign affairs and important domestic issues.

Location
The UBSR is located almost entirely within the tundras of Sparwood. It was founded on the Zios river.

Spears of Duragrad
The Spears of Duragrad refer to the Ice Spikes biome situated in the western part of Duragrad. The complex and sinuous formations made of Blue Ice can often look like faces or phallic objects, depending on the angle. The unexpected cutting of the terrain due to these formations makes venturing through the area difficult, although humorous at times.

The Spears are a cultural symbol for citizens; It's a great instance of how the cold climate of Burgamere is sharp, dangerous and unforgiving, but also beautiful and worth protecting. Extracting any packed ice from the spikes requires a formal requisition to the state, and rules for preservation were strictly enforced, although in recent times tourists have taken a toll on them.

Red Spears
The Red Spears are ice spikes, similar to the Spears of Duragrad, around the city of Voskovy and close to Certaria, though the spikes are older than the city of Voskovy itself. The cause of their redness is variously speculated as either natural or unnatural, but no view has proven dominant.

Southern Coast
One of the most historically continuous features of the UBSR is the Southern coast, which the UBSR has controlled for most of it history. As a result, it is one of the most developed areas of the UBSR, holding towns such as Redspire, Cinnaburg, Vladingrad, and Denizstan.

Original Founding
The predecessor to the UBSR was a small mining outpost founded by General Secretary Travis as part of an empire now unknown to historians. The mining operation quickly grew in scale, owing to the rich iron deposits in the Sparwood plains, and soon a small town was established near the mine to house the growing population. The town was largely lawless, and, as such, the colony attracted rebels looking to escape harsh laws imposed by the colony's controlling empire. This influx contributed to a significant anti-imperialist culture in the town and its surrounding areas.

The Great Cataclysm
As a result of the lack of safety regulations in the iron mine, a build-up of highly flammable gas in the lower chambers of the mines contributed to a disastrous ignition called the Great Cataclysm. The explosion destroyed the mine and most of the surrounding town, severely damaging buildings such as hospitals and schools, along with necessary mining equipment. After survivors began showing early signs of radiation poisoning, the town was eventually deemed unsafe for continuous habitation. This led the survivors to immigrate south in search of a new settlement location.

A New Age
The survivors of the Great Cataclysm eventually bound together, starting an emergency settlement to the south on the shores of a frozen-over river. With the sub-zero temperatures and the high winds of the icy wastes, living conditions were deplorable, leading Travis to call upon the remaining miners to dig a giant hole for shelter using the salvaged mining equipment the townsfolk had saved. A city was constructed in the excavated space with enough room for an industry that provided enough heat to keep the city warm. The settlement was promptly named Duragrad after the strained durability of its inhabitants, and thus the UBSR had its first settlement. To keep order among the fragile populace and to preserve them in the face of scarce resources, where strict distribution methods were needed, totalitarian socialism was instituted in the brand new state that was the first United Burgamerian Socialist Republic.

Egalitarian Commonwealth of Palaris
Due to the Marleybone Dispute, in which Kaniroo, also known as Gamersgaming, planned to secede a town from the UBSR, so, in an effort to increase the autonomy of its member states while being more democratic, General Secretary Travis decided to reform the UBSR by decentralizing into the Egalitarian Commonwealth of Palaris. The new nation promised to uphold its values of peaceful cooperation and equality for all.

Trillium War
The Commonwealth of Palaris sided with the Trillium Alliance during the coalition war, which helped the Escharians to achieve victory over the invading Audalidae in their defense of Sparwood.

The Yellow Terror
After the announcement of the Bardonian World Conquest, Palaris and her allies rallied together in one of the Bardonian cities. The alliance blew up walls, houses, and historic sites among many other things. In retaliation for this act, the leader of Bardonia created a paramilitary organization made of former Bardonian senators and soldiers to systematically colonialize Palaris and destroy all her cities.

This conflict was one of the destructive in the UBSR's history, leaving the cities of Marleybone, Jamestown, Duragrad, among others almost completely wiped off the map in a period of only a few weeks. The population of Palaris flopped to half a dozen men. The city of Marleybone was the biggest city being impacted impacted, with 19 people in it leaving Rathnir, leaving only one behind. Despite the devastation, the conflict ultimately came to an end when international intervention from neighboring nations put pressure on the warring factions to come to a ceasefire.

Creation of the Second UBSR
On a cold March evening, rebel factions of Palaris, along with some friends from other nations, took hold of a small plot of land outside of the rebuilding capital Duragrad and prepared to march. The people of Palaris swiftly listened to the UBSR Forces and gave leadership of Palaris to Kaniroo. He quickly reformed the nation back into the UBSR, couping the previous leader, CommieCon, in just two hours.

Over the course of the next days Gamersgaming got in contact with local squatters within the UBSR's territory, integrating them back into the UBSR as new districts in an attempt to help expand the nation's population, industrial, and economic capabilities. This move was widely successful, and set the UBSR on a path of prosperity, leading to a prolonged period of peace and stability within the country.

Elections
After weeks of deteriorating health conditions and the unstable cognitive condition of General Secretary Kaniroo, a new General Secretary was voted upon. After weeks of voting and debate within the supreme halls of the cities and the cold outback of UBSR, a new leader of UBSR was chosen, Lpreston. Under his new leadership he promised a strong military and more active playerbase within the region of Sparwood. After this election, Kaniroo was found on the floor of his apartment convulsing, with blue liquid coming out of his orephuses. He was subsequently moved to Marleybone to be examined and hopefully cured.

Military reforms under Lpreston
As promised, Lpreston called for a military overhaul to rid the Union of these issues. Chosen by the population, new leaders of the offensive and defensive military branches were voted on and more training took place. The previous leader of both military branches, Sinkez, was also impeached and removed from his position due to inactivity and he was replaced by Soodiez, dubbed the Red General. Soodiez formed the more decentralised and democratic Army Council. Feroner led the offensive army, Bulungus led the defensive army, while FigurativeGarbage ran checks on the state of the army's supply in every town.

The June impeachment
In June, an investigation was started on LPreston, which found him spending half the federal budget on personal islands, bribing people to vote for him in his original elections, fraudulently creating conflict between the UBSRs neighbors and the UBSR before he took up General Secretary, and embezzling 500k worth of government money for personal belongings. Of this 500k worth of stolen assets, only 200k was ever recovered. LPreston was quickly impeached and the Politburo, led rather by Ambit Skinhub, took over as the leading force within the UBSR for the time being. Due to his sudden impeachment, many new political parties came to capitalize on the instability, including the Direct Worker's Party (DWP) and the Political Reform Party (PRP). All of these parties wanted more democracy in the UBSR. Despite the PRP winning elections, this goal was never actually realized.

Late-June Revival
With the server down, along with their industrial output slowing down, The UBSR faced a period of stagnation. After about two weeks of this, a political boom occurred, with many new industrial plans being developed to revive the nation. The UBSR continued to expand its territories, gaining significant population growth due to the large amount of immigration and natural growth.

Certaria Massacre
In early July, the user Viewed declared war on the fortress city of Certaria for apparently no reason. (She claimed that one of the citizens there said she didn't have thick thighs.) This situation started as a raid on Certaria, with Viewed agreeing to drop the war in return for cartography work and maps of the area, along an apology written by the perpetrator. Despite this deal, the citizenry of the UBSR were already whipped up into a frenzy, delivering rabid attacks on any Hand or Hand affiliated individual who they could find. Outside of Shellport, the UBSR didn't have the resources to deploy an army, with only humble untrained and underequipped builders and farmers left to defend the city, with not even a trained regiment from Shellport being able to carry the day. Kaniroo, now the SRDA and CSS representative, never informed the UBSRs allies of the attack, which left only the skeleton crew to defend the town. Wanting peace and not being able to fight the Hands, the Second UBSR decided joined Viodoxa as an autonomous province, benefitting from the peace to reorganize.

Third UBSR
The Union joined Viodoxa as one autonomous republic. due to the spying of the Southern Coalition, it was soon figured out that Bardonia and her allies were planning to invade most of the south. In return, the coalition diplomatically blew up their plans, beginning a large drive to stockpile men and gear.

Soon afterwards, an attack on Bardonia's cities was engaged, with a pre-emptive strike on Bardonia herself in the battle of New Dorrasterock, which many Burgamerian soldiers fought in. This caused the empire to fall. With the threat of Bardonia gone, the UBSR declared herself sovereign oncemore, creating the Third UBSR. Now with the threat of Bardonia being gone, and leaving Viodoxa, the UBSR was left alone as the second most populated nation in Rathnir, according to the 2021 July Census.

In mid-August the nation of UBSR began one of the largest recruiting sprees in the East, gaining 10 to 20 followers a day. Currently the districts of Burgamere, Charon, and Seraphim have been the greatest beneficiaries from the recruting spree due to them being focused on the most.

New territories
After a population boom due to immigration and natural population growth under the leadership of General Secretary Travis, the Union expanded to several areas of key interest. The city of Morsakya Bay was founded on a peninsula in the Southern Bay in order to take advantage of natural trade routes and good farming conditions. The Union also expanded into the southern Taiga area when Dargaardian immigrants established multiple cities in the area. The rest of the icy plains were also claimed in order to prevent the two new territories from becoming disconnected from one another.

The UBSR annexed The Kelmar Union, north of Morsakya bay. Formerly a part of Akratia which had collapsed after the population had an emigration crisis, with many players leaving the country.

Posavarian dispute
A neighbor nation, the Republic of Posavaria, contacted the Union diplomats to convey a complaint that the fishing city, the formerly mentioned Moraskya Bay, had been founded on land owned by Posavaria. After heated discussions and Posavaria's refusal to concede any land, negotiations stalled and hostilities ensued.

A statement was made by the Chief Posavarian Diplomat that remaining on the land would be an act of war against the Republic, while a common war tactic was being deployed, having troops surround the town, and blocking any attempts at connecting the city to the rest of the UBSR. General Secretary Travis of the Union responded by leveraging the strength and capabilities of the UBSR and CSCS military to broker a peace deal between the two nations. Posavaria ceded their claims on the land to the Union and tensions relaxed between the two nations, ending the Posavarian Dispute.

Later, there was tension due to rumors of Posavarian rebels bringing a referendum to Certaria to leave the UBSR and join them. After a unanimous vote chose to stay within the UBSR, tension between these two groups rose. The UBSR had reason to believe the rebels were backed by Avaria. Both sides geared for war, as the UBSR announced that it too had joined the coalition against LGAE that formed. Avaria and the UBSR both prepared for open conflict, however tensions cooled after the UBSR and Avaria both realized the war would be more costly than it was worth. Later, the UBSR discussed selling Pos Valley to Avaria, and after it was decided that the area would indeed be sold, tensions decreased greatly.

April Food Crisis
In April 2021, a food crisis broke out in the Union. Due to a population boom, as well as the expectation of war with the Ferrymen, agriculture was neglected. Food had to be rationed for several days until production was reinvigorated.

Annexation of Certaria
Following the resolution of the Treaty of Istanboulder, lands to the south of the UBSR were split between the regional nations. The UBSR was granted the town of Certaria and New Flagstaff, included with the redwood forest to the west.

The Union also annexed the town of Certaria and New Flagstaff, included with the redwood forest to the west. Certarians were integrated as full UBSR citizens, and the city retains much of it's previously enjoyed autonomy.

Industrialization period
As nationalist sentiment grew, a build up of infrastructure and Red Army assets began on the southern border. Citizens took it upon themselves to construct a large canal, known as the Red Line, through the Certaria River. Highways and other public works were built to connect  all UBSR cities. 3 gargantuan projects were planned in Marleybone, Syrgorod and Duragrad.

The project of Marleybone was know as The Forge, and consisted of mass amounts of furnaces for xp and production. Syrgorod's project was Heij's Femboy Farm, likely the largest farm in Rathnir at that time, with potatos growing from bedrock to the sky limit. The final project in Duragrad was the Grand Assembly, created by Starwa11 and Ocelot, was a national assembly hall build to rival any other governmental building in Rathnir. These projects were all set to be completed, although only The Forge was ever finished.

Boomtown of Stadt
Stadt was founded on 23 April 2021 on the ruins of a Bardonian colony.

Shortly after founding the town, Stadt experienced a substantial population boom, it's location at the heart of the Eastern bay making it ideal for seafaring trade and travel. Stadt was a major exporter of fish, alcohol, and sugar cane throughout the Union.

Charon referendum
After the threat of constant invasion for weeks on end Charon decided to hold a vote on whether they were to join the UBSR. With over 80% of people within the Charon Union decided to vote to join, the UBSR welcomed in the cities of Posopolis, Saint Gibersburg, and Mengjing, along with many more, into the Union.

Eldham Nation of Helgin
After the founder of Helgin had too many OOC (Out Of Character) issues to attend to, he decided to integrate his nation into the UBSR, under the Helgin district. Some people from the UBSR decided to settle towns within the isle and northern islands of Helgin, with some struggle. A small tribe of monks decided to settle within the region and claim over the land that Helgin had previously claimed. This caused some tension between the people of Helgin and the new settlers, leading to a vote for an act presented by Vladimir Ivanovich and PointDeGuard (Kaniroo) to the general assembly. Under this act, the Colony of Helgin became the District of Adma. Ivanovich who had been put in charge of the city of Helgin, held its first mayoral elections, in which he won. He would also go to later on win its Magistrate elections.

Western Expansion
Seeking the sense to grow on the former inactive lands of Serafini, UBSR Insurgents, along with the three remaining citizens of the Bardonian Sparwood Colony, teamed up and declared independence from Bardonia, in return for joining The UBSR as an autonomous republic. At this point, the UBSR stood as the central superpower of Sparwood.

Discovery and Purge of Western Squatters
After gaining the Western Expansion, the government and military officials of the UBSR discovered many squatters in their land. From the new islands they gained, to the swamps up north and east of their territory, there was an abundant amount. The first of these squatters was the Plong Empire, a group of 15 people that ranged from the Leythe Border to the mountains next to Serafini City. The second of these was a small town called Envy, which were contacted and integrated within 9 hours of their town's creation.

Fall of the UBSR and time spent in the Frosterium
Being formidable force in the region for decades, the UBSRs downfall was imminent. During a time of great upheaval and uncertainty, where the kingdom of Frosmyre, in a back-dealt countermove against the aggression from The Magisterium, took over the UBSR. Feeling abandoned by the authorities, the general population fell into a sensation of solitude, which grew even deeper as Frosmyre and the Magisterium merged into the Frosterium. This new state gave positions of power to almost all those who participated in the backstage dealings, leaving many Burgamerians feeling unheard and unrepresented. Many turned to the new political parties: the SAPL (Sparwood Army for Popular Liberation) and the BWNF (Burgamerian Worker’s National Front).

While the BWNF was created by Achaemenidstan and was followed by Elvisdraken, Pbot9000k, Capomiguel, Chicken, Tanker and Meemdog, it was created to represent the political interests of the Burgamerian people. At its core was a desire for independence, covered by a thin veil of legality. This was in stark contrast to the SAPL, which sought independence openly and violently. Their leaders attempted to invade nearby countries such as Aezenfjord for land from which to start their new version of Burgamere.

After the collapse of the Frosterium, Members of the BWNF managed to scrape together enough funds to secure the continuation of a Burgamerian state in the form of a union of Luscovy and Burgamere, which would serve as the heart of the state they envisioned, which they named Tovarisha.

Time in Ecclesia
After the collapse of Tovarisha, Burgamere found itself under the rule of the Ambrion Kingdom of Ecclesia. The people of Burgamere were skeptical about this new arrangement, fearing that they would lose their autonomy and the ability to govern their own region. However, the leaders of Ecclesia assured the people of Burgamere that they would be given a say in their governance and that their rights and interests would be protected. Despite this, resentment and anger towards their Ecclesia rose.

The War For Burgamerian Independance
Soon enough, Sherman, Lox, E_WM, and many other rebels decided to revive the UBSR once more and attack Ecclesia. After the first battle of Duragrad, the Ecclesian forces backed by the Certarian Empire surrendered and turned over all land to the new government under Lox, creating the fourth UBSR. After a short period of time, this new state formed the Union of Vladistan, which was a union between various countries in Sparwood, including Dualfinia and Avertico. The Union of Vladistan began to fight Grand Castell-Llozhar for territories that the Third UBSR had once owned. In the middle of the war, Lox was couped by E_WM and Anon for failing to perform his duties, which would sow the seeds of the Burgamerian Civil War.

The Burgamerian Civil War
After the battle of Esaqu with Grand Castell-Llozhar, the Burgamerian Civil War began, effectively ending the Burgamere-Castellan Conflict, known as the "GCL War". The civil war was between the Burgamerian Reds and the monarchist newly founded kingdom of luscovy, with the former leader Lox leading the rebellious Luscovy. The conflict first erupted on March 26th, 2023, when many towns, including Stadt, Cinnaburg, Valoria, Nowa Jagoda, New Pill, and Vykograd, declared independence from Burgamere. One day later, on the 27th, Drevnygrad, Fjollin, Nevado, Morskaya, and Cresceda also declared independence. With Burgamere having lost huge swathes of its former territory, only a handful towns remained, including the capital Duragrad, which was surrounded by hostiles. Soon after, the first and second Battles of Duragrad commenced, both leading to Rebel victories. After this loss, all members of the High Council condemned E_WM and joined Avertico. E_WM, fled the region temporarily into parts unknown, signaling the end of the fourth UBSR on May 7th, 2023. Soon after, the former towns were bought back by the Grand Kingdoms of Luscovy, which was now combined into Greater Plagos for a price of 500 Thousand. Despite this purchase, E_WM returned, and, along with former High Council members Anonymus, Clone3A7, and Disciple, established a Warlord Clan with the aim of toppling of the Luscovian Regime and establishing a Fifth UBSR.

After months of fighting, Burgamere reclaimed many towns, lost others, and changed its capital to Stadt, now renamed Istmark.