Old Mount Augusta

Mount Augusta was a former city-state founded in 7/19/21 with permission to settle in the northwestern lands of the Country of Terrathir. Both meta and roleplay wise, it was a continuation of Mount Augusta (MTA) on other servers: a city that emphasizes roleplayed law, politics, and free will on the part of its citizens.

History
MTA quickly got its start when ChickenWingGeek founded the land in what seemed like an abandoned building with some shopchests buying and selling cobblestone. Legal continuity with previous iterations was secure when previous mayor Citylion, diplomat ComradeNick, and judges Xcios and scramble0 joined. Several dozen civ players, the majority of which either played in MTA in previous servers or wanted to participate in political roleplay on a server that was not civ (the relatively factions-oriented grindy mechanics of Civ burned out many roleplay-minded people over time), joined MTA's discord and wanted to play, though this iteration of MTA was founded in a time of unparalleled server queues spanning three or four hours, so many simply could not log in given IRL time constraints, and what limited time could be eked out was mostly spent mining in the large strip-mine beneath MTA or making cheese to sell on the global auction house. However, at least several houses were built as well as a makeshift nether highway and the first shop in MTA ran by chickin_neck, selling flowers at "market prices".

Government
The supremely-democratic nature of MTA was historically one of the most prominent aspects separating it from other power nations on previous servers. While the constitutions changed for each iteration, each ensured direct democratic votes for the highest office in the land: mayor. For the duration of MTA on this server, MTA was ruled by a provisional government, in-game owned by ChickenWingGeek but effectively a coordinated movement. The goals of this government were to ensure free and fair elections on 8/1/2021, draft a new constitution, and recruit more people in an effort to avoid the cross-server grudges of previous servers. ComradeNick and Jmqn were the main drafters of the in-progress constitution.

Culture
MTA has a traditionally libertine culture, inherited from previous iterations. The provisional government especially sought to invite a wide array of former civ players no matter previous allegiance to form a diverse and living playerbase, with plans to open recruitment to the broader stoneworks population and come out of isolation after the initial city was built and legal institutions formed to ensure rule of law amongst the fervent beliefs and religions of Eldham. Read more at /r/MtAugusta.

Fate
MTA was blanket banned on 7/22/2021 as a result of discord leaks from players who feared that MTA was a PVP group that intended to invade the server, despite MTA's previous history across iterations and a complete lack of prot grinded with the amount of xp and diamonds made. Additional reasons were screenshots of ChickenWingGeek mentioning that there was no x-ray protection on the server, instead ores being vanilla (a major difference from Civ), ChickenWingGeek and Egi mentioning anti-afk scripts, JuniorTide admitting prior use of Xray, and private jokes about civ players being superior. In addition, the Ferrymen clause was invoked. For these reasons, the entire group was blanket banned and the wealth/builds of Mount Augusta erased. This was despite later proof that ChickenWingGeek had explicitly told the group later to not Xray in an announcement, the fact that MTA has not even planned to conduct a single pvp action or prepared a single piece of prot for such an action, extensive mines of 2x1 tunnel grids / strip mining that wouldn't have happened with X-ray, and no in game evidence in general of any of these offenses actually occurring beyond hypotheticals.

A couple people were later unbanned after appeal and admins realized that the entirety of MTA was not a hacker PVP invasion group as they have thought, but the entire progress of MTA is still permanently nuked and many members that have not admitted to cheats are still banned.