Lutum

The Holy Empire of Lutum (Also known as North Phoenia or Lutum) declared independence from South Phoenia on July the 8th, 2021. It is located in Central Eldham.. and was founded by TheClarkyCat as a small town on a peninsula on an island under the nation of Phoenia, but then later became independent.

The king of Lutum is TheClarkyCat, with the heir being TheChickenShoe and the queen being 36reaper. Although there is a royal family, which holds overall power, there is also a Prime Minister, who decides all the laws and policies of the nation and can even change the constitution if both current monarch, and the Prime Minister agree.

Declaration of independence

The splitting and re-form of the at-the-time Phoenia begun on July the 7th 2021. The current dictator, Tunder_ stepped down and made the user L_OwO the new leader of the country, who quickly begun reforming the country into a republic, making the monarch a mere figurehead, and ordering that elections are held place. The mayor TheClarkyCat did not like the reforms from the start, as he thought Tunder_ was a great leader and there was no need for such a big change, but he was willing to go along with whatever happened, until L_OwO, who was starting to look like a better leader, decided to sell off the apparent "Inactive cities" and the whole North of Phoenia, including Lutumshire. This outraged TheClarkyCat and his right-hand-man 36reaper and they decided to draft a declaration of independence, and send it L_OwO as soon as possible, and luckily it went smoothly, with no conflict at all, and on July the 8th, 2021, The Holy Empire Of Lutum became independent from Phoenia with the entire island Lutumshire was made on.

The land exchange of North Phoenia After the declaration of independence, L_OwO was still looking to sell off the rest of North Phoenia, but could not decide who to give it to, so he held a vote. Lutum won with a staggering 100% and took about 5 times more land than they currently had, increasing their neighbours as a new-born nation, and encouraging TheClarkyCat to make more allies, sign more NAPs and talk to more leaders. Phoenia had been light on the settlements in their land, leaving The Holy Empire to try and deal with the issue by themselves.

Da berry and Berrism

Da berry is the god of all berries, a food that can grow anywhere without water. The religion was founded in Old Lutumshire which was in a desert. Food was scarce in Old Lutumshire because of the lack of water, seeds and food in general. The only food that was able to be grown was berries. Most of the citizens at the time relied on illicit substances, especially user Un_Sabroso_huevo who was the first person to report "seeing" Da Berry, and instantly spread it around to his fellow Lutimites. Da Berry apparently decided to "Bless" Un_Sabroso_Huevo as he was the holy one. Citiziens rapidly started growing berries and couldnt recall why, which furthered the beliefs of Da Berry until everyone in Old Lutumshire, and even most people in the at the time "Rabanshire" (which would soon become Phoenia) believed in Da berry and worshipped all berries as gods and would make daily sacrifices. When a spruce forest was found, the whole area of Lutumshire packed up all their stuff and left. Including a bottle of Gamer Girl Bath water which Un_Sabroso_Huevo, The now berry pope (Or bope), claimed was holy water. The bope is required to carry the bottle on him at all times. The citizens of Old Lutumshire settled in the spruce forest and the current Lutumshire was founded, starting with the community house.

The first election

The first election happened on July the 10th 2021. There were only 2 candidates, 36reaper, an infamous warmonger who ran for prime minister as a joke, and WesselVanLeeuwen, who actually cared about the election. It was obvious who would win. WesselVanLeeuwen won by a single vote, and became the first Prime Minister of the empire.

The Clown War and the Strip Club Signing

The clown war was an event that Lutum was involved in shortly before leaving the war due to a bribe from Phoenia. The monarch of Lutum had a message from a mysterious "Mr X" to join a coalition against Anglunia. After lack of information given about why they were fighting, who they were and a general lack of trust, TheClarkyCat decided to tell the user Welpish from Anglunia about the situation which was unfolding. TheClarkyCat sent Welpish screenshots and names from the coalition for a while and that was it. A few days afterwards, Lutum made a deal with South Phoenia for 20k to be given in exchange for 4 chicken spawn eggs and 4 cow spawn eggs, this deal was obviously in favour of Lutum as the spawn eggs only totalled to 4800, with Lutum making a profit of 15200. What other sources fail to mention about the meeting between the two leaders was that the meeting took place in Lutumshire's strip club, with the famous 36reaper being a stripper in the backround. TheClarkyCat believed this would be a quick exchange and the "Secret secure underground bunker"/stripclub would be funny. Although, it also turned out that Phoenia had joined the coalition that Lutum had previously betrayed, and Lutum had without realizing it broke the Mutual defence pact that was made at the time of their independence, so in the stripclub, TheClarkyCat was told this with 36reaper still stripping. A document was signed in the strip club which had Lutum drop out of the Clown War and make a new Mutual Defence Pact with Phoenia, which was signed after the document was read over, officially resulting in Lutum leaving the war.

Bandit attacks and Political terrorism

The first time Lutum faced a threat was in its early days, a so-called "Police Officer" came into the capital of Lutumshire claiming there was an escaped convict. He was alot more armoured than the rest of the city, but was outnumbered. After failing to explain there was no convict and him breaking into the city itself multiple times, the officer walked into the church, being disrespectful toward Da Berry, still talking about how he had to catch a criminal, and was then beaten to death by the online citizens of Lutumshire. The loot that was dropped was split among citizens, TheClarkyCat getting the armour, potions and sword "Crystal Rapido", 36reaper getting the pickaxe and axe and an unknown person getting the rest of his food and materials.

The second time Lutum faced a threat was from the user John_Emerald who was planning on taking away the power of the monarch and turning it into a republic. He was easily caught but his punishment had to be held off for a day, as TheClarkyCat and the witness 36reaper were scared John_Emerald would log onto the server and wreak havoc upon the towns. The day after John_Emerald was fully confronted and almost taken to caught, but he confessed before going, and was exiled from the nation. He had mentioned Lord_Volt replacing him, and 36reaper would go onto make campaigns against him, with his investigation still ongoing.