Novia

The Republic of Novia(previously known as Aurora Novum) is a nation that exists inside mid Plagos based in the region previously known as Valreign. It was founded on June 5, 2021 by Jerry Andoros and Georgia Man. Novia follows a governmental system based on a republic with an elected leader, senatorial positions, and appointed ministers. The culture of Novia is Novian with the official language being Kanra. The population of Novia is currently close to 30 people and its largest town is Black Hollow.

Note that in this wiki article that several things are labeled with "Novia" while in fact the name of the nation was originally Aurora Novum and became Novia later(on April 11, 2022). So if the title of an election or event has Novia in it and it was before April 11, 2022 then the nation was really known as Aurora Novum at that point in time.

Novia's First Term Elections- July 12, 2021
Novia's first government which officially started on July 12, 2021 contained government positions like the Chancellor of Finance, Chancellor of the Interior, Chancellor of Foreign Affairs, Chancellor of Justice, and the Supreme Chancellor.These positions were all elected by the populace and all citizens were allowed to apply for the roles as the population of Novia was low at the time of first elections and if any positions were not filled by vote, the Supreme Chancellor would nominate the people for those positions. Every position would be reelected every 4 weeks. All proof of fair elections was released as well.

Results of Elections:
Supreme Chancellor: Georgia Man

Chancellor of Foreign Affairs: Jerry Andoros

Chancellor of the Interior: Egor Tsukanov

Chancellor of Justice: TTOBIA(appointed by Georgia)

Chancellor of Finance: MrGumieBear(appointed by Georgia)

Governor of Black Hollow: Georgia Man

Governor of Andoros: Jerry Andoros

Novia's Second Term Elections- August 9, 2021
For the second term elections where campaigning started on August 6, 2021 and finished by the 9th, the populace of Novia had grown active enough to where all government positions had been filled and elected by the people. Interviews for the candidates running for Supreme Chancellor were conducted and released to the public. The two candidates for Supreme Chancellor were Elock and Lotus, both of whom had joined after first term elections and both had been very active in the nation's growth. Lotus was a prominent builder in Andoros while Elock had built in Black Hollow but both were very active in voice calls and fairly popular with the public. Also during this time, the emergence of a huge group of friends(dubbed BlooDood's Gang by some) managed to secure 5 of the 13 available government positions due to their incredible activity and charisma. It's important to note that the governor of Black Hollow position was also available for this election cycle as Georgia stepped down.

It's important to note that some topics in political debates in this time period were the debates over how much power the Supreme Chancellor should hold. For example, BlooDood's gang supported the split up of powers between the ministers and the senate to limit the amount of power the Supreme Chancellor did, and this was also supported by Georgia and Jerry along with the majority of the nation. On the opposition however, Baked Croissant defended a strong central figure in the nation as he believed it would lead to more stability but he also advocated against emergency powers at first as well.

Result of Elections
Supreme Chancellor: Lotus

Chancellor of Foreign Affairs: Joe Mama

Chancellor of the Interior: Salva

Chancellor of Justice: Jerry Andoros

Chancellor of Finance: Slickfull

Governor of Black Hollow: Dendendelen

President of the Senate: Berbel

Senate Seats:

 * 1) TheBlooDood
 * 2) luccdot
 * 3) putin25
 * 4) Normie
 * 5) baked_croissant
 * 6) TTOBIA

The Second Term Crisis- August 26, 2021
A government crisis in Novia happened when large droves of government officials became inactive or left the server completely. BlooDood's gang had completely left the server after being killed by BeefLand and other members of Ulfaeng feeling that this world was not right for them. JoeMama had taken a hiatus one day into his term which caused Lotus and other government officials to intervene in foreign affairs, like baked, Jerry, and Elock. The foreign affairs crisis was especially intense due to managing the Skittles Alliance which was started when Plagatea declared war on Novia and was made of a coalition of skittle states in Plagos. However, the Skittles Alliance grew to include Hands members which eventually got the whole Magisterium involved leading to very worrying diplomatic talks between the smaller nations of the alliance, like Novia. Eventually this pressure caused the great Lotus to resign and hand off the Supreme Chancellorship to Baked Croissant who now dealt with a nation that had most of its government officials leave.

This led to Baked making himself the sole executive power(but he did host an election where he was the only candidate on the ballot) and centralizing the government which he had strongly advocated for in the past because he felt it was a more stable form of government. Elections would continue every month but there was to be no senate or defined minister roles but rather ministers would be appointed by Baked himself. Those that were appointed by Baked would be Salva for Minister of Construction and Elock for Minister of Foreign Affairs and Army General. Starting in late August, Jerry would become the prominent force for general internal affairs of the nation. He would go on to found the Aurora Novum University and run the first election of Baked, and the succeeding one as well.

Novia's Third Term Elections- October 1, 2021
The third term elections happened on the first of October and the main opponent of Baked Croissant was Georgia Man. Baked was still a popular candidate as activity in Novia began to rise once more and he maintained an isolationist policy keeping Novia out of unwanted conflicts. The reason behind Georgia running was to issue a Plagosi merger between Baronov and Novia along with the possibility of other future Plagosi states. Elock would also come to aid Georgia, acting like his campaign manager when the talk of elections first started. However in a debate between Baked and Georgia, it was clear that Georgia had become too inactive and had not thought of his campaign promises past the merger. Georgia would go on to lose the election to Baked but became more active in the nation politics during this time by mostly discussing with Elock, still the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Supreme Chancellor: Baked Croissant

Novia's Fourth Term Elections- November 2, 2021
The fourth term elections were especially interesting in Novian history due to the unprecedented amount of activity in the nation at this point. Players like Vexenatic, Riste, Baked, Elock, Echo, ADINO, Salva, and many others were consistently active in the nation's affairs and the growth of the nation at this point was very steady. This led to a plethora of candidates(most were meme candidates) to run for Supreme Chancellor of the nation.

In order to understand the political situation of Novia, it's important to understand the new rush of players that joined the nation. One main reason for this is the addition of ADINO into Novia. ADINO was previously barred from joining the nation by Georgia Man due to his crimes in Terras Tenebris but since Georgia was not Supreme Chancellor anymore, ADINO was able to join the nation and quickly take power by defeating Jerry in the election for Governor of Andoros. ADINO argued that Jerry had gone completely inactive, had let his city become slum-like, and had no support of his own residents. This would prove true as many believed that Jerry had not taken care of his city and ADINO had won public support in the debate against Jerry by using a PowerPoint slideshow to demonstrate his point. ADINO however did not like the idea of a republic so in the fourth term elections, he had decided to convince Baked Croissant to adopt a triumvirate system in which the people would vote for Baked and Baked would appoint two other people(one of which being ADINO himself) on the same level as him. This idea of the triumvirate is likely to have stemmed from the new Triumvirate of Denumain that had formed between Escharia, Viodoxa, and Yimmu Audal. Georgia especially did not like this idea when ADINO had pitched it to him because he believed it to be an obvious power grab by ADINO so he rallied behind the other rising candidate, Vexenatic, as many other people did as well.

Vexenatic advocated for a similar system of government during Lotus and Georgia's terms where there was a separate branch of ministers and senators to run the nation. Governors would also be included in the senate which would lead to later issues with stability in the government. During elections, several meme candidates like the notorious Liam, uniqio, DimitriDuchos, and miniman had run for elections. This led to a very funny election but there was a serious debate between Vexenatic and Baked Croissant over change in the government. Baked kept consistent with his previous policies and Vexenatic argued for change in the current government to decentralize it. Specifically, he wanted to reinstate the senate and elected minister positions along with adding advisors as well. During this debate, both candidates made good points but Vexenatic had won public support with being known as a good builder and representing change to Baked's traditional government. Many of the meme candidates like uniqio, Liam, and one more meme candidate united together under one ticket under Vexenatic(a lot of trolling was done). Vexenatic, with his concept of decentralization, was able to put political pressure on Baked with his traditional government ideas and the triumvirate idea and make him gracefully concede. This led Vexenatic only having to go against miniman and DimitrisDuchos(two other meme candidates) and gain an easy victory getting 56% of the vote(26 votes in total). After Vexenatic won elections, he would go on to host minister elections and appoint two advisors. The senate would go on to include the ministers and governors.

Vexenatic's term would also be the last term of the old Aurora Novum as the nation collapsed and surrendered to the Sapphire Commonwealth in late November/early December because of the DonFuer annexation leading to the Aurora Novum Remnants stage where elections did not transpire but rather a more centralized government was created to keep the community together.

Supreme Chancellor: Vexenatic

Governor of Andoros: ADINO

Minister of Foreign Affairs: Riste

Minister of Construction: Salva

Minister of Society: Echo

Minister of Military: Iced

Senate Seats:

 * 1) Riste
 * 2) Salva
 * 3) Iced
 * 4) Echo
 * 5) ADINO
 * 6) Baked
 * 7) Beef-Land(during the DonFuer annexation on November 20)

Aurora Novum Remnants Government- December 13, 2021 to February 6, 2022
The Aurora Novum Remnants was created on December 12, 2021 as an attempt by some government officials including Iced, Elock, and Georgia to keep the community together and plan out how to get their old land back. It was those three that would begin leading the Remnants government but other people would be added later. Iced, the Minister of Military, who became Supreme Chancellor when Vexenatic stepped down would become the figurehead of the Aurora Novum Remnants but was mostly hands-off with its internal development and would assist Elock in foreign diplomacy instead. He also put out national announcements and attempted to organize the future government of Aurora Novum. Elock would infiltrate the Plagatean government having made some friends with Plagatean lords and also being a skilled diplomat. He would be extremely useful in the planning with Alamayn to get Aurora Novum's independence and would leak information the Plagateans gave him to the rest of the Remnants. Georgia would plan out the internal dynamics of the Remnants and try his best to keep the community active and together so that when the time came, they could assert their independence. He would also engage in talks with Elock and Iced about how to move further along their goal of independence.

The remnants also contained 3 settlements, dubbed the "remnant settlements," that would be used to gather up members and keep the community alive. While Sand wasn't an official remnant settlement since it was founded before the remnants had existed by ad and Rusty with early help by ADINO who had recruited them. Sand was created when the nation was on the brink of collapse as a refugee settlement and with the help of builder Salva, the city had become fairly established only a week after its founding leading it to be a prominent city for the remnants. Port Novum(located in Tortuga), headed by Jeropod and Novumsville(in Yimmu-Audal) headed by BombedArcher were both failed attempts at being remnant cities but all three of these cities elevated those people into higher order positions even if they weren't official.

Ad from Sand would become a prominent Remnants leader along with the other three because of his keen diplomatic sense and intelligence with internal affairs. He would go on to help out in both the 1st and 2nd Battles of Adwa and engage in diplomatic talks with Plagateans and Simulami people when it was clear that they could get their land back. He would also keep the community active with voice calls and overall engagement in the Discord server.

Novia's Fifth Term Elections- February 6, 2022
The fifth term elections in Novia were the first elections after the nation had gotten its land back due to the Plagatea collapse caused by Alamayn. Prior to elections, Novia had entered a stage of decent activity with citizens being rallied up with announcements and joining the wars with Alamayn so that they could get their nation back as well. However, there was a significant drop off in activity with that and the fifth term elections were very telling with there only being two candidates. Those two candidates were Georgia Man and Baked_Croissant. Baked was never an official candidate however due ot him being a city owner and therefore ineligible to become Supreme Chancellor but for Novian traiditon, Baked ran to at least have a debate. The debate between Georgia and Baked was moderated by Elock at first and then ad later. The debate went over topics such as city restoration, the main focuses of the candidates, and diplomatic decisions that the nation would make. At one point, when Elock had abdicated his moderator role to ad but then came back, he argued with Baked over the Aurora Novum Remnants phase where Baked had said that he believed he was cut off from leadership while Elock argued that Baked was informed of the plan.

A senate was not implemented until the last day of Georgia's term where he appointed 5 senators to propose and vote on legislation. Ad had already shown diplomatic interest and had a huge stake in the internal development of the nation as well having started in the Remnants phase. Salva was already a notable builder and one of the oldest Novian citizens. Denver was a prominent builder that came into the scene right as Novia got its land back helping to fix the city of Andoros especially. Elock was a notable diplomat and also another older member of Novia. CASELOAD was the best warrior in Novia and had shown interest in taking care of military affairs, being the Minister of Military for the entirety of this term.

Supreme Chancellor: Georgia Man

Senate Seats:

 * ad
 * 1) Salva
 * 2) Denver
 * 3) Elock
 * 4) CASELOAD

Predecessor State
The predecessor state to Novia was Terras Tenebris which was founded by ADINO, Georgia Man, Jerry Andoros, and Zylax in early March with the consent of Valen McSpiegel. Terras Tenebris was created when the cities of Black Hollow(founded by Georgia, Jerry, Swayne, and Zylax) and Vertrappen(now known as Andoros which was founded by ADINO) which were part of Viodoxa combined into one political entity as a vassal. The government structure of Terras Tenebris was originally one where there was an elected president and one elected senator from each city. Elections between Jerry Andoros and ADINO ensued, and ADINO was declared the winner of the election due to his focus on recruiting and making connections with new citizens. However, ADINO would go on to appoint senators instead of letting them get elected which would cause conflict between Jerry and him especially.

The days of Terras Tenebris

Founding
The Republic of Novia was founded on June 5th of 2021 with the Treaty of a New Dawn alongside the nation of Plagadonia and its land was bought from the United Kingdom of Plagatea for $83,000. The nation was founded by Jerry Andoros and Georgia Man, who both had lived in Plagos since February of 2021.

The foundings of the nation relate to the DonFuer situation in late April of 2021 where an interserver nation, DonFuer, had bought land from Viodoxa in mid-Plagos and had established an empire mainly focused on building. Also, the nation of Terras Tenebris which was led by the Commanding Quad had illegitimately integrated into DonFuer when one of the members, ADINO, had held a vote to join DonFuer(in which 3 were needed to join) but joined them regardless when only he had voted. When this had happened, the nation claim that was owned by ADINO claimed chunks all the way to the western coast where the new city of DonFuer was being built. Jerry Andoros and Georgia Man, two long-time members and partial founders of Terras Tenebris were infuriated when this happened and officially rebelled alongside Jayjayrex after negotiations with DonFuer's leader D_loaded fell through. This formed the Golden Alliance Pact in which the nations of Plagadonia(led by Jayjayrex, a former Nova Regna player), Plagatea, and the Terras Tenebris remnants had allied together to eventually defeat DonFuer.

Eventually, the low council members(BeefLand, ADINO, Darzivor) and premier of DonFuer(Cranberry) had become inactive and D_loaded saw no reason to continue the sovereignty of DonFuer so he sold the land to a member of Uldarash for $1,000,000 which was then bought out by Plagatea for $500,000. Talks with Plagatean leadership such as DOOM and Nero by Jayjayrex, VoidCipher, Georgia Man, and Jerry Andoros happened and it was agreed that the newly bought land would once again be sold to both the nations of Plagadonia and Terras Tenebris. However, Jerry and Georgia had talked and agreed that the nation of Terras Tenebris was wrought with corruption and anti-democracy sentiment so they decided that this land would become a new nation that would embrace more democratic ideals and a more hopeful future for Plagos. Therefore, instead of reinstating Terras Tenebris, the two men decided to name the nation Aurora Novum which incorrectly translates to "a new dawn" to show the change. With the Treaty of a New Dawn between Plagatea, Plagadonia, and Aurora Novum created and signed, this meant that Aurora Novum would pay $83,000. Jerry and Georgia quickly moved their stuff from Fort Plagon, the main base of operations for the rebellion to Black Hollow which had now been unclaimed by staff with ADINO's permission and Georgia claimed over most of the city, starting from where Black Hollow square is today.

Early Ages
The early stages of Novia were led by both Jerry and Georgia, focused on rebuilding the cities of Andoros(formerly Vertrappen) and Black Hollow which were either heavily griefed or not up to par in terms of building style. Jerry would lead Andoros and Georgia Man would lead Black Hollow, both of them deciding on individual build themes for the cities. Black Hollow would be a gothic styled city that relied on mostly blackstone along with nether related materials(nether woods, basalt, quartz, etc) while Andoros would become a light themed city reliant on sandstone, birch wood, spruce features, and had a height restriction for new homes. Many of the old buildings in both cities were removed with the exception being the original Vertrappen castle(later taken down) and beach housing built in the ADINO era.

Early recruitment also occurred in the nation mostly towards Black Hollow but the real population boom would happen in July, the month in which a lot of the prominent nation members would join(Elock, Baked, Lotus, BlooDood's Gang, etc). Relations with Plagatea were neutral and fairly well with Plagadonia, who was sometimes dubbed the sister nation of Aurora Novum. However, later in the month of June, previous suspicions against the leaders of Plagadonia as well as turbulent negotiations with an annexation deal forced both Georgia and Jerry to make a tough decision to cut their ties off with them.

Possible Plagadonia Annexation
On July 2nd, the leader of Plagadonia Jayjayrex and his second hand, VoidCipher approached Georgia Man and Jerry Andoros with a deal to completely annex Aurora Novum into Plagadonia and create their royal family inside of the kingdom. Both Jay and Void were quite familiar with Georgia and Jerry due to working together as leaders during the DonFuer Rebellion and knowing each other since the Terras Tenebris days, helping to convince the leaders. However, Georgia and Jerry entered the meeting not too willing to join Plagadonia because they wanted to keep their democracy instead. During the call, Jayjayrex was able to convince Georgia and Jerry to favor the deal citing Plagatea as a real threat to the small nations in Plagos and that they would be safer in Plagadonia's hands. Jerry pushed for a senate in Plagadonia that could override Jayjay but they could not find a real compromise, leading to rough negotiations. Near the end of the call, it seemed that they had come to an agreement about a senate and all parties left happy.

However, before joining Plagadonia, Georgia started a referendum in Aurora Novum to discuss with the current citizens if they would be okay with annexation and they voted in favor of this proposition. A treaty was created but an argument started between Void and Jerry when Plagadonia backed down from the original senate deal. The negotiations were so rough that Georgia urged Jerry to stall out negotiations until they could really confirm that Plagadonia was working in their best interest(July 3rd, 2021). During all of these negotiations, Georgia had been messaging Nero in order to gain information about Jay and Plagadonia but not fully going on Plagatea's side.

Plagadonia v Plagatea
On July 5th, 2021, Jay's prediction that Plagatea would war the small nations of Plagos was correct as Plagatea officially declared war against Plagadonia. This is due to a plethora of reasons including conquering all of Plagos and the leaders of Plagatea(Nero and Crabbz) and Jayjayrex having a deep grudge against each other in the Nova Plagatea days over an election. Also, it had been rumored(and later confirmed) that Jayjayrex was conspiring with Bardonia in preparation for an event such as this leading to Plagatea preparing their army for conflict. Jayjayrex had built up an army mostly made of mercs at this point and Plagatea was also ready to go into war.

Georgia Man and Jerry Andoros had a decision to make about who to support in the war, even creating a pros and cons list of helping Plagatea or Plagadonia. Eventually, due to the rough negotiations over the original land deal that birthed Aurora Novum and the Plagadonia annexation along with Jay conspiring with Bardonia, they decided to fight with Plagatea. Their plan was to send fake soldiers on Jay's side and then during the war, sabotage their own side, but miscommunication with Nero over this double agent plan would lead to conflict between Aurora Novum and Plagatea later. Nero was willing to tell Georgia Man certain information relating around the war like logistics and the ultimatum that would be sent to Plagadonia showing some improvement of relations in the moment between the nations. At this point, Aurora Novum viewed themselves fairly close to Plagatea having chosen them over Plagadonia but those views would not be shared by the other side due to miscommunication over this conflict along with a desire to conquer all of Plagos by the First Empire. Plagadonia would later cede all of their land to Bardonia once their leaders were unable to maintain it but Plagatea was quickly able to buy back the land, completely entrapping Aurora Novum.

The Skittles War
The Skittles War was a war between the First Empire of Plagatea and the Skittles Alliance of Plagos including Aurora Novum, Baronov, Iremith, Lunaris, Myrtana and Solitudinem. Also a part of the alliance was the powerful foreign power at the time, Magisterium. This war began on August 3rd, though the initial ultimatum for the war was sent one day prior on August 2nd.

The war first came about because of an ultimatum sent by Plagatean Tagavor CrabApplez to then Supreme Chancellor Georgia Man declaring that if Aurora Novum did not concede its territory completely to the empire, Plagatea would use force in order to take it. Plagatea justified this ultimatum by saying that Aurora Novum's autonomy remained a threat to the empire's borders and also that Plagos should be a more united continent. Upon receiving the ultimatum, the government of Aurora Novum went through a flurry of votes within both the senate and the public deciding whether to back down or fight against Plagatea. Initially the response by Georgia Man with this ultimatum was to attempt to pressure Taggabor Crabbz into backing out of the war by saying that it would put Plagatea on the wrong side of history but also that uniting Plagos through war would not accomplish anything. Crabbz and Georgia entered a call where they had a civil conversation but could not agree on any terms. After this, Georgia Man contacted ADINO who had a fairly powerful position in Baronov at the time to help in defeating Plagatea. Both of them worked together on the diplomatic front to establish the Skittles Alliance with small Plagosi states while people inside Aurora Novum began to prepare for war inside of Black Hollow(setting up trenches, traps, walls, etc).

Diplomatic Front:
When the Skittles Alliance first started, it was just Georgia Man and ADINO as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jerry was located in an awkward time zone for communication. Georgia Man reached out to ADINO to help garner allies and thus the Skittles Alliance was born and allies were gathered extremely quickly. ADINO was able to get the support of Captain North, the king of Baronov and Georgia reached out to the leadership of Solitudinem and Lunaris to establish relations with them. Both Solitudinem(led by amswasty at the time with the 05 Council) and Lunaris(led by MoonDanker) agreed to join the alliance. Early on, the alliance was fairly stable with foreign aid being sent to Black Hollow to help build defenses.

Other foreign powers that were reached out to by Aurora Novum was the Solean Imperate de Escharii, led by Herod. Escharia did not fully decline Aurora Novum as they had their own issues with Plagatea but they could not support the alliance as a nation but rather send the Hands, a powerful mercenary group at the time, to the alliances' aid for no price other than war loot. With the Hands on the alliances' side, things started to look up.

Viodoxa still remained a fervent ally of the First Empire of Plagatea and efforts from both ADINO and Georgia Man in attempt to sway one of the leaders, Hazel McSpiegel failed. However, during one negotiations call with Plagatean leadership(Tagavors Nero and Crabbz), ADINO, Georgia Man, and Loic dem Sphenscidae(other leader of Viodoxa), an offer was made by Loic to vassalize Aurora Novum. This angered the Tagavors as they wanted the land to be integrated into the Plagatean Empire but Loic justified his offer by saying that he would secure borders between Aurora Novum and Plagatea, eliminating any fear that Plagatea had. ADINO encouraged Georgia Man to take the offer as it would enrage the Plagateans and while Georgia Man did consider it, he ultimately did not like the option of vassalizing either. It was put to a vote however in the senate and the vote to stay independent and continue the war held true. Loic would later be overthrown by his own government and Hazel McSpiegel was made into the sole archon within a few days. It is also relevant to mention that ADINO made an offer to OPTC leadership(edd), then a vassal of Viodoxa to keep Viodoxa neutral in exchange for some land but this deal never came about.

After this call, the Skittles Alliance started to appear strong with national announcements being made by all the nation leaders and the Hands getting involved. A call was requested from the Tagavors to Georgia Man and they had said that they thought the war was being escalated too much at this point and wanted to settle for peace. This begun a long conversation between Georgia and the Tagavors about current Plagatea relations such as their relationship with Solitudinem which they had issues with in the past and other non-Plagosi states. They also talked about how they did not appreciate the offer of vassalization that the Viodoxans made with Aurora Novum. However, during these talks, Georgia still felt strongly about going through with war as new plans of partitioning Plagatea were being made inside the alliance and it could have changed Plagos' reputation for outsiders. The Tagavors seemed to also get the sense that Georgia did not want peace at this time which made negotiations a little rougher. Georgia also made a mistake during this call by recording it and sharing it to some people which would lead to out of game toxicity and ultimately end up being a terrible decision.

After the call, Georgia felt very confident about winning the war and thus the alliance began to branch out even more. Plans were made to completely partition Plagatea up between all member nations of the alliance.