German Empire

The German Empire is one of the oldest nations in TerraeMC, it's based off of the IRL German Empire (1871-1918), it's located in Europe and its current leader is Kaiser Insufficiently.

The Foundation and the first problems
Established, initially in Season 0 on 9th January 2020 (one day after the foundation of Berlin and the first opening of TerraeMC) by JustNinja02, the German Empire was known as German Reich as its government was slightly National Socialist and also due to the initial goal of making a greatly industrialised German nation. However this goal was later scrubbed by the leader, whom was obligated previously by Agaloth (Owner of the server) to change to a different type of governent due an incident staged by Maddusa, whom stated that the nation was hiding "Gas Chambers" under the capital, but later it was found out that this was fake news. Therefore, in order to avoid future problems, JustNinja02 decided to start the, so called, "De-Nazification" process, in which every building, flag and object related to Nazi Germany had to be destroyed and later, on the 17th of January 2020, the German Empire was proclaimed.

The Scandinavian Crisis
After the proclamation of the Empire, the nation already had to test its diplomatic effectiveness. In fact, on 17th January 2020, ane town named Myrdal joined the nation and it was located in Norway, therefore Norwegian claims. The town of Myrdal was founded on that location, by Hayliox, because, as stated by the mayor, he liked the landscape and it fitted really well with his building techniques. The day after iQuackLikeADuck, Norway's leader, sent an ultimatum to Hayliox, asking him to immidiately move his town elsewhere, but it was refused however, so a state of war was declared between Norway and the German Empire, later the United Kingdom joined on Norway's side (the reason is still unknown) and France aswell on the German side. Although a conflictd was declared, there were no battles, in fact the leaders opted to solve it diplomatically. 5 hours later, Hayliox stated that he would move his town elsewhere only if someone of the 4 leaders would pay him 1000 Gold Ingots (old currency), JustNinja and Pierronus (french leader) accepted the offer and a peace was signed.

A rapid growth
Between January 18th and March 12th, the nation experienced a rapid growth in population as many players and towns wanted to join it (It reached 10 towns and 60 total citizens). A new puppet state was formed in the Baltic called Batic Duchy with Duke Ka9l as its leader and Berlin became a bigger city with new various buildings like the Reichstag and the Siegessaule, and new houses were built for the citizens. This 2 months long period was seen as a Golden Era for Germany.

The Baltic Crisis
As said, in the previous paragraph, the nation made a puppet state in the Baltic and named it Baltic Duchy on February 27th, 2020 and Ka9l received the position of leader as a Duke. The Duchy began to grow rapidly seizing the entire Estonia and Latvia. While Germany was focusing on its own mainland and ordered the puppet state to do the same thing, Ka9l started to focus on colonising towns around the world without a nation while ending up with problems between them and Finland. In fact, finnish people started a project in which different bridges were going to be built to connect the lands around the Baltic Sea, but this wasn't taken very well by Ka9l who opted to destroy the bridges. Nubex (finnish leader), seeing his project threatened, decided to claim the bridge that connected Finland with the Baltic Duchy and this triggered different clashes between the two nations. In the meantime, back in Germany, JustNinja02 feared that this crisis could trigger a war and that the puppet state would declared independe as it had many towns on its side, so he decided to hold several meetings to ease the tensions but all of them failed resulting in the Baltic Duchy making war preparations against Finland. On March 7th, Kronprinz Frederick announced that if the Baltic Duchy is not willing to cooperate, the German Empire would declare war, Ka9l responded by removing many germans from the Duchy's Discord server to avoid espionage. Suddently, Finland made a surprise attack on the town of Parnu, killing several Baltic citizens and began to use the Towny war plugin to claim the town, but there was an issue, the server moderators were informed that the conflict was able to continue despite a very small number of Baltic Duchy citizens being online, this resulted in the server's owner, Agaloth, and other moderators coming to quell the violence. Agaloth promptly ordered a ceasefire and turned off the Towny war mechanism. Once all of the wartime claims were reversed, Ka9l declared the Baltic Duchy's independence from the German Empire and renaming it to the Livonian Order. One week after the war, however, the relations between the Empire and the Baltic nation started to deteriorate again and heavily. The German Empire denounced the Livionian Order for stealing stuff from german citizens, therefore a justification of war was prepared. But al the preparations for a conflict cheased after Nubex asked JustNinja02 to make a peace treaty with Ka9l and to stop the crisis once and for all. Later, the treaty of Paskalampi was signed between the german Kaiser, the baltic king and the finnish leader as mediator.

The April Revolution
During the last days of March 2020, JustNinja02 was going inactive due to personal reasons, before his short inactivty could start, he decided to give regency to the Kronprinz. After the Baltic Crisis the government became inactive and consequently unstable, the Golden Era has ended and the Empire didn't make advancements. So Prinz AurelianCraft (Frederick's son) decided to take things into his hands.ì, his goal was to re-establish the government, he convinced the Kaiser to appoint a new Kanzler, which was Kaiser_Otto_I, he was a good Kanzler since he had many ideas on how to expand Germany eastwards, however he didn't stay for long as he was accused by Agaloth for cheating and duping stuff. Some days later, suddently, AurelianCraft stated that Prussia will leave the German Empire, because of the inactivity in the nation. Kaiser JustNinja02 quickly tried to convince AurelianCraft to come back but he kept refusing. The city of Rhineland later decided to follow AurelianCraft. In the end, JustNinja02 was forced to abdicate and the nation was left to AurelianCraft, whom quickly formed a new government, therefore the nation became a Democracy.

The Return of the Monarchy
After the Revolution of April, on May 2020, AurelianCraft started to get in some problems with Agaloth, although still to this day is not clear what happened as different players stated different stories. On May 17th 2020, Aurelian and Agaloth were seen arguing on the server chat of TerraeMC's discord server, later it was found out that AurelianCraft was banned from the server by the Owner. Therefore, JustNinja02, who just came back from inactivity quicly reclaimed Berlin with Frederick_III and became Kaiser again with his son as Kronprinz, ending the democratic short period of the nation.

Operation "Neu Adler"
By the end of May 2020, JustNinja02 with the help of Frederick_III began to improve Berlin by building new houses, a town storage and a station for boats on ice, the construction of the Imperial Palace was also planned although never built. While Berlin was under construction once again, the Kronprinz had the task of convincing ppl to join Berlin and he succeeded. A new Kanzler was appointed: ARCamp3100 and during this period, the last son of Frederick_III, concieved with Akg, was born: Insufficiently.

The period of calm and the Abdication of JustNinja02
The period going from June to August 2020 was a time in which the nation wasn't doing much progress as TerraeMC was lacking players in the IRL european time zone, so Berlin and german other towns were slowly going inactive. On July 19th 2020 JustNinja02 decided to abdicate and leave the Throne once and for all due to personal reasons and Frederick_III was crowned as the 2nd Kaiser of the German Empire.

Operation Germanic
Operation Germanic was launched by Kaiser Frederick_III in order to remodel Berlin from the beginning, leaving just the Reichstag untouched. The planning began during the last days of August when Frederick_III proposed to JustNinja02 to come back to help him rebuilding the city. The project foresaw the elimination of garden which were going to be replaced by concrete roads and city squares, the construction of the Volkshalle (Hall of the People), Embassies and Government facilities and finally new houses for citizens. However the operation reached only a 5% building progress as the new season of TerraeMC was being announced by Agaloth, and JustNinja02 stated that it was meaningless to continue the work. In the end the project was cancelled.

The Sleeping Empire and a new Kaiser
After the new season of the server, which forsaw a 1:500 scaled Earth map, was announced in September, the Empire went totally inactive. So the period of time from late September to mid February is known as the Sleeping Empire period. During that time Frederick_III decided to abdicate and to give the crown to his only active son, Insufficiently, who rapidly claimed the German lands for the upcoming season.

Overview
After Insufficiently became Kaiser of the German Empire on 11th November 2020, he announced that the nation will be re-established once again, then he rapidly announced the german claims on Discord. JustNinja02, whom came back from his long inactivity and Frederick_III stated that they will stay part of the Imperial Family and that they will support the new Kaiser. Later, on 19th February 2021, JustNinja02 was appointed Reichskanzler, and then the most anticipated moment ever came, finally TerraeMC season 1 was released and citizens run to make their own town and nation.

A New Empire
On February 20th 2021, a pair of hours after TerraeMC Season 1 was released, Berlin was founded and every available active citizen was invited in order to grow in claims. Then on February 27th 2021, the German Empire was finally proclaimed again, and this time it saw a huge growth in population and claims, faster than the old Berlin. JustNinja02 launched a project to fill Berlin's initial claimed chunks with houses so that every citizen can get one, a Lab (also known as "The Red Lab" due to its colour) was also built and it's purpose is to hold as many farms as possible to keep the town productive. Later a Shop was built so that citizens can sell their goods to both the nation and foreigners. A discord server named "Die Deutsche Grenze" (The German Border) was made public so that newcomers can apply to join the nation. This is was very fresh and positive start for the newly formed nation.

The German-Danish Border Problem
On February 25th 2021, a border made of possibly netherrack was spotted, it served to line up the german-danish border to avoid future problems regarding claims, but this wasn't seen very well by the German High Command as they feared it was a hostile strategy made by Denmark to block the Germans from entering its claims, but they kept silent. One week after the border was raised, it was upgraded by the Danes by adding checkpoints and gates and their nation was experiencing a super rapid growth in population that its territory became overcrowded with towns. Insufficiently feared that Denmark wasn't going to respect the border so he decided to send two players, Shadow and Bubbelludde, to make two towns (Hamburg and Kiel) near the border to block any Danish push into German claims. But things chilled a little when an alliance, the NATO, was signed between the German Empire, Denmark and the Anglo-Dutch Empire, on March 6th 2021. However, not every Dane shared the same opinions as their leadership, in fact some of them raided Berlin trying to kill German citizens, but they didn't succeed as Insufficiently warned the wandering danes that if they'd ever show up again, they were going be killed in sight.

Berlin's Great Growth
Work in progress...