CivcraftImport:Cities2/new augusta

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= The City of New Augusta =

New Augusta is a city in The Metropolis during Civcraft 2.0. The history of NA dates back to Civcraft 1.0 when it split from the great city Mount Augusta.

= History =

1.0

February 2013: New Augusta started out it's life as a mining colony when the city of Mount Augusta passed a bill of Colonies (although many Mt.A citizens were against the idea). /u/GTAIVisbest and /u/lightning1789 mostly managed the colony in its early days.

The first inkling of secession and independance that the colony had was a month later, when player lightning1789 caused a stir.

Sometime during march, the current Mayor of Mt. Augusta (and the colony) ,GTAIVisbest, thought the state of Mt. Augusta was very restricting and no progress was being made. So, he and a group of supportersseceeded from Mt.Augusta to create New Augusta in hopes of having a simpler government structure (New Augusta Manifesto. The land that made up New Augusta was the mining colony and the properties of the original secessionists. However, this created great amounts of conflict as they had no right to claim the land of Mt. Augusta. The secessionists eventually gave up the conflict in Mt. Augusta and moved to the mining colony, which became the city of New Augusta. (At least before the map reset, and Civcraft 2.0)

2.0

In the beginning of 2.0, the cities that had agreed to populate the Metropolis were to organize themselves at -8000, -8000. A relief camp was contructed there for New Augusta citizens.

Later, the plans for the layout of cities in metro was released. New Augusta citizens were to go to the designated point in metro and commence business as usual as a city. Very few made the journey because this was still the time when the server had a lengthly queue to log in.

However, during that time no progress was being made, both in game and on the subreddit. Citizens bickered about themselves as for what to do about a new government. It was planned to keep the same constitution and government as in 1.0, but it was evident it would not work with so many new changes in 2.0.

One player in particular, /u/lightning1789, constantly hindered the people from coming to a consensus. This caused the lifelong leader of NA, GTAIVisbest, to leave the city. In the end, the restructuring of the government drove away most of the population from 1.0 that swore to keep their policies, which is why the current population of New Augusta today doesn't have many original New Augustans.

After GTA left, the city was thrown into a state of political disheveal. The election to elect the next Prime Minister was as heated it ever had been previously. Words were slung, and decrees were made, mostly by Lightning. He went as far as trying to change the goverment type to win. When that did not work, he dissolved New Augusta. This didn't work. Shortly after, Comped, along with imput from various others members of NA, wrote the 2nd defining document of NA, after the 1st constitution: the The Restructure of goverment (including nullification of laws) act, which passed unamiously, and was the governing document of New Augusta until the constitution was passed 3 months later (which took effect in September of 2013.).

Shortly after, the city centre was moved after buildings were starting to be built, with the main marketplace as the centre. The city was also divided into districts, with senators from each district making political decisions as a group.

That very political body was tsted on the night of December 15th 2013, when the PM at the time, HelmetTesterTJ, dissolved the New Augustan goverment, natinoalized private property, and tried to install himself as a dictator, in an effort to form the so called &quot;East Augustan Company&quot;. Shamrock_Jones, who dissaproved of the bypassing of the constitution he wrote, for economic gains, prevented conflict from breaking out, by posting this message, in which he outlined the way forward for the city. It was followed, and HelmetTesterTJ was impeached. He was impeached within an hour of his &quot;dissolving the goverment, by the very senate he dissolved. After a short term of having Enforcer15 as PM, Shamrock was elected to the office, in which he currently serves. Which brings us up to the present. NA has about 10 active citizens, and is progressing at it's own pace, far from both danger, and the go-getter feel of the rest of civcraft.

= Government =

As a member of The Metropolis, New Augusta abides by the Contract of Neighbourly understanding.

The most recent constitution of New Augusta is available here.

New Augusta currently has a senate system where each district elects a senator to sit on the council, and the senators make the vote on the laws of the city.

A post detailing senate procedures is available here.

Also, New Augusta's Voting and Citizenship Act is also an important act detailing the processes of voting and how to become a citizen.

And a record of past New Augusta Officials.

They have a Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation between the City-States of New Augusta and Orion, proposed and written by Ambassador-At-Large Comped. It was ratified by both the New Augustan Senate, and the Orion people, by a wide majority, and continues to positively drive relations between the two cities to this day.

All of these documents are also available on the wiki page of the New Augusta subreddit.

= Districts =

The District Building Guide

The City of New Augusta uses districts as a way of respresenting the population of each part of the city in laws and government. Each district has a say in laws through their Senator, which they elect to sit on the council. The Senators job is to represent the best interests of their respective district.

Currently there are 8 district areas, 3 of which are populated. The districts are:

Zone 1 - Unclaimed

Zone 2 - Unclaimed

Zone 3 - Unclaimed

Zone 4 - Unclaimed

Zone 5 - Modern district

Lead developer: Turtlecupcakes

Zone 6 - Unclaimed

Zone 7 - Luxury Villas (Villahood)

Lead Deveoloper: Unclaimed

Zone 69 - SnowyVale

Lead Developer: TheLateHermit (/u/lel_rabbit)

= Economy =

New Augusta has no economy to speak of.

= Landmarks and Surroundings =

This is an (outdated) image of the geography.

The terrain around New Augusta is praries, with very few hills. The most defining feature is the river running from the south around the north tip of the city, and then turning to go south again, effectively blocking land access from the city centre except from the south.

There is also a tundra biome, which the district of Snowy Vale inhabits.

The city also owns Comped field, a large cactus/portal farm, in the desert nearby, named after comped. There is a road to Minas Minas, a scant 600 meters or so away, along with a portion of a road to Freedom, and several tunnels heading to both Ancora and other, undisclosed, places.

= Notable Players in New Augustan History =

GTAIVisbest - the central founder and leader of New Augusta in 1.0. Fromer Vice-President of Orion, and current diplomat for them, stationed in Mount Augusta.

Shamrock_Jones - (former?) leader of one of the Gondolin Houses, former PM of New Augusta. Well known businessman.

Comped - the Ambassador-At-Large of New Augusta. Tried buying the Agoran Federation at the end of 1.0 from Enforcer15 (along with comped's Tridentia Company/ the neverformed state of Tridentia, which turned out to be a bad idea. Later did a bunch of business deals, and came to NA to escape and reform. Played a major part in reviving the goverment of NA after Lightning's leaving, and served 2 full terms as a senator. Voted himself out of his own seat to become his current posistion. Current location is undisclosed, for security reasons.