Odresh

Odresh is a province of Yoahtl in the +,+ quadrant. Its capital is Odresh City, on the nation's southern coast. It is currently led by Crusher6581 as Governor and Lokilog as Lieutenant Governor.

Devoted
Odresh was originally founded on Devoted 3.0, in Spring 2017, by Crusher6581. It quickly endured a revolution resulting in the creation of the RSFSR, a communist group to the south, who remained hostile for the duration of Devoted. Odresh then annexed the nearby abandoned city of The Templar State of Nova Blyat, which was dubbed 'the Commonwealth' (no relation to CivClassics Commonwealth), and became a state of the United Federation.

Realms
After Devoted shut down, Pcmas12 and Lokilog founded Odresh in Realms. They created a small settlement to the south of their claimed island, and after realizing the existence of a large, abandoned city on the island, Carcosa, they moved their capital there and began to restore the area. It was here that Odresh became friendly with the nation of Hokkaido due to trade.

First Months
When Realms announced that it would be shutting down, the remaining active citizens of Odresh (Lokilog, Crusher6581, Pcmas12, and ZiggyCraft102) agreed to merge with Hokkaido to form the nation of Okashima. When Okashima became inactive, these citizens moved to the +,+ quadrant and established the nation of Odresh. It was quickly discovered that another player, Bennyboo, was planning on building a nearby city, so they created the Sozialstaat Agreement, which incorporated the city into Odresh. They annexed the inactive nation of Batavia and claimed most of the land on their continent up to the borders of Maltovia. Their capital, Odresh city, lies on the edge of the coastal cliffs to the south of the nation. As aspiring members of SATO and the NCA, they quickly began a rail project to connect the city to Vinland.

Auroran Independence
As more people arrived to the city of Sozialstaat, it was revealed that it was built by citizens of Aurora, a nation that dates back to CivCraft. Crusher and Lokilog realized that the city was becoming more Auroran than Odreshi, and during discussions with Bennyboo, they Aurorans announced that they wanted to be independent. From here, independence negotiations began, resulting in the full independence of Aurora. Unlike the situation with the RSFSR, the two nations maintain friendly relations. Lokilog later

Odresh-Phylon Conflict
In December 2018, the first section of the previously mentioned rail to the NCA was completed, going from Odresh City to the nation of Phylon. The F.A.R. at the time, Lokilog, had thought the nation to be inactive, due to it's absence from the claims maps and the fact that many of the city's buildings had been broken into, and so the citizens Odresh voted to annex the island 4-2. A few weeks later, a snitch was discovered on the rail near Phylon's station. Upon breaking it, it was discovered that the snitch was placed by OLivay. He was confronted about the situation, and after declaring Phylon to be an active nation, he quickly restricted the city. A few days later, Lokilog and Crusher went to check if any more snitches had been placed, and after finding none, decided to explore the island. They eventually found their way into the rail station, and from there, Phylon's storage area. The small check had turned into a raid, and so Lokilog and Crusher broke into a few chests and destroyed a few noteblock snitches. After realizing OLivay was online, they left the island with three splash potions of healing. Upon returning to Odresh, they knew that a raid was imminent, and so they dropchested their valuables. Indeed, almost immediately after, five raiders from Phylon showed up, pearling Crusher and logboxing Lokilog in the community center. They alerted their friends in Okashima, who asked for assistance from Vinland. They set out to free Lokilog, but most of them didn't know that Phylon's raid had been justified. Upon reaching Odresh, they broke and logbox and freed Lokilog, who escaped and logged out in the NYC station. Over the next two weeks, a trial was held with Askedar as judge, who sentenced Lokilog and Crusher to two weeks in prison pearl. The only reps sentenced were the three potions, the blocks broken, the reinforcement materials, and the mana costs for the two weeks Lokilog and Crusher would spend in prison pearl.

Return to the Server
After the Odresh-Phylon conflict, Odresh fell inactive, partially because of the opening of CivEx. Five months later, though, in May 2019, Crusher6581 and Lokilog returned to activity. Their first task was to clean up and repair Odresh City, but they soon realized that they could expand and use the Batavian XP and ice farms. As they began to harvest more and more XP resources, Okx from Vinland offered to help them build a simple, single-line rail from Odresh to Vinland. Completed in just two days, a vote was initiated within the NCA to accept Odresh into the alliance, passing on May 13th, 2019. During this time, construction began on a large fortress, drawing inspiration from Okashima's castle in Okato. Later, Odresh annexed the two islands to its north, with plans to set up a nether wart farm. However, this project stalled, as they realized it would too much of a pain to make the journey. The nation then switched it's focus farming XP materials, improving Odresh City, and recruiting new members.

Province of Yoahtl
In September 2019, Odresh joined Yoahtl as a non-autonomous town, meaning that Odresh gives up the freedom to form military alliances and agreements with other nations without Yoahtlan consent in return for mutual defense and close economic and legal integration. Odresh also has the right to secede at any time.

September Raids
From September 20th-24th, Odresh experienced three raids in rapid succession which quickly became known as the September Raids. While no one was pearled, and material loses were minimal, Odresh City's infrastructure was decimated by repeated TNT detonations. The first raid was minor, when Brsxoi entered the city and broke open all houses, stealing whatever valuables remained in the city. After a period of long inactivity, Lokilog logged on soon after and saw this, reported it to Crusher, and then disconnected for the day. On Monday, September 23rd, at approximately 3:51 PM EST, likely alt IkChapDollo repeatedly detonated TNT around the city, wreaking havoc on all structures. While buildings like the Community Center emerged relatively unscathed, places like Crusher Apartments were reduced to crumbling walls. The next day, n8mastercrafter placed major grief around the city, with small pillars of lava and water falling from the tops of buildings, and pumpkins scattered around the city, though they were not reinforced. This was quickly cleaned up, and is best summarized by Lokilog's raid announcement on reddit, in which he said "This one hasn't really changed anything? It just gave us a bunch of pumpkins." By the end of the night, most of the damage to the city from both the 23rd and 24th raids had been cleaned up, with the only major exception being Crusher Apartments. It was intentionally left in this state, as there were talks of turning it into a memorial after the city was rebuilt. The residences of both Lokilog and Crusher were torn down, the first buildings to go in the planned period of demolition and subsequent reconstruction envisioned by Crusher after the Sept. 23rd raid. At this point, the raids had caused players from across Yoahtl to pitch into the effort to help Odresh. After the Sept. 23rd raid, 300 diamond bounties were put on both Brsxoi and IkChapDollo, but now military action was being taken. Tlanexcui was stationed in Odresh, ready to log in and attack if necessary, while progress on an ice road to between Odresh and Yoahtl proper saw great advancement. Furthermore, a massive care package was being put together to help the city recover, while Okato Shipping announced that they would provide free deliveries to Icenia (which had also experienced raids) and Odresh for the rest of the month. Talk also shifted to why this was happening, and why they kept coming back to an already-ruined city. Odresh simply hadn't done anything to provoke these attacks. At present, no perpetrator has been determined, though it is suspected that all attacks are alts from one player or group. Finally, the next day, Crusher and Lokilog successfully pearled the raider as they attempted to place grief in the early morning. This ended the September Raids, and began the period of reconstruction in which most buildings were torn down and replaced. This period of reconstruction ended halfway through completion due to, once more, inactivity.

Reconstruction
After a long period of inactivity, Lokilog and Crusher got together the few old citizens that still wanted to play and began the process of Reconstruction. Originally, they planned for this to occur immediately after the raids, but they went inactive once more, and only the very first steps were ever taken. A new, ordered plan calls for a revival of the province's infrastructure and playerbase in three steps:


 * 1) Odresh City: The primary goal of phase one is to clean up remaining grief in Odresh City, and to replace old buildings with newer, better-looking ones. This phase also promotes citizens currently living in Batavia or Garnet to build a structure of their own on one of the city's various empty plots.
 * 2) Batavia + Garnet: The second phase is focused on finishing the Batavian Castle and connecting Garnet to the rest of the province. The castle's second level is still incomplete, and overall it needs some additional aesthetic elements. Meanwhile, Garnet is relatively isolated, so a new branch of the footpaths will be built to serve as the primary connection to other population centers.
 * 3) Recruitment: Once phases one and two have been completed, the final step in Reconstruction will be to recruit newfriends. Lokilog has stated that he wants to build a solid community in Odresh, and so made recruitment a central goal of reconstruction. In addition, new citizens will solidify the province as an active part of Yoahtl and the server as whole, while ensuring that it will not fall into inactivity as it has so many times before.

Phylonian Debates
(Ongoing at the moment, to be written)

Development
When Odresh was founded, it struggled to set up a defined political system. Crusher6581 wanted a monarchy until they had more citizens, while Lokilog pushed for a direct or representative democracy. As the debate flared up and other citizens weighed in, they shifted to two definite positions: Lokilog wanted a direct democracy, while Crusher wanted a representative democracy. Lokilog argued that they didn't have enough people for a representative democracy, and as such, almost everyone would be in a government position. He wanted decisions to be made directly. On the other hand, Crusher believed that a representative democracy was better, because with direct democracy, people who are unaware and not educated in current civpolitics would have control over every decision made. In the end, they voted for an indefinite but temporary direct democracy, and when a certain undecided number of citizens was reached, they would vote once more to determine the permanent system of government. For the nation's leadership, they decided to create the Foreign Affairs Representative, or F.A.R. The job of the F.A.R. was to act that the chief diplomat for the nation, representing it in all negotiations and general appearances on the world stage. In addition, the F.A.R. served as the leader in times of crisis. They could declare a national crisis at any time, allowing them to bypass the legislative process and take action immediately. Of course, there were limitations to this to prevent a dictator from taking charge, but this power was only invoked once, to create a tavel ban to Phylon during the Odresh-Phylon Conflict. Since Odresh's integration with Yoahtl, the positions of F.A.R. and Deputy F.A.R. have been replaced with Governor and Lieutenant Governor, currently occupied by Crusher6581 and Lokilog respectively.

2020 Reforms
In January 2020 a multitude of bills were put forward by Crusher and Lokilog as part of Reconstruction. Crusher introduced a series of bills that formally transferred the powers of the F.A.R. to the Governor, as well as established protocol for elections secession from Yoahtl. Meanwhile, Lokilog proposed a new system in which citizens would have to register to vote before participating in elections or voting on bills. This system would operate similarly to the Mount Augusta system, in which citizens would take a picture of themselves in front of a specified landmark and post it on discord to be verified. This way, inactive citizens would be automatically removed from the pool of eligible voters. This proposal replaced the original idea of an 'inactivity vote' in which citizens would vote to strip a player of their citizenship if they were inactive. However, such a system was deemed to be too slow and tedious, as the entire community would be called on to determine the activity for every citizen in question.

NCA
On May 13th, 2019, Odresh was admitted into the NCA, but at present, this is more or less meaningless given that all NCA members are now a part of Yoahtl.

Okashima
Odresh has a strong relationship with Okashima, in part because all of the founding citizens were Okashiman citizens. Okashima has provided military aid and other assistance, such as with the construction of the NCA rail, over the many months of Odresh's existence, and the two countries participated in unofficial mutual defense before their integration into Yoahtl.

Aurora
Aurora and Odresh maintain friendly relations, a relief for the oldfriends of Odresh who saw the chaos caused by the conflict between the first Odresh and the RSFSR. They have talked about constructing a rail line between their capital cities, and a passage through the mountains already exists.

Phylon
Because of the Phylon conflict, Odresh and Phylon were hostile since around the start of 2019. The Odreshi government placed a travel ban along the rail line between Phylon and Odresh City, enforced with a simple wall and sign. As time went on, this old wound slowly began to close, and given the two nations have not made any sort of contact since the conflict, they more or less ignore each other.

Odresh City
As the capital of Odresh, Odresh City was the nation's first settlement. It has a Community Center and Factory Building, accessible by all citizens. The old Community Center was torn down after the Phylon Conflict to reveal the logbox inside, and was turned into a memorial of the event. The rest of the town is relatively small, with a small farm, a few houses, and a work-in-progress rail station.

Batavia
Batavia was a nation in the tundra to the north of Odresh, but was annexed after they fell inactive and didn't respond to messages. During Odresh's first return to the server, the old citizens of Batavia came back, and now live as a semi-autonomous territory within Odresh. The agreement made between the two peoples allows the people of Batavia to have complete control over government, builds, laws, etc. The only exceptions to this are the Batavian Castle and the XP Farms. In addition, all national laws supersede local laws. The elevation change from mountains to tundra transportation to the mountains difficult, but a waterdrop and minecart elevator connect the area with the rest of Odresh.

Garnet
Garnet is a small town founded close to the geographic center of the province by Big Money. As a relatively new part of Odresh, and having come about in a time of inactivity, it is not a major part of the province, as its creator is its only resident. It is connected to the rest of Odresh through the footpaths.

Urbania
Connected to Odresh City by rail, Urbania was another abandoned nation directly to the east of the capital. The settlement consists of two large, incomplete government buildings. As with Batavia, it has no inhabitants. At the edge of the city, a mountain pass exists to Aurora, and talks about extending the rail have come up repeatedly. However, with Aurora mostly inactive, this seems unlikely.

Footpaths
Soon after the founding of Odresh, Lokilog began working on a series of mountain passes to connect Odresh City to other settlements and areas in the nation. At the moment, footpaths connect the Odresh City, Batavia, Garnet, and extend out to the periphery of the desert region. These paths cut across a good portion of the nation, and serve as the main route of transportation within the province.

Mountains
Most of Odresh consists of mountainous terrain, making it hard to cross the territory quickly, though this has been lessened since the completion of the footpaths. This serves as a slight obstacle to the development of Odresh City, though given it's inactivity at the time, this does not pose any significant problem.

Tundra
To the west, the Batavian tundra forms a large, flat plain with few trees. Here, Odresh's potato, beetroot, and ice farms lie, left over from the previous rulers of the area. This section of the nation is growing quickly and the XP farms are expanded, and is a center of activity for the citizens of Odresh. Next to the farms, there is a large castle, which is still in development, and a few scatted buildings from abandoned civilizations. Furthermore, a large town was constructed here by the original Batavians after their return in July 2019. It's border with both the mountains and sea are defined by tall cliffs, increasing travel times, though there is a single waterdrop and minecart elevator connecting the tundra to the mountains.

Desert
The eastern part of Odresh consists of a vast expanse of desert. As with Batavia, it's border with the mountains consists of cliffs, but is just above sea level, so travel by water is comparatively easy. However, a narrow land bridge to Maltovia means that travelers must sail around Aurora to reach the desert. The footpaths end at the border between the mountains and desert, though without a proper waterdrop to the latter, travel is still difficult and dangerous.