Mount Augusta (CivClassic 2.0)

Mount Augusta is a large city-state in the -,+. It is most well known for its complex legal code, decorated judiciary, and friendliness to newfriends, as well as its long history dating back to the first iteration of Civcraft and its propensity for grid city layouts.

The city-state takes its name from its founders' attempts to randomly zoom in on places in Google Maps until a good name popped up; eventually, the founders landed on Alaskan Boundary Peak 183, named 'Mount Augusta' after the wife of an employee of the US Geological Survey, J. Augusta Olmsted Russell.

Mt. Augusta is governed according to the Constitution of Mount Augusta, a document which details the judiciary, executive, voting rights, and other functions of the state. It was founded according to a minarchist philosophy that subscribes to the idea of a Night-watchman state, aiming to provide military protection and courts to citizenry to protect from aggression, breach of contract and fraud while also safeguarding property rights.

Geography
Mt. Augusta is located at -6700, 3000 on a large sea-level plains biome. It is bordered by the Holy Jaded Empire to the north and the Commonwealth to the south. Directly across a small sea to the east, Mt. Augusta is buffeted by Compton and the Jefferson Confederacy.Of special note is the borough of the Commonwealth, Albion, which is the nearest city south of Augusta, and Milltown to the north, the nearest constituent to the Holy Jaded Empire.

Pre-Civclassics
Before Civclassics, Mt. Augusta existed in many different iterations of various civ-genre servers. The very first server that Mt. Augusta was involved in was Civcraft 1.0. Originally founded as the Augustan Republic, it became one of the most widely known cities, famed for its welcoming attitude and friendliness to new players. Despite suffering through wars, theater performances, assassinations, and corruption scandals, Mt. Augusta in Civcraft 1.0 was marked by the unity and fraternity of citizens, regardless of ideology.

As Civcraft 1.0 drew to an end, Mt. Augusta was reborn in Civcraft 2.0. During this time, it was led by many mayors, but the most famous Augustan leader of this period was Lord Mayor Prof_TANSTAAFL. During Civcraft 2.0, Mt. Augusta was involved in numerous conflicts, ranging from the feud with Gensokyo and related skirmishes such as the Goten Crisis and Fall of New Detroit to being a battleground between forces in the Libertas-Eden Cold War and later Nox War.

Mt. Augusta's time in the short-lived Civcraft 3.0 was marked by intense cooperation. Led by Njordmir and aleksey_t, Mt. Augusta quickly became a major player among the shards as an XP-producing trade powerhouse. This time would be short lived, however, as Civcraft 3.0 met its demise, and Mt. Augusta moved on to Devoted 3.0.

Devoted 3.0 saw one of the most aesthetically stunning iterations of Mt. Augusta yet, with beautiful curving roads, flowing terrain, and the heart and souls of its citizenry. However, much like other 3.0s, Devoted 3.0's time was limited, and the move to Civclassics was inevitable. Shortly before the end of Devoted 3.0, the citizenry of Mount Augusta agreed to move to an unofficial spinoff of Mt. Augusta in Civclassics, the current home of the city-state.

THE TDC CONFLICT
MtA came to a rocky start in civclassics. New mayor Programmc, was determined to keep the city alive and bring the former players from devoted to Civclassics. The city was established on the same island as another nation, TdC. At first the people of TdC were afraid of the new Augustan presence. In past iterations, Mt Augusta was a thriving and sprawling city, and the small nation was worried of annexation and overshadowing by the Augustan territory. However, Mt Augustan mayor, ProgramMC eased these worries, and there was peace for a time. At this time, Mt Augusta was small. The newly reformed nation had trouble bringing back old players. It never reached it's old heights at that location, but did end up becoming a successful town, with a small, but united population. However, tensions with the neighboring TdC began to grow worse. Griefing and murders began to become common to Mt Augusta and TdC. This period was known as the TdC conflict. Eventually, Mt Augusta's population started to die out. TdC asked to annex what was formally Mt Augusta. Program accepted. The conflict came to one final climax, when ProgramMC was briefly pearled for griefing TdC. After this the conflict slowed and stoped, and now Mt Augusta in it's new location, has much better relations with the nation.

MT AUGUSTA RETURNS
With no home and little population, the long living nation seemed to have reached it's end. However, in November 2017, under the leadership of new mayor Ahri and former mayor ProgramMC, Mt Augusta returned, with a new location. This new location exploded into a sprawling city, and is still expanding. It's population boomed, and Mt Augusta has now become one of the highest populated cities on the server. Since then, Mt Augusta's political scene has burst out too. With a record number of voters in the city, and a high amount of political parties and candidates, it is much changed. ProgramMC has since been re-elected as mayor of Mt Augusta

Currently, there are high tensions as the debate between the political parties grows more and more heated, with the three main voting factions being the Constitutionalists, The Worker's Party, and NUP.

Government
The Mount Augustan government consists of a Mayor, 3 Judges, and a Diplomat. Information regarding this can be found in our Constitution.

We also have a court system operating on our other /r/mtaugustajustice which follows our criminal code.

MtA Politics
As of late May 2018 there are eleven documented parties :


 * 1) Workers' Party TWPflag.png
 * 2) N.U.P.
 * 3) Mount Augusta Agrarian Party (MAAP) Agrarian party.jpeg
 * 4) Mir Industrial Party Mir-Party-Flag.png
 * 5) Pearled Player's Party (PPP)
 * 6) Mount Augustan Naval Party
 * 7) Minarchist Individualist Libertarian Front Minarchism.png
 * 8) Party Parrot Party
 * 9) TNT Corps
 * 10) International Discord Party
 * 11) Unorganised Weeb Union (UWU)

Mapping
In progress maps: MtA Map / offsite