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= City of Aytos =

The City of Aytos is a island state located at the coordinates -3300 -3600. It is owned by the New Ayatian Order

Founding
The City of Aytos originated from a large city built in 1.0 called Tigerstaden. While it was a very large community, upon the ending of 1.0 the community broke up and did not immediately jump to form another town in 2.0. Despite being separated for several months, on August 3rd, 2013, pavel_the_hitman made a post on the old Tigerstaden subreddit asking if any former players from Tigerstaden would like to build a &quot;Tigerstaden 2.0&quot; After a generally positive response, a subreddit for the new town was made 3 days later and on August 9th, the first building in Aytos was constructed.

The Golden Age
By the time leading up to the Third Parliament, Aytos was a thriving city. Aytos was designed from the very beginning to be a hospitable place for newfriends, and between the clonefriend deluge and other immigration there was a regular population of about 25 players or so. There were also several other immigrants that were not new on civcraft, but who were attracted to Aytos's unique multiparty political system. Five expatriates of Grundeswald who had recently been expelled from Orion also emigrated to Aytos as a group. These Grundeswegians formed the &quot;Sable League Party&quot;, and their leader kovio won one parliament seat in the Second Aytos Parliament.

Formation of the PILF
The PILF (Personal Individual Liberty Foundation) was a political party in Aytos founded by DjFunktipus. He bought a plot in Aytos, and built a massive tower to sky limit on it called the Foofed Memorial Tenement. DjFunk gave a free tower room to everyone who applied for one, notably including to most of the populations of Carson and Prussia, all of whom subsequently demanded the right to vote in Aytos elections despite not living in Aytos. These demands were accompanied by the initiation of a campaign of rioting and violence within Aytos in which many of our citizens and government officials were murdered and/or pearled, including two consecutively-serving Aytos Mayors. In the most extreme cases of violence, the perpetrators were untouchable due to their favorable associations with that group now variously known as the &quot;World Police&quot; or &quot;LADS&quot;. (For example, the Aytos government posted a 200d bounty on Cliffnerd5 with screenshot evidence of combat tagging and pearling 6 bystanders in Aytos. The bounty had no effect, since other members of the so-called &quot;world police&quot; promised to pearl anyone who tried to collect.)

Government Response, and PILF's Ultimatum
Non-residents demanding the vote was a situation that was obviously against the spirit and letter of our constitution, as well as the general concept of democracy. So the Aytos government proceeded to sort between legitimate and illegitimate voters by using a survey to determine which of the new voters had actually been witnessed inside of Aytos, to determine the plausibility of each voter's meeting the constitutional requirement of Aytos residency. The PILF's response was to boycott the residency survey, and to threaten continued riots and violence if all ballots were not blindly accepted as valid.

The November Election
Appearing to succumb to the threats, the Mayor of Aytos MadeofMeat announced that the residency survey would not be used, and that no ballot would be discounted based on a suspicion of non-residency. However, the day before the election, Meat worked with the Second Aytos Parliament (including MP kovio of the Sable League Party) to quickly pass an eleventh-hour law granting unconditional Aytian citizenship to the entire population of Grundeswald. This added about 20 Grundeswegian voters, diluting the presence of both PILF and SDP so that the result of the election was a three-way split.

The new arrangment unexpectedly left Aytos residents in control of their own executive government, but it was a hollow victory. No solution to the ongoing violence was in sight. Also, the Aytos public was not satisfied with merely having obtained an arrangement where a 3-man Sable-SDP coalition could pass legislation. As a proportional representation body, the Third Parliament was a lie: it did not truly reflect Aytos.

The Decline
These dissatisfactions led to large numbers of residents leaving Aytos during the next several weeks, some quitting civcraft altogether. The Mayor and Police Chief both quit their jobs and attempted to form a provisional government which failed when parilment didn't resign with them. The Foofed Memorial Tenement and Grundeswald seceded in the wake of the provisional parilment however the FMT state fell as well (Grundeswald was recognized as independent). Mayor Rykleos's resignation was hasty, and left ambiguity about who would run the next election. At the time, kovio was &quot;Immigration Commissar&quot;, and Meat was &quot;Master of Coin&quot; and they were the only department-head level officials remaining after Rykleos's departure, so it fell to one of them to handle the election. Kovio and MadeofMeat agreed that it seemed most appropriate for the immigration department to handle the election, so he took over all the arrangements.

The ballot kovio published was incredibly suspicious, there was no &quot;yes&quot; option to vote for any party other than the Sable League, there was also an option to select &quot;I am not a citizen&quot; on the ballot (there was no option to say you were). Also, kovio used his powers as Immigration Commissar to disenfranchise all Aytos residents that did not vote or selected the &quot;I am not a citizen&quot; option Only 6 ballots were counted because most voters did not realize that selecting the I am not a citizen option and voting for the Sable League was not a required part of the ballot (though there was no way to vote for any party other than the Sable League). The next day, the all-Sable Fourth Parliament used its powers to hold a referendum dissolving the Aytos constitution and annexing Aytos to become a protectorate of Grundeswald.

The Restoration(s)
After the Grundeswegian annexation, Aytos was a ghost town for about three months. But during this time an event happened which is viewed as tremendously significant for Aytos: The Exile of the LADS. Without the support of untouchables like cliffnerd5, the PILF no longer had the physical power to prevent the Aytians from reforming the republic on their own terms. This also led to several former Aytian players to return from inactivity an led to Grundeswald ceding Aytos to Stratmatt57 for a small amount of diamonds. Throughout the next couple months Aytos would see a surge in activity and new friends. Sadly after a short amount of time after the revival the town would become inactive due to red tape, lack of things to do and inactive government (due to the government playing Terrafirma craft). A few months later in october a second revival would commence commence due to a questioning in Aytos leadership and the call for an election. The town kicked back to life and the election brought both new and old friends together to revitalize the town. Sadly due to red tape and bureaucracy no changes were made to the town and very little laws were passed, the most notable ones being the BOAT act, which defined Aytos borders.

April Election Fraud
After the failed attempt of resurrecting the town in october the town was mostly inactive for the followng months, with only a few players logging in to check up on the town from October 2014-April 2015. In April of 2015 a player by the name of cheifjames made a post on the r/civcraftAytos subreddit wanting a revival of Aytos. This jump started the chain of events lasting well into september. The players of Aytos called for a vote of no confidence and the government was dissolved and election would take place. The town would go into a period political debate which it didn't see for a long time, with the focus being on the how to handle the constitution. The town was split into reformists (led by cheifjames) who wanted to change the constitution and remove red tape in the government, and the conservatives who wanted to keep the current constitution (led by Madeofmeat). Many residents in town would come back online and campaign for a seat in office. The results of the election had cheifjames,madeofmeat and comped into office. The results outraged people due to their being little support to comped in the election and him gaining a seat. The town suspected comped of use fraud to gain office, and demanded an investigation of the election. After a few days of investigation it was revealed that fraud had been commenced but comped was innocent of the crime, and that he had been framed. To date no suspect has been concluded with who may have done commited the crime

Separation of Axe island
After the fraudulent election a new one swiftly occured which placed cheifjames, fishwithafez and madeofmeat into power. Shortly after some revitalization talk began a player by the name of staticportal bought the mushroom island (off the coast of Aytos) from monkeywithanaxe who had prevously given in to the government, Staticportal wanting to form his own nation asked many times if the government would let the island go as they were not using it at the present time, and each time he asked the government turned him down. After being turned down many times staticportal made a declaration of independence, declaring separation from the Aytos federation, which cheifjames and torche signed. On suspect of treason players comped and kevalalgen (sorry if misspelled kev, love -cheif) sued cheifjames and torche on account of treason. The case was dropped shortly after as no violation of the law could be found, Axe island though would still be under Aytos ruleThe ensueing drama brought monkeywithanaxe back from his leave from Aytos and declared a vote of no confidence, which passed.

The reign of Monkeywithanaxe
After the court case (see above) was settled monkeywithanaxe declared a vote of no confidence and would run for office. His vote of no confidence passed and monkeywithanaxe's party won almost every seat. Monkeywithanaze began very drastic changes, the first being a dismissal of all government ministers of their positions and replacing them with himself. Shortly after leaving a demo of the a new constitution up for debate monkeywithanaxe left for a weeks vacation (IRL) and would be abset for that time. During this time Madeofmeat declared that monkeywithanaxes government was corrupt due to revelations that while cheifjames was in power he bypassed the &quot;Dr_oracle land management act&quot; to give monkeywithanaxe plots in town for a fraction of their retail price, and after coming into power monkeywithanaxe pardoning cheifjames. Madeofmeat staged a vote of no confidence and messaged inactive players who were still citizens to vote and pass the the vote of no confidence. When Monkey returned after his week of absence the town was chaos, with many people of town angry at madeofmeat and wanting him removed from town. Madeofmeats memorial statue was torn down (the town needed the materials to run a factory, madeofmeats statue happened to be made of the materials required) and he had lost much of his support. Come the election monkeywithanaxe retained power but with kevalalagen and t1902t (ruler of mine-koping) also gaining a seat. Monkeywithanaxe continued with his plans and brought as much reforms as he could, such as allowing the seperation of Axe isle and Mine-Koping from the federation and allowing the island of Orthyis to be independent of the Aytos Federation. Monkeywithanaxe also nullified all previous laws made by previous Aytos parliament members save for a few. Finally Monkeywithanaxe updated the Aytos land claims. After completing what he set out to do Monkeywithanaxe retired from his position and gave cheifjames his seat, who only held it for a shot amount of time before taking a leave from civcraft.

Fall of the Aytos Federation
After cheifjames gave up his seat in parliament and t1902t being inactive it left kevalalajen as the sole member of parliament. Worse the town had mostly become inactive due to arguments that took place over the summer time. In september of 2015 Kevalalajen hosted an election with the remaining town members and both Pavel_the_hitman and kevalajen got seats in office. The two being the sole members of parliament motioned for the federation to be dissolved and a monarchy led by Kevalalajen and Pavel_the_hitman would arise in its place. The two declared themselves kings of Aytos and made their word law. Under the monarchy the town died for a few months, due to the kings not passing any laws to help the town, nor did they encourage new freinds to settle or to build anything new.

The rise and take over of the New Ayatian Order
Upon returning to civcraft a few months later, cheifjames formed the New Ayatian Order and declared a revolution would commence to overthrow the monarchy and return democracy to Aytos. The New Ayatian Order gained lots of support and very quickly its members stormed government building ransacking all the wealth and supplies they could find before beginning re construction of the town. The former monarchs had lost control and Aytos citizens no longer listened to their rule. Kevalalajen and Pavel_the_hitman logged in a few days later to suppress the revolution, but in a twist of events pavel_the_hitman betrayed kevalalgen and pearled him, handing his pearl over to cheifjames and steping down as monarch, giving his title to greenkitten, the ruler of grunsaswald. After negotiating with greenkitten the New Ayation Order seized control of Aytos legally and planned a golden age to commence in Aytos, setting up exp factories and tearing down old buildings. Shortly after the take over the civcraft mods announced civcraft 3.0 (server reset).The New Ayatian Order would rebuild Aytos in the new world.