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== History ==

 

=== Introduction ===

 

=== CivUniverse ===

Officially founded on October 21, 2020, prior to the server launch, the Autonomous Republic of [[Acadia]], sometimes also referred to as 'the dominion of Acadia' was one of the oldest nations of [[CivUniverse]].<ref>The first announcement on Acadia Discord: [https://imgur.com/a/ysmnXuO link] (imgur of discord message)</ref> Undeterred by the risk of shitters and toxicity, [[Cortwade]], the first Prime Minister of Acadia, sought to make a new group on the newly-born server. Quickly after launch Acadians found the continent of Hyperborea and settled their capital city Turing, with help from a few [[Javaya|Javayans]]. Before the day was out Turing featured a factory building and the beginnings of its first large potato farm. In the following month houses were built and the town of Serena was founded as an outpost, and work began on the Acadia Grand Central Station, connecting Turing to Javaya. While activity began to slow down, this was quickly offset by a very successful recruitment initiative, bringing new life and energy into Acadia. The potato farm was expanded, the central station completed, and both Turing and Serena kept growing, most notably with the construction of the Supreme Tribunal in Turing.[[File:Picture of Old Turing.png|thumb|335x335px|Screenshot of Old Turing from the sea, made by Bloof|left]]Shortly after the influx Acadia held its first elections, reelecting Cortwade for a second term. In terms of engagement, the elections were a great success.<ref>Recording of the first Acadian election debates: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2z8dbSizMQ&ab_channel=Pandastical link] (youtube video)</ref> However, it also marked the beginning of Acadia's divise party politics.<ref>Divisiveness in the first elections: [https://imgur.com/a/LVR3VfU link] (imgur of discord message)</ref> The development of an intra-Acadian rail was a paramount issue during the election, with Progressive-Snow candidates campaigning for the construction of an underground rail, and Solidarity Party candidates campaigning for an overground rail and claiming that the Progressive-Snow candidates were dragging their feet on the issue. While the Acadian Parliament kept discussing and delaying the issue, Interim Minister of Homeland Affairs [[Bloof]], member of the Progressive Snow Party and Javaya's 'fixer' in Acadia, eventually decided to finish the rail on her own. With the excitement of a new server sipping away and newfriend activity going down Acadia's population began to shrink in size despite new recruitment initiatives. Nevertheless, Acadia remained on of the most active nations on the server and kept developing. The Lionsgate Stadium was built, as well as a new, larger factory building, and Turing kept expanding with more residential and commercial buildings.

 

 

=== CivClassic ===

 

==== Launch and Early History ====

 

 

Nevertheless, progress would continue, albeit slowly. Through ancient pre-existing rail Acadia was now connected to the rest of the server, and most importantly Icenia, as the nearest economic center with 20 minutes on rail. Acadia's utter isolation came to an end in June 2021 as the [[Kingdom of Fish]], a spin-off nation from [[Wyvern]], a friendly close nation on CivUniverse, decided to settle east of Acadia. Acadia and Fish immediately signed a Friendship treaty, binding the two nations in an alliance, and giving citizens from either nation unrestricted access to full citizenship in the other. Acadia began to grow a notable population of Fish duals, including [[The druid|Druid]] and [[JayTeeR]].

More trouble followed soon as Acadia had become interesting enough for raiders, but not developed enough to form a successful defense and deterrence against raiders. The raiders were aided by a lack of security-awareness in the general Acadian public. A notable example was the case of Peterdama17, an unknown alt-account, who managed to steal around 100 diamonds from an Acadian citizen who had left them in a stone reinforced chest with the doors leading to the chest left open. By far the most infamous alt-raids came from Acadian and Fish citizens Druid and JayTeeR however, who went on an alt-raidings spree on alt-accounts indonesianbeans and GalacticBroom65 after Druid's almost succesful candidacy for Acadian Minister of Defense, heated discussions about their design of Fish Vault, and general boredom.<ref>Bounty posted on indonesianbeans and galacticbroom65: [https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/ogkq6f/bounty_on_galacticbroom65_and_indonesianbeans/ link] (reddit post)</ref> As they were members of the Acadian military, they had access to Acadian snitches and intel and managed to evade capture for many days, until they were finally pearled by [[Kaloa HG|Kayla]].<ref>Footage of Kayla pearling Druid and JayTeeR: [https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/oi22br/raiders_go_boom/ link] (reddit post)</ref> During this time, the infamous [[SCHIZ0TIER]] spawned in Acadia, where he commited his very first (petty) raids before his later famous HJI raid. As he hid in the deep northeast for a while after his HJI raid, somewhere around Acadia, a large amount of WP-enforcers and bounty hunters crossed through Acadia in their search, bringing more visitors to New Turing than ever throughout Acadia's history.

 

 

In August 2021, Acadia was briefly brought to the world stage due to concerns of a military conflict with [[Caledonia]] and Caledonian occupied Adina. The Adinans that formed the Moloka-Javaya line had now been exiled from their original home Adina for two years, after what they considered to have been a Republican coup d'etat back in 2019, but with their return to CivClassic, largely through Acadia which they saw as a temporary home, they wished to eventually return to Adina. With Egi temporarily logboxed while on an 'illegal' pilgrimage through Adina, the matter was brought to the fore, and the [[Rajputana]], representing the exiled Adinans, began to campaign for international pressure against Caledonia to reach a settlement on their return to Adina.<ref>Rajputana campaign - 'Let Us Return': [https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/p7pxcp/let_us_return/ link] (reddit post)</ref><ref>Rajputana campaign - 'On the Resettlement of Adina': [https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/p8hlbb/on_the_resettlement_of_adina/ link] (reddit post)</ref> Due to Acadia's ties to the Rajputana and the Moloka/Javaya line, there were concerns that Acadia was planning an invasion of Adina against Caledonia, and that the public campaign of the Rajputana was simply an Acadian plot to establish PR before an invasion. These concerns partly originated from a public statement from the Acadian Senate calling on Caledonia to cede Adina to the Rajputana.<ref>Acadian Senate Call to Caledonia on Adina: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gb4NShrl1-pZPnTQY2QwoTMwj3YRKCgQpHoCIl39YvM/edit link] (Google document)</ref> Prime Minister Bloof eventually resolved the tensions with a public statement that Acadia would not get involved directly. The campaign of the Rajputana failed to make any gains, and the exiled Adinans largely went fully inactive afterwards.

 

==== The First TNSC Crisis ====

 

==== The Era of Recovery====

[[File:Grand Illustration of Acadian History.png|left|thumb|370x370px|Illustration of Acadian history, made by Shadedoom (Emperor of Columbia)]]The raidings began to subside, and Acadia's strength began to grow with a succesful campaign to get prot for everyone and with the skybunker becoming operational. Activity stabilized for a while, stimulated by a wave of new people joining the server and Acadia. Additionally, Bloofs efforts in international diplomacy began to pay off as Acadia was admitted into the [[UDF]] as an associate member on August 18th, and with the founding of the [[Plus-Minus Concordat]] alliance with Fish, [[Mythril]], the [[City of England]], and soon after the [[Sussex|Ch1pR Empire]] (later renamed to Sussex) joined as well.<ref>Bloof announcing Acadian UDF membership: [https://imgur.com/a/s532Aye link] (imgur of discord message)</ref><ref>The Creation of the PMC: [https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/p4jwrz/the_creation_of_the_pmc/ link] (reddit post)</ref> Moreover, the AFK-rail system [[KANI Rail System|KANI]] was expanded into the plus-minus quadrant properly linking Acadia to the rest of the server through AFK-rail, which led to increased interest in the quadrant from the rest of the server.<ref>KANI Update #10: [https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/ozcwg4/kani_update_10/ link] (reddit post)</ref>

During Kannon's term, Acadia grew twice in size with a large westward expansion, claiming the land inbetween Acadia and its close ally Columbia to the west which, with East Columbia touching Acadia on its eastern borders, created a full Columbia / Acadia northwest-northeast world border corridor, linking the Columbian main holdings with Asu's vault Rhea in East Columbia with the last to-be completed part of the full ice road connection under construction. This was essentially part of the final answer to the question of how to establish further integration with Columbia, as the political landscape in Acadia would not allow for full integration into a Columbian Federation, with many Acadians disliking the idea of losing the sovereignty they had proudly gained on CivClassic, no longer having liege as they had with Javaya on CivUniverse. The expansion included the former Chanseatic town of Vanhoover, and grass-roots movement emerged under Acadian newfriends to repopulate and restore the town, which had the approval of the Acadian government as it would legitimize Acadia's claim on the larger area.

====The Second TNSC Crisis====

 

====The Final Era and the End of the World====

The PMC alliance had grown with the admissions of [[Kallos]], at the time close to Columbia, and [[Jomsviking Confederation|Jomsviking]]. The alliance soon proved unstable however, when Jomsviking suddenly unilaterally annexed its neighbour and fellow PMC ally City of England during the [[Jomsviking-England Incident]], dissatisfied with their low activity which delayed their admittance into the PMC as England took a few days to cast their vote, and desiring England's plains biome for the agriculture of melons. As Acadia helped City of England with the removal of the banners, signs, and the hostile city bastion Jomsviking had placed in their city, the situation escalated dramatically as heated dicussions, especially between Acadia's newly elected Prime Minister Owain and Kallos' leader Kayla who supported Jomsviking, turned relations sour. While Jomsviking had already decided to back down, the fall-out increased and virtually all PMC members at that point planned to leave the alliance, with Acadia and Fish together moving to the re-established [[United Northern Congress (New)|UNC]] alliance, announced by [[Varkonia]] and Gabon. The PMC alliance was disbanded mere days after the original incident.

The initial tensions were worsened when the leader of Jomsviking, [[Cat alunya|Alunya]], who held citizenship in Acadia, was declared POS by Prime Minister Owain, asking her to renounce her citizenship in Acadia in order for the POS to be removed. The Acadian Senate disagreed with this action and Owain briefly resigned, as well as Ymir Cortwade, as there was a heated discussion around whether the POS was an appropriate tool to use in this situation. Unfortunately, the Acadian Constitution did not allow the government or the National Assembly to remove an individual's citizenship. This was eventually fixed with an amendment, but together with a legal incident during the December elections where it took days for it to be established whether the Ministry of Foreign Affairs actually legally existed and whether an election for the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs was to be held, this highlighted a growing problem with Acadia's legal system. Acadia, no longer a simple newfriend nation, had fully outgrown its original Constitution, and, at the same time, with all its amendments which at times conflicted with each other, the Acadian legal system had become increasingly complex, to the point where there was in practice only one Acadian, [[Aelfred]], who fortunately happend to be the Chief Justice, could somewhat effectively navigate through it. This complexity exacerbated the already existing presence of e-lawyerism in Acadia.[[File:Render of New Turing, Acadia, 8-12-2021.png|left|thumb|339x339px|Last render of New Turing, 8/12/2021, made by Cortwade]]In the meantime, New Turing, for the first time, began to thrive as [[Yoahtl|Yoahtlan]] economic presence began to grow in the city and a large newfriend wave increased activity and the need for more residential units. Acadia's population count was on the rise again, reaching 25 in November 2021.<ref>Excerpt from the November 2021 Census: [https://imgur.com/a/CsIPWW7 link] (imgur of document)</ref> Many residential units, as well as commercial units, and a new, larger factory and storage building were built by [[TheGreatUniter]] who had recently started playing on CivClassic and joined Acadia. Whereas New Turing never managed to find a convincing, cohesive general aesthetic before, and was limited by the small-scale Acadian architectural norms, Uniter introduced a new architectural style for the city, with taller and more detailed buildings. His style proved succesful as more buildings in Uniter's style began to pop up and genuine excitement about the future of New Turing began to emerge. Redevelopment continued, with the government discussing far reaching plans to increase its control over the capital to organize its redevelopment and to find a way around the e-lawyerism and lack of executive tools that made derelicting unused, unaesthetic buildings in the capital near impossible. Center to the redevelopment plan was to remove the western half of the large boulevard reaching down to the quartz Parliament building construction site, as well the largely unfinished Parliament building itself, which after many months of stalled construction had become a symbol of New Turing's previous stagnation.

 

== Culture ==

Acadia was a very diverse nation, in part due to having a number of different cultural ancestors through some of Acadia's founders and citizens (Adina, [[Moloka]], Javaya, and Norlund), Acadia's willingness to embrace cultural influences from nations it was close to (Javaya, [[Wyvern]]/Fish, and Columbia), and the large amount of people still fairly new to civ who brought organic growth of culture.

 

==== Landmark Buildings on CivUniverse ====

 

==== Landmark Buildings on CivClassic ====

== Foreign Relations ==

Although Acadia's population was traditionally largely in favor of isolationism, against close cooperation with larger powers, and anti-[[World Police (CivClassic)|WP]] sentiments were somewhat common; Acadia's leadership and 'shadow government' was always largely in favor of strong alliances with larger powers to establish security. On CivUniverse, matters of foreign policy were largely handled by motherland Javaya. Regardless, Acadia was part of the Commonwealth of Southern Nations, and oversaw matters on the Hyperborean continent as a guardian of the continent, which was largely populated by newfriends. On CivClassic, Acadia inherited Javaya's good relations with neighbor [[Wyvern]], which was now Acadia's neighbor Fish. A Special Friendship Pact was signed with Fish, granting special citizenship privileges to Acadian and Fish citizens and establishing military and diplomatic cooperation.<ref>Fish Acadia Friendship Treaty: [https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/o0raqo/declaration_of_friendship_between_fish_and_acadia/ link] (reddit post)</ref> Together a larger alliance in the +,- quadrant was created; the [[Plus-Minus Concordat|Plus-Minus-Concordat]] (PMC), with [[Sussex]], [[Mythril]], [[City of England]], [[Jomsviking Confederation|Jomsviking]], and [[Kallos]], which lasted until the events of the [[Jomsviking-England Incident]] which destroyed the alliance. Additionally, Acadia was an associate member of the [[UDF]], with close ties with Icenia and especially Columbia, with which integration into a larger Columbian Federation was considered though ultimately rejected due to suspected lack of popular support.<ref>Very official documentary footage: [https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/pw1nvy/shitpost_archive_footage_columbia_adopts_acadia/ link] (reddit post)</ref> In the last weeks of the server, Acadia joined the re-established [[United Northern Congress (New)|UNC]].

Spleef (NVDP) - 5 (25.00)

 

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