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*[[UNC]]|capital_city=New Turing|government_type=Parliamentary Constitutional Republic|demonym=Acadian|position_title1=Head of State}}
'''Acadia,''' officially the '''Republic of Acadia''' ([[Tahar|Simplified Tahar]]: '''''Dorei'Nothlir o Akkadye'''''), was a nation on [[CivUniverse]] and [[CivClassic]]. It was a parliamentary constitutional republic, one of the few sizable civ-nations to operate through (semi-)direct democracy, mostly catering to a casual playstyle. Acadia held ancestry from [[Adina]], [[Moloka]], [[Javaya]], and [[Norlund]], but was largely a newfriend nation, with a diverse and welcoming community. Acadia was founded on October 21st 2020, prior to the launch of CivUniverse, switched from CivUniverse to CivClassic on April 22nd 2021, where it existed until the end of the server on December 18, 2021.<ref>The first announcement on Acadia Discord: [https://imgur.com/a/ysmnXuO link] (imgur of discord message)</ref><ref>Final announcement of the migration: [https://imgur.com/a/ZXdm7CV link] (imgur of discord message)</ref> On CivUniverse, Acadia was a vassal state of Javaya. It had one of the largest populations of the server and was a notable exporter of hand-farmed potatoes. On Civclassic, Acadia was an associate member of the [[UDF]] and a key player in the [[+,-|+,- quadrant]], mostly through having the largest population in the quadrant<ref>Excerpt from the November 2021 Census: [https://imgur.com/a/CsIPWW7 link] (imgur of document)</ref> and through its alliances, especially its close alliances with [[Columbia]], [[Kingdom of Fish|Fish]], and the [[Plus-Minus Concordat|PMC]] alliance. Acadia is expected to return for [[CivReign]].<ref>Acadia CivReign announcement: [https://imgur.com/a/3zKjnTr link] (imgur of discord message)</ref>
== History ==
[[File:Cortwade Port.png|left|272x272px|Official portrait of Acadia's founder and Ymir, and first Prime Minister, Cortwade|thumb]]''Main Article: [[History of Acadia]]''
Acadia was founded prior to [[CivUniverse]] by [[Cortwade]], who created the nation largely from [[Norlund|Norlundish]] and [[Adina|Adinan]] culture. Acadia was established to be a safe haven from toxicity, and a welcoming home for newfriends and casual players, focussing on building and roleplay politics.<ref>Recruitment advertising: [https://www.reddit.com/r/CivUniverse/comments/km7dvb/general_recruitment_post_discussion/ghdc2od/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 link] (reddit comment)</ref> To ensure the nation's security, Acadia became a vassal state of [[Javaya]], which brought protection and guidance in return for potatoes
With CivUniverse losing activity Acadia migrated to [[CivClassic]], where it re-established itself as an independent nation in the [[+,-|+,- quadrant]]. While it never experienced a major conflict as on CivUniverse, it suffered from the tiresome TNSC conflicts centered around the controversial player [[RainOfPain125|Rainie]]. Acadia became increasingly involved in international politics and became an associate member of the [[UDF]] with close relations to [[Columbia]] and [[Icenia]].
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====== Language and Religion ======
Another prominent aspect of Acadian culture was its use of
While Acadia never had an official national religion, on CivClassic, with the increased influence from the Adina/Moloka/Javaya line Ashahari, a branch from [[Indoja]], become close to a national religion as it was by far the most dominant civ-religion in Acadia and become central to Acadia's national identity. Two prominent political parties were formed after Ashahari values, though neither of them argued for a theocracy or an official national religion. Followers of Ashahari believe in a monotheistic deity, Ashahari, who is one with the universe. While being a non-corporal all-encompassing entity Ashahari manifests through Avatars. Many Ashaharist tend to focus their worship on specific avatars, leading to the in Acadia dominant denominations of Peleism; where Ashaharist worship the Avatar Pele, the manifestation of Ashahari as a cyclical force of creation and renewal, Lunism; where Ashaharists worship the Avatar Luna, the manifestation of Ashahari as a watcher against the evils of darkness emphasizing unity and harmony, and Melonist Ashahari; where, heavily influenced by Melonism, Ashaharists worship melons, believing them to be closest to Ashahari itself as entities of pure and total wholesomeness.<ref>Officially recognized religions in Acadia: [https://imgur.com/a/48v1Jlh link] (discord message)</ref> Despite there being no lack of devotion, no Ashahari temple was eventually ever built in Acadia, although there
Apart from Ashahari some Acadians also practiced Melonism, a simple religion centered around the worship of melons, and [[Bezism]].
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====== Architecture ======
As many Acadians believed that everyone should have the freedom to build more or less wherever they want, even in the capital, but also supported an enforced Victorian build theme, architecture remained throughout Acadia's history a prominent and sometimes controversial topic of conversation, especially due to the fact that a majority of Acadians considered themselves buildfriends. Traditional Acadian architecture, to a small extent influenced by Norlundish architecture, was most accommodating to these beliefs as it was characterized by simple shapes, small dimensions, a love for the easily obtainable materials stone and brick, and a general 'less is more' approach especially regarding detailing.
Nevertheless, as this style never managed to get off the ground convincingly in New Turing, Acadians began to experiment with other styles and eventually moved toward larger and more detailed buildings, though a convincing approach was only found when [[TheGreatUniter]] introduced a new style at the end of Acadia's history on CivClassic; larger, more detailed, and with heavy use of wood. By this time however, New Turing already featured many buildings in different styles with various levels of aesthetics, which led to a generally incohesive and unconvincing urban fabric, and damaged the city's popularity, and perhaps even reduced activity. Inspired by Uniter's new style plans were made to rebuild much of the city, but they were cut short by the end of the server.
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'''Miscellaneous'''
Perhaps one of the most visible examples of Acadian culture was the practice of g-posting and j-posting. G-posting was a cultural import from Columbia making way through Acadia halfway through CivClassic, when Acadia began to grow closer to Columbia, and Icenia, which also practiced g-posting albeit to a lesser extent. The first g was brought to Acadia by a group of Columbians after they had constructed their embassy in New Turing, building a large G out of dirt blocks.
For a while Acadia was home to an internationally popular video news network by [[Owain X|Owain]] known as ANN (Acadian News Network), which helped put Acadia on the map for many people on the server.<ref>Last broadcast of ANN: [https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/qpqsit/ann_news_nov_8_2021/ link] (reddit post)</ref>
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Dating back to Acadia's beginnings on CivUniverse, where Acadia was fully located in the snow continent Hyperborea, Acadians have a strong preference for cold biomes. Unfortunately, on CivClassic Acadia had to settle for taiga as no snow land was available. Due to the lack of snow some Acadians never felt quite at home on CivClassic.
Another Acadian traditional preference
== Economy ==
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''For an overview of election results, see: [[History of Acadia]]''
====== Political System ======
[[File:Acadiaball politics.png|thumb|287x287px|Politics Acadiaball, made by Bloof]]Acadia was sometimes considered to be somewhat of a 'Norlund spin-off', as Acadia's governmental system was much inspired by Norlund's. Acadia's governmental system has remained much the same throughout history despite attempts for large reform. On CivUniverse Acadia took the form of a parliamentary constitutional republic as a dominion of Javaya, while on CivClassic it was a federal parliamentary constitutional republic as an independent nation. The Constitution of Acadia and its ten amendments can be found [https://sites.google.com/view/acadialii/home here] as well as on Acadia's discord. The head of state of Acadia was the Ymir, originally called the High Commissar, instituted part way through CivClassic, who held the namelayer groups and was responsible for organizing elections.<ref>The Seventh Amendment: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/17dmfKy3pdeOFRoO-mNUtH5ms9qoqXkmEGmzgKA6zcVM/edit link] (Google document)</ref> The head of government was the Prime Minister, who was the chief diplomat and presided over the Senate, the executive body, composed of all other ministers who were, with the Prime Minister, each individually elected. In the later stages of CivClassic, one exception to this was the Minister of Defense, who was elected by the Sel'mean, a military council, who were in turn appointed by the National Assembly (''I'Dorei Sabar''). Parliament consisted of the two houses of the National Assembly, and the Senate (''I'Nothlir Farroth''). The National Assembly was the primary legislative body, composed of all citizens, where people could propose and vote on legislation, which could then be vetoed by the Senate. The Senate also had the power to make legislation, with the National Assembly able to veto if a large majority was against. Outside of legislation, ministers could institute executive orders within their scope of discretion. The Prime Minister and the other ministers were elected for one month each term, with a three-month term limit for the Prime Minister. The Ymir was elected for six months, with a monthly vote of trust in the National Assembly. Additionally, while earlier a Chief Justice was temporarily appointed by the National Assembly when needed for criminal and constitutional matters, this later on became a permanent for-life position, evolving into a prominent national advisor to help the Senate and the National Assembly navigate Acadia's increasingly complex legal system.
====== Political Culture ======
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Ministers were subject to heavy scrutiny, and mistakes which could fairly easily be made given the complex legal system could lead a large group of Acadians to start an impeachment procedure. While no impeachment was ever succesful, a large number of them where launched or threatened throughout Acadia's history. Especially the office of the Prime Minister could be hard, as the burden of preserving unity fell mostly on them. Two Prime Ministers, Kannon and Owain, resigned or almost resigned and both refused to run for more than one term.
Despite the strength of Acadia's democratic institutions, the nation was for a good part held together by a group
A very visible feature of Acadia's political landscape was its many political parties. While many liked the roleplay and the 'aesthetics' they brought to Acadian politics and thought they potentially helped people get more involved with the nation's politics, they werent universally loved as some thought they did more harm than good by dividing the people instead of uniting them and keeping people focussed on discord politics instead of in-game projects. For the first half of Acadia's political history political parties served a real function, organizing votes and propaganda for legislative campaigns. However, in the latter half political parties grew more and more obsolete and irrelevant as people paid less and less attention to them.<ref>Discussion of the decline of political parties: [https://imgur.com/a/v5ptLqr link] (imgur of discord message)</ref> Possible explanations for this are that a consensus had quietly been reached on the potential harms
==== List of Political Parties ====
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====== '''Landmark Buildings on CivClassic''' ======
The '''Rainbow Row''', built by Bloof, was one of New Turing's most successful residential and commercial projects. As New Turing sat upon a large height difference with the surrounding lake, waterfront development was a challenge; however; the Rainbow Row's visibility ensured its inclusion in commercial traffic. It eventually became associated with the later rainbow hot air balloon and the gaybar as monuments to Acadia's LGBT+ community. Another important landmark was the '''National Arena,''' designed by Owain in antiquity inspired architecture, the first major break from traditional Acadian architecture. Situated between the early settlements of New Turing, Lovelace, and Kanava rather than in the capital, it was a monument to Acadia's federalism on CivClassic. Unfortunately, perhaps partly due to its remoteness, it was never put to use. Another building that never quite hit its goal was the unfinished '''Capitol Building''', designed by [[Seekinq]] and central part of Cortwade´s vision for New Turing. As time went on the building became a controversial symbol of inactivity, and it began to highlight struggles with city planning as it clashed with the skybunker and the boulevard descending to the building clashed with kick-back traps. Right before the announcement of the end of the server, a plan for urban renewal was formed which had this entire area removed and rebuilt. Symbol of the same wave of urban renewal was the new '''Community Center''' with factories and large communal storage, built by Uniter, and the tallest building in New Turing. Finally, one of Acadia's most controversial buildings; the '''Vegan Steakhouse''' by Spleef. Due to its lack of aesthetic value and the fact that it was hardly ever stocked, the Acadian government wished to derelict this building. However, given Acadia's strong property rights, which did not allow for confiscation as long as the owner objected on Discord, and popular disapproval of what many saw as 'government overreach', the building led to one of Acadia's biggest storms of e-lawyerism.<ref>Debate on the Vegan Steakhouse and derelictions: [https://imgur.com/a/tNiiwBz link] (imgur of discord messages)</ref>
== 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, WP-aligned powers to establish security. On CivUniverse, matters of foreign policy were largely handled by motherland Javaya, which remained mostly neutral in conflicts throughout the server, save for the end where it, and by proxy Acadia as well, joined the coalition against New Vegas in the New Vegas War. 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 larger alliance. Additionally, Acadia was an associate member of the [[UDF]], with close ties with Icenia through Acadian and Icenian official Juniortide, 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]]. ▼
▲On CivUniverse, matters of foreign policy were largely handled by motherland Javaya, which remained mostly neutral in conflicts throughout the server, save for the end where it, and by proxy Acadia as well, joined the coalition against New Vegas in the New Vegas War. 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 larger alliance. Additionally, Acadia was an associate member of the [[UDF]], with close ties with Icenia through Acadian and Icenian official Juniortide, 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]].
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