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Caledonia had its' roots in [[Yoahtl]], dreamt up by Yoatlan citizens who had grown disillusioned with the functions and operations of the Yoahtl government. Wingzero54 had served as Councillor for two terms and Deputy Alcuahtl throughout one of those terms. Meat312 served as Councillor for one term.

Wingzero54 and Meat312 had gotten to know each other first by working together in the Prot business. Meat312 has been a mainstay in the Prot trade since he started on the server, and Wingzero54 had the ambition of selling discounted prot 3 instead of prot 4. He worked with meat312 to learn the trade and while he ended up just selling Prot 4 (making Prot 3 is just untenable), he forged bonds of friendship with meat312.

After a couple months in Caledonia, and the founding of the capital, Aberdeen, Meat312 began advertising his wares again for players all across the server to come buy prot and tools in Caledonia. A couple alt raiders hit Aberdeen, craft_2_kids (to this day an unknown alt that has never logged in again) got away with multiple sets of prot and weapons and assumedly dropchested them outside of Caledonia where another account picked them up, or they are waiting to be grabbed perhaps still to this day. After this raid we overhauled the prot and tool sales, but several restricted inventory and access which hurt sales. Erutara attempted to raid, but was caught in the act by Wingzero54 who, expecting a naked random, instead found a fully geared and potted account which proceeded to wipe the floor with Wingzero54. N3ptune would later admit to being Erutara some months later.

In response to the alt raids to Aberdeen, and with Mir expanding their own claims, Caledonia decided to expand its' claims to meet the borders of Mir and enable them to expand their snitch grids. [https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/a17ypd/caledonia_expanded_claims/ It was announced November 2018 on the subreddit].

A renaissance would come to Caledonia, however, with the concurrence of several events. A secure shopping mall was designed and constructed, the current home of the prot, tool and weapon sales of Meat312. It is whitelisted to control access to the shopchests. New players arrived in the form of HenryDraton, of MtA, who decided to leave MtA after the fall of Godomasta and failure of that administration. Fredhun14, longtime friend of Wingzero54 from a previous server, became active in minecraft again and joined CivClassic. After constructing many XP farms, Fred would go on to construct his castle, ''Castle Vroengard'', one of the largest ongoing projects in Caledonia to this day. Fred was also made a government official this time, being given the title "Praetor", a title which had previously belonged to Scouter9001.

Caledonia annexed the [[Brotherhood of Steel]], [https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/bzd7u9/the_brotherhood_has_joined_caledonia/ announced June 2019 on the subreddit]. The two nations had been working together since the Brotherhood of Steel moved into old Freedonia, and the consolidation of small +,+ nations is seen as being good for the overall health and activity of the quadrant. Hockey328, one of these integrated citizens from the BoS, would go on to become a government official after a single month, being given the title "Legate".

Growth in Caledonia has slowed down as the Winter of 2019 came into full-swing. Due to a drop-off in newfriend recruitment and the harsh demands of mid-semester schooling, as well as a little bit of Civ-burnout. Despite this Caledonia has seen good retention numbers of several promising citizens. SwordMaster, for all the work he put in, was granted a position in the Caledonian government, though he had had access to the government warehouse for a couple weeks beforehand while he was finishing the station. He was given the title "Questor". Despite the lull in activity, progress was still being made with various projects around the nation, even if at a glacial pace.

Three swamp islands were purchased in the west, nearer to 0,0 than any Caledonian land before. Old, abandoned buildngs were repurposed into factories and warehouses for new farms being added in the area. Major crops included cocoa beans, vines, sugarcane, bamboo and jungle logs. Arrelani is a territory of Caledonia, and though it is brand new, the location is highly strategic. There are three known End portals in Civ Classic, one of which was nestled underneath a newly aquired swamp island. Darthorangejuice, a citizen who joined the server in late February dug an inverted pyramid to the portal in the overworld for better accessiblity. In the End, she started reconstruction of sections of [https://imgur.com/a/ZDWBG Peter's Castle], the fortress surrounding the original portal out of the End, which had seen many separate waves of obby bombing and griefing.

To enter Arrelani by rail you must either take 0,0 to the end portal or take the connection from the W to E rail that crosses 0,0. A station is set up in the small town of Farmville, and has a connection line to the capitol city of End Gate, which features tree bridges connecting buildings along the sky instead of ground paths.

Darth held Spookdonia, a three day Halloween-themed building competiton open to server wide participation at the end of October. Invertedmind and GetMadLJ have been revitalizing Corinth's South side, building the first honey block farm in the nation, and turning desert mesa into a green "astroturf" area. Aamon has returned from hiatus to build tunnels around Aberdeen for secret passage through the country. Newfriend Sloth is building a new town in the Lost Hills, north west of Aberdeen.

Caledonia has a variety of biomes, consisting of savanna, red desert, sunflower plains, roofed forest and mesa. The amount of plains and forest area are small compared to the much more drier biomes, making Caledonia an arid and hot nation. The plains and forests it does have are vital biomes in Calednonian xp production.

While there are no set administrative divisions within Caledonia, there seems to be several culturally and geographically distinct areas.

Aberdeen is the capital of Caledonia and the national rail hub, being the home of Central Station. It is spread across a cluster of several of the sparse lush biomes of the nation, being spread out across a roofed forest, a savanna, and a sunflower plains. It contains many great landmarks besides the already noteworthy Central Station, such as the Caledonia Library, the expansive Castle Vroengard, and the opulent HenryDraton's Palace, though the latter two are still under construction. The Securemall, a serverwide famous shopping center, can be found in the Western outskirts of the city, seperated from the rest of Aberdeen by the dense dark oak trees and hills of Aberdeen Forest. It's prevalent architectural style is Medieval European, although more modern looking builds have popped up here and there as the city has developed.

Corinth is a new city in the western plains of the mainland and the current center of activity in Caledonia. A few houses and other builds, such as a museum. While it was originally intended to have a Greco-Roman aesthetic, this was changed to a more modern aesthetic in order to easier facilitate builds. Some of the first buildings built were built before this change, however, leading to certain builds having a more classical flavor. It is situated upon another Sunflower Plains in the Northern section of the town, where the city center will probably be, which has been covered with a loose forest in order to make it feel greener. To the South is a large Red-Sand Desert that has been almost completely stripped of all its sand for the production of XP. This Desert is being terraformed, being covered over in dirt and having a sizable lake (named Lake Rubicon) constructed in the middle to increase aesthetic value.

The Northwest region of Caledonia is shrouded in mystery and is widely regarded by longtime residents as haunted. It contains a savanna biome with sparse, abandoned buildings, half of the savanna being a normal savanna with a small ravine, and the other half being the incredibly chaotic shattered savanna variant, known for its extreme land generation. Local legend has it that any newfriends seeking to tame these unholy lands goes inactive forever more, never to return.

The Southeast is the most remote region of Caledonia, due to the majority of it being the Southern Island which is covered in a near-inhospitable mesa. The Peninsula is more palatable, except that it stretches a long distance out from the nearest city. The current most developed place in the region is Wheatland, a large wheat field built by the Irian Retyu in the savanna of the Southern Island.

New islands were aquired at coordinates +1849, +280 to expand farm production and create a new project for current players to use their accumulated wealth to establish a new territory and hopefully grow it into a new nation in the future. The end portal on the northwestern island was claimed as well and renovated to fit this change. Most houses built hear are in large player-made trees with connecting mid-air bridges between them. There are rail lines from a hub east of 0,0 which run directly to the small town Farmville, and from Farmville a player can take a rail to the capitol of End Gate. <br />

Prot 4, enchanted tools, and weapons are all big exports for Caledonia. Meat312 is a renowned producer of enchanted goods, all of which are available to purchase from securemall in Caledonia once pre-approved for access. Bulk purchases are also available - have a big digging job ahead of you? Buy 10 pickaxes in bulk to receive an even greater discount!

Obsidian is available for purchase as well, produced by Wingzero, Caledonia will price match any better offers you can show proof of! Bulk purchases of obby are welcome.

More shops are soon being setup in the securemall area, with new offerings like logs, rotten flesh, wool, dandelions, stone, andesite, diorite, granite, and more getting added every day!

Players from all over the +,+ and the server in general travel to Caledonia to purchase these goods, and Caledonia is working to improve rail connections to make it easier than ever to access the shops.

After that Caledonia built its' own XP farms to bring production to a local area and reduce reliance on long-distance foreign lands. With the creation of the new farms, Caledonia abandoned YEHXP which now stays under the ownership of GDAN and is available for use to Yoahtl.

Caledonia and [[Iria]] have enjoyed a friendly relationship since Caledonia's inception due to their proximity to each other and their mutual easy-going nature. Caldonia is connected to New Iria International Rail Station, which is the main way players from the majority of the map will reach Caledonia. There are a few spots within Caledonian claims that were built on by Irians before being claimed, such as Wheatland on the Southern Island, which have been respected due to this close relationship.

Caledonia has maintained a neutral relationship with [[Adina]] due to a lack of major political events between the two (as well as the great distance between their capitals). Many Adinans travel to Aberdeen in order to shop at the Securemall. The Consuls were at first wary of Adina due to it's links to the now defunct Vitelia, but it seems to Caledonia that Adina has grown past that.

Caledonia and [[Mir]] are on good terms with each other, though due to the isolationist nature of Mir, not much trading or discourse happens between the two nations. Mir has helped defend Caledonia against raiders before, elevating this relationship from an otherwise neutral status. In addition, they have frequently worked together in military activities around the world due to shared military agendas.

[[The Commonwealth]], despite it's distance, could be considered one of Caledonia's closer allies, mainly due to the friendship between the Consuls and Pergyskeel, the head of the Borough of Taliesin. Caledonia is connected to Westminster through the [[ETE]] allowing the states of the Southwestern corner of the map (-+ Quadrant) to come visit with ease. This rail is so important that a shortcut rail was dug to bypass going all the way to [[Entranan Republic|Entrana]], effectively cutting off 8 minutes of an otherwise 45 minute trip.

The relationship between Caledonia and [[Yoahtl]] is a complicated one, to say the least. The individual leadership of both countries aren't on particularly good terms with each other, despite sharing an alliance. This is due to the schism of leadership in Yoahtl that directly led to the founding of Caledonia when Wing and Meat left. This has been particularly exasperated due to a beef between prominent Yoahtlan Neotide and Meat.

Caledonia also has a close relationship with [[Southshire]], with the Southshire politician TheGameofLife having Caledonian citizenship. TheGameofLife frequently drops by in the Caledonian discord and was prepared to help defend Caledonia in case of an Obby Bomber attack. Both nations share a desire to keep manageable land claims, another point that links them.

Due to both Caledonia and [[Entente]] being part of the Coalition, Caledonia is on friendly if not neutral terms with the various nations of Entente.

Caledonia is also on decent terms with the [[UDF]] due to both being in the Coalition.

Caledonia, as part of the Coalition, has been involved in a greater military conflict against the nations of [[NATO]]. Due to this, these relationships are very negative, especially after the Coalition's assault on Pinkerton.