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|general_custom_title1=Abbreviation|general_custom_value1=Col}}'''The Republic of Columbia''', commonly known as '''Columbia''' or '''Columbia the First''', had the largest city on the [[CivCraft 1.0|Civcraft 1.0]] server which itself was also known as Columbia and served as its capital. The city was founded by [[Dossier5]] during the opening days of the server. The Republic of Columbia extended 800 blocks in all directions from its centerpoint (approximately 6800, -4000) and included both the city of Columbia and the city of [[Rapture]]. The border was marked with pillars that contained information about the land claim of the city in the form of bookcases.<ref>Screenshot of border pillars https://imgur.com/5wFumSY</ref>[[File:Columbiaborder.png|thumb]]

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Jealous over the success of Columbia and the failure of their cities, the ancaps schemed. Under the leadership of [[manintime]], the ancaps sought to initiate violence upon the citizens of Columbia. To do this, they established a small city called panama within the territory of the Republic. However, the settlers of Columbia recognized the ancap attempts to initateinitiate violence upon them and restrained using violence as a means of solving this conflict; seeking to peacefully accomodateaccommodate the ancaps through treaty.<ref>https://imgur.com/a/rezNt</ref>

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Land sales occuredoccurred during this period, with all profits from these sales placed under the control of Foofed in order to fund the clearing of land an construction of infrastructure.

In what he percievedperceived as faults within the system of government and the constitution and realizing that his time as president was nearly over, Foofed decided to band together with the ancaps and dissolve the government through force against the will of the people.

Violence insuedensued as people, under the guise of homesteading, stole the property of their neighbours and pearled them if they attempted to defend their property.<gallery mode="nolines" widths="240" heights="140">

Long after the Downfall, a movement was formed to create a new socialist state from the ruins of the once mighty Columbia City. An organisation of leftists, including members of LSIF, [[RSSR]], [[Communist Party of Mount Augusta|CPMA]] and [[Leningrad]] formed a socialist republic within days.

The republic got off to a turbulent start with the killing of [[synthion]], the phantom anarchist, by the former president of the city, [[rdhayes06]], for replacing the traditional Columbian C flag with socialist ones. This sparked off a very tense situation between the founding fathers of Columbia and the socialist settlers. Some of the settlers began a squatting, renovation and dereliction campaign, which was quickly beaten back by the ancaps and wider international community. [[Leningradovites]] built an entire new district on Columbia's outskirts, the LSIF reinvigorated Goldmayne commune, and the President of the DWRC, [[facecuddle]], brought in many reforms for voluntary citizens of the DWRC.

Soon, due to controversy over ownership of the former Columbian government buildings, the DWRC and the resident Ancaps were at each others throats. The DWRC eventually dissolved as its settlers spread to more hospitable lands. This &quot;second exodus,&quot; as it is known among many leftists today, is largely considered to be the origin of the city of [[Chiapas]].

Columbia, for long the largest city in game, isbecame a mostly-abandoned anarcho-capitalist society. Once a Republic, the government under the control of Foofed disolveddissolved itself. This lead to a “Cold War” of Reddit and Mumble arguments between the LSIF, Statists, and Ancaps trying to grasp for control of lawless Columbia. Eventually the Ancaps came out as victors, but during the tussle for control most of the city's residents had left, leaving only a handful of people remaining in the gargantuan city. Columbia is also home to the now abandoned LSIF Commune, Goldmayne.

New residents recivedreceived a free parcel of land (up to 25x25) and additional plots and larger plots could be purchased. This policy attracted many residents.