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| Capital of the Republic of Columbia

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| Demonyn

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| Start of the world

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= Columbia =

Columbia is the largest city on the Civcraft server and was once the capital city of the Republic of Columbia. 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.

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Columbia was a Constitutional Republic and is one of Civcraft's most notable cities with a rich history, massive metropolitan area, and formerly of many famous residents.

Without the proper tools to stop griefers many cities existed in secret and did not advertise their coordinates. Dossier5 however sought to promote Columbia as a land of opportunity open to all; opening the city to the public and welcoming new waves of immigrants and refugees from Cresemopolis and the Rift into the city. This brought with it great waves of griefing, which brought the community together out of necessity and greatly evolved the Columbians' style of building.

One of the first landmarks of the city was the Eiffel Tower (built by Dossier5) around which the city is centered. The purpose behind the creation of the tower was its role as an attraction to the city for visitors and residents, as well as a symbol of industry to those who would visit. From the Tower the city expanded outward in all directions and remains there today. An interesting fact of Columbia, is that [[bobpndrgn]] originally built his house on the eiffle tower plot, soon thereafter Dossier yelled at bob in game and told him to move his house. He moved it over one plot to the left. He built it proudly with all the colors of wood.

These founders included Foofed, rdhayes06, mrgagetron, Denieru, Timmy, and bobpndrgn. The founders organized the city's rules that existed at the time and began preparation for a constitutional convention and democratic elections.

During this period a resident named Antrolf, who came with Denieru to the city, founded a small settlement inside of Columbia called New Pyongyang. At one point soon after Foofed refused to leave [[New Pyongyang]] and was hit by Antrolf. Foofed thought that it was Denieru who did this and proceeded to repeteadely kill Denieru and Antrolf, while rdhayes06 removed Denieru's bed (in an attempt to get them out of the city). Later, Denieru and Antrolf didn't want Foofed's and rdhayes06's actions to go unpunished. So they broke into rdhayes06's shop where Denieru and Antrolf and took their revenge. After this incident Denieru and Antrolf proceeded to build a mosque out of dirt on a new plot. Foofed, Stevo_1066, and mrgagetron destroyed the mosque because it was viewed as a troll. Denieru and Antrolf fled the city and were later declared griefers. Denieru later had his label as "griefer" withdrawn by rdhayes06 (then president of Columbia) after agreeing upon removing the remains of his house (which stood where the courthouse stands today). Denieru was, and is still, not allowed to visit Columbia.

The city was regularly the target of griefers, the most notable being Gatzy, Greatwolf, and neonxp. They tested the will of the young city through their use of placing diamond reinforced obsidian and lava bombing the Eiffel Tower and many buildings surrounding the city centre.

Columbians opposed outside interference in their peaceful way of life. This was evident through the initiation of force by egokick in his pursuit of MineCraftIsFTW and Joshua97367. In this action, egokick slew Dossier5 and Marcus_Flaminius before fleeing the city with his bounty in order to escape justice. To add insult to injury, egokick requested that the city pay the reparations of griefers who had passed through Columbia; a request that was flatly rejected.

The refusal of visitors to follow the law drew disgust from the settlers. This disregard for the laws became quite clear during the capture and trial of Kraken, who refused to respect the law of the Republic within its territory and midway through the trial attempted to flee and escape through the nether portal.

As the population of Columbia grew, the increased crowding was managed by creating a secondary city of Columbia, [[cities/rapture|Rapture]]. It was settled across the sea to the East of Columbia within her teritorial claims. While waiting for more pioneers to join the group in the settling of the city on April the 7th, \Dossier5 grew impatient and declared &quot;Fuck this, we're doing it live&quot;.<ref>https://imgur.com/a/RjP8Q</ref> With that, the party of pioneers gathered their materials, fashioning boats before setting out directly across the open sea to the opposite shore. With that, the settlers cleared the land and began to construct basic roads.

<quot>We the people of ­­­­Columbia in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the voluntary and common defense, and secure throughout the ages the natural right of liberty, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Columbian Republic.</quot>

Those are the opening lines of the Columbian Constitution written by the drafters and signers. The Columbian constitution was concieved during the constitutional convention; involving the opinions and contributions of all classes of citizens. In joint consent, they established the framework for congress and president, immigration, citizenship, court system, police force, the flag and the national anthem.

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The first election led to the landslide victory of rdhayes06 as the first president of the republic. Under the leadership of rdhayes the city expanded rapidly and the population grew to the largest of any city the served has seen to date. At its height Columbia was home to over 200 civcraftians spread over 340 individual plots within the city limits.

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== 7. Ancaps first attempt to seize power; The Panama Incident ==

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 initate violence upon them and restrained using violence as a means of solving this conflict; seeking to peacefully accomodate the ancaps through treaty.

== 8.Downfall ==

== 9.The Democratic Workers' Republic of Columbia ==