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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 RepubicRepublic of Columbia extended 800 blocks in all directions from its centerpoint (approxmatlyapproximately 6800, -4000) and included both the city of Columbia and the city of [[cities/rapture|Rapture]]. The border [http://i.imgur.com/5wFumSY.png was marked with pillars that contained information about the land claim of the city in the form of bookcases].

== History of Columbia ==

== 1.= The Early Days ===

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. You can read more about [[users/bobpndrgn|bobpndrgn]] at his wiki page.

== 2.= The Founding Fathers ===

In the early days of the city, the law was enforced through the will of Dossier5, who assumed the position of a temporary dictator.

As the city's population grew to around a dozen the rules which had only been passed down by oral tradition needed to be codified. Dossier5's gave his power over to the a Transitional CounselCouncil which was made up of what we know today as the Founding Fathers.

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

== 3.= The First Conflict ===

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 Republic of Columbia took a Switzerland like approach to all outside conflict and the with appearenceappearance of bounty hunters in the city to collect the fortitutefortitude of the settlers was tested.

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 inslutinsult to injury, egokick requested that the city pay the reparations of griefers who had passed through Columbia; a request that was flatly rejected.

DissapointedDisappointed at the failure of their ancap cities such as Cresemopolis and The [[cities/rift|Rift]], numerous ancaps schemed to test the residents of Columbia.

== 5.= Rapture ===

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, [http://imgur.com/a/RjP8Q \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 meterialsmaterials, 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.

=== 6.The Golden Age ===

What happened next was the greatest period of for any city in the hitoryhistory of Civcraft.

&<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;>