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Icenia's history traces back to its roots inback to [[Civcraft 2.0]] as an outpost of Kaiserinreich. At the time of Icenia's initial founding as a colony, Kaiserinreich was involved in a conflict with [[SPQR]] and Volterra (modern day Varkonia) over much sought after land needed for the production of [[Enchanting|EXP]], specifically cactus. After a successful invasion by joint SPQR-Volterran forces over the establishment of a city in SPQR desert land, the colony of Icenia was established on the remote edges of the Kaiserinreich-Volterra border in an effort to create more legitimacy on the land as being rightfully Kaiserins, and to serve as a base for a potential invasion of Volterra through the North. Icenia, however, very quickly grew and with that grew independent culturally of Kaiserinreich itself, and soon the majority of the players within Kaiserinreich lived in Icenia. Due to the distance between Kaiserin City and Icenia City and the lack of a strong ruler in Kaiserinreich, many Icenians began to reject Kaiserin rule. As a result, on July 8th, 2015 Icenia declared independence from Kaiserinreich and joined the Grand Northern Alliance. After this, Icenia experienced a massive population boom which it could not handle, and eventually suffered from its overall lack of infrastructure leading to its eventual annexation by Volterra after several obby and firebombing attacks committed by alt accounts from Icenia's own alliance, the GNA.

Icenia's early development was initiated by ChrisChrispie shortly after Icenia's announcementpublicly in regards to their existence wentannounced publicreturn. Despite the notoriety of Icenia as a nation, most players on the server were well-established and not manyinterested wantedin tostarting make the trek out to thefrom thenscratch backwoodsonce countryagain. Thus, ChrisChrispie was alone when he built the first building in Icenia: a dirt shack on the beach. Slowly, new players started to join the nation. The first few came from Musicbook, where ChrisChrispie was well known, but did not stick around for long. DarkMalivas was the first non-Musicbook member to join the nation and built Icenia's first residential complex: the Sandstone Tower. The Sandstone Tower would later draw the ire of most Icenians as being an eyesore upon the expanding harbor skyline. Eventually, it was torn down after standing for three months to make way for Icenia's own [[Corvus]] shop, which itself was torn down after a period of dereliction.

It was around this time that Icenia began to develop its Chan influence when DreadedNova, a previous citizen of Polynesia in Civcraft 2.0, joined the nation and quickly moved up the ranks to become assistant leader of Icenia during its Pre-Constitution era. DreadedNova would go on to invite other players from various [[4Chan]] associated Minecraft servers and soon Icenia began to grow at a quick pace, but nothing compared to what would later come. LordChieftain would join during this era too. During this time, Icenia saw growth along Gapplar Drive, then considered the central hub of Icenian development. DreadedNova would build his windmill during this time and LordChieftain would construct the "Cobble Castle", the first stage of a planned city development that would have made Icenia a walled and compact city. This plan never came to fruition. The Cobble Castle would later be torn down, and its basement used for the Icenian Space Needle, a massive [[skybunker]] complex which serves as the centrala station of command for the Icenian Militia.

Icenia began experiencing a population boom at the end of March 2019. It was during this time that many [[Sovia|Sovians]] established dual citizenship within Icenia including [[Pirater]], Gamephobic, iakwai, and others. Icenia had also at this time completed a rail line to Bloom, which had just closed its borders to new players after continuing alt-raids caused issues for the nation. This caused many new players not associated with Sovia to join Icenia as well, given the fact that it was the closest active nation to Bloom in the region. Also helpful to Icenia's population boom was its association with former Chan players. Many players came to Icenia from /int/craft, /pol/craft, and the remnants of the ChansiaticChanseatic State after its destruction and subsequent handoff to Mir by Nes2, a former associate of ChrisChrispie during Civcraft 2.0 in the towns of Intis and Chanos. Most of the new population during this time settled in Versilles Loop, located next to the Greenbelt that had existed to block off what became the Redlight district from the JQ. Ram Ranch was founded during this time. The famous Icenian CBT shack was also built during this time, and many of the original buildings constructed in Pre-Constitution era Icenia began to be torn down.

The prominent diplomaticevent that occurred duringof this era was the "Mount Augusta Crisis". During the week of April 20th, 2019, a new account named Tylerj05 entered Icenia and became a resident of the nation, joining the Icenian discord and renting a room in Figasaur's apartments. Tylerj05, for the rest of his time in Icenia, simply walked around and built a smoothstone shack on the beach by Sunnyshore Village, at that time fairy far from Icenia proper. On April 24th, 2019, Figasaur logged in for the first time since since Tylerj05's arrival and was subsequently pearled and boated to Mount Augusta over Augustan claims dating from the very start of 2019 of treason. The pearl was then handed to DRECO and Figasaur was placed in Mount Augusta's vault, eventually being upgraded to an end pearl.

In late April, Icenia began to experience issues with alt-raiding. Most raids were done during the early morning hours, however some were done when players were online causing much chaos. It was around this time that Neotide decided to build the first pot bunker in Icenia to help prevent raids and respond to ongoing ones earlyraids. Many of the raids targeted Icenia's HJEHjaltland Industries expXP shop, at the time one of two shops in Icenia that provided the city with EXP. The most successful of these raids was done by KennedyLaw, who managed to not only destroy much of the HJEHJI supply chests, but pearl Figasaur and take him to the border of Imperial Truidence. KennedyLaw was eventually caught on the border of Mount Augusta and his pearl was sent to the NCA, and eventually Hjaltland's vault. As a result of the raid in Icenia, and other attacks on their EXP production facilities, HJE industries effectively shut down and its plot stood vacant and falling apart until torn down to make way for new shops.

Vendetta would serve as judge for a week and a half until resigning in an attempt to create his own nation near near Caledonia. In his place, ChrisChrispie appointed LagiacrusLagiacrus11 who brought stability to a judgeship that seemed perpetually in motion. Icenia also procurednegotiated land from Gensokyo during this time for a mesa colony and a rail line was built to it. This mesa claim became Icenia's first exclave, and also would serveserved as the springboard for discussions on creatingproducing EXP within Icenia rather than importing it fromXP abroaddomestically. Though unable for most of the summer to produce EXP on their own, eventually Icenia was able to create a revolutionary EXP co-op in August of 2019.

Icenia made herits first appearance at an international event during this time at the Gensokyo Olympics, which resulted in one silver medal being won by ChrisChrispie in chess. More notable during the event however was the slaughter of an Icenian in the Gensokyo Olympic Arena by FourofFive, Bloomian Parliament member ThirdofFive's brother. Event security quickly apprehended the assailant and the pearl was sent to Hjaltland for a week. Icenians competed in most of the events at the Gensokyo Olympics.

By this time, Icenia had become known around the server as one of the main destinations for new players, and eventually started gaining non-chan members into its folds. The result of this immigration was the creation of the "Oak Row" district, more or less a slum of houses located behind the now abandoned LordCheiftain tower, which had remained empty since Lord moved to his estate near Old Titan in Icenia. During Icenia's early days, the land wherefuture Oak Row was cleared of trees and flattened to make way for a fortified Yoahtl -style village, however this never came into fruition and the result was land perfect for placing newfriends upon. Some newfriends that came during this era were TimbezTimbitz, [[PaintedWolf666]], [[Alphagale]], and most infamously, [[sk8terg8tr]], whoswhose first actionsaction upon joining Icenia werewas to raid Ram Ranch.

Oak Row was soon considered by many to be a massive eyesore in the shadow of the Icenian downtown, which by May was almost fully built. and manyMany advocated for tearing down the homesincoherent therehomes and making pre-built apartments for thesenew players instead, however this never came about. It is notable that no resident of Oak Row has ever maintained Icenian elected office, as most elected officials from Icenia comecame from more affluent regions such as Stone Row (Anvil, Quanton_Biscut), JQ (Figasaur, Enforcer, ChrisChrispie), or Versailles Loop (Soundtech, Azu).

Icenian population continued to flourish after May of 2019, and the May elections in Icenia saw the highest turnout yet, electing Figasaur and Quanton_Biscut to the positions of Judge for the first time. Icenia was still underdeveloped militarily however, and its economy at its lowest state. Quickly the state decided to take on a policy of both defensive and economic development, especially in the face of what they saw as a growing threat from the UDFUNC, specifically the nation of Varkonia. Also aiding this desire to expand defensively was that Icenia and SATO had come to a mutual agreement to end the associate member status of the nation due to Figasaur gaining more prominence within the Icenian government. It was around this time that the decision to construct both a skybunker downtown and a medium sized vault in the further reaches of the nation took place, and construction onbegan bothled withby Figasaur and Minister of Defense Rurick at the head of it all startedRurik. However, construction on the vault was placed to the backburnermothballed after Rurik left Icenia and Figasaur determined that his plan for construction was leaked to NATO. The result of this was all work went into the rickety one-bastion skybunker, dubbed the 'The Spaceneedle'. Also during this time the majority of the New Sovia minority left the nation out of a growing tension between Gamephobic, Pirater, and the Icenian government. Around this time "modern Icenia" as we know it began to be formed, with the UNC disbanding allowing the creation of the UDF with Icenia, Bloom, and Imperial Truidence in the alliance, the arrival of both ADHadeadhead and Enforcer15, two individuals who would become industry giants in the nation, and the creation of West Isle as a state within Icenia.

As the population of Icenia grew in West Isle, tensions began to arise between the regional government of West Isle and the establishedfederal government of Icenia, who mostly comingresided out ofin Icenia City. Many of the issues revolved around the state of Icenia's Democraticdemocratic systemsystems, with West Isle in favor of fullbroader Democratizationdemocratization and the government of central Icenia in favor of keeping the system of Federalism put in place in the first Constitution. This all came to a head right beforeduring the September elections, with all Icenian main governmental candidates finding their positions highly contestable by members of West Isle, most notably Lagiacrus11, the long time Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Around late September, 2019, tensions finally boiled over with the JQ, who despite constant court cases against them due to the Chic-Fil-A crisis and losing influence in the federal government, had continued to stay in Icenia and attempt to influence newfriends into wanting to leave the UDF. Tired of the JQ, it was decided by the government in secret that Fig would be pearled and sent to MtA to finally rid Icenia of theirhis presence. The operation commenced when Figasaur was near 0,0 to "build redditopia". Several Icenian PvPers rolled up, pearled him, were chased for a short time by Cr0c on his alt JimKramerJimCramer, and ultimately made it to MtA where his pearl was handed off.

Fig, not knowing it was Icenia that pearled him, pleaded with the Icenian government to free him from MtA, and when the government refused, proceeded to destroy the majority of his builds downtown in rage creating an urban center that looked bombed out. It was at this point he was removed from bastions and upgraded, thus ending the JQ in Icenia forever. Figasaur would later be released when Mount Augusta would go inactive, and Cr0c remained free to roam the earth outside of Icenia.

Today Icenia is seen as one of the more stable high-population nations on the server, a massive change in its history. This is mostly due to its development of an EXP industry, military competence during the War of the Coalition, and balanced governmentalgovernment systemsystems. Icenia also maintains the shallow --'s largest economic center and by some has been called "the new MtA". Icenia is also became heavily involved in the Infinity War against NATO due to their eventual alliance with Columbia.

On December 1st, 2019 Icenia was obby bombed by VPN alts. After a massive outpouring of help from many of the nations on the server, one of the admins, BaggiBagi, removed the grief after it was found out that one of the perpetrators had been using a VPNVPNs. Shortly after the attack upon Icenia, Genoskyo, Coventhia, Commonwealth, and SPQR were also obby bombed, forcing Icenia to begin to militarize along with the rest of thequick UDFmilitarization. Eventually, the base of operations for the obby bombings was found by Lodish, when he walked into the territory of the vault.

ChrisChrispie was later pearled during a valiant midday effort to break bastions at Bang City, a place of degeneracy and sin the likes of Sodom and Gomorrah. Chris was flakedflanked from the side while the more competent PvPers fought daringly and pushed with massive force into the trench of Parkervault. Finding himself in the dung infested waters, ChrisChrispie allowed himself to be pearled by one of Parker's goons, a man who no doubt bought child slaves earlier that day in order to work faster on the vault. Upon Chris being pearled, Icenia entered into a perpetual state of mourning. Church bells rang, the parrots DSclouse had placed in the town center stopped chirping, and the sky opened up as a cascade of rain fell upon the city. Enforcer it is even said wept a little, a man who prided himself on stoic behavior on the field of battle. One thing was clear however after Chris' death-Icenia was in the midst of war.

Over the course of the week, Icenia was used as a coalition staging ground and massive infrastructure was created outwith of ithaste to ensure quick and safe travel to the frontlinesfront lines outside of [[Lusitania]]. By 12-16-19, Ransakistan was in a downward spiral with many of its leadership pearled in consistent bastion breaking efforts by combined cotillionCoalition and Entente/Mirrian forces and by 12/17/19, the Ransakistanis were on life support before a final and impromptu push began to disable 'Cumdragon' the name chosen by Parker for the vault. After a 14 hour siege, the vault was disabled and the pearls of Hockey and Chris were freed. Ransakistan had fallen, and the coalition had won.

In June of 2020, Icenia partook in the coalition attack on the Hallow Vault, which was successfully breached with little to no resistance. Icenians would continue to help break bastions in the breached vault after the initial assault. Though the UDF would lose a singular pearl in the aftermath of the breaching of the vault, Icenian PvPers preformed valiantly for 24 hours and would play a major rollrole in the operation.

Icenia City is a sprawling urban center that is the capital of the Republic of Icenia. With a population of approximately 3520 active players, Icenia City is one of the most populated and active cities on the Civclassic server during the summer of 2019. The city does not conform to the standard "city block" meta that is common to Civcraft and instead utilizes a more organic planning methodology similar to those used in cities on the American East Coast. Icenia City is divided in to several smaller districts or neighborhoods that each contain a unique building style or theme. The most well known areas include The Jewish Quarter (JQ) which has since been demolished and replaced, Oak Row, Ram Ranch, Mansion Row, and Pink Sheep Circle. Icenia City also houses the primary rail station in Icenia that has international rail lines to the [[Zero Zero]] (Nexus), Bloom, [[Varkonia]] ([[Gabon]]), [[Imperial Trudence]], [[Vinland]], and Gensokyo. The rail station also contains on its upper floor the GOR, which runs to Yoahtl. Furthermore, Icenia's rail station has a vast network of domestic lines that allow citizens and visitors to quickly traverse the nation.

Icenia is home to five large castles, fourthree of which are *mostly* complete. The Quantonimo Bay Castle sits at the waters edge to the north west of the island while Lord Chieftain's Castle guards the territory to the north west. Towards the center portion of the island the Antietam Isles Castle sits near the edge of Icenia City. To the south of Icenia City on the border of the snowy forest biome, Fort Olenor guards the end of Sunnyshore Loop Road. Finally in the bay to the south west of Icenia City, Barad-dûr rises from the ocean.

For most of Icenia's existence, farms were located close to the city and not intended for the development of the EXP industry, however, this slowly started to change and in late July of 2019 Icenia had developed bottable and industrial sized farms in almost all of its regions which were in turn connected by rail. In mid August of 2019, Icenia began development on a 'plantation town' to its South near the border of Imperial Truidence to better develop its beatrootbeetroot farming system, though with notable exp magnate Sanstor becoming inactive, this region has not seen much development in recent months.

West Isle iswas a state and populated city located West of Icenia City and connected to Amiens Island and Icenia City via the Witeriuh Bay Bridge. The city of West Isle was founded in Mid-July of 2019 by VolutionFS and others. Its charter was approved on July 31st, 2019. The city of west Isle iswas comprised of a fort and several surrounding homes and it maintainsmaintained a factory room and rail connection to Icenia Central Station via the Drippy Domestic System. The West Isle Highway also connects to the Witeriuh Bay Bridge and Icenia City. West Isle iswas an important EXP and production island as well, containing Icenia's spruce farms, beatrootbeetroot farms, some potato farms, and the national Ice Production facility. Also located on the island is an unused but fully functional automatic build in the early days of Icenia and the Icenia Pumpkin Farm, a infrastructure build before Icenia's switch to EXP recipe #2. West Isle is the second most populated island in Icenia outside of Amines Island.

The UDF currently consists of fellow shallow -,- nations Bloom andnation Imperial Truidence, as well as Columbia, Yoahtl, and Southshire. This alliance was created in late July after the UNC collapsed after the Evocator/Corvus scandal and Varkonia's decision to form the Entente. Icenia wrote much of the original draft of the UDF charter and the first spokesperson of the UDF was [[Vend3tta]], the Icenian Minister of Foreign Affairs (June-July 2019). Currently, Icenia holds the Defense Secretary position within the UDF with their Defense Minister, Soundtech, serving in the position. The UDF was been the source of much controversy within Icenia, primarily between the IFP (Icenia First Party) and the IDP (Icenia Defense Party).