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The '''Treaty of Serenity''' was a peace treaty signed on May 13th, 2020 as a result of the [[Romano-Columbian War]] between the [[The Roman Empire|Roman Empire]], [[Arelat]], [[Meridia]] and [[Columbia]]. The treaty marked a formal ending to the conflict, and saw the territories of [[Columbia]] annexed by the [[The Roman Empire|Roman Empire]] and their population driven from the server.<ref name=":0">https://old.reddit.com/r/CivRealms/comments/giosyi/treaty_of_serenity/</ref>

On May 5th, 2020 Onederful, the leader of Meridia at the time, contacted shadedoom while he was at work and asked him to come online when he got home so he could go tour new progress in Meridia's capital city. shadedoom agreed, thinking it would be a friendly visit to a friendly neighboring state. When he got home from work and logged in to Columbia's city factory bunker, he found that he was surrounded by about 10-15 men in full gear and his bunker completely raided. He was pearled within 4 seconds of logging in. Immediately realizing he had been deceived by his neighbors who had merely been feigning friendship, Emperor shadedoom demanded explanations and began reaching out to contact just about every world leader he had a relationship with, hoping to win some potential allies. Soon after their deceitful sneak attack, the [[The Roman Empire|Roman Empire]], [[Meridia]] and [[Arelat]] formally declared war against [[Columbia]] via a post to the CivRealms subreddit, citing "The prevention of current and future Columbian aggression" as their reason for their invasion.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/CivRealms/comments/gdr04t/declaration_of_war_to_prevent_current_and_future/</ref> Using this as an excuse to justify their war, the anti-Columbia coalition raided and griefed the whole of Columbia, stealing everything from their newly-built town bunker, and completely removing the outlying Columbian town of Apoland from the map. The war had begun.

The invasion of Columbia was very controversial at its time, with multiple countries and players publicly denouncing the invasion, citing what they believed to be insufficient grounds for an attack.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/CivRealms/comments/gh0029/the_duckapore_ministry_of_basic_human_decency/ "The Duckapore Ministry of Basic Human Decency publicly states that the invasion of Columbia is unjust..."]</ref><ref>[https://old.reddit.com/r/CivRealms/comments/gh0029/the_duckapore_ministry_of_basic_human_decency/fq5p7bq/ Christianada Leader Gus_was_here: "FreeColumbia"]</ref> One of the examples cited by the [[The Roman Empire|Roman Empire]], [[Meridia]] and [[Arelat]], when retroactively justifying their invasion, was the fact that [[Columbia]] had recently bought around 200 stacks of obsidian that they found while raiding their town bunker. This was framed to claim that Columbia intended to use this Obsidian, either to make a [[Vault]], or for other military purposes, or to obbybomb their neighbors.<ref>Citation needed</ref> This claim disputed by MCSPenguin, who made a post where he argued that there were many legitimate uses for 200 stacks of obsidian, and that that quantity of obsidian was nowhere near the minimum amount required for even the smallest vaults.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/CivRealms/comments/ghizpb/on_the_subject_of_obsidian/</ref> It later became a meme among those critical of the Roman invasion to jokingly ask people if they had an "Obsidian License".<ref>Citation needed</ref>

The Treaty of Serenity saw the lands of [[Columbia]] being completely annexed by the [[The Roman Empire|Roman Empire]], with Columbia pledging not to take any future military action against the Roman Empire. The treaty also stated that after a week, all pearled players, except for [[Incentives]], would be released. Although the members of the anti-Columbia coalition, including Savaguard, The Roman Empire, Meridia, Arelat, and HiImPosey of R&S stated that their war was not an attempt to drive Columbians from the server, that is what happened, with almost the entirety of Columbia moving back to CivClassic or becoming much, much less active on CivRealms.<ref name=":0" />