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The World Police (abbreviated '''WP''') has been a label used to describe various people, groups, and organisations throughout almost all of Civ history. Whether they're formal or informal groups, the uniting characteristic of those who've earned the moniker "World Police" is the heavy involvement in international combat operations. This usually involves bounty hunting griefers and raiders but also more notably taking part in wars against PVP-oriented groups, such as the HCF. Though most World Police members are also members of their own nation's security force, what distinguishes them is their cooperation with ''other'' members' security forces. Many World Police groups have also been accused of intervening in the affairs of nations that housed no WP members, while others existed as their own independent nations, such as the LADS. Most World Police groups were also not one organisation but rather an informal group of members from many other organisations that simply worked together; however, some WP groups did exist as singular, organised entities, such as [[Eden]] or the original World Police from [[Civcraft 1.0]]. Regardless of their structures, this page will seek to catalogue all groups and people who have earned the reputation of being World Police across the many Civ servers that have existed so far.

 

 

The World Police began as a concept in late 2012 during the [https://www.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/1dlmo0/the_hcf_conflict_in_screenshots_and_posts/ Great HCF War]. In the iteration before Civcraft 1.0, [[AncapMinecraft]], excessive griefing and raiding was a bannable offence, and the main purpose of the server was largely as an economic experiment. However, with the introduction of [[Prison Pearl]] and [[Citadel]] in Civcraft 1.0, it changed to a broadly political one. Griefing and raiding were no longer bannable as it was now up to the players to enforce their own safety through the organic crafting of laws and defence apparatuses. Taking advantage of this and attracted by the stakes that now lay at hand, players from the PVP Minecraft server Hardcore Factions (or HCF) planned to come to Civcraft and wreak havoc, testing the limits of the political experiment.<ref><nowiki>https://i.imgur.com/BA2KcVJ.png</nowiki></ref>

 

 

As the months went on, the World Police were continually successful in ultimately repelling HCF attacks despite taking heavy losses and having their cities numerously raided. On February 23, 2013, the WP broke open the HCF's second world border vault, which they had been using to store the pearls of WP fighters and innocent civilians they had been pearling, leading the WP to declare victory.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/192gum/a_new_era_begins_uniting_the_nations/</ref>The next two weeks involved cleaning up HCF stragglers, with the WP pearling the last of them on March 9th, bringing a final end to the server's first global conflict.<ref><nowiki>https://i.imgur.com/cxZaOjH.png</nowiki></ref>

 

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