Principality of Kirsch

Background
The Principality of Kirsch was a nation in South America founded on February 10th, 2020 and abolished on March 25th, 2020.

Early History
Kirsch was established on February 10th, 2020 by the King of Italy, Cambrian_. He had decided to abandon Italy in favor of Kirsch due to dissatisfaction with his own style of expansion. Instead of establishing borders and filling it with cities, he decided that he would rather build cities and allow the borders of the nation to grow naturally. Italy was given over to Mak4Life, creating the Duchy of the Rubicon. Cambrian_ and madeyousuffer made a small camp called Geiersburg in the center of Kirsch, and began to gather items and upgrade their equipment. After a few days, Cambrian_ began construction of Neue Sansouci, the royal palace of Kirsch. Cambrian_ did all of the building, with madeyousuffer clearing land around it. Members of the Caribbean supplied TNT at one point, which greatly assisted in clearing land.

War With Zuiderland
On February 20th, 2020, Kirsch and Iberia, with backing from the Commonwealth and the Caribbean, declared war on Zuiderland to limit the spread of "communism". Several days before, members of Zuiderland had arrived in La Jagua and had essentially taken the city hostage, demanding a ransom from XxMultixX. Although they eventually left, Cambrian_ was worried by this. In addition, Cambrian_, using the Dynmap supplied by Sikorskiii, discovered a drowned farm, a mob farm, and an enderman farm were all discovered to have been built by Zuiderland. This, coupled with the fact that Zuiderland appeared to have vast amounts of enchanted items and other forms of wealth, caused Cambrian_, Tomad, and Sikorskii to believe that Zuiderland was preparing a series of invasions to subjugate the rest of the world and establish "communism" across the server. After two PVP skirmishes in Malacca in which the Zuiderlanders sided against soldiers of Kirsch, Iberia, the Commonwealth, and the Caribbean, the leaders of those nations believed their suspicions to be confirmed. A few hours after the second skirmish in Malacca, Kirsch and Iberia declared war. They and their backers broke into an underground base in New Zealand and laid waste to it, destroying much of Zuiderland's stockpile of items as well as many farms. They eventually moved on to the city above the base, as well as the capital of Zuiderland on Australia. A vault was also found, which contained several chests of cached items, which were also destroyed. Meanwihile, Zuiderlander troops had caused minor griefs in Kirsch and Iberia, but were repelled. This concluded the first day of the war. The second day saw New Caledonia griefed, as well as a controversy over offline griefing. Due to the ongoing changes to the rules at the time, it was uncertain whether or not certain actions were considered illegal or not. For example, all of the Commonwealth volunteers had been banned for griefing Zuiderland illegally, as volunteers were not allowed to grief under the previous ruleset. That night, while the Kirschites were alseep, Zuiderland completely destroyed Kirsch's newly-made mob farm and heavily griefed the camp at Geiersburg. After a lengthy debate with staff, it was decided that the offline griefs were illegal and they were rolled back, and the perpetrators were banned. The war continued for another day until the maximum time limit specified by the rules was reached, and after 48 hours a white peace was enforced by staff, as well as rollbacks for all nations. The war was slightly controversial, due to the fact the rules were being switched over at the time.

Neue Land
The Confederation of Neue Land was a nation made of four duchies: the Duchy of Avon, the Duchy of the Rubicon, the Duchy of Elbe, and the Duchy of the Rhine. While the Prince of Kirsch (Cambrian_) was unavailable, the Prime Minister of Kirsch (madeyousuffer) had discovered a spy (CEOofrock) leaking conversations in the Kirsch Discord to Germany. This eventually led to madeyousuffer being in direct contact with the party the information had been sent to. After a brief discussion, Germany agreed to be merged with the Rhine, making a new nation. There were many proposed names and flags for this nation. For example, the German Confederation, Titan, Europa, and Großdeutschland. Once Cambrian_ was back online, he decided to add the Duchy of the Rubicon to the union and name it the Confederation of Neue Land. This caused controversy in western Europe and the Commonwealth, as they believed the nations being merged had been united against their will. Eventually, a Commonwealth member had been messaging the leaders of the duchies, and backed their independence movements. This culminated in the the Duchy of Avon being released as its own nation, the Duchies of the Rhine and Elbe declaring independence, and the Duchy of the Rubicon remaining as vassal of Kirsch.



War With The Commonwealth and Abolition
Due to the Commonwealth supporting the independence of the Confederation of Neue Land, as well as personal issues with the Commonwealth leader at the time, Sikorskiii, Cambrian_ felt the need to declare war on the Commonwealth. He convinced Iberia to help him, since they were arguably the best PvPers on the server. Despite their help, the Commonwealth had strength in numbers, and was able to fend off attacks from Kirsch, while destroying the Kirschite cities. Staff ruled that Kirsch had lost the war. Kirsch was temporarily ruled by the Commonwealth, until they unclaimed it, since they had no need of the land. Cambrian_ shortly left the server thereafter, and the members of Kirsch joined Iberia. The Commonwealth went on to become the strongest nation on the server.