Shanqu

The Empire of Shanqu (alt. The Empire of the Flying Dragon), more commonly known as Shanqu, was a nation in East Asia with its borders going from the source of the Brahmpatura on the east, towards the Mountains of Yunnan on the west. It formed as a union between two neighboring nations, Naraka and Nanzhao.

History
On the 13th of February 2021, skaltronx and Tomad discussed a union between the two nations. After a short discussion, all the detailed were figured out and the union was announced.

The two isolationist nations of Naraka and Nanzhao now formed a much bigger nation with more resources and manpower. These resources were used to improve cities and infrastructure, but from the beginning of March until the 14th they were used to gather potions, gearsets, TNT and crystals at a very fast rate. During this time, Shanqu clashed with Madagascar a couple of times, like in the Battle of the Antarctic.

This all culminated in the late afternoon of the 14th of March, when Shanqu declared war on Madagascar, beginning the Malagasy War.

Malagasy War
The Malagasy War was a conflict between a Dajiang-led coalition and Madagascar. At first, Shanqu led a strongly isolationist policy, choosing not to get involved in Madagascar's harassment and aggressive attitude towards other nations.

However, as time went on, tensions built up, and Shanqu started preparing for a war against Madagascar. Many resources were gathered, all but one, and that is TNT. Even though Naraka and Nanzhao had their own stockpiles, they were nowhere near the amount that Madagascar had, and so Tomad and Skali decided to build a creeper farm. Due to Madagascar's anti-creeperfarm policies, the farm had to stay hidden so as not to attract attention and to be able to gather gunpowder for a longer time. Tomad and Skali chose a location far away in East Antarctica and built a farm, camouflaged on dynmap by a snow layer floating above the farm.

However, unknown to Tomad and Skali, just a few hours later, members of Madagascar found the farm and started attacking Tomad. The leader of Dajiang and the leaders of Mingren tp'd and joined the battle on Shanqu's side. This is known as the Battle of the Antarctic. After a few minutes of fighting, Tomad had some time to get his crystals and obsidian out, and by himself blew up all of Madagascar's forces. After this incident, Tomad and Skali knew war was coming, so after a few days they joined in the Dajiang coalition, and sparked the war by declaring war on March 14th, 5:01PM EST.

The Members of Madagascar would end up getting permanently banned a day later, for constant harassment and rule loopholing, with no appeals. This would mark the end of the Malagasy War.

Union of Zhongguo
Following the destruction of Madagascar, Shanqu and Dajiang sought a union with each other, in order to become One China. After some negotiations, and Dajiang claiming much more land to connect the already developed land of Shanqu, the countries were united on March 28th, under the banner of Zhongguo.

Members

 * skaltronx (Emperor)
 * Tomad (Emperor)
 * Nickseyyy
 * Anda22