Collapse of Rome

The Roman-Angevin War, more commonly referred to as the Collapse of Rome, was a two day conflict that lasted from the night of February 9th to the night of the 11th. It was sparked over the secession of the Roman provinces Britannia et Doggia and Gaul (which would both unite to form the Angevin Empire). The conflict ended with the official abolishment of the Roman Republic.

Prelude
"My fellow Romans, this is not an easy speech for me to give.

Our nation is currently facing an incredible crisis; the crisis of inactivity.

''It is easy to succumb to this disease, this scourge on our great nation. Even my co-consul, the honourable Pibbus Pompeous Augustus has become inactive.''

''I am sure many of you that have gone inactive have valid reasons for doing so. You may have schoolwork, or “a social life”, or may have just become bored with Mappercraft.''

''But the stakes are high. Due to the plague of inactivity in the republic, the admins have told us that we must unclaim 40% of our land by early Thursday afternoon. I will now present the map of land we must unclaim, should this happen. (The land we will unclaim is marked in green)'' ''So, I implore you, citizens of this great republic, give even just a small amount of your time. 20 minutes, maybe. Even just five minutes, if that is all you can do. Please, try and play on the server so that our nation can get through this crisis and come out stronger on the other side.''

You may think that you alone can not do much, but together, we can overcome anything.

''I would also like to thank the many people who have resisted inactivity, because they are the members of this nation who have the strongest wills. I believe that we can all learn something from them."''

- Speech given by Roman Consul Massimiliana Zendegua (Mak4Life)

Due to raging inactivity plaguing the Roman Republic, the country was about to be forced by the staff team to cede roughly 40% of its land away. Because of this, Roman senator and governor Fiyu seceded from Rome as the Empire of Doggerland (informally at 6:58 PM EST; formally at 8:29), claiming tidbits of England that he had developed when he was a citizen of the Netherlands. The French National Republic also declared independence under Roman citizen Butternalso (at 7:24 PM EST), who promptly gave control of the country back to former-French President Goosw (at 7:34). In addition, Florida also declared independence from Rome, but was largely ignored by the international community, as well as Rome itself.

Conflict
Roman general Pussilamous declared war on the French National Republic at 7:43 PM EST, and soon after started griefing Paris with the help of LordChief. Following this, the Empire of Doggerland and the French National Republic united to form the Angevin Empire (informally at 8:06; formally at 8:33).

The conflict was heavily one sided, with roughly a dozen people storming the Dutch Capitol Building yesterday awaiting for both a Roman and a staff member to join the server to finally allow for the destruction of the building to occur. The second this happened, TNT was placed all over the Capitol, destroying much of the interior. Off-and-on for the next couple hours, an assortment of Romans would join (although never fighting back), allowing for more and more griefing to occur in both the Dutch Capitol Building as well as The Hague itself (with the iconic PibbCola factory being destroyed again). Very minor griefing was done elsewhere, supposedly only in Pussopolis, Hoeland.

Pussilamous, despite originally supporting the Roman Republic, would later secede and reform Hoeland with Java_Sea at 8:45 PM EST.

Aftermath
After the only battle of the war was over, the Province of Athenia, seeing the republic's instability, seceded from Rome and reformed New Athens. The Chandelier later seceded as well. Senator IAmSeamonkey, on behalf of the province of Aegyptus et Judea, later requested senate permission to secede peacefully on February 10th (although only three senators participated).

Rome was formally abolished at 11:35 PM EST on February 11th, marking the end of the war over two days after it had begun. However, not much was left of the former superpower considering almost all remaining active Roman provinces had seceded prior to the peace treaty.

Former Roman Consul Bonito_Pibb would later be banned for unrelated reasons involving invading and griefing Los Lagos under an illegal war faction.