Chinese-Californian War

The Chinese-Californian War was a war between Mingguo and Zhongguo, and California that occurred during late VMJ World. It began and ended on April 16th, 2021.

Background
California and its leader someengineer1 had drawn the ire of many players on the Mappercraft server due to his behavior and certain acts he committed.

AbolishSuburbs shared the same sentiments as the rest of the server regarding someengineer1; in fact, he had been annoyed by someengineer1 for a while by this point. Early into the night on April 16th, 2021, someengineer1 strangely levied a tax on exports of gunpowder and other goods from Californian businesses, despite him owning every business in the nation and the fact that that is his main mode of profit on the server. This was the last straw for AbolishSuburbs, as he advocated for his overlord nation, Zhongguo, to impose an embargo on California in return. Due to neither the Renminzhi or Emperor Sikorskiii doing this immediately, AbolishSuburbs decided to take action into his own hands. He promptly pondered the possibility of him — as leader of Mingguo — declaring war on California and decided, without much formulation, to embark on this endeavor.

Timeline
On 20:54 EDT, Mingguo declared war on California, with staff confirming it nearly immediately after. As AbolishSuburbs was already in California when he declared war, he straight away began griefing: mainly just taking somengineer1's beacons before he logged off. Unbeknownst to AbolishSuburbs until a few minutes after declaring war, California was actually a vassal of the Socialist Union of Ircaster; however, that would not end up being an issue, as Ircaster did not intervene unilaterally.

Immediately after the declaration of war, on 20:55 EDT, someengineer1 offered a white peace to AbolishSuburbs. This was refused and ridiculed.

After someengineer1 logged back in at around 21:13 EDT, pussilamous volunteered for Mingguo. Soon after, IrishChild and KingBacca3639 volunteered for Mingguo as well. With help from three volunteers, AbolishSuburbs was able to grief a vast amount of structures found in settlements across California; meanwhile, California had not even made an attempt to grief any Mingguoren settlements despite no one defending there.

At 21:31 EDT, Abolish offered a peace treaty to someengineer, with terms below:


 * 1) Destroy all of your gunpowder farms or grant permission to outsider players to grief or modify them;
 * 2) Admit that you stole the items from Prussia;
 * 3) Disband the country of California and make all of its former members and territory join your overlord state Ircaster; and
 * 4) Never attempt to live in or make another country in California or on the west coast of America.

This was refused, and someengineer spent the next 10 minutes offering a white peace (which was ignored).

Things would begin to change though, as AbolishSuburbs would be banned at 21:59 EDT for illegally griefing a mob farm that was part of Ircaster on accident, lasting for two hour. Abolish would use this as an opportunity to discuss peace terms, but would be inturruptted by someengineer1 declaring war on Zhongguo 16 minutes later at 22:15 EDT. He griefed the nation's capital of Suirenzhen, with some damages being legal and some being illegal. After being appropriately banned two times for griefing Zhongguo while no one from their nation was online, what was left destroyed was three buildings. Zhongguoers were dissappointed in what AbolishSuburbs had done, as it got them in a conflict they did not want to be in the first place. Some people (mostly ones who were economic competetiors of Menders Inc, such as MMM Inc) have even theorized that Mingguo had conspired with California to declare war on Zhongguo, as none of Mingguo and none of Mingguoren property in Suirenzhen was griefed; however this was dismissed by AbolishSuburbs and some other players as coincidence. Mud-slinging of the "Mingguo Conspiracy" would be prominent in the Second Zhongguo National Assembly Election, particularly in District 1, in which AbolishSuburbs would run against incumbent MintyMichael.

Back in California, the people that volunteered in the war from the beginning, pussilamous, IrishChild, and KingBacca3639, were continuing what AbolishSuburbs had started: griefing California until the point of capitulation. After griefing nearly all the structures there, California auto-capitulated at 22:18 EDT, just three minutes after California declared war on Zhongguo.

After an argument in the #peace-treaties channel between AbolishSuburbs, someengineer1, and others, AbolishSuburbs imposed a peace treaty involving complete annexation of California by Mingguo and forbiddance of any attempt of someengineer1 reestablishing California. This was approved by staff at 22:28 EDT, thus officially ending the war. The official terms of the treaty are below:


 * 1) Admit that you stole the items from Prussia;
 * 2) Disband the country of California and kick all members out;
 * 3) Let Mingguo annex all territory owned by the country of California;
 * 4) Never attempt to make another country in California again.

Interestingly, this treaty was actually relatively enforced by Zhongguo and Mingguo, with somengineer admiting to stealing items from Prussia, and never setting up in California again. This marks one of the few times that a treaty was successfully enforced in-game (as opposed to treaties enforced by staff).