Zuiderland

Zuiderland, formally the Syndicalist Union of Zuiderland was a nation founded in Solace World 2 and was situated in the southwest Pacific Ocean area — mainly in southeastern Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia. It had a population of 3 active players, and was quite possibly the wealthiest country on the server at the time thanks to the Zuidergilde company.

Beginnings
Zuiderland was founded on January 4th, 2020, originally with the name of the United Peoples of Zuidersland. The two founding members were The_Ohioan and agnius06. Initially they claimed a large swath of land which included the majority of the southeastern portion of Australia and New Zealand's North Island, Aotearea.

On the launch of the world at 10:00 PM EST, Mich spawned somewhere in southeast Asia from a warp at spawn near Cambodia and boated from there. On his way there, he looted various villages and jungle temples. He set up a temporary wooden shack near where the city of Sydney exists in real life, which would be the beginning of what would become the city of Janszoonstad.

When agnius06 first logged on early the next day, he pursued the North Island of New Zealand, where he would eventually land and set himself up at on top of a mountain. For the next few days Mich and agnius06 began grinding for materials and better gear, with this process being accelerated by them being able to loot multiple end cities just under two days after the initial launch of the world.

On January 7th, 2020 several players including Tomad, PurpleHeart_, and Sikorskiii RDMed and raided Mich's settlement while he was online, taking many times items from his chests and killing him several times in the process. There was speculation due to this that the Commonwealth of America and/or the Sultanate of Gibraltar (later becoming the Iberian Union) would declare war on Zuiderland.

After the raid, Mich began brainstorming ideas for construction of his city. After working out a general plan for it, he began construction on Janszoonstad on January 10th. He terraformed the terrain around where he wanted to build and begun building a road made out of white terracotta, dark oak wood, and brick. He also built a few buildings that would later be repurposed as embassies and began construction on a red terracotta and quartz apartment building which would never be finished.

Sometime during the middle of February, agnius06 invited two of his friends into Zuiderland: StanFlash and JaymeCoolSocks. They would each found their own settlements in the nation, specifically in New Caledonia and North Island, respectively.

Zuiderland War
On February 20th, 2020, Iberia and the Principality of Kirsch declared war on Zuiderland, under the justification that it was to 'stop the spread of communism'. This would begin what would be retroactively referred to as the Zuiderland War, or the Zuider War. The war would continue until two days later on February 22nd, when it ended after the at-the-time 48 hour limit for war was reached. Both sides were negatively affected during the war: many cities were heavily destroyed, and many resources were exhausted. Zuiderland experienced heavy griefing in Janszoonstad and settlements in New Zealand; Kirsch had its sole settlement and large castle nearly destroyed completely; and Iberia suffered relatively minor destruction in the cities of Gibraltar and Granada.

Middle Period
[WIP]

End of the World
[WIP]