New Athens

The New Athenian Empire (formerly New Athens) Is a large empire based in Greece with territories in both Italy and North America. It's founding came by the return of Origami146 and LordChief in mid-December of 2020 and refounded after the collapse of Rome. Originally New Athens was a direct democracy made up of almost 15 players consisting of war immigrants and players on a previous SMP server Origami146 had hosted. Now the empire consists of both war immigrants, original founders, and subdued factions. The nation has a strong influence in both world politics and economics.

Government
Athens had long existed as a Direct Democracy, but as Emperor Ori lead several conquests over its enemies and brought them under his rule, the true potential of Athens was realized and seized. Although Emperor Origami146 is the ultimate authority of New Athens, LordChief has a strong hand in its actions and is regarded an equal to the Emperor himself. Below that stand those regarded as nobility, or people who have been granted Estates in the city of Athens itself, and often receive many gifts from the emperor along with close cooperation. At the "bottom" is the common citizenry who still own land in the Empire, but no land in the City itself.

History
New Athens was founded post Slavic-Egyptian War, which had seen a base in Athens completely obliterated. Set on making their home in Athens, a nearby hill was burrowed into and the area was cleaned up within a couple days. Athens sprouted from a huge crater, seeing substantial development within the coming weeks, as its player count skyrocketed. Soon other towns were were formed, dotting around Athens itself and one at the North-Western border, founded by various immigrants.

The Californian Incursion
Upon the arrival of Someengineer1 to the server, New Athens quick helped him develop the new nation of California, offering supplies and building assistance. after roughly a week, their country saw rapid development and substantial population growth of mostly new players. One of these players, known as TriCel, came to the city of Athens with the intention to grief and troll, and partially succeeded. All griefs were rolled back and the player was temporarily banned, but this slight was not taken lightly. After the next couple months New Athens raided the west coast of California relentlessly, killing and stealing very often, justified by the betrayal of a nation they helped get their footing. This grudge was held through to the formation of the Roman Republic, to which other members of Rome also came to hate Californians, and eventually vassalized them. This hatred has been tempered with the removal of TriCel from their ranks and their cooperation with the Athenian government. (Not to mention they got blown up like 5 times)

The Formation of Rome
The leader of Athens saw the joke of creating the Roman Republic and strongly encouraged to make it a reality. Already having one of the largest populations on the server, they peacefully formed the Roman Republic with various other founding nations. This was a grave mistake, as the large scale of this nation drove away almost half of the full population of New Athens, and completely stunted its growth. Although it maintained incredible influence in the senate, the cost was not worth it. As the Republic quickly became more of a dictatorship during the sundering and declaration of war on the Angevin Empire, New Athens seceded with all its former territories, but with only a quarter of its population and prestige.

The Malagasy Incursion
With the fall of Rome, the few remaining players began to rapidly change the city of Athens into something greater, construction a great Garden, Bath house, and Market/Living district. As Athens developed and its players became very well equipped, a new group joined the game, and began to impose on the dominating influence of New Athens in Europe and abroad, known as Madagascar. After some harsh debates, Shamski began to threaten war on New Athens, so the remaining members became almost completely inactive, only logging on once a day when they weren't on, in order to preserve their city. Despite the threat of war, Athens assisted the Tower Cult and allies to defeat Madagascar, but this ultimately ended in failure, as the Tower Cult surrendered before the Athenian volunteer could substantially damage them. With this, relations between the two nations soured even further. The Italian Caliphate's war on Fovrix saw further Athenian involvement, as their volunteer leveled one of their settlements, but unvolunteered soon after due to threats from Madagascar once again. After this however, Athens gained more confidence and began to establish several trustworthy allies who had similarly been oppressed by Madagascar. Eventually war was declared on Athen's first major ally, Vinland. Immediately following this, the other significant allies of Athens, Shanqu and Dajiang, declared war on Madagascar, with New Athens quickly declaring as well, able to set off TNT with Tomad just before the Malagasy left the server. The final confrontation with this grave enemy was seen at roughly 3:00 am EST, which saw Shamski and Origami146 Quickly blowing up each other's main settlements.

Rise of the Athenian Empire
Having finally seen the demise of Madagascar, New Athens moved swiftly to conquer/subdue their allies, such as The Italian Caliphate, Nordan, and Valhalla (Capitulated in that order). Only against Nordan did New Athens declare war, which swiftly ended roughly 30 second later, as both the Italian Caliphate and Valhalla were quick to negotiate for peace before war was declared. This boost in head count and territory, along with strong support from her allies, brought about the fair formation of The New Athenian Empire, born out of countless conflict and several wars.

Close Allies
The Madagascar conflicts saw the development of several strong allies and supportive members of the community, such as Blz, Vinland, Dajiang, Shanqu, and Dasiguo, who strongly support each other in both Malagasy wars, reconstruction, and the following conquests of their allies.

Vassals
Following the conquest of Nordan, Vreauxridge sought out an alliance with New Athens, but was instead vassalized.

Other Political Agreements
Athens maintains non-aggression and trade agreements with Austria and Prussia.