Zaire

Zaire, also called the Congo early on in its lifespan, was a nation that existed during Solace World 2. It was situated in southern Africa, specifically around the Congo River and the Congo Rainforest. For a while, it was considered to be one of the most powerful nations of the server, with its several members expressing a high technical prowess in the game. However, it eventually succumbed to collapse due to external conflict and internal division.
==History==
Zaire was founded by Owning69 on January 4th, 2020, the same day Solace World 2 launched. Over the course of the first few weeks of the world, he began inviting many of his friends onto the server, including BongBang and others. This managed to get him a nation with a sizable population early on, cementing themselves as a adequately powerful nation. At some point, the city of Kinshasa was founded as Zaire's capital; it turned out to be the nation's largest settlement by far and where most domestic activity took place.
On January 26th, the Kingdom of Italy declared war on Zaire, presumably to mitigate their growing influence, sparking the Zairean-Italian War. In response to this, the Iberian Union sent mercenaries to Zaire and thus backed them up in the war. Zairean and Iberian forces eventually landed on the island of Sicily and moved all the way up to the Italian capital of Venice. Ten minutes after their arrival in the city, Italy surrendered and the war ended, presumably a white peace.
Zaire quickly rebounded from their war with Italy, with their population growing and Kinshasa continuing to expand.
This era of growth, stability, and peace would come to a halt though as internal fractures began to form in the nation among differing parties, mainly the leader Owning69 and members dissatisfied with his rule. On February 11th, a civil war erupted in Zaire, when a player named coleplush broke away from the nation, along with three other members, and declared war against him. The war eventually came to a close (although details about any conclusive agreement or peace treaty are either unknown or lost), with Zaire being united once more; despite this, it still set a precedent for long-term internal instability in the nation.
On March 1st, Zaire was once more nearly on the brink of a civil war; however, this time it was narrowly avoided when Owning69 declared on Amazonas, in an attempt some say was to consolidate power. The leader of Amazonas, Bensjef, quickly surrendered and Amazonas was hence made a colony of Zaire in the peace treaty ending the conflict.
Tensions within Zaire's borders continued to grow in severity, with it ultimately reaching a boiling point. On March 7th, Owning69 was apparently deposed as leader of Zaire, with him as such being exiled to Iberia and taking Kinshasa with him. Soon after, Iberia declared war on on Zaire in an effort to reinstall Owning69 as leader, to make the nation their protectorate, and to take control over the nation's vast redstone machinery; this began what became to be referred to as the Iberian-Zairean War. After a lengthy one-to-two day long conflict, Iberia won the war in the end, coinciding with the capitulation of Zaire. Instead of forming a protectorate in the nation like they had previously planned, Iberia only annexed the city of Kinshasa and held it as their colony. This war left Kinshasa and the remaining settlements part of Zaire in complete ruins; it all seemed irreparable from that point on.
On March 23rd, 2020 Zaire was ultimately disbanded, most likely due to inactivity from the few members left.
==Members==
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*Owning69 (Founder; Leader until March 9th)
*BongBang
Category:Nations in Solace World 2
Category:Solace World 2