The RoM Partition

## **Overview**

A Contean Pro-Democracy Poster, Scapegoating the Other Members of The Alliance during the Second Helliger War as threats to Democracy and Independece

### Type

Division of the Lands of the Former Republic of Micronesia (RoM)

### Causes

* Overly Decentralized Federal Government
* Political Polarization
* Tsar's Failed Subversion Plan
* Helliger's Military Dominance

### Length

September 6, 2020 (End of 2nd Helliger War) - September 13, 2021 (Official Annexation of Contea)

### Result

* End of the Republic of Micronesia (RoP 2nd Republic)
* Start of the Bluefieldian Golden Era
* Decline of Helliger
* Creation of the Kingdom of Burgonia
* End of Polynesia Season 5 (Micronesia)
* Start of Polynesia Season 6
* Start of Iesta

### Key People

The Alliance (Anti-RoM):* Hazerd
* DragonKingseley (military leader, not mentioned on this page but influential)
* ColonelKai
* Beer (Leader of Cumopolis)

RoM Forces + Contean Support:

* Prime Minister Brittannia
* Tsar\_\_Putin
* Asarokaa

21st of June Movement (Pro-RoM):

* Sealand

The RoM partition was a direct consequence of the first military defeat of the RoM/RoP in Polynesian history following its surrender to Helliger forces in the 2nd Helliger War. The peace treaty legitimized the annexation of Lexon by Helliger despite both of them being States within the RoM instead of independent nations. Most of the community left the server to start Polynesia Season 5, which led to the end of Micronesia and start of Iesta.

The now-abandoned lands of the RoM were left without a claimant bar Nova Contea, which was annexed by Bluefield on September 13, and Stirling, which was renamed to Guldhavn upon the founding of the Kingdom of Burgonia under King Christian I in Iesta.

## **Background Historical Information**

### **The States System Handicap**

**Tsar's Stunted Government**

Starting with the end of the First Helliger War, the Republic of Micronesia (RoM) found itself in many crises such as the many Lexonian Independence Wars and the Great August Crisis. The Federal Government was left mostly powerless in its capability to handle any of them due to heavy handicaps in the admin-enforced autonomy rules via the States System. Prime Minister Tsar attempted to reform this system before the First Helliger War, by creating a RoM Constitution which would have replaced the States System with a slightly more powerful central Government. However, due to the First Helliger War and him being the only fully active member of Government during the Great August Crisis, the Constitution was never finished past the first 2 pages while Tsar desperately tried to resolve the immense turmoil plaguing the country on a daily basis.

**Anarchy With no Government Intervention**

During the Great August Crisis, there were many Lexonian attempts on secession from the RoM followed by unprovoked wars of aggression by the States of Helliger and Cumopolis motivated by anti-Communist fervor.

Due to the States System, the Federal Government had no power to physically stop any acts of aggression, which led to widespread public dissolution with Tsar's government in late August; further destabilizing the Micronesian political scene.

### **Helliger's Military Dominance**

**A Nation Divided**

The destruction of the First Helliger War and Helliger's military advancements bolstered the appearance of Helliger's military superiority. Despite having a massive population decline crisis, the Helliger armed forces were highly skilled and organized; leading to widespread fear of confrontation among officials in Tsar's Government and members of the public.

When The Alliance attacked the RoM in the 2nd Helliger War, most RoM forces stood down out of either fear of Helliger or disillusionment with the federal government. Despite this, Prime Minister Britannia desperately tried to fight Helliger. Although war crimes committed by Helliger got some to join the RoM's ranks, they were poorly trained and joined the war too late to stop Brit's inevitable surrender.

**Tsar's Failed Subversion Plan**

With the best-trained and equipped force of the RoM Military, the RoM 2nd "Contean Division", being just two members strong and the well-trained Bluefieldian militia's loyalty to the RoM being in heavy doubt, Prime Minister Tsar opted to subdue the threat of Helliger through friendship and deception.

Despite being centre-left politically, Tsar reformed his political party to become a more Neoconservative political party in order to play on Helliger's staunch anti-Communist fervor. He also went on a campaign of further federal decentralization to the point of passing a law that allowed States to create formal alliances. At this time, the States of Bluefield and Contea were both secretly disapproving by Helliger's posturing and created an alliance with Helliger with the intention of taking advantage of its population decline and make it less relevant over time by splitting most major roles in the alliance between Bluefield and Contea.

Although initially the plan proved promising, it relied on Contea's Tsar or Bluefield's ColonelKai keeping power over the federal RoM government via focusing all support in Contea, Bluefield, and especially Helliger. Although this worked in the August 3rd 2020 election, Helliger's massive population decline coupled with the Lexonian population boom meant that Tsar's National Prosperity League party lost voters while Britannia's Labour Party gained support. The focus on Helliger also appeared to many outside of Tsar's inner support circle to look at him as a sellout to Helliger's investment opportunities. After candidate Kai lost by the biggest landslide in Polynesian history, Helliger led a successful war against the RoM with the goal of annexing Lexon and forcing PM Britannia to resign.

## **Aftermath**

### **Hopelessness and Mass Quitting**

The RoM's surrender in the 2nd Helliger War all but confirmed that the RoM government became a puppet to the militarily dominant Helliger. Left hopeless by the fact that military resistance and political finesse was useless, most of the community quit to start Polynesia Season 6.

### **Fate of Affected Regions on the RoM's Side**

**Lexon**, now officially under the heel of Helliger, soon became a ghost town as all civilians were either killed, quit, or fled to the new Polynesian Season. Some members of the 21st of June Movement fought on for a week longer, but soon joined the rest of Lexonians in the new Season.

**The Conteans**, although officially declaring their support for Helliger in the 2nd Helliger War, supported the RoM in practice via huge military supply runs to Brittannia. Tsar was left demoralized after the stunning failure of his subversion plan, General Asarokaa didn't want to side with war criminals, and both agreed to secretly defect to the RoM. After the war, Contea was also left abandoned and Tsar accepted Bluefield's annexation of it on September 13 in exchange for the continued upkeep of Uplands National Park. On September 27 2020, the Conteans joined Polynesia Season 6 and reestablished Nova Contea as a province loyal to the reformed independent RoP.

**The Stirling region**, although not seeing any combat, was left without an owner after the end of Contea. When Iesta started, Belg joined as King Christian I and formed the Kingdom of Burgonia there; renaming Stirling to Guldhavn.

**The Rest of the RoM** was left abandoned and left without an owner. Looting and vandalism took hold immediately after, until nothing valuable was left to steal.

### **Fate of the Regions on the Alliance's Side**

**Helliger** continued to decline in population heavily while continuing its imperialist posturing in Iesta. Emboldened by the seizure of Lexon and newly-found independence, Hazerd continued to play hard-ball diplomacy with the emerging powers of Burgonia and Bluefield.

**Cumopolis** became an independent state after the end of the RoM, joining Bluefield's pact. Eventually, its leader and population got bored and quit; ending the Theocracy of Cumopolis in late September 2020.

The Nation of **Bluefield** flourished and turned the newly-acquired Contea region into a nature tourism hotspot. Bluefield soon formed a pact with Burgonia and Cumopolis to ensure peace and cooperation would reign in Iesta. Being annoyed by the declining Helliger's continuous posturing and its war crimes in the 2nd Helliger War, Bluefield sidelined Helliger despite allowing it to join their pact.