Republic of Minsnox

The **Republic of Minsnox**, commonly referred to as **Minsnox** is a nation located in the Eastern Road. It is the 7th nation to be formed and officially recognized in the SMP.

Minsnox is a snowy, mountainous, and heavily populated nation that resides a few thousand blocks away from Solague. There is no set "hierarchy," therefore Lucas Newton is a mere representative and not a full-on leader. He can still partake and vote in the Continental Congress.

## History

### Founding (Day 3980 - 5996)

The nation was founded by the Solagist Lucas Newton; former non-consecutive vice-emperor of Solague. And Borla Nakamura; a Choralexian born citizen, famously convicted for the 1852 Destruction of Illusion.

The State of Minsnox was founded after the fall of Choralexian-Solague. Newton, along with Soukeski Hayes had just been exiled from the Republic of Solague. Newton had nowhere else to go seeing as how he had no citizenship in any other nation. Lucas Newton had asked his closest friend, Borla Nakamura, for advice on what to do. Nakamura suggested venturing out into the oceans, and setting up shelter in an isolated island far away from every other nation. Lucas liked the idea, and asked Borla to come with him on this wild adventure.

They had travelled far and wide for weeks. With limited resources and limited food, Lucas and Borla had to depend on hunting animals and scavenging abandoned landmarks for resources and food.

However, they would eventually stumble upon a cold, snowy, mountainous land. Filled with mountains and hills alike.

Lucas and Borla saw this as the perfect camping land. They set off to climb the largest mountain within that area, and construct two houses for themselves using the materials they gathered during the trip.

### Establishment (Day 5996 - 7444)

The State of Minsnox was originally intended to be a private isolated island, never to be found by anyone, and never to be known by anyone except Lucas Newton and Borla Nakamura. But eventually, as Newton expanded his claimed territories within the area, he started opening up about it. After maintaining positive relations with Monty Quartz and the Government of Solague, he decided to file a request to the Collaborative Commonwealths to declare his island a nation and therefore join the CC alliance.

The Collaborative Commonwealths had accepted his request, and officially recognized this mountanious land as the "State of Minsnox". Lucas would later request a rename of the nation from the "State of Minsnox" to the "Communist State of Minsnox" seeing as how his population had adopted a communist economic system.

At this time, Minsnox was generally known as a mysterious but nonetheless peaceful, isolationist nation. However, this would change soon...

### Quarrel (Day 7444 - 7810)

After the Choralexian annexation of Mirage, Lucas stepped up to represent the Minsnoxian people by requesting Choralex to back away from Mirage. After Solague threatened all-out war against Choralex if it does not retreat from Miragian ground. Lucas then commented on Solague's imperalist ways and asked Solague to stand down as long as Choralex also does.

This resulted in both Solague and Choralex antagonizing Minsnox which led to Lucas Newton taking up a bigger role as representative and even becoming a full-on leader to Minsnox at one point.

Feeling threatened by Minsnox's general hostility, Solague imposed temporary sanctions on Minsnox. Furious with this outrageous decision, Newton would send Minsnox Forces to annex the Solagist-run Colony of Vinland.

### Foreign Policy (Day 7810 - 7970)

After the Vinland Colony had been formally taken over by Minsnox, the Union of Choralex reached out to the Republic of Solague and offered a sacred alliance that would connect the two nations like never before. Feeling threatened by the extremely old and firm strong connection between Solague and Ferrum Debueno along with the newfound strong Solagist-Choralexian alliance, Newton seeked to improve relations with other nations aswell - specifically the Federation of Mirage (State of Mirage at the time).

Lucas Newton had reached out to Ronan Windsor - leader of Mirage - to form an official, strong alliance between the State of Minsnox and State of Mirage. Windsor agreed to Newton's request. Newton would then begin funding a rebellion within the occupied mainlands of Mirage; providing things such as weapon packages and medical aid to the rebels in hopes of freeing the mainlands from Choralexian occupation.

Surely enough, Mirage would easily repel Choralexian forces with the help of Minsnox as well as the Kingdom of Aurum; who felt sympathetic to Mirage due to the same kind of occupation that Aurum faced years ago, and due to a common hatred of Choralex among these 3 nations.

## Leadership

Lucas Newton was very hestiant and humble about his potiential role as a leader. He never wanted to be a monarch or even a president and therefore made the decision to be a mere representative of the State of Minsnox, therefore leaving the nation a leaderless and almost lawless nation with no set organization or person in charge.

Although the State of Minsnox still to this day holds up very well, despite there being no jurisdiction or specific person in charge.

## Flag

The first flag was designed by Taering Wilson. Although it has not been officially approved by the CC nor the representative of Minsnox itself, it has been commonly used by the people of Minsnox as a symbol of nationalism and patriotism.

The flag was made up of top and bottom bright red lines with a hammer and sickle in the middle, symbolising the communist economic system of Minsnox.

On Aeris 2 1853, Lucas Newton approved an official flag for the nation, as a replacement for the old unofficial flag. The flag consists of a half-white half-light gray diagonal split, with a lozenge in the dead center. Inside it is a sword symbolizing the wars that Minsnox has fought and is currently fighting. Behind the sword are wings indicating freedom.