Geneva

Motto: "Built to Rule"

## Basic Information

The City State of Geneva was founded on March 7th 2020 by BurnedExperiment, but it wasn't until shortly after during the Tallinn Crisis that the town's twofold niche was realized: playing a neutral role in international affairs as an arbiter of peace around the globe and by selling weapons and other implements of war to the highest bidder.

Located at 680, 73, -5500, the town was actually founded about 3 chunks away from where Geneva would be located on a real-life map. This was due to the need for relatively flat land to begin construction. Geneva is currently a public town to all non-enemies of Terra Mariana

Geneva is most well known around the globe for it's grand embassies. There are currently four located in (in chronological order of time built) Babylon, Tallinn, Rhodesia, and Limon.

## History

### Town Jumpers and Thieves

Much of the early days on the server were spent establishing the main center of the town itself, which eventually grew into the Great Hall. At some point, Geneva had a population of four. One former member, cheetah1point0, stole the gold from Geneva's coffers to establish the now defunct, unpopulated, and one-chunk town of New Amsterdam. The other two left to pursue their own endeavors, one of which became townless after leaving Miami and getting booted from Washington DC. From that point forward, BurnedExperiment had established the policy that only the most skilled and experienced builders would be allowed citizenship in Geneva and that increasing the town population would no longer be an objective.

### Day of the Shitheads

On March 20th 2020, three griefers, TrueMag, uwuwuwuu, and Punkibuu, established the town of Cairo and began pushing players outside their claim and killing them for their items in addition to trolling other players by spawning to their town with a trap designed to instantly kill them; BurnedExperiment was among the many victims. This event caused all the nations of the world to come together in an unprecedented multinational coalition to wipe them clean off the face of the Earth. Once the threat was eliminated, the world went back to business as usual.

No more than six hours later, II\_Polaris\_II had attacked BurnedExperiment near Nizhnevartovsk and stole his items in an unprovoked act of aggression. With the help of GreatDolphin16, the matter was settled and an exchange of items took place.

From that point forward, pure neutrality was no longer an option for Geneva. BurnedExperiment had made the decision for the town to become a protectorate of Terra Mariana.

### Geneva Today

While serving a role in the Nation of Terra Mariana, Geneva still strives to be a mediator between warring nations. Despite Terra Mariana's war footing against the South Africa after a coordinated attack with Korea, the Genevese Embassy was completed on March 27th, 2020 in Rhodesia.

## Buildings

### The Great Hall

The Great Hall is a five-chunk long sub-subterranean build that was the first build that was completed in Geneva. It was originally built as an atrium to support ten claims from nine other potential residents. As of right now, only one of the plots has been carved out and will soon be converted into BurnedExperiment's apartment.

### Kaiserliche Werkbank

German for "Imperial Workbench", the Werkbank serves as the center of Geneva's manufacturing sector, hosting a number of contraptions, redstone devices, and many slimefun components in an efficient assembly line. Every time a new project is started to begin work on another key item, a new floor is built.

### The Treaty House

This is one of the smaller two-story builds where peace talks will be held between warring nations. Since Geneva has a strict no-PVP enabled policy, it serves as a neutral ground where all parties involved in a conflict can come together to discuss terms.

### The XP Grinder

Every town worth it's place on the map has an XP grinder. While Geneva is currently attempting to acquire more spawners, the basic infrastructure has been constructed to allow people from all over the world to use it and take a tour of the town.

### Other Works and Works-in-Progress

* The Pont du Rhone is a major bridge that provides access to the Casino du Lac and other future projects.
* The Casino du Lac will contain a full-service bar and a working slot machine; under construction.
* The Grand Pool; under construction
* Arena; in development
* Grand ballroom; in development