First Islian Crisis

The First Islian Crisis was a period of political crisis and global conflict regarding the 1st Republic of Islia der Sur on the Newisle Community Server. In the timeline, it lasted from the 12th of April to the 2nd of August, 2013.

### Background

Ever since the beginning of the existence of nations, there has always been a divide between the East and West. This culminated in the creation of two alliances: AVIA (consisting of Velvet, Atarius and Islia), and BOND (Burlington, Osteria, Northernland, Danaria). These two alliances would have a cold war spanning 4 years, and it's impact could still be seen to this day.

On the 9th of April, the Armed Forces of Islia der Sur refused to allow Osterian diplomats to leave back to the Osterian Federation. This resulted in negotiations made by Osteria to try to get Islia to release them, which have failed. On the 10th of April, Osteria handed an ultimatum to Islia, requesting that the diplomats are sent free. If they aren't, they would have to respond by military force. Islia refused the ultimatum, and on the 11th, the Osterian Federation cut all ties with Islia and declared war.

### The War

Within hours of declaration of war by the Osterians, BOND followed suit. The AVIA alliance decided to not help out Islia, considering that this issue was "directly their fault" and that "they provoked violence".

On the 11th of April, at 9:32 in the morning, the Velvetian government gave an ultimatum to Islia, requesting them to release the diplomats. After Islia refused, 42 minutes later, the Velvetian Armed Forces entered Islia. Within just an hour, the VAF managed to fully occupy Islia without the BOND nations even noticing.

3 days later on the 14th of April, a peace treaty would be signed in Acadia, temporarily splitting Islia into two occupation zones: the Velvetian West Islian Occupation Zone and the Atarian East Islian Occupation Zone. The occupation should have lasted 3 years, but something disrupted the process.

### The Rebellion

Following the occupation, many Islian citizens would begin turning into radical and extremist ideas, with Partido Unidad calling for a "radical uprising" on social media. After months of rising tension and violence, on the 18th of July, over 125,000 Islian ultra-nationalist protestors would begin marching to the Islian City Hall. The Velvetian Armed Forces would immediately blockade the city and declare a state of emergency, as the ultra-nationalists would begin arming up and taking buildings by force. The VAF would slowly then begin breaking into the city, capturing block by block. In a desperate final attempt of salvation, the Islian ultra-nationalists would enter Paradise Tower.

Following 6 hours of fighting, the ultra-nationalists would finally surrender following a concetrated break-through the tower. On the 21st of July, the Islian representatives would sign a treaty with Velvet and Atarius to establish peace, and in return, Islia would be released much more earlier than expected.

On the 2nd of August, in Islia City Hall, the 2nd Republic of Islia der Sur would be created, and it would announce being aligned with AVIA until the end of time.

### Aftermath

While Islia would remain in AVIA, it would lead to major mistrust between Islia and the rest of AVIA which would culminate in the collapse of the alliance 3 years later.

The BOND alliance would, however, respect the rest of AVIA's efforts to solve the situation without escalating into a war of alliances. However, the mistrust between the two parts of the globe would last long after AVIA's collapse. BOND would become disfunctional as a defence alliance, but many of it's members would form the Central Powers economic alliance.

The First Islian Crisis also installed ultranationalist and radical ideas in Islia which would not leave the 2nd and 3rd republics and would stay all the way until 2018, where Islia would be incorporated into Velvet.