Lithuanian Empire

The **Lithuanian Empire** (Lithuanian: *Lietuvos Imperija*), or more commonly known as **Lithuania** was a nation in Central/Eastern Europe in the 2nd Season of Globalia. Lithuania operated under an absolute monarchy, meaning that the nation's leader the **Grand Duke** has full authority over the nation's affairs. The Empire was founded and lead by the Grand Duke Pep (AKA Peppsers) until he left the server, giving de-facto leadership to polyRoHitman as he was the only person still active.

## History

### Founding of Lithuania

The Lithuanian Empire was founded right on the release day of the server. Pep and Drimo (AKA DrimoTheIrishGuy) quickly rushed to the Klaipėda coast to establish the nation and start claiming. Unfortunately, it wasn't a quick start for the Lithuanians, because shortly after they established the nation on the Lithuanian coast, a group of griefers arrived to harass the new nation and it's members. An hour later, some griefers were banned and some willingly went back. After this incident, the Lithuanians picked up some speed and quickly expanded into IRL Lithuanian and Latvian borders.

### Rise of Lithuania

After that Lithuania has been steadily expanding and establishing new settlements, as well as establishing diplomatic ties, especially with the pre-planned alliance with the French State. Despite Kaunas being the capital, it was still slowly under construction, so the first established settlement in Lithuania happened to be Ryga (Riga). For a long time Ryga was criticized by many for it's bad looks due to it being rushed. 3 days later, Kaunas was officially established as a settlement and after gaining a few more members, Lithuania proceeded to take over the regions of Estonia, Belarus and Poland. At this point Lithuania really started to grow quick, as just after 1 day two more settlements have been established - Mindaurė (Minsk) and Rėvelis (Tallinn). The next day the Lithuanians upgraded Kaunas and Mindaurė into villages, providing the nation with more power and weekly GDP income. Shortly afterwards the Lithuanians adjusted their Polish border and have succeeded in entering into an alliance with UNION and later on with the X Kingdom. After gaining such powerful and influencial partners, the Lithuanians started to look down on the nation of Aiburg (Situated in IRL Ukraine).

### Invasion of Aiburg

Due to the fact that Aiburg was breaching the original claim plans of Lithuania, the Lithuanians and Unionists agreed to conduct an invasion of Aiburg. In the attempt to conjour a justification to invade the nation, a UNION diplomat managed to manipulate the Aiburg leader to conduct plans for an invasion into Lithuania. Once the diplomat provided evidence of the Aiburg leader conspiring against the Lithuanians, Lithuania posted their justification publically and once it got approved the Lithuanians, French, Unionists, Namibians and the CCC were quick to invade immediately (The details of the Aiburg invasion can be found here). After the Lithuanian victory, the nation was partitioned in the Treaty of Mindaurė. In it, the winning sides agreed that Lithuania and UNION split Aiburg between them down the Dnipro river and that the French are entitled to take Slimefun machinery from the Aiburg capital.

### Stagnation of Lithuania

On day 30 when UNION started taking over some Balkan regions, Lithuania was quick to jump on the band wagon by claiming southeastern Romania. After taking over the Romanian region, the Lithuanians announced they would not expand into any other regions in mainland Europe, however, they did not rule out the possibility of colonization. Once Kaunas was upgraded to a city level and with a port already being in place in Rėvelis, Lithuania established it's first colony, and it happens to be in the Indian subcontinent. After the establishment of the colony, the Namibians started to go on a campaign of blocking European powers from colonizing Africa, including the Libyan region, which Lithuania planned on taking. Eventually, Lithuania had enough of Namibia, and started planning with DENSA an invasion of Namibia.

### Namibian-Lithuania War

Originally, Lithuania tried using a tresspassing CB on Namibia, however, due to the nature of why Ash3382 was in their land being staff related, the CB was refused. Once the CB was denied, the leader of Union, Danejuris, approached Ash3382 and baited her into providing a CB. This lead to a disastrous war which caused the dissolution of Lithuania (Main Page).

### Dissolution

Upon losing the Namibian-Lithuania war, Lithuania was divided between a Namibian puppet, Chatheon, Far Eastern Republic, Manilla, who was created by former Aiburg members, Namibia itself, and Xkingdom with much anger from the nation of Silesia as they were promised land in the Cairo Conference, but received very little.

## Geography

Lithuania was situated in a major part of Eastern Europe, but also covered regions like Central Europe and the Balkan region. In the North they had the Baltic Sea, in the west they had Silesia, in the South they had Austro-Hungary and Union, in the Southeast they had the Black sea and in the East they had Union