Cyrenaica (Roman Vassal)

Flag of the Vassal of Cyrenaica

## Overall View

The "Vassal of Cyrenaica" (Mistakenly known as "Libya"), is a vassal of the Roman Empire (more precisely, of the "Western Roman Empire"). Its current governor and only official resident is "mattbruhreal". The first major buildings in the area were made in March, such as the *de facto* capital city "Tripoli", but Cyrenaica only gained the status of Vassal State on the 7th of April 2023, after a vote held in the Roman Senate. There are currently two settlements in Libya:

### - Tripoli

The construction of Tripoli began in March (although there was already a port prior to that). It's located in the north-west part of Cyrenaica and has access to the Mediterranean sea. It's currently composed of 6 houses, a fountain, a port, a wheat field, a tower, and a nice dirt path connecting them all (or well, almost). Here can be also found various small farms.

### - Bengasi

The construction of Bengasi has officially begun on the 15th of April 2023. It's located in the north-east part of Cyrenaica and has access to the Mediterranean sea as well. Although it's not the capital, it has already surpassed Tripoli in size. It's currently composed of 5 houses (3 located in the rich part of the city, and the other 2 located in the poorer part of the city), a clock tower, a christian church, an Hesburger built in collaboration with Noobah, a wheat field and lastly a small Egyptian-style pyramid. Some houses are planned to be built for Estoniaball, Noobah, Sour Pop and VolcanoJungle in here aswell.

## Geography

Cyrenaica is composed by a flat plateau, called "Libyan Desert" (part of the huge Desert of Sahara). It has access to the Mediterranean sea too.

## History

#### First Settlements

The first settlements in Cyrenaica can be traced to March 2023, when mattbruhreal, still residing in the port of Taranto, Italy decided to build what's now the city of Tripoli.

#### Declaration of Vassal status

   On the 7th of April 2023, the Roman senate held a vote to determine wether or not Cyrenaica should be a Vassal state (thus being slightly more autonomous and having the right to be more determinant in votes). The outcome resulted into Cyrenaica being officially a Vassal State of the Roman Empire.

#### "egthe1st - mattbruhreal" tensions

After a heated argument (about Eg having blocked every Roman portal), on the 8th of April 2023, Eg threatened to explode the whole city of Tripoli with TNT. It was later found out that Eg was joking and had no intentions of doing that, however Matt was still provoking him to do it. After a while, everything was sorted out, and Cyrenaica was in peace.

#### The creation of WUTO

Being in the Roman Empire, mattbruhreal joined WUTO on the 14th of April 2023, a newly formed alliance made to prevent foreign attacks on its members. The members of WUTO were Merica of USA, the Roman Empire, the United Kingdom and Gabor of Hungary.

#### Cyrenaica condemns Gabor's actions against Eg

On the 26th of April 2023, after Eg's cousin had destroyed farms and houses all over the SMP, Gabor decided to blow up the city of Dirtopia, capital of the Mexican Empire. Matt officially declared "Even being a WUTO member, i still condemn Gabor's move", thus showing the first signs of revolt against the WUTO organization.

#### Relative peace and prosper

During the period in which Rome was in peace (according to PolishTortoise it was completely isolated), mattbruhreal was able to develop and build many settlements in Cyrenaica, also building the city of Bengasi.

#### Plotting accusations

On the 21st of May 2023, after Unnecessary Serb of the Tianlong Dinasty expressed his interests in getting Serbia back, ceded to the Roman Empire a long time prior, mattbruhreal of Cyrenaica started joking about independence a bit too much. The situation escalated to a point where a war could have started. PolishTortoise, leader of Rome, misunderstood what Matt was saying and thought he was revolting, declaring "I supported Cyrenaica's autonomy, yet now I see them destroying the Roman Empire". The issue was later quickly resolved, and the day after everything was back to normal.