Kingdom of Kelpland

Official Flag of the Kingdom of Kelpland

## Overview

The Kingdom of Kelpland was an absoloute monarchy formed by Kelp as a separate location to avoid the laws of the recently founded Republic of Polynesia after the RoP began to grow itself outwards under the 1st LeftCo Government. Kelp had been able to continue his nation prior to his official declaration of his independence that he gave to the PIO head Agent, ColonelKai which would officialy begin the Kelp War.

## Culture

Kelpland was an incredibly different nation to the RoP in multiple ways. Kelpland had its own distinct culture that it made clear through its seperate religion specialised to its own nation. Kelpism. Kelpism was the back bone of the state. The nation had entrenched in due to its religion a complete opposition to the Republics political and economic law and a deep hatred of the sense of order on the server that the domination of the RoP had provided. Kelpland had a traditionalist view on the server looking back towards the Ancient era on the server in which multiple allied city states dominated the server with spawn being an anarchic wasteland.

Alongside core beliefs of the state and the national religion a key part of Kelpish culture was the form of construction used across the state. Kelplands construction relied on help from the admins of the server and used Kelp Blocks to construct the city. Kelp took his name on the server from the block as its use became synonymous with him. The state also took its name from the block. However the use of the block gained it opposition from citizens of the towns that were located close to Kelpland as it was labelled an eyesore.

The culture of Kelpland became a popular subculture on the server with Kelpism remaining a relatively dominant religion on the server amongst subsections of the server. During the First RoP Civil War Kelp was famously referenced despite his state having been dead for over a month by that point which during this era of the server was a long time. During the Second RoP Civil War Kelp returned to the server to help construct a second Kelpland city in remeberence to the first. This city would be involved in fights during the war leading to Kelp taking up an Anti-Dan position and joining the AFC as a new General with the 4th AFC "Kelpish Division". Even after Kelp left the server for the last time in September 2020 Kelpism remained a solid and famous religious subculture on the server, In November 2021 A Kelpish temple was constructed in the RoP Capital City.

## Population, Demographics and Land Claims

### Population

The population of the Kingdom of Kelpland originally relied off of dual citizens of the RoP alongside Kelp himself. Kelp recognised that he would not be able to attract many long term players with Kelpland as it was seen as a semi-joke nation on the server considering it was almost entirely built out of Kelp and King Kelp I had previously whilst being a citizen of the RoP alongside running the Kingdom for a brief time been arrested by RoP Authorities for selling Kelp-Pods and Kelp-Coins that were cheated in items that Kelp had claimed were made using underground labour camps situated under Kelpland. That situation caused a large deal of dissatisfaction with the continued existence of the state. Despite this the state gained 2 relatively active secondary players who built in the state alongside a dual citizen.

### Demographics

The Demographics of Kelpland changed dramatically throughout its life span as a nation. The nation would retain itself as a Kelpist state only but would allow dual citizens who did not identify as Kelpites in order to boost its citizenship count. Kelpland would go through a religious shift twoards the end of its lifespan with the departure of multiple original Kelpites leaving the server permanently due to disintrest in some of Kelplands more recent objectives that had moved from the states earlier actions of attacking new players in spawn to establishing themselves as a semi-serious trading state.

### Land Claims

The Kingdom of Kelpland had multiple differing official land claims over its period as a state. Its first claims were over the actual island of Kelpland and the bridge connecting it to the mainland next to it. However these claims were changed with the addition of a colony near spawn in the form of a small house and farm. This colony provided the state with easy access to new players on the server using similar tactics to get in new players to join them as the town of Bluefield did to recruit players into the Republic prior the Republics population boom. Kelp would drop the colony shortly after following its destruction by unknown attackers, It has been theorized to have been RoP members destroying it to keep spawn an anarchy zone and protect RoP settlements nearby, However the common idea is that it was in actuality done by new players on the server.

Following the loss of the Kelpish Spawn colony Kelpland would expand its borders 10 blocks outwards from the original bridge border to give itself a small road and gate in order to start trade with neighbouring RoP Settlements in the area. This trade would not take place however due to a dislike of Kelpland from those communities. Following this Kelpland would construct a factory on a beach across from Kelpland. They never claimed the full coastline officialy but relativley dominated it due to their two small land claims forcing many out of the area and into the nearby towns out of fear of the state especially after encounters with King Kelp I had been negative for many players. These would be the final land claims for the Kingdom of Kelpland as they would not have a chance too with the end of their nation following their loss in the Kelp War. Kelp would return to Kelpland often after it but would never redeclare the state as the other citizens never returned to Polynesia following the war.

## Government and Politics

### Monarchy

The Kingdom of Kelpland was a theocratic absolute monarchy throughout its entire history, However the King originally had an advisor who left when King Kelp stopped listening to him and he began to pursue a path less popular with the Kelpian people. Despite this no real opposition to King Kelp ever arose. Kelp had a monopoly in the state on all items that went in and out so therefore was able to keep control of armour and weapons within the state, Buying weapons from the RoP would also be unavaliable as they refused trade with Kelpland Citizens, Keeping the Monarchy in power in Kelpland.

### Politics in Kelpland

Kelpland had a relatively libertarian economic policy with an authoritarian government controlling social lifes of players making the states sytem hard to define. The state was on one half a tax haven and the on ther other half a theocratic absoloute monarchy lead by a millitary leader. This would be a major issue for Kelpland being the first ever tax haven nation and allowing things like "Sweatshops" to produce Kelpish Goods. The politics of the players who were citizens of Kelpland often differed with Kelp himself with most dual citizens being supporters of the RoP Governments Centre-Left policies and believing in RoP Server-wide domination believing Kelpland would just join the RoP When other states like VoS fell which they would following the Vos-RoP Conflict. Kelplands full citizens were commonly pro-monarchy and in support of Kelpisms religious domination but sometimes preferred a secondary parliament to advise kelp considering his often brash decisions.

## History

### Early History of the Kingdom of Kelpland

The Kingdom of Kelpland was founded twoards the end of the early ancient period on the server when the city states that had previously dominated on the server like the ancient Kingdom of Iemandia were on an intense decline after the fall of the Miners Kingdom due to the death of King Tedd I. With this massive gap to fill, Kelp would begin construction of multiple outposts around the server including the first temple of Kelpism the Nuts Cube. The Nuts Cube was a large obsidian box in spawn that was made by Kelp and another religious follower. These outposts are religious builds would be sewing the seeds of the state.

Following the destruction of the Nuts Cube, Kelp would move outwards towards fishland building a house temporarily that he would later fix into the Kingdom of Kelplands spawn colony. After Kelp left spawn he would move towards fishland and tempoarily live there for a time before leaving it and starting Kelpland officialy off the coast from it. The original build plans were for a single house on a large Kelp platform with Kelp being picked as it was seen as a relativley bizzare block choice especially when compared to the tradtionally built Fishland across from it. When the island was constructed with help from Sealand Kelp was unsure about the size and together they enlarged the platform making it a 100 by 100 platform now. Then a bridge would be built and Kelp would start building his personal home. Kelp would invite other players to build theyre own homes to expand the island whilst Kelp began working on underground structures to create his illegal items named "Kelp Pods" and "Kelp Coins" to cement his dominance over the Kelpian economy.

### Golden Era of Kelpland

Kelplands economy would go on a tempoary boom following the creation of the Kelp Pod and Coin. The items became central to the Kelpian religion and became a collectors item across the RoP, However Kelp kept a negative personal attitude towards many players on the server as he had a great disdain for many of them who he believed took the server too seriously. This personal dislike would lead player, V3 Spectral to launch a law suit on Kelp. The Law Suit was a very early suit and would eventually go in the way of V3 due to the overwhelming evidence of Kelps Illegal items. Despite this Kelp got some good publicity from it becoming a pretty popular figure although some RoP Citizens decided not to sell him items like TNT and armour to Kelp. Kelpland would create an embassy in the RoP Capital, a huge skyscraper made of Kelp. This created tension within the server since the tower was a joke and ruined the skyline so it was removed by locals to the anger of Kelp.

Also Around this time Kelp would engage in the Meme Crisis when he told Tsar to help him build "Sealands Church" one of the original Kelpian Temples on the server dedicated to Sealand as he was one of the few Kelpists in the RoP. Kelp told Tsar that he did not build the church correctly and got violent with Tsar, He would kill Tsar and then place Sea Pickles everywhere to taunt him. The interaction would kill Kelps buisness plans as many people saw the action and stayed away purchasing the items from him. Following the crisis Kelp would try to make Kelpland into a suitable tourist destination, Creating two of Kelplands most famous buildings, a large green stained glass church and a Kelp Skyscraper similar to the one he had built as an embassy in the RoP Capital. Despite Kelpland continuing to be in its prime its decline was slowly starting with the popularity of the Kelp-Pod and Kelp-Coin being reversed by the Meme Crisis and its results.

### Decline and The Kelp War

Kelp would begin spending less and less time in Kelpland following the construction of the Skyscraper, Instead focusing on Kelpian temples across the map, mainly in the nether. However with these temples becoming unpopular due to the Meme Crisis Kelp decided he would try to reinvent himself and the Kingdom as a whole new state. On the 22nd of September 2019 Kelp would begin these plans and would publicily start advertising in chat Kelpland, The Polynesian Intelligence Agency having been recently founded became aware of this and not understanding Kelplands actual independence as a state asked him about the nation. When they realised Kelpland was saying they were there own independent state the PIO informed the RoP Government who did not reply. However When Kelp stated in chat that he "declared independence" despite already being an independent state the PIO were forced to act and with public backing of many players launched an invasion of the island.

ColonelKai acted as the commander of the PIO forces alongside V3 Spectral who had since become a member of the PIO since his famous law suit on Kelp. ColonelKai and V3 would be able to overrun Kelp and defeat him in battle knocking him back into one of his buildings and cornering him. During the battle however, Brit a new player on the server was recording a youtuber tour of the town next to Kelpland, Fishland, Since Brit was well geared he appeared in the battle and sided with Kelp seeing the RoP as the aggressors in the conflict. Brit would set fire to some of Kelpland accidentaly causing confusion between Kelp and Brit before they reuinted again to attack the PIO Forces. Mass lag was caused from the war due to the servers poor hosting at the time resulting in mass confusion during the battle. As the fighting wore on Kelp was killed and he lost all of his armour, Kelp would continue fighting despite being poorly armed leading to an embarrasing defeat for the Kelpian Army whilst Brit continued the fight. Despite the loss of Kelp the battle was kept on by Brits abundance of Golden Apples and Diamonds that had had stolen from Iemandia. The lag would also go in the favour of Brit as he was previously experienced in fighting in laggy conditions. As the battle continued to around 15 minuets. Brit would kill V3 Spectral during a fight on the Kelpland bridge, With ColonelKai caught offguard from this Kai would try to fly away from the battle ending it in draw as Kelpland was half ruined and the PIO was completely embarrassed by the defeat.

Following the battle Kelp would leave the server and during this time the PIO would launch a raid on the city stealing remaining supplies from the island to force a surrender from Kelp. However during this time he was offline, Kelp claims he was offered TNT by former RoP Prime Minister Neth who had just been voted out of power only a week later from a victory from the SDP. Neth, as Kelp claims, Gave him stacks of TNT to destroy the RoP Capital City, New Ballville. It remains unknown if Neth did give Kelp the TNT to do this however after this Kelp did come online and destroy the RoP Capital City. With the city in ruins the RoP Government would resign and hold snap elections. Neth would run in them and lose for a second time, Neth would join protests against the new Monarchist Party Government before Neth would take it too far and try a violent otherthrow of the government before being defeated by Brit and Tsar. Brit would also use the anarchy in New Ballville to his advantage as he would raid and destroy V3 Spectrals personal base. This would be the final official battle of the Kelp War as Kelp would officialy be banned from the server and Kelpland would surrender in the war. However following the conflict Brit would kill Sealand in a battle in Kelpland as Sealand was trying to rebuild the island.