Empire

Empire is the largest cavern nation as of 12/5/2022, with over 300 citizens that inhabit it. It holds many large and/or famous towns such as Nibel, Citadel, and Mirage-Hill. It has served many of the events that are hosted in the server such as the Soccer Match and the Ice Track Racing events. It is also the major source of the server's drama, amongst other things.

## Empire

Empire was first formed on the Cavern on August 17, 2021 by ZenoBlaze. Within a short period of time it became the top nation on the server as it convinced other players to join and heavily recruite. On August 24th 2021, the nation of Eternal merged with Empire which gave Empire a big member boost.

On August 19th 2021, the construction of the Empire nation spawn started. It was built by ZenoBlaze and was inspired by a French stockmarket building.

It wasn't the nicest nation, using many tactics to achieve its success, holding the highest spot as an active nation with contributions to some of the best designs and builds in the realm. From there it was a slow climb to further success. Unfortunately there isn’t too much history to cover as the nation has tried it's hardest to stay out of drama, letting its towns do the work, so there are a few events that have happened within it's time.

## Conflicts

One of the only major events that Empire dealt with was the Empire-Hyundasia conflict, which revolved around the premise of Hyundasia accusing the Empire staff and its members of being or cosplaying as Nazis. The conflict was a passive conflict that didn't involve warfare except. From the actual server’s staff position, the claims about Empire containing Nazis were hard to back up as many aspects that were considered Nazi-styled were very parodied and were not actual political. Unfortunately, nobody took the final decision of the staff seriously until it ended with three players getting banned, one of which being ZedtheBrit who has been permbanned since.

## Notable Members

Speaking of Empire and its members, Empire’s most notable members generally revolve around the same group that was in the older one.

ZenoBlaze: Currently sits as king of Empire and head of the nation’s council

Ximenant: He resides as co-king of Empire and co-mayor of Citadel

HerrAcorn: He resides as co-king of Empire and co-mayor of Citadel, along with being the pope of Empire’s Cathedral of Nyash.

Auriem: Founder Citadel, he currently co-mayors the city and co-kings Empire.

ARKempire: Founder of the original Empire nation, he currently serves as the mayor of his town of Ark and the co-king of Empire. He is sometimes brought in to give advice on what to do for the nation.

Asunarena: Serving as one of the co-kings of Empire and co-mayor of Citadel, she also is a literature and art maker who has published many books and who is comically known for not getting her duck prize from the Cavern Ice Race.

PrussianLemmings; He has a form of name-changing ADHD known as Identity Instability Disorder (IID); he serves as a member of the council, as all the others, and is Empire’s master builder.

DikkeReet; Serving as Nibel’s mayor and one of the co-kings of Empire while being a national recruiter.

Itani; who’s the artistic mind behind Empire’s uniform skins and the masterpiece maparts that can be found.

Kurt\_The\_Cyborg; An important member of Citadel who was involving in many terrain altering projects in order for builds to be completed and residential plots to be developed.

Epicfighter1; While no longer active, he did serve as an assistant of Citadel and Empire

Monkeyman1101; While no longer active, he served as a assistant of Citadel and was one of the factors during Citadel's Election Conflicts.

Archipelago: No longer active, it isn't fully known if he was a staff member or not.

homeopatix\_\_: At one point, he was Citadel's mayor. Unfortunately, he is no longer active after quitting early in 2022.

NuggetSlasher69: No longer active, he was the owner of the Citadel Tavern.

## National Landmarks

Of course along with the people who staffed Empire, and those who invited those they know to the Cavern, the nation brought into the Cavern server their own culture involving map arts, skins, and environment destroying towns like Citadel, Nibel, Museum, and Mirage\_Hill that have staggering populations and the best players of the server…  allegedly. Many architectural designs that Cavern has is mainly imported from Empire, with some tweaked to match the server.