New Gazakia

**New Gazakia** is an island nation located in the north Pacific, several hundred blocks off the coast of Teedlessia. It is considered one of the more strange nations of the world, as its population initially came from another universe entirely; its people hail from the Empire of Gazakia in another world's Mozambique.

## sd-289 to sd85: The Glory Days

On sd-289, in another realm separate to our own, the nation of Gazakia was born. It was created when guapathecat and her friend Ezra joined the HCU SMP Minecraft server and picked Mozambique as their base of operations. Over the course of the next month or two, they began accruing more and more new members, and Gazakia became a major world power with at least 8 players. It had good relations with Old Cosonia.

Notable Old Gazaks present in this server:

* guapathecat of New Gazakia
* Benniboi of Soxony
* IncoherentP of New Gazakia

The peak of Old Gazakia's influence was the destruction of its Wisconsin and the mining of its eSwatini down to deepslate layer. It controlled much of southern Africa and had holdings across the globe, from Minnesota to Cyprus to Sri Lanka. Sadly, though, all empires must come to an end someday, and the HCU SMP server died. Now, the world has completely dissapeared from Aternos, leaving the only surviving copy of Old Gazakia in guapathecat's computer.

## sd85-sd89: Emergent Era

Suddenly, and without warning, some of the Gazak population was transported to a new universe, that being this server. Many Gazaks attribute this to divine intervention from their grand deity Holy Letter ħ; this is assumed to be them moving the citizens away from the Ghost of eSwatini, a spiritual entity that haunted Gazakia ever since they began digging eSwatini up.
Under their leader guapathecat, they began planning to rebuild their lost home by making a copy of Mozambique in the Pacific Ocean. They began building their island on SD85, recieving a shipment of goods from Teedlessia the next day that boosted their capabilities. Soon, they had the entire northern border of eastern Mozambique done.

New Gazakia was a participant in the Cherry Rush, with guapathecat personally boating to Japan in order to obtain a cherry sapling. She was successful, and New Gazakia soon became home to the first cherry tree population in the Western Hemisphere.

This is also when New Gazakia gained its second permanent resident, Vice Deme finally\_deme. She is a friend of guapathecat's from another Discord server, and joined IM and IMcraft specifically to join New Gazakia. She is a very valuable part of our nation, and has built buildings as well as helped with the main island itself.

The starting era of New Gazakia ended around SD89 when guapathecat managed to complete the first half of the island in several hours using dirt donations from Qwasic (10,000 dirt) and Fushinna U. de las Rosas (~10,308 dirt). finally\_deme also helped complete some sections. Now, with actual land to live on, New Gazakia could look outward.

## sd90-sd103: New Gazak Renaissance

SD90 and SD91 have seen a shift in New Gazakia's attitude towards the world. In SD90, New Gazakia claimed a slice of Antarctica, dubbing the slicePomenaze Land in honor of a historical figure from Ezra's worldbuilding. New Gazakia also attempted to claim an island in the End, causing a short server debate and the creation of Rule 9 (the rule stating that land cannot be officially claimed in the Nether or End).

In SD91, New Gazakia began another wave of claiming land. During the time of Old Gazakia, there existed a province in Cyprus called "Late Devonia". Its sole purpose was to serve as a monument to the extinct species of Earth's history. Led by Ezra, it became one of the crown jewels of the empire, and remained a core province until the old server's downfall. Now, with nostalgia in mind, guapathecat and the New Gazak Parliament has re-acquired Cyprus as "New Late Devonia" and has begun rebuilding the old monument.

In SD92, New Gazakia was granted a massive concession of Pacific islands by Rosenbucht, and proceeded to sell the majority of the islands to infminuseight for 32 diamonds. The transaction was made to ensure infminuseight was able to create a Pacific continent, and along with the deal New Gazakia secured the rights to a port on the future landmass. New Gazakia also gained the Leeward Islands and St. Pierre and Miquelon from Cosonia upon its fall. St. Pierre and Miquelon was thusly sold to Teedlessia for 45 diamonds.

Throughout the next ten server days, New Gazakia would slowly accrue more land. Guam was taken by the Nation on sd96; and on sd102, half of Undersnow Africa was taken after the Fall of Undersnow. Things had been peaceful up until then.

## sd103-present: Established Era

The first sd105 election debates and the international community's reaction to them started the Established Era. Now, other nations were actively involved in their politics, with New Dawn Party candidate Itzel Cupul being directly suppported by Atlantis, the URSL, and Teedlessia.

sd103 also saw the sudden and mysterious arrival of the Slugs to the New Gazak mainland, through what appeared to be the same way New Gazakia itself got here. They were marooned from another universe, and New Gazakia decided to give them shelter.