The Election War

• Dissolution of the NSSR

• Goldcouver remains capital of OkBuddia for the time being (but was later changed at the people's and goldrat1's request)

Eventual partial WRF victory (see Aftermath)

• Most Goldrats lose supremacy and de facto suzerain lordship over the country of OkBuddia

• Goldrats get demoted to Gamer/Trusted status, only Goldrat1 maintains his position

• Saxophone\_Bob now generally considered as an unepic libtard, but returns as a non-moderator

Creation of the Rules of War

• NSSR in diplomatic limbo as city rules still apply even if it is abandoned

• Office of the OkBuddia President rendered obsolete due to the creation of the Rules of War

## Belligerents

### 1st Faction

• Goldrat Council• OkBuddia

• Goldrat loyalists and sympathizers

## Commanders and Leaders

### Leaders of 1st Faction

Goldrat Council:
• goldrat1 (absent, was completely unaware and did not participate)

• goldrat2

• goldrat3

• and others

### Leaders of 2nd Faction

WRF:
• Winnerdash\_101

• \_Libtard69\_

• Blockheadlarry

• and others

## Casualties and Losses

### Losses of 2nd Faction

• Winnerdash\_101 (KIA)• \_Libtard69\_ (KIA)

• Blockheadlarry (KIA)

• and others

**The Election War**, also known as **The Libtard Rebellion Uprising**, **The Anti-Goldrat War**, **The OkBuddia Civil Dispute Concerning Existing Creative Builds Incident (The OBCDCECB Incident)** and the **WinnerDash Revolution**, was a war that happened in response to **Goldrat1**'s moderator actions. Arguably the *most dramatic war in server history*, the uprising happened right before the OkBuddia Election Day, hence the name. The conflict called into question the creative builds' right to exist in the server, the banning of **Saxophone\_Bob** and if **Goldrat1** was overstepping his boundaries as a mod.

It was also because of this event that **The Rules of War** were made.

## Background

Contrary to popular belief, the war happened not solely because the revolutionaries falsely believed that the **NSSR** was going to be destroyed, even if it wasn't going to be destroyed but simply moved away. The **WRF** also had existing woes against the **Goldrats**, such as the creation of **Goldcouver** as Capital of **OkBuddia**, among other things.

### **The NSSR, and the Right of Creative Builds to Exist**

Previous creative builds were removed by moderators on the basis that the server should not end up like lawless wastelands such as 2b2t circa 2016, and to promote builds created in survival. This **No-Creative Policy** was enacted way before the war occurred. Existing creative builds were grandfathered into the policy (*that is, that they were exempt from the policy*) provided that they existed before the enactment of the policy *and* they provide a valuable service to the community.

An example of such a creative build was the **Nigga Man Farm**, located in The End. The **Nigga Man Farm** existed before the enactment of the policy and provided free enderpearls and xp for visitors, so long as they bring their own arms to murk the Nigga Men.

Also, any creative build can exist *as long as* they are 100,000 blocks from spawn, away from the "survival area". This was so that players won't see Creative builds and feel cheated that these were made in Creative, while giving mods the freedom of building new Creative builds.

The purpose of the **No-Creative Policy** was **not to stop it the creation of Creative builds, but to move them out of the server's way, out of the survival player's 'area'.**

The uprising sparked when **Goldrat1** decided to move the **NSSR** away from the "survival area". The **NSSR** was a creative build made by **Saxophone\_Bob** and **HairyFourskin**. It violated the policy, since it exists only 6000 blocks away from spawn, instead of the required 100,000.

An excerpt from a conversation between the Great Leader of the benevolent **Goldrat Council**, **Goldrat1**, and the creator of the **NSSR**, **Saxophone\_Bob,** after the debate over the **Pacific Federation**, a previous Creative settlement, being built in Creative is as follows:

> ***"Sax, I have told you at least six times at this point, I do not give a shit if you build in creative. All I ask is that you build it far out from the main playing area. If you're not even going to be living in the settlement anyway, it shouldn't matter where it is. If you want to build these little federations and dictatorships and shit, I'm fine with it, just put... I don't know, at least at X 100,000 or something."***
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> — **Goldrat1**
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Despite this warning, **Saxophone\_Bob** built the **NSSR** merely 6000 blocks from spawn. **Goldrat1**'s reaction was as follows:

> ***"Now, while I am personally not a Maths wiz, I am certainly one to know when a number is significantly smaller than another. 6000 does seem a little smaller than a hundred thousand. I have no idea why you have decided to just literally do the opposite of what we've decided on, but fine. I'm fine with you founding this settlement, I'm not asking you to destroy it, as long as you and Hairy just move it to a further out area. X position 100,000 at least. It's really not hard. I can even do it for you if you'd like."***
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> — **Goldrat1**
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As expected, **Saxophone\_Bob** *disregarded* **Goldrat1**'s reaction, *chose not to follow* the **No-Creative Policy**, and dug his heels further. This meant that the **NSSR** violated the policy and must be moved to X = 100,000 or greater.

Despite this, however, the **WRF** *thought* that the **NSSR** was going to be deleted. The **WRF** also falsely believed that **Goldrat1** was *against all Creative builds*. This resulted in the **WRF**'s unfounded and irrational fears of **Goldrat1** deleting settlements with reckless abandon. It also didn't help that the **WRF** was unaware of the complete details of the **No-Creative Policy**, which was why they *thought* **Goldrat1** was getting out of control.

After all this, however, the **NSSR** remains standing although being abandoned. It's been almost thoroughly looted and its only remnants are a housing building, its (destroyed) walls and streets, the capital building, and a breadline*.* Thanks to the efforts of its founders, **HairyFourskin** and **\_Libtard69\_**, the **NSSR** is still there, but it died out as no one wanted to join a city tainted with rule violations and plagued with war.

### **The Banning of Saxophone\_Bob, and the February Coup**

**Saxophone\_Bob** is a user and former administrator of the server. He built Creative settlements such as the **Pacific Federation** and the **NSSR**, in violation of the **No-Creative Policy**.

**Saxophone\_Bob** had already voiced his opinions on the matter of creative builds and the supposed iron-fist mentality of the **Goldrats**, however almost outright refused any resolutions to the matter. **Goldrat1**, who had thought the dispute had been reconciled, continued to help moderate the server and build his house in **Goldcouver**.

Later that same day, **Saxophone\_Bob** called out **Goldrat1** on being a hypocrite and 'taking over' the server. **Saxophone\_Bob** reached his boiling point later that night.

On the night of February 2nd, 2019, **Saxophone\_Bob** reached that boiling point. According to **Goldrat1**, He is quoted to have said (Paraphrasing):

> ***"My time is come"***
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> ***"What I must do is unforgivable, but necessary"***
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> ***"Goodbye everyone"***
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> — **Saxophone\_Bob**
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And with those final words, like an *absolute fucking retard*, **Saxophone\_Bob** ***banned and deopped Goldrat1 on the server.*** Saxophone\_Bob had staged a defiant *coup d'*é*tat.*

**Goldrat1**, **the owner of the server, was rather upset, and rightfully so**.

Before this, **Goldrat1** wasn't really tired of **Saxophone\_Bob**'s bullshit, in fact, he was totally fine with it as long as he just did his shit where it wouldn't affect other people. He thought the problems had been settled, but **Saxophone\_Bob** decided to be *belligerent*.

**Goldrat1**'s ban lasted all of thirty seconds. The console opped and pardoned him, and he was back on the server in less than a minute. In response to **Saxophone\_Bob**'s actions, **Goldrat1** deopped him back.

However a conspiracy arises:

> ***"I literally do not remember if I banned Saxophone. I'm fairly sure I deopped him, but when it came to banning, the server said Player already banned. I actually, legitimately think that Sax decided to ban \*himself\*, either because he knew it would happen anyway, or to spark a bit more drama. Either way, that's how it went down."***
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> — **Goldrat1**
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According to **Goldrat1**, **Saxophone\_Bob** preemptively banned himself. Whatever the reason, the implications are huge.

The **WRF**, however, was largely unaware of the intricacies and details of the **February Coup**.Seeing all the commotion left right and center, the (*largely misguided*) **WRF** feared that **shit was going down and the** **Rapture was fucking coming**, and they *falsely* thought that **Goldrat1** was going to ban people left and right like no tomorrow and rule the server with an "iron fist" *(even though he didn't even ban **Saxophone\_Bob** in the first place)*. We now know at this present time that this was never going to happen, but the **WRF** overreacted at the time. This whole debacle caused fear among the ranks of the **WRF**, and the **February Coup** incident contributed to the sparking of the rebellion.

**Saxophone\_Bob** was later unbanned by **HairyFourskin** and remains unbanned to this day. However, he has lost his OP powers.

### **Goldcouver**

**Goldcouver** is a settlement in the server and was the former capital of **OkBuddia**. The city was a symbol of the power and influence the **Goldrats** held over the server, and it was the largest settlement at the time. sometime before the war, the **Goldrats** decided that **Sansberg**, with its skyscrapers and general retardation, was unfit as the capital of **OkBuddia**. They decided that **Goldcouver**, their own settlement, was more suited to be the capital, and made it so. Players were divided because of this incident: some players believed that the creation of **Goldcouver** as capital made the server shift away from its roots; a haven of retarded buddies making giant, blocky penises together for the sake of memes. Others simply did not care and went on with their lives. Players were still salty, however, which led to the eventual voting out of **Goldcouver** as capital of **OkBuddia** in February 7, 2019.

The revolutionaries believed that the creation of **Goldcouver** as capital did not fit with the spirit of the server, and listed it along with their other woes as reasons for starting the war.

*(note from goldrat1: 100% agree, Goldcouver was a mistake. Totally unretard, it was more like Towny than OKBR. Plus, I named it after the people who were named after me. Ego 100, huh? What a fucking disaster.)*

## The Beginning of the War

As all this were happening, three players formed the **Winnerdash Revolutionary Faction** or the **WRF**. the three players were:

* **Winnerdash\_101**, who was a moderator at the time
* **\_Libtard69\_**
* **Blockheadlarry**

These three players created the faction to act as a hard check for **Goldrat1*'***s administrative actions. Immediately after the creation of the faction, the members expressed their woes and declared war on all Goldrats. During this, other players joined as well.

> ***"end the tyranny of the goldrats"
> "long [live] blockheadlarry"***
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> — **\_Libtard69\_**, one of the founders of the **WRF**
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Most of the players sided with what the **Goldrat** followers called the **Goldrat Council,** and the country of **OkBuddia**. These players cited the peace and order the **Goldrats** brought into the server and insisted that they stay in power.

> ***"The gold rat council has brought prosperity to the server. We will not let the admins abusers and creative builders win"***
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> — **WiderThanAStik**, **Goldrat** supporter
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The rest of the players and settlements declared neutrality for fear of griefing and other repercussions.

> ***"no matter where my political views may be, borgtown and new doge city will remain neutral"***
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> — **sulkyskeleton**, declaring his neutrality
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### **The Terms**

The terms of the **WRF** if they were to win were:

* Keep the **NSSR** as an existing settlement.
* Unban **Saxophone\_Bob**, but he shall not return as a moderator.
* Election is postponed until the next cycle and **Winnerdash** becomes interim president of **OkBuddia**.
* Depose the **Goldrats** from their position of power.
* **Goldcouver** will no longer be capital of **OkBuddia** and will be replaced by another settlement, probably **Sansberg**.

The terms of the **Goldrat Council** and **OkBuddia** if they were to win were:

* The **NSSR** gets moved. (Which the **WRF** perceived as the complete destruction of the **NSSR**)
* **Saxophone\_Bob** stays banned.
* **Goldcouver** remains as capital.
* Creative builds are always to be built at least 100,000 blocks away from spawn.

In response to the **WRF**'s calls to war, the moderators of the server began to devise the rules of engagement in anticipation of the coming war. This was the precursor to the current **Rules of War** that is enforced in the server.

Despite being outnumbered, outclassed and out-geared, the **WRF** and their sympathizers went to war anyways.

## The Battle

The belligerents were teleported to an arena under the supervision of Manzhou into an arena that goldrat1 had set up a few weeks prior for a server event. The two factions battled it out, and among the first of the casualties was \_Libtard69\_. Winnerdash and Blockheadlarry, the last of the WRF in the arena, elected to hide and recuperate in a corner. they decided that Winnerdash should take an aggressive stance and force the enemy into a melee battle, while Blockheadlarry will skirmish with a bow at a distance, due to him losing all of his diamond gear in a misunderstanding. Eventually, **Goldrat2**, the champion of the Goldrats, was able to overpower Winnerdash and kill Blockheadlarry.

This resulted in the complete annihilation of the **WRF**, as all participating members were killed, not including those who could not participate in the battle and did not fight, as they weren't in the arena at the time.

At the time, this was considered as the bloodiest battle in server history. The importance of the Rules of War was further exemplified by the results of the bloody uprising, which led to the implementation and enforcement of the **Rules of War** that the server has today.

**Goldrat1**, being an Australian, was **literally not present for entire war. He didn't even know it had happened at all.**

## Aftermath

As a result of the war, the **WRF** was dissolved, and as a gesture of benevolence and goodwill, goldrat1 pardoned all former members of the **WRF** and allowed them to reintegrate back into retard society. The results of the war lead to the **Goldrats** losing their position of power. Only **Goldrat1** maintains his position, as he is the owner of the server.

### **The WRF's Terms**

* Keep the **NSSR** as an existing settlement. (Achieved)
	+ The **NSSR** stays where it is, and since the **Goldrats** weren't even going to destroy it anyway, the **WRF** achieved this objective.

* Unban **Saxophone\_Bob**, but he shall not return as a moderator. (Achieved)
	+ **Saxophone\_Bob** was eventually unbanned by **HairyFourskin**, for no particular reason. **Saxophone\_Bob** has also lost his moderator powers.
* Election is postponed until the next cycle and **Winnerdash** becomes interim president of **OkBuddia**. (Achieved, *partially*)
	+ **Winnerdash** fails to become president, but because of this war, the **Rules of War** were made and it rendered the presidency obsolete. Even though **Winnderdash** never became president, the elections were *technically* postponed, and this means that the **WRF** partially achieved this objective.
* Depose the **Goldrats** from their position of power. (Achieved, *partially*)
	+ After the war, the **Goldrats** lost their supremacy over **OkBuddia**. All **Goldrats** were demoted to Gamer/Trusted status, except **Goldrat1**, since he is the owner of the server.
* **Goldcouver** will no longer be capital of **OkBuddia** and will be replaced by another settlement, probably **Sansberg**. (Achieved, *eventually*)
	+ On February 7, 2019, **Goldrat1** held a referendum regarding the status of **Goldcouver** as the capital of **OkBuddia**. An overwhelming majority of voters (including **Goldrat1** himself) decided that **Goldcouver** should not be capital of **OkBuddia**. Since **Goldcouver** is no longer a capital, The **WRF** partially achieved this objective.

Since most of their objectives and terms were eventually achieved or partially achieved, earns the **WRF** an eventual *partial* victory in The Election War.

### **The Fate of the NSSR**

The **NSSR**, despite the **Goldrats**' plans to move it somewhere else, remains standing and mostly untouched. **HairyFourskin**, epic gamer; and **\_Libtard69\_**, **WRF** member; destroyed 3/4 of the housing buildings that had been made in creative mode, but kept the city streets, capital, breadline, and walls intact. To this day, the **NSSR** portal remains working, and users can enter through holes in the border wall to see the former **NSSR**. Its chests and items have all been looted, including the gold trim and beacon on the capital building dome.

Despite having a wave of users saying they would be willing to join the **NSSR**, they all left and/or decided against moving in after the war. It was ultimately considered abandoned after its founders, **HairyFourskin** and **\_Libtard69\_** left the city too.

There was a plan in early March of 2019 to raid and destroy the remnants of the **NSSR** by users on the server, a plan that was never put into action as **\_Libtard69\_** said that the city rules still stood, despite the settlement being abandoned, and that the rules forbade looting, killing, and griefing. Because of this, the **NSSR** will likely remain standing in its abandoned and empty state until the **Goldrats** officially destroy it or something.

### **Saxophone\_Bob**

Saxophone\_Bob stayed banned, and after the war, both parties agreed that he was an **unepic libtard** and bringing him back wasn't worth it.

But much to everyone's surprise, the nigga crawled back from the grave and was unbanned. He doesn't come on anymore, though. Admin **HairyFourskin** decided to pardon Saxophone for no particular reason. His most recent activity was being beheaded in **Cockistan** for eating pork.

### **The Elections**

The creation of the **Rules of War** gave more autonomy to cities and settlements. This allowed all settlements to govern itself with its own sets of rules and effectively rendered the office of the presidency virtually obsolete. This position was then abolished by **Goldrat1**. **Goldrat3** graciously and humbly stepped down from his position of power and there has been no president ever since.

### **Goldcouver**

After the war, **Goldcouver** stayed the capital of **OkBuddia**. However, there were players that still did not want **Goldcouver** as capital. Four days later, **Goldrat1** held a referendum regarding the capitalship of **Goldcouver**. An overwhelming amount of voters, including **Goldrat1** himself, decided that **Goldcouver** should not be capital of **OkBuddia**.