Commonwealth of European States

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The Commonwealth of European States is the successor state to the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in GeoFacts Season 2 and 3, which was in turn a successor to the Republic of Guinea in season one. The nation also includes multiple former season two and three nations, like some Pannonian and Soviet players, the nation of Bavaria and more. The founder and king of the nation is fnn05 while Gerard is the current Prime Minister.

The CES is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) building and roleplay-based nation on the GeoColenia server.

## History

Predating events: Netherlands page, Guinea page

#### Founding

After the Republic of Guinea became the UKN (Netherlands) their population increased and some planned European nations joined them instead of creating their own nation. After the growth of the Netherlands in season two and three they agreed to merge together with the remaining players of the USSR who also wanted to settle in the same region, as well as multiple former Pannonians and Bavarians. Due to the map being smaller and the nation becoming too large for the territory of the original United Kingdom of the Netherlands its claims increased, now claiming much of Central Europe. It inherited the Netherlands' position in the Hanseatic League.

#### Early history, initial claiming, Republic Of crisis

Right after the server first started, two towns were made in the Netherlands: Amsterdam, made by Gerard as a part of the CES's core claims, and "Republic of" made by Dancing Homer and Homestead. The CES assumed that "Republic of" was made specifically as an annoyance, so it first decided on a policy to ignore the town and claim as much as possible. The "claim as much as possible" part got a little too far, with Amsterdam beginning to partially snake claim around Republic of. In response, Republic of made an outpost, claimblocking Amsterdam from the South and essentially sandwiching it. Gerard reported the outpost to staff, which said that the outpost is against the rules and to be removed. This greatly bothered Dancing Homer, who began complaining everywhere and accusing staff of prioritizing ranked players. Dancing Homer later contacted Teplapus, and negotiations had revealed that Dancing Homer did not in fact make the town to annoy CES, but merely walked into the area randomly. Homer and Teplapus agreed that "Republic of" would be moved, but refunded. The next day fcx, one of Homestead's leaders, got involved. He prevented Dancing Homer from leaving, then reported Amsterdam to staff for snake claiming. He then began messaging CES members, trying to convince them to give up Amsterdam in return for not being reported and banned. No agreement was made. Staff have decided that Republic of would be moved, but refunded by admins. They explained it as "Amsterdam is in the wrong, but it would be unfair if we made you move because of all the work and planning that went into it". Dancing Homer agreed to move to Brittany, while fcx attempted one last lie by sending Teplapus a cropped message by Moldwin, which looked like him saying that Amsterdam is in the wrong and should move. Dancing Homer moved to Brittany and got a refund.

There was also a minor dispute with Austria-Hungary, but Zamings then moved to the USSR, resolving the dispute.

#### Argentina conflict and Finmark camp

The November election was once again won by the ENP, led by Gerard and headed by ChoclateMilk.

In early December, MP Gerard proposed to the CES parliament to declare war on Argentina. He argumented in favor of it by saying that Argentina is "fascist". Nobody expected the proposal to be accepted, but it was, with ENP and NDPE voting for. The decision was highly controversial, with opponents of the war saying that Gerard started it "over football" since his home country, the Netherlands, had recently lost a match to Argentina.

After a lot of internal conflict, with king Fnn05, at least 2 political parties, and multiple ENP members opposing the decision, Prime Minister ChoclateMilk634 proposed that the war is postponed "for now, just for now". The decision was accepted.

The topic of fighting Argentina arose again after the real life World Cup ended and Argentina won. This time MP Gerard proposed to "troll Argentina instead of fighting". The proposal was accepted with the same parties opposing and supporting it as previously.

Gerard officially announced the declaration of war, before beginning to deforest the area around Argentina's capital. Teplapus, one of the war's opponents, came to Argentina and committed treason against CES by replanting all the cut trees. Teplapus then contacted Dalokron to learn his opinion about the situation. It turned out that he knew well about the declaration of war even before it was announced. He said that calling him fascist is stupid and funny, later claiming that he is leftist, and "not a 12 year old communist" but an adult who voted for a lib-left party in his home country of Germany. He also said that "if he was fascist, he would be in CES".

The "war" later entered an inactive stage, and soon was cancelled by CES's Parliament after a proposal by EPDP. However, the proposal to apologize to Argentina was not accepted.

During the entire situation Gerard had also made a concentration camp in Finmark, joking that any opposition to the invasion of Argentina would be jailed there. In reality, the concentration camp only had one horse imprisoned in it over its entire history.

The ENP lost the following January election to the opposition party, EPDP.

#### Homestead wars

The CES was an important participant in the Homestead Wars on the side of the Geo-Colenia Allies. They lost, having almost half of the CES territory occupied by Homestead.

Main page: Homestead Wars

#### Gerardistani revolt

In January, King Fnn decided that he couldn't be as active anymore, and transferred his role of king to Mete44\_hd.

The following week, the newly crowned king vetoed two proposals, one of which included sending a Jewish person to a literal concentration camp.

Gerard protested against the vetoes, calling it abuse and claiming that Mete44\_hd is biased and unfit to be the king. The conflict continued escalating, and culminated in Amsterdam leaving the Commonwealth entirely to make a new nation: *Free People's Democratic Republic of Gerardistan*. Gerard's revolt immediately gained support from Backed Binkie (Paris), for reasons unknown to Binkie himself. Ecloopse (Budapest) also joined the Gerardistani separatist movement. Gerard made a map of his supporters, claiming to be supported by Siamesedreamer, HopgrassJr., Backed Binkie, Eclipse, IndevM, Liam and WildSakir, which was later proven false.

Gerard was offered a reunification deal where Mete resigns as King and CES is made a republic. However, Gerard rejected the deal, saying that he wanted to become the king. His claim to the throne was rejected by the CES. After a few weeks of divide, an agreement was reached, the CES giving Gerard a permanent Parliament seat and restoring king Fnn05 to the throne.

#### Operation Easter, Plan A

In the February election, the CES elected a newly joined member (but an old member of the server), Maple, to be the PM. His party was the Revivalist Party, and made many great promises. Unknown to the voters was the fact that this entire time Maple was actually an Australian councillor.

At first everything went well, Maple had ended the Argentine War Gerard began and conquered its capital Rosaria. This formally consolidated the merge between the Gerardistanis and Europeans. This was bolstered by successful revolts of allied Iceland freeing them from the clutches of Homestead. Amsterdam was also freed.

Some time after the election, weird things started to happen. The CES-Australia relations were made very close, the Australian leadership even temporarily got CES citizenship. Maple talked about "project Easter", not mentioning what it was, while Australians were asking CES to "count its days" in general chat.

The situation was made worse by the fact that Maple owned the in-game nation, something no PM ever did (CES/Netherlands was usually owned by King Fnn but led by the Parliament). This created fears within the CES government that Maple might merge the CES into Australia on Easter, so plans were made to get him to transfer the in-game ownership to fnn. Maple had sieged Schleswig and due to an error that prevented all the European members from joining, the siege war about to succeed unopposed.

However, whatever plans Australia and Maple had were abandoned when Maple decided to randomly abandon the siege to annex Schleswig and left to Iceland, where he refounded Vitisia and quickly became the server's largest town at 700 chunks.

#### Operation Easter, Plan B.

Main page: Siege of Europe

On Saturday, Australia announced that the Commonwealth "didn't need to count its days anymore" because "the day was here". Australian forces invaded the town of Kassel, belonging to Gomma\_tt. Australia was winning the siege in pvp, however for the 2 sessions when Australians were asleep on Saturday, the Hansa managed to counterattack with 9 people. The final session was saved by a last minute reversal by Bloodwolf, winning the siege for the Hansa. Two more CES towns got simultaneously invaded by Australia's ally, China, both being huge attacker victories. Iceland also helped the attackers before withdrawing from the war.

## Towns

Current: Strassbourg, Amsterdam, Kleve, Brussels, Paris, Mainz, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Calais, Kassel, Lectivus Sierra, Munich, Nuremberg, Tyrol, Villach, Salzburg, Vienna, Ljubljana, Budapest, Belgrade, Halifax, Subcarpathia, Warsaw, Saint-Petersburg, Racowonia.

Planned: none

## Current operational system

The Commonwealth of European States is a constitutional monarchy under the House of Rhine - however most of the power belongs to the Parliament. The monarchy is still intact and has political power, however not in the Parliament decisions. Below the elected parliament are the mayors, who don't have direct political influence in the CES, but they can rule their town how they please, the CES won't force mayors to decisions if the related issue isn't violating national rules or is a danger to national security. There are also some non parliamentarian positions like the political advisor and the judge.

#### Leaders and people in charge

His Majesty the King, Fnn05 II

The Right Honorable Prime Minister, Gerard de Grote

Prince IndevM

#### Political parties

National Social Party. Pro-siege, liberal economy, strong leadership, pro-small government. Criticized for legalizing occupation of towns, doing censorship, and provoking potential conflicts. Forms the current government.

Peaceful Democratic Party. Anti-siege, liberal, supporting freedom of speech and equal rights. Criticized for not making many building projects, as well as opposing plundering towns as a means of getting money. Main opposition party.

Monarchist Party. Successor to Maple's Revivalist party, led by Ecloopse. Supports the king.

Conservative Party. Economically Liberal and Socially Conservative Christian democratic party, tough on corruption and crime and a big advocate of private property and rights.

National Democratic Party. Chauvinistic, monarchist, ultra-conservative. Is in a coalition with the National Social party.

Liberal Party. Formed by Wild when the fascist party took a 180 degree ideological turn for no apparent reason.