Ypsidavia

The Flag of Ypsidavia

### **Overview**

Ypsidavia, officially named the Federal Republic of Ypsidavia, is a country in the Free World Union. It is an island nation that consists of two main islands in the northern hemisphere, a group of smaller islands in the southern hemisphere, and the northeastern section of Alanna Island, also in the southern hemisphere. The two islands in the northern hemisphere form the states of Western Island and Antero while the group of islands in the southern hemisphere forms the state of Cressbook. Another southern hemisphere Ypsidavian state, Kahurubodo, exists on the northeastern portion of Alanna Island and borders the nations of Alanna, Galway, and Orol. Western Island contains Beach City, the most populated city in the country, while Antero hosts the nation's capital, Clarkton.

### **History**

The history of Ypsidavia is traced back to the original Ypsidavia on a previous map, which was eventually annexed into Cylaria due to lack of ability to hold their own. Many in Ypsidavia also consider themselves to be the successors of Red Rock, a Ypsidavia-like country that existed on a previous map.

Upon arriving on the current map, it was still with Cylaria, which was now renamed to Dovena by this point. Not long after arriving in the new world, a group of more left-leaning settlers from the northern islands of what was being established. Ypsidavia made the decision to secede and declare independence after concluding that Dovena would likely not go through with their more left-leaning policies, with their highly conservative majority further south. Dovena then agreed to recognize Ypsidavia's independence, but agreed to keep working closely with them.

After becoming an independent nation, Ypsidavia started developing rapidly, with lots of small towns popping up around the nation, and a large city being established on the Western Island, called Beach City. Beach City was incorporated as the first capital city of Ypsidavia, and plenty of other small towns were popping up around the island as well.

#### **The Formation of Communist West Clarkton & The Clarkton War**

An unknown organization bought land in Clarkton, then a small town, on the island of Antero. They started building a gated community where people moved in quickly. They primarily consisted of communists. As time went on, it became clear that people in the gated community wanted an independent city-state within Ypsidavia. Strombi, which was a communist nation at the time, demanded that Ypsidavia give into their demands or face the potential of war. Not wanting to face conflict, Ypsidavia agreed to give independence to the western portion of Clarkton, which was where the communists had settled.

However, the newly independent city-state of West Clarkton did not last long as a balloon house that flew near the city was shot down by guards in West Clarkton, killing 5 people. As a result, Ypsidavia declared war on West Clarkton and troops moved in to retake it. After only two days of fighting, Ypsidavia successfully captured West Clarkton and it got reintegrated into the city of Clarkton.

#### **Clarkton becomes Ypsidavia's Capital**

After the war had ended, with the western continent being full of communist states, the government of Ypsidavia feared the possibility of nuclear strikes on the developing Beach City metropolitan area. After some time to think over, it was ultimately decided that the nation's capital would be moved to Clarkton where it was interpreted at the time that there wouldn't be much of value to destroy when moved there. After the capitol moved to Clarkton, the city underwent a period of rapid growth along with the nearby town of Moorhead and became one of the most history-rich areas of Ypsidavia.

#### ***Continued Growth of Ypsidavia & Colonization***

As Ypsidavia continued to boom and grow in its mainland areas, with the Beach City metro growing rapidly and Clarkton thriving, groups of people agreed to go to the southern hemisphere for colonization efforts, with the first of Ypsidavia's colonies starting in the Cressbook Isles, and then another group of colonists landed on Alanna Island, where the Kingdom of Alanna was first contacted. Roughly half of Alanna Island was laid out for Ypsidavian colonists. Another colony, a town by the name of Murdaville, was gifted to Ypsidavia by Dovena on a cold island to the south of the Cressbook Isles.

The colonies on both Alanna Island and in the Cressbook Isles developed rapidly. Eventually, the colonies would be given status referendums to allow them to decide whether to remain a territory of Ypsidavia, become an independent nation, or become a full-part of Ypsidavia as a state. The Cressbook Isles voted in favor of statehood, and were admitted into Ypsidavia as its third state. Meanwhile, the southern portion of the territory of Alanna voted to become independent. The southern part of the territory was granted independence and became its own nation, Galway. The northern portion of the territory remained would remain under Ypsidavian control and would eventually become Ypsidavia's fourth state, Kahurubodo.

### **Conflicts Ypsidavia was Involved In**

* Clarkton War
* Dovenese War
* Southwest Antero Civil War
* Yudulstan - Orol War
* The Second Weiss Revolution
* The Great War
	+ Alanna Island War

### **Notable Ypsidavian Disasters**

* 2021 Mount Elbert Eruption
* Forest Hill Flood Basalt
* Chilco Tornado & Volcanic Eruption

### **Climate and Geography**

Ypsidavia's climate is somewhat varied. The northern states of Antero and Western Island have a fairly cold and tundra-like climate, and are known for very long and cold winters, with the only periods of temperate warmth coming in the summer months before cold and snow returned by the fall months. The states of Cressbook and Kahurubodo are known for a more temperate climate, having cold winters, mild conditions during the spring and fall months, and warm to hot conditions during the peak of the summer.

Ypsidavia is known for being geologically unstable, having the most volcanoes of any country in the world. In total, Ypsidavia has 10 active or dormant volcanoes, 9 of them being in the states of Western Island and Antero. The state of Cressbook has a currently dormant supervolcano that has had recent cinder cone forming eruptions in the state's eastern counties. Kahurobodo is the most geologically stable state in Ypsidavia, having no active volcanoes or known dangerous fault lines. Numerous fault lines and plate boundaries are near all three states, making Ypsidavia vulnerable to earthquakes of both volcanic and tectonic origin.

Cressbook is less flat than the northern states, with two of its main islands in the eastern part of the state forming the rim of the Cressbook Bay supervolcano, a giant submerged caldera in the ocean. Meanwhile, the states of Antero and Western Island have large stretches of flat land outside of areas of volcanic activity.