Borneo (S3)

## History

Borneo was a season 3 nation in Indonesia and was established on the 26th of December 2019. The nation started out under the name "Brunei". The nation started out as a peaceful isolationist nation. On it's first and second day, Borneo experienced conflicts from a neighbouring state "Indonesia". An Officer of Indonesia did not like the fact that Borneo had claimed over their past land of Brunei. Two buildings and a farm were found there by Blxse upon his arrival at Brunei. A contemporary Asian-style two storey building and a wide dojo style building with a very small wheat farm beside it. Two days after Blxse's arrival at Brunei a decision was made to destroy the old buildings and reinstate a more modern theme to compete with other nations. Upon this decision, a modern hotel building was built.

The modern hotel building's exact date of construction is unknown but it was around the 27-30th of December 2019.

## Foreign Relations / WW2

Borneo was allied with South Africa, China and the BerberUnion who were all alongside Borneo in the battle (China was more so supporting the war rather than participating) against the German Empire (more on that below).

Borneo was invited to an alliance called The Liberty Pact where it's primary focus was to eliminate all world powers that posed a genuine threat (such as the spread of fascism and other ideals) to the rest of the World. Three parliamentary meetings were attended by the Bornean Prime Minister before the war to discuss strategies and pay offs if the Liberty Pact were to win the war. Due to Borneo's strategic location (in-between Japan and South Africa, Japan also being a participant in the war), Borneo was to declare the war on due to a trespassing CB which was given to Borneo as a result of at least 2 murders on Bornean land when Southbum trespassed on the Bornean Island. A few days passed and tensions between South Africa and the German Empire were rising, to begin with, we didn't know what had caused this... but later on it was discovered that the Liberty Pact's plans were leaked to the rest of the World. Germany knew that the war would happen and even potentially when. When a quick decision was made, to declare the war before the planned date.

There and then, quick preparations were made, including the mass purchasing of guns and other useful items to contribute to the war. Borneo's war preparations were sponsored by South Africa and China who chipped in millions of dollars for Borneo. Overnight, a naval base was built in the location of Bahaur, holding very early design ships with no armament. These were merely practice designs and were later used to potentially confuse Germany into attacking the incorrect location.

A plan was agreed on between Borneo and Japan, where Japan, as soon as the war started would make their way to Borneo to aid in defending the capital. Borneo made a plan where at least one member would keep eyes on the dynmap at all times to ensure we could locate the attackers and plan a response as soon as possible. At this point, the Prime Minister of Borneo was being mildly berated for spending $1 million USD on guns for the military, which at the time was admittedly 1/5th of the Bornean GDP.

Aside from this setback, war preparations had gone successfully and Borneo was ready to give all in the war. Until a surprise plan was released to Borneo. That they'd have to stay in Brunei to protect the Bornean capital. This hurt morale quite a lot and resulted in a few upset personnel.

During this time, Bornean war support and general morality was relatively high but due to the fall in morale later on during planning of the war, the Bornean Prime Minister assured the Bornean people that the pay off would be great. And so, the assault started, on the 1st of January 2020 almost 10 days before the original planned date.

## Achievements

Declaring war on the German Empire,

Most ships built in season 3,

Longest functioning battleship built,

Largest sum of money gained from a disaster (Following a terrorist attack on the KBD Burn) which resulted in the nationwide movement "#RememberTheBurn",

Longest road tunnel (not iceway).

Longest consecutive elytra flight with NO fireworks (16488m)

## Renaissance in Season 5

Borneo is a SAR (Special Administrative Region) of the Cholan Empire and is a key strategic location for the Cholan Empire. Borneo is a very naval focused nation, however have skills in aerial and ground combat. Seen in the Cholan-Australian Air Conflict where 2 Australian members were caught in Cholan Airspace and detained in 46 minutes.