History of the Republic

The nation now known as the Federal Republic of Marthia (F.R.M.) was founded on 17 November 2017 as the Alliance of Peace. The Alliance of Peace was a loosely-affiliated group of players on Survival Mode server 14 (SM14) on Lifeboat Servers, led by Nano Anakin (also known as CmdrSpartan) and ChloeTheCow as Co-Presidents. The Alliance of Peace was committed to ensuring peace on the server and resolving conflicts among other players. After a small war with a breakaway group of former Alliance members, the Alliance was disbanded and reformed into the Alpha Republic of SM14 on 22 December 2017, with Nano Anakin serving as President.

The Alpha Republic began the years-long tradition of republican government still present today in the F.R.M. with the formation of the Republic Senate, an institution meant to give the citizens of the Republic a voice in their government. The Alpha Republic persisted through a reset of the SM14 server and afterwards fought a war against the United Legion to defend the Republic's main city, a collection of Republic citizen plots known as the Republic Core. The Lifeboat Servers administration then announced another server reset, after which only paying players on SM14 would be able to have plots. Since this would be disastrous for the citizens of the Republic--the vast majority of which did not pay subscriptions to Lifeboat Servers--the Alpha Republic evacuated SM14 and moved to PrimeGames-Survival, a new survival mode server found by Republic citizen Moonknight. The Republic was fully established on PrimeGames-Survival (PGS) by 1 February 2018.

With the transition from SM14 to PGS, the Republic was renamed to the New Republic of PGS. Republic citizen Fyrelily (also known as QueenFyre and EmmaLaRebel) was appointed the First Vice President of the New Republic, while Moonknight was appointed the Second Vice President. The New Republic established a number of cities in this early era of PGS, mainly Republic City and New Republic City. Both were griefed and mostly destroyed by player Deadlock, and the New Republic was forced to move underground, where it was dissolved and reformed as the Beta Confederation on 3 March 2018, with the same leadership team as the New Republic.

The Republic Senate had been disbanded during the transfer from SM14 to PGS, and it remained defunct during the entire lifetime of the New Republic. Seeking to restore and enhance the democratic traditions of the Alpha Republic, President Nano Anakin (who had changed his name to CmdrSpartan) planned for presidential elections to be held for the first time in the nation's history, with the tentative date of 10 March 2018 being set for the elections. President Spartan was running to remain President, while Vice President Fyre was running against him. Before the elections could be held, President Spartan was forced to resign and went into involuntary exile, and Fyre became President of the Confederation. President Fyre soon after declared herself to be the Queen of the Confederation and transformed the Confederation into an absolute monarchy, at which point it became known as the Prime Confederation.

During the rule of Queen Fyre, the Confederation grew in both size and power and became the strongest nation on PGS. Queen Fyre notably established a policy of military strength alongside compassion for new players, and the Confederation became known as both a protector of the weak and as an unstoppable force. Former president Spartan soon after returned to PGS, and worked alongside Queen Fyre to re-establish the long-defunct Senate, creating the unicameral Confederation Senate and restoring a sense of democracy to the Confederation.

At some point during the summer of 2018, the Prime Confederation entered into negotiations with three other nations--TheRichMafia, IndependentHall, and PUGSTERS--to merge together and become the United Republic of PGS, a sovereign, federal republic with autonomous states. The merger was completed, and the United Republic was formed, with Spartan as its de-facto but unofficial head of state. During the short-lived United Republic era, the Confederation experienced high levels of internal conflict regarding its association with weaker factions and new players. Queen Fyre eventually formed the Founders' Triumvirate, consisting of herself, Spartan, and Moonknight, to advise her and help govern the Confederation from behind the scenes. The debate between continuing to help new players or focusing on strengthening the Confederation came to a head during a Senate meeting in early August, when a group of Confederate citizens accused Queen Fyre of being a dictator and demanded that the government be reformed and their demands be met. The group (known informally as the War Faction) wanted the government to reduce its focus on helping new players and instead focus solely on transforming the Confederation and the United Republic into an unstoppable war behemoth. The Founders' Triumvirate at this point decided that the ideals of the original Republic were being destroyed by the Confederation, and so opted to leave the Confederation alongside its "peaceful" citizens and reform the Republic, leaving High Counselor SWYLRRSL as President of the Confederation. SWYLRRSL and members of the War Faction demanded that the Founders and the "peaceful" Confederates return and fix the Confederation, culminating in a large argument where the Confederation was dissolved, at midnight on 16 August 2018.

The former Confederation splintered into four "Confederate Remnants": the Prime Republic (retrospectively called the "Republic of Prime" to distinguish it from the later State of Prime Republic), the Constellations faction, the LittleVenoms faction, and the Sleek faction. The Republic of Prime and Constellations fought each other in the short Republic-Constellations war, which grew so violent that server administration had to step in and demand that the two groups reach a peace accord. Unable to decide which faction to recognize as the legitimate successor of the Confederation, the United Republic was also dissolved.