USA Industries

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USA Industries is an anarcho-capitalist nation inspired by the military-industrial complex of the United States. The nation occupies various parts of Europe; while the main base is located on the southern coast of France, other locations are present in Germany, northern Italy, and the ocean just east of England.

## Relation to Ireland

Josamo8 was one of the first members of Ireland's TGE predecessor. Brandonusa was another long-term member, and LBombre was briefly involved. Both josamo8 and brandonusa led the design and construction of the four-chunk obsidian megabase owned by Ireland in TGE, inspiring the design for Lockmart Corporation's offshore "meth lab" base. While USA Industries was officially neutral at the time, they participated in Irish Civil War by supporting the Partisan Irish Rebel Army with surplus weapons, a financial backing, and with popping a cap in Cosmos\_Creature's ass. Due to changes in the towny war mechanics, USA Industries is now officially allied with Ireland.

## Technology

In addition to wealth accumulation, USA Industries also has a heavy focus on the general advancement of technology within the server. Lockmart Corporation, however, is mainly responsible for research and development of weapons systems. Technology from USA Industries has played a significant role in the server, between the rail network, various meta-changing weapons, and unintentional lag machines capable of consistently crashing the server.

Before its deletion, weapons were developed in the meth lab, Lockmart Corporation's monolithic ocean base. Such weapons include an artillery platform known as Homosex Penis, autocannons, and contraptions capable of deploying large "McNuke" TNT structures. Such weapons first saw use in the Irish Civil War, nearly saw use against Landing Town, and were used in the demolition of Olavsby. Area 51 is used for developing aircraft, preparing for the release of the aeronautics mod, and the Lockmart location in France is used for general industry.

Brandonusa hosts a USA Industries webserver that is used as an alert system, statistics tracker, and an interface for the 1 billion gecs program. It also hosts the USA Industries Discord bot. Another version of the site is open to the public (https://usa-industries.net), featuring player activity statistics, and information on USA Industries lottery and bug bounty systems.

## Finances

USA Industries is by far the wealthiest nation in the server, with a total of at least $1 billion in cash as of August 21 2023, and an extremely large stockpile of valuable resources. They often show off their wealth in creative ways, such as giving nearly every player in the server $100k, creating a beacon covered in netherite blocks, and repeatedly attempting to become billionaires. Most products sold by USA Industries are sold at a loss, simply for the purpose of stimulating the economy. Despite this, total sales exceed $400,000.

Using the hunter job and a large mob spawner, USA Industries became the first millionaire nation, resulting in a patch significantly reducing the amount of money that can be earned through this method.

After brandonusa messed up the claims for the main base, USA Industries was fined $2 million by Thenoobcraft74.

Using 1 billion gecs, USA industries was able to obtain 123 million dollars, but got punished for doing so.

On August 21st, 2023, USA Industries used an unintentional feature in the economy system to earn $192 million per hour ($53k per second) and accomplished their goal of becoming the first billionaire nation.

## Controversies

From the beginning of its history in TEAW, USA Industries has been at the center of many controversies, starting with the occupation of a section of the Rhine. During the first TEAW Awards, this resulted in the award for the most controversial town.

Area 51 (formerly Linduria) was sold to brandonusa by Diablo666. The people of Venice and Landing Town, unhappy with the situation, declared war as a means of leveraging a better deal for themselves.

In an attempt to troll dairypig, brandonusa accidentally destroyed a part of Switzerland with TNT minecarts. In the aftermath, Thenoobcraft74 reverted the damage, but fined USA Industries $6 million in doing so.

The 1 billion gecs program was created to earn as much money as possible, with a goal of $1 billion. The first attempt failed, resulting in update 4.4.2, which patched item duplication and reduced the amount of money earned through mining. The $1 billion goal was eventually reached on the third attempt, resulting in update 4.6.2, beginning the process of totally revamping the economic system's mechanics.

After Brandonusa nuked an area in the desert near Modistan, Theeno deleted the meth lab (which would have otherwise been moved to the Azores), and requested information on the nuke used and full access to the USA Industries website. After the deletion of the meth lab, Theeno put in place a new controversial set of water build rules to prevent another base similar to the meth lab from being built.

Protesting the new rules on "oil rig" and "boat" type bases, USA Industries built a memorial to the meth lab designed to meet the definition of a boat according to rule E2. *(Boats (boats are structures that don’t touch the ocean floor and are no more than 12 chunks long, 3 wide, and no more than 100 blocks tall ) and oil rigs (“oil rigs” are structures that are anchored to the ocean floor, no more than 100 blocks tall from water level, and only 2x2 chunks max) may be constructed in the water)*

Overall, several patches to the server have occurred as a direct result of USA Industries' shenanigans.

### Trolled too Close to the Sun

#### Synopsis

On June 21, 2023 josamo8 and brandonusa were discovered to have been in major violation of rules A1 (cheat clients and macros) and A3 (item duplication), the two had been using a script coded by brandonusa to automatically mine prismarine placed by deployers to obtain vast amounts of in game currency through the miner job. Before the ban, they were able to obtain 123 million dollars. Originally their punishment was going to be a ban and removal of all of their claims, leading to a scramble by other towns for their vast resources but it was later talked down to being only a fine of 123 million dollars, releasing information on how their duplication method worked, having to start from scratch on a homosex penis prototype, and the deletion of their steam engines.

#### The Trolling in Question

With the goal in mind of reaching 1 billion dollars in wealth, USA industries had originally been using a mob farm and the hunter job to acquire mass amounts of money but when that was nerfed by Theeno, they were forced to find a new method. On a test server they prototyped and designed a machine that would use deployers to place prismarine blocks which would then be mined using the miner job in order to obtain vast quantities of wealth. They called the machine "1 billion gecs". Using this machine was tedious however and so brandonusa, being a ~~skilled~~ programmer, created a script that would automatically operate the machine for them for long periods at a time and also set up a website to track both the efficiency of their script and their progress towards 1 billion dollars.

#### Discovery

In order to evade detection their script was coded to take screenshots of the in-game chat and scan them to spot when the server owner, Theenoobcraft74, logged on and cause the two of them to automatically log off of the server. When Theenoobcraft74 logged on some time around 16:50 UTC and noticed that the pair logged off almost immediately after he logged on, he became suspicious. After investigating their base he discerned the purpose of the prismarine placing machine and found a chest full of duplicated netherite pickaxes.

#### Scramble for USA

When USA's punishment was originally revealed to be the deletion of their town and nation and by extension the protection of their claims the entirety of To End All Wars' active player base began openly discussing and plotting their plans to scavenge loot from the nation's soon to be unprotected bases. Emu, at the time the ruler of the revived HRE, began attempting to gather support for an invasion of the norther part of the Italian peninsula and was particularly interested in claiming the Vatican. Dairypig jokingly suggested that she should extend her nation's borders horizontally in order to block Emu's invasion. HexdePixel, mayor of Venice, planned to claim Area 51 in order to get back for old grudges or to sell it back to USA Industries after their ban concluded. He also expressed interest in claiming the meth lab and is quoted as saying "altho i am so calling dibs on the crack shack like that is obviously my clay" this claim to the meth lab was disputed by both Emu and MlgEpicCar who both also expressed interest in raiding the factory. Ireland also mobilized in their discord to claim as much of USA's soon to be former land as possible to avoid it falling into the hands of the rest of the server and destabilizing the economy. They also wanted to hold onto as much of it as possible to possibly be returned to josamo8 and brandonusa due to loyalties tracing back to their membership of TGE's Ireland.

#### The Actual Punishment

In the end, brandonusa and josamo8 were able to talk down their punishment from the metaphorical throwing of their nation to the scavengers (in place of a permanent ban) to a more lenient punishment of a 3 day ban, deletion of the Homosex Penis, deletion of 123 million dollars, and having to start from scratch in terms of power generation (although the only non-energy-production machine that was destroyed was their money machine) and the deletion of their duplicated items. All villagers, various chests, and most vaults used in factories were also deleted. Small parts of USA Industries' location in France had also been griefed, with small wall segments and a high-hypersonic windmill being removed.