City-State of Ilios

## Government

The City-State of Ilios is a democracy, currently lead by President Mackelleo and Vice President Andrei\_Vigh

## History and Culture

Ilios started as an ever peaceful nation along the shore of the southeasternmost region of Polivus. Their members were mostly dye artisans and builders, having started to build a few houses with their initial characteristic style. Ilian architecture started to develop more throughout the years and so recently became one of the most proclaimedly beautiful cities in Polivus.

### Age of Peace

Ilios was funded by Mackelleo, one of the veteran players in PoliticalSMP, starting out with a claim for peace, a land which would hardly partake in any war and instead would be a helpful trading point for the other nations. This city participated in the making and voting of the very famous Shroomhills Accords, its most prominent leaders, at the time, Andrei\_Vigh (diplomat of Ilios) and Mackelleo becoming active members in the Shroomhills Accords international community, which was often viewed as a sign of their good faith and wish for peace between them and the rest of the nations.

On Juny 2021, Mackelleo reportedly discussed a trade agreement with a Nivoan senator, and also formed an alliance with the currently disbanded Chiefdom of Malmfjell.

On July 2021, the Diplomat Andrei\_Vigh met with the Nivoan Senator Orche, and the first embassy in the history of Polivus was made, the Ilian embassy in Nivoa. This agreement hoped to compromise a good relationship between Ilios and Nivoa, strengthening the nations' union and reputation. The embassy of Nivoa in Ilios was also built.

On the same day, Diplomat Andrei\_Vigh toured all the way up to The Republic of New Grimsburg, and King Aguila16 offered him to use the city's temple as an embassy for his nation. This way, Andrei had built his second Ilian embassy in the city of Grimsburg.

After all of these actions, Andrei was given the title of Vice President of Ilios by Mackelleo.

### Ilios under the rule of President Andrei Vigh

During his rule, Ilios grew greatly and at a massive scale.

The City-State of Ilios would soon take a turn and become a nation which would regularly partake in war and decision making about international conflict. Everything began when conflict started boiling between the nations of Grimsburg and Nivoa; after their agreement about the Blackmore Peaks territory, both silently started preparing for war in case one of them decided to declare in order to take over Blackmore, the land between their borders. Grimsburg took a step forward and decided to colonize Honeybay Island, a central Polivus island which would later become a heavily disputed territory due to its location. On King Aguila's orders, TheBreadly builds a Grimsburgian fort called Honeybay fort. This adds up to the trouble between the two nations, and the tension increases significantly.

Coincidentally at the same time as Grimsburg claimed Honeybay and started to secretly ally with other nations, Mackelleo left Ilios for a while and left the position of presidency to Andrei\_Vigh, an act she would regret later.

Andrei\_Vigh meets with Aguila16 and informs him that Nivoa was planning to take out the Ilian embassy in the capital of Nivoa because "it took up too much space" and "looked ugly". Upon receiving this interesting information, Aguila thought Ilios and Nivoa were brewing a conflict, and so took the opportunity to propose an alliance with Andrei, claiming that they could protect each other that way in case of war. Andrei\_Vigh accepted and so, Grimsburg and Ilios "secretly" became allies.

Unbeknownst to Grimsburg, Ilios and Nivoa had already planned this since the beginning, and were infiltrated into Grimsburg's base of operations to take information and share it with Nivoa.

On July 16th, 2021, Nivoa declares war on Grimsburg. Nivoa and Ilios win the war.

### The Eshdal Federation

Nivoa and Ilios unite to become a great federation, taking up a huge plot of land between their nations and also claiming Honeybay island but granting TheBreadley owner permissions over his buildings and land. The Eshdal Federation also formed a treaty of Independence with the nation of Kosbia.

### Stasis Chamber

An Ilian technology invention meant for the preservation of a living body. Mostly used for Mackelleo's temporary retirements. Nobody knows how it works.

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## Geography

The area of the city itself is mostly a desert although their borders cover up to two savannah's and the southeasternmost point of the entire map, which is the only mesa biome in Polivus. Part of its developing city is located in a forest biome.

### The Strait of Mackelleo

Ilios also owns a bit of a more "central" region by the name of The Strait of Mackelleo, which is a strait of land connecting the left and the right hemisphere of Polivus and it was claimed by the Ilians, honoring the site's name as it was named after Ilios' first president, Mackelleo. The reason for this is that a legend tells this player had to cross the strait in order to get to his promised land, in which she became the first person to ever cross it and thus gave it such title.

Even though it was already claimed and a fort called "Fort Mack" was built in the zone, The Strait of Mackelleo was a disputed territory one time, when an unknown player built a structure right to the other side of the strait, and Vice President Andrei\_Vigh took it as an offense, getting ready for battle. This situation was resolved quickly as the unknown player left after the dispute.

## Members

* Thepancakeking (President)
* Andrei\_Vigh (Vice President)
* Benzaix
* Deadbyte
* Thatchillboi
* MyNameGoesHere3
* PuffChonk
* MacArthur Park
* Jayjet44
* Leeperkon