Xanez Nations

Xanez Nations was a Minecraft: Java Edition multiplayer server which used a plugin called Geyser, which allowed for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition players to join the server, too. Xanez Nations allowed players to create a nation after playing for 4 weeks, and any griefing or stealing done by outsiders in the nations territory would be punishable. Xanez used a system of uniting nations through nation unions, which had their own ruleset for the nations involved in a union. Xanez's history stretches over three years, but only history involving the world of New Xanez, the only world which involves Marthia, will be mentioned here.

## History

### Operation Hegemony

In the first days of New Xanez, a rivalry arose after Dungeon, the King of Damaaria, did not receive the dragon egg from the ender dragon after it's death. Instead, the dragon egg was taken by members of Damaaria's rival nation, the Western Island Confederation (WIC). Dungeon and his nation members were angered by the actions of the Western Island Confederation. A friend of Damaaria and prominent member of the FRM, Codes, had the idea to ask his fellow members in the FRM if they wanted to join New Xanez in order to aid Damaaria in the rivalry and potential war with WIC, and the request was accepted.

On October 2nd, 2020, then-President Spartan assigned Brigadier General Bladed to the new Operation Hegemony, with the objective of establishing a colony and eventually to become a peacemaking force on New Xanez. The same day, Bladed would choose a location for the colony. The location was a naturally generated spruce village 300 blocks north of spawn.

Over the next few weeks, the village would be transformed into a city named Opus Centrum. Several FRM members would be recruited to play on New Xanez, and they would help to gain resources and gear. By October 23rd, the city had many buildings and farms, walls and a maze-like structure to act as a line of defense. Additionally, expeditions further to the north discovered land suitable for more settlements. An outpost town known as Kubolay had been established, and plans for a more grand capital city had been made.

However, on October 23rd, the colonists discovered plans to begin an advertising campaign to attract more players to the server. Particularly, the plans did not include moving the spawn location. This was a major issue for Opus Centrum, as it was located very close to spawn, and the colonists determined that the risk of griefing was too great to allow the city to remain as their main base of operations.

That same day, it was decided that all the important resources from Opus Centrum would be relocated to a separate settlement started by Codes before the FRM arrived much farther from spawn, named Ost-Harad. It would also become the primary base of operations for the FRM on New Xanez. It initially seemed that Opus Centrum, and the greater developing area to the north, now collectively known as Nova Tibrus, was going to be completely abandoned. However, then-President Pepe would continue to develop the area, and Bladed would aditionally continue on his plans to build a capital city in the region.

A few days after the move to Ost-Harad, a prominent colonist with the FRM, SorryCardinal, would be discovered using cheats on New Xanez, and was promptly banned. Card had been using cheats to illegitimately give himself, and potentially others, valuable resources. Card had been a major role in the rapid resource gain of the colonists in the early weeks of the Operation, and it is possible, although never confirmed, that Card had donated illegitimate resources to his fellow colonists. After Card's ban, it was decided to publicly explain the situation and apologize for Card's behavior, although no major future events came directly from the incident.

Over the next month, both the Ost-Harad area and Nova Tibrus would continue to be developed, and the FRM's relationship with Damaaria would continue to grow closer. In the Ost-Harad area, several ice roads would be built between new settlements, and most importantly, an ice road called the Damaarthian Highway was built to Damaaria's largest city, Dureksburg, from Ost-Harad. Additionally, work on the new capital city in Nova Tibrus would continue.

During this month of ties growing closer between the FRM and Damaaria, King Dungeon and Governor FP, both of whom originally invited the FRM to Xanez, offered the idea of a "mega union", where Dammaria and the FRM colonies would unite. However, this idea was rejected by the FRM at the time, as they wanted to remain a sovereign nation fully in control of their own policies. On November 27th, however, the FRM came to Dungeon and FP with a proposal: to make Damaaria into a state of the FRM, and they accepted.

In the following days, several members of Damaaria and the FRM would work to finish the senate building in Damaaria's capital city, where a meeting would be held for the announcement of Dammaria's annexation, and on December 4th, 2020, Dungeon announced the merger to several dozen world leaders.

After the announcement, the FRM colonists met to decide the fate of Operation Hegemony. In the end, it was declared that Operation Hegemony had been a success, and it was to be concluded immeaditely.

### Twin Peaks Accord

In the months leading up to the end of Operation Hegemony, and continuing after it's end, was the worsening of relations between the now-FRM State of Damaaria and it's traditional rival, WIC. Primarily, the deuteriation of relations occurred due to prominent WIC member Hollow, who had repeatedly harassed Damaaria over the span of several months.

The first incidents with Hollow were minor, consisting of him touring Damaarian and FRM bases uninvited. However, on November 17th, Hollow would find maps on item frames in an FRM base, which he would promptly take off their item frames to make copies of them for himself. This action angered FRM and Damaaria members, as it was viewed as a major security risk, as well as very disrespectful to the effort that went into charting the map. Following the incident, many people both in the FRM and Damaaria and outside of it would confront Hollow over this incident and others before. Hollow would continue to defend himself, however.

In the following days, Hollow would continue to harass the FRM and Damaaria. However, the owner of the server would eventually deem the act of taking the maps to be against the rules, and Hollow was forced to get rid of his copies. Hollow would scale down his harassment after this, but arguments would continue for another 2 months, until another major incident occurred.

In Late January, due to strict claiming rules and sub-par location, Sarstoon, Damaaria's capital city, and Dureksburg, previously the largest city in Damaaria, were set to be abandoned, and two new cities, including a new capital city, were planned to be built further to the south between Ost-Harad and Mercia. Due to this issue, and several other incidents that occured around the same time, Pineapple would leave Damaaria, and ultimately establish a new nation called Villa in an abandoned mesa area north of Tibrus, where Marthian colonists originally attempted to build a capital city for the colony, before abandoning it.

On January 27th, 2021, a bug was being used at Ost-Harad to breed horses with extremely high speed. While Codes was showing the horses to Dungeon, Hollow appeared and attempted to take one of the horses. He was driven away after Codes killed the horse he tried to steal, but again he had angered many people.

As relations with WIC continued to break down, a Xanez player known as Omega settled on an island south of Ost-Harad. Around the same time, Dungeon was preparing to move the capital city from Sarstoon in northeastern Damaaria to a new region southwest of Ost-Harad. Omega was concerned about this development, as he had been planning to build a canal to allow for easier passage to the seas around WIC. Hollow and WIC also voiced concerns about the development. Soon, all sides began negotiating.

Over the next few days, negotiations would culminate in the creation of a treaty named the Twin Peaks Accord, after Omega's island nation. The treaty would codify that WIC and Damaaria should not interfere with each other's interests in their respective domains, that an international canal should be established to connect the WIC and Damaarian maritime domains, and that Omega's Twin Peaks island nation becomes an international zone, although still technically under the governance of WIC.

The Twin Peaks Accord was signed by all sides on January 30th, 2021, marking an effective end to the long-time WIC and Damaarian rivalry. Harassment and conflict directly between the two nations almost entirely ended, and both sides moved on to other projects, situations and issues.

### New Rome

In Early February, a player named LoyallyBenched would join Xanez. He would start creating a town, and asked for his town to join LB's New Toria province in Damaaria. LB agreed, however, the server rules would not allow the town to be claimed, so Loyal instead forms his own nation from the town, which he names New Rome.

Loyal quickly gained a reputation through his aggressive recruitment strategy. The strategy saw his nation quickly grow in size. However, many of the members he attracted were not reliable, and many resorted to stealing and griefing. Additionally, many established members quickly grew to dislike his strategy, as it was seen as disruptive.

Over the month of February, New Rome would continue to grow rapidly. As it did, Damaaria began to enter into relations. Due to Loyal and several other high-ranking New Romans fondness of LB during their time in Damaaria, as well as Damaaria's openness to New Rome as opposed to most other Xanez players, lead to them becoming allies. On the other hand, New Rome's relations with WIC and several smaller nations continued to worsen.

In Late February, many older Xanez players, primarily from WIC, Fort Engill and Villa, began calling for a "crusade" against New Rome. These players thought that the new players that made up most of New Rome were disruptive, and that a solution to the issue would be to harass the nation in an unofficial manner, either to force the players to quit or to force them to change their habits on Xanez.

On February 23rd, Alkanel, the leader of Fort Engill, began to organize members for a crusade by creating a Discord server dedicated to the idea. The crusaders decided to organize three groups, each of which would harass a different region. One group was planned to harass New Rome, another to occupy the area around spawn, and the final one to harass players in the New Toria area, which was a province of Damaaria governed by LB.

On February 28th, several crusade members entered New Roman territory. After being there for several minutes, a New Roman member named CroppedZoo attacked and killed crusader Pineapple. Pineapple was angered, and believed it was an illegal kill, although Zoo upheld that he thought the kill was legal per rules around blacklisting players from entering nations. After Zoo killed Pineapple, crusaders began occupying different unclaimed areas, and hunted down players they wished to kill.

Over the next 2 days, crusaders spent their time hunting down players outside of claimed areas, where they could legally be killed. They also searched for pets, as killing them was allowed in all areas, claimed land included. In their search, they were able to discover many Damaarian pets, which were killed. Additionally, the crusaders were successful in killing several New Roman and Damaarian players in unclaimed land.

During and after the crusade, Damaaria and New Rome continued to grow closer in relations, including entering into a formal alliance. However, Loyal would announce a sudden change on March 10th, when he needed someone to replace him as the leader of New Rome due to real-life issues. Loyal preferred LB from Damaaria to take over, and this started the process of New Rome's annexation.

After Loyal's announcement, plans were drawn up for Damaaria to annex the various New Roman provinces. This would bring New Rome under the leadership of King Dungeon, and allow for New Rome's provincial Governors to join the Damaarian senate with the rest of Damaaria's province leaders. However, not all were happy with the decision. VenaticGnat, who lead the New Roman province of Venetia, expressed outrage at the decision. In response, in combination with his past threats of revolution and anti-New Roman remarks, Loyal ordered Gnat to be exiled from New Rome.

The same day, all New Roman and Damaarian leaders signed an agreement to codify the annexation of the provinces. Along with the annexation, a reform of Damaaria's constitution and laws was made. This reformation transferred more power to the Senate, the collection of province leaders, from King Dungeon.

In the days following the merge, many problems began to appear. Along with the ongoing incident with Gnat, many other New Romans were confused and didn't understand the situation. Some got angry and nearly left over claims of losing their government positions due to the merge. After Gnat was exiled, he continued to antagonize several people in Damaaria.

For the next week, Damaaria would continue to face issues with the merge. Members would continue to leave for other nations, most notably the Low Republic, a nation established by Gnat after his exile. Former WIC member Teakie, who established the nation of Nabatea, would join the new TLR.

Due to the issues plaguing the merge, a referendum was held to decide what Damaaria and New Rome should do next. The referendum decided that New Rome would become independent from Damaaria and be established as an FRM state, putting it on the same level as Damaaria.

On March 28th, Roman citizen Ahnaf is killed and his items are burned in the nether hub. He originally got into an argument after being provoked by Alkanel, and threatened to grief Alkanel's base. Soon after, Pineapple would join in the argument, and pressured Ahnaf into giving consent to be killed. Ahnaf, who later claimed he was confused about what Pineapple meant, agreed to the consent, and was promptly (legally) killed. Afterwards, Alkanel burned Ahnaf's dropped items. This act was illegal, and combined with Alkanel blackmailing Ahnaf to leave Xanez with his personal information (which was discovered by Alkanel through online searching), Alkanel was temporarily banned from Xanez.

Following Ahnaf's incident with Alkanel and Pineapple, he would be put on trial in New Rome due to his repeated arguments and incidents that compromised New Rome in several ways. On April 1st, Ahnaf was exiled from New Rome, and he would leave Xanez shortly after. Around the same time, a Roman named Bamboo would create the new province of Tuscany, which would quickly grow to one of the largest in New Rome.

Around the beginning of April, New Rome would begin talks with Villa and Rhodesia over a war against TLR. Gnat, the leader of TLR, had been antagonizing New Rome since his exile, and other Xanez nations were also not fond of him and TLR. Thus, the idea of war to subdue Gnat began to arise.

On April 8th, it was discovered by Bamboo that amidst the discussions of war against TLR, the nations of Villa, Rhodesia and Fort Engill created a secret alliance called the Free State Alliance. The alliance had made a deal with TLR that effectively made the nation an FSA puppet in exchange for the FSA to betray New Rome and join TLR's side in a war against New Rome. Bamboo had infiltrated the alliance as a spy, and shared the information he had access to with New Rome and Marthia.

### QE-FSA War

*For more information on this section, see the QE-FSA War page.*

The same day that Bamboo uncovered the secret alliance, the FSA decided to begin the war by surrounding the New Roman province of Carthage and relying on Bamboo to start a civil war in New Rome, which Bamboo had agreed to, although he was lying and was a spy for New Rome. So, instead of Bamboo declaring civil war, he attacked Pineapple. Following the attack, the FSA retreated.

After the attempted start of the war, Bamboo had blown his cover, and was kicked from the FSA. It had also been publicly revealed that the FSA planned to betray New Rome. As such, New Rome and Marthia shifted from messing up the FSA's plans and towards preparing for a traditional naton-on-nation war against the members of the FSA.

Over the next few days, New Rome and Damaaria would begin preparing for the war. To prepare, new war supplies were created, alliances were formed and plans for invasion and defense were drawn. In terms of alliance, Marthia founded the Quadruple Entente (QE), an alliance consisting of New Rome, Damaaria, the United States of Brasil (USB) and the Western Island Confederation (WIC). All 4 member nations of the alliance vowed to join the upcoming war.

To plan for invasion and defense in the war, the QE evaluated strategies to influence their chances at winning. New Rome planned to declare the war in order to set the rules of the war, which is how such war rules are decided per the server rules of Xanez. Additionally, non-soldier citizens of the QE were to be encouraged to stay offline in order to avoid being killed in the war.

New Rome planned to declare the war as early as possible, which was on April 12th. However, it was discovered by the FSA that Rhodesia could declare war before New Rome, and such they did so on April 11th, allowing the FSA to set the war rules. As such, the FSA allowed harming arrows to be used (which ignored armor and killed anyone hit by the arrows with one shot), and disallowed stealing and griefing. Additionally, some leaders in WIC, a member of the QE, voted to block the nation's entry into the war, leaving WIC out of the war.

The war was set to officially start on April 16th. On the opening day of the war, FSA forces mostly filled the 10-player limit of the realm Xanez was temporarily being hosted on. As such, the Quadruple Entente instructed it's citizens and soldiers to remain offline until the FSA members left. However, two QE citizens still joined the server, and were promptly hunted down and killed. Additionally, FSA members hunted for pets, which were allowed to be killed. They ended up discovering many pets, which were all killed.

The same day, QE soldiers discovered that FSA members were in Villa. As such, around 4 soldiers went to Villa, where they discovered 3 FSA members, and a battle commenced. As QE forces were focused on fighting FSA members Pineapple and PotatoMan, Alkanel drank an invisibility potion and snuck up behind QE soldier Stalin, and killed him. Meanwhile, other QE members Dungeon and LB killed Pineapple. However, while looting Pineapple's gear, the 4th QE soldier (and commander) Pepe ordered the QE soldiers to retreat. However, Dungeon and LB continued to attempt to kill PotatoMan. As they did so, Alkanel killed LB. After LB's death, Dungeon attempted to retreat, but was killed by Alkanel as well.

After the Invasion of Villa, New Roman Emperor Loyally Benched, along with several other QE soldiers, would track down and attack FSA members in Rhodesia and various other locations across the Xanez world. During this time, Loyal scored around 15 kills and closed the gap in the score from the Villa invasion. Loyal would also force FSA members from Rhodesia, and occupied the land uncontested for nearly an entire day. Other QE soldiers such as Poland would also score several kills throughout the night.

On the afternoon of April 17th, nearly 10 QE soldiers occupied The Low Republic without contest. TLR Leader Gnat fled the nation after learning of the approaching QE forces. During the occupation, though, QE soldiers used a map previously stolen from Gnat to track him down in his hiding place. After discovering it, two QE soldiers ambushed Gnat on the Nether Highway, and killed him. While travelling down the Nether Highway to store loot, the QE soldiers spotted FSA member Beans at the Nether Hub. After calling for reinforcements, 4 QE soldiers engaged Beans, driving him back into a series of tunnels branching off of the Nether Highway. Beans would escape them.

After QE forces stopped chasing Beans, he stealthily made his way back towards the Nether Hub, where two QE soldiers were still at. After Beans and another QE soldier, Biped, surprised each other, Biped was killed. Beans then killed Dungeon, who attempted to come to Biped's aid.

Alcatraz joined the war on the side of the Free State Alliance. The Alcatraz leader, OutlawRogue (aka Dino), felt as though the FSA used him and his nation for resources, and did not respect him, so he reached out to the Quadruple Entente and reached a deal. The QE would pay Dino in diamonds, at which point Dino would allow the QE forces to kill him up to 25 times to boost their score, and then Alcatraz would surrender to the QE with no repercussions, and leave the war.

At the scheduled time, 3 QE soldiers embarked on a journey to Alcatraz. As planned, Dino allowed the QE soldiers to kill him several times. However, in the middle of the killings, Dino was kicked by the Xanez owner Nilsemand, who then announced a new rule prohibiting any side of the war allowing the enemy to kill them, and forfeited all the kills on Dino. Dino surrendered to the QE after the attempt to score more kills.

Shortly after the killings of Dino, a QE force set out to kill PotatoMan in TLR. PotatoMan was killed up to 50 times, although only around 20 were counted. This gave a large boost to the QE's score in the war. PotatoMan was promptly kicked from The Low Republic. After the successful invasion of The Low Republic, the same QE force embarked on a journey to Rhodesia, where they met no resistance. The QE forces decided to occupy the nation, exploring it, planting flags and even creating a meme.

That same night, FSA member Ponk ambushed QE member TeakieBelt in Nabatea. After Teakie was killed by Ponk, he re-geared and secretly followed Ponk back to The Low Republic, where he killed him. Alkanel shortly after arrived at the location Teakie had killed Ponk, at which point Teakie logged off. However, Alkanel managed to trick Teakie into logging back on, and killed him.

The next morning, QE soldier FoodPlayz hunted down TLR leader Gnat in his nation. Upon being fired at, Gnat logged off. Food and several other QE soldiers monitored his log out spot for over 24 hours straight, with short breaks to engage in other battles. Gnat would log on three times during this time. During the first two times, Food was prepared, and immediately fired at Gnat when he logged on, but did not kill him. On the third and final time, both QE soldiers at the site were AFK, and Gnat was free for nearly 30 seconds before Food returned, and Gnat logged off once again.

During the occupation of The Low Republic, QE soldier Loyally Benched discovered Alkanel in the New Roman province of Tuscany. QE soldier Food would leave his post at The Low Republic to assist Loyal, where the two forced Alkanel to combat log. Unfortunately for Alk, Loyal knew exactly where he logged out, and trapped his location. The next day, though, the trap was found to have been destroyed, and Alkanel had not been killed by it. The Quadruple Entente suspected that an FSA member had secretly destroyed the trap to allow Alk to log on without being killed, but the FSA denied this. To this day, it is still unknown how Alkanel escaped the trap alive.

That evening, QE soldiers FoodPlayz and ToxicTomato22 discovered FSA member BeansAreOk in the Nether Hub area. After engaging him in a surprise attack, Beans attempted to retreat, but was chased down and killed. It was the first death of the war for Beans.

The following morning, after the 24+ hour occupation of The Low Republic, TLR leader Gnat agreed to a conditional surrender to the Quadruple Entente, with the conditions being outlined in the Treaty of Sarstoon. The contents of the treaty can be downloaded in a PDF here. For a summary, the treaty banned the practice of the Osama Pillar religion, and forced the State religion to be Obama Pillarism. The treaty also designated The Low Republic as a personal colony of Icy, Leader of Asgard, which gave him full control of TLR, and the ability to order around TLR Leader Gnat. Finally, the treaty also prohibited The Low Republic from declaring war for 8 weeks.

The treaty was only partially fulfilled, however, as the QE became pre-occupied with the other FSA members, and TLR endured a civil war, in which The Low Republic became the Weimar Republic. The Trial in the Sarstoon Senate Building never occurred.

On April 19th, after the surrender of The Low Republic, FSA member and Rhodesian Leader BeansAreOk reached out to the Quadruple Entente and expressed his willingness to negotiate an armistice between the two coalitions, and potentially start negotiations of a treaty to end the war. The QE agreed, and a cease fire was put in place between the QE and FSA until further notice.

Treaty negotiations would continue until April 30th, where the Treaty of Romanov was reached. The treaty simply agreed to a white peace between the remaining FSA and QE nations in the war. However, complications involving inactive nation leaders meant that the treaty was taking very long to be finalized and put into place. As such, Alkanel broke the cease fire on April 30th, and peace negotiations completely broke down.

On May 4th, Dirt City, an FSA nation largely on the sidelines of the war, agreed to a white peace treaty with the QE, and left the war.

On May 6th, FSA members Alkanel and Pineapple ambushed QE members TeakieBelt and IcyFlounder in Asgard. Originally, Teakie managed to make Alkanel combat log, but ended up getting killed. Icy would later be spawn killed several times by both Alkanel and Pineapple.

After Xanez was moved from Bedrock to Java Edition with crossplay using the Geyser plugin, Xanez owner Nilsemand announced a whitelisting system. Since everyone had to be manually whitelisted, a priority list was put into place. From highest priority to lowest: staff, donators, and alphabetical order for the rest of the players. Because of this list, several FSA members were able to log in to the server while active QE soldiers couldn't. This combined with the fact that regular civilians of the QE were joining, allowed the FSA to gain easy kills.

A few days later, QE soldier Poland spots FSA members Alkanel and Pineapple in Villa. He attempts to get other QE soldiers to join him in an invasion, but no one is available. After some fighting in Villa, Poland would be forced to combat log. QE soldier FoodPlayz would attempt to save Poland by performing a surprise attack on Pineapple, the enemy soldier camping Poland's log out location, but Food's internet connection stopped working.

Following Poland and Pin's fight in Villa, no major battles occurred in the final days of the war. All conflicts were minor single-player attacks, which only resulted in a few extra kills to count towards the final score.

On May 21st, the QE-FSA war was officially ended. Although FSA technically won the war (gaining more kills), many to this day dispute the actual outcome, considering other factors of the war. Regardless, the FSA was able to create conditions for the end of the war that were considered very harsh by the Quadruple Entente. To counteract the conditions, the QE, along with several other neutral nations, created a plan to unify into a single union, consisting of over half of the Xanez nations. The union was called the Confederacy of Xanez. The Confederacy protected each other from threats previously received from the FSA, which included threatening to declare griefing wars on QE nations that didn't respect the treaty.

The Federal Republic of Marthia completely withdrew from Xanez on May 22nd, renouncing all authority over any nations previously under Marthia that wished to remain on Xanez. The End of the QE-FSA war was also the end of Marthian involvement on Xanez. The Xanez world would be reset after the end of the war, and although Xanez would continue into early 2022, it didn't reach the activity levels it had before. As of March 2023, Xanez has not opened publicly in over a year.