Commonwealth

"*Together we are more than the sum of our parts.*"

— Commonwealth's board.

Formerly the **Alltidvinter Empire**, the **Commonwealth** is a Constitutional Monarchy and the oldest nation in the world, created on the 30th of May, 2021. Its capital, **Bedrock**, was created on the day before and was the first town ever made.

Each constituent town is considered a self-governing State with a Governor (mayor) and its own laws and policies while still under the national government and its laws and policies. Governors participate in the Common Counsil and alongside the Sovereign and the Emperor, dictate what the nation will do next.
The Constitution of the Commonwealth can be found here.

## Laws and Policies

 3. Citizens are not allowed to represent the nation's interests in diplomatic affairs. Only Diplomats, the Sovereign and the Emperor are allowed to.

 3. No taxation, no representation. Citizens that owe money to the government cannot vote in any elections.

## History

### Obsidiana

**Obsidiana** is the name of the town known to have once thrived in this place for millenia. The town was known for its marvelous and sofisticated architecture, made using ancient ice magic that is now weak and forgotten. It was inhabited by mythical sentient creatures known as **Valkea**, described by records of neighbouring people as being "ice made flesh and bone, snow made skin, dead made alive". They worshipped an ancient god of the ice, the snow, the cold and the dead. Their religion is now known only as **Iceborn**.

Known to be coldblooded as well as very harsh to outsiders, their doom came when, according to their religion, their god was banished to the void by a small group of powerful gods for creating life out of ice, granting them powerful magic as well as making very frequent contact. Upon being banished, their followers' magic severely weakened, and its frequent contact with its followers was replaced by pure silence. Fearing their impending doom many fled the town, never to be seen again.

Archaeological records from all over the world, specially in trees and mountains markings, have shown that their doom happened with the end of a long ice age, but the warming wasn't as sudden as described. Because of the **Valkeas'** incredibly long lifespan, the warming was considered quick when it actually took centuries to happen. It is also theorised that Obsidiana was actually in decadence for years, but unaware or blissfully ignorant of the upcoming disaster.

Because their entire society was built on ice and snow and maintained by magic, once the world temperature rose and the Valkeas vanished, whatever they left behind melted, now being forever lost. Any type of literature, art, religion, culture, can only be found in specific places were the naturally cold environment was able to preserve it without the use of magic, at least to some extent.

### Bedrock Foundation

Many decades after the Doom of **Obsidiana**, KarlosGeek, a surviving **Valkea**, descendant of the old royal bloodlines of **Obsidiana**, came to where the town once stood. He was born on it a few centuries before the apocalipse, now returning to his birthplace as if it called out to him.

While exploring the surroundings and going deeper into caves and tunnels, he felt as if something, or someone, was calling out to him from deep below. With weird feelings and sounds getting stronger and louder, he finally reached the deepest part of the world, prevented from continuining by an unbreakable rock.

Near this unbreakable rock, however, he would create the earliest version of what would become the Voidborn religion. Remembering about the Doom of **Obsidiana**, he came to the conclusion that their banished god had actually survived in the void, but was unable to contact its followers as they fled the town to high mountains and the only places cold enough for them to live. He felt that, in the deepest parts of the world, it was still possible to hear their god's wispers and feel its magic, although nowhere near as strongly as in Obsidiana.

Upon leaving the cave into the surface above, **KarlosGeek** decided that he would create **Obsidiana** again, but this time the town would not only welcome outsiders, but would be a bastion of peace and prosperity. It would be a great town like **Obsidiana**, but as strong and everlasting as **Bedrock**.

## Current History

### City-State

Created on the 29th of May, 2021, **Bedrock** is the oldest town on the server. The nation was made the following day, with **Mr\_Jamonn** being appointed as the first Sovereign.

However, being a two citizens town resulted in a very slow progress considering buildings and low attractiveness to immigrants, so **KarlosGeek** decided to be the one to kill the Ender Dragon and have the only Dragon Egg in existance, causing the End Rush to happen as the nations of Akrinou and **Cukur** didn't want to lose their position as superpowers.

After a hard battle with the Ender Dragon and the leader of **Cukur**, **LatroDR**, **KarlosGeek** managed to give the last hit and took the Dragon Egg. However things began heating up as the leader of **Akrinou** at the time, **B2As**, felt more and more threatened by **Alltidvinter** as the days passed.

Setting aside their rivalry, **Alltidvinter** and **Cukur** made a secret agreement to come to each other's aid in case of a declaration of war from **Akrinou**. Together, they would be able to hold a chance against Akrinou's superior manpower.

That didn't matter for much longer, however, as the Home-Biome Schism happened shortly after, and both **Akrinou** and **Cukur** fell into disarray. Akrinou would later split into Cantonia and Kyusoku.

### Semi-Democratic Empire

With its main rivals defeated, **Alltidvinter** experienced a period of growth and prosperity that was abruptly ended with the beginning of the 2nd Period, with Trostau's Golden Age. With the nation growing to be much larger than Akrinou and Cukur at their peak combined, **Alltidvinter** carefully approached them and signed a Non-Agression Pact on June 9, 2021.

After many weeks without any activity, **KarlosGeek** would appoint KingOfTower as the 2nd Sovereign of Alltidvinter on June 15, 2021. He would later renounce in favour of forming the town of **Freedom** and the nation of **Anarchy**, making SirFortune\_ the 3rd Sovereign of Alltidvinter.

**Alltidvinter'**s first war would happen on July 2, 2021, the Alltidvinter-SON Preemptive War. It was motivated by a desire to show the new nation their strength, as their leader, **nebroy27**, threatened the nation and a citizen of theirs, **Midnightismycat**, was found to have stolen two beloved Axolotls and a full beacon.

The conflict was over shortly after war was declared, though, as **nebroy27** soon realised he was severely outnumbered as **KarlosGeek** almost bough foreign mercenaries to help in the war. The nation would gain 200K MD as War Reparations, and the SON would be forced to abandon part of their claims in favour of a demilitarized neutral zone.

Many weeks later, with rumors spreading that Alltidvinter was a weak nation, destined to fail just like its old rivals of Akrinou and Cukur, **KarlosGeek** decided to reform the nation to be a heavily authoritarian and militarized state.

### Authoritarian Empire

After the reforms, the Emperor's powers increased to such an extent that the position of Sovereign and of Governor was that of a figurehead. A mass purchase of Netherite soon followed, as well as the preparations for an attack on the newly formed nation of **Barashi**.

However, after **KarlosGeek'**s plans were leaked to the enemy, a series of events followed that would significantly cripple the nation's numbers. Not long after, **Barashi** would declare the **Barashi-Alltidvinter Preemptive War**. With all hope of victory lost, the nation would surrender before any figthing occured.

### Commonwealth

After a failed attempt to expand **Alltidvinter** by military conquest, the nation was reformed into a Constitutional Monarchy and embraced isolationism as the next step of neutrality. It only reopened to the outside world when **Stonebrick** and **Deepslate** joined the nation.

This success would however not last long, as **Deepslate** left the nation and became **Winterguard**. The town of **Nordfjord** was made as a new town in the nation, but it soon left as well. **Sandstone** was the newest town to join the nation as of July 23, 2021.