Eastern Federation

Flag of the Eastern Federation

## Summary

The Eastern Federation (full formal name "The Social Democratic Federation of Easternland", second name "East Federation" and shortened name "Easternland"), sometimes known as just "The Federation" is the largest country on the Estoniacube SMP. The country has 5 official languages: English, Estonian, Lithuanian, Polish and Slovak. The country's official ideology is center-left Social Democracy, having a dual presidency shared by Estoniaball Animations and TheEastNorthern, as well as Prime Minister Worl\_Noob. The country is divided into 3 autonomous administrative regions, 8 incorporated regions and a separate administrative capital region. The country was founded by Estoniaball and Northern via a combination of the Estonian Federation and the Polish-Lithuanian Socialist Republic. The country's official state religion is Balto-Uralic paganism, inspired off of a combination of the ancient pagan roots of both Uralic Estonia and Baltic Lithuania, although all other religions are also widely accepted, with Catholicism coming in 2nd. The country is bordered by Germany and Hungary to the west, the Roman Empire and Košice to the south and Arctica and Finland to the east and west. The country's official capital city is Imperiovsk.

The Federation was formed on January 17th. While the country didn't ally with many at first, it gradually changed. With the opening of the colonization era, the Federation gained lots more territories, with their lands contagiously connecting to Vancouver, as well as obtaining overseas territories in South America and Antarctica. From that point, the country largely also opened up to the world more, eventually leading to a Slavic unification between the Czechoslovakia and Easternland on March 2nd. On March 8th though, Egthe1st who was one of two Prime Ministers and governors of Czechoslovakia exited the Federation to form his own Empire in Mexico, a country that the Federation maintains a close alliance with.

The Federation often associates their own culture, history and traditions with other historical ones, most of which are determined based on the region they're being presented in. The most well-known state figures prior to the unification are known to be Grand Duke Gediminas & Vytautas The Great of Lithuania, Konstantin Päts of Estonia and Sigismund II Augustus of Poland.

## Name, flag and national symbols

The name "Easternland" and "Eastern Federation" derive from the general geographical position of the country both during its foundation and today. During the creation of the Federation, a few alternative names were also thought of, namely the Eastern Confederation, Eastern Union and Eastern Republic, however none of them ever materialized. The country is labelled a Federation due to its political order of having a number of federative regions within it.

The flag of Easternland is very well-known, and often called "The Golden Banner" or "The Golden Standard" within the country, and is comprised of a tricolor of yellow, red and blue, with the coat of arms of the country often displayed in the middle. In the drafts of the Treaty of Großstadt, the flag colors of the original real life countries located within the Federation: yellow for Lithuania and Ukraine, the red stands for Social Democracy as well as the Lithuania, Belarus and Poland and the blue stands for the Estonia & Ukraine, as well as prosperity. The blue and red colors also now unofficially stand for Czechoslovakia.

The coat of arms is a relatively complex one, with the 3 Estonian blue lions on the top left corner, the Polish eagle on the bottom left corner, the Ukrainian trident on the bottom right corner and the Lithuanian horseman holding the cross of Vytis on the top right corner. Originally, the central part of the emblem included the Latvian flag & coat of arms and the flag of Democratic Belarus with the red stripe being replaced with the Belarusian carpet. However, as those emblems have never been as important as the aforementioned four, the Central part of the coat of arms was replaced with the flag and coat of arms of Czechia and Slovakia upon their joining on the 2nd of March. The coat of arms is inspired off of the central part of the flag of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (a real-life state that existed 1569-1795 AD). Aside from that, there is a "colonial standard" with 4 additional waving flags, none of them depicting official regions but rather the cultures of different general areas. On the top left, the unofficial standard of the Colony of Bronze (of which there is now an official flag of), on the top right a flag of the white-blue-white Russian standard with the double-headed eagle, on the bottom-left, a flag of united Turkestan and on the bottom-right a flag of Cascadia.

Another well-known national and cultural symbol is the National Anthem of the Federation, known as "Zhywe Federacyja" or "The Federation Lives" derived off the real-life "Zhywe Belarus" used as the anthem of the Republic of Belarus from 1991-1995. There are many other national songs too, such as the Military Anthem "Kovon draugai" (used in real life as a Lithuanian Interwar March), the anthem of Estonia Region "Marss Kodumaa", the anthem of Poland-Lithuania region "Mazurek Dąbrowskiego", the march of the East Battalion and more.

## History

Early history

On the 14th of January, the server was officially released, with two of the original members Estoniaball Animations and TheEastNorthern being handed two countries - The Estonian Federation and the Polish-Lithuanian Socialist Republic respectively. From the beginning there were talks between unification, and even in the first minutes of the server being released the two players bonded and the two countries Allied and got closer with one another. A good example of this is the Baltic & North Sea Union, signed in Gotland together with the German Reich and Denmark-Norway a mere hour after the server released.

Foundation

On the 17th of January, Estoniaball and Northern met at the Großstadt Treaty Monastery to sign the Treaty of Großstadt uniting the two countries into one. The treaty would become effective immediately, although it was purposefully not revealed to the public until Saturday the 21st. The treaty also stated that Poland-Lithuania and Estonia would become two separate autonomous regions with their own administrative capitals in Šventoji and Großstadt respectively. The country would be united under one international capital at Imperiovsk, which would then become its own administrative capital region.

Early days

The very same eve that the union was announced, the influence of it spread vastly. The Scandinavian, Zylon Z and God of Sus united their three countries of Denmark-Norway, United Kingdom and Iceland into the Arctic Union while Gabor’s Hungary, having already absorbed Eg’s Slovakia and Worl’s Czechia, united with Punko’s Romania. In the early days. the Eastern Federation and Central Union had an “almost rivalry” that particularly being Eg and Gabor against Estoniaball at one point, while for the most part they were neutral. Estoniaball of The Federation also partook in the first court case of the server serving as a judge in the case against Magerful’s alleged griefing.

28-29/01/2023

On the 28th of January, Estoniaball of the Federation has a meeting with Punko of Romania region to have him secede from the Central Union and place sovereignty guarantees on Romanian independence from Hungary. In exchange for that, The Federation was able to gain most of Romanian-held Ukraine, except for Odessa and North Bukovina, which will stay as Romania. The very same day, Eg also wished to secede from the Central Union ‘as soon as possible’. A wish that Imperiovsk agreed to. Thus, the next day, Romania declared restoration of independence and Eg began an Uprising in the Ruthenian town of Cok to also restore independence. Shortly after, Worl followed suit in Brnostrava. All actions were immediately recognised by Imperiovsk, though it was feared that with such uncertainty Hungary and the Federation could’ve gone to war that day. This was avoided however in the Nordstjerna mediation conference held by The Scandinavian, where Slovakia and Romania would receive independence, and Czechia would follow suit a number of days later. The very same day, Imperiovsk guaranteed Constantinople ownership over Bulgaria from Yugoslavia, an act that The Federation today isn’t too proud of, but won’t do anything to change it either.

04/02/2023

On the 4th of February, the World officially opened up with new members joining and the original members rushing to colonise their new lands. The Federation followed suit, as they had received a bunch of new land reaffirming their position as the server’s largest country. TheEastNorthern ran off to establish presence in the New World, namely in the Colony of Bronze (Argentina-Chile, Falklands, Samkhertvelo a.k.a South Georgia Island) and the Antarctic Peninsula a.k.a Antarktida. There he would found the regional capital of Pinamaras, somewhat in between Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Soon after, Estoniaball rushed east, building a giant “Golden Path” in Kazan, a giant wool path comprised of the flag’s colours. Then, he went to found the Buryat town of Severobaykalsk (or North Baikal, as that’s where its location is). The next day he would continue his trekking all the way to the edge of the world, where he founded the outpost of Siberian Falls. After that, he became the first to summit Mount Elbrus, the highest mountain in Europe and the Federation.

10/02/2023

A few days before the 10th, a fellow ally of Imperiovsk, the Arctic Union, dissolved into three separate countries, with the Arctic Empire controlled by The Scandinavian being left as the poorest one. Thus, on the 10th, as fellow allies of the Arctic, both presidents of the Eastern Federation hold a conference with The Scandinavian in Nordstjerna to discuss economic aid and future development. The conference turned out positive and significantly increased relations between the Arctic and the Federation.

11/02/2023

On this day, Prince of Serbia Unnecessary Serb asks Estoniaball for some sort of alliance. A deal is negotiated in the Serbian capital of Belgrade and signed once again in the Großstadt treaty monastery. The alliance would be a ‘mutual assistance pact’ with a secret protocol which shall not be disclosed. Since then, the two Slavic countries enjoy a very positive relationship.

17/02/2023

On that day, the Eastern Federation and Byzantine Empire cooperatively colonise new lands in Central Asia, Pakistan & Arabia. Imperiovsk occupied and annexed Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and parts of Northern Xinjang, while making the rest of Xinjang and a portion of Mongolia an Easternland economic zone. Meanwhike, it also recognised the Byzantine claims over Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Goa, the Persian Gulf and Meccah region. Aside from that, Imperiovsk had also recognised other claims over new colonies in the Czechoslovak Caribbean, Finnish North America and French Benin.

02/03/2023

On this day, the Slavs of Czechoslovakia formally joined the Federation with the signing of the Treaty of Trenčin, which took place after a ceremonial parade across Czechoslovakia and parts of the Federation. That day also marked the beginning of a precarious rivalry between the Roman Empire and The Eastern Federation, with PolishTortoise the Byzantine Emperor accusing Estoniaball of "making an incredibly anti-Constantinople change to East Federation" as both Tortoise and Eg had shared a long-lasting rivalry beforehand.

04/03/2023

On this day, in response to the incorporation of Romania into Rome bringing the borders between the two newfound rivals even closer, all Baltic and North Sea Union countries except for the British Empire throw a lavish parade as a show of force, without inviting the rivalling side. That very same evening, Hungary is incorporated into Rome, bringing the borders even closer and increasing tensions even further.

07/03/2023

On this day the two giants of The Federation and Rome almost went to war over a border dispute in Southern Slovakia or Northern Hungary (depending on who you ask and what you reference). Although small, the dispute almost escalated to a full-on war between Gabor of Pannonia and the entire Easternland cabinet. A court case was meant to be held, but postponed due to interruptions, and as of now the border dispute is still ongoing and one of the most dangerous and most precarious events on the entire server.

## Geography

The boundaries of the Eastern Federation occupy all of modern day Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Slovakia and Czechia in their core as well as occupying parts of Poland (all but Masovia, Pomerania and Silesia), Ukraine (all but Odesa and North Bukovina). As well as that, they occupy the majority of Russia, with the Uralic regions being shared with Finland. They also occupy all of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, half of Azerbaijan and parts of Xinjang and Mongolia. Even further east, they occupy the Kuril Islands, southern Alaska, British Columbia and Washington State. The Colony of Bronze occupies most of Argentina, half of Chile, the Falkland Islands and South Georgia Island (known here as Samkhertvelo, literally South Georgia in Georgian). They also occupy the Antarctic Peninsula (Antarktida) the entire area from the Vostok Antarctica Research Base to the coast, the South India area, New Caledonia island and the Fiji Archipelago. With these vast lands, the Federation has a large biodiversity, with swamps, mountain ranges, flatlands as well as different climates that go all the way from the Arctic to Tropical to Antarctic. Currently, the main export of the Federation is not entirely confirmed but is believed to be Šaltibarščiai (Beetroot soup).

## Alliances

* Baltic & North Sea Union
* Black Sea Economic Alliance (inactive, but never officially dissolved)
* Imperiovsk-Belgrade Mutual Assistance Pact