Democratic Union

The Democratic Union was a union of two states, Antheum and Tapfer in the Eastern Region of Calestine, which was widely despised by the population of Mein World at the time and laughed at for the instability, infighting, and communist LARPing that was widespread in the Union.

## Name and Etymology

The name Democratic Union was not the first name of this country, names of this country were: Tapfer-Calestine, Tapfer-Antheum, the Union of Fascist States, The Union of Communist States and finally the Democratic Union. The name Democratic Union originated from XPH4N70MR34P3RX's alternate future, Black Century as the name of the successor to the United States. It was proposed in order to symbolize how corrupt the nation was, but the co-Presidents of the country, RaiderKillz121 and Elvrolet actually accepted the name.

## History

### Pre-Foundation

The Democratic Union was a union of Antheum and Tapfer, the latter of which had existed as an entity for months, but the former of which was a new country that existed as a result of the Eastern Arrangement Policy. The idea of a union of Eastern States had been floating around for a while. Most countries were at least partially hostile towards Tapfer and Antheum, pushing them closer with one another and Graminica who the two countries were members of the 9/11 Pact along with Graminica. Originally, the plan was to unite all three members of the Pact into one nation, but then-Alphorion of Graminica, GramCanMineAway rejected the idea due to the fact that the plan would place the Graminican Federal Government on the same level as Tapfer and Antheum. So, instead Tapfer and Antheum united into Tapfer-Antheum.

### Early History

Tapfer-Antheum started off extremely unstable, with the two co-Presidents disagreeing on nearly all matters of governance, when it came to ideology, common laws, the location of the capital, the hierarchy, and even the name of the country. Early disputes in the country were mainly focused on if Antheum City or Diefestung would be the capital and if communism or fascism would be the state ideology. Elvrolet won both of these disputes resulting in Diefestung becoming the capital and communism the state ideology. Logan (RaiderKillz121) accepted these after the first few days. Due to these deep disagreements, the union nearly collapsed and at several points RaiderKillz121 threatened to join the Wakondom Empire or not interfere if the Wakondom Empire invaded Tapfer. A famous Adolf Hitler quote was said to perfectly describe the Democratic Union by GramCanMineAway, "we only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down."

After political reformation and the country becoming more unified, it was renamed the Democratic Union and adopted an internationalist policy of pursuing world-wide unification.

### Pre-War Period and Further Reformation

The Democratic Union adopted an official flag and national anthem soon after it's renaming. It also began collectivized policy on private property in which only the ruling Communist Party and also adopted population expansion programs. These population expansion programs were essentially just shilling out to newfags, but it just worked. WaltrTheDoge was one of the newfags who joined, and constructed a house in Diefestung.

Due to Nicolae and Kyle's personal vendettas against one another nearly led Ultramar to war with the Democratic Union, but after Ultramar failed to get the backing of any other countries and the Democratic Union secured backing from Sinu and Graminica. As a result of this, Zero2471166 pussied out and signed a non-aggression pact with the Democratic Union.

Kylist Tapfer began several construction projects. The most notable were the commissioning of a new Capitol, which was just a copy and pasted version of an ex-Saint Grammington Capitol from the Northeast Gramwall Base and the construction of a wall around Diefestung. Tapfer also adopted the Cult of Master Chief as the state religion of the Democratic Union, which was essentially just roleplay.

Around this time, just how bad Kyle's internet is was revealed for the entire world to see. XPH4N70MR34P3RX, TheHistorian18, GramCanMineAway, and RaiderKillz121 were at the time visiting Diefestung. Kyle's internet caused presence in Diefestung to make Calestine borderline unplayable due to the lag. Cornea, Sinu, and Graminica forcefully demilitarized the Democratic Union's northern regions in and around Diefestung in an attempt to remove the lag. But, as they would soon discover, this was in vain, as the source of the lag was none other than Kyle himself and his "shitty" internet.

This event would generally be considered minor, but it meant that the vast majority of the Democratic Union had no supplies other than the ones supplied by Graminica, which may have been one factor in their defeat in the Third Asshole War. Due to the further collapse into Collective Internationalism and Kylism-Loganism, Sinu and Graminica expelled the Democratic Union from the 9/11 Pact.

Here plans were drawn up for partitions of the Democratic Union by Sydenot, Endo, Ultramar, Wakondom, and Sinu. Just before this, a new technology, Snipers and the Brasrgradis were made, which were lasers anyone could use from the ground.

### The Gay Attack

In an attempt to provoke the Democratic Union into issuing a declaration of war upon the Asshole Coalition, an unofficial anti-Democratic Union alliance, Zero2471166 'redesigned' most of Diefestung by making it queer in nature, changing most structures in the city into rainbow colors, making their Swastiship tranny, and turning Master Chief into Master Queef. This failed to successfully provoke the Democratic Union, as Kyle simply repaired damages and reverted the city. Graminica and Cornea assisted in the reverting of the city to it's pre-gay form. During their assistance a fire was started by an unknown person which burnt down a significant portion of the Capitol, which at the time was mostly made of rainbow wool.

Sinu and Wakondom were both member nations of the Asshole Coalition, and were disappointed by the Democratic Union's response to the Gay Attack. They decided to stop baiting the Democratic Union into war and simply begin one themselves.

### The Third Asshole War

The war began with Sinu and Wakondom invading Tapfer from the south. Ultramar immediately joined the Assholes, and used it's tunnels to attack from underground while Historian and Spirit attacked from above ground. Zero2471166 was noted as being so bad at PvP that he was nearly instantly killed by Elvrolet. The other Assholes were repelled soon after.

Cornea soon joined the Asshole Coalition officially, thus joining the war as the Democratic Union raised a newfag army that encompassed around 15 people, the same size as the world's active population at the time while the Assholes had about 5: Sydenot, XPH4N70MR34P3RX, TheHistorian18, spirit250, and Zero2471166. The large army of the Democratic Union was wildly undersupplied, running only off of already existing ex-Graminican supply depots in northwestern Tapfer.

The Asshole Coalition, across the war slowly steamrolled the Democratic Union until Logan made an attempted offensive into Allahtown to raid the supply chain of the Coalition. Logan was slowly pushed south by Sydenot, resulting in an invasion of Antheum itself. As Logan's morale collapsed, Antheum seceded from the Democratic Union and joined the Graminican Republic, soon followed by Tapfer. The Third Asshole War ended soon after, ending with the Democratic Union.