Imperial Russia (Gladia)

The Russian Empire, commonly reffered to as Russia, is the oldest Gladian empire and was created on December 9, 2019, at 9:27 PM CEST by raller0907. The largest nation in size and population, Russia is led by the Tsar and a P.M elected from the Duma. Its current territory stretches across large swathes of Russia, and Siberia, with its core in European Russia. A large amount of its territory is connected by the Trans Siberian Iceway. It is also home to some of Gladia's greatest builds and towns such as Saint Rallersburg, Kazan, Perm, Bolghar, Moscow, etc.

## History

### Tsar Raller'sReign (Tsar Raller The Great)

Russia started as a vision by Tsar Russia to create the largest empire ever seen, with the goal of covering all real Russian borders and Imperial Russia's historical borders. The Imperial Capital of Saint Petersburg was created at the start of release, and quickly became one of the greatest towns on Datearth history, having several monuments such as The Winter Palace, League of Nations Palace, The Neva Canal and Victory Square. The last one being the site of the Battle of Saint Petersburg, which was the largest battle in Datearth history. Russia started out as an absolute monarchy, but quickly Russia became one of the most progressive nations on the server when the office of Prime Minister was established, and Russia's parliament, the Duma, was created, with its own democratic institutions, most of which were created by cvkoning. The Democracy tendencies did allow for a platform for several socialist parties, but as of writing this, the nation has remained monarchist under Tsar Raller .
Raller was fundamental and the driving force behind creating several of the key aspects that aves maintained Russian activity for months, such as a ranking systms, atitonal building projects, taxes, insituitions and ministries.
From the start of the server, it became clear that the Siberian Empire and Russia would ultimately lead to a war between the two. Eventually, after months of small fighting, Russia declared war on the Siberians, and ultimately conquered the capital, and ending up controlling all of the former Siberian Empire's towns. Raller proclaimed on February 16, 2020, that the golden age of Imperial Russia had started.

On February 25, 2020, Conkeria declared war on Russia. The war was dominated by Russia and ended after less than a day, lasting around 12-13 hours in total. The peace terms were massively in Russia's favour, and that seemed to be the end of it: Russia massively winning the war, and Conkeria being somewhat humiliated by their defeat and essential surrender. However, on February 26 Raller announced that Conkeria and Russia would merge, at the request of Logate, leader of Conkeria. This merge was unexpected and shook the world of Gladia immensely. Suddenly, Imperial Russia -- who had previously stuck to the policy of "One nation within one border", and whose leader had many times suggested large super nations were bad for a world -- had towns *in every single continent.* Raller quickly made clear that he did not intend to keep all of the land or towns from Conkeria, but the brief creation of the Russian super-nation was still controversial and seen by many as hypocritical. In an ambiguity article about the conflict and merge,Raller stated that '[Russia] will give several new nations some towns, so they can grow and Gladia can become even more active.' Several towns were in fact given to new nations such as Gran Colombia, Amonkhet and United States of America with more expected to be given away soon.

Following the defeat Conkeria, and gaining the title of "Tsar Raller The Great" Raller announced he would abdicate.

(This section focuses more on the history of The Red Funeral, there is another section about the Red Funeral in the conflicts section that talks about resultant conflicts)

Raller Tsar of Russia since it's creation, abdicated on the 29th of February 2020, at what was intended to be his funeral and Crown Prince Jerry's coronation. However, the event did not go to plan. A large percentage of the server gathered in Sakuramachi, to watch the momentous event. Due to the server being full, Raller  was over 30 minutes late to his own funeral. At least around 30 players were present at the event, which is about one-third of the total people on the server at the time. At around 17:40 GMT, Hollandt, supported by Dakoku, sieged the town of Sakuramachi in the middle of Rallers speech. Very few people at the coronation/funeral were wearing armour (the event had been described as black tie, so many people were wearing no armour to show off the fancy suits they had added to their skins), and over 20 players were massacred. Following this, the chat was filled with declarations such as "Death to holland!" and that holland was the worst nation ever. Many people said what they had done was "disrespectful" and "low" for interrupting such an important event that had been planned for weeks. Raller did though abdicate, Marking an end to a reign that saw him create the largest empire in datearth history, going undefeated in war, while funding, organizing and creating some of the greatest builds in datearth history. To mark Raller success as Tsar, the city of Saint Petersburg was renamed to Saint Rallersburg.Russia Became the most epic nation in gladia because Raller was bold enough to try out new things

Tsar Raller ruled Russia for around 3 months.

### Tsar Jerry's Reign (Tsar Jerry the Peacekeeper)

On the 29th of February 2020, Crown Prince Jerry officially took over from Raller as Tsar, becoming Tsar Jerry (Raller's title was changed to Grand Duke, which was not a unique title). Jerry's in-game name is MechaBloxer, however, in discord he is known as Jerry. As discord is where most datearth players communicate (through nation discords, the DNN and other servers), he will be referred to simply as Jerry or Tsar Jerry on this wiki (except when talking about times when he was not Tsar, in which case his title of that the time should be used).

The start of Jerry's reign was tense: Raller had left the nation in the middle of a conflict with Hollandt, and other nations such as Dakoku were known to be against Russia. Citizens were divided between those who wanted to avenge Raller and Russia by fighting Hollandt and those who believed a peace treaty would be the best way to start Jerry's reign. One of the first things Jerry announced was that Russia would from that point on be focusing on internal affairs, and avoid wars. In Ambiguity on DNN, SeaWolf and Raller made it clear that Jerry was a new ruler, who would act differently than raller.

Jerry ended up ruling Russia for about a 3 weeks, entering no wars and overseeing a boom in construction across Russia. He would later be given the surname "Tsar Jerry the PeaceKeeper"

**Tsar Banter Reign (Tsar Banter the Reformer)**

Because of the coronavirus and Tsar Jerry's job (IRL), Jerry was forced to pass on the throne, the former tsar Tsar Bante then choose Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tsar Bante to become Tsar of Russia, following a brief royal rule by Prince Regent Klabawn, Raller was coronated in the recently constructed Saint Isaac Cathedral in Saint Rallersburg, with over 50 people attending it.

It wouldnt be long before the Tsar Banter would be tested, and a few days into his reign, the new nation of Mongolia demanded all of Russia's siberian land or they would declare war. Tsar Bante spoke with his council and decided to reject the offer, former Tsar Tsar Bante and Field Marshal Vsaucy was called back into action and together with the new Tsar quickly mobilised the Russian army, before long due to russian ministry of propaganda and allies, a large coalition of nations had formed to support eachother in the face of Mongolian destruction.

Despite suspecting an attack on Russia, Mongolia optionned for an attack on the industrial heartland of Dakoku; Riverhead. Riverhead was attacked, but a large force of the coalition known as the allies beat them in the following battle. Much drama followed, with several mongolians being unsatisfied with how they were treated and they left server. Tsar Tsar Bante could therefore proclam Victory.

Soon after the Iroquois attacked once again, Iroquois started sieging a total of 6 Russian towns and for the first day appeared to be winning, hovewever the second day of the large scale invasion, the Russian army had pushed back the enemy on several fronts and it became clear that Russia was not going to fall, thanks to the work of Vsaucy, Alabanza, Tsar Bante and many others. The war did end with Russia winning the defence of all its major towns, but losing a small town at the outskirts of far east siberia, Russia also mangaged to regain control of the rogue nation of Siberian Republic.

Following the war,  Tsar Banter proclaimed he would move the capital to Moscow, in order to create his own story as the New tsar of Russia. Moscow became capital soon hereafter. It was under Tsar Tsar Bante aswell that Russia introduced its legal system and he oversaw the expansion of the Moscow Accord, a project of his that would mean more small nations around Gladia could be created and protected by Russia.

Over the next few weeks a period of peace for Russia but a rise in tension around Gladia. Rumours and threats circulated Gladia and shortly after Iroquois and Primorsky declared war on Britain and Greater Isreal. Tsar Banter who had a close relationship with the Iroquois leeader; Larry tried to mediate between the nations, hovewever disstatisfed with the peace deal that the Iroquois put forward and with little faith that they would not come back for more, Britain and Greater Isreal turned down the offer. Former Tsar Raller, fearing that Russia would once again stand alone in future conflicts given Isreal and Britain imminent doom, spoke with the Current Tsar Banter on wether he felt he would be ready to win a war over the Iroquois in order to save Russias Ally. Banter said he was not due to his relationship with the Iroquois and his willingness to find peace. Therefore a new Tsar had to be chosen. Raller being the nation founder had to decide on a new Tsar, several options were considered like Bryyte (the Prime Minsiter) Dufes (General and King of the Baltic Kingdom) But feeling that the nation risked huge war, he decided to elect a largely unknown soldier named Zane. It was Raller's hope that Zane with his ambitious and will would be able to defeat Iroquois in war. Zane accepted the offer, Tsar Banter adbucted and Zane became the Tsar after being coronated in front of around 30 Russians in Saint Isaac Cathedral in Saint Rallersburg.

Tsar Banter ended up ruling Russia for a month.

## Tsar Zane Reign (The Soldier Tsar)

Zane had been chosen as Tsar in expection for a hardline on the Iroquois agression, therefore the first thing he did was sent a ultimatum to the Iroquois leadership, stating that: They either end all sieges on Great Britain and Greater Isreal and get their money back, Aswell as Russian friendship or Russia would formally enter the war. The Iroquois quickly refused the offer and marched directly to Saint Rallersburg to siege the cultural capital of the Russian Empire.

During the first day of the war, Russia apperaed to be out of its depth, and lost the initial defence of Saint Rallersburg, Tsar Zane came to Raller to voice his concern about the conflict and he questionned his ability, hovewever the old Tsar managed to revitilzie Tsar Zanes spirit and Tsar Zane; Now with new energy decided to continue the war. On the 2nd day of the confclit Russia managed to succesfully beat the Iroquois army and win the sieges at Jerusalem, Portsmouth and Cornwall, practially meaning that all of their allies would now no matter what fall. With new confidence in the Russian millitary, the war was now fully on.

The Iroquois siege on Saint Rallersburg ended on the 3rd day and the largest battle on Gladian history was on, ultimately the Russian forces while great in numbers lost the siege, and the symbol of IMperial Russia fell. Hovewever this did not ruin the spirits of many Russians who had learnt that they did not gain points from killing enemies and therefore felt that if the system had worked, they would have won the confclit. The day after a staff member was demoted following an incident in which he could fix all the gear of the Iroquois and system changed, once agian boosting the Russian spirit.

The day after the Russians initiated the Zhukov Offence, (a large assault on all major Iroquois towns) and they won the siege on Moscow and Novohapersk following huge battles, where famous fighters / soldiers managed to win the battle after gaining expereince from Saint Rallersburg.
Iroquois members, demotivated from the losses and the change in siege system decided to abadonne all hopes of saving their homes and nations and left server, not before showing extremly toxic behaviour towards Russians and the server as a whole, forcing staff to ban the leader of the Iroquois; LobsterLarry. Since the iroquois did not defend any of their cities, all important ones were conquered by Russia the day after.

Meaining that Tsar Zane, won his first war with the help of legendary pvpers, strategists, editors and leaders such as Caliph Mohammed, DeltaOrion, VCrusty, Vsaucy, Blend, Alabanza, Vsaucy, Raller, Bryyte, Offlined and many many more.
Hovewever the Iroquois were not done. Following Iroquois leaders Lobsterlarrys ban being over 14 days later they struck again, this time at Saint Rallersburg, Moscow and Novohapersk. Several large battles occured, but with the Russians now experienced, well organized and well lead, the Iroquois agression continuation was  fruitless. Following a few days of losing battles, most Iroquois wanted peace and offered a merge. Russia did not respond, a few days later with no peace deal signed, but Russia gaining over 50k i war chests, Raller spoke with Larry regarding a merge to potentially end all the wars once and for all. Larry this time around declined and instead insisted that Iroquois would fully destroy Russia this time around, conquer all of its land, and stop Russia from world conquest. Little did Larry know that he would be permbanned  a few hours later for extensive toxic history.
Tsar Zane had won another war and was at the top of his power, with Russia at the top of its power, ruling an area (through the Moscow Accord) an area stretching most of Asia including; Nihon and Dakiwi and a huge area of Europe including; Germany, Poland, Scandinavia, Russia, Turkey and more.
But a reign largely marked by over a month of war had left the Tsar tired, and he decided to abdicate in favour of the Civil Servant and Crown Prince, Crunch.

## Tsar Crunch (The Young)

Following Tsar Zanes abdication, Crunch was chosen as his Heir Apperent. Crunch had previously served as mayor of Moscow, ruler of Ukraine, and minister in several goverments, he had also extensive experience in war across the map. It all looked to be the perfect fit.

Tsar Crunch took the throne in a nation in a good milliatry state, but not well for builders in game. To combat this Tsar Crunch and Raller decided to create a new huge infastructure project, named the Tsar Road. A network of pathways connecting most of Western Russia, crossing through forests, rivers, steppes, etc. The road was almost completed, but Russia faced another invasion.

During the 4th Russo-Iroqouis war, Russia had accepted in a group of soldiers in Siberia, these people had extensive experience in PvP and following Iroquois' defeat, they had grown bored and wished to form their own nation. They did so in the Russian far east and soon they declared war on the old empire. Russia was attacked at Murmansk, but due to General Delta's forts and planning, Aryinthel was stopped and Murmansk was saved. Several battles continued, but ultimately Aryinthel decided to end hostilities. Tsar Crunch had been participating in all battles, but had failed to appear as the Commander in Chief, and lowered the Tsars position to a more honourary title.

Following the War, Russia faced problems amongst its allies internally. Turkey and Israel had been on colision course for a while, and Turkey decided to invade due to claims. Both Turkey and Israel called for Russian help, but the Tsar due to irl responsabilities was not able to make a decision on the go, making Russia appaer weak and unloyal to its allies. Turkey won the conflict, Israel got wiped and Russia had lost international prestige. The war between Turkey and Israel would have major consequences for Russia on the international stage.

Several nations around Gladia were tired of Russia's growing hegemony on the world stage and planned to destroy it, DeltaOrion, a former general of Russia, backstabbed his overlords and had organized an attack on them. Delta, PEACE, Dakiwi, Hispania, Vibeland, Portugal etc. all attacked Russia at Saint Rallersburg. It had become more and more clear, Crunch had to leave as Tsar due to irl responsabilities, and the need for change in Russia grew evermore.

## Tsar Bizzy (The Iron Tsar)

Following Crunch's abdication, Tsar Bizzy (A former General and PvPer) was chosen as the next Tsar, following this attack on Russia. Tsar Bizzy did not have much time to learn the job, as Russia faced invasion in Murmansk, Saint Rallersburg, Moscow and many more. At the beginning of the campaign most of western Russia stood in flames, as the combination of large numbers of enemies, and cancer forts forced Russia out of some of its most iconic cities such as Saint Rallersburg and Moscow. Russia kept fighting back, but the task looked impossible, as the enemy kept winning sieges, starting new ones in Volgograd, Perm, Kazan, Vladivostok, Harbin, Krasnodar, Tallinn, Riga and more.

At the same time, Russia's vassals began to turn tail and bolt at the first sign of trouble, due to fear of total destruction. All members of the Moscow Accords, other than Germany left Russia during this time. This looked to be the end of Russia. Several old war leaders such as Banter and Raller, aswell as the Tsar did everything they could to keep morale high and to continue the war. The next day, Members of PEACE tried to force a treaty on Russia that would merge the nations together, practically ending Russian independence and the nation. The leaders of Russia, determinted to change the tide, created a new discord for the nation and reorganized the army to fight back.

As dark clouds gathered, an unexpected new ally came to Russias aide, Adzy (A PvP expert) and his nation: Ayrinthel, the nation previously at war wtih Russia, had heard news of its imminent destruction and came to its aid. With new allies, supply lines fixed and a reorganized army, Russia fought back with great success and won at Volgograd, Kazan and Perm. meaning that no matter what, Russia wouldnt be destroyed.
With a new map coming out and some people wishing to turn their attention to that, the will for new offensives lowered, and a Stalemate between the nations ensured.
During this stalemate, Tsar Bizzy used his time to consolidate his power, and Russia was heavily reformed, it changed flag, name, social reforms, discord changes, ranking systems, bureachrchy got lowered and new buildings across Russia was ordered. Russia now is facing changes unlike anything it has seen before, With Factories being made all over, and huge social changes, Russia had entered: THE INDUSTRIAL AGE.

Now that Russia had entered the Industrial Age, and Tsar Bizzy had managed to keep Russia alive during the biggest war it had ever faced, he was given the nick name the Iron Tsar. During the first 2 days of relative peace, Tsar Bizzy got coronated in the Saint Basil Cathedral and he opend the Tsar Road the following day. Hovewever War continued to plague Bizzys reign and although he was largely victorius the constant war took a toll on the nation, and his enemies started growing in size. The enemies of Russia had started a massive recruitment campaign and soon after they were joined by former foes of Russia, Mongolia. Following mongolia joining the map, a new coalition against Russia was being formed including All of American Union, Mongolia, Qin and Iroquois. They started their new campaign with an attack on Kazan.

For a long time Russia looked to be winning, but the mayor of Kazan grew scared of losing it and opted for a surrender claiming he did so in the interest of Russia. Russia was furious and her enemies were now more certain on winning. Few more sights continued and Russia lost a few more sieges. At the same time civilian life in Russia was practially dead and gone and toxicity in their discord had grown following Aryinthals being the largest provider of soldiers. Raller and Bizzy decided to have a talk, and Raller was to resume the position of nation leader, since Bizzy was no longer interested and there was a common understanding and wish for recreating civlian life. Raller therefore took over the throne again as Tsar Of Russia for a time.

## **Raller the Second**

### Fall and rise of the new Tsardom

- Following Raller becoming Tsar again he issuered a new rule forbidding toxicity in the discord, a few people refused to abide and were kicked. Aryinthals, outraged at their fellow friends being kicked decided to abandon Russia and the map, Russia stood alone, for possibly the first time. However this was not to be, although Raller's and Russia's actions were largely supported by the general community, the Iroquois coaltion decided to continue the war it had started long ago.

Due to a failure in commands and communication among leadership in Russia, Russias in game leader ended up ebing a foe of Russia: ThikCrab. He demanded that Russia paid a VASTE amount of money or he would destroy the nation in game. Raller decided to not bulge or give into demands.

Russia was now living under the "Iroquois Yoke"" similiar to the Tatar yoke that the IRL russian principalities experienced.

Soon after, Russia started developing itself again, and reforming, under the guise of democracy and liberty, and on the 19th of September, 2020, the Russian Empire was created with Raller as its leader. Soon after, Russia began expanding, the former Scandinavian empire and Ukraine merging with it, and its territory now encompasses all of western Russia, Livonia, and Ukraine. Luckily for Russia the central administartion and main leadership had never wished to leave and therefore continued with its plans to recreate Russia. Russia created the UAG (an alliance against Ohio / Iroquois / Macedonain mass control ) in an effort to stop the wars.

A ressurection of Russia is progressing as Russian civilian life is being recreated under capable and competent leaders such as Diabetos providng more allies for Russia, Marc as minister of building and Banter continuing to fight for Russia as a leading member and Prime Minister.

## Third time's the charm - Revival of Russia

As the hype of Polis slowly dwindled down, and more and more people left it, Russia was experiencing a small revival as people began to rejoin it in droves. Raller capitalized on the idea and soon, Russia had been semi-revived once more with notable people returning again, and new towns being formed. The political atmosphere changed too, as out of the rubble, the Solidarists, currently the largest party, were spawned. During the Duma and PM elections, the Solidarists won out and LisPisCringe became the new PM.

### Pre-war plugin skirmishes

Even before the war plugin was released some Russians fought in skirmishes together with the group called The Allies. They fought against the group of nations who called themselves the Axes.

Before the town of Monaco was going to fall both The Allies and The Axes wanted the town in their control that led to a skirmish on the border between Anabasis and The Old town of Monaco. Loyal Russians like Klabawn, Stillewillem and Cubefrikandel all fought in this battle (the last 2 still part of the Svearike at the time).

The battle for Monaco was the most notable fight Pre-war plugin release. Other battles include the battle of Argentina where Russians like Klabawn fought together with the likes of Blenndd and other notable Allies members. The most difficult battle was the battle of Ayakistan where some Russians laid their lives down to protect the newly formed town. The Knight of the Red order including members such as Theglorythief, Blennd, StilleWillem, CubeFrikandel and the newest member Klabawn coordinated the defence of the town.

### The Siege Of Saint Petersburg

One of the first and sieges Russia was involved in in the new war plugin was the Iroquois siege of Saint Petersburg. The reasons for this battle are not entirely understood, but HotelCalifornia (Leader of Iroquois) has stated on DNN that "[the reason for the siege] was mostly an assumption of Russia being buddies with Rome". This was not long after the creation of the controversial nation Rome, which was the result of a merge of multiple nations including powers Hispania and the Holy Roman Empire.

Iroquois' first attacks were mostly successful, with some figures (notably from DeltaOrion) suggesting that Russia and allies lost 35 god sets in the 1st Battle of Saint Petersburg. In terms of gear lost, this would make it one of the losses in Russian history. However, in later battles it was the Iroquois rather than allies that lost god sets, although not to the extent that Russia had lost god sets in the first battle. As the siege continued, it became clear that Saint Petersburg was extremely unlikely to fall, with the siege score eventually being around -20,000. This led to the siege being considered a major Russian victory, and gave many Russians a renewed confidence in their military.

### The Red Funeral

The Red Funeral, the result of Russia's long-lasting conflict with Holland, was the final battle of Raller's reign. It occurred at his funeral/Tsar Jerry's coronation in Sakuramachi cathedral. Holland sieged Sakuramachi and, with support from Dakoku, massacred unarmed players within the cathedral. Over 20 players, Russian and foreign alike, were killed, many without ever having the chance to defend themselves.

As an immediate consequence of this, the words "Death to Hollandt" were spammed in the chat, and an extremely negative attitude towards Holland was clearly shown. Around a third of the whole server had been at the funeral, and were outraged or disappointed that Holland had interrupted such a formal, ceremonial and highly anticipated event. A siege on Groningen (a holland town) was soon started by angry civilians. There were few armed combatants at the siege and the Russian government seemed to make little effort to support it (at the time the new Tsar, Jerry, had not yet made clear whether he would support war with Holland or aim for peace). The siege was later abandoned as tension with Holland eventually declined, perhaps due to Jerry's announcement that Russia would focus on internal affairs.

### Other Conflicts

#### Pre-Rome-merge: During raller's Reign:

* Constant rivalry between Russian and the Siberian Empire. The Siberian Empire were led by iHizen, and had at the start of the server wanted to be Russia, until raller-and-co beat them to it.
* Russia wanted to take Cumania, which was in Russian borders, but the HRE stopped them.
* Hispania-HRE potential merge against Russia.

#### Post-Rome-merge, during raller's reign:

* There was a conflict between Russia and Cumania. Russia's aim was to conquer inactive Cumanian towns that were within the border of Russia. This was to fulfil raller's policy of "One nation within one border". On the 24th of February raller announced that all Cumanian towns had been conquered, and therefore the nation of Cumania was no more.
* Russia sieges Bolshevik, the capital of the Siberian Empire after war is released. At the time, iHizen (the leader of the Siberian Empire) was banned for using kill aura (it is currently unclear if this was a permanent ban or just 14 days). The siege was successful and all Siberian Empire towns have been integrated into Russia.
* Sieges against Tatarstan, specifically the town Kazan. It seemed like this siege was successful, with almost 0 opposition. However, the town has not become part of Russia and is instead now part of the Federation of Vena. It seems a deal was made between raller and some other people, although the details are not known. Eventually the town did become Russian.
* On 23.2.20 Russians sieged Windhelm, the capital of the Nordic Empire. Due to the town having a very small amount of money in their town bank, the siege was short and the town was quickly disbanded. Russians quickly looted the town, taking over a stack of diamonds, many enchanted books, saddles, horse armour, stacks of obsidian and just about anything valuable they could find in the town. Some Russians expressed feeling bad about looting the town, and a sign was left instructing the mayor of Windhelm to contact Russia if he needed help getting back on his feet. (An update log for Gladia the next day stated: "Fixed towns falling while being sieged." This suggests that the town wasn't supposed to be lootable, and raiding it was a major oops that wasn't supposed to be possible.)
* 24.2.20 - Hollandt declares war on Russia. This seems to be because of leaked information that Russia was planning to declare war on her. Russian players helped to defend the town of Mountcity. On 26.02.20, Mountcity unexpectedly fell to Hollandt, following a successful last-minute charge by Hollandt players against (according to Gladia Live) Russians, Amonkhet, newly-merged Conkeria forces, and Sandland, at times being outnumbered 15 to 4. This was a disappointment for Russia, and some players were annoyed that there had been no sign of any actual Xiongnu forces defending their own town, instead leaving it to their Russian allies. On 27.2.20 Russians led a siege against Amsterdam, Hollandt's capital. At the same time, Antwerp, a Roman town a few chunks South of Amsterdam, and Brussels, another Roman town to the West, were being sieged by Hollandt. A fairly large battle occurred with multiple Russian deaths. Hollandt was able to maintain control of the area.
* 25.2.20- Russia v Conkeria war. Conkeria declared on Russia because of a leaked screenshot, which showed raller saying in the Russian Minister chat that Russia would declare war on Conkeria. raller claims that this was taken out of context, although admits that the Conkerians were "rightfully angry". Perhaps the statement "We gonna war Conkeria" was in response to a hypothetical situation, not something they planned to do without reason. However, the screenshot was enough to cause war. The war was dominated by Russia and ended after less than a day, lasting around 12-13 hours in total. Conkeria unsuccessfully sieged Stockholm, and it became clear when peace terms were agreed, that Russia had decisively won the war. A day later on the 26th February 2020, Conkeria merged with Russia, making Russia the nation on the server. More on the merge and its results in the **History** section
* The Red Funeral, the result of Russia's long-lasting conflict with Holland, was the final battle of raller's reign.

#### Jerry's Reign:

* There was a "voluntary" conflict with Greenland near the start of Jerry's reign. Citizens were not required to participate unless they really wanted to. Details are unknown.
* The siege of Bolshevik occurred when Nenfal, the mayor of Bolshevik, rebelled from Imperial Russia, while the British Empire were technically the attackers, most of the siege was carried out by Imperial Russia.

#### Banter 's Reign:

* War with Mongolian empire, where the Mongols, along with Hollandt, wanted to be an empire, with their claims intercepting Russian borders and Ukrainian borders, thus starting a war against Russian claims.
* War with Iroquoius. Iroqouis attacks again, Iroquouis launches attacks on Murmansk, Vladivostok and Perm with the help of the Siberian Republic. Russia managed to win the sieges on its important towns, but lost the city of Dalnegorsk. Siberian Republic was forced out of Russia and their leader Crying would stand trial for his betrayal.

## Geography

### The Iceways of Russia

From map one is able to see the entre Iceway of Russia, linking the nation together and making travel easy and comfortable.

Russia is the largest claim and empire in datearth history, claiming and controlling land from Sweden in West to Vladivostok in the east, from Arctic Circle in the north to towns in Persia .

The actual geography of Russia covers about every terrain on datearth, including mountains, deserts, rivers, taiga and tundra forests, arctic conditions and so on.

It's home to the deepest lake on datearth, Baikal river as well.

Within Russian borders lie the Autonomous region of Ukraine, Sakuramachi and Sweden as well.

## Government

Russia's government is very democratic, and Russia has even been called "possibly the most democratic nation on Gladia" by a user who created a political map of major Gladian nations.

The government consists of three main parts: The Tsar, the Duma and the Ministries. The Tsar is essentially the 'emperor' of Russia and this important position currently belongs to Banter). The Duma consists of citizens of Russia elected in official elections, which happen every three weeks. Currently, the Duma consists of 19 seats, though in the past it has had 15 and before that 13 seats.

Russia has multiple ministries, including the Ministry of Trade, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of War and others. All ministries have a minister, and most have 1 or more deputy ministers. Ministers are not elected by the Russian people like Duma members are; instead ministers are selected by the Prime Minister with help from the Tsar. This can be through open applications, but can also be simply by the Tsar or Prime Minister asking a player individually to be a minister. Deputy ministers are generally appointed by the minister.

Political parties are also an important part of Russia. The three parties at the moment are the Russian Trade and Transport party (RTTP), the Player's Bloc (PB), and the Russian Loyalists Union (RLU).

## Notable People

After having annexed the Siberian Empire, Russia has quickly turned its attention to other nations inside its claimed area, only time will tell whether they will be able to accomplish the Tsar's vision of one unified nation under one Crown. Some of Datearth's most legendary players have or currently reside inside Russia, including Tsar Raller, legendary nation founder, VSaucy, a legendary fighter and the Field Marshal of Russia; cvkoning, a famous politician known for making every nation he joins a democracy; MechaBloxer, Tsar and famous builder, LisPisCringe, a creative designer and noble; and AGS5624, the greatest iceway builder in Datearth history, Mikolaj, Minister of finance and Prime Minister (creator of the Russian tax system)

Other people have also ended up playing a huge role in Russian history, including Tsar Banter, Alabanza, Bryyte, vader2222(built the Kremlin), FunkyMoney and Tito (built a lot of Saint Rallersburg),AvigyaNN (Modern Builder of Rallersburg) AmazingTaco, MaliBeg (famous general and tradesman) and SpiffyCascade, SeaWolf, MasterOfOzzy, and Klabawn.

Russia is as mentioned over 9 months old as of writing this and new people have come and played a huge role in Running in Russia. These include Mentalist, (Famous General and Pvper for Russia) Denis (Best builder on dat block and creator of Saint Basil Cathedral) Diabetes (Famous Minister of Foreign affairs and Prince) Tsar Bizzy, General and succesful Tsar, Askances (Legendary Supplier and Princess of Russia), PirazzZ ( Minister of Intelligence and leader of KGB legendary Russian and mayor of Kazan), Captain reer (Commander and pvper for Russia), MARC\_JAN01 (Builder, Minister of Construction and King of Marrow (Nation)) Vrusty (Legendary General and Iroquois beater)

## List of Towns

* Saint Rallersburg: The capital and largest city, known for the Winter Palace.
* Moscow: The cultural capital of Russia, currently undergoing construction of its town hall. Led by Meal
* Fort Bugrino: Small town on the island of Bugrino, known for its high stone walls. Led by minecraftalman
* Perm: Another Uralic town, on the western Urals. Known for being one of the most successful Russian towns that is so isolated from Europe. Led by AwsomeGamer1234 and MasterOfOzzy
* Volgograd: A town on the Volga River, known for its popular market area and wealth. Volgograd has over $140k in its town bank. Led by Mikolaj\_Kolek
* Sevastopol: An important Black Sea harbour in Crimea. Led by Maires
* Nagurskoye: A settlement on the far northern island of Zemlya Georga. Led by Multitaskateer and home to the world's first official Moolag, which emphasizes progressive discipline in order to produce fine, upstanding, and law-abiding cows.
* Irkutsk: A far eastern town located on Lake Baikal. Led by EpikPilot
* Krasnodar: A town in the northern Caucasus, known for its small church. Led by Lonzorno
* Kursk: A settlement in western Russia. Led by SlipperySquid
* Samarkand: An Uzbek town, known for its construction of the Gates of Samarkand. Led by FlappyDaPenguin
* Murmansk: A town in the Kola Peninsula, known for its large farms and huge shops. Led by Bryyte. Hometown of AGS5642, main builder of the Iceways.
* Rostov: An important town on the mouth of the Don River, known for its huge docks and ship, as well as a big potato farm. Led by Leonardodaboii
* New Fairbanks: The capital of Russian Alaska, known for it's sugar cane high rise. Led by ALE4TOR1
* Chernyykamen: (Russian for Blackstone) Comrade\_rory's second town, notable for being the sight of the under-construction Castle Chernyykamen

### Former towns:

* Obamastan: A town created to reclaim Kharkiv by Comrade\_rory. Notable for its sale of dark oak wood.

### Notable Towns

#### Saint Rallersburg

Saint Rallersburg (Formely known as Saint Petersburg) is the capital of Russia.The reason that the town name was changed has been stated by Tsar himself he said - "I changed the name form Petersburg to rallersburg , because there is not one called peter who created the town". It was the first town to be created in Russia at the start of Gladia and is the location of a large number of palaces and national projects. It has played a large role in Russia's history, with diplomatic events (League of nations meetings, and other meetings) and conflicts (The Siege of Saint Petersburg) both happening there. It was also an extremely important town at the beginning of Russia, as most Russians collaborated there to build the Neva Canal and gather resources before any other Russian towns had been created. There are many palaces and other landmarks, such as the Winter Palace, and offices for multiple members of government, such as the Tsar and Prime Minister, Victory Square, The Imperial Gallion, Saint Vsaucy Bridge and Saint Vsaucy Square. Tsar Rallerss's tomb is also located in Saint Petersburg.
Moscow
Sakuramachi
Kiev
Vladivostok
Peckham
Harbin
Murmansk

## **Prime Ministers of Russia:**

**Cvkoning:**He upgraded Russia's democratic system and was chairman of the Players Block party. He ruled as Prime Minister for around 1 and a half months, and was important part of early Russian history, but he also recieved criticism for not maintaining the govermnent well inbetween elections.

**Spawned Eagle**
Spawned ran for Prime Minister following growing wishes to try someone else besides Cvkoning, and he won, serving a two week term.

**LisPisCringe**: Current PM and head of the Solidarist movement, he was elected into office a few days ago after a fierce election between him and Bizz. Currently, he's known for favouring roleplay events like sports, and beating the living shit out of everyone in a football game.