New Zealand

**New Zealand** (Māori: *Aotearoa)* is an island nation ruled by Mochoimochi in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, located in Oceania. The nation consists of two main islands, the North Island (*Te Ika-a-Māui*) and the South Island (*Te Waipounamu*). The nation, initially created as Nunavut, relocated to New Zealand after the fall of the previous existing nation on New Zealand, Māori. Today, New Zealand stands as the oldest remaining nation in the Southern Hemisphere and is by far the only nation in all of Oceania.

### **History**

**Early History**

The earliest historical information remaining of human settlement in New Zealand dates back to the 12th of December 2020. A player by the name of Hatru makes the statement that they are planning to sail to New Zealand, a yet undiscovered area and place where no one has set foot yet. *"Is ther any active players in new Zealand? I think imma sail there".* The journey began for Hatru and they sailed until they reached Malaysia at 1:42pm NZST, where Hatru stopped and stated, *"welp made it malayasia lol time to hike to new zealand".* Evidence shows from Malaysia, Hatru went by boat and sailed down to New Zealand and at 2:37pm NZST, Hatru had made it to New Zealand in just under an hour and became the first person to ever set foot on New Zealand. *"I DID IT I have made it too New Zealand that land of the Kiwis shall live".* The exact time of when Hatru started their town is unclear but it is thought to have been around 2 hours after they set foot on New Zealand, due to Hatru's statement, *"The Kiwi nation is coming"*. With Hatru's statement, the first town in New Zealand, Kiwis, was created on the 12 December 2020.

After the creation of Hatru's town, only around two hours later, the town name was changed to Auckland. The first resident of Auckland, according to the left evidence was a player by the name of Angryknees. Both Angryknees and Hatru began trying to recruit people.

On the 29th of December 2020, Advent23, Back then the leader of Japan, asked Hatru if they would like to join Japan temporarily, in which Hatru agreed to and at 7:13am NZST, Auckland became a part of Japan. However, only five days after joining Japan on the 2nd of January 2021, Auckland would come to creating its own nation of Māori and on the same day, Auckland changed its name to Aotearoa, with Angryknees stating, *"Yeah auckland took it's indigenious name".*

New Zealand under Hatru's rule began growing fast but this rapid growth had only lasted till around late January. Hatru slowly became an inactive player. Evidence left behind shows that Advent had asked where Hatru had been and Hatru had replied, saying, *"Lol busy with life stuff".*

**The fall of Māori**

A downtime of AtlasMC had caused the Māori nation to fall. The special character in the nation name was the cause of towny going into safe mode and so the nation was deleted to stop the safe mode. An announcement was made on the 30th January 2021 for Māori and two other towns with special characters to make a ticket to get a refund, but Māori never made a ticket, marking an end to the nation. Hatru had only figured out what happened to Māori one day after the announcement and then he left and didn't come on until early March.

While Hatru had been gone, one of the leading superpowers during that time was Hispania. Hispania sieged and captured many towns across the server and without Hatru around, Aotearoa was vulnerable to an attack and this lead to Hispania sieging Aotearoa and Hispania successfully captured the town. Aotearoa was under Hispania rule for a while until there was not enough money in Aotearoa's bank and the town failed to pay the upkeep so Aotearoa was automatically kicked from Hispania and the town fell in late Februrary.

**Modern history**

Modern history starts right after the fall of Aotearoa. Around one day after the fall of Aotearoa, Mochoimochi immediately sets an outpost on the exact location as the fallen town. Mochi arrived to a badly griefed town ruins but he manages to clean up the whole area but leaving 2 houses, one Wharenui (Māori traditional houses) and a lighthouse, which would later turn into a historical monument called *'Tawhito lighthouse'*. After completely abandoning Iqaluit and renaming Iqaluit and Nunavut to Auckland and New Zealand, development begins almost immediately.

Only a few days later on the 1st of March, two people by the name of klasowytrzmielu and NAJAK\_PL, who originally started Warsaw in Poland, abandons the town and sails to the South Island of New Zealand. Evidence in chat shows that klasowytrzmielu claims that they were only coming to start towns and they were not going to start a nation. Mochi did not see this as a problem so he let them create the towns of *United Zeland States* and *Wladeth* but when he offered them nation invites, both declined and stated that they will stay nationless. Mochi was fine with this as long as they did not go against him and start a nation. *"nz should be united, not two separate nations on north and south".* Wladeth fell not long after, after failure to pay upkeep but United Zeland States kept up and breaking the agreement between Mochi, klasowytrzmielu went from joining *Persia* to *Goven-Omikami* and eventually fully went against New Zealand and started his own nation, initially called *'world zealand states'* on the 8th of March. When Mochi found out about the new nation on the Southern Island, Mochi messaged klasowytrzmielu and told them to never step foot on North Island again as they have broken the agreement and created separation between the two islands. This would be the start of a separation that will tear the North and South for around a month.

The nation of world zealand states changes their nation and town name to *zealand empire* and the nation manages to stay up until the 20th of March, when *Imperial Japan* sieges the zealand empire and they give in and fall under Imperial Japan's rule. Now a part of Imperial Japan, klasowytrzmielu tells Mochi that if New Zealand is against the renamed town of Zealand, then New Zealand is against Imperial Japan, and Imperial Japan wants Pacific domination so New Zealand will have to go to war with the empire. New Zealand being a peaceful nation never went to war with Imperial Japan, instead, New Zealand and Imperial Japan allied, with Merci, leader of Imperial Japan, making an agreement with Mochi, saying that if New Zealand allies with the empire, they won't expand any more onto New Zealand.

Zealand left Imperial Japan on the 23rd of March and started another nation by the name of *'Democratic Zealand'* , which would later be changed to the *'Dominion of Zealand'.* This new nation would last for only two days, when Imperial Japan would siege them again and Zealand falls under Imperial Japan's rule again.

Only five days later, zealand leaves Imperial Japan again and starts another nation, initially called *'Devils'* and later on *'Colonia Zealandia'*. Colonia Zealandia was up until the 8th April 2021, where it had fallen again. The town joined *Eastern Federation*, left and joined Goven-Omikami once again and then left again to join Eastern Federation.

At this point, zealand was collapsing and the upkeep was too high for the town to pay. Zealand had claimed almost half of the South Island and the town was becoming inactive. On the 15th April, zealand was on the edge of falling as klasowytrzmielu resigned as mayor and the town was dying. Zealand officially fell into ruins on the 19th of April.