Kingdom of Aurum

**Aurum**, officially known as **Kingdom of Aurum** is a nation in O'burg Island, located in the Eastern Road. It is a huge lone island with an ocean and ice city near and around it. It is home to a current population of 5,875,900 and is the second nation to be formed in the SMP.

## Kingdom of Aurum

### Government

Unitary absolute monarchy**Monarch:** Doc Zelea **Prime Minister:** John Williams

## Etymology

The name "Aurum" means "Gold" in Latin and is most likely the direct reference for the naming of the country. The name is thought to have been chosen due to the nation being described by the people who discovered it as "The Golden Island" due to how perfect the climate, location, and overall surface looked. Another tale says it was named Aurum later on due to the island being known for containing many different ores, particularly gold.

## Flag

The flag of Kingdom of Aurum was designed with a simple symbolic aspect to it. With the top layer of blue representing the sky, the middle layer representing the land, and the bottom layer representing the sea.

The rebel version of the flag has no official symbolic meaning to it. However it is assumed that the top layer represents the night sky, the middle layer represents the rebellion's presence on the land, and the bottom layer represents the dark, damp, and deep caves within the lands of the island.

## History

### Early History

South O'burg Island was originally discovered by a group of Solagist adventurers, led by Doc Zelea and recruited by Monty Quartz to find and colonise additional land for Solague's gain. The adventurers sailed by boat from Solague to the depths of the ocean around it, looking for more land to explore. They had eventually stumbled upon a big, hilly island filled with grass and greens. It was the greatest, biggest, and most beautiful island they had seen in a long while. It peaked their interest, which led to them returning to Solague to let the Solagist Government know about their find.

Monty Quartz then sent troops and strategists to scope the area for any citizens, sure enough; it was an empty island. Monty eventually signed an official agreement to begin the process of colonising the island as a new town for the Empire of Solague.

### Establishment

On day 1117, a few months after the Solagist colonisation of South O'burg island, Monty had officially declared the island its own governed state and promised to hold elections to have a separate leader for South O'burg Island.

On day 1128, the capital of South O'burg Island was titled "Jamestown". Jamestown would eventually be used as a name for the entire state as opposed to only the capital among the Solagist people. However Jamestown was not recognised as the official name for the state. It was only a commonly used name.

### Annexation of Jamestown

Following the independence of the Kingdom of Aurum, Soukeski Hayes' rebellion made constant attacks towards the newly founded colony of Jamestown due to Soukeski's hatred of the Solagist government, as well as Jamestown's ore rich grounds. Jamestown was the perfect target for Hayes, seeing as how it was still partially controlled by the Solague government at the time.

Soukeski had invaded and annexed the Kingdom of Aurum, turning it into a rebel state. It was eventually freed by Solague's CCF, but it was too late. The Kingdom of Aurum had collapsed both economy wise and population wise. It was eventually abandoned on Day 1399. Turning into a ghost state.

### Rebirth of a Nation

Doc Zelea, former Solague Minister of Defence once upon a time set off to form his own nation titled Jamestown. It went through many rebel attacks by Soukeski Hayes and his previous battalion and the town suffered significantly, which led the territory of O'burg Island (Jamestown) into a great depression and was eventually abandoned specifically on day 1399. Around day 1900, there was a petition to rename Jamestown to the Kingdom of Aurum to give it a more formal name. It eventually passed, when the former Emperor of Solague Monty S. Quartz signed it into law.

However, as he was fed up with Hayes' new forced administration, Doc Zelea furiously set sail to Aurum - determined to build the nation into glory again.

## Elections

During late 1851, the first Jamestown elections had been held with the following parties as candidates:

* **The Most Honourable and Prestigious Royalist Party of Jamestown** which follows a monarchist ideology. DBX and Doc are in charge of it.
* **Jamestown Socialist Party** which finds socialism an ideal ideology for the town. It is run by Fluffy.

* **Prosperous Republic of Solague** which is run by Soukeski Hayes.

The election ended in the grand win of the Royalist Party of Jamestown.

During the 1851 elections, Android Web had been disqualified due to treason against the State. Furthermore; he had made claims of dropping out previously. Which left only Fluffy in charge of the Jamestown Socialist Party.