Plainsvillian Invasion of the Desert Village

On 5 February 2022, the Republic of Plainsville launched an invasion against the Desert Village in efforts to gain control over the land. Earlier on the same day, a referendum was held in the Desert Village to join Plainsville as an official part of the country, however the results were in favour of keeping the Desert Village its own free state. As a result of this unexpected outcome, Plainsville came up with plans for an attack to gain control over the village.

## Plainsvillian Invasion of the Desert Village

### Territorial Changes

Occupation and later annexation of the Desert Village

Since the foundation of Plainsville in May 2021, Plainsville and the Desert Village had remained with good economic relations. Trade between the two states was common with food and villager trades. Eventually, a nether portal pathway was built up to get easier access to the 2 states. Despite common trade however, some civillians of the Desert Village did not approve of the way the Plainsville players had been treating them. An example of this was when a villager was locked in a building and forced to become a librarian - they remained trapped there for nearly a whole month before they were set free. Some villagers saw this as dehumanizing their people, which resulted in relations between the 2 states becoming tense - although they remaining good trading partners until early February 2022.

### Unification Referendum

In the early hours of the 5th February 2022, CityDudeEthan proposed an idea to the president Guest5647, who had just been elected into his 3rd term in office on the same day - this was a unification of Plainsville and the Desert Village, meaning the Desert Village would be fully annexed into Plainsville and become an official part of the country. Shortly after Guest had approved this idea, he sent the message to the Desert Village where the referendum was held. Seeing relations having improved slightly since months before, Plainsville was expecting this to go in their favour. This didn't turn out to happen however as out of the 8 villagers who voted, 3 chose to join Plainsville and 5 voted to remain an independent free state. This was the beginning of the crisis between the 2 states.

### Invasion

At 11:06 AM (GMT), Plainsvillian troops finally crossed this newly made bridge and entered the desert biome, heading straight towards the Desert Village. Seconds later, arrows were heard being fired as Plainsvillian troops rode straight into the village centre hunting down the civilians.

As a result of the war, nearly every villager in the Desert Village had lost their life due to Plainsvillian propaganda and morale. Only 1 villager survived the war and had hid thoroughly in his home throughout the invasion, although he was quickly discovered by CityDudeEthan and had been imprisoned underground for over a month before Guest5647 asked Ethan to show him where the villager was so Guest could kill him.

### Aftermath

About 15 minutes after the war was officially over, CityDudeEthan was appointed as the first Governor of the Desert Village, which was now under occupation of Plainsville (not yet fully annexed). Ethan remained in office as Governor until he had won the April 2022 election and became President of Plainsville. As of 2nd April 2022, Guest5647 is the Governor of the Desert Village.

After the war was concluded, 2 villagers from the Plains Village in Plainsville had agreed to move to the Desert Village to help repopulate the village with their culture replacing the previous one.

Today, the Desert Village is fully incorporated as a core part of Plainsville. It has been repopulated with villagers imported from Port Plainsville and is the second biggest and second most populated village of the country.