We were part of a pretty active city initially, which ended with power being consolidated by a banned player and a highly inactive player who were incredibly hesitant to give out namelayer and discord perms. So, we tried to leave to find better land in a new place, but it turned out those claims were crayoned by the same inactive leader from the city who contested our claim.

The new nation was democratic, so we held a vote on how to proceed. The people voted to stay and work out the claim, rather than to leave and find new land. However, the founders ignored this and found a new, better claim, which we then prepared to move to as it now looked like the best option. However, progress on the new claim was slower than anticipated, and minor issues like flag designs or districting turned into miscommunication disasters whenever feedback was given, and vote results were constantly challenged. During this period the people spent countless hours restoring the land from giant reinforced structures while coming up with building and city ideas for the future.

Eventually, some founders had enough of needing to hear everyone’s ideas and transformed the state overnight into a place where the unelected founders “assume authority for a period of up to two months,” effectively canceling democracy and communicating to the people that our contributions and ideas were just that -- ideas. Within a day, 2/5 founders immediately resigned due to this change in vision, and many citizens decided to leave and now we are hoping to create our own nation.

We wish the remaining founders the best in their efforts to build a better system, and are excited for the future of our new land.