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Nostra:Texas

2026-09-08T16:38:10Z

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'''Texas''', officially the '''"Republic of Texas"''' is a large nation centered around the Southern Great Plains of the North American continent, historically dominating areas east of California and west of Mississippi. It is bordered by Arizona to the west, Zion and America to the north, Mexico to the south, and Florida to the west.
Texas is nicknamed the '''Lone Star State''' for the single star on it's flag, symbolic of it's status as an independent nation. It was formerly known as the '''"Kingdom of Texas"''' from 2022 to 2024, when it began to don the Republic title.

[[https://wiki.earthmc.net/wiki/Rio_Grande|Rio Grande]] was the first nation to control the areas that now make up Texas. Following a brief period under [[Aurora:Norway|Norway]] and a race for who would make Texas first, North_Paso properly formed the nation of "Texas" on May 22nd, 2022. During Texas's more than 6 years of existence, brief periods of foreign claims and incursions did happen, which included the Fannin Crisis and the [[https://wiki.earthmc.net/wiki/Great_American_War|Great American War]], but largely Texas has always held it's home territory. Texas now holds claim and control over most of the area claimed by the real-life [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Texas Republic of Texas].

The economy of Texas (prior to 2025) has been shaped by state-sanctioned gambling, land, maparts, and luxury goods industries. The gambling industry largely shaped Texas's image on early Aurora as a sort of "conman" with the creation of I WANT GOLD by users TheAmazing_Moe, Samisol, North_Paso, and BonZzil, which would later fund Texas's offensives during the Great American War. Beginning in middle-to-late Aurora, the creation of LivingHumanBeing's mapart shop (the largest by product) largely funded Texas's nation reserves, along with some other short-term products like netherite, heads, and banners. Houston on Aurora also had one of EarthMC's largest collection of farms, though many remain defunct. Texas on Nostra mostly gets it's income from selling small goods like heads, blocks, and other exports rather than using a nation spawn to do so.

The Dallas-Fort Worth and Arkansas-Oklahoma clusters hold the majority of Texas's population. Austin is the Republic's capital city. Due to it's size and geographic features, Texas hosts one of the most diverse landscapes in North America, those common the American Southwest and Southeast. Most population centers are along the coastline, rivers, major geographic features (like the Ozarks), or major icerail hubs (Dallas). Travelling from east to west, terrain ranges from wet coastal plains and piney woods, to rolling plains and rugged hills, to the great nothing-ness of the Panhandle, to the desert and mountains of southeastern New Mexico.

==== Etymology ====

The name ''Texas'' originates from the Caddo word "taysha", meaning friend or ally, which the Spaniards took as "Tejas", which evolved into "Texas", first being mentioned on provincial maps in 1821 as the "provincia de Texas".

<big>History</big>

===== Early Texas =====
Despite the fact that Texas would later be unified by the Texan Kingdom, the early history of Texas was uncertain. About 5 different groups laid claim to Texas before the server open, with most of them wanting Texas to serve as a subject of them. The one group that wished to see an independent Texas was that which was under the leadership of JEGuerra (former member of the First Texas Republic under Acehard01/Osowiecs), and North Paso (long term member of Rio Grande). Despite negotiations working in their favor, opening day of the server would still be a rough one for them.

On May 1st, the player Aehmett became the first player to set foot in Texas. Aehmett, and his second in command Egaa, wished to make Texas a colony of Estonia. They managed to create the first Texas town of Austin. Soon after, Paso, along with XDoomGoonX and DolphinPlay managed to reach Texas and found the second Texas town of Houston. The next day, Carl4k, another player in Paso's faction, created the town of Rio Grande. On the 3rd day, the town of Dallas was created, once again under the Paso-Guerra faction. By the 4th day, however, the town of San Antonio, along with the nation of America, was formed. In an attempt to try and keep Texas unified, Paso and Guerra managed to negotiate the sale of San Antonio, in exchange for joining the nation of America (prior to this, they had been part of the nation of Louisiana). It was around this time that DoomGoon and Dolphin broke off and made the town of Latveria in the Missouri area, and Guerra managed to purchase Austin off of Aehmett. Another town to pop up in Texas around this time was the town of New Braunsfels which stayed a part of Louisiana (it would fall two months after being founded). The town of El Paso would form a week later and would join the nation of Mexico.

Despite the fact that the newly founded Texas did not have many towns at the beginning, new players slowly began to create towns in Texas. Over the next two months, the towns of Fort Worth, Laredo, Ramsburg, Kingsville, Fredericksville, Round Rock, and The Alamo would be formed independently of the Texas state, often joining other nations before joining Texas. The Texan government would often welcome these towns with offers of friendship and promises of co-prosperity, often with the central state funding these towns. Texas would also oversee the creations of the towns of Killeen, Forango, Fannin (later Jericho), Mansfield, and New Gatlinburg having. The town of Kansas City, in the same area as Latveria, would defect from the nation of Louisiana to join Texas midway through June 2022 as Louisiana turned into the USA.

With the number of mayors increasing, it was deemed by the monarchy that Texas needed a government beyond themselves. Thus, on June 1st, they officially proclaimed the creation of the Texan senate which hosted its meeting on June 7th (they also welcomed Turtleding from The Alamo and Ir0n from Round Rock despite not being in the nation yet). To capitalize further on the increasing momentum, they made Crux the Chancellor of Texas on June 19th. Two days later, the Texan people elected their first President, Marrowed, along with his Vice President, Bendy. That same day, the Senate passed the creation of a new constitution for the nation of Texas which greatly increased the power of the monarchy, along with creating the executive branch of government.

On June 30, 2022, the town of Fannin left the nation. This was the first time someone left Texas in dissatisfaction. The mayor, HeyNameless, wanted to make his town an industrial town due to its development, but was being sidelined for the underdeveloped Austin. He quickly returned, however, due to the toxicity of the CSA. This began the deterioration of relations between Texas and the CSA. This became worse when a few days later, the town of Fort Stockton was created in West Texas. Despite being placed there to "secure a foothold for the Confederacy", it did never actually expand.
Towards the end of June, Texas signed non-aggression pacts with New Mexico and Cuba. On June 4th, the Kingdom of Texas officially declared a peaceful independence from Norway. Around this time, Texas also began to prioritize recruitment. By June 11, Houston had reached 100 citizens, and Texas was the 17th most populous nation, with a population of 180. At its height, it had a population of 250 and #9 on the n list.

Texas experienced very little growth from late summer 2022 to early 2023.

===== The American War =====

In November 2023, a player named Hersheylr arrived in Texas, having previously spending time in Cascadia and contributing to the end of the RMF Wars. While in Texas, Hershey obtained perms to the Texan capital of Houston and Texas at large. He severely damaged the Texan capitol and kicked towns from Texas, which was a considerable loss in materials and power for the nation. On December 18, 2023, Texas declared war on Cascadia, claiming that Cascadia was involved in planning and backing the attack.
This would mark Texas' entry into the Wagner War, with Texas and other Cascadian enemies, notably Chad (aka Osoyoos), planning on using the server's then-new overclaim functionality to take chunks from Cascadian towns and force them to submit to the rule of the Reformed Republic of Cascadia. Ultimately, the war became inactive after Wagner was able to only take one chunk of Cascadian territory from the town of Chaeronea, and ended de facto in March 2024 after the San Francisco Offensive of 2024. Notably no official peace treaty was ever signed and the Wagner War is considered by some the start of the later and larger conflict, the Great American War.

During June 2024, Texas entered into a series of internal crises. This began on May 29, when Paso was banned for conspiring to fake evidence in a ticket that led to the banning of former Cascadian EstiQT. Paso attempted to calm worried citizens in the aftermath of his ban, saying that "I want to reassure people that despite this, I will be unbanned. This is nothing to worry about. If worse comes to worse, LivingHumanBeing will take over." 8 days later, on June 6, the Texan President, Saddam, resigned in the wake of Paso's ban. Following Saddam's resignation, a power struggle arose in the Texan senate, with Texan Senator Luke declaring that as Saddam's "#2" he should immediately become president. At the same time, Bon Kranch began pushing for the abolition of the presidential system and for him to become dictator under Paso. In an attempt to gain legitimacy and popular support, CMW, alongside Texas Senator Sometexan, proposed that an immediate nationwide election be held to choose a new President. All 3 of these factions put respective votes before the Texas Senate, with the choice of an election winning with near-unilateral support. Elections would begin later that night, with notable candidates including Sometexan and Bill 'Rocky' Moor, who choose CMW as his Vice President. Rocky was declared the winner on June 9, the same day that North_Paso (and EstiQT) would be unbanned from EMC. Out of fear of leaks to anti-government factions, the Texan cabinet was kept particularly secure, with only 5 members initially having access to it: Bon Kranch, CMW, Rocky, K S, and Sometexan.

On June 8, a number of West Texas towns, upset by Paso's reign as king and seeing his ban as an opportunity for revolution, seceded to form the Texan Union. The revolutionary nation was based in the large town of Dallas, and took around 3 other towns with it. The revolutionaries demanded that Texas become a democratic republic and do away with the monarchy in the process. Before they officially seceded, the revolution's leaders, Morflux and Violent_Vision, attempted to reach out to the OFN for support. While some OFN members attempted to support the Texan Union, usually through strategic advice, OFN and Cascadian support for the rebellion quickly dwindled as its leaders would discuss their war plans in local chat, quickly leaking it to Texan reconnaissance. Due to the scale of the infighting in the Texas, Cascadian intelligence would remain interested for some time in the prospect of fermenting a larger revolt against Paso, proposing tactics such as spreading propaganda books about Paso's past to Texan mayors and sending propaganda DMs to Texans on Discord. Ultimately, none of these plans would be put into action. The Dallas Uprising would continue until Morflux's resignation in late June, with the Texan Union's second President, Violent_Vision, surrendering to Texas on June 21.

At the onset of the war Texas would launch two major offensives, both focuses on poaching and overclaiming enemy towns. In the west, this effort was focused on Cascadia, especially in California and the Cascadian Metro. On all fronts, most of these efforts were commanded by Samisol, the mayor of Rio Grande. Samisol was noted for his ability to sway and control others, especially younger and more easily convinced players. He was also noted on the Eastern Front for his PvP abilities and using them to extort mayors into joining Texas. Across the Western Front, Texas saw very little success poaching Cascadian towns, with Cascadian mayors long adjusted and prepared for the threats of poachers. In California, Texas instead succeeded in poaching towns which were already hostile to Cascadia. Sometime after July 17, 2024, the Norcallian towns of Silicon Valley, San Diego, and California (town) joined Texas. Eventually, a break-up in the friend group of Ghostyuu and Bonzzil would lead to the towns formerly beloning to the New California Republic in Nevada would also join Texas at Bonzzil's suggestion. On July 18, the town of South Lost Coast was poached by Samisol, who then used it to overclaim and hold at ransom the historic district of Lost Coast proper. In an attempt to get back his items and historic buildings, Rocksthunder and many other Jeffcadians would join Texas.

Further north, Samisol raised town holders to place claimblock towns across the Cascadian Metro. This included OBLOCKFENTGANG, which claimblocked Oceanside (now Astoria) on June 25. The former RMF towns of Catalina, Bakhmut, I_WANT_GOLD, and Astoria (Bon_Kraunch) also joined Texas shortly thereafter. Texas' Western Offensive reached its furthest point on June 30, when Mackenzie_CFOB was founded just north of Corgo's Pass. The towns of SodaGang and TK_ville would also be founded near the northern border of Vancouver on July 13 and 15.

The Western Front during this phase of the war also saw the beginnings of the invasion of Texas proper, with Cascadia successfully reaching the gates of Houston on July 6. A chain of towns which had begun to be set up shortly before the war would culminate in the establishment of Texas (town), and the Pilbaran siege town of Weezer2 outside Houston and Port Lavaca. These towns were originally designed to be the beginning of the larger Operation Alamo counteroffensive, but would instead be the only OFN towns in Texas proper until the Cascadian Summer Offensive. Until then, Cascadian efforts on the Western Front would be focused on securing unclaimed areas in Cascadian territory through homestead grants. A homeland invasion of Texas was largely unsuccessful, due to Texas's stubborn doctrine.

On the Eastern Front, Samisol saw much greater success with poaching, hunting, and placing towns. On July 4, Samisol used a loophole in the rules and Vermont's nation spawnpoint to have their name removed under Rule 2.1 (Nation named after inappropriate location). Evidently, the Vermont nation spawn was not in the U.S. state of Vermont, despite most of the capital town being in Vermont. With Vermont's name removed, Samisol created the nation of Vermont himself, declaring it to be the true Vermont, and joining Texas as a state. Shortly after this move, Texas proposed a treaty with Vermont which would have all of southern Vermont annexed into Texas, with Vermont itself contained into New England and Canada. Texas also demanded 1.2k in gold from Vermont to make up for Texas' expenditures in their Eastern Offensive. Vermont declined this deal, and continued to stay in the war.

On July 23rd, 2024, Texas nuked the Cascadian discord after being mistakenly given perms by current President the time, lovelyfurball. Texas then declared victory, which Cascadia denied and the war kept on.
During this time, multiple high figures in the Texan government began being banned for anything from doxxing to 2.4s, resulting in the disapperance of BonZzil, TheAmazing_Moe, LivingHumanBeing, and sometexan.
In early September 2024, a Discord call occurred between KARN4, 911saph, North_Paso, 2SCAVA (aka ChildMineWorker, CMW), and a player called 'Nephi' (who was affiliated with KARN4.) The call acted as a conference between the Mexican Empire and Texas with the goal of sorting out border conflicts and other disagreements. 2SCAVA secretly recorded the call and posted them to the EarthMC Discord forums as three videos.[1] Things quickly heated up between KARN4 and North_Paso, who was particularly frustrated about the failures of Texas forming the Rio Grande Empire, something that required parts of Northern Mexico, the Yucatan, and California. After 1 minute and 3 seconds into the third video, North_Paso stormed out of the call yelling, "Now I'm off my fucking rocker ... I gotta fucking leave I gotta- gotta fucking leave the VC so that I can fucking calm down. Lets talk again tomorrow, okay? I am fucking open to negotiations, I'm just a little upset, okay? I'll let you go and-see ya."[1] A little afterwards this call, KARN4 would end up stealing the entirety of the I WANT GOLD casino profits, over 50,000 gold.
The loss of this amount of gold, combined with many of the main Texan leaders being out of commission, the Texan government agreed to compromise, with the Treaty of Vancouver ultimately putting an end to the war.

===== Texan Warlord Period =====

Following the American War, Texas largely fragmented internally, with a short civil war in which a drunk Anaphase_Andy (Rocky) giving Texas and Houston to Nullz22, a member of Madyrae013's faction. This faction owned the name "Texas" for a few months, until former leader sometexan (after being unbanned in Febuarary 2025) after leaving Great Plains (another Texas breakaway) was given Port Lavaca, and bought Austin, which he used to then overclaim into Houston, taking hostage Madyrae013's mapart shop, which he then used as a bartering tool to exchange for Houston, resulting in sometexan owning the entire metro within a month.

sometexan then used this as an opportunity to reunify Texas, creating the nation RepublicOfTexas on April 25th, 2025, which he owned until early summer 2025, when he sold it to

Nostra:Texas

2026-09-08T16:37:29Z

1465562395119456401:

'''Texas''', officially the '''"Republic of Texas"''' is a large nation centered around the Southern Great Plains of the North American continent, historically dominating areas east of California and west of Mississippi. It is bordered by Arizona to the west, Zion and America to the north, Mexico to the south, and Florida to the west.
Texas is nicknamed the '''Lone Star State''' for the single star on it's flag, symbolic of it's status as an independent nation. It was formerly known as the '''"Kingdom of Texas"''' from 2022 to 2024, when it began to don the Republic title.

[[https://wiki.earthmc.net/wiki/Rio_Grande|Rio Grande]] was the first nation to control the areas that now make up Texas. Following a brief period under [[Aurora:Norway|Norway]] and a race for who would make Texas first, North_Paso properly formed the nation of "Texas" on May 22nd, 2022. During Texas's more than 6 years of existence, brief periods of foreign claims and incursions did happen, which included the [[Texas#:~:text=The Fannin Crisis and Hostilities with the CSA[,the Confederacy"%2C it has not grown since its founding.|Fannin Crisis]] and the [[https://wiki.earthmc.net/wiki/Great_American_War|Great American War]], but largely Texas has always held it's home territory. Texas now holds claim and control over most of the area claimed by the real-life [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Texas Republic of Texas].

The economy of Texas (prior to 2025) has been shaped by state-sanctioned gambling, land, maparts, and luxury goods industries. The gambling industry largely shaped Texas's image on early Aurora as a sort of "conman" with the creation of I WANT GOLD by users TheAmazing_Moe, Samisol, North_Paso, and BonZzil, which would later fund Texas's offensives during the Great American War. Beginning in middle-to-late Aurora, the creation of LivingHumanBeing's mapart shop (the largest by product) largely funded Texas's nation reserves, along with some other short-term products like netherite, heads, and banners. Houston on Aurora also had one of EarthMC's largest collection of farms, though many remain defunct. Texas on Nostra mostly gets it's income from selling small goods like heads, blocks, and other exports rather than using a nation spawn to do so.

The Dallas-Fort Worth and Arkansas-Oklahoma clusters hold the majority of Texas's population. Austin is the Republic's capital city. Due to it's size and geographic features, Texas hosts one of the most diverse landscapes in North America, those common the American Southwest and Southeast. Most population centers are along the coastline, rivers, major geographic features (like the Ozarks), or major icerail hubs (Dallas). Travelling from east to west, terrain ranges from wet coastal plains and piney woods, to rolling plains and rugged hills, to the great nothing-ness of the Panhandle, to the desert and mountains of southeastern New Mexico.

==== Etymology ====

The name ''Texas'' originates from the Caddo word "taysha", meaning friend or ally, which the Spaniards took as "Tejas", which evolved into "Texas", first being mentioned on provincial maps in 1821 as the "provincia de Texas".

<big>History</big>

===== Early Texas =====
Despite the fact that Texas would later be unified by the Texan Kingdom, the early history of Texas was uncertain. About 5 different groups laid claim to Texas before the server open, with most of them wanting Texas to serve as a subject of them. The one group that wished to see an independent Texas was that which was under the leadership of JEGuerra (former member of the First Texas Republic under Acehard01/Osowiecs), and North Paso (long term member of Rio Grande). Despite negotiations working in their favor, opening day of the server would still be a rough one for them.

On May 1st, the player Aehmett became the first player to set foot in Texas. Aehmett, and his second in command Egaa, wished to make Texas a colony of Estonia. They managed to create the first Texas town of Austin. Soon after, Paso, along with XDoomGoonX and DolphinPlay managed to reach Texas and found the second Texas town of Houston. The next day, Carl4k, another player in Paso's faction, created the town of Rio Grande. On the 3rd day, the town of Dallas was created, once again under the Paso-Guerra faction. By the 4th day, however, the town of San Antonio, along with the nation of America, was formed. In an attempt to try and keep Texas unified, Paso and Guerra managed to negotiate the sale of San Antonio, in exchange for joining the nation of America (prior to this, they had been part of the nation of Louisiana). It was around this time that DoomGoon and Dolphin broke off and made the town of Latveria in the Missouri area, and Guerra managed to purchase Austin off of Aehmett. Another town to pop up in Texas around this time was the town of New Braunsfels which stayed a part of Louisiana (it would fall two months after being founded). The town of El Paso would form a week later and would join the nation of Mexico.

Despite the fact that the newly founded Texas did not have many towns at the beginning, new players slowly began to create towns in Texas. Over the next two months, the towns of Fort Worth, Laredo, Ramsburg, Kingsville, Fredericksville, Round Rock, and The Alamo would be formed independently of the Texas state, often joining other nations before joining Texas. The Texan government would often welcome these towns with offers of friendship and promises of co-prosperity, often with the central state funding these towns. Texas would also oversee the creations of the towns of Killeen, Forango, Fannin (later Jericho), Mansfield, and New Gatlinburg having. The town of Kansas City, in the same area as Latveria, would defect from the nation of Louisiana to join Texas midway through June 2022 as Louisiana turned into the USA.

With the number of mayors increasing, it was deemed by the monarchy that Texas needed a government beyond themselves. Thus, on June 1st, they officially proclaimed the creation of the Texan senate which hosted its meeting on June 7th (they also welcomed Turtleding from The Alamo and Ir0n from Round Rock despite not being in the nation yet). To capitalize further on the increasing momentum, they made Crux the Chancellor of Texas on June 19th. Two days later, the Texan people elected their first President, Marrowed, along with his Vice President, Bendy. That same day, the Senate passed the creation of a new constitution for the nation of Texas which greatly increased the power of the monarchy, along with creating the executive branch of government.

On June 30, 2022, the town of Fannin left the nation. This was the first time someone left Texas in dissatisfaction. The mayor, HeyNameless, wanted to make his town an industrial town due to its development, but was being sidelined for the underdeveloped Austin. He quickly returned, however, due to the toxicity of the CSA. This began the deterioration of relations between Texas and the CSA. This became worse when a few days later, the town of Fort Stockton was created in West Texas. Despite being placed there to "secure a foothold for the Confederacy", it did never actually expand.
Towards the end of June, Texas signed non-aggression pacts with New Mexico and Cuba. On June 4th, the Kingdom of Texas officially declared a peaceful independence from Norway. Around this time, Texas also began to prioritize recruitment. By June 11, Houston had reached 100 citizens, and Texas was the 17th most populous nation, with a population of 180. At its height, it had a population of 250 and #9 on the n list.

Texas experienced very little growth from late summer 2022 to early 2023.

===== The American War =====

In November 2023, a player named Hersheylr arrived in Texas, having previously spending time in Cascadia and contributing to the end of the RMF Wars. While in Texas, Hershey obtained perms to the Texan capital of Houston and Texas at large. He severely damaged the Texan capitol and kicked towns from Texas, which was a considerable loss in materials and power for the nation. On December 18, 2023, Texas declared war on Cascadia, claiming that Cascadia was involved in planning and backing the attack.
This would mark Texas' entry into the Wagner War, with Texas and other Cascadian enemies, notably Chad (aka Osoyoos), planning on using the server's then-new overclaim functionality to take chunks from Cascadian towns and force them to submit to the rule of the Reformed Republic of Cascadia. Ultimately, the war became inactive after Wagner was able to only take one chunk of Cascadian territory from the town of Chaeronea, and ended de facto in March 2024 after the San Francisco Offensive of 2024. Notably no official peace treaty was ever signed and the Wagner War is considered by some the start of the later and larger conflict, the Great American War.

During June 2024, Texas entered into a series of internal crises. This began on May 29, when Paso was banned for conspiring to fake evidence in a ticket that led to the banning of former Cascadian EstiQT. Paso attempted to calm worried citizens in the aftermath of his ban, saying that "I want to reassure people that despite this, I will be unbanned. This is nothing to worry about. If worse comes to worse, LivingHumanBeing will take over." 8 days later, on June 6, the Texan President, Saddam, resigned in the wake of Paso's ban. Following Saddam's resignation, a power struggle arose in the Texan senate, with Texan Senator Luke declaring that as Saddam's "#2" he should immediately become president. At the same time, Bon Kranch began pushing for the abolition of the presidential system and for him to become dictator under Paso. In an attempt to gain legitimacy and popular support, CMW, alongside Texas Senator Sometexan, proposed that an immediate nationwide election be held to choose a new President. All 3 of these factions put respective votes before the Texas Senate, with the choice of an election winning with near-unilateral support. Elections would begin later that night, with notable candidates including Sometexan and Bill 'Rocky' Moor, who choose CMW as his Vice President. Rocky was declared the winner on June 9, the same day that North_Paso (and EstiQT) would be unbanned from EMC. Out of fear of leaks to anti-government factions, the Texan cabinet was kept particularly secure, with only 5 members initially having access to it: Bon Kranch, CMW, Rocky, K S, and Sometexan.

On June 8, a number of West Texas towns, upset by Paso's reign as king and seeing his ban as an opportunity for revolution, seceded to form the Texan Union. The revolutionary nation was based in the large town of Dallas, and took around 3 other towns with it. The revolutionaries demanded that Texas become a democratic republic and do away with the monarchy in the process. Before they officially seceded, the revolution's leaders, Morflux and Violent_Vision, attempted to reach out to the OFN for support. While some OFN members attempted to support the Texan Union, usually through strategic advice, OFN and Cascadian support for the rebellion quickly dwindled as its leaders would discuss their war plans in local chat, quickly leaking it to Texan reconnaissance. Due to the scale of the infighting in the Texas, Cascadian intelligence would remain interested for some time in the prospect of fermenting a larger revolt against Paso, proposing tactics such as spreading propaganda books about Paso's past to Texan mayors and sending propaganda DMs to Texans on Discord. Ultimately, none of these plans would be put into action. The Dallas Uprising would continue until Morflux's resignation in late June, with the Texan Union's second President, Violent_Vision, surrendering to Texas on June 21.

At the onset of the war Texas would launch two major offensives, both focuses on poaching and overclaiming enemy towns. In the west, this effort was focused on Cascadia, especially in California and the Cascadian Metro. On all fronts, most of these efforts were commanded by Samisol, the mayor of Rio Grande. Samisol was noted for his ability to sway and control others, especially younger and more easily convinced players. He was also noted on the Eastern Front for his PvP abilities and using them to extort mayors into joining Texas. Across the Western Front, Texas saw very little success poaching Cascadian towns, with Cascadian mayors long adjusted and prepared for the threats of poachers. In California, Texas instead succeeded in poaching towns which were already hostile to Cascadia. Sometime after July 17, 2024, the Norcallian towns of Silicon Valley, San Diego, and California (town) joined Texas. Eventually, a break-up in the friend group of Ghostyuu and Bonzzil would lead to the towns formerly beloning to the New California Republic in Nevada would also join Texas at Bonzzil's suggestion. On July 18, the town of South Lost Coast was poached by Samisol, who then used it to overclaim and hold at ransom the historic district of Lost Coast proper. In an attempt to get back his items and historic buildings, Rocksthunder and many other Jeffcadians would join Texas.

Further north, Samisol raised town holders to place claimblock towns across the Cascadian Metro. This included OBLOCKFENTGANG, which claimblocked Oceanside (now Astoria) on June 25. The former RMF towns of Catalina, Bakhmut, I_WANT_GOLD, and Astoria (Bon_Kraunch) also joined Texas shortly thereafter. Texas' Western Offensive reached its furthest point on June 30, when Mackenzie_CFOB was founded just north of Corgo's Pass. The towns of SodaGang and TK_ville would also be founded near the northern border of Vancouver on July 13 and 15.

The Western Front during this phase of the war also saw the beginnings of the invasion of Texas proper, with Cascadia successfully reaching the gates of Houston on July 6. A chain of towns which had begun to be set up shortly before the war would culminate in the establishment of Texas (town), and the Pilbaran siege town of Weezer2 outside Houston and Port Lavaca. These towns were originally designed to be the beginning of the larger Operation Alamo counteroffensive, but would instead be the only OFN towns in Texas proper until the Cascadian Summer Offensive. Until then, Cascadian efforts on the Western Front would be focused on securing unclaimed areas in Cascadian territory through homestead grants. A homeland invasion of Texas was largely unsuccessful, due to Texas's stubborn doctrine.

On the Eastern Front, Samisol saw much greater success with poaching, hunting, and placing towns. On July 4, Samisol used a loophole in the rules and Vermont's nation spawnpoint to have their name removed under Rule 2.1 (Nation named after inappropriate location). Evidently, the Vermont nation spawn was not in the U.S. state of Vermont, despite most of the capital town being in Vermont. With Vermont's name removed, Samisol created the nation of Vermont himself, declaring it to be the true Vermont, and joining Texas as a state. Shortly after this move, Texas proposed a treaty with Vermont which would have all of southern Vermont annexed into Texas, with Vermont itself contained into New England and Canada. Texas also demanded 1.2k in gold from Vermont to make up for Texas' expenditures in their Eastern Offensive. Vermont declined this deal, and continued to stay in the war.

On July 23rd, 2024, Texas nuked the Cascadian discord after being mistakenly given perms by current President the time, lovelyfurball. Texas then declared victory, which Cascadia denied and the war kept on.
During this time, multiple high figures in the Texan government began being banned for anything from doxxing to 2.4s, resulting in the disapperance of BonZzil, TheAmazing_Moe, LivingHumanBeing, and sometexan.
In early September 2024, a Discord call occurred between KARN4, 911saph, North_Paso, 2SCAVA (aka ChildMineWorker, CMW), and a player called 'Nephi' (who was affiliated with KARN4.) The call acted as a conference between the Mexican Empire and Texas with the goal of sorting out border conflicts and other disagreements. 2SCAVA secretly recorded the call and posted them to the EarthMC Discord forums as three videos.[1] Things quickly heated up between KARN4 and North_Paso, who was particularly frustrated about the failures of Texas forming the Rio Grande Empire, something that required parts of Northern Mexico, the Yucatan, and California. After 1 minute and 3 seconds into the third video, North_Paso stormed out of the call yelling, "Now I'm off my fucking rocker ... I gotta fucking leave I gotta- gotta fucking leave the VC so that I can fucking calm down. Lets talk again tomorrow, okay? I am fucking open to negotiations, I'm just a little upset, okay? I'll let you go and-see ya."[1] A little afterwards this call, KARN4 would end up stealing the entirety of the I WANT GOLD casino profits, over 50,000 gold.
The loss of this amount of gold, combined with many of the main Texan leaders being out of commission, the Texan government agreed to compromise, with the Treaty of Vancouver ultimately putting an end to the war.

===== Texan Warlord Period =====

Following the American War, Texas largely fragmented internally, with a short civil war in which a drunk Anaphase_Andy (Rocky) giving Texas and Houston to Nullz22, a member of Madyrae013's faction. This faction owned the name "Texas" for a few months, until former leader sometexan (after being unbanned in Febuarary 2025) after leaving Great Plains (another Texas breakaway) was given Port Lavaca, and bought Austin, which he used to then overclaim into Houston, taking hostage Madyrae013's mapart shop, which he then used as a bartering tool to exchange for Houston, resulting in sometexan owning the entire metro within a month.

sometexan then used this as an opportunity to reunify Texas, creating the nation RepublicOfTexas on April 25th, 2025, which he owned until early summer 2025, when he sold it to

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1465562395119456401: Created page with "'''Texas''', officially the '''"Republic of Texas"''' is a large nation centered around the Southern Great Plains of the North American continent, historically dominating areas east of California and west of Mississippi. It is bordered by Arizona to the west, Zion and America to the north, Mexico to the south, and Florida to the west. Texas is nicknamed the '''Lone Star State''' for the single star on it's flag, symbolic of it's status as an independent nation. It was f..."

'''Texas''', officially the '''"Republic of Texas"''' is a large nation centered around the Southern Great Plains of the North American continent, historically dominating areas east of California and west of Mississippi. It is bordered by Arizona to the west, Zion and America to the north, Mexico to the south, and Florida to the west.
Texas is nicknamed the '''Lone Star State''' for the single star on it's flag, symbolic of it's status as an independent nation. It was formerly known as the '''"Kingdom of Texas"''' from 2022 to 2024, when it began to don the Republic title.

[[https://wiki.earthmc.net/wiki/Rio_Grande|Rio Grande]] was the first nation to control the areas that now make up Texas. Following a brief period under [[Aurora:Norway|Norway]] and a race for who would make Texas first, North_Paso properly formed the nation of "Texas" on May 22nd, 2022. During Texas's more than 6 years of existence, brief periods of foreign claims and incursions did happen, which included the [[Texas#:~:text=The Fannin Crisis and Hostilities with the CSA[,the Confederacy"%2C it has not grown since its founding.|Fannin Crisis]] and the [[https://wiki.earthmc.net/wiki/Great_American_War|Great American War]], but largely Texas has always held it's home territory. Texas now holds claim and control over most of the area claimed by the real-life [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Texas Republic of Texas].

The economy of Texas (prior to 2025) has been shaped by state-sanctioned gambling, land, maparts, and luxury goods industries. The gambling industry largely shaped Texas's image on early Aurora as a sort of "conman" with the creation of I WANT GOLD by users TheAmazing_Moe, Samisol, North_Paso, and BonZzil, which would later fund Texas's offensives during the Great American War. Beginning in middle-to-late Aurora, the creation of LivingHumanBeing's mapart shop (the largest by product) largely funded Texas's nation reserves, along with some other short-term products like netherite, heads, and banners. Houston on Aurora also had one of EarthMC's largest collection of farms, though many remain defunct. Texas on Nostra mostly gets it's income from selling small goods like heads, blocks, and other exports rather than using a nation spawn to do so.

The Dallas-Fort Worth and Arkansas-Oklahoma clusters hold the majority of Texas's population. Austin is the Republic's capital city. Due to it's size and geographic features, Texas hosts one of the most diverse landscapes in North America, those common the American Southwest and Southeast. Most population centers are along the coastline, rivers, major geographic features (like the Ozarks), or major icerail hubs (Dallas). Travelling from east to west, terrain ranges from wet coastal plains and piney woods, to rolling plains and rugged hills, to the great nothing-ness of the Panhandle, to the desert and mountains of southeastern New Mexico.

==== Etymology ====

The name ''Texas'' originates from the Caddo word "taysha", meaning friend or ally, which the Spaniards took as "Tejas", which evolved into "Texas", first being mentioned on provincial maps in 1821 as the "provincia de Texas".

==== History ====

===== Early Texas =====
Despite the fact that Texas would later be unified by the Texan Kingdom, the early history of Texas was uncertain. About 5 different groups laid claim to Texas before the server open, with most of them wanting Texas to serve as a subject of them. The one group that wished to see an independent Texas was that which was under the leadership of JEGuerra (former member of the First Texas Republic under Acehard01/Osowiecs), and North Paso (long term member of Rio Grande). Despite negotiations working in their favor, opening day of the server would still be a rough one for them.

On May 1st, the player Aehmett became the first player to set foot in Texas. Aehmett, and his second in command Egaa, wished to make Texas a colony of Estonia. They managed to create the first Texas town of Austin. Soon after, Paso, along with XDoomGoonX and DolphinPlay managed to reach Texas and found the second Texas town of Houston. The next day, Carl4k, another player in Paso's faction, created the town of Rio Grande. On the 3rd day, the town of Dallas was created, once again under the Paso-Guerra faction. By the 4th day, however, the town of San Antonio, along with the nation of America, was formed. In an attempt to try and keep Texas unified, Paso and Guerra managed to negotiate the sale of San Antonio, in exchange for joining the nation of America (prior to this, they had been part of the nation of Louisiana). It was around this time that DoomGoon and Dolphin broke off and made the town of Latveria in the Missouri area, and Guerra managed to purchase Austin off of Aehmett. Another town to pop up in Texas around this time was the town of New Braunsfels which stayed a part of Louisiana (it would fall two months after being founded). The town of El Paso would form a week later and would join the nation of Mexico.

Despite the fact that the newly founded Texas did not have many towns at the beginning, new players slowly began to create towns in Texas. Over the next two months, the towns of Fort Worth, Laredo, Ramsburg, Kingsville, Fredericksville, Round Rock, and The Alamo would be formed independently of the Texas state, often joining other nations before joining Texas. The Texan government would often welcome these towns with offers of friendship and promises of co-prosperity, often with the central state funding these towns. Texas would also oversee the creations of the towns of Killeen, Forango, Fannin (later Jericho), Mansfield, and New Gatlinburg having. The town of Kansas City, in the same area as Latveria, would defect from the nation of Louisiana to join Texas midway through June 2022 as Louisiana turned into the USA.

With the number of mayors increasing, it was deemed by the monarchy that Texas needed a government beyond themselves. Thus, on June 1st, they officially proclaimed the creation of the Texan senate which hosted its meeting on June 7th (they also welcomed Turtleding from The Alamo and Ir0n from Round Rock despite not being in the nation yet). To capitalize further on the increasing momentum, they made Crux the Chancellor of Texas on June 19th. Two days later, the Texan people elected their first President, Marrowed, along with his Vice President, Bendy. That same day, the Senate passed the creation of a new constitution for the nation of Texas which greatly increased the power of the monarchy, along with creating the executive branch of government.

On June 30, 2022, the town of Fannin left the nation. This was the first time someone left Texas in dissatisfaction. The mayor, HeyNameless, wanted to make his town an industrial town due to its development, but was being sidelined for the underdeveloped Austin. He quickly returned, however, due to the toxicity of the CSA. This began the deterioration of relations between Texas and the CSA. This became worse when a few days later, the town of Fort Stockton was created in West Texas. Despite being placed there to "secure a foothold for the Confederacy", it did never actually expand.
Towards the end of June, Texas signed non-aggression pacts with New Mexico and Cuba. On June 4th, the Kingdom of Texas officially declared a peaceful independence from Norway. Around this time, Texas also began to prioritize recruitment. By June 11, Houston had reached 100 citizens, and Texas was the 17th most populous nation, with a population of 180. At its height, it had a population of 250 and #9 on the n list.

Texas experienced very little growth from late summer 2022 to early 2023.

===== The American War =====

In November 2023, a player named Hersheylr arrived in Texas, having previously spending time in Cascadia and contributing to the end of the RMF Wars. While in Texas, Hershey obtained perms to the Texan capital of Houston and Texas at large. He severely damaged the Texan capitol and kicked towns from Texas, which was a considerable loss in materials and power for the nation. On December 18, 2023, Texas declared war on Cascadia, claiming that Cascadia was involved in planning and backing the attack.
This would mark Texas' entry into the Wagner War, with Texas and other Cascadian enemies, notably Chad (aka Osoyoos), planning on using the server's then-new overclaim functionality to take chunks from Cascadian towns and force them to submit to the rule of the Reformed Republic of Cascadia. Ultimately, the war became inactive after Wagner was able to only take one chunk of Cascadian territory from the town of Chaeronea, and ended de facto in March 2024 after the San Francisco Offensive of 2024. Notably no official peace treaty was ever signed and the Wagner War is considered by some the start of the later and larger conflict, the Great American War.

During June 2024, Texas entered into a series of internal crises. This began on May 29, when Paso was banned for conspiring to fake evidence in a ticket that led to the banning of former Cascadian EstiQT. Paso attempted to calm worried citizens in the aftermath of his ban, saying that "I want to reassure people that despite this, I will be unbanned. This is nothing to worry about. If worse comes to worse, LivingHumanBeing will take over." 8 days later, on June 6, the Texan President, Saddam, resigned in the wake of Paso's ban. Following Saddam's resignation, a power struggle arose in the Texan senate, with Texan Senator Luke declaring that as Saddam's "#2" he should immediately become president. At the same time, Bon Kranch began pushing for the abolition of the presidential system and for him to become dictator under Paso. In an attempt to gain legitimacy and popular support, CMW, alongside Texas Senator Sometexan, proposed that an immediate nationwide election be held to choose a new President. All 3 of these factions put respective votes before the Texas Senate, with the choice of an election winning with near-unilateral support. Elections would begin later that night, with notable candidates including Sometexan and Bill 'Rocky' Moor, who choose CMW as his Vice President. Rocky was declared the winner on June 9, the same day that North_Paso (and EstiQT) would be unbanned from EMC. Out of fear of leaks to anti-government factions, the Texan cabinet was kept particularly secure, with only 5 members initially having access to it: Bon Kranch, CMW, Rocky, K S, and Sometexan.

On June 8, a number of West Texas towns, upset by Paso's reign as king and seeing his ban as an opportunity for revolution, seceded to form the Texan Union. The revolutionary nation was based in the large town of Dallas, and took around 3 other towns with it. The revolutionaries demanded that Texas become a democratic republic and do away with the monarchy in the process. Before they officially seceded, the revolution's leaders, Morflux and Violent_Vision, attempted to reach out to the OFN for support. While some OFN members attempted to support the Texan Union, usually through strategic advice, OFN and Cascadian support for the rebellion quickly dwindled as its leaders would discuss their war plans in local chat, quickly leaking it to Texan reconnaissance. Due to the scale of the infighting in the Texas, Cascadian intelligence would remain interested for some time in the prospect of fermenting a larger revolt against Paso, proposing tactics such as spreading propaganda books about Paso's past to Texan mayors and sending propaganda DMs to Texans on Discord. Ultimately, none of these plans would be put into action. The Dallas Uprising would continue until Morflux's resignation in late June, with the Texan Union's second President, Violent_Vision, surrendering to Texas on June 21.

At the onset of the war Texas would launch two major offensives, both focuses on poaching and overclaiming enemy towns. In the west, this effort was focused on Cascadia, especially in California and the Cascadian Metro. On all fronts, most of these efforts were commanded by Samisol, the mayor of Rio Grande. Samisol was noted for his ability to sway and control others, especially younger and more easily convinced players. He was also noted on the Eastern Front for his PvP abilities and using them to extort mayors into joining Texas. Across the Western Front, Texas saw very little success poaching Cascadian towns, with Cascadian mayors long adjusted and prepared for the threats of poachers. In California, Texas instead succeeded in poaching towns which were already hostile to Cascadia. Sometime after July 17, 2024, the Norcallian towns of Silicon Valley, San Diego, and California (town) joined Texas. Eventually, a break-up in the friend group of Ghostyuu and Bonzzil would lead to the towns formerly beloning to the New California Republic in Nevada would also join Texas at Bonzzil's suggestion. On July 18, the town of South Lost Coast was poached by Samisol, who then used it to overclaim and hold at ransom the historic district of Lost Coast proper. In an attempt to get back his items and historic buildings, Rocksthunder and many other Jeffcadians would join Texas.

Further north, Samisol raised town holders to place claimblock towns across the Cascadian Metro. This included OBLOCKFENTGANG, which claimblocked Oceanside (now Astoria) on June 25. The former RMF towns of Catalina, Bakhmut, I_WANT_GOLD, and Astoria (Bon_Kraunch) also joined Texas shortly thereafter. Texas' Western Offensive reached its furthest point on June 30, when Mackenzie_CFOB was founded just north of Corgo's Pass. The towns of SodaGang and TK_ville would also be founded near the northern border of Vancouver on July 13 and 15.

The Western Front during this phase of the war also saw the beginnings of the invasion of Texas proper, with Cascadia successfully reaching the gates of Houston on July 6. A chain of towns which had begun to be set up shortly before the war would culminate in the establishment of Texas (town), and the Pilbaran siege town of Weezer2 outside Houston and Port Lavaca. These towns were originally designed to be the beginning of the larger Operation Alamo counteroffensive, but would instead be the only OFN towns in Texas proper until the Cascadian Summer Offensive. Until then, Cascadian efforts on the Western Front would be focused on securing unclaimed areas in Cascadian territory through homestead grants. A homeland invasion of Texas was largely unsuccessful, due to Texas's stubborn doctrine.

On the Eastern Front, Samisol saw much greater success with poaching, hunting, and placing towns. On July 4, Samisol used a loophole in the rules and Vermont's nation spawnpoint to have their name removed under Rule 2.1 (Nation named after inappropriate location). Evidently, the Vermont nation spawn was not in the U.S. state of Vermont, despite most of the capital town being in Vermont. With Vermont's name removed, Samisol created the nation of Vermont himself, declaring it to be the true Vermont, and joining Texas as a state. Shortly after this move, Texas proposed a treaty with Vermont which would have all of southern Vermont annexed into Texas, with Vermont itself contained into New England and Canada. Texas also demanded 1.2k in gold from Vermont to make up for Texas' expenditures in their Eastern Offensive. Vermont declined this deal, and continued to stay in the war.

On July 23rd, 2024, Texas nuked the Cascadian discord after being mistakenly given perms by current President the time, lovelyfurball. Texas then declared victory, which Cascadia denied and the war kept on.
During this time, multiple high figures in the Texan government began being banned for anything from doxxing to 2.4s, resulting in the disapperance of BonZzil, TheAmazing_Moe, LivingHumanBeing, and sometexan.
In early September 2024, a Discord call occurred between KARN4, 911saph, North_Paso, 2SCAVA (aka ChildMineWorker, CMW), and a player called 'Nephi' (who was affiliated with KARN4.) The call acted as a conference between the Mexican Empire and Texas with the goal of sorting out border conflicts and other disagreements. 2SCAVA secretly recorded the call and posted them to the EarthMC Discord forums as three videos.[1] Things quickly heated up between KARN4 and North_Paso, who was particularly frustrated about the failures of Texas forming the Rio Grande Empire, something that required parts of Northern Mexico, the Yucatan, and California. After 1 minute and 3 seconds into the third video, North_Paso stormed out of the call yelling, "Now I'm off my fucking rocker ... I gotta fucking leave I gotta- gotta fucking leave the VC so that I can fucking calm down. Lets talk again tomorrow, okay? I am fucking open to negotiations, I'm just a little upset, okay? I'll let you go and-see ya."[1] A little afterwards this call, KARN4 would end up stealing the entirety of the I WANT GOLD casino profits, over 50,000 gold.
The loss of this amount of gold, combined with many of the main Texan leaders being out of commission, the Texan government agreed to compromise, with the Treaty of Vancouver ultimately putting an end to the war.

===== Texan Warlord Period =====

Following the American War, Texas largely fragmented internally, with a short civil war in which a drunk Anaphase_Andy (Rocky) giving Texas and Houston to Nullz22, a member of Madyrae013's faction. This faction owned the name "Texas" for a few months, until former leader sometexan (after being unbanned in Febuarary 2025) after leaving Great Plains (another Texas breakaway) was given Port Lavaca, and bought Austin, which he used to then overclaim into Houston, taking hostage Madyrae013's mapart shop, which he then used as a bartering tool to exchange for Houston, resulting in sometexan owning the entire metro within a month.

sometexan then used this as an opportunity to reunify Texas, creating the nation RepublicOfTexas on April 25th, 2025, which he owned until early summer 2025, when he sold it to