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Ronne Free Territory or Ronne.F.T. (Chinese: 龙尼自由地区), referred to simply as Ronne or the Free Territory (F.T.), is an anarchist territory located in West Antarctica. It consists of 7 towns.
With a total population of 36 when established in March 2023, Ronne is one of the less populous political entities in the world. The composition of the population and ethnic groups is diverse, and there is no main ethnic group. There are Han, Czechs, English, Scot and so on. The terrain in the area is high in the south and low in the north. Most areas are covered with snow all the year round and there is no natural green vegetation coverage. There has small green areas in the north coastal area, and the biodiversity is relatively simple. It is the hometown of cod, white rabbit, dolphin, and goat. The northwest coastal area There are very few polar bear distributed.
NullSelfice, the founder of Utopia Town and one of the founders of Ronne Free Territory, was born in EMC on September 25, 2022 in the wilderness near the Himalayas in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, and was born just 2 days later (September 27, 2022) gathered enough gold and went to West Antarctica to establish the town of Utopia. After considering the world situation, on November 18, 2022, together with other residents of Utopia at that time, created the Ronne Free Territory .
Ronne was the first and currently largest anarchist region in the world. Most concepts of private property have been abandoned in the region, and the average living standard of the people is above that on Antarctica.
History
Created
NullSelfice, the founder of Utopia Town and one of the founders of Ronne Free Territory, was born in EMC on September 25, 2022 in the wilderness near the Himalayas in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent. For the convenience of transportation, he temporarily joined the Hainan, which belongs to Yue, received some material help from the residents of Yue and Music5ath - leaders of Yue.
Just 2 days later (September 27, 2022) NullSelfice gathered enough gold and went to West Antarctica to establish the town of Utopia.
At a time when the world is in chaos, there are wars in East Asia, America, and Europe. Everyone is fighting each other to satisfy their own populist sentiments. As a recluse in Antarctica, NullSelfice also decided to establish an anarchist region and put all power To everyone, so after a long process of earning gold, which included selling a lot of cheap Ancient Debris in Guangzhou, the capital of Asia (because he is can't go to Ob, Mali and other large shop to sell, so the price is lower than the purchase price so that it can be sold to fast).
After raising enough funds, on November 18, 2022, the Ronne Free Territory was formally established.
Development Period
On November 26, 2022, Ronnie ushered in a new town, Sunari. The reason was that Vojage and his party established a new town in West Antarctica, but because it was located within the legal sphere of influence of the West Antarctic, they encountered the killing of Kasana2007, the leader of West Antarctica. So they asked NullSelfice for help on November 25, 2022. Under NullSelfice's suggestion, they were willing to try to accept anarchism and move eastward to the current location of Sunari City. The Ronne Free Territory provided 20 glod blocks for their reconstruction work bullion.
On December 6, 2022 and December 7, 2022, Ronne successively built new towns of Krillburg and Nessos.
Economic collapse
With the construction and expansion of the two towns, Ronne reserves were almost empty.
In the early morning of December 8, 2022, Sunari town added 80 gold ingots to Ronne. However, in the morning of that day, Angelt, the head of Asia and current King of Japan, issued a notice to Ronne, accuse FXXK_my_pussi(Now it is "kasana0374", later confirmed it's the alternative accounts of "Ch4mp1onZz"),the "Leader" of the Nessos town at that time, stealing a large number of map-arts after obtaining the authority of Osaka. After confirming that the situation is true, Ronne asked FXXK_my_pussi returned all map-arts and Ronne claimed 90 gold ingots for Japan, then FXXK_my_pussi confesses that he also stole some other valuable items in Osaka such as the heads of players and some horses.
At this time, Ronne was unable to repay the compensation, and NullSelfice, Ronne "Leader", became Angelt's construction slave in Osaka.
In addition, gold apples, players' heads and other precious items of the Utopia, were stolen or sold by unknown people (according to the subsequent events, the thief or say "unknown people" here is FXXK_my_pussi), and Ronne foreign trade economy collapsed completely.
It even affected Ronne interior, even though there was no economic concept at all - the committee had no reserves to fund the expansion of the town.
Nevertheless, Ronne later implemented the policy of stopping foreign trade and expansion, and the economy recovered.
On December 13, 2022, LokiBeeper, the preparatory king of the "Antarctic Kingdom" and the former mayor of Belgrano, on the Ronne discord channel to proposed to be incorporated into Ronne. Because he had not raised enough founding funds for a long time and would not be very active in EMC.
Before the establishment of Ronne, when Utopia was still a small town with only one chunk, LokiBeeper claimed sovereignty over the green land in the north of today Ronne and its surrounding areas, including Utopia. However, with the establishment of the Ronnie Free Territory, the two sides agreed to take the x-axis -10777 as their land boundary, which was supported and confirmed by Egalitarian People's Republic of Tierra Del Fuego and Antarctica (EPRA, called "Tierra_Del_Fuego" in the game).
However, as the "Antarctic Kingdom" has not been established, the effectiveness of this treaty has been difficult to support. After LokiBeeper's consideration, Ronne has obtained all the legal claims of the "Antarctic Kingdom". It make the legal area of Ronne is almost twice as large as when it was established.
On December 15, 2022, all kinds of evidences in "The case of Ronne internal resources being resold" point to FXXK_my_pussi, and FXXK_my_pussi at noon Beijing time handed over Nessos town to EririMakima (a citizen of Ming who knew nothing about it) without authorization, and defected or fled to Xuchang, the city of Ming. After investigation, FXXK_my_pussi was a resident of the city before joining Ronne.
Add previous FXXK_my_pussi's criminal record that theft in Osaka - this case led to the collapse of the Ronne economy. And after confirmation with Angelt, FXXK_my_pussi said to NullSelfice that he had returned all the map-arts but actually didn't return any items.
The key point is that in the event of Ronne economic collapse FXXK_my_pussi privately appropriated all the gold that Ronne allocated to him to expand Nessos. He use it to purchase of his personal equipment. Until the he defection, Nessos was still only one chunk in size like it just was established.
All the evidence is conclusive. After Ronne paying 8 ancient debris to EririMakima and negotiating with Previousyun the Prime Minister of Ming and Marst000 the Mayor of Xuchang, FXXK_my_pussi was temporarily prohibited from returning to Ronne, and the first vote of the People's Committee was held, which lasted for a week and would decide the fate of FXXK_my_pussi.
Nessos town temporarily enters a state of no actual residents.
Be careful! You should refer to this page for the events triggered by various crimes of "FXXK_my_pussi" (Now it is "kasana0374") and their history: All criminal incident records and textual research of FXXK_my_pussi
Because of the lack of information and the limitation of understanding when writing the above text, although the objective event records are accurate information, the subjective things like description of qualitative and inferential things is outdated and is only for reference.
At 0:50 a.m. Beijing time on December 16, 2022, Belgrano officially joined Ronne.
Utopia Frozen Age
On the evening of December 17, 2022, NullSelfice, the town "Leader" of Utopia and the territory "Leader" of Ronne, said in Ronne Discord channel that he would not be active in EMC for a long time.
After failing to organize the election meeting. At noon Beijing time on December 18, 2022, the "capital" was moved from Utopia to Krillburg. DingMingYang, the town "Leader" of Krillburg town, immediately became the territory temporary "Leader" of the Ronne. Utopia remained the "capital" of Ronne, while Krillburg became the de facto "capital".
All the development of Utopia has been frozen.
However, other cities and towns in the same period have entered a stage of rapid development, the most obvious of which is the fact that Krillburg, the temporary "capital", is developing into a large modern city.
As a new "Leader" (though temporary), DingMingYang listened to the opinions of the residents and made certain reforms to Ronne political system to make it adapt to the development of the times and avoid characters like FXXK_ my_pussi reappeared on Ronne.
With the tension in East Asia and the increasing instability of the world, Krillburg led the whole Ronne into a closed state, which ensured the stable development of Ronne. The focus of Ronne foreign policy also began to shift from East Asia to North America. Krillburg resident Chinaaaaaaaaa played an important role in Ronne diplomacy at this stage because of its high multilingual ability and communication ability.
In the morning of December 19, 2022, Ming dispatched their resident Kirlsaki_Chitoge went to the town of Nessos to take over. By this time, Ming had occupied Nessos for more than 4 days.
On the afternoon of December 20, 2022, Chinaaaaaaaaa took over the town of Nessos, ending the occupation of Ming. But nominally, Chinaaaaaaaaa is still a resident of Krillburg, so Nessos still has no real residents.
Great Eastern Expansion
Later on December 24, 2022, after the joint consultation of many residents, the town of Nessos was dissolved and Chinaaaaaaaaa returned to Krillburg due to various considerations.
At an unknown time on the same day, Sandiford, a satellite city of Krillburg, was established by CaptainGaren.
Late at night on December 24, 2022, DingMingYang returned the position of "Leader" to NullSelfice, because his work on real world led him will to be offline for a long time.
NullSelfice immediately summarized the management experience of DingMingYang during this period, and supplemented and modified the previously immature policies based on the experience of DingMingYang. It was the first reform for Ronne.
This reform has modified and supplemented the contents of the Ronne Free Territory Declaration by issuing the Details of Ronne first reform. Make it perfect so as to conform to the development of the times.
The Ronne People's Committee was dissolved and the Ronnie Efficiency Committee was established immediately.
By the way, the flag of Ronne was modified.
At an unknown time of the day, kqbs, a former Japanese resident of Krillburg, left Ronne and joined Yamato in order to participate in the Japanese Civil War.
Ronne expressed his neutrality as always and did not support any party in the civil war.
On December 26, 2022, Antarctic_city, a town in the middle of Antarctica, joined Ronne. This was Ronne first attempt to invite cities more than 3000 meters away from the capital to join Ronne, in which the temporary relay capital technology was used.
This made Ronne a political entity spanning the central and western parts of Antarctica, and its sphere of influence expanded by 6 kilometers to the east.
Late at night on December 27, 2022, Ronne and Enderby_Land, a country in the middle of Antarctica, demarcated the border and determined the eastern border of Ronne. At the same time, we consulted with Egalitarian People's Republic of Tierra Del Fuego and Antarctica (EPRA, called "Tierra_Del_Fuego" in the game) about the appropriateness of their expansion in Antarctica.
End the sinner
From December 28, 2022 to January 5, 2023, Ronne treated the sinner FXXK_my_Pussi's crimes have been dealt with. See the main entry for details.
Post Eastern Expansion Era
Ronne continued to expand eastward several times after the "Great East Expansion", and its expansion record is as follows. It is worth noting that the excessive expansion has led to the decline of the core area of Ronne, which is quite different from the vitality of expansion at this time.
- In the afternoon of January 1, 2023, the town - Urumqi.Rd(Mid), joined Ronne and Ronne further expanded eastward. This expansion still uses temporary relay capital technology.
- On January 7, 2023, the town Artic joined Ronne. Ronne influence in its east became stronger and stronger. This expansion still uses temporary relay capital technology.
- Annexation Union of Enderby Land
On January 14, 2023, the Union of Enderby Land, a central country in Antarctica, officially announced that all the towns of the Enderby Land would be merged into Ronne, which make Ronne became the largest political entity in the world. However, due to the low activity of members, the integration process is relatively slow.
On January 18, 2023, in order to prepare for the merger of Enderby Land, four relay cities were established at one time between Antarctic city and Lützow-Holm Bay, the capital of Enderby Land, among which the last relay city, oof, was retained as an official city.
On January 20, 2023, Enderby Land temporarily moved its capital to New Trikria, and Ronne officially annexation Lützow-Holm Bay, the former capital of Enderby Land.
Contractions Crisis
On January 22, 2023, Ronne decided to merge the remaining part of Enderby Land that was not formally merged.
At noon this day, the bug that Relay Capital Technology relies on was hot repaired by EarthMC technicians. So Ronne could not merge Enderby Land.
At the same time, Ronne lost all the towns more than 3500 meters away from the capital Utopia. Ronne contraction crisis broke out.
All the annexed Enderby Land cities was return to Enderby Land. The annexation ended in nothing.
Later, after a brief discussion with some residents in the Efficiency Committee, NullSelfice released its reply:
- From now on, Ronne will relinquish all the sovereignty of the area more than 3500 meters away from Utopia.
- Utopia and Ronne will be taken over by MindedPercy , foreign affairs will be taken over by Vojage, and internal affairs will be taken over by Lokibeeper.
At the same time, NullSelfice announced that he would leave Antarctica to live in East Asia for personal reasons.
Ronne began to encourage some residents who town had automatically left Ronne due to the repair of bug to join the towns in the core area of Ronne, which to some extent alleviated the decline in the core area of Ronne.
Recovery in severe winter
Based on the anti-authority of anarchism and the principle of decentralization, MindePercy has not made too many strategies and plans, but his steady attitude has stabilized Ronne who has shrunk sharply due to unexpected accidents.
During the period from January 23, 2023 to February 8, 2023, Ronne showed a trend of town decline.
The specific performance is as follows: during this period, the number of residents in the towns of Krillburg and Belgrano decreased sharply; On February 5, 2023, DingMingYang, the former "Leader" of the town of Krillburg, and CaptainGaren, the former "Leader" of the town of Sandford, were cancelled because they did not log in to EMC within 42 days; The town of Sandford was dissolved automatically because the only resident was cancelled.
However, the other towns have implemented the enrollment expansion plan, which has brought about a turnaround in the decline. Among them, Utopia has absorbed some residents from the former Eastern Expansion Area who are willing to continue to live in Ronne and added some new residents under the recruitment of MindePercy. Sunari has maintained a positive recruitment policy since the period of the Great Eastern Expansion.
Vojage, the "Leader" of the town of Sunari, played a certain role in planning and political planning for Ronne in this period. In addition, as for Sunari, the town put its energy into economic construction on a large scale during this period, which made the western part of Ronne achieve substantial development; MindePercy, the "Leader" of Ronne at that time, and Hannah1109, another resident of Utopia, worked hard to laid a good foundation for Ronne full recovery.
On February 9, 2023, after the sale of Yumen, an East Asian town, NullSelfice returned to Ronne and took over the post of "Leader" again. This time, he brought back a lot of property and minerals, completely stabilizing Ronne economic form and ending the severe winter. However, spring has not yet begun.
Spring development
On February 11, 2023, Ronne Standardized Ice Track Network (RSIN) began to be constructed in order to facilitate the communication and transportation between towns in Ronne.
- On February 15, 2023, RSIN's Utopia-Sunari line was completed and opened.
- In the afternoon of the same day, Beijing time, in order to provide RSIN with ice for laying track, Ronne built the town of Icepost near Mount Vincent, the highest peak in Antarctica, and planned to build an Ice Factory here.
- On February 16, 2023, the RSIN new line that is to the town of Icepost was completed and opened as a branch of the Utopia-Sunari line.
On February 17, 2023, Icepost Ice Factory was completed.
The construction of RSIN makes the communication between the towns in Ronne more convenient, and promotes the development of Ronne to a certain extent.
Walk with Blood
Since mid February 2023, NullSelfice has been extremely inactive at EMC. Although Ronne has been developing since then, its development seems to have lost its direction.
On February 19, 2023, the town of hokkyoku joined Ronne.
On February 22, 2023, the town of Gensokyo was established and joined in Ronne.
On February 23, 2023, the town of Qntarctic was established and joined in Ronne.
During this period, although the number of towns in Ronne has increased, most of them are single person towns and are built by residents, so the total population has not changed much, which has led to the dispersion of urban power in Ronne.
Since then, from late February 2023 to the end of March 2023, most of the original towns have begun to wither or even dissolve, but there are also towns that are constantly developing and becoming stronger, and overall, they are constantly developing:
On February 28, 2023, the town of Belgrano was dissolved because its "leader" and sole resident, LokiBeeper, was a monarchist, so he defected to Valkyrie Dome, a notorious absolute monarchy country in Antarctica.
Shortly thereafter, the Valkyrie Dome was declared war by many countries for disseminating pornographic and bloody content to minors, extorting real world property, abusing political correctness and extreme sexual minority supremacy, and was dissolved on March 28, 2023.
The country had vainly attempt to colonize Ronne and other countries or regions.
Regarding the traitor Loki Beeper, before settling in Antarctica, this gentleman planned to establish an "Antarctic Kingdom" in Antarctica (see above), but his abilities were low and he was unable to establish a state. Currently, he has become a tramp due to the dissolution of Valkyrie Dome.
From the first ten days to the middle of March 2023, the town of Sunari developed rapidly. Its "leader", Vojage, conducted a large-scale recruitment campaign to save Ronne decline, and together with the residents of Sunari, carried out a strong and effective construction of Sunari.
On March 5, 2023, the area of the town of Sunari reached 74 chunks, successfully surpassing the "capital" Utopia to become the largest and most populous city in Ronne.
On March 22, 2023, Krillburg, once the second largest city of area and First largest city of population, was dissolved due to the low activity of its members.
Fortunately, the "leader" of the town of Sunari, Vojage, organized the material transfer in advance, minimizing losses.
On March 26, 2023, the town of NewLatvia was established and joined Ronne.
During this period, Ronne had a population of over 30 people, ranking among the top countries or regions in Antarctica. However, population growth has also led to a sharp increase in the abuse and reselling of materials. Ronne once sought to rectify public security and improve the quality of the population.
Geography
Ronne is located in the Western Hemisphere. It is native to the south of the Antarctic Peninsula, the south coast of the Weddell Sea, and the land on the Ronne Ice Shelf and its south to the South Pole.
Territorial area
It has not been determined yet, legally the mainland owns all the land to the east of Mary Bird Land up to the east boundary of Ronne Ice Shelf, except the Antarctic Peninsula. Roughly equivalent to the set near Ellsworth Land and Queen Elizabeth Land, but the actual size is much larger than it should be due to the high-latitude stretch of the planar map.
Terrain
It is generally located to the Ellsworth Land and Queen Elizabeth Land. is part of Antarctica. It is located in the west of the Antarctic continent, bounded by Marie Byrd Land in the west, Bellingshausen Sea in the northwest, Amundsen Sea in the west, Antarctic Peninsula in the north, Filchner Ice Shelf in the east, approximately equivalent to south latitude 72° ~90°, between 50° and 90° west longitude. The terrain is low in the north and high in the south, and there are many mountains in the southern area. There are Ellsworth Mountains and Scaife Mountains in the territory. The average Y-axis height is above 105, and the highest peak, Vinson Massif, has a Y-axis height of 192. , is also the highest peak in Antarctica and the highest peak in the world in EMC (this is due to the high latitude stretching of the planar map and the low accuracy of the overall scale and the omission of too small parts, the Mount Everest in EMC is only 183 in the Y-axis height). Mountains above 175 on the Y axis are everywhere. The terrain in the north is gentle and the altitude is lower than that in the south. There are natural large-scale ice sources, and the ice blanket is as thick as 25 meters.
Climate
The entire biome is almost treeless snowy plains or snowy slopes. Coastal low elevation flat areas or the chunk that average height of natural terrain is lower than y80 have ocean biome, which is also one of the few areas where it rains instead of snowing.
Hydrology
There are no rivers in the whole area. There are a small number of small lakes in the northern region. Some Ronne residents have a small amount of activities to dig artificial rivers, but most of them are inland rivers, mainly for decoration, which has little impact on the overall situation.
Biology
Ronne creatures are scarce. In terms of animals, only goats and white rabbits spawn in the snowfields, only cod and dolphins spawn in the coastal areas, and extremely rare polar bears spawn in the northwest coast; In terms of plants, because almost the whole area is covered with ice and snow, only the northwest coast has natural green space. There are no natural trees and other plants on the green space, and all of them are composed of grass blocks; The monsters are roughly the same as in other regions. No slimes have been found yet, but there are unique monsters: Stray.
Since the establishment of Utopia Town, Ronne has been trying to introduce other animals and plants from outside Antarctica to meet economic and living needs. Currently, Ronne mainly raises sheep, axolotls, tadpoles, turtles, and plants various crops, trees, and bamboo.
Politics
As an anarchist region, Ronne does not have a so-called government to manage, but uses the Efficiency Committee formed voluntarily to manage regional affairs. The Committee adopts a form of direct democracy so that all residents can participate in the management of regional affairs , has all the authority of the leader (the so-called "leader" of the territory does not have the right to decide affairs on its own or perform operations that require the authority of the leader in the territory).
But the committee does not have the power to regulate individual behavior, which means that regulations such as banning pornography, requiring civilized language, and information censorship cannot be implemented in the territory.
Main idea
Ronne political system and thoughts are mainly based on the following six points, and all political settings are basically based on this, commonly known as principles.
- With responsibilities, without authority. All authority are vested in the Commission.
(People in any position have no right to do anything. They should be authorized by the committee when they want to perform their duties, including the so-called "leaders" of cities and towns). - A single person is not subject to any single person nor to the majority.
(Everyone's freedom is freedom (on the premise of not interfering with others' freedom), so we are opposed to dictatorship and voting democracy to determine individual behavior. The Committee can always discuss only Free Territory affairs and urban affairs, and it is prohibited to regulate individual behavior)
Example: The committee can discuss how to respond to a country's declaration of war on FreeTerritory, or discuss the ice track system planning of the entire Territory. But they have no right to discuss the prohibition of pornographic books, or to require the public to pay taxes, or to regulate public speech, which will affect individual decisions. - Absolute freedom does not exist, and the premise of any freedom is non-interference in the freedom of others.
(Based on this, if someone interferes with the freedom or interest of others ("others" here may not be a specific single person, but can also refer to the majority, such as destroying the public ice track), he will not be considered as a member of the Free Territory, and article 2 will not apply, and the Committee will have the right to discuss the fate of this person). - Power belongs to everyone, but due to the problem of game mechanism, the "leaders" of Territory and the "leaders" of all towns in Territory should be given full authority to any participant.
- The power is divided, and the power is infinitely divided. The affairs of the town should be decided by the vote of the town members in the committee. The vote of other town members should be invalid, and Territory has no right to interfere.
- Freedom.
Ronne Free Territory Declaration
Ronne Free Territory Declaration (Declaration for short). It is Ronne constitutional-similar declaration, which describes in detail the specific operation form of the free territory. The document was published on November 24, 2022.
Details of Ronne first reform
Details of Ronne first reform is a summary of the excellent experience during the management of DingMingYang. It supplements and modifies the immature policies of Ronne Free Territory Declaration, so that Ronne can adapt to the development of the times.
Military
Due to reasons such as the anarchist system, limited population, and ease of the regional situation, Ronne has no standing army and adopts a militia strategy in which all people are soldiers during wartime. This is stated in the Ronne Free Territory Declaration.
Diplomacy
As an anarchist region, Ronne does not make any allies.
In principle, it advocates world peace and adopts a policy of "no closeness, no hostility" towards all countries.
Buildings
Skime Castle
The main building of Utopia, the giant floating city. The main city part was completed on November 25, 2022.
The Gate of the Antarctica
Located in Krillburg. It imitate The Gate of the Orientanarchist in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China on real world.
Notable people
Under construction...
Town list
The data is as of March 30, 2023. The date shall be subject to East Zone 8 (UTC+8).
Existing town
Notes:
*The original town before moving from the West Antarctica was established on February 10, 2023. This is the establishment date of the new town after moving to Ronne.
**It was established outside the western boundary of Ronne and later moved to its current location. The original town was established on a certain day in August 2022. This is the establishment date of the new town established after the migration.
Historic Town
Do you know what?
- Ronne's earliest name in the game was Nylon, which was because NullSelfice misspelled Ronne's Chinese name "龙尼" as "尼龙" when he established Ronne. This led to an incorrect translation by the game's translator. Within two days of its establishment, NullSelfice reported the error to the administrator, and the name was corrected to its current form.
- Ronne is the first political entity in EMC established by Chinese but the main ethnic group is not Chinese, and it is also the first anarchist region.
- Before inviting the bug of the city to repair, Ronne was the largest political entity in EMC. And claims that there are no cities in any other country or region in the territory that have truly achieved this.
- Ronne planted a Ronne flag mainly composed of obsidians and blocks of redstone in East Asia due to the previous "FXXK_my_passi theft incident", which has not been removed until now (March 30, 2023).
- Long before the establishment of the town of Utopia, a country called "Glacier Sparta" existed in Ronne, but it was dissolved long before Ronne was established. Ronne and "Glacier Sparta" have no relationship except for the same location.
- Ronne claims that there are no cities in any other country or region in the territory that have truly achieved this at any time.
- Common Cold Knowledge in Polar Regions: EMC has an unreasonable setting that going out from the Antarctic border will appear from the Arctic border. Even more unreasonable is that going out from the Arctic border will appear from the location where the equator and the prime meridian intersect (i.e. (0,0), the center of the map).