Nova:Australia
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Australia is a nation on EarthMC Terra Nova. It was briefly known as New_Australia.
Geography
The Australia Realm is bordered on the north by TerraAustralis and Oceania, on the west by Outback, Oz, and SouthAustralia, and on the south by Tasmania. It stretches across south of the real-life Australian state of New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland. The continent Australia is located in the south-east part of the EarthMC Map in Oceania.
History
First Australia Realm
Original Australia
Australia, and with Canberra as its capital city, was first founded on November 6th, 2018, by Crevel - an irl Australian who had been planning a potential colony of Australia during the intermission of Classic and Terra Nova. Crevel had previously been a member of MLGTerra's Paris before using French funding to found Australia as a colony under the Seaterrican Commonwealth with France as its overlord (New Zealand had also been a colony under the very same commonwealth). Being that it was the very start of Terra Nova, Australia had come to be incredibly dormant. Lack of motivation and enthusiasm dissuaded further progress and future plans to build a Parliament House. The only builds that had been built was a low-quality spawn featuring a donation-hopper-chest, a treehouse, a railroad system, and a farm around a small lake. Following a few weeks of being dormant, Crevel decided he would try selling it so he could follow in Terra's footsteps and join his nation of ISIS. There was a problem however as nobody would want to purchase land that was so isolated and useless. This meant it had to be given away. OfficialONION was the only clear choice as he had been a citizen of Australia. Therefore the nation and its assets (although very little), had been given to ONION and Crevel had set his foot into the Middle East with MLGTerra by his side.
Second Australia Realm
New Australia was founded on April 13, 2019, following the departure of its capital city, Canberra, from Tasmania. Under the leadership of Duzy_, New Australia grew rapidly, also benefiting from the Dormant Period of TerraAustralis. The towns of Sydney, Cooma and New Wadowice joined the nation on April 18, April 24 and April 29, 2019 respectively, while Greenway and Jindabyne were established on May 15 and May 18, 2019 respectively.
United Australia
In May 2019, New Australia started negotiating with North Australia (formerly New Guinea) to form United Australia. TerraAustralis, The Kingdom of Australia and Western Australia later joined into the negotiations.
Growing Nation
On May 25, 2019, the town of Campbelltown, located north of Canberra joined New Australia. On the same day, Prime Minister JaVolimKatarinu left Canberra and established Alaredia west-northwest of the capital city. On May 27, 2019, Krakow on Cape Barren Island and Celestown in Queensland joined the nation. The joining of Melbourne is also being arranged.
New Australia started its merger with Brisbane, Australia on June 1, 2019, and completed on June 10, 2019. The original New Australia nation was sold to jemenik as Polish Tasmania.
United Australia Disbanded
On the 18th of June, Duzy_ disbanded United_Australia. High council members had disagreements, causing the downfall. TerraAustralis members and some Australia members have begun spreading propaganda about Duzy_. Duzy_ allegedly wanted to disband United_Australia earlier, but choosing to finally do so now after ScaryDragon / Thot called him a "liberal voter" in dms. Much more beef accumulated over time between Australia and TerraAustralis. Many alliances have been made, but they always end out badly.
Disbanding of Nation
In late 2019, Duzy_quit EarthMC, disbanding Canberra and moving the nation capital to Wy, owned by his friend BillyKaplan666. This noticeably bypassed a number of more active citizens as well as the rest of the government. Billy was mostly inactive, and upon the orders of Duzy_, disbanded the nation on the 19th of November 2019.
Third Australia Realm
Founding
Following the disbandment of Australia, it was immediately recreated by KehoeWan, and transferred to Mike_Wong, who would become the leader of the Third Australia Realm.
Third Australia Realm
The Third Australia Realm was plagued by inactivity, which led to a decline in the number of towns.
Fourth Australia Realm
Founding
On the 10th of April 2020, shellblu purchased the nation name 'Australia' from Mike_Wong following failed attempts to purchase the nation, and a failed attempt to pressure Mike into a transfer of power. All towns from the Third Australian realm (except for Cooma which as of the 28th of January 2021 remains independent) transferred to the Fourth Australia Realm.
Mid-2020
Australia remained mostly stagnant, with limited active residents. It was primarily focused around the capital Albury, where the majority of the population and occasional active citizens resided. shellblu remained active for the majority of this period, however struggled to grow the nation beyond 11 towns, only being able to just keep it above 8 towns.
2020-2021 Summer Holidays
During the Australian summer holidays, there was a significant increase in towns, residents, and active citizens as Australian students were given a significant amount of free time, which was able to be capitalised upon by recruiters. This allowed the nation to boom to 25 towns and an all-time high of approximately 175 residents.
2021 February - July
The growth of the summer holidays would eventually die down, as school returned and fewer residents were able to find the time to regularly log on. Throughout the rest of the February-July period, the nation would swing between 15 and 20 towns, gradually losing them to inactive mayors no longer being accessible, and forgetfulness in reminding those that were still in contact to log on regularly. The April Autumn holidays would bring another spike in activity, however would not reach the same degree of prominence of the Summer holidays, and would not produce enough activity to bring about a sustainable community of regularly active citizens.
Regenerative Period and Melbourne Conflict
Although not seeing the high population number of the previous Summer holidays, July brought the Winter holidays along with an extended COVID-19 lockdown in New South Wales. This fostered the appropriate environment for the return of prominent citizens such as SCOBlade, and meant that new mayors would have more time to settle into Australia, and become active citizens. This period is marked as distinctly more successful than the Summer holidays due to mayors other than shellblu recruiting, indicating a nation that was becoming more self-sufficient and less reliant on a single person. It also saw Australia's first genuine conflict in a year, where the province Lower_Australia declared independence from Australia after encouragement from Nubia. This declaration of independence was quickly met with the settlement of Bendigo and Ballarat in the area surrounding Melbourne, the capital of Lower_Australia, prompting a conclusion to the war less than 24 hours after it began. This was compounded by the large number of foreign nations that declared support for Australia, due in part to friendships with the leader shellblu, and a disliking for the Lower_Australian leader Beaverman for his history in North America. The conflict encouraged more activity in the nation, and was a launchpad through which the nation would continue to grow.
As of the 10th of August 2021, the nation is still in this period.
Military
Australia's official military association is the Australia Defence Force. It was originally formed and organized by GreenmanYT and KehoeWan.
List of towns
Lorne, Armidale, Meereen, Fish_Town, Luxudor, Athishire, Campbelltown, East_Tasmania, Balls_Head, Wilcannia, Melbourne, Bega, S.RSDP, Newcastle, woodside, LakeCity, dogvile, Albury, Starcke, Parramatta, The_Dust, Capital_Hill, Emerald_Port, Caulfield.