Pancat the King
Pancat_The_King
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Pancat_The_King is the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Co-founder of the Greater Finnish Empire, leader of the Restoration Party, and the President Pro Tempore of Lapland.
Finland
Joining EMC
Pancat had been following EarthMC since 2020, but lacked a PC to play on the server himself. Eventually, he was able to attain a fully functional PC and finally joined the server on February 25th, 2021 with the intent to join or make a nation in Texas. After a few hours of waiting for someone to invite him to Pueblo, Pancat was hit with the realization that the server was paradoxically dead despite having a large influx of new players every day. This meant that his chances of joining a nation in Pueblo was almost impossible, especially with the length of queue.
Kingsland and the Early Months
Pancat was just about ready to leave the server permanently when he was made aware of Kingsland, and it’s owner, _Cj__. After asking in chat if there were any towns in Texas for him to join, Pancat was told by Cj that Kingsland was in Texas, and that the nation name “Finland” was merely a joke and not indicative of its real geographical location. He soon agreed to join the town, and Cj granted him a free plot to get started.
Most of Pancat's time during this period was spent on constructing a quartz house in Kingsland, gathering most of the materials from the ruins of Vaasa, which had fell some time before his joining. He soon became interested in the prospect of making his own town, especially as Cj continued to ask for tax money and Pancat lacked any farms to grow his own food on.
The founding of Pankikland
After much internal deliberation, Pancat's sights became set on the ruins of Posio, an ancient Finnish town, as the host for his new town, which he decided would be called Pankikland. The name Pankikland means virtually nothing, and was simply chosen because "Pankikland" sounded like "Pancake Land" in Finnish (it doesn't). The town was founded March 7th, 2021 with the help of _Cj__. The day after the town was founded, Pancat invited a player called MrIHOP to the town, convincing him to join due to the breakfast theme of Pankikland. MrIHOP would soon rise the ranks of Pankikland to become Pancat's right-hand man and help preserve the town throughout the most chaotic era in Finland's history.
Russia and the Rise to Politics
Within his second week of being in Kingsland, Pancat was made aware of Cj's plan to run for Prime Minister of Finland and became involved with the election after Cj offered to appoint him as minister of foreign affairs. Winning against the incumbent Prime Minister, Nimnev, with 63% of the vote. Pancat's first days in office were spent discussing how to deal with Russia and boost the activity of Finland, as Finland was in the middle of a disastrous depression. During this time, Pancat met J1K, the former king of Finland, who was acting as the Minister of Infrastructure. Pancat also became familiarized with Emerald_Tip, the Minister of Defense.
Only a week after becoming Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russia attempted to expand their influence into Finland by offering to accept them into the Russian Federation, an offer that was opposed by everyone but Pancat. This event exposed Pancat to Russia for the first time, and showed him the importance of Finnish Nationalism and loyalty. Another notable event was the resignation of King Ju2annanas, who promptly crowned Emerald_Tip as his successor. This gave Cj and Pancat an unprecedented amount of power within Finland, and allowed them to pass legislation with little opposition.
Sometime around March, Pancat and _Cj__ were looking for somewhere to purchase cows from, but was unable to find a supplier. Eventually, Pancat was contacted by Java_Wolf, the leader of The Republic of Komi and President of the Russian Federation. Java offered Pancat 2 cows for 300 gold, to which Pancat refused. The deal soon devolved into an argument, eventually culminating in an attack where Java Wolf and his friend Djole griefed the outskirts of Pankikland and threatened a war on Finland. This was only prevented by the combined efforts of Bunnyrich and Emerald_Tip, who convinced Java Wolf to back down. This soured Finnish relations with Russia, and would soon lead to various conflicts in the future.
The Northern Empire
With many now questioning the security of Finland, Pancat began looking for ways to consolidate power and protect Finland from a possible Russian invasion. Eyes soon turned to Scandinavia, where