Morotength

Basic overview
Morotength (Vegish: Morotengþ), officially the "Imperial Kingdom of Morotength" (Vegish: Ryklik Kynighesryk Morotengþ) is the oldest country on Minepolitica. It is located to the east of Lirvia, to the south of the Bottle sea, and to the north of the Greenwood sea.

Morotength is a monarchy under king ElderElectricity, who also has an elected council advising him. The first iteration of Morotength was the City State of Morotength (this name is a reconstruction since this entity had no formal name. This was back when the concept of countries hadn't yet been formed on the server, during it's very early stages), it was established very soon after the server formed.

After that, the First Kingdom of Morotength was founded at about the beginning of May 2018, and was succeeded by the the Union of Artovotength on 19 of June 2018. After the collapse of Artovotength, the second Kingdom of Morotength was proclaimed on the 2 of August 2018.

After the first phase of the server ended, the Imperial Kingdom of Morotength was proclaimed on the 22 December 2019, the day that the server restarted and entered it’s second phase after 16 months of downtime. This is the form of Morotength that still exists today.

Morotength today is the second strongest country on the server. It dominates the geopolitics of the Greenwood sea, and has virtually no political challangers besides Lirvia to the west.

With Morotength being the first country to start creating of it's own language, a strong sense of identity has developed amongst the people of this country.

History
Morotength’s origins begin on 15 April 2018, the day the server was founded. At the time, the server wasn’t even called Minepolitica, and the idea of countries on the server hadn’t come into being. ElderElectricity and another old member of the server, Pugsly, spawned in at roughly 0,0 (the current world spawn is humanmade), and treked a few hundred blocks south to more or less where the heart of Lőv is now.
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There, they set up the beginnings of a city. More members joined overtime, and the settlement grew, with more houses and a farm being set up. The first house in the city was thrown together out of a swath of materials, with the bottom floor being netherrack.

The other houses were built by Artovanians (spesifically Laksio).

The crop fields were a communal effort by ElderElectricity, Laksio and Pugsly.

This house was burned down in the January Crisis by one of Pugsly’s friends, nearly 2 years later, after having been a memorial for a long time. Pugsly and some friends went to what is now Old Tyobi and set up the first country of Tyobi, on 29 April 2018, which is what forced the idea of countries into being, even though ElderElectricity pushed against the idea for some time. This made ElderElectricity declare the beginning of the Kingdom of Morotength, at about the beginning of May. From there, Morotength entered it’s second phase.


 * The first Kingdom:

The flag war:

The Kingdom of Morotength’s time started off with buildup, with the first actual house being built by Laksio (who lived in Morotength at the time). A few days later on the 5 May 2018, the first war on the server happened, the Flag War;

After Tyobi chose their flag, Laksio said he found it disgusting, and threatened to rebel in a war of independence if Tyobi didn’t change her flag. Tyobi refused, and so Laksio personally declared war. ElderElectricity and Pugsly ran around for a bit, soon enderpearling up onto some tall spruce trees that Pugsly had planted before to get a better sighting. They soon saw Laksio running by. After the two sized eachother up for a bit, and bowfire was most likely traded, ElderElectricity and Pugsly enderpearled down to face Laksio, near what was at the time known as the Western River. This was before the Moez had been artificially widened by world editing. It took place pretty much at where the Moez nowadays splits Old Tyobi from the Lirvian land across from it.

The Battle of the Western River lasted a few minutes, ending in Laksio winning decisively. ElderElectricity and Pugsly tried to keep fighting, with ElderElectricity distracting Laksio in a house so that Pugsly could flee, then ElderElectricity soon running after. They fled to the Mesa in what is now Maida (Médzvés), founding the small country of Tyomesotength (Tyobi + Mesa + Morotength). The two seriously considered just ditching their old nations. Laksio came over to the little house that had been set up by ElderElectricity and Pugsly, and begged ElderElectricity to reset the server to before the war happened, this being heavily argued against by ElderElectricity. After some time, ElderElectricity agreed, resetting the server to a save file from before the war, and thus wiping out everything that happened.

This would be the first in a long line of pettiness/cheating that characterized the first phase of the server (but no worries, this stuff only really happened in the first phase of the server in 2018, and hasn’t really happened since, nor will it ever be happening again. You have no need to worry at all about this stuff happening nowadays, since it hasn’t and won’t.).

The little ban war:

The next thing that happened was the recognition of Artovanian independence (the old name for Lirvia), on the 11 May 2018. Laksio set up first in the woods a bit behind Pószrón, while he was in the deed of building the city itself.

2 days later, the Little Ban War happened; Laksio demanded the region of South Darednia from Morotength. ElderElectricity refused, and Laksio declared war. ElderElectricity hid in his house as Laksio came forth, fleeing soon after he came in. As Laksio was shooting and hitting him while he was running away, he logged off the server. Laksio dug a hole under his logoff point, and began shooting arrows down at him once he logged back on, with him standing on a platform. ElderElectricity begged the Tyobians over VC for help, but they refused to help, offering only to send potions.

ElderElectricity then went on to pull an “epic” move of pettiness and ban Laksio for “being unreasonable”, or whatever the exact reason was. This forced him to admit defeat, and give up his goal in the war after being soon after unbanned. Laksio actually threatened to leave the server, but soon threw out that idea.