Federation of China (FoC)

The Federation of China was a team created by Dr.Beako and SergioTheCrafter on a civilisation server "Nova Initia". This differs greatly from the usual contents of this wikipage, since everything documented here so far has surrounded modded minecraft specifically, while Nova Initia was a vanilla server with plugins.

Map of the Federation of China

The team was funded some time after Dr.Beako has disappeared from the gregtech community, in search of greener pastures of the Terra Magma Terra community.

This team had laid claim to a massive territory, spanning over several biomes worth of land, due to this fact, the entire state wasn't governed by just one person, instead being broken up into several provincial managers with Dr.Beako being one of them.

Within the inner GT circles, FoC is believed to be the cannon continuation of Rhine Labs.

The Economy

It is also thanks to it's size, that the Federation became the strongest and largest economy on the server, not only due to the abundance of natural resources, but also thanks to the fact that a plane plugin (Movecraft) included on the server made them a prime location for construction of Runways and airports, though most of the money was still obtained from selling items (particularly ore) to the virtual shop using /sellhand.

That being said, there was a component of a player driven economy, that unlike on most traditional minecraft SMPs used an actual currency as a means of exchange, thanks to /pay being a thing.

The External Conflicts

Naturally with a country of such size, conflict was bound to arise with the neighbouring states, those being:

-North German Confederation (Caused by ???)

-Redstone Arsenal (Caused by wapory)

-Kingdom of Annam (This conflict was particularly damaging to FoC due to the loss of control over Vietnam)

Post reform into the Silverwood Union:

-Astroma (Caused due to admin interference)

Fearlesspanic 2.0?

A player by the name of wapory has decided to be the Franz Ferdinand of the Federation, and has sparked the conflict between RA and FoC. The resemblance is truly outlawish.

The Internal Politics

Much like it's predecessor, Rhodes Island, the team had a similar policy regarding refugees and runways, accepting them into the team with open arms. This had a similar effect to every single other time it was tried up until this point, and several spies have managed to infiltrate the team, including some members of the GT community. The entire existence of this article can be attributed to that incident.

Naturally all of the standard diplomatic actions followed, everything looked essentially the same as in every other event described on this wiki, albeit the success rate of diplomatic talks was significantly higher. Most likely due to the nature of the server itself being more RP focused instead of running the standard factions mindset and it lasting nearly 3 months instead of the typical event standard of ~1-2 weeks.

Upon it's formation, The Federation of China can be described as a theocratic state, with the rulers of each of the provinces being more or less assigned. This was the case until a reshuffle of the leadership occurred around the first round of democratic vote. This has resulted in yet another HF-like incident with Dr.Beako stepping down from the leadership role, with MasterEWild taking over. After this a proper democratic constitution was established, and the provincial managers were effectively serving the role of the senate, with multiple people voting on things rather than everything being led by one person.

This system was very similar in nature (nearly identical) to Humanity First's ethics committee and governance, with individuals being allowed to do mostly whatever they pleased as long as their decisions did not violate international and national laws.

It is worth noting that the provincial managers actually lived in the towns they governed and were subject to their own laws.

The great kelp depression

During the post-Silverwood reform, MasterEWild has managed to nearly bankrupt the team by buying a bunch of kelp, this has caused them to be knocked down to second place in terms of GDP. This has also prevented FoC from reaching the status of the first town on the server.

Closing statements

Federation of China, currently known as the Silverwood Union, is as of this article, the youngest team introduced in the greater igblonverse, though their participation in it remains unlikely, due to the team not being gregtech focused.