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History of Cyberius Confederation

History of Cyberius Confederation
By The random empire

Cyberius Confederation is a region in Nationstates, founded by Wardomia on 21 October 2015 (which also happens to be Mao pingpong’s birthday). On that day the original founding nations - Wardomia, East niphilate, The republic of damascus, Mordenfell, J4ke empire, Free people of humanity, Kasterborous Gallifrey, United freedoms and rights, Solendor, Free people of humanity and yours truly, The random empire – united to form a co-prosperity sphere founded on the tenets of Peace, Perseverance, Perfection and Total Bovine Extermination.
On 21 October 2015, celebrations commenced across the region to commemorate the historic date. Kasterborous Gallifrey was elected as the first WA delegate (according to The constellation islands, she “set the bar really high”).

Teething Problems
Almost from the beginning, matters threatened to destroy the region and the work of her nations. Persecution of left-winged nations became rampant just days after the founding, driving a rift between the rightists, which was the majority of nations, and the leftists.
Things came to a head when Rudolf Himmler of United freedoms and rights ran through the streets broadcasting his communist propaganda. Tempers flared, insults were exchanged and armies were mobilised, culminating in the Solen War of 27 October.
Following the victory of rightist forces in the short but devastating civil war, legislation was passed to ensure freedom of national policy, and the Confederation was united once again.
Then on 31 October, just four days after the war and ten after its founding, the Confederation was ravaged by a zombie apocalypse. While the region teetered for a while on the brink of collapse, a coordinated effort helped ensure that most of the infected were cured after hours of fierce nuking with cure missiles. Out of a total population of 1.5 billion, a relatively small number of 15 million died, and a great victory was won that day for the infant region.

Total Bovine Extermination – The Roleplay
With the zombies out of the way, the region settled down, and a roleplay was formed. On 1 November, the nations of Cyberius Confederation signed a treaty officially condemning the evil of cows and instating a program to cleanse the world of their filthiness by 2020. On the 5th, East niphilate was officially appointed as Minister of Entertainment and Chief Moderator of the RP, and a stat system was introduced, paving the way for national characterisation.
Following an expansion of the regional roleplay, a forum thread was created, moving international incidents discussions off the Regional Message Board on 25 November. The khan empire assumed the position of Moderator, The random empire wasted half her life drawing a regional map on MS Paint, and a roleplay committee was established.

Interregional Relations
Cyberius Confederation enjoyed warm interregional relations for the most part. The first embassy was opened with The Doctor Who Universe on 24 October. The high council was ordered to send embassy requests to everyone, and to accept all embassy requests. At its peak, the region had collected over two hundred embassies.
On 17 November, the Confederation joined the regional organisations of TNB, TURN, LCRUA and ORCA, although it only really bothered with ORCA. A regional military was formed on 3 December, with The random empire as Chief Commisar-Marshal, and was almost immediately put to the test with the invasion of U R N by The Red Fleet. On New Years’ Eve, an ORCA force spearheaded by Cyberians attempted to liberate the region and were crushed spectacularly (in Vampire Princess Miyu’s words, we were sent to Kandarian’s BBQ).
Lessons were learnt from the U R N disaster, which better prepared the military for when The United Nations of the Jelly Bellies got raided by APSIA. Cyberius Confederation allied with Whocaresania to push the APSIAns out, and succeeded on 1 January 2016, while simultaneously fending off a raid (unfortunately, while we were celebrating the liberation of the Jelly Bellies, 10000 Islands, came, crashed it and booted us out).

The Cold War – The Roleplay
It was during the start of 2016 that Cyberius Confederation had its heyday. It was an exciting time for the regional roleplay – East niphilate, the dominant superpower since the Pavensky War (think WW1 in our terms), began to decay and the power bloc of Wardomia rose up to oppose her. Tensions flared when Wardomia tried to implement a universal no-WMD convention, which was completely ignored by East Niphilate, who decided to stockpile the greatest supply of chemical weapons you’ve ever seen. The threatened war against the one who dared trespass the convention was never fought, and instead both sides eyed each other wearily for the next half year without actually doing anything. A few proxy wars were fought including the Takkal Civil War and the Spasticasian War, but these were finished quickly with no real implications.
On occasion, the roleplay received visitors from other regions (the region-only rule was never really enforced), most notably Galindo prime and The andromeda confederation of The Kotaba Sector. On 29 May, an interregional RP about a war between the regions of Asylum, Cyberius Confederation and The Glorious Nations of Iwaku was kindly started by USHALLNOTPASS, but it died out in a matter of weeks.

Internal Politics – Early 2016
On 17 January 2016, following an 89-day reign as WA delegate, and with a comfortable 7 endorsements, Kasterborous Gallifrey abruptly announced her resignation, leaving a large power vacuum and the region in a state of uncertainty. The delegacy was subsequently passed on to Wardomia, who had 2 endorsements. After Gallifrey raised objections about the founder being the delegate, The constellation islands withdrew her endorsement from Wardomia and The khan empire became delegate. Then on 13 February, after 26 days, The constellation islands ousted her in a smoothly-executed coup was democratically-elected by the public.

External Politics – A Few Weeks After the Internal Politics
With the start of The constellation islands’s reign, Cyberius Confederation made major changes to its foreign policy. Over the next few weeks, inactive embassies were closed, along with those that were just there for the sake of it. Most nations welcomed the move, and the embassy demolitions went smoothly until the embassy in XANADU was scheduled to face the wrecking ball. Her founder got annoyed and demanded the cancellation of the closure. When her demands were not met, push came to shove and on 17 February, the Confederation was invaded by a force of 5-6 WA nations. The invasion was quickly repulsed and the embassy closed on the 18th.
After the XANADU fiasco, the high council decided to notify regions of embassy closures as common courtesy.

The Second Panopticon Conference – The Roleplay
As the roleplay progressed, participants began to spam it with puppet nations, fusing them with their main nations to expand them. East niphilate got annoyed, and on 10 February formally cracked down on puppet abuse with the application thread.
In March, with East Niphilate and Wardomia still standing off, an international summit was held in Arcadia, the capital of Kasterborous Gallifrey to help ease tensions. As it dragged on into April, May, then June, two events stood out.
The first was the attempted assassination of Wardomian Generalfeldmarschall Alberto Sclorini early during the summit. The perpetrator was never caught, but it sparked a sensation that nearly killed all the other delegates as everyone unsheathed their illegal concealed weapons and the dignified assembly of world leaders nearly came to blows. Sclorini, 120, is now recuperating at home, although there has been rumor that he is indeed deceased.
The second was the attempted formation of the International World Union, an international union aimed at keeping the peace by enforcing strict weapons ratios on the signatories. After months of debate over the acceptable ratio, there was no settlement and the conference closed with the stagnation of the roleplay.

Decline and Closure
The roleplay was the lifeblood of the region. As it puttered and came to an anticlimactic stop in July, so did the rest of the region and its nations. Around then, in an attempt to jumpstart it, the Wardomian bloc of Wardomia, Kasterborous Gallifrey, J4ke empire and The random empire formulated a “Marck Plan”, a plan to invade East niphilate and start a world war. But they soon found that they were too lazy and that a world war was unfeasible without an active roleplay anyway. Either that or they were just cowards.
August was a sleepy month. In September, the region participated in the ORCA summit, where The random empire announced the Confederation’s withdrawal from the organisation. On 1 October, the region officially withdrew from ORCA and LCRUA, and so began her journey to oblivion. Then someone had a bright idea.

The random empire

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