Antica

Antican Commonwealth

Official language	English
Capital	Nafticon
Largest cities	Nafticon
Website	http://www.nafticon.org
Forum	http://forums.nafticon.org
Number of citizens	11
Number of active citizens	~
Date founded	June 17, 2003
Government	Republic, Timed Democracy
Currency	Pecunia
Map versions	6.6.7-Present

Antica is a micronation that was founded on June 17, 2003 by Delphi Augustus and Octavius Me. It was originally governed as the Dinarchy of Antica, and the two served as its two Dinarchs, sharing near absolute power, for most of the Dinarchy's existence. On August 31, 2005, a group of Anticans, including Octavius Me, left to found the Republic of Antica. The Dinarchy quickly lost most of its population to the Republic and the remnant ceded itself to Shireroth on December 1, 2005. The Republic continued to operate until September 2007, when its legislature, the Assembly, repealed its own constitution. On January 1, 2008, a third Antican government, the Commonwealth, was founded, and is Antica's current government.

History

Dinarchy

For the first few months of its existence, many nations kept their distance from the young, rogue nation, who was mocked for having declared a war on the Theocracy of Mediterranea, which was expected by Antica to be fought in the "arena" of a computer game. Just over a month later, the nation had a spy caught in the Theocracy and the Soviet Republic of Arkania, and was ridiculed further. While expected to cower and bow their heads in this instance, Delphi Augustus issued a defiant statement regarding the acts of espionage, and from that point forward allowed Antica to dig itself from the hole it had fallen into.

Since these two incidents that hallmarked the nation's beginning, Antica has gone on to become a unique figure among micronations. Each of its governments have adopted citizenship limitation, from an officially second-class status in the Dinarchy, to limiting its highest elected positions from dual citizens in the later incarnations, and developed an interesting and unique community mostly independent from the sector.

After the nation's first anniversary, on June 17, 2004, it became an Empire upon the acquisition of its first province, the former Dominion of Korhal. Soon, however, Korhal's former leader, Jordan, decided that Antican was being oppressive of Korhal, and rebelled against the Empire, with no success. Within days, Jordan was brought back in, along with Korhal.

Later on, Edgard Portela, Emperor of Madland, sought help from the Antican Empire to shelter and help his nation grow. The Emperors gladly undertook the task, but with an unfortunate lack of success. After a short period of time under Antican rule, Gus Portela was accused of being a paple of Edgard Portela, who was removed from power and put on trial. The experience left Edgard Portela deciding that it was time for Madland to leave Antica. After threats by the Antican government and negotiations between the Dinarchs and Portela, an agreement was worked out, and Madland left Antica legally.

In late 2005 and early 2005, Antica's population began to balloon thanks to the recruitment efforts of Olorix and Foghorn. Foghorn proceeded to found Zulu 5 Oscar Inc., Antica's first multinational corporation, which spawned a newspaper (The Micronational Wulaptonachgat), a podcast (KZFO), and even, albeit for a short period, its own mercenary army. The population nearly quadrupled within a relatively short period of time, and this put a great deal of stress on the relatively rigid structure of the Dinarchy and clamoring for democratic reforms began. Its first political parties developed: the Antican Progressive Development Party, founded by Olorix, and the Nihillalatschik Wulatenamen Party (NWP), founded by Foghorn, though , like later attempts to introduce political parties, they had little to no actual political power.

During much of 2005, Antica was rocked by political strife, culminating in a revolution, led by Dinarch Octavius Me, Foghorn, Olorix, and Steven, in favor of a republic. The initial revolution fizzled out and produced a compromise where a trial period would take place with elected Dinarchs. Hearing of the failure of the revolution, Octavius Me resigned on August 23, 2005, quickly followed by Foghorn and Steven on August 24th. On August 31, 2005, they declared the founding of the Republic of Antica. The Chancellor and Vice Chancellor, Oric and Entropious, followed soon after. A replacement Dinarch, Gemini-DC was chosen, but in time he too resigned and joined the Republic.

After months of turbulence and the loss of much of the population, the Dinarchy willingly ceded itself to the Imperial Republic of Shireroth on 1 December 2005 by the Treaty of Aquilaria. It remained in existence as the Duchy of Antica until 11 May 2006, when it was dissolved by Imperial Decree No.232.

Republic

The Republican government intentionally decentralized its power, creating a relatively weak leadership position in the Speaker of the Assembly, a deficiency that would fail to be rectified as time progressed. Because the Dinarchy was hostile to the Republic, and Shireroth had later annexed it, Republican Anticans typically looked at Shireroth through a lens of suspicion.

During Steven's first time as Speaker, this led to the nefarious Declaration of Nafticon, which attempted to unite a number of nations against Shireroth as leverage during their treaty negotiations for more MCS territory from the former Dinarchy.

During the time Olorix was Speaker, when activity in the Republic peaked, the Non-Aligned Movement was started with Natopia and Riponia as an attempt to offset Shirerithian and Grand Commonwealth power in the sector.

Following Olorix's second term as Speaker of the Assembly, activity in the Republic steadily declined through the end of 2006 and into 2007. Chrimigules and Braden Indianensis both tried to reenergize the Republic during their terms, but by September 2007, it was decided that there was no longer enough activity to maintain the existing government. The Articles of the Republic, its constitutional document, was repealed, and Antica went into dormancy.

Commonwealth

On January 1, 2008, following the activation of a new bulletin board, Braden Indianensis and Chrimigules sent a mass email to every Antican they could, calling them back in an attempt to restart Antica. About a dozen, including Delphi Augustus himself (though he did not accept citizenship), showed up and discussed the creation of a new Antican government. The Commonwealth Constitution was eventually passed by the end of the month.

Activity quickly disintegrated under Speaker of the Assembly Schneider, but regained balance during the Co-Speakership of Aryeztur and Oric. Since then, Antica has made attempts to reach out to the sector that it had been isolated from for practically a year.