The Ducklands
The DucklandsThe Ducklands is the one of the largest nations, second in size to the Promised Lands, found north of Australia, this civilisation has upwards of 35 players and is led by a council of 6 members: 550 (the Duck Messiah, and overseer), 923 (the Right Feather to the Messiah), 309, 404, 733 and 97 (all ranked Arch Duck). | (Official banner and pixel flag of The Ducklands)
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History
The Ducklands is a nation that was founded on the first session of Trial 0. Originally called Jungle Civilisation, due to the nature of where the civilisation was established, the members convened together at the first place they found wood. They originally communicated through the Discord VC Collaboration 2, where a member with the number 550 took charge. 550 led the founding members to the Jungle, where a civilisation soon started to form. During the first session, a preliminary council began to emerge, comprising numbers: 923, 309, 404 and 97.
The Final Hours
During session 14, the last session, a large amount of Ducklander Guards had been deployed to The Promised Land, leaving most of the government and military out of the settlement. A group of people that used Madagascar as a jump point exploited this to launch a coup on Duckland, with the goal of "killing corrupt politicians" (Redcaps I think), these people soon left to The Promised Land. This along with terror attacks previously, had led to the destruction of the main treehouse, however, the town survived. There was a time after that were there was some semblance of social order in the settelment, as people who were previously labeled as terrorists, and duckland natives combined defended the land.
This did not last, as a group of people called "the revolutionary council", led by player 404, soon couped the settlement, which caused a complete collapse of social order. A few people attempted to live in the nether, but they soon got swallowed by the world border. Also, Notably, the parrot that lived in the base survived!
Economy
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Government
The council runs the civilisation, making concise decisions about the nation, deciding on designated roles for members, goals for future sessions, as well as political decisions that may impact the civilisation as a whole, as well as other civilisations.
Foreign affairs
The Ducklands primarily withdraw from political trades and deals, preferring to remain neutral. While they have mostly good relations with other civilisations, they have been the target of several terrorist attacks, as well as being the centre of a terrorist plot which now-exiled members of Lumber Coast orchestrated.
Military
The Ducklands posses one of, if not the strongest military force with more than 5 guardsman at any one time, with at least 2 Grandmaster guardsmen equipped with full diamond armor. The military serves to guard the land, due to the lack of external conflict.
Human Rights Abuses
Duckland allegedly has systematically targeted specific citizens and has done cruel things to them as a way to allegedly level up their levels in guardsmen. Around session 7 (unsure about the exact session) , they found that snowballing other players gave Guard XP, and combined with a snowball farm, they started with two consensual people snowballing each other. A few sessions latter they allegedly started forcing ordinary citizens into boxes where they could not escape, to easily level guardsmen xp. In session 13, they allegedly streamlined the proses, where they had the person allegedly that they were targeting shoveling snowballs so they would go directly in the abusers inventory so that they didn't have to stop to get snowballs.
One player allegedly ended up defecting to a nearby settlement, were when a Duck showed up, they allegedly called that person their "favorite snowball punching bag".
It is unclear it there is a specific group being targeted, or if it is entirely random who gets targeted. This is not "number racism", "600phobia", "numberism" or another related term. There is a possibility that this is an instance of Ageism, where younger people are targeted, but the amount of people targeted it too small to tell.