Although I must argue with the first point but after seeing your second and third points, the situation at the time is more clear as to what happened.

Thanks for the feedback. I’ll make sure to keep that in mind for future nation player news topics.

Many of you are aware of who FirstLeak is, the Vanacan King, but you may not know how he gained  the leadership of Vanaco/Shinseistan.

First, we must look at context , Shinseistan in August 2024 was a nation spread across Africa (From Cameroon to Somalia) and with holdings in Europe. MihaiGamerul is looking at ways to improve and expand the nation, and it so happened his old friend, FirstLeak, was online after a while. So MihaiGamerul invited him to his then town of Old Norston (Norston Caliphate as it is known as now). FirstLeak quickly integrated himself within the nation, establishing a large silver farm in the bunker of Old Norston and creating a business from it in Shinseistan.

Eventually, he decided to make the town of Bangui (now the capital of Vanaco) south-east of Old Norston, in Late August 2024 He rapidly expanded and recruited for the town, one of the recruits was his brother, RynnEverett.

It was in this time period, that FirstLeak gained the role of co-leader for his efforts to improve the nation, such as constructing the underground railway from the town of Hecturion (old town north of Hope, ruins can still be seen on map) and creating new ideas for the nation to expand and improve.

One thing, I noticed during all this, was when I visited Bangui and saw a large monument saying ‘The Nation of Vanaco founded 2019’. I brushed it off then, just thinking it was something to do with the lore of Bangui.

After 1 and a half month, Shinseistan was liberated by the Alliance at Newest Norston in October 2024 from the Thracian Dominion. MihaiGamerul was exhausted and overwhelmed from running the nation, so he stepped down the same month to make way for FirstLeak. An action he regrets to this day.

Fast-forward to January 2025, MihaiGamerul attempts to regain power  (co-leader) but is met by major backlash from the other people in Shinseistan , which forces him to leave as they brand him a ‘traitor’. This was FirstLeak’s golden opportunity , rename the nation to Vanaco, finally achieving his goal , as he used MihaiGamerul’s ‘attempted coup’ to say the nation should move on from it’s Shinsei past and look to the future under a New Vanacan state.

Whilst many people like me are not pleased with this renaming, I spoke to Boukirchin the other day and he said he was glad that Shinseistan had finally gone as it had such a bad reputation for its name.

An often not discussed topic is Siberium in China, whilst this period may have been very brief it has been crucial to the Alliance due to the Taiwan Port which threatens Japanese hegemony in the Pacific and as of right now controls it.

All this success can be credited to 2kwa, EighthJason925 and McBurgerWarrior. EighthJason925 founded the town of New_Taiwan and toggled it unpeaceful so it could join Siberium.

EighthJason925 invited the likes of me, Kolixzx and CRAVYC to join him in New Taiwan. CRAVYC joined first and remained the longest there out of the trio.

Soon after me and Kolixzx joined the town, we decided to look for a place to make a town, we initially were going to make it where the town of Malacca is currently. However, McBurgerWarrior advised us not to as it is too isolated by the opponents and may not have range.

Therefore, we decided to make the town of New Xanhai, south of the town Niigata. CRAVYC soon followed by making Flopper Town  just below New Xanhai.

The Town of Haerbin, the former Chinese Capital, also joined thanks to the efforts of Naluzzz of reclaiming it off Tallishstorm.

Another, honourable mention is the town of Alibaba whose mayor at the time was Pg69_, a perm-banned player for duping, joined aswell further strengthening Siberium’s position in China.

Downfall:

I left New Xanhai briefly to help McBurgerWarrior reclaim Faith, however Kolixzx didn’t log on for a week after that and I didn’t have his discord at the time so I thought he quit so I briefly joined Nadym then made a town in Southern Arabia. In Nadym, McBurgerWarrior and I had a conversation in which McBurgerWarrior said he would prefer for EighthJason925 to expand in Mirage (Arabia).

Meanwhile, Kolixzx had returned and merged his town with CRAVYC and they decided to make a nation in China but had little support from Siberium so they saw an empty unclaimed fort in Finland and moved there instead. They are now rulers of the Finnish Empire.

I decided to leave Siberium for Persia and in the midst of all this, Siberium not having a proper fort in China decided to toggle New Taiwan to peaceful and leave it as a port with trust for Siberium and Alliance Members instead. However, as you may know New Taiwan is in Siberium again as it has range to Siberium’s fort of Sentinel in Eastern India.

During Persia’s existence, Mangoooishere pursued the policy of neutrality which was a major boost to the early development of the nation. However, with the rise of the Quintessence Syndicate, this neutral status was not to be maintained for much longer unless Persia joined the Alliance or Coalition. Something we desperately wished to avoid as our principles would be meaningless.

So we began to look for other fellow nations who wished to pursue neutrality yet still be able to defend themselves with the help of allies. Knowing that the Alchak Federation was an advocate for neutrality, the Persian Leadership approached the Alchak Leadership and began to discuss plans of a defensive pact in which either nation would defend the other , should they be sieged in the future. The Alchak Federation using their friendship with the Dominion of Teyvat, began to include them in the negotiations . The Mashriqi Caliphate, led by vectyl and GingfulGlider expressed their interest aswell  and so did Eastern Columbia. The negotiations were finished and it was agreed upon that the defensive pact was to be coined as the ‘Grand Republic’.

Initially, at the start there was a lot of work to be done and many things not agreed upon, such as matters of policy and criteria of if a nation was allowed to join the pact. The States of Ember and USSR both applied to join the pact but both were denied due to concerns raised about both nations and how they would contribute to the Pact. Persia and the Mashriqi Caliphate both used their influence to deny any further application from both nations to join the pact.

Unfortunately, Persia disbanded due to Mangoooishere being occupied with other duties in real life and the Dominion of Teyvat de-facto merged with the Siberium Federation to form the Siberium Dominion.

However, this did not prevent the pact’s defensive capabilities from being weakened as a joint Grand Republic defence of Beograd led to an overwhelming victory thanks to the efforts of the Alchak Federation, Mashriqi Caliphate and Eastern Columbia in February 2025.

In March 2025, The recently-formed Duchy of Lithuania, led by Konstantin_XI and the Finnish Empire, led by CRAVYC and Kolixzx, joined the Grand Republic further strengthening it’s defensive capabilities.