The start of the Netherlands
By: Aashank2112

The Beginning-

The Kingdom of the Netherlands was founded on 6th May, 2022 by a group of players from places like France, Nova, and New Holland and ShadowVoider was made the first emperor. The Netherlands formed in the city of Amsterdam, which has now grown to a hub and major shopping center. Soon the towns of Brussels, Hague, Den Haag, Antwerp, Flanders, Essen, Luxemburg, Calais, Mainz, and Koln joined the same day. The next day on the 7th a shop was built in Amsterdam. MomoJohn helped plan and develop Amsterdam. 

The Netherlands Grew Rapidly due to its peaceful policies. Several towns not wanting war joined the Netherlands and built their own shopping areas, which helped the country’s financial growth.  It also first covered as many claims as possible before forming as a nation, this helped them secure the areas of Flanders, Netherlands proper and the Rhineland. However, many of these claims were in Germany’s “claims” which caused internal conflict. 

Brussels, a major town, soon broke off and founded Belgium, claiming several Dutch towns. An agreement was then reached in which the towns of Durnkik and Ghent were deleted and Belgium joined the Netherlands as part of a Benelux meganation. Around that time, another nation, Kaiserreich (later renamed Deutschland), expanded into the Rhine region. They were based in Frankfurt (not the current town, a little east). Due to claim conflicts in the Rhine regarding Mainz and Nurburg, Kaiserreich declared war on the Netherlands when the town of Easen fell and was claimed by the Dutch, and renamed Utrecht. Due to the war, the Rhine region experienced heavy funding, with towns such as Mainz, Nurburg, Cologne, and Ulm expanding quickly. Eventually, Kaiserreich would become inactive after their leaders were banned due to Nazism. After towns like Mainz and Hamburg became mainstream.

 This led to MattieMirakel (current king) making huge donations by which the Netherlands could buy Brussels and the town of Germany, the largest town at the time for a huge sum of 20k gold. This opened-up opportunities in Lower Saxony, which was being blocked up until then. 

Then, overclaim was announced. The immediate consequences were that towns such as Hannover were unclaimed, and many towns were merged. Towns were also unclaimed, while others sold their towns. The Netherlands managed to buy Bavaria, while the town of Germany, 900 chunks at that time, was divided up into smaller towns led by new players, who rapidly expanded into Lower Saxony. The bulk of the expansion was finished when Netherlands bought the towns of Frankfurt and Copenhagen. However, this rapid expansion had some problems. 

First, the mayors of two towns in Lower Saxony, Rosenberg and Wolfsburg, would betray us. Rosenberg, along with Kiel (now Brekenstede), were bribed to join Germany. Meanwhile, Wolfsburg was handed out to a friend of one of our mayors, but when the mayor was banned, the player who we gave Wolfsburg rage quit, and he deleted the town. A few days later, we couldn't get the town back, but Veyronity managed to snipe the town, and joined Germany with it. This would set off a series of events that would start the conflict between Netherlands and Germany. After a few back-and-forth dramas, the leader of Germany, Masrain, was demoted from mod after attempting to change the mayor of Rosenberg using mod powers when it was about to fall. He quit and Germany soon fell apart, while we picked up the crumbs. After this, the Netherlands became the dominant power in Europe.

Overseas Colonies (United Kingdom Of the Netherlands)

The first overseas nation to be founded by the Netherlands was the colony of Cape. Its capital was Cape Town. The colony did not expand as much at first, but later, during the term of MadGeckos as Prime Minister, the colony expanded quickly, with a cathedral and VOC building built in Cape Town. At its peak, Cape covered most of Southern Africa. However, the colony was largely abandoned after overclaim, and Cape Town fell briefly after the holder couldn't get on. The colony was reestablished by XixIos, before being sold off for 7k. Both James Bay in Canada, and Tunu in Greenland, briefly became part of the Netherlands. DutchEastIndies was first founded by StLouis_, who had wanted it to be a retirement home. He had bought a cheap nation there, and moved it to Batavia. However, Indochina, the dominant power in the region at that time, argued that it was in their claim. They tried to limit our expansion, and founded a town next to Batavia, but when they were out claimed, they declared war. The war was clearly in favor of Indochina, as they had much better military and more allies, but with gold and recruiting from LilFlint, it quickly expanded to surround the Indochinese towns. They briefly occupied a small portion of Flanders after it fell, but that was returned after negotiation by Fangering. Within a few months, Indochina had been expelled from Java with the exception of Yogyakarta. Because, StLouis_ had decided to quit, a mayor called MrGabie was called to take over. Currently, MOOSHTHEPRO123 is the King and takes care of all the affairs of the Dutch East Indies.