East Melanesian Union

The East Melanesian Union, frequently referred to as East Melanesia or EMU, is an Oceanian nation located on the Eastern islands of the Melanesian subcontinent. Currently residing 11 members, the nation has an average population with a below average amount of land.

Land
As of September 17, East Melanesia has confirmed land in Fiji, Vanuatu (outside of the Torba province, owned by Caledonia), New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, and Bougainville island. Their land is divided into 3 states: the Capital (Fiji), the Central (New Caledonia and Vanuatu), and the Solomon (Solomon islands and Bougainville) states.

Government
The EMU’s government is divided into three classes

Senator:

Senators are the major governing force of the union and make decisions relating to the entire nation. These include allying, declaring war, removing members, etc. A senator represents their state and if a decision is to be made that requires the vote of lower classes the senators are in charge of reporting to other senators. Senators are the founders and those who the nation has merged with.

Mayor:

Mayors are in charge of their respective island. They are allowed to make rules of their island if it does not violate the rights of citizens and are to make their land prosper. If a large decision is to be made by the senators mayors must report the desires of their citizens and themselves to the senators. Citizens are given mayorship if they join early or are deemed trustworthy.

Citizen:

Citizens are the basic members of East Melanesia. They hold power to vote in pressing matters but other than that they simply live on their respective islands. New members are automatically given citizenship.

History
The founders of East Melanesia, Underscoregg/Amperscore, Pattydawg28, and killerzzgunnz, were originally Zealandia on the previous Vanilla Earth. Zealandia had the most power and was located on the north island of New Zealand, but was abandoned shortly before the server closed. After months of inactivity the new season of Vanilla Earth was announced and Patty alerted the others. Originally hesitant, the two eventually started work on their own nation. on August 8th, 2020.

Beginning in Zealandia’s first colony, the Melanesian Empire was going to have its capital in Fiji and would claim the islands of the micro continent of Melanesia. First allying with the Kiwi Trade Federation due to being located in the founders’ homeland, they were alerted of the existence of Caledonia and Papua New Guinea, who claimed the islands in the nation’s sights.

They began by approaching Caledonia, who obviously claimed New Caledonia. In a surprisingly pleasant trade, EMU got ownership of NC in exchange for Vanuatu’s Torba Province, Caledonia’s now Capital. Caledonia and East Melanesia remains close allies to this day. Amperscore then approached Papua New Guinea, who claimed the Solomon Islands. After renaming from Melanesian Empire to the East Melanesian Union, the Solomon Islands were split in half, with EMU taking the East and PNG taking the west. Papua New Guinea has remained East Melanesia’s closest ally ever since, both figuratively and literally.

Much later Papua New Guinea realized they could no longer manage the West Solomon Islands and gave it sovereignty, leaving it in the hands of another user. They left very soon after, not telling anyone why, which left EMU under the impression the islands were up for grabs. Unfortunately this wasn’t the case, and the nation was given to a different user, Suke. The Solomon Islands and EMU allied, but a few days after Suke approached Amperscore with an idea. The idea was to unify their nations, and Amper agreed very quickly.

The new land was split up into the current states and Suke became senator of the Solomon States alongside Pattydawg. Weeks later Bluzeen, Papua New Guinea’s owner, came to East Melanesia with an amazing gift. Bougainville was given to EMU, now being part of the Solomon States and forming the nation’s current map layout. However, sadly Suke was banned by ViViD around the same time due to a joke about being underaged. With him gone and his friends arguably being gone too, the nations member count was halved, but they continued on, and will for as long as the server remains open.

Relations
The East Melanesian Union currently has 0 enemies and 13 allies, those being Papua New Guinea, Caledonia, Kiwi Trade Federation, Acadia, Grand Celtic Empire, Thailand, Potatoland, China, Palau, Australia, the Dutch Empire, Ecuador, and Madagascar.

They are a recognized nation according to the Vanilla Network and are part of one governmental organization, the Oceanian Union.