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'''Victoria''' is a city in Blizzard and was the capital of the former Victorian Republic. It was started as a small colony of the XR, based over on Active Worlds, but later declared it's independence in the wake of political crisis and remained an independent city for a month before declaring itself a republic. Victoria has been responsible for being a springboard for newer users that have went on to develop their own cities or builds outside of the area over the years, such as Cannaville, New Phoenix City, and Gabrieleville. The city itself is known for also introducing some of VP's best builders towards the platform.
'''Victoria''' is a city in [[Blizzard]] and is the capital of the larger [[Victoria|Victorian Republic]]. Started in 2015 as an experimental offshoot of a larger building community in Active Worlds, the city of Victoria became a proper independent project in the aftermath of the city's main leaders being forcibly exiled onto Virtual Paradise due to larger community drama in AW. Victoria itself is notable for having inspired later cities such as [[Cannaville]] & [[New Phoenix City]], as well as having brought people over who would become respected as master builders within the VP community at large.
==Overview==
==History==
Victoria began as a small village setup for people who wanted to move over to VP, and remained as a territory under full control of the government in comparison to it's sisters whom allowed more local governance. It never became as big as it's sister communities until the city declared itself a republic months later, but did serve as an example for a partly-successful migration between two platforms. Political turmoil, hacking incidents, and fading interest forced the XR to disband as it lost most of it's government and population while the remains regrouped in Victoria.  
===Beginnings===
In 2015, citizens of Alphaworld began work on a new city called Fantasia. The city became a boom-town for residents that continued to make use of the platform, and it had attracted builders such as OptimumPx and KoL to come together and form a unique building group called the Xennan Republic. As the community grew and began to host community events, the leadership also began to make public criticisms of the direction of AW, particularly aimed at the owner for allowing the platform to stagnate. By this point, the residents of Fantasia became more aware of Virtual Paradise and its capabilities as a platform, prompting some to explore the idea of expanding XR into VP. The Victoria Colony was never intended to be a proper city, and was treated more of an experiment in testing out VP's building capabilities. It was not until tensions boiled to a head that the owner of AWI would disable the account of Fantasia's mayor, The Courier, which forced most of the Xennan building group over to VP. Victoria would declare itself as an independent city-state, operating in the same fashion as the Xennan project.
===From Growing Pains to Major Power (2015-2017)===
Victoria itself would not find much love in Virtual Paradise starting off; largely due in part towards its choice of creation as well as steadfast independence from most infrastructure within Blizzard. Victoria would truthfully not be taken seriously at all until the migration of Optimum into VP, who laid the first initial builds (mainly ports of older Fantasia and Phoenix City builds) in the town. In order to expand, the Victorian leadership would encourage AW citizens to migrate to VP, primarily those who were experienced builders. This was met with mixed results, but Victoria and her efforts of encouraging immigration into VP would nevertheless bring people such as GSK, Tardy, SirGreendown, and Optimum into the platform.  


The city was immediately faced with several options after the fall of the XR: join Palmshire, go it alone as a city, or become it's own nation. A month later, it became a nation due to not wanting to lose it's any of it's sovereignty. After it's statehood, the city began to construct [[Lake Victoria]] as well as an international transportation network connecting Vicky and the area of NCH within the kingdom. Vicky during it's time as a republic has also been it's largest period of expansion, with the formation of a port and growth around the lake and eastern regions of the area. In July 2016, the city government approved a request to create an autonomous region involving the construction of an artificial island, hereby becoming the city's first individually owned district. In August, the issue of multiple migrant communities from Active Worlds not fully integrating with the main area of Blizzard came to a head. The Victorian government issued a joint statement alongside the [[Lemerican Federation]] (and indirectly [[Summerville]] for a brief moment) within the Facebook group, protesting the current Palmshire parliament system, accusing it of not fully representing all of VP while imposing laws upon the world of Blizzard itself. After solutions were reached, drama flared again the following day until the existing parliament including Palmshire itself was dissolved by Legion, leaving Victoria, Summerville, and Lemerican the only active communities for a while until it's revival.
Of much larger issue was its relationship with the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]] and her associated cities, which Victoria found herself in direct competition with. The city of Victoria would heavily push its national project, the Republic of Victoria, as an alternative to the long-standing kingdom. This became complete with its own version of a parliament, the Peerage of Victoria, which was treated as a shot against the Parliament as it was seen by many to be the de-facto meeting venue for the VP community at the time. Peers were often the major builders within the city itself who de-facto controlled large chunks of metropolitan Vicky territory, which was meant to reward and encourage retention of builders exclusively to the city, mainly to no avail. In August 2016, tensions would come to a head as Victoria would be the main force alongside [[Summerville]] and the [[Lemerican Federation]] in protesting the parliament system on the VP Facebook group, jointly accusing the Parliament of not fully representing all of VP while imposing laws upon the world of Blizzard itself. After solutions were reached, drama flared again the following day until the existing parliament including Palmshire itself was dissolved by Legion, leaving Victoria, Summerville, and Lemerican the only active communities for a while.


The governmental body of Victoria was dissolved in October under order of the High Governor in response to the fallout. Eventually, the peerage was reformed and revived in the later portions of the year. Victoria would gain new builders such as Tardyllamma and PCBilder later in December 2016, leading to a massive expansion of the city itself and the revitalization of the Victorian Sea District project by RyanLion and Courier, allowing for the formation of a proper canal and small sea region to surround all of Victoria's northern newfound coastline.
Victoria's national government would be dissolved as well as that of Palmshire's own government collapsing by January 2017, but the city itself remained an active force and quickly reformed its own government in the wake of community anarchy in VP. Neighboring New Beachfield and Victoria would merge together, briefly forming '''New Atlanta''' until August 2017, when the city of NB changed hands back to Sarah, although it remained apart of the republic. Cannaville would also become closely tied to developments in the city due to its proximity to Vicky.
===New Atlanta-era===
===Contemporary Victoria (2018 to Present)===
In January 2017, the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]] collapsed, leaving the nearby city of New Beachfield independent. Negotiations began with Sarah to bring NB into the republic long before the collapse, but it was eventually decided on merging the two cities to unite under the name of New Atlanta. Eventually in August 2017, disagreements between the Victorian and New Beachfield local governments forced Sarah to withdraw from NB and make a new district in New Huntington, leaving the now old "New" Beachfield under direct control of the Victorian segment. Eventually in November 2017, the Victorian government officially considered the former NB area to no longer be apart of the city, leaving the land up for grabs and preferring to further integrate with neighboring Cannaville.
In 2018, the Victorian Republic was formally dissolved for a second time, which led to the birth of the [[Commonwealth of Independent Cities]], meant to replace the influence of nation roleplay within Blizzard and encourage cooperation among individual cities. The city itself would remain somewhat silent until the early 2020s in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and restored interest among the wider community in Virtual Paradise. The national government itself would be reformed again by 2022, in a slimmer form that only considered Cannaville and New Beachfield to be returning members, and the city government would be reorganized as well. March 2023 was a particularly noteworthy time in Victorian history, as Cannaville itself would merge directly with the city of Victoria, creating Canna County (the area of former Cannaville) and granting Tardyllama the rank of Peer. Core Victoria would be reorganized into Victoria County, granting Peerage to Courier, OptimumPx, and PCBilder. RyanLion would also be given Peerage in the newly established Ryan County in the same month.
===Dissolution of the Republic===
 
In 2018, the republic was dissolved and the city of Victoria became an independent city once again, annexing the former captaincies of New Ave (itself formerly apart of the city) and New Demonville into it's city government. A new organization, the Commonwealth of Independent Cities, was declared and all former members including Victoria were automatically made apart of the organization.
The Commonwealth would also establish a new charter, with Victoria signing onto the revived organization alongside Summerville, New Cypress Hollow, Cannaville, and Lynnfeld.
==City Government==
Victoria uses a council-manager government led by an city council, a mayor, and an appointed city manager. The city council is organized as the Peerage of Victoria, in which select builders are given special rights largely due to a number of factors (amount of builds, territory management, etc). The mayor is the prime leader of the city and can override peers, but peers usually have a large degree of freedom in operation. Counties are organized districts under the direct leadership of a Peer, whereas Territorial Districts are under direct leadership by the mayor direct. Peers can only be appointed and revoked by the mayor
 
The current peers of Victoria are as follows:
*The Courier (mayor and peer for Victoria County)
*OptimumPx (peer for Victoria County)
*PCBilder (peer for Victoria County)
*Tardyllamma (peer for Canna County, formerly the city of Cannaville)
*RyanLion (peer for Ryan County)
 
At the moment, there are currently three counties (Victoria, Ryan, and Canna) and one territorial district (Augusta)

Revision as of 02:01, 20 March 2023

Victoria (city)
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City of Virtual Paradise
Leader(s)

The Courier

Founded

2015

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Victoria is a city in Blizzard and is the capital of the larger Victorian Republic. Started in 2015 as an experimental offshoot of a larger building community in Active Worlds, the city of Victoria became a proper independent project in the aftermath of the city's main leaders being forcibly exiled onto Virtual Paradise due to larger community drama in AW. Victoria itself is notable for having inspired later cities such as Cannaville & New Phoenix City, as well as having brought people over who would become respected as master builders within the VP community at large.

History

Beginnings

In 2015, citizens of Alphaworld began work on a new city called Fantasia. The city became a boom-town for residents that continued to make use of the platform, and it had attracted builders such as OptimumPx and KoL to come together and form a unique building group called the Xennan Republic. As the community grew and began to host community events, the leadership also began to make public criticisms of the direction of AW, particularly aimed at the owner for allowing the platform to stagnate. By this point, the residents of Fantasia became more aware of Virtual Paradise and its capabilities as a platform, prompting some to explore the idea of expanding XR into VP. The Victoria Colony was never intended to be a proper city, and was treated more of an experiment in testing out VP's building capabilities. It was not until tensions boiled to a head that the owner of AWI would disable the account of Fantasia's mayor, The Courier, which forced most of the Xennan building group over to VP. Victoria would declare itself as an independent city-state, operating in the same fashion as the Xennan project.

From Growing Pains to Major Power (2015-2017)

Victoria itself would not find much love in Virtual Paradise starting off; largely due in part towards its choice of creation as well as steadfast independence from most infrastructure within Blizzard. Victoria would truthfully not be taken seriously at all until the migration of Optimum into VP, who laid the first initial builds (mainly ports of older Fantasia and Phoenix City builds) in the town. In order to expand, the Victorian leadership would encourage AW citizens to migrate to VP, primarily those who were experienced builders. This was met with mixed results, but Victoria and her efforts of encouraging immigration into VP would nevertheless bring people such as GSK, Tardy, SirGreendown, and Optimum into the platform.

Of much larger issue was its relationship with the Kingdom of Palmshire and her associated cities, which Victoria found herself in direct competition with. The city of Victoria would heavily push its national project, the Republic of Victoria, as an alternative to the long-standing kingdom. This became complete with its own version of a parliament, the Peerage of Victoria, which was treated as a shot against the Parliament as it was seen by many to be the de-facto meeting venue for the VP community at the time. Peers were often the major builders within the city itself who de-facto controlled large chunks of metropolitan Vicky territory, which was meant to reward and encourage retention of builders exclusively to the city, mainly to no avail. In August 2016, tensions would come to a head as Victoria would be the main force alongside Summerville and the Lemerican Federation in protesting the parliament system on the VP Facebook group, jointly accusing the Parliament of not fully representing all of VP while imposing laws upon the world of Blizzard itself. After solutions were reached, drama flared again the following day until the existing parliament including Palmshire itself was dissolved by Legion, leaving Victoria, Summerville, and Lemerican the only active communities for a while.

Victoria's national government would be dissolved as well as that of Palmshire's own government collapsing by January 2017, but the city itself remained an active force and quickly reformed its own government in the wake of community anarchy in VP. Neighboring New Beachfield and Victoria would merge together, briefly forming New Atlanta until August 2017, when the city of NB changed hands back to Sarah, although it remained apart of the republic. Cannaville would also become closely tied to developments in the city due to its proximity to Vicky.

Contemporary Victoria (2018 to Present)

In 2018, the Victorian Republic was formally dissolved for a second time, which led to the birth of the Commonwealth of Independent Cities, meant to replace the influence of nation roleplay within Blizzard and encourage cooperation among individual cities. The city itself would remain somewhat silent until the early 2020s in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and restored interest among the wider community in Virtual Paradise. The national government itself would be reformed again by 2022, in a slimmer form that only considered Cannaville and New Beachfield to be returning members, and the city government would be reorganized as well. March 2023 was a particularly noteworthy time in Victorian history, as Cannaville itself would merge directly with the city of Victoria, creating Canna County (the area of former Cannaville) and granting Tardyllama the rank of Peer. Core Victoria would be reorganized into Victoria County, granting Peerage to Courier, OptimumPx, and PCBilder. RyanLion would also be given Peerage in the newly established Ryan County in the same month.

The Commonwealth would also establish a new charter, with Victoria signing onto the revived organization alongside Summerville, New Cypress Hollow, Cannaville, and Lynnfeld.

City Government

Victoria uses a council-manager government led by an city council, a mayor, and an appointed city manager. The city council is organized as the Peerage of Victoria, in which select builders are given special rights largely due to a number of factors (amount of builds, territory management, etc). The mayor is the prime leader of the city and can override peers, but peers usually have a large degree of freedom in operation. Counties are organized districts under the direct leadership of a Peer, whereas Territorial Districts are under direct leadership by the mayor direct. Peers can only be appointed and revoked by the mayor

The current peers of Victoria are as follows:

  • The Courier (mayor and peer for Victoria County)
  • OptimumPx (peer for Victoria County)
  • PCBilder (peer for Victoria County)
  • Tardyllamma (peer for Canna County, formerly the city of Cannaville)
  • RyanLion (peer for Ryan County)

At the moment, there are currently three counties (Victoria, Ryan, and Canna) and one territorial district (Augusta)

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