Operation Goodbyekitty: Hungary Ends Now!

Day 725, 02:26 Published in USA China by pyroelectricity
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The Three I’s and Early v1 Peace
Iran, Indonesia, Matzalandia, and WWII
Salvation: From Goon Rush to Baby Boom
Hellokitty and the Fall of Indonesia
Operation Goodbyekitty


About a year ago (369 days to be exact), Beijing was liberated at the start of what is by far the largest Peace operation to date: China.

The Three I's: Iran, Indonesia, Italy

Today, it's hard to imagine an eRepublik without the overwhelming presence of Hungary in both Peace and the general community. If you're as eOld as I am, you probably remember a time when the powerful countries of the world were Indonesia and Romania, and everyone else was about half their size with the exception of the ever-inflated eUSA. And then, one day, Hungary suddenly mattered and everyone was like "wtf?"

Before Hungary, there were the three I’s. Iran, Indonesia, and Italy were the axis of Peace. Of course this was in a time when Italy’s population was at about 3000 (about twice what it is today), Indonesia’s was at about 5000 (about half of what it is today), and Iran’s was about 5000 (about two-thirds of what it is today). Just like today, the rest of Peace didn’t really matter. Back then, the difference was much smaller, and we had no Mistwalker and Sebahmah to point it out.

Iran was, as Quicksilver put it, the secret empire. They were powerful, numerous, organized, and most importantly isolated. You never saw Iranian players anywhere. They have their own forums written in Farsi, which to most people, including me, looks like a bunch of random garbage scrolling across a page. They supposedly had their own IRC, but it was always almost empty. Iran tended to be silent in the game too, rarely reaching out to other countries. You never knew when Iran was going to strike, what region they would attack next. They maintain much of their empire today, and always stand ready to emerge from the background to once again push events in Asia over the edge.

Indonesia was the Pertamax empire, the friendly and open community always eager to absorb new culture, citizens, and most frequently regions. They were the primary defenders of France, and even back then they were the most stable empire. That stability would of course ultimately be their downfall as they became overly invested in conquered territories. Indonesia’s reputation for friendly players was balanced by its reputation for extreme strategy and extensive multiaccounts. Indonesia has always had the best strategists. There never was and probably never will be anyone better than Nico. If you pay close attention to eHistory, you start to realize that most of it was just eIndonesia exploiting the conflict between Romania and Hungary for their own benefit. On the other hand Indonesia’s incredibly stable economy led to accusations of multiaccounts which would intensify during the war between Romania and Indonesia. No eIndonesians I know have ever denied this, but they say that people from other countries make their multis in Indonesia because of the preexisting stable economy.

Italy’s reputation was partially based in fact, partially based in a really cool name, and partially based on the fact that most of Peace was small countries. When Atlantis was formed, the idea was to get all the large countries in the world together and take over the rest of the world. The smaller countries of the world, with the exceptions of Brazil, Iran, and Indonesia, banded together to form Peace. Brazil was large but largely unorganized and for the most part was always a secondary power. Italy took the title of the third “I” because they were simply bigger than most other Peace countries. That’s not to say they didn’t still pack a punch, and in fact they were stronger than several Atlantis countries, but they weren’t quite the gods everyone painted them to be, especially after they lost many of their more powerful players to Theocracy in January.

Irandonesia
Irandonesia.

The combination of Iran and Indonesia, the two countries that dominated the Asian theater of WWII only to find themselves in the middle of Hungary’s region swap campaign in WWIII. The credit that is frequently given to Indonesia really belongs to Iran just as much. It was never the Indonesian empire, but the Irandonesian empire.

The most important but silent action of these two allied countries was the TO of China. Iran had previously conquered most of north China, gaining two high Iron regions. The TO of China, by two parties called the Stars of Melijanna (Indonesian, present-day Serpentia) and Freed0m (Iranian, present-day China Lao-Wai Party), was beautifully executed and well disguised. The Indonesians and Iranians painted themselves as foreigners who had grown tired of Peace and gone off to join a new country, and most eChinese believed this image. It was, of course, slightly suspicious that they showed up 4 hours before the congressional elections, but most believed that they meant no harm.

Well, they were wrong. The SoM elected Mimihitam to the office of president, where she made China Irandonesia’s bitch. China was forced to accept MPPs from first Iran and Indonesia, and then Hungary and Brazil. (By this time, Italy had faded away) China was one of Peace’s most useful tools for blocking Romania during WWII, and most of the fiery successions of advances and retreats throughout the war were over the Chinese regions. Toward the end, “China attacked ESR, Romania” became a very common message.

Working in harmony with the remnants of Pakistan, Irandonesia would often swap regions just to confound Romania in the so-called ‘Chatterbox’ strategy. This takes advantage of an old flaw in the war module. The best example of this was WSRIII. Indonesia attacked WSR. Romania, not wanting to risk losing the valuable region, asked Norway (which held Northern Russia) to attack it. They obliged, and Romania retreated WSR to Norway. However, there was a difference of several hours between the time Indonesia attacked and Romania retreated. The battle with Indonesia started putting out values of null (Aleph-null-plex ftw) and after several headless chickens was canceled by default. This strategy has been adapted several times to confound attacks, and remained viable until the admins announced that the war module would be changed so a defender could only retreat from the first attack on any given region.

Back in China, Irandonesia worked to make sure they had a potential fourth country to add to the chatterboxes, and made sure that all efforts for control of eChina to return to the eChinese were subdued. After the Romanian TO of Pakistan and the escapades of Matzalandia, China was forced to attack Pakistan, thereby activating its MPP with Romania. Matzalandia, led by the infamous Han Solo, attacked back, setting off China’s MPPs. (Yes, China actually had MPPs) Against the will of the eChinese, eChina occupied Jammu/Kashmir, which would not be returned to India (it was an original region of Pakistan at the time, the admins changed the original owner to India which China was occupying it) until the end of the TO.

In order to cement their dominance of the region, Iran gave Liaoning Q5/Q5, and made it their stronghold. Just as people in Indonesia were told to move to Xinjiang, people in Iran were told to move to Liaoning. Both Liaoning and Heilongjiang are high iron regions. Iran chose Liaoning as a fortress because of its location, adjacent to Beijing. If China ever got out of hand, Iran could attack them and not fear a counterattack because a small country like China couldn’t afford to attack a fortress like Liaoning. Liaoning having high iron doubly cemented its usefulness.

Salvation

Before leaving China, Mimihitam made one final decision that would change China forever. She attacked South Korea.
China occupied Gyeonggi, and all the goons that had previously been in South Korea moved to China. The second-largest goon rush in eRepublik history occurred in Late April-Early May 2009, when about 300 goons came to China. For months, China struggled to throw off the mantle of Something Awful. This was finally accomplished in October with the TO of the second and final Juche Box Party which signaled the end of a formal goon presence in eChina.
There was a good side to the goon rush though. Firstly, the goons were the first serious company managers in China. The strong economic base they created persists today, and has allowed China to have an unusually high GDP for a country with a mere 3500 people.

More importantly, they imitated the Juche and Songun philosophies of RL North Korea. A few RL Chinese players that had been around during the Mimihitam era mistook them from actual Koreans. They took advantage of general Chinese hate of Korea to achieve the first gradual baby boom for eChina, the Cwebgame generation. Cwebgame is a large gaming forum in China, and is one of three forums with a presence in eChina.

June and July saw the growth of the Cwebgame generation and the first primarily RL Chinese congress in eChinese history.
August saw the first true baby boom in eChina. Several users from CW attracted the attention of Stage1st (aka saraba1st), another forum in RL China. For almost the entire month of August, there was consistent daily growth of between 100 and 200 citizens. The current president, Aliao, is from the S1 generation.

Fun fact: Aliao is the president of eChina, and Aoliao is the Mandarin word for Oreo.

September was the first time an RL Chinese became the president of eChina. The eChinese now had control of their own country.

Hellokitty

While Iran was busy developing Liaoning, the second high iron region, Heilongjiang, was simply sitting there, undeveloped and uninhabited. When Hungary gave back Urals to Russia, they needed a new high iron region. Iran was “more than willing” (I’m sure) to give up Heilongjiang to Hungary. Despite natively speaking what is considered one of the hardest languages on the planted, Hungarians couldn’t wrap their tounges (that’s what she said) around Heilongjiang. They instantly latched on to the name Hellokitty, and it stuck.

Fun fact: Most eChinese find it offensive when someone says Hellokitty instead of the proper Hei-long-jiang.

Through a complex series of region swaps, Hungary obtained Heilongjiang and opened the North American theater in WWIII once again by swapping Iran into Canada, specifically for the Yukon and Northwest Territory regions. Hungary also gained several Canadian regions including Manitoba and Nunavut.

As Peace was slowly pushed out of North America, Hungary began to panic. Fearing the loss of their Q5 hospitals and resources, they invested more and more in Heilongjiang. When their worst fears became true and they lost Manitoba and Nunavut, they repatriated thousands to Heilongjiang. The superfotresses of Muntenia and Florida were soon rivaled by Heilongjiang in both wall points and their value to their owners. Heilongjiang became everything to Hungary. Lose hlj and you lose iron. Lose iron and you lose everything.

After the fall of Alaska, Eden turned their attention to Indonesia. Indonesia had been invested heavily in foreign regions since the time of the Three I’s, which made them vulnerable to RWs. Eden would usually start several RWs at once and only focus on one. This tactic was slowly refined, and became more and more threatening to Peace.
Hungary became more invested in Heilongjiang than Indonesia had ever been in any foreign region. Both of them became paranoid of attempted RWs and liberations. Eden and the EMC continued to move around Asia fighting in RWs, sometimes successfully, sometimes unsuccessfully.

Fun fact: The literal meaning of Heillongjiang is “Black Dragon River”

The Multi-RW tactic reached a pinnacle on one fateful night. Eden started several RWs in various regions including some Indian and North Korean regions, and Heilongjiang. All of Hungary’s internal alarms went off, and they tanked the wall to well above a million points. Several hours later, after Peace had diverted most of their resources to Heilongjiang, Eden struck the true objective: Western Australia.

Despite the obvious plight of Indonesia, Hungary continued tanking up the wall in Heilongjiang. Indo recalled all their tanks and prepared to sacrifice all in order to defend WA, a foreign region Indo had been particularly invested in for a year and a half. In the last minutes of the battle, the EMC plus the elite units of most Eden countries struck the wall down with astounding speed. Without Hungary’s support, Indonesia’s tanks couldn’t hold the wall up and Western Australia was lost while Hungary dumped gold on a dummy battle.
Indonesia lost WA because Hungary kept their tanks at Heilongjiang.

Operation Goodbyekitty

Thus far, most of eChina’s history has been part of Peace’s grand schemes in WWII and WWIII. They’ve been abused terribly: Their country was taken from them twice, their pride many more times, and regions that rightfully belong to the 3500 citizens of eChina are propping up Hungary, a dying empire.

It’s time for this to end. Hellokitty has been Hungary for too long.
Of course Hungary will fight much harder for Hlj than Indo did for WA. Unfortunately the Multi-RW tactic is effectively obsolete for the simple fact that Peace doesn’t have enough foreign regions for this tactic to be truly effective. There are other tactics that could be used, but they are by far too complex and expensive to be used on a single region. The only way to win is brute force. Unfortunately, Peace is still stronger than---

oh wait

Indonesia and Italy just left Peace


Peace may still have a slightly larger population, but their population is younger and less experienced. Indonesia is currently occupied with their campaign in Malaysia. Serbia recently had a baby boom, but it’s not old enough to deploy. Many Peace countries are quite unhappy, and would not support the RW. Even if they did, the vast majority of Peace’s power lies in Hungary, Serbia, and Russia. Serbia’s army has repeatedly proven that it is no match for Eden. The Falcons have slain the Eagles many times over. Russia has never been able to stand up in a fight against a strong country.

That just leaves Hungary. Without Indonesia’s support, they won’t be able to hold off all of Eden. But if Indonesia completes their objective in Malaysia, they will be able to send their tanks and units to Heilongjiang.

We must strike now to take down Hungary once and for all, we must free Heilongjiang! We owe it to the world, and we owe it to China.

Everyone would have to be deployed, we would have to disregard original regions for the time being. We can win Heilongjiang.
But we must act quickly! If Serbia’s latest baby boom matures or Indonesia finishes in Malaysia before Heilongjiang is liberated, it will give Peace the extra edge they need to win.

Ladies and Gentlemen of Eden,
Tonight, we dine in Harbin.

(~-pyroelectricity-~)