The Greater Pan-Asian Meritocracy of the Tri-Isles

In the wake of omgmac's abandoning the server, te3 taking over the role of God-Emperor and the beginning of a new age in Oceania, the few remaining active members of The Great Pan-Asian Meritocracy of the Tri-Isles of 1.8 decided to find a new territory to settle into.

Tefal set out on a boat during the very first days of Oceania as Sheep Island was being built and sailed for a while past the settled islands until he found a small archipelago of three isles reminiscent of the Tri-Isles of old. There, the second Tri-Isles were founded, Kappa Island was hollowed out to make a farm and the pagoda was built on Tengu Island. The GAM was back.

Several players have since joined the nation, but a lot of them turned out to be cave dwellers. Due to the general lack of motivation in building the Isles and the relatively small population of builders, the archipelago has been left in an unfinished state.

To concentrate their efforts into a somewhat-more planned project, the city of Eien-kyo was founded by the GAM on its mainland at the beginning of March 2012.

The original archipelago of the Tri-Isles is surrounded by mind-boggling amounts of water in all directions but the east, where the continent of Nova Sibiry lies at some distance. Nova Sibiry is delimited by several rivers beyond which lies mostly-unsettled land, as the entire nation lies on the east frontier of the known map. The main territory of the GAM is surrounded by the isle of u_wot_m8 some distance south of the mainland, Kaskala and HURRLAND to the south-east, various islands claimed by PennerHubert and an unnamed mushroom-biome island to the west and an unnamed settlement with interesting monumental architecture to the north. Most of civilization otherwise lies south-west of the Isles.

Small-scale and autonomous. The GAM is for the most part self-sufficient.

The prevalent religion among GAM citizens is a combination of Shinto and Pure Land Chicken Buddhism. The latter is an offshot of the Chicken Buddhism practiced by the inhabitants of the GAM of 1.8 loosely based around the idea of The Buddha having reincarnated as a chicken who lived in the original Tri-Isles with the added ideology that reciting the appropriate mantras (most of them involving Notch, Greebers and teleport requests) will guide one to a place of higher Ordnung.

Practitioners of Pure Land Chicken Buddhism do not regard chickens as particularly sacred and do not hesitate to eat them, on the contrary. Chickens and melons are looked upon favorably as nature's two greatest gifts and appropriate worship of those gifts consists in joyously stuffing oneself with both, which evidently comes from Shinto.

Ronery, although cozy. The Tri-Isles lie far from the bustle of larger nations and have been so far spared any of the accompanying drama, so life there is relatively quiet. As the Isles do not particularly lie on the way to anything else and constitute the eastern frontier of the map, visitors are relatively rare, though an inn has been built to accomodate those who come.

With each member of the community pursuing their own interests and some living underground, entire groups of the population only meet infrequently. When they do, a current favorite for chilling out is the bathhouse on Kanto Island. Due to the relatively easy-going lifestyle of its inhabitants, development in the Isles is relatively slow.

The continent of Nova Sibiry is so far mostly uninhabited but for the small state of Lambda. It is hoped that the developement of Eien-Kyou will bring life to those rich lands.

Being a meritocracy (literally; rule by merit), all posts and titles are given to/held by those deemed to be the most fitting by their peers. Whether a person exhibits a honest character, truthful nature or an unbreakable will, they will find themselves with an occupation which fits their specific talents. This practice keeps corruption virtually non-existent, and ensures a high moral standard both among civil servants and self-employed inhabitants.

MystiaLorelei, as Empress, acts as head of state and represents the nation in external matters. Tefal, officially Shogun, handles the engineering. Both plan some of the larger builds.

Aside from the situations where leadership is required, most of the GAM otherwise runs in a self-organized, informal manner.

The main GAM territory is constituted of The Tri-Isles archipelago and several smaller islets off the coast of the mainland, a group of yet-unnamed larger landmasses separated by rivers. The independent settlement of Lambda (green) also lies on the mainland, entirely within the confines of the GAM main territory. After the update to 1.2.5. the GAM seeked to expand to the nearest jungle, so on the 4th of April, the empress set off to find and claim new clay. She found a new huge jungle which she quickly clamed for the GAM.

However, there are controversies concerning the size of the GAM territory because claiming the entire continent is an obvious case of land running and should be disrespected and prohibited by lawfaggotry.

The GAM currently has two overseas territories:

• Harcourt's, a middle-sized snow-biome island south of the main territory.
• Birch Island, another middle-sized, mountainous and heavily forested island north of the main territory.

• Mystia Lorelei
• Tefal
• Enton (Martyr)
• Saldalphon (Kuma-Hina)
• goatwithbenefits
• ChaosBoundary (Momiji)
• Thrmin (YuyukoSaigyouji)
• Chilly_Cirno
• DigitalSop
• Harcourt
• H.K.
• LucusTheRalts (Holo)
• RoodR1der
• Razer112
• Koentius (Built a house in Eien-Kyo.)
• Ijs (Built a house in Eien-Kyo.)
• TheDookie (Built a house in Eien-Kyo.)
• Mack
• Ultimateshadow96
• Happosai21
• Crtomir
• LukeTheEngineer (Built a house in Eien-Kyo.)