Stone Republic (AUS)

Well, I started a new CJ/DD the other day called the Stone Republic and have decided to expand it, In the first 4 updates there has been alot of content, especially in Update 2 through Adamsbridge so I can't guarantee a full Stoneish experiance but I will try to catch you up the best I can city by city...

first (excerpt from update 3):

Official Name: United Counties, towns, cities and villages of te stone republic
National Anthem (As of 2005) :


Capital: Stone City
Largest City: Stone City
Official Languages: English
Demonym: Stoneish or stones
Government: Representative Democracy

• Prime Minister: Matthew Whitehead
  
• Governor of the Congress: Howard Billings
  
• Chief Justice of the Courts: Edward Snelling

Congress proposes a bill, majority vote wins, bill advances, Prime Minister yay's or nay's it, if nay, congress must pass with overwhelming majority of 75%, if yay or succesful revote, advances to the courts for yay or nay. The supreme court's decision is final however only congress can vote on new justices. The most experianced Judge on the court is the Chief Justice.

Independence: 1887 from Great Britain
Area: 422 km
Population: 30,000 (Expected around 1,000,000 or atleast 400,000)
GDP Per Capita: 30,000
Time Zone: UTC -8
Date format: dd/mm/yyyy or dd/mm/yy'
Internet TlD: .stn
Calling Code: +984
Drives on the right

HISTORY OF THE STONE REPUBLIC

In 1846, James Young II of Cornwall landed on the north side of a rocky island which he named stone. Initially the stone settlement was poor in quality but as time went on, conditions improved, even to where the british soldiers were about to move their Pacific base to stone, but they didn't without a fight, and fight they did, the stoneish people were armed and ready, they told the british as soon as they got the news, there was no way stone was to become the brit's play thing. And finally at the dawn of 6th August 1863 the Stoneish saw the brit's ships on the horizon and as soon as they got within range, from behind the logs and trees along the beaches of stone, they fired. First it should be said that The republic of Stone is on multiple islands and the main one including the one stone city is on is actually Edward's Island, Stone Island is located south of Edward's Island, back on topic. The stones came out with guns blazing but it was not enough and the brits overpowered them. Taking stone, establishing a base in the south and keeping the stones prisinor in the north. A small uprising took place in 1873 in which a stonish man, Calvin Thomas, broke into the British Base on the southside during the night and as the troops came to the armory to take up their arms shot at them at dawn. Two guardsmen subdued him before long and for the next five years he was tortured before being executed by the british in 1880 after two years in prison. This led to the Stonish becoming extremely angry and as such, attacked. The ensuing revoluton lasted seven years and eventually led to the stoneish defeating the british due to mastery of the terrain and achieving independence. The stoneish population eventually extended beyond Stone Island, to Edward Island, Kings Island and Pacific Island before eventually nearly abandoning Stone Island except a small population, still on the north side.

World War II broke out in 1942 in Stone when the Japanese Kamikaze pilots crashed into downtown Stone City, destryoing the tallest buildings and destroying the buildings of Federal Isle. Then Prime Minister Red Ryder was in Adamsbridge at his retreat east of Clarksville (see update 2) and was unharmed. Congress was not in session and, while 5 congressmen were in downtown at the time, most were at their homes or in Berryford (see update 4 tonight) and the courts were not in session for the day so the majority of the government was still fine. Congress took session under the emergency clause of the constitution in the Bunker (undisclosed location South of Berryford).

Emegency Clause states: Under an executive deemed National Emergency, a special congress will meet at at a national bunker location. This congress shall operated with supreme power over the nation and consist of the 4 most experienced congressional officials, the Prime Minister, Governor, Chief of the courts and Commander of the Stoneish Armed Forces
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The Emergency Congress called on the armed forces and counter attacked Japan and such fighting ensued until the Americans stepped in and backed the Japanese away in 1944. On November 12th, 1944, Japan signed a peace treaty with the Prime Minister of the Stone Republic to officially end the fighting.

During the cold war, Stone saw much spying between the soviets and americans and was somehow able to avoid the conflict completely and maintain a position of neutrality and as we have reached the new millinium, Stone has developed a wonderful telecommunications industry as well as an automotive industry worth noting. Major General Matthew Whitehead was elected to his first term as Prime Minister in 1997 and was elected to his third term (6 years) in 2009.

Regional Shot


Stone City
City/County

Downtown


National Tennis Center


Stone City International


Federal Isle


Adamsbridge County
County Seat: Clarksville
Other Towns: N/A

Adamsbridge County High School home of the Wildcats in Clarksville, Adamsbridge


Downtown Clarksville


Valley Arena- Home of Musicfest (Our annual woodstock except only 10% as big)


President's Retreat- NE of Clarksville along a long dirt road


President's Retreat Tennis Courts- ENE of Clarksville but still on the compound


Berryford
City/County
"Berryford, City of Excessive Bridges"


Berryford Airport


Downtown


The Elkvale River Bridges, (the Excessive Bridges)


They don't really serve a purpose, just for show really

And to round out the introduction (This is the only post that will be this long )

A picture of what's coming up in towmorrow's update and what's already done



Update 1 was Stone City
2: Tour of Adamsbridge County and Clarksville
3: History and Stats
4: Berryford

Update 5 will be the first here and will be Pacific Cove and Stone Island (which is why they're highlighted)

-Will

Good start, but you should flatten terrain more and get a slope mod.

Also, having full size (800x600px) pics are necessary.

Flatten Terrain, such as?

Use road tiles to even terrain. Plus, several pics have unrealistic slopes for roads (near the "Presidential Retreat")...so get a slope mod.

ah , thank you for clearing that up, I will deal with that

CG: Got you in advance

Now as for the update, no Pacific Cove, just Stone Island. Pacific Cove may come in update 7. This update sort of is a spinoff of update 3. (i'm already doing a spinoff update )


Stone Island was settled in 1846 by James Young II of Cornwall who landed in the north of the isle and immidiatley built a home on the northside as did many other settlers who came with him as part of 4 ships and founded an establishment of 560 settlers. 5 outlook posts were built in the corners of the isle, a large fort and a farm were built on the isle. in the settlement was a saloon, a bank, a church and a courthouse.




Soon though tensions with the british homeland in the atlantic and the stones in the pacific heightened and on the dawn of the 6th august 1863 the british rose over the horizon and soon, the settlers remaining back at the settment heard the first shots of the battle of South Stone Island fired. Soon though, the british overpowered the Stoneish settlers and began burning some of the stoneish landmarks like the farm and the SW outpost. They also set fire to the local saloon and it caused a fire which burned 2 half blocks and killed 10 residents of the settlement in the Great Stoneish Fire of 1863.

Stoneish Attack Outpost


Stoneish Attack Outpost burned by the brits.


SW outpost burning


Farm Before


Farm After


Stoneish Saloon Fire after the saloon burns


Remains of the 1863 Fire

After the Fire, the brits were in charge and they planned to keep it that way, but the stones didn't. In 1873, one stoneish man, Calvin Thomas, took it upon himself to take out the british and it epically back fired. with Mr. Thomas being taken prisinor by the British and tortured for 5 years before being executed in 1880. This angered the settlers and as a result they took up arms against the british and somehow after seven years of fighting, took the island for themselves. On 15th May 1887 at the West House, the british surrendered to the Stones and the Isle became independent.


The execution site of Calvin Thomas.


The west house, the center of the three.



Next Update: Elkvale, North of Adamsbridge, South of Berryford. A mountain resort town. With Alps influences to a point.

First reply is a general note really, each update will be different, Each in the sense that i think will showcase the city best. Historical places will be a large story, scenic places tours (Adamsbridge), major places, more or less will be a big showcase and such.

Elkvale, home of Elkvale Lake

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Elkvale County is located in the north of the Stone Republic, south of Berryford and North of Adamsbridge. Elksvale isn't large but, boy (or girl if there are any female readers) , she sure is beautiful

We begin with the the pinnical of every day life in Elkvale. Typically you will find the local youths at Davis' Mini Mart and Chevron Station on the 91 to 391 Elkvale Bypass. Its located across from Perkins and Elkvale Elementary and next to the Elkvale TSC. To locals it is simply called, "The Station""The Hole" (as in the watering hole) and "The Chevron." It opened in 1979 at the hand of Robert Allan Davis Jr. A lifelong Elkian.


And on the other corner at that intersection is the local burger king. This Burger King has lasted so long in Elkvale that most citizens were not even alive when it opened in 1959. While it is not considered the watering hole in town, it is still the most popular eatery in town.


Guests have two choices when stayinig in elkvale, the Super 8 just west of town or the Red Roof Inn overlooking the lake.




Typically when you come into town you'll be taking 91 in and exit, seeing the signs on the side of the highway.



And like alot of rural american places you'll quickly see a cracker barrell


The second highest watched sport in our stoneish nation is HS Football (american) and in Elkvale the team is the Elkvale County Knights who play at ECHS's field.


The baseball team doesn't play at the school nor does the professional team the Elksville Railers. They play at Elkvale Park which overlooks the town and the lake.


And on your way out of town we leave you with this


And on your way to the reply button we leave you with this region shot.


Next time: Pacific Cove in the west.

Will, where'd you get the HS soccer/football field to the left in this pic?

(The one with soccer lines on it)

I can't exactly remember, It was a set, either on SC4 devotion by chrisadams39??? (sorry bout that ) or by the former ISC on simtrop.

CG: Thanks for readin, already got you

This is a multi tile county so map


The county seat of Pacific Cove is St. Vincent in the north, home of...

St. Vincent's Church

We can't go into our rural communities without looking at the High School Football so I present St. Vincent's High School, home of the Tigers....

(note, we'll see more HS Football later )

SVHS is also home of the St. Vincent Angels SFA Cup League Squad.

Those who visit and or live in Pacific Cove and St. Vincent in particular will know Birch's Corner, home of Birch's Resteraunt, Birch's Mini Mart and Birch's Farm.


St. Vincent's is also home to the Elkvale Motors Factory. Elkvale Motors was founded by a group of Elkvale citizens who felt that current cars did not meet their needs so they decided to build some of their own cars, soon other citizens wanted these cars and eventually the company boomed and currently has multiple entities across the nation including the Elkvale Brand of Cars producing numerous models and Elkvale Motors F.C. in Harbor City. The company is headquarterd in Stone City and produces its car out of this factory.


Now we move on out of St. Vincent and we leave you with this shot.


And we go south to... Southern Cove

Southern Cove is acutually a district and village in the district along with Pacific Village and Inland Corner. First we'll begin with the High School (told ya we wern't finished with...) and FOOTBALL!!!! Pacific Village- Southern Cove High School is located on Acadamy Road between the two villages. Unlike most of our HS's visited so far, PVSCHS is not home to a professional soccer/football club and if you look at the field you'll see why .


One of the major points of note in Southern Cove is the Grocers rivalry...
in 1903, Allan Harper opened a Kroger Store on Main Street in the town of Southern Cove, in 1925 another man, Richard "Rick" James opened another grocer next door, a Piggly Wiggly. The two soon developed a rivalry which escalated to various tactics to steer customers to their store, or atleast away from the competitor. In 1937 the Pacific Cove County Government imposed restrictions to stop their foolish antics. The rivalry has slowed but the two factions still refuse to change alliances to this day. They would rather head to St. Vincents ten miles away than go to the other grocer.


Next to Southern Cove is Pacific Village...


And thats most of what you'll see here in town, lets head on back to the hotel, right?


That about does it for this trek through Pacific Cove, we will leave you with three things, first, a region shot:


second, I will invite you to experiance the Stoneish Football League System, i'll follow up on this at later points but looky if you likey It explains the SFA's system and includes a map
http://www.simtropolis.com/cityjournals/?p=view&id=1765&page=8

and finally, we will finally visit the Stone Republic's third city, Harbor City, the Stoneish Beach town but also home of the second largest Stoneish Stadium, City Stadium (50,000).

http://a.imageshack.us/img237/7223/repliesbanner.jpg

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Now I'm doing the updates the same on every site and I promised that I would do something special for 1,000 views so I decided that I would start adding county flags to each update and we are at 1,028 now so here we go



If anyone is wondering those are not those soviet things (forget what they're called) in the top left of the soviet flag, its anchors And considering the bottom of the flag I think you can figure out where we are going today,

Harbor City is the third city of the Stone Republic, located in the nations Northeast it is the beach town of the nation aswell, also known as "Party Town" due to the university.



Harbor City is also home to two Cup League Football Clubs, Elkvale Motors, owned by the Elkvale Motors Corperation in Stone City is one of them. Originally South Harbor, in 1998, EVM purchased the club during a short stint in the cup league, The team has flip-flopped between the upper two divisions alot during its stint under EVM ownership but is currently in the Cup League (top league). It has won some L2 titles but no CL titles yet. They play at the 6,000 Seat Harbor Park next to the university.


The other is the more famous, the Arsenel of the Stoneish Cup League, historically, behind Nationals F.C. in Stone City, the Stoneish ManU and Berryford the Stoneish Chelsea, Harbor City.


Harbor City plays their home matches at the 50,000 seat City Stadium in North Harbor, Harbor City.


Harbor City has won 15 Stoneish Cups during their long and illustrious history.

Continuing on the topic of sport, Harbor City is home of the only drag racing track in the Republic, Harbor City Dragway in Airport Road.


Harbor City is steeped in culture, Primarily at Theatre Row, home of the Theatre in Harbor City, You have the Smith, Johnson, Wilson and Howard Theatres all at one location.


Theatre Row is located just off the heart of Harbor City on Main Street. The True heart of Harbor City is some point about 2-3 blocks east of City Stadium but what is known as the heart of harbor city is the corner of Main and Main, that is, Main Street (North/South) and Main Ave. (East/West but pretty short really).


Now on to transport, The main way to go from town to town in the stoneish republic is the Stoneish National Federal Highway System. The main way to get from the Stone Republic to other nations is the Stoneish Airstream system, both of which are prominent in Harbor City.

Harbor City International Airport


SNFHS Highway 73 1st exit to Harbor City (1st exit in the county, I have to do some more surrounding Harbor City).


Highway 73 Exit 2 in Harbor City.

There are 2 highways in H.C, 73 which goes next to downtown before veering West along the coast and crossing highway 43 for the third exit in Harbor City, the "county."The dragway and Airport are off Highway 43.

Region Shot, oriented towards Harbor City.


Sport Teams (Another 1,000 view new feature for new cities)
All H.C. Teams are Domestic

Harbor City (Cup League- Soccer) - City Stadium
Elkvale Motors (Cup League- Soccer) - Harbor Park
Harbor City University (L2- Soccer) - University Stadium (750)
West Harbor United (L2- Soccer) - University Stadium (750)
Raptors North (L3- Soccer) - University Stadium
Harbor City Stingers (SBL- Baseball) City Stadium
Bombers- (Stoneish 8- Rugby) City Stadium
Vipers- (SGL- Gridiron Football) City Stadium
Harbor City High School Lions (SHSAA)
Phoenixes- (SLL- Lacrosse)- Harbor Park


Next time: Kentcroft, i'm getting through all my Cup league cities and typical Cup league cities

i cant lie. That dragstrip you made is pretty badass

Agreed

Nate: Thank you
Wacky: Thanks

Everyone seems to love that dragstrip, strange that its like "Old Fashioned Rock and Roll," barely made the album and was just used for filler No drag strip in tonights update, just a marina

Now to tonights update,

Kentscroft

Kentscroft is famous for numerous things, first is it's famed marina on the North.

This would be the home of any future sailing events in any simlympic bid, Kentscroft is somewhat of a wealthy play thing.

second most famous part of the Kentscroftish Culture is The Soccer/Football Club,




Kentscroft plays in League 2 this season but the reserve squad is part of the league (that is , the reserve league) as Kentscroft has historically played in the Cup League.

And the third of this list is the Kentscroft Brewery, brewer of Stoneish Ale, Kentscroft Light and a few other lagers aswell.


Currently another speciality that belongs to Kentcroft and only Kentcroft is the only Hard Rock Cafe in the Stone Republic



No Region Shot but an all city shot will work right?

Next Time: UPDATE 10! Clarkswillow, the most opposite a place can get from another in the SR, Clarkswillow is a typical Pacific NW climate in the NW of the nation but has more of a feel of a Nova Scotian town.

nice job... one suggestion though, turn off the grid (press the G key)

oops, never have the grid on but was doing something with terraforming and accidently left it on, my bad.

K50: My bad

Map of the Stoneland


Before the update though, news broke today out of Harbor City and the Stoneish National Times has the story, take it away Billy (Billy Thompson, Senior Editor of the SNT):



And finally update time

We as always, begin with the new flag of the county we're visiting tonight


Now the story of Clarkswillow is that of a community divided. The County of Clarkswillow is located in the Northwest of the Nation, and it is divided into two villages, the Village of Clarkswillow in the East, and the village of Pacificwillow in the West, Pacific Willow is the absolute western most community in the nation. This divide is not a physical one, but an allegiance. To Football.

Let me explain, in 1902, a man named John Harrold Fish founded the first fooball club in Pacificwillow named Roses United, they were the first and only club on the island... for 36 years that is. In 1938 a former RU player by the name of Jonathan Moore established a new football club in the neighboring community of Clarkswillow named 1938 Clarkswillow FC.


Clarkswillow Village


Pacificwillow

ROSES UNITED

Roses United Kit


Pacific View Park (Capacity 2,500)

1938 Clarkswillow FC

1938 Clarkswillow FC Kit


Clarkswillow Road

Now how are these two sleepy villages who combine to hold 2,000 people possibly able to be such bitter rivals?


It all started here at the Oceans Pub in Pacificwillow in 1952. At this time the two sides were both mid-table in League 2 but on August 4th, the season was coming to a close and a promotion spot was up for grabs and a fierce game ensued on the 23rd august and after the game one Clarkswillow player, Nigel Hull, went in for a drink after the tough loss but minutes after he entered, some RU supporters arrived and began tantilizing him, some of his squadmates were arriving late but saw the situation and came to the defenses of Hull but the RU supporters continued and before long an all out bar fight ensued, bringing injury to 2 supporters and 1 1938 player. The situation remained at this level till 1973.

In 1973 a simiar situation occured, it was late August, the season was winding down and there was and this time the roles switched but this time the RU players fought back and what ensued has been known as the 1973 Clarkswillow Brawl. 3 People were injured in the confrontation and this set the stage for this amazing rivalry.


Few places are off limits to agression on this topic, only 3 places have been designated as Football Free zones by the government of the county, Island High School, Pacific Brewery and the Clarkswillow Post Office. One additional place thats kinda off topic is the Lookout Bunker built in 1979 as a lookout since Clarkswillow is the most Western city in the Nation but its not open to the public and is run out of Stone City.


IHS. Island High has SHSAA teams in all sports but Football, Most teams do play at Clarkswillow due to its versatility. It is Football neutral. Field Hockey plays at PVP though


Post office is in the North of the Isle.


As a leadout shot I would like to give an architectural explanation, not many will know of this place i'm sure but I have some kin down there and I like the Town Square/ Downtown area of it and the Town Square in Clarkswillow Village had a real life inspiration, Jacksonville, Alabama, USA. Its located in the East, north-northeast of Gadsden

I don't know if anyone cares but I thought i'd offer that insight.


NEXT TIME: Waterford, we'll see I expect to finish up on my region soon and I'll post the full sports update then After update 12 or 14 (I won't be doing an update 1X, superstitions

Unique and congrats on the new baseball stadium

Good, but the newspaper has spelling mistakes, including "tentatively", and you said you wanted to join AIN, but your location overlaps with Illu'a, by emgmod and is a wee bit too close to Duwamish.

Wacky: Thanks, i'm doing a few stadia updates and such

CG: Its kidna a rough draft map, i can adjust that, It isn't so much to scale, a little bit off really I guess, Probably a tad Northwest, 100 miles NW of Illu'a. I said I was considering that but am looking at a few options: AIN, AFDES, SCJU, UAR, start my own (.1% chance), join no union which is becoming increasingly the most likely option, I won't say anyhing on which union itself i'm looking towards to keep any fighting away. I'm not a great speller so i'm sorry on the paper

I've decided what I'm going to do as for the Stone Republic. I'm keeping the same nation and the same Islands as version 1.0 however, I'll be adding a much larger Island to both the South and East (its a purty big island). I have redone Stone City and am redoing the suburbs. It will include an Army Base, the CBD, 4 rivers (1 from the ocean and then it splits into 3), A section of town known as University Park, home of 1 large mall and 1 large university.

The Capitol City will move Across the Stoneish Channel (newly formed Channel) To the North side of the new Island, near to Kentcroft which will also now be in the channel. I'm going to add 5 new cities on the New Isle. I'll post a new update soon on the New Stone City, i'm working on the suburbs now. There's going to be an airport in the West and a small one in the North which is already complete. There are a few updates which will no longer be relevent but some which are still. Due to the redo of Stone City... Adamsbridge, Arnon County. Elkvale and Maycrest will no longer be Stoneish Counties. I'll be keeping some names but as they were before I decided to restart, they're gone. The names will all return but the pre restart counties are gone. Updates are going to restart to 0 and will be less frequent however will still be frequent, the first 4 will probably be posted in the next 2 weeks but after that not too often, School will dictate how much I update and....

the Stone Republic is joining, rather starting a Union, rather restarting a Union. I was originally a part of the AUS but i'm restarting it with permission. If anyone wishes to be in it... auscjs.darkbb.com, It'll be posted there too if anyone is interested. Some cosmetic stuff is coming too, new replies banner as such. As well as on CSG. The Sports Leagues are changing too, The Football System will be changing aswell, obviously there will be 2 teams no longer in it but that'll wait till later.

MAP!


The new cities will be located in the following locations:
Newich: Southwest Tip, medium sized city
Eaglegrove: Northwest Tip, medium
Clarkbay: Center, across the echannel from Kentscroft
Waterdale: That Island with the Harbor in the South East.

The new island is all large tiles aswell.