Japanese Empire

The Beginning
The Japanese Empire started around late March, before the player boom by Toycat. The nation was founded by Whirlas and RamKillah, but quickly grew to 5 players. The nation claimed 3 of the 4 islands of Japan: Kyushu, Skikoku, and Honshu. The last island, Hokkaido, was claimed by France. This would lead to conflict between the two nations later on, but for now infrastructure would be built up. The city of Tokyo quickly grew, and the capital was moved from Kyoto to Tokyo.

Conflict with France
As I said before, France owned the island of Hokkaido, which Japan wanted for itself. Japan offered to buy the land, but France's prices were outrageously high. Then France started cannoning the coast of north Honshu. Tensions escalated, but France was forced to unclaim Hokkaido because colonies were not legal. Then, the Toycat boom arrived.

The Rise to the Top
Once Toycat advertised the server, thousands of people joined, and many of which joined the Japanese Empire. Japan grew from 5 members to 18 plus in a few days. Even though the Toycat advertisement brought many people who wanted to join Japan, it also brought ones who sought to destroy it.

War with Nippon
Nippon was a nation around the Vladivostok region that was founded around early April. Its leader, Light_Yugen, wanted to join Japan, but when he was denied he made a nation who's aim was to take the Japanese islands for itself. This ended up boiling over when Light killed GtCalvin, a member of Japan. Japan then declared war on Nippon. The war was a bloodbath for Light, and his city was destroyed. Light ended up going off nearly (His capital was destroyed) scott free and had no demands pressed on him after the war.

Economic dominance
Using secret Japanese money factories the Japanese quickly after the extreme increase of players became the richest faction to be on the server. The first money factories where "abusing" the ridicilous price of cookies at $20 per cookie. But after the moderators catched on and nerfed all the nano farm factories the Japanese quickly adapted and started making complicated farms that could make far more money than any farm that was previously available before the nether update. This led to Japan having the richest economy in the whole of the server.