L'manburg

Overview
L'Manberg, formally known as the People's Republic of L'Manberg, was an independent communist state of the Dream Team SMP. It gained its independence from the Dream SMP on August 2, 2020, it was dissolved temporarily on the 22nd of September, 2020, reformed on the 16th of November, 2020.

Drug Empire
On the 24th of July, Wilbur Soot joined the Dream Team SMP server and attempted to begin a drug empire (with potions). Wilbur initially met with Tommy and showed him the Camarvan, in which they produced drugs, parodying the TV show Breaking Bad. Later, the two attempted to steal blaze rods and brewing stands from various members of Dream Team SMP. After taking resources from Tubbo and Sapnap, Wilbur returned to the Camarvan in which he was found out. Tubbo believed that Wilbur was completely innocent, while Sapnap became suspicious of him. To counteract this, Wilbur called over Fundy and framed Sapnap, claiming that he was a drug addict. Sapnap in turn, tried to convince Fundy of the truth, which was that Wilbur and Tommy were collecting drugs for their own gain. Sapnap then attempted to arrest Tommy in The Courthouse, playing the role of a cop. Meanwhile, Purpled discovered Wilbur trying to steal a brewing stand from his UFO, which he swiftly intercepted. After more shenanigans, Fundy was told by Wilbur of his plans and joined him in cooking drugs. Ponk later came over asking for hot dogs, while Sapnap and Purpled rushed the Camarvan in order to find out about the illegal drug brewing. They even tried to arrest Wilbur, however, Wilbur disconnected from the server after claiming that he had no knowledge of Tommy's wrongdoings. The next day, Tubbo returned and collected blaze rods for Wilbur's business. A flaming hot dog was also built on top of the Camarvan. Sapnap appeared to “change” and offered Wilbur blaze-rods, asking for drugs in return. Overall, the drug empire failed, as many members of the server managed to stop it completely before it started.

Spark of Revolution
After their drug empire was deemed unsuccessful, Wilbur and Tommy realized that the enemies of their drug venture were all American (except George and Eret). On this basis, they decided to form a nation separate from the Dream Team SMP server, and began to build a wall, defining the borders of their nation. Tommy asked Tubbo for sand and black dye, to which he obliged. Tommy told him they were starting a revolution. After this Tommy realized there was only 1 woman on the server, and she was disqualified from being in their country as she is American, so he decided they should name their nation “Manberg” or “Mantopia”. Wilbur says to make it more European that they should name it L'Manberg. Wilbur announced that the rule of L'Manberg was no armor - they win wars through words. The trio then sang Hallelujah to a patch of tilled dirt. Dream comes and saw the black and yellow wall around that Caravan, and Wilbur told him how they planned to secede from the Dream SMP. Tommy said “Viva La Revolution” and was subsequently attacked by Dream. They told Dream the rule of no armor and no weapons and Dream insulted them, calling it the “Land of Pussies”. Tommy’s house seen at the beginning became the L'Manberg embassy for the wider Dream SMP. At some point Eret joined L'Manberg as well, and him, Wilbur, Tommy, and Tubbo all put on matching Revolutionary skins. Dream attacked the land and Wilbur drafted L'Manberg's Declaration of Independance. In return Punz, Dream and Sapnap drafted a declaration of war. After the walls were finally built, Fundy logged on the server prompting Wilbur to adopt him as a son, being the first one born within L'Manberg, and he too joined the Revolution.

Independence
Transcript of the first Declaration, titled "Independance" written by Wilbur Soot;

War of Independence
Main Article: Dream Team SMP vs. L'Manberg War

Declaration of War
Dream was unhappy with the sudden uprising. Because of this, he gave L'Manberg the "Declaration of War" after learning of L'Manberg's Declaration of "Independance". They then gave the revolutionaries an ultimatum, writing on signs inside L'Manberg's walls: "If you do not surrender by dawn tomorrow, we will attack. Put up your white flags to signify surrender". Then, Dream burnt Tubbo's house down as a show of strength. Finally Dream sent Wilbur a voice message stating,

As the L'Manbergians were unwilling to surrender, they began to prepare for war. Despite Dream giving a day to the L'Manbergians, the peacetime lasted three days. Tubbo was the main resource gatherer for L'Manberg's war effort, amassing 9 stacks of emeralds. However, Sapnap stole Tubbo's emeralds the day before the war began. While trying to regain the emeralds, Tubbo was killed multiple times by members of the Dream Team SMP, both on their land and in his own house.

Battle Of The Power Tower
Tubbo left his house, unprepared, as the war began. He met Tommy at what he thought was the only exit from the roof of the Nether, which is where he had come from, and trapped that portal with an End Crystal. This proved futile, however, as Eret and Fundy had broken another piece of bedrock, which allowed the Dream Team to escape. Tubbo, Fundy and Eret managed to escape back into L'Manberg, leaving Tommy trapped on top of his Power Tower. He was shot by Sapnap, but respawned in his house, which was now the L'Manberg Embassy, and fled to L'Manberg. As the Dream Team won the first battle of the war, the L'Manbergers were forced to regroup within their own borders.

Initial Negotiations
Wilbur Soot, the general of the L'Manberg army, logged on after the defeat. Wilbur arranged a time and a place for the second battle with Dream. The original 5 members of L'Manberg, Wilbur, Tommy, Tubbo, Eret, and Fundy gather and read the Deceleration of “Independance”. Meanwhile Dreams soldiers surround the walls and begin firing shots. Wilbur asks to meet Dreams team on his terms.

Formation of the 5th Battalion
Wilbur puts Tommy in charge of his army, as he considers himself too old. Tommy declares them the “5th Battalion”. The 5th battalion meets Dreams team at the Power Tower, where Dreams team then ignites TNT, blowing up the ground beneath the 5th Battalion.

Battle of the Embassy
The Battle of the Embassy began as the two armies marched towards the battlefield outside the L'Manberg Embassy. As the L'Manbergers arrived, they discovered it was a trap, as the Dream Team began shooting flaming arrows down from Tommy's Power Tower and setting off TNT that had been placed beneath the battlefield. Under fire from the Dream Team, the L'Manbergians retreated into their embassy, returning fire. However, the Dream Team began to retreat, and the L'Manbergers pressed this advantage, and managed to reach Punz's own tower, which was taller than Tommy's.

Battle Of The Two Towers
With the high ground, the L'Manbergians began to shoot downwards at the Dream Team, who were unable to return fire due to the height of their opponents. Even with this disadvantage, the Dream Team was able to shoot at Wilbur (who was acting as bait at the time), and nearly killed him before deciding to retreat. After this, Eret suggested that the L'Manbergians should regroup in back in L'Manberg. L’Manberg seemed to be gaining the upper hand in the early battles.

Eret's Betrayal
Eret escorted the L'Manbergians down into a secret underground tunnel within L'Manberg's hills, known only to him, that he called the "Final Control Room". The rest of the group follows under the impression Eret had a new secret weapon. They reached a small obsidian room with chests, marked with each of their names, and a button in the center. Wilbur remarked that the chests were empty. Tommy pressed the button, activating a trap that Eret had set for the group. The trap caused a series of piston doors to open in the walls, which revealed several Dream SMP members, including Dream, Sapnap, Punz, and George. The L'Manbergians were decimated by the Dream Team SMP's weapons and harming potions, with no prior info on the event. Eret yells “Down with the Revolution, boys! It was never meant to be.”, signifying to the rest of the group that Eret had betrayed them. The L'Manberg forces also lost all of their best armor and weapons in the process. Eret later revealed that he for betrayed L'Manberg as part of an offer by Dream to become the king of the Dream Team SMP server.

Second Negotiations
Robbed of their best armor and weapons, the L'Manberg Army was at a low point. Wilbur asks to convene with Dream, in which he asks for peace and emancipation. Dream in return asks for “white flags” signally surrender. Dream claims that if his demands are not met in 30 minutes he will blow up L’Manberg. Wilbur claims he was bluffing so they both go back to L’Manberg where they stand in solidarity as Dream and George ignite a single TNT.

Dream Detonates L'Manberg
Dream and George approached the border wall of L'Manberg, placing a block of TNT on the ground inside L'Manberg and threatening to ignite it unless they surrendered. L'Manberg still refused, believing that the explosion of a single block of TNT would only cause barely damage. Unbeknownst to them it was revealed that Eret had placed dozens of blocks of TNT under the ground, causing a huge explosion that wiped out a large part of L'Manberg's land when Dream ignited the TNT, including a part of the Camarvan, now the L'Manberg centre of operations. The L'Manbergians, armorless, weaponless and betrayed, fled to a bunker Tommy had prepared a while ago to regroup.

The Duel
All hope seemed to be lost for L'Manberg's cause for independence, causing Wilbur and Tommy to meet with Dream to attempt to reach a peace deal. During the negotiations, Tommy challenged Dream to a bow duel, to Wilbur's dismay. The two agreed that if Tommy won, L'Manberg would officially be granted independence from the Dream Team SMP server, but if Dream won, L'Manberg would rejoin the Dream Team SMP server and Tommy would give Dream the Mellohi music disc. This would end a previous conflict between the two over the ownership of the music discs Cat and Mellohi, Tommy's most precious belongings. The bow duel would see both parties on half a heart, with the first to shoot their opponent being named the winner. With the terms set, the duel began. The duel ended with Dream shooting Tommy and killing him.

Redemption and Independence
As Tommy discussed terms with Dream, Wilbur tells Fundy that one day L’Manberg will be his, and asks for him to read the poem Ozymandias to him.

Tommy respawned, and, overcome with guilt, entered into a one-on-one negotiation with Dream. He pledged to give up both music discs, his most prized possessions, in exchange for independence. Dream agreed on the terms. So, with Tommy's one last sacrifice, the war was over, and although L'Manberg had lost, their original goal was reached, as they had won their independence from the Dream Team SMP server.

Aftermath
Wilbur writes the DECREE of Independence as a formal end to the War, and to eliminate Eret, a traitor, name from the official document of Independence. He then makes the remaining members of L’Manberg/ the 5th Battalion sign, giving Tommy the title of “Treasury of State, Tubbo “Secretary of State”, and Fundy his “little champion”. The group makes a pledge to rebuild the Caravan and create a monument, meanwhile Wilbur talks to Dreams team, where he declares himself President Soot of L’Manberg.

After the war, Tommy welcomed Jack Manifold (Thunder1408) onto the server. Tommy attempted to recruit him for L'Manberg, but Dream donated large sums of money in an attempt to bribe him to join the Dream Team. Ultimately, he joined L'Manberg, at the request of Tommy and Tubbo. Because Dream kept pestering Jack after his decision, he was sent into the Dream Team SMP server as a double agent.

To celebrate his promotion as king of the Dream Team SMP server, Eret built a large tower, the tallest in the entire server. Tommy, Jack and Fundy all expressed their annoyance with the tower, as it blocked the view of the sunset from within L'Manberg's borders. Tommy dubbed it the "Great Penis", Jack called it "Cock Tower", noting its resemblance to a huge penis, and Fundy decided to "shrink" the tower, destroying the tower itself and building a far smaller replica in its place, tagging it with a sign saying "Size doesn't matter". Since this bit, Eret has rebuilt the tower in an even taller form.

Tommy joined forces with Jack and Tubbo to plot against Dream for revenge after the destruction of L'Manberg and its embassy, and to regain the music discs.

Decree of Independence
Transcript of the second Declaration, written after Eret's betrayal titled "Decree", also written by Wilbur;

The Election
Main Article: SWAG2020 vs POG2020 Election

History
On the 3rd of September, Wilbur decided to run for president, with Tommy as his running mate. Their plan was to keep the election secret so that they would run unopposed and spring it onto the rest of L'Manberg on the election day, the 21st of September, so no one could run against them. However, after writing the election ballot, Quackity discovered Wilbur and Tommy's plan, and announces that he would run against them. Wilbur was forced to add Quackity to the ballot. Quackity chose SWAG ("So We Are Gamers") as his campaign slogan, then Wilbur and Tommy, after cycling through different options, named theirs POG ("Politicians Of Gaming").

Later, as Quackity had no running mate, Fundy expressed interest in joining Quackity's campaign, much to his father, Wilbur's dismay. However, Quackity ultimately chose GeorgeNotFound to be his running mate. Fundy attempted to join the race independently, however he missed the ballot and endorsed Quackity instead.

A debate was held in Tubbo's courthouse on the 8th of September, where Wilbur and Quackity debated on issues such as immigration, punishment, and taxes. L'Manberg held its presidential election on the twenty-first of September, putting up polls on Twitter for viewers to vote.

Candidates:


 * POG2020 (Politicians Of Gaming): WilburSoot (Presidential Candidate) and TommyInnit (Vice Presidential Candidate)
 * SWAG2020 (So We Are Gamers): Quackity (Presidential Candidate) and GeorgeNotFound (Vice Presidential Candidate)
 * Schlatt2020: Jschlatt (Presidential Candidate)
 * Coconut2020: ItsFundy (Presidential Candidate) and Nihachu (Vice Presidential Candidate)

The Election Results
During a long campaigning period from the 3rd of September, the voting had come to an end. On the 22nd of September 2020, the election results were finally in, and Wilbur counted them all in the previous days. That day was one of the busiest days of the Dream SMP since the war. After last minute speeches, Wilbur announced the end results. There were four parties running. In fourth place came Coconut2020. In third place came Jschlatt. In second place came SWAG2020 and in first place came POG2020 (the incumbent party).

Original Results of the 2020 Presidential Election:

 * 1) 45% POG2020
 * 2) 30% SWAG2020
 * 3) 16% Schlatt2020
 * 4) 9% Coconut2020

However, as soon as these results were released, Wilbur Soot informed everyone of a technicality, SWAG2020 and Schlatt2020 struck a deal with each other; no matter how many votes either party got, SWAG2020 would pool their votes with Schlatt2020. And so, Schlatt stood with 46% of the votes in total; a mere 1% difference more than POG2020 that held 45% of the votes; officially making Schlatt the president of L'Manberg.

Final Results of the 2020 Presidential Election:

 * 1) 30% + 16% = 46% Schlatt2020
 * 2) 45% POG2020
 * 3)  30%  SWAG2020
 * 4)  16%  Schlatt2020
 * 5) 9% Coconut2020

Jschlatt had become the 2nd L'Manberg President, although he quickly remade it into an empire and named himself as its emperor. Jschlatt's first decree was to revoke the citizenship of Wilbur and Tommy, and they left to form Pogtopia. Afterwards, Jschlatt ordered the citizens to demolish the walls of L'Manberg, and changed L'Manberg to just Manberg, sparking the Manberg Rebellion.

For more information on Manberg, visit Manberg.

Communism in L'Manberg
Communism in L'Manberg so far has had almost qualities similar to the Soviet Union. For example, the exile of Tommy and the exile of Trotsky (A former cabinet member and "friend"), death of the last leader (Lenin and Jschlatt), a history of revolutions (The Russian Revolution and the L'Manberg revolution), quite a bit of anti-anarchy propaganda and finally the five year plan in which Stalin laid out a plan to transform a nation from bad to prosperous.

Names / Name changes
L'Manberg - This was the original name of the land when Wilbur, Tommy, Tubbo, and Fundy (and Eret) originally fought for its freedom. The name comes from the (at the time) fully male population, with the addition of L' and berg to make it sound more well-roundedly European. (Early/Mid August, 2020).

L'Man-child-berg (unofficial) - The nation was briefly referred to as 'L'Man-child-berg' by Dream, George, and Sapnap in the early stages of the War for Independence. It was unclear if Dream knew this was incorrect, though as he was the main antagonist of the first part of L'Manberg's history, it subtly served as propaganda for his side to include the term 'man-child' in the (incorrect) name. (Early August, 2020)

Manberg (formerly) - After the Election, Jschlatt renamed the nation to Manberg in his third act as President/Emperor, the first being to cast out Tommy and Wilbur, and the second being to take down the walls. The reasoning behind it was "We take no L's in Manberg." (September 22, 2020)

Democratic Union of L'Manberg - This was the formal name of L'Manberg post Manberg vs Pogtopia War to Tommy's exile. (November 16, 2020)

People's Republic of L'Manberg - This was the new name of L'Manberg after Tommy's exile. Once Tommy was exiled, the ideology of the country was suddenly changed of that to Marxist Communism during Tubbo's administration. (December 4th, 2020)

Flag Vexillology
Wilbur explained the design of the L'Manberg flag and what it stands for.


 * The blue stripe stands for freedom and liberty.
 * The white stripe stands for peace.
 * The red stripe commemorates the blood that was spilled while fighting for their independence.
 * The yellow and black accents are to denote the walls of L'Manberg.
 * The three crosses were taken from Amsterdam's flag for Fundy, the only Dutch resident of L'Manberg, and the first L'Manbergian by birth.

Revolutionary Uniform
The L'Manbergian Standard-Issue Revolutionary Uniform as seen here was first worn during the Revolution. The main color was a dark blue, however there have been officially licensed alternate versions, such as Fundy's Light Blue Pastel and Nihachu's Lavender Pastel.

Armory

 * Netherite Armor and Tools - Distributed among the professional soldiers, the government, and the wealthy, netherite armor and weapons are considered valuable to the L'Manbergians. Due to their struggling economy and their small worker populace, netherite was a scarce resource among the L'Manbergians.
 * Lesser Armor and Tools - Given to conscripts and civilians, the L'Manbergians use these armor and tools as substitutes for the premium netherite armor they arm their professional soldiers with.
 * Guillotine - The L'Manbergians have recently utilized a new execution tool: the guillotine. This tool will drop an anvil on the head of the target who was to be executed. So far, the weapon has only been tested on Technoblade, who was able to cheat death and escape. This gives the weapon a 0% success rate so far.
 * Netherite guns

Regions/Districts
L'Manberg went from being a small city-state to annexing large amounts of territory far from its central area. L'Manberg turned these areas into districts, to keep places organized.

Central District
Formerly the area where the walls surrounded the Camarvan, the Central District housed a multipurpose stage and podium, the New White House, and one of Eret's towers. L'Manberg's central district was walled off by Dream, then destroyed after tommy's exiled. Then the place got blown up in the Doomsday War.

Residential District
Where the White House once stood the Residential District took its place. The Residential District contains houses for all the executives: Fundy, Tommy, and Quackity

Pogtopia
Pogtopia, formerly independent, became a district/state of L’Manberg following the Manberg vs Pogtopia War. The former Pogtopian base was repurposed as a base of operations for mining in the region.

The Slums
The Slums was a developing region. The Slums will be a two-story city that would've taken place in an unused plot of land near Purpled's cabin. The Slums would've housed future residents of L'Manberg. The aboveground area would've contain houses for rich residents whereas the underground area would've house plebeians. Premier Tubbo has given building rights to Vikkstar and Lazarbeam to build on top of the Slums but not in the area where the plebs would live.

Diplomatic Quarter
This district contains the L'Manberg Embassy and Ninja's house. It was the used for diplomacy with various factions within the server. The embassy has been used for diplomacy with the Dream SMP and the Badlands.

Naval District
The only district (besides Rutabagville) that was not affected by both explosions in Manberg, the naval district contains a dock built by Tubbo that houses multiple hostile mobs in boats as well as a dog army.

Rutabagville
Founded by KarlJacobs and Sapnap, Rutabagville had previously been incorporated into Manberg up until its dissolution. Rutabagville was subsequently incorporated into L'Manberg. It was founded by Sapnap & Karl during the Manberg vs Pogtopia War since the pair were neutral and hadn't decided to join either side.

Historical District
Newly annexed by Democratic L'Manberg, the SMP museum displays historical artifacts, builds, and others.

El Rapids
Formerly called Mexican L'Manberg, El Rapids is a district that is built on a massive manmade mountain that overshadows the canyon that splits Boomerville and L'Manberg. This district is still currently under development and construction.