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| |+<big><big>'''Audentior Independent
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| |'''[[Official language]]''' || English
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| |'''[[Capital]] and largest city''' || Airosamente
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| |'''[[Peak Population]]''' || 96
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| |'''[[Currency]]''' || Post (@)
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| | '''[[National animal]]''' || Phoenix
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| The first nation of the [[Apollo Sector]], considered by some to be an
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| indirect ancestor of [[Shireroth]].
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| ==First Audentior==
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| Audentior was originally founded on August 6 1999 under the name
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| [[Apolyton]] as a project associated with the off-topic forum of
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| [http://www.apolyton.net Apolyton Civilization Site]. Although it
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| folded after a few weeks, it was resurrected in November 1999 as
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| Audentior, under the leadership of [[Scott Alexander]] and [[Evan von
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| Christoph]].
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| Audentior was a representative democracy, with an elected parliament of
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| five people and no single leader. The executive branch consisted of a
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| number of weak ministries, and the judicial branch of an independent
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| court. Elections for Parliament were held every two months and were
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| highly partisan.
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| The nation's troubles began when the [[Automatic For The People]] Party
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| under [[John Sager]] began a populist campaign in January 2000, using
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| rhetoric about taking the power out of the hands of a few elite and
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| giving it to the average Audente. Their confrontational style led to a
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| crisis with the nation leadership, and they seceded the next month,
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| becoming their own nation. Audentior was bitterly opposed to the AFTP,
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| and spent some time warring against it by proxy, with the powerful
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| parliamentarian [[Evan von Christoph]] using allies like [[United
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| Demesos]] and [[Republic of Blackrock]] to fight Sager despite the
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| parliament's deadlock on the issue. Eventually, in March 2000, Evan
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| seized power with the support of the military, transforming the country
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| into the [[Audente Empire]].
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| As Emperor, Evan rearranged the government into a feudal system,
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| replacing the Ministers with Lords and gathering power in himself and
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| his "secret police". Launching a number of widespread reforms to curb
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| the influence of doubtlessly present Automatic spies, he went too far
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| in banning all dual citizenship. A number of Audentes left the country,
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| and because almost all Automatics were Audentes, AFTP was able to win a
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| majority in the Audente Parliament. Soon the country fell apart in
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| general.
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| ==Middle Audentior==
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| In May 2000, [[Flying Islands of Jasonia]], [[Hyperborea]], [[Tapfer]],
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| and [[Republic of Shireroth]] decided to merge. The resulting country
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| was named Audentior both as an homage to the glories of the past and in
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| order to take advantage of the Audente boards and website. This new
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| Audentior quickly took out the now-moribund Automatic state, as well as
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| its successor [[Paramount]] with some aid from Blackrock.
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| The country originally featured a system similar to the old Audentior,
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| with judicial, legislative, and executive branches of government in the
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| form of the Court of Justice, the Tetrapole, and the Ministries
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| respectively. Unlike the old Audentior, it was divided administratively
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| into provinces, these being the four original forming nations, each of
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| which sent a Tetrapole representative. Also unlike its predecessor,
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| each branch of government elected a chair, and the three chairs elected
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| one of their number to be head of state. For Middle Audentior's
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| lifespan, the head of state was [[Scott Alexander]].
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| Middle Audentior's problems started when the Jasonians and their
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| supporters rallied in favor of direct democracy, claiming the Tetrapole
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| was inefficient. After some tense times, as well as the establishment
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| of some long-lasting feuds, a compromise was reached. This was closely
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| followed by a new riot, in which people demanded a President. Although
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| some of the country's founders, especially [[Scott Alexander]]
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| protested, the position was eventually added. The first presidential
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| elections were completely rigged by [[Bill Dusch]] of the [[Demesosian
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| Party]]. His political opponents responded by seceding - starting with
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| Shireroth - and the country collapsed into infighting.
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| Although [[Evan von Christoph]] and [[Ryan Caruso]] tried to preserve
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| Audentior as an empire, and [[Scott Alexander]] launched a second
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| attempt to preserve Audentior as a direct democracy, the country
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| failed, with its former citizens heading to Jasonia instead.
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| ==New Audentior==
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| New Audentior was founded by Scott Alexander in 2003 as a place to test
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| micronational theories he had come up with in the intervening years and
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| reintroduce the best facets of the micronationalism of the old days.
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| Its government was similar to previous incarnations of Audentior except
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| for the existence of two executive positions, the Premier and the
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| Chancellor.
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| Although New Audentior was wildly successful for two months, attracting
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| some of the micronational world's top names as citizens and bringing
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| back seemingly lost veterans like Evan von Christoph and John Sager, it
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| began to fracture. The ruling [[Audente Values Party]], led by [[Thomas
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| Cutterham]] and [[Philip Locke]], was, despite an obvious attempt to b
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| all-inclusive and non-controversial, opposed bitterly by [[Harvey
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| Steffke]] and [[Bill Dusch]], on the grounds that they liked opposing
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| things. After a particularly bad argument in which many opponents of
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| the AVP left the country, progress mysteriously stopped as most of the
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| necessary laws were in place, everyone was in agreement, and no one saw
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| any need to do any more. A few days later, the premier resigned, and
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| the nation quietly folded away.
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