The Republic

The Republic is a group on 2b2t that has existed since December of 2017. It was founded by Bartolome_Mitre to house Spanish speaking players escaping spawn as part of ElRichMC's 'Spanish Invasion.' Mitre would be the last original member, and left by 2018. Despite there being no original founders in the group remaining, it still has approximately 20 members and is currently an active group. The group was founded with the intention not to PvP at Spawn, but instead to build bases.

Bases


The first base built by The Republic was called "The Capital" or "La Capital" and existed from 2017 till sometime in 2018. A second base, Buenos Aires, was founded in 2018 and lasted until 2019. Another 2018 base, "Versailles," additionally lasted until 2019. A base called 'Eagle's Nest" was then founded in 2019 along with a base called "The Holy Land/Jerusalem," which still exists currently. Later, "Santa Teresa Outpost" was built in 2019, and "Ginebra" was also founded late in the year. Not only is it The Republic's largest project yet, it also has the most base members.













History
The Republic stayed out of drama with other groups ever since its founding, which has been the source of the meme "more neutral than Switzerland." It's largest contribution to the community was finding and getting patched a TP exploit that was found to be able to lag the server 24/7, making it crash each time the glitched account joined back.

Despite this, the group has had quite an influence on the community thanks to their members and their "Republic Radio" YouTube channel, which houses the RRN (Republic Radio News) project.

The group is a direct democracy, their only rank is "Citizen" and the rest are just titles. People vote in the "congress" chat for whatever change or proposal they have, and they also vote when someone wants to join the group. If that person wins the voting, he becomes a citizen like the rest and gets access to all of the Republic bases. This is meant for the group to be a servant to it's members and not the other way around. Currently The Republic is the oldest democracy on the server.

Battles
In 2020, a random player was exploring with elytra when he found the ruins of Versailles and the connected city of Ginebra. He quickly tried to grief the place but was mostly unable to since there wasn't any TNT in the area, so he made a reddit post inviting anyone who waned to grief the place. After seeing this, the players commonly known as Crystal and Banzy started to save all the artifacts at the museum and defended the city for almost a week, killing all players who tried to grief it.