Minceland

History

Mineland has had a long and interesting history. Shewn thus:

Charles Barley ( Of Charles Barley hotel fame ( see last entry, or possibly the one before )) founded Minceland in 1803 as his own personal colony ( owned solely by him, and no Empire or other Nation. ) Barley ( The Person ) was born in 1750 to a wealthy merchant family, when his father Jacob died in 1771, he inherited the family business at just 21 and immediately started expanding operations, the Barley trading company, traded everything they could get their hands on; soap, wool, meat, raw materials, fine crafted pottery and tobacco, which was especially lucrative. Their trade routes eventually set into bringing food from America to Europe, Eventually Barley realized that if he could get a trade port at the tip of south America, he would be able to transport lots more goods too the west coast of America and even get access to Asia. Finding none though, he decided to build his own. Barley was here. There are no early pictures of the settlement and few artifacts, as they were mostly destroyed in the late 19th century when Barley experienced its first major expansion, having been slowly rising since its foundation in 1803, the population in 1876 was 13,194 but 4 years later had risen to ~30,000, the unprecedented growth was caused by this tiny city state suddenly getting noticed, ships often docked their by the end of the 1880's and Barley was a household name ( in trade at least ). but then disaster struck, in 1889 Britain invaded and claimed barley for its own, but the Barleins weren't deterred, and they worked hard, so as the first skyscrapers were blossoming in Chicago and New York, so they were in Barley, they were just less well known. Because of its colonial status, its fame diminished and it plunged back into obscurity, but still at least visited by ships.

In an effort to Bring Barley out of obscurity, the Mayor built a commemorative statue to symbolize Barley's trading status, the statue of Free Trade. ( Images on other entries )

After WWII, Britain shed most of its colonies, and Barley was no exception. It regained its beloved independence in 1946 on the condition, however, that it become a country and not just attach itself to Argentina, So the vain Governor, Herbert Mince, gave Minceland its unusual name, and an area of 3 islands was attached to it. more recently, the area to the west of the city, was bought in 1992 for the construction of an arcology, the buildings plans were finished in 1998 after many technological hurdles were overcome ( stresses, ventilation etc. ) . the Arcology's progress is slow however and it is still less than 1/4 finished.

North Barley was started as a pilot city in 1964 but didn't really kick off until 1970 when the population rose to 2000, however, it froze around there for a time before ascending some more, in November 2012, a cataclysmic but extremely localized earthquake raised the town too the ground, but global movement of industries has started a demand for Factories in Minceland , so NNB's Population has exploded in 6 months what NB couldn't do in half a century, it has reached a population of ~8000. NNB has skyrocketed so much that the government is considering a third area north of NNB, its name may be NNNB ( North New North Barley ).

Now I Have Cleared all this up, I will start another update, Maybe I will actually plan it.

Bye for now ~30 people.

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