Melonian Transitional State

Melonian Transitional State
Project Melonia 2.0

Government	Transitional government through direct democracy
Legislature	Melonian Transitional Legislature
Population	12

The Melonian Transitional State, or Project Melonia 2.0 as it was called at the time, was the successor to the Republic of Melonia. During the transition, several measures were proposed to the Melonian defectors, which formed the basis of governance and server administration that led to the Chiefdom of Osolia.

Background and formation

Several Melonians had increasingly become disgruntled with the state of affairs in Melonia, particularly relating to the Cieurnish Empire. On December 11th, 2023, cstro and tz_scion called TheRandomMelon to talk to him about their proposal to shut down the Republic of Melonia and invite who they considered to be the core Melonians to a new Discord server. TheRandomMelon was apprehensive about the move, but went through with it, officially closing the server on December 15th, 2023.

Measures

Measures A: Server plugins and datapacks

13 votes were held on which server plugins would be retained from the previous Melonian world.

The only plugins which failed to reach a majority, and were thusly removed, were; Brewery, which added alcoholic beverages to Minecraft; PiggyV2, which gave players an in-game bank account; and TreeFeller, which would chop down an entire tree trunk automatically with the removal of its base.

Brewery was seen as a relic of Cieurnish traditions and therefore was defeated 7 to 1.

An additional 4 votes were held on adding several datapacks. The proposals to add datapacks for extending armor stand functionality, making shulkers drop 2 shulker shells when killed, and making bats drop phantom membranes when killed all passed. The only datapack proposal not to be added was Measure A22, "Add a datapack for mobs/players to drop heads upon dying".

Measures A: Server configuration

Several further votes were held on configuring the commands which would be enabled on the new server, such as /home or /tpa. Configurations remained the same as in Melonia, except for the addition of a /spawn command, which passed 7 to 2.

Measure B and C: Name of the new state

A point of contention over the first days of the Transitional State was the name for the new state. The first to be put to a vote, Novinia, proposed by tz_scion, was defeated due to a lack of support.

Lots of proposals for names continued to be discussed, until Osolia was suggested by Hydrogen through a shortening Ortusolia, proposed by TriforceComet. The name passed 7 to 2.

Measure D: Flag of the state

Several flag proposals were put forth, but the overarching theme of most designs included a sun and the color blue. Designs were bounced back and forth, changing colors or motifs, until 3 were selected to be put to a vote.

Measure D - Enact one of these flags as our nation's official flag/banner

Choice		Votes	%
First from left. Dark blue background, yellow stripes, orange sun.		1	11.11
Middle. Dark blue background, light blue stripes, yellow sun.		7	77.78
Last from left. White background, dark blue and light blue stripes, yellow sun.		1	11.11
Total		9	100.00

Measure E: Governing structures

Flowchart drafted for the measure to show how the new government would operate.

Talks of a system of direct democracy, where every citizen voted on bills and measures directly, were discussed shortly after the call between cstro, TheRandomMelon, and tz_scion.

It was decided there would be two branches of government sharing the power to govern: the executive branch and the legislative branch, called the Assembly, in which all citizens took part.

The executive branch is led by the Chief who is elected by the citizenry and handles most decisions pertaining to daily government activity. The executive branch also includes the Chief's Council, a cabinet of ministers who assist the Chief with decisionmaking.

The Assembly is led by the Speaker of the Assembly, also elected by the citizens. The role of the Speaker is to assist in the writing of bills, to gather citizens' opinions on major government decisions, and generally serve as the voice of the people. Each Osolian citizen would automatically serve as a member of the Assembly, and all members have the right to vote on each bill and to bring forth a proposal to the Assembly themselves.

These branches also proved difficult to name, though the name for the executive's leader, "Chief," proposed by EESocket, and the name for the legislature, "the Assembly," proposed by TheRandomMelon, eventually won out. The measure to adopt this form of government passed 7 to 1.