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 democracy where every citizen voted directly on bills and measures were discussed after the call between cstro, TheRandomMelon, and tz_scion.

A system of governance was decided on whereupon there would be two branches: the Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch, called the Assembly. In the Executive Branch, there is a leader, named the Chief, a person elected by citizens who makes most decisions pertaining to daily government activity, and a Chief's Council, a cabinet of ministers who assist the Chief with decisionmaking. In the Assembly, or Legislative Branch, the leader is the Speaker of the Assembly, also elected by citizens, who leads the Assembly by helping to write bills, gather citizens' opinions on major government decisions, and generally serve as the voice of the people, while each Osolian citizen would automatically serve as a member of the Assembly, who have the authority to vote on each bill and measure brought forth to the Assembly.

The only dispute regarding this system was the naming of some parts, such as "Chief" and "the Assembly", proposed by EESocket and TheRandomMelon respectively. The measure to adopt this form of government would pass with a vote of 7 to 1.