Surda

Surda is a medium, Republican nation with primarily Islander population. It is one of the oldest nations in Cyber Nations.

Early Days
Surda was founded by Asriel Belacqua in late August 2006. Asriel decided to settle in Indonesia due to it's relatively low population, and because of the nation's location, decided to call it "Surda," meaning "South". Asriel declared the capital city to be Aberon, named after the city of Aberon, the capitol city of the nation of "Surda" in the book of Eragon, and the book of Eldest.

Surda started off with slow growth. Surda went as an unaligned nation for about a half a year, as back then tech. raiders were non-existant, and finally decided to join the NAAC when his friend, Jedman from the nation of The Best, requested he do so. This gave Surda a launching pad for growth. Surda quickly went from a third-world country with frightening living conditions to a nation that enjoyed great strides in the technology field. Though, it was short-lived as the NAAC was doomed to die, and with it, all the wonderful technologies and techniques Asriel had been learning over the course of his short time in the NAAC.

Citizen Life
Thanks to rapidly advancing technology, Surda's citizens enjoy a clean environment as well as comfortable living. Because of its large land area, population per square mile is low. The citizens enjoy this, as traffic is non-existent.

Sugar and Wine are Surda's main resources. These are used to their fullest extent through the way of keeping his people happy, and making rum from the plentiful Sugar cane that Surda can then ship off to other nations.

Government
During the infancy of Surda, the government changed often, and drastically. It went from Totalitarian, to Monarchy, to Republic, to Anarchy, to Revolutionary, and even Transitional. During the summer of 2007, the nation settled on a Monarchy, but afterwards it has since gone back to it's changing ways, demanding new governments every month or so.

Religion
Surda's religion, like it's government, has changed much and often. Currently there is no 100% set religion as the various religious groups keep taking control of the main churches from one another.

Alliance
Surda began it's history as a part of the Unaligned menace, then, after a couple months, it finally went alligned and joined the NAAC. The NAAC folded after GWIII. Surda remained independent for a time while its leader attempted to find a good alliance to go to, and while surrender terms from the war were being fulfilled.

After a period of dormancy, Surda joined the ranks of the League of Intelligent Humans. Surda was then invited to the new, "Elite" Intelligentsia after the LIH triumverates decided to purge "bad" members.

During this period in time, Surda was working hard and getting into the game for the first time since the NAAC. It was working on Foreign Affairs, and eventually became Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Intelligentsia. After a time, the last 8 or so members of T.I. decided to make a new alliance, one with no history on Planet Bob, the Browncoats.

Once in the Browncoats, it was decided that Asriel should once again become the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the first term of the alliance's history. Asriel worked hard, going to over 20 alliances, establishing embassies, and establishing treaties with many new alliances.

Asriel served one more term as MoFA, before becoming the Home Minister. He then decided to run again for MoFA, losing to Veneke who has also worked very diligently and done many things. Asriel is currently serving as Deputy Minister of Defense.