NovgorodZemlya was originally founded when a band of former soldiers, wandering in confusion after a bloody civil war, found a cluster of abandoned estates on the River Solzha. At the urging of intrepid young rebel Sevastjan Ruslanovich Chajkov, they dismantled the mansions, sold the proceeds, and built homesteads on the land. The soldiers surreptitiously brought their family members and remembered comrades to live with them there (owing to the nation's overwhelmingly large military presence), and through many different forms of coercion (mostly money, sometimes violence, and a good deal of fear over being caught up in the bloodbath once the surrounding nations catch wind of the Zemlen appropriation of their land) expanded their land mass to close to forty miles along the river and have no