Dominion of Elemental

Elementalian Federation Dominion of Elemental
Dominion
Flag Coat of Arms
Sovereign state	Federated States of Gapla
Cities	7
Government
• Queen	Chelsea Chen (PLP)
Population
• Total	24
Area	8,830 sq. ft. (total verified) 19,253 sq. ft. (total claimed)
Capital	Earth City
Website	elemental.gaplagov.org

The Dominion of Elemental, co-officially the Elementalian Federation and formerly the Socialist Elementalian Federation and the State of Elemental, is a dominion in the Federated States of Gapla. It is currently one of the most powerful and influential states in the entirety of Gapla, albeit its status of joining Gapla a little later than most other states.

During the first days of its founding, Elemental was an inactive puppet of other larger states like Emeralkia and Ozzah. After the collapse of Ozzah and Xadia in the Gaplan Renaissance, Elemental took up Ozzah's position. It retained a monopoly for a few months before being contested by Folia Tail, which is its contemporary competitor.

Elemental leans left-wing and usually votes for the PLP. Its Queen has served as the former President of Gapla and is currently the Deputy President of Gapla. The state is a federation of six houses and warehouses, as well as Carmentown, a ceremonially claimed "town" consisting of a few desks inside an elementary school.

History

Early days and the revolution

Chelsea Chen, the founder of Elemental, joined Gapla a few months after it was founded, creating the state of Elemental soon after.

It quickly was absorbed by the various Gaplan powers and soon fell inactive. Chelsea was seen as a minor governor with no power during this period, but after COVID-19 struck, she would be seen as one of the most significant people in all of Gaplan history. Chelsea was loyal but not active in Gapla during this time, without seeing much purpose or need in Gapla until March 2020.

Coronavirus strikes

During March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic struck in the school that Gapla was located in, and it was closed. Due to this, Gapla actually became more active, finally creating a Discord server and having bi-weekly meetings on Google Meet, and then Zoom after it was authorized by the Executive Council. Previously, the council used Google Meet due to security concerns with Zoom.

During this period, the focus was mainly on Elemental, which, for most of the period, had no main contestant, which was slowly growing its empire and having a monopoly on interstate sessions until the resurgence of Folia Tail in August.

After both Ozzah and Xadia had dramatically fallen, Gapla was in need of a new power. While several states such as Snake, Phoenix, and Emeralkia had tried to claim the throne, a then small and unknown state named Elemental, governed by Chelsea Chen, was forged as the next clear Gaplan power.

After Gapla had been greatly digitalized, states who stuck to the old-style sessions such as Emeralkia, Snake, or Phoenix were never quite able to become powers again, and their activity levels drained down.

However, Chelsea worked tirelessly on making Elemental number one, creating websites, verifying land, and composing music. She is seen as a subset of people who treated Gapla as a career and not just a side hobby. Due to this, Elemental retained this dominance until Folia Tail rose as its competitor.

She soon created the Anti-Cruelty Party, a big-tent political party that has now been dissolved. The state clearly overpowered its former protectors, Emeralkia and Syopolis. While Emeralkia continued to be active, Syopolian activity died down, and later, Syopolis was demoted to a provisional state.

Joining and merger era

Chelsea was generally a progressive during the joining and merger era, although the Gaplan right accused her of being a socialist and a communist. At this time, Chen denied these allegations but would later give substantial hints to self identifying as a socialist while not directly saying she was socialist to gain the left-wing to far-left PLP voters during the Red Wave.

Chen was majorly active in doing what she says was better for Gapla by conducting diplomatic talks with Elysium, Promatia, and servers of different miconations and micronational organizations. She is considered an active diplomat for Gapla.

Her ideas of an ideal Gaplan state are one she self-describes as just, anti-cruel, describing a "center-left utopia."

Advance of the session

During the advance, Gapla started actually applying the purchases it bought in the second Christmas days, as well as creating a new currency design backed by gold. Mainly, this consisted of Elemental and Folia Tail (and their allies) going into a Zoom meeting every day to argue and conduct the interstate sessions, so sessions constructed during this period were extremely active, however, were dominated by Elemental.

Continuing along with the previous era and further supporting the winter conspiracy theory, the era of great activity was a period in Gaplan history when several Gaplan states, mainly Elemental, Emeralkia, Folia Tail, and in some extent Phoenix, Daisy, and Asmiland, had a soar of activity through the Zoom classroom breakout rooms. The teacher allowed for free time during these meetings if one had completed all of their work, and a large proportion of Gaplan citizens joined in the so-called "Gapla breakout room" to discuss plans, conduct sessions, and more.

During this period, all of the states were incredibly active, making movements and negotiations every day. Gapla's economy, interest in Gapla, and much more soared throughout the classroom and Gapla was recognized as part of the classroom's culture. Interest in its monarchy took a soar, which it had not done since Serena's proposal of marriage to Sovereign Prince Wyatt Baek.

Venado-JTMS rivalry

After a multitude of citizens moved to different schools, most notably Venado Middle School and Jeffrey Trail Middle School, leaders in both schools, considered to be Emeralkia (backed by Folia Tail) and Elemental, were devising plans to increase Gapla's popularity in both of these schools. Emeralkia's attempt was noted as successful, as many students from Venado joined Gapla and were later seen as influencing factors in the 2022 Gaplan general elections (not the 2022 Gaplan presidential elections) in August 2022. The two schools, inside Gapla, have been seen as rivals and representations of Venado and Jeffrey Trail.

A part of the colonial ages, they were also a start of an era where Gaplan states collected schools throughout school districts, including the famous Orange County School of the Arts. Dozens of schools across a few school districts have been "colonized."