Dux Bradford John, commonly called The Dux, is the founder of Declansburg head of state for The Dáxlamic Evergreen Republic of New Bradfordsburg. He has previously served as the founder of several notable regions, including Sparrow, Dux Milan, The Radiant, and Declansburg.
Dux Bradford John is currently active as the founder of Declansburg.
Bradfordsburg
The Dux's roots in NationStates go back to antiquity, with the founding of Bradfordsburg in 2003.
Antiquity
Initially, Bradfordsburg led a quiet existence. The nation interacted only with a handful of nations that resided in the small region of Pelican. In the spring of 2003, Bradfordsburg briefly attained the position of United Nations (UN) Delegate in Pelican. After being ejected to The Rejected Realms by Pelican's founder, Bradfordsburg founded Sparrow.
Sparrow
A portrait of Dux Bradford John.
Bradfordsburg was most known as the founding nation of Sparrow.
Sparrow's growth accelerated quickly and region became one of the largest player-created regions in NationStates between October and December of 2003. By December 2003, Sparrow's number of nations grew to over 400. All the while, Bradfordsburg served jointly as Sparrow's founder, UN Delegate, and as the region's first elected president.
In December 2003, a dispute over the control of Sparrow's military led to a political crisis in the region. The crisis began with the creation of the Sparrow Elite Covert Ops (SECO). Bradfordsburg, which was not included in the SECO's power structure, claimed the organization, led by The Archduke Hegemon of Borogravia Moldavi, was intent on conducting a political coup in Sparrow.
Bradfordsburg suspended Sparrow's constitution in late December and griefed the region on December 26, 2003. More than 70 nations, many of which had been affiliated with the SECO, were ejected from Sparrow before moderators intervened and took the then-unprecedented step of removing Bradfordsburg as the founder of Sparrow.
Sparrow was left founderless after being griefed. On April 25, 2004, Bradfordsburg organized a successful coup against The Alpine Republic of Tygaland's UN Delegacy in Sparrow. Upon attaining the UN Delegate position, Bradfordsburg symbolically ejected Tygaland and Borogravia Moldavi. Moderators responded by deleting Bradfordsburg and appointing Borogravia Moldavi as founder of Sparrow.
New Bradfordsburg
The Evergreen Republic of New Bradfordsburg was founded on June 13, 2004. On the same day, the nation became the founder of the region of Randovia.
New Sparrow
New Bradfordsburg resided in Randovia briefly before joining New Sparrow in the summer of 2004. New Sparrow, founded by Borogravia Moldavi, was Sparrow's successor region.
New Bradfordsburg held a seat in New Sparrow's parliament. While in the region, New Bradfordsburg maintained poor relations with Borogravia Moldavi and Tygaland, which were further strained when Borogravia Moldavi and the SECO, in conjunction with New Pacific Order, led a shocking coup in The North Pacific. The coup was carried out by Borogravia Moldavi's puppet nation, Gracius Maximus, which ejected over 500 nations from the region and established 'The North Pacific Directorate.' The Evergreen Republic vocally objected to the SECO's alliance with the New Pacific Order.
After the coup, Borogravia Moldavi transitioned primary nations to Pierconium and the region of New Sparrow began falling an era of decline. By 2005, many of the nations from Sparrow had either left the region or gone inactive. New Bradfordsburg served a short stint as the region's immigration minister in 2005 before the region folded. Soon after, in 2006, New Bradfordsburg went inactive for the first time.
Becoming 'The Dux'
In 2013, New Bradfordsburg was re-founded in Lazarus. Subsequently, the nation organized the founding of a region named Dux Milan via the puppet state of Bradfordsborough.
New Bradfordsburg's first reference to the Dux's current title occurred on November 26, 2013, when The Evergreen Republic announced "the Defenders of our Dux returned His Greatness to power after six long years of tumult and tragedy."
On the same day, over a decade after the nation's original founding, New Bradfordsburg made its first ever NationStates Forums post. The post announced New Bradfordsburg's return to NationStates and invited nations to join Dux Milan. The post's subject, 'Brad the Tyrant is BACK,' made reference to a nickname once used disparagingly to describe Bradfordsburg in Sparrow.
Dux Milan
Dux Milan's population never exceeded 50 nations but the region maintained an active base of core players for several years.
The region was organized as a constitutional democracy, led by a Dux Council populated by several World Assembly (WA) nations that conducted business on offsite forums administered by Dux Bradford John.
New Bradfordsburg remained Dux Bradford John's primary nation in Dux Milan while the nation's puppet held the title of founder. In Dux Milan, New Bradfordsburg published a regional map that included roughly a dozen nations.
In the middle part of 2014, Dux Milan's population began to sink and New Bradfordsburg went inactive for a second time.
The Dáxlamic Reformation
Less than two years later, New Bradfordsburg once again was re-founded. The nation's re-founding coincided Dux Bradford John's founding of the Dáxlamic faith.
New Bradfordsburg's first reference to Dáxlam is on June 9, 2016, when the nation announced "the Holy Faith of Dáxlam has been named the one creed of New Bradfordsburg."
Accompanying the designation of Dáxlam as the national faith, Dux Bradford John released seven pillars to serve as the faith's guiding principles.
The Radiant
Dux Bradford John founded The Radiant in June, 2016.
Like in Dux Milan, the puppet state of Bradfordsborough was designated as The Radiant's founding nation.
The region made its first recruitment drive in August of 2016 and slowly grew in population until reaching a stability as a large region in late 2016. By early 2017, The Radiant had over 70 nations.
The Radiant, which marketed itself as the Dáxlamic holy land, claimed to have one of the most comprehensive regional maps in NationStates. The map was produced by New Bradfordsburg and, at one time, contained over 30 WA nations. In August of 2017, New Bradfordsburg went inactive. Core members of The Radiant relocated to Radiant Republic, a region founded by The Galactic States of Odinburg, during this time.
When New Bradfordsburg and Bradfordsborough re-founded in September of 2017, the Dux reassumed duties as The Radiant's founder. Dux Bradford John held an extremely negative opinion of The Radiant's attempted successor region: Radiant Republic. The Dux claimed Radiant Republic was an illegitimate representation of The Radiant.
The First War of The Radiant
On October 14, 2017, The Radiant declared war on Radiant Republic.
Three days later, New Bradfordsburg, backed by nations from the Nomadic Eurasian States, toppled the WA Delegacy in Radiant Republic.