Now that the Laconia-Yoahtl Peace Treaty has been posted, I am fulfilling my commitment to the Yoahtlan people and I can no longer delay my announcement:

I hereby resign my position as Yoahtlan General within the Military.

The Alcuahtl may now choose a suitable replacement.

I also, hereby renounce my Yoahtlan Citizenship. I am sure some of you will be wondering why, and so I will give my reasons.

First of all, I no longer feel part of the Yoahtl Culture. This may be a result of the alienation I have felt over the last several months, or it may be the fact that I do not like specific people within Yoahtl (Not going to name names) who have been welcomed and supported here. Part of the culture here in Yoahtl has been to support our Alcuahtl as the Alcuahtl is supposed to be the representation of the people. However, I have several issues with this system of governance.

First of all, the position of Alcuahtl is an appointed one, which is a flaw I believe in our system of governance as it has allowed an aristocracy to direct the nation. I feel as if this system enslaves its citizens to the will of the Alcuahtl and their successors, although most new friends to Yoahtl do not realize what they are signing up for (I certainly did not). Secondly, the Alcuahtl Bgbba, has let the successes of our nation *despite* his mistakes in leadership, go to his head and inflate his ego. This ego, or persona which has developed into the “bgbba” hated by much of this server and Bgposts have gotten old, and are representative of himself and not the will of the people. Bg’s policies of isolationism, although prudent in some environments are no longer applicable and have handicapped and caused stagnation within Yoahtl. Also, constant “Bg revisionism” has led me to distrust the word of our Alcuahtl. The historical baggage and angry, sometimes vindictive outbursts, of our Alcuahtl have not helped the nation’s image and I believe are contributing factors causing many of the productive and older citizens to leave Yoahtl (Dr. Oracle, TheOrangeWizard, Wingzero54 and now myself). The subreddit PvP and propaganda war conducted by Yoahtl’s Alcuahtl, constantly thrust into the public image “What” and “Who” Yoahtlan people are. I believe that the interaction with the wider server has not been done with good intentions on behalf of Yoahtl and this has been another contributing factor to my renouncing of my citizenship.

Another issue which needs to be discussed and is not surprising to many of Yoahtl’s citizens and abroad, is the cult-like worship of Bgbba’s personality. Strictly speaking, I find it remarkable I have not seen more criticisms of our Alcuahtl. Another reason for my departure has been “Bgbba quitting”. I find it incredibly dishonest to quit, and yet continue to try and control Yoahtl from discord and influence its direction, while publicly claiming to be hands off.

I speak now directly to Bgbba here; You need to give Civclassics a break for your sake and for Yoahtl’s sake.

A further reason why I’m renouncing my citizenship is as follows, Yoahtl has become a stratified society with a kabal of older citizens who are “trusted” providing “advice” for the direction and planning the future of the nation. This segregation of the citizenry is alarming to me and has been ramping up in the time since I held councillor’s office over 4 months ago. If you want to increase the citizen’s mobility in Yoahtl as a society, these intentional creations of cliques need to stop, and be discouraged. If the government is supposed to represent the people and the Alcuahtl is supposed to embody the people, the gov’t (especially the Alcuahtl) needs to be one of the people.

I applaud the recent steps taken by our council to remove the appointment power of the deputy Alcuahtl from the Alcuahtl to the councillors. Although I do not fully trust our new Alcuahtl is ready for the immense task of managing this large group of players, I believe he has what it takes to rise to the occasion.

I am now starting my own nation, with Wingzero54 in the +,+ quadrant where we have already been laying the groundwork for a republic based country, where we can remove ourselves from the drama surrounding Yoahtl. We are going to be fully autonomous from the Yoahtlan state however we still see many of you as friends and would welcome your visits.

Finally, I hope that my statements here are reflected upon and thought through within the Yoahtlan Public’s mind. It’s taken me a few months to think through what I was going to do. Now that I have pulled the trigger, I can only say thank you for everything, good luck, and goodbye.