The nation was founded in the Summer of 2021, After future President/Monarch Ray (Alexander I), attended a crafts club. At this crafts club, they eventually introduced fabric for the attendants to use for crafts. Ray decided he was going to create his own country of the table he sat at, so that way he could seize all of the fabric for his "country". When he asked what the nation should be called, he received the response "Spinland", since fabric is often spun. However, he misheard this as "Silkland", and for unknown reasons decided to begin calling it "Silklandia". Sometime after his time at the camp was over, on July 26th 2021, he decided to formalize his nation by signing a self-proclaimed 'declaration of independence'. He soon after created a discord server for the nation. That same day, he invited his close friends Tanner and Joey to become citizens, and declared himself the nation's first president, deciding elections should be held every 3 months with a maximum term limit of 4 terms. After inviting some more of his friends, he decided to work with all of them to make the first constitution of Silklandia, which served as the nation's highest form of law up until July 2023. The constitution, among many other significant changes, declared that the President could not declare themselves dictator or monarch, or else they would be immediately impeached. After the signing of the constitution, not many noteworthy events happened, with the exception of massive territorial expansions of various varieties. At this time the capital was located at New Kinloss, however in Summer 2023 it would be moved to Wimberly, where it currently remains. However, some changes, or 'amendments', were made to the Constitution during this time. For example, the term of the President was extended from 3 months to 6 months, and President Ray would become monarch after his time as president was over, serving as a constitutional monarch. Eventually, in the middle of 2023, President Ray realized that due to the low population of the nation, the election had been missed, and that he was still opperating under his 4th and final term. Upon realizing this, he decided to solve the issue by resigning to his Vice President, Tanner. Thus, he became Ray I of Silklandia. However, he later decided to change his name to Alexander I to sound more official and to honor his stillborn brother of the same name, who was posthumously honored by Silklandia with the title "Baron(Lord) of Wimberly". This title would later initially be given to his older half-sister. However, it was then given to his older half-brother due to them being much closer. Once Tanner ascended to the presidency, he decided to appoint well-respected citizen and friend Heisenberger as his Vice. Knowing the nation was dying out, Tanner felt there was nothing he could do to save it. Eventually, it was summertime, and the Summer 2023 elections were happening. Tanner, wanting to continue his presidency, selected new and popular citizen Trapperdog to be his vice president candidate. Military commander Joey, (who had run in every election prior and lost) was looking to run again for Presidency. Joey selected long-time trusted citizen Starboy to be his vice. Due to this election being the first one without Ray running, the stakes were high because both parties felt they had a shot. Shortly after, they each established their political parties, the Continuationist Party (Tanner's party) and the Renovationist Party (Joey's party). After a long month of numerous debates, extreme amounts of campaigning, and many arguments, it was election day. In the end, and shockinhly it was a complete landslide victory of 8-1 for Tanner, Trapperdog, and the Continuationist party. Tanner and Trapperdog were inaugurated not long after, and at last, the Silklandian nation was at peace. With plenty of active citizens and plenty of work getting done, the nation was back. Then until one fateful day, August 1st, 2023. On a phone call between President Tanner and Vice President Trapperdog, Tanner informed Trapperdog of his plans to step down from his duties as President. Little is known about the phone call, but all we know is what happened next. At 11:10 PM EST, Tanner announced to the nation he was suspending his campaign for the January 2024 election and resigning from President. Trapperdog immediately became the newest president, and the downfall started. Many illegal citizens were brought in by Trapperdog to try to overthrow the rest of the government. Due to an error in the constitution, allowing the president to appoint and remove anyone from cabinet, the monarchy and cabinet were overthrown. Supreme Court Justice TZC and Alexander I were kicked out of the country, and it became a dictatorship. Eventually, the server was handed back to Alexander I and democracy was restored. Tanner and Trapperdog both left on their own terms, and were permanently banned from returning. Following the fall of the democracy, it was restored and the executive position of President was retitled to Prime Minister, and Vice President to Vice Prime Minister. An election was held between Joey and Treaper to become Prime Minister. At last, Joey won the election and served as president. Eventually, Tanner was allowed back to return on January 21st. However, Trapperdog was still banned from coming back. On July 21st, after American political drama, there were talks of suspending Silklandian democracy. However, Alexander I made an announcement that they would not suspend democracy, and a Summer 2024 election would happen. Immediately following, Tanner announced his return to running for office, and selected his new candidate to run with, Trapperdog. The current Prime Minister of the time, Joey, stepped up as well and announced his run for office. On July 23rd, Joey announced he would be suspending his campaign, and he endorsed Vice Prime Minister candidate Treaper to run for president. Treaper then stepped up to run for Prime Minister. In the end, Tanner and Trapeprdog won the election in a complete blowout of 8 - 0. Tanner and Trapperdog were inaugurated the day after the election. In November of 2024, Prime Minister Tanner played a major role in forming the new three-way alliance with other micronations Radia and Nesforvia, which helped Silklandia's total citizen count double in a matter of 2 days. Unfortunately, soon after the alliance split and everyone went their own ways. Nesforvia got caught up in other Micronational and domestic issues, and Radia struggled to stay together. Silklandia became largely inactive for a long time, until Prime Minister Tanner announced he would be retiring when his term was done. This put the nation back into activity and the poltical, economic, and entertainment world in Silklandia was revived. Soon after, the Renovationist and Continuationist parties dissolved, and the Common and Union parties replaced them. Then, candidates Joey (Unionist) and Caleb (Commonist) stepped up to run for Prime Minister, where Caleb held a huge rally to announce his plan to bring a new wave of citizens and culture to Silklandia, and abolish the traditional ways of Silklandia. This uprooted the Unionists, and led Tanner to run alongside Joey as his vice in order to prevent this. Weeks later, Caleb stepped down as the Commonist candidate, which led Talker, a judge from the Silklandian state New Oregon, to step up and run as the Commonist candidate. Joey and Tanner ended up winning the election 11-3, which broke the national record for total popular votes in an executive election.