Italian Republic

 Italian Republic is a Roblox group, part of the RoNation community based off of the real life Italy nation. Originally founded in March 19, 2012 by GiulianoEmiliani, also known as Juliane14, JulianValerius, or simply Julian. After the shutdown of the Royal Military of Roblox, GiulianoEmiliani moved on to leading a nation on Roblox which soon turned out to be one of the biggest influences throughout a community full of other nations and organizations, inspiring others to create nations of their own, leading to the formation of a massive Roblox community. At the peak of the original Italian Republic group, the total of 24,000 members have joined this group and this group has won a BLOXcon 2013 Hall of Fame award for Best Recreation of a Real-World Place.

What is this Group?
The Italian Republic is a RoNation (Roblox Nation) group, a group that simulate real life nation. The group consists of multiple departments such as the Carabinieri (Police), Italian Armed Forces, Emergency and Transportation, Intelligence Service, etc. Many of these departments operate within an in-game recreation of Rome in which is provided by the main group, the Italian Republic.

Fall of the (Original) Italian Republic
In 2017, GiulianoEmiliani stepped down as the group's owner after he sold the group to SquirrelByte (formerly known as JayByte), the owner of Terabyte Services and former head of developer team under GiulianoEmiliani. Much of the time during first month under new owner was stable until SquirrelByte suddenly decided to remove people from the government positions, high ranks in military and Carabinieri for disagreeing with him. The final straw was the removal of an democratically elected President and Prime Minister for the same reason. A group of veterans from the group's beginnings back in 2012, including GiulianoEmiliani, fled the original Italian Republic groups and established their own Italy group in March 14, 2018 under Intelligxnza as their first group owner of "New Italy". This has sparked a short lived civil war between two groups from March to April 2018.

Ultimately, the New Italy had prevailed over the original Italy. New Italy earned a lot of recognition to be legitimatized as a successor of the original Italy in the eyes of the RoNation community. In May 2018, SquirrelByte shutdown the original Italy. This left New Italy under Intelligxnza as the only widely recognized Italy group.

New Italy, New Age
After the fall of the original Italy, New Italy dropped the use of "ITA" from their name, documentation, news, etc due to the association to the original Italy. It meant to stand out from the original Italy and rest of other "Pretender's" Italy groups (A label coincided by the veterans when it come with any other Italy other than themselves and the original Italy). New Italy referred themselves as the Italy, Italian Republic, or New Italy. They released several new cities; Sardinia and Rome 5 in 2018. However, both cities failed to meet the group's expectation and fell into the state of inactivity as well as the internal conflict in the leaderships.

In November 2018, Intelligxnza resigned from the group owner and passed the ownership to StewartThompson (now known as MaximeDupontRossi or Rossi), the Italy's builder for Sardinia. During first month under Rossi, he announced he was developing new Rome from ground. However there's no further progress since then for next 5 months until his big announcement about moving Italy group to the Cold War community in May 2019. Rossi's Cold War announcement triggered entire group of veterans, nearly flee the Italy and return to the old root; clan. Rossi recognized his fatal error, immediately handed the group to CapColton as the 3rd group owner of Italy and current group owner since then.