History 7: The Court Case of Game 32

Gold is a status symbol in Minecraft. It's rare, has an appealing look, and is-no-was essential to every Mercinian. While today, roads are lined with Gold and so are some house, that wasn't always the case. In fact some players took gold so seriously, that a player was actually audited and a court-order had to be sent out. Yeah.... What hasn't happened?

In the Third age, Gold was more important than ever. Since duplicating was strictly forbidden, Gold was sought after by everyone. It was used to fund projects, like the White House, The Shade Tower, and many more buildings throughout the cities.

At the time the richest player, Maclimara, was a builder with the only building permit in Mercia City. Which meant he had a complete monopoly on all public projects, including his own personal business, which was building new houses in Mercia. Some houses went for as much as $25,000 or 250 Gold blocks. To put that in perspective, most players only made about a thousand per day.

You can see with that permit, he practically had a gold-mine. He was using that money to buy up skills and was the first person to max out Farming and Combat. After continuing his business for over a month, the players had enough and called for the admin to do something about it. The admin decided to take the case to court and let a jury decide. What they found out was absolutely shocking.

Now before we dive in you've got to understand that in Mercia, chests were practically vaults. Only the player who owned then could look inside, so their contents were always hidden. This was the exception, though. To prove he wasn't stealing, Maclimara opened his chest to the admin and told of every shop he'd bought from within that last week. After hours of searching through the chests, visiting stores, and gathering statements the verdict was in. He did not steal anything. He did not cheat the government of Mercia. He wasn't even remotely considered rich. He had less than 20 Gold blocks, or $2000 dollars. How could this be?

Well that's where the story takes a darker turn. It turns out..... The Government of Mercia was robbing it's own players! Maclimara had been scammed by the very thing people thought was making him rich. Outraged by this the players refused to pay anymore taxes and Mercia lost half of its population; but that concludes the court case. More of Mercias corruption will be submitted soon.