Division of Cornertopia

The division of Cornertopia is an event where the former continent was split into two: Tardigradia and Aŋtarctica.

Tardigradia

On 22 January 2025, Suqi proposed a division of the Cornertopian continent, citing its massive size and easily confusable name with Corneria. They proposed it be divided in half because one half looked like a caterpillar, which made it easily visually distinguishable if a division were to be officialized, and also cute. They originally proposed the name Caterpillaria, but it was changed to Tardigradia due to its equal resemblance to a tardigrade and a majority support for the latter. Suqi collected responses from everyone officially known to be involved in the proposed-Tardigradian continent and received only supportive and neutral responses.

The involved persons who were requested permission are as follows:

• Fin, creator of The Capitol, who responded: This division is not how I'd divide it and also de jure UNgESCO is in charge of the Capitol.
• Elisa, Her Fishness of the Fishdom of Fishland, who responded: The fishdom finds this proposal needless and will thus allow the other states to sort it out
• Мока, Councilperson of the Anarchist Workers Republic of Corneria, who responded: I support the continental divide, despite corneria being in both projected continents lol

• Marcy, the one who... tends to be involved with the geoscheme, who responded:

• ẞlanty, an Officer of UŊESCO, supervising The Capitol, who responded: Neutral
• Total pleb, an Officer of UŊESCO, supervising The Capitol, who responded: Wouldn't be opposed lol
• Zendrid, the Mapmaker, who responded: i mean my preferences have nothing to do with it, i just map what others determine
• Xhesas, an Officer of UŊESCO, supervising The Capitol, who responded: I dont see why the size of a continent matters too much. If you do such a thing, the citadel Island should belong to baloon world. Also Marcy should decide in the end. And I am for the idea of Tarigrade, bc they are cute!
• Maarz, Leader of Gdaƨihr Ni̦xlo, who responded: Just bc I gtg to work now, I skimmed and as far as I understand I don’t mind either way
• Spook_bag, Leader of Ovvú Jičeiñŋã, who responded: sounds good

The lack of negative responses from everyone involved allowed the continent to be officialized by 23 January. However, the exact borders between the two new continents are currently being polled because of prior opposition to the borders provided by the original proposal.

Aŋtarctica

Now that Tardigradia was going to be a continent, Suqi called the attention of the remaining leaders of Cornertopian ŋations so that they could rename their new continent. Suqi avoided any input from themselves because they do not have any land in the new continent.

The involved persons who were consulted for the future of their new continent include:

• katherine The Awesome, Queen of Kathyria, who suggested Aŋtarctica.
• Lori, Grand Duchess of Seolland, who suggested Lesvos/Lesbos.
• Maarz, Leader of Gdaƨihr Ni̦xlo, who agreed with Lori's suggestion to call it Lesvos/Lesbos.
• Мока, Councilperson of the Anarchist Workers Republic of Corneria, who suggested Not-Cornertopia.

The poll was open to Cornertopians and non-Cornertopians, but the total Cornertopian votes would be equal to the total non-Cornertopian votes to make things more fair. The poll was closed on 24 January.

	Vote Count	Non-Cornertopian Votes	Cornertopian Votes	Cornertopian Equalizer	Final Results
Aŋtarctica	14	12	2	2 × 32/3 = 71/3	191/3
Lesbos/Lesvos	7	4	3	3 × 32/3 = 11	15
Not-Cornertopia	3	2	1	1 × 32/3 = 32/3	52/3
Cornertopia	4	4	0	0 × 32/3 = 0	4
TOTAL	28	22	6	6 × 32/3 = 22	44

There had been much discussion about the specific variants of each name, so after Aŋtarctica won in the poll, each Cornertopian was asked which they preferred out of the viariations that has been suggested previously. In the end, Aŋtarctica was the most popular.

	Votes
Aŋtarctica	3
Əŋtactica	1
Ŋantarctica	0
Ŋəntarctica	0
Antarctiŋə	2
Other	0