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For the first time ever next year, the Micras Games will be held. The FMS has now officially opened. All nations can bid for the event, however, each nation must follow the requirements listed below.

Nation Name: [Your nation's name]
Proposed Host City: [City where you would like to host it.
Number of Stadiums/Arenas/Venues: [Number of venues you will provide]
Leader: [Self-explanatory]
Government: [National government type]
Number of Sports Played: [Number of sports played in the country]
[Brief history of sport in your country: [Self-explanatory]
Why do you think you deserve to host the inaugural Micras Games?: [Self-explanatory]

Any nations which are removed from Micras before the deadline will not be permitted to bid. However new nations which are created before the deadline will be allowed to bid for the event.
With that out of the way. Good luck all the bidding nations, if chosen you will make history on Micras!

Nation name: The Florian Republic
Proposed host city: Birmingham
Number of Stadiums/Venues/Arenas: 15 Venues (In Birmingham), 5 venues (Outside Birmingham)
Leader: Edwin Farrar
Government: Parliamentary Republic
Number of Sports Played: 7 (professionally), 27 (Grassroots)
Brief History of Sport in your country: Sports in the Florian Republic are crazily followed and its current national sport is its most followed, Rugby League. Other sports which in the Florian Republic is played professionally is Football, Rugby Sevens, basketball, handball and Rugby Union. At the grassroots level, many sports such as athletics are played and if the country hosts the Micras Games these sports may turn semi-professional. Sports are so popular it has become a religion with 99.7% of the population following at least one sport. Professional sports in the country are franchise-based and all sports teams are well funded and many clubs provide academies and other youth settings. There is approx. 7 schools dedicated to sports in the Florian Republic. The country may be younger than most nations but it has huge potential and if the games are held here new markets could be opened and with that, all sports on Micras would benefit hugely!
Why do you think you deserve to host the inaugural Micras Games?: Firstly, the country has huge potential in terms of sport for the next few years. Despite its young age, it has already seen huge progress in its Football and Rugby League teams etc. The country has excellent, world-class facilities funded by companies, such as Red Bear Energy who want sports to be huge in its nation. Birmingham has excellent facilities which are non-sports related such as a £2 billion concert hall and a massive range of 5* hotels. Policing is efficient and riots in the country are quickly dealt with. Security in the nation is vitally important as the government wants all citizens living and visiting the country. Finally, tourism is huge in the Florian Republic with many Corians, Nedlands, Senyans and Craitish visiting every month. There is a huge range of restaurants, nightclubs, pubs, concert halls in every town and city in the Florian Republic and all services are affordable. The Florian Republic also believes that hosting the inaugural Micras games will improve the Florian Republics reputation in the future.

Nation Name: Vyktory

Proposed Host City: Jamestown, Jamestown Province
Number of Stadiums/Arenas/Venues: 20, all within or near Jamestown
Leader: King James I of House Knight
Government: Federal Parliamentary Monarchy
Number of Sports Played: 5 professionally, 30+ semi-professionally. and all recognized sports on some amateur/recreational level.

Brief history of sport in your country: Sports in Vyktory has had a storied history, with many teams and leagues having been founded in the early stages of the Vyktoryan Era. With Vyktory becoming a football, rugby, cricket and baseball powerhouse and being the home of the Micras Cricket Federation, sports in Vyktory have never been better or more popular and the potential is there for Vyktory to become the sporting capital of the Southern Hemisphere, Jamestown in particular.

Why do you think you deserve to host the inaugural Micras Games?: Jamestown has many world class sporting facilities, a tourist district with large and varied hotels. a well-run hospital and emergency service, an impressively well-trained and humane police force, many sights to see and of course it is the capital of Vyktory, hence Parliament House and the Royal District are all located centrally. Jamestown has been planning to be the centrepiece of sports in the Southern Hemisphere for some time, and hosting the first Micras Games will be the best litmus test available for achieving that feat.

Nation Name: Hoennese Realm (short form: Hoenn)
Proposed Host City: Lilycove City (水面市 Minamo-no-ichi)
Number of Stadiums/Arenas/Venues: The Lilycove 2018 bid book will provide 24 venues, all within the bounds of Ōsumi Province.

Leader: The heads of state of the Hoennese Realm are Queen Kahede and King Matsu. The head of government is Prime Minister Jirō Yamanobe of the Progressive Liberal Party.
Government: The Hoennese Realm is a constitutional dinarchy and parliamentary democracy. Power is shared between the Queen, the King, and Parliament.

Number of Sports Played: Thirty-two of the thirty-seven sports on the Micras Games programme are played in Hoenn at an amateur level. Eighteen of the sports on the Micras Games programme are played professionally in Hoenn, the most popular of which are baseball, Amorian football, and association football.

Brief history of sport in your country: Sport has formed an integral part of the Hoennese social fabric for centuries. Sumō (wrestling), gitchō (a game similar to field hockey), and kiba dakyū (a horseback form of gitchō, similar to polo) have been played in Hoenn since the times of the earliest written records.

Western sports — namely association football, cricket, rugby (at that time not split between league & union), and boxing — were introduced to Hoenn by British diplomats and their staff in the early seventh century AHC, and quickly became popular among the small island nation. Baseball and the nascent game of Amorian football were introduced by American expatriates not long afterward, and the formation of the modern Hoennese government in 632 opened the floodgates to Westerners to popularize in Hoenn the divers sports and games that they enjoy.

Why do you think you deserve to host the inaugural Micras Games?: In the twelve decades since the formation of the modern Hoennse government, Hoenn has become the sporting heart of Asia, hosting the Olympic Games in 1956 (Lilycove) and 2008 (Mauville), as well as the 2002 FIFA World Cup, in which the Rayquaza finished third; additionally, Hoenn has hosted countless regional and continental championships across various sports.

Hoenn is the only known country to exist on two worlds simultaneously, with the Wataru Yamashiro Tunnel, named after its first prime minister, providing safe and expedient linkage between the Earthly and Micran domains of the Hoennese Realm. We have dozens of world-class sporting facilities, as well as a thoroughly-developed tourism economy, buttressed by over 130,000 hotel rooms in Ōsumi Province alone. Hoenn is one of the safest countries on Earth, with a miniscule risk of crime, and an expert and approachable public safety force in the Royal and National Constabulary.

Hoenn is also known for its natural beauty, and features several natural landmarks, including the hot springs of Lavaridge and Mt. Chimney, the largest active volcano in the Yamatai archipelago. As well, the Hoennse people — both human and pokémon — are known for their harmony with nature, which reflects itself in their architecture and lifestyles, as does their desire to maintain the traditional ways that have permeated the island for untold millennia.

As the ancient capital of Hoenn, Lilycove is home to many of Asia's most popular tourist destinations, including Minamo Castle, the Shimadzu Art Collections at the National Museum of Art, the Yamatai archipelago's largest department store, and the Kimotsuke Contest Hall, home to the uniquely Hoennese passion that is the Pokémon Contest. Mt. Pyre, known for its climbing and hiking trails in all seasons, and the Queen Meiroku Safari Park are only a short train ride away, while every city in Hoenn can be reached within one hour's flight or up to three hours' train ride.

The Hoennese Realm, the darling of the Orient, seeks a grand stage upon which to formally introduce herself to Micras, and there is none grander in all the world than the inaugural Micras Games.

The Florian Republic government has decided to withdraw its bid to host the games due to economic and security issues, created by the War of Lost Brothers. Instead, the country is to host its own games and now supports Hoen's bid to host the games.

Nation Name: Jingdao

Proposed Host City: Daocheng

Number of Stadiums/Arenas/Venues: Twenty individual venues, nine of which are situated in the Daocheng metro area and will host over 75% of the games' events Leader: Hai Emperor

Government: Semi-constitutional monarchy

Number of Sports Played:
Of the traditional sports on the Micras Games schedule, eleven are played to either a fully professional league, or professional touring individual, standard within Jingdao, with the vast majority of the remaining sports having amateur competitions run throughout the nation with help from respective authorities

Brief history of sport in your country:
While Jingdao may be somewhat of a latecomer to the sporting scene on Micras, there are strong sporting ties throughout the nation's history, with competition often used by the ruling classes and commoners alike as means of entertainment, establishing honour and deciding feuds. Sports with militaristic and honourable origins, such as archery and combat sports, are intertwined with those that require considerable composure and technical ability, like gymnastics and table tennis, to create a thriving sports community among the Jingdaoese. In recent times, football has established itself as a unifying sport for the populace, with the ethnically diverse national team exceeding all expectations in their run to the quarter-finals of the World Cup last summer; an achievement which spurred strong enough interest for a first nationwide professional league to be founded for this season. Should the Micras Games make their way to Daocheng, the plethora of sporting talent on show would certainly bear further interest and development to fuel Jingdao's future.

Why do you think you deserve to host the inaugural Micras Games?:
Daocheng is a city of contrasts. Traditions meet modernity, rigidity meets fluidity, and stereotypes meet their maker. Forget what you think you know about Jingdao and see for yourself; the architecture, the culture, the pomp and the people who make this bustling metropolis the pulsating heart of Apollonia.

While Daocheng's atmosphere will entice visitors, we can also ensure superb logistical and functional aspects to run an incomparable games. With the expertise of our fellow USSO members on board, and willingness to make a Jingdao-hosted games an unequivocal success, our state-of-the-art venues, transport, accommodation and ticketing infrastructure will be the envy of all nations wishing to host even the smallest of similar future events. Once Daocheng is confirmed as host, our platform to fund every aspect of the games will begin in due course, and relevant updates shall be issued periodically up until the time comes for the countdown to begin on the opening ceremony in the beautiful Heavenly Light Stadium, to be situated in the sporting hub of the city, which will find future use by all residents as part of the games' legacy - a brighter future we can all hope for across Micras.

Daocheng is now open!

The bidding for the Micras Games is now closed!
Thank you to all bidders. The winner will be announced shortly.

With the deadline for voting now passed, it is confirmed that the inaugural Micras Games will be held in... Daocheng! Congratulations to the winning bidders and commiserations to the unsuccessful pair of other candidate cities!

With seven of the eligible individuals voting, using an instant-runoff ballot, the final results are as follows: