After decades of deliberation, a group of 1,200 Greenwich villagers decided to form their own nation built upon the belief that the most influential should govern the people. Banding their riches together, the founders purchased 200 square miles of land from various neighboring Nations and established themselves in a town in upstate New York, known as Utica. They began renovating the area with money they gained from companies that they still owned in different nations, and the tax dollars gained from the new immigrants that poured into the country.