Minecraftian Bicentennial

The Minecraftian Bicentennial (マインクラフト国の２００年) took place in 2009 as Minecraftia marked the 200th anniversary of Confederation.

History
On December 31, 2008, Queen Konata and King Consort Susumu offered their best wishes and congratulations on reaching the 200th anniversary of Confederation. Their son, Crown Prince Tetsuo, toured various locations around Minecraftia before attending the national day celebration on May 17, 2009.

Queen Konata was pregnant with their daughter on the day of the celebration. On the official Minecraftia Day parade in Kozankyo that year, her costume makers had to make adjustments to her official gown in order to fit her belly size. The queen wore a very long, special red gown complete with a 200cm train (approximately 6 and a half feet), with the length representing the anniversary number; two other queens wore a 150cm train during the sesquicentennial celebration in 1959, while the queen during the 100th anniversary wore a 100cm train during the 1909 celebration.

On July 25, 2009, Queen Konata gave birth to Princess Kotori, and the public decided to give her the title The Bicentennial Princess, and would also wear the exact same 200cm train on her wedding day.1 According to Princess Kotori herself, she intends to have her hair be 200cm in length by the time she turns twenty, and plans to start doing it right after her tenth birthday this summer.

Logo
The logo for the celebration featured Queen Konata dressed in a ceremonial gown while wearing her wedding and coronation crown, alongside her holding her scepter while standing on a big grass block as depicted on the Minecraftian flag. On the "dirt" portion of the block, it contains a big "200" printed on the sides, with a bilingual saying that reads the country name in both English and Japanese.

The logo was created by then-Kozankyo University freshman Susumu Takajima using Adobe Photoshop and converted to SVG in Illustrator. The logo had a mixed reception upon its unveiling, with the queen giving an "okay" review.

Note(s)

 * 1) The train that the queen wore was red, while the princess will wear a white train on her wedding day.