The Netherlands

The slips
the mars one mission was ambitious. this was hammered home by the fact that over the.

the Netherlands step in
in 2017 the Netherlands gave mars one a one time donation of $3 billion and a ESA communications satellite and rover on a 5-year lease.

wheels on the ground
in 2018 the construction rovers landed on mars and began

The mars landings
despite the uncertainty thanks to Starn and china in 2020 the first falcon heavy was launched.

The Second Landings
just before the Netherlands where dragged into the first solar war the second dragon was launched and by the time the operator slipped and hit the launch button in the control room of the Pakistani nuclear weapons the falcon had used the last of it's fuel to aim for mars.

this left the colonists in an extraordinary situation when war broke out, a american and a brit were strapped into a spaceship with someone from china and someone from Russia. they decided to declare independence from all political entities except from the Netherlands and from that they became Europeans.

they landed in the year 2022.

Union on mars
the mars one mission united with space X to form mars and space united (split into the space and mars foundation (formed out of the mars one foundation) and space and mars inc. (from space X and mars one ventures).)