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talk to other nations I dunno
okay, let's talk then. What does your nation stand for?
A new nation, it seems, well, you need to answer Issues, because that is the only way your stats progress really, but If you wanted to, for cosmetic purposes, you can write Factbooks.
That is the primary gameplay loop. There are two other main things to do:
Raiding and Defending: This is the meta-game of either trying to conquer and vandalize/destroy regions ("raiding") or protect and secure regions against such activities ("defending").
Writing stuff for the World Assembly to vote on.
Aelyria is a progressivist participatory democratic republic, with a third-way economic theory built around blurring the line between "capitalism with trade unions" and "collective ownership via a revised and reformed guild system." Personal, political, and economic freedom are all highly prized. Though the vast majority of the country is religious, the nation is officially secular and is heavily invested in scientific and technological development. Art, literature, music, and philosophy are also highly prized. With a diverse and well-protected climate across the many states of the Federation, Aelyria offers both abundant natural resources and a thriving tourism industry.
Basically, I tried to make a nation that would be the kind of place I would actually want to live in. I think I did a pretty good job.
Simply put, Cordya is meant to be an amalgamation of multiple nations that have federal governments, though it leans more towards the United States because I'm more familiar with it. It is basically like the U.S. but much more fanatical and true to its ideals.
If Cordya existed within World War 2 Europe, which side would it have taken?
Goodnight and Triumph Balder, Balderscomrades, because when you wake up, great destinies await you.
Allies-leaning, though officially they'll proclaim neutrality. The Axis power they'd fight the most is probably Japan.
join a guild
join the world assembly and solve more issues
In the alt-history mockup I have, Aelyria formally stayed neutral in the First World War because most of the fighting was very far away from it (since it's located a few hundred miles off the coast of IRL CA/USA/MX), but provided aid and support to Allied states. WWII happens very differently because of Aelyria's positive impact on technological development, but does still occur, and it joins both theaters, again with the Allies (though mostly via air/rocket support for the European theater due to distance). Other conflicts both before and after WWII, such as the Chinese civil war, also play out differently because of this additional Pacific power.
(And, to be clear, Aelyria takes some time to develop the more...shall we say "noble" attitude. There's some $#¡††¥ imperialistic behavior in the 19th and early 20th centuries, just as Teddy Roosevelt was very progressive for his day, but still rather imperialistic or even jingoistic relative to our standards today.)
did somebody say America?
Finally made Divorce legal again... Much better.
Just woke up to find my massive military being beaten by border militias. Corrected it with military reform.
Hey 
Aelyria, would you say that your nation would have a similar shape, size, and location to Isla de California but be farther away from the US coastline (like you stated 400 to 500 miles)?
Vaguely similar, but it's an archipelago rather than one single island. This is a Doylist choice on my part, to ensure that the undersea currents, which are a large part of why the American Pacific coast has the climate it does, remains mostly unchanged. (I just want my IRL home state to retain more or less the same geography and climate, because I love my home state too much to damage it.)
More or less, imagine if the existing miniature tectonic plates off the US/MX Pacific coast today (e.g. the Juan de Fuca plate) were actually one contiguous plate, and the Pacific plate were pushing against it just as it pushes against North America. Aelyria would be the set of volcanic islands formed at the irregular boundaries between that plate and the Pacific. The Aelyrian archipelago would have slightly higher land area than the Japanese archipelago, with slightly more coastal plains and fertile mountain valleys, meaning the "settle-able" land would be somewhere around 30%-40% bigger even if the *total* land area is only 10%-20% bigger.
I've never considered exactly how many islands there would be. Either it would be seven islands with most of them relatively large, or a larger number of smaller islands. Based on my existing flag (which I didn't create, to be clear, I just used one I found online), there are seemingly 18 individual states within the Federation. I imagine some are exclusive to their island, and others split single large islands into multiple states.
There are certain parallels with the United States, but also differences. Aelyria is a free state (it never has slavery) and a multicultural state (it arises from colonist groups allying with the much-larger-than-US surviving native population, because Aelyria doesn't experience the same 90%-destruction-from-plague thing for Reasons), so it has a very very different sociocultural and ethnic background. It fails to have a "civil war"-like conflict as a result, and remains united and productive. It also gets involved in western US, western Canadian, Mexican, and Pacific politics in ways that couldn't have happened OTL.
Anyways, can you send me the History of Prussia thing again in Telegrams? It was accidentally deleted, and can the Rulerguard be rewritten?
Sure. I'll check out that article, but to be honest I'm not sure if I'll make much progress. Whether it's writer's block or simply already doing what it needs to do, I don't know, but I remember not seeing much of a way forward.
Mayhaps try to go for when it was Formed, and it's evolution, as well as a list of some of it's Foreign Legions, one of the Foreign Legions is Aelyrian, Each Foreign legion can be Armoured, Infantry, Artillery, Grenadiers, etc.
I'll consider it, but honestly I know so little about how actual military units work, I think you might be better off doing that part yourself--you certainly have more ideas.
Here's the full list of the Rulerguard's Foreign Legions, the last one is a Prussian one but I added it for fun:
33rd. RG Aelyrian Armoured Foreign Volunteer Division "Ezekiel's Bravest"
67th RG Cordyan Infantry Foreign Volunteer Division "Liberty's Fasces"
92nd RG Vocomian Grenadier Foreign Volunteer Division "Black Prince"
5th RG Experinan Artillery Foreign Volunteer Division "Lambdas"
1st RG Westphallian Shock Foreign Volunteer Division "Rhine's Blitz"
2nd RG Armoured Division Liferegiment "Leutgard"
I just realized I have more defense than you which is one of my personal goals, but does anyone have any tips how to raise my defense???
Is anyone making a map of Balder if yes, please can I be in the map? Ik i am apart of Balder, but I can't find recent maps and if you are making a map, I want to make sure I am in it.
It's impossible to make a map of balder, I mean you could try to make a map of a few states but a map of everything, I wonder if anyone's gonna be crazy enough to do that, fit in thousands of nations.
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