📝Country Claim/Create Rules

Rules required to be followed when creating a new nation or claiming new territories for an existing nation

Newly formed nations are given a 3-day grace period.

During this period, no foreign nation can attack/declare war on the nation. Nations that have the grace period active will automatically forfeit their grace period if they attack another nation.

• Claim or join a country in ⁠country-claim-join

• All nations will be named after the first country they claimed

  • Nations that are conquered/annexed by other nations will be adopted into the conquering nation under their name

  • Nations that gain independence can be named after any country they have currently under their territory

• All nations MUST have a capital and government type

  • A country doesn’t have a government if it has only one player

  • Democratic governments must have a population size of 5 minimum

• If the country leader is inactive w/o reason (7+ days), their territories are either:

  • Dissolved

  • Ceded to his successor determined by the citizens within 3 days

• You can passive claim a country every 3 days (5 max passive claims)

  • Passive claims are classified as when a nation claims an occupied country (land) for itself without the need for a declaration of war

  • New passive claims will cost vigor to claim

  • KoE staff must approve your passive claim in order to start using the land

  • New passive claims cost vigor to claim and will increase the upkeep cost of your nation (vigor)

• You cannot passively claim countries that are not neighboring your land

  • (Small bodies of water are exceptions)

  • (You must build a 4 blocks wide bridge with sides to claim territory over large bodies of water)

• You change countries once every 5 days

  • Leaders must choose successors if they do this (if there's more than one active citizen within their nation)

• If you're being exiled from your nation after losing a war:

  • You must wait 5 days to claim a small country

  • You can join an existing nation as soon as you're exiled

  • You must wait 5 additional days in order to participate in war (after joining a nation or creating a new one)

• When splitting countries or taking some regions of IRL countries:

  • You must create defined borders with 2-block high deepslate tiles or acceptable material