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So in recent news area's will still have the same resources as they do IRL, and areas will also have relatively the same population as they do IRL, although I will allow for some variance. This is mainly to make it easier on me to keep track of certain things and settle arguments better.

Edit:And I have a map, but I need someone to do editing. And while you do have a lot of freedom in creating your nation, please keep it at least somewhat serious.
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The Congo is a pretty high resource potential area with a growing population at 75 million in our world, and the congo was a total mess for decades in our world with Belgian princes cutting people's hands off and the kelptocracy.  If the Congo kept itself together (like, Belgium leaving a couple decades earlier and having the most hyper-competent human to ever live running things for a couple decades) they'd be a considerable force in the world today, likely with a higher population due to not becoming a failed state and having quite a few resources.

Butterflies can wreck some shit on how things turn out in the span of a several decades.  I am not sure what your PoD is however.