[quote=MrFoxNews]
You can always be a nation made up of space colonies :/ you'll have to trade with earth for much of your resources though.
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I thought the rules stated against this?
Besides, to be space-based, I'd have to be a very, very advanced business/company/corporation, to own the land for the launch bases, to efficiently send ships up and down for supply and personnel runs, and would have to have something to sell in return. Research in the space-based area would obviously be valuable in the future, but currently, all I can think of is mining. Other than that, I don't see how it'd be plausible.

Besides, it's against the rules.

And Africa is too disorganized. While mineral rich, it is difficult, what with one half being harsh desert, and the other half being harsh jungle.

Although, isn't there an asteroid by the name of 'Ceres'? I suppose if I were allowed, I could have a nation based as a colony dug into the rock, though expansion would be slow and I'd be in dire need of efficient reactors, instead of fuel engines of some type.

So, Duck, would I be allowed to be a space-colony on the asteroid 'Ceres,' with a station in geostationary orbit? Some kind of efficient fusion reactor would be required for a ship to go up to the station and back down, and for a ship to go to Ceres and back.

If not, I suppose I'll just be a research-and-exploration company that's working towards space colonization, rather than starting as a spacey-colony. 

And, mind you, warships and the like are far off. One would first have to begin mining into the rock, and then they'd have to construct facilities inside for personnel, storage, etc., and then they'd have to work on tunnels and such for the construction bay, and then the construction bay itself, and then they'd probably have to gather up the resources and the personnel to start designing the ship, and then they'd have to get the equipment to build a ship, and essentially, too expensive for the time being.