[quote=Commodore Robot]
I don't know about anybody else but I'd genuinely prefer that there were honest to god made up nations in this made up world. But that's just my personal opinion.
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Aye, it's always easier to make it up when you've got completely different societial and industrial changes. The world skipped right over the steam power phase; moved on to more powerful types in a jiffy. Actual, big airships that people used to get around could be numbered on one hand, I believe.

It'd also be cool for the industrial Clankers and the genetic splicing Darwinists to have a prominent place. Even the non-industrial can have some pretty powerful, and strange, fleets.