Woah, I had unsubbed from the last thread and just wandered into the nation section to discover THIS. A grand revival! Count me back in.

I favor Voltus in that we shouldn't have an Earth map. Granted, my reasoning is mostly "just 'cuz" and because elves and that dwarves on Earth would give me huge cognitive dissonance. Still, I see zero good reasons to not just use that map that [@Skepic] gave aside from Willy's accurate observation that it is too blank and would cause massive nations. 

The solution is to simply break up that huge supercontinent. This would offer some strategy that would discourage just grabbing a huge swathe of land: there's the option of lots of open and fertile yet indefensible land, some rugged land rich in metals and easy to defend that makes transportation a nightmare, or maybe just a small island to offer some breathing room at the expense of having to import resources not found on your island.

As far as technology goes, I favor WWII-era tech like most of the others seem to.