[quote=@Aristo]
So before we have the chance to open this can of worms in an OOC and send this train off the tracks... What sort of real-world technology-equivalent era are we looking at? Victorian/pre-WWI? Interwar? etc. Is there a hard limit to the sorts of technology we can handle? 

Interest pending on how 'realistically-grounded' this is.
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Mostly realistically grounded around 1860, though there will be breaks in it and I have suggested a sort of "Soft-approval" approach for technologies suggested by people in their apps. A large majority of things will be Victorian Steampunk, though as per the title, but with the theme of my own nation, I am adopting a different aesthetic to suit my nation.