[quote=@Skylar]
<Snipped quote by Theodorable>

I vote for arranging the players into however many teams are practical, then randomly generating the nations they have to play, then the players decide which position they want to play within that nation (or if they can do a swap of roles with a player from another nation)
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I like this idea. So I may be doing nation creation tonight, then creating the application for characters.