Welcome to World of Nations, A freestyle nation RP similar to many other Freestyle RPs, but with nations instead. This is the Map:

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You are allowed to add your own nation/civilisation/empire or whatever. I will try to update the map as well as I can.
Because it's freestyle, you're essentially allowed to do whatever you want as long as you do not break the rules. The quality of writing required here is not that high either, however, we'd prefer that you try to keep up with some of the other posters here in both depth and post length. Here are the rules:
1. If somebody wishes to not interact with somebody, please don't force them to. If somebody tells you to stop OOC, then stop.
2. You are free to decide your own tech level, there is no 'standard' tech level. You're free to play a caveman civilisation while someone else has computers and such.
3. You are free to add your own 'NPC' nations/civilisations for you and others to interact with. The person who created an NPC civilisation controls it (Unless they give somebody else permission to control it).
4. First come, first served. Same goes for here. You can't claim things others have claimed, nor can you change someone else's environment. If someone is having a fantasy-like war with an Orc faction, you can't come in and say that there's a hyperadvanced civilisation there. The map is big enough for everyone, so try and respect each other.
5. You are allowed to use WMDs/Superweapons, but please keep their use to a minimum.
6. There are no flawless weapons. No shield is impenetrable, no weapon is flawless, no armour is invincible.
7. If you go overboard, expect retaliation. If you don't play fair (by breaking the rules), don't expect me to either, and I might look the other way when someone breaks a rule to punish you for going overboard (By dropping superweapons on your empire after you continued waging war on others after they specifically told you to stop.)
8. If things escalate even further and it can't be stopped in-RP, I'll use my GM powers to put a stop to it. If I make a post with GM: [something], then that is FINAL, and you cannot oppose it.
9. Don't control things that don't belong to you.
10. When you want some new territory, you can just claim more part of the map as long as that part doesn't belong to anyone else. Peace treaties after war have to be negotiated by both sides to determine who gets what.
11. When editing the map (for claiming, making peace or expanding your territory) please follow these rules:
	-Please save as PNG and use imgur for image uploading
	-Please make sure the size stays the same, as updating the map when everyone uploads different sized 		
         images is a lot of unnecessary work
	-If you use paint. net or something similar, make sure the antialiasing is turned off. Otherwise the map 	
	gets weird blurry regions and starts looking weird
	-I will update the map in the OOC and the apply section every now and then
	-PLEASE MAKE YOUR NATION LOOK LIKE A NATION AND NOT LIKE A SHIRT STAIN
12. If you will not be able to post for a little while, please say so beforehand, then I will take control over your nation to make sure no one can interact with it until you get back. Don't do interact with the nation itself because I will either ignore you or use my GM powers to stop it.
13. If someone leaves unannounced I will take control of their nation as well, and will contact the owner of the original nation to see if they want to keep playing. If they don't you can all fight over who gets it.
14. If you are severely stronger/higher in technology level than someone else, please don't just roll over them in war unless both of you have given permission for it OOC.

Other than the rules, you are free to do what you want. There is an application however, but most of it is optional and it'll be automatically approved. It's just nice to have all information about the nations in 1 place. Please don't forget to apply in the Characters section.
-Nation Name
-Nation Flag, anthem (Optional)
-Map Location
-Description (think economy, history etc.) (Optional)
-Other