Welcome to the world of... today!
WHAT IS THIS THREAD?
Applications thread for AMW.
Post here if you already understand what AMW is, and want to propose your nation's involvement.
If you have questions about AMW, if you're not sure quite what you want to do with your claim or just wonder how your nation might fit into the existing community, or if you just want to expand on your basic application and get us all interested, then you should go to The AMW Discussion Thread and get posting there!
WHAT IS AMW?
A Modern World (AMW) is a Role Playing community within Nationstates.
It has existed since pre-Jolt days, and plans to stick around for years to come.
We use real-world geography and populations as bases for our NS countries.
We want people to come and play creative accounts with us and mean it... we don't view the community as just another alternate history group to be played for a month and then moved on from. Some of us have been here for years.
As an easy example, Dra-pol covers much of the Korean peninsula and as such has Korean dimensions, natural resources, weather, and population size, but it is Dra-pol, not Korea.
You'll find that some real-world cultures are represented here, and some real-world history has mirrors in ours, but that's pretty near always the way with Modern Tech RPs in which humans are the only sentient characters.
Well, we thank you for your interest, and now the rule-ish bit...
THINGS TO KNOW
Of course the usual NS rules of conduct apply as ever, but those particular parameters that define AMW are as follows:
Geography: AMW uses the real world as a geographic template. Claims are placed on real territory and adopt the approximate dimensions, natural resources and hazards, as well as the general climate of the territory they cover.
Population: Populations for each claim are based on the real-world population of the territory they cover, regardless of how many people your nation's homepage says you have today. Simply for argument's sake we use the CIA factbook as a reference when whole national entities are consumed by a claim, though other sources must be found when claims cover less than the complete territory of a real nation or other listed entity (as if your nation, New Cornwall, should cover only Florida, or the West Indus Republic both Pakistani and Iranian Balochistan).
Economy: This is not based upon the territory consumed by a claim, but is free-form within reason. We can't all be superpowers. This doesn't mean that the old-guard players have all taken the positions of leading powers and now seek whipping boys: at time of writing Dra-pol is the oldest active member and has an economy smaller in per-capita terms than that of RL Uzbekistan, and the biggest economies at present aren't worth half that of RL USA's.
Technology: As the name suggests, this is modern tech. If you want to use a technology, and there isn't already a direct equivalent in production and active use today (or in the past) in the real world, it's usually not right for AMW. Earlier in AMW we had variable throttle hyper agile air-to-air missiles because humanity knows how to make them and is working on it right now, but then there were arguments about whether that made electro-thermal chemical guns allowable, and so on and so forth. This ruling keeps things from snowballing and putting-off those of us without time of inclination to spend hours on end reading technology journals et cetera when we'd rather be RPing. You can still design your own weapons, and some of us do, they just have to be confined by the bounds of modern in-service technologies.
Claiming!!!: We ask that players wishing to join AMW either share with us some links to examples of their past Role-Playing experience, or accept that we'll want a more detailed introduction to their nation and perhaps a sample of what they'll be RPing with it. Thanks!
LINKS
General
AMW Region
Join if you like, but it's not a requirement for RP. We chat informally on the regional HQ, but important stuff will be shared by telegram and/or on these forums.
AMW Off-Site Forum
Again, a good place to be a regular, but AMW is primarily an in-game NS roleplaying thang, so don't be put off by thinking you need to sign up to another messageboard. However, many players base or back-up factbook threads here, raise RP ideas for consideration, chat nonsense, it's all good.
AMW Discussion Thread
Anything and everything AMW related. Discussion of applications, a place to pose general or particular questions that don't seem to fit anywhere else, somewhere to say hi or let us know if you're going to busy for a while, whatever!
Active RPs
Africa-
All Rhodes lead to Salisbury
Where They Make a Wasteland, They Call it Peace
Americas-
Conquistadors and Inkas
Quisqueyanos Valientes!
Asia-
The Jewel in the Crown
Europe-
An Alliance to Last the Ages
