How did you come up with your nation name?

[Jordaxia]

my middle name is Jordan, but Jordan is taken. But X makes everything cooler, so Jordax. But Jordax doesn't sound like a country name! So Jordaxia. Jor-daze-iya

[Brijesnica]

Brijesnica is a village in bosnia (communist idea)hard to explain

[Holy Paradise]

I liked the idea of being a kinda religious nation, even though this has changed a bit, but the name Holy Paradise just kinda sounded cool to me.

[Weccanfeld]

I misspelt Wakefield. Then translated it to Old English.

[Izrafil]

Israfil is a name of an angel in islam, who will announce the comming of the judgement day with his horn. Since Israfil was taken i chose Izrafil.

[Big Jim P]

Big Jim was an old nickname.

[Mor Rioghan]

Eddings!

You just won an award. I'm obsessed with them... read both the Belgariad and Malloreon like, seven times. Per book. That was years ago, I kept going back to your nation thinking 'Where do I know that word from?!'

Oh, and my name is a spelling for the Celtic Goddess Morrigan, who is awesome.

[Qingzi]

My nation borrows it's name from the Great Qing, the last Imperial Dynasty to rule China.

[New Ziedrich]

I occasionally get fits of nostalgia and replay Final Fantasy VII and other old games. I started playing Nation States during one such session. The Ziedrich is a rare armor you can steal from Rude later in the game; it has exceptional defensive stats and the innate ability to halve damage from all elemental attacks, but no Materia slots.

Ziedrich was taken, so inserting "New" solved that problem.

I feel like such a damn nerd right now.

[HC Eredivisie]

The previous name of the Dutch equivalent to the English Premier League.

[Antilon]

It's strange story:
When I was playing Half Life 2, I always put the subtitles on. So during the level Highway 17, I read "Ant-lion" as "Anti-lon" (my eyesight isn't the best). Later, I realized the mistake, but I kept it for future reference. So when I was making my nation, I was caught between 2 names: Antilon and Razalas (Salazar backwards).

[Takaram]

Random name generator

[Brutland and Norden]

The previous name of the Dutch equivalent to the English Premier League.

I thought that HC Eredivisie was your real name.

[West-Flanders]

It's the name of my home province.

[The Plutonian Empire]

I was obsessed with the (dwarf) planet pluto, and I wanted to run away from earth and build an inter-galactic empire named after the (dwarf) planet.

[Neo-Erusea]

I stole the name from the antagonist country of Ace Combat 04, plain and simple. Although Erusea was already taken, and I remember in my World History class the time when they were lecturing something about the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which is where I got the Neo- prefix part.

[Boihaemum]

Latin for Place of the Boii. Not really sure why I chose that one, but it still works for me.

[Sabaya]

Sabaya be my name.

if you have ever played the Europa Barbarorum mod for Rome: Total War, then you should have seen the faction "As'Sabyn Wal Jau" in the end of turn cycle-through. The name of the peoples, or the nationalities of the country are the "Sabaeans". I tried to use that, but it was taken so i used Sabaya. if you look it up on wikipedia, it should come up with something

[Brutland and Norden]

Sabaya be my name.

if you have ever played the Europa Barbarorum mod for Rome: Total War, then you should have seen the faction "As'Sabyn Wal Jau" in the end of turn cycle-through. The name of the peoples, or the nationalities of the country are the "Sabaeans". I tried to use that, but it was taken so i used Sabaya. if you look it up on wikipedia, it should come up with something

*failed to resist*

Sabaya is a small town in the Bolivian Oruro Department.

Sabaya is the administrative center of Atahuallpa Province and Sabaya Municipio alike and is located 200 km southwest of the department capital Oruro. It is situated at 3,698 m above sea level in the Río Sabaya valley on the eastern slopes of Cerro Pumari (4787 m). Salar de Coipasa is located 25 km southeast of Sabaya, and the stratovolcano Tata Sabaya (5430 m) 20 km in a southwestern direction.

Sabaya has a population of 120 inhabitants.

[Seraosha]

I'm quite ashamed about this, but about eight years ago, I saw someone with the name Seraosha on Utopia. I liked the name so much, that I decided to use it mysellf. That's where my name comes from (probably the only good thing to come of my time on Utopia too!)

[Dluighinleigh]

I banged my hands on the keyboad and it came up with something like this "dlghei." I didn't like that too much, so I spiced it up a litte.

[Skallvia]

Well, I had originally had in mind a nation situated in the Baltics, that would start with a rebellion in the Kaliningrad Oblast, and end in the unification of the three states and the oblast...

and an ancient nation there was called "Skalvia" and that was my nation's original name...

But, then i got banned, apparently Lolcats about Suicide are frowned upon, lol...

So, When I remade my nation with a second 'l' becoming "Skallvia", I decided to just scrap the whole thing and go with a Celtic/Nordic theme as expressed in the wiki in my sig, lol...

[Hryvatia]

Etymology

The modern term Hryvatia is believed to be descended from the old Slavic riviči, meaning fishermen; a reference to the early Illyrian and later Slavic tribes that settled along the sealife rich coasts. The territories of the tribes later became known to the first Doomani missionaries as Rivatia; a literal mistranslation mistaking the voiceless postalveolar affricate consonant [tʃ] for a more common Latin ending. As latinisation continued the name developed a distinctive Slavic voiceless velar fricative [x] at its beginning, and by the 8th century the phonetically spelt Hryvácija became the most widespread variant translated into the Latin alphabet.

The modern English Hryvatia can be understood as a literal although mispronounced identification of Hryv-, accompanied by the more linguistically compatible Latin -atia.

At least that's the in-character explanation. Originally I just took the Croatian for Croatia; Hrvatska, and added the anglophone -atia on the end anyway. This all came about after a three-week trip I took to Croatia where I completely fell in love with the place, and have since planned to returned there to study my Postgraduate in a couple of years.

[Rhalellan]

Just made it up . . .

[Sigma Dome]

Way back when I made this nation, I was in the middle of a short story/world building exercise where Sigma Dome, one of a series of arcologies originally intended for space colonization but used on Earth due to a Class 1.5-ish After The End scenario, was the primary location for what I did get around to writing.

This is the Exiled Fleet of Sigma Dome due to events that transpired in my region's forums years ago (i.e. before my 2-ish years leave of absence; thanks for not deleting Sigma Dome ) - we had a forum wargame going with nation control and all, and my own planets were conquered, forcing these colony ships to launch and escape to empty space before their destruction. I'm not entirely certain anyone in the UFoP even remembers all that, but I still have most of the maps saved