Name

[Thermodolia]

I just typed in a bunch of random letters and boom. Has nothing to do with that Greek island though

[Barboneia]

It’s my last name in real life with “-ia” at the end. It only took me like four years to come up with an in character explanation for it.

[Piper at the Gates of Dawn]

I made a puppet once called (the) Piper At the Gates of Dawn (can't remember the exact phrasing or why I made the puppet).

It's a Wind in the Willows thing.

Pink Floyd were also referencing it but a fan sent me a TG mistaking me for referencing the band (to be fair, Pink Floyd are definitely a band worth being a fan of... although personally it's stuff like Time or High Hopes or Learning to Fly that I like more than the sort of thing on The Piper at the Gates of Dawn).

Oh, so you're the one who took the full version of this name...

[Trumptonium1]

Back when I didn't like Trump, I named my nation Trumptonium as the next unstable element of the periodic table.

Today when I like Trump, it brilliantly represents a strong nation led by a man who can write his name in all capitals and still underexaggerate his greatness.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

From a manga/anime I was reading/watching at the time I came across NS. The manga/anime is called Loveless.

[Arkeyana]

Arkeya(Original name, sounded weird)

Added an -na to the end and it sounded better.

[Greater Gilead]

I names mine after the nation in The Handmaid's Tale... ok, I tried to. It was taken. So I went with this.

[Caracasus]

Buncha random sounds chucked together that sounded sort of Ok with plenty of repetition.

[-Ocelot-]

Back when I didn't like Trump, I named my nation Trumptonium as the next unstable element of the periodic table.

Today when I like Trump, it brilliantly represents a strong nation led by a man who can write his name in all capitals and still underexaggerate his greatness.

Underrated satire

[The Vexian Union]

Some chinese commercials talking about their company "Vexia".

[Tinhampton]

It sounded like the kind of name you'd give a place called Tinhampton. I know, right? >:P

[Thermodolia]

It’s my last name in real life with “-ia” at the end. It only took me like four years to come up with an in character explanation for it.

I still haven’t come up with an in character explanation for mine yet and it’s been over 6 years

[Pope Joan]

I suspect that there is an historical root to the myth of Pope Joan, a female power in a male theocratic universe.

Her legend arises around the time that Gregory or his cohorts invented the requirement of priestly celibacy and barred women from the priesthood (how convenient, if so? See?)

The Church of Rome, along with its many atrocities, has done considerable good in the world, and would do far more if it ordained capable women to the priesthood and elevated them to the Curiate.

I would start with Joan Chittister. https://www.joanchittister.org/

[Victorious Decepticons]

Several variations of "Decepticons" were already taken. I thought, "what word would nobody associate with Decepticons based on the official canon?"

The word that came to mind was Victorious.

It worked - and that changed the entire planned RP canon of this nation to make it infinitely better and more interesting than it could have been otherwise.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

I suspect that there is an historical root to the myth of Pope Joan, a female power in a male theocratic universe.

Her legend arises around the time that Gregory or his cohorts invented the requirement of priestly celibacy and barred women from the priesthood (how convenient, if so? See?)

The Church of Rome, along with its many atrocities, has done considerable good in the world, and would do far more if it ordained capable women to the priesthood and elevated them to the Curiate.

I would start with Joan Chittester.

As much as I'd love to believe there could have been such a figure in the Church's early history, the legend of Pope Joan is just that, a legend. The only contentious connection I could find to it is the instances in history in which some women have crossdressed and passed as monks. Like Hildegund of Neuss: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegund_(virgin)

[Ghost Land]

It's the Irish word for "Hell".

That explains it! I'd been wondering what the meaning of your name was, if anything, for over six years!

This nation's name comes from being the Halloween entry in my holiday-themed series of puppets created in early 2014. I created one a week and covered Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Halloween, and Christmas. December Land, my Christmas puppet, ceased to exist with only 198 million people initially due to having forgotten my password for it, but this past September I finally remembered said password and managed to bring it back from four years among the dead. (I have a couple of 2012 puppets I could revive if I wanted to, too.)

[Migdal Bavel]

Migdal Bavel means 'Tower of Babel' in... Hebrew, I think?
Pretty simple.
I like the tower. It represents human ambition, the idea that if we work together we can create wonders that rival those of God himself.
I mean sure, it collapsed and humanity was shattered into nations, but only because God saw it as a threat.
It's taken as a symbol of hubris, but... It would have worked.

A Christian being a fan of something that God struck down might sound weird, but I'm a philosopher, our philosophy is always bizarre.

[Wawakanatote]

The "Wawakanatote" part I came up with when I was in middle school and used to draw my own fictional maps. The "Supranational Union" bit is more recent and is meant to combine the entire socialist-building world.

[Crylante]

It actually came from the random generator - I wasn't entirely sure what culture I wanted Crylante to be but I envisioned it as being somewhat Western European so I hit the random name generator until I got something I could pass off as such.

[Atheris]

bush vipers, the coolest species of snake.

look at this beast.

[Dogmeat]

I'd say it was pretty self explanatory...

Skyrim, right?

[Torrocca]

I... genuinely don't think I had a reason behind this name. I just made it and stuck with it. Nowadays, it's primarily written with a slavification, since I canonized the entire nation as Slavic-esque during my pro-USSR young'un days. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Bombadil]

I hate Dill sauce, I want to bomb it out of existence, I just spelled Dill incorrectly.

Lol. Pretty sure you just named yourself after Tom Bombadil from Lord of the Rings.

A common misconception though I suppose my flag doesn't help.

[Argule and Monteverdeo]

Argule came from the word "argyle", while Monteverdeo was inspired by Montenegro, the European country. Compound country names sounded interesting (like Saint Kitts and Nevis, São Tomé and Príncipe, etc.) and thus, Argule and Monteverdeo was born created!

[Forsher]

I made a puppet once called (the) Piper At the Gates of Dawn (can't remember the exact phrasing or why I made the puppet).

It's a Wind in the Willows thing.

Pink Floyd were also referencing it but a fan sent me a TG mistaking me for referencing the band (to be fair, Pink Floyd are definitely a band worth being a fan of... although personally it's stuff like Time or High Hopes or Learning to Fly that I like more than the sort of thing on The Piper at the Gates of Dawn).

Oh, so you're the one who took the full version of this name...

No. That nation expired not that long ago whereas I am talking about a nation which I forgot about a long time ago. Based on the Boneyard reference it'd be Piper At The Gates Of Dawn with everything in capitals. You probably have some bad log in attempts now, sorry.