Euden

What is Euden?
Euden is a place to develop comprehensive countries from the ground up. When you join, you take on control of a people, their government, its foreign relations, and in general everything that both a nation and a state possess, and at the same time, you join the community, to create a fictional world, within the framework of which your nation-state's actions will be played out. Euden has geographic, ethnic, linguistic, and environmental areas, in order to create a realistic sense of culture. Euden is not an aggregate hodge-podge of places: it is supposed to make sense.

Euden is purely a roleplaying community—any plans to develop a socio-economic simulation would involve so much labor and computational power to be truly reflective of human nature that it would be prohibitive. However, because economic groundwork needs to be laid or else risk having socialist paradises and liberty hellholes, Euden follows the Austrian-Chicago model of economics, detailed in The Wealth of Nations, The Road to Serfdom, Free to Choose, Capitalism and Freedom and other books. It rejects the concept of macroeconomics, and the concept that an economy is a machine that can or even should be regulated and monitored.

What Euden is not is a more complex Risk or Hearts of Iron game. There is no "winner" even if the aim of conquering the world (which is not forbidden by any means—many men have had this dream throughout the course of history) is achieved—one simply continues to write and develop the world. If your goal is to subjugate the planet and then leave the aftermath to be cleaned up or possibly retconned by other players, this is not the place for you.

How do I join Euden?
1. Register any name (we can change it later).
2. Take a look around, and get a feel for what nations already exist as canon, and figure out what you want to do within that framework (if you have the mind for it, feel free to develop the basic idea for a few different nation-states at once, but expect to only keep one in the end, so that it isn't so hard to switch between concepts if one doesn't fit).
3. Start a topic in the development forum with a thread formatted like so.
4. Once the details have been discussed and generally accepted, post on the applications thread, where it will be reviewed and (likely) approved.

Cool idea, but sounds a tad bit too weird for me....

Hmmm...I like this. I'll look into it.