Littolyo

so, basically there's a bunch of republics/kinda western democracies who buddy up and form MSTO and nations who would typically fall into line with the MSTO position. Then you've got Havalland IC and OOC trying to pull anyone with a slightly monarchical character into his 'sphere of influence', Mokov trying to constantly tear itself apart, the northern nations chilling, Altera who basically with hardly any criticism essentially has a government that has become a corporation and the less traditional kind of democracies trying to form a web of unilateral relations much like in Civilisation V, such as in Gael where the only thing that binds us together is a reasonably weak treaty that covers at best half of the subregion.

As for history

1. the only thing almost every southern sea nation has in common is their genocidal instincts for an ancestral group that is originally from my country (That I didn't even ask to have, but somehow they became mine)

2. Imperial War One exists (and there's a thread if you want to get involved and write some of your own history around it) and helps to explain some of the broad tensions across the Isles - essentially with the exception of Noronica being somewhat friendly with the nations that were the free powers back then, the free powers and neo-imperialists (oversimplifying here) are still at odds with each other.

Miscellaneous

1. The International District threads are a weird, weird place.

2. The diplomats in the league have no filter and will go well beyond what is realistic for acceptable conduct in such a large international forum.

3. Please, don't try to shoot anyone at the league. It's just about the only thing we outlaw explicitly in that thread. That, and eating stromboli in the chamber.

4. Everyone IC hates Athara Magarat. Its diplomats are as competent as the leaders that somehow manage to rise to the top - when there's not a civil war that is. The nation also has messed with multiple nations on multiple occasions in multiple forms such as the Khas-Kirati Empire, the Empire of Magarat or more recently the nations near the canal district after it went after some 'criminals'.

5. if you're going to do something that involves another nation (exception: if the nation's owner is cool with reasonable and realistic things happening that don't change much, for example a regular, run of the mill business entering into a country which is a free market), please ask them first.

6. TWI nations are much more likely to overreact to geopolitical tensions, and we have a history of sticking our noses into each other's business suggesting what leaders should be doing etc

7. Human rights are something that is a lot less cared for IC here. Don't be surprised if someone does something awful and it comes up on the twi news thread but hardly any nation responds or reacts in any meaningful way.