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[[Cyber Nations]] was created on Jan. 6, 2006 by Kevin Marks. Initially, it only had two alliances, but players from [[Nation States]] discovered the game, and the number of players boomed.

Unlike the roleplaying style of [[Nation States]], events in the [[Cyber Nations]] world are more real and [[Serious Business]]. Nations can declare war on each other for actual reasons, trade technology for money if they both agree on it, and more. And with alliances, this can get even more wide-scale and complicated: Alliances can have treaties with each other, help each other, declare collective war on each other, and more. Wars can involve several alliances, and sometimes, it can even involve almost [[World War III|every alliance in the game]], occasionally accompanied by [[Nuke Em|nukes]], raising radiation that can [[Nice Job Breaking It Hero|affect everyone in the game]].

Unlike the roleplaying style of [[Nation States]], events in the [[Cyber Nations]] world are more real and [[Serious Business]]. Nations can declare war on each other for actual reasons, trade technology for money if they both agree on it, and more. And with alliances, this can get even more wide-scale and complicated: Alliances can have treaties with each other, help each other, declare collective war on each other, and more. Wars can involve several alliances, and sometimes, it can even involve almost [[World War III|every alliance in the game]], occasionally accompanied by [[Nuke'Em|nukes]], raising radiation that can [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|affect everyone in the game]].

So as you see, [[Cyber Nations]] is serious business. It can potentially burn ''way'' more hours of your time than [[Nation States]], though.

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** Case in point: GOD: Global Order of Darkness. Yeah.

* [[Hopeless War]]: There has been at least two wars that went on for a year or two on only one target.

* [[Infinity ~~Plus One~~ Sword]]: The National Wonders. Insanely expensive, can only be purchased once a month, and offer anything from a stat boost to more useful things like being able to send foreign aid in secret, your people always being happy with your government type or religion, or a space program that lets you gather special resources and even build a colony that houses some of your population (to reduce population density).

* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: The National Wonders. Insanely expensive, can only be purchased once a month, and offer anything from a stat boost to more useful things like being able to send foreign aid in secret, your people always being happy with your government type or religion, or a space program that lets you gather special resources and even build a colony that houses some of your population (to reduce population density).

* [[The Government]]: Duh

* [[The Great Politics Mess Up]]: Not literally, but the explosion of factions and old alliances after the fall of Pacifica makes for a drastically different political and ideological landscape.

* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]: [[Nuke Em|Nukes]] and cruise missiles tend to be spammed during a war.

* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]: [[Nuke'Em|Nukes]] and cruise missiles tend to be spammed during a war.

* [[Medal of Dishonor]]: The National War Memorial is only available to nations that have lost 50,000 soldiers in war. At least it's one of the cheaper wonders to build.

* [[Peace Through Superior Firepower]]: Most wars will end with the losers completely devastated, either through military or through ridiculously high reparations for the war.

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** [[Numbered Sequels]]: There's some debate on how many Great Wars there have been..

*** Also the Unjust Wars, involving pretty much every known alliance in the game. ''Twice.''

* [[You Nuke Em]]: It wouldn't be a nation simulation game without a little bit of Nuclear Fallout.

* [[You Nuke'Em]]: It wouldn't be a nation simulation game without a little bit of Nuclear Fallout.

* [[Zerg Rush]]: During the Karma War, a typical run-of-the-mill global war in CN, there were the two sides: The Hegemony, and Karma (hence the name of the war). The Hegemony had 43 alliances, while Karma had ''103'' alliances.

** Also a favoured war tactic: have as many people as you can attack and take advantage of 'update'--you're allowed a certain number of attacks per calendar day (reckoned as US Central time). So, if you attack at 23:50, and then again at 0:05, when your enemy's likely asleep..

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* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Many alliance members who are not Blood Knights are instead this, people who simply enjoy a good brawl between nations, to the surprise of those that message them.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Pretty much from Great War I to the Karma War nothing went right for GATO. See [[Vestigial Empire]] below.

* [[Card Carrying Villain]]: Members of alliances in whatever group is strongest have a tendency to slip into this. More specific examples would be Pacificans making jokes about [[Dead Baby Comedy|eating babies]] and [[Something Awful|GOONS']] obsession with "pubbie tears."

* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Members of alliances in whatever group is strongest have a tendency to slip into this. More specific examples would be Pacificans making jokes about [[Dead Baby Comedy|eating babies]] and [[Something Awful|GOONS']] obsession with "pubbie tears."

* [[Church Militant]]: Kind-of example with the CCC, a Christian based alliance, who will often speak their piece at the beginning of a major war with a prayer, or some other neutral comment. Exception: Karma War. Apparently, even the CCC had Pacifica as a [[Berserk Button]] at that time.

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: What both Pacifica era NPO and the Orange Defense Network have been accused of(usually by each other).

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** [[The Kingdom]]: For all the things Pacifica and it's adherents did, it united CN, and treated it's soldier nations fairly well.

*** [[You Have Failed Me|To a]] [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|point anyway,]] [[Police State|and it wasn't exactly 'good' unity.]]

* [[~~Everythings~~ Better With Penguins]]: One of the ODN's major members lightheartedly roleplays as a penguin.

* [[Everything's Better With Penguins]]: One of the ODN's major members lightheartedly roleplays as a penguin.

** The alliance New Polar Order uses penguins among its many other polar themes, going so far as to name a branch of its military the "Penguin Battalion".

** The now-defunct National Alliance of Arctic Countries had a major Penguin theme.

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* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: Though most partisans would view their less eloquent opponents as such, there are some examples which are recognized even by their own allies, such as [[Shin Ra]].

* [[Internet Counterattack]]: Many new members don't know about this, but there was once a time when [[Image Boards|/b/]] had an outpost on CN, known by the same name. Said outpost eventually decided to go out in an illegal blaze of glory by wrecking the site.

* [[I Surrender Suckers]]: FAN pulled this on the entire Continuum by going into peace mode shortly after it was declared that they would all be ZI'd(Zero Infrastructure). The crime for meriting this sentence? Nuking most of NPO's upper echelons before the juggernaut could get moving.

* [[I Surrender, Suckers]]: FAN pulled this on the entire Continuum by going into peace mode shortly after it was declared that they would all be ZI'd(Zero Infrastructure). The crime for meriting this sentence? Nuking most of NPO's upper echelons before the juggernaut could get moving.

* [[Karmic Death]]: In many members' opinion, NPO finally got what was coming to them in the aptly named Karma War.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Pacifica had a habit of enforcing Perma-ZI on those who had 'offended' its leadership. The postwar terms dictated by said leadership after a GW were also known to be on a Versailles-level of draconic humiliation. The pillaging of the [[True Neutral]] GPA, depending on who you talk to, was either this, a [[Moral Event Horizon]], or an [[Acceptable Targets|acceptable target getting what was long coming to them]].

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** The [[Mario|Mushroom Kingdom.]]

** The [[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|SOS Brigade]], to the point that its leader is called the Brigade Chief and Ultra Director.

* [[Small Name Big Ego]]: ..um, let's just say this is there.

* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: ..um, let's just say this is there.

* [[Start of Darkness]]: Many political theorists(as well as many alliance memberships) in CN agree that the NPO started down the Imperial way when it was caught without many allies and humiliated in the First Great War.

* [[Status Quo Is God]]: Subverted in that the Hegemony was finally defeated in the Summer of 2009, but played straight in that the [[Former Regime Personnel]] have formed much of one side in the ongoing TOP(The Order of The Paradox)-[[Cn G]](Complaints and Grievances Union) War.