Cyber Nations (also known as CyberNations and abbreviated as CN) is a massively multiplayer online geo-political simulator. Players assume the role of a national leader of a fictional nation they create and then run. Cyber Nations is composed of hundreds of groups, called alliances, each of which contain nations run by individual players. Cyber Nations also has one of the biggest IRC channels on the EsperNet and Coldfront servers. A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video games. ... A software release refers to the distribution, whether public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product. ... is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Video games are categorized into genres based on their gameplay. ... Usually used in reference to a computer application, especially a computer game, a text-based application is one whose primary input and output are based on text rather than graphics. ... The abbreviation MMO can stand for any of several things: Main Mechanical Outfitting Maintenance Management Officer Maintenance Manual Organization Level (TMINS) Man-made object Marine Mammal Observer Marketing Mix Optimization Massively multiplayer online (gaming) Materials and Manufacturing Ontario Maximum Operating Mach Number Means, Motive and Opportunity Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter Minimum... In computing, a platform describes some sort of framework, either in hardware or software, which allows software to run. ... An example of a Web browser (Mozilla Firefox) A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network. ... An example of a Web browser (Mozilla Firefox) A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network. ... Internet Connections -T5 -T3 -T1 -Cable -DSL -ISP -Dial Up (56 K) -Dial Up (28 K) Left(Fastest) to Right(Slowest) To see how fast your internet connection is. ... A 104-key PC US English QWERTY keyboard layout The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard layout A standard Hebrew keyboard showing both Hebrew and QWERTY. A computer keyboard is a peripheral partially modelled after the typewriter keyboard. ... Operating a mechanical 1: Pulling the mouse turns the ball. ... A massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) is a type of computer game that enables hundreds or thousands of players to simultaneously interact in a game world they are connected to via the Internet. ... Online means being connected to the Internet or another similar electronic network, like a bulletin board system. ... Geopolitics analyses politics, history and social science with reference to geography. ... A simulation is an imitation of some real device or state of affairs. ... The head of government is the chief officer of the executive branch of a government, often presiding over a cabinet. ... For other uses, see Nation (disambiguation). ... Alliances can refer to: Alliances, an expansion for the trading card game Magic: The Gathering The plural of alliance This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title. ...

Cyber Nations was created by Kevin Marks, modelled on a game he invented as a child involving a world map and push pins.^[1] In 2003, Marks started a website for the game, although the domain sat idle for two years. On December 24, 2005, he began to code the game, and Cyber Nations was finally released to the public on January 6, 2006. A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... is the 358th day of the year (359th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... In communications, a code is a rule for converting a piece of information (for example, a letter, word, or phrase) into another form or representation, not necessarily of the same type. ... is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Gameplay

The Nation

When a player first creates a taco, they choose a taco name, a capital city name and location. The income tax percentage, and various other settings,are changeable after nation creation. Nations may collect taxes and pay bills daily, or wait for an update cycle (24 hours) to gain interest. Many factors affect the happiness of a nation's citizens, which in turn directly impacts that nation's income.^[2] By buying more infrastructure, a player can improve the economy and increase the population of their nation. Factors that affect a nation's income include the nation's technology level, infrastructure level, resources available, war readiness, position in color team, and inter color trading. Not to be confused with capitol. ... For other uses, see City (disambiguation). ... Tax rates around the world Tax revenue as % of GDP Economic policy Monetary policy Central bank   Money supply Fiscal policy Spending   Deficit   Debt Trade policy Tariff   Trade agreement Finance Financial market Financial market participants Corporate   Personal Public   Banking   Regulation        An income tax is a tax levied on the financial income... Citizenship is membership in a political community (originally a city but now a state), and carries with it rights to political participation; a person having such membership is a citizen. ...

Technology is very expensive but it improves one's combat odds, population happiness, and reduces infrastructure's maintenance costs. Land reduces population density and can improve one's environment. These items all affect a nation's strength level, which decides which nations that they may declare war upon and their world ranking within the game. By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a mastery of technology sufficient to leave the surface of the Earth for the first time and explore space. ...

Each nation starts with two resources, which benefit nations in many ways; they keep these for the duration of the game, as they cannot be changed. Nations can trade with others to acquire other resources as long as the trade lasts. These trades offer different bonuses depending on the resource, such as an increase of citizens, land, soldiers, or income. Nations may also send foreign aid: money, technology points, and soldiers may be transferred from one nation to another. Players can select a trading sphere, called teams within the game, for their nation. Teams allow nations to trade with other nations on their team to receive a happiness bonus. They also have three elected senate positions. Senators can stop trade and aid from their team to a specific nation through sanctions once they have received a minimum of 30 votes. Rainforest on Fatu-Hiva, Marquesas Islands Natural resources are naturally occurring substances that are considered valuable in their relatively unmodified (natural) form. ... It has been suggested that Commerce be merged into this article or section. ... For the band, see Senate (band). ...

A major feature of CyberNations is its warfare, where a nation can declare war on any nation that is within its strength range. Nations can currently declare upon others that are between half and twice their strength. For example, a nation of 10,000 strength may declare war upon nations from 5,000-20,000 strength. Nations fight battles against each other using soldiers and various war machinery that can be purchased such as tanks. In battles, one can destroy or steal particular items from that nation affecting their strength. Wars last for up to one week, during which a player can attack twice daily per front by land, cruise missiles, and aircraft. Nuclear weaponry can also be used, but only once daily. A rule had been introduced limiting nuclear weapons to the top 5 percent of nations. This was due to an outcry from the community, concerned that the game was too unrealistic with nuclear weapons so readily available and being used on a massive scale.^[1] For other uses, see War (disambiguation). ... This article is about a military rank. ...

International Alliances

Alliances are player created groups managed outside the game that function similar to gaming clans. Alliances offer player protection during wars, organized strategies in game, increased player interaction, and often off-site forums and communities of their own. Many of the player created alliances identify with or, in the case of the New Pacific Order even control a color team. This gives the various alliances a common denominator and a happiness bonus to trade with each other. Inter- and intra-alliance communication leads to interesting forum-based politics. These in-game politics make up the bulk of the game sans the redundant, in comparison, point and click aspects. In computer and video gaming, a clan is a group of players who regularly play together in a particular multiplayer game, generally as a team. ...

Cybernations has gained great surges of members from many popular websites on the Internet. These groups often join Cybernations en masse to create their own alliance. Among alliances established this way are some of the most popular and successful. Some of these are the New Pacific Order and the Orange Defense Network from NationStates, the Goon Order of Neutral Shoving from SomethingAwful, Farkistan from Fark.com, R&R from Americas Army and the FOK!-Alliance from the Dutch online community FOK!. LUEnited Nations from GameFAQs was also a fairly major alliance, but has since disbanded, and the Random Insanity Alliance, spouting from the RI board at GameFAQs has become the largest alliance from that site. General Mayhem had an alliance, but has disbanded with no current replacement alliance. Ebaum's World, and 4chan also produced alliances, yet they were poorly received from the community due to their intentions of griefing. The most notable of actions of griefing occurred when the alliance from 4chan, simply called "/b/" after the /b/ - Random message board on the site, abused the forums by posting extremely inappropiate posts, as well as taking the website down and stealing its source code.-1... Something Awful, sometimes abbreviated to SA, is a cynical comedy website based in the United States. ... “Fark” redirects here. ... Americas Army (AA) is a tactical multiplayer first-person shooter owned by the U.S. government, financed through U.S. tax dollars and distributed free by the U.S. Army as a global public relations initiative to present a positive image of the current U.S. Army and help... FOK! is a Dutch website and virtual community, containing active content like news, reviews, columns and polls. ... GameFAQs is a website that hosts FAQs and walkthroughs for video games. ... eBaums World (subtitled Media for the masses) is a popular website based in Rochester, New York featuring entertainment media such as videos, Flash cartoons and web games. ... This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. ... Griefer is the term for a player in an online computer game who deliberately sets out to discomfort other players. ...

Controversy

Due to the heavy factionalism, many alliances on Cyber Nations make recruitment and propaganda videos for Cyber Nations players and upload them onto YouTube. Among these, was the German nationalist alliance "Nordreich." One of the videos made by the Nordreich alliance used the Norwegian national anthem as background music.^[3] YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. ... Nationalism is an ideology that creates and sustains a nation as a concept of a common identity for groups of humans. ...

On January 2, 2007, Nordreich caused controversy when a Norwegian newspaper posted a story about a neo-Nazi group posting propaganda on YouTube, using the Norwegian national anthem. The Norwegian government and press did not check up on the story further, but were outraged over their national anthem being used in the background for a "neo-Nazi cell based in Germany" and requested YouTube to pull the video immediately.^[4] The Norwegian Foreign Ministry contacted YouTube about the video sometime prior to December 25, 2006, but YouTube did nothing at the time.^[5] The stated reason for the removal request was the "Nazi references and symbols" present in the video.^[6] is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... The terms Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism refer to any social or political movement to revive Nazism or Fascism, respectively, and postdates the Second World War. ... For other uses, see Propaganda (disambiguation). ... YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. ... is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The next day, after an official statement from Nordreich in which one of the leaders of Nordreich stated that they were not neo-Nazis and did not condone such behaviour, the incident was cleared up. The Norwegian papers which attacked Nordreich in print were also verbally reprimanded for their poor research and journalism.^[3] The video in question was later removed by YouTube on the grounds of copyright violation.^[7] The second Afterposten article's mention of Cyber Nations made Cyber Nations more popular - causing Fark to link Cyber Nations to their main page, as well as nearly doubling the amount of people who signed up for the game daily. Screenshot Fark. ...

See also

• Jennifer Government: NationStates

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Notes

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External Links

• Official Site