List of terms used in Cyber Nations

CyberNation terms

 * admin : The creator of Cybernations and managers of the boards (one awesome guy), His real name is Kevin and he is often referred to as Kevin
 * admin bomb : (had to add it) the admin setting everything in your account to zero such as infrastructure, tech, money, soldiers, etc., Is often used if you attack or nuke the administrators nations, in other words DONT DO IT!
 * Axis of Awesome : Group of allied alliances which include most notibly NPO, NpO, and GOONS (Basically this is the earliest group of Initiative Alliances)
 * BB : Big Boards, CyberNations Forums (used by some alliances in their offsites)
 * Clustering : a method that is often used to protect the members of an alliance, involving the association of 4-5 nations of similar strength, so that if one is attacked, the other's can fill the attacked's war slots completly. (an old and now illegal attack tactic)
 * CM : Cruise Missile
 * CN : CyberNations game
 * CNARF : Cyber Nations Anti-Rogue Force : nations who volunteer to respond to a rogue attacks on a unalignied nations, who asked for help. (No longer officially exists, was destroyed several months ago because of attacks on allied nations. some still claim to be CNARF)
 * CN forums : Cybernations forums (your here now!)
 * CoaLUEtion : Series of alliances who fought against the NPO and NpO in the Great War. The alliances rallied around the LUEnited Nations, thus creating the CoaLUEtion
 * Cyberverse : the imaginary world in which your nation resides, geographically identical to planet Earth
 * FtLoGTotC Pact : The "For the Love of God, Think of the Children! Pact" : a No-Nuclear First Strikes treaty, signed by many alliances
 * GRL : Global Radiation Level, and in-game indicator of the level of radiation in the cyberverse. Radiation is cause by nations using nuclear weapons. The higher the radiation level, the lower your environment.
 * infra : Infrastructure
 * Initiative, The : A large MQDP between NPO, NpO, >_<, TOP, VE, GGA, CIS, FAN, GOONS, NoR
 * League, The : A large MDP between NAAC, GOLD, GATO, LUE, ICP, OIN, ACID, LoSS, CDS (LUE left after the second Great War)
 * MAD: Mutually Assured Distruction
 * MAP : Mutual Aggression Pact or Mutual Agreement Pact, which is just a stronger version of a NAP.
 * MDP : Mutual Defense Pact
 * MVK : Miles' signature that everyone rips off (basically it is just signing your name to something without writing out your name)
 * NAP : Non-Agression Pact: A formal Agreement between to or more alliances which prevents the alliances from attacking each other
 * Northern Defense Front : Another large MDP between MDC, NoR, ANGIL, ENA, UGO, FFC, Illuminati and OIN (rapidly growing so this may not always be up to date)
 * NPOwned : Get owned by New Pacific Order
 * NS : (when refering to CN) nation strength, strength of your Cyber Nation : (other) NationStates, another online nation leading game. More primitive than CN. Some major alliances migrated from NS to CN. Many CN players also play NS
 * Offsites : Your alliance's Forum which is not on the CyberNations forums
 * Onsites : CyberNations Forum
 * PIAT : Peace, Intelligence and Aid Treaty (also see TOA)
 * Planet Bob : The "Earth" of the Cyberverse, identical geography to Earth of Real Life (also see Cyberverse)
 * Pop : population of your nation
 * Rogue : (very disputed term) any nation who will randomly attack other nations OR any nation who attacks aligned nations randomly OR any nation who is not in an alliance
 * tech : technology
 * tech raiding : attacking an inactive / soon to be deleted nation to get their technology cheaply and easily.
 * TOA : Treaty of amity. Works as NAP and as a Weak MAP.
 * TWE: Treaty with Enemies
 * Update/Update Time : When the server hits midnight and you can collect taxes again
 * WAE : Worst Alliance Ever. A derogatory label used primarily by NPO members when referring to GATO. Started by GOONS
 * WMDP : Weak Mutual Defence Pact. You really should help your allies, but you don't need to.
 * ZI Club: having zero infrastructure, or commonly used as being totally destroyed

General Terms

 * admin : administrator, manages online forums or games
 * AE : Astro Empires, another online game like CyberNations only in space. Many CN players play AE also.
 * assassination : killing someone of importance or someone famous (ex: president, famous actor, etc)
 * CC : Cyber Citizens, Cyber Nation's sister game. created by kevin the admin, allows you to make and control a person you create.
 * FFS: for ****'s sake
 * Flame : showing anger at another person in an inappropriate way, such as insults, name calling, etc.
 * Flamebait : posts that are made to anger someone indirectly, not stating that they have a problem with the person but implying it.
 * FTL : for the lose
 * FTW : For the win
 * GL : Game Life
 * Godwins law : As an Internet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 100%.
 * IC : In Character
 * IBL : In Before Lock, commonly found in spam/flamebait topics.
 * IMO : In My opinion
 * IMP / Imperium : a guild on AE, founded and made up by CN players banding together
 * ITT / itt : in this thread
 * lawl : another way to say lol (laugh out loud)
 * lol : laugh out loud
 * LUEicide : the willing suicide of a message board account by way of Terms of Service violations. The idea being that one attemps to break every rule the message board has in place, and in breaking those rules one typically attemps to be as offensive as possible. However, styles may vary from person to person.
 * Mask : On a forum its a way to let certain members see only what the Admins want them too. Can let you see some things and not other things.
 * mods / moderators : they help the admins manage the forums
 * OMG : Oh my God
 * O noez : oh no, uh-oh (other spellings: Oh Noes, Oh Gnoes, etc.)
 * OOC : Out of Character
 * OP : Original Post(er) (Usually used to refer to the original point of the topic, after replying to something else in the thread that is not strictly on-topic)
 * Pown : combination of pwn and own (used very rarely)
 * Pwned : defeated, describes the loser of the battle
 * QFT: Quoted For Truth
 * RL : Real Life
 * RP / RPing : Role Playing, pretending your someone you are not (that is what the basis of Cyber Nations is, you RP a leader of a nation)
 * Sig. : short for signature, created in your member CP: they appear underneath your posts in all threads.
 * tl;dr : too long; didnt read, Most often used in massive threads that are too long to read
 * Topic Hijacking : changing the discussion topic of a thread purposefully
 * Trolling : making a thread aimed at angering a group instead of just an individual
 * VFABIC : Voted for all because I could
 * Wiki : Short for Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia that anyone can edit or make a new page on. Often members will make Wiki's for their alliance in Cybernations
 * WTF? : What the ****?
 * XD : A smiley face you use when somethin's really funny
 * ZOMG : Used the same as OMG (Oh My God), often used in a sarcastic tone

Alliance Acronyms

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 * /b/
 * AID : The Alliance of Independency and Democracy
 * AoW : Allies of War
 * CCC : Christian Coalition of Countries
 * CDS : Coalition of Dark States
 * CIS : Confederacy of Independent States
 * CON : Confederation of Organized Nations
 * CSN : Commonwealth of Sovereign Nations
 * DDA : Dark Developments Alliance (merged with MDC)
 * FCC : Fifth Column Confederation
 * GATO : Global Alliance and Treaty Organization
 * GC : Grey Council
 * GGA : Grand Global Alliance
 * GOLD : Global Organization for Liberty and Defense
 * GOONS : Goon Order Of Neutral Shoving
 * GPA : Green Protection Agency
 * ICP : International Communist Party
 * IRON : Independent Republic of Orange Nations
 * LOSS : League of Small Superpowers
 * LSF : Libertarian Socialist Federation
 * LUE : LUEnited Nations
 * MDC : Maroon Defense Coalition
 * MHA : Mostly Harmless Alliance
 * NAAC : National Alliance of Arctic Countries
 * NADC : North Atlantic Defense Coalition
 * NDO : New Desert Order
 * NO : Novus Orbus
 * NoR : Nordreich
 * NPO : New Pacific Order
 * NpO : New Polar Order
 * OBR : The Order of the Black Rose
 * ODN : Orange Defense Network
 * ONOS : Organized Nations of Superiority
 * OPA : Orange Protection Alliance
 * OSF : Orange Shadow Force
 * RIA : Random Insanity Alliance
 * RSF : Red Star Federation
 * SKA : Serbian Knights Alliance
 * S-R-I : Socialistic Revolution Initiative
 * TCF : Tri-Color Federation
 * The Legion (no acronym)
 * TOP : The Order of the Paradox
 * TR : The Republic
 * TTK : The Templar Knights
 * USN : United Sovereign Nations
 * VE : Viridian Entente
 * WTF : World Task Force