Cyber Nations

About Cyber Nations - Welcome to Cyber Nations, a nation simulation game build around Google Maps. Create a nation anywhere in the world, decide how you will rule your people by choosing a government type, a national religion, ethnicity, tax rate, currency type, and more in this new geo-political, nation, and government simulator. Build your empire by purchasing infrastructure to support your citizens, land to expand your borders, and military to defend your nation. Declare war on other nations and deploy troops to support your attacks. View you nation on a real world map and watch as your borders expand (or recede) over time. Communicate with other nations through private internal messages or discuss and debate issues in the Cyber Nations public forums. Best of all, everything is free. There's no fees associated with Cyber Nations, no gimmicks, just a fun place to hang out and rule your nation.

As the saying goes, Rome was not built overnight. Cyber Nations is a game about simulating nation building and management and will require you to exercise your management skills on a day to day basis. Cyber Nations brings a new twist to the popular Internet games commonly known as government simulators or political simulators by incorporating the nation simulation theme with real world maps powered by Google Maps. If you are new to this form of game I would like to point you to Wikipedia which offers some great background information on Geo-Political Simulators.

Game Play - Cyber Nations is not a game that can be completed in one sitting, and there is really no way to “beat” the game. In fact, limitations exist on the number of actions you can perform in one day. This helps simulate the often slow and methodical approach to successful management as well reduce the load on the web server. There are many different ways you can build your nation; treat your people kindly through representation of a benevolent government or rule them with an iron fist as a malevolent dictator, grow your nation in size and strength to become all powerful or run your nation into the ground through mismanagement. It’s all up to you. This page will provide you with some basic information to help you get started. Additional information can be found in the About Cyber Nations forums section of the website where features of the game will be explained in more detail.

Cyber Nations is Free - Before we go any further I want to remind you that Cyber Nations is completely free to play and will always be free to play. I created this game because I thought it would be something fun to do and I have never thought of trying to make money off of it. Later on I might begin using some targeted ads to help reimburse my hosting expenses, but for now I'm just going to focus my attention on balancing the game and making it better for everyone.

Getting Stated - The first thing you'll need to do is register a user name. This allows you to keep one single user name which your nation will be created under. This way, if you run your nation into the ground (or someone wages war and does it for you) and you decide to destroy your nation, you still retain your same login ID. It also allows you to provide some basic information about yourself. Once you've successfully registered a user name you'll notice your menu bar on the left of the screen change. You'll see a few new links right away which begins with Create Your Nation. This link will take you to the nation creation screen to create your Cyber Nation. Additional links include My Inbox, Sent Message, and Compose Message which all deal with the actions of sending private internal messages to the other nations and users of Cyber Nations. Once you have successfully created your nation, you will notice even more changes to the menu bar on the left of the screen. New menu items will include links to manage your nation (view nation, view nation map, deploy military, wage war, edit and destroy) perform nation purchases (land, infrastructure and military) and links to view other nations of the world.

Creating A Nation - The Create Your Nation page allows you to create your nation by giving it a name, a name for your capital city (as indicated by the colored markers on the map) a team name (more), team color (more), government type, tax rate, religion, ethnicity, and more. It's all up to you on what you select when creating your nation. There is no wrong or right answer here.