Proposal for allowing wars on vacant nations

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So the alternative is having a bunch of dead unused and forgotten countries bloating the map?

There are more popular and less popular nations, framing them in a negative light and saying that all unused nations are forgotten is a little disingenuous dont you think? Many players remember and have opinions on Countries even if they dont play there. 

Many players are willing to RP realistic outcomes and discuss how RP can go, not all are so self serving.

Of course not every single one is self serving, from experience I and probably the rest of the mod team as well as the veteran players can reasonably assume otherwise for the largest chunk though.

Nations capabilities and variables can be negotiated and moderated, the same is already done with cultural protocols and the like.

We in the last year and some months have as a game moved away from capability rankings and the like. In doing so we've perceived a clear decrease in toxicity and derailed discussion/bantering; Power based/Strategy power gaming is just not the modus operandi here since a text-based forum game isnt really a good platform for it if not very carefully designed for such a purpose. There is always going to be some level of mod involvement in regards to regulating nations/the game otherwise nothing would work anymore and shifting cultures every regime change would be very odd. 

If a nation remains inactive and nobody ever plays it how can something without existence consent, under the presumption a player "might" play there someday as a sole ruling party and self serve their means anyway? Consent based roleplay is fine when theres two actual parties involved.

Consent based roleplay is how the community has been operating for its whole existence and I dont really see a good, easy to implement alternative system; I certainly do not want to enforce more rp on other people or take away slots/nations/possibilites by letting someone attack a vacant nation. Having the nations means more people can have their way/platform to tell their arc/rp/story so its a net-win for everybody.