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Helios.:
the different nations seem to have been around for a long time, in either direct or indirect conflict with each other for YEARS. why do you think the borders havn't changed very much? what is special about the countries that prevent them from being dominated? what prevents them from taking over?

BlackenedPies:
Inability to mobilize a war economy. They don't have the resources or political power for a large scale military campaign. Defense and skirmishing are cheap; expensive war needs support from the population. Trade is also an important reason. If a nation converts to a war economy the other nations could embargo and force them to be self sufficient- difficult when you're focusing on military production. The most important factor is alliances. If nations decided to ally then alliances could pool resources and mutually support eachother. Without similar goals alliances won't happen.

I know little about the game lore but I assume the nations can't afford to mobilize for war.

FranckM:
From what I read from the lore no faction is always an allied to another and they all have more than one neighbor so it my just be fear that another faction could attack while mobilizing troops.

HamsterIV:
I think that the nations did not have much contact with each other due to uninhabitable post apocalyptic landscape. Each nation was probably an isolated patch of inhabitable land in a vast wastescape of nothingness and death. We are joining the story right as a new technology (airships) makes it possible for these isolated patches to interact with each other.

Helios.:
the nations absolutely can reach each other, the angleans are constantly raiding as far as the teeth, and the chaledonians have a contract protecting hanat from the angleans.
the yesha have a standing army i believe, and definitely have advantages over the other nations in terms of natural resources, having a stable agriculture and ore and forests in their borders, or nearby.
the angleans don't have much other than war to DO, and it brings in more resources than it costs them because of all the loot they bring home, which is why i imagined their military being one of the only things they actually do, the other being exploring and discovering new secrets from the old technological wonders they live in and around.
some of the other nations i think maintain their borders more mechanically: they arent motivated to work in concert except when they are threatened, and so defense becomes a unifying force only as long as they are being attacked. the arashi i imagine to be something like this. chaledon perhaps in some respects as well, but their natural resources mean they CAN spare people to venture out into the world.

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