The East PacificBoard

GENERAL RULES:

Rules on CTE: If your nations ceases to exist, you will be removed from Valsora effective immediately, your land cannot be claimed by other nations, even if you are in a union.

Removal Guidelines: If your nation is not deemed active on Valsora, and does not RP for at least 1 month, you will be removed from the map to save space. IF you need an exemption from this (eg. holiday, irl responsibilities) you should alert the cartographer.

Rules on purchasing land: Large amounts of land may NOT be purchased on Valsora, there is no direct size limit in place, the rule is up to the cartographer. For example a nation may purchase a tract of land the size of a small city / county IF they extensively RP the purchase.

Rules on Nuclear Weaponry: Nuclear weapons ARE permitted on Valsora, but with a cap of 50 kt and a limit of 1 use per conflict. For example Nation A can fire a nuclear missile at Nation B ONCE and no more, and it must be of a 50kt size or below. Please note nuclear weapons CAN be and often are shot down, so use it wisely.

Rules on Metagaming: IF you come across information about say, a planned invasion on Discord, you may NOT take IC action upon such. You RP as an IC nation, and if you gain information OOC you may NOT act on it in roleplay, if you are found to have metagamed, you will be investigated and run the risk of being banned.

Rules on Godmodding: Godmodding is strictly prohibited on Valsora. All roleplay must be within the realms of normality and reality, for example with a population of 100 million, your likely standing army would be around 1 million, not 10 million. Another example of godmodding is controlling another nations characters or actions, if you fire a missile at Nation B, they must decide what they do to counter the missile, not you. If you are found to be godmodding, you will be investigated and run the risk of being banned.

Rules on Fantasy / Magic: In some rare examples, fantasy elements are permitted in Valsora, such as currently dragons and diety's in RP. Please note that any and ALL fantasy elements MUST go by the cartographer before use in RP. It must be approved before you are permitted to use it.

Rules on Alliance Size: There have been multiple problems in the past due with the size of alliances; if there was no limit, then the map would be dominated by mega alliances. If they were too harsh, then they wouldn't allow for any substantial alliances to take form. With the current iteration of this rule, alliances are limited to around 8 members each. Additional, but separate, alliances cannot be created to subvert this ruling. This limit does not apply to observer states, as long as they are prohibited from activities an alliance might commence in its lifetime (Voting on bills, military conflicts, directly taking part, directly influencing, etc). This also prohibits a nation to be within multiple alliances at once, though this does not apply to treaty's as long as they follow the guidelines above

Natural Expansion involves growing your nations borders through RP. You can utilize natural expansion in many ways, such as roleplaying colonization, land purchase or invasion! Natural Expansion is permitted as to give players an opportunity to grow themselves over time, though there are rules in place to avoid abuse of this.

Natural Expansion is only permitted once every 2 months. This is to stop nations from abusing natural expansion and growing too quickly

Here are some examples of fair natural expansion, and bad natural expansion

Natural Expansion must be heavily roleplayed, natural expansion requests will not be accepted if the expansion is not roleplayed extensively. By such, I mean to recommend multiple fairly long posts, or a dispatch outlining how the land was gained, why it was gained, and so forth.

Please note that the Cartographer(s) hold the right to refuse natural expansion requests if they so choose, whether it be due to size, a nations inactivity, or other reasons reliant on fairness.