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Northern Ireland becomes a nation of its own, in a free-trade non-aggression pact with the Republic of Ireland.
Volvaab-Partena forms the Volvaab-Partena Corporate State from what used to be the Swedish west coast.
The Netherlands split up into Frijsland, Holland and The Netherlands.
The Isle Nation splits loose from the Kingdom of England.
Hawaii seccedes from the continental USA and form a mutual defence pact with Orbitalia.
Italy fractures to a loose alliance of city states. The Vatican State of the Holy See formally joins the Swiss Republic.
In November, the United Nations formally disband.
Luna City is established.
After a threat of war in Europe, several European states form the Nation Alliance and place ``formally neutral ground'' as one of their main missions.
Orbitalia have built 10 daughter stations and there is talk of either becoming a loose association of satellite states. A mission to mine the asteroid belt is launched.
In a scientific breakthrough, the first warp drive is built. After four successful trips, the first test ship fails to return from the fifth. It is presumed lost or destroyed.
In the first ``very rapid hostile take-over'', Chaos Cola Company is formed and starts on the process of reforming Texas into a corporate state.
The Free Stockholm Mercantile Corps start accepting contracts for military actions, area or person protection and ``difficult courier assignments''.
Ares City is the first established Mars colony, starting the slow process of terraforming Mars.
Around 15 000 citizens of the USA join forces to establish a city-state on the Moon.
The Luna Libertarian Nation is formally announced and building of their first lunar dome is started.
After lengthy talks, it is decided that NA will take responsibility for law enforcement in Earth orbit. After the first arrest inside Orbitalia's main station their jurisdiction is limited to the outer surface of space stations.
This game is set in more-or-less our world in the year 2082. The obvious differences between the world of this game and our world is that in the game magic works and there is a thriving space-based economy.
Less obvious is the political state of the world. The world of Project Unnamed has far more nations than exists today. As an example, today's United Kingdom has fractured into the Kingdom of England, The Free Principality of Scotland, the People's Republic of Wales, The Isle Nation of Man and The Channel Islands Republic.
One thing that has started to appear in the world of Project Unnamed is company states with the most obvious example being The Free State of Volvaab-Partena (occupying what today is the west and south coast of Sweden).
There are also some nations (most notably the city-state of Free Stockholm) specialising in an assortment of security services. Free Stockholm have bonded citizens providing anything from simple bodyguard jobs, via courier services, all the way up to full-scale regiments ready to slot in to your mercenary force of choice.
Most nations have representation in the Nation Assembly, a supernational cooperation forum that took over after the United Nations were disbanded in 2027. NA doesn't have any power per se, but functions as commonly accepted ``neutral ground'' for negotiations. NA have published some guidelines for what constitutes ``not indecent warfare'' (limiting combatants from using poison, biologicals and nuclear weapons).
NA operate a small police force patrolling Earth's orbit, on the grounds that no nation actually wanted the job (or at least not wanted to be seen wanting the job), though their jurisdiction stops at space station hulls and on the surface of the moon.
There is a thriving minority of NA delegates that are pushing for Settled Space to become the ``national border'' for NA and rename both NA and Settled Space to the Solar Federation. This is not very popular with the orbital nations nor the Luna settlements. It also finds some Earth-based nations being very disturbed.
Quite a few large corporations have formed nations of their own, so as to be less taxed and to have a political climate perfect for the future growth of the company.
Volvaab-Partena is a merger of on one hand Volvaab (in turn, a merge of Volvo and Saab) and on the other Partena, a Swedish company that used to be in the ``service industry'' and slowly started buying up other companies (among those, weapons manufacturer Bofors).
Volvaab-Partena broke loose and formed the Volvaab-Partena Corporae State on what used to be the Swedish west coast in 2017, the first corporate state to spring into existence. VP specialises in the manufacture of vehicles and arms (including armed vehicles) and sells to most anyone who wants to pay their prices. They do, to a degree, frown on reselling of their arms, since that means less profit for them and do frequently take out contracts with the Free Stockholm Mercantile Corps to...discourage resellers. While VP is happy selling arms to anyone, they will jack prices up for anyone involved in an open conflict. On the other hand, they do deliver to a spot of the buyer's choosing.
FSMC is the main source of income for Free Stockholm.
Luna Space Commandoes is the only large outfit around that specialises in vacuum warfare. In combat, they generally use battle-suits with their proprietary modifications (heat is a problem with the normal suits under airless conditions) and heavy transport ships.
LSC mainly operates on the surface of the Moon, though they have been known to operate on Mars and they have done the occasional commision in the asteroid belt.
Rumours of LSC taking over or out individual orbital stations is exaggerated. The one time it has happened, it was after Luna City was threatened with kinetic harpoon bombardment from the orbital station eventually decommissioned (with extreme prejudice).
Ingvar 2007-07-07