>>31430100And that I feel needs to be ingrained into the mind of every writer here. there is SO MUCH you can write about your nation, from detailing perhaps centuries of history, to detailing everything your major cities produce, trade, animal and plant life, the culture dear god THE CULTURE of your people, how it evolved over your history, etc etc. So much lore and details that can be explored that I feel you shouldn't even have the time to think about what your neighbouring nations might be doing, aside from some smaller details that you can change according to the developments with said nation.
Now, to clarify a bit, I'm not saying that you shouldn't write for your neighbouring nations that have reps, hell, nijis help each other like that all of the time, specially pp with /haha/. But you shouldn't write for repless nations so that they fit into your perception of how your corner of the world would look like. What if you write the lore for one of your neighbours about how your nations are constantly at odds with each other, and build your own nation off of that, and then a rep for said nation comes in and decided that nah, he wants to be friends with you?
You just wasted perhaps weeks of your own time, and now have to scrap all of that. And if you push for the rep to instead keep your two nations as enemies, you are putting restrictions on him from the very momemt he joined. And that would just make most people leave.
