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To be honest, if those real world issues are a problem in this game we are probably better off without those users/countries.

I would not want to share my hobby with people holding an eternal grudge against each other.

Our real level ? You sure about that ?

I'm pretty sure I can kick you team's ass (which is doing quite well in Spain DII) with my team, which is on the verge of being relegated from DI in Iran.

So please, don't go there and don't make this personal

Like I said, I don't expect you guys to understand because you are not part of our country, or part of these issues. But I respect your opinion, as everyone's entitled to theirs'

;)

Like I said, I don't expect you guys to understand because you are not part of our country, or part of these issues. But I respect your opinion, as everyone's entitled to theirs'

;)

I think its not too hard to understand- religion sucks and in a few hundred years everything will look different. Catholics and Protestants get along pretty well now. But religion and politics have no place in an online game.

I share ur hopes und don´t like nationalism neither. But the sad fact is, that we still live in a world where it exists, and even strengthened again. So u can either be idealistic, or u can thinking about handle the mess. Because leagues created against antipathy between the included nations don´t only effect talk climate in forums, but could also distort the sporting competition (e.g. last Game day, nation 1 and nation 2 don´t like each other, and player of nation 2 plays against another user of his country and has the possibility to gurantee him the relegation while putting a player of nation 1 into decline (not sure if I use the right words here)).

New example: There is a suggestion merging Austria with Germany. History makes this difficult, so maybe merge with Switzerland would be better. If the Austrians decide to take it with Germany (I hope they won´t), it would be self-evident that there has to be a new, unloaded name for the whole thing, and of course not "Great-Germany". It may be "only history", but it´s a great part of the identity of many Germans, and "fun in a internet game" doesn´t coexist well with "unpleasent associations of the past". (I know the example is very obvious, but i can only judge for my own feelings. Nevertheless it could show that "history" is not a abstract thing one can forget because "it´s the internet", but should be taken into consideration).

So all i wanted to say: Ask the players in affected countrys directly, what they want. As u´ve seen, Indians would vote for South-East Asia, maybe there would also be solutions with other complicated issues. For sure it´s a bunch of work, but only the effected nations themself can state clearly all problems and wishes not considered by foreigners, because they know their history best.