Tiandi:Newcomer Guide

This is a guide meant primarily for newcomers, but can still be of use to people who have been in the region for a while.

Languages and naming
Ask in the group chat for help on language support, such as with the naming of countries. DO NOT USE GOOGLE TRANSLATE. If it is found that an app has a country name that was obviously derived from Google Translate, it will be rejected.

This often tends to be pretty difficult for people. The standard East Asian country name consists of two Chinese characters; a commonly used character at the end of a name is 國, meaning "country" e.g. China (中國, lit. central country). If you are going for a Japanese name, use the on-yomi (Chinese) readings.

Stat changes
If you would like to change your economic and/or population stats, please create a new app. This is so people cannot change how important or powerful they are without permission. If you do change your stats after acceptance without permission and it is noticed, your country will be removed from the map.

Beginner's to-do list

 * Create a wiki account
 * Add yourself to the who controls what page.
 * Create a wiki page for your nation
 * Choose an anthem
 * Design a flag

Basic lore overview
The strongest historical powers were Jeongmi, Meisaan, Fusen, Hokan, and Nukigurun.

Jeongmi, Meisaan, Hokan, and their allies emerged victorious in the Great Eulhae War, while Fusen, Nukigurun, and other major powers Wanxia and Habchuash lost. This is our rough equivalent to WWII.

Today, the world is somewhat multipolar, though the Sinju Union, Jeongmi being the most powerful member, controls most of the world's wealth.

Worldbuilding
Important Tiandi terms and concepts

Religion
Religion in Tiandi is largely carried over from what religion was like in IRL pre-modern East Asia.

Religion historically operated very differently in East Asia than it did in the west. In fact, the concept of religion in the Western sense was foreign to East Asia until after events such as the and. There were no organized religions, and if any religions were seen as getting too powerful, they would be seen as a threat and suppressed.

Partly due to the lack of any organized religion, there were no strict separations of religions; people outside of religious specialists such as monks did not identify with religions, and beliefs from different traditions were syncretized as these differing beliefs were seen as non-contradictory and often difficult to separate from one another. In fact, Imperial Japan initially had an incredibly difficult time trying to officially separate what was considered Buddhism and what was considered Shinto after it tried to define religions in a western sense after the Meiji Restoration. This is also why even modern East Asian states such as Japan and Korea have a terrible time when compiling religious statistics for their censuses.

Perhaps because of this, there were no religious wars in East Asia. There will also likely be little to no religious wars in Sinju.

East Asian religions are also typically non-evangelical, which has major consequences for the spread of these religions into colonies.

Language
Countries outside of West Yoju would not use the Latin or Cyrillic scripts in Tiandi, so do not have your nation use these if outside the area. The most common script worldwide would be Hangul, which would be associated with modernity.

Dates
For dates, we use the, a form of the Chinese lunisolar calendar, instead of the Gregorian calendar. These months are referred to with their Korean names.

Also, we will refer to the first month as Irwol (一月) instead of Jeongwol (正月) and the final month as Sibiwol (十二月) instead of Nabwol (臘月) when writing in English.

(someone turn this into a table?) Irwol (1月) Iwol (2月) Samwol (3月) Sawol (4月) Owol (5月) Yuwol (6月) Chirwol (7月) Parwol (8月) Guwol (9月) Siwol (10月) Sibirwol (11月) Sibiwol (12月)

Things to keep in mind:
 * Each month will have 29 or 30 days. Thus, do not have events occurring on the 31st of a month.
 * There will be leap months roughly every three years. For leap months, add "yun" to the front of a month e.g. Yunsawol (follows Sawol).
 * Yuwol, not Yugwol, and Siwol, not Sibwol.

When writing for current events such as in the news thread, you can easily look up what day it is today on Google. Date format when writing can be flexible, since we are writing in English and different English speaking countries have different formats.

Thus, Iwol 28, 2021 28 Iwol, 2021 are both fine.

General resources

 * Tiandi Spreadsheet
 * Who controls what
 * Tiandi Anthems