Tiandi:Application Thread

“Comanche horse archers rumble down the endless steppes of Central Yeongju, as Navajo city dwellers cower in fear. Korean machine guns mow down charging roves of French knights. A humbled pharaoh presents a bountiful feast to visiting Manchu emissaries, hoping to secure a more lenient trade deal.”



Tiandi is a realistic, modern-tech, closed worldbuilding and roleplay community. An immense amount of detail has been used to construct Tiandi in a logical and realistic manner—from matters ranging on climate, culture, human migrations, to many more.

Tiandi offers something different from most other worldbuilding projects. It is a project  where East Asian civilization, rather than Western civilization, came to dominate  and shape the rest of the world in its image. It is a project where indigenous American societies were not wiped completely from history due to disease and conquest, but rather survived... albeit against the trauma of East Asian colonization and imperialism. In Tiandi, the "empty" parts of the map are not to be ignored. Worldbuilding and roleplay in Tiandi is fully global.

The project was founded as a way to explore issues of race, geopolitics, and culture in a setting that required much more imagination and thinking than most other regions. Tiandi's unique history and lore allow for a deep philosophical discussion of the nature of the world and the factors that have shaped it. Are ideologies and religions unique to certain cultures, or are they more shaped by material factors? How central is geography to the development of societies? And how would clothing, music, and symbols of national identity have developed without Western influence? Here, we string together novel narratives about this world in which even seeming trivialities like the popularity of ice cream must be reexamined and reevaluated.

Today, we proudly have:
 * An international and diverse community of individuals (join our Discord!)
 * Our own encyclopedia (you're reading it now!)
 * A unique world map with continents and cultural areas (all courtesy of Somyrion!)
 * Several roleplaying projects (over at the forsaken site!)

And now, by applying for a nation in Tiandi, you can be part of the community too!

How to apply
You will need: You will note: You will practice: You may now copy the following application form:
 * A free Miraheze account. This is for submitting your application, and once accepted, contributing to the wiki. An account obscures your IP address when you make changes to the wiki.
 * A free Discord account. All of the behind-the-scenes planning takes place on our Discord server. Joining our server is a  mandatory  step in getting your application accepted.
 * An open mind. The key to getting your application accepted is your consent to the changes needed to conform your nation to the preexisting lore.
 * Claimable plots on the world map include only those prefaced by an asterisk (*) or those otherwise unnamed.
 * Nations that are not culturally East Asian  must  have an East Asian colonizer (see Sinju).
 * Korean (called Jeongmian in-character) is the in the Tiandi world.
 * Sinitic peoples and their subgroups are distributed across various nation-states, rendering Mandarin Chinese inofficial and unremarkable.
 * European nations (called West Yojuan in-character) will not have a nor any colonial offshoots.
 * Restraint in choosing your nation's population count, productivity, and military buildup. We recommend starting with a population of less than 80 million, a nominal GDP of less than $20,000 per capita, and a manpower of less than 5% of your total population.
 * Diligence in finding a culturally appropriate plot for your nation, in conducting research on your possible neighboring states (wiki is your friend!), and in developing a lore that blends in well with them.

You're almost there! Firstly, create a sub-page for your application. (It's as easy as searching for it, then creating it from a red link when prompted.) We recommend either referring it to this thread (e.g. ) or to your user page (e.g.  ). Edit the page, paste the form, and fill it out at your discretion. Once you are ready, submit the application via our Discord server (see #applications). Our moderators will attend to it at their soonest convenience. Kindly note that  we reserve the right to lock and archive your application's page  for possible future reference, so please ensure that you are satisfied with your sub-page's name and that you have not included any personally identifiable information. This concludes the application procedure. While you wait for a response, you may want to familiarize yourself with how templates work (they're the backbone of a nation page!). Once you've been accepted, don't forget to add yourself and your nation to the ownerships list!