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

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

Canon
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.

General resources

 * Tiandi Spreadsheet
 * Who controls what
 * Tiandi Anthems