Nations

Play as any of 207 nations

NationFall ships with every internationally recognized nation as a playable power. Real GDP, real military strength, real alliances, real geography. Costa Rica, Bhutan, Iceland, Madagascar - they all play. Most of them won't win. That's not the point.

We wrote deep guides on the powers most worth a strategic read - three great powers and four mid-powers in WW2 1939, plus three great powers and ten mid-powers in modern WW3 2026. Twenty in-depth campaigns; the rest you discover by playing.

The WW1 1914 and Cold War 1947 scenarios run their own period-accurate rosters - empires, colonies and occupation zones instead of the modern map. Per-nation guides for those two eras aren't written yet; the rosters below show who's in each.

Major powers - WW2 (1939)

The three powers whose industry, geography, and demographic mass set the strategic ceiling for the era.

Allies (eventual)

United States - WW2

Sleeping industrial giant. Officially neutral. The bomb gets built somewhere - make sure it's here.

Axis

Germany - WW2

Doctrine ahead, industry behind, enemies on every border. The two-front problem is yours to solve or fail.

Allies (eventual)

USSR - WW2

Vast depth, decimated officer corps, time pressure. Survive the opening, win the long war.

Mid-powers - WW2 (1939)

Four powers whose alignment and operational decisions tip every theater. Big enough to matter; not big enough to dictate.

Allies

United Kingdom - WW2

Largest navy, imperial supply, French alliance, Atlantic vulnerability. Keep the convoys moving.

Allies

France - WW2

Mass mobilization, heavy armor, Maginot Line. A defensive doctrine built for the war that already happened.

Axis

Italy - WW2

Mediterranean fleet, African colonies, Mussolini's parallel-war doctrine, industrial undersize. Make Mare Nostrum real or watch it fail.

Axis

Japan - WW2

Mid-war China, resource-constrained, naval-doctrine modern. Every strategic decision starts with oil and steel.

Major powers - WW3 (2026)

The three poles of modern great-power confrontation.

NATO Anchor

United States - WW3

Forward-deployed globally. Alliance leader. Industrial mobilization runs slow when the magazines run dry.

BRICS

Russia - WW3

Stretched, conventionally depleted, strategically modern. Punches above weight without escalating to nuclear.

BRICS

China - WW3

Industrial leader. Naval ascendance. Pacific contested. Every neighbor is a US ally.

Mid-powers - WW3 (2026)

Ten powers whose alignment decisions shape every regional balance. Each plays a campaign as distinctive as any of the great powers.

NATO · Nuclear

United Kingdom - WW3

Reach without mass. Trident, two carriers, no escorts to spare. The post-imperial expeditionary problem.

NATO · Strategic Autonomy

France - WW3

Independent nukes, nuclear carrier, EU defense leadership claim. Africa exit reshaping the doctrine.

NATO

Germany - WW3

Industrial heart of Europe. Post-Zeitenwende rearmament mid-flight. No nukes; eastern flank exposed.

US Treaty Ally

Japan - WW3

First-island-chain anchor. Modern but small. Demographic ceiling on mass; magazine math punishes long ops.

US Treaty Ally

South Korea - WW3

Most-prepared mid-power. Half-million conscripts, semiconductor leverage, demographic clock ticking.

NATO · Hedging

Türkiye - WW3

Second-largest NATO army. Drone exporter. Strategic ambiguity with Moscow that keeps every door open.

Frontline · US TRA

Taiwan - WW3

Asymmetric porcupine doctrine. TSMC silicon shield. US strategic ambiguity is real and conditional.

US MoU · Ambiguous Nuke

Israel - WW3

Layered missile defense. Multi-front war footing since October 2023. Iran threshold is the file.

RCC · Threshold Nuclear

Iran - WW3

Asymmetric power. Proxy network across the region. Strait of Hormuz leverage. Threshold-state pressure both ways.

Multi-aligned · Nuclear

India - WW3

Two-front problem. Blue-water aspirant. QUAD-BRICS straddle. The swing power that wants no permanent allies.

What about the other 187?

Small nations play differently

Costa Rica isn't going to conquer the world. But Costa Rica has interesting choices: which bloc to align with, when to militarize, how to leverage neutrality. The campaigns are smaller-scale and shape the regional balance more than the global one.

Strong mid-tier nations swing wars too

Canada, Australia, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Singapore, North Korea, Ukraine, the UAE - more strong mid-powers without dedicated guides yet. Their alignment decisions tip regional balances and produce some of the most distinctive playthroughs.

Historical entities - WW2

Nations, colonies and client states of the 1939-45 map - polities that have since dissolved, fragmented, or been reborn under new flags. Each has a dedicated guide.

Yugoslavia WW2

Manchukuo WW2 KOR Korea WW2 CC Communist China WW2

Dutch East Indies WW2

French West Africa WW2

British Malaya WW2

French Tunisia WW2

Gold Coast WW2

Italian Somaliland WW2

Northern Rhodesia WW2

Southern Rhodesia WW2

British Mandate of Palestine WW2

Tanganyika WW2

Empires - WW1 (1914)

In 1914 these powers are empires, not the republics on the modern map. Twenty-eight countries in the list below don't exist yet - they're absorbed into these.

Central Powers

German Empire - WW1

Holds the best army in Europe, the continent's largest industrial base, and a coastline the Royal Navy can close at both ends. Wants Belgium and the Channel ports fast enough to turn east before Russia finishes mobilising. Fears the two-front war it has been planning around since 1905, and a blockade it has no way to break.

Central Powers

Austria-Hungary - WW1

Holds Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia as a single state with eleven nationalities inside it. Wants Serbia crushed quickly enough that the Balkan question stops being an internal one. Fears a long war, because every month of it makes the empire's own subjects the more dangerous enemy.

Triple Entente

Russian Empire - WW1

Holds Poland, the Baltics, Ukraine, the Caucasus and Central Asia - 175 million people and the deepest strategic reserve on the board. Wants the Straits open and the Austrians pushed out of Galicia. Fears its own railways: the mobilisation is enormous and the logistics behind it are not.

Central Powers

Ottoman Empire - WW1

Holds the Middle East, and more importantly the Straits that connect Russia to everyone willing to arm it. Wants a great-power patron and the Caucasus provinces back. Fears partition - every other power at the table has already drawn a map with the empire divided up.

Historical entities - Cold War (1947)

In March 1947 the empires are still standing and Germany and Japan are under occupation. 31 of these entities start under someone else's flag - and decolonisation is a live process you can accelerate, resist, or exploit.

PA Portuguese Angola now Angola Colony Cold War

Belgian Congo now Democratic Republic of the Congo Colony Cold War

British Burma now Myanmar Colony Cold War URU Urundi (Belgian) now Burundi Colony Cold War FC French Cameroon now Cameroon Colony Cold War FEA French Equatorial Africa (Chad) now Chad Colony Cold War

Republic of China now the PRC and Taiwan Predecessor Cold War

BC British Cyprus now Cyprus Colony Cold War

Czechoslovakia now Czechia and Slovakia Predecessor Cold War

Dutch East Indies now Indonesia Colony Cold War

Egypt (British-occupied) now Egypt Colony Cold War

French Algeria now Algeria Colony Cold War

French Indochina now Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia Colony Cold War

French Morocco now Morocco Colony Cold War

French West Africa now eight West African states Colony Cold War FEA French Equatorial Africa (Gabon) now Gabon Colony Cold War

Occupied Germany now Germany Occupied Cold War GC Gold Coast now Ghana Colony Cold War PG Portuguese Guinea now Guinea-Bissau Colony Cold War

British India now India Colony Cold War

Occupied Japan now Japan Occupied Cold War BK British Kenya now Kenya Colony Cold War FM French Madagascar now Madagascar Colony Cold War

British Malaya now Malaysia Colony Cold War PM Portuguese Mozambique now Mozambique Colony Cold War

British Nigeria now Nigeria Colony Cold War

Soviet Union now fifteen post-Soviet states Predecessor Cold War RUA Ruanda (Belgian) now Rwanda Colony Cold War

CEY Ceylon now Sri Lanka Colony Cold War

AES Anglo-Egyptian Sudan now Sudan Colony Cold War

Tanganyika now Tanzania Colony Cold War FT French Tunisia now Tunisia Colony Cold War UP Uganda Protectorate now Uganda Colony Cold War

Yugoslavia now six Yugoslav successor states Predecessor Cold War SR Southern Rhodesia now Zimbabwe Colony Cold War

All 207 nations

Every internationally recognized nation, grouped by continent, with real GDP, population, military, and geography. All 207 are playable in modern WW3; the historical scenarios each run a period-accurate roster, because most of these countries did not exist yet.

The four dots on each tile show which scenarios that nation is in - in era order: WW1 (179 nations), WW2 (144), Cold War (176), WW3 (207).

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