ANTACEA 1954

ANTACEA 1954

A grand-strategy game played on Discord, set in the Suzerain universe. January 1954.

Lead one of ten nations through 1954, on Discord, with two fellow ministers, against twenty-seven other players.

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10nations
30seats
16quarterly turns
1Umpire
0NPCs
The Situation Room page of a State Panel: treasury, stability, approval, legitimacy, unrest and credit rating tiles above a national map and a column of dispatches.
Every cabinet gets a panel like this for its own nation.

How it works

One week of real time is one quarter of 1954

You never click a button that changes the world. You write orders in plain English, argue for them, and a human Umpire decides what happens with a hundred-sided die.

  1. STEP 1

    Pick a nation and a seat

    Ten nations, three seats each: the Leader and two ministers. You play the office, not an avatar.

  2. STEP 2

    Read your State Panel

    A read-only console with your treasury, parliament, economy, energy and forces. It only shows; it never changes anything.

  3. STEP 3

    Post orders on Discord

    Write each order with the template in your nation's orders channel before Thursday 23:59. Argue why it should work.

  4. STEP 4

    The Umpire rolls d100

    Every order gets a target number and a public roll. Results land in the private reports and the World Bulletin.

The turn cycle

Each quarter moves through five states. The panel shows the current one next to the date.

  1. PLANNINGMon – Thu 23:59

    Negotiate, draft and post orders. Edit or withdraw freely.

  2. LOCKEDThu 23:59

    Late orders are void. The Umpire validates everything.

  3. RESOLVINGFri – Sat

    All orders resolve at once, in a fixed sequence.

  4. REVIEWSat

    Private reports go to each cabinet.

  5. PUBLISHEDSun

    World Bulletin, press and updated panels.

Three seats per nation

Titles follow each country: Queen, Chancellor, Grand Duke, Supreme Wiseman…

Leader

Domestic policy, parliament, laws, propaganda, appointments, the final say.

3 actions

Economy & Interior

Budget, taxes, industry, infrastructure, energy, trade, public order.

2 actions

Foreign Affairs & Defence

Diplomacy, treaties, intelligence, armed forces, command in the field.

2 actions

How a d100 roll works

The Umpire picks a difficulty band. Each good argument adds +10 (up to +30). Roll at or under the target to succeed. Try it:

Good arguments 1 × +10, max +30

Target number 60

Other modifiers: +10 for resources beyond what is needed, ±10 for State Capacity, −10 if the country is in Unrest, −20 if another nation's order counters yours.

Watch a turn

Qinal, first quarter of 1954

Follow one cabinet from the first message to the updated panel. Qinal is a demo nation from the Suzerain lore; it is not playable, so you can see everything.

Tip: use the ← → arrow keys while this section is on screen.

Inside a nation

Explore Qinal's State Panel

Every team gets this panel for its own nation: read-only, and updated by the Umpire each turn. Open the demo and click through it.

The Qinal demo State Panel: the Situation Room page with headline indicators, a national map and dispatches. Preview
Open the Qinal demo panel →
  • Situation Room, parliament, economy, energy, diplomacy, press and more.
  • Every number carries a source label and a "Δ and why" line.
  • Each nation sees exact figures only for itself. Everyone else is an estimate with a range.

Qinal is a non-playable demo nation taken from the Suzerain lore. The ten playable nations' panels are private to their cabinets and never published here.

The nations

Ten nations of Merkopa, January 1954

Every one of them is run by players. Click a nation for its overview, regions, newspapers, economy and the three seats.

Balance of power

No bloc can win alone

GDP by bloc

Billions of OMEC marks per year

Population by bloc

Millions of people

GRACE has the largest economy and army, but the ATO and the CSP together outweigh it, Rumburg must import its oil and guard nine borders, and the five unaligned nations hold more people than any bloc. Whoever courts them best tips the balance.

The map

Eastern and southern Merkopa

Drag to pan, scroll or pinch to zoom. Switch between the strategic layer (borders, capitals, flashpoints) and the infrastructure layer (railways, ports, pipelines, power).

Full-resolution maps (8800 × 8544 px, 1 px = 0.2 km) are on Discord. Classified installations never appear on public maps.

Rules

The Game Handbook and Advanced Systems

Everything the Umpire works from, in full. Search filters the sections as you type.

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Bank of Konstantium

Every nation borrows on the same market

The Bank of Konstantium rates each country from AAA to D, automatically, from its debt, deficit, inflation, stability and reserves. The rating sets the interest on every new bond. Price a bond issue yourself.

Open the Bank of Konstantium →

Join

Thirty seats, all open

Seats go to commitment and ideas, not to whoever posts first.