how did you get first pick??? anyway a few ground rules
- only one country. duh.
- every country is given to a different person. there aren't any "teams" yet, but they could pop up
- there's going to be some kind of war. it could be a world war, but this isn't a one-survivor battle royale
- no nukes or comparable. the evil old governments destroyed them so that we couldn't have them
- you have your universal automatic translator and stuff like that. we aren't savages