Cartography

If there's one thing that I know NationStaters would give their right arms for, it would be decent maps. Well, actually they'd probably prefer war, trade, allegiances, and more descriptive control of their nations, but if you asked them if they'd like good maps, I'm willing to wager they'd give a resounding 'yes'. Or 'aye'. Or 'whatever'. Or maybe just 'I'd prefer war, trade, allegiances, and more descriptive control of my nations'. They're a mixed bunch, NSers.

Anyway, I'm just going to tell you that there is a great way you can make a map of your nation or region (only an idiot would try to make one for the whole NS world) and even make photorealistic shots of it (and not just from an eagle-eye point of view either!) and make all your friends go 'ooh' and 'aah' as you show off the great mountain range of Silly Sausage, or the blue rippling waters of Loch Dead Baby. Good taste is optional when it comes to naming these things.

But how do you all this? With Terragen of course! I mentioned this very briefly a few months back I think, but it really is too good a program to ignore. My region Lancre used Terragen and we had the images on our website until it was sadly disabled by server trouble.

If you really want to impress people with your up-and-coming region, or you're just a delegate or founder looking for a new way to improve the morale, or maybe you've got an NS friend with a birthday approaching (or maybe you're just bored and like maps), give it a shot. You won't be sorry.

Oh, and it's free! Have fun!