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What if Liberia broke into pieces?

Liberia fell in 2229, taken by Ivory Coast.

2026: Liberia falls apart into a dozen states. We let the world run for 300 years and wrote down what happened.

Of 133 countries put through the same fate, 47 fell. Liberia outlasted 38 of them.

Its share of the world

1. 2026: 0.1%
2. 2036: 0.1%
3. 2051: 0.1%
4. 2076: 0%
5. 2126: 0%
6. 2176: 0%
7. 2226: 0%
8. 2326: 0%

Year by year

• 2058: Ivory Coast attacked.
• 2074: made peace with Ivory Coast.
• 2126: Guinea attacked.
• 2148: went to war with Sierra Leone.
• 2228: fell to Ivory Coast.

What happened

• Its first war of its own came in 2058, against Ivory Coast.
• 8 wars in 300 years.

The world in 2326

In 2326, Russia ruled 14.5% of the Earth, ahead of Canada and United States of America. 119 nations were left standing.

"Everyone said it would hold. Everyone says that." Max, for the record

Run it yourself

Same seed, same history: it unfolds exactly like this, until you touch it. Then it is your world.

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Is this what would really happen?

No one can know. This is one run of a game engine that simulates every country on the real map: wars by temperament, armies from land and people, civil wars, golden ages. Same seed, same result, every time.

Can I try it myself?

Yes. Press Play this world: the same seed opens in your browser, free, and unfolds the same way until you change something.

Every page is a real run of the Play God on Earth engine (deterministic: same seed, same result). Historical facts are not implied; this is a game.