January 2020, Pakistan conquered Tajikistan.
On March 4, 2019, WorldWarBot 2020
was created as a Facebook bot that simulates a war between all the countries of the world (well, most of them. Some micronations weren't included and larger territories were counted as countries.) Once an hour, a random country will conquer another country, until only one country is left standing.
The creator of the bot also created two spin-offs to the original bot: ItalianGuerillaBot 2020 and CivilWarBot 2020.
WorldWarBot has conquered the following tropes:
- Alternate History Wank: A lot of smaller countries managed to do very well in the conflict. For instance, Lesotho managed to conquer all of Africa, Brunei and New Caledonia became major powers in Asia and Paraguay managed to conquer the entirety of the Western Hemisphere and eventually the world.
- Artistic License – Geography: Antarctica and the French Southern and Antarctic Lands are both capable of conquering other countries, despite having populations of zero.
- Censored Title: Whenever Niger is conquered, the country name shows up as [REDACTED].
- Cool Gate: In November 2023, Bangladesh conquered Bhutan without conquering India. Following this, it became a running joke that any time a country conquered another territory it didn't border, that they were using portals for the invasion, with the page banner at one point reading 'Bangladesh Discovers Portals.'
- Forever War: Despite being called WorldWarBot 2020, the conflict has dragged on into at least the 2070s.
- Polar Penguins: Since Antarctica is considered a country in this, the comments depict its army as penguins.
- Take Over the World: The eventual goal of whichever country is left standing.
