History VideoGame / ERepublik

* WorldWarWhatever: Wars I-IV have already happened (no relation to historical World Wars), currently World War V is happening.

* AdamSmithHatesYourGuts: When the hospitals were changed to not heal more wellness than was lost in battle, the prices of wellness items shot through the roof. Also, the world market tends to run out of guns during important battles.
* AfterActionReport: be it election, battle, or just about anything, there will be newspaper articles about it.

* AmericaTakesOverTheWorld: In the early days of the game, the US was really bad in this regard. It attacked Russia, Canada, Portugal, France and Mexico, but failed in each invasion. They grew out of it though. It is one of the most commonly used arguments against America and her allies, usually fueled by real life ideas of the world. Really not credible though since dozens of countries have tried to take over the world (Romania, Indonesia, Hungary), something the US has yet to do. As the game is dominated by two alliances, the USA is seen from hugely polar perspectives.

* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: Too many examples by both players and admins to list.
** Though one ''glorious'' (totally intentional) example can be found in the InsaneTrollLogic put forth by one of the ImageBoard {{Troll}}s some time ago ([[http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/1054799/1/20 here]]). Delivered ''so'' deadpan.

** But rank means nothing, you don't have authority.
* BalanceOfPower: The entire game
* BlueBlood: Found in [[http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Constitution_of_the_Kingdom_of_Denmark Denmark]] and the [[http://forums.erepublik.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=591&t=60178 United]] [[http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Monarchy_of_the_United_Kingdom Kingdom]].

* GuideDangIt: So complex, they implemented a feature letting players explain the game to each other.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: And some of them are [[IncrediblyLamePun real characters]].

* PlayerVersusPlayer: Pretty much the entire game.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: The military of certain countries (notably Poland) are based around this, can create problems due to their independence (like take over Peru).
* RidiculousFutureInflation: In roughly four hundred days of the New World the exchange rate between LTL (Lithuanian currency) and gold has risen from 50 LTL for one gold to over 500 LTL for one gold.
** And any currency exchange is with three digit precision, so [[labelnote:500]]or anywhere between 400 and 666.666[[/labelnote]] of a currency to 1 gold equals 0.002 gold to 1 of a currency, and once the exchange rate reaches [[labelnote:1000 to 1]]anywhere between 666.666 and 2000 to 1[[/labelnote]] (1 to 0.001) it has nowhere to go.

* AGodAmI: [[http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Dio_Brando Dio Brando]], [[http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Theocracy Dio Maksas and Dio Akira]], and averted by [[http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Lewdaism Michael Lewis]] who continually denied it.
** Bob Boblo is worshipped as the deity of the Spamican church in the UK, as well as Singapore and Australia to a lesser extent.

* BerserkButton: One day great American troll Emerik decided to create an article in Serbia about the glorious independent country that is Kosovo. The ensuing backlash crashed computers, because they could not handle all the 1,000 pissed off Serbian comments proclaiming "Kosovo is Serbia!" A lot of non-Serbian players just mention Kosovo to troll now, and it always provokes a reaction.
** 'Kosovo is Serbia' is a pretty popular meme in eRepublik. Whether it instead be 'Serbia is Kosovo', 'Serbia is Emerik', 'Kosovo is Independent', etc, etc.
** Serbia have recently been replaced by Poland as the chief trolling target after the latter's baby boom filled it with innocent newbies.

* CurbStompBattle: the usual result of any war between a country with lots of population against a barely populated one (unless the latter has a good set of alliances). No contest for trying to guess which one is the winner.
* DeathByRacism: Averted. Many countries, especially in Eastern Europe and the Balkans thrive on it. Played straight with the goons, who got banned en masse for using the term "Atajerk".

* EnemyMine: When the eUSA tried to pass forcibly through the Kyushu region of eJapan to eChina, the eJapanese president took a firm stand against them, in light of the time eJapan let eIndonesia through Kyushu to invade the eUSA. PHOENIX, who had a pretty big interest in keeping the eUSA out of eChina, aided the neutral nation in its defense. This awkward alliance lasted a few days, until the president of eJapan decided to let the eUSA through after all, effectively initiating World War IV.
** RashomonStyle: Every faction involved has its own mutually-exclusive theory on what ''exactly'' went on then, and they are sticking to it.

* GratuitousEnglish: Most e-countries communicate in their own real language. International dialogue is usually in GratuitousEnglish, often delivered by BlindIdiotTranslation. Some e-countries, however, are mostly inhabited by non-natives (e.g. eJapan and eNorth Korea are mostly native English speakers, and Chinese in the latter).

* HeterosexualLifePartners: The "Brolliance" between the USA and Canada is formalized by [[http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Contract:Brolliance a (legally-binding in-game) treaty]] has article 3 which states "Both countries agree to [[JustForFun/{{Rickroll}} never give up on each other, never let each other down, and never run around or desert one another]]."
* IHaveManyNames: Through the powers of {{Altitis}} one player went by: ThisGenMedia to start with, later returning as Franco, then Harrison Richardson (probably mostly because he could then name his newspaper the Harry Dick Times). He also claimed that he had countless accounts to two-click as well as to use in the off chance he was hit with the Ban Hammer.
** Him being HR was quite a shock for most of the eUS populace, mostly because Franco had previously wrecked our shit, in the form of redirecting the eUS forum to Chinese Website/YouTube porn, and draining the entire eUS treasury, claiming everyone got stuck in SeriousBusiness mode. And then he turned around and led the eUS to victory (as HR), [[KarmaHoudini and people loved him again]]. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking He was one hell of an attention whore, too]].

* {{Metagame}}: Yeah... you're gonna wanna join IRC, and the off-site forum for your country, and for your political party, and for your country's military, and that's just the start.
** There have been less-than-scrupulous players that have won battles by initiating DDOS attacks when their sides have the upper hand. Yuck.
** In-game alliance does not reflect what the actual alliances are. Training wars are conducted when real wars don't happen. Territories don't always belong to who they ''actually'' belong to: stronger countries sometimes hold territories for weaker countries so that the latter can start up a resistance and be guaranteed a win if the country proper is in a real tight spot.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Pretty much every players reaction to what their country does.

* SeriousBusiness: The president of Hungary's tendency to stay up to all hours of the night refreshing the page in case one of the other presidents screws up is legendary.
** There are two camps in eRepublik. Those who realize this is a game to have fun, and those who want to create their own small online societies with laws outside the game, courts, procedures, protocol, constitutions, etc. It gets rather ridiculous. In eCanada, for example, a number of people have filed ''libel'' cases against each other to the Supreme Court. Mind you, NONE of this is in game, it is all purely constructed by the players.

* TheAlliance: Each side likes to think this is what they are.

* BerserkButton: One day, BigNameFan and great American troll Emerik decided to create an article in Serbia about the glorious independent country that is Kosovo. The ensuing backlash crashed computers, because they could not handle all the 1,000 pissed off Serbian comments proclaiming "Kosovo is Serbia!" A lot of non-Serbian players just mention Kosovo to troll now, and it always provokes a reaction.

[[http://www.erepublik.com/en eRepublik]] bills itself as the "first massive online social strategy game" and what it is is best thought of as the result of a drunken night between Website/{{Facebook}}, ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', ''TabletopGame/{{Risk}}'', and a college economics class. Players are citizens of a country, where they can vote in elections, work at companies, buy products, starve if they don't eat food, write newspaper articles, move to other countries (but not vote unless they gain citizenship), and fight in battles.

* BerserkButton: One day, BigNameFan and great American troll Emerik decided to create an article in Serbia about the glorious independent country that is Kosovo. The ensuing InternetBackdraft crashed computers, because they could not handle all the 1,000 pissed off Serbian comments proclaiming "Kosovo is Serbia!" A lot of non-Serbian players just mention Kosovo to troll now, and it always provokes a reaction.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: The "Brolliance" between the USA and Canada is formalized by [[http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Contract:Brolliance a (legally-binding in-game) treaty]] has article 3 which states "Both countries agree to [[RickRoll never give up on each other, never let each other down, and never run around or desert one another]]."

* YouFailEconomicsForever: Too many examples by both players and admins to list.

* YouFailGeographyForever: The admins have to periodically go in and fix borders during war after one country finds out that two regions, e.g. Kansas and Nebraska, don't share a border for some reason. Occasionally one region will border a second, but the second won't border the first.

* Website/SomethingAwful: As mentioned above, the Goons have fun with occasional raids on the game. They were really good at stealing national elections, to the point that an entire alliance was formed to fight them. And then they left, but the alliance remained. At least, that's the official propaganda-laden eHistory on the wiki, which is about as good a source anyone'll get unless they were there.

* Website/ImageBoards: There have been countless raids from the Goons, /v/ and /b/tards. Some even stuck around once the raid momentum died away. One became the most JustForFun/MadeOfWin president the eUS has ever seen.

* MisplacedNationalism: Both averted and played straight. Played straight? Easy to see coming; no explanation necessary. Aversions? Countries very much amenable to each other in real life (e.g. US and UK, or Poland and Hungary) are on opposite sides of the major alliances. Countries that may get mighty tense with each other in real life (e.g. China and the US) can be on very chummy terms in-game.

* Website/ImageBoards: There have been countless raids from the Goons, /v/ and /b/tards. Some even stuck around once the raid momentum died away. One became the most MadeOfWin president the eUS has ever seen.

* FunWithAcronyms: Between the Erepublik Defence & Economy Network and People of Earth Associated under Common Excellence: [[LeftBehind Global Community]], it used to be easier to name the alliances that ''weren't'' crazy acronyms. [=ALAs=], for all Ententes and Phoenixes, we can say Sol long to that era.

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The Facebook aspect comes in as citizens can post "shouts" ([[{{Twitter}} in 140 characters or less]]) and declare other citizens "friends".

** Though one ''glorious'' (totally intentional) example can be found in the InsaneTrollLogic put forth by one of the Website/ImageBoard {{Troll}}s some time ago ([[http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/1054799/1/20 here]]). Delivered ''so'' deadpan.

** Though one ''glorious'' (totally intentional) example can be found in the InsaneTrollLogic put forth by one of the ImageBoard {{Troll}}s some time ago ([[http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/1054799/1/20 here]]). Delivered ''so'' deadpan.

* ImageBoards: There have been countless raids from the Goons, /v/ and /b/tards. Some even stuck around once the raid momentum died away. One became the most MadeOfWin president the eUS has ever seen.

[[http://www.erepublik.com/en eRepublik]] bills itself as the "first massive online social strategy game" and what it is is best thought of as the result of a drunken night between {{Facebook}}, ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', ''{{Risk}}'', and a college economics class. Players are citizens of a country, where they can vote in elections, work at companies, buy products, starve if they don't eat food, write newspaper articles, move to other countries (but not vote unless they gain citizenship), and fight in battles.

* BannedInChina: Access to the site for Iranians was cut off during the reformist protests of 2009 because of the election in the country. They have had continued server problems since then.

* FanNickname: During the American invasion of China and American liberation of China from Hungary, most Chinese regions got nicknames. Heilongjiang is usually referred to as HelloKitty.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://wiki.erepublik.com/ Located here]].

** This troper realized that he spends 90%+ of his time playing outside the actual game on the forums or IRC...

* IHaveManyNames: Through the powers of {{Alt-itis}} one player went by: ThisGenMedia to start with, later returning as Franco, then Harrison Richardson (probably mostly because he could then name his newspaper the Harry Dick Times). He also claimed that he had countless accounts to two-click as well as to use in the off chance he was hit with the Ban Hammer.

** And any currency exchange is with three digit precision, so [[hottip:500:or anywhere between 400 and 666.666]] of a currency to 1 gold equals 0.002 gold to 1 of a currency, and once the exchange rate reaches [[hottip:1000 to 1:anywhere between 666.666 and 2000 to 1]] (1 to 0.001) it has nowhere to go.

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* DeathByRacism: Heavily averted. Many countries, especially in Eastern Europe and the Balkans thrive on it. Played straight with the goons, who got banned en masse for using the term "Atajerk".

* CapitalCity: Every country has one, though it's not necessarily the real life one due to invasion of regions (for the U.S., it's Arizona!).

[[http://www.erepublik.com/en Erepublik]] bills itself as the "first massive online social strategy game" and what it is is best thought of as the result of a drunken night between {{Facebook}}, ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', ''{{Risk}}'', and a college economics class. Players are citizens of a country, where they can vote in elections, work at companies, buy products, starve if they don't eat food, write newspaper articles, move to other countries (but not vote unless they gain citizenship), and fight in battles.

* BerserkButton: One day, BigNameFan and great American troll Emerik decided to create an article in Serbia about the glorious independent country that is Kosovo. The ensuing InternetBackdraft crashed this troper's computer, because it could not handle all the 1,000 pissed off Serbian comments proclaiming "Kosovo is Serbia!" A lot of non-Serbian players just mention Kosovo to troll now, and it always provokes a reaction.

* YouFailGeographyForever: The admins have to periodically go in and fix borders during war after one country finds out that two regions, e.g. Kansas and Nebraska, don't share a border for some reason. Occasionally one regions will border a second, but the second won't border the first.

[[http://www.erepublik.com/en Erepublik]] bills itself as the "first massive online social strategy game" and what it is is best thought of as the result of a drunken night between {{Facebook}}, ''WorldOfWarcraft'', ''{{Risk}}'', and a college economics class. Players are citizens of a country, where they can vote in elections, work at companies, buy products, starve if they don't eat food, write newspaper articles, move to other countries (but not vote unless they gain citizenship), and fight in battles.

* AmericaTakesOverTheWorld: In the early days of the game, the US was really bad in this regard. It attacked Russia, Canada, Portugal, France and Mexico, but failed in each invasion. They grew out of it though. It is one of the most commonly used arguments against America and her allies, usually fueled by real life ideas of the world. Really not credible though since dozens of countries have tried to take over the world (Romania, Indonesia, Hungary), something the US has yet to do. As the game is dominated by two alliances, the USA is seen from hugely polar perspectives.

* YouFailGeographyForever: The admins have to periodically go in and fix borders during war after one country finds out that two regions, e.g. Kansas and Nebraska, don't share a border for some reason. Occasionally one regions will border a second, but the second won't border the first.

* BannedInChina: Access to the site for Iranians was cut off during the reformist protests of 2009 because of the election in the country. They have had continued server problems since then.

* BerserkButton: One day, BigNameFan and great American troll Emerik decided to create an article in Serbia about the glorious independent country that is Kosovo. The ensuing InternetBackdraft crashed this troper's computer, because it could not handle all the 1,000 pissed off Serbian comments proclaiming "Kosovo is Serbia!" A lot of non-Serbian players just mention Kosovo to troll now, and it always provokes a reaction.
** 'Kosovo is Serbia' is a pretty popular meme in eRepublik. Whether it instead be 'Serbia is Kosovo', 'Serbia is Emerik', 'Kosovo is Independent', etc, etc.

** Him being HR was quite a shock for most of the eUS populace, mostly because Franco had previously wrecked our shit, in the form of redirecting the eUS forum to Chinese YouTube porn, and draining the entire eUS treasury, claiming everyone got stuck in SeriousBusiness mode. And then he turned around and led the eUS to victory (as HR), [[KarmaHoudini and people loved him again]]. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking He was one hell of an attention whore, too]].

* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Pretty much every players reaction to what their country does.

** There are two camps in eRepublik. Those who realize this is a game to have fun, and those who want to create their own small online societies with laws outside the game, courts, procedures, protocol, constitutions, etc. It gets rather ridiculous. In eCanada, for example, a number of people have filed ''libel'' cases against each other to the Supreme Court. Mind you, NONE of this is in game, it is all purely constructed by the players.

* SomethingAwful: As mentioned above, the Goons have fun with occasional raids on the game. They were really good at stealing national elections, to the point that an entire alliance was formed to fight them. And then they left, but the alliance remained. At least, that's the official propaganda-laden eHistory on the wiki, which is about as good a source anyone'll get unless they were there.

* VictoryIsBoring: Somewhat. True, the initial thrill of conquering another country and having an empire is great, and protecting it against resistance wars and counter attacks can be entertaining, but sooner or later a country will run out of moves to make on the map, and since WarIsGlorious and makes the world go around in eRepublik, citizens in a country get really bored.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: And some of them are [[AWorldwidePunomenon real characters]].

* YourMoneyIsNoGoodHere: Each country has its own currency that you need to use to buy things on their market. You can speculate on the currency market but it's just about as safe as the real currency market.