When my brother and I first got the "First Battle" and "Last Battle" (tactical boardgames from GDW, the latter linking to T2k), we started building a campaign between the People's Republic of Graustark and the Kingdom of Ruritania. One of our ground rules was that nothing newer than 1968 could be bought by the two countries. I'd forgotten about that until just now. You could update that to 1991-- someone had to buy all the Cold War weapons that both sides sold off, after all.
- Does Czernograst have an ocean port? Mountains and forests? Rail links to Russia? Monarchist or democratic "freedom fighters"? Royalist exiles-- PCs love to help a pretty young princess recover the lost throne!
- Obviously, it doesn't have oil, or some other important export product.
- Is it near Absurdistan?
- You need a capital city, some mid-size industrial towns, and lots of farming villages/collective farms. The city and towns should have some medieval-era ruins, but some of those should have been wrecked by WW2 (of course, it was occupied by the Germans and liberated by the Red Army).
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My Twilight claim to fame: I ran "Allegheny Uprising" at Allegheny College, spring of 1988.
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