User blog comment:Ninjinian/World War I: Planning/@comment-477220-20100301014402

Well, the tension came because if competition of being empires and the alliance system. One big thing that gave tension was that Germany became a superpower right after it became a country. Before Germany, there were city-states, but no "Germany" country, so one guy decided it would be a good idea to combine all those city-states and make a country. GB and France were superpowers, but they lasted for centries. Germany just randomly appeared out of the blue and was worthy of competition.

Maybe all those island countries like Chi Con and Flywish Island could do that... but they'd have to be geographically close...

And Snowzerland STAYS OUT. SN's ego is too big to join and we don't want his kingdom to become bigger.