User blog comment:The Leader/World War One/@comment-1024726-20100412223854

So, what do you want?

Option 1: We make USA the villain, drawing more attention to it and its actions for the duration of the story (which will take months to write, maximizing attention flow), then balkanize it at the end, requiring users to rewrite tons and tons of material, and furthermore create several new countries. (The process will also take months to complete, drawing even more attention to the USA and its fragments. Then after that we'll need to re-unite the USA in yet another overly long storyline that will take months more to complete, and draw yet more attention to the USA.)

Or...

Option 2: We make the USA a minor player, causing users to forget about its actions for most of the war. A new country breaks away from, say, UTR, and tries to take over Antarctica, but fails. It's blasted into oblivion at the end, leaving out any need for future interactions with other countries. Users will only have to make one new country article, and there will be no need for any balkanization of anything (except for Eastshield) or future stories that need to be written.