What Dummynation is
Dummynation is a geopolitical management game where you take control of a country with one goal: world domination. Borders shift in real time, and the game strips out most of the busywork you find in grand strategy so you can focus on the decisions that matter. You recruit and deploy armies, run diplomacy, set your ideology and economic policy, and decide how much of your budget goes into research and military campaigns. Spend too much and your land gets impoverished, leaving you behind in the balance of power. Expand too fast and your empire crumbles under its own weight. The tension comes from balancing growth against stability.
Conquest works differently than in most strategy games. Resources are not tied to whole provinces but to each specific point on the map, so when you take territory it gets annexed progressively over time rather than instantly. While that happens, resistance forces can rise on their own and hold off your advance, wearing down the attacker. Taking land is rarely free, and holding it takes work.
Playing together
Multiplayer runs across platforms. You can set up private custom games with friends using the default scenario or any scenario you have created, and most of the data can still be edited while the game is in progress. If you prefer open competition, there is a battle royale mode where random players each defend their own interests while competing for world domination. For cooperative play, team-based world wars let your coalition work together to come out on top and earn points toward a leaderboard.
Either way, the same tools apply: manage your economy, manipulate diplomatic relations to pick targets without making too many powerful enemies at once, and decide when to push and when to hold. Replays cover both multiplayer and single-player sessions, so you can watch your empire rise again or pick apart a defeat to see where it went wrong.
Before you start
Custom mode lets you edit almost anything at any time during a game: territory, resources, flags and names of countries, plus game parameters. You can add or remove countries, raise or sink land, and paint data on the map to build your own scenarios, then share them through a cross-platform workshop or download scenarios made by other players. There is also a god mode where you play as no country at all and watch AI powers fight it out while you hold ultimate control.
The design aims to be approachable. Basic mechanics are easy to pick up, so newer players can be competitive without much effort, while the deeper systems reward anyone who wants to study and optimize them. Expect a game about timing and restraint as much as conquest: the map changes constantly, and the decisions you make about spending, diplomacy and speed of expansion determine whether your empire holds together.