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The world · the real map

The map is the foundation

Where you are decides what you earn, how fast you get noticed, how good the hospital is and who hits back. The world is real. The people are not.

The open world

In gold, the countries and territories where you can play. The dots are real seaports. Countries with a war going on right now stay dark: we don't play real ongoing wars.

ZimbabweZambiaVietnamVenezuelaVanuatuUzbekistanUruguayPuerto RicoUnited States of AmericaFalkland IslandsUnited KingdomUnited Arab EmiratesUgandaTurkmenistanTurkeyTunisiaTrinidad and TobagoTogoEast TimorThailandTanzaniaTajikistanTaiwanSwitzerlandSwedenEswatiniSurinameSri LankaSpainSouth KoreaSouth AfricaSolomon IslandsSlovakiaSloveniaSierra LeoneSerbiaSenegalSaudi ArabiaSão Tomé and PríncipeSamoaRwandaRussiaRomaniaQatarPortugalPolandPhilippinesPeruParaguayPapua New GuineaPanamaPakistanOmanNorwayNorth KoreaNigeriaNigerNicaraguaNew ZealandNetherlandsNepalNamibiaMoroccoMontenegroMongoliaMoldovaMexicoMauritiusMauritaniaMaliMalaysiaMalawiMadagascarNorth MacedoniaLuxembourgLithuaniaLibyaLiberiaLesothoLebanonLatviaLaosKyrgyzstanKuwaitKosovoKenyaKazakhstanJordanJapanJamaicaItalyIrelandIraqIranIndonesiaIndiaIcelandHungaryHondurasGuyanaGuinea-BissauGuineaGuatemalaGreeceGhanaGermanyGeorgiaThe GambiaGabonFranceNew CaledoniaFinlandFijiEthiopiaEstoniaEritreaEquatorial GuineaEl SalvadorEgyptEcuadorDominican RepublicDjiboutiGreenlandDenmarkCzech RepublicCyprusCubaCroatiaIvory CoastCosta RicaRepublic of the CongoComorosColombiaPeople's Republic of ChinaHong KongChileChadCentral African RepublicCape VerdeCanadaCambodiaBurundiBurkina FasoBulgariaBruneiBrazilBotswanaBosnia and HerzegovinaBoliviaBhutanBeninBelizeBelgiumBelarusBangladeshThe BahamasAzerbaijanAustriaAustraliaArmeniaArgentinaAngolaAlgeriaAlbaniaAfghanistan
  • Open
  • Closed
  • Seaport

Point at a country

From continent to neighbourhood

The world is built like the real one: continent, country, province, place, district, neighbourhood. You start in a neighbourhood with a real name, like Vaartbroek in Eindhoven, a barrio on the edge of Medellín or a harbour quarter in Marseille.

You pick your starting point yourself on a dark world map. Or you pick by goal: if you want to make something, you get villages where nobody looks; if you want to smuggle, places near a border or a port.

Vaartbroek in Eindhoven at night, seen from above: houses, trees, a car on the road
In the game · Vaartbroek, Eindhoven, at night

Every country is different

Countries have their real reputation. No real people or organisations, but the real numbers: how rich, how corrupt, how strict, how dangerous.

Money

  • Income decides what there is to take and what everything costs
  • More loot in a rich neighbourhood, but more eyes too

Corruption

  • Bribes are cheap in one country and risky in another
  • Fake papers come easier where nobody asks questions

Policy

  • Tolerated, partly legal or brutally strict
  • A coffee shop only works where the law allows it

Healthcare

  • Hurt? In one country you're out quickly, in another almost twice as long

Extradition

  • Some countries hand you over at once, others don't bother

Rivalry

  • How many competitors are around, based on the real violence in a country
  • Far fewer in Brabant than in a favela

Neighbourhoods with character

Every neighbourhood has its own traits. How many police are watching, how easily you blend into the crowd, how much the neighbours notice and how many visitors pass through. A village is quiet, but everyone knows everyone. A world city is busy, anonymous and heavily watched.

Some neighbourhoods have a speciality that changes how you play. Smugglers walk the harbour quarter, the industrial estate is empty after dark, and in the villa district the neighbours peer through the hedge.

  • Harbour quartersmuggling, little oversight
  • Industrial estatequiet, anonymous
  • Nightlife centreclubs, crowds
  • Villa districtrich, nosy
  • Financial districtmoney, cameras
  • University quarterbars, customers
  • Market quartertrade, bustle
  • Working-class areagangs, silence

Real ports

171 real seaports: the big container ports of the world and the ports known from the news about smuggling. Rotterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg, Algeciras, Tangier, Santos, Guayaquil, Durban, Singapore.

A place near a port is a port town, with a harbour quarter and jobs you can only do there. Whoever controls the port controls what goes through it.

A container port at night: orange cranes, stacked containers and a dark car with its headlights on, on wet asphalt

What stays closed

Countries with a war or armed conflict going on right now are closed. So is Antarctica. If peace comes somewhere, a country can open. New areas can open every season.

Map data: Natural Earth (public domain) · GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) · Wikidata (CC0). Town borders and districts are drawn by us.