States of Power Nations and the 1936 Map
States of Power starts in 1936 and lets you take any country on the world map. The developer has not published a nation list, a tier ranking or any per-nation statistics, so this page documents what the official screenshots and patch notes actually show.
Nations confirmed on the 1936 map (23)
Every name below appears either as a labelled territory in the developer's own store screenshots or in the in-game news feed captured in those screenshots. This is a floor, not a full roster — the map covers the whole world, and most of it is simply outside the frame of the published screenshots.
- German Reich
- France
- United Kingdom
- Soviet Union
- Italy
- Japan
- Poland
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Luxembourg
- Denmark
- Switzerland
- Austria
- Czechoslovakia
- Lithuania
- Romania
- Yugoslavia
- Hungary
- Nationalist Spain
- Republican Spain
- Egypt
- Saudi Arabia
- Albania
How nations actually work
| System | What is confirmed |
|---|---|
| Ideology | Every country has one of four ideologies — Democratic, Authoritarian, Communist or Fascist — and you can reshape your own through reform or civil war. Units change their flags when the ideology changes. |
| Cores | Countries have core territory. The patch notes reference civil wars in countries with 0 cores as a specific edge case, and the map UI shows a home-territory percentage per country. |
| Puppets | Countries can be released as puppets; a launch-week fix addressed released puppets clashing with the nation they were formed from. |
| Civil war | Ideology change can trigger civil war. The Spanish Civil War is modelled at the 1936 start — Nationalist Spain and Republican Spain appear as separate entities and the news feed reports the war between them. |
| Home vs world control | The top bar tracks two separate percentages: world control and home control. Hovering a country shows its home percentage. |
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What is not published
You will find other sites ranking these nations S-tier to C-tier. Those rankings are not built on game data, because the game does not expose any:
- A definitive playable-nation count
- Per-nation industry, manpower or starting-army statistics
- Any official nation tier ranking
The country list above is read off the developer's own store screenshots and the in-game news feed. It is a floor, not a complete roster — the map covers the whole world and the Scenario Editor lets players add more.
We will publish a nation comparison the moment there is something real to compare — either the developer releases the numbers, or enough players record consistent starting values to build a checkable table. Until then, a ranking here would just be general World War II knowledge dressed up as game data.
Related: the units page covers what you build with a nation's industry, and the tech tree covers where research runs from and to.