Players from different backgrounds gathered around a fire in the ice, different flags and colors visible but everyone facing the same direction, the world outside the frame implied to be considerably less warm

This Is A Game. That's Actually The Point.

By Greigh Fox · 2026-02-28

State 2128 has Egyptian players and Turkish players and Korean players and players from places we probably don't even know about yet. The world outside this game is loud and heavy and divided in ways that are genuinely exhausting. In here we argue about castles and fish crime and who spelled Wilhelmina's name wrong. That's not nothing. A place where people from everywhere can fight about something that doesn't matter and still choose to log back in together — that's worth protecting. Be good to each other. The world is hard enough. —Greigh Fox, Fair & Balanced Reporting