Golden Nations is a semi vanilla server that is all about nations politics and war. It runs on Minecraft 1.21.11 and the world is 5k by 5k so everyone is close and has to deal with each other.

Players create nations write their own rules and try to control land and power. People make alliances sign treaties and sometimes backstab each other so the whole thing feels like a geopolitical world and not just a normal factions server.

The economy is driven by players and not villagers or shops. You can sell crops and ores but other stuff is based on trade and what your nation can produce. If you control resources and trade routes you get more power.

War is really serious here. When there is an official war and you die you get banned for 24 hours and your character gets fully reset. So leaders have to plan fights carefully and value their soldiers because every battle can change the whole server.

There is custom fishing loot that gives rare items and materials so even fishing can matter for your nation.

There are no elytras and no villagers so travel is harder and borders and terrain are important again. There is no easy way to get free gear so nations have to rely on real players and not on broken trading.

Overall this server is for people who want politics strategy and meaningful conflict where every choice actually matters.