I found a fresh survival server that is all about nations and lore. It is meant to feel brutal but fair and it is not an anarchy place. You are not dealing with random griefing and it is not constant pvp either.
The cool part is that big fights and rewards happen through structured systems. The owner wrote a lot of lore and it is tied to an ongoing web novel. The world is supposed to feel like you are living inside a story with characters and events.
Travel and the economy are built around a strict railway system. The world capital at spawn and the three nation capitals are linked by two way rails. Trade between nations has to go through the railway stations and the railways are permanent world infrastructure so messing with them is a serious offense.
When you join you start in an orientation hall. NPCs explain the three nations and what each one is like plus how railways vaults nation points and trading rules work. You can explore by rail first and visit all nations before you commit to one.
