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Contributing to NSwiki can be confusing at times. There's so much going on, how do you know where your help is most needed? Well, simply put, it is most needed wherever you want to help. Anytime you see something you feel you could improve, we encourage you to do so. If you are having trouble narrowing down what content you would like to add, this list should help you out.

• Your nation page and region page are good places to begin and improve, as well as any articles related to them.
• Featured article candidates lists shining articles in need of light modification.
• Requested articles lists the articles that NSwikians most want to see.
• Cleanup lists various articles that are in need of special care.
• To Do lists various jobs that are important to the wiki.

Also, if you check on the Special pages, you'll see

• Most wanted pages lists the pages with the most links but which are not yet written
• Orphaned pages lists pages which are not linked to by any other pages
• Shortest pages lists the shortest articles
• Dead end pages lists pages that do not link to any other articles

The Armed Republic of God and Delaware: As early as 1300 C.E., a caravan of devout Christians moved across the central plain of Mater Te, settling in the lush coastal plains along the Magnus Mare (great sea), modern day Mother's Bay. They named the area Del-Maria, "Land of Mary" or "Land of the Mother" in their own Anglo-Celtic dialect, Brythonish. Though agriculturally rich, the region was subject to constant attacks from roving pagan warlords, and the Christian community quickly became militarily minded. Making use of vast strains of iron ore, they crafted exquisite weaponry and a fast, well-coordinated cavalry that, in the space of less than a century, led to the settlement of Del-Maria's triumph as the supreme military force in the region. In 1467, a young Italian writer returned returned from a pilgrammage, during which he had spent many months in Del-Maria as a scribe for one of the many cathedrals that the Del-Marians had constructed, similar to the European Gothic model. Obtaining a patronage in Florence, the writer, Viotto de Mazzipucci, recorded his memoirs in a series of volumes entitled Among the Del-Marians: A Successful Search for God. This massive work (over three thousand pages, preserved in a number of manuscripts of Italian, German and Norman descent, a testament to both the eloquence of the writer and the time period's fascination with Del-Marian civilization) provides the only surviving window into early Del-Marian culture. His book is believed to have inspired numerous pilgrammages of a similar type, partly on account of de Mazzipucci's claim that the Cathedral of St. Maria, in Del-Maria's capital, Shiloch, housed the remains of many important Biblical figures, including the two criminals who were crucified beside Jesus on Calvary. These pilgrammages were not very successful, unfortuneately, as the route through Papal Italy, which was often openly hostile to the Del-Marians, and likewise to any pilgrims found voyaging there, and then through Islamic Asia Minor, Mongol dominated India and the harsh Mongolian desert, and then the unfriendly kingdoms of China and Japan were too much for most pilgrims. A few pilgrims, notably Leon de Ponceville, of Poitiers, made it all the way to present day North Korea. However, on his voyage across the Pacific he was never seen again, as were the majority of the pilgrims. Because of this, Del-Maria took on mythic, Eden-like qualities in the minds and arts of Renaissance Europe. Their perceptions, however, were far from the truth. The Del-Maria that de Mazzipucci had visited was then at the height of its power. Their longtime rival in the region, Massapoggipularia, had been decisively defeated twenty years earlier at the Battle of Cair Cobwebblgah. Revenue that had previously been used for war could be put instead to leisure and arts.