So you're going to ignore the question entirely? The fact is that according to your own standards, yes, the annexation of the Wallis Islands and western NAPI should have qualified as godmodding, and you should have opposed them at least as vigorously as you've opposed everything I've done since. Bot...

At the time, I believed that they were from the Maritime Markets of the Straits of Haifa. Not Haifans from the Haifa that has been under the control of Hamland (now Caputia) and the parts that are part of Natopia for several years now. The description for the Sons of St.Andre pretty clearly indicat...

Ah, so this is one of your "I'm taking control of characters/nations/people/things that don't belong to me" moments (aka godmodding). You're free to call it that if you want, sure. I frankly don't care what you call it. I'm over this whole back and forth which we've had for the past few years. Anyw...

Many Haifans who settled in the region during the period of Haifan rule in St.Andre naturally left the city after Natopia assumed control, in favor of the greener pastures of Llucmajor and Poblenou, where they've since grown to prosper as partners of the Haifo-Pallisican Trade Union. Are some Haifan...

Name & Title: Kan Zen, Crown of Passio-Corum, Empress of the Sea of Storms, Priestess of Agripinilla E-Mail/Contact: Here,Discord Nation: Haifo-Pallisican Imperial Trade Union Claim: https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/Poblenouexpansion.png Notes: In light of recent events which highlight the need t...

I mean, the Florian Republic already has overseas territory. It isn't like they're doing anything unprecedented here. This claim makes sense, in my view, especially considering expanding trade networks which exist between the Florians and the East.

What do you define as "real international development?"

Yes, I am claiming the whole lake. I was just over-complicating things unnecessarily.

Name & Title: Kan Zen, Crown of Passio-Corum, Empress of the Sea of Storms, Priestess of Agripinilla E-Mail/Contact: Here,Discord Nation: Haifo-Pallisican Imperial Trade Union Claim: https://i.imgur.com/pJnMiFK.png Notes: Lake Norton has long been regarded as the primary portal to a vast underground...

Please note that the nation should be called the Haifo-Pallisican Imperial Trade Union, not the the Haifo-Pallisican Imperial Trade Empire. I accidentally typed it incorrectly in the original claim.

I think "expeduction" sounds pretty cool. Rolls off the tongue fairly well.

Indeed, that's why I say they're similar but not identical. That said, it seems to me that we might need a third type of claim, which falls somewhere between expansion and modification.

I'm not sure which "higher standards" you refer to. We judge every nation's claims equally; nobody receives preferential or detrimental treatment. I appreciate what you say regarding this type of modification requiring more scrutiny than an internal one, but that's why we're voting on it - internal...

My complaint has nothing to do with whether I wanted to claim the land. If I wanted to claim the lands then I obviously would have done that. Then what are you complaining about? What specifically about this claim means they didn't put in the right level of work to be acceptable to you that, say, T...

That they've submitted it is more work than anyone else has put it to actually claim the land. If your fighting a war in this place was a premise for claiming it, then you've missed the boat (assuming that aforementioned third "aye" comes) - that's how it is. If, however, you were fighting a war to...