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Giant World: 97 nations

The Giant World Map defaults to 97 nations, the highest count in the client, and it is large enough that the game's own minimum zoom cannot frame it.

TESTEDthe 97 default and the 61 on World, 2026-11-03
IN-GAMEthe Rules tab value 97 (Map default)
OFFICIAL ONLYSteam lists the map without a nation count
NEEDS CHECKhow long a 97-nation match runs by default, and how the AI keeps up

The Giant World Map at the client's minimum zoom on 2026-11-03, 498 players in the lobby: the window shows Antarctica and Australia, and roughly two thirds of the map is off screen. — **What this shows** the point of the page: 97 nations is not a number you experience all at once, because the client cannot show you the whole board even fully zoomed out.Captured 2026-11-03Client v42.5Plate 1

97 nations

It is the top of the table by a wide margin: the next highest is Game of Thrones at 71, then World at 61. In our Giant World run the lobby listed 498 players at the 24 second mark, which is what 97 nations plus the default 400 bots looks like.

You cannot see it

At minimum zoom the window covered Antarctica and part of Australia — perhaps a third of the map. That is not a bug; it is the consequence of a map sized for a long match. Practically it means you play Giant World by region and read the rest of the world off the leaderboard, not off the map.

Giant World against World

Two world maps, two games
Map	Nations	What it feels like
World	61	the default pick; still too big to see, but a shorter campaign
Giant World Map	97	the long one; more nations, more territory, more time

World is what the client selects when you first open the picker, so it is what most players meet first. Giant World Map is the same idea taken further, and the default 400 bots mean the load is real: our performance overlay read 44 fps average with 147 MB allocated, on a headless run at 1422×804. Treat that as a baseline to reproduce, not as a claim about your machine.

When to pick it

When you want a match that lasts, or when you want to test expansion and supply over distance rather than a single border. Not when you have ten minutes.

It is the default you did not choose

Open the picker for the first time and World is already selected — 61 nations, not 97. Giant World Map is the card you have to reach for, which is why most people's first match is World and most people never play this one. If the default feels long, the next card over is considerably longer.

Both carry the same 400 bots by default, and both are big enough that the leaderboard — not the map — is where you read the state of the match: the panel lists every nation with its share, gold and troops, which the map cannot show you at any zoom.

What this page does not claim

We did not run a match to completion on either map, so there is no claim here about how long a 97-nation game lasts. The 498 players at 24 seconds is a registration count, not a duration.

Last checked against the client: 2026-11-03 · client v42.5