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Region: Raxulan Empire
Max Barry wrote this in News on November 17, 2003, along with a handy-dandy little graph.
"While we're reminiscing, here's a picture of the number of nations we had in the first two weeks of NationStates's life. When I first put up this site, I sent an e-mail around to about 20 friends and told them to pass on the word. Boy, did that work. If humankind ever gets wiped out by a super-virus, the infection rate is going to look like this."
I'm calling it now; Max has a way to see the future.