Eryk wrote:Amazeroth wrote:Eryk wrote:And if moderation can tell me, that I cannot change my nations to something like "Marxist Republic" or "Soviet Republic" why can't it say "changing Gaduridos' name to Eredian is not allowed"?
That really isn't the same thing. The first one wouldn't be allowed because the terms "marxist" or "soviet" are RL terms. Why the second one shouldn't be allowed is completely beyond me; but even if there was a good reason why a country couldn't be named after a person (tell that to Bolivia), it just isn't in the rules, and that shouldn't be changed lightly.
I still don't understand why I can change Kazulia's name to the "Kingdom of Eryk" while I can't have a Soviet of Marxist Republic. Who cares that Marxist and Soviet are real life terms, technically, Eryk is as well - however I can still change the name because there's no rule about it.
Real life terms are forbidden, period. That decidedly doesn't cover names, since they are the same in the particracy world as in the real one. Marxist and Soviet make no sense in particracy, because there hasn't been a Karl Marx, and there hasn't been a Soviet Union (or other occurences from where the term Soviet would derive). However, since Eryk can be a name in particracy as well, there is no reason to ban the use of real life names as names for countries.
Renaming a country after person (Bolivia named itself right after independence not in the middle of their existence) with completely no historical context should not be allowed and should be treated as destroying the culture of a nation - period.
In this case, any kind of renaming a country, regardless after or into what, should be treated as destroying its culture, as long as it hasn't been RPed. There's no reason why renaming a country after a person should be regarded any more or less violating than any other renaming.
Since there really isn't a way to "measure" if something had historical context or not, or if something was RPed enough for you to be satisfied, this will hardly become a rule.
Apart from that, changing a countries name has little to nothing to do with the countries culture. Changing the countries language or even ethnicity, or maybe its major religious affiliation, that is usually what is considered destroying its culture, changing its name matters only very little on that part.