"Every page is an era," Nikolai murmured. "And we're just the librarians."

In this digital limbostate, countries weren’t maps or geopolitical entities; they were memories, avatars, and icons. Here, the "FAP Nations"—a moniker given to the collective of personified states—lived within the server's architecture.

Nikolai clicked an entry labeled The Industrialist . The image bloomed into life: a tall figure in a soot-stained coat, eyes glowing with the embers of a thousand coal fires. This was a version of Britain that no longer existed in the history books, preserved only here in the "Completed" archives.