Here's how this goes: You remix. No matter what, you increase the year by 1. After that... If you don't have your own nation, you can: 1. Create nation on unclaimed land (don't make it too big) 2. Rebel against an existing nation (you can't do this if the nation has less than 20 population and/or has less than 3 army. All nations start with 10 population and 1 army, and an RN status (you can find RN templates inside). If you do have a nation: increase your nation's population by 10, and update your showing of the citizens or the leader (optional), then do one of the following per remix: 1. Double your army (your army can't be greater than your population) 2. Gain unclaimed land (not a lot) (you can use boats to get land 100px away that has a coastline) 3. Attack a nation (use up both nation's army equally, but don't attack too much land) 4. Form a peace treaty with another nation. (you have to be touching it) (make your country's text a color with another nation) 5. Increase your car count by 1 (cars can make you take over lands 100px away from your land) 6. Increase boat count by 1 (you can go to coastlines 100px away with a boat.) 7. Update your RN status (you can do another thing after this) If you break any of these rules, your remix will be declared unofficial.
I gained my land back!