National etymologies

These were a series of names conceived by the Averte Statum to reflect national origins and identities.

Other etymologies
The Averte Statum's own name was derived from two Latin terms, averte, invariably meaning remove or turn or avert and statum, meaning state, possibly referring to a state of being or to a nation state i.e. a country. The phrase Averte Statum is grammatically incorrect. The combination of these two terms could have several meanings, including removal of states (as in removal of national boundaries and creation of an empire) or changing the state (of the world) or simply change nations.

The Vostok Union was inspired by the city of Vladivostok, with the term vostok itself meaning east, reflecting the oriental nature of the Vostok Union, as opposed to the Russian Federation, which was based in the west. The use of the term union was said to have been inspired by the earlier Soviet Union, although the Vostok government strongly denied this, claiming to Soviet Union to be a disastrous failure of communism at the hands of the western Russians in Moscow.

The Hispanic Empire, originally named the Federación (spanish: Federation) was imagined as a vast realm that would encompass all of Spanish speaking Latin America. Luis Caldera conceived adding other Spanish-speaking parts of the world - including the Philippines, parts of the United States and Spain itself - to the empire.

The Islamic Caliphate was inspired by the vast Islamic empires that existed during the Middle Ages. The term Caliphate refers to the Caliph, the ruler of the empire. Caliph is Arabic for successor, the ruler of the Islamic empire being deemed the successor of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.

Aralistan is named for the Aral Sea, a body of water that vanished for decades due to diversion of various rivers for irrigation, but regained it's original size during the Century War. Aralistan means land of Aral in Persian.

Navzamin is from the Tajik language meaning new land.