Nationalism (ideology)

Nationalism within SWG, also referred to through nation-guilds, is a fairly rare guild scheme or ideology which demands members to consider their guild as though it were a nation with a cultural history and planned government paramount to all other aspects of gameplay.

When it comes to faction alignment, nation-guilds like Sapian instituted an aggressive policy of faction indifference, claiming outright to be a "faction of its own". Other nation-guilds, however, like Phoenix, who aligned Imperial, often did so only to participate wholly in some game-plotted PvP events. The history and subsequent culture of Sapian emphasized general indifference to Star Wars themed game plot, and so it favored PvP only through guild wars and, on the other hand, nationalistic RolePlaying.

Nationalistic guilds tend also to be guild legacies, carrying on their cultures, histories, and governments throughout many guilds and variations, such as Sapian and Phoenix.