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Note: This is a work in progress based on data I'm looking over.

While updating Wintreath's recruitment system to take into account the recent changes concerning the NationStates API, we also dumped and examined the data in the system, which was for nations created between August 8th, 2016 and December 28th, 2016. During this time the recruitment system tracked 217,820 nations, keeping track of data relevant to our manual recruitment efforts.

Location Information
One piece of data the system tracks is the nation's last region...for example, if the nation spawned in region A, moved to region B, and then moved to region C, the system would record region C as their region. According to the system data, 126,241 nations (or 58% of all nations created during the period) ended up in a game-created region (GCR), with numbers for individual regions as follows:

Top GCR Destinations

The North Pacific - 21340
The Pacific - 20114
The South Pacific - 19918
The East Pacific - 19695
The West Pacific - 19036
Lazarus - 6950
Osiris - 6943
Balder - 6772
The Rejected Realms - 5473

The remainder of the nations moved across 13,279 user-created regions (UCRs), with the top 50 destinations listed below:

Top 50 UCR Destionations

1) 10000 Islands - 2016
2) Europeia - 1775
3) The Invaders - 1226
4) Renegade Islands Alliance - 889
5) The Western Isles - 885
6) Firehelm - 824
7) Jumpy - 822
8) Europe - 786
9) The Kingdom of Great Britain - 784
10) The Black Hawks - 783
11) The Communist Bloc - 766
12) Nazi Europa - 733
13) Equinox - 712
14) Violet Irises - 693
15) Hydra Command - 656
16) Kingdom of Alexandria - 639
17) The Internationale - 603
18) Nationstates - 591
19) Spear Danes - 575
20) The Land of Kings and Emperors - 565
21) The Glorius Nations of Iwaku - 551
22) United Kingdom - 518
23) The Allied States - 514
24) Spiritus - 508
25) Norrland - 504
26) The New United Kingdom - 469
27) Illuminati - 455
28) Nova Historiae - 430
29) The Labyrinth - 406
30) Doll Guldur - 379
31) Albion - 373
32) USSD - 363
33) Asean Region - 347
34) New Warsaw Pact - 334
35) The Nest - 330
36) Social Liberal Union - 305
37) Merciam - 303
38) Kaiserreich - 302
39) Unknown - 298
40) The Independent Order - 297
41) Krillin - 281
42) The Union of Democratic States - 279
43) Conch Kingdom - 271
44) Equilism - 267
45) 21st Century Rome - 253
46) Wintreath - 252
47) Yggdrasil - 251
48) Mordor - 245
49) The Empire of Oppression - 239
50) The Free Nations Region - 238

Recruitment Filter
On May 1st, [violet] implemented a suggestion from Wintermoot to include an indicator as to whether the nation had blocked recruitment telegrams. The recruitment system was able to confirm that 164,633 (81%) nations allowed recruitment telegrams as of the last date they were checked, while 39,525 (19%) nations had blocked recruitment telegrams. For various reasons, the system did not check the status of 13,662 nations.

Settle Time
Two other aspects that the system keeps track of is when nations are first created and when they last switched regions. We can take the difference between those two times to determine how long a nation moved to their last location after being created. As one would suspect, most nations quickly pick a region to move to, with 56% of nations choosing a region within their first hour, rising to 70% within their first day. Additionally, 54% of nations do not move at all, remaining within the GCR they spawned in.

When Moved?

Didn't Move: 116,935
Under 1 Minute: 11,918
Between 1 and 10 Minutes: 27,175
Between 10 Minutes and 1 Hour: 17,803
Between 1 Hour and 24 Hours: 14,180
Second Day: 4,014
Third Day: 2,133
Fourth Day: 1,602
Fifth Day: 1,135
Sixth Day: 970
Seventh Day: 1,030
Second Week: 3,844
Third Week: 2,292
Fourth Week: 1,953
Beyond Fourth Week: 10,808