The Pirates of the Burning Sea team has posted a couple of dev blog entries outlining some upcoming nation changes that add a new faction to the game and will allow you to have characters from multiple nations on one server.

"Starting with 1.22, you’ll be able to have characters from multiple nations on one server. However, you've got to declare your allegiance to one particular nation at a time, so you can’t play all sides of a conflict," Justinian said. In addition, the character limit for each account will be increased to six characters per nation on each server.

Flying Lab Software is also adding National Player Factions to the game to give players to opportunity to flag other users as traitors to their nation. "If a player gets flagged by a lot of people over the course of a long enough time, they can actually become Distrusted, Loathed or Hated by their own nation," Fraxl said, noting that these reputations carry consequences.