Which nations represent order and good?

[Kuritza]

Since 'good' is a rather undefined post, lets make it more simple. Imagine you're an indie villager and your province is about to be conquered. You'd prefer your new masters to be...
(choose a nation).

I think most nations will be ruled out because they either make you a slave, sacrifice you, kill you just to make room for their offspring, eat you or make you a zombie. Some nations certainly feel 'acceptable' though, many others seem better than most. For example, LA Vanheim seems better than LA Mictlan, and Man is always preferable to Marignon.

[Agema]

I find it extremely hard to characterise many of the nations as "Good". What you call "good" - using a Westernised RL definition - is a nation that you perceive that looks after it's population reasonably fairly, and potentially treats other nations humanely.

You could draw from Pythium and Marignon's description, for instance, they are trying to save itself from the corruption of Ermor, the former probably much more benevolently than the religious zeal of the latter. MA Ermor might have been corrupted by death magic from EA, but they're trying to fend it off (and we can gather they fail from LA).

[Professor_Dyar]

It's been said before, but I'll say it again:

There are a handful of nations that are obviously evil, but most of the nations in Dominions can be largely good, largely evil, or mixed, depending on who their god is, and the vast majority of nations in the game have access to both good and evil gods (e.g. the master druid versus the lich).

Consider EA Arcocephale for instance, which is nation 0 on the list and probably one of the first nations we become familiar with. Apart from institutionalized slavery, EA Arcocephale has all of the hallmarks of being a good nation: priestesses that study healing and nature magic, an alliance with noble nature spirits of the mountains, and a culture that values knowledge and learning. Combine all of these with a Virtue or an Athena-style female titan and you have a kingdom of goodness and light. But what if your pretender is a Moloch instead?

[SelfishGene]

That's true - you could make an apologetic Dom-4 Pretender with full good scales for Ashen Empire Ermor. She's not trying to kill you, sorry about that whole death dominion thing! Or take Tir Na N'Og with full Misfortune, Drain, and Death, and make a monster SC pretender.

Which points out that the nation might tend towards one side or another, the god that you choose to create for them reflects their current alignment more than their historical background.

[Deonmag]

Evil trying to be good are doomed to destruction by even greater evil.

[Alderanas]

I would say Pangaea is a good nation even if they have to kick us lousy humans on our asses a few times to rebuild nature. haha

[Alderanas]

you can play with the most enlightened or most holy nation and ruin its "goodness" by putting in the prince of death.