Treasures are a new, complicated feature and I would recommend you read the very informative announcement on the forum. The link is: http://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/4491-1222015-treasures/

Treasures have been added, but without any active bonuses. Having a treasure in your nation does not do anything at the moment.

Treasures are items that randomly spawn in nations every 30 days, and can be transferred through defeat in war. If you defeat someone with a treasure, it then belongs to you.

Very small update, Officers and up can now pin and unpin alliance announcements.

This is a quick announcement to wish everyone a happy new year! We're saying goodbye to 2014, and welcoming in a new year.

January's nation bonus donation options are going to be the same as December's, $5 will get you $750,000 in-game capped at a limit of $30 USD per nation.

Here's a complete list of options:

$5 USD - $750,000 in-game

$10 USD - $1,500,000 in-game

$15 USD - $2,250,000 in-game

$20 USD - $3,000,000 in-game

$30 USD - $4,500,000 in-game

Of course this is all available from the in-game Donate page. Remember, if you donated last month the caps are reset so you are eligible to donate again this month.

Thanks again to everyone who's supported P&W through it's first year. Onward to another successful 12 months!

Read the full announcement here: http://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/4233-12302014-notifications/

Trade, Bank, Espionage, War, and Embargo messages have been removed entirely. Instead, they'll now show up on your Notifications page. There's a link to it just below your messages, and it'll keep track of the last 125 notifications for you. New notifications show up in bold, and once you've viewed them will go back to normal font weight.

The next, smaller change is that alliance announcements now show up in bold if you haven't read them, or someone has commented on them since your last viewing.

Thanks to the help of the fine player Phiney, I've updated the site's web design to make it more responsive and more modern looking. Let me know how much you love/hate the new design and what's broken on the forums: http://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/4166-12242014-new-site-design/