Why on earth did you join the sandbox map? thats just evil!

Don't worry, I won't be fighting the newbies! I'm just going to grab the island and hold.

I need to have a country somewhere to develop, test, and debug. So, a permanent country on the one permanent map seemed like the perfect spot.

ahhhh... makes sense. carry on, and dont pwn incredibly

How is the sandbox going to work? Will it reset every so often, or will each new nation get a limited amount of time on the map, based on when they join and independent of everyone else?

Countries in Sandbox are automatically removed after 60 days, which is something the player has to check to acknowledge when joining.