I think the question speaks for itself! Be it the melody, the lyrics, the importance for you personally - which one is your favourite anthem?
I'm personally a big fan of national anthems and I was thinking about some of the different anthems of the states in the world of Krasnacht, so here I will be putting together a nice big list of either confirmed or likely anthems for all of the states in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, for your listening and perusal. They'll be organized by faction, in alphabetical order within each faction, with unaligned states at the bottom.
The International Worker's Armed Forces (INFOR)
Albania: Himni i Flamurit
Algeria: The Internationale in Arabic (or in French)
Union of Britain: The Red Flag
Cisleithania: Das Lied der Arbeit (German and Czech versions co-official)
Commune of France: L'Intenationale
Germany: Undetermined as of 1950 (this is not confirmed lore, I'm just using it as an excuse to have two songs). Could be either Die Internationale or a song similar to our timeline's Auferstanden aus Ruinen.
Iberian Federation: A Las Barricadas
Socialist Republic of Italy: L'Internazionale
The Netherlands: Morgenrood
Tunisia: Humat al-Hima (though the lyrics may be slightly modified)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: Hej Slaveni (Slovene, Croatian, and Serbian versions all co-official)
The Saratov Pact (SARPAC)
Hungary: BajtΓ‘rs
Iran: SalΔm-e ShΔh (also known as Vatanam)
Romanian National-Legionary State: SfΓ’nta TinereΘe LegionarΔ
Russian State: Farewell of Slavianka (along with the instrumental version) (also, as stated by one of the devs, Vozhd Savinkov's favorite song is Praise the Lord by Sergei Rachmaninov)
Serbia: [Vostani Serbiye](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sXP6plyW
Unnofficial lyrics by Peter Roland
Est Europa nunc unita
et unita maneat;
una in diversitate
pacem mundi augeat.
Semper regant in Europa
fides et iustitia
et libertas populorum
in maiore patria.
Cives, floreat Europa,
opus magnum vocat vos.
Stellae signa sunt in caelo
aureae, quae iungant nos.
Here's a good explenation of the lyrics, http://www.hymnus-europae.at/linguae/HymneLateinkursEnglish.pdf
I think it could be good for the world building
Microsoft publishes a list of their most-played games , from #1 to #49 in descending order. Exact player numbers aren't published. (The numbers next to the games are number of votes for ratings on the site).
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/most-played/games/xbox
It's also worth noting that this list changes by region, but after chatting over on r/anthemthegame, nobody reported Anthem being visible in the top 49 in their region.
What's interesting about this is that BF1 is now at the last spot on the list (at least in the NA region). Thanks to BF1stats, we can get an exact look at the number of players the game has.
Currently, it's sitting at about 2,400. It was around the same when I checked last night, but probably gets a bit of a swell in the afternoon like most games do.
This means that Anthem has fewer than 2,500ish concurrently Xbox. BF1 stats also might provide a decent indication of how the playerbase looks on other platforms, but that's a little too much supposition for me, especially given Battlefield's popularity on PC, and the Anthem sub reporting an anemic playerbase on that platform. Peak player numbers for BF1 on Xbox One go as high as about 7,500 during the day.
Even assuming double the Xbox playerbase on both PC and PS4 (which is probably an overestimation), that leaves a total population of only ~12,500 players left for Anthem. If Anthem follows the trend of other GAAS titles of being more successful on console than on PC, it could be much worse.
Thought it was interesting to see a fairly concrete measurement on how much the game has declined, and that it might be worth sharing.
EDIT: Another interesting fact is that Fallout 76 is a full 21 places from being knocked out of the top 49. That game had an extremely troubled launch, and way undersold compared to Fallout 4 (about 1/6th as many copies sold), and is still that far ahead of Anthem.
