Several major nations proposed providing a portion of their resources and manpower, allowing those willing to go out and establish a safe base to do it themselves, be responsible for it once built, and from then on operate independently of any state—In fact, after the complete collapse of the region, the concept of "nation" ceased to exist.
Before W37 Base fell into the encirclement by the aliens, it was a district with decent scientific progress and a not too shabby level of evolution. In theory, having so many players, intercepting the aliens shouldn't have been too difficult—while human resources were finite, there was no shortage of high-casualty-producing thermal weapons.
The real trouble lay in the acts of sabotage among nations, some of which sought to swallow up others in the crisis along with their resources. The alien group instead became a manipulable natural weapon, which led to retaliation by those players who faced national extinction.
