Shipbucket

It's a series of computer games going back several years.

LOL... Blackbuck, at the risk of showing our ages, the Civ franchise has been going on for two decades now.
That's a bit more than 'several years.'

Here's a good one- small, but strategically important:
After the Spanish Civil War, the provinces of Aragon, Valincia, Catalonia and the Balearic Islands become independent under the direction of (insert rebel leader's name here). With the common ethnic identity of the old Aragon to unite them, these provinces reform into the Aragonian (insert descriptor here).

There is no real battle fleet, but the small nation has a coast defense and trade defense based fleet. The fleet does have the rather unique position of being able to control the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea, which gives it a rather unique strategic position... and means that several larger nations (Italy and England most notably) actively court alliance with the fledgling nation in order to keep the Straits of Gibraltar open.

Until I misplaced the disk I still played Civ2 Gold (as recently as 2010 even)! At least the C&C games are not that old yet!

Ooooooh. Now that is an idea with potential!

"All your base is ours now!"

Again PM me with ideas please.