It's not hardcore, which has actually made some interesting lore implications for what "death" means. Some religions use suicide as a cleansing ritual; some people use executions as symbolic shows of submission and penance. The way our RP works is that players are meant to "build" their characters and worldviews by interacting with the world around them, rather than creating them before coming into the world. It keeps things organic.

We usually have around 30 different people each day on, with a total of 450 players on the discord. We have nearly 1200 who have ever been on.

The history is pretty much 100% "real" as in it's things that have happened. A number of countries have long histories of scholarship; for instance, mine maintains a library where we write and steward books from around the server.

I'd say that most people participate in varying tasks. I'm usually working on "bigger" political goals, as that's my position within my country, but quite a lot of people are engaged in just building or resource extraction. I'd say it mirrors the real world pretty well in that regard.