The Third Realm is intent on staying as vanilla as possible, yet allowing players to form groups and communities. The spawn is minimal as it is felt that players should be the ones who define the world, not the staff. Factions allows players to fight for a cause, or merely for the sake of fighting. The world extends out from spawn in a circle of 10,000 blocks. This may be changed later, but seems reasonable for now. Remember... this is your world. Shape it as you see fit.