In Cyber Nations, large and powerful alliances can gain sanction. Sanctioned alliances are available in drop-down menus in-game, such as the "alliance affiliation" box and on alliance statistic screens. In addition to this, sanctioned alliances may have their alliance flag added as a Custom Flag. Sanction is currently given to the top twelve alliances by score. Up until April 2012 it was given to the top twelve alliances by score who also fulfilled a requirement of 200 members, thus sanctioning occasionally extended down to the 20th or so alliance in actual score. As of December 2013, there have been a total of 48 alliances sanctioned, 17 of which are defunct and 31 of which remain active alliances.