It certainly didn't help matters. The maza devs did basically every single thing wrong from a dev standpoint. They are the only coin I've ever seen that purposely was anti-community and didn't want any help + feedback from people supporting the coin.

But what really hurt nation coins was a combination of weariness due to so many copycats, really bad coins that basically screamed 'scam' (mandarin, australia, etc), where the devs apparently were not even from the nation, nor had a valid airdrop plan, and the simple fact that after an airdrop, the price of the coin logically falls... a lot. People who held Aur and other coins should have expected this, but if they held, they not only lost money but probably were then wary of other nation coins.

Quebecoin doesn't have the airdrop/falling price problem. Yet due to this, it has less hype... which is another problem.