Steamnation is a belgian steampunk group.

Steampunk is inspired on the stories of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne. They wrote about technology in the 19th century, in the Victorian period. Steam powered machines came up in that era. Those were seen as futuristic. Those writers came up with even more futuristic science fiction machinery.A writer in the '80 called it steampunk, as the term cyberpunk wasn't really fitting.