sounds like a good idea.

allso I think it would be pretty cool if you allowed us to chose to play a game where we chose our initial countries, and place our intial armies.
It helps to take out the amount of luck in the game. Seeing as people can't start out with a continet or be able to get a continet amazingly easier than ...

What happens when, in an escalating game, you redeem a card set for more than 11x the number of countries you own? Where do you put the armies?

Well if you have rule 2 on allso then if someone has that happen chances are they aren't doing very good and have a very small amount of countries. Or ...

May I suggest adding the option of playing with these rules that are based on a board game I used to play. These rules were a variant ot that game that made the game a lot more interesting. They were.
1. You can only have up to 12 infantry on one country.
2. The value of bonus cards start at 4 and ...