Excellent idea, I am quite curious how this would play out. I do agree with unriggable that you need to create more territories.

Especially the top of South-America and the Island groups should use the small countries / islands that are there.

Then you could divide the bigger continents in ...

Problem:
I noticed myself looking at other player details when choosing game to play in.

The reason I do this is because it can be quite annoying to end up in a game with one or more people at the other end of the world who take their turns 12 hours later then I do.

Solution:
Put the ...

I think this will only put more wood on the easily flaming people.

They lose against two different players that are on the network, not playing together at all and then start flaming that of course the two network players were having a secret alliance.

I think that this game will end up with ...