I think the problem was more that you jumped around a lot. We should never have allowed nation swapping, because the nature of the RP made the canon too complex for that sort of thing.

What people need to do is stick to their guns. Its easier to brush a poor storyline under your own rug and fix it as the nation that needs fixing than it is to plan around nations that were abandoned, and yours happened to be doubly complex because you made drastic changes to your nations before jumping.