[quote=@Willy Vereb]
<Snipped quote by Theodorable>I didn't expand to your borders because I didn't wish to grab too much land.
Speaking of which you're partially the one to blame here. You ate up a large portion of the continent thus not many could start near you. Especially that now super large nations being the fad.

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This brings up a good point. How large is this world map? Is it to scale with Earth? (if so, holy crap)

I might suggest that perhaps this map isn't the entire world, but just one continent/region, so as to make these countries seem a bit less fuck-off-big.