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I'm going to try and figure out a way to gamify it, in part so I have to think less when doing any moderation (by virtue of being able to just look at numbers and roll a couple dice), and because that seems like it sort of fits with the wargamey nature of this whole thing. An unfortunate corollary of this would be that I would urge yet another reboot, mostly because there are areas in which if I were moderating I would have intervened earlier, and it would be unfair to let that slide and influence the future of the game.
Give me a couple days to come up with some background and some hacked-together good-enough rules and statistics, and let's see whether this grand experiment works out.
Also, Allouxia, if you could move all interested parties to Kodia, instead of spreading them out across the globe, that would be great. (This on the grounds that if the goal is warfare, trans-oceanic warfare is ludicrously expensive to carry out - easier by far to have you all fighting in 'Europe').
While I do this, begin with the following assumptions:
1) Play begins in the technological equivalent of the year 1700 - muskets, unrifled cannons, and cavalry on land; wooden sailing ships on the sea. This will change over the course of the 'game', as new discoveries are made and diffuse outwards - as well as, perhaps, archaeotech from long-forgotten civilizations is discovered...
2) All participating nations will have a pool of (probably 7ish) points to indicate their national focuses - which may be distributed to push them along several axes, from -3 to 3 (note: -3 is not 'bad', 3 is not 'good' - it's just useful in comparing against a neutral baseline of 0). Examples of these axes may include 'Religiousness - Secularism', 'Mercantilism - Liberalism', 'Monarchism - Republicanism', or 'Naval Focus - Land Focus'. Each has positives and negatives, obviously, but when considering an equal position on either side, neither should be objectively superior to the other.
3) Since you all begin on Umaes, bear in mind that overseas expansion is still a viable option (consider the Dutch or Portuguese). However, while there may be colonial opportunities, bear in mind that though the potential gains are high, there is always an element of risk in such things - colonists may die out or desert, or transoceanic vessels may bring back plagues with them...And of course, not all the natives will be easy pickings. Not every land will hold 'uncivilized savages' - others may well be more developed than you! (E.g. China into the sort of mid-1800s).
4) Alliances at this time are naturally unstable. There aren't the developed international institutions that exist in the modern world to foster and protect relations - nor the quick and easy communications that makes that possible. Your brothers-in-arms in one war may be your hated foes in another, and vice versa.
5) This is, end of the day, roleplay, not a game where there is only one winner and everyone else loses in the end. The objective is to tell a fun story - and I believe that adding game-like structure may facilitate everyone coming up with their own individual stories, but if rules are working against each other in unforeseen ways that hampers the fun for everyone, I'll engage Rule 0 as necessary.

You all keep keeping on, and I call shenanigans whenever something is ridiculous, unfair, or otherwise should be called out, and you resume having retconned that with something more reasonable.