On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Timothy Collinson <timothy.collinson@port.ac.uk> wrote:

I like that it says 'major' powers so you always have the option of lots of minor ones if you wish.

Not so fond of it only allowing 1D-1 powers as it would be harder to replicate Earth's 200+ (although obviously a huge number would be minor).

 

That can't reproduce the G7+India and China. Assuming we count all the G7s as "major" even though the population of some is below 2% of the planet's. Of course, we don't want to get picky on that, since the US is below 5% and Russia makes 2% by the skin of its teeth.

My scheme didn't have '7' as a GOV type rerolled but in effect further subdivided that country so that lots of minor countries were possible.