No point updating the map; only one country has changed ownership.
>>49Nuclear weapons production is ongoing. You currently have fourteen, with another four on their way. It took me a while to find an island far off the southwest coast of Australia which was also uninhabited, but it does exist! (
http://g.co/maps/929ay).
Your biological weapons research from back in
>>17 has finally come to fruition. You have developed a highly virulent but easily controlled pathogen.
It is primarily airborne, but also spread by direct skin contact.
It has a week long incubation period between exposure and first display of symptoms, allowing it to spread undetected easily.
After one week, it causes flu-like symptoms, followed a few days later by necrosis of the respiratory tissue and death.
It has a >90% death rate.
It has an easily produced antidote/vaccine which only you have access to.
You are allowed - encouraged, even - to give the virus a name.
>>50Bolstered by Grey's World's troops, Espeonland successfully takes Finland. The rail link from China has been extended northwards as far as the Russia/Finland border. Preprepared propaganda is being circulated, and shows promising results.
The invasion from the east has almost ground to a halt. Battles continue along the Eastern European front between Andyland and Espeonland, with high numbers of casualties on both sides and no significant victories.