Gnome, where the hell did you get that Pig Latin? I'm no Latin scholar, but I can't really make heads or tails of it
Simon's mock up looks good. I'm just still wondering, is war the only way or can you get stronger by diplomacy or tech as well? Of course you're going to have to buy and maintain a military, but I was wondering if you could go the easy way and just buy lots and lots of soldiers, tanks and jets or that you can research a lot and then build soldiers that are 3x times as good, tanks that are 5x as strong and dig in using your advanced tech, in case you're not that much of a war monger but more of a nation builder? Of course there'd be an attack penalty if you're all dug in and decide to attack.
Another thing I think needs a change from CN is the aid system. Instead of giving a maximum of amounts of aid you can send, but not to certain number of people.
What I mean is this: Say you can send a maximum of 12 million credits (among other things) every 10 days, you could send 2 people 6 million, or 12 people 1 million.
Ok, maybe an upper limit of 15 simultaneous aid packages, but still