This may be a good spot to add my thank-you to Illwinter for the protective efforts they have made.
To play a nation you must have a pretender but the demo doesnt let you create one for certain nations. If you copy of one the pretenders you have made into one of the not-allowed nations you THINK you won. It will let you create a game with that nation but when you try to opent he turn file it informs you that nation isnt allowed in the demo.
Along the same lines if you try to use the .map file to give unique items to any nation then the game informs you that its not allowed in the demo.
Im fairly sure that the game still checks for matching IDs when a host is processing a multiplayer game. (hard to check with the demo but it seems to be there)
Anyway, I didnt want the Devs to feel that any of their work has gone unnoticed so along with all the kudus being posted here for a great game I will post a kudo for protections.