Yes it is, good catch. Anyway evil is slightly easier to define. The Wikipedia definition of evil is actually pretty useful here. However it gets into some rather philosophical territory as well. Here is the preface to it:
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Evil is a broad term used to indicate a negative moral or ethical judgment, often used to describe intentional acts that are cruel, unjust, or selfish. Evil is usually contrasted with good, which describes intentional acts that are kind, just, or unselfish.
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I think it's pretty safe to say we would consider sacrificing blood slaves to fuel your nation's war effort is rather evil. Could you make an argument that perhaps the war is necessary, so therefor the sacrifice of the blood slaves serves a greater purpose. Well, maybe, but this might be venturing into murkier territory than we need to.
Perhaps we can suffice to say that evil nations in Dominions are ones whose pretender god is likely to engage in sadistic or malicious practices for personal gain, eg, sacrificing blood slaves, casting death magic global enchantments that would ruin the whole world, reanimating it's living citizens as ghouls, mind enslaving people and depriving them of free will, and so on. Basically the sort of nation you would want to run far far away from if you were one of those people living in one of those provinces on the map. Kind of a stretch maybe, but an interesting thought experiment too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil