Turns out everyone got their first choice of nation, which is excellent.
The game is now up at llamaserver and ready for people to submit their pretenders:
http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo....me=n00bsOfDoom
If you could put a post in the thread letting me know when you have posted your pretender (to make sure no-one tries to jump the queue and steal your place) that would be great :-)