[Garth]

I've just got this game and I think I'm figuring it out largley- still rubbish at it of course, get killed by enemy nations every time.
One thing I can't for the life of me figure out though is how do you pick a nation? My manual is missing and about all I can do to pick nations is to go all the way through starting a new game to the last bit then press cancel and go back to the start and hope the next random pick is a interesting one.
Surely theres a better way? How do you choose from a list?