That's true, too many choices will remove the element of chance.
Ok, I think what I'll do is let each player choose their risk tolerance. By default everyone will get 5 nations to choose from. I ran a few tests and I usually found that about 2 out of 5 random nations were to my liking so I think we'll be ok with 5 as a ceiling.
However, if you are daring let me know and I'll send you fewer nations. And if anyone is bold enough to do so I'll just generate one nation for them and they'll have to play that.
