I do appreciate the offer of map and/or support NT Jedi, I was kinda thinking 400 provinces is perhaps a couple too many as well
For the map I was thinking something like Cradle of Dominion, its pretty, large enough for 10-12 players and has lots of "start with four neighbouring provinces" provinces.
Endomorphious, what do you think of including the "Better Independents" mod?. Have you tried it before? In my experience you have less AI armies made of random assortments of indie provincial crap and more national troops.
The only other mod I can think of would be the All Ages mod, then we could do us (and no discussion on what age to play) vs EA, MA and LA Atlantis ect...