At the time, I was actually in favor of people being allowed to have a second team in another country. However, I've ended up being happy with Utopia, and think I actually prefer it over playing in a micro nation, or any nation with less than 250 active owners. I consider any country which can't support a full DIII to really be too small.
And Gully, we'll just have to agree that our recollections differ. Of course, anything discussed on the forums only represents a very small fraction of BB users. Whether or not BB should have decided to move away from the idea of allowing second teams in other countries because of the complaints raised by those from micro nations at the time really isn't that relevant any more anyways. They made their decision and I certainly don't expect that option is likely to be considered again any time soon.