1: Yes the flag doesn't need to be taken. However I'm not very much for a solution where NT's still are in the game for small nations. We will see a higher competition on the NT scene to if we don't have tiny nations.
If the small NTs are removed, this would probably be a very very bad move. Instead there should be like multiple levels of NT competition, like a Group A, where the top ranked teams play, a group B for the mediocre nations and a group C for the hopeless.
Give the utopia players real nationalities, preferrably overweight by micronations, so every country has a decent amount of players to pick from and we won't need to talk about removing NTs. I would love to see my player Bo Taylor play for a micronation, give the Utopians some purpose.
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