Well yeah, or you could just keep it simple, and allow people to switch nations once every game. ROFL. No reason to start making it more than that. Changing the name from Nation to faction would be easy enough.
I'm pretty happy with the way this is going, though. At the very least, I'm just wanting to pretty it up now a bit so I'm trying to figure out how to apply a style to it specifically. But yeah, I do see what you're getting at and it sounds epic.
I just don't want Jaxel to run away thinking "Oh crap, what have I started?".