- Nuclear strikes now shake the entire world: commodity and market shocks, a global growth hit, nations scrambling for nuclear umbrellas, containment coalitions and emergency UN sanctions against the striker, rising flashpoints everywhere, refugee waves — all scaled by the death toll, and doubled for whoever breaks the nuclear taboo first. A catastrophic first strike opens a "door to world war" that keeps the planet on a hair trigger for roughly two years.
- War: nuclear strike casualties and infrastructure damage now appear in the war panel and monthly war report.
- Territory: annexation records track every holder — holdings can no longer vanish from the Reclaim/Return list, including for nations without province maps.
- Map: fixed the lookup bug that made the Grievance, Development, and Hotspots lenses render flat. All four lenses verified showing live data worldwide.