I may have something to add to this debate. I've had a reply from Zac Minor regarding City States. He's not able to give us the full list of CSs from the Civilopedia, because that falls under the stuff he can't talk about in the NDA. However, he was able to share a list of CSs that he encountered while playing the game. The reply was as such:
"I'd love to help you out, but that is covered under NDA. I CAN tell you all the city-states I encountered in my time:
-Singapore
-Vatican City
-Cape Town-
-Cahokia
-Antwerp
-Milan
-Lhasa
-Panama City
-Brussels
-Buenos Aires
-M'banza Kongo
-Ur
-Kiev
-Zanzibar
-Almaty
-Ormus "
I'm pretty sure I can share this with you all (I'm sure Zac wouldn't have said anything if he couldn't) - I tried double-checking via pm, but I don't think anybody ever notices them
- so if he asks me to I will remove this post (the last thing I want to do would be to get him in trouble with 2k after he's been so helpful to us). I've also asked if he's able to let us know what variety of CS Kiev and Ormus are, as I don't think we've seen them anywhere yet.
I'm kind of disappointed that Ukraine/Kievan Rus is now out - it was the only civ that I felt even had a hope of competing with Venice for the mystery European civ spot (unless Firaxis have seperated Scotland from the Celtic 'blob' - but that seems kind of unlikely). I'm kind of at the stage of bitter acceptance now.