Ok, pap's left permanently in virtually every game I've seen him in, so let's just get a new axis player and get this going. Perhaps Tonyuk would be willing to take both Axis civ's and make them one coherent entity?
The other option is to have Tim play the Minor Axis and have an AI Minor Allies, or have the Allied player do two civs. The AI player shouldn't be much of a problem, since the Minor Allies (unless the Axis blunder and blunder) almost certainly won't last very long anyhow, and Tim would get a more fulfilling game out of another civ.
There are many possibilities, so let's get this dealt with.