Benin (Dahomey)/Benin (Nigeria) 28
Berbers/Tuareg 5
Bulgarians/Romanians/Other Balkans 14+1=15
Creek/Muskogee/Other SE NA 24
Gauls/Britons 18
Georgians 24
Haida/Tlingit/Other PNW NA 29-3=26
Irish/Scottish 20
Kushans/Bactrians 18
Maori/Other Polynesians 22
Nepalese 24
Timurids/Other Central Asia 13
I'll try and be more clear and specific: I just don't find the Pacific North West a particularly interesting region when it comes to Native Americans. The artwork is interesting but not really my style at all, their culture has survived better than many other native groups but isn't influential enough to be recognized much outside of the immediate areas they occupied, and frankly I don't find them historically interesting. They just seemed to stand in their corner of the map passively doing their own thing. They met with Spanish, Russian, French, Canadian, and Finally American explorers and had trade routes stretching as far south as Arizona yet they didn't really have any real impact on those people politically, culturally, militarily, scientifically, or socially and just kept on keeping on with one another in their own little bubble of culture and heritage which is not really what I look for in a Civilization. Yes, it was a very nice bubble, but I prefer my civilizations to have strong interaction with other culturally distinct peoples that left a lasting impression on them as that is what I define as "Standing the Test of Time" which I feel is lacking in the Pacific Northwest.
Those complaints I had about the PNW are inverted in the Balkans. They had absolutely constant interaction with everyone around them as each and every major empire in the area tried to beat them into submission and assimilate them. From both the East and West Romans, to the Greeks, to the Teutonics, to the Austrians, to the Russians, to the Ottomans, every empire seemed to stomp over the Balkans and ripped each other to pieces over the region yet they remain both culturally distinct from the foreign interlopers and culturally distinct from each other (to the point where attempts to unify the area have all resulted in catastrophic failure). Economically and spiritually the region is also a major center of world history as for centuries it was made the frontlines of dozens of religious wars which drew in and threw out countless ducats for arms, armor, mercenaries, building materials, and more. My personal favorite is very easily Romania and I'm mostly voting on their behalf, but I could go with Bulgaria, Serbia, or some other Balkan nation. Not in the immediate future mind you as Macedon has crowded the area for the current roster but in the protracted future I'd love to see one... preferably Romania.
