I've tried to make an Australian Federation scenario (1st in a series of them I'm hoping

), but can't figure out how to use the darn map editors. So if anyone out there can help, it'd be much appreciated.
The continent of Australia has several self-governing colonies and crown colonies. The player takes on the role of one of the colonies to unite as many of them as a Federation (convincing the colonies to become vassal states with a winning victory of 5/8 vassalised colonies. This could be achieved through infrastructure, promises and events). Economic and political (both international and domestic) will continually surface and put a spanner in the works. I was thinking of a start in 1885 and an end at the beginning of WW1. (Which could lead onto a second scenario following on from the first).
Also playable should be the native inhabitants and the other colonial powers at the time.
COLONIES:
Colony of Western Australia
Colony of South Australia and the Northern Territory of South Australia
Colony of Queensland
Colony of Victoria
Colony of New South Wales
Colony of Tasmania
Colony of New Zealand
Colony of Fiji
The native inhabitants could fight for their countries and drive the invaders off, for example, the Maoris need to gain 15% territory to gain their victory. This could be equivalent to maybe half of New Zealand or something.
NATIVES:
Aboriginals
Maoris
Polynesians
Indonesians
Papuans
And the other colonial powers are their to grab what they can.
OTHER COLONIAL POWERS:
Germany Colonies
Dutch Colonies
French Colonies
Plus maybe some native independents or barbarians or something or other like that for the not-so-major native inhabitants of other islands.
And if it's possible to remove some of the civic options and replace them with things that are more relevant to the scenario, that'd be cool too. For example:
Government Types:
Self-Governing Colony
Crown Colony
Commonwealth State (Available only to vassals)
Sovereign Nation
Independent Nation
Titles:
King/Queen (Independent Nation)
President (Independent Nation)
Prime Minister (Sovereign Nation, 5/8 federated colonies constitute a SN)
Premier (Commonwealth State and self-governing colonies)
Governor (Crown Colonies)
Also, there was a secession movement underway in case Western Australia didn't join the Federation. A new colony would have emerged known as Auralia. So it would be nice to have that pop up if it's possible to do through an event.
Special tech tree.... tri-annual elections, constitutional referendums.
Let me know what ya'll think. ^_^
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_federation