User blog comment:Ceras SanMarina/Episode 42 early thoughts/@comment-1616397-20091107055010

This one was a long time coming. Every one of the major characters got their vignette episodes much earlier, including China (who now seems to be the forgotten man among the eight majors). It was about time for Russia to get the spotlight.

That being said, I'd really like to know the justification for the MKC. DEEN no longer has an excuse for why they didn't use England's, France's, or America's for 40 and 41.

I think we'll have to give up on the Nordics for now, Lil. There are only about three available open episodes left (assuming Ceras' assumption in re 46 and 47 and Lietuvis as 51 and 52, with Footsteps of Westernization fitting in there somewhere), and they still have to clear up the whole HRE/Chibinausea plotline and the rest of Pact of Steel. And people wondered why I complained about getting a movie and not Season 3.