Any good fan sites, 3rd party tools or other helpful stuff for playing this game? Seems like the kind of game that's just begging for some serious data analysis work.
Simcountry has a user maintained wiki and a few fan sites: http://simcountry.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page - The wiki has a few guides dedicated to the game (economics, military, etc) http://simcountry.wikia.com/wiki/Affiliates - A list on the wiki containing a few sites. http://simcountry.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Guides - A list of guides