Question about moving up to Level 2 (White Giant)

I am currently working on moving up to level 2. I have 7 countries....I may have expanded too fast, I understand.

Anyway, I know that I must get my entire empire's Defensive average up in order to move to Level 2. My question is, do I have to have Level 2 forces in each country to move up to Level 2 and get the bonus coins OR do I only have to make sure my empire's average is at the proper level which will then give me bonus coins for each country I own?

Hope that makes sense...

Empire average.

So if you have 800 Defensive in one country and 10 in each of the others, you'll get Level 2 (absurd example, but illustrates the point).

Same goes for every other index, its an average of all 7 countries in this instance.

And you ONLY get one set of coins, not 7.

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Expanding fast is not a bad startup strategy on white giant. Strip down a few countries by transferring the weapons and trading the professionals. Then deregister the reduced countries. You don't need to defend countries that are getting reduced because no one would want them anyway.