Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20180605045448/@comment-27713488-20180610225154

Worth noting there's also a hidden country stat threshold (100 sum of new countries) to meet before Simon will put the money down. If someone does manage to get to 5M ProN at this point, that person is probably not getting in anyway since they didn't spend any money on improving the 3 new nations.