User blog comment:ProfessorMcG/Reworking of the Map Games/@comment-461469-20100705182436

Sorry, Professor, but what I meant is that one person gets to control all the world's technology: the nations can say that they are trying to research a technology, and the person who is the "tech Czar" says when they get it, or if their is an accidental discovery or something else that either works for or against the tech research, while another person lists the disasters that happen (say a mine collapse, or a hurricane), which would force a nation to divert attention to deal with it, or it affects more than one nation, so they have to work together to fix it, etc.

Call the guy a Deity or something. He could get the chance to control a country, if you want, but he can't favor one country over another, so maybe it would be best he doesn't. If it seems like he is, he can be replaced or the Realism Council, or something like that.