In response to the way your polls work;
Is there a way to tweak it so that we could see exactly how many people actually voted on it? I can't tell if it's only been 6 votes or 60 votes.
In response to your last poll, I think having it at $1,000 (or even $2,000) is pretty nice, considering.
In 1 month time after a world begins, a new country gets to have $30,000 plus the initial start-up fund. In 2 months, $60,000. 3, $90,000.
A world would have to actually continue for more than five months before a country could buy a bomb on the first day (and then pretty much be able to do nothing for a while) One could instead use the bomb money to buy 18-19 L9 tanks.
That's after five months worth of gameplay. That honestly is laughable. After five months, any countries still playing and still at a decent power would have no problem handling one bomb being targeted at them. It may even be insignificant, considering the sizes.
With $2,000 instead, that's a bomb in just under three months. It might make some sort of an impact, but not very much so.
Now, consider this, A country who joins on the first day and miraculously managed to stay untouched (but never played) and accumulates up the daily income of $8,000 (?) that's a bomb in 20 days, less than a month.
So that is why I voted for $1,000-$2,000, because it honestly will not affect much against developed countries but it does allow new countries to have more spending money to "have fun" before they most likely get their asses handed to them in the next few days that follow.