hey!
another idea:
for better exchange of ideas and all, people could join chat. its not hard to add web feature to game itself. to enter chat, must go to specific erepublik.com/country/chat and add yourself to chat.
by default adding everyone, whos online to chat, would be wrong. also, special chat for congress and party would be great, same as for military and social things. since IRC etc, well, yea, it works, but alt tabbing is just madness.
it would make more better results in: war, party and political events and even economical. best deals everywhere by chat!