The countries aren't out of balance, the knits are just bad. I think it took over 12 hours for the knits to finally take back A30 next to the strats. Bish took it in the morning, or so I've heard, but knits didn't take it back until nighttime. Meanwhile, random greens are calling out alerts here and there. That's all well and good, but who cares about some obscure vbase when our ords, ammo, and radar are at 2%. I'll tell ya who, the knits.
Which brings up another point, capturable bases less than a sector away from the strats=poor map design. Well maybe it isn't poor map design, because you'd think that such a thing would encourage combat...
Nits put up some of the best defense, per player. Probably because they have been forced to get good at it due to getting horded night after night.