I've been looking at the screenshots over the months, things look to be shaping up very interestingly. Events spawned from tech sounds very cool, as long as it isn't always exactly the same events. (Research nationalism and get the revolutions of 1848!)
My main comment would be this: after looking at the screenshots for months, I keep thinking that the red lines to indicate adminstrative areas are just placeholder graphics and will change... they haven't. In my opinion those lines need to be bolder and thicker or a different color, or something, to really bring out the administrative areas. You're going to be dealing with them most of the time, so you need to be able to easily see them. Black lines for provinces look fine though.