Took out the idea of having to play for 20 minutes just to get rewards. Added a smarter banking-like system that will save up the more you play.
The diseases will probably will not have names, it will just announce something like this: "America delivered a disease onto Europe. Europe is now weak!"
It doesn't auto assign you to a team based on where you live :P People can chose their team once, and then they are stuck with it. Now and then there might be a team balancing thing however.