i like radical ideas so listen 2 this one it will blow ur mind
instead of a million countries i think in the new world they should have just 7 competitions
1 western europe (spain, portugal, iceland, ireland, andorra)
2 southern europe (italy, hellas, the balkans, bulgaria, romania)
3 northern europe (france, germany, belgium, uk, scandinavia)
4 eastern europe (poland, lithuania, latvia, estonia, russia, all former soviet nations)
5 americas (usa, brasil, argentina, canada, south and central america, carribean)
6 asia (china, phillipines, hong kong, taiwan, indonesia, singapore, japan)
7 the rest (including the middle east not as part of asia - turkey, israel, australia, iran, nz, all of africa)
or if no 7 was too small it could just have africa added to southern europe and the rest to asia
but wait i get more radical
rather than starting some in division 1 and others in division 3 i think they should stars everyone in division 4 and after a season teams will be promoted on their merit - if there arent enough spots in division 4 (48 x 16 = 768) then start everyone in division 5 but surely it is