Is it right that Brazil has 5 centers?
I wondered that when I put the map up. Not straightforward! Not straightforward at all!
1. Both games played here had only four SCs. And it can't be said that Brazil ever looked underpowered. And the starting list in the original rules only lists four.
2. The fifth centre, in Man, crept in when Morg redrew the map. But he copied it from the original VBank map.
3. But in the original also, the list of provinces doesn't include Man at all, but lists its neighbour Amazonia as a centre. QueenofHearts, when he made some changes to the original map for Game 1, seems to have removed Man and its centre from the map altogether, which doesn't help. (Amazonia expanded but didn't have a SC)
Clearly Man/Ama is intended as one of the centres the rules describe as "Within countries but not yet settled". Similar to Chicago in the USA (and to Alaska for Britain in my modification here)