Adding, removing and reordering countries

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I'm guessing the original sides hardcoding will still be there as defults

Since the hardcoding of these setting would be removed for good, these tags become obligatory.

That's the thing. The logic is being revamped. No more hardcoding whatsoever, including defaults.
That's why RP2 will deliver a new ini.

It saves me a lot of annoying work, yes, doing it this way is much less work than setting defaults and hardcoding all this.

The taunt file names won't require "fixing" because they can be set to whatever you want.
To the prefix you choose, internally, "%02d.wav" is going to be appended.

Creating the new tags for your new countries is a 5 minute copypasta job, and I don't think that half an hour of work to adapt from RP/NP to RP2 is too much.
In the end, it might even be worth it.