Here's a starting attempt at a board layout. It needs a lot of work!
Hey, that's great! And very well done! This way you will really make me redo the board (which is a good thing, but will imply a lot of work...)!
I'd only point that it seems to be too little Iceland and too much Denmark, and that the Mage Academy would fit better in the Iceland section. Problem is we have 5 nations and just 4 sides on the board, unless some crazy maniac that likes to play with photoshop (and, in this case, with some vectorial graphic program) decides to create a
pentagonal board, which could be filled, in the center, with the Nordic Council symbol and/or images from each country...