Introduction
The new update makes small countries harder to survive,
and I think this actually make sense because the world isn’t fair.
You need a certain level of imbalance in game so people have the urge to fight
and find new players to help develop their own country. 
But adding such an update without other things to support it totally
WRONG
You need to plans to make this game playable but not a mean nasty place
like this real world already is.
Admin please read the suggestion and comments to see if you can get things right.

1. Production License
Like Market License we can buy right now, Production License will be issued by the country. 
The time period is a fixed 30 days. And the congress will decide the price for the license. 
Also the congress can make certain countries not able to buy this license

When purchased, you can travel to the region and use their bonus.
So this is the simplest way to ease the situation now, solve problem by money.
Big countries still have their advantages and small country with money still can survive.
But it is still true that poor country with 1 core region will always have to pay the others.

2. Export extra resources
As what we can see France have ridiculously many fruit as their resource,
what if there is a way to sell or trade this resource?
I suggest adding a new building, Train Station (i can’t think of a better name), it can be
placed on a region like hospital. And the congress could propose a
 trade with other country for exchanging resources or rent a resources. 
This way big country can choose to help smaller country, or at least there is an option
small country can discuss with bigger one to help their economy.
But yes, big countries still gets all the advantages they could have from the beginning.

3. Resources plantation
Another idea to solve problem of having extra resources. Congress could propose
to change the resources on a region. With a certain amount of time, and a number of
materials and products, players can change the resources on a certain region. 

4. Synthetic Resources
So basically add 5 different buildings, hydroponic gardening or solar energy those sort
of things. Not only the country would need to build this building, the country
will also have to keep feeding it resources to keep it from running, food and raw mats.
We can set the maintenance cost to a certain level and make it “fair”, or we can set
limits for synthetic resources to +15% only, so people would still want to fight for regions.
This is what country with only 1 region could do to catch up. Yes you will need to pay more
money to catch up but I think it improved a lot already.

5. Shared resources
Adding new building,highway
Countries that are connected can put highway in their regions like DS and Hospital
Congress then propose a “Resource sharing proposal” something like MPP,
but it shares resources within countries which capitals are connected with highways.
This is the idea for how small countries can work together with others.

This is what I could think of at the moment
But admin please see if this is possible
Just to make this game playable.