by John Rogers
Playing this the other night this situation/question came up:What if a card allows you to generically place influence in a region in which you currently have no presence? That is to say no country in which you may add to or link from?
It seems to me that the general rules (under section 6.0 I believe) would prohibit a player from using the event in such a region. My guess is that you would have to wait until you could either a) build toward that region or b) get a card that specifies a country in that region. This is the way we played it anyways.