Totally missed that q lol. On a side not in FFA after you have 99 turns and have logged in to each country you can use the auto-startup feature QZ added the help with the monotony. It is under the custom tab in the FFA Control page(top right)
it works... you can't play a turn for it to work and you need 100 turns on hand.
you are right that you need to log into the country for it to register 100 turns on hand.