So, for the last month or so I have been pushing hard to become the person in the United States with the highest land area captured. And for around the same amount of time, the player in California has been matching me. Which I was impressed with, since I think my expansion has been great. And now, with the release of the leaderboards, so I can view my exact total of m², I have begun to suspect that there may be an issue with the country leaders updating correctly.
I log in to the game to capture land, and check the binoculars on the map for the U. S. Then, I check my total m² on the leaderboards. They are identical.
I capture land, bumping my m² up by a small amount, and it is immediately reflected on the leaderboards. Then I check the map again, making sure that it updates. The totals are, once again, identical.
I have repeated this a few times today, and have never noticed a discrepancy between the land total for Tanyon and my total, assuming that I make sure that the map reloads.
It looks like the land total may be updating correctly, but the country leader is not.