Our Sauromatia has gone to Greece and has yet to return! He's staled 3 times on a 96 hour host interval and then there was the issue with llamaserver so he's been awol for a long time.
The spot may be permanent or it may be temporary.
You can check the scores of the game here,
http://www.llamaserver.net/showScores.cgi?game=Beer , I believe he's at war with Marverni.