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Answering the first question, the Confederacy had a functioning national government by the time Abraham Lincoln officially became President in March 1861 including a provisional constitution and President. The American civil war was primarily between two governmental entities trying to assert control over the same territory. In video games, it is easy to model the Confederate rebellion as a nation since it acted and functioned as a nation until its dissolution.
In contrast, a lot of other civil wars are usually between different political groups of various qualities of organization until a cease fire, internal peace agreement, or capitulation of other sides is reached. The Russian Civil War was mainly between two government like entities combined with several other armies with different political goals. The Spanish Civil War had a much larger mix of cobelligerent political groups